Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition
Speaker 1: of Mick Shots. Inside the SWBC podcast studio at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. You sound much, but I amn't. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's the road to recovery. It's not exactly as soon
Speaker 1: as I toss it to Mickey here, I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: my cough button and we'll be able to improve it
Speaker 1: even more. But it's Bill Jones, it's Everson Walls. Inside
Speaker 1: the studio, into the satellite center we go and it's
Speaker 1: the playoff satellite Sentlly Off and Mickey Spagnola. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit my cough but Mickey, you talk. I can hear you.
Speaker 1: I can hear you loud and well. So we're doing
Speaker 1: really well so far. You're just next door. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: should say this afternoon. Yes, I think I'm better when
Speaker 1: I'm in a hotel room in Vegas than than you are.
Speaker 1: My WiFi is better here yeah, that's crazy. Nicky's got
Speaker 1: his playoffs. It looks like, oh, is that what it is? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: unready if you want to talk there, Bill, Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah sorry. Nicky's got his playoff vest On. It appears
Speaker 1: now he looks. I am ready. What's Pinocchio's father? That's
Speaker 1: what That's what it looks like. All right. There was
Speaker 1: an alarming site. I think an encouraging site, but it
Speaker 1: might be alarming to son some that when I walked
Speaker 1: into the Star today I saw football players on an
Speaker 1: outdoor practice field. Ooh, that's a miracle night and with
Speaker 1: and with pads on. All right, that was the first
Speaker 1: question Everson had for me. And that's a great place
Speaker 1: to start. Yes, it is. So the padded practices, the
Speaker 1: amount of padded practices they can have. Does it start
Speaker 1: over again once the postseason starts? Maybe you get one
Speaker 1: a week. I think that's what I'm thinking. You come
Speaker 1: on with spags. You gotta do better than that. Man.
Speaker 1: I could have said that that BA, even even if
Speaker 1: you're not sure, Mickey, Yeah, you're supposed you're supposed to
Speaker 1: say yes, they get one more each week. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, Yeah I did. I didn't mean that they
Speaker 1: could get multiple. I guess what I meant to say
Speaker 1: is you get one a week as long as you
Speaker 1: continue to play. Now you go there, you go, all right,
Speaker 1: you just made it sound like you were uncertain. Okay,
Speaker 1: so do it during the season they're doing the season,
Speaker 1: they get how many total doing the season? Thirteen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe it was thirteen over the course of the season.
Speaker 1: But you couldn't save them up to the last month,
Speaker 1: so then you use them up at a certain period
Speaker 1: of time. So on average, Uh, it's not even one
Speaker 1: per per week. Thirt You have eighteen weeks in a
Speaker 1: season and you get a man that that. But my
Speaker 1: NFL Players Association, they are really doing that job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: leave man back in the day. They would probably make
Speaker 1: us practice two days for the rest of the week,
Speaker 1: rest of the season, every day. Well, maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I maybe that's why I read today that an average
Speaker 1: number of points per game have gone down this year. Interesting? Interesting,
Speaker 1: Well what practice? Well, it doesn't mean the offense has
Speaker 1: the advantage. Shouldn't they have the advantage? Or should the
Speaker 1: defense have the advantage? I mean, should be should be
Speaker 1: more scores, more more points? You know, that's interesting that
Speaker 1: that they're early in the season, it seemed like we
Speaker 1: had higher scoring games than pat previous seasons. But you're
Speaker 1: saying that at the end of the season. Scoring went
Speaker 1: down this season for the entirety of the season, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like one point did one point? So defensively we finally
Speaker 1: caught up. Yeah, there you go. Defense, we might be done,
Speaker 1: but we're not stupid. So it's an average of one
Speaker 1: point per game. It went down scoring in the league.
Speaker 1: That's because as the season went along, defenses started figuring
Speaker 1: out these offenses. It wasn't just in Dallas that that happened.
Speaker 1: It happened across the league, right Mickey, You know though,
Speaker 1: I yeah, and I read where possibly the number last
Speaker 1: lear was higher because there were no fans in the stands,
Speaker 1: or it was easier on offenses on the road. Interesting,
Speaker 1: very good spats, I think. So then so then you're
Speaker 1: thinking that if you go NBA, so then the bronze
Speaker 1: championship start. The real argument here, so being being in
Speaker 1: the being in the bubble that was that was a
Speaker 1: astick championship. I think it had more to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that players didn't have an off season and
Speaker 1: much of a training camp, and it was more seven
Speaker 1: on seven. Interesting, that's my theory on there you go.
Speaker 1: What are you all right? Mickey? As for as for
Speaker 1: the rest of As for the rest of practice, yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did the same thing today as they did yesterday.
Speaker 1: They started off outside, did their individual work, the position work,
Speaker 1: and then they went indoors for the rest of practice.
Speaker 1: So taking eyeballs off the practice, I would imagine. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the entire roster was at practice. Uh so Uh.
Speaker 1: Jay Ryan Kers returned. We'll find out how much he did.
Speaker 1: It sounded like in Mike's press conference that they were
Speaker 1: going to kind of regulate his snaps and see how
Speaker 1: he was doing. Nashan Wright returned to practice. He missed
Speaker 1: yesterday for personal reasons, evidently the birth of his child.
Speaker 1: So he's back in. Yeah. And then they had guys
Speaker 1: that were limited. But they were limited I think more
Speaker 1: so just out of precautions. One of those Tyrant Smith.
Speaker 1: But Mike said he has no doubt that he'll be
Speaker 1: ready to go. And oh, I know it was Wunda Wells,
Speaker 1: the tight ends coach, was out in COVID protocol from
Speaker 1: yesterday's practice. So we'll see just when he can get
Speaker 1: back in, depending on I mean, when he got it right,
Speaker 1: he's got to do the five days, and they didn't
Speaker 1: practice Monday, they didn't practice Tuesday, So depending on when
Speaker 1: he first tested, he could be back in time for
Speaker 1: the game. Excellent, all right. You know we talked about this.
Speaker 1: You know, Bill wasn't part of this private conversation that
Speaker 1: you and I had yesterday's Spags. He wasn't worthy. But
Speaker 1: we talked about how important it is for the players
Speaker 1: to stay on the roster, and I know we kind
Speaker 1: of touched on it in previous podcast. But with the
Speaker 1: playoffs as important obviously as they are, cowboys have a
Speaker 1: chance to do something they really haven't done in a
Speaker 1: long time with the kind of talent that they have.
Speaker 1: With COVID going around, I mean, just the way it's
Speaker 1: going around and causing people to miss days. Even though
Speaker 1: you might be vaccinated and boosted and all of that,
Speaker 1: you still may have to sit out some days and
Speaker 1: you might actually miss a playoff game. So the question
Speaker 1: is what the heck do we do with our families.
Speaker 1: What do I do if I have kids at home,
Speaker 1: they go to school, and if they bring it home
Speaker 1: and they might infect me and I miss a game.
Speaker 1: An important playoff game. Is this a time for especially
Speaker 1: some of the starters on the team, the ones that
Speaker 1: I really get a lot of playing time, do they
Speaker 1: isolate from their own families? I think that that's a
Speaker 1: very good idea. Short of you know those machines they
Speaker 1: sell at the store, you can shrink wrap stuff and
Speaker 1: then freeze it like food. Short of shrinking. Yes, get
Speaker 1: into the hotel and it sounds like, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of what we're hearing, uh that you know some
Speaker 1: of the players are utilizing that, but i'd have them
Speaker 1: all in there. Yeah in line, man. That's that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, we talk about the bubble with the
Speaker 1: NBA and and and how well that worked out for
Speaker 1: them to finished the season with very few people sneaking out.
Speaker 1: I think they had uh Lemon pepper Lou Williams, you
Speaker 1: heard that little term. And you heard that term. Lou Williams.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a six Man of the Year. He
Speaker 1: decides to try to sneak out during the first days
Speaker 1: of the bubble. Yeah, and he goes to uh this
Speaker 1: popular script join in Atlanta. Yeah, and they and he
Speaker 1: doesn't sneak out. He takes pictures with everyone on social
Speaker 1: media so and he was talking about how good the
Speaker 1: lemon pepper wings. Okay, so they stuck all them sometimes,
Speaker 1: those limon pepper wings. Yes, the lemon pepper lewis what
Speaker 1: they called him. That's his name. So we don't want
Speaker 1: the lemon pepper LUs about here, spags. We want some
Speaker 1: guys that are committed to staying you know, isolated and
Speaker 1: could have a big chance to play, or like the
Speaker 1: guy in the guy in training camp last year that
Speaker 1: when or in twenty twenty when they were secluded in
Speaker 1: training camp tried to dress up his girlfriend as a
Speaker 1: player and sneaker in the camp that was that was
Speaker 1: in Seattle? Wasn't Seattle? I think? Yeah, uh, all right,
Speaker 1: One thing I do wonder and we'll never know the
Speaker 1: answer to this because it's all behind the scenes. But
Speaker 1: you know, the um uh the NFL has it's been
Speaker 1: now for about a month's time. They changed the testing
Speaker 1: protocols and so forth where in line with the CDC
Speaker 1: and and made it a five day time period instead
Speaker 1: of ten days and so forth, and for vaccinated or
Speaker 1: unvaccinated players. The random testing element of it um which
Speaker 1: it was prevalent throughout the regular season as well. I
Speaker 1: wonder how much of the random testing is going on
Speaker 1: in the postseason or if players are basically just being
Speaker 1: tested now if they have SIMP Well, I thought the
Speaker 1: last time, last thing I read the random testing that
Speaker 1: was going on with the vaccinated players. Maybe the unvaccinated
Speaker 1: are they still getting tested? Am I Okay, we have
Speaker 1: maybe on the unvaccinated. Yeah, but but a guy like
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, since he UH tested positive is not for
Speaker 1: a ninety day period, he's not subject to that even
Speaker 1: though he's he's may to be known that he's unvaccinated.
Speaker 1: But maybe for the vat for the unvaccinated. But the large, large,
Speaker 1: large percentage of players are vaccinated, and they were random
Speaker 1: testing vaccinated players in the regular season, I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's continued in the postseason, just because there's so much
Speaker 1: at stake in the postseason, why wouldn't they randomly do
Speaker 1: unvaccinated test unvaccinaed well if unvaccinated or having to do
Speaker 1: it on a on a daily basis, unless they've tested positible.
Speaker 1: I think that's what makes me say Anyway, I just
Speaker 1: wonder if if it's little random testing is to the
Speaker 1: same level as it was in the regular season, just
Speaker 1: because there's so much at stake in the postseason. Well,
Speaker 1: they just better be glad they're not playing the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in Australia. That's a good So is it time
Speaker 1: for a big shot? Yeah? Whatever you want. That seems
Speaker 1: like a real good jump off right there. I got
Speaker 1: things to say about the Djokovic. No, it's not it's
Speaker 1: no right, no vac Oh my god. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: Internet is undefeated, jay Ron Curse is back right, nicky, Yes,
Speaker 1: And I think that's yes, And that's uh. I think
Speaker 1: that's very significant, especially uh playing this team and how
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have played their defense. A guy that, uh
Speaker 1: can you know, help out against the run. But take
Speaker 1: on a tight end like Kittle and I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: Killer is gonna be a tough handle regardless. I mean
Speaker 1: Jay Roun, he's a good man to man, but Kittler
Speaker 1: is an extremely exceptional route runner for a tight end.
Speaker 1: He's got quick feed, he's out, he's got wide receiver's feet.
Speaker 1: You know, when I played cornerback back in the day,
Speaker 1: there's no way a tight end was gonna beat me.
Speaker 1: I remember Garden Keith Jackson back to Bloomer wore him out.
Speaker 1: So that that's what happened when a cornerback covers a
Speaker 1: tight end? These days a little bit more difficult. As
Speaker 1: much as they were extremely talented tight ends back in
Speaker 1: the day, you would have problems as a cornerback with
Speaker 1: some of these tight ends. Uh. And even Jay run
Speaker 1: is a capable safety, he's gonna have his issues. But uh,
Speaker 1: I think with guys like jay n I'd like to
Speaker 1: ask you, how do vaccinated players feel after they've gotten COVID? Uh?
Speaker 1: Especially seemed like this lighter COVID. Michael Parsons answered that question.
Speaker 1: Didn't he micking? He did? And if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: what he said was, at this point, he feels fine, right, right,
Speaker 1: And he said it, and it's different for different people,
Speaker 1: whether I mean, I mean I'm amongst vaccinated people, It's
Speaker 1: going to be different for different people, but I mean
Speaker 1: he basically described it as a as a as a
Speaker 1: common cold, the symptoms that he had, right, and he
Speaker 1: feels like he actually feels like he's refreshed now and
Speaker 1: feels like he's coming off a bye week like and
Speaker 1: when he came off a bye week in the regular season,
Speaker 1: he did pretty well, didn't he make it look pretty
Speaker 1: good to me? He was rejuvenated. So then if you
Speaker 1: have we could get into I was gonna ask if
Speaker 1: you have you have fresh legs versus whatever. The leftover
Speaker 1: is the carryover from getting this mild strain. Well, and
Speaker 1: like I say, I think it's different for it. I
Speaker 1: can tell you myself, this was before everyone could get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: I had COVID back in last February and um and
Speaker 1: I felt a fatigue or a muscle fatigue for over
Speaker 1: a three week period then. And there have been there
Speaker 1: have been professional athletes who have said that same thing.
Speaker 1: I remember last seastin no, no, I'm talking to the
Speaker 1: original strain. And I remember Miles Garrett. He got it
Speaker 1: during the season last year twenty twenty, and he talked
Speaker 1: about how he couldn't get his breath the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Remember, tell them with the Boston Celtics the
Speaker 1: same thing. But I have not heard with the with
Speaker 1: the omicron uh that you know, it's been milder symptoms
Speaker 1: for everybody. I've not heard any players talk about how
Speaker 1: how they're really dealing with it over the cab, the
Speaker 1: leftover effect of it. So so you're saying we got
Speaker 1: a fresh leg Michael Parton Parson Mica seems to think
Speaker 1: he's he's you know, one rare and guess so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you get it, you get it, you get the guys
Speaker 1: right and you get too, you get two days, risk
Speaker 1: get you get some damn. But he didn't get the
Speaker 1: NFL rookie sack record. Damn. Yes, good thing. There was
Speaker 1: no incentives tied to it, right, all right? Did you
Speaker 1: uh did you catch before you hit that break? Did
Speaker 1: you catch what Parson's response was when uh he was
Speaker 1: asked about San Francisco kind of bullish uh running attack? Yes,
Speaker 1: and he was a Let's let's talk about that when
Speaker 1: we come back. Let's let's talk about that when we
Speaker 1: come back here. Okay, yeah, all right, because I want
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Speaker 1: you guys can see I've got my white on. Bill
Speaker 1: has his white on ever since. So I like that.
Speaker 1: I like the Bill series back. Yeah, baby, I got
Speaker 1: my black hole. I like a brother over there beer
Speaker 1: like we've got to white on the Yeah. No, Actually,
Speaker 1: I just came from my foundations called Etho's Education. We
Speaker 1: mentor kids and in uh this Frisco school district. So
Speaker 1: I just came from mentor some kids um at one
Speaker 1: of the Frisco high schools and just decide to wear
Speaker 1: my gramling thing, you know, in case they wanted kind
Speaker 1: of go to school. Well, hey, g right there there
Speaker 1: you go. I did a little recruiting, did a little recruiting.
Speaker 1: All right, very good. Um you like the new coach
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, I mean, come on, you got Hugh Jackson.
Speaker 1: I mean that's to me, that's major. I'm just glad
Speaker 1: these guys are coming back helping these young kids. And
Speaker 1: you know, talking about mentoring, you know the impression of
Speaker 1: a former NFL head coach that that you can make
Speaker 1: it an HBCU. I mean we know what but uh
Speaker 1: prime is doing in at Jackson State. But man, Hugh Jackson,
Speaker 1: can you know he's not he doesn't have the glamor
Speaker 1: name but you know his mission there, uh could be
Speaker 1: so important. You know for the HBCU kids. You know
Speaker 1: what we need. We need a network TV contract. That's
Speaker 1: what we need. That's exactly what we need. And I
Speaker 1: promise you somebody like Dion coming in. You also have
Speaker 1: Eddie George there. You have Eddie Robinson Junior in no
Speaker 1: relation to Eddie Robinson himself, but he's at Alabama A
Speaker 1: and M, which I'm sorry Alabama State which was his
Speaker 1: album model. And all these pros going back showing these
Speaker 1: young kids how to do it. And they're not passing
Speaker 1: up the HBCUs to go polifive or whatever. They're starting
Speaker 1: at the ground boost level. Great stuff. I'm talking week
Speaker 1: league game or more more than that. You know, We're
Speaker 1: promise you. People are talking about that. That's right, that's
Speaker 1: what needs to happen. All right. Last segment, we were
Speaker 1: talking about the padded practice rule and yes, in the postseason.
Speaker 1: Chris Beam has handed me a copy of the official
Speaker 1: NFL Practice Rules. Section one. Clubs participating in the postseason
Speaker 1: may hold one padded practice per week on a day
Speaker 1: of the clubs choosing commencing with the week following the
Speaker 1: club's last regular season game. During the regular season, clubs
Speaker 1: get fourteen practice padded practices over the course of the
Speaker 1: eighteen week season. Eleven of those fourteen have to be
Speaker 1: used the first eleven weeks of the season. Okay, So
Speaker 1: that means you only have three padded practices over the
Speaker 1: course of the last seven weeks of the season. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing that's interesting, Mickey, the prohibited drills.
Speaker 1: This is throughout the season, whether it's training camp or whenever.
Speaker 1: Prohibited drills include bull in the ring, King of the Circle,
Speaker 1: drills are the Oklahoma drill, offensive line versus defensive line,
Speaker 1: in line run blocking and board drills, and half line
Speaker 1: pods and three spot drills. Each is to find an
Speaker 1: article twenty three sections, so it's in there in the rules.
Speaker 1: No Oklahoma drills, you know what though, So how nice
Speaker 1: of them. So when we said Bill that they only
Speaker 1: got thirteen, we forgot there was an extra game this year,
Speaker 1: so that meant they got fourteen padded practice. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine how much energy I would have had after practice
Speaker 1: if that's the schedule. I'm getting so much trouble, you know,
Speaker 1: I just really would look at those Dalla caps. Back
Speaker 1: in the day, the Raiders too. Wow, man, you look
Speaker 1: at it, especially if you're a really night the Giants
Speaker 1: Ltmagic letting LT run around in New York after having
Speaker 1: the kind of practices that we have right now, you know,
Speaker 1: he never would have made it to the end of
Speaker 1: his career, never would have made never been in the
Speaker 1: whole thing, you know what though, and he hardly made
Speaker 1: it to practice on anyway. There are some teams that
Speaker 1: do these drills during games though. That would be you know,
Speaker 1: like the Olcloma drill. What what's the Olclomo drill? It
Speaker 1: consists of you said, two backs, right, yeah, and once
Speaker 1: likes like a two on one blocking scheme and you
Speaker 1: have to fight off a blocker to get to the
Speaker 1: running back whatever player. Mickey, that's kind of the run
Speaker 1: scheme that Kyle Shanahan has with the Bullies from the
Speaker 1: Bay San Francisco for you know, they'll take that George
Speaker 1: Kittle they're tied end that you're you know, you think
Speaker 1: about him being a receiving tight end. Mike McCarthy talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that he's an all around player and
Speaker 1: you'll see him go in motion and he's a lead
Speaker 1: blocker along with Kyle Juice tech who is their Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: multiple time Pro Bowl fullback, that they create two on one,
Speaker 1: three on one blocking schemes against linebackers like Micah Parsons,
Speaker 1: who Mickey is not about to be bullied around by anybody, isn't.
Speaker 1: He's He's absolutely amazing how he comes up with this
Speaker 1: stuff at the spur of the moment and yesterday's media session, uh,
Speaker 1: he was asked, somewhat tongue in cheek, uh, if you
Speaker 1: could bull a lion, right, because because they're there, they
Speaker 1: talk about being a bullyball offense. And by the way
Speaker 1: we talked, we talked about him being a lionbacker like
Speaker 1: a month ago, right, somebody somebody stole it in the
Speaker 1: paper the other day and it's like, yeah, he's a lionbacker.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, you're late to the scene. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so anyway, his response to if you can bully a lion,
Speaker 1: uh goes like this, No, you can't. It's actually funny
Speaker 1: you say that. I was having fun with the guys
Speaker 1: and I was telling them, I'm from Harrisburg, where the
Speaker 1: bullies get bullied. You know what I'm saying. There's a
Speaker 1: bully in every gym, there's a bully everywhere you go,
Speaker 1: but at one point it's going to take someone to
Speaker 1: stand up and you fight. And I've never backed down
Speaker 1: from a challenge, so I would say, never say you
Speaker 1: could bully a lion. And ever, how about instead of
Speaker 1: what the bullies from the bay, what about bombs from
Speaker 1: the bay. That sounds a little bit better. We need
Speaker 1: to send them out of here as bombs. They need
Speaker 1: to leave it, come in, bullies, leave his bumbs? How
Speaker 1: about that? All right? Bulletin board material from coming here,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to. All they gotta do is show that
Speaker 1: down big play up there and it's like as tall
Speaker 1: as this building. Hey, what's the over run? What's the
Speaker 1: over under on that play? And showed in the broadcast
Speaker 1: on Sunday? You know, I don't, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of played out for this generation, so
Speaker 1: to speak. That's why it needs to be shown again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sav producer will say that. Yeah, yeah, somebody some
Speaker 1: old dude bills age Jim Nan is my age? Jim, like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we que that up? Romo probably was like what
Speaker 1: are you talking? You know? You know, And here's my question.
Speaker 1: My question on that is, does anybody have any film
Speaker 1: on the entire play, all they show is the last half,
Speaker 1: and therefore Everson Everson's trying to play catch up underneath
Speaker 1: like he was supposed to cover the tight end right,
Speaker 1: and it's like, where's the rest of the play to
Speaker 1: the whole thing? Hey, But one thing I know about
Speaker 1: that play, they they are very successful they running that
Speaker 1: play and not the part they went to Duwight. But
Speaker 1: you know what San Francisco was doing even back then,
Speaker 1: the same jet sweet type of motion. Uh. It was
Speaker 1: made to where Freddie Solomon goes in motion to the
Speaker 1: left and then as he gets behind the center, he
Speaker 1: turns around his sprints towards the pylon and Dennis Thurman,
Speaker 1: you know that dude's him. He and Charlie Waters two
Speaker 1: of the smartest players I've ever played with. Dennis Thurman
Speaker 1: knew exactly what was coming and he jumped that route.
Speaker 1: So that's what made Joe have to come off of
Speaker 1: that and improvise. But yeah, they were They were going
Speaker 1: for Freddie Solomon at the pylon. And that's the same
Speaker 1: thing that San Francisco does to this day. See it
Speaker 1: all the time, because what you do is you you
Speaker 1: want to catch the dB hesitating as he pivots to
Speaker 1: come back the other way. By that time, it should
Speaker 1: be too late because Solomon is sprinting off of that
Speaker 1: pivot turn to the pylon and hopefully that once they
Speaker 1: snapped the ball, all of the receivers and the other
Speaker 1: defenders will will block him off and create a little
Speaker 1: traffic for him. But now Nate was like, we call
Speaker 1: him Nate Thermo, Nate. Ron Springs always called him Nate
Speaker 1: because basketball player. Well, funny story, yeah, yeah, funny story.
Speaker 1: This is not Ron's fault. This is Mike dick fault. Okay,
Speaker 1: Mike Ditka kept calling him Nate Thurman because Mike Dicka
Speaker 1: was a Nate Thurman fan, and that's spelled the Thurman
Speaker 1: spelled differently. Oh yeah, m O n d I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: yeah Therman h m an, So yeah, that's that's Mike Dicka.
Speaker 1: So Nate, Yeah, Nate had him. Nate had him in
Speaker 1: the corner. And then the rest is sister, Oh, now
Speaker 1: you know the rest Basically when you cut Yeah, basically
Speaker 1: when you cut off the play, Montana said, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: throwing this ball away right right, and then you got
Speaker 1: that's why they all chase him like he would come.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh okay, but I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how Parsons is utilized in this defense this week. What
Speaker 1: do y'all think with this run game that the Niners
Speaker 1: have and with his ability also to come off the
Speaker 1: edge or come up the middle of the rush the
Speaker 1: passer or will you name it about, how do you
Speaker 1: think Quinn's gonna use him? I think speed. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be speed on speed. I mean, that's one thing that
Speaker 1: we we count on with Parsons and this defense. He
Speaker 1: is the peer to me of the speed that we
Speaker 1: possess on this defensive squad. And so that's how we're
Speaker 1: going to try and match it. We're gonna try and
Speaker 1: the jet sweeps are all fast. It's all based on speed.
Speaker 1: The piler comes after they get the ball in the hand.
Speaker 1: The speed is the confusion and the pre snap movement,
Speaker 1: and you have so you have to think fast as well.
Speaker 1: Let's play fast. Let me ask you this. I start
Speaker 1: with you, Mickey, and then Everson follow up. How tough
Speaker 1: is this Dallas defense? Because the forty nine ers, they
Speaker 1: pride themselves, they're calling them there's a bullyball offense. So
Speaker 1: how tough is THEA and we've seen the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: be able to pressure the quarterback. But we've also seen
Speaker 1: times where teams have been able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But this is push comes to shove. This is playoff time.
Speaker 1: This is where everything's on the line right here. Just
Speaker 1: how tough is this Dallas defense. Well, we're gonna start
Speaker 1: with Neville gallim Or in the middle now, and I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody's gonna bully that guy. Uh, he's pretty tough.
Speaker 1: I think Watkins in the middle is pretty tough too.
Speaker 1: I don't need to go on and on about DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence because one of his qualities playing defensive end is
Speaker 1: the fact that he likes to play the run and
Speaker 1: he will chase a run down from the backside and
Speaker 1: he will set an edge. So if you take those
Speaker 1: guys right away, and then consider the speed of Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory on the other side, and then take into account
Speaker 1: Parsons in the middle along with Layton vander esh, I
Speaker 1: think that front is pretty tough. And again, if they
Speaker 1: just don't miss plays and allow San Francisco to hit
Speaker 1: those big plays, this is a pretty tough defense. I
Speaker 1: think they they they get undersold because of the takeaways.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's an under cell because of the
Speaker 1: interceptions you see and maybe the sacks. But these guys
Speaker 1: can be pretty tough as long as they carry out
Speaker 1: their assignments, because when they get a busted assignment, that's
Speaker 1: what creates that big play. Not because they're physically getting beat,
Speaker 1: they're mentally getting beat. So they've got to be on
Speaker 1: their game. And one other thing, when we were talking
Speaker 1: about the injuries, there's a long list of guys that
Speaker 1: were limited yesterday for San Francisco, and then a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys didn't play because they were resting. But Trent Williams,
Speaker 1: their starting tackle, was still out with an elbow injury.
Speaker 1: He missed this last game, so that'll be an interesting
Speaker 1: one to watch today if indeed he gets back into practice.
Speaker 1: We know that, you know, Garoppolo's thumbs not going to
Speaker 1: get any better. The spraining ligament, he was limited, but
Speaker 1: that was to be expected. Did But the enter injury
Speaker 1: I saw was Elijah Mitchell. They're running back. He missed
Speaker 1: with a knee uh, So we'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 1: And then their punter, uh, Mitch wiz Nowski uh is
Speaker 1: still in concussion protocol, he was limited and last week
Speaker 1: Robbie Gould, their place kicker, had to do the punning also,
Speaker 1: So we got to keep an eye on those injuries
Speaker 1: for them today. When you talk about toughness on this
Speaker 1: defense in that secondary for the Cowboys, Uh, Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: could be big in this game. When you look back
Speaker 1: at the Niners against the Rams, they had one series
Speaker 1: in the third quarter of that game, and they were
Speaker 1: trailing in the game at the time, they ran the
Speaker 1: ball ten straight times. And and well, I mean and
Speaker 1: the way Jimmy g was was was throwing at the time,
Speaker 1: they had to they had to let him settle down
Speaker 1: because he was getting them in trouble. Yeah, and Uh,
Speaker 1: Jordan Fuller, the Rams safety who's now on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: he or his ankle in the game. He was having
Speaker 1: to come up and make a lot of plays stopping
Speaker 1: the run there. And so I can see Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: in that role for Dallas playing a big factor in
Speaker 1: stopping the run game. Well, the problem, the problem you're
Speaker 1: going to have, Bill, is the youth, right, That's what
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, are we ready for playoff football?
Speaker 1: You know, we have the energy, we have the want
Speaker 1: to in the motivation, But are we going to be
Speaker 1: Will we have the instincts for this game? Will we
Speaker 1: understand what they're trying to do to us? Will we
Speaker 1: make the proper adjustments if we get down? Will we
Speaker 1: ever be able to get back on track? What kind
Speaker 1: of adjustments will be made at halftime? You know you're
Speaker 1: talking about in this game football? In playoffs, football becomes
Speaker 1: more of a thinking man's game as much as a
Speaker 1: physical game. Te And that's where I'm wondering on Parsons,
Speaker 1: because Parsons has that air about him that his teammates
Speaker 1: can feed off of the right and he's also no
Speaker 1: dumb seen it in games where he's made adjustments during
Speaker 1: a play and been able to make a play. But
Speaker 1: do have the Niners seen some things in his game
Speaker 1: where they will try to take advantage of his aggression?
Speaker 1: And oh they will, Now they there's no doubt they will.
Speaker 1: That's what the misdirection is for. They hope that you
Speaker 1: use that speed all going the wrong way and then
Speaker 1: that we were going to be wide open on the
Speaker 1: other side. That has happened to us this year. All right,
Speaker 1: when you take a break, You know what, guys, you
Speaker 1: know what the other thing yet the other thing on
Speaker 1: that which is amazing and everything can talk to this.
Speaker 1: You're a linebacker or safety and you take one step
Speaker 1: the wrong way, you're toast. It's only one step, right,
Speaker 1: but boy, you've better read it. And here's another reason
Speaker 1: why they've been so good running the football, because this
Speaker 1: kind of just dawned on me today and I said,
Speaker 1: let me look this up. Four of their starting five
Speaker 1: offensive linemen four between four of them, they only missed
Speaker 1: two starts, and both were Trent Williams. The beginning of
Speaker 1: the year and the end of the year. The all
Speaker 1: four of those guys played at least fourteen or fifteen,
Speaker 1: if not seventeen games, And the only offensive lineman that
Speaker 1: they missed was McGlinchey, the starting tackle. He tore a
Speaker 1: peck halfway through the season and he missed the I
Speaker 1: think he went through eight games and then they placed
Speaker 1: him on IR. So four of the five guys on
Speaker 1: that offensive linemen only missed two games. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys, and if we consider that Connor Williams
Speaker 1: missed his games because of coaching decision, the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: eighteen miss starts on their offensive line. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: look at the Niners and their offensive line is one
Speaker 1: of the strengths of their team. And starting with that,
Speaker 1: if Trent william is healthy. If healthy, he just maybe
Speaker 1: still the best left tackle in the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyrant has been has battled some injury issues, and there's
Speaker 1: been a long stretch where Tyrant has been widely considered
Speaker 1: the best left tackle. But it's Trent Williams and Tyring
Speaker 1: Smith or right there at the head of the class
Speaker 1: as far as left tackles go. And they've got its center.
Speaker 1: The Niners have thirty six thirty seven year old Alex
Speaker 1: Mack playing center, and he started every game for him
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, he basically came out of retirement himself.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he officially had retired, but he
Speaker 1: was close to it at his age, and he's playing
Speaker 1: very well. The right guard, Daniel Brunschool, if you'll look
Speaker 1: at him against the Rams last week, he was man
Speaker 1: handling Greg Gaines their nose tackle. I mean, it was impressive.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be very It's going to be a
Speaker 1: task for the Cowboys defense and we'll see if they're
Speaker 1: up for it. Three thirty on Sunday, All right, we
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Speaker 1: Year is Chris Beam, who I very ashamedly missed his
Speaker 1: birthday yesterday. Wish Chris a happy birthday, right Why? I
Speaker 1: could just see the judgment in his eyes every time
Speaker 1: he looked at me, like, you know what's going on? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's my birthday. Worship know this because I think his
Speaker 1: sister's birthdays and today there's something there's something weird about that. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready to apologize. I should know
Speaker 1: it because his birthday and my sister's birthday are on
Speaker 1: the same day. And how about this, I think we've
Speaker 1: said this before. His brother's birthday, Uh, and my birthday
Speaker 1: are on the same day. Yesterday. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of birthdays and my family as well, So yeah, you
Speaker 1: just would you give belated birthday shout out. No, I
Speaker 1: gave mine out to them. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't
Speaker 1: have to look at me the way Chris all right, well,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, Chris being all right, So I didn't what's
Speaker 1: to day today? January thirty, January twelfth, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So January twelfth, I'll try to remember that next year. Okay,
Speaker 1: I probably, I'm guarantee you I won't, all right, So
Speaker 1: Cowboys Niners, Cowboys Niners on CBS on Sunday afternoon. I
Speaker 1: believe this is the first time CBS has carried a
Speaker 1: Cowboys playoff game since nineteen the nineteen ninety three season,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys forty nine Ers Conference championship game in January
Speaker 1: of ninety four. Because Fox took over. Fox got into
Speaker 1: the NFL broadcasting business whatever in nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 1: they started. They took over NFC games then, and so
Speaker 1: the game on CBS, so Jim Nance and Tony Romo
Speaker 1: on the call. The last time it was on CBS,
Speaker 1: it was Pat Summer all in John Madden, which would
Speaker 1: have been the conference championship game that was played at
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium in January of ninety four. Little trivia there
Speaker 1: for you isn't this something how you don't have to
Speaker 1: be accurate on podcasts. You can say, yeah, I believe,
Speaker 1: believe that's right. Before I say that on CBS tonight,
Speaker 1: I'll do some more checking, right all right, I do
Speaker 1: know this. We don't have to believe leave this. We
Speaker 1: know this, Mickey, that Will McClay is signed on for
Speaker 1: He got a contract extension announced by the club. He
Speaker 1: is not going anywhere with all these GM openings around
Speaker 1: the league, you know what. And I think he's pretty
Speaker 1: happy here and the Cowboys continue to make him happy here,
Speaker 1: right because he seems to get a new contract all
Speaker 1: the time. But he is a hand worth keeping. I've
Speaker 1: worked close to him, was around him during the Desperado
Speaker 1: days for Arena Ball when he was the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for Joe Avazzano and then he took over as the
Speaker 1: head coach there. And he knows his football And the
Speaker 1: best thing I think about him is he knows people,
Speaker 1: and he has a way of dealing with folks to
Speaker 1: not only listen to them, but that get them to
Speaker 1: listen to him too. He's a good guy to be around.
Speaker 1: I got some stuff right here, spags. It says since
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen, the Cowboys have drafted nine players
Speaker 1: who went to went on to earn Pro Bowl honors,
Speaker 1: Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, Byron Jones, Zeke Jalen Smith, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: Laden vanderst Trayvon Diggs, Michael Parsons. And they want to
Speaker 1: kind of contribute his these free agency signs as well,
Speaker 1: Javon Curse, Demante Kazy, Malik Hooker, Sprinkle, Kean O'Neil, Carlos Watkins,
Speaker 1: to Roll Bashman, and Brent Urban. So he's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for helping keep this team afloat and
Speaker 1: even when we stumble, he helps us turn it around.
Speaker 1: And still the most amazing stat from those Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: players you mentioned is what that Byron Jones made the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl without an intern. That can't last long, That
Speaker 1: just can't last long. He is true, He was truly
Speaker 1: the exception. So think think about this, you guys. He
Speaker 1: got criticized, uh, not because of his coverage, but because
Speaker 1: he didn't get any interceptions. And now Diggs gets criticized
Speaker 1: because all he gets his interceptions and he can't cover, right, right,
Speaker 1: He told me too many big players, Yeah, been there
Speaker 1: down knts bags trust me. All right? Well you know
Speaker 1: how you don't You know how you escape criticism? You
Speaker 1: win playoff games? You win, you win playoff games, you
Speaker 1: and multiple playoff games, you win a super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: now you're not criticized. Well unless you really, Manny, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's covering from you. That's you, all right, Mickey, you
Speaker 1: have a partying mix shot. Where was that it? I'll
Speaker 1: give you one. I had a note, hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: there you go, pussy. I think we thought the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did a nice job this year, finishing with forty one sacks,
Speaker 1: which was an improvement. Well, the San Francisco Bullies finished
Speaker 1: fifth in the NFL with forty eight sacks. Went one
Speaker 1: and a half of them came from Nick Bosa and armstain.
Speaker 1: We know who to attack then, ye. Nick Bosa had
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half of those. So so that means
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to run right at him, make him
Speaker 1: play the run. We are coming at him exactly, all right.
Speaker 1: Said that this morning on my I said that this
Speaker 1: morning on my fan report. It was like, basically, this
Speaker 1: is how you neutralize these pass rushers. Run right at
Speaker 1: him and make them play the run because they want,
Speaker 1: and if you think about it, go ahead. That's what
Speaker 1: they did to his brother in that game against Sandy
Speaker 1: against the Chargers. Remember they ran right at to the
Speaker 1: point where in the second half they took him out
Speaker 1: and only brought him in on third down passing situations.
Speaker 1: I gotta safe bags. We think a lot like I
Speaker 1: might actually need to start with new articles. Mate, you
Speaker 1: Mick Shots. Mickey's a writer, all right. Well that does
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