WEBVTT - Mick Shots: All Over The Map 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:19.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.760 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.440 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:38.239 and Mickey Spagnola Edition of Mick Shots. Bill Jones with 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.519 Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola, who is one of the 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.800 very few people in the entire world who can go 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.360 onto the premises of a National Football League facility on 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.400 a Monday or Tuesday. That's where Mickey is. He is 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.680 hunkered down inside the SWBC Mortgage studios. How do you 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.440 get such privileges, Mickey, I don't need essential. Yeah, I'm essential, right, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.440 Thank you very much. I don't know that it's a privilege. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.840 It's sort of a necessity to be here for some 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.000 of the work. But I can tell you this, there 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.600 ain't too many people up there. We're in our department 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.480 coming in on Tuesday. By the way, I think there's two. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.000 I think there's two of us up there. Let's just 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.520 be real. Bill Spags is having problems at home. Yeah, 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:40.039 that's okay. We've got you. We got your bag, buddy. 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:46.240 Ever right under the bus right off the shop. Well, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:52.000 but more specifically on that. As far as NFL essential personnel, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.040 this has been going on for a few weeks now. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.840 They can't be on at team facilities here on Monday 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.800 or Tuesday day, and so Mickey happens to be in 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.840 another The Star in Frisco is so large that Mickey 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.720 can be in a non essential wing of the Star 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.639 and that's why he can be on the premises, right, Mickey, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.040 do you realize I can't even remember the last time 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.000 I was on the other side of the building. It 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:29.760 might have been middle of January something like that. I 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.760 believe that because after that we had, you know, no 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:38.160 reason to be over there, and then you know, with 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:42.560 a little bit of time off and then there, I mean, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.920 we just didn't go. I think the last time they 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.000 did a deal with the assistant coaches, and I think 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.200 that was maybe been the last time anybody has been 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.000 over there, because then February hit and there was no 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.840 reason to be over there, and then by the middle 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.640 of March that that was it. It was closed down. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.640 And yeah, I'm gonna go through a whole season without 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.639 seeing three quarters of the players on this team or 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.600 meeting them. If you can think about that, I know that, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.040 I know Mickey. That is the most important thing. Everyone's 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.359 wondering about whether Mickey Spagnola has access to the team. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.800 But there's a lesser important aspect of that as well. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.400 And I was talking with Mike last week. We were 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.399 taping the Mike McCarthy Show on Wednesday. We normally would 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:35.880 do it Tuesday. Of course, Cowboys played on Tuesday, and 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.400 we normally tape his show on Tuesday, while we've switched 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.400 it to Wednesday now because he can't be at a 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:45.280 facility on Tuesdays during a normal work week like this 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.960 one is. But I asked, And last week they were 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.320 using the television studio to tape a Salvation Army segment, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.400 and so I was actually in the press conference room 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.800 right there in the eighth my segment of the show, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.800 virtually with McCarthy over in the coaches wing, the player's wing, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.720 uh the football operations wing. And so I asked, I 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.360 asked McCarthy, I said, have you even been to this 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.640 side of the building? And he do you even know 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.320 where the press conference room is? And he doesn't even 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:20.800 know where it is. He has not been to the 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.000 press conference room because of course, the pandemic hit in 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.440 March and the Cowboys offseason didn't start until um, you know, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.200 and it was virtually when it did start in April. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.640 And you know, his opening press conference was done at 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.039 Ford Center at the Star. He has no idea where 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.560 even the press conference room is at the Star in Frisco. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.599 That's how crazy this year is. So you tape his show, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:49.320 you guys aren't together, No, but I'm in this. I'm 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.080 in the TV studio and he is where he does 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.520 normally does his press conference, which is adjacent to his 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:01.160 office there on the and the operations wing inside Ford 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.480 Center because they're supposed to be coming over to this 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.560 side because we aren't the testing, right, we can't can't 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:13.440 have any exposure to us. That's right, you guys. You 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.320 guys are just uh. It's not nothing to do with 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.280 the Corona. You guys are just play. That's what it is. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.080 If if they could have done this years ago, they 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:27.200 wouldn't have done this, right, This is only use now, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.359 this a long time ago that we could get away 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.640 from the media like this. I would I would imagine 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.960 the post vaccine world up at the Star. If McCarthy 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.600 has anything to do with it. It won't change from 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.640 what it looks like right now. Not being around you guys, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:46.040 I would imagine the only time I've been down down 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.880 there in the in the studio area was when we 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.159 were outside, and of course I went to the wrong area, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.880 you know, Spats gave me specific instructions, and of course 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.320 I still screwed it up. So I was over the 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.240 main are. Yeah, I was about to go downstairs where 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:06.360 we do the podcast, you know, pre COVID, and man, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.920 they sent me through the ringer, you know, I had 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.720 to do all of this and then in the test 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.600 and I'm like, okay, where's fags and you guys are outside. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.440 So after all of that I ended up. Of course 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.520 I didn't want to tell y'all this story before the 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.800 show went outside, but yeah, I stumbled into that area 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.919 and it's it's it's you know, it's it's like a 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.760 ghost town over there. I have an office, my Ethos 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.960 Education UH Foundation has an office in the formation, and 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.080 I haven't been there either. I got this one kidney, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.640 so I'm not even thinking about going around anyone and 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.120 being in those close confines. Oh sure, Yeah, that's that's 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.960 understandable and you know, as it relates to McCarthy, go ahead, Mickey, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.640 now go ahead and finished with McCarthy and well, I 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.600 was gonna I was gonna say, I was gonna say, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.400 relates to a team that's struggled now at a four 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.360 and nine record, and you know, the different storylines that 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.640 emerge as you know the heat is on the coaching 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.080 staff and so forth. It really affects things. The way 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.280 media covers the team too. We don't have and the 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.760 mintal media in general does not have access beyond the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.840 zoom press conferences, the WebEx press conferences that are done 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.119 where you don't have the walk off with the coach 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.200 to get perspective on things. You don't have the opportunity 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.280 to talk off the record with coaches or players or 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.200 so forth, and it really it hurts the ability for 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.320 the media to do their job, and I think in 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.120 the end it hurts even the perspective of the coaches 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.440 and the players because what they are actually thinking, even 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.320 in an off the record perspective, is not able to 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.600 get out there to the media as easily as it 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.000 would in a normal year. Yeah, it's very It becomes 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.960 very sanitized because everybody gets the same information right. And 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.360 you know the other thing that I think it also 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.360 does is when you don't have face to face contact 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.840 with somebody, a player or coach that you're writing about, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.240 I think it encourages people to take shots because you 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.880 don't have to be confronted with whatever you say or 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.920 whatever you write. Right, No one's gonna like, oh hey, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.600 wait a minute, now, what did you say about me? 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.680 And you don't get that right, And you don't get 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.840 a choice of who you want to talk to. It's 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.119 basically who they provide for you to talk. Like yesterday, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.600 you know, we got the coordinators finally, it's been a 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.600 while since we've been able to have a conference call 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.320 with them. So you after Mike did his deal, the 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:55.240 coordinator spent ten minutes or so answering questions. But it's 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.800 easy to throw hard questions at somebody when they aren't 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.400 looking at you face to face. Um, you know, same 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.400 thing like yesterday when Stephen got peppered about. You know, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.560 is Mike McCarthy's job safe? You know, it's like all right, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.000 you know, I understand you want to ask that, and 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.360 you can ask tough questions, but it's easier to ask 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:20.240 him tough when you're separated, right, and uh so I 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.480 think that's changed things also, by the way, one thing 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.120 I was going to point out, I think before I 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:30.320 came down, the NFL PA did a conference call and 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:36.040 they had uh one of the their doctors, doctor Tom Mayer. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.960 Uh he was he was on the conference call and 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.199 one of the questions he got and I thought this 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:48.600 was somewhat important what they were going to tell the 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:53.120 players about the vaccine like and it was like, you know, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.120 he first said, uh, you know, you can't make them 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:02.400 take the vaccine. We would recommend, amended, But he also 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.080 said that what they're telling the players is there. It's 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:11.200 not known yet when this group of people in society 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.320 will be the vaccine will be available, and he said, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.400 and it would be unlikely for anyone in the team 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.600 area to be vaccinated before February first, so meeting before 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:29.880 the Super Bowl, but he said it's there. It's their 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.240 duty though, to let the players know about the side 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:38.600 effects that are generally mild and that they only last 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.559 maybe a day or so if indeed you get any 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:48.640 side effects. So I thought that was very interesting. And 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.840 he was talking about how the vaccines ninety four effective 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.680 for the people and that they would certainly encourage the 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.880 players and their families to get vaccinated, not only for 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.360 your own good, but to help everybody else out, because 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.680 you know, you don't want to be the guy that 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.800 spreads it to somebody else that didn't get vaccinated. So, uh, yeah, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:21.720 it was pretty interesting talking about how, how, how how 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:27.800 they're gonna inform the players down the road. Yeah, I 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.600 think it's pretty interesting when you look at the NFL 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.920 and you compare them to other workplaces, they can be 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:41.200 extremely intrusive on your privacy as a person because even 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.960 though we have a union, you know, you don't really 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:49.160 look at the NFL as a corporate environment so to speak. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.280 I mean, it's it's kind of it's almost an entity 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.320 to its own in regards to how you deal with 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.839 your employees. Usually with the NFL, they take a lot 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:06.520 of liberties when it comes to mandating that their players 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.560 dress a certain way, they have to come and talk 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.280 to the media. There are certain things that they are 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.640 bound to do that most corporations don't have the ability 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.240 to make you do. And now here we come with 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.439 the COVID, which is extremely important and it goes along 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.200 the same line as a flu shot that's when they 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.800 have to be hands off, right. They can't force you 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.800 to do anything and say, okay, you take this shot 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.720 or you're gonna be fired. You know you're gonna be released. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.840 That's something that they can't do. But if you don't 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.440 show up for a press conference, okay, if you don't 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.760 talk to the media and I'm talking pre COVID and 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.720 you don't talk to the media and things of that nature, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.839 there are certain things within the contract between the player 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.480 and the organization that clearly I think imposes on infringes 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.640 on you know, your rights as a human being. But 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.720 when it comes to this shot, they can't do that. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.560 And I think that's a very interesting comparison in regards 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.760 to how uh these these organizations treat their employees and 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:18.000 especially their players on those lines. You know, it's just 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.560 like ever since you mentioned off the top with one kidney, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.679 I mean, people have different medical conditions to where I mean, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.920 someone cannot dictate to a person whether or not you 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.880 know that just that person has to make the decision 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.800 on their own whether they're going to take a vaccine. 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.319 I'm looking at the clock trying to determine if we 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.720 got time. That was a great Monday night game last night, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.360 and I want to leave enough time for us to 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.760 get into that. How about way to do this first? Mackey, 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.240 you mentioned, well, no, I want to mention this because 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.360 you take an on time break. We never take an 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.880 early break. We need to take an on time break. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.560 You asked Chris about that. Yeah, you mentioned the question 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.560 asked to Stephen Jones yesterday, and there was an NFL 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.160 report that, uh that Mike McCarthy is coming back that 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.960 the and then and so I have to I have 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.040 to go on my CBS eleven newscasts last night, sportscast 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.400 last night and say that that. And you know, we 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.640 used the sound bite from Stephen Jones saying he's coming 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.160 back whatever. And I said, Stephen Jones asking answering the 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.720 question that nobody's asking because there's there's not any there 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.880 hadn't been any speculation that Mike McCarthy wouldn't be coming back. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.560 Nobody's asking that question. But we in the media, we 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.920 make it into a story because, Okay, now we got 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.880 a sound bite confirming that he's coming back. Well, nobody 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.600 nobody thought he wasn't coming back next year. I mean, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.520 it's just crazy the way our business works, and all 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.080 it has to do is one tale. The tale is 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.640 wagging the dog. One person asked the question, right, One 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:54.840 person asked the question and and you know, and I 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.000 think he kind of said, frankly, I don't even think 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.760 I should need to answer this. Um, you know, I 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.800 had even been a thought. And then Mike McCarthy, and 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.960 then it's got to be asked, Hey, the Stephen Jones 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:12.680 gave you, you know, it's like a ringing endorsement, ringing endorsement. 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:18.120 That and the way the question was asked to Steven 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.920 because I think Ian Rappaport had a report that Mike 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.000 McCarthy is coming back, okay, And so then it gets 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.120 asked if Stephen on the radio that are you surprised 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:35.160 that it's even being questioned that Mike McCarthy. So then 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.840 so then Steven has to answer it. So then it 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.720 gets turned around Mike McCarthy that okay, Well, Stephen Jones 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.360 says you're coming back. Whatever. It all gets twisted like 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.880 it's a story all of a sudden, and then this 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.160 morning Jerry gets asked about it, and so and so 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.200 now we're going on forty eight hours of a non 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.040 story where they're having to react to it. It's crazy. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.000 And Mike Nolan was asked, that's you guys fault. That's 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:05.320 all you guys. Don't say guys, that's why. That's why 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.680 y'alls talked about y'all so badly. He called you that. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.720 I believe he called you. He was before Trump calling 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.000 y'all the enemy of the people, if I'm not mistaken, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.360 So yeah, now where the defenders of the people. And 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:26.000 don't confuse talk radio with us guys. Okay, they're entertainers, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:33.360 were journalists and good. Let's not ever make that mistake again. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.120 But but that's the way the old fake news narrative 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:45.080 gets going, is is all right? And by you watch 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.600 this weekend on pregame shows, the big talk around the 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.080 in Dallas Fort Worth in Texas, around the Cowboys was 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.400 whether or not Mike mccarthe'll be coming back next year. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.360 There never was any thought about him. Now I was 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.760 gonna be on ESPN, They're gonna be talking about it 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.400 all that's right, all right, just getting started on mix shots. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.800 How about that Monday night game last night, Let's get 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.640 into that and maybe how this team might be able 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.960 to learn a little something from those teams last night 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.200 when we come back in a moment. 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Okay, do time music to my ears and 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.680 mouth new Dr Pepper and Cream Soda de las just 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:16.480 do back back back to mick shots. You can now 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.879 support your beloved Cowboys from anywhere. Open up AT and 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.840 t's fan Zone feature inside the Cowboys app and record 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.120 your personal cheer and referee signals. You will receive a 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.920 personalized mosaic and may show up on the AT and 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:37.159 t Live FX video board during the game. And the 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.000 game this week against the San Francisco forty nine ers 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.080 a noon kickoff at AT and T Stadium, And in fact, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.199 what a big week at at and T Stadium. This 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.480 week We've got for those of you not living in 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:54.760 the area, we have high school football state championship games 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.600 this week for the smaller classification starting from Class one 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.800 A through four A, top two classifications five A and 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.240 six A. Everson and Mickey, they're in. They're going into 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.359 just the second round of the playoffs here in Texas 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.959 in high school football in Texas. They're going to be 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:18.600 playing high school football playoff games Christmas weekend this year. 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.040 And in fact, they're six weeks of playoffs, and so 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.280 for the five A and six A schools they're playing 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.640 all the way until January sixteenth or so this year. 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.800 But but here's the deal this week, all right, So 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:35.920 you've got you've got high school state championship games starting Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.800 and then you got the big twelve championship game Oklahoma 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.520 and Iowa State at eleven am I think on Saturday, 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:45.080 and then the Cowboys in forty nine ers play at 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.360 noon on Sunday. So there you go. That's your schedule 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.480 at AT and T Stadium. That's a lot of field 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:56.399 changing out in Texas the next calendar years seems like, 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.159 can I see though that one of the division one 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.199 of the one A game, the championship game got postponed 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:08.560 or canceled? Yeah? Yes, when when it's a Class one 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.600 A school and you have a COVID case at a 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:17.399 school that only has fifty students to begin with, Uh, 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:23.320 it makes it problematical too. But you know what's happened is, 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.080 you know, early in earlier rounds of the playoffs, if 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.560 there's a COVID outbreak on a on a team, on 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:31.560 a high school football team, they just got a forfeit 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.880 the game. They can't play, and so you forfeit the game. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.000 The good news for that team of the town. But 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.440 the good news for that is they're just going to 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.040 go ahead and postpone their state championship game and play 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:46.840 it like a month from now when they play the 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.760 other state championship games, so it being the last round, 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.520 they don't lose playing the game. But uh, but yeah, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.000 that's the way, that's the way. It is. Is so crazy. 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:02.160 But the show must go on. That's right, that's exactly right. 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:07.320 And it was last night. It was a show that 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.320 before we get into it, but before last night, though, 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.119 I want to mention this, what do you think of 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.560 the announcers on the Cowboy game this week? This past week, 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.440 he had Kevin Coogler and Chris Spielman doing the game, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.760 and I thought, I really liked Mickey shaking his head there. 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:29.040 I like listening to Chris Spielman on the game. Spielman 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:33.959 was fine. That Spielman was fine, Yeah, yeah, and all right. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.040 And the reason I bring it up is that is 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.080 the last game Chris Spielman will be doing because he 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.800 is leaving the Fox broadcast booth and he is joining 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.439 the front office of the Detroit Lions. That's breaking news, 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.000 uh this afternoon, so he do so I found I 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.879 found an analyst that's a that's not a cowboy, a 0:22:52.880 --> 0:23:03.640 former cowboy. I gotta ask Bill, you know who impressed 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:05.720 me since you brought that up, and I think I 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:09.800 mentioned his name when he broadcast our game. I thought 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:13.600 Jonathan Villema did a good job. I didn't know who 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.239 he was by voice when I heard it, but I 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.919 thought he did a really thorough job in regards to 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.000 our game. I don't think we won that game, so 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.720 that's why you might not be so impressed with him. No, No, 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.760 that was the Viking game. He did the Viking game. 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:32.840 He really did a good job. He didn't talk too much. 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.560 He he just seemed to be very precise in what 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:40.359 he was saying. His thoughts were good, and he worked 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:43.000 well with the with the play by play. I did 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.240 like Spielman, but I enjoyed Villema just a little bit 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.119 more because I was surprised to hear that was his 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:51.960 name in the booth. And from then on when I listened, 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:56.000 I was impressed. Yeah, all right, and I and I've 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.199 hearded Spielman before. I just I just it was a 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.120 different voice, and I enjoyed it all. Monday night last night. 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.920 What do you think of that game? I mean, there 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.440 are games that happened during the course of a regular 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:09.480 season that remember, you know last year was it last 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.159 year when the Chiefs played the Rams and there was 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:17.720 a crazy game that went into the fifties whatever picks? Yeah, yeah, right, 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.320 And that was that was like one of the might 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:23.639 have been the most memorable game from that regular season, 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:26.800 the last Night's Monday Night game, and especially the storylines 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:30.520 with Lamar Jackson leaving the game, coming back and first 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.680 play throws a forty four yard touchdown past to Hollywood 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:36.359 Brown and to give him the lead, and then Baker 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.879 brings him back and then Justin Tucker wins it on 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.760 a fifty five yard field goal. I mean that that 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.720 game had a little bit of everything, you know. I like. 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:49.280 What I liked about that game was the drama of 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.200 it all. To me, a little bit over hyked. In 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:57.280 regards to Lamar coming out of the dressing room. It's 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:59.800 not like he was Willis Reid with a broken ankle, 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:04.439 you know, I don't know. There's one word that he had, 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:07.480 you know, just his hamstrings got tight on him. The 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:10.960 other word was he had to go relieve himself that one. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:15.159 So you've got those two, you know, stories out there, 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:18.320