WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Bitter Sweet 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:16.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.600 streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.279 Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:39.080 and Nicky Spagnola handed this time for a Monday edition 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.040 of Mick Shot. Says, we look back at what happened 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.000 on Sunday at at and T Stadium and look ahead 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.479 to a Monday night game this week. I guess the 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.200 Arizona Cardinals of course, much to get to and Mickey 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.440 Spagnola and Everson. I'm not sure if Everson's with us 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.120 just yet, but Mickey, I know that the area is 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.640 Everson is here. You know, it is a victory Monday 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.520 at the Store in Frisco. But Mickey, it just doesn't 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.319 feel like a victory Monday at the Star in Frisco. Doesn't. No, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:15.119 it sure doesn't. As a matter of fact, I kind 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.759 of turned that old phrase around from my column today 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.440 and I said, this was the agony of victory because 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.760 obviously you won a game. You know, it's like, thank god, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.160 finally you pulled a two in three. You're actually in 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.000 first place. But you lose your starting quarterback for the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.919 rest of the season, and somehow it just seemed hard. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.800 And I'm sure it was hard for the team afterwards 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.759 to celebrate a victory they had every right to celebrate. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.240 But again, when you lose Dak Prescott the way they 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:57.400 did in such gruesome fashion, I know everybody, I mean, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.560 I don't know what other people thought, but when I 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.200 was watching it and seeing him struggle the way he 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.480 did about made me sick to my stomach. To see 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.040 him have to go through that. Yeah, I happened to 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.360 be watching it, and and just so happened. My daughter 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.799 was next to me. If she's a grown woman, she's 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.720 thirty plus years old. But you know, we're both major 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.600 cowboy fans. Uh, when even when I went to the Giants, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.680 they remained cowboy fans. That just let you know how 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.360 much she loves the Cowboys. And uh, of course when 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.600 dad goes down, you know, she's, you know, black woman 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.240 seeing a young young black man, and and just she 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.880 empathized with him even more than she would just being 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.240 a major cowboy fan and the human being. It just, man, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.080 it took away from the the game itself. You know, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.919 like you said, you're sick to your stomach. It just 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.720 felt so uneasy. When I first saw the injury, guys, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.359 I just I was he as he was holding his cat, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.280 I just thought he had a not in his calf 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.040 because that's all I was looking at. And then just 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.880 you know, it doesn't take much to just go from 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.679 the calf down to the foot. And when he held 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.760 it up and I'm like, oh my goodness, he's it's done. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.120 He's done for the season. Uh. And I was hoping, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.919 you know how it is as a player, you've seen 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.400 the Joe thisman. You know, we always go back to 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.640 Joe thisman when we see that injury. And I was 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.560 I'm hoping that his career is not over, because that's 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.680 really something tough to come back from. He's he's younger 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.120 than Tisment was when Tisman had his injury. Of course, 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.240 you know, Dak is a stud of a human being, 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.920 so we just hope he can he can come out 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.560 of it in some way. Forget it. I almost forgot 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.000 about the season, that's how much it hit me. I'm thinking, man, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.000 it just you just wanted to turn off the TV, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.440 you know, And that's just crazy, considering that the game 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.200 is still going on. Yeah, I mean the game gun 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.200 was on the backburner then. I mean you just felt 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.600 for for Dak so much, and you talk about ever 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.280 since what you saw as the injury occurred. And for me, 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.760 I'm sitting there at home watching it with my wife 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:18.599 and and I did not when I saw something was wrong. Okay, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.679 immediately saw something wasn't right. I did this, I put 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.800 you know, I charted the game. I got a notebook 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.480 in my hand. I went like this, and I did 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.080 not want to see what was going on. I didn't 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.880 want to see it at all. And I have deadly 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.840 saw it. Actually, yeah, right, accident, And that's that's the 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.359 way I reacted in injury like that. I just I 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.360 just do not want to see it. And I think 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.080 there's you know, you could see the pictures of the 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.200 teammates and the and people on the sideline they didn't 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.680 want to look either, and um, you know, but uh, 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.880 the the it was. It was in a way though, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:59.240 it was such a beautiful scene to see the the 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.240 the Giant as well as the Cowboys, and you could 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.120 just see how much respect that Dak Prescott has not 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.440 only among his teammates but and fans here in Dallas, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.919 but across the league as well. We've seen it on 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.120 social media with so many people reaching out, and this 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.000 guy has earned the respect and just the way he 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.400 goes about his life and so forth. That's why it 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.720 doesn't matter whether I would look at it. If Dak 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.839 Prescott played for the Giants and I knew what I 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.800 know about Dak Prescott as a person, I would have 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.040 those same feelings that Jason Garrett had on the sideline 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.760 when he came out, you know, and that was a 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.960 touching moment when he came out, you know, as he 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.960 laid there on the term. The good news as far 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.320 as Dak is concerned, I've talked and Mickey you may 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.919 have two. I've talked to medical experts, and it looks 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.200 like this is not going to be an injury that's 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.880 going to affect his career long term. Obviously it does 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:58.880 for this season, but apparently the surgery went well and 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.119 it looks like that will be able to be back 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.880 as good as new after he recovers from this. Sin. Yeah, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:10.040 I think probably want to say something stags in regards 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.039 to I don't know, it's mixed shots, but I just 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.599 had to say this. It's It's not just uh, this 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.839 injury that that Dak has had, It's just in his 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:24.520 entire uh year has been pretty tough for him. So 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:29.039 you compound that fact with his brother's suicide and then 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.359 of course this injury, and now you're talking his bouts 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:37.520 with depression also, So it's more than just football here, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.800 and I want to make sure people understand that this 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 is about a young man who we've taken for granted 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.320 all this time. That's why the other team was so 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:51.000 involved in their grief, you know, in in the you know, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.280 commiserating with everyone simply because he is known as a 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.680 person that doesn't ever complain. He is known as a 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.120 professional on and off the court, not just here in Dallas, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.960 but in regards to the entire community of this nation 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:11.000 really when you think about it, So that's what went 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.120 along with that injury. It had much more to do, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.000 much less to do with football, and much more with 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.960 what kind of person he is, which is what you 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.800 talked about, Bill, Go ahead, Spags. I'm sorry, Yeah, I 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.640 was just gonna say this. This whole thing was like, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:31.560 so Dak, right, a normal quarterback, he's running, he gained 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.280 seven yards, go down, Not Dak he's gonna try to 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.880 power his way for the first down. He knows where 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.800 the first down is and he's gonna try to get 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.160 the extra yards. And then on top of that, it's 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.840 like he's on the ground and by god, he's gonna 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.679 straighten out his leg. He's gonna straighten out his foot. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.480 That's what he was trying to do. I couldn't believe it. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.360 And you can see it turned the wrong way and 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.040 he's trying to you know, and and mate. It brought 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.119 back memories. I could remember one time when when Troy 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.440 Aikman damaged a finger. It kind of dislocated and he 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.240 asked Kevin Gogan to pull it, like, get it back in. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.680 You know, you gotta do this. This is a foot 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.040 you can't you got you gotta do it yourself. Sometimes 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.360 it's just it's just automatic. When I heard mine, it's 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.640 over to the side, and you know, I'm surprised Troy 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.760 would let someone else do it. That takes more bravery 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.480 because I just had to immediately try to pop it 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.920 back into place. It's just automatic. You see it out, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.160 you want to put it back in now. I'm just 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.400 talking the finger. I don't know if i'd be doing 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.800 that with my foot your foot, right, yeah, and plus Troy, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.520 Troy's asking Gogan to do it of all people, right, yeah, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.240 Gogan would take his whole finger off, right. And then 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.480 and then when I see him going off and you 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.679 can see, you know, tears in his eyes, and there 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.760 was part of me thinking that, yeah, he's in pain. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.360 But the other pain is that he can't stand leaving 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.960 his team like he felt like he was leaving his 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.440 team behind. And uh, you know you could see that 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.120 the way Zeke ran, I mean he ran possessed for 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.640 that twelve yard touchdown. Yeah, because I think he understood 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.880 that now this thing's on us. And to me that 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:27.920 was yes, absolutely and so yeah, So anyway, so they 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:33.719 the surgery last night was successful. Uh, They going to 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:40.319 repair the fracture, uh and the dislocation. And the reason 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.960 they rushed into the hospital so fast because they were 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.079 worried about infection. So they wanted to make sure they 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:51.960 cleaned out the wound from the compound fracture, get that 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.480 thing set, take care of the dislocation. And what you 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.280 hope is you know that he didn't tear any ligaments 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.880 in there that that couldn't be the other thing you 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.319 worry about where the other guys had such bad injuries 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.600 that we've seen on TV as they've had nerve damage, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.080 and it didn't sound like he suffered any of that. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.680 The report this morning and Stephen talked about it, that 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.600 that the surgery was successful, uh, and that the doctors 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.320 feel like he should be able to come back good 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.640 as new sou and that's that remains to be seen. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.920 But I would imagine, you know, he's he's out four 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.400 to six weeks before he can do anything on that 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.959 foot again. And yeah, we had a we had another 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:40.040 injury that we can't ignore, was that Pope Tristan Hill. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.199 But Tristan Hill. Before before we get to Tristan Hill, 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.120 let me say one more thing about a deck and 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 I want to pass along what a doctor told me 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.280 last night about that whole situation and just how serious 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.720 this situation was. For first off, down on the field. Okay, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.800 when you have an injury like that, the biggest concern, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.160 and of course I'm no doctor, I'm just relaying what 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.679 a doctor told me. The biggest concern for the trainers 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.400 the medical staff on the field is re establishing blood 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.240 flow and you got to make sure quickly that blood 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.960 flow is re established in that area of the leg. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.959 When he was being carted off, you know, they put 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.560 him in a boot, okay, and amazingly that basically when 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.040 they set it and put it in that boot, it 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.760 takes the pain away amazingly for the most part. Okay. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.720 And so those tears that you were seeing as Mickey 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.360 was talking about, those tears welling up in Dak's eyes 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.880 as he was being carted off the field, they weren't 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.439 from pain. They were from the emotion of the moment. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.960 In fact, what I remember my wife's reaction as she 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.680 saw him laying on the ground there. She was going, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.719 that guy is so tough. I mean, I think it 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.880 was everybody's reaction there. But as he's you know, the 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.880 the the imagine what it would have been like if 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.360 whole stadium would have been a full but even with 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.600 the limited number of fans there, and in just the 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.920 outpouring that Dak had to feel from amongst teammates and 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.400 the other side going right by the Giants bench too, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.160 and you could see them all given their well wishes 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.800 to him as he as he was carded by, and 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.640 then just looking at that stadium and realizing all that 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.440 work that he has put in to this season and 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.880 this here and now and really not knowing what the 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.600 future holds for him. You can just imagine what kind 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.080 of emotion that he had and he showed it right there. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.000 And to love that he has for his team and 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.600 the sport and everything everything that he does. And then 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.199 the other thing, as Mickey was talking about, the really 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.839 important thing aside from fixing the injury, according to the 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.760 doctor that I talked to, is is because it was 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.280 an open wound, is the chance of infection. And when 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.640 they went in there, they had to really clean it 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.800 good and over and over and make sure that he 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.440 uh does not have an infection that that would not 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.280 be good at all. And so apparently everything went well 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.560 with the surgery last night and he was being released 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.680 from the hospital today. Good stuff, good stuff that all 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.239 that that that whole thing makes makes my rupture achilles 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:23.760 feel like a scrape on my arm. All right now, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.760 I want to give us him. We've been setting with 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:32.280 injury spags not to mention your own. Yeah, you know 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.439 what when when this stuff happens, all I say, it's 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.640 twenty twenty, How many more months we have left? Three 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:45.920 oh two? Many too many and Mickey about Tristan Hill. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.760 What are you hearing on Tristan. I'm hearing that the 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.559 MRI with that they were taking was to probably confirm 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.319 that he had a torn acl So it looks like 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.600 that they'll be without him too. I mean, just that happened. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:06.760 I tried to see it wasn't when the quarterback was 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.720 between his legs right and when he rolled over did it? 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.559 He fell awkwardly, and you know, and I thought Tony 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.520 Romo made a good comment there. He said, you know, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.920 when he went down, it was almost like he was 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:24.440 trying to keep Daniel Jones from a bad fall. He was, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.800 you know, and this is the guy that got a 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:31.200 bad name after the Seattle game because of his tackle 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.880 and roll, and here he was trying to go down right, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.240 you know. And another thing I noticed last week in 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.080 the in the Cleveland game, he made a tackle, clean tackle, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.480 and then when he hit the ground he rolled. It 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.440 was almost like his deal. Unfortunately in the Seattle game 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.720 when he rolled, he still had the guy's leg but 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.320 that's kind of what he did. I saw when he 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.240 hit the ground. So this time here he is trying 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.600 to make sure he doesn't fall on Daniel Jones's leg 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.720 or probably you know, even get a penalty and he 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.240 ends up hurting himself, you know. And the other thing 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.080 is do what you do guys when it don't let 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.160 anybody else change what you do whatever it's successful for you. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.320 If you start trying to change that because somebody else 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.840 has a complaint, then you're compromising yourself, which is exactly 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.880 what happened. Go ahead of him, Yeah, and he was. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.120 He was holding up trying not to get a penalty 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.560 or up on the past or also you know, because 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.840 he's had that issue in the past. But you know, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.320 then when I saw that he was hurt, he fell 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:40.560 so awkwardly. So many times on these ACL injuries, they're 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.320 non contact and they are from situations like that. I mean, 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.480 how about Blake Jarwin's I mean where it's it's a 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.920 non contact deal where it's like your your leg gives 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.640 out or I don't know exactly medically why that is, 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.720 or but that's when I saw he was down, I said, oh, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.920 I hope he's signed an ACL because of the awkward 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.280 manner in which he felt, not because of the contact 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.280 or anything. It's just AC don't seem to be an 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.440 injury that happens that way for whatever reason. And let's 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.840 just be clear, guys, I mean, we still have the 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:19.680 same feeling and empathy for anyone that gets injured on 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.840 this team, anyone that gets injured in football. I think 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.080 with Dak it's almost like the Ray Rice thing, you know, 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.560 kind of a stretch comparison. But you've got a lot 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.960 of people that have had marriage problems. But when you 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:39.440 see that marriage problem culminate on a video, then it's 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.200 just totally different and it has an entirely different effect. Yeah, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.520 we saw he'll go down, but it didn't have the 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:52.200 same visual effect that Dak's injury had. So yeah, we 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.880 still feel bad for all of these guys. You know, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.680 the journey is gonna be long. We just hope that 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.360 they come through it okay. And that's for all the 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.720 guys that they've had entries around the league, you know. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.960 And the other thing that my doctor that I talked 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.840 to said, I mean, it's Mickey said, I can't remember 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.040 that around six weeks. I mean, it takes a bone 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.679 to heal, he said six. My doctor said six to 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.040 eight weeks, assuming everything went well with the surgery, the 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.879 bone will heal and he'll be good to do whatever 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.159 in six to eight weeks. Now playing in the NFL 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.160 is not six to eight weeks away for him, I think, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.760 he says. But the way the doctor I talked to 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.480 put it is he's done for the regular season. I 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.680 mean he looked at it that it's it's not an 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.399 injury like a year long injury. It's something where after 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.520 the first of the year it looks like he would be, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.680 you know, able to do some things. So yeah, it's 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.320 not like it's not like an Alex Smith injury, right right, right. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.439 That's just good to hear. That's good to hear. And 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.679 I think the other thing is the thing that has 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.720 impressed me so much about Blake, about dak throughout his 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.920 time here is this positive spirit that he has and 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.240 it can do attitude that he has. 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Well what was 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.680 the chance of him playing fifty percent of the snaps? Right? Well, 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:15.720 now it's a real good chance he's gonna play probably 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.400 seventy five percent of the snaps, and then it goes 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.439 on from there. If they go through the playoffs, he 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:27.080 could make another, you know, two million dollars. So eventually, 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:32.280 with this from a financial standpoint, they structured the contract 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:36.360