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Speaker 1: Efferson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 2: How fixed this?
Speaker 3: Other than that, I've got to say, how about that?
Speaker 2: Come stamp.
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I was going to start by saying three out of
Speaker 2: four eight bad, since Bill Jones is out on assignment today,
Speaker 2: but Everson might have made it two out of four
Speaker 2: since he was finishing his lunch.
Speaker 3: Time finishing it is not close to finish.
Speaker 2: As producer Supreme Chris had a nice mix. There many
Speaker 2: sound bites before we got to stampede. And this just
Speaker 2: might be the earliest pregame show ever because we're getting
Speaker 2: ready for Cowboys Seahawks on Thursday night at and T Stadium,
Speaker 2: and glad you guys are with us on mix shots.
Speaker 2: I'm the Mick Everson and Joe Savannah here today and
Speaker 2: we will get you ready for the Seahawks. At some
Speaker 2: point we will have our picks and picks to click.
Speaker 2: Bill Jones has already set him in with explanations too.
Speaker 3: That was a very lengthy text right.
Speaker 4: On the group text.
Speaker 2: I think he just sent it. He must have just
Speaker 2: sent it. I thought he just texted me. You were
Speaker 2: on it. Oh, yeah you were, because you said, okay,
Speaker 2: that's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sending it to Savannah right now.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: I wanted to be a surprise for Yeah, yeah, surprise me. Wait,
Speaker 2: I got half a page of notes here on my
Speaker 2: legal pad to explain Bill's picks that he was off
Speaker 2: on assignment in I had to go to Fort Worth.
Speaker 2: So here we are a little more than let's see,
Speaker 2: seven thirty one hours before kickoff. I think if my
Speaker 2: math is accurate with the Cowboys needing to win this game,
Speaker 2: as we've been talking about, to win four straight and
Speaker 2: stay within at least just two games of the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Eagles in the race for the NFC East title, and
Speaker 2: you know, it sounds like, and I'm gonna see what
Speaker 2: you guys think from listening that they seem to be
Speaker 2: focused on Seattle and not getting ahead of themselves.
Speaker 3: They'd better be.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, this is what this is our test.
Speaker 5: The test is not what's on the field necessarily is
Speaker 5: not necessarily our opponents you know, it's you know, can
Speaker 5: we not make the same mistakes that we've been prone
Speaker 5: to make in the past, and that is, you know,
Speaker 5: playing down two expectations much below expectations. I mean, that's
Speaker 5: something that as this team needs to mature in that fashion.
Speaker 5: You know, everyone needs to be on the same page
Speaker 5: and regards to gods. We can't go out there in
Speaker 5: a slump. We can't go out there saying, oh, we
Speaker 5: need to warm up, this is a we had a
Speaker 5: bad day. You know, right now this team needs to
Speaker 5: be passed all of those type of ailments that you
Speaker 5: got to deal with. Now, let's just play ball the
Speaker 5: way we're supposed to play every week.
Speaker 3: If we're supposed to blow them out, let's blow them out.
Speaker 5: If we're going to have a tough game, let's make
Speaker 5: the plays that were supposed to make to win those
Speaker 5: tough games in tough situations. No foot out of bounds
Speaker 5: like against Philadelphia, and no problems with running pick plays
Speaker 5: like we had against Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: So so far, so good. Beat the Giants as they
Speaker 2: should have, and they beat them forty nine to seventeen.
Speaker 2: They beat Carolina on the road as they should have
Speaker 2: thirty three ten, and they thump Washington on Thanksgiving forty
Speaker 2: five ten, So that's three. So Savannah, what do you think?
Speaker 2: What was your feel listening to the press conferences and
Speaker 2: being in the locker room this week.
Speaker 7: I feel the guys are very focused on Seattle, which
Speaker 7: is good. And I know coach McCarthy has talked about
Speaker 7: in the press conference this week is they were not
Speaker 7: focused on the Philly game that was playing on Sunday.
Speaker 7: They were here in the facility working on things that
Speaker 7: they needed to work on for this upcoming Seattle game.
Speaker 4: Their mind should not be onto Philly.
Speaker 3: Yet.
Speaker 7: We have to get through tomorrow and this is still
Speaker 7: going to be a hard matchup for them. The Seattle
Speaker 7: Seahawks are are six and five. They've had some struggles recently. However,
Speaker 7: you have to take this game by game, and the
Speaker 7: players seem to be very focused on what will be
Speaker 7: happening tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you start focusing on what other people
Speaker 2: are doing, you'll just be miserable.
Speaker 3: Well, you have to look at the potential of the
Speaker 3: Seahawks right.
Speaker 5: Yes, they're trending downward, but at one point and even
Speaker 5: a lot of points doing this streak of losses that
Speaker 5: they've had. They've shown that they can do some things.
Speaker 5: You know, they've shown that they can run the ball.
Speaker 5: This guy Walker is no joke.
Speaker 3: You know. He's one of the hardest running.
Speaker 5: Running backs in the in the NFL right now, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's really their horse. They're going to depend on
Speaker 5: him a lot doing this game. And don't sleep on Geno.
Speaker 3: You know. Geno's a guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's had his issues, but we've also seen the
Speaker 5: guy made the Pro Bowl, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 5: know Pro Bowl could be watered down these days, but
Speaker 5: the guy made the Pro Bowl. So he's still if
Speaker 5: you're looking at it, he's on the on the upside
Speaker 5: of the of the fifty percent of the quarterbacks in
Speaker 5: the NFL.
Speaker 2: So they have lost two straight, three of the last four,
Speaker 2: not scoring a lot of points. And I think yesterday
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll chose to point out that Geno Smith in
Speaker 2: the last game they played, that he was suffering from
Speaker 2: an elbow injury, that he didn't practice hardly at all
Speaker 2: before the Thanksgiving Day game and they didn't play very
Speaker 2: well offensively. Now he said he had one of his
Speaker 2: best practices of the week this week, or of the year,
Speaker 2: I should say, and that he's ready to go. So
Speaker 2: we'll see if that was the reason why they short
Speaker 2: circuited offensively, what did they They got beat pretty good
Speaker 2: the last game by San Francisco thirty one thirteen, and
Speaker 2: they only scored I want to say, one touchdown if
Speaker 2: I remember correctly, and it was an interception return for
Speaker 2: a touchdo, so the offense basically two field goals. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been struggling.
Speaker 5: So at this point, we haven't shown that we are
Speaker 5: as consistent as San Francisco's defense. That's one thing that
Speaker 5: we can say. We haven't shown that we're as consistent
Speaker 5: as they are. So with them, you know, playing the
Speaker 5: way that they played, I wouldn't look forward to us
Speaker 5: blowing anyone out and they would show that on my
Speaker 5: picks to click.
Speaker 3: I look at this game.
Speaker 5: It's going to be a tough game because first of all,
Speaker 5: they're well coached team.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Anytime you have a well coached team, then the scheme
Speaker 5: alone can give you problems from the beginning.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna at one point ask each of
Speaker 2: you to give me a key to victory. But since
Speaker 2: you brought that up, I was going to borrow jay
Speaker 2: Ron curse because I asked him, what do you need
Speaker 2: to do defensively to be able to deal with these Seahawks,
Speaker 2: and he said tackling, tackling, tackling, And his point was
Speaker 2: you mentioned Walker. He's only five to nine, but he's
Speaker 2: two eleven, so he's kind of a load when he's
Speaker 2: running the ball.
Speaker 3: And mis Smith wasn't that tall either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, so you got to watch out for him.
Speaker 2: Sharbonneau the second running at six one two fourteen, so
Speaker 2: a big back, and then you got to deal with
Speaker 2: DK metcalf right six four, two thirty five and he's
Speaker 2: averaging fifteen point eight yards on his forty three catches.
Speaker 2: So that was his point that we better be able
Speaker 2: to tackle in this game.
Speaker 5: Say anything about Lockett, yeah, I mean, come on, and
Speaker 5: Lockett there is more main anyone on the team. And
Speaker 5: he does everything from pump returns to catching big plays
Speaker 5: to I think he can even throw the ball.
Speaker 3: So he's one of those guys man triple threat. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he can do. He can do everything that they need
Speaker 3: him to do.
Speaker 5: As far as those gadget players, and you know Pete
Speaker 5: Carroll is going to have some type of gadget play.
Speaker 2: Yeah for us, So either on offense or special team,
Speaker 2: no doubt, no doubt. And you know they're gonna they're
Speaker 2: gonna want to come in here and run the football, yeah,
Speaker 2: and try to reduce the time that the Cowboys offense
Speaker 2: and take the crowd out of the game. Right, And
Speaker 2: the Cowboys don't have to make any moves today. They
Speaker 2: just have to make them tomorrow. So they can do
Speaker 2: it up to four hours before the deadline to make moves.
Speaker 2: So sometime tomorrow, my understanding is they'll probably have an elevation.
Speaker 2: So you know what I'm kind of thinking, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to figure out who they might elevate off the practice squad. Now,
Speaker 2: ricco'doddell was in practice yesterday fully, so he should be
Speaker 2: able to go. I should look that up just to
Speaker 2: make sure. I mean, he was limited, but at least
Speaker 2: he's been limited, been in practice, so there's a good
Speaker 2: chance I think he's going. If he's not, then one
Speaker 2: of those elevations will be Malik Davis, the other guy
Speaker 2: they were worried about during the week, jay Ron Curse.
Speaker 2: He was full yesterday. In my understanding, he was going
Speaker 2: to practice again today, so he should be able to go.
Speaker 2: They've had a little bit of illness going through the roster,
Speaker 2: and it was Dante Fowler did not practice the past
Speaker 2: two days, but my understanding, he was supposed to be
Speaker 2: out there today along with Michael Parsons. Yesterday he had
Speaker 2: the illness, but he was supposed to be out there. Now.
Speaker 2: It's not a heavy practice right on day before the game,
Speaker 2: but from an injury standpoint, they should be pretty good.
Speaker 2: I was just wondering, if they're worried about Seattle running
Speaker 2: the ball, if they might elevate the defensive tackle. I
Speaker 2: almost forgot he was here, Carl Davis, who's a big body,
Speaker 2: if they needed another one inside. And now Misie Smith
Speaker 2: did practice this week fully, but he had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a shoulder thing going. So they may want
Speaker 2: to load up and get a little heavier in the
Speaker 2: middle there going into this game. So we'll see what
Speaker 2: happens with that one going forward.
Speaker 7: I think overall, whether they decide to run the ball
Speaker 7: more or Smith is making those passes down to lock
Speaker 7: it and Metcalf, the entire defense needs to be alert
Speaker 7: and be willing to make those tackles. And one player
Speaker 7: that I mentioned earlier this week in the flashback show
Speaker 7: that I'm.
Speaker 4: Looking up for was Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 7: Okay, I noticed in the Commander's game, so he had
Speaker 7: six tackles for solo to assist, and he had a
Speaker 7: pretty good pass breakup at one point. But you know
Speaker 7: that they are not going to be throwing it down
Speaker 7: the way If Deron Bland is covering, that's going to
Speaker 7: be part of their scheme definitely. And so you know
Speaker 7: that they're gonna go to guys curse Jordan Lewis, a
Speaker 7: few other guys down there in the secondary, and I
Speaker 7: think Jordan Lewis might be key for this.
Speaker 4: I think he needs to past breakups.
Speaker 2: Right, we'll be talgeting and and and to amplify what
Speaker 2: Savannah said, one of the reasons sometimes the cornerback and
Speaker 2: you can help me, has a lot of tackles being
Speaker 2: completing passes to his.
Speaker 5: Guy, rightokie year, I mean a lot of tackles that
Speaker 5: guy Walls is hitting them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's hit them all right, Yeah after the four
Speaker 3: down the field.
Speaker 2: Because I saw in the game, I think Bland was
Speaker 2: second or third in tackles in this past game. It's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: but his guy was catching a lot of until he
Speaker 2: got the interception, and you know what, And that's the
Speaker 2: cue everybody asked me about cornerbacks. It's like, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna ro shutouts. There's a reason why these quarterbacks pass
Speaker 2: for four thousand and five thousand yards. They're completing passes.
Speaker 2: But if you're a cornerback, the deal is, make me
Speaker 2: a play right to compensate for the ones that you're
Speaker 2: gonna give up. It's gonna happen. You can't pitch a shutout,
Speaker 2: but make me a play to compensate. And you know,
Speaker 2: and obviously he did.
Speaker 5: It's like the mentality is it's a marathon, it's not
Speaker 5: a sprint. And I had to play that way myself.
Speaker 5: I can't just shut everybody down, especially with my lack
Speaker 5: of speed. You got some amazing athletes on the wide
Speaker 5: receiver side. You know, sometimes you have to play a
Speaker 5: chess game, you know, you have to. You know, okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: you got this one, But what's a ten year old
Speaker 5: route gonna do?
Speaker 3: It won't hurt me, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: The closer you get to the end zone, then things
Speaker 5: get tightened up a little bit. And that's the way
Speaker 5: I always used to play it, which is a smart
Speaker 5: way for the Cowboys to play it. Don't worry about
Speaker 5: you can't worry about d passes on the other side
Speaker 5: of the fifty yard line. That's when you start tightening
Speaker 5: things up. But when you when you're down there on
Speaker 5: the twenty, why are you jumping on the ten yeard
Speaker 5: route when you might get beat for an eighty yard touchdown?
Speaker 5: You know this is you got to keep things into perspective.
Speaker 5: Play for the team, not necessarily for yourself. To have
Speaker 5: this Monica as a shutdown corner.
Speaker 2: And as Savannah pointed out, Jordan did have a pass
Speaker 2: breakup or two, So that's making them that's making right, yes, correct,
Speaker 2: and that's what.
Speaker 5: You But will he will be targeted because I think
Speaker 5: they've shown that, you know, if you're gonna look at
Speaker 5: the weaknesses in our secondary, then he might be one
Speaker 5: of those guys. You know, coming off the injury, we
Speaker 5: were one dB down with Diggs and so he's kind
Speaker 5: of put into position that he's not that much that
Speaker 5: comfortable in. So yeah, I think they're gonna come at him.
Speaker 2: And think what's happened. They team's probably started off the
Speaker 2: season going well, I don't know that Gilmour guys pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna throw the ball somewhere else. Well, then Diggs
Speaker 2: gets hurt. Bland's got to go outside, and if they
Speaker 2: hadn't done their homework, it realized how well he played
Speaker 2: outside last year. Right now it's like, well, I don't know,
Speaker 2: we want to go there.
Speaker 3: Now we're going to go to the slot. They're going
Speaker 3: to go to the slot.
Speaker 2: Because if you think about in the Carolina game, that's
Speaker 2: where Thieling did all his work from the slots.
Speaker 5: And he just has to be patient. There's a defensive bag.
Speaker 5: You just got to be patient. You can't get frustrated.
Speaker 5: I know the optics are bad. You know you're always
Speaker 5: chasing a guy down the field ten fifteen yards or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Ever since, Savannah and Mickey here today Bill Out on
Speaker 2: assignment as we get you ready for the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 2: and I thought we'd give a little update on Shaquille
Speaker 2: Leonard visiting here yesterday. We talked about it yesterday, Savannah.
Speaker 2: I got a personal view of.
Speaker 4: Him, right, I did.
Speaker 7: He was walking through with a big group of people
Speaker 7: through the lunch room. He was walking over to the
Speaker 7: football side, so I think he did his workout in
Speaker 7: the morning. He was scheduled to have lunch with Jerry
Speaker 7: yesterday and today he is in Philly.
Speaker 2: So he was supposed to travel to Philly the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I'm sure got a physical in, had a good visit.
Speaker 2: Nothing took place, as I think we told you yesterday.
Speaker 2: He ended up leaving and heading to Philadelphia. And you
Speaker 2: know what, I just saw something that I thought, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is what's going to happen. So he was with
Speaker 2: the Colts right all these five years, six years since
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. For three years while he was there, Siriani
Speaker 2: was the offensive course.
Speaker 3: Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 2: And if you guys know, Siriani is the head coach
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia. And I saw where his off season workout
Speaker 2: partners Dante Smith. So he's got some connections there. Now.
Speaker 2: We thought he had connections here having played with Gilmour
Speaker 2: along with Malie Cooker and someone asked Jerry, Oh, they
Speaker 2: asked him on his radio show on Tuesday, do you
Speaker 2: ask those guys about him? You played with him? And
Speaker 2: he was like, this is the easiest scouting job ever.
Speaker 2: Turn on the tape and we probably don't need to
Speaker 2: ask a lot of questions. But Jerry's point was, you know,
Speaker 2: we got to find out where he is basically in
Speaker 2: his career and what's the health issue, and then after
Speaker 2: that is okay, what can we do something to be
Speaker 2: able to sign them. So evidently whatever they had up
Speaker 2: their sleeve certainly wasn't convincing enough to keep him from
Speaker 2: taking the visit to Philadelphia. And they are down two
Speaker 2: linebackers right now. I just we mentioned yesterday Nikobe Dean
Speaker 2: is out and Zach Cunningham was injured in this past
Speaker 2: game against Buffalo, and I thought I just saw a
Speaker 2: headline saying he's probably out for this game too.
Speaker 7: So what were the other two teams that were interested
Speaker 7: as well?
Speaker 4: That he was.
Speaker 2: Potentially Goo and Pittsburgh. So that's the two other teams
Speaker 2: that came up. I didn't you know, obviously they can
Speaker 2: come out of his agent's mouth. Uh, but yeah, they're
Speaker 2: I mean they're playing it slick.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you're a free agent, the best thing you can
Speaker 2: do is try to find two teams that are interested
Speaker 2: in yeah right, get.
Speaker 3: Some money, right, get some more money. Bid them against
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 2: That's what you did, right, I had, I didn't, you.
Speaker 5: Know, coming out, I was of course undrafted, and so
Speaker 5: I didn't have to get a chance to go through
Speaker 5: all that stuff. I didn't get to go go through
Speaker 5: the whole recruiting thing out of high school. You know,
Speaker 5: I just played that one year at Bergner, right, So
Speaker 5: it wasn't like it was a bunch of people out
Speaker 5: there looking for me. The only time I had a
Speaker 5: chance to experience something like that was when I left
Speaker 5: the Cowboys and I was looking to go to either
Speaker 5: the Giants or the Seahawks, and I recalled, I went
Speaker 5: to see the Seahawks first, and I'm just like you said,
Speaker 5: you want to you want to milk it. You know,
Speaker 5: it's you know, it's good for your ego to have
Speaker 5: a couple of teams looking at you. And so I
Speaker 5: went to Seattle first and I worked out up there.
Speaker 5: They have sand based turf, sand based turf, Yes, I
Speaker 5: had never run on that before.
Speaker 3: First of all. It makes you slow as hell.
Speaker 2: Their practice field.
Speaker 5: Their practice field had sand. It wasn't so the field
Speaker 5: wasn't flat, you know, it almost you know, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: because you know it's it's sand based like a beach.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the best, very good man.
Speaker 5: So I ended up you know, working out for them there,
Speaker 5: but all the time, because I had to call for
Speaker 5: sales myself all the time, I was I knew I
Speaker 5: was going to New York. I just wanted to go
Speaker 5: up there and get my ego stroke right. And so
Speaker 5: I went up there, and uh, you.
Speaker 4: To weigh your options. You have to play a little
Speaker 4: hard to get you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, you want to you know, make that tick
Speaker 3: go up a little bit.
Speaker 5: And so, uh, Pete Care it wasn't Pete Care. I
Speaker 5: forget who the coach was, but Tom floyd Is was
Speaker 5: the GM and I had never met Tom. You know,
Speaker 5: he's with the Raiders all that time, and uh, they
Speaker 5: wanted to make me stay, and I'm just like, uh, Leonard,
Speaker 5: I'm like nah, I knew where I was going, right,
Speaker 5: I knew I wasn't going to Seattle. I knew I
Speaker 5: was gonna be with the Giants. That's why because I
Speaker 5: called them. Seattle called me. You see, that was the difference.
Speaker 5: So when I went to New York. You know, when
Speaker 5: I went to the to the Seahawks and I left
Speaker 5: out of there, he did not want me to leave,
Speaker 5: just like Jerry did. Leonard Floyd did not want me
Speaker 5: to leave that room without signing that contract. And I
Speaker 5: told him, I said, I'm a man of my word.
Speaker 5: I told the Giants I come to see him, and
Speaker 5: I'm going to see them. So I went to see them,
Speaker 5: and I knew that's what I was going to be, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: so obviously turned out to be a war.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, the Giants offered me less than the Seahawks.
Speaker 5: That's how much I was willing to go to New
Speaker 5: York because the Giants they weren't giving out signing bonuses.
Speaker 5: Seahawks were given out signing bonuses. But I knew they
Speaker 5: weren't going anywhere. And I don't know what they did
Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety, but I know what I did in
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: So I was right, yeah, sort of like me going
Speaker 2: to college. Right, Missouri outbid Northern Illinois.
Speaker 5: Oh that made the papers, Yeah right, you were going
Speaker 5: to say the.
Speaker 7: I know we talked about last week in a little
Speaker 7: bit of this week for Leonard that yeah, he's going
Speaker 7: to want to go somewhere where there's a potential, you know,
Speaker 7: winning team at the end of this, right, and so
Speaker 7: he has to weigh his options. The money wasn't necessarily
Speaker 7: what was at the forefront of his mind. It's more
Speaker 7: what team is going to win you a championship?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just got paid, and he's getting.
Speaker 4: Paid, yeah, continuously paid.
Speaker 2: He gets a million a year for six I mean
Speaker 2: a year a game for the final five or six games. However,
Speaker 2: many the Colts have left and he's already made his
Speaker 2: money from bonuses signing bonus on this original his current
Speaker 2: contract that's costing the Colts twenty seven million in dead money.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so he's definitely just looking to win.
Speaker 2: So I think that's probably what he's looking for. And
Speaker 2: Jerry pointed that out. He said, I don't know that
Speaker 2: money is going to be the big factor.
Speaker 5: Wells, he's in a no lose situation. Yeah, the two
Speaker 5: teams that he's looking at, it's just a matter which
Speaker 5: one he thinks he is going to go the furthest.
Speaker 2: So yesterday and I was going to bring this one
Speaker 2: up it's kind of a somewhat of a funny story.
Speaker 2: It was about the game on Thanksgiving and before the game,
Speaker 2: Al Harris, the cornerbacks coach, and Doron Bland. We're talking
Speaker 2: and Bland told Harris, he goes, hey, if I pick
Speaker 2: one off and go to the end zone, He goes,
Speaker 2: will you jump in the red kettle with me? Right?
Speaker 2: And Al goes Jerry's telling the story, he goes, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'll check on that, right ed he said,
Speaker 2: so before the game, Al Harris goes up to Jerry
Speaker 2: and he was talking with Mike McCarthy about the basically
Speaker 2: the same thing, right, And he told him what Bland said,
Speaker 2: and Jerry said, my response was if if if he
Speaker 2: picks one off and goes for a touchdown and sets
Speaker 2: the NFL record. He goes, I want you to run
Speaker 2: down the field and put him in the rad kettle,
Speaker 2: and if you can fit, you get in there too.
Speaker 2: And if you go back and look at the tape.
Speaker 2: As he was running down sixty three yards, Al Harris
Speaker 2: was running down the sideline with him. Now he is
Speaker 2: he was sprinting right now. He stopped. He didn't go
Speaker 2: to the red kettle because his teammates threw him in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably was connected to something.
Speaker 2: Because you know it's wireless. Yeah, but yeah, I thought
Speaker 2: that was pretty funny when Jerry Jerry goes, yeah, you
Speaker 2: go put him in and you jump.
Speaker 3: Into isn't can talk about that stuff?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 5: Could you imagine me going up or Jeanie Stalin's going
Speaker 5: up to Tom Landry, Yeah and say, hey, if everything
Speaker 5: happens to score, because he's never scored, can I go,
Speaker 5: you know, run to the end zone with him?
Speaker 3: But did you could you imagine what.
Speaker 5: Tom was saying?
Speaker 3: Can we can we please concentrate on football? You know
Speaker 3: we're up here celebrating before we even play the game.
Speaker 2: And plus you guys were tethered right to the headset
Speaker 2: had a wire on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but as players, you know, we can throw it.
Speaker 5: We can't even inquire, don't That's what I'm saying. Tom
Speaker 5: would be so upset. He might even he might make
Speaker 5: us practice harder just for even thinking of that.
Speaker 2: You're distracted, right, that would have been parsals, right, You're
Speaker 2: a distracted player.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Bill would be there.
Speaker 2: He would always say that he can be a distracted player.
Speaker 2: And somebody in the press conference was not paying attention.
Speaker 2: He goes, you're a distracted writer, you know, and he'd
Speaker 2: jump all over him. So one other thing on Seattle,
Speaker 2: not only have they lost three of the last four games,
Speaker 2: they've only scored thirty two points in those three losses three, sixteen,
Speaker 2: and thirteen. And the other thing I noticed, it's offense
Speaker 2: that has been their problems in their in their six losses.
Speaker 3: The offensive line is not good. Yeah, they're not good.
Speaker 4: The five cowboy Jason Peters.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was shocked.
Speaker 7: He was here last year. Yeah, and now he's with Seattle.
Speaker 3: I think I remember that that transaction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he started the last two games at tackle.
Speaker 2: But in all five of their losses, they've never scored
Speaker 2: more than sixteen points. So offense has kind of been
Speaker 2: their downfall in the games they've lost, and so and
Speaker 2: they haven't in those games they've lost, they haven't scored
Speaker 2: a heck of a lot of touchdo downs. I mentioned
Speaker 2: that they the last game against San Francisco. The one
Speaker 2: touchdown was defensive. They scored one in the loss to
Speaker 2: Cincinnati and one in the loss to Baltimore. They did
Speaker 2: have two against the Rams, but there was a stat
Speaker 2: online that said they've scored no touchdowns in twenty straight possessions,
Speaker 2: so you normally get ten, maybe twelve in a game,
Speaker 2: and so it's been a while since they've found the
Speaker 2: end zone. So a lot of this is going to
Speaker 2: depend on how well this Cowboy defense plays. And we're
Speaker 2: going to tell you how well they're going to play
Speaker 2: next here on mickshots, when we give you our score
Speaker 2: predictions and our picks to click on Mickshots.
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Speaker 2: So is that starting this weekend?
Speaker 7: So that's been going on actually for two weekends. Now, okay,
Speaker 7: so this will be the third weekend. But they always
Speaker 7: have an alumni come light the tree, and we have
Speaker 7: the so many different groups in it. Santa's their cheerleaders
Speaker 7: are Rhythm and Blues Team and Rowdy.
Speaker 2: Do they light it with a match.
Speaker 7: Sure, they actually have a crystallized a match, and they
Speaker 7: pushed the football like.
Speaker 2: Sort of like the promo for Tonight's or tomorrow Night's
Speaker 2: game movie. Uh, it's the running back right from Seattle.
Speaker 2: He pushes the Marshaun Lina's hit. There's a big lever
Speaker 2: and he pushes it to start the game.
Speaker 7: Right, that's funny they put him in that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to be funny, she said, like
Speaker 2: the tree. It's kind of like the Doctor Pepper commercial
Speaker 2: when he lights up all his paraphernalia. Because they did
Speaker 2: not do well on the first play of the game. Right,
Speaker 2: This just in from Bill Jones. He may not be here,
Speaker 2: but something gets out Greg Bell. I think he's a
Speaker 2: guy that covers Seattle said. Pete Carroll says he hasn't
Speaker 2: seen anything this week that shows that Seahawks running back
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker is better from his oblique injury. Says Walker
Speaker 2: will have questions about playing at Cowboys Thursday, and then
Speaker 2: no indication he will. Zack Charbonnett again may be the
Speaker 2: guy they go to, so that certainly would make it
Speaker 2: a little bit easier on the Cowboys defense if they're
Speaker 2: leading rusher who averages four point one yards of carry
Speaker 2: has six touchdown runs, would not be able to play.
Speaker 2: But as I said, Gino Smith looks like he's healthy enough.
Speaker 2: Although in these the three last four games, he's been
Speaker 2: sacked thirteen times. In one of those games it was five.
Speaker 2: So yeah, the protection, as whoever pointed out ever since
Speaker 2: about their offensive line, especially if Jason Peters at fifty
Speaker 2: years old, has to start at I think it was
Speaker 2: right tackle. He was playing right tackle, so he's like
Speaker 2: forty I think forty one. Now he's forty. Last year
Speaker 2: with the Cowboys, right, Yeah, Mike McCarthy, when they asked
Speaker 2: him about it, he had nothing but good things to
Speaker 2: say about him. And you know what he helped last year. Right,
Speaker 2: It's just the way he's built. It's hard to get
Speaker 2: around her.
Speaker 7: Speaking of former Cowboys now with Seattle, how about that
Speaker 7: the Seahawks just signed former Cowboys cornerback Calvin Joseph, who
Speaker 7: was traded earlier this year to the Dolphins for Noah
Speaker 7: a Monogamy.
Speaker 4: But he's now with Seattle.
Speaker 2: He got released by Miami and he's been out there
Speaker 2: for a couple of weeks and now Seattle signed him
Speaker 2: to the practice square.
Speaker 3: He's eventually he's got to do.
Speaker 2: Something right, right, I mean, he was your guy, you thought.
Speaker 5: Your guy. Well, I saw it was his athleticism that
Speaker 5: I really enjoyed, and the few plays he made he
Speaker 5: showed that potential, but you know, there.
Speaker 3: Was always something else that counted that. So hey, man
Speaker 3: happen to say, you know, that.
Speaker 2: Was my dude for just I guess the Cowboys won
Speaker 2: that trade, right, because even though he's not playing, he's still.
Speaker 5: Hey, we don't have Joseph. I think they warned by
Speaker 5: not having Joseph that all matters.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go, let's uh, you want me to
Speaker 2: do bills first, so Bill's always last, he's last. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're first, I'm first, all right, and Savannah's going to
Speaker 2: take notes here to make sure nobody's lying on Friday.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is gonna be one of those games.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys do it every time at home, and as always,
Speaker 5: starts off a little bit sticky in the beginning. First quarter,
Speaker 5: will probably be a little bit tough, but we'll end
Speaker 5: up winning the game. I think thirty three to fourteen,
Speaker 5: all right. I don't know how they're going to score
Speaker 5: fourteen points. I hope It's not from a pick six
Speaker 5: or anything like that, but could be a couple of
Speaker 5: old by the way touchdowns. I look, and I never
Speaker 5: i haven't gone with this guy for quite some time,
Speaker 5: but I'm looking at Dak. I'm looking at Dak to
Speaker 5: be specific. Two passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. All right,
Speaker 5: how does that sound?
Speaker 2: That's no arguments there, Savannah Europe.
Speaker 4: All right, let's do it.
Speaker 7: I'm just taking notes on ever since here in one
Speaker 7: rushing touchdown.
Speaker 4: You got it, all right.
Speaker 7: I am going with Jake Ferguson for my click to
Speaker 7: pick this week.
Speaker 4: Sorry if I stole this from you.
Speaker 2: Finally two weeks I think she stole my God.
Speaker 7: Great well, Ferguson, he had targets one reception for thirty
Speaker 7: five yards against the Commanders against the Panthers in Week eleven,
Speaker 7: three receptions for a total of thirty two yards, but
Speaker 7: he was on a three game touchdown streak prior to that.
Speaker 7: So I think now, with the rotations that Dak has
Speaker 7: going with the receivers and the tight ends right now,
Speaker 7: I think Ferguson will have.
Speaker 4: One touchdown this game.
Speaker 7: And I'm going with the Cowboys twenty seven Seattle.
Speaker 2: Twenty ooh, a close one.
Speaker 4: Touchdown, just by a touchdown, just by a touchdown.
Speaker 2: All right, I am next, and I will pick the
Speaker 2: Cowboys to win. Twenty seven thirteen thirteen seems to be
Speaker 2: the number that Seattle gets to. So we'll give him
Speaker 2: thirteen points seven thirteen, twenty seven to thirteen, since in
Speaker 2: their last three games they scored three, sixteen and thirteen
Speaker 2: this past give him thirteen again, I think it'll be.
Speaker 3: This is much closer than I thought you'd could this.
Speaker 2: This is the what fourth game, fourth game in nineteen days?
Speaker 2: Is that what they had? And at some point that
Speaker 2: many games, not so much physically, but mentally I think
Speaker 2: starts to wear on you. So I'm going to say
Speaker 2: twenty seven thirteen and my pick to click. Thinking about
Speaker 2: Geno Smith having been sacked thirteen times in the last
Speaker 2: four games, I'm going to go with Sam Williams with
Speaker 2: a multiple game, multiple sack game for Sam Williams, and
Speaker 2: hopefully he doesn't figure out how to commit a personal
Speaker 2: file in this game that they get mad at and
Speaker 2: don't put him back out there on defense. Right, it's
Speaker 2: either roughing or running into the punter. It's a face
Speaker 2: mask laid hit on the quarterback.
Speaker 3: He might do something as a gunner, right, You never.
Speaker 2: Know, so that's cause a fumble matemble.
Speaker 3: Never know.
Speaker 2: So I'm going with Sam Williams on this one.
Speaker 4: All right, Bill and Bill, who can't change your picks?
Speaker 2: That's right on no more Bill, Bill.
Speaker 3: Has got forty. Bill says forty to thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cowboys forty one, Seahawks thirteen one. And he so
Speaker 2: he wants to predict that this will be the fourth
Speaker 2: straight home game with forty points on the board.
Speaker 4: That would be amazing.
Speaker 2: And his pick to click is running back Tony Pollard.
Speaker 5: And of course he has a story behind fifty total
Speaker 5: yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Why is that? Well is his supporting? What is his supporting?
Speaker 2: In Seattle's last four games, Christian McCaffrey total yards, one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty nine and two touchdowns. The Rams game
Speaker 2: Royce Freeman one touchdown, seventy three yards against Washington Brian Roberson.
Speaker 2: Now he only had thirty eight yards rushing, but he
Speaker 2: had one hundred and nineteen yards receiving and one touchdown.
Speaker 2: And against Baltimore, Keaton Mitchell had one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: eight yards rushing and one touchdown. So Bill is going
Speaker 2: with Tony power lighting up the Seahawks' defense by the way, righty,
Speaker 2: So we've got that, and they have given up, by
Speaker 2: the way, seven rushing touchdowns and this was I found
Speaker 2: this one out seven rushing touchdowns in their last four games.
Speaker 2: So a big day for Tony Pollard that I thought
Speaker 2: we would finish by each giving a kind of key
Speaker 2: to a Cowboys victory, like what needs to take place
Speaker 2: to win this game? And we'll start whatever since.
Speaker 5: I say uh and I mentioned it earlier, is Walker kid.
Speaker 5: If I'm going to look at anyone, well, he's may
Speaker 5: not be made. But really, when you start looking at
Speaker 5: their offensive line, if they're not consistent at anything, they
Speaker 5: are consistent at run blocking. That's one thing that they
Speaker 5: have done well. And I'm sure that coach Carroll is
Speaker 5: going to try and run about as much as possible
Speaker 5: to keep the crowd out of the game, number one,
Speaker 5: and to keep our offense off the field, as y'all
Speaker 5: spoke of earlier in the podcast.
Speaker 3: So that would be my real key to the game.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't necessarily worry about anything else. I don't worry
Speaker 5: about our wide receivers not being able to catch the ball.
Speaker 5: I think at any game that we play this year,
Speaker 5: as long as we have as long as they can't
Speaker 5: cover our wide receivers, I think we're going to be
Speaker 5: running up scores because that's been our strength. Is not
Speaker 5: just a passing game itself, but each individual receiver that
Speaker 5: has been targeted, they have been successful at being consistent
Speaker 5: the entire game.
Speaker 4: All right, Okay, I have two key points.
Speaker 7: We're winning this game for us first and foremost, get ahead.
Speaker 7: I would like to see us keep that trend going.
Speaker 7: We've obviously seen from many games past so far that
Speaker 7: when we are ahead, they are playing catch up with us,
Speaker 7: and that's when we have the advantage point. So we
Speaker 7: get ahead early. I think that is going to put
Speaker 7: more of a workload on them and it's going to
Speaker 7: play more out in our favor.
Speaker 4: And as I know that, they are going to run
Speaker 4: the ball a lot.
Speaker 7: Gino Smith, since winning comeback Player of the Year last season,
Speaker 7: he struggled trusting his receivers and that was something he
Speaker 7: mentioned in a press conference this week. So I also
Speaker 7: anticipate him throwing the ball a little bit so our
Speaker 7: secondary I'm looking at Jordan Lewis and Ron bland for
Speaker 7: my guys to kind of keep things going down.
Speaker 2: There, all right, my key originally, and I forgot i'd
Speaker 2: done this. In six their last six games, they've given
Speaker 2: up one hundred and twenty seven yards rushing, one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty five yard rushing, Baltimore two hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: eight yards rushing, wow, and San Francisco one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty nine. Right, So maybe Bill did his homework on
Speaker 2: Tony Pollock. But I was originally going to say the
Speaker 2: key will be they got to get Gino Smith on
Speaker 2: the ground. And that's why I picked Sam Williams since
Speaker 2: I can't pick Parsons right. And in the last four
Speaker 2: games he has been sacked four times by Baltimore, once
Speaker 2: by Washington, twice by the Rams, and six times by
Speaker 2: San Francisco. So I think the key will be to
Speaker 2: cut the head off the snake with sacking Geno Smith.
Speaker 2: That's got to take place.
Speaker 4: That should be the title of the podcast, cut.
Speaker 3: The head off, cut his hand off.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't say he was the snake. Hell no, No,
Speaker 2: that's the threat. Make sure they don't beat you throwing
Speaker 2: the football, and make sure you can stop the run.
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