Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, I would imagine with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: playing a Thursday night game and no show on Wednesday
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys will be traveling to New Orleans. This
Speaker 1: is fabulous football Tuesday. Yeah, he said that sound like
Speaker 1: a question more. Yeah, Well you asked the question and
Speaker 1: I was, well, I was a little florried about the
Speaker 1: fabulous part. Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls here at the s
Speaker 1: WBC podcast studio at the Star, hoping Chris can make
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday, as Bill Jones is trying to join
Speaker 1: us from AFAR and we'll see if we can get
Speaker 1: him connected. But in the meantime, we're gonna press forward here.
Speaker 1: On this Tuesday, the Cowboys had their basically what they
Speaker 1: call mock game that they normally have on Friday before
Speaker 1: a Sunday game, So this is essentially the Friday, although
Speaker 1: it's a Tuesday before the Thursday. I was not ready
Speaker 1: for this, man, I'm doing my pick to click right now.
Speaker 1: I'm just now getting into this. Well, I'm mine's gonna
Speaker 1: have to come off the top of my head because
Speaker 1: I just thought of it when I mentioned it to
Speaker 1: you when you walked in the studio today. As the
Speaker 1: Cowboys carry on, we did have a Mike McCarthy conference
Speaker 1: call today as he is not allowed in the building
Speaker 1: out with COVID and we'll miss the game. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had one more player test positive this morning, uh
Speaker 1: Nishan right, the rookie cornerback, so he will miss the game.
Speaker 1: And as for any other updates, Mike McCarthy said that
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper would be in the building now. He did
Speaker 1: not practice yesterday, said he was still not feeling great,
Speaker 1: still had a cough, and so he's still on reserve
Speaker 1: uh COVID and Mike McCarthy said the update on Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper is if he doesn't practice tomorrow when they have
Speaker 1: their practice before they head to New Orleans, then he
Speaker 1: will not play on Thursday. That would be three games,
Speaker 1: and that would be the third game. And I always
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be a close call because
Speaker 1: his ten days up would have been Monday, But you
Speaker 1: got to recover from yes, testing positive for COVID, and
Speaker 1: we take that for granted, don't we right, and we're not.
Speaker 1: And when you're not vaccinated, you know, most of these
Speaker 1: guys that had it and you weren't vaccinated. It was
Speaker 1: a two week deal and two week plus. Yeah, because now,
Speaker 1: like you said, how does he feel? Forget the fact
Speaker 1: that you might be test negative all these times? Okay,
Speaker 1: clear to come back, but now physically am I ready?
Speaker 1: I mean fog? Do I have fog in my head?
Speaker 1: And my coffin like you said, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: they want to call it a flu. This is a
Speaker 1: horrible flu. Yeah, because you can't. You know, you don't.
Speaker 1: You have no control and over anything. It does sound
Speaker 1: like we have Bill joining us. Point there he is.
Speaker 1: Look I can even see it. Hey Bill, Hey, how
Speaker 1: y'all doing good? How are you? I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 1: I'm in COVID protocol. Um, I'm doing fine. That didn't
Speaker 1: sound fired. Now are you are you in close contact protocol? Still?
Speaker 1: I'm in close contact protocol? Okay, So that's why I'm
Speaker 1: not with you today. But I'm good otherwise, you know,
Speaker 1: And we had the PLEXI glass up for you, just
Speaker 1: in case, Just in case you did show up, we
Speaker 1: got the plexic glass. Well, you know, I figure I
Speaker 1: figure my cohorts at at their age. I probably he's
Speaker 1: trying to kill us off. He's trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of trying to be funny shot. That's okay, Bill. We
Speaker 1: still love you, man, we still need you. That's the
Speaker 1: main thing. If we didn't need you, we would not
Speaker 1: use you. Yeah, we would have just gone on. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But we need but we can handle. You're doing just
Speaker 1: fine without me. I don't know why Chris beam even
Speaker 1: uh beamed you. He beamed fine without me. He beamed
Speaker 1: you up right as you did. That's right. So you're
Speaker 1: we were in the I didn't hear the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the show. And so did we start with the
Speaker 1: fight song Friday? There we go? No, but I did
Speaker 1: call it fabulous football Tuesday. Okay, let's go, Bill, men
Speaker 1: you baby, there you go, we go. We won't that's
Speaker 1: bags ruin our day. I'll listen to that, bringing home guys,
Speaker 1: bringing home good. There we go, Thank you, Christopher. All
Speaker 1: these these fight songs are coming fast and furious here
Speaker 1: in the last few weeks, it seems like every other
Speaker 1: day we've got a Yeah, it's not a victory Monday
Speaker 1: fight song either, it's a look ahead to the next game.
Speaker 1: Our last broadcast before the next game, and this was
Speaker 1: another Thursday that game It's coming quick. And I heard
Speaker 1: you at the beginning, Mickey, was that you said that
Speaker 1: you weren't prepared for your picks to click today? No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I just realized that this was the
Speaker 1: last show before the game on Thursday night in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and the Cowboys, as I was pointing out, have
Speaker 1: one more practice left. We were Bill, I don't know
Speaker 1: when you caught us, but we were talking about Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: not sure if he'll be available for the game on Thursday,
Speaker 1: especially if he's not able to practice on Wednesday when
Speaker 1: they have their final practice before they head to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Then Mike McCarthy said, if he doesn't practice Wednesday, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be available for the game. So that
Speaker 1: could be another person not available for the game. And
Speaker 1: the count is at nine right now that we know
Speaker 1: that have tested positive for COVID, and I think eight
Speaker 1: of those for sure, there's a chance that Assistant strength
Speaker 1: and Conditioning coach Cedric Smith could be back in time
Speaker 1: for the game, depending on how he's feeling. So yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of things have to adapt. And if they
Speaker 1: don't have Amari Cooper, and it's certainly was not a
Speaker 1: good sign yesterday when Cedric Wilson, I think, who we
Speaker 1: would consider their fourth wide receiver was unable to practice
Speaker 1: with an ankle and today will just be a projection,
Speaker 1: so they would have their fingers crossed tomorrow that Wilson
Speaker 1: could do something good things. Cedee Lamb has been cleared
Speaker 1: to return the practice, but I would imagine without a Marie.
Speaker 1: And if indeed Wilson did not take part in the
Speaker 1: game slash walkthrough practice today, that would have meant Noah
Speaker 1: Brown would have been the next guy up at receiver uh,
Speaker 1: and then Malik Turner if Wilson can't go. So they're
Speaker 1: getting thin again at the wide receiver spot. Well they'll
Speaker 1: have Gallop I'm sorry, They'll have Gallop Lamb uh and
Speaker 1: then Noah Slash Malik Turner would be the top four
Speaker 1: guys at the receiver position. So uh still have things
Speaker 1: can deal there with? Yes, remember when when there were
Speaker 1: some that were saying they needed to trade Michael gallop
Speaker 1: by the trade donline. Yes, thank you for that, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. Yeah. Well, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: he had over a hundred yards receiving on Sunday, correct, right, right?
Speaker 1: I mean, but do you just look at at what
Speaker 1: what you know, a month ago it looked like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of depth at this wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: and all it takes is COVID outbreak and a concussion
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're down to staring at
Speaker 1: you know, almost playing backups. Yeah, and and think about this,
Speaker 1: let's throw this in there. After Lele Collins was out
Speaker 1: for so long, it's like, well, why don't they trade him?
Speaker 1: Karen Steele's playing so well, yeah, now what kind of
Speaker 1: situation would they be in on the offensive line. And
Speaker 1: I'll give you one more because you know, after they
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round Kelvin Joseph, it was like, well,
Speaker 1: they can trade Anthony Brown. You don't need him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran and he's probably going to save some money. Well. No, see,
Speaker 1: that's why you do not deplete your depth with silly trades.
Speaker 1: That all you get is something for the future. Now
Speaker 1: is now, and you just don't do things like that
Speaker 1: because you don't have an excess of talent. Well, you
Speaker 1: got so many gms out there, spags on Twitter, I
Speaker 1: mean just have to listen to one of them, right, No,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. So the Cowboys had their their Zoom meetings
Speaker 1: today again, so virtual meetings. They caught here and did
Speaker 1: their mock game run through the basically the Strengthen, the
Speaker 1: weight room is closed and they don't have any coaches
Speaker 1: available to run the weight room with Harold Nash, Kendall Smith,
Speaker 1: and Cedric Smith all out with COVID at this time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they've basically telling the players that they need
Speaker 1: to take care of their own conditioning. Uh, if you
Speaker 1: need to go somewhere, or if you have weight stuff
Speaker 1: at home to get your lift in, if you are
Speaker 1: due for a lift, and make sure you get your
Speaker 1: massage in. But yeah, the facility is still basically locked
Speaker 1: down today. And then one other note, and we can
Speaker 1: get into this a little bit later in depth, but
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill, who's been suspended for two games, was appealing
Speaker 1: his suspension. I don't know how much luck he's gonna
Speaker 1: have with it, since there's video out there that shows
Speaker 1: him making his hand right, And other than saying I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't know where that appeals gonna go. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: gonna say he should have dubbed right right, he gave
Speaker 1: him time to dub banties. And by the way, John Runyan,
Speaker 1: who's the vice president of football Operations for the NFL,
Speaker 1: pointed out that his appeal will be heard by either
Speaker 1: Derek Brooks or James Trash, of two former players that
Speaker 1: are in the appeal process appointed and approved by the
Speaker 1: NFL and the nfl PA at this point. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if he gets anywhere with the appeal. Maybe he
Speaker 1: just gets fined. And by the way, when they said
Speaker 1: he was going to get fined one hundred thousand dollars, no,
Speaker 1: he gets suspended without pay, okay, and his weekly salary
Speaker 1: divided over eighteen weeks is fifty four thousand dollars, so
Speaker 1: that's one hundred thousand and eight. I gotta say, this
Speaker 1: guy's playing well, and that's the unfortunate. Extremely active, he's
Speaker 1: hustling all over the place. I guess the fresh legs
Speaker 1: have a lot to do with that, But just seeing
Speaker 1: him out there, he fits right in with the energy
Speaker 1: level that our entire defensive line his head all season long.
Speaker 1: Right and and very active, especially in pass rush he
Speaker 1: was getting pressure. Uh so uh and well, since you've
Speaker 1: got all, you've been talking about him. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about him for like two years season, it
Speaker 1: seems like. Right and and by the way, so this
Speaker 1: is the letter he received, by the way, and then
Speaker 1: we probably have to take a break from John Runyon,
Speaker 1: who I mentioned, VP of Football Operations. After Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Raiders Dallas Cowboys game on November twenty fifth, you engaged
Speaker 1: in conduct that is this offense this office considers unnecessary
Speaker 1: roughness and a display of lack of sportsmanship. Specifically, as
Speaker 1: both teams were shaking hands, you waited more than fifty
Speaker 1: seconds for your opponent at the fifty yard line when
Speaker 1: you located You then walked toward him in the opposite
Speaker 1: direction of your locker room. You both engage in verbal
Speaker 1: chest the chess confrontation, which you escalated by throwing an
Speaker 1: open hand punched to his face mask forcibly enough to
Speaker 1: cause your opponent's helmet to come off. And I would
Speaker 1: imagine the helmet wasn't buckled. It was not because I
Speaker 1: saw it, and it wasn't like it wasn't like cash
Speaker 1: as Clay hitting Sonny listing right. He didn't. He was
Speaker 1: just offended and he got hurt. And then the two
Speaker 1: teams had to be separated. And I saw the big
Speaker 1: peacemaker from the Cowboys was number seventy. He stood in
Speaker 1: front of everybody that was starting to come after Hill.
Speaker 1: So uh, that diffused it. But again, like I said,
Speaker 1: he's appealing, and if not, then they're down a defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Um and this one has nothing to do with COVID.
Speaker 1: And Bill's volume looks like it when it lost Mike.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I'll tell you what. We'll take a break. Now,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good time to take a break. We'll
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Speaker 1: that gets me in the mood for what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do right after Mick Shots today. You know what
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Speaker 1: I don't Christmas shop until Christmas Eve. Ch al right,
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Speaker 1: I put mine up on Christmas Eve. Yeah, and preferably
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Speaker 1: through it. Okay, Hey, how about Mickey. Get us up
Speaker 1: to speed on the mood of Mike McCarthy when you
Speaker 1: heard him in his press conference, you know, other than
Speaker 1: a few coughs during his I don't know, it was
Speaker 1: about ten minutes or so, no more than fifteen. Uh,
Speaker 1: he seemed to be in a decent mood. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things he said that, uh, he said,
Speaker 1: it's kind of ironic that I had my I had
Speaker 1: my booster shot scheduled for Friday, so he was gonna
Speaker 1: get his booster shot. That's not the first person I've heard.
Speaker 1: They that right before they were about to get And
Speaker 1: that's what happened to him, so, um, you know, he
Speaker 1: he stayed engaged with the team. He addressed him at
Speaker 1: the team meeting. Uh, said he would do it again
Speaker 1: Thursday morning when they have their team meeting before the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: So he's staying engaged. You know, whatever they do on
Speaker 1: the practice field, he's got his iPad with him and
Speaker 1: he can, um, you know, watch with what went on
Speaker 1: and see how things went. Do they have a drone
Speaker 1: over head or something? What's it going on? Drone? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm guessing he's at the hotel
Speaker 1: next door and um just has his own if he
Speaker 1: just had a big telescope, right and we gotta go
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma to get Yeah, yeah he could, he could.
Speaker 1: He can. I'm thinking I'm thinking Mickey and Everson. The
Speaker 1: technology might be in place where he might be able
Speaker 1: to even if he's not watching live. He's watching almost
Speaker 1: right right. I wouldn't be surprised he has it very quickly,
Speaker 1: the video of what's going on on the practice field. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So he has stayed engaged. And as we talked yesterday,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn will take over the game day operation on Thursday,
Speaker 1: along with coordinating the defense, making the defensive calls. But
Speaker 1: the good thing is is that he has done this
Speaker 1: before from the sideline. Everybody was worried about coming out
Speaker 1: of the booth and calling the defense from the sideline.
Speaker 1: But as McCarthy pointed out yesterday afternoon when we finally
Speaker 1: got to talk with him, that he for two years
Speaker 1: at Atlanta when he first took over as head coach,
Speaker 1: he did both. He did the game management from the
Speaker 1: sideline along with calling the defense before he handed off
Speaker 1: some of those responsibilities. And I think we talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, the other thing that Cowboys had to compensate
Speaker 1: for as the offensive line, with Joe Philbin and his
Speaker 1: assistant Jeff blastco testing positive so they won't be at
Speaker 1: the game. So the likes of Lunda Wells, Ben McAdoo
Speaker 1: and Chase Haslett have been taken over the offensive line
Speaker 1: and probably will continue to do so through the rest
Speaker 1: of the week and on game day. So for Lunda Wells,
Speaker 1: it's tight ends and offensive line, and good that they
Speaker 1: had Ben McAdoo here as a consultant because he has
Speaker 1: a history in coaching offensive lineman. All right, what about
Speaker 1: what Jerry had to say this morning? Anything to report
Speaker 1: on Jerry UM. I guess he was the I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember everything that he said. You know, that was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, eight thirty in the morning, right,
Speaker 1: I was listening to it. UM. You know, he was
Speaker 1: remaining positive, UM, and he wanted to emphasize that, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll get UM DeMarcus Lawrence back ready for this game.
Speaker 1: He was able to go through practice on a Monday.
Speaker 1: They have to activate him off the return injured list,
Speaker 1: haven't done that yet, but they have three spots available.
Speaker 1: Uh so uh, they can activate him for one of
Speaker 1: those spots. If Amari Cooper was ready, they could activate
Speaker 1: him off reserve COVID, so they would still have one
Speaker 1: extra spot on the fifty three. UM Ezekiel Elliott. Whatever
Speaker 1: they did yesterday went through a full practice. UM, and
Speaker 1: they keep saying it media. Yeah, because he said that
Speaker 1: they have to see how they're going to treat him
Speaker 1: going forward. And I don't mind it. I mean the
Speaker 1: guy to be better. You don't want him to be healthy.
Speaker 1: If his ankle or his knee is hurting and is
Speaker 1: continually hurting and he's not being as effective as he
Speaker 1: wants to be, then let's make the move Otherwise, everybody
Speaker 1: just shut up. I think I think what their their
Speaker 1: plan is is to kind of continue the way they were,
Speaker 1: give Tony Pollard more of the of the snaps, but
Speaker 1: still use Zeke assuming that he can move. And look,
Speaker 1: if you watch him run, everybody's saying, well, you can
Speaker 1: see there's a difference. I don't see a difference. This
Speaker 1: difference I see is I don't see any hole. That's
Speaker 1: what I see. That he keeps getting hits. Yes, and
Speaker 1: so that's you know, everybody's going, well, his yards after
Speaker 1: after contact have gone down. Yeah, that's because the contacts
Speaker 1: happening right away. One thing that you know, this spags.
Speaker 1: As you look at other teams that are able to
Speaker 1: rush the ball effectively, you maintain contact on the defensive
Speaker 1: lineman or a linebacker. You just don't see us, especially
Speaker 1: from the more inexperiences players. They're not maintaining the contact.
Speaker 1: So the defensive linemen are escaping quickly and they are
Speaker 1: gang is gang tackling on our running back. So you
Speaker 1: just have to maintain contact a little bit longer. But
Speaker 1: then as we try to do that, then that's when
Speaker 1: we're getting fourteen penalties, most of them being holding calls.
Speaker 1: Right so that's the dilemma that you're dealing with on
Speaker 1: the offensive line in the running game, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think we have been bill spoiled by this offense.
Speaker 1: How well it had been playing, you know, early in
Speaker 1: the season, and then they hit this rough spot. You know,
Speaker 1: four of the last five games they haven't rushed for
Speaker 1: more than eighty two yards. And you know, you watch
Speaker 1: other teams play, not everybody's lightening it up on offense.
Speaker 1: As we saw last night again the Monday night game, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if anybody was sport touchdown. I got bored.
Speaker 1: I got so bored. I can't imagine why you were riveted.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it was like scratching your fingernails on the blackboard,
Speaker 1: you know. And you know, when you look at just
Speaker 1: how the operations going here, when we are just not
Speaker 1: accustomed to that, that lack of effectiveness, and when in
Speaker 1: our running game, and so of course that puts more
Speaker 1: pressure on our quarterback, puts more pressure on our offensive line.
Speaker 1: Two pass block, which is something we know they don't
Speaker 1: inherently want to do. So here we are now approaching
Speaker 1: aggressive pass rush. Aggressive Blitz calls quarterback under pressure almost
Speaker 1: every time he's passing the ball now. Granted he is
Speaker 1: from what I recall, the number one passer under pressure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still a case, but he
Speaker 1: threw it for over three hundred and seventy yards last week,
Speaker 1: two one hundred yard receivers. And if that's the way
Speaker 1: we got to go go forward, then we need to
Speaker 1: be prepared for that. So we need all our wide
Speaker 1: receivers back. Yeah. And when it comes to just the
Speaker 1: overall quarterback rating, DAC right now is a one or
Speaker 1: four point two, So he is currently fifth in the NFL,
Speaker 1: behind Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousin, and Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: So his ratings still pretty high. The other thing that's
Speaker 1: happened in four of those last five games is he
Speaker 1: has been sacked eleven times in four of those games.
Speaker 1: And the hits also and need to be add obviously
Speaker 1: three of those are losses. Yes, and so there's no
Speaker 1: secret of why this offense has slowed down. Offensive line
Speaker 1: must play better. Let's talk a little bit here and
Speaker 1: to wrap up this segment and then we'll have our
Speaker 1: picks to click and picks to win. In the next segment.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Taysom Hill, who supposedly,
Speaker 1: if he's got through practice today in tomorrow, he'll be
Speaker 1: starting at quarterback for the Saints coming off an injury.
Speaker 1: And he has not started a game this year. He
Speaker 1: started eight games last year. We all know he has
Speaker 1: an ability to run if healthy. My question to you, Everson,
Speaker 1: what does that do for as far as the corners
Speaker 1: are concerned, how Dan Quinn implements his defense and in
Speaker 1: terms of man to man coverage, when you have a
Speaker 1: quarterback who might tuck it and run it right right now,
Speaker 1: if you have man to man, I would stick to
Speaker 1: your man to man coverage. As a cornerback, I think
Speaker 1: the safeties need to be up worried about what Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill is going to do. I'm not worried about him
Speaker 1: passing the ball on us at all, Bill, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he if they catch anything on us, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be something I think gonna be very menial. But
Speaker 1: when you start talking about their running game, of course,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamar is coming back now, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: he hadn't practiced in a while, so he's gonna be
Speaker 1: fresh leg full strength. Now you gotta Taysom Hill fresh legs.
Speaker 1: I don't know about full strength, but after what they
Speaker 1: saw last week with U with the was that Mario
Speaker 1: Tho they came in for he runs to play, you
Speaker 1: knew what was going on. We got Van Durition. I
Speaker 1: think it was Casey. They're taking the fake up for
Speaker 1: you already stopped him one time. So they're gonna take
Speaker 1: a look at that Bill and they're gonna be licking
Speaker 1: their chops at this point, not just on that particular
Speaker 1: player quarterback running the ball. We haven't stopped any running
Speaker 1: back really this year as except for uh Cooks with
Speaker 1: the Vikings. And right now we are a defense that
Speaker 1: looks ripe for the picking. Okay, we look like we
Speaker 1: don't know how to play the run anymore. Uh. They
Speaker 1: don't have to pass the ball on us, really, I
Speaker 1: don't think to win it, not in this particular ball game.
Speaker 1: They think their defense is gonna play well enough to
Speaker 1: hold us down. They're gonna pressure the hell out of us,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be looking at a smash mouth game
Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill and Kamara. They're going to be running
Speaker 1: the ball on this I can see at least thirty
Speaker 1: rushes from the from the offense. You know, and Bill,
Speaker 1: here's kind of proof of what Everson's talking about. Last year,
Speaker 1: Hill started four games and he ended up with two
Speaker 1: hundred and nine yards rushing in four touchdowns. So again, yes,
Speaker 1: they want to use him in a running situation. This year,
Speaker 1: he has played in seven games. He does have three starts,
Speaker 1: but it was at wide receiver and running back. So
Speaker 1: as for a quarterback, he's only had seven completed seven
Speaker 1: of eight passes for fifty six yards one interception. But
Speaker 1: in the time he has played in seven games, he's
Speaker 1: rushed the ball twenty times for one hundred and four
Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. So that kind of complicates having
Speaker 1: to make sure that when they're snapping it to him,
Speaker 1: you don't know if it's a wildcat snap that he's
Speaker 1: just pulling it down and running, or if he's gonna
Speaker 1: absolutely throw the football. I would make him throw right.
Speaker 1: I would have both safeties up. Let's just stop fooling ourselves.
Speaker 1: He cannot pass the ball on us, and if he does,
Speaker 1: we deserve everything on the same On the Cowboys, I
Speaker 1: would play have both safeties up. Let's just play some football.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about any wide receiver from the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, especially with the quarterback that they're going to
Speaker 1: be putting in. Otherwise I would play it more conservatively
Speaker 1: with Simeon and maybe with Jameis Winster. But when you're
Speaker 1: talking about a quarterback like that, let's try and see
Speaker 1: how much we're gonna make it. We're gonna do, Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: We're gonna make them do something that they don't want
Speaker 1: to do. Can you guys name any of the white wideries.
Speaker 1: Can you name any of the wide receivers for the
Speaker 1: Saints that start? Well, the only one I knew was
Speaker 1: Thomas Season. That's right, that's the only one I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've got him listed in front of me, Mickey, if
Speaker 1: you'd like, I can read him off for Oh, I
Speaker 1: meant off the top of your head. Well, I kid,
Speaker 1: I could read it off the top of my head
Speaker 1: because it's in my notebook. At the top of your head.
Speaker 1: I tell you all about Marcus Galloway and Drake Juan Smith,
Speaker 1: kenny Still's play for that team. The former Oklahoma suitor.
Speaker 1: One guy to keep him to keep an eye on, though,
Speaker 1: is that little Deonte Harris. On punt returns and on
Speaker 1: jet sweeps. I mean you, uh, he's got that uh
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill type speed and so he could be a
Speaker 1: guy that could be a playmaker for them. All right,
Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, continue, I was gonna gonna say,
Speaker 1: since you brought up Harris, uh, you know, after Kamara,
Speaker 1: he's next on the team with twenty seven catches, average
Speaker 1: is fifteen point eight to catch and two touchdowns as
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. So yeah, he's a guy you got
Speaker 1: to work look out for. And then they been also
Speaker 1: use in time Montgomery kind of running back slash wide
Speaker 1: receiver a little bit more. Here are these last few games.
Speaker 1: And with that, all right, we continue, yes with Mick
Speaker 1: shots in our picks to click when we come back
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Speaker 1: And by the way, before we go forward, the Saints
Speaker 1: uh their Monday injury port. They had a couple starters
Speaker 1: that did not practice. Tarin Armstead, they're starting left tackle,
Speaker 1: did not practice with a knee. Marcus Davenport, when of
Speaker 1: their better rushing defensive ends, was out with a shoulder.
Speaker 1: Kaden Ellis, starting linebacker at the strong side, did not
Speaker 1: practice with a hamstring. And Bill's gonna before I get
Speaker 1: to that. They're starting right tackle Ryan Ramscheck was limited
Speaker 1: in practice and not practicing with an ankle. Was their
Speaker 1: backup defensive end, Tana passan Yon. Is that how you
Speaker 1: say it? Sounds good? I didn't say with a lot
Speaker 1: of competence, mister t Okay good. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: their injury report looks like after today. That we should
Speaker 1: get in about forty five minutes. All right, So picks
Speaker 1: to click. Time for our regular weekly pre game picks
Speaker 1: to click this time Cowboys and Saints and Mickey, you
Speaker 1: are headed out early in the morning, right, you're making
Speaker 1: the drive. I haven't heard anything different yet. I was
Speaker 1: hoping with a bunch of people that can't get on
Speaker 1: the charter that I might make the cut, but if not,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drive out in the morning. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So Everson, what do you think picks to click? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. Man, Looking at this game, Bill, I
Speaker 1: see us going back to the University of Florida Tim
Speaker 1: Tebow style, right, that's the way the Saints are going
Speaker 1: to approach us with Taysom Hill. Matter of fact, he
Speaker 1: can't even throw as well as Tebow as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Now, I don't know what the Cowboys think,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what they're gonna prove out to be.
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at Dak Prescott being my player to
Speaker 1: click easy pick. This time. I didn't have much time
Speaker 1: to think about it. That's the only reason I just
Speaker 1: went with Dak. I'm looking at over three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, we say we could pick him
Speaker 1: every week. So yeah, it's a short week, man, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Dak over three hundred yards passing
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. I see the Cowboys going winning
Speaker 1: twenty four to sixteen, and that is a tough defensive
Speaker 1: battle for the Cowboys offense. We usually put up more
Speaker 1: numbers than that. I think we're averaging over thirty points.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna get thirty points this time,
Speaker 1: but I think our defense is finally gonna show up,
Speaker 1: especially based on the style that we're gonna be facing
Speaker 1: from the New Orleans Saints with Taysom Hill well very good, Everson,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at this four game Saints losing
Speaker 1: street twenty seven, twenty five to Atlanta, twenty three, twenty
Speaker 1: one to Tennessee, forty to twenty nine against Philly, and
Speaker 1: Buffalo beat him thirty one to six. So opponents have
Speaker 1: been averaging thirty points a game against that Saints defense.
Speaker 1: That should be their calling Car. But I am gonna
Speaker 1: go twenty three twenty Cowboys. I want to see this
Speaker 1: defense offense get going. And my pick to click is
Speaker 1: going to be the receiving end of Dak Prescott's pick
Speaker 1: to click across the aisle from me here, Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: will take over this game for the Cowboys. He's looking good.
Speaker 1: What was your pick last week? Mickey? Remember we went
Speaker 1: into the last week's game on Thursday and the Raiders
Speaker 1: had a three game losing streak and they had given
Speaker 1: up forty one thirty two twenty something points. I think
Speaker 1: give enough about thirty backs. Last week was twenty four
Speaker 1: to seventeen. That was his pick last week, twenty four
Speaker 1: to seventeen, and he had digs. I believe yes as
Speaker 1: his player, because I figured day that I picked. I
Speaker 1: picked a blowout last week. Yep, forty four to four fourteen.
Speaker 1: I was fourteen. I think it was fourteen. It was,
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was. I was playing off
Speaker 1: the forty three to three game and uh and determined
Speaker 1: that they had the Cowboys were gonna get forty four
Speaker 1: points somehow. But I went ahead and made it forty
Speaker 1: four to fourteen. All right, I've come back down to
Speaker 1: earth this week, and Cowboys going into a New Orleans
Speaker 1: team who has which has lost one one more game
Speaker 1: in a row than the Raiders had lost. Last week.
Speaker 1: They're coming off a thirty one to six loss to Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and yet they are bouncing back. This week, the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints bounce back and the Cowboys win sixteen to thirteen,
Speaker 1: and they're not bouncing Oh so wait, who's the who's
Speaker 1: the player? Who's the player? Oh? And my player, My
Speaker 1: player is DeMarcus Lawrence. Marcus Lawrence comes comes back and
Speaker 1: his ability to play the run as well as get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback is going to be a key in
Speaker 1: this game. Veteran guy coming back keeping that quarterback contained. Now,
Speaker 1: we'll see how many snaps Lawrence has, but based on
Speaker 1: the number of snaps he has, which will be limited,
Speaker 1: I think because it is his first game back, I
Speaker 1: think he's going to make an impact on this game
Speaker 1: and helping keep Taysom Hill and the running game in
Speaker 1: check for the Saints. And that's probably I like it
Speaker 1: because number one, we got fresh leg Theory there right,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. He hadn't place until since the
Speaker 1: season opener. And number two, both of their guys h
Speaker 1: tackles are dealing with injuries. As I read on their
Speaker 1: injury report, we'll see what goes on going forward. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they they are, you know there with that. They've
Speaker 1: had injury problems too. A matter of fact, one of
Speaker 1: their starting guards is out for the season, Andrews Pete. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's out. They have a starting safety, Gardner Johnson, who
Speaker 1: is out there without Will Lutz Um there punter or
Speaker 1: place kicker I forget which really he's one of the
Speaker 1: two kickers. Sorry, he's the kicker. Yeah, And they've had
Speaker 1: to get They've gone through a couple really, no Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas and no Jamis Winston, so they've had their share
Speaker 1: of to take advantage of that, well, they need to so.
Speaker 1: Uh And by the way, Brian Ainger, how about last
Speaker 1: week Brian Angery booming fifty seven yard average on his
Speaker 1: punts last week? Yeah, and absolutely, and and you know,
Speaker 1: had they won, he should have been the player of
Speaker 1: the game on him turning over the field did a
Speaker 1: heck of a job. If the defense had played better
Speaker 1: and if uh, they would have picked off some of
Speaker 1: those Derek Carr passes, which is why I chose trey
Speaker 1: Von Diggs as my pick to click, because I figured
Speaker 1: with all those deep throws they would get something out
Speaker 1: of it. Oh and by the way, Jerry very politely
Speaker 1: during his interview today on one oh five three the Fan,
Speaker 1: uh talked about the officiating in that game. He did,
Speaker 1: he did, and and somebody said, you know, they don't
Speaker 1: get penalized for bad calls, and he goes, oh, no,
Speaker 1: they do because the league keeps scorer when they start
Speaker 1: picking crews for playoff games and the Super Bowl. If
Speaker 1: you get docked too many times, you don't qualify for
Speaker 1: those games money. And his other point was, I got
Speaker 1: a question, go ahead, I said. His other point was that,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, we want to see offense, but we
Speaker 1: don't need to see all these penalties call to slow
Speaker 1: down the game. And as he pointed out again and
Speaker 1: I think Bill did earlier, that was the most watch
Speaker 1: NFL game since the Super Bowl last year and probably
Speaker 1: will be the most until the next Super Bowl. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was a flagfest and the flow of the game, Um,
Speaker 1: as I said in my column, needed draino because it
Speaker 1: wasn't flowing very well at all. Uh. And so he
Speaker 1: was talking about, you know that these interference calls, the holding, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I think he stopped short of
Speaker 1: pointing out that, uh, you know, of the four interference
Speaker 1: calls on on Anthony Brown, UM, one of them should
Speaker 1: have been holding. You know, it happened far up the
Speaker 1: field before there was any interference calls. So, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was not happy. He very politely said he wasn't happy,
Speaker 1: not in those words, but pointed out that, uh, it
Speaker 1: just sort of disrupted the good for the game. Basically
Speaker 1: what he's saying to call every single thing. Uh that
Speaker 1: if you want to call holding all those times on
Speaker 1: the offense and our offensive linemen you can call at
Speaker 1: every every game, all right? Uh, Micky, do you know
Speaker 1: when we're back Friday? We think Friday, all right? Yes,
Speaker 1: depend on my travel and ever since travel. My travel
Speaker 1: is definite. Mickey's travel is up in the air, So
Speaker 1: I know I won't be here, but i'd be ready
Speaker 1: to call me if I have to. And well, and
Speaker 1: I've got a coaches show that I'm taking at some
Speaker 1: point on Friday. It'll be interesting to see you if
Speaker 1: it's with Mike McCarthy or Dan quinn. That needs to
Speaker 1: be seen and it remains to be seen if we're
Speaker 1: talking about a Cowboys win on Thursday night in New Orleans. Mackey,
Speaker 1: you got anything else to share about any appearances in
Speaker 1: New Orleans? Yes, as long as I make it with
Speaker 1: Star Sports tours around five thirty six o'clock, we will
Speaker 1: do a reception there for the people on their tours.
Speaker 1: And you know my theory about the more you lose,
Speaker 1: the closer yard of winning. And I pointed out to
Speaker 1: day to someone that the Saints have lost four straight
Speaker 1: and they've immediately told me, yeah, but the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: lost two strength you. So someone's due for victory three
Speaker 1: out of four? Yeah right? All right, Well that does
Speaker 1: it for this edition of Mix Shots, and we will
Speaker 1: hopefully see you on Friday after a Cowboys win in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Enjoy the game and we will see you later.
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