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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
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Speaker 1: Frisco for another week of podcasting. This is Mick Shots,
Speaker 1: Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola. Everson Walls is away today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow, I think, probably getting sized up for his
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame bust. He's a Wall, he is a Walls,
Speaker 1: Everson a Walls for the next couple of days. But
Speaker 1: Mickey is here to bring us up to speed on
Speaker 1: all all that is going on after a by weekend,
Speaker 1: and Mickey, what I would say was the worst weekend
Speaker 1: of football I have seen in quite a while. Number One,
Speaker 1: are you starting with college or what? Number one? Because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys weren't playing. Okay, it's always worse when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't playing. Number two. There were some bad there
Speaker 1: were some mismatches. On Sunday, it was a Sunday full
Speaker 1: of mismatches. As a matter of fact. You know, the
Speaker 1: guys on the fan asked me on Friday, they said, oh,
Speaker 1: just pick a game, and we want you to pick
Speaker 1: a winner and a score. So I start looking at
Speaker 1: the at the matchups and I'm going, god, there's nothing really,
Speaker 1: you know, gripping, And I guess I passed over the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Kansas City game, right. I was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: Tennessee a surprise, surprise, right, So I picked the Saints
Speaker 1: going up against Seattle as the game of the week, right,
Speaker 1: and that's tonight. Okay, yeah, yesterday, that's tonight. So that
Speaker 1: was that was like that I thought was going to
Speaker 1: be the best matchup of the weekend. And m boy,
Speaker 1: when you look at what took place, there were twelve games.
Speaker 1: I think seven of the winners scored at least thirty points,
Speaker 1: which is instructive that you'd better be scoring points in
Speaker 1: this league if you want to win games. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is you better have good quarterback play because
Speaker 1: if you don't, you got no shot. And we got
Speaker 1: quarterbacks falling left and right in the league. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, which affects things. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: last week. Yep, you know when he kept saying he
Speaker 1: was going to play even though it was his left
Speaker 1: shoulder with a torn labor Yeah, you can't play with that. No, No,
Speaker 1: that made surgery at some points. Been playing hurt for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, and then Mahomes gets beat up
Speaker 1: pretty good yesterday. But that was that was a tough
Speaker 1: hid he took. Yeah, it was like a full body
Speaker 1: blow to the head. Which, by the way, as you
Speaker 1: look ahead on this Cowboys schedule in the month of November,
Speaker 1: where Minnesota Sunday Night, Denver, Atlanta, and then Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Kansas City doesn't quite look like the same team that
Speaker 1: now expected when this season started. Well, I mean if
Speaker 1: you look at if you look at the rest of
Speaker 1: the schedule, then who knows what happens tonight with New
Speaker 1: Orleans at Seattle. The Saints are three and two and
Speaker 1: the Saints of the week after Thanksgiving, right, But the
Speaker 1: rest of the teams they got to play, right now,
Speaker 1: Arizona had as a winning record, and what are the Raiders?
Speaker 1: And the Raiders are at five and two. Rich Besacchia
Speaker 1: two oh as a head coach, right, and that's it,
Speaker 1: that's it for point all. They needed to do is
Speaker 1: get rid of Gruden and they kidney season around and
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's what they have. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: couple five hundred teams Minnesota right now, five hundred, but
Speaker 1: you know, going into tonight, it was Saints three and
Speaker 1: two and then the two teams that I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: and that's it as winning records. And to think that
Speaker 1: what we're seven weeks into the season and they've got
Speaker 1: a three and a half game lead on every team
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. So yeah, they got to kind
Speaker 1: of look where they you know, like where they are,
Speaker 1: but you got to keep playing, right, They don't give
Speaker 1: you a trophy after week seven, That's right. And I
Speaker 1: think you look at the NFC East, and especially with
Speaker 1: Washington losing its quarterback early in the season, it's not
Speaker 1: a surprise that the other teams in the NFC East
Speaker 1: are where they are, No, not at all. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought the Giants would be better, but they've got
Speaker 1: They played the game yesterday without their three top receivers
Speaker 1: and running back, right on the one position that they
Speaker 1: shored up in the off season, getting getting first round
Speaker 1: draft pick on a wide receiver, acquired a couple in
Speaker 1: free agency, and they've been hurt by injuries at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position more than any position. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just uh yeah, and like you mentioned, you know, Okay
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, you know, good quarterback coming up with Minnesota, Um,
Speaker 1: but after that, you know, I guess um Ryan had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a comeback this week, played well Denver.
Speaker 1: They don't know who their quarterback is, well Bridgewater, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but yeah, and they ended up yanking him
Speaker 1: the other day and bringing in Drew Locke, who they
Speaker 1: should have started in the first place, because that's right.
Speaker 1: And now with Mahomes hurt, right, um? And New Orleans
Speaker 1: would you know, who knows what you're gonna get week
Speaker 1: to week with Jameis Winston. So now you got to
Speaker 1: go to the Raiders. Okay, Derek Carr is playing well,
Speaker 1: didn't They got to go through the NFC East. None
Speaker 1: of those quarterbacks at this point scare you. And you
Speaker 1: got to get to Arizona, right Kyle second? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you and you hope that things are and that's
Speaker 1: the second to last week of the regular season, and
Speaker 1: you would hope the division is wrapped up by then
Speaker 1: and you're playing for a first round seating, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's what somebody brought up to me today. It
Speaker 1: was like, as we get way ahead of ourselves, were
Speaker 1: so far ahead of themselves, it's like, Okay, you can't.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have four or five games. You've already clinched
Speaker 1: the NFC East. And I said, okay, that's a little
Speaker 1: bit ahead of your think. Think about where Carolina was
Speaker 1: a month ago. Yeah, when they came here and I did,
Speaker 1: I did a podcast or an interview with Carolina reporter.
Speaker 1: I was on for about twenty minutes with him to
Speaker 1: a zoom with them, and they were just convinced that
Speaker 1: Carolina was all of this and that the Cowboys they
Speaker 1: had Carolina went in and come in here and beating
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And I was nice to them and only
Speaker 1: picked the Cowboys by three in that game, but they
Speaker 1: were they were thinking Carolina was going and what is
Speaker 1: Carolina done? Since then? They've lost every again they've played
Speaker 1: won a game, right, And I was just thinking of
Speaker 1: that yesterday when I saw that score. I said, and
Speaker 1: I know they're without McCaffrey and that hurt them, but still,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have McCaffrey coming to Dallas, right, But
Speaker 1: they were thinking they're gonna come in here and and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did have a fat chance of beating them.
Speaker 1: And I said them without MCA. I think I said
Speaker 1: it last week, right, I said they were frauds. Well,
Speaker 1: they're continue to be frauds. The three and oh was misleading.
Speaker 1: Which also now, when you look at this Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: all right, you're one injury away from being in a
Speaker 1: bad situation yourself. But what I really like about where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are right now and the way this team
Speaker 1: was put together in the offseason, is they've got depth
Speaker 1: around the horn on this team. And not only depth,
Speaker 1: but they created even more depth with the injuries they
Speaker 1: had to deal with, right, because some of these guys
Speaker 1: are going to start coming back, and just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when DeMarcus Lawrence is back. But had
Speaker 1: he had been at Hey not been hurt, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have heard of Goldston and probably very little of Bashroom,
Speaker 1: right Neville Gallimore gets hurt. Oh, Diggy Zoo would have
Speaker 1: not started six games. Let me tell you something else
Speaker 1: about creating depth. They've created more depth by the way
Speaker 1: they're playing defense scheme wise, right, by using so many
Speaker 1: different and not only using different people. But this they
Speaker 1: have scheme versatile players on their roster now, so where
Speaker 1: if you lose a one of those hybrid safeties, you've
Speaker 1: got a Keyan O'Neill who's a linebacker or quote unquote
Speaker 1: a linebacker but came into the league as a safety. Well,
Speaker 1: Curse can do a lot of the same stuff that
Speaker 1: Keyan O'Neill. Kick you. If Wilson can too, and if
Speaker 1: Laylee Collins doesn't get suspended, we would have never known
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele could could play right right, and you can
Speaker 1: just go through, you know, same thing with Michael gallup.
Speaker 1: Michael gallops out, Cedric Wilson steps up and gets an
Speaker 1: opportunity and and most people don't know much about Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson's because he's always been hurt, especially his first two
Speaker 1: years here. Got a little bit of a chance last
Speaker 1: year and now all of a sudden, you're going, oh, Mike,
Speaker 1: can they resign him next year because he's headed towards
Speaker 1: free agency. Also, so by by you know, no choice
Speaker 1: of their own, they had to use some of these
Speaker 1: guys and they found out, Yeah, DIGGI Zoa can play,
Speaker 1: and Terrence Steel can play. And I think that's significant
Speaker 1: going forward. And by the way, so the one injury
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were worried about it was Dak Prescott. Yes,
Speaker 1: what do we know? Well, we had interviews with four guys,
Speaker 1: four players at noon, and towards the end of the
Speaker 1: last one, uh, Dak Prescott sticks his head out the
Speaker 1: door and starts yelling at um At Scott, the nutritionists,
Speaker 1: who was doing some sort of workout out there on
Speaker 1: his own, and all of a sudden somebody yelled at him.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, what do you got for us? Any
Speaker 1: any He kind of stepped out the door, so he
Speaker 1: didn't have a boot on, okay, but he didn't have
Speaker 1: anything on his right foot, which meant he was getting
Speaker 1: some sort of therapy right going through rehab and all
Speaker 1: all that was audible that he could yell back at
Speaker 1: us because it was way down the way. He goes,
Speaker 1: if I come today meaning to do an interview today,
Speaker 1: you would not have any thing to talk about the
Speaker 1: rest of the week. It's like, oh, he's so cute.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my update on Dak. So what is
Speaker 1: happening with the team today. It looks like from the
Speaker 1: setup that we can see out the window here before
Speaker 1: we enter field that they were going to do a
Speaker 1: little something. It wasn't going to be. I think they
Speaker 1: were probably coming in late, had a team meeting, and
Speaker 1: the player availability was at noon noon. So now they've
Speaker 1: done so they basically perhaps came in late, yeah, sort
Speaker 1: of the morning off whatever, right, had probably late meeting,
Speaker 1: team meeting break, and then it looks like they would
Speaker 1: probably have some sort of maybe a walkthrough or mock
Speaker 1: game type thing that they call and do a little
Speaker 1: something before they get to wins. They're having practice with helmets,
Speaker 1: and Chris Beam chimes in practice with helmets, so like
Speaker 1: a mini camp practice. I guess you know what, well
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy And I don't remember if McCarthy said
Speaker 1: this in a press conference last week, because the only
Speaker 1: how many press conferences you have last week? Just one, right,
Speaker 1: just one Monday. I talked to him on Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: this was the self scouting day right today, they're using
Speaker 1: today to have all that's right across the hall, across
Speaker 1: the hall meetings where offense and defense go across the
Speaker 1: hall and self scout. That was Zach Martin mentioned that
Speaker 1: that they did that today. Yeah, so that was what
Speaker 1: their morning was probably right now, it looks like they're
Speaker 1: going to do a little something here since they've been
Speaker 1: off for the entire since Monday, right, a week ago, Monday, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they ran on Monday. Yeah, let's see. Yeah, that's right, Chris.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, back to kitting knocking the cobwebs out,
Speaker 1: and it looks like they got through the week okay.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they'll they're here today, off tomorrow
Speaker 1: and then it's a normal work week for the Vikings
Speaker 1: game starting on win So we'll nor know more about
Speaker 1: Dak's status come Wednesday when they have to report in.
Speaker 1: McCarthy's first press conference will be Wednesday morning. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but we got that if I came out today, you
Speaker 1: would not have anything to talk about. What are we
Speaker 1: supposed to read into that that he would come out
Speaker 1: and say, how I'm good to go? That's right, because
Speaker 1: if he came out and said I think I don't know,
Speaker 1: and we'd still be talking about it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: kind of what he said after the game, So we're
Speaker 1: going to read into it that means he is good
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, And all signs are pointing to that,
Speaker 1: and I think Jerry mentioned it on Friday when he
Speaker 1: did his radio segment that he felt very optimistic about
Speaker 1: Dak being ready to go. So so that's okay. So,
Speaker 1: and that's the injury we know worried about. But as
Speaker 1: far as we know, they got through the weekend unscathed,
Speaker 1: other than Kaz which was a week ago now nearly
Speaker 1: nearly a week go right last Tuesday morning. So we
Speaker 1: haven't seen any bulletin's yet, right, any no police blodder things. Oh,
Speaker 1: we keep checking Twitter to making sure that there's no
Speaker 1: police activity going on as far as Twitter goes. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing coming back is everybody had the
Speaker 1: COVID tests and they had to be negative before they
Speaker 1: got into the building. Oh there's a good point, that's right,
Speaker 1: and that's you have the way for on Wednesday COVID
Speaker 1: testing when they come back, and by the way, around
Speaker 1: the league. Matt Nagy, the Bears coach, apparently tested Possi
Speaker 1: after this game, as if this weekend what did go
Speaker 1: bad enough for him going to Tampa and getting drilled.
Speaker 1: They're going to ruin that quarterback. It's going to run.
Speaker 1: Why you go ahead and play Andy Dalton And he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm good, guys. Last year they're runing. I mean, we
Speaker 1: need to remember what Mahomes did his rookie year, which
Speaker 1: was not sat until the last game of the year
Speaker 1: he got in. Yeah yeah, and how did that work
Speaker 1: out for him? I mean think about Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: how he sat early in his career. Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: it's very rare that guys can come into this league
Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott did. Was just going to say, like Dak,
Speaker 1: and and it was out of necessity that Dak played
Speaker 1: and played so well his rookie year, I mean, how
Speaker 1: many But and the other thing to consider about Dak
Speaker 1: is what he had done at Mississippi State. I mean,
Speaker 1: he got a lot of reps in in college, and
Speaker 1: he was an older player coming in a lot of
Speaker 1: these kids they're being drafted at age twenty one, and
Speaker 1: you know, Dak was two years older than that and
Speaker 1: had turned around the Mississippi State program to the point
Speaker 1: that they're building statues for him there. And um, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they actually have, but they should getting
Speaker 1: ready to. But uh, you know, like Trey Lance at
Speaker 1: San Francisco. I mean, this guy, he didn't even one
Speaker 1: game last year in North Dakota State after playing the
Speaker 1: year before. So few snaps a sound like parcels right,
Speaker 1: that it's and that was the plan with San Francisco.
Speaker 1: That's why they kept Garoppolo around and that they it's
Speaker 1: a future pick. They give up a lot. But you
Speaker 1: can't expect him to come in as a twenty one
Speaker 1: year old and without with precious little college experience at
Speaker 1: the FCS level and be able to play in this
Speaker 1: league and I mean succeed in this one. You could
Speaker 1: ruin these guys, right, And maybe the best thing that
Speaker 1: happened to Joe Burrow last year was he hurt his
Speaker 1: knee and he didn't have to go through the rest
Speaker 1: of the season because now you've got a taste of it,
Speaker 1: and then he's able to to watch. Yeah, right, and
Speaker 1: now look at he's blossomed already. But the rest of
Speaker 1: these guys that they force fed right there at the beginning,
Speaker 1: they're they're still struggling. So yeah, And in the difference
Speaker 1: on Burrow too, is he was in two elite programs
Speaker 1: MS and he didn't didn't play at Ohio State, but
Speaker 1: he was an older player coming in, didn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: the reps, but he was more mature than he has
Speaker 1: a twenty three or twenty four year old coming into
Speaker 1: the league. And I just don't think people, you know,
Speaker 1: understand that you come from college and you try to
Speaker 1: play that first year, all of a sudden you got
Speaker 1: to make adjustments at the line of scrimmage. The coach
Speaker 1: is not sending in another play with five seconds to go, right,
Speaker 1: you got to go under center. Sometimes they're not putting
Speaker 1: signs up for the next play. To think how long
Speaker 1: Breeze sat? Think how long Romo sat? Yeah, Romo sat
Speaker 1: for three years, So did Breeze. You know, they just
Speaker 1: they just and this is a quarterback league. Let's not
Speaker 1: make any mistake about it. Look at the NFC. Who
Speaker 1: are the quarterbacks of the teams that are either five
Speaker 1: and one, seven and Ozero or six and one Stafford,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott and Aaron Rodgers. Shocking
Speaker 1: makes a difference. All Right, when we come back, we
Speaker 1: got the trade deadline coming up. Oh yes, by golly,
Speaker 1: a week from tomorrow, right is the trade guest? Okay,
Speaker 1: when you look at this Cowboys team, is there a
Speaker 1: position group of need or is this team set to
Speaker 1: I'm talking in the long haul it's a three and
Speaker 1: a half game lead in the division. If this team
Speaker 1: is gonna win the division and gonna be in the postseason,
Speaker 1: is there a position that you need to shore up
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline, or at least try to in
Speaker 1: order to make sure that you're good to go for
Speaker 1: the long haul this season when we come back here
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They are back to work. The players are
Speaker 1: after a week off and on the practice field as
Speaker 1: we speak, with helmets on, ready to get back at it.
Speaker 1: Can you see him behind the white cand I'm just
Speaker 1: as subek. Chrispieve told us they have helmets on. Maybe
Speaker 1: he saw the itinerary though I was. I was, I saw,
Speaker 1: I saw the jugs gun machine all set up for
Speaker 1: the guys to come and catch passes. So I assume
Speaker 1: though they're gonna practice, they can do something. And by
Speaker 1: the way, and eighties something. The mid eighty degree weather
Speaker 1: out there, I think, yeah, I think summer is going
Speaker 1: to just continue on here. All right. So my question
Speaker 1: before the break is, with the trade deadline fast approaching
Speaker 1: next Tuesday, is there a position of need that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys should explore at least to talk about with some
Speaker 1: teams to try to shore up just in case they
Speaker 1: have an injury at a certain position. So, knowing that
Speaker 1: they have guys returning, right, it's almost like you're already
Speaker 1: made a trade because you've got DeMarcus Lawrence. Okay, Now
Speaker 1: let's let's do it by position group then, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: gonna start on defense, the defensive line. You've got DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence coming back, You've got Neville Gallimore coming back. We'll
Speaker 1: see where Tristan Hill is. Lawrence Armstrong coming back and
Speaker 1: maybe sooner than we think, right, Yeah, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: long term here, Yeah, I mean, you got a three
Speaker 1: and a half game lead in the division. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think they have the luxury of thinking along term,
Speaker 1: because when you look at the landscape of this NFC East,
Speaker 1: assuming that there's not a collapse coming for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and you have to look at it that way,
Speaker 1: and your next game is Sunday, the trade deadlines Tuesday. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you've got designs on the postseason here, but
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you take advantage of this
Speaker 1: opportunity in case there's someone to pick up at a
Speaker 1: reasonable price. And okay, so we took care of the
Speaker 1: defensive line there, right, Yeah, okay, how about linebacker. I
Speaker 1: mean you got Parsons, Vanderish, Keanu Neil, you like Jabril Cox,
Speaker 1: you like Luke Gifford. I mean yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: and they haven't played and they haven't played much right,
Speaker 1: by the way, So I don't think it's a pressing need.
Speaker 1: But you also have to look at your roster, and
Speaker 1: I mean it's hard enough in the fifty three and
Speaker 1: roster creating spots for the guys coming back. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, that's what Jerry pointed out on Friday. You know,
Speaker 1: it was it, which is one of the reasons Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith was let go, right because somebody they got to
Speaker 1: let guys go to get guys back. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I think Jerry's point was we're gonna have enough trouble
Speaker 1: getting guys back on the roster that have been out
Speaker 1: let alone, trading for somebody and creating, and you get
Speaker 1: you get through Sunday's game, hopefully without any major injury.
Speaker 1: And could you Sunday night you could be sitting there going, okay,
Speaker 1: we need to shore up blindbacker or whatever. You know, right,
Speaker 1: all right, how about in the second secondary? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're getting Calvin Joseph back. We'll see what that doesn't
Speaker 1: much he will contribute as it doesn't he give me
Speaker 1: a lot of That doesn't give me a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence that he's going to come in. But where you
Speaker 1: are right now at corner, you love obviously what Trayvon's doing,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, and you get Jordan Lewis and the slot.
Speaker 1: You got the depth with Kennedy of course, the rookie
Speaker 1: and theo Sean Wright and then Kelvin Joseph coming back.
Speaker 1: So not look, it would have to be a sweetheart
Speaker 1: deal on the defensive side. And so you would be
Speaker 1: looking at a team that has already played itself out
Speaker 1: of it. It has a veteran corner that they're wanting
Speaker 1: to unload. Yeah, and that would be that would be
Speaker 1: the ones. But the other thing you do on that
Speaker 1: if they're wanting to unload that player. Then they may
Speaker 1: just cut him after the trade deadline they came down
Speaker 1: suit and then you don't have to pay you're paying
Speaker 1: the veteran minimum for him probably. See. But if you
Speaker 1: do that, you got to cut somebody. Who do you
Speaker 1: want to take a chance of losing? You want to lose?
Speaker 1: Get to the practice squad, right, yeah, you want to lose.
Speaker 1: You're talking you got to cut someone at that position, right,
Speaker 1: you want to lose Kelvin Joseph No, second round. So
Speaker 1: that's the that's the hard safety. Well, we're gonna assume
Speaker 1: we assume Cazin's good to go. The NFL's not going
Speaker 1: to intercede. We're gonna assume that for now. Now they
Speaker 1: may have knowledge that we don't have. Right, curses playing
Speaker 1: awfully well, right, probably more snaps than anybody on defense.
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, and second leading tackler to Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: by the way, and Wilson Malie Hooker. You know Hooker's
Speaker 1: been okay, um, but nobody, I mean, it's it's not like,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, we gotta do But you're in better shape
Speaker 1: at the safety position than you have, right, Okay, So
Speaker 1: let's switch over the offense wide receiver. You're getting galloped
Speaker 1: back and you're feel pretty good about the wide receiving corps.
Speaker 1: Right okay, tied end. You're getting even Sean McEwan back,
Speaker 1: and looks like he's getting close as a depth piece. Okay,
Speaker 1: any offensive line. Layle Collins comes back this week. He's
Speaker 1: on the roster now, by the way, so he's back.
Speaker 1: You've found out steel can play. Um, you've found out
Speaker 1: that Connor McGovern can play and do different things for you. Um?
Speaker 1: Do you you worry about backup center? Still? Other than that,
Speaker 1: you're probably good? Maybe do you? So who's playing center
Speaker 1: up the otisches now? Um? Well they got Forniac and
Speaker 1: he's the only true center. You know, they keep working
Speaker 1: McGovern and Connor Williams there. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: gives you any significant back up. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: a semi week spot right there. Yeah, and and then
Speaker 1: is some sort of veteran quarterback going to fall in
Speaker 1: your lap to be about wait, wait, we haven't got
Speaker 1: there yet, Oh we haven't. We were running back? Oh,
Speaker 1: running back. I'm good at running back. Okay, I'm good
Speaker 1: at with McGovern being the fullback. And you're good and
Speaker 1: you still have Ralston on the practice squad. Okay, but
Speaker 1: at running back Zeke and Pollard and yeah, Clement and
Speaker 1: then okay, and so that brings us to quarterback, right,
Speaker 1: And so how do you feel if the quarterback if
Speaker 1: there was a veteran quarterback that is, there's just a
Speaker 1: roundabout way back to get to my point, we had
Speaker 1: to go through the whole day. Why didn't we just
Speaker 1: start there and just say, okay the rest there's the
Speaker 1: reason I saved the quarterback for last. Who do you
Speaker 1: got in mind? Well, I would say, okay, First off,
Speaker 1: how do you feel if, if Heaven forbid, anything happened
Speaker 1: with the quarterback? How do you feel about this team
Speaker 1: making a run hot? And it's hard to say because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. Right, right, Cooper Rush three passes
Speaker 1: in it. I think this team really needs to and
Speaker 1: that's the reason I'm saying this. We haven't. Maybe Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush would be better than anybody, any backup on betteran
Speaker 1: backup on another team, but we haven't seen him play.
Speaker 1: Of sort of going back to I mean I even
Speaker 1: go back to the Super Bowl teams of the nineties.
Speaker 1: I was going to say ninety three, the backup was
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, and then they had Bernie Kozar. Cozar came
Speaker 1: and this time, this time of the year, Rnie Kozar.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm looking for. That maybe not. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bernie Kozar obviously had some skins on the wall in
Speaker 1: college and early on and his well in his career
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, okay, and there is a comfort level that
Speaker 1: the coaching staff had with him. I would and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that this player is Bernie Kozar even but
Speaker 1: he does have experience starting in the league. I would
Speaker 1: keep an eye on what's going on in Miami. If
Speaker 1: the Dolphins really are trading interested in trading for Deshaun Watson, Okay.
Speaker 1: If they acquire Deshaun Watson, then they've got Watson, tuah
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Brussette okay. And so I would keep an
Speaker 1: eye on Jacoby Brussette as a perhaps and I'm not
Speaker 1: and I don't think you'd have to give up much. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then you have a veteran guy who can be and
Speaker 1: and you get him here at midseason and he's learning
Speaker 1: the offense as you go along. Here, someone like that one.
Speaker 1: That situation just popped a mind for me because of
Speaker 1: the rumors out there that the Dolphins are interested in
Speaker 1: that there could be something in the works, and they've
Speaker 1: got two of their already. Obviously Brissette's not their guy
Speaker 1: going forward or anything that he might be available. Does
Speaker 1: he fit into this offensive scheme? I don't. I haven't
Speaker 1: watched him enough. Yeah. Yeah, but but I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at but he has some experience, a veteran guy, and
Speaker 1: I just throw him throwing it out there. Why don't
Speaker 1: the Bears just do the cowboys of the There is
Speaker 1: some product knowledge too the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But you know, he started his college career at Florida
Speaker 1: and wound up at North Carolina State and Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: Quinn was was the defensive coordinator there when Brissette was
Speaker 1: at Florida. But anyway, I just throw that out or
Speaker 1: go around, just as a project for anyone out there,
Speaker 1: go look at rosters. And I haven't just done the
Speaker 1: drill yet. That's just the first one that popped a
Speaker 1: mind for me. Go look at rosters and see if
Speaker 1: there's a veteran quarterback on another team that you would
Speaker 1: like to have in case of a need. Here Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton and well, there you go, there's another one the
Speaker 1: Bears just saying we're done. You're not, You're not taking
Speaker 1: on that contract. Unfortunately it's guaranteed. Yeah, yeah, you're not.
Speaker 1: You don't. And I haven't looked at Brissette's contract, but
Speaker 1: I assume it's not that bad, or at least if
Speaker 1: they if they cut them, I mean, if I'm trading,
Speaker 1: I'm not trading for anything more than a sixth round pick.
Speaker 1: But it's just an idea. It's what NFL front offices
Speaker 1: have to go through right now. Just that that's the
Speaker 1: thinking that's going on, not only here but for the Rams.
Speaker 1: I mean in any team that is starting to season
Speaker 1: five and one right now, they got to be looking
Speaker 1: at that if if they because most teams don't have
Speaker 1: a high quality backup to begin with, not saying Brissette
Speaker 1: is even a high quality, but you know, at least
Speaker 1: he's played games. I mean, like when I ask you
Speaker 1: questions I don't know the answer to, like who's the
Speaker 1: backup in Green Bay? Well, their first round draft pick, right,
Speaker 1: who hasn't played a leg? Right, who's the backup now?
Speaker 1: But you would think that they feel good enough about
Speaker 1: him that if Rogers went down, It's loved game and
Speaker 1: in Arizona they signed McCoy. McCoy right, and that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy you would be looking at. The Chargers
Speaker 1: have Chase Daniel right, Okay, uh, who are the Rams
Speaker 1: even have? It's us, It's on the tip of my tongue.
Speaker 1: It's nobody of note. All right, I've got it right here.
Speaker 1: It is doctor or not nobody of note. John Wolford, Yes,
Speaker 1: who actually got into the game the other day because
Speaker 1: they played the Jets anyway in the backup and so
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Speaker 1: lost track, that's on you lost tract of them all, Right,
Speaker 1: what else do you have on that legal pad there? Oh,
Speaker 1: this is old stuff from last week when I was
Speaker 1: we were talking about the I wrote about it on
Speaker 1: Friday on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. The unexpected's the guys
Speaker 1: that came up and had to fill in and probably
Speaker 1: did stuff we didn't expect. Guys like who tops your
Speaker 1: list there, jay Ron Curse yep. I thought when he
Speaker 1: came here he was no more than a special teams
Speaker 1: guy and hadn't started that many, which is pretty much
Speaker 1: what he was throughout his career career, although when he
Speaker 1: was with Detroit he ended up starting seven eleven games, right,
Speaker 1: Tuh Cedric Wilson, We've never got to see him this
Speaker 1: much in a prominent role as the third wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele would probably be near the top of the list, right.
Speaker 1: I don't think we gave him a fighting chance after
Speaker 1: what we saw last week, I mean last year and
Speaker 1: then not Trayvon Diggs playing well, but Trayvon Diggs with
Speaker 1: seven interception this level six games is totally unexpected. And
Speaker 1: you know, and I and I ruled out Dak coming back.
Speaker 1: I think we thought he was good to go. I
Speaker 1: think we thought Zeke was a different guy. Gregory, I
Speaker 1: think we expected it. Parsons, I expected it. I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I was all over him, you know, being
Speaker 1: the guy they drafted. So what he's done so far,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's been unexpected. And you know, in
Speaker 1: the way the wide receivers are playing, I don't think
Speaker 1: that was unexpected. So yeah, the fact that those four
Speaker 1: guys that I mentioned have played at the level they have,
Speaker 1: I think has been quite remarkable and continues to add
Speaker 1: to their depth going forward. Curses and we talked about
Speaker 1: it one of our shows last way the surprise player
Speaker 1: during the first six weeks of the season, and Curse
Speaker 1: was my number one guy on the list. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: what he has done. I mean for him to basically
Speaker 1: lead the team in snaps and what second end tackles
Speaker 1: and so forth. But it's an eye for the potential
Speaker 1: of a guy, right, you know, especially when he's in
Speaker 1: this fifth year, fifth sixth year in the league. He
Speaker 1: came in, he mentioned it. He was one of the
Speaker 1: guys that did the interviews today and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: he and Anthony Brown came in at the same time
Speaker 1: and they're you know, kind of buds and talk, and
Speaker 1: he talked about playing the big nickel and he mentioned
Speaker 1: that when he was in college, the coaches wanted to
Speaker 1: move him the linebacker and he didn't want any part
Speaker 1: of it. You know, he didn't he didn't think he
Speaker 1: needed to be taken on the three and twenty pound
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and he wanted to stay at safety. And
Speaker 1: then he said that probably in Detroit they started using
Speaker 1: him a little bit more in this big nickel situation.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of a new the NFL coaches have
Speaker 1: created a new spot to help with think of who
Speaker 1: is the coach, Who is the coach with the Lions
Speaker 1: last year Matt Patricia, Matt Patricia from the Patriots, right,
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing the Patriot whatever since talked
Speaker 1: about with Belichick going back to his days with Belichick
Speaker 1: as Super Bowl against Buffalo with six dbs on the
Speaker 1: field and that was thirty years ago. And where we've
Speaker 1: seen it with the Patriots and this and we've seen
Speaker 1: other teams. You know, Todd Bowles has done it with
Speaker 1: starting with this time with the Cardinals where you know
Speaker 1: they had a first round draft pick who is a
Speaker 1: safety out of Washington, Dion Buchanan who they drafted him
Speaker 1: with an eye that he's a big linebacker or a
Speaker 1: smaller linebacker, a guy with speed. And there have been
Speaker 1: other Clemson big Clemson safeties like Isaiah Simmons who's now
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals, who was a linebacker in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But more and more teams now over the last several
Speaker 1: years have gone to that where it has created a
Speaker 1: whole another niche for Jayron Curse type players and maybe
Speaker 1: range safeties who can tackle and play down in the box.
Speaker 1: And maybe this big nickel thing will have a rebound
Speaker 1: effect to the first guy we saw it doing it
Speaker 1: here was Darren Woodson, and didn't call it a big
Speaker 1: nickel right because back then it was a dime and
Speaker 1: and basically they would put an extra corner or in
Speaker 1: the each slot. But then when he got here, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we're going to move our safety up
Speaker 1: there because not only can he cover, he can play
Speaker 1: the run like a linebacker, which he kind of was
Speaker 1: at Arizona State, a highbred linebacker. Right now, he was
Speaker 1: the ultimate right, he can cover Jerry Rice in the slot, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a guy with you know whatever.
Speaker 1: He had four three speed, right, And and that's if
Speaker 1: you've got a safety with that kind of speed. Now,
Speaker 1: Curse does not have that kind of speed. He has
Speaker 1: the size to kind of deal with the tight ends
Speaker 1: tight ends, and Kean O'Neil is the same type, right.
Speaker 1: And Joe Witz said that last week about Curse. You know,
Speaker 1: he can come in and eliminate the tight end just
Speaker 1: because of his size and his ability to cover. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. You know, and there's another guy you
Speaker 1: signed him to a one year proven deal. Well he's
Speaker 1: kind of proving it. You know, you got any chance
Speaker 1: to keep him or is he you know he gonna
Speaker 1: be on you know, in all those safeties, they're all
Speaker 1: in the same boat basically. You know. It also gets
Speaker 1: back to the scouting department and the coaches working hand
Speaker 1: in hand with each other. Okay, the scouting department does
Speaker 1: a great job, led by Will McClay, of knowing what's
Speaker 1: available out there and having the resources to know even
Speaker 1: on a guy who's in a sixth year in the league,
Speaker 1: and how and keep an open minded about the possibilities
Speaker 1: for a guy like jay Ron Curse coming in here.
Speaker 1: But it's also I think what gets lost a lot
Speaker 1: is the communication abilities of a coach like a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator like Dan Quinn. He's got a great ability to
Speaker 1: communicate exactly what he wants to a scouting department and
Speaker 1: they can then go, so, okay, here's a handful of
Speaker 1: guys who do you like? You know? And it just
Speaker 1: speaks to coaching staff and front office staff work in
Speaker 1: hand in hand and being on the same page. And
Speaker 1: I think I think I've heard this a couple of
Speaker 1: times from Mike McCarthy, the relationship he has developed with
Speaker 1: Will McClay, they're pretty tight. And so when you got
Speaker 1: a head coach, you know, in your kind of personnel guy,
Speaker 1: day to day personnel guy, with a good relationship, then yeah, communication,
Speaker 1: what minds are open, and it's that relationship built on
Speaker 1: it's trust and Will McClay and the scouting staff, they've
Speaker 1: got a track record of success here, whether it's the
Speaker 1: college draft or in free agency. Yeah, last year they
Speaker 1: missed on guys in free agency, but that's because they
Speaker 1: went with the veteran guys who were injury prone, overdone
Speaker 1: in the case of Don Terry Poe two two t
Speaker 1: oo veterans right two old right, right, Yeah, And you
Speaker 1: got to be careful. And that's why one of the
Speaker 1: things that people bring up to me, do you want
Speaker 1: to bring this guy in or that guy? I said,
Speaker 1: you cannot keep getting older. You know. It was the
Speaker 1: same thing with with Sherman when he cornerback. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, do you want to keep getting older? And
Speaker 1: sure enough he gets hurt. But they even though there
Speaker 1: was a reason that Kaz and Neil were available because
Speaker 1: they had injury in their past, they were still in
Speaker 1: the sweet spot of their careers if they are back
Speaker 1: from their injuries, and Neil had already proven that he
Speaker 1: was back last year Atlanta. Yeah, and they were not
Speaker 1: thirty years old. They were in their midst That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. They were right in their second started their
Speaker 1: second contract, and as it turned out, because of the injuries,
Speaker 1: they wasn't a high dollar contracts for either one. Yeah, no, absolutely. So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've done a nice job, and Curse has been a
Speaker 1: big part of what they've done. Defensively. Now they're not
Speaker 1: out of the woods defensively, they still got to play better.
Speaker 1: They still got to eliminate the big plays that they've
Speaker 1: been giving up. You know, And I don't remember if
Speaker 1: I mentioned this last year. But what stood out to
Speaker 1: me when I looked up the yards receiving that we
Speaker 1: look at this Cowboy offense throwing the ball awfully well. Right,
Speaker 1: I think they were ended up being number well, there
Speaker 1: was a number one offense, number two rushing offense. I
Speaker 1: think they were three four in the passing game, so
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. Right. Opponents have passed for thirty two
Speaker 1: more yards on the Cowboys than the Cowboys have passed
Speaker 1: on the opponents, which is shocking, right, So that tells
Speaker 1: you that Jalen hurts. I mean, some of that can
Speaker 1: be Now I agree with you right that it needs
Speaker 1: to be short up, but some of that can be
Speaker 1: misleading on the passing yards because teams are playing from
Speaker 1: so far behind that they're throwing on every down right
Speaker 1: in the second half of game, but they're still giving
Speaker 1: up too many big plays. You know, they've given up
Speaker 1: twenty seven pass plays of twenty yards or more. And
Speaker 1: of those twenty seven plays, the average per play is
Speaker 1: thirty one yards. And you just you can't exist like that.
Speaker 1: You've got to do a better job. Dan Quinn talked
Speaker 1: about it, Joe Witt talked about it, that they've got
Speaker 1: to tighten up. And the thing that Joe Whitt was
Speaker 1: pointing out was the fact that, you know, the first
Speaker 1: game against Tampa Bay, he said, we had three missed assignments.
Speaker 1: But lately it hasn't been missed assignments. It's been missed tackles.
Speaker 1: Like they're throwing a twelve fifteen yard pass, it's turning
Speaker 1: in the thirty. Got a tackle better, even if the
Speaker 1: guy catches the ball. And he said that would be
Speaker 1: something that they work on leading up to this Minnesota game.
Speaker 1: And we know Kirk Cousins wants to get the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. Yes, he's not always wanted to. He's not.
Speaker 1: He's not he's not playing uh horizontally right, that's right,
Speaker 1: he wants to go down the field. All right. I
Speaker 1: think that does it for this edition of mix Shots.
Speaker 1: I figured we had at least five minutes left. Well, uh, well,
Speaker 1: here's something that I want you to come back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Not another homework, No, it's it's just you have to
Speaker 1: ward off over confidence. Mickey ward off over pretty good
Speaker 1: at that. Don't be looking at the standings right all right?
Speaker 1: And just remember seating in this playoff system is going
Speaker 1: to be very important. Yeah, how has the postseason changed
Speaker 1: this year. Well, I think there's only one bye one bye, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be played for right to the
Speaker 1: last week I've met, or the second to the last week,
Speaker 1: or at least I guess exactly. You got something to
Speaker 1: do about it, right, That's a long way down the road,
Speaker 1: all right, But a short time down the road is
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