WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Fabulous Football Tuesday? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.840 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:12.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:17.079 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:22.360 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:29.040 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, I would imagine with the Cowboys 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.560 playing a Thursday night game and no show on Wednesday 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.760 because the Cowboys will be traveling to New Orleans. This 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:46.040 is fabulous football Tuesday. Yeah, he said that sound like 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.879 a question more. Yeah, Well you asked the question and 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.239 I was, well, I was a little florried about the 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:57.080 fabulous part. Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls here at the s 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.400 WBC podcast studio at the Star, hoping Chris can make 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.000 on this Tuesday, as Bill Jones is trying to join 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.600 us from AFAR and we'll see if we can get 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.920 him connected. But in the meantime, we're gonna press forward here. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.759 On this Tuesday, the Cowboys had their basically what they 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.760 call mock game that they normally have on Friday before 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:29.080 a Sunday game, So this is essentially the Friday, although 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.039 it's a Tuesday before the Thursday. I was not ready 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.880 for this, man, I'm doing my pick to click right now. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.040 I'm just now getting into this. Well, I'm mine's gonna 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.800 have to come off the top of my head because 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.000 I just thought of it when I mentioned it to 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.640 you when you walked in the studio today. As the 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:53.800 Cowboys carry on, we did have a Mike McCarthy conference 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:59.920 call today as he is not allowed in the building 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:05.240 out with COVID and we'll miss the game. And the 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.480 Cowboys had one more player test positive this morning, uh 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:14.400 Nishan right, the rookie cornerback, so he will miss the game. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:19.440 And as for any other updates, Mike McCarthy said that 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.280 Amari Cooper would be in the building now. He did 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:29.760 not practice yesterday, said he was still not feeling great, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.680 still had a cough, and so he's still on reserve 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:41.440 uh COVID and Mike McCarthy said the update on Amari 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.720 Cooper is if he doesn't practice tomorrow when they have 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.320 their practice before they head to New Orleans, then he 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.000 will not play on Thursday. That would be three games, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.720 and that would be the third game. And I always 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.640 thought it was going to be a close call because 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:04.360 his ten days up would have been Monday, But you 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.320 got to recover from yes, testing positive for COVID, and 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.840 we take that for granted, don't we right, and we're not. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.720 And when you're not vaccinated, you know, most of these 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.560 guys that had it and you weren't vaccinated. It was 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:22.280 a two week deal and two week plus. Yeah, because now, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.000 like you said, how does he feel? Forget the fact 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.280 that you might be test negative all these times? Okay, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.440 clear to come back, but now physically am I ready? 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.480 I mean fog? Do I have fog in my head? 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.760 And my coffin like you said, it's it's you know, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.760 they want to call it a flu. This is a 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.200 horrible flu. Yeah, because you can't. You know, you don't. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.400 You have no control and over anything. It does sound 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.000 like we have Bill joining us. Point there he is. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.120 Look I can even see it. Hey Bill, Hey, how 0:03:55.200 --> 0:04:00.280 y'all doing good? How are you? I'm doing just fine. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:06.840 I'm in COVID protocol. Um, I'm doing fine. That didn't 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:15.080 sound fired. Now are you are you in close contact protocol? Still? 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.320 I'm in close contact protocol? Okay, So that's why I'm 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.880 not with you today. But I'm good otherwise, you know, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.360 And we had the PLEXI glass up for you, just 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.520 in case, Just in case you did show up, we 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.440 got the plexic glass. Well, you know, I figure I 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:39.920 figure my cohorts at at their age. I probably he's 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.480 trying to kill us off. He's trying to get rid 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:49.640 of trying to be funny shot. That's okay, Bill. We 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.960 still love you, man, we still need you. That's the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.920 main thing. If we didn't need you, we would not 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.760 use you. Yeah, we would have just gone on. Yeah exactly. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.200 But we need but we can handle. You're doing just 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.440 fine without me. I don't know why Chris beam even 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:07.480 uh beamed you. He beamed fine without me. He beamed 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.680 you up right as you did. That's right. So you're 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.839 we were in the I didn't hear the very beginning 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.320 of the show. And so did we start with the 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.880 fight song Friday? There we go? No, but I did 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:28.400 call it fabulous football Tuesday. Okay, let's go, Bill, men 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.320 you baby, there you go, we go. We won't that's 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:44.080 bags ruin our day. I'll listen to that, bringing home guys, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:51.560 bringing home good. There we go, Thank you, Christopher. All 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:56.440 these these fight songs are coming fast and furious here 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.680 in the last few weeks, it seems like every other 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.160 day we've got a Yeah, it's not a victory Monday 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.720 fight song either, it's a look ahead to the next game. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.920 Our last broadcast before the next game, and this was 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.359 another Thursday that game It's coming quick. And I heard 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.000 you at the beginning, Mickey, was that you said that 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.120 you weren't prepared for your picks to click today? No, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.599 not at all. I just realized that this was the 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.480 last show before the game on Thursday night in New 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.599 Orleans and the Cowboys, as I was pointing out, have 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.520 one more practice left. We were Bill, I don't know 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.200 when you caught us, but we were talking about Amari Cooper, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.360 not sure if he'll be available for the game on Thursday, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.599 especially if he's not able to practice on Wednesday when 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.680 they have their final practice before they head to New Orleans. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.560 Then Mike McCarthy said, if he doesn't practice Wednesday, he's 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.680 not going to be available for the game. So that 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.520 could be another person not available for the game. And 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.920 the count is at nine right now that we know 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.440 that have tested positive for COVID, and I think eight 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.280 of those for sure, there's a chance that Assistant strength 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:14.400 and Conditioning coach Cedric Smith could be back in time 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.840 for the game, depending on how he's feeling. So yeah, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.680 a lot of things have to adapt. And if they 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.600 don't have Amari Cooper, and it's certainly was not a 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.080 good sign yesterday when Cedric Wilson, I think, who we 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:35.280 would consider their fourth wide receiver was unable to practice 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.760 with an ankle and today will just be a projection, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.280 so they would have their fingers crossed tomorrow that Wilson 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.360 could do something good things. Cedee Lamb has been cleared 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:53.280 to return the practice, but I would imagine without a Marie. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:59.000 And if indeed Wilson did not take part in the 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.360 game slash walkthrough practice today, that would have meant Noah 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:10.640 Brown would have been the next guy up at receiver uh, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:15.040 and then Malik Turner if Wilson can't go. So they're 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.960 getting thin again at the wide receiver spot. Well they'll 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.120 have Gallop I'm sorry, They'll have Gallop Lamb uh and 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.400 then Noah Slash Malik Turner would be the top four 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.520 guys at the receiver position. So uh still have things 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:37.280 can deal there with? Yes, remember when when there were 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.680 some that were saying they needed to trade Michael gallop 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.319 by the trade donline. Yes, thank you for that, thank you, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.880 thank you for that. Yeah. Well, if I'm not mistaken, 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.840 he had over a hundred yards receiving on Sunday, correct, right, right? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.599 I mean, but do you just look at at what 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.839 what you know, a month ago it looked like, oh, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.320 there's a lot of depth at this wide receiver position, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:04.000 and all it takes is COVID outbreak and a concussion 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.400 and all of a sudden you're down to staring at 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.800 you know, almost playing backups. Yeah, and and think about this, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.520 let's throw this in there. After Lele Collins was out 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.840 for so long, it's like, well, why don't they trade him? 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.199 Karen Steele's playing so well, yeah, now what kind of 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.840 situation would they be in on the offensive line. And 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.440 I'll give you one more because you know, after they 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.960 drafted in the second round Kelvin Joseph, it was like, well, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.520 they can trade Anthony Brown. You don't need him. You know, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.920 he's a veteran and he's probably going to save some money. Well. No, see, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:46.319 that's why you do not deplete your depth with silly trades. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.640 That all you get is something for the future. Now 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.360 is now, and you just don't do things like that 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.400 because you don't have an excess of talent. Well, you 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.679 got so many gms out there, spags on Twitter, I 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.760 mean just have to listen to one of them, right, No, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:11.280 absolutely not. So the Cowboys had their their Zoom meetings 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:18.200 today again, so virtual meetings. They caught here and did 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:24.559 their mock game run through the basically the Strengthen, the 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.560 weight room is closed and they don't have any coaches 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.200 available to run the weight room with Harold Nash, Kendall Smith, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:36.600 and Cedric Smith all out with COVID at this time. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:43.160 So yeah, they've basically telling the players that they need 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.640 to take care of their own conditioning. Uh, if you 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.800 need to go somewhere, or if you have weight stuff 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.800 at home to get your lift in, if you are 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.040 due for a lift, and make sure you get your 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:01.480 massage in. But yeah, the facility is still basically locked 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.679 down today. And then one other note, and we can 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.800 get into this a little bit later in depth, but 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.000 Tristan Hill, who's been suspended for two games, was appealing 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.480 his suspension. I don't know how much luck he's gonna 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.400 have with it, since there's video out there that shows 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:29.120 him making his hand right, And other than saying I'm sorry, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.760 I don't know where that appeals gonna go. Maybe he's 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.160 gonna say he should have dubbed right right, he gave 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:40.280 him time to dub banties. And by the way, John Runyan, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.360 who's the vice president of football Operations for the NFL, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.880 pointed out that his appeal will be heard by either 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.079 Derek Brooks or James Trash, of two former players that 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.520 are in the appeal process appointed and approved by the 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.640 NFL and the nfl PA at this point. So we'll 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:05.240 see if he gets anywhere with the appeal. Maybe he 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.920 just gets fined. And by the way, when they said 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.240 he was going to get fined one hundred thousand dollars, no, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:18.359 he gets suspended without pay, okay, and his weekly salary 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.920 divided over eighteen weeks is fifty four thousand dollars, so 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.760 that's one hundred thousand and eight. I gotta say, this 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.760 guy's playing well, and that's the unfortunate. Extremely active, he's 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.200 hustling all over the place. I guess the fresh legs 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.880 have a lot to do with that, But just seeing 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.640 him out there, he fits right in with the energy 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.839 level that our entire defensive line his head all season long. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.720 Right and and very active, especially in pass rush he 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.360 was getting pressure. Uh so uh and well, since you've 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.520 got all, you've been talking about him. Yeah, I know, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.560 I'm talking about him for like two years season, it 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.080 seems like. Right and and by the way, so this 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.880 is the letter he received, by the way, and then 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.000 we probably have to take a break from John Runyon, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.720 who I mentioned, VP of Football Operations. After Las Vegas 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.240 Raiders Dallas Cowboys game on November twenty fifth, you engaged 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:23.120 in conduct that is this offense this office considers unnecessary 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.959 roughness and a display of lack of sportsmanship. Specifically, as 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.840 both teams were shaking hands, you waited more than fifty 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.600 seconds for your opponent at the fifty yard line when 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:39.880 you located You then walked toward him in the opposite 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.079 direction of your locker room. You both engage in verbal 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.640 chest the chess confrontation, which you escalated by throwing an 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.160 open hand punched to his face mask forcibly enough to 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:56.080 cause your opponent's helmet to come off. And I would 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.280 imagine the helmet wasn't buckled. It was not because I 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.120 saw it, and it wasn't like it wasn't like cash 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.680 as Clay hitting Sonny listing right. He didn't. He was 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.280 just offended and he got hurt. And then the two 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.120 teams had to be separated. And I saw the big 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.600 peacemaker from the Cowboys was number seventy. He stood in 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.520 front of everybody that was starting to come after Hill. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:25.360 So uh, that diffused it. But again, like I said, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.000 he's appealing, and if not, then they're down a defensive lineman. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 Um and this one has nothing to do with COVID. 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.280 And Bill's volume looks like it when it lost Mike. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.040 All right, well, I'll tell you what. We'll take a break. Now, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.040 that's a pretty good time to take a break. We'll 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.960 get Bill's audio back up tenue with mix shots here 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.840 in a moment. Hey Cowboys fans, ready to spice up 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.200 your next watch party, Bring Yokierro guacamole and be the 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.840 game day hero. 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Oh, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.119 that gets me in the mood for what I'm going 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.520 to do right after Mick Shots today. You know what 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:44.159 I'm gonna do right after this show. Christmas Shop. No, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:50.600 I don't Christmas shop until Christmas Eve. Ch al right, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.520 there you go, Bill, I'll wait to christ That's when 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.159 I put mine up on Christmas Eve. Yeah, and preferably 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.600 not on the roof. No. I know, I don't get 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:08.040 on any roofs. No way I get on the sidewalk. Oh, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.440 but then you gotta bend down about to get I 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.159 know it's harder and harder to do that, especially when 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.600 you have arthritis and won him. But I'm gonna power 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:23.320 through it. Okay, Hey, how about Mickey. Get us up 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.280 to speed on the mood of Mike McCarthy when you 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.800 heard him in his press conference, you know, other than 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.080 a few coughs during his I don't know, it was 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.520 about ten minutes or so, no more than fifteen. Uh, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.960 he seemed to be in a decent mood. You know. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.800 One of the things he said that, uh, he said, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.720 it's kind of ironic that I had my I had 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:56.560 my booster shot scheduled for Friday, so he was gonna 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.360 get his booster shot. That's not the first person I've heard. 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.800 They that right before they were about to get And 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.680 that's what happened to him, so, um, you know, he 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.960 he stayed engaged with the team. He addressed him at 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.840 the team meeting. Uh, said he would do it again 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.240 Thursday morning when they have their team meeting before the game. Uh. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.800 So he's staying engaged. You know, whatever they do on 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.200 the practice field, he's got his iPad with him and 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.920 he can, um, you know, watch with what went on 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.560 and see how things went. Do they have a drone 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.240 over head or something? What's it going on? Drone? Yeah, 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.520 I don't know, but I'm guessing he's at the hotel 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.840 next door and um just has his own if he 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.879 just had a big telescope, right and we gotta go 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.880 to Oklahoma to get Yeah, yeah he could, he could. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.680 He can. I'm thinking I'm thinking Mickey and Everson. The 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.680 technology might be in place where he might be able 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.800 to even if he's not watching live. He's watching almost 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.560 right right. I wouldn't be surprised he has it very quickly, 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:08.320 the video of what's going on on the practice field. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.640 So he has stayed engaged. And as we talked yesterday, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:18.320 dan Quinn will take over the game day operation on Thursday, 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:23.840 along with coordinating the defense, making the defensive calls. But 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:29.920 the good thing is is that he has done this 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:33.080 before from the sideline. Everybody was worried about coming out 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.840 of the booth and calling the defense from the sideline. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.120 But as McCarthy pointed out yesterday afternoon when we finally 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.200 got to talk with him, that he for two years 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.639 at Atlanta when he first took over as head coach, 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.240 he did both. He did the game management from the 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.400 sideline along with calling the defense before he handed off 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.119 some of those responsibilities. And I think we talked about, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.000 you know, the other thing that Cowboys had to compensate 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:06.000 for as the offensive line, with Joe Philbin and his 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:11.040 assistant Jeff blastco testing positive so they won't be at 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.359 the game. So the likes of Lunda Wells, Ben McAdoo 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.080 and Chase Haslett have been taken over the offensive line 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:23.840 and probably will continue to do so through the rest 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.240 of the week and on game day. So for Lunda Wells, 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:31.679 it's tight ends and offensive line, and good that they 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.480 had Ben McAdoo here as a consultant because he has 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:44.400 a history in coaching offensive lineman. All right, what about 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.800 what Jerry had to say this morning? Anything to report 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:56.360 on Jerry UM. I guess he was the I'm trying 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.560 to remember everything that he said. You know, that was 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.959 a long time ago, eight thirty in the morning, right, 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:06.040 I was listening to it. UM. You know, he was 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:11.040 remaining positive, UM, and he wanted to emphasize that, you know, 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:15.600 they'll get UM DeMarcus Lawrence back ready for this game. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.879 He was able to go through practice on a Monday. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.280 They have to activate him off the return injured list, 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.119 haven't done that yet, but they have three spots available. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.800 Uh so uh, they can activate him for one of 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:35.080 those spots. If Amari Cooper was ready, they could activate 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.600 him off reserve COVID, so they would still have one 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:44.439 extra spot on the fifty three. UM Ezekiel Elliott. Whatever 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:48.560 they did yesterday went through a full practice. UM, and 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:55.520 they keep saying it media. Yeah, because he said that 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.600 they have to see how they're going to treat him 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.159 going forward. And I don't mind it. I mean the 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.200 guy to be better. You don't want him to be healthy. 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:04.480 If his ankle or his knee is hurting and is 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.440 continually hurting and he's not being as effective as he 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.760 wants to be, then let's make the move Otherwise, everybody 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:13.120 just shut up. I think I think what their their 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.520 plan is is to kind of continue the way they were, 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:20.840 give Tony Pollard more of the of the snaps, but 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:25.920 still use Zeke assuming that he can move. And look, 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.040 if you watch him run, everybody's saying, well, you can 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.320 see there's a difference. I don't see a difference. This 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.360 difference I see is I don't see any hole. That's 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.920 what I see. That he keeps getting hits. Yes, and 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.359 so that's you know, everybody's going, well, his yards after 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:45.920 after contact have gone down. Yeah, that's because the contacts 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:48.520 happening right away. One thing that you know, this spags. 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:51.639 As you look at other teams that are able to 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:55.560 rush the ball effectively, you maintain contact on the defensive 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.919 lineman or a linebacker. You just don't see us, especially 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.720 from the more inexperiences players. They're not maintaining the contact. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.800 So the defensive linemen are escaping quickly and they are 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:10.520 gang is gang tackling on our running back. So you 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:14.440 just have to maintain contact a little bit longer. But 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:16.600 then as we try to do that, then that's when 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.639 we're getting fourteen penalties, most of them being holding calls. 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:23.080 Right so that's the dilemma that you're dealing with on 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:25.080 the offensive line in the running game, you know, and 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:29.640 I think we have been bill spoiled by this offense. 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:34.200 How well it had been playing, you know, early in 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:37.800 the season, and then they hit this rough spot. You know, 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:40.800 four of the last five games they haven't rushed for 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:45.440 more than eighty two yards. And you know, you watch 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.880 other teams play, not everybody's lightening it up on offense. 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:53.400 As we saw last night again the Monday night game, right, 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.720 I didn't know if anybody was sport touchdown. I got bored. 0:24:57.040 --> 0:25:01.280 I got so bored. I can't imagine why you were riveted. 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:07.920 Oh man, it was like scratching your fingernails on the blackboard, 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.000 you know. And you know, when you look at just 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:15.440 how the operations going here, when we are just not 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.000 accustomed to that, that lack of effectiveness, and when in 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:21.359 our running game, and so of course that puts more 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:25.240 pressure on our quarterback, puts more pressure on our offensive line. 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:28.120 Two pass block, which is something we know they don't 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:32.280 inherently want to do. So here we are now approaching 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:38.479 aggressive pass rush. Aggressive Blitz calls quarterback under pressure almost 0:25:38.520 --> 0:25:41.080 every time he's passing the ball now. Granted he is 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:45.399 from what I recall, the number one passer under pressure. 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.639 I don't know if that's still a case, but he 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:50.000 threw it for over three hundred and seventy yards last week, 0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:53.600 two one hundred yard receivers. And if that's the way 0:25:53.640 --> 0:25:55.879 we got to go go forward, then we need to 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:58.680 be prepared for that. So we need all our wide 0:25:58.680 --> 0:26:01.200 receivers back. Yeah. And when it comes to just the 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.080 overall quarterback rating, DAC right now is a one or 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:10.119 four point two, So he is currently fifth in the NFL, 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:16.240 behind Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousin, and Matthew Stafford. 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:21.240 So his ratings still pretty high. The other thing that's 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:24.680 happened in four of those last five games is he 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:28.680 has been sacked eleven times in four of those games. 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:31.520 And the hits also and need to be add obviously 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.480 three of those are losses. Yes, and so there's no 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.840 secret of why this offense has slowed down. Offensive line 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:46.119 must play better. Let's talk a little bit here and 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:48.000