WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Manic Monday 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:14.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.200 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.479 official Dallas Cowboys app now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:32.000 and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are. It is another 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.559 manic Monday edition of mix Shots. I am in my 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:42.560 own SWBC podcast studio and Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.559 joining you live from the Staring Frisco and the Official 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.960 SWBC podcast a studio. Hello, gentlemen, how are you on 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.080 this fine Monday. I'm doing fine. Bill. I'm not mailing 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.000 the end like you. You're just kind of mailing at 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.639 the end today. Huh. That's okay. You know we all 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.360 had to come into work. How about that's bad. Yeah, 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.640 I'm good. I'm good. It feels like it's been a 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:10.360 year since we talked. Yeah, yeah, it's been We've had 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.520 a little holiday weekend. There's a lot that has transpired 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.280 in the world of sports, but off the top, we 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:21.399 should talk about what's transpiring with your Dallas Cowboys and Mickey. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.640 That is one of the reasons I'm doing this show 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.760 from Home today is the news of the day here 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.440 there at the Star in Frisco, talking about here with 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:36.080 Mike McCarthy testing positive for COVID and having to stay 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.760 away from the team and will not coach the team 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.840 this week nor on Thursday. And I understand you might 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.720 have done an interview with him on Friday. I'll try 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.760 we take the Coaches Show on Friday, which hereed on 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.840 Saturday night on CBS eleven, and still plug it since 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.680 we since that was three days ago and the coach 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.440 tested positive this morning, we thought it would be best 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.720 if I did this show virtually. In fact, I went 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.080 down to get a rapid test and they advised me, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:17.400 you know what, even if it came back negative today, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.480 that there's a five to six day period after an 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.760 exposure before it would show up as positive. So we 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.640 just we made the executive decision not to put to 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.240 either you, Mickey or you Everson at risk, and I 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.760 would just do it virtually today, which is basically what 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.200 the team is doing, and that's why they're having the 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.240 virtual meetings this week, is to try to not have 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.280 as many exposures. They can still work out outdoors on 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.679 the field, though, Yeah, they're working out right now. They're 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.760 out there practicing now, and you're right, they're doing all 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.720 their meetings virtually and really the only thing they're doing 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:59.240 in person is the practice, which again it's going on now, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.519 and it's it's not just Mike McCarthy. We found out 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:10.000 last week that Joe Filben had tested positive, the offensive 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:15.720 line coach, so he missed the game on Thanksgiving. Now 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:22.400 his offensive line assistant, Jeff Blasco is out, So the 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.679 two offensive line coaches are out, so is offensive assistant 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:32.040 Scott Tolzene. And the newest player to go on the 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.920 COVID reserve lifts is Terrence Steele, who I guess we 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.800 can call the starting right tackle since he started this 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:45.200 last game at right tackle. And also the entire strength 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.440 and conditioning staff got wiped out. We knew last week 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:55.720 about Cedric Smith. Now Kendall Smith the assistant and Harold Nash, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.880 the strength and conditioning coordinator. All through guys are on 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.040 the COVID list. Uh two of them likely missed the game. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.320 Cedric Smith might be back in time to be able 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.960 to make the trip to New Orleans. So yes, the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:19.520 Cowboys have had a breakout here. Um outbreak outbreak breakout. Well, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:26.839 Bill broke out, Bill, you broke out, Yeah, everybody broke out. Yeah. Uh. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.880 And so that's gonna affect them going forward for the game. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:37.080 You won't have your two offensive line coaches, your head coach, uh, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.160 and two of your three strengthened conditioning coaches there along 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:45.279 with Terrence Steele at this point, right because they're all 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.960 testing daily. Uh. And who knows what happens between now 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:54.640 and you gotta know it's gonna be more, you know, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.640 I mean, just like in Green Bay you knew it 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:58.800 was gonna be more by the time the game started. 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.400 I think it's and be more. And by the way, Bill, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.320 I gotta tell you that was an anonymous call made 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 to make sure that you went and got tested it. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.760 It didn't come from my wife. Okay. If somebody as 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.200 a rumor that it was from her, it was not 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.479 from her. So you know that that anonymous call, just 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:22.600 ignore that, okay. And and speaking of a COVID update, Uh, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:29.039 the Cowboys didn't activate Amari Cooper off the COVID list yet, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.880 so uh didn't look like he was going to be 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.960 able to practice. Otherwise they would have announced that he 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.320 had been taken off the COVID list. Why do you 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.440 think that is? Uh? You know, when Mike McCarthy answered 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.440 the question, it was like, we have to check on 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.200 his conditioning, so I think they wanted to make sure 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.560 he was physically able to do everything after missing his 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.880 ten days. I think we're up today. Yeah, it's funny. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.839 We we worry about the disease itself. We will worry 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.200 about the virus itself and what it does to the team. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:07.880 But when you think of the individual, and you know, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.280 because we got people here that can speak directly on that, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.120 it's not just like you just come back and you're 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.039 ready to go. You know what I mean, I'm done. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.279 You know, it drank some tea and I'm good. I 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:23.120 mean it may haven't lasting effect on his conditioning and 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.760 not just his conditioning, but just his health overall. Yeah, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.520 so we'll see where that one goes. Also, you know, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.480 the strange thing was you guys that and I don't 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.880 know if his test hadn't come back yet the results 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.000 are hadn't taken it yet, but Mike McCarthy had moved 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.000 his Friday segment on one oh five three the Fan 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.920 till Monday, so he did his segment this morning at 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:56.320 six thirty, and somebody asked they I think the first 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.080 question they asked him not you know, how are you 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.520 doing after the weekend. He goes, I'm doing well. Uh 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.840 And I don't know if he had gotten his results 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.440 back yet, because at some point in the interview he said, personally, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.040 I've moved into the hotel the last couple of days, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:17.360 so meaning to try to stay safe because yeah, isolate 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:23.920 that he moved into uh yeah, into the hotel. Uh 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.880 And and he basically said, you know, there was no 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.480 new uh no new positive tests because the other test 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.960 that I told you about happened yesterday. So but that 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.720 was six thirty in the morning, so he probably got 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.040 his test like like us, right after the show, right 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.720 after his press conference. Then the results probably came yeah, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:50.160 yeah exactly, so uh, I mean, he probably go ahead. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.040 I was just gonna say. The other thing, uh, you 0:07:55.080 --> 0:08:00.200 know that they he mentioned was he was talking about, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.160 you know, where they are, that they got to keep 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.640 their eye on the ball, have to keep your eye 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.480 on the target. After losing three of their next four 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.840 and basically not worrying about the big picture, he said, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.040 we're about winning the eighth game. And that's kind of 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:20.080 the way you look at it. And they he got 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.200 to ask something else about that, and he said, you 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.240 just got to we just got more moving parts because 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.800 of COVID. So I'm thinking he didn't know that he 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.120 was going to test positive when he said something like that. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:38.240 So yeah, Well, the other thing that's good about that, Mackey. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.600 The other thing that's good about that if he obviously 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.040 then he didn't have any symptoms this morning at six thirty, right, 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.160 And so so that's that's the really good thing that 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.720 perhaps with him. It just came back as a positive 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.120 test and without any symptoms, and hopefully he'll be able 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:00.320 to stay symptom free. And you know the I think 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.240 as a vaccinated person he then would have to have 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.520 two negative tests within a twenty four hour time period. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.120 But he has been ruled out to coach Thursday night 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.560 because it's just too close to game time. And so 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.360 if it was a Sunday game, and it is, yeah, 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.600 and I guess the I mean he could have with 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.360 two negative tests. Yeah, And we thought this was a 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.960 negative test over twenty four We thought this was a 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.680 bad thing because they didn't get the ten days after Thanksgiving. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.520 They had to play the next Thursday. But because they're 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.679 playing the next Thursday, then they got ten days. So 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.439 a bunch of this, you would hope if everybody's good 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.040 will clear up before they have to play the next 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.720 game at Washington. I think that's right. Um, yep, it's 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:52.400 at Washington, So that's kind of a blessing. Yeah. And 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.760 even just myself just having gone down to a clinic 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.199 just to get my test and the nurse they're basically 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.960 told me that there's no reason I should It could 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.000 come back negative today. Since my exposure was on Friday, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:14.000 you're supposed to allow five to six days before it 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.280 could be it could come back positive. So it could 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.520 I could come back with a negative test today and 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.760 still test positive on Wednesday or Thursday, five or six 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.199 days after my exposure with coach. And so that's what 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.360 the Cowboys as a team, and any NFL team that 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.240 has any of these cases they're dealing with, and why 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.160 the Cowboys went with virtual with their with their meetings 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:41.040 this week, is to limit the exposure in those confined 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 areas where you're doing what you can as far as 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.760 wearing masks and social distancing, but you are indoors in 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.280 meeting areas where you don't have the same kind of 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.120 ventilation as you do out on the practice field, and 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.560 that's where the spread can occur. And so and which 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.400 is why we're doing what we're doing on this show 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.320 right now, making sure since I was around the coach 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.280 on Friday, that we're not doing anything. We're trying to 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.120 trying to be as safe as we can right now. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.679 And that's what the team is doing right now. And 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.640 to your point, Mickey, it may not be until after 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.720 this game in New Orleans where everyone is away from 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.560 everybody for a three day three maybe even a four 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.800 day weekend, they probably will give them off. They could 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.120 give them five days off and come back to work 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.160 Wednesday of next week before the Washington game. Keep it 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.800 on virtual before then, just to clear it out of 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.880 the building and make sure everybody is helping going forward. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.840 I wonder what they do after practice, go home and 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.559 take a shower? I mean, do you go home? You 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.679 go Is everyone going to a hotel or get them 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.360 in a hotel? And I think the things go back 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.040 to last year, right, yeah, But when you look at this, 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.680 is it it will save some people, help some people 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.000 going forward. In regards to the virtual meetings and things 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.439 of that nature. But it's not going to help those 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.920 that have may have already been exposed. So, like you said, Bill, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.240 it will, it will. It will keep us out of 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:11.199 trouble and in future circumstances. But for so it may 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.800 be too late for some others. And I have a 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.960 feeling that we're gonna we're gonna find out that it 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.120 is too late for some people, and they may kind 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.560 of hope it's not any key people, key players. Yeah, 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.560 and that's why they're they're doing what they can to 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.200 to stay away from each other during their meetings and 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.640 so forth. But and that's also why they are testing 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.680 every single day to make sure that if there are exposures, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.960 they're dealing with it as quickly as they can. And 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.400 they were gonna have to test every day anyway with 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:46.599 the new NFL protocols that started the day after Thanksgiving, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:50.200 so that's what they were worried about. Um, you know, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.959 people being exposed to family and friends over the holidays. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.600 So uh, that will continue. I think it might even 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.200 step up a little bit because this whole scared of 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.760 the new variant, even though we're gonna think it's here yet. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.360 You gotta know what's coming. So anything that affects that 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.959 the country is going to affect the NFL, So things 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.640 may get a little even more stringent around here. So 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.920 there's your COVID updates out on the practice field. Yes 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.520 they are, but they're out on the practice field now right, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.760 And so what is the schedule the rest of the 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.400 day as far as the virtual meetings with the media 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.800 and when do we find out for sure who's going 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.080 to be the head the interim head coach of this team. Yeah, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:40.560 we don't have anything scheduled with any member of the 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:45.320 coaching staff or the organization. I guess Jerry will do 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.080 his update on one oh five three the Fan at 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:56.480 eight thirty tomorrow morning. But we're supposed to get virtual 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:03.079 call in interviews with player after practice, similar to what 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.280 they did yesterday. I think it was Zack Martin, Ezekiel Elliott, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:12.440 and Michael Parsons. So there should be at least three 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:17.840 more guys that will be a WebEx interview taking place. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.720 I think it said like one forty today. But that's 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.400 all that we have scheduled from um you know, uh, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.800 there there is gonna be a pool report coming out 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.280 soon from practice. A couple of guys from our Dallas 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.920 Cowboys dot Com staff. We're allowed to go to practice 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.840 and uh they're gonna write a report on what they've 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.880 seen so far today, or at least the person they 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.480 got to watch, uh stretch as we normally do position drills, 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:56.400 individual drills, and then they were dismissed. What about the alright, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:01.080 so coaching positions, Bill, you have some coaches that like 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.760 to be up in the booth. You have some coaches 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.560 like to be down on the field. That's how they 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.840 do the best work. And to me, I'm looking at 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.240 dan Quinn, you know, being the guy that takes over, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.520 and it may not be so, but if I'm if 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.160 I was gonna guess it'd be dan Quinn taking over 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.720 because he has had a head coaching experience, of course, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.040 but I don't know what dan is a position during 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.600 the game? Is he? And see, if you're a defensive coordinator, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.120 you want to be you kind of want to be 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.000 where you are, you know, you don't want to change anything. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.400 But if if dan Quinn is considered the intim at 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.040 this point, would he have to move come down to 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.320 the field or could he be a head coach up 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.440 in the booth so here's what they're doing on the 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.360 offensive line. To replace the two guys that are the 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.520 offensive line coaches, they have a couple of guys that 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:58.200 have some offensive line experience. First Ben McAdoo, who is 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:03.280 the consultant. He was originally when he started coaching, an 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.120 offensive line coach, then became a coordinator, then became the 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:12.120 head coach with the Giants. So he uh and Mike 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.760 talked about this on Sunday saying that he would be 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.440 uh involved with the with the offensive line along with 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:28.160 quality control coach Chase Haslett. He's had a little bit 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:33.640 of experience with offensive line and also the tight ends 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:39.920 coach London Wells. For four five years as an assistant 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.200 with the Giants, he worked with the offensive He wasn't 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:47.160 the offensive line coach, he was the offensive line assistant, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.760 and so he was expected also to work with the 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.080 offensive line. So that's how they're kind of taking care 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.080 of that. And you know, one of the things that 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.600 teams have done when they've been in this situation, and 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.600 all I can say is most recently with the Raiders, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.879 a lot of times the special teams coach, because he 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:16.960 coaches everybody ends up being kind of the guy in 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.399 charge now, I don't know if he has to be 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.760 the guy that decides on fourth and two? Are we 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.119 going for it? Are we punting? But you're right what 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.960 you said, Dan. I think dan quinn and McAdoo are 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.040 the only guys on the staff that have been the 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.440 head coaches at some point in their Fossil has been 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.720 an interim before. I'm pretty sure that's right. He was 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.440 an interim. Yeah, you're right when they did that, so 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.800 that could be. And then if they want dan Quinn 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.399 to be down on the field, the other guy that 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:59.640 has experienced as a defensive coordinator is George Edwards, so 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.639 you know they could. And remember what they did in 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.600 training camp when dan Quinn was out, Joe Witt took 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:12.199 his place as the defensive coordinator, actually called the plays 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.680 during the game, um so and then Doug nust Meyer. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.160 Remember they kind of rotated that one game Kellen Moore 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.520 didn't call the plays, nush Meyer did and McCarthy had said, 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.560 um and I can't remember it was Saturday or Sunday. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.000 That you know, they've gone through this last year like 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.920 on who would take over in case something happened to him. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:40.200 So there was a previous plan in place. It's funny, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.359 I didn't know about the special teams how prevalent that was. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.800 I'm not sure if the Cardinals did that though. When 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:53.520 what they did when Kingsbury right, but you know, remember 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.560 who was on this side. I do not Rich Bisaccia 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.000 took over the Raiders, but now he had been the cowboy, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:04.520 always assistant head coach when he was here before he 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.520 went to the Raiders, So that was kind of the 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.840 natural transition. And I've seen that happen before, believe it 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.679 than not. Grambling they fired their coach and they had 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.399 to play the Bayou Classic this weekend. They won the game, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.480 but the replacement was that the reflection of the move. No, 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.920 it was a special teams coach. Special team stepped in. Yeah, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.159 he happened to be a form of jaguar, Southern jaguar, 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.080 but the special teams coach stepped in. And I've never 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.679 really yeah, looked at it from that standpoint to you 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:40.399 guys said something. And what the Cardinals did was in 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.359 Kingsbury's place when he missed the game earlier this season 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:48.240 with COVID defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who obviously it was 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.600 a former head coach with the Broncos and assistant head 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:56.040 coach Special Teams coordinator Jeff Rogers split the head coaching 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.840 responsibilities with other assistants filling duties. So I don't know 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:06.480 on the sideline who it was that was who made 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:12.919 the call on fourth and two. Yeah, as I recall it, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.240 they worked out pretty well. Yeah, they won the game. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.679 They won the game. I'll try that's right. 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Here's the breaking 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.920 news from the Star in Frisco, Mickey and Everson As 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:34.919 Dak Prescott is talking to the media reports on Twitter. 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.840 Just within the last couple of minutes. Dak says that 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:43.000 coach McCarthy notified the players of his positive COVID tests 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:48.240 at the end of their virtual team meeting today. Prescott 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:52.280 says the message was just continue on. Obviously we'll miss coach, 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.720 but his health is first and foremost important. So that 0:23:55.800 --> 0:24:00.760 makes me wonder if McCarthy himself got notification the positive 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:04.000 tests during the team meeting and then notify the team 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.919 at the end of the virtual team meeting today, because 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.160 if you would have done that from the start, right, 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:13.879 if you do it seems like anyway, right, Yeah, you 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:17.720 don't want to bury the lead. Yeah, well, good, good 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.320 update there, Bill, Thank you. William. All right, I've got 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:26.359 another more breaking news just just in from the New 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:30.600 Orleans Saints camp. They're going to have a new quarterback 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.879 on Thursday night against the Dallas Cowboys. Taysom Hill is 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:39.080 the starting quarterback for the Saints against the Cowboys, not 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.800 Trevor Simeon. You know, Taysom Hill is. I think he's 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:47.520 really the fan favorite, uh to play quarterback for the 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.120 for the New Orleans Saints. I think that might get 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:51.960 him a little more fired up. And that's the last 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:55.359 thing we need in the Superdome is the fans to 0:24:55.400 --> 0:25:03.840 gain more emotion fired up about this thing. Macky, do 0:25:03.840 --> 0:25:05.920 you have any reaction to that breaking news out of 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:08.240 New Orleans? Yeah, I'd rather send me him be their 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:10.960 head coach, I mean, their quarterback. Excuse me, I think 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:15.720 he'd rather be their head coach too. Yeah, that too, 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:20.159 you could, you know, but when you look at that, 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:22.680 when you look at this last game, it didn't matter. 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:29.600 What was whether the Raiders were sufficient in sufficient. We 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.159 seemed to fall right into it. You know, as we 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:35.600