WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Calling All Leaders 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.039 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:18.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Nick Shot 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:23.040 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.760 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:36.440 and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.880 of Mick Shots. I am Bill Jones with the great 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.320 Everson Walls, future Hall of Famer Everson Balls, I might add, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:49.160 and Nicky Spagnola. We are one week down, just over 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.240 three weeks to go now before the Cowboys kick off 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.360 this twenty twenty regular season at the Los Angeles Rams. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.680 How are you guys doing this morning? I'm doing great, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.720 sitting here at the start watch practice at the Ford 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:08.000 Center and ready to take some shots today. All right, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.160 how about you? Ever soon? I am feeling good. I 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:17.160 have your optimism today, Bill, Everything is about Cowboys. Everything 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.679 is about the season getting going, and we are looking 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.800 forward to the super Bowl. Where's your hat? That's where's 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.240 your super Bowl hat? I tried? I need to get. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.400 In fact, the Super Bowl is going to be carried 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.080 on CBS once again this year, and so I hate 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.760 to get my CBS super Bowl hat. Get ready, to 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.839 make the trip to Tampa. We're ready, and in fact, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.440 Drew Pearson maybe making the trip to Tampa as some 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.680 big news for him. We'll get into over the course 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.720 of the next hour, and that moves to make you, 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:56.160 That moves Everson one step closer to getting into kid today. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:01.240 Absolutely should right. You never know how those wheels turn 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 up there in Canton, but I think Everson should be 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:09.160 absolutely next. And I was gonna be hesitant to bring 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.600 it up because I didn't know if Everson would be like, oh, 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:17.360 he's getting in and I'm not. No, no, you know, yeah, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.280 I know you guys. I love me some Drew, I mean, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.360 everybody does. I mean, that's that's why he was the 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.359 I think he was the only senior nominee this year, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.400 because to me, that's just making up a lost time. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.880 That's not a makeup call in basketball. They know they 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.240 shouldn't have done it, and they're trying to go back 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.160 and and reverse their mistakes. So good job by the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.880 Hall of Fame committee. Yeah, it's almost like they cleared 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.760 the table off. It's like, let's not confuse this right 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.800 and have two or three nominees. We're gonna have one 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:55.280 and get it right, and uh, and so by being 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.600 the lone senior finalist, that's when you know somebody screw 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.880 it up. Place a Saturday before the Super Bowl in 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.720 February sixth in Tampa, and you have to get eighty 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.200 percent of the vote, a virtual shoe in. And what's 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.079 interesting about it is the fact that course is back 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.359 in January, we all saw Drew was so emotional when 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.080 he did not get the call, and he got the 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.079 call from David Baker earlier this week. And now, oddly enough, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.920 with this pandemic, Jimmy's going in next year the actual 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.280 induction ceremony Cliff Harris as well. So as it turns out, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.360 if Drew gets voted in on February sixth, he'll go 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.320 in with everybody else, just like he got as if 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.800 he would have been and voted in back in January 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.120 a Cowboys jamboree in Capton, Ohio. Absolutely see that the 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.480 pandemic is the great It's the great equalizer. That's what 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.240 that pandemic was, all right, it was a great equalizer. 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.360 I love that. I love it. Everything turned out well. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.040 We'll talk more about that over the course of the 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.760 next hour and take your comments on it as well, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.400 but Mickey, we had a practice once again this morning. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.440 We had a Mike McCarthy press conference at seven to 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.040 fifteen am, and you took it all in. Give us 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.160 an update. What you know from Cowboys practice this morning. Well, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:23.479 they did a split location practice, I should say, did 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.680 the individual drills outdoors on the grass field and then 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.120 when they went into the team period, they moved inside 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:36.160 to the Ford Center. So not sure why he split 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.040 it like that. I don't know if he's getting paranoid 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:44.000 of people watching the team practice outdoors with all the 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.840 construction going on, or what the deal is. But you know, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:54.039 they had practice indoors the previous day and then they 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.920 did half and half today, so individual drills and then 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:04.919 really do working hard indoors on two minute drill hurry 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.159 up offense. They've done that now for the past couple 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.160 days and it's been pretty exciting to watch. They did 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.240 have a couple I don't know if I should call 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.720 a minor injuries. Jordan Lewis left as soon as they 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.080 started to practice indoors. Looked like he got tangled up 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.640 a little bit of an ankle. Maybe U Tyrant Smith 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.479 left during individual drills, So I'm not sure what was 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.839 going on there. And as for updates on Everson Griffin, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.520 he was in uniform but really didn't do much, especially 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.440 when they went to team He and Don Terry Poe 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:50.240 who's now aff off of Pope Pop. Basically during the 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:56.080 team sessions they were just watching so pretty spirited practice, 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.640 and I thought Cedric Wilson kind of put his hand 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.120 up in the air and said, hey, don't forget about me. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.280 Everybody talks about the first three wide receivers, and he 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.400 had himself quite a day to day during the day. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.760 You go there, you go, good stuff, good stuff. It 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.560 seems weird. The cowboys go from from Forest Lane over 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.719 but by Hamilton Park where I grew up, Bill, you 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.440 know what that was. And they were always worried about 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:31.160 being spied on from the hotel the day's in which 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.720 you know, have the two stories and we had the 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.919 little six foot fence, so they would always spy on 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.160 our practices. The cowboys have gone all the way from 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.040 Forest Lane h to Frisco and they still might have 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.160 that same concern. So just think about how weird that is. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.800 That's one thing you got to think about. Hey, Everson, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.280 you know what the other night I saw a special 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.719 on the news and it was about Hamilton Park and 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.880 a guy that grew grew up there, went to school 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.480 at the elementary school and now he's the assistant principal 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.880 at the elementary school there in Hamilton Park. So they 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.480 gave me a little history lesson of where you grew up. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.800 Oh yeah, and and that's you can you can kind 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:21.080 of surmise from the from the special just how proud 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.240 we were as a people. Uh. It was really when 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.160 they talked about a project, they talked about the development 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.480 of African Americans. Hamiltons Park is like no other h 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:38.120 I was able to deal with gil Brant, Tech Shram, Hollywood, Henderson, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.640 Drew Pearsons. I was able to deal with all of 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.600 those different personalities on the football field because when I 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.960 grew up in Hamilton Park, we had every type of 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:54.640 person that you ever wanted to come across, rich, poor, intelligent, crazy. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.160 So it was like a sociology project and that that 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.640 got me ready for the craziness that was up there 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.560 at the forest Land and Agents back in the day 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.960 twin sixties hotel as well. Yeah, I didn't realize it 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.080 was a planned neighborhood and that was where they allowed 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.320 I guess the black folks to be able to live 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:22.440 within the city limits. It seemed like returning World War 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:28.000 Two veterans and also Korean War veterans as well. That 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.520 was what it was for. I don't know how this 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.040 black doctor pulled it off to buy this primo land 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.080 on the north side of Dallas. They've been trying to 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:42.640 boot us off that hill ever since. We're still hanging 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.280 in there. We're still hanging in there. It was interesting. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.679 So well. Making one note about practice today, Everson Griffin 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.000 has worked his way around to wearing his customary number 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.800 ninety seven or the Cowboys. Originally he was believing gonna 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:04.240 be ninety six. He's now ninety seven. Tristan Hill has 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.280 switched to seven. What is the seventy two seventy two, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:13.480 seventy two, yes, and Neville Gallimore moved to ninety six. Okay, 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.760 all right, So for those of you keeping track at home, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.640 that that is your roster, update your Nu Miracle roster, 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.240 so you can now update that on your respective computers. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.080 Let's let's talk about the news of the week to 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.080 kick things off. And of course it was the first 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.720 practice in Pads on Monday about forty five minutes into 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.920 the practice, Gerald McCoy goes down with a ruptured right 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.680 quadriceps tendon. Had surgery the next day. Cowboys release him 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.520 the next day, and as it turns out, he had 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.400 a quad injury in fact, not just a quad injury, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:55.600 but a right quad injury clause in his contract, and 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.120 so he gets his signing bonus, but the Cowboys are 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.920 off the hook for the re Yeah. As pretty savvy 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.200 contract the Cowboys put together. So when he took his 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:13.400 original uh physical uh it when it checked out, they 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:18.679 saw a pre pre existing condition with the right quadricept. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.000 So in the contract, uh, they put a clause in 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.960 there that said, if something happens with the right quadricep 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:33.960 tendon or anything related to the right quadricept, that the 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.160 contract basically becomes null and void. And the only money 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.280 that we're guaranteeing him that he will receive was the 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.400 three million dollars signing bonus, So any other guarantees the 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:52.680 per roster game played guarantee uh salary cap that all 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.360 went away. So the Cowboys ended up putting four point 0:10:56.400 --> 0:11:00.280 seven five million back into the cap for this year. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.680 Now his charge on the three million dollars signing bonus 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.760 will be spread over two years. One million dollars this year, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:13.160 two million dollars in dead money next year. So obviously 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.520 they saw something when he signed here in Bill and 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.920 ever since, I was just wondering maybe that's the reason 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.800 why the Cowboys were able to sign him when you 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.040 know other teams maybe backed off, is that they were 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.199 willing to gamble the three million dollars to bring him aboard, 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.920 where maybe other teams weren't. You know, we had we 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.200 had said originally, and there was probably something to this 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.800 that he wanted to get closer to his son, who 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.839 was going to be a freshman at Oklahoma on scholarship, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.640 and that may have had something to do with it. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.200 But it also maybe he didn't have a lot of 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.520 people knocking on his door because of the pre existing 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.720 condition with his quad. And I'm sure man, as as 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.160 things went on, I'm sure he wasn't looking forward to 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:06.200 this type of scenario just so happened to Cowboy has 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.959 anticipated it, and I'm sure it was no big secret 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.120 as well, Like you said, spacts, that's why no one 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.840 was signing him at the time they put that clause in. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.520 They were willing to eat the three million plus if 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.320 that was to happen. I think it's kind of sad though, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.679 you know it. I thought we saw some some good 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.680 things that were going to happen. We could we could 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.160 foresee some good things that we were hoping that would 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.760 happen with McCoy. It would have been nice to see 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.520 him in that uniform and play out the season and 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.440 see just what he could do for us. I guess 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.679 when it's all said and done, you know, it's a 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.920 consolation prize that he does. He is able to get 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.280 the money and able to stay down here with his son. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.720 But this is kind of what I spoke about last show, guys. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.080 This pace that we're dealing with in regards to the season, 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.640 in regard us to no preseason games, in regards to 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:07.960 the accelerated pace on getting this team ready. These injuries 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.880 are going to wreak havoc on the Cowboy roster and 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.760 we may go into the season with some very odd 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.720 combinations when it comes to the roster itself. And I'm 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.800 very curious to see how the Cowboy coaching staff and 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.760 the training staff is going to deal with all of 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.160 these different injuries coming and with the accelerated pace that 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.400 they're dealing with. It's going to be an odd combination 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.560 for the team to deal with, more so, of course 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.520 than a regular season. When you're dealing with this accelerated 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.720 pace and the COVID thing going on, it's gonna be 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.760 like juggling balls. Really, it's gonna be like a juggling 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.400 act for the coaching staff and the training staff. You know, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.480 I understand, I agree with it. I agree with you 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.640 on that, And they've done a pretty good job so 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.960 far because if it's a two hour practice, the first 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:10.240 hour is all special teams and individual drills, so there's 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.720 really minimal contact. And the unfortunate thing of this one 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.480 was it was during the individual drills where all they 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.400 were doing was coming off the ball, uh and having 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.480 another defensive lineman across from the other guy and just 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.520 kind of acting like he's an offensive lineman. Uh. And unfortunately, 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.280 when when Antoine Woods came off and it happened, Uh, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.520 we were watching from the Quarterback club in the Cowboys Club. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.400 It was right below and he stepped on his foot. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.440 That's what I thought happened. It looked like he stepped 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.680 on his foot, exact foot and when he went back. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.760 You got three hundred pounds standing out on one of 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.280 your your feet and it and it ruptured the tendon 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.720 in his quad. So it was kind of a weird one. 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.640 You know. It wasn't like sprinting down field or pushing 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.880 off and trying to tackle somebody. And they haven't done 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.040 that yet, by the way, either there's been no tackling. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.080 There's been bumping. As a matter of fact, I saw 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.160 Jalen Smith today. It was a running play by the 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:18.040 sideline and he nailed the running back out and knocked 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.440 him out of bounds. And then when the guy got up, 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:27.800 I said, oh, it's twenty not twenty one, so it's okay. Well, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.560 one thing, one thing that we talk about. These are 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.280 pretty much non contact drills that we're talking about once 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.160 the season starts. Yes, oh my goodness, I cannot wait 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.080 to see the injury report after the first ball game, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:46.240 after a full contact after all the intensity. The guys 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.040 are trying to hold everything for the first game, trying 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.640 to hold it in. The injury list for after the 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.680 first game is going to be so long and so confusing. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.320 It's gonna be it's gonna be a trip well, as 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.840 is the case as is the case every year, you know, 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.640 early in training camp there's always a lot of injuries. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:11.600 And the ACL count as of about twenty four hours 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.160 ago across the league was I believe at eight. Normally, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.320 one doctor said that they in a typical NFL season, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.880 you have fifty ACL injuries across the league. And so 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.880 we are one week into this and there as of 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:31.320 yesterday there were eight ACL injuries across the league. And again, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.680 as you said, Everson, teams aren't going necessarily full speed 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.680 all the time at all right now, and you know 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.280 the hitting hasn't started or anything like that, and so uh, 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.640 it's and it's going to be interesting this year, as 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:48.120 you say, because they did not have the typical offseason 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.080 to see how many more injuries if if indeed, we 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.640 do have more injuries as we go along. What about 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.040 and by the way, I'm monitoring, of course, we're streaming 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.600 as usual on periscope. I'm monitoring par scope. So if 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.480 you have any comments and he questions, I can pass 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.200 them along to Mickey and Everson here. But what about 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.520 what do the Cowboys do now? With McCoy out. I 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:14.080 think one of the not only his ability on the field, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.720 but his presence in the locker room is something that 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.439 they're going to really miss. You know, if you know 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.320 anything about Gerald McCoy, you know that he has such 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.280 a positive outlook on life. It was evident even as 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.920 he posted videos from his hospital bed prior to surgery 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.879 and after surgery, he says that he still wants to 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.080 be a mentor to these young defensive linemen that he 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.080 had established a relationship with. Even though now he can't 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.280 go in the building because he's been released by the team, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.240 He's still gonna connect with them. But how do the 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.960 Cowboys offset the loss because they were counting on Gerald 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.800 McCoy to be a big part of this team. Yeah, Billy, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.320 you know, we talked about that previously, about his influence 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:57.520 in the locker room. They will miss that because I 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.720 think those young guys were filing him, especially Tristan Hill, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.399 uh and Neville Gallimore. What a great example, what a 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.960 great personality mentor for those guys. And you know, always 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.639 felt like a guy like Tristan Hill really needed that 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.959 after he kind of had a washout rookie season. But 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.719 he seems to have turned things around a little bit. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:25.359 His body looks better, his enthusiasm looks better. Uh. And 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.080 when they're going out there and uh, you know he's 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.159 he's he's taken the place uh in a lot of 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:39.720 the snaps of Gerald McCoy, and so has uh Tyrone Crawford. Uh. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.640 And so between those two guys and Gallimore, they're gonna 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.040 have to fill that spot. And it made me takes 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.320 three guys to do it. And I always thought that 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.879 was going to be a rotation position there anyway that 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.600 you know, McCoy wasn't gonna play five to fifty five 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.840 snaps a game that they would try to get some 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.120 young guys in there. Now if they earn it, they're 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.120 getting every opportunity to do. So. Now we're gonna see 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.960 what you got, Tristan Hill. We're gonna see what you 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.920 got Neville Gallimore. And if those guys, you know, don't 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.120 don't grab some snaps, then Tyrone Crawford's gonna be your 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.800 three technique, especially on first and second downs. And if 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.600 they go to Nickel, I wouldn't be surprised. Look, they've 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:30.320 got some big defensive ends, right, Alden Smith is two eighty, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.760 Joe Jackson's two eighty five. Those guy and Jackson rush 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.920 some from inside you know, those guys can easily move 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.800 inside and create some problems. And then you got Antoine 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.440 Woods at the nose tackle position. Don Terry. Poe hasn't 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.160 practiced yet, so I'll be interested to see if if 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.480 you know a little bit about Antoine. Right, he's not 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.639 a give up guy, so I'm sure he's thinking, Okay, 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.560 you brought in Poe, but I'm gonna fight for my snaps. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:09.119 And when you look at the roster, the core of 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.000 this team, they all seem to be around the same 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.639 age and also the same temperament. You look at the 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.959 offensive lineman, you don't really have an outspoken guy on 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.359 the offensive linement. I think Looney might have been one 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.280 of the more charismatic guys on the old line. You're 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.639 looking at the quarterback position, running back position, D line, 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:35.480 no one really stands out as that boisterous player. You're 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.320 bringing a guy like Everson Griffin who's really not that boisterous. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.600 He's just a guy that does work as best he can. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:43.560 But I didn't I don't even call him being that 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:48.560 vocal leader they're going to have to rely on. I 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.280 don't know either one person who's going to have to 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.040 step up and be that person that inspires you. Maybe 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.800 Woods would be that guy. But for the most part, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.880 everyone on that team seems to have the same temperament. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.680 No one seems to step out as that person that's 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:09.600 unusually boisterous or that vocal leader. It would be nice 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.720 to keep McCoy around, but like you said, you can't 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.399 come to the practice field anymore. But it would be 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.960 nice to hit for him sometime in the future, to 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:26.800 be that voice for the team in the locker room. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.760 Have a team full of players that are almost of 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:33.160 the same temperament. I think that's why when things start 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.119 to go wrong in the ballgame, you really don't see 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.600 a sense of urgency coming from any particular player. You 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.120 don't have that Michael Irvin or that Dare's Brian over there, 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:44.879 you know, trying to you know, punch it at the 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.159 air and getting people fired up. I think they're going 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.560 to need that person. Yeah, you need someone. Maybe it 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.439 would be coach McCarthy. He can go out there and 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.520 fill a red flag at a referee and hit him 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.399 in the face and then that might inspire some people. 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.600 But you don't have that on the team right now. 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.400 I hope they can. They can find someone that can 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.960 inspire them verbally in that way. Wheneverson brought up the 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.120 makeup call earlier in the show, I was thinking, Yeah, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.400 they sure didn't have a makeup call for two technical 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.240 files on a basketball player. That's exactly right. And I'll 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.320 just add this. I know we have to we have 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:24.800 to go to break. 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