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Speaker 4: It is a back to work Wednesday here at the
Speaker 4: Star in Frisco. And for some of us we are well,
Speaker 4: we didn't go away. We are back to work. Everson
Speaker 4: Walls not back to work just yet. He'll be back
Speaker 4: on Thursday. But this is Mick Shots inside the SWBC
Speaker 4: podcast studio. We've already had a Mike McCarthy press conference today.
Speaker 4: We have football equipment on a football field and we
Speaker 4: will have football players out there as well, and hopefully
Speaker 4: they have the ivs ready today.
Speaker 1: It's pretty warm, it is, and it's going to be warm.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be ninety one today. It's October twenty third,
Speaker 1: ninety one. It's already eighty five.
Speaker 4: By the way. It's toasty out there, and it just
Speaker 4: seems like the ninety one degree you know, if it
Speaker 4: was July twentieth ninety one degrees. Welcome it exactly. IVS
Speaker 4: would not be required. There's something about ninety one degrees
Speaker 4: on October twenty third that makes it more difficult to
Speaker 4: stand the heat.
Speaker 1: As you can tell, they haven't taken down the tent
Speaker 1: out there that they put that's the air conditioned tent
Speaker 1: with has a lot of ice in it just in case.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they been watching the weather and said, no,
Speaker 1: we got to have that maybe till November before we
Speaker 1: take it down.
Speaker 4: And tomorrow's supposed to be similar heat. So I'm assuming
Speaker 4: coach McCarthy he always wants to be outside as much
Speaker 4: as possible. Does he like this heat?
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be hot in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Shope should not be and.
Speaker 1: He probably doesn't like all the eyeballs that will be
Speaker 1: on practice also, by the way, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: All the eyeballs that will be Oh oh, I got
Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with the heat, but it
Speaker 4: has to do with twelve story buildings or however, all.
Speaker 1: These buildings are exactly I think. I think at times,
Speaker 1: I think even Jason went inside just to cautionary.
Speaker 4: But they're prepared to be outside today. Yeah, so you
Speaker 4: have a prediction they if they go inside tomorrow. It
Speaker 4: will not be because of the heat.
Speaker 1: But they'll say it'll be because of the Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go absolutely all right.
Speaker 4: What did you gather from Mike McCarthy's press conference today?
Speaker 4: Get us up to speed and what we need to know.
Speaker 1: Well, let's start with his brief injury report. He said
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons would be with the rehab group at least
Speaker 1: start with the rehab group, so we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 1: He didn't sound really hopeful on Monday that he would
Speaker 1: be back ready to play. He said it was still
Speaker 1: up in the air that he needed to see test
Speaker 1: his acceleration. So I think they're going to be cautious
Speaker 1: there and that may be one that you just go, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what happens as we go forward and try
Speaker 1: to get him to the game. Doron Bland, who was
Speaker 1: close to playing against Detroit until his foot grew sore
Speaker 1: from the activity of practice the previous two days, said
Speaker 1: he's going to start off participating in practice on a
Speaker 1: limited basis, so they're going to try to ease him
Speaker 1: back in Kaylin Carson and still with the rehab group
Speaker 1: with that shoulder, and you know that shoulder sounded like, well, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll be back in a week or so,
Speaker 1: and now it's almost close to a month if he
Speaker 1: doesn't get back for this game, so we'll see what
Speaker 1: goes there. And then I thought the significant one, not
Speaker 1: that the others aren't. Eric Kendricks said he would be limited,
Speaker 1: so I assume that meant limited in practice here he's
Speaker 1: been running, so we'll see where that one goes. That
Speaker 1: would be very good if they could get him back
Speaker 1: on the field. Although Dmoon Clark didn't play all that bad.
Speaker 1: I just think that with Kendricks out there, you have,
Speaker 1: you have your director out there, and I think that
Speaker 1: speaks volumes for what he could.
Speaker 4: Add, especially against Kyle Shanahan's offense.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly. So that's where they were with guys
Speaker 1: that can get back. I hear that not Osa Marshawn
Speaker 1: Kneelan is looking good in his rehab, So maybe when
Speaker 1: his four weeks or four games are up, you know,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get him back on the field.
Speaker 1: Would certainly help the defensive end group if he comes
Speaker 1: back and he's you know, healthy enough to get going.
Speaker 1: Said an interesting thing when he was talking about the.
Speaker 4: Ring and By the way, Kneeland has a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Knee injury, right, and he had I think he had
Speaker 1: its scope too. It sounded like so he's off crutches
Speaker 1: and walking around and sounds like he's doing better than
Speaker 1: maybe expected. Uh. He talked about the running game and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the question was something reference to what Jerry
Speaker 1: said about run concepts and run plays that were bad.
Speaker 1: And he said, I don't think we have bad concepts
Speaker 1: or bad plays. I'll just leave it as that. But
Speaker 1: he went on to say he pointed out the Detroit
Speaker 1: game and he said, the first run of the game,
Speaker 1: he said, we had the wrong declaration. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that meant the blocking scheme. And I went back and
Speaker 1: looked at it, and you know, you don't know what
Speaker 1: everybody's supposed to do. But the play I saw it
Speaker 1: was a run to rico'dondell and he was going right
Speaker 1: and it was a one yard game and the linebacker
Speaker 1: was able to make the play. And Angeloni is that
Speaker 1: the angel Azeloni? Yeah, Angeloni was a neighbor of ours
Speaker 1: time ago. Uh. Anyway, it looked like Cooper Bebee Uh
Speaker 1: spent too much time doubling the defensive tackle and he
Speaker 1: didn't get to the linebacker in time, and the linebacker
Speaker 1: was able to scrape off and make the play. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things in the running game that
Speaker 1: I think people don't recognize that have to take place
Speaker 1: to make the run work, and it's not all on
Speaker 1: the running back. So I thought that was interesting one.
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at, uh looked at that one.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I think they're going to change
Speaker 1: up more, and he he alluded to it on Monday
Speaker 1: that they were going to change some of the individual
Speaker 1: individual drills that they had been doing and doing more
Speaker 1: group drills. So it sounds like they're going to have
Speaker 1: more competitive periods in the practices the next two days
Speaker 1: than they normally have. And when I say competitive periods,
Speaker 1: I mean the first defense against the first offense, not
Speaker 1: against the scout team. So that's one of those things
Speaker 1: that I think that they're going to try to change
Speaker 1: up and get more as competitive as you're allowed to
Speaker 1: be in practice, knowing that they need to deal with
Speaker 1: some of those concepts better than just going against the
Speaker 1: scout team when you're just basically got brother lawing going
Speaker 1: on in those plays because you're just practicing plays, you're
Speaker 1: not really competing.
Speaker 4: I'm going back watching. I know, I'm going back watching
Speaker 4: the first play of the game, and they had Angeloni
Speaker 4: and Campbell, two inside linebackers, and I assume when they're
Speaker 4: making the declarations declaring who the middle linebacker is, he
Speaker 4: is at thirty four, is at forty six, and watching
Speaker 4: it it and you know, because you've gone back and
Speaker 4: looked at it, Babe did not go get the middle linebacker.
Speaker 4: He had a nose tackle that was shaded on him.
Speaker 4: There started as a double and Angeloni was free to
Speaker 4: run to make the tackle right right.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking the blocking might have been needed to
Speaker 1: go more to the right and not worry about that
Speaker 1: defensive tackle because he wasn't going to be in the
Speaker 1: play where the play was going. And then Angeloni ends
Speaker 1: up making the tackle and there was no hole there.
Speaker 1: If the linebacker wasn't there, they could have been a hole.
Speaker 1: But it was a one yard game. You know, when
Speaker 1: I went back, and this is one thing that we
Speaker 1: forget is if you look at that first drive of
Speaker 1: the game, in its total that ended up in a
Speaker 1: field goal, they went fifty two yards in six plays,
Speaker 1: so they were moving right down the field, and then
Speaker 1: when they bogged down at first and ten at the eighteen,
Speaker 1: when they tried the quick short pass to CD, it
Speaker 1: was two yards. Dak tried to throw it into the
Speaker 1: end zone. It was incomplete to CD, and then on
Speaker 1: third down they threw it was the whole didn't matter
Speaker 1: what the play was. Zach Martin got called for holding
Speaker 1: and so it was declined because it was an incomplete pass.
Speaker 1: And now you're kicking a field goal. So they got
Speaker 1: to the eighteen and then gained two yards. That just
Speaker 1: can't happen. And that's definitely kind of what happened. And
Speaker 1: even on the second play, the dB just grabbed Lamb's
Speaker 1: hands and didn't, you know, let him make a move
Speaker 1: to be able to pick up the pick up the pass.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and so then you know, things snowball because
Speaker 1: then you give up a touchdown. And I looked at
Speaker 1: the touchdown and they just got blown off the line
Speaker 1: on that sixteen yard run. And Donovan Wilson was sort
Speaker 1: of late coming up, but he was playing single safety
Speaker 1: high and he didn't quite get there. And Leo file
Speaker 1: was they were in three linebackers and he was the
Speaker 1: linebacker to the left and I don't know if they
Speaker 1: expected him to cut across like that and make that
Speaker 1: tackle because he was unblocked. But they're just little things
Speaker 1: like that. You got to get right. You cannot you know,
Speaker 1: you cannot make those mistakes. So that's one of the
Speaker 1: things I think they're going to be working on. And
Speaker 1: when we mentioned the declarations that the offensive line has
Speaker 1: to adjust when you see the defense, you know how
Speaker 1: the defense at last minute'll shift over one way or another. Well,
Speaker 1: now that changes your boxing scheme. You don't have time
Speaker 1: to call it, but you've got to instinctively know where
Speaker 1: you're going.
Speaker 4: And that's where the lack of experience or lack of
Speaker 4: experience alongside each other place a factor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you know, and in that game, you're you're
Speaker 1: you know, left guards playing left tackle. You got to
Speaker 1: basically a second year free agent playing left guard and
Speaker 1: a rookie playing center. Uh that that's a lot of
Speaker 1: movement that you got to get straight. He also thought
Speaker 1: that Geiton wouldn't be ready.
Speaker 4: That was where I was going, That was where I
Speaker 4: was doing next. I was about to say.
Speaker 1: He should be ready to jump into Since.
Speaker 4: We've gotten updates on these other injured players who have
Speaker 4: missed games, and in fact, even Jerry said yesterday probably
Speaker 4: be a game time decision on Sunday whether Parsons and
Speaker 4: Bland will be able to go. And I don't remember
Speaker 4: if he included Kendricks in that or not, but because
Speaker 4: you have to look at how they recover from the
Speaker 4: previous day's work. But I think you buried the lead
Speaker 4: because Tyler Geiton being back at practice.
Speaker 1: Well it got buried in my list of questions here
Speaker 1: because it finally got asked, right.
Speaker 4: But specifically this offensive line and the biggest issue I
Speaker 4: think that this team is having right now is what's
Speaker 4: going on up front on the offensive line, and they've
Speaker 4: got to get their five guys out there, and that
Speaker 4: means getting Tyler. If Tyler Geiton is going to be
Speaker 4: your first round draft pick playing, he needs to be playing,
Speaker 4: not just on Sunday, but he needs to be out
Speaker 4: there on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And he said about his health, he said he'll be
Speaker 1: ready to go full participation, meaning for today, so you know,
Speaker 1: and he was asked about Geiton and where he's at,
Speaker 1: and he goes he needs to take a huge step
Speaker 1: in his comfort, He needs to rely on his talent
Speaker 1: and understand that you can do this, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want him. I think the quote was
Speaker 1: don't want him to spend a whole lot of time
Speaker 1: in the valley, meaning all.
Speaker 4: Right, you're going to get beat on plays. That's the valley, right,
Speaker 4: but don't spend time there. It's like a cornerback. You
Speaker 4: got to get the last play and get ready for
Speaker 4: the next week, like a.
Speaker 1: Golfer, like Tony Romo taught us about golf and football,
Speaker 1: that you got to let the last shot go and
Speaker 1: concentrate on getting out of the rough on the next shot.
Speaker 1: Don't be belaboring the mistake. And I think that's probably
Speaker 1: a thing a young guy will do, is just sit
Speaker 1: there and beat himself up, knowing that he made a
Speaker 1: mistake or got beat. Well, you can't let that getting
Speaker 1: beat beat you on the next.
Speaker 4: Play, which is basically what Natan Frisco has been saying
Speaker 4: about him.
Speaker 1: Relax, right, okay, just move on.
Speaker 4: All right, we got much more to get to. We're
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Speaker 4: Get ready for the San Francisco forty nine ers. By
Speaker 4: the way, Everson Walls should return on Thursday. Little news
Speaker 4: regarding Everson which we will talk about when he returns
Speaker 4: on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Will pointed out today the what.
Speaker 4: Do they call it, the Blue Ribbons Committee or something
Speaker 4: like that. It's a new expanded committee that is going
Speaker 4: through all of the quote unquote senior candidates. These are
Speaker 4: players in the NFL whose last season was nineteen ninety
Speaker 4: nine or before. And so they they're trying to make
Speaker 4: sure that they haven't missed anybody through the years last century.
Speaker 4: So and they've done it by even expanding the committee
Speaker 4: to and so they started with how many one and eighty,
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty something like that.
Speaker 1: And then they reduced it to sixty.
Speaker 4: Yep, And so yesterday they announced it's down to thirty one.
Speaker 4: Are they calling it semifinalist or or maybe the semifinalist
Speaker 4: or the next round. Yeah, in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: two or three weeks, they'll get it down to ten.
Speaker 1: Ten or twelve, Okay, then they get it to three.
Speaker 4: Okay, But two former Cowboys are in the list of
Speaker 4: thirty one. One is Everson Walls and the other Harvey Martin.
Speaker 4: And it's about and there's going to be three that
Speaker 4: will be given to the committee, right which take the
Speaker 4: final rubber stamp YEP, which is typically a rubber stamp.
Speaker 1: So they're kind of listening to this committee now.
Speaker 4: So it started with one hundred and eighty six or
Speaker 4: something like that, and they're going to whittle it down
Speaker 4: to three to give to the final committee at the
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame voting.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Everson, after having gone through all this,
Speaker 1: is sitting there going, yeah, okay, well just call me.
Speaker 1: I think he's passed getting emotionally invested in it, just
Speaker 1: from the disappointment that I think he's felt over the years.
Speaker 1: We'll let him speak about that. But look, here's the
Speaker 1: deal on this Pro Football Hall of Fame. Too many
Speaker 1: decisions are made on statistics and analytics, not stories. And
Speaker 1: I think to me, the responsibility of the voters is
Speaker 1: to preserve the stories of the NFL, and you do
Speaker 1: that by putting players like Everson Walls into the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame. It's not all about how many
Speaker 1: Super Bowls you won or didn't win. It's not all
Speaker 1: about how many interceptions you had or different didn't had.
Speaker 1: It's about the story of a guy that had eleven
Speaker 1: interceptions in his rookie year of nineteen eighty one and
Speaker 1: forty three years later, let that sink in. Forty three
Speaker 1: years later, nobody has ever had more than eleven interceptions
Speaker 1: in a single season. As a matter of fact, Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs a couple of years ago is the only one
Speaker 1: to have had eleven and match it. So things like
Speaker 1: that need to pre preserved. On how unique his accomplishment
Speaker 1: has been. And the fact that he led the NFL
Speaker 1: in interceptions three times, which.
Speaker 4: One only tied by Ed reed Is. It's tied for
Speaker 4: the most times to lead in interceptions ed Reid, and.
Speaker 1: One of those was during the strike season when he
Speaker 1: ended up with in nine games, he had seven interceptions
Speaker 1: and there's no telling how many he would have finished
Speaker 1: in that year too.
Speaker 4: But even if you just do the stats on it,
Speaker 4: he's got fifty seven conceptions in his career, I know,
Speaker 4: which is like almost doubling the field.
Speaker 1: And the fact that, by the way, he did win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl playing for the Giants. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing is is part of Everson's story And look,
Speaker 1: I know he's on our show, but he donated a
Speaker 1: kidney to a former teammate. Who does that? And I
Speaker 1: think that's part of the story that the NFL, the
Speaker 1: Pro Football Hall of Fame has to capture. When they
Speaker 1: put the little bios in the highlights of a guy's career,
Speaker 1: that's part of his life and and I think it
Speaker 1: gets ignored. And there's too many people that are voting
Speaker 1: that no idea or never seen Everson play, And I
Speaker 1: think it's just a it's just a crime that he
Speaker 1: can't get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4: They should go ask Bill Belichick, right Christmas, Belichick game
Speaker 4: up to Gilbrandt several years ago at the Hall of
Speaker 4: Fame after Hall of Fame ceremony and said, we need
Speaker 4: to get Everson in into the Hall of Fame. And
Speaker 4: of course he played for Belichick, not only with the Giants,
Speaker 4: but also with the Cleveland Browns and back in what
Speaker 4: I think was ever probably ever since second to last
Speaker 4: season when he was I think it was with Cleveland,
Speaker 4: maybe it was Giants. He was actually sort of the
Speaker 4: quarterback on the field. He was, he was the play
Speaker 4: caller basically on the field. If the green dot back
Speaker 4: in those days, Everson would have been the one wearing
Speaker 4: the green dot when he converted over to safety.
Speaker 1: And if you just look at his story to the NFL.
Speaker 1: Out of high school, he decides to go to Grambling, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he got a scholarship. He'll tell
Speaker 1: you the reason he went there because what turned out
Speaker 1: to be his future wife, His girlfriend was going to Grambling,
Speaker 1: and so he decided, Okay, I'm going to Grambling and
Speaker 1: he plays Think about the guys he's played for, Eddie Robinson,
Speaker 1: Tom Landry, Bill Parson, Cells and Belichick in his career,
Speaker 1: Jimmy and Jimmy for one year. That's pretty good, right,
Speaker 1: And so uh yeah, you know, and and I think
Speaker 1: Jimmy has come to grips with what took place and
Speaker 1: how uh you know, and finally sort of apologized to
Speaker 1: him for his reaction to that play or to the
Speaker 1: play ragizing right.
Speaker 4: So anyway, by the way, the defensive backs that are
Speaker 4: in this final thirty one pretty good back defensive backfield,
Speaker 4: which includes Lester Hayes, Albert Lewis, Eddie Medder and Everson Walls.
Speaker 4: That is a pretty good and in fact, Albert Lewis
Speaker 4: went to Grambling and so and he was a couple
Speaker 4: of years behind Everson, I believe we'll talk more about
Speaker 4: it tomorrow with Everson and then Harvey Martin's the other one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that is well deserved and and.
Speaker 1: With you know what happens with a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: They end up and it's great that they get in,
Speaker 1: but it's sad sometimes that they don't get in until
Speaker 1: they pass away or they're not really kind of with
Speaker 1: us to be able to go and enjoy that. I
Speaker 1: think that happened with Holly Chuck Collie when he finally
Speaker 1: got in as a senior unable to attend the ceremony
Speaker 1: for health reasons, and his son did a fine job
Speaker 1: of stepping in for him. So yeah, that's one of
Speaker 1: those things that they just got to get right, all.
Speaker 4: Right, And elsewhere around the league more trades, another one
Speaker 4: involving a wide receiver, as the Kansas City Chiefs reportedly
Speaker 4: are acquiring DeAndre Hopkins from the Hapless in the Sea
Speaker 4: Titans for a condition condition fourth.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, Kansas City is baically out of wide receivers.
Speaker 1: They just had to put Rashi Rice on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: Marquise Hollywood Brown is already out for the season, and
Speaker 1: Juju's shuster.
Speaker 4: To forget the Smith, Juju Smith's Juju.
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster, Juju Shuster, you.
Speaker 4: Don't you don't say Kareem Jabbarji.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh. He is out with a hamstring and may
Speaker 1: not be able to play this week, So they're looking
Speaker 1: at bringing in Hopkins. He's thirty two, final year of
Speaker 1: a two year deal. How about this, He had signed
Speaker 1: a two year deal for thirty three million with Tennessee,
Speaker 1: which I use as a cautionary tale of every time
Speaker 1: somebody sees a name available, they don't judge about how
Speaker 1: they're playing. They're judged by their name. And I don't
Speaker 1: know that Tennessee got their money's worth, and they're going
Speaker 1: to have a heck of a lot of dead money.
Speaker 4: But we really don't know what Hopkins has left because
Speaker 4: of the quarterback situation.
Speaker 1: Well to this and that's true too. But what here's
Speaker 1: the top two. If the three receivers I just mentioned
Speaker 1: for Kansas City, their next top two receivers is Xavier
Speaker 1: Worthy rookie and Justin Watson so far have combined over
Speaker 1: seven games for twenty two are they six? They're six
Speaker 1: and zero twenty two catches between those two guys, and
Speaker 1: those are the guys that have to step up. And
Speaker 1: obviously Kansas City did have some problems throwing the football,
Speaker 1: even though they were able to win that game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons why they're looking for that,
Speaker 1: and they are going to if they do the trade,
Speaker 1: they're going to be on the books for nine to
Speaker 1: eighteenths of fifteen million dollars, so seven and a half million.
Speaker 4: So but if you look at Hopkins, I mean, just
Speaker 4: look at his history of quarterbacks here, recent history of
Speaker 4: quarterback play with him had to play for Okay, so
Speaker 4: he's been with Tennessee this year with will Levis, last
Speaker 4: year with Tennessee, and even the last half of the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two season in Arizona. Kyler Murray was hurt, right,
Speaker 4: and so they had backup quarterbacks that were out there So,
Speaker 4: I mean last year at Tennessee, Tannehill started eight games.
Speaker 4: Will Levis started eight games. And so that's what you're
Speaker 4: dealing with. So it'll be interesting. Now he's got to
Speaker 4: be just going. He gets to go to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: Now he might he might run there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so anyway, that'll be interesting to see what
Speaker 4: he does in that Chiefs offense. But getting back to
Speaker 4: the Cowboys and at the wide receiver position, this is
Speaker 4: a big game for them to see if these young
Speaker 4: guys can can step up even more than what they
Speaker 4: have been with Brandon Cook still out for the least
Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Still, yeah, and he is. He's doing much better. He's
Speaker 1: able to do some rehab stuff now. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you have an infection like that, the guy's on
Speaker 1: an IV and that that's serious stuff. I can vouch
Speaker 1: for that, by the way. And and so yeah, well
Speaker 1: they're gonna get him back, so they should. His four
Speaker 1: games should be up in another week. Yeah, it happened
Speaker 1: the New York game, so he missed Pittsburgh, he missed Detroit,
Speaker 1: spy doesn't count.
Speaker 4: Right, And so then this is San Francisco Atlanta, so
Speaker 4: he could be back for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia, correct, So you got that guy coming back, and
Speaker 1: remember you pay these guys, so you know the salary
Speaker 1: cap comes into question there when when you say, well,
Speaker 1: just go get that guy, all right, Well that would
Speaker 1: be nice, but at some point you do need to continue,
Speaker 1: as Nate would tell you, playing these young guys and
Speaker 1: getting them experience. I think Tolbert is getting better, but
Speaker 1: then when you get to the third guy you're looking
Speaker 1: at Jalen Brooks, Cavante Turpin, and we mentioned this Yesterdaly Floyd,
Speaker 1: Noi Floy Illinois Floy not floor right, Illinoy. I'll get
Speaker 1: it at some point maybe when he catches about what
Speaker 1: he catches, it doesn't it doesn't fumble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's when you'll startle.
Speaker 1: You hate that, right, your first NFL catch and you
Speaker 1: get punched out.
Speaker 4: So you mentioned Tolbert. Who else did you mention Turpin? Yeah, Brooks,
Speaker 4: Jalm Brooks and then Ryan Flinoy, Ryan Illinoy.
Speaker 1: That's it, right, that's the wide receiver crew.
Speaker 4: It's basically it.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot of young guys with not much experience.
Speaker 4: By the way, that's a lot on CDs.
Speaker 1: So CD. Yeah, and what do you think defenses are
Speaker 1: thinking he ain't beating me. Let these other guys step
Speaker 1: up and beat me. And it has to do with
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think Troy was totally out of
Speaker 1: line when he pointed out about the the routes UH
Speaker 1: and the ability to separate and get open. And it
Speaker 1: takes time for young guys to figure some of that
Speaker 1: stuff out. And so I don't know that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: thought they needed to go do something. You just kind of,
Speaker 1: I don't know, hold your breath until Brooks gets I mean,
Speaker 1: Cooks gets back, and try to do the best you can.
Speaker 1: But still, the one thing that's got to get better
Speaker 1: and and improve along the way is that run game
Speaker 1: and being able to stop San Francisco from running the football,
Speaker 1: and they have not done that in the three games
Speaker 1: that that they've lost consecutively. You know that that series.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I pointed this out yesterday, but
Speaker 1: it was like, in this series, San Francisco has won
Speaker 1: the last three games. That's right, I had this here.
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Speaker 4: Okay, some details on the Hopkins trade to Kansas City.
Speaker 4: He's being traded to Kansas City for a fifth round
Speaker 4: pick that elevates to a fourth if the Chiefs make
Speaker 4: the super Bowl and if Hopkins plays sixty percent of
Speaker 4: the Snaps.
Speaker 1: Good chance of get the sixty percent.
Speaker 4: And judging by their recent history, good chance to the
Speaker 4: super Bowl too since they're off. So that's why it
Speaker 4: was announced as a conditional fourth round pick because until
Speaker 4: proven otherwise, Kangas City's headed to the super Bowl. Titans
Speaker 4: will also pay two and a half million dollars of
Speaker 4: Hopkins contract.
Speaker 1: Oh so basically they're absorbing a some dead money and
Speaker 1: paying two million of I think it was five maybe
Speaker 1: five million that was left on his base something like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you you incur money, but you only get
Speaker 1: at best the fourth round pick. So maybe they value
Speaker 1: the pick that much that the money doesn't cap money doesn't.
Speaker 4: Matter, and they obviously figured that they weren't going to
Speaker 4: get a better offer than that if they waited. And
Speaker 4: maybe I don't know what Hopkins attitude was around the building,
Speaker 4: but yeah, they may have decided and we we don't need,
Speaker 4: don't need to have him hanging around for a couple
Speaker 4: more weeks. So anyway, all right, so if there, Jerry
Speaker 4: has been adamant basically that they're not active as far
Speaker 4: as any moves right now. But if there was a
Speaker 4: position to enhance for a and i'll say for a
Speaker 4: third day draft pick, what position would that be?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: One right now? What the injury situation is when you're
Speaker 4: getting guys back, as you can kind of basically look
Speaker 4: at it. That Cooks is coming back in a trade.
Speaker 4: By the Philadelphia game, you're adding him, I would say.
Speaker 1: At this point, waiting defensive end m H. I know
Speaker 1: at some point either this week or next week, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll get Michael Parsons back, but Nilan and DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: are Thanksgiving probably, I'm thinking that's a long time ye away.
Speaker 1: And if I needed immediate help, that would be it.
Speaker 1: But who's giving up a defensive end that can create sacks?
Speaker 1: That's a tough one.
Speaker 4: You know what people are shouting running back? No, as
Speaker 4: far as defensive ends. Oh, Max Crosby.
Speaker 1: Why is he unhappy?
Speaker 4: He's Yes?
Speaker 1: Did anybody before they shout? Look at how much it
Speaker 1: would cost?
Speaker 4: I just let his cap hit for twenty twenty five
Speaker 4: is twenty eight point two million dollars. Well, his cap
Speaker 4: hit for twenty twenty six shrinks to twenty four point
Speaker 4: eight million dollars?
Speaker 1: And how much would you incur this year? Probably half
Speaker 1: of his is a bao.
Speaker 4: It was a he signed in twenty twenty two March
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty two, a four year, ninety four million
Speaker 4: dollar contract.
Speaker 1: Does it have his base?
Speaker 4: But anyway, I just I just present that as right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: as a joke more than anything.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good bill. Oh and to finish what
Speaker 1: I was saying. And so San Francisco has won the
Speaker 1: last three straight. Prior to that, the Cowboys had beaten
Speaker 1: San Francisco six of seven games. So it's been a
Speaker 1: like streaks because at one point.
Speaker 4: So the current streak is three three.
Speaker 1: Straight two playoff games in a regular season game. Is
Speaker 1: that what it is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just that the playoff games seem to carry
Speaker 4: more weight.
Speaker 1: Well, No, it's the thirty eight point loss last year
Speaker 1: that carries more weight. I mean that they were at
Speaker 1: least competitive in the playoffs games they got beat twenty three,
Speaker 1: seventeen and nineteen twelve.
Speaker 4: In nineteen twelve, nineteen twelve.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago, isn't it. But the series
Speaker 1: has been a yeah streak.
Speaker 4: You're right, Okay, So the Cowboys won three in a
Speaker 4: row twenty sixteen through twenty twenty. The Niners have won
Speaker 4: three in a row from twenty two to twenty three.
Speaker 4: So it's time to start a Cowboys streak of three
Speaker 4: at a row.
Speaker 1: And if you go way back, the Cowboys won seven
Speaker 1: of eight from seventy one through eighty and then when
Speaker 1: they lost the catch game in the no they actually
Speaker 1: lost to San Francisco twice that eighty one season. Regular
Speaker 1: season in the catch game they won six straight. Then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ended up winning three straight.
Speaker 4: Franc which was ninety three, ninety three, ninety four, which
Speaker 4: are pretty good.
Speaker 1: Years, not bad, and then San Francisco ended up winning
Speaker 1: three straight.
Speaker 4: What I'm finding in this the streaks is that it
Speaker 4: seems like when Dallas had the better team, they were
Speaker 4: on a streak, and when San Francisco had the better match,
Speaker 4: they're in the streak. Yeah, So who has the better
Speaker 4: team this week? Considering the injuries?
Speaker 1: See, that's a tough one to side, because Brock Purty
Speaker 1: without his wide receivers looked pretty pedestrial.
Speaker 4: What was that quarterback rating?
Speaker 1: I think it was thirty four point.
Speaker 4: City and Mahomes combined for a forty rating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because one was in the forties forty four maybe
Speaker 1: and one was thirty six or thirty four. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the injuries, we don't talk about it, but they they
Speaker 1: do matter. And so here's the issue that I see
Speaker 1: and why this is a huge week for Tyler Geiton.
Speaker 4: It's who's lining up as edge rushers for the Niners.
Speaker 4: Besides Nick Bosa Bosa, they got Leonard Floyd also.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he's pretty good. And that was one of
Speaker 1: the things that Mike McCarthy pointed out, that their edge
Speaker 1: guys are pretty darn good. And the other thing he
Speaker 1: pointed out is Fred Warner really kind of messes up
Speaker 1: your offense the way he can basically consider the best
Speaker 1: middle linebacker in the league. Yeah, and the fact that
Speaker 1: he can drop into coverage. So your call for Jake
Speaker 1: Ferguson to do more might get neutralized by what the
Speaker 1: middle linebacker can do on some of those steam routes.
Speaker 1: And McCarthy said, especially when you get inside the red
Speaker 1: zone and everything's condensed, he can kind of command that
Speaker 1: middle of the field in the passing game.
Speaker 4: To rare when a middle linebacker commands the kind of
Speaker 4: money that Fred Warner has a five year, ninety six
Speaker 4: million dollar contract. That is rare money for an inside linebacker.
Speaker 4: But he's a rare player too.
Speaker 1: That's sort of like when you say the running back
Speaker 1: position got devalued.
Speaker 4: And it's because of injuries.
Speaker 1: Right, But and the middle linebacker, as we saw with
Speaker 1: vander esh.
Speaker 4: As we saw it before with Sean Lee, and as
Speaker 4: other teams see with most of their inside linebackers, it's
Speaker 4: rare that inside linebackers can stay healthy throughout a career.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So Luke Keikley was another one who played at a
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame level and at his career cut short
Speaker 4: due to concussions.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, they've still even though it says three
Speaker 1: and four they're still they're still pretty good, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have their hands full, but they need to
Speaker 1: get some of these guys back on the field. And
Speaker 1: it would start with Deron Bland and Kendricks and then
Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4: You know, as I watch another replay of Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 4: going down the sideline a and doing ball fakes. You know,
Speaker 4: going into that game last week, Mahomes and Brock Purdy
Speaker 4: led the NFL. They were one and two in first
Speaker 4: downs rushing by a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Really, I didn't realize Perdy was doing that much running.
Speaker 4: Timely, running right, you know, and basically if things break
Speaker 4: down and he'll break out and get just enough yurds
Speaker 4: to get a first down. So it's not like zone
Speaker 4: read stuff or anything like that, but it's there's a
Speaker 4: lot of It's like what Mahomes does.
Speaker 1: Well, and he's been I don't either know if it's
Speaker 1: fortunate or crafty enough to run and not take big hits,
Speaker 1: unlike Jaden Daniels, right got flipped up in the air
Speaker 1: or whatever, rolled around and gets injured. Got to be
Speaker 1: careful running the foot football, and I'll guarantee you next
Speaker 1: time Mahomes goes tip toeing down the sideline, somebody's going
Speaker 1: to think it's worth fifteen yards to go nail them.
Speaker 4: Well, better be careful. That's a reason that people forget
Speaker 4: that RG three was like a rookie of the year
Speaker 4: his rookie season with Washington, right, and then he had
Speaker 4: suffered the ACL injury late in that season and he
Speaker 4: wasn't the same quarterback after that. There's been other quarterbacks
Speaker 4: that their careers basically get derailed. Yeah, and I'm not
Speaker 4: running type quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: That not suggesting somebody's going to purposely go hit them.
Speaker 1: But it's like when he's the runner in terrible sideline
Speaker 1: and he's faking like he's going to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. See look at that one Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: That Mahomes running against Cincinnati. And by the way, when
Speaker 4: it comes to Mahomes, people haven't appreciated that they should
Speaker 4: appreciated this. The work that his personal trainer does with
Speaker 4: him is just off the charts and which which has
Speaker 4: made him, you know, the uber talent that he is
Speaker 4: is his ability to not only the runs that you see,
Speaker 4: but his ability to move around in the pocket, extend
Speaker 4: place I mean that is a year round thing, and
Speaker 4: it's something that Dak has done in his career that
Speaker 4: has made him more athletic than even when he came
Speaker 4: into the league.
Speaker 1: So is that Jordan No, that wasn't Jordan Love. They
Speaker 1: just showed another quarterback running there.
Speaker 4: Look like cann he Pickett picket.
Speaker 1: So did you see what he was what he almost did.
Speaker 1: He almost intimated that he was going to slide, and
Speaker 1: then he didn't go down. I think they got to
Speaker 1: watch that stuff because next time, maybe he is a slide.
Speaker 1: Somebody's gonna nail them. I mean, think about it, when
Speaker 1: you compete against somebody that's better than you, and you
Speaker 1: know they're better than you, but if you can ever
Speaker 1: catch them, you give them a little extra, right, if
Speaker 1: he ever played any sport.
Speaker 4: Well, And there's so much respect for Mahomes too, right,
Speaker 4: and like when he runs along the sideline, you respect him,
Speaker 4: so you're not gonna cheap shot him. And then he
Speaker 4: pulls that off, right, Okay, then might as well just
Speaker 4: go after him there.
Speaker 1: And even that shot they showed there against Cincinnati when
Speaker 1: he got hit out of bounce, well he got hit,
Speaker 1: but the ball came flying out. He came flying farther
Speaker 1: like he was Superman diving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have situ hits to get that smart football right there.
Speaker 4: That's right, all right? That does it for another edition
Speaker 4: of Mixed Shines. We welcome Everson back, and I promise
Speaker 4: not to talk about the catch with Everson for the
Speaker 4: next two days. What about you?
Speaker 1: He might bring it up himself, bring it.
Speaker 4: Up himself, all right. I might lead him to it,
Speaker 4: but I'm not going to bring it up myself.
Speaker 1: When we do the Star Sports Tour reception, he gets
Speaker 1: that question once, bet Bet, and he answers it.
Speaker 4: He needs to handle it like Jerry handled his interview
Speaker 4: with the fan yesterday and just asked the question himself.
Speaker 4: He said, I know you are going to ask me
Speaker 4: about Derry Henry.
Speaker 1: Let's get right into it, right, all right?
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