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Speaker 1: screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Says, here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. What's up. Welcome into Talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys inside the SWBC Mortgage studio. I am Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: hosting for Bill Jones as typically on a Wednesday. He's
Speaker 1: got TV duties. Jones Less Wednesday, a Jones Less Wednesday.
Speaker 1: The Jones family's in the house though. That's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as always here full Star. A few more floors ups,
Speaker 1: that's right, top floor. Uh. Brian brought us, joining us
Speaker 1: as always. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello. That was Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: interrupting me as usual. Hey, we don't want along here,
Speaker 1: We don't want to change too many things. Not Bill's
Speaker 1: not here, but you know, we gotta keep things going smoothly.
Speaker 1: K Garrison always keeps us going smoothly with some dynamite drops.
Speaker 1: I try spliced in there, the I five I five
Speaker 1: forty five rivalry. It's almost bad. I like that getting
Speaker 1: started with the practice week. Today Wednesday, Cowboys will be
Speaker 1: back on the field getting set for the Texans Sunday
Speaker 1: night in Houston. We can start breaking that down. We
Speaker 1: touched on it a little bit on Tuesday, but we
Speaker 1: can look maybe towards their defense and just how they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to wreck the game for the Dallas offense
Speaker 1: coming off a pretty productive game against Detroit, and we
Speaker 1: can go anywhere. Take your phone calls as well. Eight five,
Speaker 1: two two ninety seven is the number. Good job last
Speaker 1: night on your show. Thanks you guys too. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of back and forth. I
Speaker 1: think we covered a lot of ground on the Happy Hour,
Speaker 1: The Happy Hour. Absolutely love the Happy Hour every Tuesday
Speaker 1: night at Concrete Cowboy. Are you there for that? What
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna give this team the more
Speaker 1: most problem their offense, their quarterback, the receivers, or their defense.
Speaker 1: Houston all fired up because they're gonna try to win
Speaker 1: bragging rights in the state. Yeah, God, which way do
Speaker 1: you think they go has? What's their avenue for success
Speaker 1: in this thing? The dudes up front on their defensive line.
Speaker 1: You think it's gonna come down, Mickey do your offensive
Speaker 1: line and having to play if you can block those guys. Um.
Speaker 1: Although their offense has been pretty potent, they haven't won. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've racked up a lot of yards. Kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me a little of Washington our day back in the
Speaker 1: day with with you know, with Cousins, You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna throw for four oh eight, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose by seven because he's gonna hand you the
Speaker 1: ball a couple of times. Yeah, this guys, those got'll
Speaker 1: hand you the ball And I know you want to
Speaker 1: make me we can kind of focus our throat for
Speaker 1: four hundred or our total four hundred yards and have
Speaker 1: to go into overtime to win because you blew a
Speaker 1: twenty eight to ten lead. Yeah, so they got a
Speaker 1: gift too. I remember I was telling you about yestert
Speaker 1: touchdown right, Yeah, one of the first touch they had,
Speaker 1: the center just thought he was in shotgun and dropped
Speaker 1: the ball in the one yard line and next you know,
Speaker 1: it's a mad scramble. But he's lucky he didn't get fined. No,
Speaker 1: I you saw that. No, they're they're mad. Bowls is
Speaker 1: mad at his h oh I forgot the player. He
Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown. It had to be a wide receiver, right,
Speaker 1: and the Jets all that. Well, sorry, he took the
Speaker 1: ball and wiped his behind with him because he was
Speaker 1: doing a commercial for a company that had male wipes.
Speaker 1: Oh so he was doing some product placement during the game. Yes, interesting, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Bowls wasn't big on it. No, And he got a
Speaker 1: fifteen yard penel and sports like conduct. Shocking that he
Speaker 1: would get that for doing that anyway. Strange. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, we're off track. He was just thinking about
Speaker 1: the ball and hiked and there was there to get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of worry a little bit about first down
Speaker 1: running here, you know. I mean, the Cowboys are really
Speaker 1: good at it. I know that's something they want to do.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to mix it in this
Speaker 1: game if you want to get back to offense or defense.
Speaker 1: But you know, the the Texans are one of the
Speaker 1: best in the league and not allowing you that. And
Speaker 1: I wonder if going in now that what we've seen
Speaker 1: with Dallas and trying to kind of get things started.
Speaker 1: We what was the you know, the Seattle game that
Speaker 1: was a little bit more of a mix of It
Speaker 1: wasn't just straight run ye Giants game was that way too.
Speaker 1: A little bit more of balance, I shouldn't say balance,
Speaker 1: a little bit more passing on first down. I wonder
Speaker 1: if you go into this game feeling like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to throw the ball a little bit
Speaker 1: more on first down than than what we normally do.
Speaker 1: What is the Texans run defense on first down? Look?
Speaker 1: I just you know, yeah, I know, Mickey numbers drive
Speaker 1: you nuts, but I like to look at these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm not big on numbers. I just like to
Speaker 1: look at him to see if there's any trends or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I'm a guy watched the tape. Either
Speaker 1: they're gonna block you or they're not gonna block you.
Speaker 1: You know, but the Texans are third in the league
Speaker 1: on third down rush. When it comes to they only
Speaker 1: on first see me, on first down rush, they only
Speaker 1: give up three point four nine league average is almost
Speaker 1: four and a half on first down, So you know
Speaker 1: that's something in in Dallas is one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league. When it comes to their first down runs,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna get four plus yards almost fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the time. So something's gonna have to give there.
Speaker 1: And I know, Mickey's gonna tell me need to stay
Speaker 1: ahead of the chains and those kinds of things, and
Speaker 1: he's absolutely right, you know. But I wonder if necessarily
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to mix in this game that you're
Speaker 1: gonna just can't line up and say, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: even though this this is one of your strengths, do
Speaker 1: you play to your strength or do you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go a little bit different than what we
Speaker 1: normally do here to kind of get the ball moving
Speaker 1: a lot. Like you guys were talking about last night.
Speaker 1: Can't get behind the chains in this game, and you
Speaker 1: can't do it, can't have a Carolina read. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: of the pass rushers. I've got the NFL's leading rusher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let them stop them before I decide to
Speaker 1: change do something else. You want to dance with what
Speaker 1: brung you? They are twenty seventh against the pass. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so maybe no one's tried to run against them because
Speaker 1: it's too easy to throw on them. Yeah, uh, they've tried.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're ninth against the run ninety four yards
Speaker 1: a game. I'm reading John the Great John mcclean's report
Speaker 1: card down at the Houston Chronicle Uh, they limited the
Speaker 1: Colts to forty one yards rushing two point one yards
Speaker 1: yards passing. Did they give up? Uh, let's look at
Speaker 1: the game book, Mick, I have it right here. Four hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot, you know, it's really funny though, four
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four to be exact. We're getting into
Speaker 1: a bunch of numbers here. And I don't mean to
Speaker 1: get the fans about tyre head here and four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but here. Yeah, and this is this is what's it.
Speaker 1: To Mickey's point, For as great as they've been in
Speaker 1: as you think as a pass rushing team, when they
Speaker 1: blitz you quarterbacks have a rating of one twenty three.
Speaker 1: That's twenty ninth in the league. Maybe they don't have
Speaker 1: to blitz as much, but they do. They like to.
Speaker 1: They like to give you a lot of a little
Speaker 1: a lot of different looks. The double a gap, they'll walk, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Tyrn Matthew up there as a blitzer and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I think it's to Mickey's to
Speaker 1: Mickey's point, he's absolutely right, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you want to run the football. I think you
Speaker 1: want to try and run the football. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: they've had some struggles. I mean and I and I
Speaker 1: just the guy always seem to look at in this
Speaker 1: their struggles is this is Jonathan Joseph, This cornerback number
Speaker 1: twenty four. He seems like the guy that they like
Speaker 1: to pick on that you know, because he'll play soft.
Speaker 1: He really doesn't tackle all that well and in coverage,
Speaker 1: he doesn't drive very well. This team has a history
Speaker 1: of having some cornerbacks can that can play. You remember
Speaker 1: a Buoye that that's now in Jacksonville. We'll see him
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. But they have a pretty
Speaker 1: good history of guys that can play cornerback. But this
Speaker 1: cruise a little bit suspect. Uh Sharise Wright on the
Speaker 1: other side, I think number forty three, he's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a suspect guy. So and Tyron Matthew God,
Speaker 1: I love him. He's an LSU kid, but he is
Speaker 1: really an undisciplined player. I mean, you'd love to have
Speaker 1: him on your team, but he will he will drop
Speaker 1: coverage and and he's one of those guys that plays
Speaker 1: with really like instinct more than he plays with. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know what you're trying to do. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: try and jump routes and he freelances a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are good, those are good names to talk about freelance.
Speaker 1: Those guys pull it off, and this guy could pull
Speaker 1: it off at times, but he will also put his
Speaker 1: team in some in some harm's way. If you remembered
Speaker 1: Arizona last year, it was Terrence Williams in that game
Speaker 1: caught a nice route across the field where where Tyron
Speaker 1: Matthew tried to jump the route a little bit and
Speaker 1: it gave Terrence some separation and it was a huge
Speaker 1: completion in that game. So he's capable of either making
Speaker 1: a play or making a big bone head and mistake
Speaker 1: for his team. So but I'm just trying to think
Speaker 1: of ways that you're going to have to move the
Speaker 1: football in this game. And m Mickey's point is well taken.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna you know, you are what you are,
Speaker 1: you know, But I don't know if we necessarily going
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. Is it going to
Speaker 1: be consistent? First down run? Is it going to be okay?
Speaker 1: Even though the numbers say yeah, Brian, keep running, especially
Speaker 1: early in the game, they're gonna be loaded up for it.
Speaker 1: Probably early Keep running and you know, and but I'll
Speaker 1: see you another thing. They had a problem within the
Speaker 1: Giants game that I watched. Their linebackers usually tackle very well.
Speaker 1: Zach Cunningham had a really hard time in this game
Speaker 1: tackling the Giants, And so hopefully you can get some
Speaker 1: of that. But overall, it's a it's a good defense,
Speaker 1: it really is. It's got you know, with what and
Speaker 1: then and Clowney. I just think you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to account for Clowney more than you
Speaker 1: will Watt. And gosh, I know I'm gonna be cursed
Speaker 1: for saying that, but they moved Clowney around. Remember how
Speaker 1: what the last time these two teams played at at
Speaker 1: AT and T it was Watt moving all over the place.
Speaker 1: He was standing up, he was on the left end,
Speaker 1: he was right in. It just appears that they've taken Clowney.
Speaker 1: He's taken over that role and they've kind of let
Speaker 1: they've let J. J. Watt stay on that out on
Speaker 1: that left side or your offensive right. But I just
Speaker 1: could see them, you know, with the struggles that Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins has had two you know, maybe given some rushes
Speaker 1: over there and saying Okay, we're gonna let your rush
Speaker 1: against Lyle Collins and see if you could break him down.
Speaker 1: Because watching it back, I did see primarily at least
Speaker 1: early in the game, and I haven't watched all of
Speaker 1: the Houston Indie game, but Watt on that left side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would move inside at times two right and they
Speaker 1: and Clowney would take over. He'd switch side as well.
Speaker 1: So what Collins is probably gonna see both of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's their luck. Pass for four hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four yards. He hit some really big that where they attacked.
Speaker 1: Where they attacked this uh Texan defense was in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. They had a bunch of big
Speaker 1: time hit crossing routes that worked. They actually had several drops.
Speaker 1: They had four or five drops on slants that might
Speaker 1: have gone well. They had a they had a crossing
Speaker 1: route underneath that would have gone much similar to what
Speaker 1: happened in the Carolina game. Would have been a big
Speaker 1: play that ended up being a drop. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they they The thing you just have to worry
Speaker 1: about again is the protection. I mean that that to
Speaker 1: me is going to be the real key in this one.
Speaker 1: They stacked him four times right. Yeah, Now they hit
Speaker 1: him a bunch. Okay, but now stop me. Four hits
Speaker 1: by Clowney alone, Okay. And I'm not an expert on
Speaker 1: the Colts. Yeah, and Hinds. Yeah, he's the main Hines
Speaker 1: rookie out of yeah NC State. Yeah. Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: a good player. He's a running back. He caught nine passes. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: c Rogers he is a wide receiver number fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: should I know him? Well? No, they're making plays, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, z Pascal. Their cornerbacks are Grant the
Speaker 1: only guy I gotta get down to. T Y Hilton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had four catches. He got hurt in the game,
Speaker 1: but he had forty two. One of them was a
Speaker 1: forty two yarder down the middle of the field. He
Speaker 1: got hurt on the play. So these aren't like household
Speaker 1: names that ripped him for four hundred and sixty four years.
Speaker 1: You're saying you're not impressed, Well, I'm just asking the
Speaker 1: I think the personnel. How did this happen? You know
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. Can I ask you a question? That's
Speaker 1: all your angle? Your angle is that they suck? Is
Speaker 1: that your anger? Didn't say they suck? I'm just saying
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to find out. I think I think
Speaker 1: twenty seven points to the Giant. I think that we're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out here. I think we've said this.
Speaker 1: Their pass rush is good, they play run defense on
Speaker 1: first down, and they they're struggling. The secondary we just
Speaker 1: talked about. The corners aren't very good. We talked about
Speaker 1: the safety is not very good. We're not saying it
Speaker 1: can't be. We're not saying it can't be done. But
Speaker 1: you're you're You're also a team that's offensively challenged as well.
Speaker 1: It's not like we're the Rams or the Colts, anybody
Speaker 1: else or the Colt. We haven't thrown for four hundred
Speaker 1: yards the games. One of the Colts done in four games.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, though, I don't know there's stats
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. Yeah, I know, but
Speaker 1: they they were one in three. The Texans. Yeah, feel
Speaker 1: free to pick them on Friday, Mick, that's all right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick Dallas. I'm gonna pick them big and no, no,
Speaker 1: don't pick the texts. Are you Texans holding you to it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're at home state bragging rights on the line. Well,
Speaker 1: you're big on that super Bowl talk, aren't you? Leave?
Speaker 1: Bill brought up? And then they roll our ass and
Speaker 1: Mickey's in here on money making excuses for him. I
Speaker 1: don't make excuses as I tell you what happens. Well,
Speaker 1: you you obviously we're trying to tell you that the
Speaker 1: Texans secondary isn't very good, all right, and we're making
Speaker 1: your play, but their front is so good that it
Speaker 1: should help the secondary not give up four hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty four yards passing. Don't block the front, Mickey, and
Speaker 1: see what happens to you in your pack didn't say that, Mickey.
Speaker 1: You're okay, you're talking. How did that happen? Micky? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're talking. When's the last time the Cowboys through for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards in a game? Oh? I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was twenty seventeen. Well, can you give me some stats?
Speaker 1: Maybe you're you're arguing thirty points in a row against
Speaker 1: the greatest defense on Earth against the Rams, thirty points
Speaker 1: against the Packers, that was what that was? How many
Speaker 1: games ago? When you asked me, I said twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, how many games ago is that calendar year?
Speaker 1: This team doesn't throw the ball. Well, let's not understand.
Speaker 1: I understand that. Well, then how are you going to
Speaker 1: attack the tell it? Well, against a team that can't
Speaker 1: defend the pass, how are you going to attack the
Speaker 1: Texans if you don't throw the ball? Well, Mickey, well,
Speaker 1: they're the twenty seventh rank pass defense. How are you
Speaker 1: going to atta pack the Texans if you don't throw
Speaker 1: the ball? Well, to give you some reasons, give me
Speaker 1: some reasons. I don't. I mean, I hear how good
Speaker 1: they played this past week? Their run defense was terrible?
Speaker 1: How was the past defense? Their past defense was good.
Speaker 1: They threw for two fifty five they hadn't done that
Speaker 1: in ages. One of the passes was for thirty three yards.
Speaker 1: They had some big plays downfield. They had several explosive
Speaker 1: plays that help bring that total. But they it all
Speaker 1: adds together. That's good. Zeke takes a screen pass thirty
Speaker 1: four yards, thirty eight yards? Well good? You know what
Speaker 1: this guy from Indianapolis Hines. He was the leading receiver
Speaker 1: with nine catches. Running back. He's a running back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, load up, Zeke. I'm I kind of leaned
Speaker 1: toward what's Brian saying? Though, they're gonna load up to
Speaker 1: try to stop Zeke early. Give me a reason I understand,
Speaker 1: and I think we're all saying the same thing here.
Speaker 1: They can't play past defense. They could rush the passer,
Speaker 1: but they don't play well in the secondary. If you protect,
Speaker 1: how do you if you're the Dallas Cowboys generate passing yards?
Speaker 1: That's my question. By running the football on them, what
Speaker 1: if they stopped that and then you're in second and
Speaker 1: nine early, you know, and then through no fault of Zeke,
Speaker 1: what if they're loading up to stop you early on
Speaker 1: like like Carolina did? Well? Will they I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll find out. That's why we watched the games, all right.
Speaker 1: I just asked, will they load up after they just
Speaker 1: team has when's the last time his team ever threw
Speaker 1: for four hundred yards? Has this guy ever thrown for
Speaker 1: four hundre yards? Probably not Green Bay playoff game? What
Speaker 1: was that? And I I mean, I'm sorry, I'm just
Speaker 1: guessing here. I'm with you in that they've got to
Speaker 1: be able to get him in some manageable situations where
Speaker 1: he can convert third downs, right, But they want to
Speaker 1: run the ball, There's no question about it. My question,
Speaker 1: what I go back to is this reminds me of
Speaker 1: Denver last year with Von Miller and what Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: said about von Miller. You can block him all game long, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it takes one or two plays that can wreck
Speaker 1: the entire game. And they forced three fumbles last week
Speaker 1: and recovered one in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: What forced two? They didn't really force that one? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: they got credit for it. But they can. They can,
Speaker 1: they can turn the game around. It could be a
Speaker 1: one score game and one big strip sack can make
Speaker 1: all the difference. I'm with you on it. So they've
Speaker 1: I mean to me, this all falls the offensive line,
Speaker 1: pass protection, giving allowed time, allowed to let those routes
Speaker 1: develop down the field line and try to open it
Speaker 1: up that way. From what I can tell, he's never
Speaker 1: had a four hundred yard game Dak Yeah, never, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. And yet and he's never really been
Speaker 1: asked to, you know not. That's not the way they
Speaker 1: run offense around here. It's it's it is Zeke first, Mick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but sometimes that's not always gonna work. And we've seen
Speaker 1: it a couple times this season where Carolina game, I mean,
Speaker 1: they said hell or high water, We're stopping Zeke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just I could say I wish, I
Speaker 1: wish I could say, I wish I had the confidence
Speaker 1: to say this team could throw for three hundred yards
Speaker 1: against these guys. I wish I could say it. But
Speaker 1: you're right, this team has not built that way. But
Speaker 1: they better find a way to be able not to
Speaker 1: get in those situations where they have to throw the
Speaker 1: ball right, because that's where again we've seen. Do you
Speaker 1: fully trust? And I think you've said it before, Mickey.
Speaker 1: I'm not putting words in your mouth there, but you
Speaker 1: you I think you've you've had some concerns about Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins at right tackle, Yes, you know, and if that's
Speaker 1: if that's you know JJ Watt over there, you know,
Speaker 1: rushing him and stripping the ball out like he did
Speaker 1: in the film I saw against the Giants and the
Speaker 1: and the Colts, then I think you have to have
Speaker 1: some concerns over there. You know, this team can't create turnovers,
Speaker 1: but they surely can turn over the football. Every time
Speaker 1: they've done that, they've lost, Am I correct? Yes? They're
Speaker 1: minus two, yeah, minus two and it's in lost and
Speaker 1: dead last in takeaways. Yeah, they might get a couple
Speaker 1: this week though, that quarterback will throw you the ball,
Speaker 1: better be ready. And he by the way, Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: he was sacked seven times by Indianapolis. I don't know
Speaker 1: how how much of that might have been some of
Speaker 1: his doing. Well, that's now okay. Now you want to
Speaker 1: talk about an offensive line that can't run block. They're
Speaker 1: the opposite of what Dallas is when it comes to
Speaker 1: run block it, you know, and then they've had problems
Speaker 1: in protection. If I'm Dallas, yeah, I'm I'm hopeful. You
Speaker 1: know the thing about Watson is that he's got this
Speaker 1: escapability and he's got to He's almost like watching Mahomes play,
Speaker 1: you know, when you escape and you just run your
Speaker 1: left and throw at sixty yards. This guy's capable of
Speaker 1: doing that, you know. And are you gonna be disciplined
Speaker 1: enough to play in the secondary not have busted coverages?
Speaker 1: Those all the things A fine line. It's just a
Speaker 1: fine line for this team having to win or lose games.
Speaker 1: He's on pace to be sex sixty eight times. How
Speaker 1: about our guy? What's he on pace fifty? I figured
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, we're supposed to have an elite offensive
Speaker 1: line fifty something that's what this league gives the six.
Speaker 1: You find a way, you got a pressure. Look what
Speaker 1: they did in the game. Those numbers could have been
Speaker 1: terrible against Detroit. Yeah, I mean that guy was what
Speaker 1: twenties four of thirty in the game. She's he could
Speaker 1: have been. You know, he could be a lot worse
Speaker 1: if they don't get the pressure in sacks on that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could. You could throw for a ton of yards
Speaker 1: and still lose these games. Again, we talked about Washington
Speaker 1: being that last couple of years. Colts, last week Colts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Colts just abandoned the run. They knew they couldn't run.
Speaker 1: They said, okay, let's but they have a quarterback and
Speaker 1: receivers that are capable of putting up four hundred yards.
Speaker 1: I don't think this crew does. So, you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of them, you know, take
Speaker 1: advantage of them when you can. But you know, let's
Speaker 1: not hang our hat on that. Yeah. I only tried
Speaker 1: to run seventeen times. Yeah, but they are behind twenty
Speaker 1: eight ten in did they stop the run or they
Speaker 1: just abandoned it and say we got to catch up.
Speaker 1: It's second half early that game. Early in that game,
Speaker 1: they could not h the Colts could not run that ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you said, look, they're one in three. So to me,
Speaker 1: the stat isn't misleading that they're good against the run,
Speaker 1: because it's not like they've had a bunch of leads
Speaker 1: in their first four games of the season. They only
Speaker 1: threw the ball. They only ran the ball three times
Speaker 1: the second half. Yeah, and one of the runs was
Speaker 1: I think it was Andrew Luck for a first down
Speaker 1: in nine yards or ten yards. Yeah. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you're a you know what to wrap this segment up,
Speaker 1: I think you guys are both right. You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to establish zeke and you got to find a
Speaker 1: way to get the ball down the field in this
Speaker 1: game too. You gotta take advantage of if you can.
Speaker 1: And but you know, are you built to do that?
Speaker 1: That's the trick we'll find out. We'll find out Sunday night.
Speaker 1: We'll keep breaking this thing down as we go throughout
Speaker 1: the week. I love the fire between you two. It's
Speaker 1: the best. Coming up next up, Franswers, my friends. Coming
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Speaker 1: do you say it? Huh? Micro anti microbial, microbial approbial.
Speaker 1: I can't even say it. Yeah, we may just need
Speaker 1: to burn that liner. Ye, never use it again, all right? Uh?
Speaker 1: Landed in Houston, enemy territory down I forty five, Get
Speaker 1: us back on the road. What's up? Landing was going on? Man?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I I think my call man. The closer
Speaker 1: to fund, the more excited I get. Good be at
Speaker 1: the game. Super my friends who like Datas fans and
Speaker 1: Texas fansite. Hey, what's the buzz down there? Right? Now
Speaker 1: for Texans fans, is it crazy? Oh, it's real crazy.
Speaker 1: They think they're gonna win them, and they really think
Speaker 1: they gonna have a chance. But now I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great game. I mean, I re respect
Speaker 1: the Houston taking you know a lot. You know, they
Speaker 1: got a great defense. You know, you can't you know,
Speaker 1: uh shrunk watching great quarterback. But my but my thing
Speaker 1: is I'm more of a defense of type of minded
Speaker 1: person to play strong and safety in college. Um, so
Speaker 1: I'll pay attention more to the defense than anything. And
Speaker 1: so my thing is it's been documented well that Burron
Speaker 1: Jones has really been excelled at that corner position. And
Speaker 1: I noticed again be sure that you know, there was
Speaker 1: really thing that cheeto the whole game. So is it
Speaker 1: that they are starting to pay attention to that Baron
Speaker 1: Jones is really playing well on that side of the the field.
Speaker 1: And you know it's the league thought them taking notice
Speaker 1: that Baron Jones started to become a great corner And
Speaker 1: I don't want to say shut down yet, but you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of gets to that point where he's taking
Speaker 1: like the one half of that feel away. So um
Speaker 1: and then uh, that was my question. Then I also
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to Big Joe Joe Looney. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really done a great job. Yeah, I'm sure taken a
Speaker 1: place for an all post center. And um and I
Speaker 1: really like the way he ran down the field on
Speaker 1: the lead put down man. They got me excited. I
Speaker 1: was jumping up to Yeah. You have to see a big,
Speaker 1: big guy running down a few of that fast. So
Speaker 1: um so I want to the film to talk about
Speaker 1: what I said about Baron Zones and um, hang up, listen,
Speaker 1: thank you appreciate the calls Byron Jones a shut down corner, Brian,
Speaker 1: you know what, This will be a good matchup for
Speaker 1: him this weekend though, if you know with DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: in this crew, I mean and you know I mentioned
Speaker 1: Kiki Kut I mentioned him yesterday and don't forget Will Fuller.
Speaker 1: This is another one of those groups. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they can make the acrobatic catch. I know that
Speaker 1: I know that DeAndre Hopkins can. He's like playing against
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. That's that's who he is. That you know
Speaker 1: this electric receiver crossing round slants, doesn't matter. Throw him
Speaker 1: the ball short. He could take a short pass and
Speaker 1: go all the way with it, so they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be ready for that. I will say this about it,
Speaker 1: and this is no slight to Byron Jones and the
Speaker 1: ways play. Most teams in the National Football League are
Speaker 1: right handed when they throw the ball, so you look
Speaker 1: at the way they attack, they usually attack the right
Speaker 1: side of the field. So that's the quarterbacks are are
Speaker 1: really throughout their lives. You know, the train to kind
Speaker 1: of throw the ball both ways. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the majority of the passes that are thrown the
Speaker 1: right sideline, the right area, right flat, those are areas.
Speaker 1: So a woozier is going to get a lot more work.
Speaker 1: You know. They like a Woozier's toughness. They like Byron
Speaker 1: jones toughness. But you don't have a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of teams attack the left side of the field
Speaker 1: unless it's a left handed unless it's a left handed quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to think in the league, who has
Speaker 1: a left handed quarterback. I'm sure I'm missing somebody that's
Speaker 1: left handed. That's uh. Do we have a left handed star?
Speaker 1: Do we have a left handed start? Ha ha, say
Speaker 1: a left handed coach? I said, a left handed quarterback?
Speaker 1: A quarterback is yes, a coach in the league. He
Speaker 1: probably uses the clicker in his left hand to watch
Speaker 1: take but uh but yeah, I think that to me
Speaker 1: that that Byron is you know, yeah, he's he's up
Speaker 1: to it. They've thrown to him a couple of different times.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure I'm missing the left handed quarterbacks. I've
Speaker 1: got one of the tip of my tongue, man, do
Speaker 1: you really Yeah, I can't remember who it is anyway,
Speaker 1: but it just shows you. Hey, the majority of the
Speaker 1: teams this league are right handed, and they then they
Speaker 1: focus on the right side of the field because of
Speaker 1: their quarterback. It's a great point. Yeah, yeah, but nothing
Speaker 1: against Byron. But because he's been he's you know, when
Speaker 1: they when they've thrown his direction, he's been up to
Speaker 1: the task. He just hasn't faced as many passes as say,
Speaker 1: with what Cheeto has. And that's no slam on Cheeto
Speaker 1: because I felt like Cheetos for as all the things
Speaker 1: that win his direction and kind of went badly for him. Oh,
Speaker 1: he played a pretty good game, you know. He led
Speaker 1: the team in tackles, I want to say, or was
Speaker 1: near the top of the team and tackles and a
Speaker 1: lot of it was because he was having to make plays,
Speaker 1: but those guys made some incredible catches on him. So
Speaker 1: you know, tip my hat to the Lions for the plays,
Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna have his hands full again
Speaker 1: this weekend as his Barron Jones and these safeties. That's
Speaker 1: the first time that's happened to Cheetah also, by the way,
Speaker 1: so it's not like they just for four games, everybody's
Speaker 1: been thrown at him, right, it just happened that the way.
Speaker 1: I mean, he threw some incredible passes, no question, and
Speaker 1: those guys made some great catches. It wasn't like he
Speaker 1: was beat now. To me, the only mistake he made
Speaker 1: was on the cover three on the final touchdown, didn't
Speaker 1: stay where he was supposted right, caught cheating looking inside
Speaker 1: at the at the slot receiver. But he's played awfully well.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned Kiki Kuti for the Texans. They seemed
Speaker 1: to move him all over the pages too. He was
Speaker 1: highly effective levin catches against Indianapolis last week, had a
Speaker 1: hundred yard They had a couple of receivers. Again, it's
Speaker 1: at least they overall, they had a hundred two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty something yards with two receivers here rookie playing there. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's from Texas Tech. You know, though I didn't give
Speaker 1: him enough credit on the Draft show. Dane Brugler was
Speaker 1: really excited about him, as was Kevin Turner when we
Speaker 1: were all doing our drafts coverage and Katie had him
Speaker 1: actually in the third round and we were all trying
Speaker 1: to push him down to the bottom of the board.
Speaker 1: He looks like a really a fine slot player. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a drop in the game the
Speaker 1: other day. That would have been a big, big player.
Speaker 1: He'd had better numbers than that. But this guy's very
Speaker 1: keep well. You got to be able to run with
Speaker 1: him all day. They put him in the backfield too
Speaker 1: on occasion fake to jet sweep in the game last week.
Speaker 1: So Tavon Austin, he's maybe he's kind of their Tavon Austin,
Speaker 1: a guy that can move around do some different things,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Ye. I wish Tavon Austin would have caught
Speaker 1: that ball the other day because it was there. I
Speaker 1: thought it was there, and I really did, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it was It's a I didn't call it
Speaker 1: a tough chance because you know, we've seen him make
Speaker 1: plays like that down the field and practice and you
Speaker 1: know in Oxnard and stuff and haul it in everyd's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he should have extended his hands. But if he was
Speaker 1: six three he would have caught it. If Bryce Butler
Speaker 1: was there, he would have caught it. Because it came
Speaker 1: down he had to catch it low. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: guy was able to come in with his hand and
Speaker 1: trying to interfere with him, and he basically scissored his arms. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They don't call interference anymore in this league. I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really there there's there's nothing called with extreme consistence. There
Speaker 1: was a couple in that game I thought questionable. You
Speaker 1: don't watch many Big twelve games, do you? Oh? I
Speaker 1: watched enough SEC games. Big twelve. They will let you.
Speaker 1: They will let you just kill receivers down the field.
Speaker 1: They don't care. They don't care. But they score a
Speaker 1: lot of points though too. All right, I mentioned practice,
Speaker 1: but we started talking receivers, and I just thought, let's
Speaker 1: just get this out of the way, all right. The
Speaker 1: does Bryant if you want to call it news, then
Speaker 1: pop the does Bryant tweet that popped up yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what were your thoughts on that. He tweeted that responding
Speaker 1: to a fans question about where he wants to end
Speaker 1: up as a free agent, let me pull it up
Speaker 1: real quick, he said, I'd rather it be the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: If not, I'll be ready to play somewhere else. And man,
Speaker 1: that caught wildfire. Yeah. Twitter, hmmm, I knew you were
Speaker 1: gonna say that. Do you just try to set me up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I want it. Yeah, make you take a shot at Twitter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to get a Mickey's minute out of this time.
Speaker 1: We haven't done that in a while. Anything could be
Speaker 1: said on Twitter, right, you don't even have to mean it.
Speaker 1: Well he said it though, Yeah, Now I understand. I
Speaker 1: didn't take much of it, because, look, des Bryant was
Speaker 1: released by the Dallas Cowboys. It was not his decision
Speaker 1: to leave. I think he's in his heart. He's probably
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy for life. I think he loved wearing
Speaker 1: the star, probably more than anybody I can remember covering.
Speaker 1: So it's not a shock to me that he'd want
Speaker 1: to come back now. It's just the first time though,
Speaker 1: that he's kind of called out the team in a
Speaker 1: way of I'd like to play like he's kind of
Speaker 1: hinting that he knows something that we don't know. You
Speaker 1: could is does grand standing here? Mickey? Well, my question
Speaker 1: is this, I mean, why did they do it in
Speaker 1: the first place? Yeah, and are they so desperate that
Speaker 1: they'll forgive themselves for the reason they did it in
Speaker 1: the first place because they didn't have to do it.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it wasn't financial either. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: ask me, my opinion, he would be the best receiver
Speaker 1: on this team. Well, he was the best receiver on
Speaker 1: the team last year. If he came back, he would
Speaker 1: certainly be the most accomplished if he came back. If
Speaker 1: he came back, yeah, he was the best last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: So and it was a bad year for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if this if this team, if and you know rightfully, so,
Speaker 1: these guys are doing the best they can. You know,
Speaker 1: they're trying. Alan Hearns and these guys, I mean they're trying.
Speaker 1: They've got some they've got some you know, they've got
Speaker 1: some things they got to work on. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, you know, but he if he brought him back,
Speaker 1: he would be the best. And I hope I'm not
Speaker 1: speaking I'm speaking of me. I'm not speaking for you, guys.
Speaker 1: I think he would be the best receiver on this team,
Speaker 1: even with all the things that with all the things
Speaker 1: that are kind of swirling about, even not you know,
Speaker 1: practicing or playing or being in camp and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: I still think he'd be the best receiver on this team.
Speaker 1: He would until he drops one. Well, the team has
Speaker 1: already a drop. No, I'm saying, everybody will be holloing.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. He was the best receiver
Speaker 1: last year. I didn't want to. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: put anybody on the spot. But I'll say that. I'll
Speaker 1: say that if I think that he would be if
Speaker 1: he came in and was in shape, he would be
Speaker 1: the best receiver on this team, all right. I would
Speaker 1: give that. I would give that to Cole Beasley maybe,
Speaker 1: but that's a different type of receiver that you know.
Speaker 1: Dez gives you something consistently on the outside. At least
Speaker 1: somebody maybe do account for so. I hear you there,
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't see it. I think they've
Speaker 1: gone in a certain direction and they probably want to
Speaker 1: see it through, and they made that decision, and you
Speaker 1: know that maybe they want front office too. You want
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, we've gone this route and we wanted
Speaker 1: to give it time and see it bear out. And
Speaker 1: Mickey's been talking about, look, we got to see this through.
Speaker 1: We gotta give and not seeing everybody's trying to read
Speaker 1: into what Steven said, you know, and he has been
Speaker 1: consistent about that. You know, we're not going to rule
Speaker 1: out anything, right, and you should shouldn't and you shouldn't, right,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. I mean that's if he says, if he
Speaker 1: says absolutely no, then that gives Dez kind of a
Speaker 1: black mark to try to find a job. Right, they
Speaker 1: would like him to find a job, solute, But we're
Speaker 1: five weeks into the season. Yeah, does he want to
Speaker 1: play football? You know, it's it's it's it's something that
Speaker 1: you've been really consistent about saying, Mickey, And I think
Speaker 1: it's worth worth talking about. Does he want to play football?
Speaker 1: I think you know, I've I've heard you say that.
Speaker 1: I've been with you on all these shows and I
Speaker 1: was with you last night and I think you said
Speaker 1: the same thing, and I'm and it's worth talking about.
Speaker 1: Does he really want? Yeah? Does he really is? Why
Speaker 1: is he now having to get in shape? Why was
Speaker 1: he not in shape, and you know earlier. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the thing that I that's the he's he's not wrong,
Speaker 1: and does he ask? Yeah? And does he I'll take
Speaker 1: it another step. Do you does he want to play
Speaker 1: football somewhere besides Dallas? Because I just said, and I'm
Speaker 1: not in his head, I don't know. I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to Daz, but you know, I just said, I think
Speaker 1: he is more. He has been more proud of wearing
Speaker 1: that star in his helmet than anybody question. I mean,
Speaker 1: no question. This guy, no questions. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's fair to bring it up. But you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he's also trying to look for the right situation,
Speaker 1: you know, elsewhere besides here. And see, I don't think
Speaker 1: the thing that does I don't think Dez has put
Speaker 1: aside the fact that he probably is not going to
Speaker 1: be a Dallas Cowboy anymore. I don't know if and
Speaker 1: this is to Mickey's point, I don't know if he
Speaker 1: wants to go be a Cleveland Brown or New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saint or Chicago Bear. I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you know, or Green Bay Packer turned down an
Speaker 1: offer reportedly from the Ravens. Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he necessarily and maybe maybe instead of saying does he
Speaker 1: want to play football? Does he want to play football
Speaker 1: for another team? Yeah? Does he want to move to
Speaker 1: New Jersey and play with the Jets? Yeah? See, I
Speaker 1: trust me. I'd love to see Dez Bryant back here,
Speaker 1: and I think he could help. I really do. I
Speaker 1: think he could give them a little energy, you know,
Speaker 1: on the offense, a little jump over there. I mean,
Speaker 1: is it is it any worse than what's been going on?
Speaker 1: And I don't mean worse. I just don't see the
Speaker 1: overall productivity. So your biggest play in the game the
Speaker 1: other day was made by a running back down the field.
Speaker 1: You know, that was your biggest play. So I don't
Speaker 1: know necessary. I mean, I think these receivers are good.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I think the chance. I think
Speaker 1: Gallup has a chance to be really good. But right
Speaker 1: now he's not. You know, so where where are you?
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley? I think is playing as well as he
Speaker 1: could play in his role. He's not an outside receiver consistently.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, they're they're trying to Alan Herns. I
Speaker 1: thought Alan Hearns played the best he's played the other day,
Speaker 1: Thompson was a non factor. See to me, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell me you're gonna go out and you're willing
Speaker 1: to get and to go out and get the you know,
Speaker 1: the guy off the street. Butler, Butler really Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: why why wouldn't you go get the other guy off
Speaker 1: the street? You know, I have more confidence in the
Speaker 1: in Bryant than I do. Butler, Well, how much of
Speaker 1: the decision to let does go was for whatever reason?
Speaker 1: And they seem to get on along fine and off
Speaker 1: of the field, but on the field, he and Dak
Speaker 1: they just didn't have a connection. You're right, you're right,
Speaker 1: and and there's but you got to remember this about
Speaker 1: Dez that he left his and you guys can correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. He left his friendship Dez with
Speaker 1: Tony Romo to support Dak Prescott in that twenty sixteen season.
Speaker 1: He basically said, Okay, for the good of the locker
Speaker 1: room or for the good of this team, we need
Speaker 1: to play with Dak Prescott, even though Tony Romo had
Speaker 1: made him millions of dollars throwing him the football. But
Speaker 1: he put that aside and said, hey, we gotta go
Speaker 1: with this guy maybe, you know, I mean he in
Speaker 1: the locker room. I mean that's important. I mean he
Speaker 1: could have come out and said, you know, this is stupid,
Speaker 1: this is foolish. You know, we need to go back
Speaker 1: to Tony here. But he didn't, you know. So I
Speaker 1: my thoughts are though that you know that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that happen. There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that happened. But Dak Prescott should also remember that at
Speaker 1: that point Dez Bryant had his back when when he
Speaker 1: was a young guy and he really didn't have I mean,
Speaker 1: people were kind of looking at him like can he
Speaker 1: do this? Des Bryant's one of those guys, as some said,
Speaker 1: we gotta ride with this, we gotta go. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, if if Dak has problems, I understand, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna act like I'm Dak Prescott. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Dak doesn't want him back. I'm just saying their chemistry
Speaker 1: on the field, they just they never seemed to click. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially last year for whatever reason. Clock seventy passes last
Speaker 1: year sixty nine. Sorry, yeah he was targeted, but hundred yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, there were plays, there were more plays
Speaker 1: to be made that weren't made. So I think so
Speaker 1: is that why they let him go? Well, let's also
Speaker 1: remember though, how many games did did I mean did
Speaker 1: does play when they didn't have didn't have the running game,
Speaker 1: they didn't have the six games suspension, and that there's
Speaker 1: no question that with Zeke being the focal point, you
Speaker 1: can't just look at a receiver's numbers on this team
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, that's a bad year. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: question who was gonna beat him last year when Zeke
Speaker 1: was gone? Who was gonna beat you if you were
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. Yeah it see, I make sure he doesn't. Well,
Speaker 1: I tried to take cole Beasilely away too. They did,
Speaker 1: I mean, they focused on him maybe more than does it.
Speaker 1: No question, Well, the linebacker wasn't gonna cover Dez. There's
Speaker 1: no question to me. This is where if if if
Speaker 1: there were And again twitter edwarder reaching out to people
Speaker 1: in the organization, people saying no, that's not gonna happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know who Edward talks too, but he is respected.
Speaker 1: He did tweet that last Yeah, So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I mean, we can you know some of us, you know,
Speaker 1: we live here, We'll figure things out. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think right now it's des wanting to play for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Cowboys are saying, well, we'll see, We'll
Speaker 1: see as we get down the down the road. But
Speaker 1: it goes back to why did they let him go
Speaker 1: in the first place. Why? Why do you think that
Speaker 1: that reason still got to be there? Well, why do
Speaker 1: you think I never got a good answer on that?
Speaker 1: Culture change? Maybe more of it than maybe I just
Speaker 1: I was told by two or three different people that
Speaker 1: that Jason Garrett was the last guy that was in
Speaker 1: on this. That not mean last guy that brought into
Speaker 1: the deal, that he was the one that was very
Speaker 1: adamant about are we doing the right thing? And I
Speaker 1: and I've and I've busted Jason Garrett hard, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's things I think. I think he does a
Speaker 1: great job at personnel. I questioned some of his coach
Speaker 1: and stuff. But he was the last guy. I was
Speaker 1: told from from good sources that he was the last
Speaker 1: one in. And it looks and you know, if that's
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then whatever the reason was, it's
Speaker 1: still there. It's still there. And whether that's Lenahan, Stephen Jones,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, Will McClay, Sanjay Lyle. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know who, but there there were people that and
Speaker 1: and they like to tell us that they like to
Speaker 1: make group decisions. So if if you know, say what
Speaker 1: you want. But I will give the coach credit. He did.
Speaker 1: He was like, when are we really doing the right
Speaker 1: thing here? And I was told that from a couple
Speaker 1: of different people I really trust. So let's take that
Speaker 1: with whatever you think. All right, let's take our final break.
Speaker 1: We come back. That's a way to get a segment
Speaker 1: out of the way. That's a yeah, that's a long
Speaker 1: segment too. By the way, we only got a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Let No. Eight five two two nine seven is the
Speaker 1: number if you want to join the conversation. And let's
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Speaker 1: look all right? Speak for yourself. Yeah, practice today, right, yes,
Speaker 1: practice practice? What do you expect to see out there today?
Speaker 1: What could we see? We don't have a report yet,
Speaker 1: but they got some some guys who were banged up.
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams wasn't with the team over the weekend, so
Speaker 1: the head coach said he'd be back on Tuesday. He
Speaker 1: was back in the building yesterday. Okay, yes, so he
Speaker 1: should be back at practice. I think that MALIEK. Collins
Speaker 1: will be limited. I think he'll do something. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it'll be enough. See if he's got that
Speaker 1: body wrap off his knee, it's pretty extensive. Although he
Speaker 1: was moving well. Yeah, he's on the chords. Last week
Speaker 1: said human log. Yeah, human logs got the calf wrapped up.
Speaker 1: Is that what you said the human log did? Yes?
Speaker 1: Now what that means for his practice status, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was hopeful. I think you'll see David Irving
Speaker 1: out there doing something. Got your yeah, undertackle there by
Speaker 1: the way I did the math, this will be if
Speaker 1: they go in pads today. This will be his first
Speaker 1: practice in pads in three hundred and eight days. I
Speaker 1: mean it's almost a year, folkus, that's a long time.
Speaker 1: You have to go back to November right two days
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving, because he played the Thanksgiving game, got the concussion,
Speaker 1: didn't play the rest of the season. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: didn't do anything obviously, he missed eight games, only played eight.
Speaker 1: Can I make an observation on David Irvy, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and read into what the head coach said
Speaker 1: about at him, and the head coach called him a
Speaker 1: freak of nature, which made me believe that he's going
Speaker 1: to play this weekend. I'm thinking, I mean, just by
Speaker 1: the way, and I know they have some issues that
Speaker 1: really at the nose tackle more than they do the
Speaker 1: under tackle. Well, he can play. Let him play either
Speaker 1: one but the way the head coach called him a
Speaker 1: he kind of looked away and said, you know, he's
Speaker 1: a freak of nature. That led me to believe that man,
Speaker 1: he's going to try and make this, not make he
Speaker 1: is going to give this guy every opportunity to play
Speaker 1: this week fifteen snaps. That's what I said, And as
Speaker 1: I said, and I think I said it last night.
Speaker 1: If he does nothing else on nickel downs but stand
Speaker 1: up at six to seven and raise his hand arms
Speaker 1: above his head, that's pressure on the quarterback because you've
Speaker 1: just taken away a passingly. Yeah, we'll let him take
Speaker 1: advantage of Zach Fulton that plays guard for the Texans
Speaker 1: because he is a big, lumbery guy and that quickness
Speaker 1: to length to reach all that stuff. Say, what you
Speaker 1: don't want is to get him hurt. Yeah, Like he
Speaker 1: pulls a hamstring, right, and then he's gonna miss three
Speaker 1: more games. And now at seven. What happened to him
Speaker 1: at the end of the the season was a concussions. Got
Speaker 1: a concussion. Yeah, so he missed eight games. Geez, yeah,
Speaker 1: so here four games the suspension last year, so and
Speaker 1: this is his last year I was contract to concussion.
Speaker 1: Was Thanksgiving? Yes, so he probably didn't even hardly practiced
Speaker 1: that week. Well, I looked it up. He practiced the
Speaker 1: last practice Tuesday before Thanksgiving. It was probably beginning shells probably,
Speaker 1: so he probably hadn't had pads on unless he's been
Speaker 1: running around LA with pads on when he was working out.
Speaker 1: Knowing him, he might no with the spikes on him.
Speaker 1: He might be hanging out, you know, like some club Michael,
Speaker 1: when Michael Irvin was rehabbing his ACL and he was
Speaker 1: running out at Valley Ranch with bier Bar. I just swear,
Speaker 1: I'm trying about the pad like it's in the black hole,
Speaker 1: that kind of that look. Yeah, be like what he
Speaker 1: going into the hospital in Baltimore with his pads on,
Speaker 1: cleats that's a great story. Yeah his cleats on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was that story behind his forearm? He broke his
Speaker 1: forearm in the game. He heard his forearm and they're
Speaker 1: in the New Stadium in Baltimore and they claimed that
Speaker 1: the X ray room wasn't functioning properly. So Britt Brown
Speaker 1: walked him across the street in full uniform to the hospital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: went to the emergency roob I needed X ray? Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no time to check in here. Yeah, don't worry about Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the group number is. X ray.
Speaker 1: I don't have time to fill out the forms. Just
Speaker 1: give me the x ray X rate it. It was fractured.
Speaker 1: And what his response was, can you tape it up
Speaker 1: and I will go play. Yeah that sounds like Woody,
Speaker 1: that's wood Yeah exactly right. All right, Well, well, well
Speaker 1: they've got they've got more questions inside defensive tackle and
Speaker 1: how they're going to play the rotation. I'm interested though,
Speaker 1: once they do get the rotation, when the human log
Speaker 1: and Collins and those guys are all back, what does
Speaker 1: that do for Crawford? And what does that do to Taco?
Speaker 1: Does that mean now? And does what does that do
Speaker 1: for what does that do for Randy? For Randy Gregory? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just talking about if you move, if
Speaker 1: you move Crawford back to defensive end, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I want to do that. We talked about that
Speaker 1: in the mail bag this morning. Then what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do with David Irvin? Is he gonna be a
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty play player game? He might He might need
Speaker 1: a couple weeks of that. I could see Ross being
Speaker 1: a guy that's out by the way. Maybe they with
Speaker 1: all these guys that they do, get them all coming back.
Speaker 1: If they need that spot for David Irvin, maybe it
Speaker 1: is going to be one of those guys, and somebody
Speaker 1: does need to be Saturday, we focused in. I focused
Speaker 1: in on the wide receivers. Maybe we need to focus
Speaker 1: in on those defensive tackles Read or Ross. You know,
Speaker 1: he did play a little one technique initially before he
Speaker 1: got to the three, right, But I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case. And when you get everybody
Speaker 1: back healthy, is that going to affect Taco's ability to
Speaker 1: start it right in? And what does that due to
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory? You got a glut there on the outside
Speaker 1: of all of a sudden. Oh boy, what a problem
Speaker 1: to hit. It's a good problem now, absolutely, And they
Speaker 1: have a couple injuries too. Will Fuller dealing with a hamstring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice if he didn't play. Happened in the
Speaker 1: game last week. Yeah, Lamar the running back. All they'll
Speaker 1: say is he's banged up. They are, he's banged up
Speaker 1: because they don't block for him. He gets he gets
Speaker 1: hit a lot. They're doing hockey on him. It's just
Speaker 1: upper body injuries, not even that it's just banged up,
Speaker 1: no details. And then their guard h Calamente. Yes, he
Speaker 1: says he has been bothered by a knee. He missed
Speaker 1: the previous game and then he came out and came
Speaker 1: back in against the Colts. So he's dealing with a
Speaker 1: knee problem. So they've got a couple of things that
Speaker 1: they're gotta check out. All right, let's grab one more
Speaker 1: phone call before we get out of here. Phil in Louisiana, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: take us home. What's up? All right? Take you home? Okay? Finish? Uh?
Speaker 1: Oh Phil? Hang on, Phil, walk about four feet? Walk
Speaker 1: outside Phil? Okay? Where what city? Where? Manufactured house? I'm in? Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go, man. Yeah, Brian, I was reading some
Speaker 1: experts from Gary Meyer's new book, and it just reminded
Speaker 1: me of a couple of things. First thing it reminded
Speaker 1: me of is how much I missed Randy Galloway's writing
Speaker 1: from the Secondly, it reminded me of how I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the average fan because I do wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: have gone that far. But reminded me how much I
Speaker 1: have to temper my enthusiasm about the long term success
Speaker 1: of the franchise with Jerry and the way he has
Speaker 1: a litmus test for coaches, it just it was almost
Speaker 1: deflating to the point I just wondered if anybody, any
Speaker 1: of you guys felt like playing Randy Galloway right now
Speaker 1: and tell me what he how would would get Randy
Speaker 1: Galliway say, I remember that article he said, well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna fire the general manager. Jerry's not gonna fire. So
Speaker 1: that's that was one of my favorite Randy Galliway stories. Yeah, yeah, Randy,
Speaker 1: Randy was grab did radio. Randy, matter of fact, brought
Speaker 1: me into the media side him and John Lund who
Speaker 1: do who does work out in San Francisco in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area now, and Randy would always tell me, he
Speaker 1: would say, broad us, watch what I'm gonna do here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to I'm gonna fire Tony Romo, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: trade Dez Brighton. He would do that. He would say
Speaker 1: that just to get people riled up on the just
Speaker 1: to get people riled up on the line. Randy taught me,
Speaker 1: he said, hey, you get fifty percent of people that
Speaker 1: hate you, fifty percent of people that love you. He goes,
Speaker 1: you're doing a pretty good job, So that's you always
Speaker 1: kind of strive for there. But yeah, I just think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge Gary Myers fan, so I probably
Speaker 1: won't read his book. But anyway, I got it if
Speaker 1: you want it. No, I don't want to read Gary Myers.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Gary Mars fan. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: just feel like though that you know, this the ownership here,
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's where we're going to, you know,
Speaker 1: he is the general manager. A long time ago, Al
Speaker 1: Davis told him. He says, you don't need a general manager.
Speaker 1: You can run this team yourself. That's as an owner,
Speaker 1: you have that right. And you know that's that's the
Speaker 1: direction he's taken. For the good, for the bad. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's he's you know, he's had his proud
Speaker 1: moments where he won the Executive of the Year, and
Speaker 1: he had his bad moments where we weren't picking players
Speaker 1: very well in the early two thousands and he had
Speaker 1: to make a decision on Bill Parcels. When did he
Speaker 1: win Executive of the year? Uh? Two years ago. Two
Speaker 1: years ago he was he was executive two years ago.
Speaker 1: He was Executive of the year when the head coach
Speaker 1: was a head Coach of the Year, right of the
Speaker 1: year too, and so he I asked Jerry that question too.
Speaker 1: I go, is prouder than winning a Super Bowl? And
Speaker 1: he said, damn close? You know. So you know it,
Speaker 1: take what you want, the good the bad. This guy
Speaker 1: does pour his heart and soul and his in his
Speaker 1: pocketbook into this football team. Has it always been successful? No,
Speaker 1: it hasn't, has it? But it has it? You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not from trying. This guy does try, and
Speaker 1: we'll see how it all plays out. You hear it
Speaker 1: coming up? Was that the year without Romo? It was?
Speaker 1: And they both won those awards. Yes, every time I've
Speaker 1: tried to fire Garrett, he's won thirteen twelve games in
Speaker 1: thirteen games. So Will McClay should have won some awards
Speaker 1: that year, Yeah, he should have. Draft was pretty pretty stellar.
Speaker 1: He should have had a Draft award. He would have
Speaker 1: won it that year. That's right, that's right, all right,
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