Speaker 1: The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnolan and Mickey just couldn't wait until Thursday
Speaker 1: to talk about the National Football League Draft. He had
Speaker 1: to get in a day early. And so here we
Speaker 1: are at one o'clock on a Wednesday with a special
Speaker 1: edition of Mick Shots. And in the case of Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: it will be one oh six on Wednesday that he
Speaker 1: will be along for this edition of Mick Shots. And
Speaker 1: we're happy year along too. And Mickey, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Have you? Have you got rested and covered from the
Speaker 1: draft over the weekend? You know, I was just thinking
Speaker 1: when I was kind of looking at all my stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm going, gosh, the draft seems like it was a
Speaker 1: year ago. It was only but three four days ago
Speaker 1: it finished, and it seems like it's been so long.
Speaker 1: But yes, I have recovered. Oh yeah, and uh and
Speaker 1: you've got uh. Let's see copious amount of copy here
Speaker 1: between Draft Choice bios last year's stats, round by round
Speaker 1: the Cowboys nine picks, and this is my big green
Speaker 1: notebook here. There you go. That's right, I've got my
Speaker 1: big green notebook here, which I haven't put back in
Speaker 1: the drawer for next year. I've still will use it
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Dude, look back and analyze not
Speaker 1: only what the Cowboys did in the draft, but all
Speaker 1: the mistakes that other teams made of the draft. But
Speaker 1: first off, are you disappointed that you will not be
Speaker 1: covering a Cowboys game either in the UK or in
Speaker 1: Germany or in Mexico City. Absolutely, especially not in the
Speaker 1: UK or Germany, since I haven't been to Germany before,
Speaker 1: I would be a good way to go. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was, you know the Cowboys. There's a Cowboys fan
Speaker 1: club in London, and I was on with him during
Speaker 1: the draft and they were they were pretty hopeful that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would be returning for one of those four
Speaker 1: games out in Europe, and they were interviewing Will McClay.
Speaker 1: I believe it was before I came on and they
Speaker 1: asked him to question and Will said, the Cowboys vice
Speaker 1: president of a player personnel said, it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: it's going to work out this year. And those guys were, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, no, there's four games out here, and so
Speaker 1: I was braced for the letdown that came out today
Speaker 1: that they won't be returning to London. And here are
Speaker 1: the international games as announced this morning on the NFL Network.
Speaker 1: Starting on October second, at Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium, it'll be
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings against the New Orleans Saints to be broadcast.
Speaker 1: That's a Sunday morning game eight thirty Dallas time on
Speaker 1: the NFL Network. The following week, October ninth, the Giants
Speaker 1: will play the Packers at same stadium NFL Network at
Speaker 1: eight thirty. And then the end of October, on October
Speaker 1: thirtieth at Wimbley Stadium is when the Jacksonville Jaguars will
Speaker 1: play the Denver Broncos in what is basically their annual
Speaker 1: game at Wimbley Stadium this year for Jacksonville. And that's
Speaker 1: where we thought perhaps if the Cowboys were going to
Speaker 1: go to London, it's because they're scheduled to play at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: So they will be playing at Jacksonville and not in
Speaker 1: London against Jacksonville this year. And then the other two
Speaker 1: games that are added in Munich first game in Germany.
Speaker 1: It's the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And
Speaker 1: I think that was announced actually at the draft, right,
Speaker 1: and that isn't on November thirteenth, also a Sunday morning game.
Speaker 1: And then the Mexico City game is a Monday night
Speaker 1: game November twenty first, San Francisco and Arizona. That might
Speaker 1: be Troy Aikman's birthday November twenty first. I gotta look
Speaker 1: it up, so he will be spending his birthday in
Speaker 1: Mexico City because it's an ESPNC. That's an ESPN Monday
Speaker 1: night game. I thought when I saw that come out, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, it's an ESPY and he's a Monday night
Speaker 1: football now right, right, And the thought occurred to me, Well,
Speaker 1: for the first time in about twenty years, Troy Aikman
Speaker 1: is going to be home for Thanksgiving, right yeah. And
Speaker 1: at first I was thinking, Oh, Troy's gotta do He's
Speaker 1: he's doing a Monday night game, and then he's got
Speaker 1: to turn around and do Thursday. No, he doesn't do Thursday. Boy,
Speaker 1: he's at ESPN. So I heard one theory on why
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you know, because last time they went to London,
Speaker 1: they played Jacksonville, and it's it. I heard one theory
Speaker 1: that because of the Cowboy fans all over the country here,
Speaker 1: that if they show up for an away game, that's
Speaker 1: usually a big sellout game for that team. And so
Speaker 1: when they go to Jacksonville, you know, the Cowboy fans
Speaker 1: can find tickets to that game, right right, And so yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know that Jerry still wants
Speaker 1: to give up a home game to go and play
Speaker 1: in London. Yeah, so so yeah, I am disappointed. And
Speaker 1: it is, by the way, November twenty first, it is okay,
Speaker 1: very good. Why do I know that? Yeah? Why do
Speaker 1: you because spond with somebody else that's more important in
Speaker 1: your life. No, Troy is very import all right. Do
Speaker 1: you want to know how old he'll be in November
Speaker 1: twenty first? I am going to guests, Uh fifty five,
Speaker 1: fifty six? That was good, very good? All right? All right,
Speaker 1: So there are your international games for twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: which means the Cowboys are more likely to play an
Speaker 1: international game in twenty twenty three now, although probably not
Speaker 1: unless they're the visiting team. Yeah. Yeah, So, and since
Speaker 1: we're talking schedules, the NFL schedule is slated to come
Speaker 1: out next Thursday, so May twelfth, And as I pointed
Speaker 1: out in mix shots, they're coming out on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot com today. They're going to start on May ninth
Speaker 1: and start releasing other significant games like Thanksgiving, each team's
Speaker 1: home opener. And I'm guessing if all that's coming out
Speaker 1: by May twelfth, before the official announced, we're gonna know.
Speaker 1: We're gonna know when we convene for even though it'll
Speaker 1: be official, when we convene for mix shots at eleven
Speaker 1: thirty next Thursday, some seven or eight hours before the
Speaker 1: official announcement, it will be leaked. I guarantee you, as
Speaker 1: I as I pointed out with my little comment that
Speaker 1: if the Supreme Court can't keep a secret, the NFL
Speaker 1: probably can't keep a secret. That's right. Yea usually comes
Speaker 1: out about an hour before they officially announced it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this one's gonna be days you much? Yeah? All right? Okay,
Speaker 1: So where do we start? As far as you want
Speaker 1: to see my draft order picture, you're one, it's the
Speaker 1: nine draft picks, remember Jerry with the holding that sucker
Speaker 1: up there? Yeah? Um? So do we start at the
Speaker 1: very beginning? Yeah? Let's you know overall. Um, And I
Speaker 1: think one thing that people don't take into account was
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were drafting twenty fourth unless you wanted to
Speaker 1: give up draft picks to move up. Um, the reason
Speaker 1: you're drafting twenty fourth is because you ended up with
Speaker 1: a twelve and five record. And they make it more
Speaker 1: difficult for the teams that got into the playoffs, advanced
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Uh, go to the super Bowl to
Speaker 1: get the top talent, because this is a league that
Speaker 1: they'll meek shell inherent and so the least be first,
Speaker 1: That's right, And that's why everybody's going crazy about Well,
Speaker 1: look what the Giants did, and look what Philadelphia did,
Speaker 1: and look what Washington did. Well, yeah, they were drafting
Speaker 1: higher because they were poor, and not so much Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: but uh, the Giants in Washington, you know, so that
Speaker 1: they get the opportunity to get the best talent in
Speaker 1: the draft. And the Eagles were poor the year before
Speaker 1: and they made use of that by acquiring draft drafts
Speaker 1: and then exactly so they're supposed to get better. That's
Speaker 1: that's the idea of this whole socialized uh NFL process.
Speaker 1: But I think from where the Cowboys were and what
Speaker 1: they were trying to accomplish. I think they did a
Speaker 1: pretty good job. Now we can argue this, this and this,
Speaker 1: but one of the things I think people need to
Speaker 1: take into consideration is, and I'll just take the first pick.
Speaker 1: When they took Tyler Smith, uh, the guard tackle out
Speaker 1: of Tulsa at twenty four, there wasn't another offensive tackle
Speaker 1: taken until the third round. So if you had this
Speaker 1: guy high and you took a different position, the talent
Speaker 1: level obviously went down after Tyler Smith because no one
Speaker 1: else thought a tackle was worth taken until the third round.
Speaker 1: And when it came to guards, the only guard taken
Speaker 1: after Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith was the infamous cole Very
Speaker 1: Strange pick by the Patriots, number twenty nine. What do
Speaker 1: you think those people did when they saw that pick?
Speaker 1: Which people the Patriots the Patriots fans right? And there
Speaker 1: were only two more guards taken in the second round,
Speaker 1: and so the talent level at those positions fell off.
Speaker 1: And I think there's some folks that think that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys took Tyler Smith like they got the twenty four
Speaker 1: They didn't know what to do and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take this guy. If they were going to do
Speaker 1: this in the first round with a guard tackle or
Speaker 1: a tackle guard, however you want to look at it.
Speaker 1: His name started coming up at least the day before.
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about him because the draft experts
Speaker 1: didn't know much about him, and they were on to
Speaker 1: him heading into the draft. So just because his name
Speaker 1: wasn't familiar to everybody that does mock drafts, and some
Speaker 1: of them failed miserably in their mock drafts, I saw
Speaker 1: it an over thirty two. By the way, you know,
Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing either. So I just thought,
Speaker 1: you have to look at if I take this guy here,
Speaker 1: then what's the next position that maybe I need that
Speaker 1: has guys in the second round that I can use
Speaker 1: and maybe into the third round. Because all the wide
Speaker 1: receivers were gone, right, six of them, six went in
Speaker 1: the first eighteen picks, right, Uh, and the top offensive
Speaker 1: tackles were already off the board. So unless they were
Speaker 1: going to go there were six offensive linehind them. So
Speaker 1: that's twelve right of the and so unless they were
Speaker 1: gonna go defense, uh, this was I mean, this was
Speaker 1: gonna be their pick. Okay. So Tyler Smith, obviously he's
Speaker 1: he's very young, just turned twenty one April third. Why
Speaker 1: do I know that? No? Uh, I know that. And
Speaker 1: and someone very close to me, my mother. So there
Speaker 1: you go, very good, all right. So so I'll always
Speaker 1: remember that he's got April. You know, Michael Parsons is
Speaker 1: May twenty six. You know how I know that someone
Speaker 1: very close to me's birthdays in May twenty six? That
Speaker 1: would be me. You know, I'm gonna give you a funny, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know anything about the significance of April
Speaker 1: twentieth except that was my parents' anniversary. And then I
Speaker 1: found out that April twentieth had something to do with
Speaker 1: smoking weed all day long. Fight, that's right. I had
Speaker 1: no idea. Okay, we know anyway, Okay, all right, So, uh,
Speaker 1: he's so young. He's basically has just started two seasons
Speaker 1: at the group of five level at Tulsa UM. Converted
Speaker 1: to offensive line as a junior in high school, so
Speaker 1: he hasn't played the position all that long. Um, But
Speaker 1: why then? And so those are some of the reasons
Speaker 1: that the so called experts did not have him. He's
Speaker 1: not a finished product, Okay, he is. There is a
Speaker 1: projection on what he's going to be in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys believe that because he has the tools that
Speaker 1: he has, he can start immediately or they're going to
Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to start immediately inside at guard
Speaker 1: and we'll see. But why do you think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had him ranked as high as they had him, which
Speaker 1: was above the two guards who probably who might in
Speaker 1: the case of Kenyon Green, I think he would be
Speaker 1: a better offensive guard this season, probably than what Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith will be. And Zion Johnson was considered by a
Speaker 1: lot of people to be the top offensive guard in
Speaker 1: this draft, although he went behind Kenyon Green in the draft. So,
Speaker 1: but why did the Cowboys have Tyler Smith rank so high?
Speaker 1: And why was he a priority for them regardless of
Speaker 1: all the tackles being off the board. Why do they
Speaker 1: like this guy? I think this is a out. This
Speaker 1: is like playing craps. You put money on the combline,
Speaker 1: and that's what I think what they're doing here. And
Speaker 1: I think they feel like it's safer for him to
Speaker 1: start off at guard, where you have sure it's like
Speaker 1: playing bumper cars, right, You're in the middle of two
Speaker 1: bumper cars and you're a little bit safer and the
Speaker 1: fact that it looks like he has some physical traits
Speaker 1: that are conducive to eventually playing tackle. And the knock
Speaker 1: everybody gave on him is because somebody once wrote that
Speaker 1: he had all these holding penalties, and I thought, if
Speaker 1: you go to Dallas Cowboys dot com, Nick Eatman did
Speaker 1: a very good job of getting a hold of the
Speaker 1: head coach at Tulsa and yeah, and he explained that
Speaker 1: a lot of his penalties came because he was dominant
Speaker 1: eating people and that he's got such strong hands. It's
Speaker 1: as like when Tyrant Smith got here and they were
Speaker 1: like and Nate started this, it was like he's and
Speaker 1: that's you know, the hotel. Once they grab you, you
Speaker 1: can't get away. And he felt like the guy would
Speaker 1: dominate people so badly and see somebody on the ground
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, well he must have held him
Speaker 1: or you know, had committed a penalty. So I think
Speaker 1: that's what the Cowboys were looking at for what he
Speaker 1: can give him down the road. And as for Kenyan Greene,
Speaker 1: the medical report on him suggested that in a year
Speaker 1: or two he may not be in the league because
Speaker 1: of degenerative knee problem that he had, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were very, very skeptical about taking him, to the point
Speaker 1: they hope that they didn't have to make that to
Speaker 1: see I'm gonna I'm gonna read the Cowboys mind. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they would have drafted regardless even
Speaker 1: if Kenyan Green was healthy, right, and Zion Johnson. I
Speaker 1: don't think if if let's say Tyler Smith was not
Speaker 1: in this draft, wasn't available, and you had Kenyon Green
Speaker 1: or Zion Johnson as your choice is there, they would
Speaker 1: not They would not have taken either one or no.
Speaker 1: They would have taken the defensive Lloyd. Even they could
Speaker 1: have even taken Dax Hill whoever. You know, they would
Speaker 1: have taken best player or tried to trade down. They
Speaker 1: probably would have traded down and then taken whatever. See this.
Speaker 1: But the reason that Tyler Smith is more valued in
Speaker 1: that room than all those other guys is because they
Speaker 1: project him to eventually be Tyrn Smith's replacement at left tackle. Right.
Speaker 1: That's why he is the first round draft pick. That
Speaker 1: is why he was ranked as high on their board too.
Speaker 1: Is that's what scouts do. It's not just what that
Speaker 1: product is right now, it's what this guy can be
Speaker 1: in the future, and that is why that was more
Speaker 1: valuable to them than any other position on the board.
Speaker 1: That whether they're going to come out and say it
Speaker 1: or not, they look at him because we'll see how
Speaker 1: much longer Tyrn Smith can play. They but especially since
Speaker 1: he's only twenty one years old. Tyler Smith, right, they
Speaker 1: look at him. It could be four years from now, okay,
Speaker 1: his second contract, even if Tyrn hopefully he'll be able
Speaker 1: to play five more years whatever, But they look at
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith as being his eventual replacement. And with Tyrn Smith,
Speaker 1: it's an unknown, right Can he play another year? Can
Speaker 1: you play two years? Can he play three years? With
Speaker 1: guys like that that are kind of and he's not
Speaker 1: that old, right, he's gonna turn thirty. He's thirty one,
Speaker 1: I think right now. But it could end any time.
Speaker 1: And at that point then you're going to be in
Speaker 1: a draft going, oh my god, I gotta take somebody. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I've already got that no matter when it happens. And
Speaker 1: I and if he can play guard, then he can
Speaker 1: transition anytime to the tackle position. Instead of saying I'm
Speaker 1: going into the draft and I gotta have this, they
Speaker 1: already have it in place. So it's almost like a
Speaker 1: term insurance policy. And so in the meantime he can
Speaker 1: play guard until he's needed at tackle or if he
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe he won't develop. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: that's it's a crapshoot. Sometimes you don't know for sure
Speaker 1: how these guys are going to develop. That's why it's
Speaker 1: an inexact science. And the guard position we talked about
Speaker 1: it last week. The guard position is not a highly
Speaker 1: valued spot. See here's what they could have done if
Speaker 1: they did not take a guard, if they did not
Speaker 1: value Tyler Smith that great late okay, and they didn't
Speaker 1: want to take a guard in the first round, they
Speaker 1: could have done what the Washington commanders did. Washington at
Speaker 1: a need for a guard, and the day after the draft,
Speaker 1: on Monday, they signed Trede Turner, a veteran free agent
Speaker 1: who they are very familiar with because Ron Rivera and
Speaker 1: Carrie when he was at Carolina. They drafted him in
Speaker 1: the third round. He made the Pro Bowl five years
Speaker 1: they signed him to a very economical one year, three
Speaker 1: million dollar contract the Cowboy. If the if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did not satisfy that need in this draft, they would
Speaker 1: have been for instance, right in the market for a
Speaker 1: trade turner, and so they weren't desperate to fill that position.
Speaker 1: They had other alternatives. That's how highly they feel about
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith as his eventual uh you know, being a
Speaker 1: guy a fixture on this offensive line maybe for the
Speaker 1: next decade. And the other thing that would have happened
Speaker 1: is they would have further entertained those trade down offers
Speaker 1: because they had them. If they were going to take
Speaker 1: somebody else, they could have traded down. But they found
Speaker 1: out one of the teams trying to trade up to
Speaker 1: their spot. I believe that was the guy that yet
Speaker 1: they wanted Tyler Smith. So yeah, it's like other people
Speaker 1: knew about him, uh and knew about his value at
Speaker 1: that point in the first round because they're looking at
Speaker 1: the same board basically that the Cowboys are looking at.
Speaker 1: They all basically have these players graded about the same
Speaker 1: and they saw that the next true offensive tackle on
Speaker 1: the board was Bernard Ryman, who wound up going in
Speaker 1: the third round, right, you know, And so they did
Speaker 1: not have a as high you know they they were
Speaker 1: which the experts going in the first round, yeah, some
Speaker 1: some did. Yeah. So anyway, so that's that's the first pick,
Speaker 1: and I think after that the value picks. I you know,
Speaker 1: the Sam Williams thing. Guy's pretty talented pass rusher. Now
Speaker 1: I don't know about playing the run, but he can
Speaker 1: get to the quarterback. That was twelve and a half sacks.
Speaker 1: I think ten and a half in the regular regular season.
Speaker 1: Twelve and a half sacks. No nobody had Old Miss
Speaker 1: has had that many sacks in a single season. And
Speaker 1: by the way, that was playing a five technique in
Speaker 1: a three man front, right, And I think that you know,
Speaker 1: with his hand on the ground as a four technique, um,
Speaker 1: he might be even more explosive there. Um so. And
Speaker 1: then maybe the steel of the draft is the third
Speaker 1: round pick Jalen Tolber, wide receiver South. I started looking
Speaker 1: at his stuff, and he had speed, he had catch radius,
Speaker 1: and he has the ability to play all three wide
Speaker 1: receiver spots. And I had it on good authority of
Speaker 1: someone that's seen him play multiple times that they didn't
Speaker 1: understand why he wasn't a higher draft pick than twenty
Speaker 1: fourth in the third round eighty eight eighty eight overall
Speaker 1: couldn't understand it. So we'll keep an eye on that guy.
Speaker 1: If he can come in and do what he did
Speaker 1: at South End, and evidently he had some he had
Speaker 1: some bigger schools interested in him, and they came in
Speaker 1: late and he had committed to South Alabama and decided
Speaker 1: to stick with his uh, stick with his commitment there.
Speaker 1: As if you're watching on Dallas Cowboys dot Com here
Speaker 1: you can see some of that video of Jalen Tilbert.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he was a late bloomer also because
Speaker 1: he didn't he didn't really play much his first couple
Speaker 1: of years at South Alabama, but then started the last
Speaker 1: three years there. And I'm told go watch this. He
Speaker 1: was at the Senior Bowl. Yes, go watch the Senior Yeah,
Speaker 1: in fact, I watched it this morning. Yep, he was
Speaker 1: impressive at the Senior Bowl. And of course eighty two
Speaker 1: catches nearly fifteen hundred yards and eight touchdowns is last
Speaker 1: year at South Alabama six one and a quarter one
Speaker 1: ninety five ran a four four nine. I've got him
Speaker 1: down with a ten yards split up one forty nine,
Speaker 1: which is really quick, and I'm looking to see. I
Speaker 1: don't have in my notes here the other offers that
Speaker 1: he had. But yeah, he's from Mobile, Alabama and wanted
Speaker 1: to stay close to home and played at South Alabama.
Speaker 1: Of course, he also had the option then after his
Speaker 1: junior season, in which he had sixty four catches for
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards and eight touchdowns at the transfer portal,
Speaker 1: he could have transferred to a bigger school even last
Speaker 1: year and decided to stay at South Alabama. He should
Speaker 1: have held out for more money. I saw I read
Speaker 1: a story today about the coaches wanting to fix that
Speaker 1: transfer portal, to put a limit on when and when
Speaker 1: you can transfer, have a transfer portal season. And then
Speaker 1: after they've done that, I mean they've May first was
Speaker 1: the deadline, right, And so that's why it came to
Speaker 1: a head here the last few days and why they're
Speaker 1: the last of the transfer portals are now coming out,
Speaker 1: including the pit wide receiver, right. I think they wanted
Speaker 1: to shorten that so college know their number of scholarships available.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting about that, not to fully digress
Speaker 1: to that, the fact that it's May first is which
Speaker 1: has got to be very frustrating to college coaches, is
Speaker 1: that's after spring ball. So you've worked with these these whoever,
Speaker 1: whether it's a receiver or anybody, you've worked with them.
Speaker 1: You've you've invested all the time into them throughout spring ball,
Speaker 1: and then they decide after after this spring game that
Speaker 1: I don't want to be here anyway, right, and they
Speaker 1: transfer someplace else. And if they do, so, if you're
Speaker 1: going to do it, make it a spring break deal.
Speaker 1: I mean, make it like March fifteenth, or you can
Speaker 1: do it at the signing day, you know, the high
Speaker 1: school signing day, which is the first Wednesday in February.
Speaker 1: Actually that would be more fair because now they're handing
Speaker 1: out scholarships. You know, Okay, I got two more available.
Speaker 1: Now they don't have any more available, right, make your
Speaker 1: decision like they do for the NFL. You know where
Speaker 1: you're transferring, you know. But but then the comeback on
Speaker 1: that is, well, there are coaching openings that happen and
Speaker 1: after signing day whatever, and I get it. Coaches are
Speaker 1: free to go, so players should be free. If there's
Speaker 1: no there's no scholarship limit on coaches. He hire as
Speaker 1: many as you want whenever you want. These guys. You
Speaker 1: only have what twenty five a year, yeah, eighty five
Speaker 1: to eighty five total. Yeah, there's no limit on your coaches.
Speaker 1: And there's a there's a deadline on when those renew
Speaker 1: so at the renewal date, that's when the transfer portal
Speaker 1: needs to be settled. Yeah, there you go, all right,
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, all right, So we will come back
Speaker 1: and dive into the rest of these nine picks the
Speaker 1: Cowboys made and some of these undrafted guys that have
Speaker 1: caught their eye as well. When we come back, you're
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Speaker 1: you have a late night last night? I bet you did.
Speaker 1: I did. You were watching hockey, aren't you? Oh you're frustrated? Yes?
Speaker 1: What frustrating? You only have to watch the first period?
Speaker 1: Well it got better than that. All the score didn't
Speaker 1: change goal right, one goal. The end of the first
Speaker 1: period was heated, Yes, there was. Should you how long
Speaker 1: they had the rule about the second fight. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize that there must be a new rule. You're you're
Speaker 1: a hockey game? Yeah, I forgot got talking about? Is
Speaker 1: two players? Uh? It was Klingberg for the Stars and
Speaker 1: Anderson for Calgary were ejected from the game because they
Speaker 1: had Well, no, it was the second fight. Second fight
Speaker 1: is with the way they termed it, and by a rule,
Speaker 1: they're ejected from the game. Maybe that rule is so
Speaker 1: good that they don't do it anymore. Yeah, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you know what, that is a great idea. There's a
Speaker 1: fight that breaks out and then you go find the
Speaker 1: best player on the other team and you pick a
Speaker 1: fight with it the game getting out of the game,
Speaker 1: Jeff on the bench. So it's no slapshot. So and
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a hockey person at all,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if this rule may have been
Speaker 1: in the books for fifty years for all I know.
Speaker 1: But let's say it's a new rule. That video of
Speaker 1: last night's games getting getting shown to every playoff team
Speaker 1: in the league. If you're a good player and a
Speaker 1: fight breaks out, you go hide on the bench, skate
Speaker 1: right to lay down on the ice. You know you're
Speaker 1: not getting in a fight because you're getting ejected. If
Speaker 1: you do, there will be some head hunters looking for you.
Speaker 1: Speaking of head hunters, and I know we're off the subject,
Speaker 1: but the penalty that led to their Calgary's power play goal,
Speaker 1: it was for hitting the guy in the head. Guy
Speaker 1: dropped his head. He was going to getting checked and
Speaker 1: he dropped his head down and guy hit him in
Speaker 1: the head. It's like, well, that's like in the NFL,
Speaker 1: right contact to the head targeting. Well, if a guy
Speaker 1: drops his head after I'm getting ready to hit him,
Speaker 1: this took the foul. They still call it, I know,
Speaker 1: but it's not fair. McKinney out. By the way, do
Speaker 1: you have an NHL cap referees cap two? I should
Speaker 1: have brought in my NFL one right, uh, and then
Speaker 1: you'll have it late night tonight. Are you as into
Speaker 1: the Favericks as you are the Stars? Yes? I didn't
Speaker 1: give up on them either, Okay in the first game.
Speaker 1: Is this a must win to night for the Mavericks
Speaker 1: playing at Phoenix? It would help although they haven't won there.
Speaker 1: How many years? Nine nine, I was gonna nineteen, it
Speaker 1: was twenty and eighteen, I think, okay, yeah, like eleven
Speaker 1: twelve straight eleven, Yeah, I think that's what it is.
Speaker 1: And that have you've seen the percentage if you lose
Speaker 1: the first two games of a series, what's the percentage?
Speaker 1: And it's no more than fifteen percent, like seven point
Speaker 1: eight percent. Okay, So, especially when you're planning against a
Speaker 1: sixty four win team like the best team in the
Speaker 1: best team for the best team in the league by
Speaker 1: nine games. They're awfully good. Yeah they are, yeah so,
Speaker 1: and there's nobody. And they came out with a vengeance
Speaker 1: in Game one, sort of like Calgary. They were like
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers coming on the field.
Speaker 1: Why are they playing with such right passion? Yes? So,
Speaker 1: how much this Cowboys draft was just the makeup of
Speaker 1: the players was based on what this organization saw from
Speaker 1: its players and the postseason this year, I think I
Speaker 1: think quite a bit. And see the good thing was
Speaker 1: I don't think they they said okay, I need this
Speaker 1: and I'm going to reach. I think what they did
Speaker 1: it was like a process of deduction, like okay, if
Speaker 1: I take this guy here, what position now is more stocked? Afterwards,
Speaker 1: like like the uh you know, the they were hoping
Speaker 1: they could get to tight end, right, and a bunch
Speaker 1: of tight ends went off the board before they got
Speaker 1: to Jake Ferguson. But like the wide receiver, I think
Speaker 1: that they decided, Okay, the top ones are gone. Now
Speaker 1: there's more wide receivers I can get in the second
Speaker 1: and third I don't have to reach for one. I
Speaker 1: think what I'm getting at is the way the Niners
Speaker 1: came on that field. Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You know, you could tell that they were not only
Speaker 1: ready to play, but they knew they were going to
Speaker 1: win that game. Okay. When I watched the Suns against
Speaker 1: the Mavericks the other night, okay, and Devin Booker and
Speaker 1: the way he was talking trash to Jalen Brunson early
Speaker 1: in that game. That was after they got out to
Speaker 1: the league whatever. Right, the Sons have been to the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals before, they've been down this road before. They've
Speaker 1: got Chris Paul, one of the great point guards in
Speaker 1: the league, and Devin Booker obviously one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the league. But Booker comes out and he's
Speaker 1: at this attitude about him that we're better than you.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, he goes back to the debo jukebox, right.
Speaker 1: You know. It's almost like there's a certain that when
Speaker 1: you go back to the Cowboys of the nineties, you know,
Speaker 1: when Michael Irvin's coming on the field and Charles Haley
Speaker 1: and Eric Williams and they know they're gonna win this
Speaker 1: football game, right, And that is something that when you're
Speaker 1: when you're evaluating players in the draft, You're you're looking
Speaker 1: for players who have that look about him, and I
Speaker 1: think Jalen Tilbert might have that about him. The third
Speaker 1: round round wide receiver. It's like these teams looking to go,
Speaker 1: got this mosquito on my arms, Just get it off,
Speaker 1: right because I know and for that matter, Tyler Smith
Speaker 1: at a lower level. They didn't play at Alabama, but
Speaker 1: at Tulsa, the aggression that he played with. You know,
Speaker 1: there's some Eric Williams in his game. And I'll give
Speaker 1: you another guy too. They took Daman Clark Lsu. You know,
Speaker 1: alis walks on the field and their God's gift to football, right,
Speaker 1: And I'll guarantee you he has that same attitude. The
Speaker 1: unfortunate thing for him is that he'll start the season
Speaker 1: on pup and they knew that. That was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I've got all these fifth round picks, four of them.
Speaker 1: And instead of and they didn't use one to trade
Speaker 1: around to, you know, maybe move up and around somewhere
Speaker 1: someplace for somebody, they used it on a guy that's
Speaker 1: basically another one Like, Okay, he may not help as much,
Speaker 1: if at all, this year, but it's a hell of
Speaker 1: a linebacker that should have been taken in the second
Speaker 1: or third round that we're getting in the fifth. Problem
Speaker 1: was and he played all last year at LSU, but
Speaker 1: when he went to the combine, they discovered in the
Speaker 1: very very detailed physical that he had a herniated disc
Speaker 1: in his neck and that he needed surgery. And he
Speaker 1: had the surgery say something about his toughness, that he's
Speaker 1: able to play. You think he just didn't like and right,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. But so they did the surgery
Speaker 1: that fuses two of your vertebrae together because they've got
Speaker 1: to remove that disc and it's quite significant, but guys
Speaker 1: play after that. Darryl Johnson had the same surgery and
Speaker 1: he ended up playing another season before he injured himself again.
Speaker 1: And he said at the time he promised the doctor
Speaker 1: that if they did the surgery and he played football
Speaker 1: and anything else close to that happened, that he would retire.
Speaker 1: And he did. And then Layton Vanderish had it two
Speaker 1: years ago, same thing where they use the vertebrae together,
Speaker 1: so you know they're hoping it's a it's a four
Speaker 1: closer to six month recovery. And if you do the
Speaker 1: math for March that gets you through September. By time
Speaker 1: you get ready to play football, that takes up October.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get a a month out of them of
Speaker 1: the season, a portion of the season out of them,
Speaker 1: and if not, it's for next year. But I I
Speaker 1: and maybe the use of spine is all encompassing in
Speaker 1: your back. But I heard someone use the term spinal fusion.
Speaker 1: They can't fuse your spine together, right, they fuse the
Speaker 1: vertebrae together. If they If they're fusing your the spine together,
Speaker 1: you got bigger problems than we're about playing football. Well,
Speaker 1: he ran a four or five seven at the combine
Speaker 1: and had a ten in seven broad jump with a
Speaker 1: herniated disc and wherever his neck spine wherever it was,
Speaker 1: so you know, and you watch him on film, Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy he can move to the football. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think had he been healthy throughout the draft process,
Speaker 1: he would have been right up there with Devin Lloyd
Speaker 1: as of the first as a possible late first round pick.
Speaker 1: Did you see the picture of him without a shirt on? Yes,
Speaker 1: you see that. I might have put him ahead of
Speaker 1: Devin Wood And in fact, he had I looked at him.
Speaker 1: I didn't even look at him because he was hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: had I looked at him, he might have been my
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter out of LSU. Because that was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I had Denil Hunter as a possible
Speaker 1: first round draft pick when he came out in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: because I saw him with his shirt off, said he
Speaker 1: was twenty years old. I said, you know that wearing
Speaker 1: that number eighteen right there says a lot so special
Speaker 1: number at LSU, right YEA best leader on the team
Speaker 1: gets number eighteen and he wore it for two years.
Speaker 1: Look how strong he is. He just threw that guy
Speaker 1: down like a rag doll. If you get to watch
Speaker 1: this that we are seeing right now with some of
Speaker 1: his highlights at LSU. But he's got makeup too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what impressed me During his interview
Speaker 1: with the media here after he was selected, and they
Speaker 1: asked him what were his thoughts about having to have
Speaker 1: that surgery, and he basically said, when when I got
Speaker 1: out of surgery, my first thought was on my daughter.
Speaker 1: It's got a two year old daughter, and he said,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure I can be a
Speaker 1: dad and be able to do the things with my
Speaker 1: daughter the rest of my life. And I thought there
Speaker 1: was a very thoughtful response. So we are. In fact,
Speaker 1: I said at the time, when the Cowboys are on
Speaker 1: the board with four picks in that round, I was like,
Speaker 1: someone asked me, well, do you take a shot on that,
Speaker 1: on that player? I said, heck, yeah, it's no risk
Speaker 1: in the fifth round when especially when you got four
Speaker 1: fifth round picks, right, Heck, yes, take him, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, and there's okay, they took a tight end
Speaker 1: in the fourth Jake Ferguson and all Cason. And so
Speaker 1: the interesting on Ferguson is that and we all can
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys roster and we know that there was
Speaker 1: a need for a second tight end. And then if
Speaker 1: you when you look at the salary situation, the contract
Speaker 1: of your starter Dalton Schultz, and he's the franchise player,
Speaker 1: and you've got decisions to make on signing him long term,
Speaker 1: and really it boils down to that, Okay, he's on
Speaker 1: the one year, ten point nine million dollar franchise tag
Speaker 1: right now, but if you're going to sign him long term,
Speaker 1: do you want him another option in case he wants
Speaker 1: you know, a whole whole lot of money. Right, He's
Speaker 1: going to get a whole lot of money regardless. And
Speaker 1: so here was what I was hoping the Cowboys could
Speaker 1: do at the outset of the draft, was like trade
Speaker 1: down a couple of spots, five spots whatever in the
Speaker 1: first round, pick up another top hundred pick, Okay, so
Speaker 1: that you've got four top one hundred picks. Obviously they
Speaker 1: weren't comfortable doing that, and it was prudent on their
Speaker 1: part to stay where they were in order to get
Speaker 1: the guy that they wanted. Okay, Then at that point,
Speaker 1: you've got to make the decision. After you make your
Speaker 1: three picks and you haven't satisfied that tight end need
Speaker 1: that you have, is it worth it to move number
Speaker 1: your fourth round one twenty nine and take a pair
Speaker 1: of your fifth round picks, Because that's what it would
Speaker 1: have taken in order to climb back into the third
Speaker 1: round and say draft of Jeremy Rucker at the tight
Speaker 1: end from Ohio State or Kate Dotton who went the
Speaker 1: first picks of the fourth round of Tampa Bay. I
Speaker 1: think that had crossed their mind and and so, and
Speaker 1: it probably crossed their mind going into Saturday if Kay
Speaker 1: Dotton was still their ten picks into the fourth round,
Speaker 1: where it only cost you a one fifth round pick
Speaker 1: to move up, then they might have might have done that.
Speaker 1: As it turns out, and you look at Tampa Bay's draft,
Speaker 1: I believe Tampa Bay had traded down and they picked up.
Speaker 1: They did with Jacksonville. That's how they got that first
Speaker 1: pick in the fourth round. And so they probably had
Speaker 1: it on their mind that's where they would get a
Speaker 1: tight end. And sure enough, because that was the sweet
Speaker 1: spot for tight ends if you weren't the first tight
Speaker 1: end went off in the second round, and I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys probably were interested in Tray McBride, but they
Speaker 1: had a greater value on the pass rusher Sam Williams.
Speaker 1: And then they had a great value on the wide
Speaker 1: receiver Jalen Tilbert. And so now if you're if you're
Speaker 1: looking at the needs that the Cowboys had offensive line,
Speaker 1: pass rusher, slash wide receiver, were your top three needs
Speaker 1: in this draft, right? And probably fourth on the list
Speaker 1: would be maybe tied end. And we're talking at this
Speaker 1: point the second tight end, right, the second tight end,
Speaker 1: and um, and if you tell me they lost that
Speaker 1: playoff game because they didn't have a second tight end,
Speaker 1: I'd probably laugh. But it's still valuable but they need
Speaker 1: right right, But in the pecking order, and and and
Speaker 1: then the way you've got and I don't know how
Speaker 1: they had their their tight ends ranked, but we can
Speaker 1: assume that Rutgert and Aughton were up there, Charlie Kohler
Speaker 1: was another one, Ferguson was another one. Um James Mitchell
Speaker 1: might have been another one. Uh, And so dulcet to Ucla,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if more of a receiver than any
Speaker 1: you know, they would they like a guy, especially as
Speaker 1: a second tight end who can be an inline blocker
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, did a lot of that
Speaker 1: Ohio State, and they didn't throw the ball much to
Speaker 1: the tight end because their wide receivers were so good.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a great future as a receiving
Speaker 1: tight end himself. And so so anyway, that was the
Speaker 1: choice they had to make, and they decided not to.
Speaker 1: And had they done that, then they probably wouldn't have
Speaker 1: them own Clark, right if they had traded trade fifth
Speaker 1: round fifth to move up right exactly, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had the luxury to be able to take an at
Speaker 1: risk player in the fifth round like that. And so
Speaker 1: then it came down to tight ends and Kohler went
Speaker 1: before Ferguson, and I think I don't know which one
Speaker 1: they had ranked higher, but they were happy to get
Speaker 1: either one of them at that point. Yeah. Absolutely. Her
Speaker 1: thoughts on Big John Ridgeway, Well, there's a guy that
Speaker 1: started forty games at Arkansas, and I mean they need
Speaker 1: a big, old guy in the middle of their defensive line, right,
Speaker 1: and you know, they lost Brent Urban and they had
Speaker 1: not filled that need in free agency, and so Ridgeway
Speaker 1: is right there in the hunt, you know, with the
Speaker 1: big guy from last year, Bohannon, you know, and they
Speaker 1: resigned him, Carlos Watkins. Yeah. So you know what I
Speaker 1: like best about him. They call him Big John. He's
Speaker 1: big six five three twenty one. Uh. And I like
Speaker 1: what uh Will McClay said about him. He knows who
Speaker 1: he is. He's he's a big guy that's going to
Speaker 1: play the run technique and he's got to do the
Speaker 1: dirty work inside basically to help stop the run. And
Speaker 1: so if he's a first and second down defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: so be it. Right. That's where you take that player
Speaker 1: in the fifth round, right or Bohannon last year it
Speaker 1: was in the sixth round. Sixth round yes. So that's
Speaker 1: where you you take a guy who's not a three
Speaker 1: down player for you, and and and he's fine with it, right,
Speaker 1: He's not gonna pout like, oh, I don't get the
Speaker 1: rushed the quarterback. He knows he's in there to stop
Speaker 1: the run and take up space and take up blockers.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was a pretty good value
Speaker 1: there at the at that pick, which was one seventy
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Speaker 1: do more. All right, I've got a correction to make
Speaker 1: on John Ridgeway. It wasn't all at Arkansas his forty
Speaker 1: career starts. He was at Illinois State for four years,
Speaker 1: red shirted in twenty seventeen. So I'm reading it now
Speaker 1: out of my big green notebooks. See how accurate Bill is?
Speaker 1: Because when I heard that, I go, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's right, And then I said, no, Bill knows what
Speaker 1: he's talking about. Twelve games, eleven starts at Arkansas last year.
Speaker 1: He actually last calendar year played sixteen games because he
Speaker 1: was at Illinois State and they played a spring schedule
Speaker 1: twenty one, so he's already played an NFL season, Mickey.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There he's ready. That's why they
Speaker 1: call him Big John. Yeah. Remember that. Now, there you go.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we're going to get a chance
Speaker 1: to see these guys next week because the Rookie Mini Camp.
Speaker 1: The guys start coming in on Thursday up next week
Speaker 1: and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday is the rookie Mini camp.
Speaker 1: All right, we have not talked about Matt Wood. Let's
Speaker 1: go tackle from North Dakota fifth round pick. I like
Speaker 1: drafting an offense. I can't tell you that I've watched
Speaker 1: him play, but I like taking an offensive lineman there
Speaker 1: because I mean, really, you look at the at the
Speaker 1: depth now on the offensive line, and let's just say
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith even though he'll work summit left tackle, summit
Speaker 1: left guard when Tyrant is not getting the full reps
Speaker 1: in practice because he doesn't need to because he's a veteran.
Speaker 1: All right, So you've got a guy in him who
Speaker 1: can play inside or outside. And then obviously at right tackle,
Speaker 1: you've got Terrence Steele, and you've got Josh Ball fourth
Speaker 1: round pick last year, and now you throw in a
Speaker 1: fifth rounder this year and Matt will let's go as
Speaker 1: another tackle, and so there's good competition there inside. You
Speaker 1: know the other thing, Yes, and I think Jerry might
Speaker 1: have mentioned it. He said that this guy is capable
Speaker 1: of playing right or left and that this just might
Speaker 1: supersed having to sign a veteran swing tech. Definitely. I
Speaker 1: think that's they think this guy can step up, whether
Speaker 1: it's well, let the combination of what let's go in ball.
Speaker 1: They do not have to sign a type yak your
Speaker 1: camera irving type player this year. Now you look inside though,
Speaker 1: and that's still the backup center. They seem to like
Speaker 1: Matt Farneyoch, the seventh rounder out of Nebraska from last
Speaker 1: year and his progress in the offseason programm and so forth.
Speaker 1: You've got obviously Beadish is your returning starter at center,
Speaker 1: and you get Zach Martin at right guard, and you
Speaker 1: hope that the twenty one year old first round draft
Speaker 1: pick is going to be your starter at left guard
Speaker 1: if he's not read you got Connor McGovern who has
Speaker 1: started games. And so is there a need for a
Speaker 1: veteran guy with center experience, because because what you're looking at,
Speaker 1: I could see beds. If Beotish got hurt, yeah, then
Speaker 1: who's and I'm looking at game day. Okay, with what
Speaker 1: the way things are currently constituted on your depth chart. Now,
Speaker 1: you did have some some rookie free agents that they
Speaker 1: seem to like that they signed a couple of them
Speaker 1: Boston College and James MPs as well from BYU. Okay,
Speaker 1: so those are a couple of guys who could be
Speaker 1: in the mix. But again they're college free agents. So
Speaker 1: do you need a veteran interior offensive lineman at a
Speaker 1: veteran minimum salary to come in? Who has who has
Speaker 1: started games at center and they need they need the
Speaker 1: next veteran Joe Looney, somebody a capable of guards center?
Speaker 1: Or can Connor McGovern learn how to play center this offseason?
Speaker 1: Is is that a project for OTAs? I was hoping
Speaker 1: to learn how to play guard? Well, now you've got
Speaker 1: your guard, but you need back though. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: just kind of like the same deal. That's the reason
Speaker 1: that Connor Williams was snapping in preseason games last year.
Speaker 1: I tried to explain that to somebody and they just wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because they wanted to make him the starting
Speaker 1: center exactly. It was because they had to have someone
Speaker 1: who could snap, and especially on your game day roster. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's say because you knew Williams was going to
Speaker 1: be active. Because let's say you've got it right now,
Speaker 1: your depth chart, I mean, backup guys on your offensive
Speaker 1: line who have snapped, who have who've played center. I
Speaker 1: mean Connor McGovern was at a game or two in college,
Speaker 1: maybe at Penn State, I don't remember, like maybe his
Speaker 1: Matt farniok's the only year. Yeah, no, no, right, And
Speaker 1: so you would have to make farneyok, has got to
Speaker 1: be on your active roster on game day the way
Speaker 1: things are currently put together. And he was a former
Speaker 1: guard that they moved to center, so maybe he can
Speaker 1: do both. But you're right, that's exactly that's exactly the
Speaker 1: situation they're in right there. And and then the other
Speaker 1: guy we didn't talk about, Bland corner. I like his tape, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you need you need depth there and special teams, right,
Speaker 1: that's how he would make this. And and by the way,
Speaker 1: much like Ridgeway who was at Illinois State and then
Speaker 1: played his last year in Arkansas, Deron Bland was at
Speaker 1: Sacramento State and played this last year at Fresno State,
Speaker 1: which may have been a reason why he was not
Speaker 1: on the so called experts mock drafts and was a
Speaker 1: late bloomer as far as the draft process goes, right.
Speaker 1: And then the linebacker they took in the sixth round,
Speaker 1: Devin Harper, they just needed linebackers. They needed linebackers, a
Speaker 1: guy that can play special teams and again and try
Speaker 1: to make the team that way, because you know, if
Speaker 1: assuming Demon Clark doesn't help the depth this year, they
Speaker 1: needed some extra help before we finish here. One of
Speaker 1: the undrafted free agents that I thought we should spend
Speaker 1: at least a minute on, Okay Jonathan Garabay. Oh the kicker.
Speaker 1: They got him a kicker they didn't have to use
Speaker 1: a draft choice out of Texas Tech. He is accustomed
Speaker 1: to kicking in windy conditions. And now that gives them two.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they don't find somebody else. And
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this during the draft, that
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a veteran kickers probably released somewhere awarding
Speaker 1: the line. And the next day two of them right Cleveland, Cleveland, Cleveland.
Speaker 1: They drafted Cade York, the prosper kicker. They drabbed him
Speaker 1: in the fourth round, and so they released Chase McLaughlin
Speaker 1: and the unfortunate name for a kicker, Chris blew It.
Speaker 1: Yes on Monday. I don't even just a connotation there
Speaker 1: because if he misses one, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: that headline. Yea, Chris blew It. But somebody also come around.
Speaker 1: But this guy he made fifteen of sixteen for Texas
Speaker 1: Tech this last year. Is only miss was from fifty
Speaker 1: three and he did hit the game winner sixty two
Speaker 1: yards against Iowa State and that qualified Texas Tech for
Speaker 1: a bowl game, so there was amount of pressure on that.
Speaker 1: And he also hit two field goals. He only kicked
Speaker 1: three games for Tech in twenty twenty and in against
Speaker 1: Baylor when they won twenty four twenty three, he hit
Speaker 1: four field goals. The third one was with four minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the game from forty six and then
Speaker 1: the game winner. Another walkoff was from twenty five yards
Speaker 1: to beat Baylor that year and the final score was
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty three, and he made four field goals. Well,
Speaker 1: so don't ask me how they got to what happened
Speaker 1: on those two may He missed an extra point. He
Speaker 1: might have missed two extra points. I think he missed
Speaker 1: I think they might have gone for two one time.
Speaker 1: I think he missed one because he was one for
Speaker 1: two on okay, on extra points in his career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and those are we've seen. We've seen enough missed extra
Speaker 1: points around here. That's why that guy's with the Jets
Speaker 1: right now. So anyway, you know, he's got a strong leg.
Speaker 1: And again the reason a lot of people didn't know
Speaker 1: about him. He two years of juco at Riverside City College, Okay,
Speaker 1: and then he came to Tech and greatest kicker in
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL. Who is it Texas Tech? No, no,
Speaker 1: it's Justin Tucker. Yes, yes, yes, yes, college freezy got
Speaker 1: the best college free agent, right, Dan Bailey college free agent? Right,
Speaker 1: that's why you're not drafting a kicker, Mickey, Right. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have drafted nine of them during their their days.
Speaker 1: By the way, who's the best one but they drafted?
Speaker 1: Think about it and have it for us next week
Speaker 1: here on match. I have him in my mind. I
Speaker 1: think the only two that made it were David Bieler
Speaker 1: and hopefully best Nick Folk, and they weren't the best
Speaker 1: well Nick Fole. I mean, if you're going to compare
Speaker 1: Nick Folk versus David Bheler, I'll take Nick folks actually
Speaker 1: and still kick in this league. Nineteen eighty six, they
Speaker 1: used a fourth round pick on a kicker, Max because
Speaker 1: they were worried that Raphael Sept the Ends back was
Speaker 1: going out, and so they said, well, we better get
Speaker 1: a kicker, and then Sept the End beat him out
Speaker 1: and Zendaias ended up kicking three years in the league
Speaker 1: Green Bay combined three years Green Bay in Washington, and
Speaker 1: that was it. All right, Well, eventually Everson is gonna
Speaker 1: show up, but we're gonna be off the air stretched
Speaker 1: out to sixty five minutes, all right, So he goes
Speaker 1: undrafted again. Yes, all right, So that does it for
Speaker 1: this edition of mix Shots. And we will be back
Speaker 1: at our regular time next Thursday at eleven thirty, and
Speaker 1: we will see you then go rookie Minicamp. There you go.
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