WEBVTT - 2024_Podcasts_Mick Shots_Video_9_24 Mick Shots.mp3 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.600 M The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.520 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:09.400 Cowboys. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:16.759 This is nick shot, streaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.120 and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:30.000 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:42.160 Go Dallas Cowboy. I love producership. 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:46.800 Who knows? 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.760 It's a fabulous football fight song. Friday, our final show 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.600 before game day on Thursday night. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.120 I'm in no mood to pick a game or pick 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.800 a to click. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.000 That's right, we got to pick the game and our 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.560 picks to click. Today. Well, it's Friday here at the 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:13.200 Star on a Tuesday, inside the SWBC podcast studio mix 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.840 shots brought to you by Miller Lite. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.040 We can do that tomorrow. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.480 Everson Walls has an excused absence. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.279 Today, Yes, Sir, a very good one. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.399 Yes, he does have a very fine reason for not 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:32.520 being here. And Nate Newton is the sergeant at arms here. 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.480 You're clear the one. You're the one that's getting us 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.240 in order today, Nate, Okay, because you were in here 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.760 before anybody else was, because you are fired up for 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.840 some football. Oh yes, turn this thing around right? 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.319 Yes what we we? We uh, what would we three? 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.920 And oh, well we should be three? And oh do 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:51.800 what with three? 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.840 And oh I'm just I'm just saying, in my mind 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.960 with three and oh, okay, I could have found a 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.000 way for us to win each one of those games, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.080 is what I'm trying to say. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.680 But we're one and two in reality. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:05.120 Okay, you know. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.519 I agree with you on the last game. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:10.200 I don't know. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.600 You're gonna have to try hard to find a way 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.720 to beat the Saints the way they played, you know. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.920 But I started this season with a mindset that this 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.919 will be a soft rebuild, and I thought that we 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.480 would struggle early, and we are struggling. But I just 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.919 got so much belief in what McCarthy and other coaches 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:38.040 can do if the players are just play along, just believe, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:46.760 just prepare, you know, be competitive in this After eight games, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.680 you could be four and four easily. I just believe 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:50.079 that you have. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.280 And that's not that's not a horrible thing. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:53.919 No. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.960 Now, schedule and as long as the season is. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.440 It's a long season. Then at the end of the year, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:00.880 you can make a run. 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:02.079 I got one more thing. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:02.760 You can make a run. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.880 Got one more thing to add to your list of 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:09.840 things that they need to do. Okay, keep your mouth shut, nicky. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.840 Wow, if we do that, we won't have a show. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.040 Not you, I could never shut your mouth. 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.400 Who would be who would have a problem closing his mouth? 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.880 That's right? Yes, the guy about to talk right now. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:35.680 They're they're too much talking, Yes, sir, it is too 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:36.320 much bitching. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:37.680 Wow. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:39.360 Yeah, we're getting. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.640 Serious now, Yes, sir, God forgiving you know not what 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:43.240 he does. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:49.000 I'll tell you like this, I agree, I agree, But 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.800 the coaches have to stop that now. It's not another 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.600 player that can walk up because these are grown men 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.480 and you can knock heads in the wrong way right, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:03.840 you know. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.240 So it is time for the coach. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.800 Not the call of team meeting and saved the season, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.920 but the call a team meeting. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:12.800 Say this is. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.080 How we conduct ourselves, and if we don't conduct ourselves, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.320 I may can't hit you in the head for a lot, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.480 But what all the league will allow me to do, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.320 I will start doing. And that's that's all you can do. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:30.640 And hope that these guys can understand that. Regardless of 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.800 whether you think of guys doing this job or not, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.359 that is not for you to decide. That is for 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:41.479 the coaches. And ownership to decide. And that's where we 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.760 get a little out of hand when we empower players. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:45.800 This is what you get. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:50.080 Well, it's it's Tuesday. Two days after a loss, yes, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.960 two days before a game, yes, And on mixed shots 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.600 we can talk all all about Okay, you can make 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.599 a run if you're four and four a mid season whatever. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.400 They got to be concerned about being two and two 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.240 on Thursday. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.760 And yes at midnight, And I agree. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:13.440 And what I'm going to write for tomorrow is it 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.359 sounds silly four games into the season, right, This is 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.000 a pivotal game, Yes, it is. There's a big difference 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:22.560 between the. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.240 Biggest game of the season is Tuesday. I mean Thursday. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.560 There's a big difference between two and two and one 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.240 and three. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.760 One and three, And you're going to Pittsburgh next week, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.000 and Pittsburgh plays Indy this week, they're liable to be 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.200 four and oh and playing at home with one of 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:37.839 the best defense. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:38.640 What's after that? 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.200 And then you get Detroit after that, and then you 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.640 got to bye week, and then you got at San Francisco, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.200 and then you got at Atlanta, and then you got Philadelphia, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.120 then you got Houston, and oh, by the way to 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.760 start Thanksgiving week. You now have Jaydon Daniels and the 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.720 Washington Commanders on the road, which before playing at Yes 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.680 Giants got away. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.320 From what you say about thirdays. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.880 Wow, reason I did that? You know the reason I 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.560 did that? Why because I wanted to talk about James 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.800 Daniels last night and oh, by the way, that was. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.760 And I watched a lot of his LSU games. Right, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.600 it's the best game I've seen him play. And I 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.640 know he won a Heisman, but he won a Heisman 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.039 with his feet more so than his ability to stay 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.640 composed in the pocket. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.679 And throw it and throw it complete. Ninety one point 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.039 three percent of his past is twenty one out of 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:35.640 twenty three. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.599 Even he told the young lady after the game, he said, Wow, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:41.880 that's real. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.680 Which is an NFL rookie Broke Dax. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.600 Yes, you know. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:55.400 If it wasn't an NFC East team, Uh, I was tay, congratulations, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.520 really don't. I have no love for the nfcas especially 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.320 during the season. After the season, you hear me brag. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.960 I will say this after watching him last night. You know, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.680 some of the passes he completed at LSU on his 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.920 highlight film leading up to the draft I was like, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:19.280 I think this, this film appears to be grainy. How 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.680 do you complete that ball? Okay, well, that touchdown pass 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.000 he threw at the end of the game to Terry 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.040 McLaurin with pressure guy in his face, he was falling 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.920 backwards and he put it exactly where he needed to 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.520 put it, in the right corner of the end zone. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.240 For McLaren had a great catch on the sideline. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.040 Just how he put the first one. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.440 And there were a bunch of them at LSU that 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.560 were like that. Although people talked about the way he 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.880 ran the ball so much, and I bring that up 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.840 to say, and then when you get to know him 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.920 or see his interviews and how humble he is and 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:02.160 so forth. That decision between and this is nothing against 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:06.440 Caleb Williams, but that decision between Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.600 I can see where a team would go Jadon Daniels instead. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.840 That's a that's the number one pay caleber one. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.720 I admired about this kid because this first time I 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.800 ever watched him really was the softness in which he 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.120 gave it to his offensive alignment for the TV. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.600 Which, by the way, Trent Scott, who caught the touchdown pass. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.160 He's a thirty year old journeyman offensive lineman. He does 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.360 have twenty two starts in his career, but he came 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:40.079 in as the tackle eligible and he is from Grambling 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.200 State University. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.840 And he and guess what he did not forget to say, Hey, Ralf, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:45.840 I'm in the game. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.240 That's right, that's good, right. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:54.480 But say something more point stop with the I don't 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.679 like talking about the NFC East unless it's us the Cowboys. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.280 So what what do you guys have exciting to say 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:01.199 about the Cowboys? 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.360 Well, that gets back to the importance of this game. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.040 I guessday night. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.679 To get to two and two, this discussion started, not you're. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.760 Because the loser of this game is going to be 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.320 in the seller looking up at the rest of the division. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.240 But yes, worse than that, the yap and will continue 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:23.000 then and the excuses for being where you are will continue. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.040 And I thought Jerry did a good job of talking 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:30.439 about when he was asked about everybody saying this that 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.199 not prepared, and he basically said, those are all the 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:40.920 cliches you usually use, uh, and that if and that 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.559 there has never been a team or an effort that 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:50.040 at some point during that stretch, you didn't have to 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.480 have a come to Jesus meeting. And I was thinking 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:59.000 the same thing exactly. And and he's right, because no 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.079 one ever says we didn't play well enough, right, or 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.520 we weren't good enough. They say, well, we didn't study enough, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:12.320 or we didn't prepare enough, or whatever other excuse extraneous 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.640 you want to use. Sometimes you just get your ass beat. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.040 And that's what happened. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.240 And two times in one game, I mean two times 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.120 in one season that quick. Something is not going on right, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.040 and it's and it's not for me to figure out 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.920 as a fan, as as a as an analyst or whatever. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:35.319 New journalist. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.560 What are you talking, But I'm just saying as a fan, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.680 I won't be able to figure it out. As an 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.959 ex player, I got an idea of what's going on, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.760 But it's your job, Mick. 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.120 Is my job, Bill, and to try. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.319 To figure it out for the fans and bringing it 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.760 and present it in a way that's, you know, the 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.480 right way. But players are going to be players. And 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.480 the only way players don't moan, don't groan, don't do 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.400 this is you got to stop it at the top. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.160 If you don't ever stop it at the top. Then 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.200 you're going to have what we saw these last two games, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:20.640 where guys are empowering themselves. I can't tell you what 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.280 was going on in number eleven's head during the game. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.800 I can't tell you what's going on and see the 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.439 lamb's head. What made him go as deep as he 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.200 went with how he handled himself. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:33.559 You just don't know. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.439 I mean, it's up to you guys who go in 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.880 that locker room to find out for us. But the 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:45.920 coaches has to stop that because now you're infecting younger 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.280 players and that is setting a bad example of how 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:55.240 you handle yourself. It's only one Dack, and what I 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.400 mean by that he is that guy who's going to 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.920 be the ultimate professional regardless. So what happens. Who else 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.160 stood at that microphone besides him and the head coach 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.560 houndling into theirselves the way they did. Everybody else was around, Well, 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:18.160 hero ball, No worry about yourself. Coach Johnson, he came in. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:23.599 Coach Landry, you knew better. Coach Johnson came in. We 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:29.360 don't talk about other guy's performance, talk about your own performance. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.400 If you talk about your own performance, you will find 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.760 out that you're not going to criticize yourself as much 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.400 as you will another guy. Talk about your own performance. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:39.280 What did you do? 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.360 Did you like the stat sheet up? Did you help 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:45.839 your team get back in this situation to win? 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.200 Talk about your. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.640 Own and then when you clean your own house and 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.840 be the best you can be and be that star, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:54.640 then you can talk about others. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.400 What was Jerry talking about on the radio this morning? 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.720 Well, he. 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.200 Anything anything of note come out of it your REMERI 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.439 let's see here. I saw one thing that I saw 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.880 one tweet that those are your notes from Jerry talking 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.079 on the radio transcriptions, Oh wow, Yeah, should we go 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.839 to break just just chop it down to what we 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:19.360 need to hear? 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.400 One of the things he said, Uh. He said, it's 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.960 pretty apparent we have some glaring areas we can get 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.880 better at, and I think we will. And he wanted 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.040 to point out that last year, after five games, this 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.080 team was two and three and finished twelve and five. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:43.440 So he said, accountability is what it calls for. It's 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:48.640 what you was referencing what you said. Uh, And he said, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.439 just to remind you, we play seventeen games. So that 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.319 was an answer to another question. He said, I like 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.280 the way Mozzy Smith responded last week after in the 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.440 back problem and thought he played one of his better games. Now, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.520 it wasn't perfect by any means. Nothing in the middle 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.719 was perfect, but he did finish with three tackles. And 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.080 I'll tell you what, there's been a lot of games 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.800 he's zeroed out, So he kind of pointed that out. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.960 And by the way, as far as Mazzi is concerned, Nate, 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.400 if he is taking up two offensive linemen, then he's 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:24.200 doing his job right. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.040 He had a majority of the time if he's got 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.440 two guys truly occupied, So that should give you a 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.680 lineback at least a more than fifty percent chance to 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.160 be in or near the play. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:41.800 Yes, the thing with Mazi what he has to do, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.360 and if he do this repeatedly, get. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.760 Off the snap. Occupy I'm talking about versus drunk. Occupy 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.280 two guys and don't let him knock you back. It's 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.600 one thing to occupy two guys in five yards back. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.800 It's another thing to occupy two guys and only get 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.440 moved of yard or two. Now you now you're making 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.440 hate because the linebackers are coming downhill. They're also moving battle, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.160 but they're coming downhill. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.040 Otherwise they gotta work, they gotta work around. You get 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.120 push back five yards and then the Bulgaria is five 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:16.320 yards outfield by the time. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.800 Yes, yeah, so yes, sir, thank you. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.760 He also was told that Jason Garrett on the pregame 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.440 show last night said the Cowboys are not a physical 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:32.040 football team. Everybody UH knows it, understands it, and now 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.320 you're going to have to go in uh and run 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:40.520 the ball against them. No shocking, real motivation, right. Jerry's 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:46.000 response was Bill Parcells would always say you are what 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.520 your record says you are, and I think that's what 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.480 we are today. We are one in two and that's 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.480 where we are. The real issue is what can we 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.720 do against New York? 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:57.440 That's it. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.360 And I thought that hit it right on the head, right, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.160 And he said we have a lot to work on 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.280 to get better. And this is what kind of made 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.960 me think even before the season started, because I think 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.520 there was just this assumption that, well, twelve and five, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:19.760 you know, let's go think about this, the amud of 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.440 young guys they're counting on. Right, what are the two 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.880 most important positions on the offensive line? 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.880 Yes, center, left, guard, tackle right? 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.160 And you got two rookies there, yes, one guy playing 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.680 the position for the first time, the other guy moving 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:42.680 to the other side. If you look at the wide 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.640 receiver group, your your your lead guy was not there 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.520 all summer, and the guy that's the third guy is 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.920 the first time he's ever been the third guy if 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:59.640 we count Tolbert being the third guy after that. Besides Cooks, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.720 somebody else is getting more snaps than they've ever had 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:08.760 in the NFL. Turping Jalen Brooks, You're starting a second 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:12.600 year fullback who is starting to excel, maybe more than 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.080 the other running back, and they were starting running back 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.840 has never been a Ricodado, has never been the starting 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.760 running back before. On defense, the way they started that game, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.920 they might as well had two rookies out there playing 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.639 linebacker right Overshawn's like a rookie Lea File. He is 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.679 a rookie. You had a fifth round draft choice rookie 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:41.120 at cornerback. They had a lot the young guys. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:46.280 It's a soft rebuild, and call it what it is. 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.160 They're trying to fix a team. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.720 And what I mean by that is you either got 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.399 guys that are six years into the league or you 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.240 got guys that are three in beneath You have no 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.639 guys that you can say, oh, I sucker, receive it. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.720 He's his fourth year. This is our interior line. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.120 You have olsa what six year five years in, six 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.960 years in four, fifth year in. So you got guys 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:21.480 that's over the scales but are not great players. We 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.800 don't have no three to five or six year players 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:25.920 that are great. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:27.439 We have Lawrence. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.399 Yes, we have Parsons, and. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.800 Then we have a bunch of guys that's predicated on 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.240 living off Parsons. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:35.679 That's our secondary. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.439 We have great dbs who are very opportunistic, but they 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.680 need a pass rush. We cannot stop the run, so 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.760 we would never generate that pass rush. So it's Parsons 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:52.320 and only Parsons on defense. Cede Lamb is it. He 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.040 is the guy that moves the safeties, that moves the 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.359 outside linebackers, that brings the double coverage and nickel. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:18:59.560 So you you don't. 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.480 You have guys that are trying to grow within the 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.520 system and learned it. That's why I'm not gonna get 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.800 bent out of shape about this season. If I come on, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:14.320 y'all show anymo y'all want to call him, he say, compete, compete, prepare, prepare, compete, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.159 because that is what this season is gonna bring. That 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.480 is what this season is gonna bring. And it's gonna 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.480 show up. It's gonna show up against these giants. 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.040 You and by the way, you go across the league 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.560 and everybody virtual well, every team across the league is 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:31.680 going through the same stuy. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.560 Yes, at least at least over half of them. That's right, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:35.840 at least over half of them. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.240 In fact, I heard someone talking today who's the worst 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.760 team in the league right now? Last week it was 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.800 Carolina and Carolina with any altonate quarterback goes to Vegas 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.800 and yes, blow them out of their own stadium. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:54.240 Now it's now that's it's Jacksonvilleeah, and maybe Cincinnati right, No, no, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.040 Tennessee three, I know the quarterback. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:58.960 Guess what all right? 0:19:59.040 --> 0:19:59.359 Exactly? 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:00.920 They got Joe bro a quarterback. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.840 Okay, there are there are fifteen teams in the league 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.160 that are one and two. Yes, fifty, Yes, that's half 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:08.639 the league. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.199 Yes, look at the the number of oh to two 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:15.000 teams who won this weekend. They went from from nine 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.560 windlass teams to like two left now. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.520 Yes, or three seven seven seven teams and one is 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.119 just changed it over night. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.320 Yeah, from windloss too now they got to win, and 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.960 now they got hope, and only eight teams two and one. 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.679 Yeah, so that's only one game different. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.639 The point being, every other team in the league's in 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.600 the same boat you are. And so that's why you 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.120 have to just compete every single week. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.520 And that's why I'm gonna be the guy that says 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.760 the same thing over and over and over. You know, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.160 I don't change. I try to sometime make it a joke. 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.560 Sometimes I try to be serious. But what you have 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.280 here right now is not a coaches issue. Don't make 0:20:56.359 --> 0:21:00.119 it a coach's issue. If anything, these coaches need to 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:03.720 be solidified so these players. 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.159 Would know what is going on. You don't let the 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.359 inmates take over. You just don't do it. 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:12.840 That's why they had to close the place in San 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.879 Francisco because you know, people couldn't escape now accatast and 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.440 not they started escape Charny, Clint Eastwood, it happened, so 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:30.560 they had to close it. Solidify these coaches. No, but 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.520 but you don't need in four weeks from now if 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:38.000 this thing hasn't right. See, some teams are not allowed 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:43.400 to be an even team, like we're saying two and two. 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:45.040 Our fans are not. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.520 Gonna remember that we beat New York, that we beat 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.359 Cleveland now, because New York has beat Cleveland. All everybody's 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.360 beating Cleveland. So we beat New York all the beat. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:56.680 All they're beating is Cleveland. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:58.480 So I'm that fan. 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.840 I'm a Cowboy fan, so I know how we think. 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.560 So even ain't gonna never satisfy us, it's always gonna be. 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.399 We gotta be three or four games above the league, 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.760 above the Frey, and so until we get there, if 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.480 we get there, I'm gonna have to keep keeping folks 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.119 off that ledge. Man, I got millions want to go 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:19.159 on that ledge, but I'm. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:19.639 Not gonna let you. 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:26.080 Because this team is altray young, and our left tackle 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.720 has to learn how to play it, our center has. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:30.800