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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are. It's a Victory
Speaker 1: Monday edition of mix Shots. And mine is so happy.
Speaker 1: I can just I can just sense it. Mickey is
Speaker 1: so happy because next week he can pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to win a game, as the Cowboys have won back
Speaker 1: to back games, so the first time in a season
Speaker 1: and a half. Basically, what a victorious Monday it is.
Speaker 1: They're inside the s WBC Mortgage studios at they start
Speaker 1: are in Frisco, Texas. Ever Son and Mickey, hell y'all doing.
Speaker 1: I'm doing very well, And I'm so glad to see
Speaker 1: Spatola trying to smile and really it's like it's I
Speaker 1: can see it cracking, you know, the jaws. I can
Speaker 1: see it cracking as he that grint smile comes across
Speaker 1: his face. So happy to see that this the sun
Speaker 1: is shining brighter today just because the Cowboys have won
Speaker 1: not one, but two in a row. Mickey do you
Speaker 1: have a friend there in there? I am. Yeah. You
Speaker 1: guys all you guys all have partners at your houses
Speaker 1: with your dog. So I figured i'd bring in uh
Speaker 1: my little partner here. I'll try to keep him from
Speaker 1: clapping though, and hemorrow. What's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 1: What about it? Should we call him? Now? Chris already
Speaker 1: named it? I want to hear. I love Chris's name.
Speaker 1: What did he have? That's the Mickey Monkey, the Mickey Monkey, right,
Speaker 1: that's a great name. The Man Joe. He was gonna
Speaker 1: be Cowboy Joe. Now man the old the old character
Speaker 1: they had for the first for their first logo, Cowboy Joe.
Speaker 1: Did he look like that? Not quite? He didn't have
Speaker 1: solar didn't think so. Thanks. So this is the Christmas
Speaker 1: Boy Joe. I'm sorry, this is the Mickey Monkey. Guys,
Speaker 1: we are Chris. Bill's got Bill's got his Christmas decorations
Speaker 1: behind him. So I figured I needed something, you know
Speaker 1: I do? That's good, all right. My wife's mad at
Speaker 1: me because we couldn't put up Christmas decorations because I
Speaker 1: haven't finished the ceiling yet. So that's that's still that
Speaker 1: problem over here. I got the popcorn off the ceiling.
Speaker 1: You're still popcorn still on the ceiling. I can see
Speaker 1: it out right. I'm still in Yeah, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta talking to the other day. It was it was
Speaker 1: pretty pretty humbling. So, Mickey, what is the significance of
Speaker 1: the monkey? It was a Christmas monkey. I had it
Speaker 1: sitting around the house, and I said, short of bringing
Speaker 1: in flowers, I thought I'd bring in the little dude
Speaker 1: and set them up here and uh and create some
Speaker 1: joy and happiness for Christmas coming up this week. I
Speaker 1: thought it was material. I thought that a bill. If
Speaker 1: I start seeing a clothes line behind Spagnola with some clothes,
Speaker 1: you know, I know there's more of a problem than
Speaker 1: Spagnola is addressing. Okay, that I do realize, right, So
Speaker 1: don't get too comfortable in that Spags. We're starting to
Speaker 1: worry about you know what. I think we need to
Speaker 1: work on your product placement. However, Mickey, because you're covering
Speaker 1: up the SWBC mortgage signed behind the monkey, we needed
Speaker 1: to figure that out. Yeah, And I thought maybe it
Speaker 1: was in honor of Daz scoring his first touchdown in
Speaker 1: three years. How about that? Yeah, I was so happy
Speaker 1: for Daz Man. You talk about a guy that I mean,
Speaker 1: just just to be out there on the field and
Speaker 1: to be playing ball again. You know, when you mess
Speaker 1: up your achilles tendon. Guys over thirty years old. If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, he was hovering around thirty at that time.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good that accomplishment. He should be so proud
Speaker 1: of himself. I'm sure he's gonna have a good Christmas.
Speaker 1: I hope. I don't know about hoping they make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but for his sake, I hope that things go well
Speaker 1: for him in Baltimore, because you know how emotional dads is. Guys.
Speaker 1: When he couldn't play against the col was, he's ready
Speaker 1: to quit, you know. And I get it because he's
Speaker 1: so impulsive in everything that he does. But he did
Speaker 1: well for the Cowboys, so I can't help. But still
Speaker 1: wishing well in Baltimore. Well, I'll tell you one time
Speaker 1: that he had a pet monkey once upon a time.
Speaker 1: That's right, right, He's to keep working too, and rehabbing,
Speaker 1: by the way. That's right there, Achilles associates. There you go,
Speaker 1: that's right, all right. Let's not the lead is that Mickey.
Speaker 1: The lead is that Mickey can pick the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: beat the Eagles on Sunday because the Cowboys have back
Speaker 1: to back wins for the first time in twenty two games.
Speaker 1: How about them Cowboys? Make how about them Cowboys? And
Speaker 1: they did it just as if they hadn't won that game,
Speaker 1: I had to pick him to lose the last two, right,
Speaker 1: even if they won both of them, right, And and
Speaker 1: oh what a victory it was. Right. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: I was sitting there trying to figure out how I
Speaker 1: was going to write this site up, and it was like, well,
Speaker 1: how about that defense, the one that took the ball
Speaker 1: away four times, or the one that gave up four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight yards of offense. And after all
Speaker 1: they had done, they were within an onside kick, only
Speaker 1: up seven from San Francisco coming down and tying the
Speaker 1: game up. Go figure out they would have tied the
Speaker 1: game up because they were not counting the onside kid.
Speaker 1: It never works unless you're playing against Atlanta. So let's
Speaker 1: just be real about that. We had the game in
Speaker 1: control even at the time of the onside kick. But yes,
Speaker 1: bags to see how that quarterback Mullon hung in there.
Speaker 1: I mean he hung in there from some decent pressure
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys defensive line that seems to be improving
Speaker 1: every day. I'm not going to go patting them on
Speaker 1: the back yet, but when it's all said and done,
Speaker 1: they were pretty consistent in what they had to do,
Speaker 1: and I would not if we would have lost the game,
Speaker 1: then it wouldn't have been on the defensive lines of
Speaker 1: heads if as far as I'm concerned, Well, because ms
Speaker 1: SA bit boys life for every past that he completed,
Speaker 1: I thought, and he did a decent job at that.
Speaker 1: We made him do a decent job at it. They did.
Speaker 1: They did throw for three hundred nineteen yards, they did
Speaker 1: run for one hundred and fifty yards once again, and
Speaker 1: as I saw, that's all. That's all. At the time
Speaker 1: of the onsite, Cowboys were only up seven points. By
Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, on side kicks don't work. They don't work.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason I wasn't worries fags because we
Speaker 1: would work that onside kid didn't. It was like they don't.
Speaker 1: Starting to look a lot like the Cowboys. That's all
Speaker 1: I gotta say. I'm just glad that I'm serious. I
Speaker 1: am serious. I love the way, you know, the defensive
Speaker 1: line hung in there. As I watched the games, I
Speaker 1: watched some of it today, and what I saw was,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the bill have something to say. I was
Speaker 1: gonna let y'all know you two keep talking because I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time hearing you. I think I'm having
Speaker 1: some Wi Fi issues, So you may lose for a second.
Speaker 1: YouTube keep carrying. What I saw Spags was a defensive line.
Speaker 1: I can see that. As much as I'm upset at
Speaker 1: the linebackers, when that defensive line plays well, there's just
Speaker 1: a big difference in how our secondary reacts to certain things.
Speaker 1: You saw Mullins he had to eyeball his wide receivers
Speaker 1: most of the time because the D line was at
Speaker 1: least in the vicinity, and I mean more than just
Speaker 1: in the vicinity. They were close enough to where it was.
Speaker 1: They were harassing him enough to where of course d
Speaker 1: Lawrence got the hit on his arm, and you had
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson coming through and anticipating where that throw was
Speaker 1: going because once again he had the eyeball his receivers.
Speaker 1: That was a heck of an interception by Wilson. I
Speaker 1: thought the pass was still there. To me, it was
Speaker 1: one of those fifty fifty balls to where I thought
Speaker 1: Wilson jumped it quicker, and he wanted that ball more
Speaker 1: than the tighty and wanted it. That's one of the
Speaker 1: things that having a rush against your quarterback. That's the
Speaker 1: luxury that it gives you. In the secondary, they can't
Speaker 1: see the dbs where they are. They can see the receivers,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to know where the other dangerous
Speaker 1: spots are. So you know, those kind of things you
Speaker 1: try to build on. And it's just like Minnesota Spags.
Speaker 1: We give up a lot, but we still win the game.
Speaker 1: And let's just be real, that's our M. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be our M for the next next two or three games. Well,
Speaker 1: and once again they need to score thirty some points
Speaker 1: to be able to win the game. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: now four what five wins. In all five they've scored
Speaker 1: thirty points. And if you go back to last year,
Speaker 1: they eight games they won, they all scored at least
Speaker 1: thirty points. So they're they're last thirteen wins. They've had
Speaker 1: to score thirty or more points. Uh, not necessarily to win,
Speaker 1: but they did score that many uh in those in
Speaker 1: those victories, so it was better. I thought they did
Speaker 1: confuse Mullin's sum uh and I get it. The last
Speaker 1: what fifty yards they got were off to Hail Mary
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. But gosh, they just
Speaker 1: can't play the run. We talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: and we talked about San Francisco using a fullback, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna use that fullback. And not only did they
Speaker 1: use the fullback, there were at times they had a fullback,
Speaker 1: a tailback and two tight ends in the game. And
Speaker 1: here comes the Cowboys with their nickel defense, and right,
Speaker 1: I just I don't get it. I need an explanation. Hey, well,
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, the hold of Belling. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have the luxury to be upset because I was
Speaker 1: upset Friday and you laughed in my face, so I
Speaker 1: feel your pain. But it's like, we gotta see. I
Speaker 1: think the coaches are using this COVID thing as an
Speaker 1: excuse not to be accountable to reporters, because someone should
Speaker 1: be in their faces over and over again demanding that
Speaker 1: we played. I think it's Joe Thomas or some other linebacker,
Speaker 1: you know, And now we're down Vanderesh if I'm not
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, so you know, and we have them.
Speaker 1: I think you need to play the game. Did you
Speaker 1: notice that he was in on the nickel defense. I
Speaker 1: did notice, but only because Bands went down. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and it's like, okay, why don't you do that again?
Speaker 1: You know? The other the other solution that they had
Speaker 1: to their run hairy offense was to put five defensive
Speaker 1: linemen out there. Okay, now you got everybody spread out,
Speaker 1: but once the edge isn't held, you don't have enough
Speaker 1: linebackers close to the line of scrimmage to stop the
Speaker 1: guy he's once he beats that last defensive end, Katie
Speaker 1: bar the door gone, Well what they what I see
Speaker 1: that Mike Nolan is doing when we find ourselves in
Speaker 1: that type of matchup, so to speak, he likes to
Speaker 1: just bring an extra guy when it comes to the run.
Speaker 1: I think he likes to bring that extra defensive back
Speaker 1: as a run blitzer, not a path blitzer, but a
Speaker 1: run blitzer. And there are times when you see Thompson
Speaker 1: or one of the other safeties knifing down on that
Speaker 1: RPO play. So you gotta be careful when we play
Speaker 1: Philly because as much as you unite down to go
Speaker 1: get that running back, now you've got Jalen Hoods who
Speaker 1: can pull it out of his stomach and take take
Speaker 1: take a run around the end. So that's gonna be
Speaker 1: challenged even more this weekend, this coming weekend. But they
Speaker 1: did get into that. Yep, yep, they did get that's
Speaker 1: how we have to play. We talked about it last week. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's now seven takeaways in two games. Right going
Speaker 1: into this game, I think all they had was was
Speaker 1: eleven over these last two games. But before these last
Speaker 1: two games, And the other thing they did is they
Speaker 1: scored points after the takeaways. Yes, and I think I
Speaker 1: pointed out the eleven takeaways they had, Uh they only
Speaker 1: had turned the eleven takeaways into twenty eight points. Now
Speaker 1: they've turned seven takeaways into four one points in the
Speaker 1: last two games. And that's the significant part about at
Speaker 1: least giving your offense short fields. They don't have to
Speaker 1: drive seventy five eighty yards every time to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And I think we saw the difference. It was a
Speaker 1: lot easier, even though they struggled running the football, even
Speaker 1: though they struggled trying to protect Andy Dalton, especially when
Speaker 1: San Francisco decided, well, heck, we're just blitzing. And how
Speaker 1: many blitzes did you see off the slot right and
Speaker 1: it's like somebody ought to maybe pick that guy up,
Speaker 1: it might help out. But they did. Somehow. Someway score
Speaker 1: forty one points, a season high this year. And you know,
Speaker 1: as as a former player, Spags, you weren't there in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, but you came a little bit later.
Speaker 1: You remember how we were running around chasing our own
Speaker 1: tails in that secondary as well behind the flex defense.
Speaker 1: But we were able to get those turnovers and that's
Speaker 1: always made the difference. You're gonna give up big plays
Speaker 1: when you're in man to man. That has never been
Speaker 1: my complaint about our defensive backs. My point is you
Speaker 1: got to get yours. You can't sit back every time
Speaker 1: and just react to what they're doing. We were good
Speaker 1: at thermos thieves and anticipating at times what the offense
Speaker 1: wanted to do. And you talked about scoring off of
Speaker 1: those turnovers. Cowboys were always good at that back in
Speaker 1: the eighties. And that's what I talk about, Spags, when
Speaker 1: we talk about situational football. Okay, what do we do?
Speaker 1: What do we have in our bag of tricks in
Speaker 1: our game plan for a short field after we get
Speaker 1: the momentum from an interception or turnover. Those kinds of
Speaker 1: things are talked about in good meetings with good coaches.
Speaker 1: Those are anticipated. Okay, what's gonna happened if we get
Speaker 1: an interception or turn over in the in the end
Speaker 1: zone and we have a must score touchdown situation. What
Speaker 1: do we have as part of that package? The Cowboys
Speaker 1: seemed to have that together offensively, and to me, that's
Speaker 1: just good coaching to be prepared for that. Don't be
Speaker 1: surprised when you're getting the red zone and say, oh man,
Speaker 1: but what do we do now? Now, these guys did
Speaker 1: a good job yesterday, you know, minus a couple of
Speaker 1: uh jet sweeps or whatever that crap they tried with Cooper.
Speaker 1: Besides all of that, I mean, we were we were
Speaker 1: pretty solid. We were as as far as the calls
Speaker 1: were concerned and as far as our responsibilities. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. Ever since, my wife
Speaker 1: and I were watching the game, and I can't remember exactly,
Speaker 1: it was early fourth quarter, whatever time it was, and
Speaker 1: I told I said to her, well, things have been
Speaker 1: going all right, but it's about now. If it was
Speaker 1: tied at twenty four, all it's about not it's about now.
Speaker 1: We're going to run a fake punt here in a
Speaker 1: second at that time, and about that time they read
Speaker 1: the end around to Amari Cooper had lost twelve yards
Speaker 1: swelveth ye territory. It didn't because when you try it,
Speaker 1: all right, but that set up the double pass, and
Speaker 1: so it was try not. They have it in their
Speaker 1: bag of t and then I'm sitting there going So
Speaker 1: there was, there was the end around, there was the
Speaker 1: double pass. It was set up for the fake punt.
Speaker 1: The fake punt had to call. And it shows it
Speaker 1: shows how much discipline they now have, as much as
Speaker 1: they had the urge to go ahead and go at
Speaker 1: the fake punt. There died at twenty four. They kicked
Speaker 1: it away and sure enough it worked out all right
Speaker 1: for and you know, on that double pass, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could see it on TV. He had
Speaker 1: the guy on a post pattern about thirty or forty
Speaker 1: yards down own field and he chose not to throw it.
Speaker 1: He threw it back across the field he had So
Speaker 1: you're saying they did. They did say it a second time,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson is not spotting the wide open receivers fifty
Speaker 1: yards down field. Well, the first they did point that
Speaker 1: out the first time. He didn't even look downfield. He
Speaker 1: just tuck it and said, I'm out at the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing it. Hey, guys, let's let's put too
Speaker 1: much on his on his plate, all right, Let's just
Speaker 1: let him do what he's got to do, because next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a safety or something like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm just glad we were able to get get
Speaker 1: out of the ends, you know, out of the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone, back of the of our territory,
Speaker 1: and we were able to at least get close. When
Speaker 1: you look at that double pass bill kind of a
Speaker 1: big play because if we don't make that then we're
Speaker 1: plenty for men even deeper in our own territory. So
Speaker 1: I was as glad to see us get that close.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's a reason probably that Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: doesn't play quarterback anymore. That's that's a quarterbacks on used
Speaker 1: him as a quarterback. We got to go to break.
Speaker 1: But we should give a game ball to tell more,
Speaker 1: because I think you guys are right. He had to
Speaker 1: figure out how to get the ball on the perimeter
Speaker 1: because they could not run the ball a lick in
Speaker 1: this game, and they weren't going to run. Called it.
Speaker 1: I called it. I called it, and he got the ball.
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Speaker 1: the lights are back on. For Mickey Spagnola, what happened, Nicky?
Speaker 1: Did you have a power outage? What was going on there?
Speaker 1: I think there was not enough motion in here. I
Speaker 1: gotta get Mickey Monkey or Monkey Mickey, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call him, start playing as singles. We need some
Speaker 1: motion all season. So it was Jerry must have forgotten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they didn't want us talking about the
Speaker 1: play calling anymore or something. We were actually being very positive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I try. However, having said that, yeah, you said that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys weren't able to run the ball between the tackles.
Speaker 1: Is that what you were saying? It's exactly what I
Speaker 1: was saying because before but wait, but way Zig didn't play? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, how about Zick was I thought Zick was
Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah, do you realize until that you guys
Speaker 1: are so messy. You guys that were six yards and
Speaker 1: forty yards. They had run the ball ten times for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards and it was Zeke's fault, right, he
Speaker 1: can't run right slow the whole Why he has no
Speaker 1: explosion money? Yeah, I try. Yeah, but to your pot.
Speaker 1: Told you guys just how it was gonna happen, because
Speaker 1: we know how tough that San Francisco defensive line is.
Speaker 1: The linebackers, to me, are very talented. You can see
Speaker 1: that in the ball game, flying all over the place,
Speaker 1: and boy, they were just getting on my nerves. But
Speaker 1: what you saw was uh as we talked about the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator's ability to be creative and even on Friday
Speaker 1: we talked about That's why that was my pick to click.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, uh my pick to click. And
Speaker 1: I talked to about Polot because we are going to
Speaker 1: get him out in space. That's the only way you
Speaker 1: can you can be effective against moving the ball against
Speaker 1: this forty nine ers defense. You have to get him
Speaker 1: in space. You saw that Richard Sherman was not able
Speaker 1: to handle not only Polot, but any tight ends or
Speaker 1: wide receiver is coming out of the backfield when you
Speaker 1: get when you get a person, when you get two
Speaker 1: guys in space, the one that's more determined is gonna win.
Speaker 1: And you could tell that that Pollot is one of
Speaker 1: those guys as hard to handle, even as hard to
Speaker 1: handle as a wide receiver once you get him out
Speaker 1: there and it's a one on one situation. So we
Speaker 1: took advantage of that several times in the ball game.
Speaker 1: There was sometimes there's six catches for sixty three yards
Speaker 1: where yeah, a lot of times it was one on nobody.
Speaker 1: They didn't even bother to go out in the flat
Speaker 1: with the guy. And I'm glad you mentioned Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: because until I saw him get beat on something, I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was on the field. It's like, is
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman hurt? Is he out there? He don't want
Speaker 1: to tackle either, by the way, No, he don't want
Speaker 1: to tackle no more. He did he did when he
Speaker 1: was in Seattle. He was a little younger. Trust me,
Speaker 1: I've been that age. I've been that cornerback, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to make that business decision, you know what, Mickey.
Speaker 1: I didn't even notice Richard Sherman until after the game
Speaker 1: when he was frettnizing with the Cowboy players after the game.
Speaker 1: Don't use that word Bill. That is a bad word
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. Please don't say that. You know when
Speaker 1: when they when they when they when they hit the hill. Mary.
Speaker 1: At the end of the game, I was thinking, oh no,
Speaker 1: if it was a close game, it would have been
Speaker 1: the catch. Two. Yeah, I haven't even thinking about it. Well,
Speaker 1: and who kept it? Who think about there? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: Mickey remember my pick on Friday? Who kept it from
Speaker 1: being the catch too? It was cd Lad he was that.
Speaker 1: He was also a reason there was a catch, because
Speaker 1: all he had to do was take a knee at
Speaker 1: the one yard line. Okay, I'm glad you brought that up, Nicky, Nicky,
Speaker 1: I am glad you brought that up, because there are
Speaker 1: some old fogy coaches who will say, just don't return.
Speaker 1: That game's over if you just field it and fall
Speaker 1: on it. Okay, but we twenty years from now would
Speaker 1: we remember that Cede Lamb fielded an onside kick and
Speaker 1: just fell on it. We wouldn't remember that twenty days
Speaker 1: from now, much less twenty years from now, But we
Speaker 1: will remember Cede Lamb taking that ball to the house
Speaker 1: on the on side kicker. You remember the last cowboy
Speaker 1: player to do that? Yes, yes, go ahead ahead, let
Speaker 1: me have it grand to Williams. Yes, absolutely, and William
Speaker 1: see and that's been twenty years his was only thirty
Speaker 1: seven yards and see and so that and that's my point.
Speaker 1: Twenty years later, we were That's the one thing we
Speaker 1: remember from Randall Williams's career. Now we will at one
Speaker 1: and only thing. You are so right, Bill, that's right
Speaker 1: right before, sir. We will remember a lot of from
Speaker 1: cd Lamp. We will remember a lot from cdee Lamb's career,
Speaker 1: but that is also one of the things we will
Speaker 1: remember as him returning the on side kick. But Bill,
Speaker 1: one thing we also remember is you can't keep picking
Speaker 1: cde Lamb for your pick to click. Okay, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta change it up, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: you pick the same guy, but you'll change up the scenario.
Speaker 1: That's not slick, that's trying to be slick. You can't.
Speaker 1: You gotta give me, you know, give me somebody else.
Speaker 1: SPADs has gone all around the world. I've gone all
Speaker 1: around the world. I even I even got away from
Speaker 1: the secondary last week. You won't even get away from
Speaker 1: that one person. Come on, man, okay, let me go
Speaker 1: to another one. Then, all right, how did you like
Speaker 1: the play call? Kellen Moore putting the tight end in
Speaker 1: motion on third and one, the tight end Blake Bell
Speaker 1: in motion and then he gets under center and we've
Speaker 1: got the NFL version of the belldozer for the first
Speaker 1: do about that? All right? Here's the other part of that, though.
Speaker 1: I was like, I just saw that in a game.
Speaker 1: I mean, here this weekend someplace. I saw that. It's
Speaker 1: the first time I've seen it. It's the first time
Speaker 1: I've seen it and all my years of watching football,
Speaker 1: the tight end coming and then he lines up. And
Speaker 1: then it dawned on me it was the Alabama game
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. They did the exact same thing in
Speaker 1: the Alabama Florida game on Saturday night. And so my
Speaker 1: question is, was Kellen Moore or whoever sitting there watching
Speaker 1: the Alabama game on Saturday night and they said, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's a pretty good idea. I got the
Speaker 1: belldozer back here. Why don't we do that? Did they
Speaker 1: all at that late or was it already in their arsenal?
Speaker 1: That's what I want to know. I would imagine up
Speaker 1: in the locker room before the game. First of all,
Speaker 1: we've got uh, Travis Kelsey did it the other night. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all saw that Travis the other night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and maybe it wasn't we saw. I think I think
Speaker 1: it was the Uh was it the Minnesota tight end
Speaker 1: that was just doing everything? Was No, I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: Washington team, Washington football team, if I'm not mistaken. Didn't
Speaker 1: he logan Thomas against that? Yeah? He thought he lined
Speaker 1: up in shot shot. I thought he was in that one. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and shotgun. It wasn't the way the way that we
Speaker 1: arrived at it was more creative than the previous people
Speaker 1: that we spoke of it because we mo into it.
Speaker 1: We would only wants to motion into it, right, That's
Speaker 1: that was my point on it. He motioned into it.
Speaker 1: And so so did Kelsey line up under center or
Speaker 1: was he? I think he did? I think he. I
Speaker 1: think he lined up lined up shotgun, But I think
Speaker 1: he came up under center, all right. But it's the
Speaker 1: strictly thing on that. If you if you don't have
Speaker 1: quarterbacking experience, Yeah, the key thing is you better be
Speaker 1: able to take a snap. Yes, So that's where And
Speaker 1: even though Blake Bell was in shotgun a lot in
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, he was also under center a lot because
Speaker 1: at that time they were under center a lot also
Speaker 1: at ou so so it would have been a safe
Speaker 1: play from that. He wasn't that big in Oklahoma, was he?
Speaker 1: Oh he's huge. Yeah, in fact, that's what he wasn't because,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he was a He was a He
Speaker 1: was a five star quarterback recruit out of Wichita, Kansas,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know he did he was not You're right,
Speaker 1: he wasn't that good as a quarterback, but he had
Speaker 1: the athletic ability and so forth, and what he became, uh,
Speaker 1: at you was a running quarterback basically, and his last
Speaker 1: year then they converted him to tight end. But he
Speaker 1: was but he was highly recruited as a five star
Speaker 1: quarterback out of which it takkens Is out of high school,
Speaker 1: so they almost needed and he and he had some
Speaker 1: moments even Oklahoma guys on Saturday well and the other
Speaker 1: The other part of it though, even for for Bell
Speaker 1: is uh, even after he converted to tight end, they
Speaker 1: got into an injury situation when they played Oklahoma State
Speaker 1: one of his last get college games. He came in
Speaker 1: at quarterback and through the game winning touchdown pass in
Speaker 1: that game. And so I mean, he's got he's got
Speaker 1: good enough ability. But he was never going to be
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback obviously as a but as a tight end,
Speaker 1: he's he's put together, he's cobbled together a nice career
Speaker 1: as a tight end in this league. And I think
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job with the Cowboys. Here is
Speaker 1: the second tight end who is blocking and stuff. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree? Yeah, all right, Nicky, where you want to
Speaker 1: go next? Where I was gonna I was gonna leave
Speaker 1: up against it. I was gonna leave you with this
Speaker 1: thought about I think was the first time I got
Speaker 1: a chance to watch a complete game with Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I get justin fields, by the way,
Speaker 1: but you could take it to break on that. Okay,
Speaker 1: since you brought that up, and we don't have time
Speaker 1: and to talk about it, and it's not a college
Speaker 1: football playoff show, but how does a team how does
Speaker 1: a team that's played six games, four fewer games than
Speaker 1: the other competitors get into the college football playoff? I
Speaker 1: will just leave you with that as we go to Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, Vicky as we as we go to
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Speaker 1: Out why this year's Dallas College oh No Mackey I'm
Speaker 1: reading the script. I'm reading the script here. I got
Speaker 1: the same script you've got. So what am I missing?
Speaker 1: What it is The name of the name of the show.
Speaker 1: It's written on their Dallas. The name of the show
Speaker 1: is Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Colon Making the Team. Okay, so
Speaker 1: that's the name of the show. The team is the
Speaker 1: most competitive yet no, no, no, no, here's what it says.
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Speaker 1: Team is the most competitive yet? Well, why is this
Speaker 1: SIMI episode season fifteen there every Tuesday night at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock Central on CMT. The reason is because the name
Speaker 1: of the show, the name of the Yeah, the name
Speaker 1: of the show is Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Colon Making the Team. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the name of the show, the name of the show, right,
Speaker 1: And so it's like, find out why this year's quote
Speaker 1: unquote Shaking the Team they're most competitive yet? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: show's the most competitive yet, yes, not the showing like that. Well,
Speaker 1: the show is on. The show are going to be
Speaker 1: more competitive than they've ever been, That's what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I only know this because I saw the
Speaker 1: previews on TV. So I mean, I'm trying to help
Speaker 1: you out here, buddy, That's all I'm going They shouldn't
Speaker 1: be I just I don't have the paper in front
Speaker 1: of me, but I just watch TV. There shouldn't be
Speaker 1: have colon there. Then it's part of the title. It
Speaker 1: needs what it needs, Mickey, it needs quotation marks around
Speaker 1: the name of the show. Hey, it would be like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: who is hit it? It would be like mix shots
Speaker 1: colon this time he's gonna show up, you know, like that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of right, But this has got a burb
Speaker 1: after making the team. It doesn't stop there. It would
Speaker 1: be like this. It would be like this. Let's say, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you were going to tell a story about Notre Dame football,
Speaker 1: and then I would tease it. I would tease it
Speaker 1: by saying, find out why today's mix shots you can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear this story about Notre Dame football will
Speaker 1: be the most interesting story Mickey has ever told. That
Speaker 1: he stretched that one on out. You stretched that one
Speaker 1: on out? Bill? You don't know about that? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that one. Jetty stories about Notre Dame
Speaker 1: but also the pull back the curtain and the break
Speaker 1: we were talking about why Notre Dame made it right? Well,
Speaker 1: for some reason, Uh, my father, a good Catholic man,
Speaker 1: did not like Notre Dame because he thought they always
Speaker 1: got preferationial treatment. Uh no matter what they did, he
Speaker 1: just he couldn't he couldn't stand him. Uh And so
Speaker 1: oh lsu right, and I'll ask you, okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and uh so you you guys might not remember this.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the year. I want to say it
Speaker 1: was in the sixties sometime Notre Dame and Michigan State.
Speaker 1: Basically we're playing and the winner was gonna win the
Speaker 1: national championship game. It might have been like it was
Speaker 1: during airon parsiegees time. So sixty game, right, the classic
Speaker 1: game that's a classic. Basically Notre Dame pulled back on
Speaker 1: the last I and didn't try to win it. They
Speaker 1: decided they'd settle for a tie. So times so that
Speaker 1: that night we go to the confession at the church,
Speaker 1: and my dad knows the priests, right, he's in the
Speaker 1: confession box and he's given him grief about an order day, right,
Speaker 1: and he comes out and he starts telling the story,
Speaker 1: and my mother's looking at him. She goes you didn't
Speaker 1: say that to a priest, did you. And my dad goes, well,
Speaker 1: what's the big deal, He's just a human being like
Speaker 1: me and my mother. Immediately I rose to the rosary
Speaker 1: and starts praying, what what's your dad's name? What was
Speaker 1: your dad's name? Dominic? So that was dominic shots. That
Speaker 1: was the first shots. The first started in the confession booth.
Speaker 1: In the confession booth, dominic shots. Yeah, they went from
Speaker 1: from shots to Mick shots. Man, there you go, baby,
Speaker 1: that's a good one Bill, Nick shots to a good
Speaker 1: job Bill. Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir. Good. By
Speaker 1: the way, by the way, we have this. Uh, the
Speaker 1: bull season has begun. I'm sitting here watching the University
Speaker 1: of North Texas is playing in the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
Speaker 1: With fifty seconds left in the first quarter. It's Appalachian
Speaker 1: State fourteen, North Texas. Nothing. That's the last. Before you
Speaker 1: go off on that, before you go, my son sent
Speaker 1: me a video of a wide receiver at the University
Speaker 1: of Texas. Yes, sir, man, that kid is a stud.
Speaker 1: He is. He's got Jalen Darden. Okay, so we just
Speaker 1: converted this into Cowboys draft talk here. Okay, No, no
Speaker 1: that last night already we don't need him. We don't
Speaker 1: need him. Well, yeah, I mean, and he is. He's smallish,
Speaker 1: he's more although he could play outside, he's got the
Speaker 1: slot receiver size. But he he has nineteen touchdown catches
Speaker 1: this season in just nine games. He's amazing. The problem
Speaker 1: is he opted out of this bowl game. North Texas
Speaker 1: does not have his services today and he I don't know.
Speaker 1: He probably signed with an agent. He declared. He declared
Speaker 1: after that last game, and so he's not playing. People
Speaker 1: have been doing that for the pole in the Polar
Speaker 1: Five Conferences for the last few years. He has that
Speaker 1: right to do that. And I think he's gonna be well,
Speaker 1: he's he's up a blinicof award, right, Yeah, he is.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be good. He's gonna be He's sport in
Speaker 1: the go ahead, Well, got one more point. Ever since
Speaker 1: when you get finished here with mixed shots, to turn
Speaker 1: on this Myrtle Beach Bowl game. And for all of
Speaker 1: you who think that the Cowboys might want to look
Speaker 1: at a cornerback in the draft, check out the two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks for Appalachian State. They project as mid round type selections.
Speaker 1: As it stands, right now. But anyway, oh no, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, we probably should point out the injury
Speaker 1: report because the Cowboys paid a high price for this victory.
Speaker 1: It seemed like we knew Zeke didn't play right, and
Speaker 1: I understand not only was that calf bruise, but it
Speaker 1: was also strained, and so this may take longer to
Speaker 1: come back than we thought. The Cowboys in the game,
Speaker 1: lose Antoine Woods with a left ankle sprain. They lost
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderish what a right ankle sprain. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to get an MRI. Today he says, nothing's broken, but
Speaker 1: you can suffer a high ankle sprain and that could
Speaker 1: be four to six weeks. They lost Xavier Woods with
Speaker 1: a rib injury, and then Michael Gallop with a hip injury,
Speaker 1: meeting Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson. We're getting more snaps
Speaker 1: as did Justin Hamilton and Ellie and coup At at
Speaker 1: the tackle position in place of Antoine Woods. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll get uh Mike McCarthy's conference calls at
Speaker 1: five today, so maybe we get an update. And they
Speaker 1: were already, as I said, without Zeke, without Rashad Robinson,
Speaker 1: without Savion uh. Smith, Although Tyler Beatish ended up getting
Speaker 1: eight snaps on special teams, so um uh that that's
Speaker 1: bodes well that he's coming along. And Olo Nelua at
Speaker 1: twenty five special team snaps in his first NFL appearance,
Speaker 1: called up from the practice squad. All right, the illegal
Speaker 1: formation on him? Did you take go back and look
Speaker 1: at that? I couldn't see anything. Weird idded it up.
Speaker 1: I backed it up during the time out, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what did he How is he lined up wrong? Okay,
Speaker 1: he was on the right side on the end right.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought maybe the confused the number. So
Speaker 1: I just looked at the entire formation and everything looked
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he was right off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Yeah that I thought maybe, uh yeah, maybe he was
Speaker 1: backed up too far, like he was in the backfield.
Speaker 1: And he did. On the second punt, he did look
Speaker 1: like he inched up a little bit, but looking at
Speaker 1: the first one, he did not appear to be out
Speaker 1: of line. As far as being lined up wrong, Chris
Speaker 1: think they called the wrong number. They think it was
Speaker 1: Bernard Francis or Francis Bernard. I can't get that one straight. Sorry, Hey,
Speaker 1: and Bill let me say this, we are no longer
Speaker 1: in need of a cornerback because Anthony Brown made a
Speaker 1: decision yesterday to become a football player. He did such
Speaker 1: a good job yesterday. I mean, the anticipation, the wherewithal
Speaker 1: the hands. I mean to see him do that. If
Speaker 1: I want to look at that film and I saw
Speaker 1: him make that play, I would say, this guy probably
Speaker 1: does that all the time. I would I would definitely
Speaker 1: say that because he looks so good doing it. So
Speaker 1: proud of him. I called his name wrong, of course,
Speaker 1: of course I called him Noah Brown on Twitter and
Speaker 1: I was quickly quickly corrected, and I thank them for that.
Speaker 1: But no, this is I mean, it ain't easy to
Speaker 1: do that, Okay, but it ain't that hard either, Guys.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just have to have your eyes back at
Speaker 1: the quarterback. All you need is that bit of pressure,
Speaker 1: you know, just to get into quarterback's face, and you
Speaker 1: anticipate the routes. And you don't just anticipate for your
Speaker 1: routes by guessing. You anticipate the routes at they're running
Speaker 1: because you study film all weak. I'm sure that's not
Speaker 1: the first time they've seen these routes. And for Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown to make that play. Don't tease me, man, don't
Speaker 1: tease me pay because you look like you should be
Speaker 1: doing that all year long. So two things, two things
Speaker 1: on that play, when I wouldn't back and looked at it,
Speaker 1: they didn't line up a receiver to his side, so
Speaker 1: he was free, right. They had the receivers to their
Speaker 1: offenses right side, the Cowboys left side at number two. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: when he did his conference call, he basically pointed out
Speaker 1: he saw the route earlier in the game and he
Speaker 1: recognized the formation, and he said, I knew exactly what
Speaker 1: they were gonna get ready to do, and so he
Speaker 1: jumped that slant across the middle, but he didn't have
Speaker 1: anybody to cover because he was free on that side
Speaker 1: and made a really smart play. Even when you look
Speaker 1: at the Donathan Wilson interception, he was able to just
Speaker 1: organically flow into that situation because he rends he was
Speaker 1: not being threatened by any other receiver. There's one thing
Speaker 1: to do your job. There's another thing to anticipate how
Speaker 1: you can help your team. Yesterday, the secondary finally was
Speaker 1: able to do that, and once again I put that
Speaker 1: on the constant. I say, persistent pressure by the d line.
Speaker 1: They weren't back at all the time. It was sometimes
Speaker 1: when Mullen had all day, but when we needed it,
Speaker 1: they dialed it up. And before we go, I know,
Speaker 1: we gotta take a break. DeMarcus Lawrence is playing some ball. Guys,
Speaker 1: he's earning his money and then the consistent basis he's
Speaker 1: earned it all year long. I want to hurry up
Speaker 1: and say that before we got off the end. And okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna applaud this show. You got to go Mickey Monkey.
Speaker 1: I love that, Mickey Mucky. And we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence as the week goes on, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting week. Is to cut. Dallas Defense prepares
Speaker 1: for Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles this week. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got plenty more mix shots throughout the week. In fact,
Speaker 1: we'll be here each day Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Looks
Speaker 1: like we'll take Christmas Day off everyone. Okay, everyone gets
Speaker 1: Christmas Day off, but we're through here through Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: at one thirty on mix shots. We'll see you again tomorrow.
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