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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is a Monday after
Speaker 1: a bye week, and the Cowboys still aren't back at work,
Speaker 1: but we are back at work. We are hard at
Speaker 1: work here on mix Shots as it's a yet another
Speaker 1: football week for your Dallas Cowboys, and we've gotten good
Speaker 1: news to report as this week gets started. Will Jones
Speaker 1: in my own s WBC mortgage studio, Mickey Spagnolia in
Speaker 1: the real s WBC Mortgage studio at Ford Center at
Speaker 1: the Start in Friscoe, and Everson Walls with Everson looking
Speaker 1: over his shoulder in his own s WBC mortgage studio. Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with Everson. Everson seemed alarmed when
Speaker 1: he saw us that we both have well we're not.
Speaker 1: There's not jackets that I have. All I got a
Speaker 1: pull over on. Yeah, it is cold here, Everson. How
Speaker 1: about you? Hey man, I feel great in here. I
Speaker 1: just want to say I missed you guys, blank a
Speaker 1: chap ass. That's how much I've missed you, guys. Oh,
Speaker 1: terms of some reason I got I got that terminology
Speaker 1: from from Gene Stallings, right, and for some reason we
Speaker 1: saw always chap his ass. So I just thought I'd
Speaker 1: passed that sentiment onto you guys. So I we've missed
Speaker 1: you just the same Everson, he was away for months.
Speaker 1: For two days, two shows in a row, he realized
Speaker 1: how good he had it, you know, Yeah, how that go?
Speaker 1: He hanging out with those young guys. Man, you know
Speaker 1: he's not young guys. It's just not my style. I
Speaker 1: gotta come back to the old great hands like you.
Speaker 1: We'll go old school here, all right. Uh well, mickey,
Speaker 1: you have a good bye. A weekend I did actually
Speaker 1: went uh two days in a row without really doing
Speaker 1: any work, uh and not shaving. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a yeah, that was like it was about that was
Speaker 1: that was a bonus, right. I was any different than
Speaker 1: the other week here because I gotta because you gotta
Speaker 1: work at least on Sunday on those other weekend days, right,
Speaker 1: if you can call it work. Yeah, well that's true too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to look good. I guess trying to love
Speaker 1: not having the pressure of watching the Cowboys. It's just
Speaker 1: so nice to relax and watch games as opposed to
Speaker 1: sitting there just biting my nails put them for these Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So a very relaxed weekend for me, I must well. Ever,
Speaker 1: somewhere you are rooting for the Giants to beat the
Speaker 1: Eagles yesterday. I was, and I was not disappointed. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that the Giants won. You know, I
Speaker 1: keep looking It's a personal thing. I keep looking at
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and I keep trying to compare him to
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, because that's always the comparison, you know, And
Speaker 1: how would one work with the weapons that he has
Speaker 1: versus what the weapons that he has? And so I
Speaker 1: think that that comparison always boes well and favorite. I
Speaker 1: think people are used to try and compare, and I
Speaker 1: know that that I do like Carson Wentz guts. I
Speaker 1: love how he never gives up, But I don't I
Speaker 1: think Dak has always played with less desperation and even
Speaker 1: with the mistakes as he's made his career, Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: has made so many more mistakes. So just on a
Speaker 1: personal note, I was comparing as I was watching the
Speaker 1: game Mickey, always your takeaway from Sunday. You know the
Speaker 1: good part about the Cowboys not playing as you sit
Speaker 1: there and you watch other teams suffer, you know, you
Speaker 1: see them have to grind away, and you know other
Speaker 1: teams make mistakes too. The other teams don't sometimes play
Speaker 1: as well. Although I don't think I've ever seen anybody
Speaker 1: get more lucky than Arizona in my entire life, by
Speaker 1: the way, and those things don't seem to happen to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That's Kyler Murray for you. Bag. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: let your luck is made and you throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Some skill involve there, Mickey. Yeah, and throw the ball
Speaker 1: as far as I can in the air and then
Speaker 1: have my tall receiver go up with the greatest hands
Speaker 1: ever and make a catch with three guys hanging on him,
Speaker 1: just the way Kyler planned it, right, Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: well it was he. It was No, it was the
Speaker 1: way the Arizona GM Steve Kim planned it when he
Speaker 1: worked that trade in the offseason. Playmakers make plays like that.
Speaker 1: It's also the way. It's also the way the Cardinals
Speaker 1: organization made the decision when they hired Cliff Kingsbury, and
Speaker 1: Kingsbury said no, I'm I want to draft Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: number one, and he knew what kind of player he's
Speaker 1: got there. I mean that was those were not slow
Speaker 1: footed guys that Kyler Murray was a looting on that play.
Speaker 1: That was Ed Oliver man that was coming and Ed Oliver,
Speaker 1: as Baker Mayfield can attest because he faced him in
Speaker 1: college at the university when when when oh, you played
Speaker 1: the University of Houston and let owe you up? And
Speaker 1: they in fact that was with Greg what a quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Houston Cougars then. But the star of that
Speaker 1: game was the freshman defensive lineman Ed Oliver, who everyone
Speaker 1: was going, who the heck is that guy? Well, Ed
Speaker 1: Oliver in that game the other day, he's pursuing Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: He's got to have an up speed. That wasn't a rollout.
Speaker 1: That was a run for your life. Create enough time
Speaker 1: when you get to the sideline you're going left, create
Speaker 1: enough time you get to the sideline where you can
Speaker 1: plant and throw it fifty yards downfield. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, find Hopkins, the guy that you want to
Speaker 1: throw it to, and throw it where he can catch it.
Speaker 1: That was the only place you can throw the ball.
Speaker 1: He was running out that room. But no Everson, Everson, Everson,
Speaker 1: that was all. That was all luck. That was all luck, Everson.
Speaker 1: I understand Bill Spags has never seen one that's his
Speaker 1: hype accomplishing so much. I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, DeAndre Hopkins is probably a foot taller than me. No,
Speaker 1: I mean kind of murder. But let's not forget who
Speaker 1: made the play, Okay, Everson. I gotta tell a story
Speaker 1: from I all who been about sixteen years ago now,
Speaker 1: uh with Cowboys TV, we did a Mickey and I
Speaker 1: broadcast high school football playoff game at Texas Stadium. It
Speaker 1: was South Lake Carol against Stent' Ryan or somebody. I
Speaker 1: think it's didn't Ryan. Anyway, Mickey goes down on the
Speaker 1: field before the game because Chase Daniel is the quarterback
Speaker 1: for South Lake Carroll and he had committed the University
Speaker 1: of Missouri, and he had to go down there and
Speaker 1: compare his hike with Chase daniels hike in pregame warm ups,
Speaker 1: trying to determine if this guy was tall enough to
Speaker 1: play a quarterback at the major college level at the
Speaker 1: University of Missouri. And Mickey had turned out he could right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't much taller than me either, by the way,
Speaker 1: So when he's still he's still drawing a paycheck in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So when he got when he got here,
Speaker 1: he had his first charity, a golf tournament, and they
Speaker 1: asked me the MC so I basically told that story
Speaker 1: about it. And he's standing next to me, and I
Speaker 1: cracked everybody up. And he stands next to me. He
Speaker 1: gets on his tippy toes so he can see over me,
Speaker 1: by the way, too, so he remembered, here, am I
Speaker 1: tall enough? Now? Well, they've gotten shorter SAgs. Kyle Murray
Speaker 1: is shorter than Chase Daniels, but they got faster than
Speaker 1: no kid. But okay, so how about that game though,
Speaker 1: Arizona and Buffalo. This just goes to show you how
Speaker 1: things can change. And this is at as far as
Speaker 1: the playoff picture is concerned for both those teams. All right.
Speaker 1: First off, Trayvon Big Trayvon diggs older brother Stefan makes
Speaker 1: the touchdown grab with thirty four seconds left it Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, whoever the announcer was on that game
Speaker 1: at the time that he made the reception, Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 1: is playing better than any ride receiver in the whole
Speaker 1: National Football League this year. Stefon Diggs is and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh I wonder if Hopkins was listening to the
Speaker 1: TV broadcast. He said, oh, yeah, he's playing better. But anyway,
Speaker 1: beyond that, all right, if Buffalo wins that game, they
Speaker 1: are sitting there at what at eight and two? I
Speaker 1: guess two, and they've got lead of more than a
Speaker 1: game over Miami in the East whatever, a game and
Speaker 1: a half, whatever would be. Arizona was staring at five
Speaker 1: and four. Okay, by virtue of Murray making that play
Speaker 1: to Hopkins, Arizona is now six and three. They're tied
Speaker 1: with the Rams and the Seahawks for first place in
Speaker 1: the NFC West, and Buffalo's in a dogfight. There were
Speaker 1: a half game lead in the AFC East. One play,
Speaker 1: does that? Yep? And that's how that's how that's the
Speaker 1: difference in this league. A lot it ends up being
Speaker 1: one play. And we've seen that hit the Cowboys many times. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: I think I think what it's not just that, it's
Speaker 1: all the things that are going on, not just this Sunday,
Speaker 1: but laying up to it, because the storyline was Seattle
Speaker 1: was five, and oh, I mean they were they were rolling,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, And all of a sudden they've
Speaker 1: lost I think three out of the last four. They're
Speaker 1: sitting there at six and three now, So yeah, so
Speaker 1: you're looking at them running away Russell Wilson. Every year,
Speaker 1: I was fussing with my son. Every year they try
Speaker 1: and put Russell Wilson in the MVP race, just like
Speaker 1: after week four. He's always the guy that they say
Speaker 1: he's running away with it, and you know it's up
Speaker 1: for everybody else to catch up. And then just like
Speaker 1: true Russell Wilson, Nope, well maybe a fault of his own,
Speaker 1: but just as his nature, he gambles so much that
Speaker 1: he gets himself into a lot of trouble. Happened last year,
Speaker 1: happened the year before that. That's his m So you
Speaker 1: have to catch him on the downslide because otherwise he
Speaker 1: will eat your part. As the Cowboys can stay and
Speaker 1: he's not playing with a good defense, so he's kind
Speaker 1: of like the Dak Prescott thing, always forcing it. So
Speaker 1: now they've lost three. Now you're looking at Buffalo, who
Speaker 1: was gonna have a chance to put Arizonne even further behind.
Speaker 1: Now they're in first place. Here's Miami with two of
Speaker 1: two is lighting it up down in Miami. Great move
Speaker 1: by the coach, by the way, because everyone's thinking Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: was really misused abusing that manner. Now we see why
Speaker 1: two was a starter. And you're talking about the East
Speaker 1: in the AFC, and I think it's the West in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Everything that that that weekend yesterday made everything
Speaker 1: even more convoluted than him with him all right, let
Speaker 1: me let me break in with some breaking news. I
Speaker 1: got some breaking news for you. Ed Warder is reporting
Speaker 1: this and he's pretty connected with that Saints organization. In
Speaker 1: Sean Payton. Saints quarterback Drew Brees has multiple rib fractures
Speaker 1: on both sides of his chest and a collapse lung
Speaker 1: on the right side. According to Edward, the collapse lung
Speaker 1: just just breaking right now. Multiple rib fractures on both
Speaker 1: sides of both side and the collapse lung. How do
Speaker 1: you get him on both sides? That's what That's what
Speaker 1: happens when you're playing over forty years old. Was a
Speaker 1: bunch of twenty year olds, you know. And that's fun
Speaker 1: because I got you about one hundred pounds. Did you
Speaker 1: did you hear in Sean Payton Sean Payton's interview after
Speaker 1: the game when they asked him could when did you
Speaker 1: know that Drew Brees couldn't go? And he said, well,
Speaker 1: at halftime he came up to me and said, you know, coach, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure I can I can go.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do well enough. Couldn't
Speaker 1: do well enough. You got multiple crack ribs and a
Speaker 1: collapse lung, and it's like, I don't know, coach, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I could go or not Golee and
Speaker 1: he's still on the sidelines and yeah, oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: know he I think he should have been in the
Speaker 1: hospital somewhere taking care of myself. Well, you remember that
Speaker 1: happened to That happened to Tony Romo, the ribs and
Speaker 1: a collapse lung, and you know, I don't know, be petty.
Speaker 1: But then I guess I am bad call on the
Speaker 1: sack itself. I believe the guy was penalized just because
Speaker 1: the sack was so violent, but it was it was
Speaker 1: within the realms of a regular quarterback sack. But he
Speaker 1: was actually penalized because he hit he hit Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: so hard and I'm just reading further on I'm reading
Speaker 1: what Ed is just now. I guess he reported that
Speaker 1: on ESPN and he just now tweeted about it. Here's
Speaker 1: what his tweets says. Results of medical evaluations performed today
Speaker 1: on Saints quarterback Drew Brees revealed that he has multiple
Speaker 1: rib fractures on both sides of his chest and a
Speaker 1: collapsed lung on the right side, injury suffered over two weeks.
Speaker 1: It is uncertain how much time he might miss. So
Speaker 1: it's not just one. It wasn't just the sack that
Speaker 1: did it. It's been multiple hits over the course of
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks here. So now you're looking at
Speaker 1: the Saints at seven and two after winning over San Francis,
Speaker 1: you know, and everyone's making a big deal in the
Speaker 1: off season because Taysom Hill had the gadget plays and
Speaker 1: he was being used as a in a unique way
Speaker 1: by Sean Payton, and they paid him some money and
Speaker 1: uh and then oh, by the way, they went ahead
Speaker 1: and signed Jamis Winston just to just to have him there. Uh,
Speaker 1: and who do they go to? They go to Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston instead of Hill. When Breeze gets hurt well there's
Speaker 1: another quarterback that he took a chance to go somewhere
Speaker 1: to be the backup, and never you know, thinking well,
Speaker 1: if I get a chance, I can reprove myself and
Speaker 1: it falls in his lap, and just like Andy Dalton, right,
Speaker 1: you just never know when you're gonna get that opportunity,
Speaker 1: and you better be ready, I'll tell you what. It
Speaker 1: also kind of put a little kebosh on the touchdown
Speaker 1: race between Brady and Drew Brees because they were really
Speaker 1: going at it. You know. It was something that really
Speaker 1: no one talked about, how he was kind of evolving
Speaker 1: as the season went on, and they're going back and
Speaker 1: forth with each other, or they were. I think they
Speaker 1: are actually tied right now in touchdowns. Brady may have
Speaker 1: gotten them by one because he finished the game, but
Speaker 1: that kind of I think that may damage the race
Speaker 1: a little bit. That that was a nice little side,
Speaker 1: a little side hustle that I was looking at. I
Speaker 1: thought it was very interesting, too old dude steal bawling
Speaker 1: and still putting on. If Drew Brees comes back anytime
Speaker 1: soon from multiple fractured ribs on both sides of his
Speaker 1: chest and it collapsed. Lung good love making tom Brady's
Speaker 1: taking a pretty good lead in that race right there.
Speaker 1: All right, Mickey, you alluded to Andy Dalton. I guess
Speaker 1: we need to figure out who's gonna be starting at
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cowboys this week against the Minnesota Via Kings.
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Speaker 1: team which lost on a last second field goal in
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Speaker 1: not feeling so good about Chase Young about now in
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Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are two and seven right now, but
Speaker 1: that is about to change. Mickey Spagnola, Well, and one
Speaker 1: of the things I was getting ready to say before
Speaker 1: we went to break, I wanted to point out, so
Speaker 1: we were talking about Seattle in the situation they got in.
Speaker 1: You look back at that Cowboy game against them, they'll
Speaker 1: rue the day that they lost that game on the road,
Speaker 1: knowing that with just less than four minutes to go,
Speaker 1: they had a thirty one thirty lead in that game.
Speaker 1: And for some reason I decided to go back last
Speaker 1: week to look at what happened in that game. Remember
Speaker 1: the Cowboys put up five hundred and twenty two total
Speaker 1: yards in that game, and that was the first time
Speaker 1: they were without their top three offensive lineman Tyrann Smith,
Speaker 1: Leale Collins, and Cam Irving, along with two of their
Speaker 1: top three cornerbacks. That's Chitabeoose was out, Anthony Brown was all.
Speaker 1: And remember these things in that game, and this is
Speaker 1: why you can't us drop a game like that when
Speaker 1: you should win. You remember Tony Poller's fumble on the
Speaker 1: kickoff that he muffed recorded at the one yard line,
Speaker 1: ended up in a two point safety. Zerline missed an
Speaker 1: extra point and had one blocked. There's four points there.
Speaker 1: That's a huge difference. And then the first play of
Speaker 1: the second half on a blitz, the Cowboys missed a
Speaker 1: block sack fumble on Prescott. Seattle recovers at the Cowboys
Speaker 1: five and they scored a touchdown. They gave them eleven
Speaker 1: points in that game, eleven and even if they had not,
Speaker 1: even if they'd done that with the touchdown and not
Speaker 1: giving them those four points. Do you remember they drove
Speaker 1: down to the Seattle twenty two with twenty six seconds
Speaker 1: left to go, and it had those four points, not
Speaker 1: been part of that game, they would have had a
Speaker 1: chance to kick a field goal and send that game
Speaker 1: into overtime. So when you are away a game like that,
Speaker 1: those things come back to haunt you and that team
Speaker 1: could be beat because I'll tell you what, the last
Speaker 1: few times I've watched Seattle play boy, they're lost. They're
Speaker 1: absolutely lost. Their defense is terrible, and I think that's
Speaker 1: leading to Russell Wilson taking us undue chances to try
Speaker 1: to score points and zing the ball around. Boy, they're
Speaker 1: a mess right now. Hey, Mickey Nicky, did you mention
Speaker 1: the interception at the end of the first half too, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys are trailing sixteen to fifteen, and
Speaker 1: that interception came with thirty six seconds left in the
Speaker 1: first half, and we talk about you're talking about Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson slinging the ball around. I mean, there are certain
Speaker 1: times in a game where you gotta even, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: sixteen fifteen, you're down by a point, you're thirty six
Speaker 1: seconds left in the in the half. Okay, there's certain
Speaker 1: times you might want to just go ahead and take
Speaker 1: it to the house. If you're you're fine, sixteen fifteen,
Speaker 1: Because sometimes some bad things can happen when you're backed
Speaker 1: up in your own end of Bill. So there's not
Speaker 1: only yeah, that interception, which, by the way, they could
Speaker 1: have stopped him and held him to a field goal.
Speaker 1: They got a touchdown on that change of possessions. And
Speaker 1: so I mean with that pick and then the turnover
Speaker 1: to start the third quarter on the first play, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a fourteen point swing right there. Yeah, you're exactly
Speaker 1: the odds of that happening. And then throw in the
Speaker 1: other four points. That's eighteen points they basically gifted Seattle
Speaker 1: in a game they ended up losing thirty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you talked about the odds of things happening, Bill. If
Speaker 1: I would call the dB that got the interception was Griffin,
Speaker 1: and we had been teasing about how he was getting
Speaker 1: toasted the year before by all of our live receivers.
Speaker 1: That was his first interception, I think they said, in
Speaker 1: like a year and a half. So the odds of
Speaker 1: it happened, you don't think of very good. But then
Speaker 1: here we go, this guy finally gets an interception after
Speaker 1: being torched by several teams for several games. Each time
Speaker 1: you look at the NFC East and you look at
Speaker 1: the failure of our teams. They're not losing by much.
Speaker 1: It's always the same story with the Cowboys. That was
Speaker 1: a pivotal point in the game. What things just kind
Speaker 1: of get out of control. You talk about Chase Young,
Speaker 1: that's just the bone hit player. Successful teams don't make
Speaker 1: those kinds of mistakes. Well coached teams, players that have
Speaker 1: the heads up they are not that they don't private
Speaker 1: themselves to those kind of mistakes. The Cowboys that have
Speaker 1: been doing it all year long, there's always something there
Speaker 1: to where you you know, Jaylen Smith, I've been talking
Speaker 1: about just certain things good teams don't do. The NFC
Speaker 1: East is full of them, of players that make those
Speaker 1: mistakes cost them wins. Being one of them just continues
Speaker 1: to put the pressure on himself by making bad mistakes.
Speaker 1: Now he feels like he has nowhere to go. But
Speaker 1: our teams still end up fighting through all of that
Speaker 1: and making a game of it between other divisional division
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, other conference rivals sometimes. So when you see
Speaker 1: these games and you see the NFC East, we talk
Speaker 1: about the futility, what you see is just one play here,
Speaker 1: one bone head play there. You're looking at a whole
Speaker 1: different record for the NFC e's and and that's my
Speaker 1: good news, man, Mickey, I know you know where I
Speaker 1: was going. No, you're not gonna say a bit now.
Speaker 1: That's that's my good news. Is you're looking. If you look,
Speaker 1: let me tell you. If you're at the rest of
Speaker 1: the NFC eas with seven games to go, here, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the Cowboys not only have a girl eight chance,
Speaker 1: you can make the case that they are. They are
Speaker 1: in the driver's seat to win the NFC East. I
Speaker 1: am ashamed to say that. I believe you, Billy. I'm
Speaker 1: ashamed to say I am on your side. They are.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are in the driver's seat to win the
Speaker 1: NFC East. If you just look at the r first place, right,
Speaker 1: they could be the Cowboys by two weeks from tonight.
Speaker 1: They are liable to be in first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC East. All right, Oh god, Now, obviously, obviously, obviously
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have to take care of their own business
Speaker 1: and maybe learn from some of those mistakes they've made
Speaker 1: that Mickey talks about in the Seattle game, you talk
Speaker 1: about in the Pittsburgh game last week. They gotta win
Speaker 1: at Minnesota, which is Minnesota's record is what three and
Speaker 1: five right now, they're playing tonight, they could be three
Speaker 1: and six by the end of the night. They're playing
Speaker 1: at Chicago tonight, and then Washington comes in here two
Speaker 1: and seventeen. Okay, let's just say the Cowboys win those
Speaker 1: two games, and so the Cowboys would then be four
Speaker 1: and seven. What does Philly have. They play at Cleveland,
Speaker 1: which has six wins, they're six and three, and then
Speaker 1: they come home and they play I believe Seattle, yep, Seattle.
Speaker 1: I think it's a Monday night game against Seattle. So
Speaker 1: by Monday night two weeks from those could easily be
Speaker 1: two losses for the Eagles. Cowboys would be in first place.
Speaker 1: Giants are off this week. They're a game ahead of
Speaker 1: the cowboyor a half game ahead of the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: now at three and seven. They're off this week, then
Speaker 1: they're at Cincinnati. That's a toss up game. Giants could
Speaker 1: easily lose that games pretty good. Yeah, but let's even
Speaker 1: said they Let's even said they win that game, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Giants then would be tied for first
Speaker 1: place at four and seven at the end of Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, I think if the Cowboys go five. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys record. The Cowboys schedule the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: as we all know, they only got one team on
Speaker 1: their schedule that has a winning record lot right now,
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. And did you see that run defense
Speaker 1: last night against New England? Okay, I didn't see it. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't see it, not at all. Yeah, exactly, there
Speaker 1: was no run defense last night, and against a team
Speaker 1: that you gotta be geared up to stop the run.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton hadn't threatened anybody this year, and it's in
Speaker 1: a driving rain storm. So anyway, if the Cowboys go
Speaker 1: five and two the rest of the way, they might
Speaker 1: win this division going away the way going exacting at
Speaker 1: seven and nine, that could be winning going away. Literally,
Speaker 1: they can win it by going five and two the
Speaker 1: rest of the way because the Eagles, I don't see
Speaker 1: them going any better than three and four the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. You know that might with anyone hear
Speaker 1: the Eagle go ahead, give me the rest of hear
Speaker 1: the Eagle schedule? Yeah, it's pretty high Eagles. The Eagles
Speaker 1: are at Cleveland, a six win team, Seattle a six
Speaker 1: win team right now at green Bay, which is seven
Speaker 1: and two New Orleans seven and two. Now New Orleans
Speaker 1: just lost Drew Brees and then at Arizona six and three,
Speaker 1: and then they closed with Dallas and Washington. So the
Speaker 1: next five opponents for Philadelphia all have six or seven wins.
Speaker 1: You know what, maybe that's why Carson Wentz kind of
Speaker 1: got into my dream last night. I woke up and say,
Speaker 1: why was I dealing with Carson Wentz? What'd you eat before? Oh?
Speaker 1: And by the way, before we get away from this,
Speaker 1: it's on my mind. Did you see Jalen Ramsey try
Speaker 1: to pull that same move in the game yesterday when
Speaker 1: I think it was DK Metcalf beat him. It was
Speaker 1: a it was a deep ball and they were fighting physically,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden when when he kind of
Speaker 1: got an elbow from from Metcalf, he kind of fell
Speaker 1: off and he threw his hands up in the air. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what this time? No call? How about that? He
Speaker 1: dried the pull the same thing, all right? And I
Speaker 1: saw others. I saw other dbs doing that spags. That's
Speaker 1: a thing. Now, he wasn't the only one I saw
Speaker 1: do that yesterday. Everyone's doing it now. They're carrying it
Speaker 1: out like soccer players are NBA players, and I have
Speaker 1: to put this note out there. I know we have
Speaker 1: to go to a break soon. Jeff Heath, Jeff Heath,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jeff Heath pulled Jenobli on the holding call, right,
Speaker 1: he sold it big time. So what two plays will go?
Speaker 1: He sold it, which stopped the scram before touchdown, and
Speaker 1: I think the next play he ends up getting the
Speaker 1: interception to save the touchdown, to defend it the touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then it's Hattime. I'm pretty sure that's how that
Speaker 1: sequence went. And it was just kind of good to
Speaker 1: see him making some plays. Everyone was saying we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have got rid of them. I still disagree. And before
Speaker 1: we go to break, here's the here's the Giant schedule
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. They're off this week and
Speaker 1: then they play at Cincinnati, a two six and one team,
Speaker 1: and then they play at Seattle six and three, Arizona
Speaker 1: six and three, Cleveland six and three, at Baltimore six
Speaker 1: and three. So there you go, Well, hell, we got
Speaker 1: this one. Figure we gotta figure it out. Yes, does
Speaker 1: this sound like last year? Who of the years have
Speaker 1: we been talking about how the cowboy hasn't got chances?
Speaker 1: If they just do this if they just come on.
Speaker 1: We never never, We never said it when they had
Speaker 1: a two and seven records though, I don't think about
Speaker 1: this chaps as two and seven and a quarterback controversy.
Speaker 1: Who starts this week against the Minnesota Viking. We get
Speaker 1: it well, we try to get an update. We don't
Speaker 1: have an update on Andy Dalton, but we'll give you
Speaker 1: the latest that we know along those lines when we
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Speaker 1: and he's a professional broadcacaster. He tried to sound sexy.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't have the energy he think. You know,
Speaker 1: he's too smooth. I like your energy. That's the difference. Nicky,
Speaker 1: give us an update on what's going on at the
Speaker 1: start today. Yeah, Mike McCarthy press ofference at four forty five.
Speaker 1: It'll be on Dallas Cowboys dot com. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: any any activity from players so far, so I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they're back in or you know what. Since
Speaker 1: he's at four forty five, they've got to be having
Speaker 1: some sort of meeting. I don't know if it's gonna
Speaker 1: be virtual, because remember they kind of finished last week
Speaker 1: in intensive COVID nineteen protocol, and I would think we'll
Speaker 1: find out a couple of things. Number one is Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton cleared his two protocols because remember as we left off,
Speaker 1: he was probably still in concussion protocol and then COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen protocol. We'll find out the status of Tyrone Crawford,
Speaker 1: and then maybe we find out what's up with Chitube
Speaker 1: Awuzier because remember his twenty one days to get off
Speaker 1: of IR ended last week. They did pull him off,
Speaker 1: but then he didn't play in the game, so we'll
Speaker 1: see what sort of physical where his physical status is
Speaker 1: heading towards the Minnesota game, who which, by the way,
Speaker 1: plays the Monday night game, So we'll get a good
Speaker 1: look at those Vikings that have won their last two
Speaker 1: games in a row, by the way, scoring twenty eight
Speaker 1: and thirty four points in those wins. With the running
Speaker 1: game with a we'll find out if they fixed this
Speaker 1: rush defense with Delvin Cook coming up. So but anyway,
Speaker 1: Bill Day Tuesday. Normally, when you come off a bye,
Speaker 1: even though you had all that time off, Tuesday's usually
Speaker 1: a day off and then you get back into practice
Speaker 1: on your normal schedule Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So basically the
Speaker 1: last time the Cowboys were on the practice field was
Speaker 1: win so it had been the Friday Saturday before the
Speaker 1: last Saturday before Saturday Pittsburgh game, Saturday before the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 1: That's right, So it's been a while. Yea, it will
Speaker 1: be yes, So it will be seven, eight, nine, ten
Speaker 1: days in between, assuming they can get on the practice
Speaker 1: field on Wednesday that they get out of this intense
Speaker 1: COVID protocol, it will be ten days in between practices
Speaker 1: for this team. The better they better store it up
Speaker 1: because once they get into the Minnesota game, they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up playing three games in eleven days, so there
Speaker 1: won't be a lot of practicing going on after that
Speaker 1: Minnesota game. Here we go. This is that time of year.
Speaker 1: We can make a break our season. Ye can? I
Speaker 1: love it? Okay, So we expect to get an update
Speaker 1: on Andy Dalton at four forty five this afternoon from
Speaker 1: the coach and of course, at last report he was
Speaker 1: still in COVID and concussion protocol and when asked last
Speaker 1: week who his starter would be Dalton or Garrett Gilbert,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said that it would be Dalton if he
Speaker 1: is healthy, So we will anticipate that his answer has
Speaker 1: not changed on that. What do you think of this
Speaker 1: debate out there that they should go with Gilbert instead
Speaker 1: of Dalton. Well, it seems like everybody's in lockstep on
Speaker 1: Dalton because Jerry Jones answered the question the exact same way,
Speaker 1: and so did Stephen Jones. Uh so uh they seem so.
Speaker 1: I mean the debate amongst the members of the media
Speaker 1: and fans not just letting you know what the people
Speaker 1: that important people in the decision have had to say. Hey,
Speaker 1: I've never known a reporter that hates all other reporters
Speaker 1: only spags. He gives them no credibility whatsoever. Mix Shots
Speaker 1: is never about the team and the players. It's always
Speaker 1: about how these idiots are covering the cowboys. I like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, and it's not love it to death, buddy.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you've seen any reporters saying that
Speaker 1: they should start Gilbert. It's talk radio in the fall. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Who you got, Bill got Bill? Oh?
Speaker 1: I've had a had a couple of debates here with
Speaker 1: with a few reporters about it, and they think that
Speaker 1: to go with Gilbert, but don't use the word like
Speaker 1: the ones. It's almost like the ones that want to
Speaker 1: go for Gilbert, they're kind of considering writing off the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know those that want to go with Gilbert, we're
Speaker 1: also the ones that want a top five pick. You're right, Glad,
Speaker 1: And you know, man, people start talking about this tanking
Speaker 1: and all of that. That is to me, that's the
Speaker 1: ultimate sports sin. I really believe that. I think it's
Speaker 1: just the loophole that has found in the system itself,
Speaker 1: and to use it in that manner. It affects everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, it affects a person's status as far as
Speaker 1: let's say you've got to play on your squad. He's
Speaker 1: good enough to say, have Hall of Fame aspirations. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're shutting a season down and that's
Speaker 1: affecting his post career popularity or whether whever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. You could be talking about a player
Speaker 1: who's trying to make make a headweight and go to
Speaker 1: another team, you know, build his numbers up so it
Speaker 1: can look good in the off season, and you're taking
Speaker 1: the season and now I can't get my numbers out
Speaker 1: there as a wide receiver or a linebacker or even
Speaker 1: the running back. Just the small things that go along
Speaker 1: with taking a season. I I just it's it's Sully's
Speaker 1: the whole system, and I never did like it, and
Speaker 1: I hate when people start talking about it because now
Speaker 1: the whole season is compromised, not just yours, the whole
Speaker 1: NFL seasons compromise. So I agree, I agree. So ever
Speaker 1: ever said in nineteen eighty eight, Tom didn't come to
Speaker 1: you and say, hey, Cubby, just back off a little
Speaker 1: bit because we're gonna get the first pick of the
Speaker 1: draft and we're gonna get Troy eighth. Hey, let me
Speaker 1: say this. In nineteen eighty eight, he didn't have to
Speaker 1: tell everything because I was playing like crap, just like
Speaker 1: the rest of the team. So yeah, he he didn't
Speaker 1: have to say anything. We all, we all played like
Speaker 1: crap in herschell. Quit try anything on VP of the league.
Speaker 1: Just back off, right right, back off, you know the
Speaker 1: other thing on you know, and take nothing away from
Speaker 1: Gary Gilbert. He did a terrific job against Pittsburgh, But
Speaker 1: the bar was set so low as far as the
Speaker 1: quarterback with for the Cowboys going into that game, after
Speaker 1: what we had seen the previous week and playing against
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, the bunted, unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers coming in here.
Speaker 1: If he completed a couple of passes, it was going
Speaker 1: to be a victory. And then when he completed a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. But when you go back and look at
Speaker 1: his game, and let's say Andy Dalton had the same
Speaker 1: game that Garrett Gilbert had, people would be sitting there
Speaker 1: looking at that, going, well, we got to find a
Speaker 1: better backup quarterbacks. We can't have a quarterback he throws
Speaker 1: and then a section in the red zone. You know,
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at on the first drive
Speaker 1: of the game, Amari Cooper's lined up in the slot
Speaker 1: and he makes a great move. And I don't know
Speaker 1: enough about playing quarterback. It's so easy to do it
Speaker 1: from two hundred feet up in the air. I don't
Speaker 1: you know, Gilbert, he's facing the sun field. He may
Speaker 1: not his vision might have been blocked by a defensive linement, whatever,
Speaker 1: but it didn't look like he looked Cooper's way At
Speaker 1: first pre snap, it looked like this is the matchup
Speaker 1: you want. You got Cooper in the slot and he
Speaker 1: made a great move as he is so wont to do,
Speaker 1: and he's wide open, and safety went the other way.
Speaker 1: I mean it was right there for him. Well, they
Speaker 1: he checked down and went underneath whatever. But a play
Speaker 1: like that, you know, if it's dark, he's going to
Speaker 1: Cooper there. I guarantee you. You know, Dalton might have
Speaker 1: to I don't know. Yeah, yeah, but a more experienced quarterback.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, given Gilbert credit, he just does
Speaker 1: not have the experience. But I do think if Dalton
Speaker 1: played the same game, we'd be saying and I he
Speaker 1: wasn't there very good, you know, But with Gilbert playing
Speaker 1: the game, oh wow, we found something here. You know.
Speaker 1: At this point, you're talking about fans and puntents as well.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: and say that they want for the Cowboys so much
Speaker 1: that the frustration kind of sets in and then we
Speaker 1: just say, yes, just blow it all up. I'm so frustrated.
Speaker 1: I'm pulling for these guys. I got my emotions behind it,
Speaker 1: you know, and they just give up. And then you've
Speaker 1: got the other side that's saying, you know, like me
Speaker 1: and Bill, we're saying, hey man, we still got a chance.
Speaker 1: We can win this going the way. Professional optimists, that's
Speaker 1: what we are. But you know, like you said, those
Speaker 1: guys that want Guilbert to stay in they don't want
Speaker 1: to see any more Andy Dolphin because they don't want
Speaker 1: to see us trying to salvage this season. And everyone's
Speaker 1: always looking forward to the draft. Who the hell do
Speaker 1: you want? I mean, yeah, we can get sunshine. We
Speaker 1: can get sunshine. We're gonna know what the heck's gonna
Speaker 1: happen with Dad. We can get sunshine. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna force an issue that's not there yet. And we're
Speaker 1: more than mathematically still in it, which is a shame
Speaker 1: to say. Not my fault, not Bill's fault, but we
Speaker 1: are more than still mathematically in the race for the
Speaker 1: NFC eason. That's just a shame that it is. But
Speaker 1: don't give up now. And you can find a player
Speaker 1: with the seventeenth pick just as easily as you can
Speaker 1: find a player with a seventh pick in the draft. Boy,
Speaker 1: And we played against some low round draft picks that
Speaker 1: I'm coming here and kick the butts a whole group
Speaker 1: of all. Like I said last year, you don't need
Speaker 1: a team for the Superstars to beat a team for
Speaker 1: the Superstars. You just need some damn good coaching and
Speaker 1: a good team unit. So we're all in agreement, right,
Speaker 1: We got it. Figured out. We got out, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that. Get Andy Dalton out there,
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm ready to go. That's why you made
Speaker 1: that deal, That's why you brought him here. And I'll
Speaker 1: let him go do what he needs to do, and
Speaker 1: for God's sake, protect the guy well. And I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is look at the resumes. I
Speaker 1: mean you no, no, unless the coach less there's some
Speaker 1: physical ailment that we don't know about. With the more
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback. I mean, you're talking about a quarterback who
Speaker 1: is a three time Pro bowler, who was I mean,
Speaker 1: going back to college, was the winning is quarterback in
Speaker 1: TCU history. Let not go back, No, Garrett Gilbert wins.
Speaker 1: If we go to high school, Garrett Gilbert wins, he
Speaker 1: won two state championships. Falton laws. Yes, we know, yes,
Speaker 1: we know, all right, but that's the last thing Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert did. That's the problem, all right, that doesn't for
Speaker 1: mixed shots. Time to go. Chris Beam says, it's time
Speaker 1: to go, and we will have more information for you
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy meets with the media at four forty
Speaker 1: five this afternoon. See it tomorrow at one thirty Go Cowboys.
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