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Speaker 3: And it's time for a Thursday edition of Mixed Shots.
Speaker 3: Everson Walls with his early Christmas gift, a cowboy blue
Speaker 3: sweater that he's dying today. There are football players on
Speaker 3: a football field, and we're getting excited about Christmas weekends.
Speaker 2: Man, nice little top.
Speaker 4: It's kind of greenish.
Speaker 3: Shit. I didn't want to bring up the fact that
Speaker 3: you're not wearing any school colors today, Mickey.
Speaker 5: No one's playing, is there other than high schools?
Speaker 4: No, that's right, but I mean your cowboy colors.
Speaker 5: You said school colors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's.
Speaker 5: My school colors.
Speaker 2: Someone played last night, Yeah they did?
Speaker 4: Yeah, U l V against.
Speaker 5: Cal I missed that they won.
Speaker 6: I must admit.
Speaker 4: We can talk some college basketball if you'd like, we can.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, that's right.
Speaker 6: I'm not ready for college basketball.
Speaker 7: I think he wants to talk that because Oklahoma the
Speaker 7: big When.
Speaker 5: Did they beat the number one team? In the nation.
Speaker 4: They beat Michigan.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they're ranked, but Oklahoma just might
Speaker 3: be the number one team in the nation before you
Speaker 3: know it when.
Speaker 5: They got to play Missouri twice.
Speaker 2: So be careful, you guys.
Speaker 5: They beat Kansas with rank number one. Okay, guys missed that?
Speaker 4: Are they unbeaten?
Speaker 5: One loss?
Speaker 4: Well, use unbeaten?
Speaker 3: So they Okay, that's gonna be a showdown, all right,
Speaker 3: But we have football players on a football fee yield.
Speaker 5: Hopefully there's enough for football here today.
Speaker 6: Bags is out there trying to count to see who's missing.
Speaker 4: So who's missing?
Speaker 5: He had six missing and it was only a walkthrough,
Speaker 5: so we know Diggs is out, Tuma was out with
Speaker 5: an ankle. Eric Kendricks was personal rests. So I'm not
Speaker 5: worried about that. The one that I think may it
Speaker 5: be a concern is Misy Smith with a back because
Speaker 5: they brought back Justin Rogers today. Justin Rogers seventh round
Speaker 5: draft choice. He was on a I think he was
Speaker 5: on practice squad and they signed him to the fifty
Speaker 5: three really defensive.
Speaker 3: Tackles to tackle the old defensive tackle out of Auburn.
Speaker 5: Were talking about that yesterday. No depth is kind of
Speaker 5: out there by himself.
Speaker 3: Will McClay had that in his hip pocket, right, that
Speaker 3: was whenever the need arose, they would go to the
Speaker 3: Justin Rodgers Bank well Man.
Speaker 5: And if you think about it, when you sign somebody
Speaker 5: off the practice squad, you owe them three games they're left,
Speaker 5: but you all three games and you also are hanging
Speaker 5: on to their rights going forward. So they could have
Speaker 5: signed them to a two year deal.
Speaker 4: That's what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So which attracted because it's also Justin Rogers decision
Speaker 3: whether he accepts an offer from the Dallas Cowboy the
Speaker 3: other team.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: So now you get down to the last three games
Speaker 3: and here you go, you make that move and you
Speaker 3: fortifying yourself for the future too.
Speaker 5: And they're yeah, and all you got to do is
Speaker 5: sign them.
Speaker 4: To because you got that seventh round draft pick back.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: Thought of it that way. That's that's like when you
Speaker 5: know when they signed Cavante Turpin not knowing what he
Speaker 5: was he signed a three year deal, right, and it's
Speaker 5: like I know his agent and so I told him,
Speaker 5: what are you doing after he's Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 5: and I'm figuring, Okay, he's up for a big payday,
Speaker 5: and my buddy goes, well, when no one's knocking at
Speaker 5: your door and you didn't like play again in college
Speaker 5: and you get an opportunity, you basically sign whatever they offering.
Speaker 3: Right, And he's still even though he came into the
Speaker 3: league ladies, still falls into the category of the he
Speaker 3: hadn't put in the time to earn for his agency yet.
Speaker 4: Until this fourth year.
Speaker 5: So now he'll be restricted this coming year. Which sometimes
Speaker 5: they signed those guys early and gave them a little
Speaker 5: signing bonus.
Speaker 6: I think that should be part of the practice. I
Speaker 6: don't like wait until the last minute. I don't like
Speaker 6: how we did it this year. I know it was
Speaker 6: all kinds of circumstances that go with that, but time,
Speaker 6: I mean, just needs to be a little better. That way,
Speaker 6: you don't put yourself in the bind. Try and stay
Speaker 6: away from that if you can in some way.
Speaker 5: Well, I think they've got a better idea of where
Speaker 5: they are against a very tight salary cap that's getting
Speaker 5: tighter next year. But they've already taken care of two
Speaker 5: of those big contracts and now Micah with its fifty
Speaker 5: year options, is going to be twenty some million, right,
Speaker 5: so they know that for sure, and they know that
Speaker 5: what the quarterback is, and they know what the wide
Speaker 5: receiver is. And I don't know that they've got another
Speaker 5: big ticket item they got to worry about. But they
Speaker 5: got to worry about would you like to bring Osa back?
Speaker 5: Would you like to bring Rico back? So those are
Speaker 5: things you got to take care of. And when you're
Speaker 5: a restricted free agent, you have the right of first refusal.
Speaker 4: Right, what year is Tyler Smith now in this league?
Speaker 4: So he should the third year.
Speaker 3: It's just this is just so it won't be long
Speaker 3: and you'll have a Tyler Smith decision to make.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean it's just ongoing exactly.
Speaker 2: There's always gonna be that, right.
Speaker 5: You just got to hope the salary cap keep going up.
Speaker 6: You're right, because the salaries are going up and they
Speaker 6: are making money. They are not going to pay anybody
Speaker 6: they can't pay. It's not like, oh, well we're going
Speaker 6: to go into Hawk for this guy. That is not happening.
Speaker 6: They it's just a matter of getting it done. You
Speaker 6: gotta be strategic about it. But the money is there
Speaker 6: if you're strategic about how you do it.
Speaker 5: And the other thing Jordan Lewis was going back to
Speaker 5: the injuries. Was limited yesterday with the elbow, but he
Speaker 5: said he's good to go, So that helps out of.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 2: DB's what tough man.
Speaker 5: But the strange one did I mention? I didn't mention
Speaker 5: the other corner the starters, right, the other corner? Uh,
Speaker 5: I thought he was out with an injury.
Speaker 4: Not there.
Speaker 5: They wanted to see Andrew Booth out there. Really, I
Speaker 5: hope they saw enough. Sorry, So basically you're saying not
Speaker 5: a man of the guy.
Speaker 3: But but but that also tells you they had seen
Speaker 3: enough of a rearer in that game, right yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, kind of half the time.
Speaker 3: Uh huh man, So that's that's six significance of that.
Speaker 5: We never talked about that, did we, Well you we
Speaker 5: we we uh No, we talked about the other play
Speaker 5: that he made, right, We.
Speaker 2: Didn't talk about the one that.
Speaker 5: That was so and from your standpoint, when you're on
Speaker 5: the outside like that and your guy cuts breaks in,
Speaker 5: you got to take the other guy that's breaking out.
Speaker 2: Well right, Well, I don't think it was a man
Speaker 2: to man situation.
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just like you kind of match up
Speaker 6: in a match up his own situation.
Speaker 5: So you got to take the guy that comes into
Speaker 5: your area, right.
Speaker 2: But your area is way then got up here.
Speaker 4: You gotta carry him way back.
Speaker 6: All the way back there. Yeah, what your area? It
Speaker 6: starts at the goal line and you come up. And
Speaker 6: I don't think.
Speaker 4: It's like when you're taking the trash out to the curb.
Speaker 3: You don't stop at the if you got to go
Speaker 3: all the way to the curb, you don't stop at
Speaker 3: the flower bed and drop it off there.
Speaker 2: Got it right, you gotta put it in the bin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the bend is back there.
Speaker 2: You gotta put it in the.
Speaker 5: Bed because the carbage man's coming up.
Speaker 6: So I don't know what he was thinking, but man
Speaker 6: in the situation like that, And let's just hope he's
Speaker 6: one of those guys, because I know I was. Once
Speaker 6: you get me, you're not gonna get me with the
Speaker 6: same thing anymore. So let's hope he's. I mean, he's
Speaker 6: been there long enough to I think that's his deal.
Speaker 6: So we got to have it booth out there. We
Speaker 6: took care of the specialty was the wait before. Now
Speaker 6: we took care of this, so we're not.
Speaker 2: Gonna get him. Those two things are never gonna happen again.
Speaker 4: That's right, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: No, we can't have those.
Speaker 6: You know, it's kind of hard to anticipate problems that
Speaker 6: you just assumed that you wouldn't know, right, I would
Speaker 6: anticipate that you're not going to line up deep and
Speaker 6: stay deep.
Speaker 2: That's just you on me once for me once. Damn,
Speaker 2: I was stupid.
Speaker 6: That's what that is.
Speaker 4: That's what that is, all right, mickey.
Speaker 3: Well, we got the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rolling in here,
Speaker 3: and they are rolling in here. They've won four straight games.
Speaker 3: Their offense is averaging thirty one points a game. Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 3: according to the head coach, is playing as well as
Speaker 3: he's seen him play in his career, and goes all
Speaker 3: the way back to seeing him at Lake Travis High
Speaker 3: School where his the coach's daughter was a few years
Speaker 3: ahead of Baker. But he's familiar with Lake Travis High
Speaker 3: School and there, of course, Garrett Gilbert was there.
Speaker 4: He had him, of course, but.
Speaker 5: A lot of quarterbacks came out all Austin.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: So it's a weird season for them. They start off well,
Speaker 5: they lose four straight and now they've won four string.
Speaker 5: But there's a caveat there. They've beaten the two and
Speaker 5: twelve Giants, the three and eleven Panthers, the two and
Speaker 5: eleven Vegases, and the Chargers who are eight and six,
Speaker 5: So I give them that one. Now, that last win
Speaker 5: that was that.
Speaker 6: Was I don't know if that means that they figured
Speaker 6: things out, because if you're going to be trending up
Speaker 6: with this is the best time to do it, right
Speaker 6: this time of year. You don't want to go in
Speaker 6: with any question marks. But having said that, you're ramping
Speaker 6: up with these average teams and now you beat a
Speaker 6: team like the Chargers. I don't know if I want
Speaker 6: to put the Chargers up there as an elite type
Speaker 6: of team in the league right now. But that was
Speaker 6: a big win now, and the way they did it
Speaker 6: was very impressive.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like the Cowboys, like they got
Speaker 3: wins in the same stretch. They got wins over the
Speaker 3: Giants and the Panthers, which is the same as the Buccaneers, right,
Speaker 3: and the only difference.
Speaker 5: And they beat Washington.
Speaker 3: They beat Washington, which is the equivalent of beating the Chargers, right,
Speaker 3: So you're looking they lost to Cincinnati, which would have
Speaker 3: been instead Tampa Bay gotta win over Vegas.
Speaker 5: That loss is going to come back to them.
Speaker 6: It is that freaking punt see punt man, you know.
Speaker 5: And the other thing they've done well too winning those
Speaker 5: games is they've only in those four consecutive wins that
Speaker 5: they've only given up sixty points. So my math tells
Speaker 5: me that's fifteen points a game. That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Who do we owe that to? Do you think, Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: No, I met Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: So their average margin of victory the last four games
Speaker 3: is about thirty one to fifteen.
Speaker 5: Sounds that way, especially when you put up a forty, right.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think Mike McCarthy said this is a
Speaker 5: big challenge, and I agree with him because they are
Speaker 5: playing well offensively and defensively. You know they're gonna find
Speaker 5: they're gonna meet the NFC Defensive Player of the Week
Speaker 5: with Levonte David is that is one hundred and three
Speaker 5: tackles already.
Speaker 3: You know who has the most solo tackles among active
Speaker 3: players of the National Football League right now with.
Speaker 4: Eleven hundred, is it David? That would be Levante David.
Speaker 5: Really, he has one hundred tackles, I believe I saw
Speaker 5: this in their notes. Eleven straight times, eleven seasons in
Speaker 5: a row with one hundred.
Speaker 3: Tackles, second round draft pick in twenty two twelve.
Speaker 5: With at least one hundred how many season eleven?
Speaker 4: Damn he came in the league in twenty twelve.
Speaker 3: So this is he's been here forever, thirteenth years out
Speaker 3: of Nebraska. He was with he played for Nebraska when
Speaker 3: Nebraska was good. Yeah, it's a long time ago.
Speaker 5: I get back there with Johnny Fuss State. Yet is
Speaker 5: its giving again?
Speaker 2: Right? You know?
Speaker 6: This team, the Cowboys team, Yeah, what Tampa is.
Speaker 2: They've been that before.
Speaker 6: They have been that team that's gotten on the road.
Speaker 6: Baker Mayfield has really been consistent with him. You know,
Speaker 6: he's had some some inconsistencies, but overall, you know what
Speaker 6: you're gonna get with Baker. He's gonna come out just
Speaker 6: really trying his hardest and you're gonna get your best
Speaker 6: from him. And there's sometimes when you might see greatness
Speaker 6: from Baker Mayfield. But this Cowboys team, with the running
Speaker 6: game that they have and the way this defense is playing,
Speaker 6: it can be probably the best team that we've had. Uniquely,
Speaker 6: I'll put it like that. In quite some time. I'm
Speaker 6: not talking about the quarterback position.
Speaker 5: Just despite all the injuries and what we've come.
Speaker 6: Through and now with what our game plan is, our
Speaker 6: game plan is not to come out dak CD. It
Speaker 6: is not that our game plan has come out of
Speaker 6: hitching the mouth right now on both sides. On both
Speaker 6: sides and the way we're running that ball, No one's
Speaker 6: really that comfortable with us the way we're running the ball,
Speaker 6: and I know the teams aren't that great, but we
Speaker 6: did what we were supposed to do, which at times
Speaker 6: is a miracle for us doing what we're supposed to
Speaker 6: do to win the game. And we've done that, i'd say,
Speaker 6: especially the last three weeks.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys went through a stretch of the season where
Speaker 3: they had to be like five straight g games against
Speaker 3: what were then division leaders, and then they've gone through
Speaker 3: a stretch of about four games where they haven't faced
Speaker 3: division leader. Well now they're back playing a division leader
Speaker 3: this week in Tampa Bay and then a division leader
Speaker 3: next week in Philadelphia. So we're going to find out
Speaker 3: a lot more about where this Cowboys team is.
Speaker 2: That's what I talked about yesterday.
Speaker 6: You know, this Tampa team coming in here, that's usually
Speaker 6: the teams, the type of teams that really put us
Speaker 6: in our place. They've done that in the past.
Speaker 5: Well, if you look at that five game stretch, so
Speaker 5: Detroit first place.
Speaker 4: Well in Pittsburgh before that, won that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Pittsburgh now now San Francisco fell off, Atlanta second place,
Speaker 5: Philadelphia first place, and Houston still hanging in the first.
Speaker 3: And Atlanta was a first place team when they played
Speaker 3: when they played, and Houston's won their division.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that was that was Atlanta's last good game.
Speaker 5: That was the stretch. Ye guts because think about it
Speaker 5: after Pittsburgh, we forget they were three and two.
Speaker 6: So but like I said, it's it's our style of
Speaker 6: play exactly. It's very different. Now we're not throwing the ball.
Speaker 2: We are a basically a run first team.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever I can't remember us being
Speaker 6: a run first team in a long time. We'll find
Speaker 6: winning while doing it, winning while doing.
Speaker 5: Now, going up against this defense, will find out if
Speaker 5: they can.
Speaker 6: Interesting is even if I'm an offensive lineman, if I'm
Speaker 6: an offensive coach, let's see what's.
Speaker 2: Going to happen.
Speaker 6: We're going to continue to do what we do.
Speaker 3: The interesting thing about it is even after Dak got
Speaker 3: hurt in the Atlanta game, it took like three games
Speaker 3: before the Cowboys figured out that, okay, we need to
Speaker 3: run the ball.
Speaker 4: Rather first, rather than pass the ball first.
Speaker 6: And it's helping him out. I mean, it's helping him
Speaker 6: rush out. He's you know, basically doing what he can
Speaker 6: and we're living and winning with his limitations.
Speaker 3: Well, the beautiful thing about it too is CDs still
Speaker 3: getting his numbers nine catches, hundred and sixteen yards and
Speaker 3: a touchdown with this philosophy, you know, he's benefiting from.
Speaker 6: By the way, So we have to say that the
Speaker 6: running game is helping him a preparation, right, you don't
Speaker 6: have the double team. We need that safety down here
Speaker 6: to plug the run. Now I can work on you
Speaker 6: one on one, and you know, most likely I'm going
Speaker 6: to create the separation on a consistent basis.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't mean you're running. An emphasis on the
Speaker 3: run doesn't mean you're flipping the script and going seventy
Speaker 3: percent run plays and thirty percent pass plays.
Speaker 4: But we're running passing.
Speaker 6: Leg still a passing league, but we are. We are
Speaker 6: running and giving our passing game a chance, a chance.
Speaker 5: And it helps when you're not down by twenty points,
Speaker 5: no doubt immediately.
Speaker 6: And that's what I'm talking about with Michael pass.
Speaker 5: Because I was looking here back everything from a passing
Speaker 5: that's something when he came back.
Speaker 3: How about this, Since Mike has returned six games, Cowboys
Speaker 3: lead the league with twenty four sacks and they are
Speaker 3: third in the league with thirteen takeaways in those six
Speaker 3: games since Mike has returned. And who has benefited a
Speaker 3: lot also from that is Osa Digazuli. Take another away
Speaker 3: from Osa's abilities, but having Micah.
Speaker 4: Back the last seven people in the last.
Speaker 3: Seven weeks, he leads the league with thirty two quarterback pressures.
Speaker 4: Osa does.
Speaker 2: Also since there's got two people blocking block.
Speaker 5: And when you mentioned about running the ball, they had
Speaker 5: six games already that they attempted at least forty two
Speaker 5: passes and twice in the fifties, no three times, okay,
Speaker 5: fifty fifty passing attempts fifty one and fifty six.
Speaker 3: And I think the coaches looked would if they look
Speaker 3: back at it at the end of it went at
Speaker 3: the end of the season, they look back at it
Speaker 3: and they go, we abandoned the run to early youse
Speaker 3: games there's a certain point in the fourth quarter where
Speaker 3: you have to avand right right. But and there were
Speaker 3: third quarters of some of those games.
Speaker 6: That's when the game changed. The third quarters, not the
Speaker 6: fourth quarters. The third wars coming that have to halftime.
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Speaker 3: All right, Look at all that stuff you got in front.
Speaker 4: Of you going next.
Speaker 5: We know Todd Bowles is the head coach, former Cowboy assistant.
Speaker 5: I think we mentioned Casey Rodgers yesterday.
Speaker 4: Defensive coordinator, Skip.
Speaker 5: Pete running back coach, been with the Cowboys. George Edwards linebackers.
Speaker 3: Who's not only been with the Cowboys, but he was
Speaker 3: with Mike Zimmer for a year and.
Speaker 5: With the Cowboys twice, by the way, and then they
Speaker 5: had a offensive assistant backed in Jason's days, Kevin Carberry.
Speaker 5: He's an assistant over there. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 5: we also produced two people on Tampa Bay's website, Casey Phillips,
Speaker 5: Bill knows very well, and it wasn't with us, but
Speaker 5: she was covering the Cowboys. Briana Dix is one of
Speaker 5: their writers on Tampa or whatever they call it, Tampa
Speaker 5: Bay dot com or whatever it is. I just called up.
Speaker 5: The two of them were doing a three person kind
Speaker 5: of talk like we're doing right now and kind of
Speaker 5: previewing the game, and they were really good at it.
Speaker 3: By the way, Casey Phillips has been good at it,
Speaker 3: and you know, and she interned here with the Cowboys
Speaker 3: for a while, and.
Speaker 4: Maybe when she was in high school. I know when
Speaker 4: she was in University of Missouri.
Speaker 5: But there's the common denominator right there.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's Missouri or is it South
Speaker 3: Lake Carrol, because she impressed me so much when she
Speaker 3: was a student. She's about the same age as my daughter,
Speaker 3: and she actually started a broadcast club at South Lake
Speaker 3: Carroll when she was a high school kid, and she
Speaker 3: played basketball. As a sophomore she made the varsity, So
Speaker 3: it's you a good athlete also. But what was cool
Speaker 3: kind of following her career is Okay, she was to
Speaker 3: Missouri and then she worked for Disney and worked for
Speaker 3: the Saint Louis Rams as well as I think the
Speaker 3: Washington Wizards, and got an opportunity with Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: But it's just cool when you know it. I was
Speaker 4: about to say kid, but when she was.
Speaker 3: Who you saw her when she was fifteen years old
Speaker 3: and she had aspirations to do this, you know. And
Speaker 3: then she interned at Channel eleven. She entered probably at
Speaker 3: about every re broadcast entity in Dallas Fort Worth, but
Speaker 3: that was how committed she was. And then to see
Speaker 3: her go to Tampa Bay and then they signed Tom
Speaker 3: Brady and then she's doing interviews with Tom Brady and
Speaker 3: Rob Gronkowski. I mean, she's the one that's hosting these
Speaker 3: and and what was really cool, which when Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: won the Super Bowl and she did a little selfie
Speaker 3: from the stands.
Speaker 4: I mean it almost just like.
Speaker 3: I started tearing up watching what you know from yeah, right, right,
Speaker 3: and uh so anyway, it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 5: So we'll get to see them because she's like their
Speaker 5: head TV person on the on their website or whatever
Speaker 5: other shows they do.
Speaker 6: By way, I wanted them. I think I mentioned it yesterday,
Speaker 6: but Todd Bowles is a lover of HBCUs. He was
Speaker 6: at Morehouse after he played his first I believe his
Speaker 6: first coaching job was a defensive coordinator for Morehouse University
Speaker 6: HBCU in Atlanta. Not it's not in Florida on Jacksonville
Speaker 6: State and you've got Grambling State. After that, that's when
Speaker 6: Doug Williams was the head coach. He had come back
Speaker 6: for a belief his second stint at Grambling and he
Speaker 6: bought tied bowls with him. If I'm not mistaken, that
Speaker 6: entire coaching staff was pretty famous, guys, you know, because
Speaker 6: Doug was relying back on his boys back when he played.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and then after that, that's when he went
Speaker 6: to the Jets in two thousand, after he left Grambling State.
Speaker 6: That for those two years in nineteen ninety eight to
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: Nine, And you're familiar with his son, right, No, Troy
Speaker 3: Bowles highly recruited linebacker and he was at Georgia and
Speaker 3: he's in the transfer portal right now.
Speaker 4: So what position? Linebacker? Oh? Okay, of course stud stud linebacker.
Speaker 5: So we got ties with ten.
Speaker 3: When you look at their defense, we mentioned Lavonte David,
Speaker 3: but their two defensive tackles, Vida Veya and Elijah Cantsey,
Speaker 3: if they they have combined for twelve sacks, they each
Speaker 3: have six sacks. Not so not only defending the run,
Speaker 3: but getting to the quarterback. And with what the Cowboys
Speaker 3: have going on with injuries in the interior of their
Speaker 3: offensive line, can be a little bit of a test there.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, this is a side note there.
Speaker 5: So I think at the time it was asked, brock
Speaker 5: Kauffman was considered the starting center because they didn't know
Speaker 5: if BB was going to get back, So they asked him,
Speaker 5: you know, has he studied vide Vea and you know,
Speaker 5: does he know much about him? And he said, yeah,
Speaker 5: I was talking to beattish about it, and he was
Speaker 5: clueing me in on some stuff.
Speaker 6: So how about that.
Speaker 5: He was using his sources to be able to scout
Speaker 5: having to go up against that.
Speaker 6: Against that exactly right? And It's not just how he looks,
Speaker 6: it's how he plays. This young man is very he
Speaker 6: got high motor.
Speaker 5: You better double team him.
Speaker 6: And see, that's the kind of thing that if I'm
Speaker 6: the offensive line and I'm going up against him, you know,
Speaker 6: you gotta feel some type of a challenge. I mean
Speaker 6: not I don't mean just going in there like, oh lord,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be right. No, you gotta go in there thinking, man,
Speaker 6: this is my chance. I gotta show these guys what
Speaker 6: I could do. No, forget not necessarily him. I gotta
Speaker 6: show my teammates they can depend on me to play
Speaker 6: against a guy like that. I may not be the
Speaker 6: best guy out here at that position, but I'm going
Speaker 6: to show you can depend on me. I mean, at
Speaker 6: one point you have. And that's what we've been seeing.
Speaker 6: We've been seeing people that you can depend on. We've
Speaker 6: been seeing dependability. I want that to continue.
Speaker 3: Well, and not just your teammates now, but how about
Speaker 3: showing this organization going forward, right because there's a you know,
Speaker 3: we'll see what happens with Zach Martin. He's not obviously
Speaker 3: he's not playing forever and he's likely going to retire,
Speaker 3: and so he's not in the contract for next year,
Speaker 3: and so they've got decisions to make on their offensive line.
Speaker 3: There's there's openings at the end on that offensive line.
Speaker 2: And the end has been fixed up.
Speaker 6: They've been putting a little little paint on it because
Speaker 6: we have been really successful at it. So they I'm
Speaker 6: hoping they go into the game thinking, we're not afraid
Speaker 6: of you guys. You know, we're going to challenge you
Speaker 6: because they have people have been running on Tampa. It's
Speaker 6: not like they've been invincible, and they've been scoring on
Speaker 6: Like I said, they lost four straight. That had something
Speaker 6: to do with the defense as well. So we got
Speaker 6: to find those those those those cracks in the sidewalk.
Speaker 5: He's three forty seven three, and I don't think it's
Speaker 5: like big sloppy.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 5: So to me, some owing weight, Yeah, probably stressed, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about yeah, and uh, to me, the offensive
Speaker 5: coordinators got to figure out we need him going sideways
Speaker 5: and get the ball out.
Speaker 6: If nothing else, you just want to make sure that
Speaker 6: he is handled one or two guys. You don't have
Speaker 6: to blow them off the line necessarily them, just shield
Speaker 6: them off. You know, let's hit them with some proper
Speaker 6: plays that can give our offensive line of the chance.
Speaker 6: You know, they don't have to be to where you
Speaker 6: have to hold a block that long all the time.
Speaker 6: There are schemes to where you can and I know
Speaker 6: Nate Newton knows I'm talking about to where you can
Speaker 6: just shield the guy off and the running back's gone,
Speaker 6: don't I don't see him chasing too many people down
Speaker 6: from behind.
Speaker 5: He's got nine tackles for losses, but he has six
Speaker 5: sacks and ten quarterbacks getting in the backfield.
Speaker 3: Right then, the other guy who's only I think he's
Speaker 3: only played nine games because he was injured earlier. He's
Speaker 3: got six sacks in nine games and he was a
Speaker 3: first round draft pick last year.
Speaker 6: So this should be something that they should flish. Let's
Speaker 6: see what we got, Let's see what we are. Yeah,
Speaker 6: well that's what I talked about yesterday. Let's see what
Speaker 6: we are.
Speaker 5: And the fact that those guys have sacks in the middle,
Speaker 5: that's why you.
Speaker 6: Gots extremely unusual, right.
Speaker 5: You got to make sure.
Speaker 2: Run getting off inside.
Speaker 5: Yeah, make them be run conscious first.
Speaker 3: One other interesting thing that I'll be looking at on
Speaker 3: Sunday night is so when you look at the center
Speaker 3: for Tampa Bay Graham Barton. He was a first round
Speaker 3: draft pick last year, went number twenty six overall, and
Speaker 3: I know he was on the Cowboys radar and other
Speaker 3: team's radar dur and at that point in the draft,
Speaker 3: and the Cowboys had a decision to make on Okay,
Speaker 3: do we pull a trigger on a player like that
Speaker 3: and at a position like that, or do we trade down?
Speaker 3: And as it turns out, the Cowboys traded down, and
Speaker 3: then they got Tyler Goyton or left tack five picks later,
Speaker 3: and they wound up with an extra third round pick
Speaker 3: getting a center in Cooper b a center of slash guard.
Speaker 3: We'll see where he winds up eventually in his career,
Speaker 3: but they get Cooper BB there and so but Graham
Speaker 3: Barton's doing a really good job for them as a
Speaker 3: starting rookie center. And their offensive line is they have
Speaker 3: they've shorted up here in the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: They spent a second round pick on their right guard,
Speaker 3: Cody Mock last year, and they got another first rounder starts.
Speaker 4: At left tackle, Test whorfs in behind them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they got they start two first rounders and
Speaker 3: two second rounders on their offensive line.
Speaker 2: So they don't mind going at them.
Speaker 5: M hm.
Speaker 3: So, and that's what the Cowboys have been trying to
Speaker 3: do with their offensive line in the draft here in
Speaker 3: the last few years, with a second rounder or rather
Speaker 3: a first rounder in twenty twenty two and Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: first rounder this year who hasn't been ready yet but
Speaker 3: we'll see where how he progresses.
Speaker 5: And a third rounder. So yeah, yeah, they addressed it. Oh,
Speaker 5: by the way, before we go to break, they also,
Speaker 5: by the way, have seven starters listed as not practicing yesterday,
Speaker 5: so they've got some issues too. But yes, this time
Speaker 5: of the year, it's like for everybody in the league.
Speaker 4: It's not just the Cowboys that.
Speaker 5: It's it's loading practice, load manager.
Speaker 4: We're deep into the season.
Speaker 3: This is week sixteen, all right, And speaking of that,
Speaker 3: I need to work on my load management. I just
Speaker 3: don't feel like I think I need to take a
Speaker 3: can finish those last ten minutes last and now if
Speaker 3: we were doing some sort of n season tournament or
Speaker 3: we had some.
Speaker 5: Money evolved more money than I might.
Speaker 4: I might stick around and play the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, you know, I probably didn't save myself because
Speaker 3: we're going to be back here at ten am tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I'm right.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to bail out and rest up for
Speaker 3: tomorrow's ten am show, and you two take it the rest.
Speaker 2: I have never bailed on my team.
Speaker 5: Okay, see if anybody from the practice squad walks in.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, it's got a call out today.
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Speaker 5: the field. And as Everson noticed, everybody was standing on
Speaker 5: the field. Where the sun is that right?
Speaker 6: That's right, No one was in the show.
Speaker 5: A little chili here. You brought this up yesterday and
Speaker 5: Mike talked a little bit about it today. Carl Lawson
Speaker 5: kind of showing up, especially in this last game. Yes,
Speaker 5: something caught your eye for sure.
Speaker 2: No, it's no doubt.
Speaker 6: Well, you know Oga's helping him down there, there's no
Speaker 6: doubt about it, right, Yeah, having having Micah come back
Speaker 6: and loss on you know, getting well, he really doesn't
Speaker 6: get but about fifty percent. Now is he getting more
Speaker 6: than fifty percent of it's maybe that many, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: And those two sacks in the against Atlanta.
Speaker 5: He got two sacks against Atlanta, had one sack. He
Speaker 5: only had one tackle in this game Carolina, but he
Speaker 5: had a sack, a tackle for a loss, and two
Speaker 5: quarterback hits he had He played forty four percent of
Speaker 5: the snaps. Yeah, but you knew he was out there, yes.
Speaker 6: And then you know he's one of those guys he
Speaker 6: kind of held it down until Michael came back. Yes,
Speaker 6: you know, and we I mean those those two sacks
Speaker 6: against the Falcons, that kind of let people know that,
Speaker 6: you know, practice s gud practice squad players.
Speaker 2: They're not just practice squad players.
Speaker 7: All the time.
Speaker 5: And I think the other guy.
Speaker 6: They're not thinking like practice squad right right right, that's
Speaker 6: what you want.
Speaker 5: And he you know, no no off season, no training camp,
Speaker 5: you know, no ramp up. Basically his ramp up was
Speaker 5: you know, being on the on the team, getting a
Speaker 5: chance to practice.
Speaker 6: So that's what I was always saying about a practice player.
Speaker 6: It is true you said many times when a guy
Speaker 6: messes up, that's why he's a practice squad player.
Speaker 2: I get that. That is that is that is that
Speaker 2: is viable.
Speaker 6: But when you start talking about players that really need
Speaker 6: to make a difference on the team, and we everyone
Speaker 6: we bring in, they're not going to be stars, but
Speaker 6: everyone we bring in are not going to play like
Speaker 6: practice squad players.
Speaker 2: And he's one of those guys, you know.
Speaker 6: I tell they asked me one time to send my
Speaker 6: Grambling State boys a message, you know, and they were
Speaker 6: asking all the alumni to send in messages to them
Speaker 6: to motivate them during the season. And the one thing
Speaker 6: I told him is don't let somebody else tell your story.
Speaker 6: Don't let somebody tell you how good you are. You know,
Speaker 6: we all went through it. Somebody probably told you you
Speaker 6: can't write.
Speaker 2: They did. And so now here you are.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and Grambling, I'm sorry, not just Grammy, but
Speaker 6: the Dallas Cowboys has always been a team that has
Speaker 6: had over achievers. We are known for that, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 6: so that's the culture here. So that's what I'm looking
Speaker 6: forward to here. Somebody like laws and show me that
Speaker 6: I am better than my narrative.
Speaker 5: And show that I can play like I did it
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago before things went south when
Speaker 5: he was with the Jets because the previous year to
Speaker 5: that he was a big time player. They paid him.
Speaker 6: And then I'm not I really look forward to him
Speaker 6: doing I really look forward to him doing more with us, right,
Speaker 6: I'm talking about No. One tackle games. Now, that was
Speaker 6: a weird game Sunday where it was extremely balanced as
Speaker 6: far as our defensive attack. You have a bunch of people,
Speaker 6: a lot of tackles.
Speaker 5: And I think what you what they made a priority
Speaker 5: is to make sure this dude stays in the pocket.
Speaker 5: Yes he got out the one time.
Speaker 6: But they even stopped the Tuba. Yeah, they stopped Cuba
Speaker 6: from getting his hundred yards if I'm not mistaken. And
Speaker 6: this is a guy that was doing running very well
Speaker 6: before that game, and we controlled him.
Speaker 5: And I think people need to also understand that Tampa Bay,
Speaker 5: while they're in first place in the NFC South, they
Speaker 5: only got a one game in Atlanta on Atlanta and
Speaker 5: they realize that they got beat by Atlanta twice. So
Speaker 5: if there's any any ties they're out.
Speaker 6: They're a totally different team now, Isn't that crazy? Yeah,
Speaker 6: both teams are totally different teams now.
Speaker 5: So they've got to they've got to maintain a one
Speaker 5: game lead on the Falcons, otherwise they're in trouble. So
Speaker 5: they're somewhat of a desperate team that you know, depending
Speaker 5: on what Atlanta keeps doing, they got to keep winning two.
Speaker 5: They almost need to win out.
Speaker 2: We have seen.
Speaker 6: Games where that narrative is facing another team coming into
Speaker 6: the stadium, right at and T Stadium, and we've played
Speaker 6: like that, meaning we put the pressure on them from
Speaker 6: play one. We haven't really done that this year, you
Speaker 6: know at home right, we really haven't done that this year.
Speaker 6: There are games we've come out in the past, many
Speaker 6: games where we are bringing it to them right away.
Speaker 6: We score on the first drive, not field goals. We're
Speaker 6: talking touchdowns. You know, we got the sacks, we're doing
Speaker 6: all of that. We can play like that in this game.
Speaker 2: We can't.
Speaker 6: We can get back to that because we used to
Speaker 6: do that all the time. And if we do that,
Speaker 6: I think we could intimidate these guys because they're coming here.
Speaker 6: Put the put the pressure, put the pressure that coming here,
Speaker 6: we're not going there.
Speaker 2: They're coming here, and we need to make them feel that.
Speaker 6: You know, I know, I don't know what the crowd
Speaker 6: is going to look like, but I don't need a big, big.
Speaker 5: Crowded a bunch of rent watch it right. The other thing?
Speaker 5: Uh so, okay, you win the toss when you're doing
Speaker 5: I'm taking the ball, taking the ball.
Speaker 6: I'm taking the ball because and I'm running it. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna run it down their throats. And every time we
Speaker 6: gain my my crowd is going to be going crazy, right,
Speaker 6: And that's the whole thing. Also, this, this crowd needs
Speaker 6: to understand this is a different culture we have here now.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't have the dacks.
Speaker 6: You know, we don't have you know, the fancy wide
Speaker 6: receivers running all over the place. We got just CD
Speaker 6: doing this thing, working hard. That's what we've turned into
Speaker 6: right now. We are not the team that we were
Speaker 6: last year. I don't mean that we don't have the talent,
Speaker 6: but we certainly don't have the same game plan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because a lot of a lot of times I hear, well,
Speaker 5: this team was twelve and five last year. Well this
Speaker 5: ain't that team.
Speaker 2: This ain't that team.
Speaker 6: We are totally different, right, And they were fussing about
Speaker 6: us being twelve and five last two three years anyway,
Speaker 6: So don't worry about what the record is right now.
Speaker 2: We just need to make the damn playoffs.
Speaker 5: Would you take twelve and will take twelve and five
Speaker 5: right now?
Speaker 6: And that's I'm sure a lot of those people that
Speaker 6: were complaining it looks good to them too.
Speaker 2: It looks a lot better than it was used to do.
Speaker 5: So everybody was like, oh, this is a Sunday night game.
Speaker 5: They're gonna change, you know, they'll change. This is a
Speaker 5: big game for both teams, right.
Speaker 6: Just think about that Sunday night. Put the pressure on them,
Speaker 6: Put the pressure on them, show them a nationwide television So.
Speaker 5: I think it was NFL network. They figured out, you know,
Speaker 5: how they do with the percentage chances and going to
Speaker 5: the playoffs, right, and obviously like Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay,
Speaker 5: they're all either one hundred percent they're going to go
Speaker 5: to the playoffs, Philadelphia or somewhere in the nineties. Then
Speaker 5: you get down to the bottom. It was, uh it
Speaker 5: was the Cowboys, the Saints, yeah, and San Francisco one percent.
Speaker 5: Damn one chance.
Speaker 6: My business part is a forty n oother fan. We
Speaker 6: don't even hardly talk this yet because he ain't doing
Speaker 6: the damn thing he's usually calling me talking trash.
Speaker 2: You know what's with the Cowboys. I don't hear from
Speaker 2: him anymore.
Speaker 5: And I can't believe that New Orleans hasn't been eliminated already.
Speaker 5: They're five and nine.
Speaker 6: Well that that that doesn't it doesn't make us look good, yeah,
Speaker 6: because like like right.
Speaker 5: Above them, but it's all one percent. Oh that's pretty sobering,
Speaker 5: right all right, Well, that's it for mix shots on
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