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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for a Fabulous Friday,
Speaker 1: a Fabulous Football Friday edition of Big Shots, Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: along with Everson Walls and the star of our show,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola. Mickey, how long have you been in the
Speaker 1: Dallas Fort Worth market? Since the middle third maybe of
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty fourth season, So you're younger in this
Speaker 1: market than both Everson and me. Yeah, you're you're alior
Speaker 1: member of this of this group here in that year. Well,
Speaker 1: Everson was, Yeah, that's right. And we're all working now.
Speaker 1: It's a working weekend. It's a football weekend. We've got
Speaker 1: one National Football League game under our belt last night
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. We've got the big ones still to come.
Speaker 1: It's the marquee matchup of this weekend. It's the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Rams at brand new Sofi Stadium
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And you'll note what am I wearing here?
Speaker 1: We go Cap super Bowl Bill is back for this
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots, and by the end of this
Speaker 1: forty five minute show, I'm going to press you on
Speaker 1: making your super Bowl predictions. This is Friday, super Bowl
Speaker 1: Prediction Day, and I will have mine by the end
Speaker 1: of the show as well. Well, we already have we already,
Speaker 1: We already have Mike McCarthy's, because there's only one goal
Speaker 1: in the season. That's to get to the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have one half of my pick. They have one
Speaker 1: half of my pick. You have one half and half.
Speaker 1: By two fifteen Central time, you will have the other
Speaker 1: half of you. Well, I guess I better start rushing
Speaker 1: by all right, Mickey, bring us up to speed on
Speaker 1: what's going on. We heard Mike McCarthy at ten thirty
Speaker 1: this morning right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys doing a non traditional although now it is
Speaker 1: traditional because it's the Mike McCarthy era Friday walkthrough of sorts,
Speaker 1: and then a more strenuous workout on Saturday before the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Bring us up to speed on what
Speaker 1: you know out there at the Star inside the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studio. Well, it's kind of quiet here because I
Speaker 1: think everybody that's in kind of the world worker b
Speaker 1: section of this place realize that there wasn't much going
Speaker 1: on today, so a lot of working from home, it
Speaker 1: certainly looks like. But the Cowboys will get to work today.
Speaker 1: It's a one hour walk through later this afternoon, and
Speaker 1: then I see their itinerary for tomorrow, and the COVID
Speaker 1: testing which is mandatory before the meeting begins on Saturday,
Speaker 1: begins at eight eight no, wait, six thirty to eight
Speaker 1: am in the morning, so it's no weekend for these
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, and they are scheduled to depart the charter
Speaker 1: site out at DFW at three o'clock PM and head
Speaker 1: too lax. So that's kind of their schedule for these
Speaker 1: next two days. And between it sounded like, between listening
Speaker 1: to Mike McCarthy, between tonight and tomorrow's team meeting, they
Speaker 1: will announce who this week's team captains will be, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's a decision between Mike McCarthy and
Speaker 1: his assistant head coach Rob Davis, So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a weekly reward, it sounds like. And then they will
Speaker 1: choose the one person because you only get one person
Speaker 1: to go out there for the coin flip from each team.
Speaker 1: No more five people huddling up, shaking hands, hugging, patting
Speaker 1: each other on the back for social distancing, and he
Speaker 1: was whoever draws the short straw has to go out Yeah,
Speaker 1: right exactly. Tony Romo hated it. He hated going out there.
Speaker 1: He said, the last thing I want to do before
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a first snap is start frattonizing
Speaker 1: with Somebody's going to take my head off, right, he said.
Speaker 1: I just I just hated it. And so the key
Speaker 1: question was Mike, are you a heads or a tails
Speaker 1: guy on the coin flip? And he goes, I'm a
Speaker 1: tails guy. But they follow up with the next question
Speaker 1: that needed to be answered, which is do you take
Speaker 1: the ball or do you defer? So we'll see some
Speaker 1: of that this week out serious stuff, right, hate I
Speaker 1: hate deferring to me, if you win a toss, you
Speaker 1: go out there with your offense and you drive it
Speaker 1: right down the field. I hate how we have to
Speaker 1: make this, you know, we have to make this statement
Speaker 1: early in the game. My defense is going to go
Speaker 1: out there and stop him back and backfire so badly
Speaker 1: on you. Sometimes I don't think it's worth the risk.
Speaker 1: If you have a chance to get the ball, you
Speaker 1: get the ball and you go score. To me, that's
Speaker 1: how you make a statement. I never understood that whole
Speaker 1: thing about, you know, trying to intimidate the other team
Speaker 1: because my defense is so amazing. That stuff you're going
Speaker 1: and that stuff can going to on you so fast
Speaker 1: you'll be behind before you know it. I never did
Speaker 1: like it. And you know what, I'm absolutely with you.
Speaker 1: It's like, why would you give the other team to
Speaker 1: put you in the hole before you ever touched the football, right,
Speaker 1: at least give yourself a chance. I did it. Now.
Speaker 1: I did somewhat understand Jason Garrett's thinking on that when
Speaker 1: he would say he would defer when he was on
Speaker 1: the road because the home crowd would be all fired
Speaker 1: up and everybody's yelling and screaming and they're in their
Speaker 1: seats and he goes, and you know, your offense may
Speaker 1: malfunction because of all the noise, and he goes. But
Speaker 1: if you get the ball to start the second half,
Speaker 1: most of the people aren't back in their seats after
Speaker 1: going to get something to eat and drink, and it's
Speaker 1: not as noisy as it would be. To start the game,
Speaker 1: so there there was no reason. When you think about
Speaker 1: that logic, I still see I still see it backfiring.
Speaker 1: If you get the ball after say their offense goes
Speaker 1: down to scores, you're gonna have the same noise right
Speaker 1: the fact it might raise a decimal even if you
Speaker 1: get it either way on the second drive of the game,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter. By the time, by the time
Speaker 1: you get to the second half, you might be down
Speaker 1: by three scores already. So now still doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And think about this, even with the kickoff now and
Speaker 1: everybody gets excited and they're standing and clapping, and then
Speaker 1: it's a touchback. It just yeah, it deflates the start
Speaker 1: of the game. Remember for the kickoff, everybody get up
Speaker 1: and they wave their white towels and then it's a touchman. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well what do the analytics say though, Oh well, that's
Speaker 1: most important here, he goes, I think you have will
Speaker 1: what dude, what do they say? What? I have no
Speaker 1: clue you should, I would say, I would say, the
Speaker 1: analytics say, do not defer. That's what I would say. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of people who will disagree
Speaker 1: with you on that. That you defer giving your team
Speaker 1: a chance to have the ball to start, and the
Speaker 1: reason that they do that is so that you can
Speaker 1: double up on possessions at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: You know you're getting the balls to start the second
Speaker 1: half and you can steal an extra possession. Well, what
Speaker 1: makes you think the rotation of possessions is going to
Speaker 1: turn out that way? There's there's no guarantee you're gonna
Speaker 1: have two in a row. That's right, that's right. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I think I'm I'm monitoring on
Speaker 1: periscope anyone who wants to chime in on the old
Speaker 1: coin toss decision or if you have a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty four prediction, which, by the way, super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: four will be on my network once again this year
Speaker 1: on CBS this year. Jim Nansen Romo, So we know
Speaker 1: Tony Romo is making it to the Super Bowl this year. Time. Wait,
Speaker 1: way to go, Tony, You just made it with the
Speaker 1: wrong team. I'm sorry, All right, Mickey, Yet give us
Speaker 1: what you know about an injury report. Although things are
Speaker 1: going to be up in the air with this new
Speaker 1: practice schedule that we've got as far as the coach
Speaker 1: been able to see UH injured players play throughout the week. Well,
Speaker 1: the only thing we're going to find out is what
Speaker 1: happened after yesterday's practice, right, because the injury report today
Speaker 1: will be UH, they'll they'll put in parentheses A a
Speaker 1: prediction or an assumption because the practice will be on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to update it on Saturday. H
Speaker 1: So as of yesterday's practice should have been Alluzier full
Speaker 1: both days Wednesday Thursday, Marie Cooper full both Wednesday Thursday,
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford limited both days, and Jordan Lewis did not
Speaker 1: participate both days and that probably won't change. So, and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of talk will Brandon Carr
Speaker 1: be active or inactive? And Jerry kind of skirted the situation.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, well, we'll make those decisions on Saturday.
Speaker 1: But I just think without a training camp and he's
Speaker 1: only been out there two days, I don't know that
Speaker 1: they use a roster spot for him, or I should
Speaker 1: say a game day roster spot, because you wouldn't promote
Speaker 1: him to the fifty five if he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: be on the forty eight. So that one hasn't been
Speaker 1: clarified yet, But I somehow kind of doubt that he
Speaker 1: would be ready to go after two and a half practices,
Speaker 1: and the and the rams are pretty much about two.
Speaker 1: But this thing about the Saturday practice, the thing about
Speaker 1: the Saturday practice, I started thinking about that last night
Speaker 1: and how they might have a little bit more of
Speaker 1: an uptick than most teams have on a Saturday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't you have a player out there with a
Speaker 1: gympie ankle or you know that that growing not quite
Speaker 1: where you want it to be, but you're gonna give
Speaker 1: it a try anyway. And you go out there and
Speaker 1: you're you're you're you're integral part of the say, third
Speaker 1: down defense, and you go out there and just go
Speaker 1: out there and screw something up. You screw up that
Speaker 1: same injury, you reaggravate it. What happens then, I mean,
Speaker 1: what if it affects, you know, his movement, and he's
Speaker 1: really may not say he's out for the game, but
Speaker 1: he may be extremely questionable in his own mind because
Speaker 1: now he has just reinjured himself. I wonder if McCarthy
Speaker 1: has had that kind of issue in the past, and
Speaker 1: what would he do if he had that issue in
Speaker 1: the future, and I prettily doesn't, but that could be
Speaker 1: a real possibility because on Fridays, you know, we kind
Speaker 1: of chilled on Fridays, but you still had guys going
Speaker 1: for the ball. And when you're talking about muscle injuries
Speaker 1: and these limb injuries, then that something could reoccur on
Speaker 1: that Saturday and that could be disastrous, sort of like
Speaker 1: when you guys went to Denver and was it eighty
Speaker 1: five or eighty six and Danny Danny White pulled up
Speaker 1: lame after running down for conditioning on uh special teams
Speaker 1: and then I think Randy White hurt himself. Also somehow
Speaker 1: I remember all that stuff, and yeah, i'd remembered as well, Well,
Speaker 1: you know we uh we weren't really uh in the
Speaker 1: hunt that year anyway. Was that eighty six? I believe?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was. That was the reason you started
Speaker 1: off six and two. Yeah, you're until remember until Danny
Speaker 1: that would have fractured his risk he share? Did he share? Did?
Speaker 1: And the number one on since that really happened, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that that certainly couldn't happen. So you have to
Speaker 1: wonder if you can do it on a Friday, you
Speaker 1: can do it on a Saturday. Well, of course it
Speaker 1: say it'll be a contactless practice. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: one hour kind of no padded practice, remember so, But
Speaker 1: it could happen, you ever, know, when somebody pulls him ust. Okay,
Speaker 1: ever again, let's go ahead, go ahead. What do you
Speaker 1: think of McCarthy's tradition of not having permanent team captains
Speaker 1: for the entire season and doing it week to week.
Speaker 1: You know, that's something very different. I never cared much
Speaker 1: about who the captain was because from year to year
Speaker 1: it would change. But if you're going from week to week,
Speaker 1: it does kind of seem like a unnecessary ritual. I
Speaker 1: guess you might call it from week to week. Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't you know, I don't think anyone would really
Speaker 1: care about it. When you're a captain for the entire season,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's a badge that you keep for
Speaker 1: the entire season. You know. If you're just a captain
Speaker 1: for a week, I don't know, that's that just seems
Speaker 1: kind of so abbreviated. Obviously. I think that there's something
Speaker 1: that's a bit unnecessary to have to really, you know,
Speaker 1: you and the assistant coach get together and and pick
Speaker 1: a captain every week. No I don't think much about
Speaker 1: it at all. Bill, that's a long way to say
Speaker 1: I don't care for it, and early Mickey. And the
Speaker 1: other part of that is most teams, it's like the
Speaker 1: teammates vote on the captains, and or at least they
Speaker 1: have a large say in, or they think they have
Speaker 1: a large say. Who knows for sure, once who's actually
Speaker 1: tabulated the teammates votes. The coaches have the finals say
Speaker 1: on who those captains are, but they like to make
Speaker 1: the players think that they I had to say it.
Speaker 1: Who they got a story for your Bill, I have
Speaker 1: at well, you know Coach Lantry. You know Coach Lantry
Speaker 1: did not care. I recall we wrote the names down
Speaker 1: on paper. I don't know if you were there yet, Spags.
Speaker 1: We wrote all our answers down on paper on who
Speaker 1: wanted this? So you got all these little slips of
Speaker 1: paper with names on them, and we gave them all
Speaker 1: to Coach Landry, and before he ended the meeting, he
Speaker 1: put he took all of them and he bawled them
Speaker 1: up in his hand, put them in his pocket and said,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. We'll let you guys know who
Speaker 1: the captain is. After you said it, just like you said, Bill,
Speaker 1: we thought we knew who the captain. We thought we
Speaker 1: were voting for captains, but no, we were not. It
Speaker 1: was it was merely just you know, uh, just a
Speaker 1: little dressing on the on the side, that's all it was.
Speaker 1: So Mike mccarnie Lowhouse ask on periscope can someone be
Speaker 1: named captain on multiple occasions? Sixteen game season? There's everybody
Speaker 1: on the team is gonna be a captain. If you
Speaker 1: don't have multiple captain then you you what about the
Speaker 1: guy that never gets to be picked, Well, he's gonna
Speaker 1: feel bad. But think think about it's only a one
Speaker 1: day designation and then it disappears after the game. Right,
Speaker 1: it's not like they put a seven. I never got picked.
Speaker 1: If I'm not, if I'm not gonna never got picked,
Speaker 1: then I never got picked. I didn't even get picked
Speaker 1: for a day. Well, you're only gonna have thirty two
Speaker 1: of them, right, somebody's not gonna get picked. Well, and
Speaker 1: we don't know how superstitious Mike McCarthy is. If the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you know, name their three captains this week and they
Speaker 1: win by thirty points, the same three captains are going
Speaker 1: out the next week, aren't they so wait is it?
Speaker 1: Is it one of three? Two? One of three? He
Speaker 1: said two O two. I thought, I thought, I said three.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, maybe he did, maybe there's a special
Speaker 1: teams guy. But he said, you offense, defense and specialty.
Speaker 1: He looks at it as promote leadership, like given different
Speaker 1: guys to learn to be leaders. So you're a leader
Speaker 1: on game day, by the way. As a public service announcement.
Speaker 1: So we got two screens in here right in the
Speaker 1: podcast studio, and we're on one screen and there was
Speaker 1: a game being played on the other and I was
Speaker 1: kind of looking at it and it was San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, who are they playing? And
Speaker 1: every play so it turned out to be a highlight
Speaker 1: clip every play. Ninety nine was sacking the quarterback. Ninety
Speaker 1: nine was Alden Smith, by the way, unbelievable. This must
Speaker 1: have been his second season when he had like nineteen sacks.
Speaker 1: They can't stop him. And right now they just rushed
Speaker 1: the Bears with a three man line. All three guys
Speaker 1: in San Francisco were standing up and all three guys
Speaker 1: met in the end zone at the quarterback. By the way,
Speaker 1: so okay, he was amazing, ye, And we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out on Sunday night how amazing he is after a
Speaker 1: few years off, and it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how much playing time Alden Smith gets against the Rams.
Speaker 1: All right, we're just getting started on this edition of
Speaker 1: mix Shots. Mick will give us an update on how
Speaker 1: that Niners Bears game is going in just a moment,
Speaker 1: and we'll dive into the matchups and later. It's our
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Speaker 1: here on Mick shots, Bill Jones, Everson Walls at Mickey
Speaker 1: Spagnola who continues to follow the at the Niners and
Speaker 1: the Bears that you're watching there in the SWBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: studio there, Mickey, it is on right now, and he
Speaker 1: just sacked him for a seven yard loss. Who Campbell?
Speaker 1: What was the quarterback? All Jason Campbell? Jason Campbell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna remember that guy. So this is I remember
Speaker 1: Jason Campbell. Everson, you know, you played for Bill Parcels
Speaker 1: and you know he would talk about distractable players. You know,
Speaker 1: he talked about if he had a cornerback who who
Speaker 1: wasn't attentive to what was going on in the build
Speaker 1: He's looking up in the stands or whatever. Oh, Mickey
Speaker 1: is the ultimate distractable player in Bill Parcells. Uh mind,
Speaker 1: because he we got to turn off those TV monitors
Speaker 1: when we're doing the show. Mickey, I'm multitasking. And by
Speaker 1: the way, the screen is right next to the camera
Speaker 1: I'm looking at, so I got one eye on the
Speaker 1: camera and one eye on the screen. All right. He
Speaker 1: do have a little bit of research, It's right, Bill.
Speaker 1: I mean Aldam Smith is the guy that he's looking at. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what he's doing. I hope that this carries
Speaker 1: over into the game on Sunday night. That would be really,
Speaker 1: really nice. Did you guys have one eye at least
Speaker 1: on the Thursday night game the Kansas City Chiefs in
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. And if so, what did you take
Speaker 1: out of that game that? Yeah, I did that one
Speaker 1: eye on You're right, I had to. I had Lebron
Speaker 1: and one eye I had my homes on the other eye, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, I had to. I had to take a
Speaker 1: look at my Lakers and see what was going on.
Speaker 1: The game pretty much went the way I thought it would.
Speaker 1: You know, my home's doing this thing, the touchdowns piling up.
Speaker 1: I knew that they were going to struggle offensively in Houston.
Speaker 1: As much as I loved Deshaun Watson, I think they
Speaker 1: stripped him of all of his weapons. I really do.
Speaker 1: When they took Hopkins away. They don't have a good
Speaker 1: running game. You know, this is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that just kind of leads a disaster. And I can
Speaker 1: see DeShawn Watson running all over the place trying to
Speaker 1: save his own life, just like he's done the past,
Speaker 1: really the past two years. And one of those games
Speaker 1: was against the Cowboys. I didn't think he would finish
Speaker 1: the game because we were just laying him out, and
Speaker 1: he actually came back and won that game. Against Dallas,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, but to put him through all
Speaker 1: of that that he goes through offensive line is average.
Speaker 1: They don't pass block well. He's going to be on
Speaker 1: the run for his entire this entire season, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna make him earn that money. He deserved it and
Speaker 1: he's gonna earn it. I had an eye and a
Speaker 1: half on Jamie Ben and a half an eye on
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Had two TV's going at once. Yea, and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Stars came through for you with a victory.
Speaker 1: They got a two one lead in that Western Conference finals.
Speaker 1: You know what, at the time though that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: selected Clyde Edwards Hilaire out of LSU, I said, what
Speaker 1: a great draft pick. That was late in the first
Speaker 1: round and a first game in the NFL. He showed
Speaker 1: what a great pick he was. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it would be a surprise to anyone.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a huge season for Kansas City if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy. Yeah, not just late in the first round.
Speaker 1: That late in the first round. They were picking right
Speaker 1: and they get him. He was shredding the Texans defense,
Speaker 1: just shredding him. They couldn't stop him. So I saw that,
Speaker 1: all right, So and I saw the beginning of and
Speaker 1: all that too. All right, So let's let's fast forward
Speaker 1: to Sunday night. What our expectations on Sunday night when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys take on the Rams? Just off the top,
Speaker 1: what is it? What's the big thing you're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking for, Mickey, let's start with you. Well, I think
Speaker 1: there'll be two big things I'll be looking for. How
Speaker 1: well that Cowboys right tackle functions in place of Lale Collins?
Speaker 1: And then can this team play the run effectively? We
Speaker 1: get all fired up about their ability to rush the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's why we were talking about Alden Smith, Everson Griffin,
Speaker 1: a big sack guy in Minnesota. But can they stop
Speaker 1: the run like they did when they played the Rams
Speaker 1: at at and T Stadium in what was a game
Speaker 1: I think thirteen game fourteen at the end of the
Speaker 1: season and they held them the twenty two yards rushing.
Speaker 1: I know they've got different running backs now and they're
Speaker 1: you know, have changed the offense a little, but they've
Speaker 1: got to be able to stop the run to earn
Speaker 1: the right to rush the quarterback. One thing I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to is not just winning, of course, but how
Speaker 1: we win. I'd love to see the approach that the
Speaker 1: coaches take in regards of the game plan, because, let's,
Speaker 1: let's face it, we had so much talent last year
Speaker 1: defensively and offensively. It was a letdown on both sides.
Speaker 1: Even though offensively we had numbers off the chart, a
Speaker 1: lot of those were in comeback situations and desperate, come
Speaker 1: from behind situations. Unfortunately, I'd love to see if the
Speaker 1: predictability is gonna still be there. Is it gonna look
Speaker 1: the same? Of course, we have the same plays, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. We have a lot of the
Speaker 1: same players, the same system. We've got, you know, great talent,
Speaker 1: but how are we going to coach them? How are
Speaker 1: we going to manage offensively? How are we going to
Speaker 1: do in the red zone? Are we going to be
Speaker 1: just as ineffective as we were last year? And as
Speaker 1: you talk about defensively, will we able to be able
Speaker 1: to stop the run? Will we be able to get
Speaker 1: off the field. I love the stats that we had
Speaker 1: last year. Defensively had great stats, but that didn't add
Speaker 1: up to wins. Can we stop someone on third downs?
Speaker 1: Can we stop the run when we need it when
Speaker 1: we need to and so that's that's what I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to. Our our play calls, not just offensively, but
Speaker 1: how aggressive are we going to be defensively? Not just
Speaker 1: against the run, but how aggressive we're going to be
Speaker 1: against the past in these key situations. I hope that
Speaker 1: this coaching change, we can see the change in the
Speaker 1: coaching because we know what we've always had the talent.
Speaker 1: I want to see the change in the coaches. Vicky,
Speaker 1: let me ask you. You know, the key thing that
Speaker 1: happened I think in the preseason was Gerald McCoy going
Speaker 1: down in the first first padded practice at that defensive
Speaker 1: tackle position. How do you think it's going to manifest
Speaker 1: itself on Sunday Night inside with the inside players? Obviously
Speaker 1: Don Terry Poe is a key free agent acquisition as well,
Speaker 1: But how do you think that the Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to be able to compensate for what they expected going
Speaker 1: into this preseason? They would have a six time Pro
Speaker 1: Bowler in Gerald McCoy in there. Now, what are they
Speaker 1: going to do? Yeah, and I'm not straddling defense here,
Speaker 1: but I think you're going to see a committee at
Speaker 1: that three technique. You're gonna see Tristan Hill, You're gonna
Speaker 1: see Tyrone Crawford, and I think at times you could
Speaker 1: even see Everson Griffin moving inside and have a defensive
Speaker 1: front with Alden Smith, Everson Griffin, DeMarcus Lawrence, and then
Speaker 1: you just picked the other guy that's that's in there,
Speaker 1: and it might be Crawford, who knows um. So I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see a combination of guys. And
Speaker 1: I thought you would have seen a combination of guys
Speaker 1: even if McCoy was there, because you know, if you
Speaker 1: watch some of his game tape from last year, he
Speaker 1: wasn't that destructive. He wasn't the guy that went to
Speaker 1: six consecutive Pro Bowls in Tampa Bay. So I think
Speaker 1: that they they'll mix it up, and they've got enough versatile,
Speaker 1: flexible players to be able to compensate for his absence.
Speaker 1: You know, usually when you're dealing with older players, it
Speaker 1: takes them a little while to to get rapped up.
Speaker 1: You know, usually the second part of the season that's
Speaker 1: when they played well. I was looking forward to McCoy
Speaker 1: being that guy. I didn't look for much input from
Speaker 1: him the early part of the season. I thought he
Speaker 1: would be that guy when we needed him to come
Speaker 1: through and make plays, kind of like Rondo does for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. That's what I was looking forward to mccau
Speaker 1: doing for us, a guy that was going to come
Speaker 1: through and be just instrumental when we really needed him.
Speaker 1: We're going down the stretch and I have to say, Bill,
Speaker 1: the thing that is going to be glaring in this
Speaker 1: game is how well the Cowboys do on special teams.
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to that. You know, you could
Speaker 1: have a good punner, which we do have. We've been
Speaker 1: very consistent in our punt game for years and years
Speaker 1: here in Dallas, but I would love to see us
Speaker 1: have a return game. If we could have a great
Speaker 1: punt return game. You just don't you will understand how
Speaker 1: much of a difference that could make in the outcome
Speaker 1: of a ball game. That's just one score you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about. That's a one or two, three
Speaker 1: or four first downs that you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about as you start your offensive drive. So that special teams,
Speaker 1: we made a big deal about it when we first
Speaker 1: had the coaches come over. I'm looking forward to sing
Speaker 1: a difference all the way around, not just in the
Speaker 1: punk game, but in the punk return game as well, Nick,
Speaker 1: if you think Ceedee Lamb's gonna return punks, Yes, I
Speaker 1: don't know that it'll be all of them. They may
Speaker 1: do it in a situation where when they've got what
Speaker 1: you would call basically an offensive return, meaning the Rams
Speaker 1: are kicking from deep in their own territory where they
Speaker 1: got to make sure they'll keep guys in to block.
Speaker 1: I could see you putting him out there standing on
Speaker 1: the you know, thirty forty fifty yard line. If you
Speaker 1: get that opportunity and then there's a safe kick, then
Speaker 1: maybe you send Cedric Wilson out there and you just say, okay,
Speaker 1: just catch it. Uh. And they've employed that before. I know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if John Fossil uh looks at it
Speaker 1: that way or not, but I do think you'll you'll
Speaker 1: utilize his ability to run with the football. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: I was expecting I was gonna say, I was I
Speaker 1: was gonna say last night, I was expecting more sloppy
Speaker 1: special team just because they can't practice it. But I
Speaker 1: didn't see any glaring mistakes. Um. But I was sort
Speaker 1: of expecting that because you know, while you can do
Speaker 1: Levin on Levin, you do special teams. You're just going
Speaker 1: down there and kind of brother lawing everything. You're not,
Speaker 1: you know, tackling anybody or trying to break tackles or
Speaker 1: block somebody to the ground. And this will no preseason.
Speaker 1: This will be their first opportunity to do all this
Speaker 1: and live football. You know when you when you do
Speaker 1: when you try and have a good return in that situation, spags,
Speaker 1: you really have to be careful. A holding penalty can
Speaker 1: be very damaging on pump returns. So as much as
Speaker 1: I'm looking for some superlatives from my returns specialist, I'd
Speaker 1: love to just at times see some mistake free ball,
Speaker 1: because when you put yourself in a hole after a
Speaker 1: holding call and instead of starting somewhere around the thirty
Speaker 1: five and now of a sudden, you're deep in your
Speaker 1: own territory at the ten, that makes a big difference
Speaker 1: in the drive. And these are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that you really don't want. You don't want to really
Speaker 1: test your offense right now in this type of situation.
Speaker 1: You want you you want to win these games by
Speaker 1: being smart and by making the plays that are open
Speaker 1: to you. You want to be opportunistic. You don't want
Speaker 1: to have to get up there and being in one
Speaker 1: of those controlled chaotic environments right now, I think cowboys
Speaker 1: need to be as even killed as possible with and
Speaker 1: try to play as mistake free football as they can.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about safe catches. According to what you
Speaker 1: guys told me about Ceedee Lamb and how he catches
Speaker 1: that ball, I put him back there for us safe
Speaker 1: catch as well. Wilson can stay over on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: If I have a guy who can catch the ball
Speaker 1: like that, he's gonna be the one back there catching
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't care where it is on the field,
Speaker 1: you know. And last year, you know, you make a
Speaker 1: good point on the penalties on punt returns because it
Speaker 1: was almost fifty fifty if there would not be a
Speaker 1: holding call on the punt return. And I got to
Speaker 1: the point where it was like either catch it, fair catch,
Speaker 1: no return, or just let the ball roll till it
Speaker 1: stops because I'm tired of seeing holding penalties or blocking
Speaker 1: penalties on the return. And yeah, and you know, without
Speaker 1: being able to go full speed and do this stuff
Speaker 1: that very well could happen. So and that's serious penalty
Speaker 1: because you negate whatever return yardage you get because you
Speaker 1: start the ten yard loss from where you caught the ball.
Speaker 1: So and sometimes it's a twenty thirty yard of Bill
Speaker 1: Parcel's hidden yardage that takes place. And as Bill says,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Hey, it's crunch time. When we come
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Speaker 1: for our picks to click, and Mickey, my pick to
Speaker 1: click this season for the Cowboys is a guy by
Speaker 1: the name of Tank Lawrence DeMarcus Lawrence I think is
Speaker 1: going to have a huge season, and as we kick
Speaker 1: off this segment, DeMarcus Lawrence probably is a pretty happy man,
Speaker 1: isn't he right about now? Well, that's a good point there, Bill,
Speaker 1: because they just turned fifteen million dollars of his base
Speaker 1: salary into a restructured signing bonus. So instead of Evan
Speaker 1: to wait the entire year to get paid his sixteen
Speaker 1: point nine million dollars base salary in seventeen installments, they
Speaker 1: just handed him fifteen million dollars in signing bonus, reduced
Speaker 1: his base salary to one point nine million, his cap
Speaker 1: hit to nine point nine million, and then they spread
Speaker 1: that signing bonus over the next five years of his contract,
Speaker 1: so three million a year to create more money available
Speaker 1: in the cap this year that they can use. He
Speaker 1: created twelve million more and that if you don't use
Speaker 1: it this year, you can put it in the pile
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty one, when there's an expectation of the
Speaker 1: salary cap going down because the downturn of revenue with
Speaker 1: teams not having fans in the stands or the majority
Speaker 1: of the teams not having any fans in the stands
Speaker 1: because of the COVID, so they did put a ceiling
Speaker 1: on the drop in in league revenue for the cap
Speaker 1: at one hundred and seventy five million. So say it's
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five and you roll over twenty
Speaker 1: you get it back too close to where it was,
Speaker 1: or is I should say this year? Okay, as far
Speaker 1: as this game, let's start with this game and then
Speaker 1: we'll we got five minutes left here, so I want
Speaker 1: here's what I want. I want your pick for the
Speaker 1: game and your picks to click in this game, and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna do it for the season. How about that?
Speaker 1: So okay, so it's a sort of rapid fire here. Ever,
Speaker 1: since let's you want to start here, start us off
Speaker 1: with who's gonna win this game? Give us a score
Speaker 1: and maybe a key to victory and a pick to click.
Speaker 1: You're talking the Cowboys game, of course, Cowboys righting Cowboys Browns.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for play this week. Grambling is Gramblings playing
Speaker 1: in the spring. I'm sorry, I think we're talking Cowboys there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking for the game. I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will control the game. Let's go with the store a score.
Speaker 1: I would say twenty four to ten Cowboys win. And uh,
Speaker 1: the guy that I think could stand out in this game,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a great year as well,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. I think Michael Gallup is gonna really stand
Speaker 1: out this year. He's gonna continue his improvement from over
Speaker 1: last year. Is a great year last year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my that's it for me. You see how very
Speaker 1: good Mickey. I'll go ahead and give him. I'll give him,
Speaker 1: I'll give mine and will I thought you already gave
Speaker 1: us DeMarcus. I thought you already gave us DeMarcus Lure.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's for the season, Okay. I got I
Speaker 1: picked to win the game. I'm picking the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: win a pretty high scoring game. I'll go thirty to
Speaker 1: twenty seven, and I got the former Ram Greg zerline
Speaker 1: kicking the game winning field goal as time expired. Thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty seven, Cowboys win. You had to be dramatic,
Speaker 1: didn't your bill? You just it's also got to have
Speaker 1: a storyline with it. My storyline and my pick to click,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I'll go with Everson Griffin in
Speaker 1: this game that we'll see some big time plays from
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin matched up against thirty eight year old Andrew Whitworth. Interesting. Interesting.
Speaker 1: So either you either you listen to my fan report
Speaker 1: prediction at twelve twenty or twelve thirty. I did not
Speaker 1: or worth or worth thinking alike. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of nations, right because I predicted that Greg Zerline would
Speaker 1: kick the winning field goal, a walk off field goal
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to win twenty four twenty one. And
Speaker 1: the reason I picked twenty four twenty one twenty nine
Speaker 1: years ago. That was the last time I think I
Speaker 1: got one of these scores right, when the Cowboys beat
Speaker 1: the Redskins at RFK Stadium and I had predicted a
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty one victory, right. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever hit another one since, So watch out for that.
Speaker 1: And as the pick to click in the game, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with one and unsuspected candidate Ezekiel Elliott. He's
Speaker 1: gonna hilare him. He did that last year too, didn't he? Yes?
Speaker 1: He did? All right, there you go, it's good. I
Speaker 1: like that. Okay. As for the season, all right, First off,
Speaker 1: who wins the NFC East Cowboys Cowboys? I got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys winning the NFC East and the trend will continue,
Speaker 1: which has gone for fifteen years, a different winner of
Speaker 1: the NFC East every single year. All right, who are you?
Speaker 1: Who are your Super Bowl teams? Ever since you had
Speaker 1: you said you had a half of one when we
Speaker 1: started this show. You got it all figured out now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do believe last year's disappointments is weighing heavily on
Speaker 1: this team's mind. The Baltimore Ravens, I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: make it this year. I think Lamars is just gonna
Speaker 1: improve even more. I think he's gonna be more in
Speaker 1: tune with his wide receivers. That defense is always amazing.
Speaker 1: Love the coach, of course, Harbor, you just can't do.
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that he'll do all he
Speaker 1: can to get his team to the super Bowl, even
Speaker 1: if it means going on fourth and five during the
Speaker 1: first quarter of any game of every game. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get there no matter what. So I say, Cowboys versus
Speaker 1: Ravens in the Super Bowl and who wins Cowboys? Of course,
Speaker 1: I'll give your score. I'll give you a score. I'll
Speaker 1: give your score. Cowboys win twenty to sixteen in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I got you. Mark it down. Chris, which
Speaker 1: is a kind of a throwback to the first Cowboys
Speaker 1: Super Bowl ever when they lost to Baltimore sixteen to thirteen.
Speaker 1: But this time they beat Baltimore, they get an extra
Speaker 1: touchdown and win in twenty twenty to sixteen. All Right,
Speaker 1: Bob Lily, Bob Lily can hold onto his helmet this
Speaker 1: time he doesn't have to throw it down the field
Speaker 1: or at the TV screen. Okay, Mickey, you're turned quick.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Uh Cowboys, I said they win the East. Uh,
Speaker 1: they make it the NFC title Game. They'll lose to
Speaker 1: the Saints, and it'll be the Saints and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. And who ends Saints? All Right,
Speaker 1: you got the Saints winning the Super Bowl. I've got
Speaker 1: I'm a combination of both your picks. I've got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys win in the East. The Cowboys go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and they play the Dallas Texans in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowls despite how they looked last night. All right,
Speaker 1: Texan and uh, and so we might as well, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep drinking the cool we might as well
Speaker 1: gulp it all down with my super Bowl cap on
Speaker 1: on CBS eleven in Dallas, the Cowboys win the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl over Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. There
Speaker 1: you have it. We're on the record. I can look
Speaker 1: at this at the end of the season, all right.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the game, everybody, and we will see you again
Speaker 1: on Monday to wrap it all up at one thirty
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