Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And well, well, well here we are.
Speaker 1: It's a victory Monday inside the SWBC Mortgage studios there
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco, where Mickey Spagnola resides. Also
Speaker 1: inside the Everson Walls s WBC Mortgage studio at the
Speaker 1: Walls Manor. And right here as well, Jones with you
Speaker 1: on a victory Monday. And oh my, how good does
Speaker 1: it feel? You know? How about we kick off this
Speaker 1: show with our picks from Friday? Who picked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to win that game on Sunday? Ever? So who did
Speaker 1: you pick? As always, I have faith. I am not
Speaker 1: like you guys. I have ultimate, unconditional faith that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will win. And they did, and they did? And
Speaker 1: what did you pick them by? Oh? I picked them?
Speaker 1: Let them see that. But here I said twenty three seventeen,
Speaker 1: And I said Robinson would get a pick. Okay, I say,
Speaker 1: Rich Robinson. But Robins, you know the one that's playing,
Speaker 1: not the one that they from Tulsa, the one that's
Speaker 1: actually playing. Yeah, exactly. And Mickey, I don't remember who
Speaker 1: did you pick to win this game? I stuck to
Speaker 1: my guns. I picked the Bengals, and I will pick
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers again next week. That's right, because
Speaker 1: you are waiting for the Cowboys to put two wins
Speaker 1: in a row together and then you will pick the Cowboy.
Speaker 1: You might pick the Cowboys again at that point. But so,
Speaker 1: what was your score? Mickey? It was close? Wasn't twenty three? Twenty? Okay?
Speaker 1: A three point game? Hum? You know, I picked the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to win this game. You remember what my score was?
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I can't imagine, right, he spags. I
Speaker 1: would imagine he was on point. Because this is the
Speaker 1: first time we have reviewed picks to click in our
Speaker 1: score up. This is the first time ever that we
Speaker 1: have done this. So go ahead, mister try I picked
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Go ahead, Mickey, No, go ahead, set it up.
Speaker 1: It's like he picked a cute little thing to go
Speaker 1: back to the past, right he didn't eighty five? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went back to eight. Tried it was this was
Speaker 1: this was the revenge game, not only for Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: going back to Cincinnati, but it was for all Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans who remember nineteen eighty five and that fifty to
Speaker 1: twenty four loss to the Bengals. I picked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to win by twenty six points over the Bengals. And
Speaker 1: how much do they win by talking wasn't twenty three?
Speaker 1: So who wins the pick this week? I don't know nobody.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, no, no, no, no, what's not doing this?
Speaker 1: We're not doing this. We are not doing this. They
Speaker 1: have been. I can't remember about ten weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: was on point and it was never brought up. Some more,
Speaker 1: mister Jerry's your opportunity then you brought you just brought
Speaker 1: it was But nicky, isn't it? Isn't it a good
Speaker 1: feeling on a victory Monday? I have to say, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm a little it's a little anti. I'm acted for me.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. You know, when you look at
Speaker 1: who we beat, you know I called it. I called
Speaker 1: it a pillow fight. That's what I saw yesterday, or
Speaker 1: a nice little pillow fight. And when I look at
Speaker 1: what's going on in the rest of the NFC East,
Speaker 1: I feel like we almost took a lateral step only
Speaker 1: because the Washington football team looks amazing. They swept us,
Speaker 1: so they're in first place all by themselves. I saw Philadelphia, Now,
Speaker 1: I see. If you want to brag about a pick
Speaker 1: to click, then you can talk about my prediction on
Speaker 1: what Hurst was gonna do against the Saints. I told
Speaker 1: you that he was going to make a difference for
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia team, and we were going back and forth
Speaker 1: about He versus Lamar versus Kylin. So I just had
Speaker 1: a feeling he was gonna make a difference in that game,
Speaker 1: and I think he will for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: That gives me pause, and so does the fact that
Speaker 1: the Riskins have a typebreaker on us as well. That
Speaker 1: kind of gives me pause as well, seeing how well
Speaker 1: they played yesterday. I just really think that should be us.
Speaker 1: That should be us who should be in the front
Speaker 1: of this whole train instead of back in the caboose.
Speaker 1: And by the way, along those lines and making this
Speaker 1: just second along those lines you mentioned Washington. Washington has
Speaker 1: now won three They've won four straight games overall, but
Speaker 1: they have won three straight games since the fake punt
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day. The Cowboys were only trailing twenty to
Speaker 1: sixteen in that game when they ran the fake punt,
Speaker 1: and they Washington went on to win that game. Then
Speaker 1: they beat the unbeaten Steelers the next week, and now
Speaker 1: this time they go, it's is something we could have
Speaker 1: done as well. So it always lets me know we
Speaker 1: are who we are and where we are because of
Speaker 1: who we are. That's right. And sorry, the Cowboys exposed
Speaker 1: the Steelers about a month ago, and now people are
Speaker 1: taken advantage of that. Yeah, all right, Mickey, I got
Speaker 1: I got reminded of that, uh that that fake punt
Speaker 1: last night watching the news. By the way, Bill couldn't
Speaker 1: wait for me. Boy, Look, the wind would have seemed
Speaker 1: a lot better if the Saints had done what they
Speaker 1: were supposed to do. Uh and and and they would
Speaker 1: have got some help from uh the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Uh and look I get it, Washington, you know, ball right,
Speaker 1: it was great, but they had two defensive returns for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: They scored what twenty three points, so they they basically
Speaker 1: they basically scored Uh if my if my math is
Speaker 1: good without the fourteen you know what? You know what
Speaker 1: they're saying in Washington today about the Cowboys. No, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but their offense scored nine points. I get it, I
Speaker 1: get it, and they lost their quarterback to not now
Speaker 1: how long who knows. Yeah, so there you go. So
Speaker 1: um I saw that doing the game. I saw them
Speaker 1: rubbing his leg down. I thought he was just getting
Speaker 1: a rub down to go back in the game. And
Speaker 1: then the next thing I know, I see h Haskins
Speaker 1: in there and doing decent work, doing decent work against
Speaker 1: the number one defense. Had everybody else lost like the
Speaker 1: Giants did, then I would have said, oh, this is great, right,
Speaker 1: because then they're only a game back with with with
Speaker 1: three to go. But even though they want what all right,
Speaker 1: should not be concerned about the Eagles, Okay, because if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna win this, I'm not worried about Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. So the Eagle the Washington is the issue.
Speaker 1: Washington is the issue. Yes, I mean, the Cowboys control
Speaker 1: their destiny is far as the Eagles are concerned. And
Speaker 1: because if the Cowboys just and with the Giants too,
Speaker 1: because all they got to do is win out and
Speaker 1: they will take care of business against both those teams.
Speaker 1: Washington is the problem. And that was what was so
Speaker 1: problematical about them without scoring an offensive touchdown, right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: they win against San Francisco yesterday, because you look at
Speaker 1: the at the Washington schedule the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: and uh, they've got so they've got three games. Who
Speaker 1: do they play this? I got a ring on her. Seattle.
Speaker 1: They've got Seattle, Seattle, Okay in Carolina. Yeah, and we
Speaker 1: can't count out Seattle to do anything, right, And so basically,
Speaker 1: what if it's gonna be a head to head tie
Speaker 1: with Washington, then Washington has got to lose lose out right, Yep, no,
Speaker 1: because it can't. They No, they can't because the here's
Speaker 1: the only way. The Cowboys don't have the tiebreaker against Washington.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a head to head tie with Washington,
Speaker 1: Washington's got the tiebreaker. So the Cowboys have to win
Speaker 1: their final three. Washington has to lose their final three.
Speaker 1: Now here's the caveat on that the Cowboys, I believe.
Speaker 1: I looked at it last night. If it's a three
Speaker 1: way tie between the giants Washington and Dallas, it would
Speaker 1: come down to the conference tiebreaker and Dallas would have
Speaker 1: the advantage if this plays out. So what you have
Speaker 1: to have happened then is you have to have the
Speaker 1: Washington lose two out of their next three games against Seattle, Carolina, Philly,
Speaker 1: and you need but here's a problem. You need New
Speaker 1: York to beat Cleveland and Baltimore and then lose to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the last game. And so yeah, but
Speaker 1: the chances of the Giants beating Cleveland and Baltimore, that's dice, right.
Speaker 1: I think. I think, though, you need to look at
Speaker 1: your tiebreaker thing because I think common opponents comes before
Speaker 1: the conference thing hit All right, well, then that would
Speaker 1: be in a problem. So it's that would have taken
Speaker 1: too much work. It would it's it's head to it's
Speaker 1: head to head, it's division record. Then I think it's
Speaker 1: common opponents before conference record. I'll double check, but I
Speaker 1: think that's the way it had double check that because
Speaker 1: I had conference record next, and if it's conference record,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would be at six and six and both
Speaker 1: the Giants in Washington would be five and seven. If
Speaker 1: that scenario, why I said what I said Originally, I'd
Speaker 1: feel a lot better about this victory had the other
Speaker 1: two teams lost, but they didn't lose, and especially Washington,
Speaker 1: as I wrote, basically, the win gives the Cowboys a
Speaker 1: stay of elimination. Yeah, that's that lateral step I was
Speaker 1: talking about. And by the way, tell me, when they
Speaker 1: went into the fourth quarter and it's twenty to seven,
Speaker 1: you were feeling really good about this team dominating the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, right. Well, when I ask you
Speaker 1: this and they're waiting for the next shot to fall, forget,
Speaker 1: forget twenty to seven. How about when some I J. P.
Speaker 1: Ryan runs into the end zone exactly and it was
Speaker 1: it's about to be twenty to fourteen if not for
Speaker 1: that flag laying on the ground back there, Well he
Speaker 1: kind of ripped his jersey, and I would call that.
Speaker 1: I would call that that was a legitimate call. I
Speaker 1: think it wasn't. But if they didn't make the call,
Speaker 1: some type of flag, I think that one Jima call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not a legitimate call, but they
Speaker 1: could have just as easily not called it too. That's
Speaker 1: true what we've been accustomed to with that's because it
Speaker 1: wasn't ever since. That's because it wasn't a prime time game.
Speaker 1: It was a new game, and so the Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys weren't going to get screwed on calls in the
Speaker 1: Newton game at Cincinnati, they're just fine there. Yeah, look,
Speaker 1: so make you watch your big takeaway about this Cowboys
Speaker 1: win though it's it's a win, and a win is
Speaker 1: a win, right, And if Mike McCarthy's goal is to
Speaker 1: sweep the final four games, you couldn't have done that
Speaker 1: without winning the first of the four games. So the
Speaker 1: least they have that little carrot to dangle among themselves
Speaker 1: to see if they can finish this season strong with
Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum going into the off season.
Speaker 1: But you know, look the defense. They got the turnovers,
Speaker 1: I got it, they got the takeaways, right, But look
Speaker 1: at the drive Cincinnati. Cincinnati, their offense I think was
Speaker 1: ranked twenty ninth thirty something like that. They drive fifty
Speaker 1: three yards, it ends in amble, they drive fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: ends in a fumble, seventy seven yards in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then eighty yards and they're stopped on fourth down
Speaker 1: at the ten yard line. So it wasn't like this
Speaker 1: was you know, I know it's only seven points, but
Speaker 1: I think you got to take it with a grain
Speaker 1: of salt considering how well Cincinnati moved the ball with
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback who couldn't hit the side of a
Speaker 1: barn with a pass as many wide up and guys
Speaker 1: he'd missed, and they ran for one hundred leather hundred
Speaker 1: yards against the Cowboys. So yeah, it's a good win.
Speaker 1: I get it, but I just gotta think you gotta
Speaker 1: put it in perspective. You know what, this reminds me
Speaker 1: of last year when the Cowboys started off so strong
Speaker 1: against some of the weaker teams in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: even at that time, we and I know I had
Speaker 1: pause in regards to yes, we're winning the games. But
Speaker 1: remember that's the second butt fumble that we've had by
Speaker 1: running back in the past two years that we've grown
Speaker 1: up against. I remember against the Dolphins, they were moving
Speaker 1: the ball on us last year and they were horrible
Speaker 1: last year. We blew them out, but early on in
Speaker 1: the first half, they were driving on us and the
Speaker 1: running back runs right into the back of his offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He fumbles the ball and that saved us from making
Speaker 1: that game even tighter at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: And I told you, guys, I said, even though we're winning,
Speaker 1: I don't like the way our defense is playing. We
Speaker 1: haven't really stopped anyone. I think we were relying to
Speaker 1: live off of our feed off of our offense. I
Speaker 1: think that's what we're still doing right now, because as
Speaker 1: you look at those drives that you mentioned, SPADs all
Speaker 1: of them, they were running the ball right down our throats.
Speaker 1: They were still running the ball on those three downs
Speaker 1: right down our throats. I don't feel any better about
Speaker 1: our run defense right now than I did before the game.
Speaker 1: It's still the same feeling. If anyone wants to come
Speaker 1: in here, if I would mainly three opponents, they still
Speaker 1: will feel extremely comfortable about. They don't even have to
Speaker 1: make one pass. They could just run the ball on
Speaker 1: us for the entire game if they choose to, I
Speaker 1: still have death fear. So and by the way, taking
Speaker 1: it back to that possession that Mickey you were talking about,
Speaker 1: to where it was twenty to seven and then p
Speaker 1: Ryan goes in a thirteen yard run gets called back holding,
Speaker 1: But now you're they're set back. They were only set
Speaker 1: back to the twenty yard line. They threw it to
Speaker 1: p Ryan for five, and so now you got second
Speaker 1: and twelve. At the fifteen I would have given it
Speaker 1: bit to p Ryan two more times though again yeah,
Speaker 1: and they wound up throwing the ball twice. But if
Speaker 1: I'm in Cincinnati and I want to win, I don't
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know the Cincinnati wanted to win
Speaker 1: the game. Maybe they didn't. But if you want to
Speaker 1: win the game, just and if you've scouted the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: give it to pe Ryan or Williams or Bernard or
Speaker 1: one of them, and and just try to run your way,
Speaker 1: because they could have got a first down even before
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown. Yeah, so are you telling me that
Speaker 1: they might be taking the game so they can get
Speaker 1: Lawrence from Clemson and they already have barrels from No, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're not, They're not. I was gonna says, do you
Speaker 1: need and they and they already have a two and
Speaker 1: a half game lead, or they're behind by two and
Speaker 1: a half games to the Jets in that race. Anyway,
Speaker 1: well maybe maybe maybe maybe the Bengals. Maybe the Bengals
Speaker 1: saw who the Cowboys had playing cornerback at that point
Speaker 1: of the game. Are you you lose your two starters,
Speaker 1: you're already down digs and then you lose those two
Speaker 1: guys in the game, and at one point you're playing
Speaker 1: with Burt Deonte Burton and Chris Restreet taking his first
Speaker 1: snaps in the National Football League. Right, it's like, get
Speaker 1: in there, Chris, go ahead. They Jay Green might laying
Speaker 1: line up right in fun of you. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you mentioned how about giving him some help? How about
Speaker 1: giving him there? That's what about? That's what about less
Speaker 1: double green on this play? Well, they should have actually
Speaker 1: making a game. Actually, Mickey on that uh on that
Speaker 1: first and seventeen passed to p Rhin Westry got hurt
Speaker 1: on that play, so he was out of there and
Speaker 1: he walked off right and they had to bring I
Speaker 1: think they book in Savian Smith back with a broken
Speaker 1: bone in his hand. You mentioned the Dolphins Robinson go down,
Speaker 1: but thank god he came back in a Yeah, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Dolphins game last year. That's the last time
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had held in a point opponent to less
Speaker 1: than ten points in a game. By the way, so
Speaker 1: this was the first time since that game, so twenty
Speaker 1: I think I counted twenty nine games it's been since
Speaker 1: they've been able to do that. And so yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I don't know. It's a win. I get it.
Speaker 1: It's a nice win for Andy Dalton to do what
Speaker 1: he did, But as I said, he got showered with
Speaker 1: water as he came into the into the locker room
Speaker 1: after the game. But let's not confuse that with champagne. Okay,
Speaker 1: m let's not do that. I enjoyed watching it, but
Speaker 1: like I said, Sat, it was an emptiness as I
Speaker 1: watched the game, I didn't feel excited about our opportunities
Speaker 1: because we didn't improve our position. And that's what that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted yesterday to be. I want to improve
Speaker 1: our position by gaining some leverage on these guys. And man,
Speaker 1: let's just face it, the NFC East is stepping up,
Speaker 1: you know, and thank God for the reputation of the
Speaker 1: NFC East, but as not doing well for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and even the Eagles at this point, well, let's let's
Speaker 1: look at it this way. They they ended they ended
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's unbeaten streak, right, and then the Saints had won
Speaker 1: nine straight and they ended that, so go figure and whatever, Seattle,
Speaker 1: and a week before Giants ended that exactly exactly. So
Speaker 1: the NFC East here in the last two weeks has
Speaker 1: knocked off three division leaders. Yeah, and that's the other
Speaker 1: thing I wanted. I wanted us to be one of
Speaker 1: those teams. Why couldn't we be one of those teams
Speaker 1: to go ahead and finish your task. We had that
Speaker 1: opportunity when we played Pittsburgh, and that's what gives me pause.
Speaker 1: The NFC East is stepping up, but the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: still going sideways. Okay, I don't know if it still
Speaker 1: feels like a victory Monday or not, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: There was every Monday and then both Mickey and Everson
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Speaker 1: is the same to me. Yeah, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: been running together. I forgot all about Thanksgiving, man, I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to remember what I did then. It's just
Speaker 1: he watched the Cowboys. He watched a fake punt on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving I'm trying to put that out of my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. You know what. One of my takes
Speaker 1: from watching NFL games though yesterday and and it kind
Speaker 1: of gets back to what you're talking about ever soon
Speaker 1: about the Steelers. There how many good teams, I mean,
Speaker 1: really good teams are there in this league. I got
Speaker 1: I got one, I got two, Okay, I got Kansas City. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and who's your second? I got Buffalo and Buffalo David
Speaker 1: bressed me. Okay. I was waiting for them to be
Speaker 1: inconsistent last night, right, But to show that kind of
Speaker 1: consistency against two very good teams who had something to
Speaker 1: prove against them. You know, it's not just that you
Speaker 1: win a game, it's the circumstances around the game. And
Speaker 1: the circumstances around both of those last two Buffalo games.
Speaker 1: They bowed heavily to me against Buffalo, and they came
Speaker 1: in and did business. They did their work that they
Speaker 1: had to do, and that's consistent in how they did it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and the Saints too, you know, And I
Speaker 1: know when you win that many games, you're due to
Speaker 1: lose one. And all this talk about Tayson Hill and
Speaker 1: oh well, Drew Brees is back. I don't know, he
Speaker 1: may be the backup, and I'm going, yeah that that
Speaker 1: argument ended yesterday because I thought that he had some
Speaker 1: plays that were pretty shaky, missed some things that he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have missed. Yeah. So yeah, so now you got
Speaker 1: the Saints and then I mean who else? Who else
Speaker 1: in the NFC? I mean who you fired up about?
Speaker 1: I guess the Packers maybe, but they've showed that they're susceptible.
Speaker 1: Yeah so yeah, you look, the bottom line is if
Speaker 1: you can play defense, you can survive. That's how Kansas
Speaker 1: City survived, right, They played well defensively, they were stinking
Speaker 1: it up on it. It's not just how well you play,
Speaker 1: it's the plays that you make exactly most important critical
Speaker 1: times in the ball game. And that comes from experience.
Speaker 1: That's not some rookie that's lucking himself up into a play. Now,
Speaker 1: this is by design that they understand what the opposition
Speaker 1: is trying to do. And as veterans who have made
Speaker 1: plays before, this is my time to step up and
Speaker 1: do it again for this team because that's what we're
Speaker 1: accustomed to doing. That's why I feel comfortable about Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is kind of new to this. But but the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, once again they stepped up every time
Speaker 1: they needed to make a play. There was no luck,
Speaker 1: There was no phantom call. You know, there was a
Speaker 1: little man. If it wasn't for that call, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know. They have had it. They had the destiny
Speaker 1: in their own hands, and they performed in that manner.
Speaker 1: But but it's but my homes put Kansas City, Yeah,
Speaker 1: head and shoulders above everybody else. Yeah, I just his
Speaker 1: playmaking ability. You know what, here's another thing. And it
Speaker 1: didn't need this to win. The Cowboys scored thirty points.
Speaker 1: Do you realize that they haven't won a game this
Speaker 1: year unless they've scored at least thirty points? That's safe.
Speaker 1: All four wins thirty one and thirty. And if I
Speaker 1: remember last year, I think all their wins were by it.
Speaker 1: They had to score thirty points. I need to double that, right,
Speaker 1: twelve or twelve on their last twelve wins that they
Speaker 1: scored thirty. So, so, how many times have we scored
Speaker 1: thirty overall and lost this season? Just period? Overall? How
Speaker 1: many times have we scored thirty? Well, let me tell
Speaker 1: you four, because that that that would let you know
Speaker 1: that even when we don't win, every time we scored thirty,
Speaker 1: you know, we just we have to come out with
Speaker 1: the thirty spot just to survive. Well, we had three
Speaker 1: in a row where we where we had thirty or
Speaker 1: more and lost two more actually two and actually two
Speaker 1: and two lost Back in September, they lost the Seattle
Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty one. Then they lost to Cleveland forty
Speaker 1: nine thirty eight. Right now, since Dak went down, until yesterday,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had given up the most points defensively and
Speaker 1: they had scored the fewest points offensively. That is not
Speaker 1: a recipe for winning very many games, right, So we'll
Speaker 1: see Sanford. You know, the other thing though on you
Speaker 1: know the other thing on the ball, by the way.
Speaker 1: That's why, guys, that's why I am. I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about this necessarily happy about this win, because everyone we
Speaker 1: play from here on, and you know, this is the
Speaker 1: brother with the weirdest name of any black man I've
Speaker 1: ever heard in my life, got the last name most Stirt.
Speaker 1: Mo Stirt is that his name, right? Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, man, that's a unique name. And that brother
Speaker 1: lives up to it because until he got hurt, he's
Speaker 1: he's just like Jones for for the Packers. He runs
Speaker 1: downhill all the time, and that's exactly what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: don't need. He's another Delvin Cook that comes in and
Speaker 1: he is hell bent on going forward. Forget lad forget backwards.
Speaker 1: He's no Barry sadness. They are going forward and if
Speaker 1: there's any day there, they're gonna hit it and they're
Speaker 1: gonna split it. So that's what makes me nervous about
Speaker 1: this guy and their their their entire remedy for winning
Speaker 1: is totally what we don't play well at all, and
Speaker 1: that is to run, run, run, and run. I'm very
Speaker 1: nervous about this. Now. What scares me about any running
Speaker 1: back going up against the Cowboys? If they've got two
Speaker 1: legs and two feet, then they scare me. And then
Speaker 1: how about how about a quarterback that can run? Because
Speaker 1: you know, I think Jalen Hurts likes to run with
Speaker 1: the ball. Although they did get and some design runs,
Speaker 1: they did get an eighty two yard touchdown run right,
Speaker 1: that was the difference Miles Sanders back to it was
Speaker 1: it was Sanders right, It was Ords untouched by the
Speaker 1: way I saw that. Yeah, deja vu, that was deja
Speaker 1: vu for us. I'm glad it happened to somebody else.
Speaker 1: All right. So with what's going on with New Orleans
Speaker 1: with their backup quarterback situation, all right, you've seen Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton now two straight games where he's been very efficient.
Speaker 1: Crisp Okay, what do you think the future holds for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton for next season? You know, I was we
Speaker 1: were talking about that when I did my fans segment,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have time to kind of look at
Speaker 1: who needs a starting quarterback a starting quarterback without drafting
Speaker 1: one of those guys in the first couple of picks
Speaker 1: of the draft. So you know, if somebody look, I
Speaker 1: think he's done enough to convince the Cowboys that if
Speaker 1: he wants to stay, you keep them as your backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: Absolutely no doubt about it. Now, is there a starting
Speaker 1: job for him out there? That part, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what everybody else is looking for. Unless
Speaker 1: one of these teams that might draft a guy with
Speaker 1: the first pick or the second pick, third pick, you know,
Speaker 1: they want a placeholder until that guy is ready to play.
Speaker 1: Then maybe Dalton fits that bill. But I would have
Speaker 1: to look at east individual team to see who's got
Speaker 1: what going forward. And if you're another NFL team, do
Speaker 1: you want Andy Dalton or Carson Wentz as your starting quarterback?
Speaker 1: I would go I'd go with Andy Dalton only because
Speaker 1: right now Carson Wentz head is totally screwed up. It's
Speaker 1: tough coming off of such futility that Philadelphia has had offensively,
Speaker 1: all of that pressure has been on him. I don't
Speaker 1: know what has happened between last year and this year.
Speaker 1: Of course the pandemic, but a lot more sacks he has.
Speaker 1: His competence has gone downhill, seems like ever since two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen, after that great year that he had.
Speaker 1: And as far as Dalton is concerned, to me, as
Speaker 1: far as Dalton is concerned, he's he's set to be
Speaker 1: another Nick Foles. You know, glad to have him, you know,
Speaker 1: glad to have him for a backup position, be comfortable
Speaker 1: to start him at any time. But I'd rather go
Speaker 1: with my more proven, maybe even younger quarterback. And that
Speaker 1: seems to be the way he's going to be looked
Speaker 1: at in the NFL. And let's be real, guys, you
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with Dad. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got all kind of confidence in his want to
Speaker 1: his motivation. But we don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 1: with Dak when he comes back. That could be still
Speaker 1: contract problems. It's an extremely unique situation. So as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, I think Dalton should stay where he
Speaker 1: is until we figure out what the heck is going
Speaker 1: on with Dak Prescott. I such we continue, all right?
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Speaker 1: song right here? What song are you playing, Bill Dallas,
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys? We are the cow Boys. Hey, that sounds
Speaker 1: like a Stark and Hutch intro. That would be the
Speaker 1: great Charlie Pride, right, Mickey, I was trying to find
Speaker 1: the year that he wrote that in about the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and it's you know what, It's like a three minute
Speaker 1: song too, by the way. It goes on and on
Speaker 1: and on about how great the Cowboys have been going.
Speaker 1: If you want me to, let's not. I love old Charlie.
Speaker 1: I love Charlie, but let's not. No. Yeah, but Charlie
Speaker 1: passed away over the weekend. And what a great man.
Speaker 1: Charlie Pride was eighty six years old, and of course
Speaker 1: he hung out at Rangers spring training every year for
Speaker 1: about forty years, maybe longer than that. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I had forgotten Mickey until you sent me the clip
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys song that Charlie. I assume he wrote
Speaker 1: and sang it. I'm not sure, yes he did. And
Speaker 1: I had forgotten that he had played ball in the
Speaker 1: Negro League, that's right, and he was thinking he was
Speaker 1: the next Willie Mays. I saw an interview with him.
Speaker 1: It was good. I've seen that interview. Spags, he's he
Speaker 1: speaks of that. He spoke of that all the time.
Speaker 1: I guess you got Spas you may know. His niece
Speaker 1: was married to Anthony Dickerson from SMU the Yes, so
Speaker 1: you know how it is, you got the wives have
Speaker 1: the clicks, and so she was play of the click
Speaker 1: with Cherrell and Ron Spring's wife Adrian at that time.
Speaker 1: I'm Dorset's girlfriend name was Kim as well, So that's there,
Speaker 1: that's their little click. They're still hanging out together all
Speaker 1: the time. So it kind of hit us at a
Speaker 1: personal level in regards to Charlie Pride passing on. So
Speaker 1: we sent our condolences to Kim, his niece and that
Speaker 1: entire family. So, yeah, it was you're talking about the
Speaker 1: Trailblazer guys, I mean, we talked about the Negro League
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. But being an African American
Speaker 1: and country music, you had to have a lot of
Speaker 1: balls and you had to be damn good to stay
Speaker 1: in that genre. And never any controversy. He was always
Speaker 1: well liked. I'm sure he went up against his racism
Speaker 1: in that in that arena, but it never bothered him.
Speaker 1: You would never know that he had any negative moments
Speaker 1: in his life. Always upbeat, always positive, and they've passed
Speaker 1: on to his sisters and also to the rest of
Speaker 1: his family. You know. I also read that when he
Speaker 1: first got popular in country music and people didn't realize
Speaker 1: it was a black man, Right, they wouldn't, but they
Speaker 1: wouldn't on the face of his albums. They wouldn't put
Speaker 1: his He wouldn't, it wouldn't be a picture of him
Speaker 1: because they didn't want anybody to know that he was black.
Speaker 1: Increased sales. Go figure, right, had an amazing, an amazing, amazing,
Speaker 1: soothing voice, perfect for country and Weston singing Hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, I want to go back to the question
Speaker 1: you asked about Carson Wentz, that he might be available. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I keep seeing these stories and they talked about it
Speaker 1: on pregame postgame shows yesterday. Does anybody realize that if, if, if,
Speaker 1: if the Eagles trade him, they will incur fifty nine
Speaker 1: million dollars of dead money? Fifty nine million dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: now for the training team there. So that report that
Speaker 1: I saw on the NFL that that report on the
Speaker 1: NFL network I saw earlier this morning that it wouldn't
Speaker 1: really impact them salary capital was true. I just looked
Speaker 1: up what the what the salary cap charge would be
Speaker 1: and it said fifty nine million dollars. Uh. Now after
Speaker 1: this year it goes down, uh, and it would be
Speaker 1: more palatable. But but his base salary, he's got a
Speaker 1: he's got a ten million dollars roster bonus. But the
Speaker 1: base salaries fifteen million this year. So you know, if
Speaker 1: you only had to pay the roster bone, I mean
Speaker 1: the base salary, yeah, you do that first starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I don't know about the Eagles incurring that much
Speaker 1: and dead money even if he's the backup. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, Spags. I would not be
Speaker 1: mad at them if they ended up doing that. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy is a to me, and I would told
Speaker 1: you about how I admired his style, his grit and
Speaker 1: everything that goes on with him. The way he fought
Speaker 1: last year that was just amazing with a team that
Speaker 1: was just really pasted together. I kind of admired that
Speaker 1: whole franchise in the way of Peterson handled that. So
Speaker 1: that relationship, to me, I think that kind of respect
Speaker 1: that he has gone from his teammates, from that organization,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad about keeping him as a backup
Speaker 1: because we don't know what hurt is gonna do on
Speaker 1: a consistent level. It's kind of like Fitzpatrick with two
Speaker 1: of them. You have to have that soothing backup guy
Speaker 1: for you, a young, young stud just in case things
Speaker 1: start to go wrong. Then you can have the veteran
Speaker 1: coming in and these things just a little bit. Okay, okay, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I looked it up. If he's a post, if they
Speaker 1: designated him as a post June first, next year, right,
Speaker 1: it would be a thirty thirty five million dollars cap hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but and so I guess the way the rest is
Speaker 1: next year, then the year after it looks like nine million.
Speaker 1: It would be uh, looks like nine million, nine million,
Speaker 1: nine million. For ensuing years, well, let's put it this swell.
Speaker 1: If they got rid of them in twenty before twenty two,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Go ahead, they got an out
Speaker 1: after twenty twenty two, and it would cost them twenty
Speaker 1: four million in dead money, So you can you can
Speaker 1: handle that all right, But next year it yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: post post June one, but you would incur part of
Speaker 1: it and then the rest of it in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: It's still gonna amount to fifty nine million one way
Speaker 1: or another. So anyway, that's what they're faced with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so the way they would justify anything like that
Speaker 1: is is that you're not paying your rookie that much money.
Speaker 1: He was a second round draft picking, so they would
Speaker 1: think that, Okay, we're pretending we're paying Jalen Hurts. That.
Speaker 1: Having said that, I think and I appreciate what Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts was able to do yesterday and obviously effective and
Speaker 1: leading the team and running the football and stuff, but
Speaker 1: the jury is still out on Jalen Hurts going forward
Speaker 1: to one of the things that he did in that
Speaker 1: game that I know my fellow Oklahoma fans were saying,
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, here we go again, was the fumble in
Speaker 1: the last couple of minutes. There were times in his
Speaker 1: one year with OU, I was really intrigued by him.
Speaker 1: When he came to OU. I loved what I saw.
Speaker 1: I was a lot like what you're saying Everson. But
Speaker 1: as I watched him as the season went along, he
Speaker 1: had issues where he would turn the ball over it
Speaker 1: inopportune times. Now, I think you can coach that out
Speaker 1: of him, and I think that that and he's obviously
Speaker 1: got potential. But that was the aggravating thing from a
Speaker 1: fan standpoint, was there there were several games that were
Speaker 1: much closer than they needed to be due to untimely turnovers,
Speaker 1: just like yesterday's game against the Saints, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden became a tight fit for Philly when he had
Speaker 1: the fumble when they were basically just killing time. To me, though,
Speaker 1: when you look at that game, it was a perfect
Speaker 1: storm for him, Bill, because you had a backup on
Speaker 1: the other side as well, exactly well, you had Tayston
Speaker 1: trying to do his thing on the other side. So
Speaker 1: once again, guys, we talked about it. Your defense has
Speaker 1: to play a major point, and not just a defense.
Speaker 1: The other two faststs of the game. They have to
Speaker 1: come into play to help a young kid coming in
Speaker 1: trying to steady the ship. I'm sorry that they couldn't
Speaker 1: do it for wins when he was in there, But
Speaker 1: sometimes it's something about the quarterback change that can renew
Speaker 1: or revive not just the team, but even the coaches
Speaker 1: in regards to the game plan itself. Now we can
Speaker 1: do more with him, tell him to just manage the game,
Speaker 1: not try and win the game. And the defense really
Speaker 1: held things off from a powerful Saints offense. They held
Speaker 1: back Kamara the hell back. I've never seen anybody built
Speaker 1: like like Taysom Hill. This kid is built like just
Speaker 1: a stud. So to keep him just really in check,
Speaker 1: that really helped that perfect storm for hers and the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense. Yeah, because if you look at what he did,
Speaker 1: he of his seventeen completions, eleven were to the running
Speaker 1: backs and tight end. Now, he did run for one
Speaker 1: hundred and six yards, by the way, yes he did.
Speaker 1: But Philadelphia, so the Saints defense it was ranked pretty high. Right.
Speaker 1: They gave up two hundred and forty six yards rushing
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty six. Only the Cowboys do stuff
Speaker 1: like that, giving up that much, you know, but a
Speaker 1: lot of that stuff was on design quarterback runs that
Speaker 1: was unique that were in past looks that the Saints
Speaker 1: weren't prepared for. That's the other thing they're going to
Speaker 1: run into as they go forward, is if they are
Speaker 1: running that kind of offense, NFL defensive coordinators are going
Speaker 1: to adjust to that and take that away, and Hurts
Speaker 1: is going to have to beat him with his arm eventually.
Speaker 1: I am extremely surprised that the Saints didn't anticipate what
Speaker 1: kind of run, what kind of offensive game plan they
Speaker 1: were going to do. You and I knew what was
Speaker 1: gonna happen. We knew that there was gonna be run heavy,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be short passes. I only spect Hurts
Speaker 1: to go down the field. So I'm just surprised the Saints. Well,
Speaker 1: they allowed that to happen, but they just weren't accustomed
Speaker 1: to having to pull their office out of the fire
Speaker 1: so many times. Because usually you've got Drew Brees, you've
Speaker 1: got Kamara, and that offense is clicking with also Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: They had. They were hesitant yesterday because you've got a
Speaker 1: new quarterback in there, and he's not close to forty
Speaker 1: years old, and he's not close to having all those
Speaker 1: all pros and all the accolades that Drew Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is accustomed to well. And so we just spent the
Speaker 1: last couple of minutes previewing what we'll be talking about
Speaker 1: next week on mix Shots when the Cowboys go up
Speaker 1: against the Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles. N time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't be over a lot of time. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: And with Dwayne Haskin starting for washingtton against Seattle, there's
Speaker 1: an ell. I really love what the new coaching Carolina's
Speaker 1: doing and they can beat Washington, Philly can beat Washington.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna build this thing back up and Lorn behold,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this a victory Monday. Nonetheless, I don't
Speaker 1: care what you two say. We're gonna let you have
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