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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. It's time for another edition of mix
Speaker 1: Shots and it's a fabulous Tuesday inside the s WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studios there at the Star in Frisco. That's where
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola has just arrived for the show and Everson
Speaker 1: Walls in his customary spot with the picture of Everson
Speaker 1: behind him in his home office. I made my home
Speaker 1: office as well. As we put the wraps on Atlanta
Speaker 1: and look forward to Seattle as Seahawk Week is about
Speaker 1: to officially begin on Wednesday, and Mickey, you'll arrived just
Speaker 1: in time for your own show. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1: Had a lot of stuff to do, you know, I
Speaker 1: got one more than one master, and we needed to
Speaker 1: do a couple of TV things, and I cut it
Speaker 1: a little close, but I guess I can get to
Speaker 1: my lunch that's sitting over there. A little later, much later,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, I got a bank. It we do
Speaker 1: have breaks, though you certainly didn't. Don't try doing the
Speaker 1: breaks might be something in your teeth when we come
Speaker 1: back you don't want to do. Spare us all, please, Mickey.
Speaker 1: All right, there was so much to get to yesterday
Speaker 1: forty five minutes couldn't contain us. And so there's carry
Speaker 1: over today. And first off, Mickey, got any breaking news
Speaker 1: out there at the Star in Frisco, anything on your
Speaker 1: mind to get kick things off? Well, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it sounded like it was encouraging what Jerry Jones had
Speaker 1: to say this morning about Tyrn Smith, the potential availability
Speaker 1: for the game on Sunday, that certainly would help the
Speaker 1: cause instead of having to sign to start two undrafted
Speaker 1: offensive tackles the way they did this past Sunday and
Speaker 1: somehow some way got away with it to score forty
Speaker 1: points with Terrence Steele and Brandon Knight starting at at
Speaker 1: at the tackle positions. So I think from a I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's news or not. And I guess
Speaker 1: the other news we found out last night that what
Speaker 1: Greg Zurline did for the on side kick is called
Speaker 1: a watermelon kick, A great name. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that. John Fossile John fossils playing the name because
Speaker 1: you lay the ball down on the ground like a watermelon. Uh,
Speaker 1: and if you if you kind of push a watermelon,
Speaker 1: it usually spins side the side like that. So they
Speaker 1: named it the watermelon kick. I like that. I love
Speaker 1: I love watermelon. That is good that elamed they talk about, Uh,
Speaker 1: the fact that the entire kickoff team had zero idea
Speaker 1: that they could pick up the ball if they could
Speaker 1: pick up that watermelon before it went ten yards? Did
Speaker 1: they even address that fact? Did you say Atlanta or
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? No? Did Atlanta talk about they did? And
Speaker 1: did anyone Atlanta? Dan Quinn said that they they absolutely
Speaker 1: knew that they could do that. That was not a
Speaker 1: coaching error. I think everybody probably got cold that got
Speaker 1: cold feet that they didn't want to be the one
Speaker 1: to jump on the ball and not recover it. But
Speaker 1: I'm thinking you could have just had three guys jump
Speaker 1: on it and recover the ball before it got to
Speaker 1: ten yards. Well, the way they played, just the way
Speaker 1: that everything came down, especially in that last drive. When
Speaker 1: you look at it, it was just chaos all the
Speaker 1: way around, even from the the official standpoint. You remember
Speaker 1: the gallop played of course we did you know where
Speaker 1: what they say, one butt cheek equals two feet right?
Speaker 1: At first, at first it was called incomplete. The referee
Speaker 1: was emphatic, he was waving it off out of bounds.
Speaker 1: And then of course the penalty came, and after that
Speaker 1: they changed the call on the reception on the incomplete
Speaker 1: to a completed call, which off a little bit of
Speaker 1: confusion but also gave the Cowboys options in regards to
Speaker 1: how they wanted to treat the penalty versus the reception.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out who came over and
Speaker 1: talked the referee out of uh calling that an incomplete
Speaker 1: to a completed pass. Did you did you do any
Speaker 1: research on that spact? Well, they huddled up, so um,
Speaker 1: I guess they got together, but it got reviewed, right,
Speaker 1: didn't he challenge it? Right? Right? But initially you would
Speaker 1: not they initially we would have had to challenge correct
Speaker 1: because they had called it out. Initially, it called it incomplete.
Speaker 1: And say to me, I thought that was a little
Speaker 1: bit of unnecessary confusion in a very frantic two minutes.
Speaker 1: But Mickey, you were at the game, right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you you saw the officials huddle up for those
Speaker 1: of us watching on television. I don't think they showed
Speaker 1: the officials huddling up prior to the referee making the
Speaker 1: call and the announcement of the call. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: back judge obviously he ruled it incomplete, and I just
Speaker 1: assumed that they must be huddling up for them to
Speaker 1: change it. In the side judge or whoever felt like
Speaker 1: he had a better view of it, and after they huddle,
Speaker 1: and then that put the onus on Atlanta to challenge
Speaker 1: the call, and so the Falcons then challenged it, and
Speaker 1: on review you couldn't I mean, it didn't matter either way.
Speaker 1: If if they would have ruled it incomplete, I believe
Speaker 1: the review would not have changed the call because it
Speaker 1: was too close to call. There wasn't enough evidence there,
Speaker 1: and so as it was, since the call on the
Speaker 1: field was that it was a good catch, there wasn't
Speaker 1: enough evidence on the video on the review, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was a good mood by Atlanta to challenge it
Speaker 1: because you don't know for sure what kind of what
Speaker 1: you're going to get on the replay. But that was
Speaker 1: a huge play of the game. But the Cowboys any
Speaker 1: huge call, as it turns out, for them to get
Speaker 1: together and in the Cowboy fans opinion, get the call
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, absolutely, because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: they started the play started at the forty three and
Speaker 1: it ended up at the five, so that that that's
Speaker 1: a huge, uh play in the game. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys Uh did have the choice though, uh because
Speaker 1: there was a holding call, defensive holding call, which would
Speaker 1: have only been five yards in the first down. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have taken to what thirty seven thirty eight
Speaker 1: yard completion. But they did have a conflict. There was
Speaker 1: four of them all together before they made the decision
Speaker 1: to say, yeah it was complete. Well, and you know,
Speaker 1: it made it, It made it. Uh. What made it
Speaker 1: even more frantic was they had just called called the
Speaker 1: penalty on cdee Lamb for the crackback blocks exactly. It
Speaker 1: got everybody was kind of flipping out, you know, in
Speaker 1: the stadium as well as in our respective homes because
Speaker 1: of course, things were extremely intense. We were looking at
Speaker 1: having to do two scores at that time, and uh
Speaker 1: it's almost as if, you know, the referees were trying
Speaker 1: to take the game away from us. So you had
Speaker 1: two I still call them controversial calls right there. Uh,
Speaker 1: doing an extremely important part of the ball game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you think about it, the completion the Noah Brown
Speaker 1: was down to the fifteen yard line. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: then uh not only did you get penalty, you know,
Speaker 1: you lost that completion, but then you got you got
Speaker 1: the penalty on them in force two and it backed
Speaker 1: them up all the way to the forty three. Uh
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was a significant a little sequence there
Speaker 1: on calls. But you know what I've noticed watching all
Speaker 1: these games over the h first two weeks. The officials
Speaker 1: need preseason, by the way. Oh man, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of problems. There's been a lot of problems. Man, it
Speaker 1: has been horrible. Let's let's call it. They have had
Speaker 1: some of the most well not just what they what
Speaker 1: they have called, though there are the calls that they
Speaker 1: did not make that almost makes as big a difference. Uh.
Speaker 1: This has been uh, extremely unusual for the referees to
Speaker 1: where I'm surprised that that story has not been written
Speaker 1: more often spags that title. I have not seen that
Speaker 1: title in any stories in any publication. But the referees
Speaker 1: at this point, I would be giving them maybe a
Speaker 1: C plus. In all of the games that I've seen
Speaker 1: and the mistakes that have been made and the calls
Speaker 1: have been this a c plus at best. And you know,
Speaker 1: they have a hard enough time calling interference one way
Speaker 1: or the other. Now it's even worse because some of
Speaker 1: the calls they're making are so tickie tack. It's almost like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's hurry up, let's call that right, instead of kind
Speaker 1: of seeing the thing through. And now that you can't
Speaker 1: challenge the interference anymore, boy, it makes it doubly hard
Speaker 1: to take some of these calls. So, yeah, they needed preseason.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. And you guys correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, but I thought I saw where some
Speaker 1: of the officials opted out, like the guys that normally
Speaker 1: would be doing these jobs decided that they didn't want
Speaker 1: to do it this year, in this pandemic season. And
Speaker 1: so now you've got a lot of new guys, and
Speaker 1: there seems to be a lot of new head referees
Speaker 1: out there that the names don't seem to be recognizable
Speaker 1: that we're used to seeing as well. The other the
Speaker 1: other thing that's happened is even over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, there's been some veteran officials who ever retired
Speaker 1: as well, unrelated to COVID this year, and so there's
Speaker 1: some new new blood out there. And let me ask
Speaker 1: you something, Bill, and I really spags as well. Do
Speaker 1: the referee still go around to each training camp site
Speaker 1: and talk about the new rules coming into play and
Speaker 1: what they're going to emphasize with each team. I remember
Speaker 1: that was a very unusual meeting between the teams and
Speaker 1: the reps, especially if you're like the Saints who were
Speaker 1: really cheated out of that Rams game a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. You know, when you see the referees in
Speaker 1: training camp, you know, the guys involved, the coaches, the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: the receivers, dbs, whatever, they're going to have their notes
Speaker 1: ready for those group of referees and they're going to
Speaker 1: take them to ask in regards to the calls that
Speaker 1: they made last year at their team and how they're
Speaker 1: going to change or you know, adjust for the following season.
Speaker 1: That's a yearly thing comes up every training camp. I
Speaker 1: was wondering if they did that this year with the
Speaker 1: referees visiting every campsite. Everson, Yes, they do. They do
Speaker 1: do that every year, and I guarantee you the year
Speaker 1: after the Saints and that controversial call that sent the
Speaker 1: Rams to the Super Bowl. I guarantee you that the
Speaker 1: crew that worked that game did not go to the
Speaker 1: Saints training camp to advise them on the rules the
Speaker 1: following year. I guarantee you that that would have been
Speaker 1: a very strategic move by the UNFL. That crew is
Speaker 1: not going the next training camp to talk to these
Speaker 1: Saints players about the rules. And I assumed, Mickey that
Speaker 1: this year they did that via a virtual clinic. They
Speaker 1: did they did not do it in person. Absolutely that
Speaker 1: whatever the officials needed to tell the players in a
Speaker 1: team meeting, they did that virtually. That they did not travel.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the referees were extremely happy. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: referee were extremely happy that they did not meet with
Speaker 1: the players face to face this particular season, because that
Speaker 1: gives them a break. You have players waiting on these referees,
Speaker 1: especially dbs like myself, always upset about PI calls that
Speaker 1: affected maybe a person's career, definitely the game itself. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure that they were all feeling pretty safe while
Speaker 1: they were doing their zoom calls and WebEx calls and
Speaker 1: not having to meet up with face to face with
Speaker 1: coaches and upset players who've been really they've been holding
Speaker 1: on to those grievances for about six months, so some
Speaker 1: of that that uh, frustration pent up frustration for about
Speaker 1: six months before they could talk to these referees, and
Speaker 1: I know the refs like not this year, thank goodness. Yeah, no.
Speaker 1: One thing. They also instituted to cut down on the
Speaker 1: travel for the officials that they tried to get them
Speaker 1: to do games in their area, their region where they live.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the field judge for this
Speaker 1: game was former Cowboys defensive back Nate Jones. He was
Speaker 1: able to he was he was one of the officials. Yeah, Nate,
Speaker 1: Nate went to Uh that's cool. He started off, you know,
Speaker 1: in the lower ranks of college and kind of moved
Speaker 1: up and did the training thing one preseason with the
Speaker 1: NFL doing preseason games. He was kind of in that
Speaker 1: training program and I believe it was last year was
Speaker 1: his first year to actually officiate games, and he was
Speaker 1: the field judge in this game here on Sunday. Nice
Speaker 1: you know, Mickey, you talked about Tyrn Smith and the
Speaker 1: encouraging in news. It appears as this week begins that
Speaker 1: maybe he'll be able to play against Seattle, but you know,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was asked about the two tackles, Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: at left tackle and Terrence Steele at right tackle at
Speaker 1: this prescotference yesterday, and he said, they did good. You know,
Speaker 1: just evidence that the Cowboys throw had forty eight pass
Speaker 1: plays in that game against Atlanta and Dak Prescott only
Speaker 1: got sacked one time. Who would have thought that would
Speaker 1: be the case, And of course that was very early
Speaker 1: in the game that one sack occurred. Who would think
Speaker 1: that that would be the case, that this team would
Speaker 1: put up forty points and the quarterback we get sacked
Speaker 1: only one time with two tackles who are starting, making
Speaker 1: for both of them their second career starts, and both
Speaker 1: of them were college pre agents, one in their second
Speaker 1: year in the leg and the other a rookie. How
Speaker 1: about that? I think that was the most unbelievable part
Speaker 1: of this game, maybe next to the comeback, but the
Speaker 1: comeback couldn't have had taken place without those guys doing something. Now,
Speaker 1: they weren't perfect, and you know, they certainly were attacking
Speaker 1: those guys, and really the one sack that did occur
Speaker 1: was that I believe it was the series that when
Speaker 1: Dak fumbled the ball right he got hit, yes, And
Speaker 1: they blitzed off off of Terrence Steele's side and he
Speaker 1: picked up one guy and Zeke tried to get the other,
Speaker 1: and I don't think either of were successful in blocking,
Speaker 1: and that's when they came through and caused the fumble.
Speaker 1: So they really never hit Dak and I think I
Speaker 1: don't remember if they put him on the ground or
Speaker 1: the ball came out when he hit him. But after that,
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of got better. So maybe they're
Speaker 1: onto something with these two guys. The more they play,
Speaker 1: maybe they improve. And by the way, they were getting
Speaker 1: help because there was a tight end over on Darren
Speaker 1: Steel's side tight quite often. Yeah, and Blake Bill got
Speaker 1: thirty three snaps in the game, the second tight end
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. The other thing, in fairness to Atlanta
Speaker 1: Tach McKinley, who, along with Dante Fowler, their top two
Speaker 1: edge rushers. Tach McKinley only played fifteen snaps in the
Speaker 1: game and so he got hurt early and so that
Speaker 1: helped the cause as well. And when you pass forward
Speaker 1: to Seattle this week, they've lost Bruce Irvan for the season. Now.
Speaker 1: He was one of the multitude of players in the league.
Speaker 1: Guitur acls over the weekend and so he's out for
Speaker 1: the year. They also lost one of their defensive backs
Speaker 1: as well for the season, and so the Seattle is
Speaker 1: hurting as well, just like the Cowboys out. And I
Speaker 1: know you got to go to break a real quick bill.
Speaker 1: So when we come back, I got a bone to
Speaker 1: pick with some folks. Held on, I have some bragging
Speaker 1: to do myself. Uh the if I'm not mistaken, the
Speaker 1: last words by Mickey Spagnola was good luck getting thirty
Speaker 1: eight points without Tyran Smith at the tackle position. I
Speaker 1: picked thirty eight thirty one. Okay, if you can talk
Speaker 1: about Greg the leg, I can talk about my guy,
Speaker 1: all right. My guy still came in, did a great job.
Speaker 1: And I don't did we scored thirty eight points. We
Speaker 1: scored forty points. So take that smash with your spash
Speaker 1: with your little smart ass mouth. Hey, but you know
Speaker 1: what I also I also proticted a one point victory too,
Speaker 1: by the way, with Greg Zoro ain't hitting the winning kick. Hey,
Speaker 1: you got your love, I'm trying to get mine. Man.
Speaker 1: You got your love yesterday and no for again, I
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Speaker 1: So it's just a great feeling, Doctor Fauci, Mickey that
Speaker 1: we are getting back in Yeah, not only the Cowboys
Speaker 1: playing there, but we got other people playing games there.
Speaker 1: They probably have to double sterilize the field afterwards, right,
Speaker 1: so it's ready for the next home games. That's probably true.
Speaker 1: All right, Wow, I mentioned earlier over the weekend, and
Speaker 1: well let's let's go back to Monday night, Mickey, you
Speaker 1: probably were torn between two games. The Stars game which
Speaker 1: they lost to Tampa Bay in the Stanley Cup Final,
Speaker 1: is even at one apiece. But how about the Raiders
Speaker 1: last night? They fall behind the Saints, who play very
Speaker 1: well in the first quarter, and then Drew Brees looks
Speaker 1: nothing like Drew Brees the next three quarters of the game,
Speaker 1: and John Gruon's Raiders debut Allegian Stadium in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: with a win, and they made it known early on
Speaker 1: there would be no fans in the stands all season
Speaker 1: in Vegas. But the Raiders at two and oh and
Speaker 1: they played the Patriots this week, So in this day
Speaker 1: and age, unlike when we probably all grew up, you
Speaker 1: can have two TVs going at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I had guarantee you had both games going at
Speaker 1: the same time. And I did keep a good eye
Speaker 1: on that game, and certainly after the hockey game was
Speaker 1: over to watch the ending of the football game, and boy,
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with what the Raiders did. You
Speaker 1: know the Saints, I think they thought they can do
Speaker 1: this without Michael Thomas. Well they couldn't. And their offense
Speaker 1: did struggle. Uh you know, even though they whether they
Speaker 1: end up with twenty four points, uh, they that that
Speaker 1: there was a late touchdown there, they were stuck on
Speaker 1: seventeen for the majority of that game. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: would that stadium would have looked pretty cool with people
Speaker 1: in it. But you know what, the thing that struck
Speaker 1: me as all the seats in the place, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they were covered up. The seats were all black,
Speaker 1: So they were trying to recreate their image from Oakland.
Speaker 1: How strange was it seton Jason Wentton in a Raiders uniform. Wow,
Speaker 1: Now that was with that was strange. You know, he
Speaker 1: even felt like he was uncomfortable in his own scan
Speaker 1: out there. I didn't he just looked, you know, he
Speaker 1: looked even smaller to me. I don't know, maybe it
Speaker 1: was the black jerseys, but that was that just didn't
Speaker 1: seem like the women that I recall. I mean, good
Speaker 1: luck to him. I think he's landed in a great spot.
Speaker 1: He failed up hill at this point, which is a
Speaker 1: great thing for any player who's at the end of
Speaker 1: his career. But when you start talking about Drew Brees
Speaker 1: and really any player that's up there in age, you're
Speaker 1: really not gonna get going. You're not gonna really get
Speaker 1: into your rhythm. I would say at least until the
Speaker 1: sixth game, especially coming from a quarterback position. I know
Speaker 1: when I was as I got older, my body and
Speaker 1: my timing really couldn't get down the way I wanted
Speaker 1: it between my my brain and my feet until like
Speaker 1: halfway during the season. As I got older, that's when
Speaker 1: I felt like I hit my stride. So you have
Speaker 1: to be patient with some of your older players. I
Speaker 1: was talking about at age thirty two. These guys are
Speaker 1: pushing forty two between Brady and Breese and guys of
Speaker 1: that age, So I think if they're able to last
Speaker 1: to the five, fifth or sixth game of the season,
Speaker 1: I think you'll start to see some improvements in Breeze
Speaker 1: his passing game, but at this point he looks old,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he's feeling really old. You know, you
Speaker 1: look around the league, and there were so many injuries
Speaker 1: this week, and I think the count was seven acls
Speaker 1: torn on Sunday. Two defensive lineman for the Niners, Solomon
Speaker 1: Thomas and Nick Bosa, se Quon Barkley. And as far
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys are concerns, and of course the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will be playing the Niners this year, I mentioned the
Speaker 1: Seahawks injuries, se Quon Barkley out for the year ACL
Speaker 1: as well, and the Giants come here in a few weeks. Wow,
Speaker 1: You'll wonder and whether an ACL qualifies as a type
Speaker 1: injury that not having the off season and training camp.
Speaker 1: They're probably debatable in the medical community that has any
Speaker 1: effect at all on it. But you wonder about these
Speaker 1: injuries and the rash of them across the league, even
Speaker 1: more so than it seems like in normal years, that
Speaker 1: how much of it can be attributed to not having
Speaker 1: an offseason, in a training camp, in preseason games. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I think it attributed to not having played
Speaker 1: much football. It's not just strength and conditioning, it's getting
Speaker 1: your body in situations that are not premeditated. And so
Speaker 1: you can do all these practices, but you know what
Speaker 1: your next step is, and you're not tackling and you're
Speaker 1: not trying to run away from tackles in practices. But
Speaker 1: when you don't have a scrimmage, you don't have any
Speaker 1: preseason games, and I know these guys don't play a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps in preseason, but you're still playing football,
Speaker 1: and there was no contact probably in the majority, if
Speaker 1: not all these training camp practices, and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're doing things that your body's not used
Speaker 1: to doing. I think it has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with it, and I think that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why we've even seen more because you're seeing less practice,
Speaker 1: less football type practice. And I'm not just talking this year.
Speaker 1: I'm talking the past couple of years with the new
Speaker 1: rules with the CBA, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're saying, Okay, go out and play this game. It
Speaker 1: ain't that easy. Well, I think in this particular situation
Speaker 1: you talk about the CBA, I mean it makes a difference,
Speaker 1: and you will see some type of an effect without
Speaker 1: a COVID offseason. But you know, that's why they call
Speaker 1: it practice, because you need to simulate. And the guys
Speaker 1: that body hasn't been simulating any type of a pass
Speaker 1: rush move. When you're talking about a guy like a Bosa,
Speaker 1: When you're talking about running backs, there's one thing to
Speaker 1: do running back drills. But when you're getting in a
Speaker 1: pile of players and you're trying to go against this defense,
Speaker 1: your timing And I talked about this a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago on this show. Your timing is something that
Speaker 1: you live with. That's your bread and butter. That's how
Speaker 1: you're able to put yourself above the rest because the
Speaker 1: timing that you have might be better than the timing
Speaker 1: of others. Especially you're talking about unique athletes, guys like Abosa,
Speaker 1: Uh you know who who is accustomed to making his
Speaker 1: particular signature moves from the outside. Well, he hadn't been
Speaker 1: doing those signature moves in the offseason at all. He
Speaker 1: hadn't been able to simulate it at all. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, not only does he go down the defensive
Speaker 1: end on the other side, also is gone for the
Speaker 1: season with the forty nine ers, So there's No, there's
Speaker 1: no coincidence that Barkley and all of these great players
Speaker 1: have all of a sudden gone down during the early
Speaker 1: part of the season. That's why you need preseason. That's
Speaker 1: why you need a proper training camp. And do we
Speaker 1: say that. I'm sure the powers that be in the
Speaker 1: NFL they knew that this was going to happen, but
Speaker 1: they had to sacrifice these particular players, whoever they would
Speaker 1: have been, just so happens, these particular guys, they had
Speaker 1: to sacrifice them for the sake of getting the season started.
Speaker 1: No matter how unusual, no matter how ill prepared, they
Speaker 1: still had to get this season started. And they knew
Speaker 1: that they were going to have some players, major players
Speaker 1: that were gonna be sacrifice, And here we are. You know, Mickey,
Speaker 1: the reason that they changed the ir rules, the injured
Speaker 1: list rules this year is because of COVID. And what
Speaker 1: do you think of the I really like the fact
Speaker 1: that they've got the three week injured reserve this year
Speaker 1: and the ability for players to come back and an
Speaker 1: unlimited number of players to come back this case. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting what they do going forward when we get
Speaker 1: back to normal. Knock on wood next year. But what
Speaker 1: do you think of the injured the way they're anlin
Speaker 1: injured reserved this year? Yeah, I think it's a really
Speaker 1: good thing. And now the litmus test is going to
Speaker 1: be can you trust these teams to put guys on IR?
Speaker 1: Do who are really hurt at not like back in
Speaker 1: ever since day and stash guys on IR for four
Speaker 1: weeks because you didn't want to cut them and you
Speaker 1: made up an injury. And it got to the point
Speaker 1: there in the late eighties where they had to send
Speaker 1: independent doctors to your practice to make sure the guy
Speaker 1: you put on IR really had an injury, and to
Speaker 1: make sure that guy wasn't really practicing, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: on your fifty three man roster. So that'll determine if
Speaker 1: this continues, because I think it's a good thing three
Speaker 1: weeks instead of what six to eight. But again, if
Speaker 1: teams start to take advantage of it like they did
Speaker 1: back then, then it's gonna go. All right. You put
Speaker 1: him on IR, You're you're done for the lengthy period
Speaker 1: of time. Don't you miss those days of this honesty
Speaker 1: that was so much fun. I remember that Ever said,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who the quarterback was, but it was
Speaker 1: training camp in Thousand Oaks, and there was a quarterback
Speaker 1: they wanted to keep, but they didn't want to They
Speaker 1: didn't want to put him on the main roster. And
Speaker 1: I specifically remember the story they told him, Okay, on
Speaker 1: this play, you're going to run a bootleg towards our sideline,
Speaker 1: towards our camera. And you almost get there, you grabbed
Speaker 1: your hamstring and start lifting off. So they ran the
Speaker 1: play and the guy forgot to grab his handstring and
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, if he's not smart enough to do that,
Speaker 1: he can't take step, you know. I I think he
Speaker 1: grabbed the wrong hamstring. That may have been. Hey, I
Speaker 1: have a question. I have one question before we take
Speaker 1: a break. What's going on with d Lawrence. He's got
Speaker 1: a What happened in the game. We never talked about it,
Speaker 1: did we we yesterday? No? We didn't. He ended up
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. I don't know. It was a sprain. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it happened early, either right at the end of
Speaker 1: the first quarter or some point in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: and so that was the reason why, Uh. They he
Speaker 1: turned into like a designated pass rusher in the second half,
Speaker 1: and he only played like I think it was thirty
Speaker 1: thirty thirty four thirty seven percent of the snaps twenty
Speaker 1: eight snaps. He ended up playing, but that was the
Speaker 1: reason he wasn't getting benched like some people probably tried
Speaker 1: to figure out. Man, they have been roasting him. I
Speaker 1: know they have roasting him. He hurt his knee, and
Speaker 1: you know what, he got off to a really good start.
Speaker 1: He had some early pressures. He I think he had
Speaker 1: a tackle behind the line a scrimmage and then he
Speaker 1: suffered the injury. So we'll see where that goes this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be big to find out what's going on with
Speaker 1: Lawrence as the week goes on. He was credited unofficially
Speaker 1: with five tackles in his twenty eight snaps early in
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. All right, we continue with more
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Speaker 1: or eleven minutes here of mix shots for this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and the show is called Mick Shots, And so now
Speaker 1: it is time for a mix shot. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: shoot here. Yeah. Absolutely. You know I kept hearing all
Speaker 1: day yesterday how the Cowboys stole to win. They didn't
Speaker 1: deserve to win the game. Uh. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: play football like that and think you're gonna win in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Well, help me here. Did Atlanta deserve to
Speaker 1: win that game? They gave up five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: yards on defense. They gave up forty points to a
Speaker 1: team that was playing without their starting two offensive tackles,
Speaker 1: without their starting tight end, without their starting linebacker that
Speaker 1: was very important to to that defense. They lose to
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence uh in the game and only played a
Speaker 1: little bit, and they allowed Deak Prescott to throw for
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty yards. And you're telling me they
Speaker 1: deserved to win the game. No, And they got three
Speaker 1: takeaways and foiled two fake punts and they still didn't
Speaker 1: score enough points to win the game. So tell me
Speaker 1: who deserved to win the game. I guess both of
Speaker 1: them can't lose. But again, the Cowboys scored forty points.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear that mess there. And
Speaker 1: what I love about the Fags, what I love about
Speaker 1: the Spags is the fact that the Cowboys also made
Speaker 1: so many mistakes. Of course, we know what happened in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game. I think it was four
Speaker 1: bubbles they lost three. How our defense held on I
Speaker 1: will never ever understand. And when you look at the
Speaker 1: not just the first quarter, but even the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I think we started the fourth quarter with Cooper dropping
Speaker 1: a beautiful pass and a beautiful route by him down
Speaker 1: the field. I guess about twenty the yards Coop felt
Speaker 1: he heard some footsteps and let's just be real, he
Speaker 1: dropped that ball. So that's when we're trying to make
Speaker 1: the comeback. Then, of course we talk about the block
Speaker 1: on CD LAMB, we talk about having to overcome the
Speaker 1: incomplete the incomplete call. So the Cowboys had a lot
Speaker 1: of excuses to lose this ball game, and I'm like you, Spags,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the other way. They did all they
Speaker 1: could to win on top of all of the mistakes
Speaker 1: that they made, And to me, that's the different Cowboy team.
Speaker 1: That's the difference in the Cowboy team last year and
Speaker 1: this year. We would have done everything we could to
Speaker 1: lose this game last year, but what we did was
Speaker 1: we did everything we could to win it, and to me,
Speaker 1: amongst all of those mistakes, that was the final I
Speaker 1: guess outcome for me is being able to see how
Speaker 1: much they refused to lose this game, which is what
Speaker 1: they would have done last year. They would have lost
Speaker 1: this game the last couple of years. Hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think was aside from the final second, so the
Speaker 1: onside kick and so forth, what do you think was
Speaker 1: the key sequence in the game, the key moment in
Speaker 1: the game that gave the Cowboys the real chance to
Speaker 1: win this game. I may be a little too vague
Speaker 1: with it, but I've got one I'm going to point out,
Speaker 1: and then you anything pomp to mind. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it was one hand to catch that was here and
Speaker 1: that was huge, not just the time that we needed
Speaker 1: to set it again, inspiration that it gave the entire team.
Speaker 1: I thought that was something that made people say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta we're still in this and we're not playing
Speaker 1: to lose. We are playing to win. No, no dinky
Speaker 1: little under passes. We went for it and we made
Speaker 1: it and it kept our momentum going. So for me,
Speaker 1: for me, it would have been build the sequence in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter that started with the Falcons having the
Speaker 1: ball at four fifty seven, after the Cowboys cut the
Speaker 1: margin to thirty nine thirty and didn't get the two
Speaker 1: point conversion, they were the Falcons. The Cowboys had called
Speaker 1: timeout with four thirty nine left. It was second and
Speaker 1: twelve at the thirty three and this has been a
Speaker 1: production of Dellas Cowboys dot Com and the devas comes
Speaker 1: through to that point and I think it was like
Speaker 1: thirty five. They finally finally registered their first sack. Everson
Speaker 1: Griffin sacked Ryan on that second down play and they
Speaker 1: had to face a third and eighteen at the twenty seven,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys got a stop. It was one of
Speaker 1: the only two stops they got after the first two
Speaker 1: in the game. They had converted points on eight of
Speaker 1: ten possessions, but on that possession they stopped them got
Speaker 1: the ball back at their own twenty five and then
Speaker 1: that's when they drove down and scored the touchdown to
Speaker 1: get it to thirty nine seventeen. That sack had a
Speaker 1: long way show for them to win this game. Should
Speaker 1: they should they have tried to pass the ball? Should
Speaker 1: the Falcons have even tried to pass the ball? Doing that?
Speaker 1: Series facts on second second and twelve. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: guess they they figured they better, you know, go for
Speaker 1: it and try to put this game away, because they
Speaker 1: were They certainly were. Uh. They they ran the ball
Speaker 1: on first down and Woods came Xavier Woods came in
Speaker 1: and dropped Girly for a two yard loss, And so
Speaker 1: they ended up passing on the next two downs and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got the ball back with two fifty seven
Speaker 1: left after after the punt. So, yeah, you thought they
Speaker 1: made yeah, in the super exact mistake they made in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yes, they did. That's the same problem
Speaker 1: that they had and that's why Quinn may not have
Speaker 1: his job at the end of this year if they
Speaker 1: don't do better. What do you got billed for me?
Speaker 1: It was? It was the Julio Jones drop of the
Speaker 1: touchdown pass and the Russell Gage throw in midway of
Speaker 1: the third quarter and in the count which if he
Speaker 1: catches that ball, Atlanta leads thirty six to seventeen. They
Speaker 1: get it back up to a nineteen point lead with
Speaker 1: seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and then
Speaker 1: the offshoot of that is the second play after the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get the ball. It was the unbelievable catch by
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper where he reaches out with one hand and
Speaker 1: h and for fifty eight yards to set up and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys turn that into a touchdown after Dak leaves
Speaker 1: the game for a couple of plays and comes in
Speaker 1: and then game on. At that point, it was twenty nine,
Speaker 1: twenty four, and so I thought that sequence, the Julio
Speaker 1: Jones dropped, the Lari Cooper catch where the Cowboys all
Speaker 1: of a sudden are down there in scoring position, was
Speaker 1: a huge sequence in this game. It was so you
Speaker 1: didn't think Julio Jones hurt footsteps from Trayvon Diggs trying
Speaker 1: to catch up from behind. Julio Jones was worried about
Speaker 1: that hamstring. Even though his hands worked fine, right, that
Speaker 1: hamstring was always on his mind and it effected totally
Speaker 1: the way he played. He showed a lot of courage,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have as much output as he wanted.
Speaker 1: I'll put it that way, okay. And they finally we
Speaker 1: got two minutes left here, or we don't have enough
Speaker 1: time really to get into it. But the two point
Speaker 1: conversion decision to go for it down nine and going
Speaker 1: for two, I think you gotta kick it there, and
Speaker 1: I know the analytics may say Gopher two. Then I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it's been always been a pet peeve
Speaker 1: of mine. You're making a one score game at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I said it was simple math. Yeah, he called
Speaker 1: it simple Mathspath. I don't know that math. I don't
Speaker 1: know that math. You know, I graduated too, so I
Speaker 1: never saw math come up like that to where you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna put ourselves in a deeper hole and
Speaker 1: have to score twice as opposed to go ahead and
Speaker 1: securing that score. You know that one extra point and
Speaker 1: then go for eight, go for two if you get
Speaker 1: in the opportunity to score again. It's pretty simple. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's simple math. I don't know what kind of math
Speaker 1: he's talking about. And to me, you always want to
Speaker 1: keep extending the game. Don't create a finality before it's
Speaker 1: really over. And I think when you gamble like that early,
Speaker 1: you're saying, I'm gonna have to recover an on site
Speaker 1: kick to be able to win this game, right and
Speaker 1: and and if you look at what happened last year
Speaker 1: with the new rules on the on side kick, I
Speaker 1: think only ten percent of the on side kicks were recovered,
Speaker 1: where Previously it was closer to seventeen to twenty percent,
Speaker 1: So uh my, exactly, my analytics on those percentages aren't
Speaker 1: with you that if and I always look it at
Speaker 1: it what happens if I fail? Because if I fail,
Speaker 1: then then here's the circumstances. You don't look at it
Speaker 1: as well, Yeah, I'm gonna get it. Well no, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: if you get it, But what happens if you fail?
Speaker 1: Have you ended the game and that nearly happened had
Speaker 1: they not recovered that on side kick? And I got,
Speaker 1: I got, we gotta go. But I got one more
Speaker 1: point on that is when when you don't make it
Speaker 1: and you're down nine, let's say the Falcons go down
Speaker 1: and kick a field goal. Now they've got a twelve
Speaker 1: point laid on you, meaning you have to score two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But if you were on the clock, but if you
Speaker 1: kick it and they go down and kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: now you're still in position to score a touchdown and
Speaker 1: a field goal in the two point conversion to tying
Speaker 1: force over time anyway, so you're gonna make sure that
Speaker 1: next possession doesn't get a sack in it. Right there?
Speaker 1: You go? All right, we continue with more mix shots tomorrow.
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