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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Hello, What a fabulous football Friday. It
Speaker 1: is as we get you sent for a big football
Speaker 1: weekend in the Metroplex. It's the Cowboys and the New
Speaker 1: York Football Giants three twenty five kickoff on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola's in the s WBC Mortgage studio at Ford
Speaker 1: Center at the Star in Frisco. Hello, Mickey, I'm good.
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing is fine. Everson Walls is
Speaker 1: in his usual spot with his picture behind him and
Speaker 1: the SWBC Mortgage Everson Walls Studio, and he's got Cowboys
Speaker 1: gear on as well as he is Winning time Baby,
Speaker 1: winning time. There you go. It's his winning time Cowboys gear.
Speaker 1: And Jerry wonders why you didn't start wearing that the
Speaker 1: first week of the season. You're on mix shots. First
Speaker 1: of all, let me say I have a complaint. Oh no,
Speaker 1: there's mick shots and there's mix shots. Mick shots is alcohol.
Speaker 1: Mix shots is a show. So you know there's a
Speaker 1: they need to announce it mix shots, not mix shots,
Speaker 1: because I can make up some mix shots right here.
Speaker 1: I got I got stuff to make up mix shots.
Speaker 1: But you know, we need to clarify the mix shots.
Speaker 1: What I mean, he's going for us. See now you
Speaker 1: would be and there are really big time if you
Speaker 1: had Mickey's beer, if you remember that, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's old school. Oh my god, how old school is that?
Speaker 1: I don't even make that anymore. The bottles were wide mouth,
Speaker 1: and it was just the most disgusting ever ever they were.
Speaker 1: It was green. Didn't have a green bottle of something.
Speaker 1: I have a bottle too bad that I know about
Speaker 1: that stuff. And there are some who are wondering if
Speaker 1: Everson has already imbibed in some of that mick shot.
Speaker 1: All right, I got my OU gear on, I see it, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm only I decided to go with my National Championship
Speaker 1: camp as it is what we call OU Texas Weekend,
Speaker 1: what Derek Eagleton calls Texas OU Weekend. And it's been
Speaker 1: twenty years this this camp is twenty years old. It's
Speaker 1: been twenty years since we had a team good enough
Speaker 1: to win a national championship. And but this is always
Speaker 1: my favorite week end of the year. However, it's so
Speaker 1: different this year. There's only gonna be twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: fans all wearing masks, hopefully at the Cotton Bowl at
Speaker 1: eleven am tomorrow in Texas has its best shot in
Speaker 1: a while to beat an unranked Oklahoma team tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: we got Bill, something was missing, something was missing. You
Speaker 1: didn't have us warm up the field for you from
Speaker 1: the swat. Usually you have the Grambling prayer to train
Speaker 1: Southwest Classic didn't have it this year. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little incomplete. You know, you guys fed off of
Speaker 1: that at ou Texas. It's gonna be a little a
Speaker 1: lot more missing than what you just mentioned, a whole
Speaker 1: lot more missing. Now try it. There's no stake fair,
Speaker 1: there's no Grambling, Prairie View Games. Nothing. And I did
Speaker 1: have my press pass fedexed. It was on my doorstep
Speaker 1: this morning. And I don't think I'm gonna go. I
Speaker 1: just don't. I don't know. That's a good mom that's
Speaker 1: a good moment, Bill, that's a good moment. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even feel like anyway you Texas does it? No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Okay, you had a bunch of a Well,
Speaker 1: that's wait till tonight. We'll see how many arrests they
Speaker 1: have in the streets downtown, and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 1: I have one question and we'll move on. I want
Speaker 1: to know, Bill, when you grew up, either in high
Speaker 1: school or in college, what I have found you going
Speaker 1: down Main Street, cavorting till midnight at night, uh, drinking
Speaker 1: and screen That is a story, Mickey, that is a
Speaker 1: story I forgot to tell you ahead of time. Do
Speaker 1: not mention that on the air. I didn't know about
Speaker 1: Commerce Street, especially my freshman year in college. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: just leave it at that. That's a story that I
Speaker 1: don't want my daughters to learn about. I think that
Speaker 1: I think I know the story. So you're good, all right,
Speaker 1: fair enough, fair enough. I will say this. I will
Speaker 1: say this, and this will get us into the Cowboys
Speaker 1: because there's so many fans out there who and I've
Speaker 1: been a Cowboys fan since the day I was when ever,
Speaker 1: since you were growing up in Hamilton Park, you were
Speaker 1: a Cowboys fan forever? Right, okay, right down the street.
Speaker 1: It's just something about your football team and sports in
Speaker 1: general that it unites a family, units, a community, and
Speaker 1: so forth. And that's what that's what I love about
Speaker 1: this Texas Ou or OU Texas Weekend. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: a rivalry, yes, but it's the Texas fan. It is
Speaker 1: the one weekend Texas football fans point two every year,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma football fans point two every year Cowboys fans point
Speaker 1: to every Sunday during an NFL season. And I guess
Speaker 1: got one little personal story to tell you about the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma Texas. My dad grew up in Oklahoma Keemo, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: or just down the road from Troy Aikman's hometown of Henriette, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: and so as huge Ou fan. That's how I became
Speaker 1: an Ou fan. My last memory of my father in
Speaker 1: two thousand and three was an OU Texas Weekend. OU won.
Speaker 1: They happened to win the game sixty five to thirteen
Speaker 1: over Vince Young in Texas Heyere. But we went to
Speaker 1: Humperdinks after the game and he and he was I
Speaker 1: knew he was in his final days. Whatever. The last
Speaker 1: words I heard my father say as we left the
Speaker 1: restaurant that night was I just hate me I just
Speaker 1: had me a longhorn steak. He passed away a week
Speaker 1: or so later, and but anyway, it's those kinds of
Speaker 1: memories that makes sports special when your family and your
Speaker 1: your friends, and yeah, anyway, that's I just passed that
Speaker 1: along to start things off with good stuff stuff. You know.
Speaker 1: I think Texas as a great opportunity to win the
Speaker 1: game this year. But it's it's more than that. It's
Speaker 1: more about who wins loses the game. That's what sports.
Speaker 1: Sports brings us together, and I think we appreciate it
Speaker 1: even more here on the during this pandemic without having
Speaker 1: sports over the last six months. All right, I agree.
Speaker 1: All right, Now let's get to the news of the day,
Speaker 1: and it is huge news because as we as we
Speaker 1: told you yesterday during Mick shots, things were going on
Speaker 1: with Tyrn Smith as that's when reports start first started
Speaker 1: surfacing that he was getting a second opinion on his neck.
Speaker 1: And sure enough he has decided to have a season
Speaker 1: ending a surgery. And so Mickey phillis in on what
Speaker 1: you know about it. Well, I don't know this officially,
Speaker 1: but since it had been called a pinched nerve, the
Speaker 1: only thing that pinches a nerve in your neck off
Speaker 1: if you have a bulging disc. And I would imagine
Speaker 1: he's having similar surgery to what Layton vander esh had
Speaker 1: and I don't want to and I remember back when
Speaker 1: he had his people were he had minor neck surgery.
Speaker 1: Nothing minor about having surgery on your neck, right, because
Speaker 1: they're doing something close to your vertebrate, which is close
Speaker 1: to your spinal cord. So uh, yeah, it sounds like
Speaker 1: they tried to do everything they could, and normally that's
Speaker 1: what happens. Surgery is always the last resort, and it
Speaker 1: looked like that this couldn't be corrected unless they had surgery.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy sort of made that announcement this morning and
Speaker 1: then but he said it's correctable, and you got the
Speaker 1: feeling that this isn't a career threatening surgery. It's something
Speaker 1: to relieve the pressure he was having on his spinal cord.
Speaker 1: So you know, you hope it's successful and that you know,
Speaker 1: you it seems like Tyrant Smith has been here forever, right,
Speaker 1: He's in his tenth year, but he's only twenty nine.
Speaker 1: He turns thirty in December, and so you know he's
Speaker 1: got years ahead of them, and this will be the
Speaker 1: longest span of games he misses, because normally it's been
Speaker 1: minus three in each of the last I think three
Speaker 1: or four years. But he's always come back and think
Speaker 1: about this somehow, some way. He played eighty two snaps
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and this thing didn't go away, right, It
Speaker 1: didn't just go away, but I would imagine playing that
Speaker 1: many snaps, And as we talked about giving Olivier Vernon
Speaker 1: hell for eighty two snaps, it flared up in the
Speaker 1: week and they decided, and he decided, this is what
Speaker 1: has to happen. So the Cowboys go into this game
Speaker 1: without their two starting offensive tackles, without their two starting centers.
Speaker 1: If we go back to March when Travis Frederick or
Speaker 1: April when he and now that he was going to retire,
Speaker 1: and Joe Looney is still out, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: their guy that they considered their third offensive tackle, Cam Irving,
Speaker 1: just gets back into a little bit of practice this week.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's ready to go, even in
Speaker 1: a reserve role. So we can spend half this show
Speaker 1: trying to figure out exactly what they're gonna do that
Speaker 1: neither Mike McCarthy nor Jerry Jones wanted to reveal on
Speaker 1: how they're going to handle the offensive tackle position and
Speaker 1: how they're going to handle the backup center position. So
Speaker 1: we can throw out our ideas and none of them
Speaker 1: will be like absolutely wrong until probably we know for
Speaker 1: sure on Sunday. I don't think Bill we go here, Everson,
Speaker 1: I guess we've lost Everson on a live transmission from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Everson Walls Studio. So Mickey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think to echo what I think Everson was about
Speaker 1: to say. It shows you how valuable the Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: has been to this team through the years. And really
Speaker 1: it's a team is fortunate when it's able to keep
Speaker 1: their offensive line intact. I think if you go through
Speaker 1: through all the rosters, all the depth charts across the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and the teams that have healthy offensive
Speaker 1: lines are typically the teams that are doing well right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: now there is a team in Philadelphia that has as
Speaker 1: many offensive line injury issues as the Cowboys have, and
Speaker 1: they're sitting there, I guess technically in first place to
Speaker 1: the NFCES, and I guess the good news for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is they're also playing a team on Sunday, the
Speaker 1: Giants that had their left tackle opt out, and so
Speaker 1: they've got some weakness at the tackle position themselves. And
Speaker 1: so but I think we got Everson back now. So Everson,
Speaker 1: go ahead and tell us what you were saying before
Speaker 1: before I have my phone starts screwing up again. I
Speaker 1: just say that I think Tyron has been the best
Speaker 1: offensive lineman on this team for the past ten years.
Speaker 1: I've heard people say things about how smart Zach Martin is,
Speaker 1: about Fredericks and all of these players that we brought in.
Speaker 1: Because we brought in a host of studs on our
Speaker 1: offensive line, which really made us. It's caused a culture
Speaker 1: in Dallas because of those three guys that I just named.
Speaker 1: But to me, Tyron was always the most important, the
Speaker 1: best athlete, and I think the most critical to this
Speaker 1: offensive line. Whenever he's out, we just don't do well.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. And those other guys
Speaker 1: can miss it. We can kind of cover up for them,
Speaker 1: but you have to be very athletic to be on
Speaker 1: that left end, especially the blind side of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So having him have Das back all this time I
Speaker 1: think has been amazing, and we've been fortunate as Cowboy
Speaker 1: fans to have that luxury. It's almost like another ray
Speaker 1: Field Right for Roger starback. Rayfield Right rarely gave up
Speaker 1: sacks to Roger. And as far as Tyron Smith is concerned,
Speaker 1: compared to all other tackles that have come along in
Speaker 1: the last ten years, to me, he's been the best
Speaker 1: and the best offensive mine and the Cowboys I've ever had.
Speaker 1: I hope he comes back. Well, I hope this injury
Speaker 1: is just like vander Eschs to wait and come back.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, you heard me talk yesterday about how concerned
Speaker 1: I am just about his well being as a person,
Speaker 1: and that still stands as well, you know, ever since
Speaker 1: he might have been the best offensive lineman in the league,
Speaker 1: not just with the Cowboys. I would love to put
Speaker 1: Olivier Vernon on a life detector tests and ask him, Okay,
Speaker 1: how was Tyran Smith this past Sunday? But yeah, he's been.
Speaker 1: And that's why because he might lie about it, you know,
Speaker 1: and say, wow, he's okay. I want him to tell
Speaker 1: the truth, but you know, and so to maybe put
Speaker 1: this all in proper perspective. Uh, this morning, when Jerry
Speaker 1: was doing his segment on one oh five three the fan,
Speaker 1: they asked him about his his biggest concerns, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have enough concerns going into this game, and he goes,
Speaker 1: of all the concerns I have, it's the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And ain't that the truth? Because if your offensive line
Speaker 1: ain't functioning as an offense, you're not functioning. And that
Speaker 1: offense has been the Cowboys bread and butter. Even though
Speaker 1: they're one in three, it's at least kept them in
Speaker 1: every game uh they played. And now if that offensive
Speaker 1: line can't function because the offensive line, offensive can't function
Speaker 1: because of the offense line, boy, this team's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard pressed to rely on a defense that hasn't been
Speaker 1: reliable in the last three weeks. You know, think back
Speaker 1: to the draft when Tyron Smith came out. He was
Speaker 1: the eighth pick in the draft out of USC in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven. Who is the next pick after
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith? It was? It was J. J. Watt Ah
Speaker 1: And this is how this is how highly I think
Speaker 1: of Tyrn Smith. J. J. Watt has been an NFL
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year three times in his career.
Speaker 1: If I had that pick to do over for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in twenty eleven. I'd still take Tyron Smith ahead
Speaker 1: of JJ Watt. I think that's how important he has
Speaker 1: been to the to this Cowboys franchise the last decade,
Speaker 1: and not just important from the position he plays, important
Speaker 1: from the fact that this offense of line was a
Speaker 1: mess at that time, and Jason Garrett basically put his
Speaker 1: hand down, put his fist down, and said, we've got
Speaker 1: to rebuild this offensive line. We can't do anything we
Speaker 1: can't protect Tony Romo. Doesn't matter what running back we
Speaker 1: have if we can't protect the offensive line. And he
Speaker 1: was the first building block of this offensive line. And
Speaker 1: I could remember what the Cowboys were playing with back then,
Speaker 1: at center and at guard and on running plays, running plays,
Speaker 1: they were getting their guards and centers pushed back into
Speaker 1: them two or three yards, not pass protection, running plays, right,
Speaker 1: you know, God blessed Phil Costa, you know, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And they were they were bringing
Speaker 1: remember they were bringing guys in and and then next
Speaker 1: week another guy would start at guard and oh it
Speaker 1: was a mess. And that's why they made a concertative
Speaker 1: after him, Travis Frederick, after him, Zach Martin, And look
Speaker 1: how that line flourished. Uh, you know, in the coming years,
Speaker 1: took a chance on Mark Colombo coming back from his injuries,
Speaker 1: and they had an offensive line, and that's why this
Speaker 1: team's offense had success. It wasn't just the skilled players.
Speaker 1: That offensive line caused this. And now you're sitting here going, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gritting your teeth and we're gonna tease what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do next. Mickey, let me clarify the Tyring was
Speaker 1: the ninth nick that it was only one spot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was alight, but I need to clarify further. JJ
Speaker 1: Watt was not picked right after Tyring. He was picked eleventh.
Speaker 1: There was one player picked in between Tyring Smith and
Speaker 1: JJ Watt and Mickey, you should know who this player was.
Speaker 1: At number ten in the draft that year in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: you got that quarterback, a quarterback from Missouri, Blaine gab Gabber. Yes,
Speaker 1: so so I actually, okay, here's how about this. The
Speaker 1: number seven pick in that draft was Aldon Smith to
Speaker 1: San Francisco. The eighth pick was Jake Locker to Tennessee.
Speaker 1: The ninth pick was Tyring Smith to Dallas. The tenth
Speaker 1: pick was Blaine Gabber to Jacksonville. On the eleventh pick
Speaker 1: was JJ Watt to Houston. So there you go. Blaine
Speaker 1: still backing up somewhere, isn't he? It's something like that.
Speaker 1: White quarterbacks. White quarterbacks are always backing up somebody, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: And who was the number one clipboard somewhere? All right?
Speaker 1: And the number one pick that year was Cam Newton
Speaker 1: to the Carolina as bottled by von Miller to Denver,
Speaker 1: Mark Selderis to Buffalo. AJ Green fourth to Cincinnati, Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson fifth to Arizona, Julio Jones sixth to Atlanta. Wow,
Speaker 1: I want a draft that one? All right? We continue
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Speaker 1: else do you know injury wise for those big match
Speaker 1: up with the Owen four Giants? Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if anything else really matters. It sounded like uh Dorence
Speaker 1: Armstrong and uh Tyrone Crawford moved into a limited situation yesterday,
Speaker 1: So it looks like Mike McCarthy said he felt good
Speaker 1: about their potential to play on Sunday, So that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. And then we'll see what happens to the
Speaker 1: guys that are on injured reserve still but started their
Speaker 1: twenty one day deal. It looks like Anthony Brown should
Speaker 1: be ready to go on Sunday, which you'll give them
Speaker 1: another starting quality cornerback. We'll see about cam Fleming, I
Speaker 1: mean cam Irving. Cam Fleming will be starting for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Cam Irving, I'm not sure how much he's been able
Speaker 1: to do in practice. And they didn't have to give
Speaker 1: injury reports on those guys since they're not on the
Speaker 1: roster yet. So other than that DeMarcus Lawrence has practiced
Speaker 1: both days. I know the knee still bothering him, but
Speaker 1: at least he got out there in practice. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a really good sign. And they just gotta
Speaker 1: kind of cross their fingers until next Sunday. Chitabewooz's eligible
Speaker 1: to come off of injured reserve. Okay, let me throw
Speaker 1: this out at you. What do you think, Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: the Giants offensive coordinator, what do you think his game
Speaker 1: plan will be against this Cowboys defense? Run the ball.
Speaker 1: I you know DeVante Freeman, he last week was kind
Speaker 1: of a warm up game for him. They just signed him.
Speaker 1: I bet they feed him and they're gonna see if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have fixed their problems on that defensive front
Speaker 1: to run the ball. So yeah, and I think if
Speaker 1: they can do it a little bit, then he'll take
Speaker 1: shots down the field, big shots down the field, because
Speaker 1: those are to me, for a young quarterback, those are
Speaker 1: the easiest balls to throw, right and if it goes
Speaker 1: wrong and it's an interception, at least you've thrown at
Speaker 1: thirty thirty yards, forty yards or whatever, and you know,
Speaker 1: assuming you can make a tackle, it doesn't hurt you
Speaker 1: that bad. The passes that rookies have trouble with is
Speaker 1: throwing the ball over the middle where there's traffic, or
Speaker 1: throwing that out quick enough and that you've got a
Speaker 1: strong enough arm to throw a seventeen yard out. Those
Speaker 1: are the problems rookie quarterbacks or young quarterbacks normally have.
Speaker 1: So I think he follows that he'll use two tight ends.
Speaker 1: If he's got a full bass and he does have
Speaker 1: one Eli Penny, he's gonna come heavy and come at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and and that would be a way for
Speaker 1: him to shorten the game. Try to take time off
Speaker 1: the clock so the Cowboys offense doesn't get on the field. Now,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are having problems with whatever they do
Speaker 1: at the tackle position, he may want him on the
Speaker 1: field because that might be the quickest way to shorten
Speaker 1: the field for his offense is getting takeaways, which is
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy I believe his three keys to the game.
Speaker 1: Number one was you know, no more turnovers. Number two, uh,
Speaker 1: make sure you're um strong against the run. And then
Speaker 1: I think number three was make sure you're protecting the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So if I had to do keys to the games,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ut. I'm gonna take his word for
Speaker 1: it and lost Everson. Let's sound you know, you know, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing is when you look at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys first four games and the and the opponents
Speaker 1: they went up against. The Rams ran a lot of
Speaker 1: eleven personnel. Okay. I think if you go back and
Speaker 1: look at it, at a roughly seventy five plays they
Speaker 1: ran on offense, the Cowboys were in the nickel on
Speaker 1: fifty five out of seventy five plays. Their nickel defense
Speaker 1: Atlanta was the same percentage basically Seattle. Jordan Lewis got
Speaker 1: over seventy snaps in that Seattle game. Seattle was almost
Speaker 1: exclusively eleven personnel throughout that game. But then when you
Speaker 1: look at last week against Cleveland, the Browns ran a
Speaker 1: lot of two tight end stuff. I think Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me, but his
Speaker 1: snap count was around twenty or so in that game,
Speaker 1: which tells you right there that even without even looking
Speaker 1: at the coaches film, you can tell that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were in their base defense a lot. And I think
Speaker 1: that the Giants are going to go to school on
Speaker 1: what the Browns did. So Mark Colombo, the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: is looking at how Bill Callahan did or what he
Speaker 1: did with his offensive line against this Cowboys front. And
Speaker 1: and so the Cowboys in their base defense have to
Speaker 1: prove that they have adapted to this scheme and they
Speaker 1: aren't square pegs being fit into round holes, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, Jordan Lewis had twenty two snaps twenty nine
Speaker 1: percent of the plays. So yeah, you're exact. There you go,
Speaker 1: and that's what Dad, that's what they're gonna do, And
Speaker 1: you're right, and you know, and the Cowboys really hadn't
Speaker 1: employed any sort of base defense, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it going into the game. If they went to a
Speaker 1: four to three, they don't have a legitimate strong side linebacker,
Speaker 1: and they tried to do it with Dorence Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Alden Smith. I'm not sure how well that worked out.
Speaker 1: And then they also tried to change up and play
Speaker 1: a three four, but again they don't have the defensive
Speaker 1: ends as part of the three to play inside that
Speaker 1: are big enough to hold down the fort in there.
Speaker 1: They just don't have the personnel to do that. So
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if they change up on that
Speaker 1: four to three if they have to go to it
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe put Gifford out there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't try. I think so too different, right, You
Speaker 1: can't keep doing the same thing and think you're going
Speaker 1: to get different results. So yeah, I'd love to see
Speaker 1: that and plus plus a four to three. Then you
Speaker 1: can limit the number of snaps or you can get
Speaker 1: don Terry Poe, Tristan Hill into the number of snaps
Speaker 1: that they need to be heading in a game, which
Speaker 1: is half of what they had against Cleveland last week.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think Gifford would be would be
Speaker 1: the option there as the sam linebacker in a four
Speaker 1: three defense. Now, the big issue is he had really
Speaker 1: hadn't played in an NFL game to speak up as
Speaker 1: far as on defense goes. He's been special teams. But
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be interesting to see what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The other thing about it is obviously they
Speaker 1: the run defense was horrible last week. DeMarcus Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: think even though he's got limited snaps because he's dealing
Speaker 1: with an injury, he is setting the edge better than
Speaker 1: any of the other defensive ends all true, and he's
Speaker 1: playing the run. You know, as you mentioned, means you're
Speaker 1: playing the run, and he's even playing the run from
Speaker 1: the back side, coming in to make sure there's not
Speaker 1: that backcut. If the guy going to the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: tries to come back left, they're coming right back into him.
Speaker 1: So I know everybody looks at sacks, but you know
Speaker 1: there's more to this game than sacks. And I think
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't know if the guys start looking at
Speaker 1: that type of stuff, all I gotta get sacks. I
Speaker 1: gotta get sacked, because they know you get paid for sacks. Right, well,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get a chance to rush the
Speaker 1: quarterback if indeed you aren't stopping the run. And as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, when I was telling you McCarthy's
Speaker 1: three keys, the second one I missed it need to
Speaker 1: apply pressure on the quarterback. And so you earn the
Speaker 1: right to do that if you stop the run. If
Speaker 1: you can't stop the run, Jason Garrett'll play action you
Speaker 1: to death. I'll tell you what. I really enjoyed your preview.
Speaker 1: It sounded just like Bill Belichick. You are amazing, sir.
Speaker 1: Might be the greatest compliment I've ever had. Man, you
Speaker 1: are amazing. No, But really, as we sit here, we
Speaker 1: You know I always talk about TV pundits and radio pundits. Well,
Speaker 1: here we are. You know, we sit here, we watched
Speaker 1: the games. We try and come up with the best
Speaker 1: ways for the Cowboys to win. All the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to remember is what happened last week? How good is
Speaker 1: your memory? Because that's what the giants are gonna chat.
Speaker 1: They're gonna see if you remember it or gotten any
Speaker 1: Have you improved from last week? Did you get into
Speaker 1: practice and did you remedieve the problem, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: come at you again over and over. You're gonna see runs,
Speaker 1: You're gonna see reverses, You're gonna see reverse pass, You're
Speaker 1: gonna see Golden Tate using all of his athletic ability.
Speaker 1: They might I told you yesterday he might be in
Speaker 1: the Wildcat. They're gonna do everything that they can do
Speaker 1: to help help this team win because New York we
Speaker 1: think we're having problems here. New York is off the
Speaker 1: hook chain having problems. So we know that at this
Speaker 1: point we have the advantage in regards to personnel, in
Speaker 1: regards to even the injuries and talent. So what they're
Speaker 1: gonna try and realize in New York is how can
Speaker 1: we keep them off guard? How can we keep the
Speaker 1: offense off the field. And they can only do that
Speaker 1: by having that slow game plan that you talked about,
Speaker 1: Spags running the ball, keeping the ball out of our hands.
Speaker 1: It is just like trying to keep It's like trying
Speaker 1: to keep a fast break team from fast breaking on
Speaker 1: you all the time. Lay up after lay up. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do something to make them do it differently.
Speaker 1: So that's what the Giants, that's the only hope. That's
Speaker 1: the only hope at this point. And of course with
Speaker 1: Taylon being out, they smell just a little bit of
Speaker 1: fear from the Cowboys in regards to the doubt that
Speaker 1: they might have in their game plan. Jeff A little bit,
Speaker 1: all right. Mike McCarthy said something also today and earlier
Speaker 1: this week about balance in his offense. That plus our
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Speaker 1: all right, all right, Nicky, I mean I need some
Speaker 1: contingency plans for this Cowboys team now that we know
Speaker 1: that they are without starting offensive tackles Tyring Smith and
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins for the rest of the season, not just
Speaker 1: for Sunday, but even going forward the rest of the year.
Speaker 1: One of the continuency points, well, I think there's probably
Speaker 1: a combination of four players they're looking at. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen what they've done previously without Leo Collins and
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith in the game. And I just lost my sound,
Speaker 1: by the way, But anyway, they had lined up Brandon
Speaker 1: Knight on the right on the left tackle, and then
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele at right tackle. Now that didn't work out
Speaker 1: so well the last time, and so uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they ended up moving in Seattle game Zack Martin to
Speaker 1: right tackle, but they move Looney to to guard. Well,
Speaker 1: they don't have Looney to do that anymore and be
Speaker 1: honest as the center. So I bet they're leaning somewhat
Speaker 1: towards that. But if it's not Night left Steel right,
Speaker 1: then there only other alternative at the right side to me,
Speaker 1: Greg snot they just signed him off Cleveland's practice squad,
Speaker 1: So at least he's been practicing, he's been working, he
Speaker 1: should be in somewhat shape if they consider that potential. Also,
Speaker 1: Jordan Mills the veteran again, but you know, they picked
Speaker 1: him upright at the beginning of the season, and so
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of shape he's in or
Speaker 1: if he's ready to play. He was coming back from
Speaker 1: a knee problem last year. He had knee surgery I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the previous year. But he's
Speaker 1: got the most experience of any of those guys, if
Speaker 1: you know, if he can do something. So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that he's worked in as much, but it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see where they go on the right side.
Speaker 1: I just think that they're hesitant to put Zach Martin
Speaker 1: out there. But as I said yesterday, you guys, this
Speaker 1: is what it comes down to. Can Connor mcgovernn play
Speaker 1: guard better than somebody can play right tackle, because if
Speaker 1: he can, then you can move Zach out there if
Speaker 1: you trust the guy in the middle. But you know
Speaker 1: that if you get pressure up the middle, that that
Speaker 1: that's curtains right. The quarterback should be able to see
Speaker 1: what's coming from the right side, and you should be
Speaker 1: able to game plan that with a tight end. You
Speaker 1: can't game plan a guard or if a center's having problems.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not worried about Beadish, but I would
Speaker 1: be worried about McGovern going there because he would be
Speaker 1: the next guy. Hay hadn't played a snap in the NFL,
Speaker 1: not on the offensive line, so that one would that
Speaker 1: one would be kind of concerning. And I know everybody thinks, well,
Speaker 1: just move him out there, Zack Martin, Well, okay, but
Speaker 1: who's gonna play guard? And I think that's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to dealing with Zach Martin. Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: I think has done okay. People have played with worse
Speaker 1: at left tackled in Brandon Knight. The right Side's what
Speaker 1: concerns me. We worry about the tackle when it comes
Speaker 1: to the past. But if we want to control a
Speaker 1: ball game, then we need to have our guards steady
Speaker 1: in the middle because the running game is really what
Speaker 1: makes this team win. So you're rights, Fags, we need
Speaker 1: that goard position to be solid so that Zeke can
Speaker 1: be the one that controls the pace of this ball game.
Speaker 1: You know, and you look at the Giants deep end.
Speaker 1: One thing that I had teased. Well, first off, Mickey
Speaker 1: tell us about Marcus Henry as far as backup center
Speaker 1: pass and the Cowboys do need a backup center. And
Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody that you know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about has really put their hand on the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody says, well, Connor McGovern's did it in college. Well
Speaker 1: that was twenty seventeen. Okay, this is twenty twenty. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much he's worked on that, and he
Speaker 1: certainly hasn't done it in a game. Everybody says, well,
Speaker 1: you know Connor Williams, you know he said he'd do it. Well, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and maybe he's done it in practice. He hadn't done
Speaker 1: it in a game either, And now Cam Irving has,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that he's ready to go. So
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then you might have to sign
Speaker 1: Marcus Henry off the practice squad for this game day.
Speaker 1: The way they've done, you're allowed to do that with
Speaker 1: two guys off the practice squad. I believe it's just two.
Speaker 1: But at least during training camp he he you know,
Speaker 1: he started off as the backup center until Beadist overtook him.
Speaker 1: But he was getting snaps and he works with the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks when they have their little quarterback school warm up
Speaker 1: before the practice starts, so I would think he would
Speaker 1: be the logical choice. And by the way, when McCarthy
Speaker 1: mentioned the offensive line, and I don't know if he
Speaker 1: meant to let this slip out or not, but he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: because on the offensive line, we'll have eight or nine
Speaker 1: guys and he threw nine in there. Normally, if you
Speaker 1: if you keep those two extra offensive linemen and keep
Speaker 1: eight active, you get forty eight on your roster. Now
Speaker 1: he mentioned nine offensive linemen, so that means somebody else
Speaker 1: would be coming off the field. But maybe that's how
Speaker 1: much concerned they have at those tackle positions along with
Speaker 1: backup center. And by the way, we just got four
Speaker 1: minutes left to the show. But if any thoughts about
Speaker 1: Ronald Leary, who came in for a visit last month,
Speaker 1: of possibly being an option as a guard, well you
Speaker 1: can forget about that. The reports now are that Ronald
Speaker 1: Learry has decided to retire from football. That is breaking
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Goodime to know why they didn't sign him, right,
Speaker 1: that's right, Just like Jered veld here, who is another
Speaker 1: veteran guy that they had bag dug free bringing back Doree.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can they can make a swap and get
Speaker 1: Colombo back over here. Yeah, all right, let's make our picks,
Speaker 1: our picks, and our picks to click on Sunday at
Speaker 1: three twenty five, the game being called by Jim Nanson
Speaker 1: Tony Romos. All right, ever, so you want to go first?
Speaker 1: All right? My pick to click? Of course, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys to win, as I do every week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna announce that every week as well. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the twenty eight to thirteen win by the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys offense, you won't be looking for
Speaker 1: the big numbers, but they won't need him. Running game
Speaker 1: is gonna go well, but the passing game will be
Speaker 1: anchored by Ceedee Lamb. Ceedee Lamb is gonna take this
Speaker 1: Texas ou spirit. There you go into the next day,
Speaker 1: he'll have a he'll have a Texas Oh you hangover.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna be our guy, and they don't have
Speaker 1: anyone they can guard him in the giant secondary, especially
Speaker 1: guarding the slot receiver. They're gonna be using all the
Speaker 1: best carterbacks up on our two outside receivers. Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: is gonna feast on the inside. And any Texas fan
Speaker 1: knows that this weekend a year ago, Ceedee Lamb is
Speaker 1: the reason O you won over Texas last year. He
Speaker 1: was the reason also Jalen Hurts Wash in the Heisman
Speaker 1: contention last year. Every remarkable game this week. That's a
Speaker 1: great pick. I'll give him three touchdowns this week, just
Speaker 1: like he had against Texas last year. How about you, Becky,
Speaker 1: I'm next? Yeah you go. Vicky. So I saw that
Speaker 1: this game had a nine point spread. The Cowboys were
Speaker 1: favored by nine, and I told someone I wouldn't bet
Speaker 1: that spread and take the Cowboys with your money. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: although that probably means the Giants have to score in
Speaker 1: ten points, you know I got the Cowboys out twenty
Speaker 1: six twenty. I think the Giants will finally break through
Speaker 1: and score a touchdown or two. At might pick to
Speaker 1: click just because of how I think. Maybe conservatively, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna have to play, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: he comes back with a vengeance in this game. One
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. They're gonna have to lean on him in
Speaker 1: this game to help out that offensive line. Using two
Speaker 1: tight ends, maybe using a tight end as an h
Speaker 1: back like a fullback. So let's go with Zeke and
Speaker 1: all he's got to do is hang onto the ball.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that, all right, And I'm
Speaker 1: going with You know, last week the Giants were trailing
Speaker 1: the Rams ten to nine with five minutes left of
Speaker 1: the game. That wound up losing seventeen to nine. How
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do against the Rams out there? It was
Speaker 1: a twenty to seventeen game. I'm going a closer game then, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe people do think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a closer game, but I'm going I'm going seven,
Speaker 1: and I'm going twenty four twenty three Cowboys win by
Speaker 1: one point. And you know who's going to be the
Speaker 1: star of the game for the Cowboys, Xavier Woods. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get to talk to the media again and he's
Speaker 1: gonna talk about what great effort the team gave in
Speaker 1: coming of the time. That's exactly right there, you go,
Speaker 1: that's twenty three. Doesn't sound like a lot of confidence
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys, all right, that doesn't. And and I'll okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and pick Texas to be to you
Speaker 1: also will you pick Missouri to bes. WHOA wait a minute,
Speaker 1: and Bill, did you say you're picking Texas? Build that
Speaker 1: answer make you go back to what I said about
Speaker 1: betting on the Cowboys. I wouldn't bet on Missouri with
Speaker 1: your money. All right? That does it? In Grambling, will
Speaker 1: beat Prairie View in the spring in April, I promise
Speaker 1: when the flower was bloomed, and the flower is bloomed
Speaker 1: and we have the Great State Fair of Texas in April.
Speaker 1: All right, that does it for mixed shots. We'll see
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