Speaker 1: The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys app now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are. It is another
Speaker 1: manic Monday edition of mix Shots. I am in my
Speaker 1: own SWBC podcast studio and Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls
Speaker 1: joining you live from the Staring Frisco and the Official
Speaker 1: SWBC podcast a studio. Hello, gentlemen, how are you on
Speaker 1: this fine Monday. I'm doing fine. Bill. I'm not mailing
Speaker 1: the end like you. You're just kind of mailing at
Speaker 1: the end today. Huh. That's okay. You know we all
Speaker 1: had to come into work. How about that's bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. It feels like it's been a
Speaker 1: year since we talked. Yeah, yeah, it's been We've had
Speaker 1: a little holiday weekend. There's a lot that has transpired
Speaker 1: in the world of sports, but off the top, we
Speaker 1: should talk about what's transpiring with your Dallas Cowboys and Mickey.
Speaker 1: That is one of the reasons I'm doing this show
Speaker 1: from Home today is the news of the day here
Speaker 1: there at the Star in Frisco, talking about here with
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy testing positive for COVID and having to stay
Speaker 1: away from the team and will not coach the team
Speaker 1: this week nor on Thursday. And I understand you might
Speaker 1: have done an interview with him on Friday. I'll try
Speaker 1: we take the Coaches Show on Friday, which hereed on
Speaker 1: Saturday night on CBS eleven, and still plug it since
Speaker 1: we since that was three days ago and the coach
Speaker 1: tested positive this morning, we thought it would be best
Speaker 1: if I did this show virtually. In fact, I went
Speaker 1: down to get a rapid test and they advised me,
Speaker 1: you know what, even if it came back negative today,
Speaker 1: that there's a five to six day period after an
Speaker 1: exposure before it would show up as positive. So we
Speaker 1: just we made the executive decision not to put to
Speaker 1: either you, Mickey or you Everson at risk, and I
Speaker 1: would just do it virtually today, which is basically what
Speaker 1: the team is doing, and that's why they're having the
Speaker 1: virtual meetings this week, is to try to not have
Speaker 1: as many exposures. They can still work out outdoors on
Speaker 1: the field, though, Yeah, they're working out right now. They're
Speaker 1: out there practicing now, and you're right, they're doing all
Speaker 1: their meetings virtually and really the only thing they're doing
Speaker 1: in person is the practice, which again it's going on now,
Speaker 1: and it's it's not just Mike McCarthy. We found out
Speaker 1: last week that Joe Filben had tested positive, the offensive
Speaker 1: line coach, so he missed the game on Thanksgiving. Now
Speaker 1: his offensive line assistant, Jeff Blasco is out, So the
Speaker 1: two offensive line coaches are out, so is offensive assistant
Speaker 1: Scott Tolzene. And the newest player to go on the
Speaker 1: COVID reserve lifts is Terrence Steele, who I guess we
Speaker 1: can call the starting right tackle since he started this
Speaker 1: last game at right tackle. And also the entire strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning staff got wiped out. We knew last week
Speaker 1: about Cedric Smith. Now Kendall Smith the assistant and Harold Nash,
Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning coordinator. All through guys are on
Speaker 1: the COVID list. Uh two of them likely missed the game.
Speaker 1: Cedric Smith might be back in time to be able
Speaker 1: to make the trip to New Orleans. So yes, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had a breakout here. Um outbreak outbreak breakout. Well,
Speaker 1: Bill broke out, Bill, you broke out, Yeah, everybody broke out. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so that's gonna affect them going forward for the game.
Speaker 1: You won't have your two offensive line coaches, your head coach, uh,
Speaker 1: and two of your three strengthened conditioning coaches there along
Speaker 1: with Terrence Steele at this point, right because they're all
Speaker 1: testing daily. Uh. And who knows what happens between now
Speaker 1: and you gotta know it's gonna be more, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, just like in Green Bay you knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna be more by the time the game started.
Speaker 1: I think it's and be more. And by the way, Bill,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you that was an anonymous call made
Speaker 1: to make sure that you went and got tested it.
Speaker 1: It didn't come from my wife. Okay. If somebody as
Speaker 1: a rumor that it was from her, it was not
Speaker 1: from her. So you know that that anonymous call, just
Speaker 1: ignore that, okay. And and speaking of a COVID update, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys didn't activate Amari Cooper off the COVID list yet,
Speaker 1: so uh didn't look like he was going to be
Speaker 1: able to practice. Otherwise they would have announced that he
Speaker 1: had been taken off the COVID list. Why do you
Speaker 1: think that is? Uh? You know, when Mike McCarthy answered
Speaker 1: the question, it was like, we have to check on
Speaker 1: his conditioning, so I think they wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: he was physically able to do everything after missing his
Speaker 1: ten days. I think we're up today. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: We we worry about the disease itself. We will worry
Speaker 1: about the virus itself and what it does to the team.
Speaker 1: But when you think of the individual, and you know,
Speaker 1: because we got people here that can speak directly on that,
Speaker 1: it's not just like you just come back and you're
Speaker 1: ready to go. You know what I mean, I'm done.
Speaker 1: You know, it drank some tea and I'm good. I
Speaker 1: mean it may haven't lasting effect on his conditioning and
Speaker 1: not just his conditioning, but just his health overall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see where that one goes. Also, you know,
Speaker 1: the strange thing was you guys that and I don't
Speaker 1: know if his test hadn't come back yet the results
Speaker 1: are hadn't taken it yet, but Mike McCarthy had moved
Speaker 1: his Friday segment on one oh five three the Fan
Speaker 1: till Monday, so he did his segment this morning at
Speaker 1: six thirty, and somebody asked they I think the first
Speaker 1: question they asked him not you know, how are you
Speaker 1: doing after the weekend. He goes, I'm doing well. Uh
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he had gotten his results
Speaker 1: back yet, because at some point in the interview he said, personally,
Speaker 1: I've moved into the hotel the last couple of days,
Speaker 1: so meaning to try to stay safe because yeah, isolate
Speaker 1: that he moved into uh yeah, into the hotel. Uh
Speaker 1: And and he basically said, you know, there was no
Speaker 1: new uh no new positive tests because the other test
Speaker 1: that I told you about happened yesterday. So but that
Speaker 1: was six thirty in the morning, so he probably got
Speaker 1: his test like like us, right after the show, right
Speaker 1: after his press conference. Then the results probably came yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly, so uh, I mean, he probably go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say. The other thing, uh, you
Speaker 1: know that they he mentioned was he was talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, where they are, that they got to keep
Speaker 1: their eye on the ball, have to keep your eye
Speaker 1: on the target. After losing three of their next four
Speaker 1: and basically not worrying about the big picture, he said,
Speaker 1: we're about winning the eighth game. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: the way you look at it. And they he got
Speaker 1: to ask something else about that, and he said, you
Speaker 1: just got to we just got more moving parts because
Speaker 1: of COVID. So I'm thinking he didn't know that he
Speaker 1: was going to test positive when he said something like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Well, the other thing that's good about that, Mackey.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's good about that if he obviously
Speaker 1: then he didn't have any symptoms this morning at six thirty, right,
Speaker 1: And so so that's that's the really good thing that
Speaker 1: perhaps with him. It just came back as a positive
Speaker 1: test and without any symptoms, and hopefully he'll be able
Speaker 1: to stay symptom free. And you know the I think
Speaker 1: as a vaccinated person he then would have to have
Speaker 1: two negative tests within a twenty four hour time period.
Speaker 1: But he has been ruled out to coach Thursday night
Speaker 1: because it's just too close to game time. And so
Speaker 1: if it was a Sunday game, and it is, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I guess the I mean he could have with
Speaker 1: two negative tests. Yeah, And we thought this was a
Speaker 1: negative test over twenty four We thought this was a
Speaker 1: bad thing because they didn't get the ten days after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: They had to play the next Thursday. But because they're
Speaker 1: playing the next Thursday, then they got ten days. So
Speaker 1: a bunch of this, you would hope if everybody's good
Speaker 1: will clear up before they have to play the next
Speaker 1: game at Washington. I think that's right. Um, yep, it's
Speaker 1: at Washington, So that's kind of a blessing. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: even just myself just having gone down to a clinic
Speaker 1: just to get my test and the nurse they're basically
Speaker 1: told me that there's no reason I should It could
Speaker 1: come back negative today. Since my exposure was on Friday,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to allow five to six days before it
Speaker 1: could be it could come back positive. So it could
Speaker 1: I could come back with a negative test today and
Speaker 1: still test positive on Wednesday or Thursday, five or six
Speaker 1: days after my exposure with coach. And so that's what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys as a team, and any NFL team that
Speaker 1: has any of these cases they're dealing with, and why
Speaker 1: the Cowboys went with virtual with their with their meetings
Speaker 1: this week, is to limit the exposure in those confined
Speaker 1: areas where you're doing what you can as far as
Speaker 1: wearing masks and social distancing, but you are indoors in
Speaker 1: meeting areas where you don't have the same kind of
Speaker 1: ventilation as you do out on the practice field, and
Speaker 1: that's where the spread can occur. And so and which
Speaker 1: is why we're doing what we're doing on this show
Speaker 1: right now, making sure since I was around the coach
Speaker 1: on Friday, that we're not doing anything. We're trying to
Speaker 1: trying to be as safe as we can right now.
Speaker 1: And that's what the team is doing right now. And
Speaker 1: to your point, Mickey, it may not be until after
Speaker 1: this game in New Orleans where everyone is away from
Speaker 1: everybody for a three day three maybe even a four
Speaker 1: day weekend, they probably will give them off. They could
Speaker 1: give them five days off and come back to work
Speaker 1: Wednesday of next week before the Washington game. Keep it
Speaker 1: on virtual before then, just to clear it out of
Speaker 1: the building and make sure everybody is helping going forward.
Speaker 1: I wonder what they do after practice, go home and
Speaker 1: take a shower? I mean, do you go home? You
Speaker 1: go Is everyone going to a hotel or get them
Speaker 1: in a hotel? And I think the things go back
Speaker 1: to last year, right, yeah, But when you look at this,
Speaker 1: is it it will save some people, help some people
Speaker 1: going forward. In regards to the virtual meetings and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. But it's not going to help those
Speaker 1: that have may have already been exposed. So, like you said, Bill,
Speaker 1: it will, it will. It will keep us out of
Speaker 1: trouble and in future circumstances. But for so it may
Speaker 1: be too late for some others. And I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that we're gonna we're gonna find out that it
Speaker 1: is too late for some people, and they may kind
Speaker 1: of hope it's not any key people, key players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's why they're they're doing what they can to
Speaker 1: to stay away from each other during their meetings and
Speaker 1: so forth. But and that's also why they are testing
Speaker 1: every single day to make sure that if there are exposures,
Speaker 1: they're dealing with it as quickly as they can. And
Speaker 1: they were gonna have to test every day anyway with
Speaker 1: the new NFL protocols that started the day after Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: so that's what they were worried about. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: people being exposed to family and friends over the holidays.
Speaker 1: So uh, that will continue. I think it might even
Speaker 1: step up a little bit because this whole scared of
Speaker 1: the new variant, even though we're gonna think it's here yet.
Speaker 1: You gotta know what's coming. So anything that affects that
Speaker 1: the country is going to affect the NFL, So things
Speaker 1: may get a little even more stringent around here. So
Speaker 1: there's your COVID updates out on the practice field. Yes
Speaker 1: they are, but they're out on the practice field now right,
Speaker 1: And so what is the schedule the rest of the
Speaker 1: day as far as the virtual meetings with the media
Speaker 1: and when do we find out for sure who's going
Speaker 1: to be the head the interim head coach of this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have anything scheduled with any member of the
Speaker 1: coaching staff or the organization. I guess Jerry will do
Speaker 1: his update on one oh five three the Fan at
Speaker 1: eight thirty tomorrow morning. But we're supposed to get virtual
Speaker 1: call in interviews with player after practice, similar to what
Speaker 1: they did yesterday. I think it was Zack Martin, Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: and Michael Parsons. So there should be at least three
Speaker 1: more guys that will be a WebEx interview taking place.
Speaker 1: I think it said like one forty today. But that's
Speaker 1: all that we have scheduled from um you know, uh,
Speaker 1: there there is gonna be a pool report coming out
Speaker 1: soon from practice. A couple of guys from our Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com staff. We're allowed to go to practice
Speaker 1: and uh they're gonna write a report on what they've
Speaker 1: seen so far today, or at least the person they
Speaker 1: got to watch, uh stretch as we normally do position drills,
Speaker 1: individual drills, and then they were dismissed. What about the alright,
Speaker 1: so coaching positions, Bill, you have some coaches that like
Speaker 1: to be up in the booth. You have some coaches
Speaker 1: like to be down on the field. That's how they
Speaker 1: do the best work. And to me, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: dan Quinn, you know, being the guy that takes over,
Speaker 1: and it may not be so, but if I'm if
Speaker 1: I was gonna guess it'd be dan Quinn taking over
Speaker 1: because he has had a head coaching experience, of course,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what dan is a position during
Speaker 1: the game? Is he? And see, if you're a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: you want to be you kind of want to be
Speaker 1: where you are, you know, you don't want to change anything.
Speaker 1: But if if dan Quinn is considered the intim at
Speaker 1: this point, would he have to move come down to
Speaker 1: the field or could he be a head coach up
Speaker 1: in the booth so here's what they're doing on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. To replace the two guys that are the
Speaker 1: offensive line coaches, they have a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: have some offensive line experience. First Ben McAdoo, who is
Speaker 1: the consultant. He was originally when he started coaching, an
Speaker 1: offensive line coach, then became a coordinator, then became the
Speaker 1: head coach with the Giants. So he uh and Mike
Speaker 1: talked about this on Sunday saying that he would be
Speaker 1: uh involved with the with the offensive line along with
Speaker 1: quality control coach Chase Haslett. He's had a little bit
Speaker 1: of experience with offensive line and also the tight ends
Speaker 1: coach London Wells. For four five years as an assistant
Speaker 1: with the Giants, he worked with the offensive He wasn't
Speaker 1: the offensive line coach, he was the offensive line assistant,
Speaker 1: and so he was expected also to work with the
Speaker 1: offensive line. So that's how they're kind of taking care
Speaker 1: of that. And you know, one of the things that
Speaker 1: teams have done when they've been in this situation, and
Speaker 1: all I can say is most recently with the Raiders,
Speaker 1: a lot of times the special teams coach, because he
Speaker 1: coaches everybody ends up being kind of the guy in
Speaker 1: charge now, I don't know if he has to be
Speaker 1: the guy that decides on fourth and two? Are we
Speaker 1: going for it? Are we punting? But you're right what
Speaker 1: you said, Dan. I think dan quinn and McAdoo are
Speaker 1: the only guys on the staff that have been the
Speaker 1: head coaches at some point in their Fossil has been
Speaker 1: an interim before. I'm pretty sure that's right. He was
Speaker 1: an interim. Yeah, you're right when they did that, so
Speaker 1: that could be. And then if they want dan Quinn
Speaker 1: to be down on the field, the other guy that
Speaker 1: has experienced as a defensive coordinator is George Edwards, so
Speaker 1: you know they could. And remember what they did in
Speaker 1: training camp when dan Quinn was out, Joe Witt took
Speaker 1: his place as the defensive coordinator, actually called the plays
Speaker 1: during the game, um so and then Doug nust Meyer.
Speaker 1: Remember they kind of rotated that one game Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: didn't call the plays, nush Meyer did and McCarthy had said,
Speaker 1: um and I can't remember it was Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: That you know, they've gone through this last year like
Speaker 1: on who would take over in case something happened to him.
Speaker 1: So there was a previous plan in place. It's funny,
Speaker 1: I didn't know about the special teams how prevalent that was.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the Cardinals did that though. When
Speaker 1: what they did when Kingsbury right, but you know, remember
Speaker 1: who was on this side. I do not Rich Bisaccia
Speaker 1: took over the Raiders, but now he had been the cowboy,
Speaker 1: always assistant head coach when he was here before he
Speaker 1: went to the Raiders, So that was kind of the
Speaker 1: natural transition. And I've seen that happen before, believe it
Speaker 1: than not. Grambling they fired their coach and they had
Speaker 1: to play the Bayou Classic this weekend. They won the game,
Speaker 1: but the replacement was that the reflection of the move. No,
Speaker 1: it was a special teams coach. Special team stepped in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he happened to be a form of jaguar, Southern jaguar,
Speaker 1: but the special teams coach stepped in. And I've never
Speaker 1: really yeah, looked at it from that standpoint to you
Speaker 1: guys said something. And what the Cardinals did was in
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's place when he missed the game earlier this season
Speaker 1: with COVID defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who obviously it was
Speaker 1: a former head coach with the Broncos and assistant head
Speaker 1: coach Special Teams coordinator Jeff Rogers split the head coaching
Speaker 1: responsibilities with other assistants filling duties. So I don't know
Speaker 1: on the sideline who it was that was who made
Speaker 1: the call on fourth and two. Yeah, as I recall it,
Speaker 1: they worked out pretty well. Yeah, they won the game.
Speaker 1: They won the game. I'll try that's right. So all right,
Speaker 1: we're just getting started on this edition of mix Shots,
Speaker 1: so much to get you up to speed on with
Speaker 1: what's going on with this team as they get set
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Speaker 1: out to the Star and Frisco. I was out there
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Speaker 1: With Senna there on Friday, and Saturday. Here's the breaking
Speaker 1: news from the Star in Frisco, Mickey and Everson As
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is talking to the media reports on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Just within the last couple of minutes. Dak says that
Speaker 1: coach McCarthy notified the players of his positive COVID tests
Speaker 1: at the end of their virtual team meeting today. Prescott
Speaker 1: says the message was just continue on. Obviously we'll miss coach,
Speaker 1: but his health is first and foremost important. So that
Speaker 1: makes me wonder if McCarthy himself got notification the positive
Speaker 1: tests during the team meeting and then notify the team
Speaker 1: at the end of the virtual team meeting today, because
Speaker 1: if you would have done that from the start, right,
Speaker 1: if you do it seems like anyway, right, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to bury the lead. Yeah, well, good, good
Speaker 1: update there, Bill, Thank you. William. All right, I've got
Speaker 1: another more breaking news just just in from the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints camp. They're going to have a new quarterback
Speaker 1: on Thursday night against the Dallas Cowboys. Taysom Hill is
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback for the Saints against the Cowboys, not
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon. You know, Taysom Hill is. I think he's
Speaker 1: really the fan favorite, uh to play quarterback for the
Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints. I think that might get
Speaker 1: him a little more fired up. And that's the last
Speaker 1: thing we need in the Superdome is the fans to
Speaker 1: gain more emotion fired up about this thing. Macky, do
Speaker 1: you have any reaction to that breaking news out of
Speaker 1: New Orleans? Yeah, I'd rather send me him be their
Speaker 1: head coach, I mean, their quarterback. Excuse me, I think
Speaker 1: he'd rather be their head coach too. Yeah, that too,
Speaker 1: you could, you know, but when you look at that,
Speaker 1: when you look at this last game, it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: What was whether the Raiders were sufficient in sufficient. We
Speaker 1: seemed to fall right into it. You know, as we
Speaker 1: get to how we did doing this game, I thought
Speaker 1: that our team speed would be uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: would be good for us. It turned out that, yeah,
Speaker 1: we couldn't keep up. You know, we knew they were
Speaker 1: going deep. We knew they had to Sean Jackson. We
Speaker 1: knew what he was gonna do. He was gonna be
Speaker 1: the replacement for Rugs, and that was unfortunate what happened
Speaker 1: with him. But we knew that he was gonna be
Speaker 1: that guy that was gonna go deep. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: going deep across the field. And when you look at
Speaker 1: how our secondary played, it was awful. And when I
Speaker 1: say awful, I get it. Nineteen eighty one we made.
Speaker 1: We gave up a bunch of plays, but we made
Speaker 1: a bunch of plays. So if you're gonna give up
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty plus yards to Rent Fro, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna give up, god, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: yards to Deshaun Jackson, you might as well get some picks.
Speaker 1: See that, thank yous back. You might as well get
Speaker 1: some picks while you're at it, you know, to me,
Speaker 1: we looked like we took a bad step backwards defensively,
Speaker 1: our secondary I locked out front seven except for how
Speaker 1: we played against the run, But our secondary, we just
Speaker 1: seemed to be clueless, as if we didn't know that
Speaker 1: the Raiders go deep. They've been going deep ever since,
Speaker 1: oh my god, ever since Tom Flord bland Ug. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, these are just a quarterbacks, Warren Wells. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got too many of them that we can think
Speaker 1: of that it is all about speed. And I thought,
Speaker 1: and when we did, I picked the click that the
Speaker 1: speed would be to our benefit and it was not well.
Speaker 1: They made their bet on getting to Derek Carry many times,
Speaker 1: overloaded the front to go after him, and they didn't
Speaker 1: get to him enough. I know they got three sacks,
Speaker 1: that's great, but there was too many times on them
Speaker 1: deep passes. I mean, the first one to Sean Jackson,
Speaker 1: he started on the right side of the formation, ended
Speaker 1: up on the left sideline, yes, left sideline side, outside
Speaker 1: the numbers, and that's what I thought the ball and
Speaker 1: then he ran the rest of the worst right. So
Speaker 1: that means you had the time of day in the
Speaker 1: pocket and far too many times that's what happened. And
Speaker 1: if you're gonna play single safety high, you better get
Speaker 1: to him right, you better get to the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: they just didn't affect him nearer enough, which allowed those
Speaker 1: deep passes and your guys have have to cover all
Speaker 1: day long back there, and it jured didn't work. And
Speaker 1: see everybody forgets he threw for three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: three yards three seventy three and they ended up with
Speaker 1: five hundred and nine yards. Yes, they did five hundred
Speaker 1: nine yards total offense. And now wait for this, they
Speaker 1: added another one hundred and sixty six and that's one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five yards five six hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 1: I can't even say it. It's so much. Hey Bill,
Speaker 1: Hey Bill, this is the thing. This is the thing, Bill,
Speaker 1: we had. We played the Raiders game, that's their game,
Speaker 1: a bunch of penalties because we had what eleven they
Speaker 1: know each team had fourteen fourteen. That is the kind
Speaker 1: of game that the raidersn't want to play matter. That's
Speaker 1: how they thrive when they played during the season. They
Speaker 1: lull you in to playing their type of game. One
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six yards and penalties was a franchise
Speaker 1: single game record that you don't want, Hey Bill. And
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is like, Okay, what's up? Who's I'm not
Speaker 1: out there, you can't blame me. So and since we're
Speaker 1: going down this rabbit hole, I brought my white hat
Speaker 1: with me, but I left it in the call because
Speaker 1: I figured the COVID thing would override everything else we
Speaker 1: talked about. But the hat was ready to go. I'd
Speaker 1: never seen more tikie tack files in my entire existence,
Speaker 1: not football life existence, right that. My comment in my
Speaker 1: column on Friday was twenty eight penalty. They made six
Speaker 1: flags over Texas. Look, cuny, that's funny, gracious, and to
Speaker 1: go and decide the game in overtime on an underthrown ball.
Speaker 1: Once again, they need to do something about that underthrowne
Speaker 1: call where the receiver comes back and jumps over the
Speaker 1: DB's back and his hands are up, Yes, his hands.
Speaker 1: He didn't touch him. The contact was made by the
Speaker 1: receiver and you let that decide the game. Here's my
Speaker 1: other research. Last year Hockey's crew finished third most in penalties,
Speaker 1: and this year right now going into Sunday, they were
Speaker 1: number one in penalties and penalty yards. Well, you gotta
Speaker 1: strive for the best, man, I mean you can't, yeah right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So they they had a history of throwing flags. McCarthy
Speaker 1: said it after the game, talked about, you know, you
Speaker 1: prepare for different crews, what they emphasize, what they don't,
Speaker 1: and we knew that this was going to be that
Speaker 1: type of game with this crew. That's so funny. All
Speaker 1: the times I played, I always knew about a couple
Speaker 1: of UM referees. One of them we call them big Al.
Speaker 1: Big Al was always behind me. He was always throwing
Speaker 1: flags on me. We had this little thing going. But
Speaker 1: as far as the entire crew was concerned. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever heard coaches prepare for certain crews before.
Speaker 1: That's just funny how things have gotten so complicated. Oh,
Speaker 1: they they've they've they've analyzed it to the point where
Speaker 1: here's what they call most here's what they call oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh wow, yeah, it's like and and one of the
Speaker 1: interferences on Anthony Brown should have been a hold because
Speaker 1: the flag it occurred way up the field, right, so
Speaker 1: they let the flight. I would call that, where was
Speaker 1: the flag passing the flights? And then it happened at
Speaker 1: the spot at the spot not where they threw the
Speaker 1: flag for the five yard And they've done this so
Speaker 1: many times. It's like they let the play pan out
Speaker 1: and then here comes the flag. It's like, maybe I
Speaker 1: will throw the flag. Last week too, they did lee.
Speaker 1: It's just and the other thing I wrote after the game,
Speaker 1: And look, I understand there were penalties, right, but there
Speaker 1: were a couple of tikie tack ones, But the last
Speaker 1: one I believe it was five twenty four left and
Speaker 1: over time I would have been thrown out of the game.
Speaker 1: If I was the head coach, they would have taken
Speaker 1: me off on a stretch. Well, he was trying. I
Speaker 1: thought it was trying he was doing. I would have
Speaker 1: been fine, probably suspended. The game would not have started
Speaker 1: right away after that call. You know, mclauck is not
Speaker 1: going to do that, now, you man. I know that
Speaker 1: hardheaded me. But at some point you gotta make a stand.
Speaker 1: You can't put up with that. Well he did. I
Speaker 1: certainly saw him well, going at the referee, go ahead, Bill, Yes,
Speaker 1: and and a little Bertie told me that, okay, on
Speaker 1: that last play, that last call you're talking about. You
Speaker 1: know the official who made that call, he was the
Speaker 1: same official who Tripp who tripped over the pylon, right,
Speaker 1: I thought pick off return by Tony Pollard there, he
Speaker 1: may not have been in position to make that call.
Speaker 1: And he'd been in position to make that call. There
Speaker 1: was if you were watching me right now, there was
Speaker 1: like this much space between Anthony Brown and the receiver
Speaker 1: with that call was made, and you had to be
Speaker 1: in a position to be able to see the space
Speaker 1: that was in between Anthony Brown and that receiver. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, Mickey, you know that Sean Ockley's father
Speaker 1: is rather famous and retired referee. I would think that
Speaker 1: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and I
Speaker 1: would think that this is a referee was had full
Speaker 1: knowledge that this might be the most watched game, most
Speaker 1: watched regular season game in National Football League history in
Speaker 1: the last thirty one years, which it was. They had
Speaker 1: more viewers than any NFL regular season game according to CBS,
Speaker 1: than any regular season games since nineteen So thinking about that,
Speaker 1: there might have been more shots of Sean Hockey than
Speaker 1: there was of Dak Prescott in the game. It really
Speaker 1: you think, so I try he got twenty eight No wait, no, wait,
Speaker 1: thirty one because I think three of them got declined right,
Speaker 1: and there was and there would have been more yards
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the offsetting penalties on the two
Speaker 1: guys they threw out, which Kelvin Joseph did nothing. He
Speaker 1: they got tangled up, uh and the guy threw him
Speaker 1: to the ground there almost threw him to the wall.
Speaker 1: And they didn't see anything because they couldn't. There were
Speaker 1: too many people going on. And you can't make that
Speaker 1: decision without going to New York for that, right, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's looking at it way too fast. Oh well, okay,
Speaker 1: I've said my case here on shots, all right, you
Speaker 1: really needed to wear your cap today. I know I
Speaker 1: should have. Maybe people were asking me on Twitter, is
Speaker 1: Mickey gonna aware his referees on Monday. Well, it's out
Speaker 1: in the car either. We wasn't committed, Bill, Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: news from the starring Frisco as we speak. CD Lamb
Speaker 1: talking to the media and he has confirmed Mickey Smagnola
Speaker 1: and Everson Walls that he will play Thursday night at
Speaker 1: the DO Orleans Saints and he didn't clear a protocol
Speaker 1: until after last Thursday's game, which we already knew going
Speaker 1: through the protocol, it was tough. I feel a lot
Speaker 1: better now, says CD Lamb. Mickey, Well, now if they
Speaker 1: can just get Amari Cooper off of reserve COVID. That
Speaker 1: didn't happen today, so I'm assuming he didn't practice, uh,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully they don't have anymore. But they
Speaker 1: get their top three wide receivers out there, maybe Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott can put the team on his back. Okay, you
Speaker 1: know I gotta say you had something. I do one more,
Speaker 1: one more thing on the penalties. So I think we're
Speaker 1: heading into week thirteen after Cowboys have played eleven games.
Speaker 1: They lead the league right now with ninety one penalties. Second, second,
Speaker 1: no surprise, the Raiders has come in with eighty nine
Speaker 1: and third after they've played twelve games. Carolina has eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Cleveland's played twelve games, they have eighty five. The Chargers
Speaker 1: in Philly are tied with eighty. And how about this
Speaker 1: when it comes to holding penalties offensive holding penalties, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have nineteen, only the Vikings have more than with twenty,
Speaker 1: Carolina nineteen, the Raiders with eighteen, and guests who leads
Speaker 1: the league with unnecessary roughing calls? You're Dallas Cowboys with
Speaker 1: nine A bunch of bullies. That's crazy, man. We've never
Speaker 1: been in that position. No, I know they haven't got
Speaker 1: close enough to the quarterback to rough them. But even
Speaker 1: with the penalties leading the league we have, I don't
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys have ever led the League of penalties
Speaker 1: before in the history three of the NFL. Well, as
Speaker 1: they say in these parts, they're fixing two. Oh, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you all right. We have an NFC East team
Speaker 1: in action tonight as the Washington football team is playing
Speaker 1: host of the Seattle Seahawks tonight. As I checked the standings,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys starting tonight at seven and four, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: getting good news yesterday as the Eagles lost to the
Speaker 1: Giants Eagles five and seven. The football team is four
Speaker 1: and six going into tonight's game against Seattle, while the
Speaker 1: Giants are at four and seven. Well, and having said that,
Speaker 1: when you look at the standings, only one team has
Speaker 1: more than two or I should say, less than two
Speaker 1: losses than the Cowboys, Arizona at nine and two, Green
Speaker 1: Bay nine and three, Tampa Bay eight and three, and
Speaker 1: now the Rams and the Cowboys check in at seven
Speaker 1: and four. So again, if you just right the ship
Speaker 1: and get out of this losing three games in the
Speaker 1: last four, you're still in pretty good shape. And after
Speaker 1: watching games over the weekend yesterday, including the Eagles the Eagles, look,
Speaker 1: did did anybody watch Jalen Hurt's play yesterday? By the way,
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, that they're not gonna win with him
Speaker 1: consistently throwing the ball like that. They scored seven points
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Oh and by the way, the Giants
Speaker 1: changing offensive coordinators made a huge difference. They checked in
Speaker 1: with thirteen points. I think the game was three nothing
Speaker 1: in the third quarter if I remember correctly, And Jason
Speaker 1: and sorry, he's probably toasting somebody somewhere like see, I
Speaker 1: told you, But I gotta say, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm I've always been a
Speaker 1: uh Jalen Hurt defender in some ways because I just
Speaker 1: think he's way talented than what he's playing. And then
Speaker 1: you look at this team itself. They've always had the
Speaker 1: ability for somehow to just keep winning. Ugly, they still
Speaker 1: had several chances to win that dog on game. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, why receivers of just dropping passes all over
Speaker 1: the place. Despite the interceptions. Yeah, they got three three interceptions, man,
Speaker 1: that was ridiculous. But then you still come back, Okay,
Speaker 1: forget about the three picks. Let's go ahead and try
Speaker 1: to win this game, all right, We put this in
Speaker 1: your hands. He actually did a good job in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and keeping them alive. They one ball went
Speaker 1: right through Greg Ward's hands. That was a perfect pass.
Speaker 1: He laid out missed it, and you saw the other
Speaker 1: two just ridiculous miss especially the last one. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: that's fourth down. I mean he laid it out there,
Speaker 1: almost like a three pointer like Curry. He left it
Speaker 1: out there when they say leave it, he left it
Speaker 1: out there the form and the guy jumps up. He
Speaker 1: hit the fucking one yard line and you just drop it.
Speaker 1: Nobody even touched you. I mean, so you gotta watch
Speaker 1: out for teams like that because once they realize how
Speaker 1: much they suck, they might get better. You gotta be careful, guys.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you gotta be careful, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. I might get blistered for this, but I
Speaker 1: think the luckiest quarterback out there in the league right now,
Speaker 1: some guy in Baltimore. Now, man, are you committing? You
Speaker 1: kidding me? Come on, and the announcers at the game,
Speaker 1: we're acting like, oh, it's Lamar time. Yeah. He threw
Speaker 1: the ball up for grabs and it came down. Talk
Speaker 1: about two held barries at the end, and that can't
Speaker 1: get any love. You know, he just can't get it,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't put the team on his back. No, No,
Speaker 1: three hundred seventy plus jaws is just not enough, not
Speaker 1: good enough, garbage jaws. They call them crazy. All right.
Speaker 1: I had way too much time to watch games this weekend,
Speaker 1: and I haven't even got started on college yet. Bill, Oh,
Speaker 1: and I could go on and on about college. And
Speaker 1: by the way, there may be some breaking news on
Speaker 1: that front. Yeah, I just want to know why it's
Speaker 1: got it now as I'm just I'm just very happy
Speaker 1: with what's happening with my alma mater right now. I'll
Speaker 1: just put it that way. Is that sarcasm? No? I
Speaker 1: think here, Yeah, I think he's kind of happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: well let me know, because it's not something happen. Let
Speaker 1: me just say this. Let me just say this. If
Speaker 1: the suitors hire Brent Venables as their head coach, the
Speaker 1: Clemson defensive coordinator all as well, and sooner land once again,
Speaker 1: it only was twenty four hour A little rest it there,
Speaker 1: but we shall see. Okay, maybe, Mickey. By the way,
Speaker 1: I notice you mean Oklahoma looking at the transfer portal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as I'm looking at the transfer portal, you're losing a
Speaker 1: lot of players at Missouri today. Hopefully, hopefully, are the
Speaker 1: ones that they want to lose. That's like me what
Speaker 1: I was like. I was like, Uh, some of those
Speaker 1: players for OU that came in the transfer portal, I
Speaker 1: call it now the transfer portal potty. Um, they were
Speaker 1: making those some of the bad plays against Oklumba State
Speaker 1: the other night. I'm just hoping that Lincoln Riley takes
Speaker 1: some of those players to USC them. So there's a
Speaker 1: probably feel the same way about some of your Missouri players.
Speaker 1: Some of them need to go in the trans What
Speaker 1: site can I go to to find that transfer portal?
Speaker 1: There's a there's a Twitter account that transfer for a portal.
Speaker 1: Just search transfer portal. You'll see all those Missouri players
Speaker 1: in the portal. Spencer Ratler's in there as well today.
Speaker 1: All Right, that does it for Mick Shots. So much
Speaker 1: more to talk about tomorrow on the next edition of
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