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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
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Speaker 1: inside the SWBC podcast studio here at the Star in Frisco,
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. And officially it
Speaker 1: is Texans Week. Texans Week. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: People and Houston are all fired up about. You know
Speaker 1: what that means State Championship Game week. Cowboys play it that.
Speaker 1: You know there's gonna be about twelve state championship games
Speaker 1: played next week. It at at and T Stadium. And
Speaker 1: what better way to kickoff stay Championship Week then with
Speaker 1: an NFL State championship game. I just want to know
Speaker 1: how the hell did the Texans qualify of the state
Speaker 1: championship one. That's pretty low brew. I think we were
Speaker 1: informed in McCarthy's press conference that the Cowboys are seventeen
Speaker 1: point favorites. Yes, I heard that. He didn't have much
Speaker 1: of a reaction It wasn't McCarthy who informed everybody that
Speaker 1: we are seventeen. He does not, he does not want
Speaker 1: that to be. He was informed. That's right. Yeah, is
Speaker 1: that possible? Seventeen? It is seventeen, that's right. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the Texans play? I have? Okay, somebody have you
Speaker 1: seen the count? Did you see the Cowboys fourth quarter?
Speaker 1: The other day? Somebody asking me about it? And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: let's put it this way. The Cowboys are giving up
Speaker 1: an average of seventeen points a game and the Texans
Speaker 1: are averaging fifteen points a game. Fifteen, that's it. So
Speaker 1: you're saying the Texans are gonna score six sixteen because
Speaker 1: the average between the two, Yeah, we'll split. So what
Speaker 1: are the Cowboys getting? Might as well make your pick
Speaker 1: right now, right now. The most points the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: scored in franchise history fifty nine, fifty nine. That's Can
Speaker 1: you believe we're talking like this? Yeah, you watch as
Speaker 1: soon as you start talking about as right as you
Speaker 1: start talking like this, this is gonna be. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those twenty one the nineteen games
Speaker 1: going to the fourth chord, just like on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: This is not the Cowboys talking like this. This is yeah, no,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl add on purposely wore the Super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Yeah, all of a sudden. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Made his brain swell. Not far the mickey.
Speaker 1: You're following through with it too, you're tagging right along. No,
Speaker 1: I just pointed out some stats. Springs. You say, you
Speaker 1: like a big mouth bass if you can turn into
Speaker 1: a big mouth ass. Oh man, So what, well, what
Speaker 1: do they have going on? I mean, if, if, if
Speaker 1: the Texans are going to do something, but they got
Speaker 1: they got their quarterback back. Okay, well it was my
Speaker 1: choice that they benched him, and now he's back, Davis Mills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mills back. They've got him. Kyle Allen, I haven't got
Speaker 1: the men. Yeah. God, that's tough to get benched on
Speaker 1: a team like that. John McClean, the steamed writer, esteemed
Speaker 1: now retired sports writer Houston Chronicle. He uh someone who
Speaker 1: was interviewing him last week. He said, in his however,
Speaker 1: many years forty three years or whatever, maybe fifty three
Speaker 1: years of covering Houston football teams, this is the worst
Speaker 1: offense I have ever seen in my life. So well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you know, they have a history of handing
Speaker 1: out treats so they might help them along a little bit.
Speaker 1: And that's the challenge. That's the dangerous, But it's the challenge. Yes,
Speaker 1: as you go on, can you mature? Yea? Can you
Speaker 1: went to a house? How much did we learn from
Speaker 1: years past, especially last year, to what we're doing now?
Speaker 1: Did we make the same mistakes? Do we, you know,
Speaker 1: show the same weaknesses in badly timed situations. Well they've
Speaker 1: been over to able to overcome them in most cases
Speaker 1: this year. Yes, but you gotta quit doing it, especially
Speaker 1: when you play good teams. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: So got to be watching. I think that's Nate from Frisco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: already shining in. That's Nate from Frisco. Nate from Frusco says, challenge.
Speaker 1: Did you say challenge? Really? I guess that's a common
Speaker 1: two now he started off odale, Now what it is
Speaker 1: a very good question. Elvis left the building yesterday around
Speaker 1: summer around four o'clock by helicopter. By the way, whoa,
Speaker 1: whoa you witnesses swooped him away. I saw it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw it absolutely. So let's start there, because it
Speaker 1: appears just as we were talking about yesterday. That availability
Speaker 1: is a pretty big component to this whole thing. That's
Speaker 1: what was said at the outset of training camp, right,
Speaker 1: And I believe the Cowboys came to the conclusion that
Speaker 1: he was not ready to play football anytime soon. And
Speaker 1: I believe Jerry Jones pointed that out the day. He said,
Speaker 1: if we sign him, it has to improve us. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a pretty tall order, and it has
Speaker 1: to improve us in a way that makes sense for
Speaker 1: us as we look not only this year, but as
Speaker 1: it impacts the years to come. Relative to the financial
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Salary cap, salary, right, A long way
Speaker 1: to get to it, right. And I and from what
Speaker 1: I've found out, he was nowhere close ready to play
Speaker 1: in the regular season. Now I saw something say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe he could have gotten back for the play season. Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't play any preseason game, I mean regular season games, right.
Speaker 1: That means if you're not playing, you're probably not practicing.
Speaker 1: Now you're going to practice for a playoff game, and
Speaker 1: that means one week and you're gonna be ready to play.
Speaker 1: He just wasn't ready to play football. As that became
Speaker 1: the bottom line, and I think maybe the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: have been entertaining next year maybe, okay, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think we talked about it. I think it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: do you want to you want to get signed to
Speaker 1: the practice squad and then you know, you'll get your
Speaker 1: little bit, yeah, and see where you're at. And I
Speaker 1: would imagine we would help you ourselves. You could develop it.
Speaker 1: And this is just me, but I would imagine his
Speaker 1: ego would not have allowed that. Uh. And again here's
Speaker 1: the other thing that I don't think anybody thought about.
Speaker 1: So when you're a free agent, you're not rehabbing with
Speaker 1: the rams, right, you're rehabbing on your own. And we
Speaker 1: know about rehabbing on your own as it compared to
Speaker 1: working out there without Brown. Right, Yeah, where are you at?
Speaker 1: And how long is it taken? Because we see the
Speaker 1: guys that work with Britt tearing an acl Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be nine or ten months. Right. I think
Speaker 1: he feels like he's ready, He feels like that, But
Speaker 1: the facts are the facts. Okay. The image is gonna
Speaker 1: show what the image shows. And even though he might
Speaker 1: feel like he can play and he's you know, feeling
Speaker 1: pretty good about it, we've already dealt with this with
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. As you said, we know what that looks like.
Speaker 1: And if we we babied as we should, we baby
Speaker 1: Michael Michael Gallup along so that he could be ready
Speaker 1: right now, perfect time. We did it just the way
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be done. We don't have time
Speaker 1: for that for LB. And plus he's not even OBJ,
Speaker 1: he's not even on that squad yet, right, So you know,
Speaker 1: I still think you can find with all the trainers
Speaker 1: and the expertise out there, I still think he can
Speaker 1: find good trainers that probably has worked with good trainers
Speaker 1: up to this point. That still doesn't make him heal
Speaker 1: any fast, right, And that's the bottom line. And one
Speaker 1: and there's and here's another difference between Michael Gallup and
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham's junior. It's four years difference. Four years. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup is a four year younger player and doesn't have
Speaker 1: as much textra surgery that goes with that with Beckham.
Speaker 1: This is second surgeon. Look around beck Gallas on the head.
Speaker 1: One look around the NFL and the breaking news right
Speaker 1: now in the NFL Von Miller Von Miller just underwent
Speaker 1: surgery and it turns out an ACL and you go
Speaker 1: back to this offseason and von Miller wanted to be
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy, and there was conversations between the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and von Miller. Well, here's a thirty three year old player.
Speaker 1: He just was paid like one hundred twenty one hundred
Speaker 1: what was it or something? Well, it was one hundred
Speaker 1: twenty package. I thought something like that. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 1: and then that's another one where okay, they initially said, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't tear his ACL, he's got a chance, and
Speaker 1: it's like, no, he tore his a cl You know.
Speaker 1: It was like the thing with Garoppolo. Now, this always
Speaker 1: bugs me, and I did some research and I didn't
Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it. It said, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not out for the if he might make it
Speaker 1: back from the playoffs because he didn't break his list.
Speaker 1: Franc right, didn't? I said, so, okay, what did he break? Well,
Speaker 1: he broke his foot, No, he didn't break his foot.
Speaker 1: His foot still there, right, what bone did he break?
Speaker 1: And I could not find it out, but it kept saying, well,
Speaker 1: at least he didn't break his list, franc Okay, what
Speaker 1: if he broke his fifth meta tarsa? Right? The Jones fracture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's nine weeks, ten weeks, and that's the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah. I think that they are being very
Speaker 1: koy right now with Garoppolo. I don't think they want
Speaker 1: anyone to know exactly what's going on. Yeah, because right
Speaker 1: now this is a delicate situation. Yeah, they're making moves
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and of course they're trying to keep
Speaker 1: up with us because the defense is just so. Do
Speaker 1: you think the Rams claimed to keep him from going
Speaker 1: to San Francisco, not not that they're gonna make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but just so San Francisco doesn't have the joy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like like Baker Mayfield's gonna lead him to the Baker
Speaker 1: is supposed to start for the Rams Thursday. No, seriously, seriously, Yeah, seriously,
Speaker 1: they're talking. They're talking about they got a Thursday game
Speaker 1: tomorrow against the Raiders, and they're talking about Baker Mayfield's
Speaker 1: gonna start. Ryce Perkins, Don Perkins, Nephew, they're already but
Speaker 1: cannon them. Come on, Jackson, let's get back to Odell's
Speaker 1: real again. Yeah. Um, he just wasn't ready to play
Speaker 1: and there's no sense signing them right. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: somebody point out well they got six point three million
Speaker 1: against still in the salary cap. It's like okay, but
Speaker 1: you're not gonna just wander it, right, and so so
Speaker 1: I think how we were analyzing this, we were right on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, he's got to prove that he
Speaker 1: can work out and do something. I don't think he
Speaker 1: did it. The health was the most important, right thing
Speaker 1: that was getting checked out. Yeah, he should be careful,
Speaker 1: as as Odell Beckham himself should be careful because if
Speaker 1: you go out there now, let's say he would have signed,
Speaker 1: thing happens, Yeah, and then right because you're not ready
Speaker 1: to you're not a cl might be fine, but you're
Speaker 1: not fine. You know how we talked about that earlier.
Speaker 1: Things around it are affected, Yes, okay, just as that
Speaker 1: damage is there, but that it permeates out with like
Speaker 1: you know, like a spider web or something. It's gonna
Speaker 1: if there are other things that are going on, not
Speaker 1: just your ACL there other things around that. Because the
Speaker 1: human body is so intricate that, yeah, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to deal with some other damn achilles. Popular when you're
Speaker 1: not ready, you just don't know, you gotta. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: anyway we might have saved him right in his own
Speaker 1: in his own best interest. He needs to be ready
Speaker 1: to go because he thinks he's going around he's not ready.
Speaker 1: If he's not ready to play, if that X ray
Speaker 1: doesn't show to show, we'll think about the about your livelihood.
Speaker 1: If you're not ready to practice. How long he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to do that to be ready to play? You know,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was least out there before they started his
Speaker 1: twenty one day deal. He was out there rehabbing, running,
Speaker 1: doing all this stuff. And you know, if you're not
Speaker 1: willing to go out and show I can do this,
Speaker 1: then how much further are you? You know? And he
Speaker 1: has to know and he should. He should. This may
Speaker 1: and who knows what the other teams might do, right,
Speaker 1: but he should do himself a faith yes, and make
Speaker 1: sure when he goes and work out for somebody ready,
Speaker 1: then you're ready. And then you came out. Now he's
Speaker 1: not ready. Yeah, he has to know he's not ready.
Speaker 1: But let's see, let's see how desperate these teams are. Well,
Speaker 1: you know I had nothing else to do. Man, we
Speaker 1: can go party, you know what I mean? And we'n
Speaker 1: gonna talk to people out to talk to the media
Speaker 1: and everything, but he knows he's not ready. And think
Speaker 1: about when you work out on your own, not on
Speaker 1: your own. I'm sure he has somebody very qualified, right,
Speaker 1: but those people it's like, you know, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like doing this this morning. You call in any canceled right,
Speaker 1: you ain't canceling on Brown. See here's the other thing
Speaker 1: where it benefits him as far as free agency goes.
Speaker 1: By getting these visits done, now is he you know,
Speaker 1: he's going to have a jump start on everybody in
Speaker 1: free agency because he's already a free agent. He didn't
Speaker 1: have to wait until March fifteenth or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: so he will be signed before the free agent period.
Speaker 1: He's pivoting right now and saying, you know what, let
Speaker 1: me just relax. And he didn't look despondent when I
Speaker 1: saw him getting ready to get on the helicopter. Want
Speaker 1: to have a good time. They were taking selfies. And
Speaker 1: he's established a relationship with these teams, the Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: Bills and the Giants, and now you know, and you know,
Speaker 1: a month from now, if one of these teams as
Speaker 1: an injury, then you know, and there and they become
Speaker 1: desperate then and he's ready to go. He got for bid,
Speaker 1: that could be us and as a as a street
Speaker 1: free agent, somebody could sign him as a future You
Speaker 1: got his rights, but you know, he doesn't count on
Speaker 1: your salary cap just yet until March whatever fifteenth. This
Speaker 1: is a long time that he's been, Yeah, going through
Speaker 1: this a long time. Does age have something to do
Speaker 1: with it? Wasn't extremely unique injury within I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as far as acls go, it could be. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but yeah, the fact that he's not how
Speaker 1: long it has been ten months sin since the super
Speaker 1: Bowl February. Middle of February super Bowl was I can
Speaker 1: count on my fingers if you right, we got good Okay,
Speaker 1: but you do at this point you count backwards. You
Speaker 1: don't go for you like februaries too much from that
Speaker 1: so that you can go out there, will go with God.
Speaker 1: But now it's it's uh something that we may have
Speaker 1: whoever was gonna check first, I'm gonna give us two.
Speaker 1: He had to know. He had to know that something's wrong.
Speaker 1: If he's out there running around and that X ray
Speaker 1: shows it's not quite right. I know he can feel
Speaker 1: whatever the Cowboys saw. I know he can feel that
Speaker 1: when he works out and on top of it. So
Speaker 1: somebody said, well, how about doing it for next year? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: but I gotta see first, right, gotta see. But if
Speaker 1: you look at the Cowboys next year unrestricted free agents,
Speaker 1: So I just wrote them all down, you can choose.
Speaker 1: You're talking every position, yeah, for the Cowboys. So Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is unrestricted, Tony Pollard, Noah Brown, James Washington, Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern, Jason Peters, Gallimore, Hankins, Watkins, bar Giffers, Layton Vanderish,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, Goodwin, and Donovan Wilson with sixteen. With Lamb
Speaker 1: entering his fourth year, they'll they'll say that they'll pick
Speaker 1: up his fifth year option, which is pretty high. Right,
Speaker 1: So you've got some things that you got to worry about.
Speaker 1: And as I wrote down after that, with Parsons and
Speaker 1: Digs not far behind. So that's like six starters on
Speaker 1: the depth chart right now that you unrestricted for you.
Speaker 1: Whin's the decision to be made on Zeke? I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if there is a decision on his base salary,
Speaker 1: but they've already they would already incur like ten million
Speaker 1: in dead money if they moved on so you can say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we're we're moving on from Zeke. Well, okay, are
Speaker 1: you going to give that money to Tony Pollard? And
Speaker 1: you think he can handle twenty five snaps a game,
Speaker 1: I mean twenty five caches a game. Touches? You want to?
Speaker 1: You want to? You know when when the running back
Speaker 1: coach said after that one game and he tapped out
Speaker 1: at fourteen and carries, you can see it, right, you could. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a secret. He basically was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's time for me to go to the sideline. You
Speaker 1: may want to think about Diggs before you think about
Speaker 1: Lamb this offseason, because Lamb you got that fifth year
Speaker 1: off and he's in the same draftings to his last year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so because after the last year, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, how much you want now? And
Speaker 1: those guys don't want to play the last year of
Speaker 1: their contract, right, Parsons will be addressed after next year, yeah, correct,
Speaker 1: after his third year. Yeah, even though this is under
Speaker 1: control for two more years, because you would you can
Speaker 1: spread out and then lessen the impact of that fifty
Speaker 1: year picking up the fifty year option. So anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I just don't think this is surprising that this
Speaker 1: is how it turned out. Okay, when we continue here
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Speaker 1: as I alluded to James Washington continues on the comeback trail,
Speaker 1: Kay getting close. Sounds like Tyran Smith is out on
Speaker 1: the practice field today for the first time, opening his
Speaker 1: twenty one day window. I think they were supposed to
Speaker 1: start at twelve fifteen today or twelve oh five. One
Speaker 1: day was twelve oh five and one day was twelve fifty.
Speaker 1: It is a misty, kind of drizzly day here today,
Speaker 1: so not a good day out outside. Yeah, not at all.
Speaker 1: But at least Tyrant's back practicing. And you know, ay,
Speaker 1: as Mike McCarthy said, anytime you hear Tyrant Smith's on
Speaker 1: the practice field, that's a good thing for this team.
Speaker 1: What is the timeline? How we left? Today's December seventh,
Speaker 1: and so twenty one days takes you to December twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: He said he wanted to he wanted to see him
Speaker 1: in a couple padded practice. This is okay. There's no
Speaker 1: padded practices this week, of course, and then you only
Speaker 1: get one a week. You don't want to, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to. You don't have to be regretful, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm jealous. Can it be? Can you apply that individually
Speaker 1: to a player? Like if Tyrant hasn't been in a
Speaker 1: padded practice, said, he could go ahead and if he wanted,
Speaker 1: he could have pads, and by everybody else's in, he's
Speaker 1: the only one out there built up. Now he's rehabbed
Speaker 1: in pads. I think that's that's allowed. Okay, okay, good,
Speaker 1: So he has just think about it. So say say
Speaker 1: next week they have one padded and then it's a
Speaker 1: short week to Christmas Eve and you get one pad,
Speaker 1: maybe one padded. It's a short week. Maybe you're not
Speaker 1: so yeah, I think it's after Christmas, No Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: guess it depends on what he would have. He would
Speaker 1: have a second padded practice, probably before Christmas Eve. If so, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna stand by that, right, yeah, then it's
Speaker 1: another short way to Tennessee. I'm not comfortable with this.
Speaker 1: You don't think they should, but they will have to
Speaker 1: activate him by the Tennessee game because the twenty one
Speaker 1: day window is up right right, I'm very worried about
Speaker 1: him and his health. Like how hitting him back out there?
Speaker 1: Getting back out there, that's a huge man, Dude. I
Speaker 1: went to some uh we want the crews or something
Speaker 1: I would with hitting some of the guys, and I
Speaker 1: sat next to Time Round. I think I've said on
Speaker 1: the air, this guy is huge. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: his bice up has been on a waistline, like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. I just couldn't get over how big he was.
Speaker 1: So you know what he reminds it's a lot. That's
Speaker 1: a lot to bring, you know, to the table to balance.
Speaker 1: There's a lot too for your hamstring that you that's tough. Man.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm not gonna lie. I I am pessing
Speaker 1: stick about his chances. You know what I tell And
Speaker 1: stop me if I said this here, because I remember
Speaker 1: saying somewhere that you know how they start the Fox
Speaker 1: pregame show with that big looking yeah Robot, that's what
Speaker 1: he looks like, right, No doubt, man, he's amazing. He's
Speaker 1: just I mean, the guy's got he's all Pro first
Speaker 1: first ballot and all of that. The Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: first ballot, But I am pessimistic about his chances to
Speaker 1: finish this sea because the bigger they are the heart
Speaker 1: of the Paul Well. But they have, you know, they
Speaker 1: started you know, planning for the future in the game
Speaker 1: this past Sunday with he went down, and he went
Speaker 1: down to late August, so let's September, October, November. He's
Speaker 1: been three and a half months basically rehabbing. And I
Speaker 1: think special as we say, special injury because you said
Speaker 1: the muscle came up from the bone, yeah, not one
Speaker 1: that you heard. Yeah. So they originally only said December
Speaker 1: and maybe buy the playoffs. So it's kind of where
Speaker 1: he's at right now. But Tyler Smith did get snaps
Speaker 1: at it left guard in the game, and they also
Speaker 1: gott McGovern some snaps at center. See, And that's that's
Speaker 1: the thinking part of this is that if you, if you,
Speaker 1: if Tyler Smith can make the transition back to guard
Speaker 1: and Tyrone's good at tackle, then McGovern is your backup
Speaker 1: guard center, Yes, and that saves you from elevating somebody
Speaker 1: off the practice squad that hasn't played right uh, And
Speaker 1: and you've got a backup guard center. So now you've
Speaker 1: saved two spots with one guy from the forty eight
Speaker 1: man roster. So how did Peters look in the game?
Speaker 1: Yeah he was Okay, I don't know he I don't
Speaker 1: think he played nineteen. I was going to say it
Speaker 1: was two series. I think as I now, these type
Speaker 1: of games, they're good for us because it gives us
Speaker 1: a chance to get some writing game experience. Whence the
Speaker 1: last time Cooper Rush played, right, So Cooper don't need
Speaker 1: to play. He just got out. Yeah he does what
Speaker 1: he does. Man Cooper like, yeah, y'all go ahead and
Speaker 1: then prepare. I'm good. But now I just think it's
Speaker 1: I think we we, you know, we have an opportunity
Speaker 1: with these blowouts to really get some end game experience, right, Okay.
Speaker 1: And then the other move the Cowboys have made is
Speaker 1: they have signed a veteran cornerback to the practice squad,
Speaker 1: and that is the former Minnesota Viking, Mackenzie Alexander. And
Speaker 1: we got a chance to see him work out when
Speaker 1: which one the show? I think he was the thirties. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: well he had quick feet, right. I thought the other
Speaker 1: guy had great lateral movement from what I saw. But
Speaker 1: h mackenzie. Yeah, moves with more compact, quicker feet and
Speaker 1: he basically spent four seasons with George Edwards at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Where has he been he He is a former second
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of Clemson. Out of Clemson of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings in twenty sixteen. He spent four years
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, then signed with Cincinnati in twenty twenty. Came
Speaker 1: back to the Vikings last year and was with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins in camp this year. He sustained an injury. They
Speaker 1: put him on injured reserve, and when he was good
Speaker 1: to go, they released him. So he's not been with
Speaker 1: anybody during the season. So he's twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1: Is he kind of like a bash him in this case?
Speaker 1: Either way we treat we let go a bat Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: in terms of he's a good player, but just no room.
Speaker 1: And once he was, you know, they released him injured,
Speaker 1: so then you can't bring him back. He's got to
Speaker 1: sign with another team. So um, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: he's been mostly a slot corner. Now let that register
Speaker 1: because Duran Bland's playing there, but he has played outside
Speaker 1: in college. Duran Bland okay, Um, so it gives you
Speaker 1: some position flexibility there right with Alexander if Calvin Joseph
Speaker 1: doesn't totally work out because he uh had another injury. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because then since I think he's got right is in
Speaker 1: a slot corner obviously with his length and so I
Speaker 1: mean they needed someone who can play inside. Do they
Speaker 1: know if Nashan can't play the slot they tried. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just to me, he's a little too
Speaker 1: all for the slot, right, have to look it up
Speaker 1: if he's get that after I said tall, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's like male blunt in the slot. Uh six four
Speaker 1: one night now, you know. The other day, Uh, when
Speaker 1: McCarthy was talking about um safety help maybe at corner,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he was thinking of Mukuamo because he
Speaker 1: was right was he played corner at South Carolina in college.
Speaker 1: And but there's a tall guy pay six four two,
Speaker 1: So yeah, those are outside made some nice plays in preseason.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And he made a nice play when he
Speaker 1: had to go in for the game. Uh the other day.
Speaker 1: It was one play, but it made it made um
Speaker 1: so you know, and they'll just you know, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: what the order is is that Kelvin Joseph, who oh,
Speaker 1: I this down. Where was it? Let me say this,
Speaker 1: Joseph is gonna miss practice today. He's sick. He's got
Speaker 1: the illness again. He did. He was sick two weeks
Speaker 1: ago over Thanksgiving. He missed a game with illness. Right well,
Speaker 1: Mike said he had something and Sam Williams might miss too.
Speaker 1: Hankins has got a family thing, so he told us
Speaker 1: when he was walking off. But Calvin, Joseph gonna get
Speaker 1: the first shot, right and then no, no, no, outside outside, yeah,
Speaker 1: keep it where he's at. And then the Sean Wright
Speaker 1: would be the game day back up. And then if
Speaker 1: they run into trouble, if mcclomu's healthy, they'll probably give
Speaker 1: him some practice snaps out there. At Ye. You have
Speaker 1: to look at the most diverse player that you have
Speaker 1: out there, and that would be Bland, someone that can
Speaker 1: go inside and outside. If you're a slot corner, it's
Speaker 1: easy to go from slot to outside. That's a easy
Speaker 1: because that's just standard. You know, you're still a cornerback.
Speaker 1: It's harder the other way, Yeah, the other way, going inside,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a six four corner, right. Yeah, Bland
Speaker 1: is good going either way. And the guy's got a
Speaker 1: double release on you. Yeah either way. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: can't get your hands on him righty. Well, he's so
Speaker 1: dog gone quick. If you're six four, I can see
Speaker 1: your feet getting tangled up a little bit. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: six four and you're in the slide against cdee lamb
Speaker 1: good luck, not gonna work, yea Hill or somebody like. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what you're looking at is, yeah, they're taking the
Speaker 1: lesser of the evils. They don't want to move Bland
Speaker 1: because he's doing so well inside. And since we're on
Speaker 1: the corners, I saw this stat in the Cowboys release,
Speaker 1: tray Vin Digs not completed three years yet has seventeen interceptions.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys all time leader twenty two. Everson Walls from
Speaker 1: eighty one through eighty three and you got robbed how
Speaker 1: many games in eighty two? Seven? Yeah, nine seasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So anyway, just saw that come up, and that was,
Speaker 1: by the way, that was an NFL deal because the
Speaker 1: guy that had the second most was Dwight Hicks that
Speaker 1: seventy nine through eighty one, he had he had eighteen.
Speaker 1: So Walls was first then and then Digs in the corners. Yeah, Hicks,
Speaker 1: Hicks was safety. I think they said defensive backs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how they were. I wonder what Mail was in
Speaker 1: all of that, because his first three years had to
Speaker 1: be impressive, because well you can look up in that
Speaker 1: little book right there and you'll find out if you
Speaker 1: remember his I will be able to look up on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Reference and I'll tell you already. And well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you he had an interception in every single
Speaker 1: game he played in. Remember that on Pro football. On
Speaker 1: Pro Football References you go back to the sixties, they
Speaker 1: don't have all the games. As as I discovered last year,
Speaker 1: they don't have all the games listed. They only have
Speaker 1: all the games you had an interception. So there was
Speaker 1: some some player for the Cowboys pass where I want.
Speaker 1: This is unbelievable. This guy had an interception in every
Speaker 1: single game. You player. We revise history a lot. On
Speaker 1: one other note on McKenzie Alexander a college teammate with
Speaker 1: Jay run Curse at Clemson and was in the same
Speaker 1: draft and was a teammate of Jay run Curse with
Speaker 1: the Vikings for four years from twenty sixteen to nineteen.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's a nice little familiarity, all right,
Speaker 1: And when week come back, I'll give you another interesting
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Speaker 1: Mickey uts something at the end of the last segment
Speaker 1: and I can't remember what it was. UTAs with five
Speaker 1: games to go, Donovan Wilson has four sacks as a safety. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's tied with Durwin James, who signed a multi million
Speaker 1: dollar contract when we were in training camp. Right, he
Speaker 1: showed up to practice against the Cowboys. If he gets
Speaker 1: one more sack, he will tie a Cowboy high for
Speaker 1: a safety or maybe defensive back with five sacks. Nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four Bill Bates really who by the way, I
Speaker 1: saw on Sunday night. He comes and does the deal
Speaker 1: where a star sports tourist is and signs autograph, takes pictures,
Speaker 1: and he was there Sunday night. I got a chance
Speaker 1: to go over and take a picture with him and
Speaker 1: shake his hand. Yeah, Denise was with him. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was good him. Now there's they are talking to uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: talking to Denise. They're spread all over the country, uh,
Speaker 1: including one of their children is in Australia by the way,
Speaker 1: so it was good to catch up with them. They
Speaker 1: were very happy with the Tennessee football season. I bet yes,
Speaker 1: I bet they certainly are. Yeah, that could be happier.
Speaker 1: Not so sorry, so sorry. So anyway, there's a there's
Speaker 1: a little note nugging for you, okay. And then we
Speaker 1: were talking about the interceptions first three years in a career,
Speaker 1: and I think Everson asked about mel Renfro. Mel Renfro
Speaker 1: had eleven picks his first three years, sixty four, sixty five,
Speaker 1: and sixty six, which is the same number everson had
Speaker 1: his first year. And mel Renfro's in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: We're most deservedly. Uh yeah, So there you go. There's
Speaker 1: the update on that. So he must have been bad
Speaker 1: in towards he had the next three years and I
Speaker 1: don't have it called up now. He had ten his
Speaker 1: sixty year in the league. So he wound up with
Speaker 1: fifty two interceptions. He wound up with fifty two interceptions
Speaker 1: in you had okay here and then go on to
Speaker 1: fifty seven fifty seven. Yeah, so that all counts in
Speaker 1: your NFL career and anyone. And then he wants to
Speaker 1: count his playoff ones too, yeah, of course, which he
Speaker 1: had two is rookie year. So he actually had thirteen
Speaker 1: in what twelve games? Eighty two? Yeah, that's right, yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: there there we go. Okay, all right, what else is
Speaker 1: on your legal pad? There? Mackey? Um, we got four
Speaker 1: minutes left here. So this, this will put sacks in perspective.
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now have forty eight sacks. They lead the league.
Speaker 1: The Eagles, by the way, our second with forty two.
Speaker 1: This matches after twelve games the most sacks the Cowboys
Speaker 1: team has had. Nineteen eighty five, they had forty eight
Speaker 1: in twelve games, and prior to that, nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: when sacks were not considered an official NFL stat they
Speaker 1: had forty nine eighty six. Somebody went back and reviewed
Speaker 1: that number, probably found more, and then in eighty six,
Speaker 1: after twelve games, they had forty four sacks. So these
Speaker 1: are and you know there was another year back in
Speaker 1: the sixties they had more sacks, but they wasn't after
Speaker 1: eighty two. This is this is the matches the most
Speaker 1: and they have added those sacks on Pro Football Reference
Speaker 1: and in nineteen sixty six. All right, who led the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in sacks in nineteen sixty six, Well, if I
Speaker 1: was a betting man, i'd say, Bob Lily, Jethro Pugh
Speaker 1: had five and a half and that was Bob. Lily
Speaker 1: was second on the team with fifteen sacks. That was
Speaker 1: a fourteen game season, so he was second. Lily was
Speaker 1: second on the team in sacks with fifteen In nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty six. First, George and Dre had eighteen and a
Speaker 1: half sacks. George Andre six six, two hundred fifty pounder
Speaker 1: out of Marquette. George and Dre Marquette played football back
Speaker 1: you know, I turned Marquette before I went to college.
Speaker 1: Do they have a football team? No? They football only.
Speaker 1: Did they have one then? No, they had one when
Speaker 1: he was there and they had I guess did he
Speaker 1: played basketball at Marquette? Well, fix six to fifty. Obviously
Speaker 1: they did have a football team there. I thought, that's why. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: when they got basketball players. Yeah, that's right. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of George Andre being, you know, going to Cornell
Speaker 1: Green basketball player. George Andre was a five time Pro Bowler.
Speaker 1: He gets overlooked too the way. Yeah. Absolutely, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Which gets back to the Walk of Fame that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys need to have at and T Stadium bills to
Speaker 1: honor the George Andres of the past, those who are
Speaker 1: not Ring of Honor, but they have a special place
Speaker 1: in Cowboys. Jethro Pughs Walk Garrison. They have enough sidewalk space.
Speaker 1: You could do that and put a brick in there
Speaker 1: and you do a little ceremony. Could be even be
Speaker 1: in the off season ceremony. Where have their family there
Speaker 1: and everything? Yause, I did, I did see you know
Speaker 1: where where they where the people can buy the little
Speaker 1: bricks on the sidewalk and they're in these little quadrants
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call them. Took a picture
Speaker 1: about mine and you got you got you you anchor
Speaker 1: one down right. So I'm walking, I'm walking into the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, and I went past one of them,
Speaker 1: and somebody was sitting there looking at it. And some
Speaker 1: guy goes, oh my gosh, just like that. He goes,
Speaker 1: herschel Walker's got a break good stuff. Just like stuff
Speaker 1: like how many people in the world, or how many
Speaker 1: people in the United States don't know that herschel Walker
Speaker 1: played football. Oh, I think I bet there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that because his name is now in the politics.
Speaker 1: Whatever I met you, there's a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: have no clue well that herschel Walker is a football player.
Speaker 1: If if he got like a million votes, he got
Speaker 1: one point seven point than one point seven million, people
Speaker 1: know he played football. The only reason that is sec
Speaker 1: country Down there he said, I won championships. I win
Speaker 1: a championship for you. That is a good one. And
Speaker 1: it didn't quite work out there. Thank god. That was
Speaker 1: Everson Walls. The rest of us are thinking it. I
Speaker 1: am merely a subcontractor. I can say what I want,
Speaker 1: all right, So we're out of time. We'll get into
Speaker 1: on that note, a little more Texans than just their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks situation. I'm going to spend the rest of the
Speaker 1: day studying the Houston Texans. I'm a little concerned about
Speaker 1: their fortunes this week because Rex Burkhead was inactive last
Speaker 1: week and oh no, I think that might be their
Speaker 1: only whole Yeah, so I got a check in see
Speaker 1: if Rex is gonna play or not. Full report that
Speaker 1: in my tip that point spread is gonna go down
Speaker 1: if Rex is there. Okay, we'll talk at you again
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