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Speaker 3: Savannah Humoller, Effson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 2: And here it is. It's a Thursday edition of mix
Speaker 2: Shots inside the s WBC podcast studio. But this is
Speaker 2: not like previous episodes of mix Shots because our shining
Speaker 2: star is not here today is not It needs to
Speaker 2: be Savannah shots. Savannah.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: I like that it rolls off the better than Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a literation there.
Speaker 5: She actually she's got a more important job.
Speaker 2: You know what's going on? And wait, what what are
Speaker 2: you wearing green?
Speaker 6: For?
Speaker 2: What's going on here? You realize who the opponent is
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 5: Mickey didn't go into any of my thoughts.
Speaker 2: Clearly it did not.
Speaker 4: And this is mix Shots. That's another reason we shame
Speaker 4: he's got.
Speaker 2: A Wisconsin's Wisconsin green flames.
Speaker 4: He is so unaware and with a T shirt.
Speaker 5: Underneath it, so he's supposed to have a white out
Speaker 5: or what y got a white shirt? I'm just going
Speaker 5: to show you how much green stands out in white.
Speaker 2: It does you never wear green, and then the week
Speaker 2: of the packers gave you put on green war.
Speaker 5: This last week.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, here we are. It's time to get
Speaker 2: ready for these packers. And as we go along here.
Speaker 5: He misses a day and comes back poking the bear,
Speaker 5: you knows, speaking of the Yeah, no, go.
Speaker 2: Ahead, Well it's Thursday. It's time to get serious about
Speaker 2: these packers. And I started getting serious about him last night.
Speaker 2: And I've got some cause for concern.
Speaker 5: We were serious about him yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were right for those that were here.
Speaker 2: So, Micky, what can you tell us? I saw a
Speaker 2: couple of football players not in football gear on a
Speaker 2: football field when I walked in. Those were the veterans.
Speaker 5: We've we've been over that yesterday, that we got secrets.
Speaker 5: Now it's playoff time. Okay, so that's why they're indoors.
Speaker 5: You see football players.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh yeah, but but I did see a.
Speaker 5: Couple now, Oh that weren't. You're saying weren't practicing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe they weren't. Maybe they are more rest yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, it sounded as if that Tyler Smith would
Speaker 5: continue to be limited Stefan Gilmour probably not doing anything
Speaker 5: till Saturday, but he's very optimistic that he's playing. In
Speaker 5: matter of fact, he insisted on it yesterday with a
Speaker 5: harness on.
Speaker 2: By the way, in regards to Tyler Smith, you know
Speaker 2: how challenging it is to ask the head coach on
Speaker 2: his Coaches show that airs the night before the game
Speaker 2: with the Packers in.
Speaker 5: Town, what if he's playing?
Speaker 2: What do you think about Tyler Smith?
Speaker 5: He knows other people are watching the interview were I
Speaker 5: was the interviewer.
Speaker 2: We had an extra fifteen to twenty seconds, so I said,
Speaker 2: I'll just go ahead and throw out something on Tyler Smith.
Speaker 5: You got nothing.
Speaker 2: I expected nothing, and it was like, so what does
Speaker 2: he What will he need to accomplish this week in
Speaker 2: order to be able to play it? So you didn't
Speaker 2: get an ant, not really.
Speaker 5: He said he would do He was limited yesterday and
Speaker 5: he said he would do a little bit more today.
Speaker 5: So I guess that's encouraging. Zach Martin should be good
Speaker 5: to go talk to him yesterday and.
Speaker 2: The good news is he's he's and he feels better. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's walking around and he's around other people.
Speaker 5: And like one hundred percent better because he said, you
Speaker 5: can't believe how bad it was on Sunday. So that's encouraging.
Speaker 5: Trying to think anybody else of significance that might have
Speaker 5: missed practice.
Speaker 2: But the Gilmour we talked about this the other day.
Speaker 2: I thank Everson wearing a harness for a cornerback.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: It's a little different now, probably than back in your day.
Speaker 2: Medical technology has probably improved a little bit.
Speaker 4: Hopeful.
Speaker 5: They probably didn't have hardness back.
Speaker 4: I wasn't testing it back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I never went into the trainer's room only too get
Speaker 6: my bunions shaved.
Speaker 4: That's the only reason they ever touched me.
Speaker 5: If his shoulder went out, they probably used tape.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they probably would. But mine never went out.
Speaker 6: I mean it didn't even if it went out, I
Speaker 6: didn't tell anybody. I never let anyone know I was hurt,
Speaker 6: never let know I was injured.
Speaker 2: We want to talk about the elephant in the room, Belichick, Yep,
Speaker 2: you just noticed that up there. No, I mean Everson
Speaker 2: played for him. I know so well. I played for
Speaker 2: two saving also, so they get two elephants and we
Speaker 2: had three elephants in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 2: Pete Pete Carroll and then and then.
Speaker 6: He was yeah, yeah, they got rid of me the
Speaker 6: year before they had the big year in ninety four.
Speaker 6: That's when they came to Dallas and they beat us
Speaker 6: and go on the goal line.
Speaker 4: That was That's when I was like, man, these.
Speaker 6: Guys two inches, they're better than when I was there
Speaker 6: last year. Terry Taylor was the cornerback that they replaced
Speaker 6: me with.
Speaker 4: He had a heck of a season. There was no
Speaker 4: you to admit that.
Speaker 6: Oh no, they were, they were. I was thirty three
Speaker 6: years old getting my butther out of there. Bro you know,
Speaker 6: I mean I still could have possibly played with him,
Speaker 6: but no, I didn't want to be one of those
Speaker 6: guys just hanging around, you know, just because you knew somebody.
Speaker 6: And that's why I went there to Cleveland because I
Speaker 6: knew you know. That was the only moment that I
Speaker 6: actually went to a place where coach kind of you know,
Speaker 6: vouched for me.
Speaker 4: So I was there for a couple of years, those
Speaker 4: two good years.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that was.
Speaker 4: Ninety two. They brought me in half season.
Speaker 2: So playing for Belichick and say, thirty one years ago,
Speaker 2: did you ever cross your mind that thirty years from now,
Speaker 2: these two would be regarded as the greatest of all
Speaker 2: time pro football in college for you never think that,
Speaker 2: and this is you had played for one of the
Speaker 2: greatest of all time and Tom Landry prior to that,
Speaker 2: and then Bill Purcells also And.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I was used to good coaches, but they
Speaker 6: were already legends when I was there. Eddie was already
Speaker 6: a legend. Tom was already a legend. You know, pars
Speaker 6: Els was on his way. But then he comes Belichick
Speaker 6: as a defensive coordinator with the Giants. Never thought that
Speaker 6: he would be a head coach, and then when he
Speaker 6: became a head coach. No, I was not thinking he's
Speaker 6: going to be one of the greatest. I was just thinking,
Speaker 6: you know, he's going to be a good coach because
Speaker 6: his approach was professional and the way he treated his
Speaker 6: other coaches and the way the way they uh responded
Speaker 6: to his demands. They were all in Ron Springs came
Speaker 6: down there once just to have a good time because
Speaker 6: they they wanted him to teach them how to run
Speaker 6: a screen pass. And if you call Tom Landry had
Speaker 6: the best screen passes going in the league at the time.
Speaker 6: Tom Springs door set Preston Pearson. They all knew how
Speaker 6: to do it. So Ron was going to teach the
Speaker 6: guys in Cleveland how to do it. Well, you know,
Speaker 6: after that done all day, he's ready to go out
Speaker 6: and hang out and party a little bit, right his
Speaker 6: training camp. Yeah, we want to go out and hang
Speaker 6: out to have a good time. No one would leave
Speaker 6: the room until Belichick left the room. No one would
Speaker 6: leave the office until Belichick left the office.
Speaker 4: And so Ron is like, hey, man, let's go. They're like, no, man,
Speaker 4: coach is still in there. He go. People on Belichick.
Speaker 6: He's on the treadmill watching film, So it's gonna be
Speaker 6: a while. So Ron would always hang out and party
Speaker 6: with us. He couldn't hang out and party with the
Speaker 6: other coaches because they were on it. And this is
Speaker 6: training camp. They were on it because Belichick was back.
Speaker 2: Then, if you're on the treadmill watching film, it's not
Speaker 2: like you have an iPhone or you're watching it on
Speaker 2: the iPad or something.
Speaker 6: No, he's got it on the big screen in his hand,
Speaker 6: in his.
Speaker 4: Hand, and he's not walking. He's Johnny.
Speaker 5: You know what that reminds me of. Jason Garrett told
Speaker 5: the story when he was Saban's assistant in Miami. He
Speaker 5: was the quarterback coach, and it was the year Troy
Speaker 5: Aikman was going in the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 5: and this is the fear he put in his assistant coaches.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: So Garrett was like, well, it was training camp and
Speaker 5: it wasn't a preseason game, but they had practice on
Speaker 5: the Saturday, and he wanted to go to Troy's induction, right,
Speaker 5: So he said he finally worked up the nerve to
Speaker 5: ask Saban if he could maybe just kind of and
Speaker 5: he was like, one practice right the way he said it,
Speaker 5: And Saban looked at him and said it said, do
Speaker 5: you think you're so important that if you missed a
Speaker 5: practice screw things up?
Speaker 6: We were there with with Nick. Nick was all in
Speaker 6: with Belichick, I guess because he was a d C. Belichick,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of related to him more. And I
Speaker 6: just remember Nick being extremely intense. You know, he would
Speaker 6: stand up at the at the the chalkboard and well
Speaker 6: the whiteboard, and he would just rock back and forth
Speaker 6: as he looked at you intensely. It just he just
Speaker 6: rocked back and forth. His mind was already you know
Speaker 6: three or four you know, lessons ahead but we're talking
Speaker 6: about this right now, and he wants you to go, Okay,
Speaker 6: get it out, get it.
Speaker 4: Out, get out, let's go, let's go. We got things
Speaker 4: to do, and.
Speaker 6: We would just move on from from defense to defense
Speaker 6: or subject to subject. So he was he was more
Speaker 6: intense than Belichick. I thought the man was going to
Speaker 6: have health problems way before he left Cleveland because he.
Speaker 4: Was extremely tight and intense.
Speaker 6: You never saw him relax. And then when they cut me,
Speaker 6: I was, you know, kind of upset about it. And
Speaker 6: I was flying home at one point. I think I
Speaker 6: came to visit some people up there, and I was
Speaker 6: flying home one around Christmas and here's Nick Saban on
Speaker 6: the on the plane and he comes up to me.
Speaker 6: His face looks totally different. It's bright, it's happy. You know,
Speaker 6: he's got his family with him. He introduced me to
Speaker 6: his family. And I'm trying to be mad at him,
Speaker 6: right he would not allow me to be mad at him.
Speaker 6: I went up and met the wife and the kids,
Speaker 6: and you know, and he was just so happy. So
Speaker 6: in the off season, at that moment when he took
Speaker 6: that vacation, he let all of that go. But when
Speaker 6: you come back to the facility. He's that mister intensity.
Speaker 5: So are you surprised each of them just decided this
Speaker 5: was enough?
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised you guys like that was You know, they're
Speaker 6: like Eddie Robinson And.
Speaker 2: For both of them, they are sons of coaches. In fact,
Speaker 2: Nick coached under Belichick's dad.
Speaker 4: At Navy, Yeah two? And was he at the West Point?
Speaker 2: Is that the Navy Naval.
Speaker 5: So you you mentioned Bear Bryant, I coach I coached.
Speaker 5: I covered his final game. It was at the Liberty
Speaker 5: Bowl in nineteen eighty one. And as matter of fact,
Speaker 5: I got a little certificate that I was at his
Speaker 5: last game. They gave it to all the writers, right,
Speaker 5: And I remember after the game they beat I want
Speaker 5: to say, Illinois in the Liberty Bowl, which was played
Speaker 5: mid December, not on New Year's Day or anything like that.
Speaker 5: And it was cold, and I remember they didn't have
Speaker 5: a room for him to do his postgame press comm
Speaker 5: difference in so they have him standing on like a
Speaker 5: milk carton crate or whatever. H And I'm looking at
Speaker 5: him and it's freezing outside, and he just looked so ashy, right,
Speaker 5: and he had already announced his retirement that that was
Speaker 5: going to be his last game. So it was mid
Speaker 5: December by January twenty six, and this is when I
Speaker 5: was working in Jackson, Mississippi. I was going to Tuscaloosa
Speaker 5: for his funeral, and it's like he wasn't going anymore.
Speaker 6: Died a monthly, ediebb the same way, Eddue Robbins in
Speaker 6: the same way.
Speaker 4: It didn't take long at all, natural his deathbed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, patnal too.
Speaker 2: Right, Saban, sounds like he's done. I mean he's retired.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like Belichick is retired. Sounds like Belichick
Speaker 2: is in the mix.
Speaker 4: What did he say? Did he sound like that? Is
Speaker 4: that just your belief?
Speaker 2: Did hey?
Speaker 4: Because I just believe that he's not done. I don't
Speaker 4: know if he's going.
Speaker 2: And I did look to the press conference and I
Speaker 2: went into it with that mindset he's going to keep coaching.
Speaker 2: I mean, just the wording of it was, we've decided
Speaker 2: to part ways, and UH like it. You know, it's
Speaker 2: a patriot's decision.
Speaker 4: I just so he probably was. He will not be
Speaker 4: back as a head coach, that's the word.
Speaker 5: When they move him into the front office like Carroll,
Speaker 5: And I don't know, and I'm not convinced Carol is
Speaker 5: going to do that either.
Speaker 2: I mean, and you listen to Pete Carroll and he's
Speaker 2: ready to go. In fact, if I'm the Chargers, I am, well,
Speaker 2: either one of those guys, but Pete Carroll and Los
Speaker 2: Angeles with the Chargers, that's exactly what they need, you know,
Speaker 2: as far as a pr standpoint familiar and a defensive coach,
Speaker 2: and they need to do something with their defense. And
Speaker 2: he's working with a quarterback. But he's got potential. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's got immediate cred with the populace in LA, you know,
Speaker 2: with sc and you know he said, seem he's a
Speaker 2: southern calip seems like a southern California.
Speaker 4: You know, if you were I can't see BELI said
Speaker 4: going west.
Speaker 2: I'm the same way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's never been west of the Mississippi and all
Speaker 6: his coaching has been over on this side.
Speaker 5: If you were Washington, would you hire Saban.
Speaker 2: After I mean, after their experience with Spurrier? Saban has
Speaker 2: NFL coaching experience, though, I mean.
Speaker 5: Would he I mean, there's so many open jobs now
Speaker 5: in the NFL. I mean, I know he's said what
Speaker 5: is he said, what about Belichiw?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in Washington.
Speaker 5: But I just thought Saban, you know, just backing out
Speaker 5: like that, and just I mean the day before he
Speaker 5: was interviewing coaches for his assistant jobs.
Speaker 6: Right, I don't know, he seemed like he still has
Speaker 6: the energy for it.
Speaker 2: The difference with Saban is the change in college football now.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what I was going to bring up
Speaker 2: for him to be able to continue to prolong it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think there was a comment from him
Speaker 2: that these quoters saying, well, what if we go waiting
Speaker 2: for somem here.
Speaker 5: I mean it's like, well, they've already they've already you
Speaker 5: could easily go eighting for one year. He's already had
Speaker 5: like a dozen or two players going into the portal
Speaker 5: they want to transfer.
Speaker 4: To me, it's like being in the pros anyway.
Speaker 5: So yeah, the way to the NFL.
Speaker 2: He won't have as many first round draft picks on
Speaker 2: his rush.
Speaker 5: But you don't have to recruit eighteen year old kids, right,
Speaker 5: you don't have to deal with nils, you don't have
Speaker 5: to deal with the transfer portal, and.
Speaker 4: You've got gown man. They pretty much to understand where
Speaker 4: you're coming from right right away.
Speaker 2: But you are destined to go eight and nine and okay,
Speaker 2: well maybe he wasn't as great a coach as we
Speaker 2: thought he was.
Speaker 6: And do you have time for someone seventy plus years old? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: for a number of years.
Speaker 2: But in the NFL, let's face it. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: the head coaching jobs in the NFL last from about
Speaker 2: six months to three years and you're out.
Speaker 5: I just think it'd be less headaches to be in
Speaker 5: the NFL. Although you can't you can't recruit a quarterback.
Speaker 5: You got to find one, right, You.
Speaker 4: Don't have to repeat yourself so much in the pros.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, for both for Saban and Belichick, it's
Speaker 2: got to be with ownership that allows them to do
Speaker 2: their thing, you know, and they'd have to have a
Speaker 2: quote unquote GM alongside them.
Speaker 6: That if they have any you know, does Nick have
Speaker 6: any contexts in Washington or.
Speaker 5: I just throw out Washington and you know it's a
Speaker 5: kind of high profile owner.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I don't see him go into like Carolina or
Speaker 5: something like that, although he'd be a god there in
Speaker 5: the South.
Speaker 2: The last coach lasted three months. Not even all right,
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Speaker 5: You know, we found out she was a star surfer
Speaker 5: in high school. Really yeah, soccer player, oh really yeah.
Speaker 5: The uncovered that yesterday.
Speaker 6: She said she was did so much running the uses
Speaker 6: to run now to this day.
Speaker 2: Did they have a surf team in high school in
Speaker 2: sandyeg sir team?
Speaker 5: Yes, really, she said, had surf class, she had like
Speaker 5: gym class. She could go practice for the team and
Speaker 5: it was walking distance.
Speaker 4: To the ocean and just had her on board.
Speaker 5: And that one you'll have to have a good question question.
Speaker 2: All right, So you you discussed the Packers yesterday. What
Speaker 2: was your We discussed your overall take on this Packers team.
Speaker 5: We discussed their running game and something that Mike McCarthy voiced,
Speaker 5: uh uh, you know, worried about going into this game.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy voice that he is worried about.
Speaker 5: And he said that we've got to be very uh
Speaker 5: diligent in our run defense and they will run the
Speaker 5: football and have been very good at it. And he's
Speaker 5: right as I looked into.
Speaker 2: It, he's familiar with that running back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he'd been there one of the only guys.
Speaker 5: I think Aaron Jones was there when he.
Speaker 2: Was fifth round draft pick in twenty seventeen, and he's
Speaker 2: come on strong here after he got healthy again. Last
Speaker 2: three games as over one hundred yards rushing in them, yep,
Speaker 2: all three games.
Speaker 5: So we yeah, we kind of discussed that stuff.
Speaker 2: Five point seven yards of carry in those.
Speaker 5: Three games, yes, and he'll catch the ball on you too,
Speaker 5: by the way. But one thing I saw on Jordan Love.
Speaker 5: He's the third NFL quarterback in his first full season
Speaker 5: starting to throw for four thousand yards and thirty two
Speaker 5: or more touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He's the third one.
Speaker 5: First season with multiple starts. Okay, the other two Kurt
Speaker 5: Warner in nineteen ninety nine and Patrick Maholmes mahomes and
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen. So he came on as the season progressed.
Speaker 2: I'll say. And how about this his numbers the last
Speaker 2: eight games.
Speaker 5: I know he's also he's also the first Packers quarterback
Speaker 5: to lead the team to the postseason since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 11: Say that Bobby one more time, first in Green Bay
Speaker 11: quarterback to lead the Packers into the postseason in his
Speaker 11: first year since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was Curly Lambeau or that
Speaker 5: was a little bit, a little bit before, and I
Speaker 5: think it took Bart Starr at least a year or
Speaker 5: two before he did it.
Speaker 2: Just compare Jordan Love's numbers his last eight games to
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott the last eight games now Love, the Packers
Speaker 2: have won six of those eight games, okay, and the
Speaker 2: Cowboys have won six of those eight games. Dak's streak
Speaker 2: actually goes a game more than that. The Cowboys are
Speaker 2: seven and two the last nine games. But just to
Speaker 2: make it level playing field, eight games, okay, Dak one
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety eight completions two hundred ninety attempts, Love
Speaker 2: one hundred ninety six completions two hundred and seventy nine attempts.
Speaker 2: So DAK is at sixty eight percent, Love at seventy
Speaker 2: percent DAK twenty one hundred and one yards passing. Love
Speaker 2: twenty one hundred and fifty eight yards passing. That's seven
Speaker 2: point seven yards per attempt for Love, seven point two
Speaker 2: yards at per attempt for DAK. Touchdowns nineteen for DAK,
Speaker 2: eighteen for Love. Interceptions three for DAK, one for Love.
Speaker 2: He's got. They mirror each other in their statistics and
Speaker 2: running the football. They're both about this. Deck's a little
Speaker 2: bit more. Twenty four carries one hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 2: Love not a real run threat, but can nineteen for
Speaker 2: sixty five from two touchdowns sacks. I don't have Dak
Speaker 2: sacks here, but Love has only been sacked eleven times
Speaker 2: in those eight games.
Speaker 4: And Deck has been sacked more than eleven times.
Speaker 5: And yeah, you realized his thirty two touchdown passes or
Speaker 5: second to.
Speaker 2: Deck overall over the overall season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, second.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So but they've got off to a two and
Speaker 2: five start. And really this coincides the week before Thanksgiving. Okay,
Speaker 2: they beat the Chargers. I think it was twenty three
Speaker 2: to twenty the Sunday before Thanksgiving. And then I remember
Speaker 2: turning on the TV before going to the stadium on
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving Day and go on, wha, the Packers are up
Speaker 2: on the Lions. How about this? Well that's basically where
Speaker 2: they started their role. They beat the Lions on the road,
Speaker 2: and then the next week they beat Kansas City at
Speaker 2: home and that got them to six and six on
Speaker 2: the season. Then they like the Cowboys. It gets lesser
Speaker 2: opponents than the Cowboys. When the Cowboys lose in December
Speaker 2: to Buffalo and Miami back to back. Well, they lost
Speaker 2: back to back games to the Giants in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: A little bit different there. And now they won three
Speaker 2: in a row to closed out the regular season.
Speaker 4: And they've had some injuries at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 2: And most notably Christian Watson.
Speaker 6: And he's missed last affected Jordan one way or the other.
Speaker 5: Right, he missed the last five games.
Speaker 2: Right, he got hurt in the Kansas City game. And man, and.
Speaker 4: We've talked about that. You got hurt in the Kansas
Speaker 4: City game.
Speaker 2: And they lost the next Let's see, they lost the
Speaker 2: next two after he got hurt, but they won the
Speaker 2: last three. And again, the competition has not been great Carolina,
Speaker 2: Minnesota and Chicago. But and it's what's impressive about them
Speaker 2: is their young the wide receivers are and the tight ends.
Speaker 2: I mean, they basically decided when Aaron Rodgers was done there, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're not keeping any of these veteran guys. We're going
Speaker 2: all we're drafting wide receivers, whether it's a second round,
Speaker 2: fourth round, sixth round, will draft them in every round,
Speaker 2: and or a tight end. And that's that's what they've done.
Speaker 2: And they've given playing time to them and they've performed.
Speaker 4: Yes, they have impressive.
Speaker 2: I mean Jaden their rookie. There are two top rookie
Speaker 2: wide receivers, Jaden Reed, second rounder out of Michigan State,
Speaker 2: Dantavian Wicks, fifth rounder out of Virginia. Those two have
Speaker 2: combined for fourteen touchdowns this season. Reid has eight touchdown
Speaker 2: catches two touchdown runs, Wicks has four touchdown catches. And
Speaker 2: then their second year guys from last year, Romeo Dobbs
Speaker 2: and Christian Watson. Dobbs has eight touchdowns and Watson before
Speaker 2: where he got hurt, five touchdowns. So they've those two
Speaker 2: have are buying for thirteen touchdowns between them.
Speaker 5: He had more passing yards than Stroud, Stafford and Hurts.
Speaker 5: So yeah, this is I got this feeling that everybody
Speaker 5: thinks this is well, they're nine and eight.
Speaker 2: It's a walking I was. I was looking at him
Speaker 2: going and I'm guilty of it. I'm sat right here
Speaker 2: on Monday, I think and said, all right, one of
Speaker 2: the best things that happened to the Cowboys on Sunday
Speaker 2: was Carson Wentz and the Rams. They come back and
Speaker 2: they beat the Niners, and so now they don't have
Speaker 2: to play the Rams, they get to play the Packers.
Speaker 4: Then I started studying the background stafford.
Speaker 2: Here's the here's the concerning thing. I think this Packers
Speaker 2: team's got nothing to lose. They got they've they drafted
Speaker 2: thirteen players. Nine of those rookies play prominent roles on
Speaker 2: this team. They're not supposed to be here with that
Speaker 2: young roster, right, and so they go into this. You
Speaker 2: know they can free wheel. I guarante. I don't guarantee it,
Speaker 2: but I bet you first play of the game, you
Speaker 2: know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Go deep.
Speaker 2: They're going deep, that's what they I went back and
Speaker 2: look at the Lions gap, especially of Watson's playing now,
Speaker 2: Christian Watson. I saw an interview with him yesterday and
Speaker 2: he says he's like eighty eighty five percent whatever, and
Speaker 2: he's he's one or percent sure he's going to play,
Speaker 2: but it's up to the coaches whatever. We'll see if
Speaker 2: he's there or not. But first play of the game
Speaker 2: against the Lions, they went deep to Christian Watson for
Speaker 2: about a fifty yard play.
Speaker 5: Well, he sort of had his coming out party against.
Speaker 2: The Cowboy three touchdowns against the Cowboys last year. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and of course we loved him in the draft. The
Speaker 2: knock on him was he can't catch, but yeah, he
Speaker 2: thought was touchdown path. He just touchdown passes the other
Speaker 2: you know he about but there is there is truth
Speaker 2: in that. I think the way he catches the ball,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a to look, you know, like he
Speaker 2: cradles it and but he runs like.
Speaker 4: Which is a bad thing for us.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I saw on On on the Packers' website. Uh, Larry McCarron.
Speaker 5: They're old or I should say former offensive line I
Speaker 5: think offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: Uh, he was doing this deal about this team's not
Speaker 5: ready to quit, and he had all these little videos
Speaker 5: that he was showing guys blocking their defensive guys. And
Speaker 5: then the young wide receiver Melton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bow Melton, Bow Melton.
Speaker 4: That's the one they were showing.
Speaker 2: He's come on here after Watson's injury. Melton's got an opportunity.
Speaker 4: With the speed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, on like end the rounds, he can scoot, then
Speaker 5: he run.
Speaker 2: He ran a four to three fourth to come.
Speaker 5: He's another turpin out of Rutgers.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: He's five eleven nine, a little bigger, but and he
Speaker 2: was actually draft by Seattle in the seventh round. I
Speaker 2: liked him coming out of the draft, and I was
Speaker 2: surprised that he wasn't getting an opportunity. But now he's
Speaker 2: getting his opportunity. He's making the most of it.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: It's a short sample size, but he's got sixteen catches
Speaker 2: for two hundred and eighteen yards. Yeah, and it's all
Speaker 2: come here lately.
Speaker 4: I was trying to see perfect timing for us. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then their tight ends they drafted to this year.
Speaker 2: Luke Musgrave, he got hurt a lacerated kidney, but he's
Speaker 2: now back played last week, and Tucker Craft is a
Speaker 2: Musgrave was a second rounder and they doubled up and
Speaker 2: took Tucker Craft in the third round. So two more
Speaker 2: rookies right there. I mean, it's amazing for Packer fans.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of hope for the future and Cowboys
Speaker 2: just hope that the future doesn't.
Speaker 4: Start now.
Speaker 5: Sort of way it did with Aaron Rodgers right second
Speaker 5: half of that game. And was it two thousand and
Speaker 5: seven to eight when he they knocked out Brett Favre
Speaker 5: and Rogers took over. The Cowboys already had a big lead,
Speaker 5: but he had a really good second half and that
Speaker 5: was like his coming out party.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I think it was like the first time in forever
Speaker 5: the Cowboys beat the Packers.
Speaker 6: I think they have to be feeling really good about
Speaker 6: themselves as the front office, you know, because the controversy
Speaker 6: with Aaron Rodgers and what to do with him, and
Speaker 6: you had these Roger fans that just wanted him to
Speaker 6: stay forever. And of course they were really dogging Jordan
Speaker 6: Love when they've drafted him.
Speaker 4: They looked at that as.
Speaker 5: Because he was at an instant startup, right.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good little testimony to for NFL
Speaker 2: teams that both the Packers and the Rams and what
Speaker 2: they have done as far as redoing their roster, going
Speaker 2: with youth and drafting, and you know, the Rams had
Speaker 2: to do it, and the Packers for that matter too,
Speaker 2: they had a veteran roster and they had to turn
Speaker 2: it over at some point and here they are. They
Speaker 2: both made the playoffs this year after going with the youth.
Speaker 6: I remember Matthew Staffer's wife complaining about how Matthew can't
Speaker 6: even communicate with half the kids on the team because
Speaker 6: they're kids.
Speaker 4: Uh huh. He was so much younger than he.
Speaker 6: And he ended up of course, you know, reminting that
Speaker 6: situation helping lead these guys to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: All right, So anyway, that's that was my cause for
Speaker 2: concern after looking at the Packers.
Speaker 4: It costs for concern now, I'm sure, but just looking
Speaker 4: at the same way.
Speaker 2: Having having said that, I do like the veteran Cowboys
Speaker 2: secondary against these young wide receivers too, And there's nothing
Speaker 2: there's something to be said when we come back here.
Speaker 2: In a moment, Everson tell us that there is something
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Speaker 5: I was gonna say, we need.
Speaker 2: To go to lunch.
Speaker 4: This. I thought you enjoyed doing that, and I just
Speaker 4: hated to hear Spags do it.
Speaker 13: Well back at you, because usually on her home game,
Speaker 13: she takes Friday and she's at the stadium.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: She said, well, well, we'll make sure and ship these
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Speaker 5: She said she wouldn't miss clicks to pick.
Speaker 2: He's feeling lucky, all right, So what else is on
Speaker 2: your legal pass?
Speaker 5: Brandon Aubrey Special Teams Player of the Month. About that
Speaker 5: another little feather in his cap? You know, I was thinking,
Speaker 5: you realize the cowboy. Dak Prescott led the league with
Speaker 5: thirty six touchdown passing. CD led the league with one
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty five receptions. Deron Bland led the league
Speaker 5: with nine interceptions. Aubrey Aubrey led the league with one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty seven points if I remember correctly, uh
Speaker 5: and Anger finished second in average punt and average net punt.
Speaker 5: So they've had some That.
Speaker 4: Is our.
Speaker 6: You know, he's our really undercovered hero of this season.
Speaker 6: I mean, this guy, he gets us out of trouble
Speaker 6: right every time.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 5: It was just pretty remarkable on the you know, some
Speaker 5: of the performances they had to get to.
Speaker 4: Michael led the league and precious.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's not an official staff, but it's somebody else
Speaker 5: whoever pro football. Yeah, somebody else who covers that big
Speaker 5: stuff by.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it was mentioned on Nationwide TV.
Speaker 2: That's everyone else football focused. It's becoming a pre eminent
Speaker 2: except for making Vickey will never ignore the FF right,
Speaker 2: that's right. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I just acknowledged the NFL official stats.
Speaker 2: It's like they've become a partner with the NFL. But no,
Speaker 2: not keep now.
Speaker 5: If their next gen stats, I'll cite those, We'll go
Speaker 5: to Jesus. Yeah, because I don't know. I trust the
Speaker 5: NFL stats. You know, still don't trust how they do it.
Speaker 2: All right, you don't know. They don't know what the
Speaker 2: player was assigned to do on the place.
Speaker 5: Right, like like my perception. I think we talked about
Speaker 5: it yesterday ever since, after Gilmour went out, Nashwan Wright
Speaker 5: goes in at left corner and we were talking. To
Speaker 5: my mind, I'm going, well, I know where the next
Speaker 5: past is going, right, And so I went up and
Speaker 5: talked to him about it, and he goes, yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I was kind of ready for it because when I
Speaker 5: went in that Miami game, first play, they put Tyreek
Speaker 5: Hill on my side and they threw it to him.
Speaker 5: But he said, but that was really the only one.
Speaker 5: And he goes, this time, I think they might have
Speaker 5: thrown my at my side one time. They didn't. They
Speaker 5: didn't come after me. And I said, well, either there,
Speaker 5: you did a really good job, or they're foolish one
Speaker 5: of the two, and or the pressure. He laughed. The pressure, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: but they didn't go after.
Speaker 2: Him, or they were thinking about where their next job
Speaker 2: will be because.
Speaker 6: They were about You gotta look at who they were
Speaker 6: playing in the position that that team was in.
Speaker 5: So, but you know, he's the I mean, he's the
Speaker 5: backup corner if Gilmore, you know, something happens.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna look, if you're gonna look that way,
Speaker 6: you got to look through Michael Passu's right.
Speaker 5: And if he's rushing from the left side.
Speaker 6: Left side, I mean most likely that's where he's gonna
Speaker 6: come from. The law even likes it over there sometimes, well.
Speaker 5: They both kind of switch back and forth, they do.
Speaker 5: But yeah, you're right, that's a that's a good point
Speaker 5: because I mean, I guess you can give help over there, right,
Speaker 5: depending on how you're playing your safety, you can have
Speaker 5: your safety.
Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of lean that way.
Speaker 2: A note from the Packers practice field cornerback JayR Alexander
Speaker 2: is not practicing today because of an ankle injury, not
Speaker 2: the shoulder. Aj Dillon, the running back, again not practicing
Speaker 2: because of his neck injury. Elgin Jenckens starting left guard
Speaker 2: isn't going either, though that appears to be more of
Speaker 2: a maintenance day. It's an update from Green Bay.
Speaker 5: Which he's one of their two running backs with more
Speaker 5: than six hundred yards of rushing.
Speaker 4: He is the.
Speaker 2: Definitely the thunder portion of the two hundred and forty
Speaker 2: seven pounds.
Speaker 6: A huge man and like one you say you probably
Speaker 6: walk around to sixty.
Speaker 4: He weighed in into twenty five.
Speaker 2: AJ Dillon AJ Dillon at the combine. He measured six
Speaker 2: foot two forty seven four or five with a ten
Speaker 2: eleven broad jump and a forty one vertical. That's some explosion,
Speaker 2: my guy.
Speaker 6: Forty one vertical, forty one vertical, that's amazing.
Speaker 5: Well, he's coming at him if he's playing, Yes, if
Speaker 5: he's playing. And I got reminded last night when I
Speaker 5: was looking at it. Four of the Cowboys five losses,
Speaker 5: they've given up at least one hundred and nine yards
Speaker 5: rushing in those in those four games, and that includes
Speaker 5: two twenty two to Arizona and two sixty six to Buffalo.
Speaker 6: Let's be real, guys, the only thing that stops the
Speaker 6: opposing team from consistently running on us is because we
Speaker 6: keep scoring, get a lead, right once we score, then
Speaker 6: you know, Washington could have easily kept running the ball
Speaker 6: if we would have stayed behind ten to seven or
Speaker 6: whatever the score was at that time. But but the
Speaker 6: fact that we're able, we were able to answer with
Speaker 6: Tony Pollard and Dak coming down the field. Now they're
Speaker 6: switching their gears. Okay, guys, we can't keep running the
Speaker 6: ball because they're going to be bringing it.
Speaker 2: And it's been the run defense has been improved here
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. It's just amazing to me
Speaker 2: that the personnel on the field that And to Dan
Speaker 2: Quinn's credit, you know, he's and one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why he's a hot item as far as head coaching
Speaker 2: opportunities around the league. He evolves with the game, you know,
Speaker 2: and he is he is at the front of putting
Speaker 2: extra dbs on the field and converting a safety down
Speaker 2: into linebacker type whatever. And but you're sitting you see
Speaker 2: him line up, and you go, they don't have enough
Speaker 2: big people on the field to stop the run. And
Speaker 2: then but then they're able to at times, and then
Speaker 2: you know, and it's an aggressive approach defensively, and then
Speaker 2: you look at other teams and you go.
Speaker 6: Front and yeah, like d Long Hankins can shoot the
Speaker 6: gap and they save us out.
Speaker 4: They save us.
Speaker 5: And if you remember last year in the thirty one
Speaker 5: twenty eight lost, I mean that lost to Green Bay
Speaker 5: in overtime. They ran for two hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 2: Well Aaron Jones at one hundred and thirty seven, I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: I gave something.
Speaker 4: Like big whole chain around his neck. They go to
Speaker 4: the sidelines, Hey, way to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, this is this is not a cakewalk.
Speaker 5: I think people need to understand that. The way everybody's
Speaker 5: treating it, like, wow, if you lose this game, gotta
Speaker 5: fire Mike McCarthy, I.
Speaker 6: Know everybody's I love how when it comes to the
Speaker 6: Cowboys there's no celebration.
Speaker 4: It's always consequences. Hey, these guys are here, they're doing
Speaker 4: a good job. Who has the most pressure, Well, if
Speaker 4: they lose, it's gonna be okay, guys, can we.
Speaker 2: Just get to be a cell of the celebration of
Speaker 2: the first round?
Speaker 4: Win?
Speaker 6: Every every week we win, it's uh, you know, we
Speaker 6: saved our jobs.
Speaker 5: That's just Well, did somebody ask McCarthy today? You knows
Speaker 5: the pressure on you because you're the play caller too.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay.
Speaker 5: I think his answer was, oh, so this this is
Speaker 5: all about pressure.
Speaker 4: That's that's what we're looking forward with you guys.
Speaker 2: He sees through the narratives.
Speaker 5: Yeah, real quickly too, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: All right, Well it's gonna be very interesting and soon.
Speaker 4: Want it to be too interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. If the Cowboys play their game,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be Okay, okay, it's right. My main, my
Speaker 2: main concern with this Packers team is they got nothing
Speaker 2: to lose.
Speaker 5: Sort of the way Washington started off playing that game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: go for it on fourth down, Fake this fake.
Speaker 2: That first play is going to be either a deep
Speaker 2: ball or it's going to be Jalen reed on an
Speaker 2: end around. Mark my words. They're going to come out
Speaker 2: with something.
Speaker 4: Hey, if we win the toss, what do we do?
Speaker 5: You know what I want to do. I want the ball.
Speaker 4: I'm keeping the ball.
Speaker 5: I want to go down and score and make them
Speaker 5: play ketchup.
Speaker 4: We're at home too.
Speaker 6: I'm keeping the ball unless it's run down and score
Speaker 6: on them and they okay, what's you got now?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 2: Take it to them. That's the thing you with a
Speaker 2: young you can't let them believe that they can hang
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 5: Plus, you know, with the crowd in a frenzy, though
Speaker 5: they might think, well, let them go out on offense first.
Speaker 5: Get a taste of this. Ninety three thousand crowd sounds cute.
Speaker 4: Now I don't like it?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, here's your homework assignment. I want
Speaker 2: you to go look at Jordan Love, okay, and you
Speaker 2: tell me about his the way he throws the ball,
Speaker 2: and come back here tomorrow and let me know what
Speaker 2: you think. I've got an opinion about uh, what makes
Speaker 2: me I'm surprised he hasn't thrown more interceptions than he.
Speaker 5: Has because he throws off his back foot.
Speaker 2: And didn't say that, Okay, I did. We're going to
Speaker 2: discuss that tomorrow on a shot.
Speaker 5: I give an eye on it.
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