WEBVTT - Mick Shots: The Pregame Show 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:06.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:16.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.480 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:25.200 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:32.120 and Nicky Spagnola. And it is here. It is nearly 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.080 game day, game night in this case, Thursday night football 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.280 is just over forty eight hours away. And this is 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.000 Mick Shots. This is our own little pregame show. Bill Jones, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.720 Everson Walls, at Mickey Spagnola and Everson. Look at Mickey. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:52.280 You can tell it's game week. Mickey has time. Oh 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:57.000 my goodness, I word him. If I was single, I 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.400 wore it just for you guys. Has I think to 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.200 do what TV shows I have to do? Right? Well, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.280 you know, almost late and we were going to dock 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.240 your pay. Yeah, well I was almost showing up at 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.880 one thirty until William goes, there's a show with your 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.880 name on it. You need to be in there, right 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.759 all right? Well I see ever since dressed up too, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.200 by the way, yes, thank you very much. Yeah, look 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.840 at that boyish looking how that in the HBCU Hall 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.920 of Fame. Sure, you know, just kind of supporting this weekend. 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.200 Thanks for How did it go? It went so well, man, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.640 I had so much fun until they started. They showed 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.679 me a picture of the last class of Hall of Famers, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.840 and see, I've never watched the stuff because you know, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.960 me and my dad made this this promise each other. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:52.240 I got pissed because at Water, oh you mean the NFL, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.800 not the I thought you were talking about Water Black 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.120 College Hall of Fame. Oh, I know at Water. Come on, man, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.760 this is killing me. And I got depressed right away. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.680 And John Lynch, oh see I wasn't gonna say that, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.200 but dude, John Lynch, come on man, what's going on? Man? 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.920 What's what I need to do? What's that to do? 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.800 Instead of you or Darren Woodson give me a break 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.840 on that me or Darren Woodson. I wouldn't even think 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.560 about Darren because I'm selfish of course, though, of course 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.760 Darren Woodson. John Lynch over Darren Woodson, I don't even 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.720 think about that. Yeah, that's amazing, man, And I'm just 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.320 getting I guess I just got. I walked out. There 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.280 was at the pro shop where they had the T 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.840 shirts and all the guys names. Yeah, like got the 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.720 pictures and I had no idea. So I'm looking at it, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.960 and here's Robert Bazil, who had just made it after 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.839 being dogged out for decades. He found they probably put 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.639 him in and so you know, he was up when 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:50.880 I was up for the one time. And so he 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.240 made it along with Cramer, which was amazing because if 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.960 you're not gonna make it, then those two guys were 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.359 long overdue. So he comes up to me, Hey, man, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.840 calm down, got patting me on my chance, you know, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.400 calm down, man, I'm sitting up there. All I can 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.160 say was that water. That's all I can say. That 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:09.919 sound like I was ordered to drink or something. But 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.440 at least tell me you went into the section where 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.120 your picture was on the wall. Oh I've seen that, Okay, yeah, no, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.160 I've always I was waiting for your interview. I was 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.040 watching the game. No no, I didn't make the game. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.960 No you didn't. I left the game. EARL got participated 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.760 everything up until the l. That's that's that's where you're 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.200 making yours. You gotta get as much attention as possible. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.440 I did. It worked for Lynn Swann. No, it word 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:42.920 for word, dramatically. Yeah, going way back then Swan. He's 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:46.640 a sideline reporter. He keeps everybody just top of mind. Everybody. Hey, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:51.920 I did the interview on the NFL Network leading up 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.480 to the game, which was hilarious. I cracked on Doug 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.920 William's new hair. I don't know how they hit. You 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.960 get that old and you got twist in your head 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.720 all of a sudden. So I had to crack on 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.200 him in that regard. But now really had a great time, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.000 and I have to give a shout out to Doug 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.640 and James Shack Harris. These guys have kept this thing 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.080 going man to where HBCU was a really getting the 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.760 love that we would hope that they were gotten way 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.600 back then. I mean we're talking about thirty years, maybe 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.160 even forty years of being ignored. I know, a Grambling 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.440 we never got a look from a scout after Doug 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.000 Williams left in nineteen seventy seven, and that was it. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.240 We were like, no one got drafted from Gramling, no 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.200 one got signed. It was just pretty pretty average. I 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:39.760 think we had a couple of guys that got signed 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.960 late round. But you know, when you look at those 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.320 three years after that when I was there, after Doug left, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.360 we were a good squad and we got hardly got 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.400 any recognition, and Grambling wasn't the only team with a 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.680 flagship of black college football. And for us to get 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.120 that treatment, then you you wouldn't think what would happened 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.560 to FAM? You or Jackson State are also great program. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:05.000 So uh, it's good to see Doug and Shack and 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.640 David Baker. Yes, David Baker is the man. He can 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.640 make you feel good about not making the Hall of Fame, 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.159 can make you feel good about anything. And he is 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.640 very good at at really being positive. You know, you 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.000 could call it one way. You know, you could say 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.559 that he's you know, just able to use those words 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.880 to keep you at bay. But at the same time, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.559 the words that he spoke, they're truth and you can't 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.120 no matter how you phrase it, truth is truth. And 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.400 I like the way that he supports us. Biggest man 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.320 I think I've ever seen. He is a very large man, 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:42.280 and and Everson would love for that very large man 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.560 the film and his store. That's right. And by the way, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.120 as far as the game is concerned, that you missed, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:55.800 Grambling did win over tesse Eddie George's Tennessee State squad. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.880 Tall Jones but Eddie George is in his first year 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 the head coaching. To this, we spanked and pretty good, 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:10.760 pretty good? Yeah, yeah, sixteen to ten. Much Okay, so 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.440 how about this game? Yes, Thursday night Cowboys and the Bucks. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.119 I'm headed there on Wednesday, and Mickey, you are headed 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.400 there too. Looks that way at this point. Yes, Okay, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.080 he's handed man, but he needs a place to stay. Bill. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:30.440 Why well, there's there's also another level in there. I 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.279 had to do my little test, so well, oh okay, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.719 make sure nothing pops up on my phone. Jim Mauer. 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.880 Okay you mean yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, let's hope 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:47.799 that stuff it comes back negative. Yeah, forget the other guys. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.279 Just I don't care about the drif or in the 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.400 same room with you for an hour. Wow, that's true too, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.680 And he definitely won't be staying with you, Bill, if 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.839 he does that, he's staying with me regarded. He's not 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:07.160 going anyway. I'm going yeah, all right. So we've had 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.280 an active day already. The head coach met with the 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:15.440 media this morning. The team has virtual player availability later 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.280 this afternoon, and Jerry and Stephen were over at the 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:25.440 stadium with the debut of Miller lighthouse just moments ago 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.800 speaking with the media, I'm sure, and so lots of 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.000 talk about So where do you want to start, Zach Martin. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.560 That's right, That's why I wanted to start right there. Yeah, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.400 we haven't had a chance to talk about that. No, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.440 we have not, so I'm nervous. Yeah, and you know, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.280 I think I think the right term for this. It's 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:50.160 highly unlikely he'll be available. There is a slim chance, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:55.600 which Jerry is kind of latching onto with hope, that 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:03.880 he can be asymptomatic and then test negative twice within 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.800 a forty eight hour period before the game. Now is 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.480 it tests negative twice within a forty eight hour well 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.000 or twenty four hours every twenty four hours so to 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.320 four hours. So yeah, he could be Okay, we could 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.360 take it. He would have to be, this is the 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.960 way Jerry's looking out, Okay, But he could be asymptomatic 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.120 for two days, like like yesterday and today or today 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.840 and tomorrow until eight am tomorrow. Let's say, okay, eight 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.959 am Wednesday, he does a test that's negative, right, he 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.160 can also he can then do a test at eight 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.640 oh one am Thursday, right, and be negative, and then 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.360 he gets on a plane and goes to Tampa and 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.080 Air Jerry comes to picks him up. Damn right, right, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.800 And somebody, somebody, somebody was talking to I heard him saying. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.200 Today he goes, well, the team's leaving on Wednesday, and 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.280 it seems like it would be impossible for him to 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.480 you know, and it's like Air Jerry. Yeah, yeah, Air 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.480 Jerry can pick him up at seeing the afternoon, have 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.240 him there ready dressed for an eight o'clock start eight am. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.840 The deadline is three pm basically on Thursday, for his 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.400 second day. Or they can fly him there, keep him 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.440 somewhere else, snatch him. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.839 So I wouldn't even wait for the test. He's gonna 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.160 be there, just test, test there, right, it doesn't matter 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.240 where you test. So that's that's the slim chance that 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.599 is available. Uh. And I think that's why Mike McCarthy 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.080 keeps saying, you know, it's as close to know as 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.760 close can be. Uh. And I understand what he's saying. Now. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.280 The other thing is is, you know, it's it's good 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.400 that there's a mixed message out there. They don't have 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.000 to tell Tampa Bay what's going on. Right, there's no 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.679 need to do that, although the COVID list is official 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.719 on the on the NFL wire. Uh So, yeah, so 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:55.000 that's where Zach is and his replacement, Connor McGovern would 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.480 go in and play guard. And you know, here's the 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:01.679 thing that I did myself a little search Bill Okay, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.400 and I saw that in preseason games he played in 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.520 all four. He told him one hundred and thirty two snaps. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.720 I'll guarantee you his one hundred and thirty two snaps 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.240 are more than anybody else on that offensive line, maybe 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.960 be Idish. I haven't checked his out right. He had 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.440 one hundred and thirty two snaps, ninety of them in 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.440 the three games he started, so it wasn't like it 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:31.240 was scrub time, right. He was playing against starters. And 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.720 he did start in the first game, the second game, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.640 and the fourth game, so that's a lot of snaps. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.640 So that's why I think Mike said. Mike said, he's 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.800 clearly Connor is ready to go. So did he go 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.480 up against Damikong Sue in any of those games? I 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.959 don't think so, And I understand that that part of it. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.000 The other part, from an experience standpoint, he did start 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.880 eight games last year so it's not like sending tern 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.920 Steal out there as an undrafted rookie like they did 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:10.520 at tackle last year. And they also played against Jacksonville. Correct, Uh, yes, Jacksonville, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.000 and they had that Jacksonville they had front four front 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.400 the first year their defense was in there, right, yes, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.560 so yes, and he played. He started the last eight 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.120 games last year, so you know he's and he was 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.400 a third round pick. They were big on him. Now. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:32.280 I'm not saying he's four time All Pro Zach Martin Area, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.800 but it's at least a guy that has some experience, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.720 unlike last year when they just threw a guy in 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:43.160 there to the Wolves. Uh so yeah. Um, you know, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.800 he's looked good in the preseason. I thought, um, so 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:51.160 he he'll have his hands full, Tyler Biadas, he'll have 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.520 his hands full. Connor Williams will have his hands here. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.640 And it's hard. And you tell me, it's hard to 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.640 help the guys inside, right, you can help the tackles, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.720 it's hard to help the guide. You. You might be 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.000 able to help one side, right, yes, but because help, 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.040 you got to overload to do something right, you have 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.640 to overload to protect. So if you overload one way 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.760 you're gonna be weak the other way, just mad And 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.320 even if you use two tight ends, chances are the 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.640 tight ends helping the tackle. I don't know that you 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.640 want to turn the tight end loose on a defensive 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.920 end while the tackle helps inside. And not to mention 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.960 that that hurts you on your pass game as well. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.360 Right now you're limited with the different wide receivers that 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.920 you have. Yeah, you're less one, you're less one wide receiver. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:35.800 And now you've got a tight end, which you've got 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.080 great tight ends, but they're not Gallop or CD yeah 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.720 or And that's that's one of the concerning things against 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.600 this Tampa Bay defense, Todd Bowles defense. If you look 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.160 at Devin White, one of their inside linebackers, he may 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.680 be one of the best inside linebackers in the league. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.040 Not just in Yeah, he was the fifth pick in 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.960 the draft in two thousand nineteen and these are his 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.199 numbers from last year. Okay, we talk all this stuff 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.079 about Tom Brady and the Bucks offense, Well, their defense 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.320 was a top five defense in the league last year 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:13.000 and Devin White, from an inside linebacker position, had nine 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.880 sacks last year, fifteen tackles for lost, sixteen quarterback pressures 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.600 the leading tackler on the team in my concern, without 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.640 a Zach Martin in the middle of that Cowboys offensive line, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.840 where you're got McGovern at right guard beyond his should center, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.360 a young player who doesn't have a full season of 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.280 starting under his belt. Neither does McGovern and Connor Williams 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.880 at left guard is what Todd Bowles might bring as 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.440 far as some blitz packages and then thinking bit chops 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.400 and then not to mention Jpp had nine and a 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.120 half sacks playing on a I think it was a 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.880 foot that he needed surgery. No, it was a knee 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.880 that needed surgery after the season. And then their other 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.120 defensive end, Shaquille Barrett had eight sacks, Sue had six 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.040 with nine quarters at night quarterback hits, by the way, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.319 and Vita Vea, who only played in five games last year, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.560 had two sacks in those five games. To do the 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.280 math on what he would have done if he have 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.080 played the full season, he would have had at least 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.880 six sacks. Now, the weird thing about Tampa Bay twelve 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.840 games into the season they were seven and five, and 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.480 then they went on a streak and won all the 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.120 rest right offense the final four games, and then however 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.120 many playoff company to date they had to play. They 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.560 played Washington the first round. Yeah, so they won eight 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.880 consecutive games after they started off seven and five, and 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.560 they had lost three out their last four to heading 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.880 into December, which included like a thirty eight to three 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.600 lost in New Orleans at home in the month of November, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.280 and then they lost back to back games to Kansas 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:52.040 City and the Rams, and I think it was the 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.280 where did I write it down? I think it was 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.600 like the same score, twenty seven, twenty four something like that. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:04.640 So yeah, I mean, just for them to make it 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.520 to the Super Bowl alone, that that to me. Let 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.120 you know that Todd Bowls is just another Bill Belichick. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.080 That's all he is. He's a guy that knows how 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.160 to work for his offense. Your defense can work for 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.040 your offense. You keep blowing it offensively, you keep on 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.360 making these turnovers, you put us in a bad position defensively, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.800 we're gonna be okay, we're gonna hold it to three. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.320 We're gonna hold the damage to a minimum if we can. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.960 And usually they do with that kind of defense, And 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.160 all that does is give the defense, give the offense 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.360 just another chance over and over again. We did in 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.400 New York all the time. Plus Sales called his game 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.120 plan in that manner. We're not gonna be through one 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.160 a bunch of depasses, We're not going to be trying 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.000 a bunch of stuff. We're gonna play the field position 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.520 game with a good running game, solid short passes, and 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.440 let the defense hold it down for us until we're 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.800 able to make our move and say, that's always been 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.560 and that was the problem last year. And we can 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.840 talk about the injuries on the Cowboys offense last year, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.160 the guys they were missing the offensive lineman, Dak the 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.640 tight end. That didn't mean the defense had to finish 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.040 thirty first against the run. The defense could have kind 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.920 of rescued held their ground right y, and they did. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.600 They did not. They failed miserably. And so what you 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.000 had was, you know, let's just face it. Yeah, when 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.880 you're old, we've been there, it takes you a little 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.560 while to warm up a little bit. And I don't 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.760 mean just for like a practice, I mean just for 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.080 a season. And as Brady started to kind of get 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.880 the feel of that offense, you know, get his own feel, 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.120 his defense gave him game after game right to be 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.480 able to come back and not have a bunch of 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.880 pressure on him to make all the plays. So eventually 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.040 they started to show up offensively and the defense is like, okay, 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.800 welcome to the club, to the season. So here's the 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.760 other part of this, as Bill Parcels would always say, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.720 the other side of the pancake. So if you're starting 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.480 your backup at right guard, now who's the backup to 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.320 the backup right because you got to have another guy. Uh. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:16.320 Mike McCarthy sounded encouraging that Brandon Knight would come off 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.879 the COVID list in times steady to play that he 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.960 would have been the immediate backup guard. And he was 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.280 a high risk close contact, so they had to put 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.080 him on and that's different from right right. Yeah, And 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.919 if you're vaccinated then you know you can cut, you 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.600 can get off quickly, so he could. They are kind 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.600 of counting on him being eligible to play, so he 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.679 would be the backup guard because if he's out and 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.600 Zach's out, that would leave Matt Forniac, the seventh round 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.720 draft choice rookie who was a guard at Nebraska. The 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.920 Cowboys moved him to center. He's kind of played both 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.600 in training camp, he would be the next guy up 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.680 if they didn't think either of those tackles could play guard. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.680 I think Nasecki's played a whole bunch of things. But 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.800 my injury report, the first injury report of the season, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.680 had Tie n Secki limited with a foot injury. So 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.200 that guy's got to get healthy. They cannot have their 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.600 backup tackle once again missing like they did last year 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:28.000 with Cam Irving. Yeah, we got enough money to go 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.320 out and buy another one. Yeah, if there's one of it. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.879 No one leaves offensive lineman worth anything out there in 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.440 free agency if you look at the cuts and look 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.919 at offensive tackles or even sitting on a practice squad 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.000 something right where you can go get right, Yeah, and 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.560 you can protect them. But they don't. I mean they 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.920 just signed a guy that's a tackle to the practice 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.960 squad just for numbers to get through this way. See here, 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.959 here's what's happening as far as the backup offensive lineman. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.520 They're getting hurt around the league. Okay, they were on 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.639 the fifty three man roster, and this is how you 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.960 stash offensive linemen. Now you stick them because of the 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.320 new rules on the injured reserve, where they just have 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.320 to sit out three weeks. In fact, Tampa Bay is 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.080 a great example of it. I was looking at their 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:17.720 roster today on their offensive line, they have one, two, three, four, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.560 five offensive linemen on injured reserve, so they don't have 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.120 to stash them on their practice squad where someone can 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.080 come get them. Now, they probably legitimately have injuries whatever, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.920 but that's how otherwise they would have to cut them, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.280 okay if they're or they have to keep them on 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.800 their fifty three. If they're hurt after that September first date, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:38.840 or if you put them on injured reserve before that, 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.399 they're out for the year. Well here's how you stash 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.240 guys for a seventeen game season. Where you think about 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.000 this spags, they wouldn't do that in the NFL. Damn date. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.879 The reason that I I'm not changed, Tampa Bay is 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.080 a lone ranger on that. Oh no, that's going on 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.280 all around the league. The reason that IR rule changed 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.000 before these last two seasons now because of Covid, it 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.280 was because when he was playing, they were stashing guys 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.040 just the way you sounded on IR. They only had 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.959 to be there four weeks, and so they can stash 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.119 a guy and they're thinking, okay, in four weeks, and 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.639 they were coming up with phony injuries. By the way, 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.800 in four weeks, we're gonna lose somebody. You know, I 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:19.920 can get him back on the fifty three or whatever 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.800 it was. Back then, I could remember there was a game, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.359 I want to say, late eighties. I forgot who the 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.160 quarterback was. They were playing Denver, I want to say, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:38.800 and they told him we're gonna call a quarterback run play. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:44.280 You run towards our bench because the cameras facing the field, 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.200 and just before you go out of bounds, you grab 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:51.080 your hamstring and then we'll be able to keep your 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.359 rights and put you on IR. Well, the quarterback forgot 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.600 that they ran the play, got to grab his hamstring, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:01.280 and I'm going, if he's not smart enough to remember that, 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.239 I don't know if I want him on my right. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.439 But that's what was going on. And if you remember 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:12.080 then in the early nineties, they started sending an independent 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.920 physician to watch practice to make sure the guys that 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.359 were on IR weren't out there working right, and and 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.440 to double check the injury to make sure hated that. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:29.880 Oh suretice with so really the only the only returnable 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.800 guy the Cowboys have on ir right now? Is Josh Ball? 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.760 He can come back after three? And he was legitimately 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.600 hurt with a high ankle spring right. Uh. And they 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.239 didn't have anybody else on the practice squad really until uh. 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.000 They had Isaac Alcorn but he was playing guard. He 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.000 wasn't playing tackle. Uh. And then they signed some guy 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:58.359 ave Heaviante Collins Collins, thank you? Oh? Is that worried that? 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:06.120 So he was close? It seems like sissy Larry's brown, right, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:10.680 Save Jerry some money. It's the twelfth round. Take somebody 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:15.320 close here. Give him twenty four? What the hell? Give 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.720 him any number? Yeah, okay, we're gonna take a break here, 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.080 we're gonna come back. I'm seeing that Tom Brady has 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:28.119 just had his press conference, and I'm thinking Micah Parson's 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.840 number maybe playing tricks on Tom Brady because he is 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.239 not not just talking with the media. He is on 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.760 his soapbox right now. I'll talk about that when we 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.320 come back in a moment. Honey, big news. Gary, are 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.640 you okay? Oh? 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