WEBVTT - Mick Shots: It's Vikings Week 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:16.759 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is nick Shot 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.920 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:25.599 Dallas Cowboys apt now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:34.720 and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a Tuesday of Vikings Week. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:40.240 It is officially underway since both opponents for this week's game, 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.040 both the Cowboys and the Vikings, have all of their 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.879 games played leading up to this game after Monday Night 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.640 Football last night, and Cowboys we now know facing a 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.200 red hot Minnesota Viking team that has won three straight games, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.640 including nineteen to thirteen over the Chicago Bears last night. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.880 Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola inside the 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:09.959 SWBC Mortgage studios at Forge Center at the Star in Fresco. Mickey, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:15.840 before you say anything, Everson, what are you wearing a 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.840 g that can't be a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt? It 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.759 is not Green Bay, It is not who did I say? 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.880 It is not even Garland High School, which you know. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:36.399 I've sat here Spagnola for god weeks and I hear 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.840 Bill Jones tell all these high school stories about at 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.880 least underachieving quarterbacks. Give me a story about a Garland 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:51.000 High school quarterback, William Jones. Come on, man, I don't 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.080 know that I can give you a Garland unless Bobby 0:01:54.240 --> 0:02:00.560 Boyd play. First of all, Bobby boy Bobby Boyd and 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:06.120 my uncle, his name was Joe Boyd Walls. They're both 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.000 in the Garland Hall of Fame right now. And if 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.840 you let the story go as legends told, my uncle 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.040 beat Bobby Boyd so bad in the hundred yard dash 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.400 that he turned around and started running back. Was at 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:23.720 the end when he crossed the finish line. Now, as 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.880 I continue with this, I'm I gave you all kinds 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:33.480 of hints. Nineteen seventy seven, who was the quarterback for 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.440 Garland High School? Well, I know who the star basketball 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.480 player was for Garland High School in nineteen seventy seven. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.680 That would be one Ricky Pierce, who went on, there 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:48.720 you go, good job, you digress. You're digressing. Don't get 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:53.040 you're digressing Garland. Where did hercan can't believe it. I'm 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.079 sitting right here and you don't know where did Hercules? 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:06.320 Hercules Walls, my second cousin, one of the best high 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:11.120 school quarterbacks that Garland has ever had. He had a 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.320 fullback by the name of Philip Walls, who was his brother, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.839 and they went through. I believe they made it through 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:24.160 to the regionals with a veer quarterback no more than 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.000 five feet seven inches tall. He was one of the 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.399 fastest guys to come out of Garland in history. He 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.080 was almost he was this close to making the Look 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.640 at that, my man Chris got it all, baby, He 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.280 was this close. He was this close to making it 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.160 to the Olympic, to the Olympics in the two hundred 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.840 meter dash. He was passed up after finish line. Was 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.280 less than ten years ago. Call Lewis, Leo Barell and 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.440 some other blur passed him up right before he finished 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.400 the finish line. I'm so proud of my cousin Herkey Walls, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.440 who by the way right now is a pastor in Orlando, Florida, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.360 doing very well. Check him out on Facebook, kay once 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.280 in a while. So all right, y'all have to check 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:16.480 you out Turkey Waters. The next time you come up 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.080 with some white dude that played quarterback in Texas and 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.839 you you know somebody, boy, Bobby Boyd is one of 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.080 the greatest ever come out of Garland played at University 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.280 of Oklahoma and in the NFL. Of course, that's what 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.080 they say in the suburbs. But in the hood, in 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:41.599 the hood, everybody knows Joe boy Walls and he was 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.120 way better than Bobby Boyd. No, I won't say way bad. Now, 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.760 both of them work ever since. I think we can 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.600 make it through an entire mix shots without Mickey saying 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.520 a word. I'm going there. I'm going there. Shut up, Mickey, 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.080 I'm going there. We're gonna get there. Okay, So what's 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.440 the G four? Then, if it's not for gy on 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.360 the docky Walls, we got, we got, We got ten 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.160 minutes to go in this segment, I think I can 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.880 fill a buster and keeps bags out of the entire 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.920 I've had about enough of this, okay, So then who's 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.919 the greatest quarterback in Grambling school history? Oh? Come on, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.239 come on, Doug Williams. Baby, I was there, Doug Williams. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.799 I was there. I got toasted many times in practice. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.120 So that's a testament to his great right. There you go. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:29.680 So we've established it is Grambling. It's not. It is Grambling, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.920 thank you very much, sir. It couldn't. That's Grambling State 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.840 now not Grambling College. For all those old heads that 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:41.119 keep thinking Eddie Robinson still alive, He's he's gone, gone 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.479 the glory. But a great man, Eddie Robins. Yes, sir, Yes, sir, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.360 he was. I could tell I could tell you a 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.000 training camp story about Eddie Robinson, but I guess we 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.120 had eventually need Mickey to speak. Hello, Mickey, No, we 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.920 don't know, we don't. No, we don't be like a 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.760 commercial and see how fire we can go without mentioning 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:08.440 the show. Okay, I'm out of breath now, Okay, I'm good. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.240 I just wanted to know, did Bobby boy dunk on you? 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:23.000 Is that why you remember him? Bobby? Bobby Boyd goes 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:27.640 back to the fifties, right, Okay? Heck of an athlete, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.200 heck of an athlete for real? Yeah, that's right, all right, Mickey, Ricky, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.279 you tell us boy, that was a humdigger of a 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:40.840 football game last night, wasn't it. I wasn't sure either 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.200 Vikings did what they had to do. Yeah, I didn't 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:50.120 think either team wanted to win the game. Goodness great, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.960 So what do you think of the Cowboys? What do 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.599 you think of the Cowboys? Chances? Then, against this Minnesota 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.520 Viking team that's won three straight games. Now, well they've 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.960 they've won three straight. They've beaten Green Bay, Detroit and 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.280 Chicago without a legitimate running back on the field, by 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:13.560 the way, and boy Nick Foles, what's happened to him? 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.080 Or is the Bears offensive line man bad? That was terrible? 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.840 They're that bad? They are that bad? Wow, you think 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.320 the Cowboys have problems. I think most teams have proxy 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.560 different offensive lines, and yet they're still in the hunt. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.440 And then, lets you know, you got to win any 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.360 way you can spags, No, I don't care what. That's 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.880 why all three fascets are important. You can go into 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.080 a game thinking you got the best running game in 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.240 Vikings history, but sometimes it just doesn't work out and 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.440 you have to find another way to win. That's where 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.640 coaches come in. That's where teammates come in. What's that's 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.920 where the other fastest of the game come in. Been 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.920 saying it all year long, we need all three. You 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.000 can't just depend on one fast of the game. Well, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.160 maybe the Cowboys can kind of take the blueprint of 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.640 what the Bears did to stop Delvin Cook held him 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.000 to ninety six yards, and that's quite an accomplishment that 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.920 when you look at what they're doing, and even with 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.160 those ninety six yards and having not played as many 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.800 games as Derrick Henry, he still leads the league with 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.960 nine hundred and fifty four yards rushing in the nine 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:30.720 games or the eight games that he's played. So yeah, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.760 the key on that it was ninety six yards on 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:37.040 thirty carry right exactly and three they did, which is 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.200 they've been a half yards to carry less than what 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.440 he's average. They made sure their defensive front didn't let 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.320 him get to the next level. They were stuffing him 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.000 at the line of scrimmage. Next time somebody asked me 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.760 who the Cowboys had trade for. I think that Hicks 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.040 guy's pretty darn good. Huh. Ninety six playing in the 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:03.280 middle of that defense. My gosh, And they're missing in 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.920 Chicago's missing one of their top guys up front who 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.920 opted out Goldman. It was a first round pick a 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.880 few years ago, and so yeah, they were doing a note, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.880 they were doing a number up front and lile their 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:20.880 linebackers to engage. So maybe the Cowboys and we're gonna 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.280 find out, right, if the Cowboys improved play against the 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:28.800 run these last couple games can carry over into now 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:34.120 having to face the team that's averaging one hundred and 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.440 fifty three point six yards a game rushing when the 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.280 Cowboys give up one hundred. I believe the Cowboys had 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.360 one hundred and fifty seven a game. They've been given 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.720 up rushing, but it's improved these last two games. So 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:55.000 the key to slowing down the Vikings obviously you better 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.520 stop Delvin Cook. And oh, by the way, don't go 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:05.160 to sleep on Jefferson, the wide receiver from LSU. My goodness, gracious, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:11.040 he put on a performance. He ended up with eight 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:16.000 catches for one hundred and thirty five yards. Pretty good, dude, there, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.720 I gotta ask you, Spags, I haven't really started my 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:28.520 research on the Vikings. Is it their offensive line that 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.320 is so good? Is that what allows Delvi and Cook 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.400 to be so successful, because as you say, every time 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.080 I see him, he doesn't get touched until he's on 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.800 the second level. Now, that's when Cook shows what he 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.920 can do, because once he gets in the second level, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.480 then he's already slicing and dicing and the secondary can't 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.320 handle him. But because the steam is already built up, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.880 who is the cabalist on that line. Is it the coach? 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.920 Is it the offensive line? Coach? Is that the system 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:07.800 what allows them to be so consistent and persistent because 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.240 Jefferson had his plays, But you're talking about rather somebody 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.680 thirty times. Like Bill said, that means that you are 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.319 committed to what you do well, because we know Kirk 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.000 Cousins is not who you're going to hang your hat on. Yeah, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.120 and I think the I think their offensive line is 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.080 pretty good. But I think I noticed about the Bears 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:33.920 is everybody stayed in their gap. Nobody start chasing the football. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.120 Everybody was manning their gap and moving with the flow 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.800 and not coming out to allow any cutbacks. The other 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.800 thing with him, you got to be careful of h 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.120 and it's one of the things Mike McCarthy talked about 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.559 yesterday was you know there their outside run game when 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.640 they throw that pitch to him and let him get 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.080 in space, because if you leave space for him, you're 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.200 going to be in trouble. And the other thing you 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.560 better watch out for is when they throw the screen 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.400 pass or not even a screen pass, a little dump 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.600 off to him. You get that guy in space and man, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:12.200 he's scouting. So I think Mike McCarthy said yesterday that 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.000 he would liked all his guys to watch the game 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.319 that was their homework assignment, and if they watched that, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.840 they better buckled their chin straps down, because even though 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.160 he only gained ninety six yards, it's the only third 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.400 time this season he's been he's run for less than 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:35.040 a hundred yards, so he's been pretty consistent. I'll tell 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:40.000 you another something about their offensive line. And you know, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.360 a couple of years ago, of course, Tony Sperrano was 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.520 their offensive line coach, and rest his soul, he passed 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.280 away right before the season began a couple of years ago, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.360 and I think they were hurting a little bit after, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:55.480 not only obviously emotionally going into that season, but I 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.760 also think that they missed him a lot as far 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.600 as him his coaching ability on that offense line. And 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.160 now I think what they've done on their offensive line 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.120 is evidence. This past week, I mean, they released Pat 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:13.360 elf Line, who came into his career in twenty seventeen 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.760 with Sperano as his offensive line coach, and he was 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.040 really really strong to begin with. They he came off 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.240 injured reserve and they just flat waived him this week 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.760 and there are ten teams that put in claims on him, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.200 but that says a lot about what they have on 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.320 their offensive line. And I don't know what was going on. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.200 There may have been something going on behind the scenes 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.360 with elf line. I'm not sure from an attitude standpoint, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.160 because there wasn't a spot for him to play on 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.080 that offensive line because guys were playing so well. But 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.840 they've invested in their offensive line. They've got a first 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.959 round draft pick at center and Greg Garrett Bradberry. They 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.720 signed Riley Reef and who was a former first round 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.760 pick of the Lions in free agency in the last 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.520 couple of years. They got Brian O'Neill at right tackle, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.960 who's a round pick. And they've got another second round pick, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.760 Ezra Able in a rookie this year plan at a 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:06.959 guard position. And so yeah, and I think if you 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.960 look across the league, you saw it with the Steelers 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.760 a week ago. The Steelers don't have any injuries on 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.080 their offensive line, and I mean on their team. They 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.280 don't have any injuries outside of their inside linebacker on defense. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.040 And the healthy teams, the healthy offensive lines are the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.080 ones that are getting it done. And that's what's happening 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.240 with the Vikings here the last few weeks. They've kind 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.920 of figured things out in the run game, and as 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.480 you heard Mike McCarthy yesterday on his press conference, he 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.360 talks about that outside zone blocking scheme that the Vikings 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.400 have and it's very similar to what Cleveland does. So 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.920 the Cowboys defensively will have their work cut out for 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.360 him against the Vikings this week. So you mean they 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.840 don't have any undrafted rookie starting at right tackle and 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.560 a second year undrafted tackle having been starting at left tackle. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:59.560 Goodness great, that's exactly right. Not to mention the center 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:04.240 that p this hamstring in warm ups, you know what, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.120 And that might have I'm pretty sure they didn't have. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.760 That might have been the third biggest loss they had 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.000 other than the two starting tackles. Not having him back 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:16.840 in there, I think hurt against Pittsburgh. Beannist was playing 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.600 pretty darn well and they can't get him back soon enough. 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:27.600 By the way, So how's how's Zeke doing? Because I'm 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.280 still looking forward to that thunder enlightening combo for the game. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:36.200 I enjoyed how we played, I mean, even with the 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.720 center out, even with our backups and and free agents 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.840 and undrafted and all of this. I thought we really 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.800 exposed Pittsburgh in regards to how they played the run. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.320 I mean, you're talking about the best team in the 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.600 league right now, and we're gashing them, you know, not 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.720 just with the starter, but with the backup. We talk 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.800 about everybody wants Paula to give more time, but I 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.800 looked at these numbers. They want that bad. I think 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.840 it's the average was pretty good, especially considering that he 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.160 came into the game a little bit limping a little 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.680 bit and Pilot was able to take over. I think 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.320 we're I think as far as the rushing game is concerned, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.520 I think that might be the strength of this team, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.520 our rushing, our running game as opposed to rushed defense. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.200 Well the other part of that, ever, son, is the 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.120 play callers got to use that run game. I mean, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.000 one of the reasons that Garrett Gilbert, I think one 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.120 of the reasons that he had success a week ago 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.240 running that offense was there was more balance between the 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.840 run game in the past game by necessity because you've 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.560 got a quarterback who doesn't have much experience. But if 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.920 Dalton's the guy going forward, I think that they need 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.080 to have that same kind of approach with Dalton as 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.560 a quarterback. I mean, I don't think you can expect 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.480 Dalton without the practice time with this offense that Dak 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.280 has had, not only this year in the offseason on 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.600 his own, but also in past years with Maury Cooper 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.200 the last couple of years in Michael Bluff as well. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.080 I don't think you can expect Dalton to run the 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.840 same offense that Dak was running, obviously, and so I 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.680 think you need to take advantage of the fact that 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.040 that you've got a couple of good running backs. Uh. 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.200 And and also I think you see also with offensive lines, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.600 even with veteran offensive lines, a lot of times it 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.439 takes a month into the season before they start clicking. Well, now, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.080 whoever you have upfront, at least you've had him for 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.879 a little bit now, where especially in the run game, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.560 things can can work out a little bit more. But 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.280 Mickey has a great point about beyondsh I mean, we love, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.920 we all love Joe Looney, but beat has really showed 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.440 what he can do in the in the month or 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.880 so that he was starting, and I think he's got 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.240 a very bright future. But in Looney in his career, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.119 outside of the one year where he filled in for 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.440 Frederick and in the first month. But he plays a 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.560 tremendous role on this team. It's a spot starter and 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.159 a great team guy. Uh, and a great guy to 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.199 have on your team. But uh, you want to go 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.679 with and especially the last half of this year, you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.080 want Beotist to get as many reps as he can. Yeah. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.480 And it also helps the running game when you get 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.240 off to a nineteen to nine lead, right, and you 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.840 don't have to throw the ball like thirteen to nothing 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.399 to start the game. That's right. You don't have to 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.760 throw the ball fifty four times that Dalton through against Arizona. Yeah, 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.360 that that wasn't in the game plan. Uh. And and 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.200 I know we got to hear what we got to 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.800 hit the break here. But this one last thing, and 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.200 I got to ask this question, and I was wondering, 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.240 you know, And it's always a stat thing. Some stat 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.960 person comes up with this stuff that that Zeke's not 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.239 really good, uh for yards after his first hit, And 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.639 I'm going, what are you talking about? Most of his 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:58.440 yards have come after first contact because he's plowing right. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.240 Even in the Pittsburgh game, there was a lot of 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.440 runs that should have been zero in one yard it 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.399 turned into three five yards, right kind of his game. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.840 And I can't believe somebody came up with a stat 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:15.360 that he wasn't very good after first contact, and it's like, okay, 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.359 I want to see this first contact is usually it 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.920 is usually in the backfield. This first contact is usually 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.800 in the offensive backfield, which right after he gets the ball, which, 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.960 by the way, is why I believe why McCarthy didn't 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.240 go for it on fourth and inches against the Steelers. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.040 If you looked at his three previous carries prior to 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.040 that eight yard run that got him in position to 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.320 have the fourth and inches, he got a grand total 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.680 I think of one yard on three carries. Yeah, so 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.800 he was stymied in the backfield on those and did 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.600 all he could to get back to the line of scrimmage. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.159 All right, we're just getting started, Mickey. You got a 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.320 lot from Jerry Jones. There's a radio show this morning 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.040 on the fan. 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So Bill, we got kind of 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:20.600 confirmation or what Mike McCarthy pointed out at his conference 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:25.600 call yesterday that Andy Dalton was indeed cleared to practice, 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.720 so he was. He was good to go and looks 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:34.240 good probably going forward. Mike liked the way he practiced. Uh. 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:39.240 Chitterbee Woozier was also in practice, and Mike's when asked 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:40.960 if do you think he'll be able to start, and 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:44.280 he said, well, I hope so. Uh so, Uh, that 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:48.879 was good news. Tyrone Crawford did not practice. He was 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:53.560 still in the COVID nineteen protocol. Uh, so we'll see 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:56.760 what happens with him. My understanding is it was a 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:02.200 contact deal, so it isn't like he tested positive. So 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:04.320 maybe in another day or two when they get back 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:07.520 to practice on Wednesday. Uh, he would be able to go. 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:11.320 So that's uh, so he would probably he would be 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:16.359 need three negatives before spread out over five day period 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.800 or so five or six probably the way way it works. 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.960 So and I think that came down on Wednesday, Wednesday 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:26.679 or last week. I think, yes, Thursday, and so we 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:30.520 said Thursday, right, so Thursday Fridays. You know, they've been 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:34.080 testing all along. And as Mike pointed out, because they 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:39.200 did not practice, uh in the scheduled practice on Wednesday, 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.600 they just moved that to yesterday. So they did yesterday 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.480 what they would have done that one practice during the 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:50.440 bye week. So uh, that was uh somewhat good news. 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.840 And I thought, you know, since we were talking about 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:55.480 the Cowboys and you know where they're at two and 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:59.879 seven going into these last games. Um, he had a 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:04.760 he had an interesting comment when he was asked, why 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.080