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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola handed this time for a Monday edition
Speaker 1: of Mick Shot. Says, we look back at what happened
Speaker 1: on Sunday at at and T Stadium and look ahead
Speaker 1: to a Monday night game this week. I guess the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals of course, much to get to and Mickey
Speaker 1: Spagnola and Everson. I'm not sure if Everson's with us
Speaker 1: just yet, but Mickey, I know that the area is
Speaker 1: Everson is here. You know, it is a victory Monday
Speaker 1: at the Store in Frisco. But Mickey, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like a victory Monday at the Star in Frisco. Doesn't. No,
Speaker 1: it sure doesn't. As a matter of fact, I kind
Speaker 1: of turned that old phrase around from my column today
Speaker 1: and I said, this was the agony of victory because
Speaker 1: obviously you won a game. You know, it's like, thank god,
Speaker 1: finally you pulled a two in three. You're actually in
Speaker 1: first place. But you lose your starting quarterback for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, and somehow it just seemed hard.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it was hard for the team afterwards
Speaker 1: to celebrate a victory they had every right to celebrate.
Speaker 1: But again, when you lose Dak Prescott the way they
Speaker 1: did in such gruesome fashion, I know everybody, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what other people thought, but when I
Speaker 1: was watching it and seeing him struggle the way he
Speaker 1: did about made me sick to my stomach. To see
Speaker 1: him have to go through that. Yeah, I happened to
Speaker 1: be watching it, and and just so happened. My daughter
Speaker 1: was next to me. If she's a grown woman, she's
Speaker 1: thirty plus years old. But you know, we're both major
Speaker 1: cowboy fans. Uh, when even when I went to the Giants,
Speaker 1: they remained cowboy fans. That just let you know how
Speaker 1: much she loves the Cowboys. And uh, of course when
Speaker 1: dad goes down, you know, she's, you know, black woman
Speaker 1: seeing a young young black man, and and just she
Speaker 1: empathized with him even more than she would just being
Speaker 1: a major cowboy fan and the human being. It just, man,
Speaker 1: it took away from the the game itself. You know,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're sick to your stomach. It just
Speaker 1: felt so uneasy. When I first saw the injury, guys,
Speaker 1: I just I was he as he was holding his cat,
Speaker 1: I just thought he had a not in his calf
Speaker 1: because that's all I was looking at. And then just
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't take much to just go from
Speaker 1: the calf down to the foot. And when he held
Speaker 1: it up and I'm like, oh my goodness, he's it's done.
Speaker 1: He's done for the season. Uh. And I was hoping,
Speaker 1: you know how it is as a player, you've seen
Speaker 1: the Joe thisman. You know, we always go back to
Speaker 1: Joe thisman when we see that injury. And I was
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that his career is not over, because that's
Speaker 1: really something tough to come back from. He's he's younger
Speaker 1: than Tisment was when Tisman had his injury. Of course,
Speaker 1: you know, Dak is a stud of a human being,
Speaker 1: so we just hope he can he can come out
Speaker 1: of it in some way. Forget it. I almost forgot
Speaker 1: about the season, that's how much it hit me. I'm thinking, man,
Speaker 1: it just you just wanted to turn off the TV,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's just crazy, considering that the game
Speaker 1: is still going on. Yeah, I mean the game gun
Speaker 1: was on the backburner then. I mean you just felt
Speaker 1: for for Dak so much, and you talk about ever
Speaker 1: since what you saw as the injury occurred. And for me,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there at home watching it with my wife
Speaker 1: and and I did not when I saw something was wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: immediately saw something wasn't right. I did this, I put
Speaker 1: you know, I charted the game. I got a notebook
Speaker 1: in my hand. I went like this, and I did
Speaker 1: not want to see what was going on. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to see it at all. And I have deadly
Speaker 1: saw it. Actually, yeah, right, accident, And that's that's the
Speaker 1: way I reacted in injury like that. I just I
Speaker 1: just do not want to see it. And I think
Speaker 1: there's you know, you could see the pictures of the
Speaker 1: teammates and the and people on the sideline they didn't
Speaker 1: want to look either, and um, you know, but uh,
Speaker 1: the the it was. It was in a way though,
Speaker 1: it was such a beautiful scene to see the the
Speaker 1: the Giant as well as the Cowboys, and you could
Speaker 1: just see how much respect that Dak Prescott has not
Speaker 1: only among his teammates but and fans here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: but across the league as well. We've seen it on
Speaker 1: social media with so many people reaching out, and this
Speaker 1: guy has earned the respect and just the way he
Speaker 1: goes about his life and so forth. That's why it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether I would look at it. If Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott played for the Giants and I knew what I
Speaker 1: know about Dak Prescott as a person, I would have
Speaker 1: those same feelings that Jason Garrett had on the sideline
Speaker 1: when he came out, you know, and that was a
Speaker 1: touching moment when he came out, you know, as he
Speaker 1: laid there on the term. The good news as far
Speaker 1: as Dak is concerned, I've talked and Mickey you may
Speaker 1: have two. I've talked to medical experts, and it looks
Speaker 1: like this is not going to be an injury that's
Speaker 1: going to affect his career long term. Obviously it does
Speaker 1: for this season, but apparently the surgery went well and
Speaker 1: it looks like that will be able to be back
Speaker 1: as good as new after he recovers from this. Sin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think probably want to say something stags in regards
Speaker 1: to I don't know, it's mixed shots, but I just
Speaker 1: had to say this. It's It's not just uh, this
Speaker 1: injury that that Dak has had, It's just in his
Speaker 1: entire uh year has been pretty tough for him. So
Speaker 1: you compound that fact with his brother's suicide and then
Speaker 1: of course this injury, and now you're talking his bouts
Speaker 1: with depression also, So it's more than just football here,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure people understand that this
Speaker 1: is about a young man who we've taken for granted
Speaker 1: all this time. That's why the other team was so
Speaker 1: involved in their grief, you know, in in the you know,
Speaker 1: commiserating with everyone simply because he is known as a
Speaker 1: person that doesn't ever complain. He is known as a
Speaker 1: professional on and off the court, not just here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: but in regards to the entire community of this nation
Speaker 1: really when you think about it, So that's what went
Speaker 1: along with that injury. It had much more to do,
Speaker 1: much less to do with football, and much more with
Speaker 1: what kind of person he is, which is what you
Speaker 1: talked about, Bill, Go ahead, Spags. I'm sorry, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say this. This whole thing was like,
Speaker 1: so Dak, right, a normal quarterback, he's running, he gained
Speaker 1: seven yards, go down, Not Dak he's gonna try to
Speaker 1: power his way for the first down. He knows where
Speaker 1: the first down is and he's gonna try to get
Speaker 1: the extra yards. And then on top of that, it's
Speaker 1: like he's on the ground and by god, he's gonna
Speaker 1: straighten out his leg. He's gonna straighten out his foot.
Speaker 1: That's what he was trying to do. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: And you can see it turned the wrong way and
Speaker 1: he's trying to you know, and and mate. It brought
Speaker 1: back memories. I could remember one time when when Troy
Speaker 1: Aikman damaged a finger. It kind of dislocated and he
Speaker 1: asked Kevin Gogan to pull it, like, get it back in.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta do this. This is a foot
Speaker 1: you can't you got you gotta do it yourself. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just it's just automatic. When I heard mine, it's
Speaker 1: over to the side, and you know, I'm surprised Troy
Speaker 1: would let someone else do it. That takes more bravery
Speaker 1: because I just had to immediately try to pop it
Speaker 1: back into place. It's just automatic. You see it out,
Speaker 1: you want to put it back in now. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking the finger. I don't know if i'd be doing
Speaker 1: that with my foot your foot, right, yeah, and plus Troy,
Speaker 1: Troy's asking Gogan to do it of all people, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: Gogan would take his whole finger off, right. And then
Speaker 1: and then when I see him going off and you
Speaker 1: can see, you know, tears in his eyes, and there
Speaker 1: was part of me thinking that, yeah, he's in pain.
Speaker 1: But the other pain is that he can't stand leaving
Speaker 1: his team like he felt like he was leaving his
Speaker 1: team behind. And uh, you know you could see that
Speaker 1: the way Zeke ran, I mean he ran possessed for
Speaker 1: that twelve yard touchdown. Yeah, because I think he understood
Speaker 1: that now this thing's on us. And to me that
Speaker 1: was yes, absolutely and so yeah, So anyway, so they
Speaker 1: the surgery last night was successful. Uh, They going to
Speaker 1: repair the fracture, uh and the dislocation. And the reason
Speaker 1: they rushed into the hospital so fast because they were
Speaker 1: worried about infection. So they wanted to make sure they
Speaker 1: cleaned out the wound from the compound fracture, get that
Speaker 1: thing set, take care of the dislocation. And what you
Speaker 1: hope is you know that he didn't tear any ligaments
Speaker 1: in there that that couldn't be the other thing you
Speaker 1: worry about where the other guys had such bad injuries
Speaker 1: that we've seen on TV as they've had nerve damage,
Speaker 1: and it didn't sound like he suffered any of that.
Speaker 1: The report this morning and Stephen talked about it, that
Speaker 1: that the surgery was successful, uh, and that the doctors
Speaker 1: feel like he should be able to come back good
Speaker 1: as new sou and that's that remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: But I would imagine, you know, he's he's out four
Speaker 1: to six weeks before he can do anything on that
Speaker 1: foot again. And yeah, we had a we had another
Speaker 1: injury that we can't ignore, was that Pope Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: But Tristan Hill. Before before we get to Tristan Hill,
Speaker 1: let me say one more thing about a deck and
Speaker 1: I want to pass along what a doctor told me
Speaker 1: last night about that whole situation and just how serious
Speaker 1: this situation was. For first off, down on the field. Okay,
Speaker 1: when you have an injury like that, the biggest concern,
Speaker 1: and of course I'm no doctor, I'm just relaying what
Speaker 1: a doctor told me. The biggest concern for the trainers
Speaker 1: the medical staff on the field is re establishing blood
Speaker 1: flow and you got to make sure quickly that blood
Speaker 1: flow is re established in that area of the leg.
Speaker 1: When he was being carted off, you know, they put
Speaker 1: him in a boot, okay, and amazingly that basically when
Speaker 1: they set it and put it in that boot, it
Speaker 1: takes the pain away amazingly for the most part. Okay.
Speaker 1: And so those tears that you were seeing as Mickey
Speaker 1: was talking about, those tears welling up in Dak's eyes
Speaker 1: as he was being carted off the field, they weren't
Speaker 1: from pain. They were from the emotion of the moment.
Speaker 1: In fact, what I remember my wife's reaction as she
Speaker 1: saw him laying on the ground there. She was going,
Speaker 1: that guy is so tough. I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: was everybody's reaction there. But as he's you know, the
Speaker 1: the the imagine what it would have been like if
Speaker 1: whole stadium would have been a full but even with
Speaker 1: the limited number of fans there, and in just the
Speaker 1: outpouring that Dak had to feel from amongst teammates and
Speaker 1: the other side going right by the Giants bench too,
Speaker 1: and you could see them all given their well wishes
Speaker 1: to him as he as he was carded by, and
Speaker 1: then just looking at that stadium and realizing all that
Speaker 1: work that he has put in to this season and
Speaker 1: this here and now and really not knowing what the
Speaker 1: future holds for him. You can just imagine what kind
Speaker 1: of emotion that he had and he showed it right there.
Speaker 1: And to love that he has for his team and
Speaker 1: the sport and everything everything that he does. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing, as Mickey was talking about, the really
Speaker 1: important thing aside from fixing the injury, according to the
Speaker 1: doctor that I talked to, is is because it was
Speaker 1: an open wound, is the chance of infection. And when
Speaker 1: they went in there, they had to really clean it
Speaker 1: good and over and over and make sure that he
Speaker 1: uh does not have an infection that that would not
Speaker 1: be good at all. And so apparently everything went well
Speaker 1: with the surgery last night and he was being released
Speaker 1: from the hospital today. Good stuff, good stuff that all
Speaker 1: that that that whole thing makes makes my rupture achilles
Speaker 1: feel like a scrape on my arm. All right now,
Speaker 1: I want to give us him. We've been setting with
Speaker 1: injury spags not to mention your own. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what when when this stuff happens, all I say, it's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, How many more months we have left? Three
Speaker 1: oh two? Many too many and Mickey about Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing on Tristan. I'm hearing that the
Speaker 1: MRI with that they were taking was to probably confirm
Speaker 1: that he had a torn acl So it looks like
Speaker 1: that they'll be without him too. I mean, just that happened.
Speaker 1: I tried to see it wasn't when the quarterback was
Speaker 1: between his legs right and when he rolled over did it?
Speaker 1: He fell awkwardly, and you know, and I thought Tony
Speaker 1: Romo made a good comment there. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: when he went down, it was almost like he was
Speaker 1: trying to keep Daniel Jones from a bad fall. He was,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is the guy that got a
Speaker 1: bad name after the Seattle game because of his tackle
Speaker 1: and roll, and here he was trying to go down right,
Speaker 1: you know. And another thing I noticed last week in
Speaker 1: the in the Cleveland game, he made a tackle, clean tackle,
Speaker 1: and then when he hit the ground he rolled. It
Speaker 1: was almost like his deal. Unfortunately in the Seattle game
Speaker 1: when he rolled, he still had the guy's leg but
Speaker 1: that's kind of what he did. I saw when he
Speaker 1: hit the ground. So this time here he is trying
Speaker 1: to make sure he doesn't fall on Daniel Jones's leg
Speaker 1: or probably you know, even get a penalty and he
Speaker 1: ends up hurting himself, you know. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is do what you do guys when it don't let
Speaker 1: anybody else change what you do whatever it's successful for you.
Speaker 1: If you start trying to change that because somebody else
Speaker 1: has a complaint, then you're compromising yourself, which is exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. Go ahead of him, Yeah, and he was.
Speaker 1: He was holding up trying not to get a penalty
Speaker 1: or up on the past or also you know, because
Speaker 1: he's had that issue in the past. But you know,
Speaker 1: then when I saw that he was hurt, he fell
Speaker 1: so awkwardly. So many times on these ACL injuries, they're
Speaker 1: non contact and they are from situations like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: how about Blake Jarwin's I mean where it's it's a
Speaker 1: non contact deal where it's like your your leg gives
Speaker 1: out or I don't know exactly medically why that is,
Speaker 1: or but that's when I saw he was down, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I hope he's signed an ACL because of the awkward
Speaker 1: manner in which he felt, not because of the contact
Speaker 1: or anything. It's just AC don't seem to be an
Speaker 1: injury that happens that way for whatever reason. And let's
Speaker 1: just be clear, guys, I mean, we still have the
Speaker 1: same feeling and empathy for anyone that gets injured on
Speaker 1: this team, anyone that gets injured in football. I think
Speaker 1: with Dak it's almost like the Ray Rice thing, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a stretch comparison. But you've got a lot
Speaker 1: of people that have had marriage problems. But when you
Speaker 1: see that marriage problem culminate on a video, then it's
Speaker 1: just totally different and it has an entirely different effect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw he'll go down, but it didn't have the
Speaker 1: same visual effect that Dak's injury had. So yeah, we
Speaker 1: still feel bad for all of these guys. You know,
Speaker 1: the journey is gonna be long. We just hope that
Speaker 1: they come through it okay. And that's for all the
Speaker 1: guys that they've had entries around the league, you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that my doctor that I talked
Speaker 1: to said, I mean, it's Mickey said, I can't remember
Speaker 1: that around six weeks. I mean, it takes a bone
Speaker 1: to heal, he said six. My doctor said six to
Speaker 1: eight weeks, assuming everything went well with the surgery, the
Speaker 1: bone will heal and he'll be good to do whatever
Speaker 1: in six to eight weeks. Now playing in the NFL
Speaker 1: is not six to eight weeks away for him, I think,
Speaker 1: he says. But the way the doctor I talked to
Speaker 1: put it is he's done for the regular season. I
Speaker 1: mean he looked at it that it's it's not an
Speaker 1: injury like a year long injury. It's something where after
Speaker 1: the first of the year it looks like he would be,
Speaker 1: you know, able to do some things. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not like an Alex Smith injury, right right, right.
Speaker 1: That's just good to hear. That's good to hear. And
Speaker 1: I think the other thing is the thing that has
Speaker 1: impressed me so much about Blake, about dak throughout his
Speaker 1: time here is this positive spirit that he has and
Speaker 1: it can do attitude that he has. And I guarantee
Speaker 1: you who woke up in that hospital this morning, when
Speaker 1: he gets back to the Star, he is going to
Speaker 1: be doing all he can to get back as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. But he believes in this team. He believes
Speaker 1: in Andy Dalton. He believes that this team, which is
Speaker 1: now back in first place in his bad NFC East
Speaker 1: after winning yesterday, has a chance with a veteran quarterback,
Speaker 1: and let's we can get into Andy Dalton and talk
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Speaker 1: will come in with a three and two record next
Speaker 1: Monday Night, of course, coached by Cliff Kingsbury. The quarterback
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray gets all the headlines, but they lost a
Speaker 1: key member of their team and yesterday's win over the Jets,
Speaker 1: as their star high paid edge rusher Chandler Jones has
Speaker 1: lost for the season. I believe a torn biceps injury.
Speaker 1: We're the initial reports. I don't think there's anything official
Speaker 1: on that yet, but they're without Chandler Jones. But our
Speaker 1: concern right now is what the Cowboys and what happened
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We've talked a lot about the Dak injury
Speaker 1: and that takes precedence over everything else. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did come away with a victory, and there's a reason
Speaker 1: NICKI that Andy Dalton is on this team. And there's
Speaker 1: a reason that the football gods were smiling upon the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the late April when Joe Burrow was picked
Speaker 1: by the Cincinnati Bengals, and it was obvious that Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton no longer had a home in Cincinnati. He does
Speaker 1: have a home in Highland Park. It made a whole
Speaker 1: lot of sense for him to sign with the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one sort of just fell right in their lap, right,
Speaker 1: and not to mention going through COVID nineteen, he probably
Speaker 1: didn't want to have to move leave home to go
Speaker 1: to another team, and it was just too convenient for
Speaker 1: him to sign with the Cowboys. And if you think
Speaker 1: about it, you know, these previous few years they've gone
Speaker 1: with the inexperience backup, and this time, when this opportunity
Speaker 1: presented to themselves, it's like, heck yeah. And again he
Speaker 1: had guaranteed money from Cincinnati, So basically the Cowboys just
Speaker 1: gave him a three year, I mean a one year,
Speaker 1: three million dollars guaranteed contract laced with a bunch of incentives.
Speaker 1: And you know that when you first saw it, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's probably not going to hit those incentives, because the
Speaker 1: first one was if he played fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps and the Cowboys made it to the playoffs, it
Speaker 1: was a one million dollars incentive bonus. Well what was
Speaker 1: the chance of him playing fifty percent of the snaps? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: now it's a real good chance he's gonna play probably
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the snaps, and then it goes
Speaker 1: on from there. If they go through the playoffs, he
Speaker 1: could make another, you know, two million dollars. So eventually,
Speaker 1: with this from a financial standpoint, they structured the contract
Speaker 1: just in case, and just in case, just presented himself.
Speaker 1: But the more important thing is is you've got a
Speaker 1: guy that started this is his tenth year in the
Speaker 1: in the league. If I got it right, was it
Speaker 1: twenty eleven his draft? And so this is what you
Speaker 1: want in a backup quarterback because think about it, these
Speaker 1: guys might get a handful of snaps during the week
Speaker 1: in practice, maybe maybe half a dozen, and the rest
Speaker 1: of it is mental preparation and relying on what you
Speaker 1: already know. And he came in and played like he'd
Speaker 1: been playing for four games the order to end up
Speaker 1: completing nine of eleven passes for one hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: yards and he should go take Michael Gallop out to
Speaker 1: dinner for the rest of the year. Those two castles unbelievable, right,
Speaker 1: But again he had to function and go in and run,
Speaker 1: and they really didn't back off that much from what
Speaker 1: their game plan was. So it was a real godsend
Speaker 1: that they decided to sign Andy Dalton. Well, I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed That's bangs, even though my heart was heavy. You know,
Speaker 1: we're still taking care of business, even after he fumbled
Speaker 1: the snap from center that he could have folded. You know,
Speaker 1: of course, I know he's no no shrinking Violet. I
Speaker 1: know he's a quarterback, has been the league for ten years.
Speaker 1: But under those circumstances, it was very unusual for him.
Speaker 1: Considering the emotions around the entire stadium at that time,
Speaker 1: I know he was feeling it and to come in
Speaker 1: and have to perform the way he did the pass
Speaker 1: to Michael Gallop on the sidelines, tiptoed on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: He did that on the run, of course, running to
Speaker 1: his right, thank goodness, But that is an extremely difficult
Speaker 1: pass to make, coming off the bench cold and needing
Speaker 1: that particular play. He dropped that diamond there for gallop
Speaker 1: and then of course now you have to have your
Speaker 1: teammates lift you up when you need it. So here
Speaker 1: comes the deep pass. I never saw that deep pass coming.
Speaker 1: I just assumed that they were going to continue to
Speaker 1: play it safe and I put I posted that on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You know, you see some amazing catches out there that
Speaker 1: are obviously amazing. The Beckham play against against a Brandon
Speaker 1: car in text in Capitoy Stadium. That was an amazing play.
Speaker 1: It just physically he was being pied, caught it with
Speaker 1: one hand going down. It was just ridiculously crazy that play.
Speaker 1: The gallap wade made a little bit more subtle in
Speaker 1: its greatness. It's easy to do the Willie made well,
Speaker 1: it's not easy, but those that catch I've done it before.
Speaker 1: Bless with the ability to do the Willie Mays catch
Speaker 1: over the shoulder with your hands in this position. But
Speaker 1: for him to be able to catch the ball with
Speaker 1: his hands in this position, I posted that is one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing catches I have ever seen. Guys
Speaker 1: hanging off of his back. This is easy, guys. It's
Speaker 1: easier to go like this and to have your hands
Speaker 1: inverted in that manner. I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: a cleaner ch in that manner. Those would have to
Speaker 1: be loved bad guys. The clutch situation, the emotion in
Speaker 1: the room, the ability for him to come toward his
Speaker 1: body in that manner. That's why I said, Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: is going to have a breakout year this year because
Speaker 1: of plays like that. Amazingly athletic guy. And then and
Speaker 1: then add the toe tap right, he got his feet
Speaker 1: in bound. Unbelievable. But you know what the thing And
Speaker 1: if you guys remember when I was watching training camp
Speaker 1: practices and I think you guys asked me what what
Speaker 1: has stood out to you about Andy Dalton And I said,
Speaker 1: he's so accurate throwing the ball. You said, those passes
Speaker 1: are off target. The ball is always right there. And
Speaker 1: when they were doing their little drill where they kind
Speaker 1: of moved in and out of those little block and
Speaker 1: dummies laying on the ground and have to throw the
Speaker 1: ball in the square and the net, he was fabulous
Speaker 1: at that. Now he was fabulous yesterday. That was when
Speaker 1: he showed this right, yeah, and of eleven right, and
Speaker 1: that's what they've got to look forward to. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have to dumb down the offense because
Speaker 1: this guy could still sling the ball. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with his arm, there's nothing wrong with his reads. Sure,
Speaker 1: you want to maybe rely on Zeke a little more
Speaker 1: when you can. Right then, everybody was like, wow, they
Speaker 1: will rely it on Zeke. Well yeah, because once they
Speaker 1: wiped out the fourteen point deficit, it was they got
Speaker 1: the lead. It was their ball game. Uh, and you
Speaker 1: know they you know, great plays, uh, mixed things up,
Speaker 1: but relied on Zeke. And and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think I think they were Yeah, I think you're wrong,
Speaker 1: because yeah, on that one drive when they were behind,
Speaker 1: they just loaded up Zeke and was like okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: Uh So yeah that was uh you know, and I
Speaker 1: think you saw a blueprint for for for going forward.
Speaker 1: But you still got to take advantage of these talented
Speaker 1: white receivers, including Cedric Wilson, who can throw the football.
Speaker 1: And I found out that he was a quarterback in
Speaker 1: high school. Yeah yeah, and he threw a touchdown passing
Speaker 1: college at Boise State. Also, I guarantee you Kelvin Moore
Speaker 1: already knew that. Yeah. Absolutely, a boy that'll give, that'll
Speaker 1: give some teams some some things to uh to talk about,
Speaker 1: ye and so yeah, I mean you're not gonna say, okay,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, we go on. Now. Dax got
Speaker 1: a certain thing about him that obviously these guys respect,
Speaker 1: if you just read the quotes after the game. But again,
Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback that still had something. He just
Speaker 1: didn't have much around him that last year or two
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati's exactly right, exactly right. In fact, I was
Speaker 1: looking at at Dalton's career and of course said he
Speaker 1: led the Bengals to the playoff ops for five years.
Speaker 1: He's the Bengals all time franchise record holder for completions
Speaker 1: in a season, touchdown passes in a season. Of course,
Speaker 1: the big knock on him was the lack of postseason success,
Speaker 1: but that's not totally all on the quarterback. And then
Speaker 1: he didn't have a j Green last year. So he
Speaker 1: had Tyler Boyd I guess it receiver and Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: at running back with a bad offensive line in front
Speaker 1: of him. But he's got to be sitting there going
Speaker 1: I've got Amari Cooper, I've got Ceedee Lamb, I got
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, I got Zeke, I got all these weapons
Speaker 1: and he's got to be sitting there. Yeah, we can
Speaker 1: do this. The other thing on Dak. If anybody tells
Speaker 1: Dak what that doctor told me last night that in
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks you can be good to go,
Speaker 1: I mean I was doing a math on that. It's
Speaker 1: October twelveth eight weeks would be December twelve. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you Dak has in his mind. I don't care what
Speaker 1: the doctors are saying. I'm getting back out there as
Speaker 1: soon as I can. I would have any great year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: out Andy, you help us get to the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there. I'm the playoffs are. It's exactly right.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not letting you get that playoff. And
Speaker 1: that's right. You can get you can get the what
Speaker 1: is it the one million dollars incentive to play fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the regular season snaps to get about. Don't
Speaker 1: forget about those postseason incentives unless unless you just have
Speaker 1: to be on the team. I'll get you the postseason
Speaker 1: incentives if it's worded that way, or rework your contract
Speaker 1: where it is worded that way, and I will be
Speaker 1: back all right, and we'll be back here on Mike
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Speaker 1: a Monday. The Cowboys back in first place at the
Speaker 1: NFC East with a two and three record, can even
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and a thirty seven thirty four win.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember our picks. We none of us
Speaker 1: had the score in the thirties, right, I had twenty six?
Speaker 1: All right, what do you have, Mickey? Twenty six? Twenty
Speaker 1: and I had and I texted NICKI at one point
Speaker 1: in the game, I had the score. I had my
Speaker 1: pick exactly right. It was twenty four and twenty three
Speaker 1: at one point. They went in a game right then.
Speaker 1: But my click, my pick to click was Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: That works, It works, No yes, it does. Do we
Speaker 1: remember my pick to click? Do we remember C D Land?
Speaker 1: You damn right there, Come on, man, give me some love,
Speaker 1: man give all right, all right, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it so good. I got it. This week. CD
Speaker 1: Land is so good. I think was fired. I think
Speaker 1: he made it. Made me go seriously, especially the one
Speaker 1: he caught and then got hit in the head and
Speaker 1: he still went on to the football. The second one
Speaker 1: he got hit in the head, that was very dangerous. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah that that. I thought that guy was gonna get tossed.
Speaker 1: I thought this just proves that teams don't have three
Speaker 1: or four quality corners. You put him in the slot,
Speaker 1: if you're not gonna put your starter on him, that's
Speaker 1: guy's not going to cover that guy because he's not
Speaker 1: a third receiver. He is a very good receiver who
Speaker 1: just happens to be in the slot and it's a mismatch. Now,
Speaker 1: now you need to hand this show over to me,
Speaker 1: because that's exactly what I said last week. They don't
Speaker 1: have another corner to cover him line back of a safety. Maybe,
Speaker 1: So yes, thank you SPATSH for reiterating what I already said.
Speaker 1: As I bask and glory over here, you know. And
Speaker 1: the other thing with Ceedee Lamb when I watched him
Speaker 1: in college, one of the things I was most impressed
Speaker 1: with with him outside of the obvious and his ability
Speaker 1: to do everything in a receiver, is his toughness. He
Speaker 1: would take shots like that all the time in college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there were times when he was returning a punt
Speaker 1: and a guy would light him up. And in fact,
Speaker 1: I remember I was a game against Baylor, he took
Speaker 1: a hit even before the ball lit I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy let him up before even the ball even got there,
Speaker 1: and he had to come out of the game due
Speaker 1: to concussion protocol whatever, and he was back in like
Speaker 1: the next series. I mean, he was so tough and
Speaker 1: he he's shown that already five games deep into his
Speaker 1: NFL career. I think he was inspired by his suitors
Speaker 1: winning and four overtimes on Saturday. By the way, speaking
Speaker 1: of that, Blake bell had to catch Blake Bello catching
Speaker 1: us gave Billy never Gallimore comes in, and now Gallimore
Speaker 1: is gonna be a guy that this team is depending on.
Speaker 1: With Tristan Hill going down well, and then how about
Speaker 1: this safety a safety number forty people on Twitter who
Speaker 1: followed this team on a regular basis, was going, who's
Speaker 1: forty Parker. There's somebody named Parker who plays for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We'll not Stephen Parker, a former suitor who got twenty
Speaker 1: two steps who he was? Bill I had. I saw
Speaker 1: that as well, like, who the hell is number four?
Speaker 1: They we're putting anybody out there? I did. I must
Speaker 1: admit I had to pick up my foster and going, well,
Speaker 1: he's not he's not on the right, And then I said, oh,
Speaker 1: practice squashy. They moved him up. But you know what
Speaker 1: they did, so you know what they did is they
Speaker 1: started playing dime, so they put extra safeties, you know,
Speaker 1: and Everson pointed that out. One of the things you
Speaker 1: can do, uh, if you can bring in more safeties
Speaker 1: instead of playing that linebacker in there. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of what they did, and you know, it kind of worked.
Speaker 1: The other thing I thought defensively that worked, you guys
Speaker 1: is I only saw one or two plays, maybe no
Speaker 1: more than a half dozen that they got in a
Speaker 1: three four alignment. They stayed with that four down alignment. Now,
Speaker 1: they did try standing up the linebacker or the defensive
Speaker 1: end a couple of times. Dorance or Alden Smith, but
Speaker 1: for the majority it was a four man line, two
Speaker 1: linebackers in the nickel, or they went to dime and
Speaker 1: it was working. Now, there was this perception, and I
Speaker 1: had it after the game that gosh, the Giants just
Speaker 1: ran right over them. They just couldn't stop the run still,
Speaker 1: And then when I was typing out my column last night,
Speaker 1: I said, well, gosh, they must have had like one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards rushing. Well, I pick up my
Speaker 1: sheet here and it's twenty seven carries for eighty nine yards.
Speaker 1: I'll take that any day. Twenty seven carries for eighty
Speaker 1: nine yards three point three a carry. They still have
Speaker 1: problems shutting down in the middle. Those defensive tackles have
Speaker 1: to play better. If they can play better, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they can, but I'll guarantee you Gallimore get
Speaker 1: some more snaps because the big old guy that's supposed
Speaker 1: to be stuffing things in the middle ain't stuff in anything.
Speaker 1: And I just don't know, ma, how much longer they're
Speaker 1: going with that. Okay, let me say this because I
Speaker 1: brought this up because I was a month or so
Speaker 1: ago I was studying the Patriots and the Patriots had
Speaker 1: a number one defense in the league last year, and
Speaker 1: I started looking at how many dbs they got on
Speaker 1: the field all the time, and it's like I did
Speaker 1: the math on it. It was like the first game
Speaker 1: of the year, they had like five point eight per
Speaker 1: snap dbs on the field during a game, and they've
Speaker 1: consistently been at five and a half dbs on the
Speaker 1: field every game. And that's what I believe. That's what
Speaker 1: they did last year too. Joe Judge and the Giants
Speaker 1: are doing that too, of course he was with the
Speaker 1: Giants last year. And what I believe what's happening here,
Speaker 1: it's the trickle up effect from college football to the NFL,
Speaker 1: where you got all these spread offenses, you got more
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the field. The Giants were going with
Speaker 1: a lot of eleven personnel, if not ten personnel, a
Speaker 1: lot of Ingram is like another wide receiver, even though
Speaker 1: he's listed as a tight end, and so you need
Speaker 1: more dbs on the field. Now, it's going to hurt
Speaker 1: you in the run game. But I hear college coaches
Speaker 1: talk about it all the time. They have to recruit
Speaker 1: in the Big twelve and now in the SEC. If
Speaker 1: you're seeing how many yards those teams were given up.
Speaker 1: How about the Missouri Tiger. You see the old m
Speaker 1: hat back up there, so you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: what's funny about that built Remember when I told you
Speaker 1: the story that the thing came out when LSU lost
Speaker 1: the season opener, and I said that was the first day.
Speaker 1: They said it was the first time the national defending
Speaker 1: national champ lost the season over since nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: And I told you it was Missouri beating Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: And the reason they beat them is they stopped them
Speaker 1: three times in gold and goal situations. Right. The last one,
Speaker 1: Notre Dame had the ball at the three yard line
Speaker 1: on fourth and goal. They could have kicked a field
Speaker 1: goal to tie it, and then the line was too
Speaker 1: proud to tie, so he wanted to beat his old school.
Speaker 1: Well what did Missouri do first in goal at the
Speaker 1: one with the game on the line, and stopped LSU
Speaker 1: four straight times? Wow? Four straight times. The last one
Speaker 1: was a pass breakup that they hadn't broke up a
Speaker 1: pass to t Rris Martschell the whole game long and
Speaker 1: the guy BLEDSOE broke it up and they win. I
Speaker 1: was so I'm up here watching it, right the neighbors
Speaker 1: probably heard me, right, And I'm texting him too, Bill
Speaker 1: because the game, I'm missoo, question Mark, what has happening?
Speaker 1: But where we got off on MISSOI is the fact
Speaker 1: that that I mean, I think that that this is
Speaker 1: sort of the trend in the NFL, and you can
Speaker 1: you know, there's an old saying that you can't have
Speaker 1: enough cornerbacks and everything. Would probably agree with that, but uh,
Speaker 1: probably the thing that that goes with that though, Bill,
Speaker 1: you have to have linebackers. They're there active and not
Speaker 1: just run stuffing, but also in past dropping with Pepper Johnson.
Speaker 1: This weekend he's coaching with IMG. They came in town.
Speaker 1: I'm surely Duckingville and he and I had we talked
Speaker 1: a little while and we talked about that that's what
Speaker 1: you have to have. Linebackers are the active we were
Speaker 1: blessed with called Banks Lt. Pepper Johnson Gary reasons. We
Speaker 1: were blessed with that. So the Cowboys can be effective
Speaker 1: in this defense. And I have to give him props
Speaker 1: because I've been on him since last thing's giving. Jaylen
Speaker 1: Smith bawled out yesterday and that's what you have to have.
Speaker 1: We saw his weaknesses against the past. We saw some
Speaker 1: of that, but Jaylen Smith played the kind of football
Speaker 1: that we need him to play consistently, not just every
Speaker 1: once in a while. He has to be the anchor
Speaker 1: for this team day in, day out, weekend, week out.
Speaker 1: I don't care who we're playing. He has no excuse,
Speaker 1: but he has to be our lynchpin as far as
Speaker 1: our linebackers are concerned. That's the strength of it. Romo
Speaker 1: talked yesterday about the eyes that we don't have in
Speaker 1: the secondary. No one can play zone. No one sees
Speaker 1: the routes coming. No one can figure out how the
Speaker 1: routes are going to attack them and whether the weaknesses
Speaker 1: are and where your where your your your weak spots
Speaker 1: are you in your secondary. That's the problem that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the secondary. They don't recognize routes and people
Speaker 1: get behind them all the time. In a zone, defense
Speaker 1: cannot happen. Jaylen Smith made major improvement, major improvement this week.
Speaker 1: Well you know why he had major improvement. His recognition
Speaker 1: of what was about to happen was spot on, guys.
Speaker 1: It was his Sean Lee impersonation was reading things for
Speaker 1: a change, and he was there to make plays and
Speaker 1: the other thing that happened with all those dbs on
Speaker 1: you're allowed to blitz where people don't know where it's
Speaker 1: coming from. Because Anthony Brown didn't just happen to be
Speaker 1: there to pick up. They were blitching him off of
Speaker 1: from the slot. Lawrence's but right, and he was coming.
Speaker 1: So they did that more. And let's also point this out.
Speaker 1: I keep hearing God they gave up thirty four points
Speaker 1: to the Giants. Well, the defense really gave up twenty
Speaker 1: points because you get an interception, tipball intercepts and return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, a fumble on the seventeen yard line
Speaker 1: and they go in for a touchdown. Take away. Those
Speaker 1: two plays they limited them to four field goals a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a two point conversion. With this defense, I'll
Speaker 1: take that every day. I'll take my chance. We can
Speaker 1: call offense without day. Yes, and along those lines were
Speaker 1: out of time, so I don't have enough time to
Speaker 1: make this point. But I wonder how much it helped
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith going up against Jason Garrett's offense, an offense
Speaker 1: that he saw in practice here for many years in
Speaker 1: training camp. Whatever. And the other thing is, and I
Speaker 1: guess we'll want the league on this how motivated was
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett to show people in this building Clay play
Speaker 1: collar play caller. He is after having the play calling,
Speaker 1: not being the play caller here, and he's recently head
Speaker 1: coach here, and he's running a flea flicker on the
Speaker 1: first drive, he's got a reverse for a test down
Speaker 1: on the yeah on the first drive. He was so
Speaker 1: motivated to show he's a play caller. All Right, that
Speaker 1: does it. We're out of time. We could go on
Speaker 1: and on, but we go on and on Tomorrow at
Speaker 1: one thirty here on mix shots. Make it a great Monday,
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