WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Fun Day Thursday 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.920 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:13.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.159 Shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.680 official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.639 and Nicky Spagnola. And it's time for another edition of 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:35.520 mix Shots on a Thursday. Here inside the SWBC podcast 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:41.159 studio center at the Star in Fresco, Bill Jones, future 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.840 Hall of Famer Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. And this 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.479 is a good day because the Cowboys have decided to 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.280 go ahead in practice today for the New England Patriots. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.840 They are outside on the practice as we speak, because 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:01.120 Mike wanted to smell the grounds like football. It's exactly right. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.360 But they have turf in New England. Yes, I believe 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.600 they do. Okay, he just wanted to smell. I was 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:12.600 trying to remember it because that driving rainstorm in twenty nineteen. Yeah, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.720 the field didn't get torn up. They were fine. Yeah, yeah. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.760 And of course yesterday they were indoors because we had 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:25.080 the looming presence of thunderstorms in the area. But outside 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.039 today even though there was still a looming presence of 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.280 cloud cover. Well, they were prepared at one point to 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.600 take it inside, and then nothing happened, so they stayed 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.320 out there because when it was our turn to come in, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.399 they said, oh, we're gonna stay here because the guys 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.440 are going in. And then I think the radar cleared. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.440 So there you are outside for the whole session. And 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.000 it's supposed to be decent weather, I think on Sunday, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.080 although it's been a couple of days since I checked 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.600 on that. And in contrast to two years ago and 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.880 the Cowboys went up there in a monsoon and lost 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.760 to the Patriots thirteen to nine. I don't think I've 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.240 seen the game played in worse weather like they had 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.280 to continue playing now. I played in New Jersey, man, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.360 so I don't know about that. Spags, Well, I didn't 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:16.840 see it. I mean, and Cleveland, by the way, it 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.360 was a driving, a driving rain storm. You'd rather snow 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.720 than the rain coming down like that, that's true. And 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.480 it was coming down sideways because the wind was blowing. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.960 Nineteen ninety when we played Buffalo, I was with the Giants. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:36.560 We played Buffalo in New Jersey and it was below 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.800 freezing and it rained. Yeah, the entire game below for 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.600 rain the entire game. It wouldn't stop. So once you fall, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.480 because puzzles all those play. Once you fall in your wet, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.880 it's over, right, it's over. It's like being in the snow, 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.440 you know, once you fall in the snow, your hands 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.320 are cold, you can't do anything a sox are wet. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.280 It's done, it's done. And so yeah, that was pretty miserable. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.120 I met my free safety, Myron Guiding. He's coming up 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.560 to me and he's he's talking, you know, as his 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.440 jaw is quivering, and I'm like, what did yous to say? 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.880 And he couldn't even repeat himself. He was so cold. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.240 I think the only worst weather game I've seen. And 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.520 I don't know if you guys remember this. It would 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:23.880 have been the Ice Bowl, No, it was, it was close. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:29.560 It was the Fog Bowl. Oh yeah, yo, Chicago and Philadelphia. Yeah. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.080 And I was in the press box and could not 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:39.720 see past maybe a third of the field going across right. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.240 And at one point the fog got so thick. We 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:50.360 were watching the TV monitor because the TV cameras could 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.320 lighten up, could they can get more light on the field, right, 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.320 And so you can see better because we couldn't see. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.080 I couldn't see the other side, but not see the 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.960 other sideline. Why were you at the Fog Bowl, which, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.000 by the way, was played New Year's Eve nineteen eighty eight. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.040 I was working at the newspaper and we covered things 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.720 like that newspaper, the Dallas Times. Harold, you went to 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.360 an Eagles Bears game? Yea in nineteen eighty eight. Yes, 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.080 we covered the playoffs because the Cowboys. Yeah, they covered 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.200 the playoffs and the Cowboys were not in it. Yeah, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.640 so they still had to cover it, whether we were 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.720 ended or that. Plus they had I had a free 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.360 place to stay, right, my parents were still living there. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:35.120 I think he volunteered that. You got the hes there 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:39.000 for the holidays. Why I had been on Times, Harold 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.280 didn't send you. I had been on the Bears beat 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.400 since eighty five. Basically, I spent I spent half the 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.760 season in eighty five up there covering the day. So 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.240 were you the NFL reporter or were you the Cowboys beat? Right? 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.279 I was the backup guy. I was. I was the 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.960 guy that did everything. Okay, okay, so you were sometimes 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.080 the NFL beat porter, sometimes the Cowboys beating. Absolutely No, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.680 I wasn't the beat reporter. I was the backup guy 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.320 when the beat reporter took a day off. Okay, so 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:13.839 the time cowboy reporter, but backup soup for the Times Harold, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.039 Then who were the cowboy? Who is the Cowboys beat reporter? 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.560 And did you have an NFL reporter that traveled to 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.200 every city? We had? So Jim Dent was the Cowboys 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:28.640 beat reporter. And then the NFL. I think maybe it 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.760 was Jack Shephard was doing he was doing college those 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.880 he was also doing backup, he was doing NFL. Let 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.680 me tell you, those were glory days of reporting. Absolutely 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.880 And why is that talk to me? Because we covered everything, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.040 you know, and what really happened in Dallas for Worth Media, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.280 What would you say it was when Dave Smith came 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.680 here the Morning News and what the Boston Globe, and 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.680 this relates to the Patriots. It always was the pinnacle 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:02.360 as far as newspapers sports sections go. And so Dave 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.839 Smith came to Dallas in the eighties, I don't remember 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:08.800 exactly when and turn and turned the Dallas Morning News 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.839 sports page into sports Day, okay, and in the coverage 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.840 just went through the roof. Well, there was great competition 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.479 between the Times Harold and the Morning News. So the 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.000 Times Harold matched that with the Morning News. We tried. Yeah, 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.719 at the time we started, well yeah, we started running 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.520 out of fun. You started, and we're talking about we're 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.000 talking about writers that that have well known you know, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.560 some in the Hall of Fame, you know that were 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.559 well he was, he came a little later those, but 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.760 but that it was born though during that time. And 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.840 of course Skip Bayliss was. It was the Times Harold first, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.160 then Morning News or Ice first, Bike shared. I mean, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.200 now he was Morning News, then Time, okay, and Blackie 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.000 was the Times Harold and then he went to the 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.840 Brandy Galloway and you know, and but the coverage from 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.960 the high schools to the colleges, to the professional ranks 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.720 and every sport was second to none. Well it just 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.240 like I told the story yesterday about me, they have 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.800 sending me to the Giants to do stories before the 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.120 Cowboys played the Giants in eighty six. It trickled over 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.640 to television too. I mean, I was telling the story 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.200 about when the Cowboys played the Eagles in nineteen ninety two, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.920 the Monday night game Cowboys started the season I think 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.000 four and oh that year Big Monday night game. I 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.240 was working at Channel five in Dallas at the time, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.520 and they sent me there all week. I was there 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.440 in the Eagles locker room on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday doing 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.080 stories on the Eagles leading up to that game. So 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:45.040 you're saying the sports publications had the money and then 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.320 investment in it. To invest in it sends you, guys 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.400 where you need to remember. I remember full coverage, versus now, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.840 versus now, give me now. So what you're looking at, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.320 you find somebody that lives there to do your freelance 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.880 stock And actually, during the nineties after the paper and 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.480 I was freelancing, that was part of my freelancing because 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.240 people the change, they knew I was here, right, and 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.480 instead of sending their guy the expense, it's like, okay, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.679 for a couple hundred bucks, he can do a story 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.920 for us, right, And when you're freelancing, it's like whatever 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.200 they pay is good. Right, You're not gonna sit there 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.400 and you know that's not enough money to compromise the coverage. Though, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.440 do you think if you find somebody that you trust 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.680 and you're basically doing feature stories, right, it's not like 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.679 you're digging for news or anything, and uh, yeah, that 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:40.120 was And I was fortunate because when I was freelancing, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.200 the cowboys got good, right, and it was good timing 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.520 because now everybody wanted a piece of them. But yeah, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.320 that was a very different error in the eighties when 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.480 I got from the from you guys standpoint, well you 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.040 I mean, you witness it. You saw the battles going 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.120 on in the locker room between the beat writers, right, well, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.040 that was very interesting. Well, and the other part of 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.600 it is the access, and of course now with after 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.559 COVID and so forth, it's been cut back, you know, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.439 to where there's no access in the locker room. I 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.439 have always said the battle between the Beat writers in 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.480 the Dallas locker room, I don't know what was going 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.760 on in Boston and the Raiders with some of the 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.719 very controversial teams. I thought that was the beginning of 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.800 this way too information of age and era that we're 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.440 in now. I told you Jim did hiding around the corner, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.000 you know, trying to listen to our conversations in the 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.760 in the locker room, and there was a lot of 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.679 stuff going on. Culturally, we had the union, we had 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.400 to still always had the racism thing going on, so 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.400 everything was just so volatile. And those beat writers used 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.559 that Myers ends up at HBO, Dent ends up you 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.080 know where he ended up. But Skip Bayless ends up, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.680 you know, writing a book and he trashed the Cowboys. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.480 And when I went up there at one time to 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.800 do an interview of all the people to have an office, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.520 no one else had an office up there. And this 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.240 wasn't in and this wasn't in Connecticut. It's somewhere in 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.000 New York. I forget what the studio was. What is it. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.040 Woody the older dude. Yeah, Woody and Skip had an office, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.679 and they loved them up there. I think because of 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.280 the controversy that they stirred up. Everyone loved Skip because 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.240 of the book that he wrote about the whole thing 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.240 about Troy Aikman and all of that. Then all of 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.719 a sudden, these guys have top billing on TV in 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.720 New York nationwide. And to me, that was the beginning 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:44.240 of this whole uh gossip type of coverage that they 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.360 that they use now when when they covered the team. Yeah, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.040 but and I hated that it was it was a 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.679 little bit more. It was little different back then because 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.839 people they I know what they were doing, right, but 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.839 at least it was journalistically sound. It wasn't you believe that? 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.280 Oh yeah, now not not books, not books, yeah, books 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.880 are never yeah yeah yeah. But from a newspaper standpoint. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.440 But some of these, some of the exposees, that's that's 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.400 all just clouded in. It's a it's a mini book, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:19.319 it's a novella. Well remember Watergate changed everything? Well, well 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.360 you know what we had the water Gate in in 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.200 uh thousands, in not thousands, but the Valley round, Yeah, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:30.640 water stars. Remember when Gary Myers did the survey or 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.240 he did a poll on who who they wanted for 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.600 quarterbacks either Danny White or first of all I Steve 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.599 or not Steve Gary? Yeah, Gary, hoga boo. Yeah, I 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:40.760 was one of those. I was one of those that 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.920 started that. So I totally raised my hand. I'm not 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.160 I don't have from anything. I totally raised my hand 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.000 on that one. And I remember, I remember Myers Myers, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.000 and I think I saw this. Myers walked into where 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.160 the little lunch room was, right and and uh hoga 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.200 Boom said what are you doing in here? This players only? 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:07.560 And he goes, well what are you doing? And Hoga 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:12.200 Boom grabbed him. So funny grabbed him by the shirt 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.640 and carried him out of the luxury. I thought you 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.240 were gonna say, grabbed him by his pencil neck. Well 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:24.520 it might as well be in his net, right, I mean, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:30.280 the competition was fierce. I remember in eighty six, came 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.839 back from London after the preseason game, and so it 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.600 was they gave the other guys off and I had 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.760 to go to Thousand Oaks. I should say I got 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.200 to go to Thousand Oaks and cover that week. Well 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:50.120 it was the week where the usfl folded. And uh, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.480 it folded when we were in London, as a matter 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.000 of fact, because we were up in the hospitality room 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.240 at the hotel and Tech got the call from Pete 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.439 Roselle and they were going on and on, just celebrating 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.160 on the phone, and Text was loud, Oh Pete, I 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.880 love you and all this stuff, right, and and and 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.880 Marty Text's wife, she was a beauty, right, and she 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.880 goes te, she goes Text. If you get any louder, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.120 the Queen's gonna hear you out the window. So anyway, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.520 I had to come back. And that's when the cowboys 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.679 were able to negotiate with Herschel to Uh, to get 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.920 him because they had already drafted him, so they had 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.400 the rights. So I had to do the beginning of 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.959 the Infant Toys. Yeah, I had to do his big, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.240 long story on herschel Walker. And so we're in the 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:49.440 media dorm at thousand at Kalou and I'm scrambling trying 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.679 to get herschel and I basically left him a message, right, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.439 So I got my story already written, and about one 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.120 o'clock in the morning or maybe midnight West Coast time, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:07.959 the phone rings and the person goes, Hi, this is 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.880 herschel Walker. And I ain't buying it right because he 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.480 was in New Jersey and this is three It's three 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.240 o'clock in the morning. Right. Not not the best person 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.320 in person, right, I could I could have tried harder. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.240 So my college roommate was pretty bad. I found that 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.400 maybe that's what the phone calls out. So my college 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.400 roommate covered herschel Uh. He was working in Atlanta at 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.400 the paper and he was at Georgia then, so he 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.600 had Herschel's voice down perfectly, and I'd already talked to 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.440 him about the story what he was like when he 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.320 was at York. I thought it was him. So I 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.880 wasn't falling for it. I was just gonna ask in 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.840 name questions, right, and just to test it out, right, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.840 And about three or four questions in at dawn damage Walker. Right, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.440 So we get this long interview, right, it's in three 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.320 in the morning. Three in the morning. He calls me 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.280 back and he's in you know he was living in 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:10.000 Trump Towers. Okay, because Trump and so yeah, that's why 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.360 he's running. Yeah, right, thank you. I want to bring 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 so so I do this long, I do this. We 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.200 must have talked for a half hour, right, he was great, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.520 and uh we get to the end and he goes, uh, 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:28.760 do you know um guy Gary Myers. He said, I 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.480 think it's the I think it's the Morning News. Call 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.280 the Myers after this show. Oh, I probably told him 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.920 the story, right, And I go yeah. He goes, well, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.600 can you do me a favor? Uh tell him that 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.840 I tried to return his phone call. So if you 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.600 see him, tell him to give me a call. And 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.760 I said, oh, absolutely, so he can do his story too. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.520 I'll call him right after my exactly. I said, oh, yeah, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.240 absolutely right. But see what you see that that's coming 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.240 from a journalistic place, right, right, but when you're talking 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.080 about what's the dude named Martinez? It's from Channel thirty 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.120 three following the guy's home from the Strip clubs after 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.760 they just landed from the way game. Tell me where 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:16.640 the journalists? That was TV. Sorry, that was but hiding 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:22.600 very ridiculous man, the tree and that I was talking about. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.880 This is what I'm talking about. It it started that 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.800 where we are now, it started where we are now 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.760 too well, now nothing. It's not just about how you 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.600 play now, it's about what you believe in, how you talk, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.040 what you look like, how marketable you are. It's totally 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.800 gotten away from the game itself. I won't argue with that. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.480 Now we've blurred the line, blurred the line between journalism 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.080 and opinion. I like that. And then and the young 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.160 kids don't know the difference because they that's what they've grown. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.040 That's right, that's read newspaper. Very good. Well, that was interesting, 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.960 Well it was different. Hey, you can only get that 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.360 on mixed right, And how did it relate to this 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.760 week's game? We have no idea because we talked about 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:10.119 the Boston Globe and the Dallas Sporting News about and 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.800 by the way, when we come back, Yes, I read 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.240 some interesting stuff in the Boston Herald on this game. Okay, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.960 so they still have two new spaces, still do yeah Boston, Okay, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.920 one of the few places. All right, two in Chicago, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:30.080 two in Boston, two three in New York. Still two 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.440 in l L A. H. The Washington Times went out 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.080 of business and they came back in somewhat of a 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:42.520 different form. But yeah, the Washington Post is still there. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:46.080 But most of the most of the cities have one newspaper. Miami, 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.840 do we consider we have two here even though it's 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.760 Dallas and four because back then you said two, it 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.000 was actually three. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we had three 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.240 weight competition. I can tell you some stories about in Irving. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.720 We did not get the forward Star. 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When 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:29.240 you sign up to receive text messages from the team. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:34.960 Text Cowboys to NFL d a L that's six three 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.680 five three two five to receive ten percent off your 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:44.680 next pro shot purchase messages frequency may vary, Message and 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.840 data rates may apply. That sounded familiar. That was good. 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.840 That was good way to go. That's an all encompassing one. 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.280 It was, yes, and you've got it spur of the 0:20:55.400 --> 0:21:00.160 moment and you see once again the spunt and I'm 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:06.520 preparing a panic attacks. All right, do you have your 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.600 injury report? I do have an injury report here for you. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:18.359 So Trayvon Diggs did not practice. Oh yeah, that's right 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.879 today he did today practice. Yesterday he has a left ankle. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:27.720 And today, in the portion that we were watching, uh, 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.760 he was doing his rehab work on the resistant chords 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.560 and I noticed, see what a good reporter I am, 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.399 he had tennis shoes on. Okay, so that meant he 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:42.720 probably wasn't practicing, right. Uh So, yeah, he missed. And 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.440 then yesterday, Uh, I guess Demante Kaz had a hip 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:53.359 problem going on and he didn't finished. He started to try, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.120 I guess, and he didn't practice and it didn't look 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.000 like he was going to practice again today. So uh, 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:03.480 those are the have the injury report yet this is yesterday. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.440 I'm just telling you observation from watching the portion that 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:11.560 we got to watch. Uh. Ezekiel Elliott was listed as 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:16.560 limited yesterday with ribs and by the way, He did 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:21.280 interview after practice yesterday, and I want you to hear 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:27.399 his description of his injury back ribs. It's ribs right 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.719 here on the back side of me. You know, your 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.720 ribs go like you know what I mean. So it's 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:39.399 the ribs on the back side. So what he did 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:45.440 was he went like, your ribs go on the way around. Oh, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:53.480 thank you for that. You knew this or I mean 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.440 it almost sounds like a kidney punch. Well, yeah, yeah, 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.880 you fell on the Dard camera. Let you finish the injury. 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:03.520 I'd love to get to Zeke though at some point. Okay, 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.200 And so he was limited yesterday, but from what we saw, 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.760 he had the helmet on. The today's the heavy day, 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:13.040 they put the pads on, and he looked like he 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:17.479 was gonna, uh participate. Randy Gregory was listed as limited, 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.760 he looked like he was just fine. And Donovan Wilson 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.879 has uh they've got him listed as limited, but watching 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.879 him out there, he's pretty much looks like he's ready 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:32.840 to go. So if if Kaz can't go, Wilson might 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.439 be able to go, and that would kind of makeup 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:39.720 and that just give us more hype. In the second 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.160 dary and I did say Randy Gregory, right, he uh, 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.920 he was out there. He was limited yesterday, but he 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:49.040 was out there practicing when we were there and asked 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:53.760 for the Patriots. They're starting running back Damien Harris Ribs, 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.560 by the way, I don't know if, I'm not sure where, 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.240 but he did not practice yesterday. And Shack Mason, their 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:08.280 starting guard, did not practice yesterday. And Jalen Mills hamstring 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.879 was limited. And when I was reading in the Boston Herald, 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:15.240 they were saying, well, if he is able to play, 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:18.760 So there was some question the cornerback cuts. Now they've 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:21.840 got some. They've had some real issues on their offensive line, 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:25.160 and in fact, it was a makeshift bunch of characters 0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.159 that were starting on their offensive line playing on their 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.639 offensive line last week against the Texans. A couple of 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:33.800