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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And it is here. It is nearly
Speaker 1: game day, game night in this case, Thursday night football
Speaker 1: is just over forty eight hours away. And this is
Speaker 1: Mick Shots. This is our own little pregame show. Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, at Mickey Spagnola and Everson. Look at Mickey.
Speaker 1: You can tell it's game week. Mickey has time. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, I word him. If I was single, I
Speaker 1: wore it just for you guys. Has I think to
Speaker 1: do what TV shows I have to do? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, almost late and we were going to dock
Speaker 1: your pay. Yeah, well I was almost showing up at
Speaker 1: one thirty until William goes, there's a show with your
Speaker 1: name on it. You need to be in there, right
Speaker 1: all right? Well I see ever since dressed up too,
Speaker 1: by the way, yes, thank you very much. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at that boyish looking how that in the HBCU Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Sure, you know, just kind of supporting this weekend.
Speaker 1: Thanks for How did it go? It went so well, man,
Speaker 1: I had so much fun until they started. They showed
Speaker 1: me a picture of the last class of Hall of Famers,
Speaker 1: and see, I've never watched the stuff because you know,
Speaker 1: me and my dad made this this promise each other.
Speaker 1: I got pissed because at Water, oh you mean the NFL,
Speaker 1: not the I thought you were talking about Water Black
Speaker 1: College Hall of Fame. Oh, I know at Water. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: this is killing me. And I got depressed right away.
Speaker 1: And John Lynch, oh see I wasn't gonna say that,
Speaker 1: but dude, John Lynch, come on man, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1: What's what I need to do? What's that to do?
Speaker 1: Instead of you or Darren Woodson give me a break
Speaker 1: on that me or Darren Woodson. I wouldn't even think
Speaker 1: about Darren because I'm selfish of course, though, of course
Speaker 1: Darren Woodson. John Lynch over Darren Woodson, I don't even
Speaker 1: think about that. Yeah, that's amazing, man, And I'm just
Speaker 1: getting I guess I just got. I walked out. There
Speaker 1: was at the pro shop where they had the T
Speaker 1: shirts and all the guys names. Yeah, like got the
Speaker 1: pictures and I had no idea. So I'm looking at it,
Speaker 1: and here's Robert Bazil, who had just made it after
Speaker 1: being dogged out for decades. He found they probably put
Speaker 1: him in and so you know, he was up when
Speaker 1: I was up for the one time. And so he
Speaker 1: made it along with Cramer, which was amazing because if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it, then those two guys were
Speaker 1: long overdue. So he comes up to me, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: calm down, got patting me on my chance, you know,
Speaker 1: calm down, man, I'm sitting up there. All I can
Speaker 1: say was that water. That's all I can say. That
Speaker 1: sound like I was ordered to drink or something. But
Speaker 1: at least tell me you went into the section where
Speaker 1: your picture was on the wall. Oh I've seen that, Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I've always I was waiting for your interview. I was
Speaker 1: watching the game. No no, I didn't make the game.
Speaker 1: No you didn't. I left the game. EARL got participated
Speaker 1: everything up until the l. That's that's that's where you're
Speaker 1: making yours. You gotta get as much attention as possible.
Speaker 1: I did. It worked for Lynn Swann. No, it word
Speaker 1: for word, dramatically. Yeah, going way back then Swan. He's
Speaker 1: a sideline reporter. He keeps everybody just top of mind. Everybody. Hey,
Speaker 1: I did the interview on the NFL Network leading up
Speaker 1: to the game, which was hilarious. I cracked on Doug
Speaker 1: William's new hair. I don't know how they hit. You
Speaker 1: get that old and you got twist in your head
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. So I had to crack on
Speaker 1: him in that regard. But now really had a great time,
Speaker 1: and I have to give a shout out to Doug
Speaker 1: and James Shack Harris. These guys have kept this thing
Speaker 1: going man to where HBCU was a really getting the
Speaker 1: love that we would hope that they were gotten way
Speaker 1: back then. I mean we're talking about thirty years, maybe
Speaker 1: even forty years of being ignored. I know, a Grambling
Speaker 1: we never got a look from a scout after Doug
Speaker 1: Williams left in nineteen seventy seven, and that was it.
Speaker 1: We were like, no one got drafted from Gramling, no
Speaker 1: one got signed. It was just pretty pretty average. I
Speaker 1: think we had a couple of guys that got signed
Speaker 1: late round. But you know, when you look at those
Speaker 1: three years after that when I was there, after Doug left,
Speaker 1: we were a good squad and we got hardly got
Speaker 1: any recognition, and Grambling wasn't the only team with a
Speaker 1: flagship of black college football. And for us to get
Speaker 1: that treatment, then you you wouldn't think what would happened
Speaker 1: to FAM? You or Jackson State are also great program.
Speaker 1: So uh, it's good to see Doug and Shack and
Speaker 1: David Baker. Yes, David Baker is the man. He can
Speaker 1: make you feel good about not making the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: can make you feel good about anything. And he is
Speaker 1: very good at at really being positive. You know, you
Speaker 1: could call it one way. You know, you could say
Speaker 1: that he's you know, just able to use those words
Speaker 1: to keep you at bay. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: the words that he spoke, they're truth and you can't
Speaker 1: no matter how you phrase it, truth is truth. And
Speaker 1: I like the way that he supports us. Biggest man
Speaker 1: I think I've ever seen. He is a very large man,
Speaker 1: and and Everson would love for that very large man
Speaker 1: the film and his store. That's right. And by the way,
Speaker 1: as far as the game is concerned, that you missed,
Speaker 1: Grambling did win over tesse Eddie George's Tennessee State squad.
Speaker 1: Tall Jones but Eddie George is in his first year
Speaker 1: the head coaching. To this, we spanked and pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good? Yeah, yeah, sixteen to ten. Much Okay, so
Speaker 1: how about this game? Yes, Thursday night Cowboys and the Bucks.
Speaker 1: I'm headed there on Wednesday, and Mickey, you are headed
Speaker 1: there too. Looks that way at this point. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's handed man, but he needs a place to stay. Bill.
Speaker 1: Why well, there's there's also another level in there. I
Speaker 1: had to do my little test, so well, oh okay,
Speaker 1: make sure nothing pops up on my phone. Jim Mauer.
Speaker 1: Okay you mean yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, let's hope
Speaker 1: that stuff it comes back negative. Yeah, forget the other guys.
Speaker 1: Just I don't care about the drif or in the
Speaker 1: same room with you for an hour. Wow, that's true too,
Speaker 1: And he definitely won't be staying with you, Bill, if
Speaker 1: he does that, he's staying with me regarded. He's not
Speaker 1: going anyway. I'm going yeah, all right. So we've had
Speaker 1: an active day already. The head coach met with the
Speaker 1: media this morning. The team has virtual player availability later
Speaker 1: this afternoon, and Jerry and Stephen were over at the
Speaker 1: stadium with the debut of Miller lighthouse just moments ago
Speaker 1: speaking with the media, I'm sure, and so lots of
Speaker 1: talk about So where do you want to start, Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's why I wanted to start right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to talk about that. No,
Speaker 1: we have not, so I'm nervous. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think the right term for this. It's
Speaker 1: highly unlikely he'll be available. There is a slim chance,
Speaker 1: which Jerry is kind of latching onto with hope, that
Speaker 1: he can be asymptomatic and then test negative twice within
Speaker 1: a forty eight hour period before the game. Now is
Speaker 1: it tests negative twice within a forty eight hour well
Speaker 1: or twenty four hours every twenty four hours so to
Speaker 1: four hours. So yeah, he could be Okay, we could
Speaker 1: take it. He would have to be, this is the
Speaker 1: way Jerry's looking out, Okay, But he could be asymptomatic
Speaker 1: for two days, like like yesterday and today or today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow until eight am tomorrow. Let's say, okay, eight
Speaker 1: am Wednesday, he does a test that's negative, right, he
Speaker 1: can also he can then do a test at eight
Speaker 1: oh one am Thursday, right, and be negative, and then
Speaker 1: he gets on a plane and goes to Tampa and
Speaker 1: Air Jerry comes to picks him up. Damn right, right,
Speaker 1: And somebody, somebody, somebody was talking to I heard him saying.
Speaker 1: Today he goes, well, the team's leaving on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: it seems like it would be impossible for him to
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like Air Jerry. Yeah, yeah, Air
Speaker 1: Jerry can pick him up at seeing the afternoon, have
Speaker 1: him there ready dressed for an eight o'clock start eight am.
Speaker 1: The deadline is three pm basically on Thursday, for his
Speaker 1: second day. Or they can fly him there, keep him
Speaker 1: somewhere else, snatch him. Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't even wait for the test. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be there, just test, test there, right, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where you test. So that's that's the slim chance that
Speaker 1: is available. Uh. And I think that's why Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: keeps saying, you know, it's as close to know as
Speaker 1: close can be. Uh. And I understand what he's saying. Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing is is, you know, it's it's good
Speaker 1: that there's a mixed message out there. They don't have
Speaker 1: to tell Tampa Bay what's going on. Right, there's no
Speaker 1: need to do that, although the COVID list is official
Speaker 1: on the on the NFL wire. Uh So, yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's where Zach is and his replacement, Connor McGovern would
Speaker 1: go in and play guard. And you know, here's the
Speaker 1: thing that I did myself a little search Bill Okay,
Speaker 1: and I saw that in preseason games he played in
Speaker 1: all four. He told him one hundred and thirty two snaps.
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee you his one hundred and thirty two snaps
Speaker 1: are more than anybody else on that offensive line, maybe
Speaker 1: be Idish. I haven't checked his out right. He had
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty two snaps, ninety of them in
Speaker 1: the three games he started, so it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was scrub time, right. He was playing against starters. And
Speaker 1: he did start in the first game, the second game,
Speaker 1: and the fourth game, so that's a lot of snaps.
Speaker 1: So that's why I think Mike said. Mike said, he's
Speaker 1: clearly Connor is ready to go. So did he go
Speaker 1: up against Damikong Sue in any of those games? I
Speaker 1: don't think so, And I understand that that part of it.
Speaker 1: The other part, from an experience standpoint, he did start
Speaker 1: eight games last year so it's not like sending tern
Speaker 1: Steal out there as an undrafted rookie like they did
Speaker 1: at tackle last year. And they also played against Jacksonville. Correct, Uh, yes, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and they had that Jacksonville they had front four front
Speaker 1: the first year their defense was in there, right, yes,
Speaker 1: so yes, and he played. He started the last eight
Speaker 1: games last year, so you know he's and he was
Speaker 1: a third round pick. They were big on him. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's four time All Pro Zach Martin Area,
Speaker 1: but it's at least a guy that has some experience,
Speaker 1: unlike last year when they just threw a guy in
Speaker 1: there to the Wolves. Uh so yeah. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's looked good in the preseason. I thought, um, so
Speaker 1: he he'll have his hands full, Tyler Biadas, he'll have
Speaker 1: his hands full. Connor Williams will have his hands here.
Speaker 1: And it's hard. And you tell me, it's hard to
Speaker 1: help the guys inside, right, you can help the tackles,
Speaker 1: it's hard to help the guide. You. You might be
Speaker 1: able to help one side, right, yes, but because help,
Speaker 1: you got to overload to do something right, you have
Speaker 1: to overload to protect. So if you overload one way
Speaker 1: you're gonna be weak the other way, just mad And
Speaker 1: even if you use two tight ends, chances are the
Speaker 1: tight ends helping the tackle. I don't know that you
Speaker 1: want to turn the tight end loose on a defensive
Speaker 1: end while the tackle helps inside. And not to mention
Speaker 1: that that hurts you on your pass game as well.
Speaker 1: Right now you're limited with the different wide receivers that
Speaker 1: you have. Yeah, you're less one, you're less one wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And now you've got a tight end, which you've got
Speaker 1: great tight ends, but they're not Gallop or CD yeah
Speaker 1: or And that's that's one of the concerning things against
Speaker 1: this Tampa Bay defense, Todd Bowles defense. If you look
Speaker 1: at Devin White, one of their inside linebackers, he may
Speaker 1: be one of the best inside linebackers in the league.
Speaker 1: Not just in Yeah, he was the fifth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft in two thousand nineteen and these are his
Speaker 1: numbers from last year. Okay, we talk all this stuff
Speaker 1: about Tom Brady and the Bucks offense, Well, their defense
Speaker 1: was a top five defense in the league last year
Speaker 1: and Devin White, from an inside linebacker position, had nine
Speaker 1: sacks last year, fifteen tackles for lost, sixteen quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: the leading tackler on the team in my concern, without
Speaker 1: a Zach Martin in the middle of that Cowboys offensive line,
Speaker 1: where you're got McGovern at right guard beyond his should center,
Speaker 1: a young player who doesn't have a full season of
Speaker 1: starting under his belt. Neither does McGovern and Connor Williams
Speaker 1: at left guard is what Todd Bowles might bring as
Speaker 1: far as some blitz packages and then thinking bit chops
Speaker 1: and then not to mention Jpp had nine and a
Speaker 1: half sacks playing on a I think it was a
Speaker 1: foot that he needed surgery. No, it was a knee
Speaker 1: that needed surgery after the season. And then their other
Speaker 1: defensive end, Shaquille Barrett had eight sacks, Sue had six
Speaker 1: with nine quarters at night quarterback hits, by the way,
Speaker 1: and Vita Vea, who only played in five games last year,
Speaker 1: had two sacks in those five games. To do the
Speaker 1: math on what he would have done if he have
Speaker 1: played the full season, he would have had at least
Speaker 1: six sacks. Now, the weird thing about Tampa Bay twelve
Speaker 1: games into the season they were seven and five, and
Speaker 1: then they went on a streak and won all the
Speaker 1: rest right offense the final four games, and then however
Speaker 1: many playoff company to date they had to play. They
Speaker 1: played Washington the first round. Yeah, so they won eight
Speaker 1: consecutive games after they started off seven and five, and
Speaker 1: they had lost three out their last four to heading
Speaker 1: into December, which included like a thirty eight to three
Speaker 1: lost in New Orleans at home in the month of November,
Speaker 1: and then they lost back to back games to Kansas
Speaker 1: City and the Rams, and I think it was the
Speaker 1: where did I write it down? I think it was
Speaker 1: like the same score, twenty seven, twenty four something like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, just for them to make it
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl alone, that that to me. Let
Speaker 1: you know that Todd Bowls is just another Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: That's all he is. He's a guy that knows how
Speaker 1: to work for his offense. Your defense can work for
Speaker 1: your offense. You keep blowing it offensively, you keep on
Speaker 1: making these turnovers, you put us in a bad position defensively,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay, we're gonna hold it to three.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hold the damage to a minimum if we can.
Speaker 1: And usually they do with that kind of defense, And
Speaker 1: all that does is give the defense, give the offense
Speaker 1: just another chance over and over again. We did in
Speaker 1: New York all the time. Plus Sales called his game
Speaker 1: plan in that manner. We're not gonna be through one
Speaker 1: a bunch of depasses, We're not going to be trying
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. We're gonna play the field position
Speaker 1: game with a good running game, solid short passes, and
Speaker 1: let the defense hold it down for us until we're
Speaker 1: able to make our move and say, that's always been
Speaker 1: and that was the problem last year. And we can
Speaker 1: talk about the injuries on the Cowboys offense last year,
Speaker 1: the guys they were missing the offensive lineman, Dak the
Speaker 1: tight end. That didn't mean the defense had to finish
Speaker 1: thirty first against the run. The defense could have kind
Speaker 1: of rescued held their ground right y, and they did.
Speaker 1: They did not. They failed miserably. And so what you
Speaker 1: had was, you know, let's just face it. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you're old, we've been there, it takes you a little
Speaker 1: while to warm up a little bit. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean just for like a practice, I mean just for
Speaker 1: a season. And as Brady started to kind of get
Speaker 1: the feel of that offense, you know, get his own feel,
Speaker 1: his defense gave him game after game right to be
Speaker 1: able to come back and not have a bunch of
Speaker 1: pressure on him to make all the plays. So eventually
Speaker 1: they started to show up offensively and the defense is like, okay,
Speaker 1: welcome to the club, to the season. So here's the
Speaker 1: other part of this, as Bill Parcels would always say,
Speaker 1: the other side of the pancake. So if you're starting
Speaker 1: your backup at right guard, now who's the backup to
Speaker 1: the backup right because you got to have another guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy sounded encouraging that Brandon Knight would come off
Speaker 1: the COVID list in times steady to play that he
Speaker 1: would have been the immediate backup guard. And he was
Speaker 1: a high risk close contact, so they had to put
Speaker 1: him on and that's different from right right. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: if you're vaccinated then you know you can cut, you
Speaker 1: can get off quickly, so he could. They are kind
Speaker 1: of counting on him being eligible to play, so he
Speaker 1: would be the backup guard because if he's out and
Speaker 1: Zach's out, that would leave Matt Forniac, the seventh round
Speaker 1: draft choice rookie who was a guard at Nebraska. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys moved him to center. He's kind of played both
Speaker 1: in training camp, he would be the next guy up
Speaker 1: if they didn't think either of those tackles could play guard.
Speaker 1: I think Nasecki's played a whole bunch of things. But
Speaker 1: my injury report, the first injury report of the season,
Speaker 1: had Tie n Secki limited with a foot injury. So
Speaker 1: that guy's got to get healthy. They cannot have their
Speaker 1: backup tackle once again missing like they did last year
Speaker 1: with Cam Irving. Yeah, we got enough money to go
Speaker 1: out and buy another one. Yeah, if there's one of it.
Speaker 1: No one leaves offensive lineman worth anything out there in
Speaker 1: free agency if you look at the cuts and look
Speaker 1: at offensive tackles or even sitting on a practice squad
Speaker 1: something right where you can go get right, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you can protect them. But they don't. I mean they
Speaker 1: just signed a guy that's a tackle to the practice
Speaker 1: squad just for numbers to get through this way. See here,
Speaker 1: here's what's happening as far as the backup offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: They're getting hurt around the league. Okay, they were on
Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster, and this is how you
Speaker 1: stash offensive linemen. Now you stick them because of the
Speaker 1: new rules on the injured reserve, where they just have
Speaker 1: to sit out three weeks. In fact, Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: a great example of it. I was looking at their
Speaker 1: roster today on their offensive line, they have one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five offensive linemen on injured reserve, so they don't have
Speaker 1: to stash them on their practice squad where someone can
Speaker 1: come get them. Now, they probably legitimately have injuries whatever,
Speaker 1: but that's how otherwise they would have to cut them,
Speaker 1: okay if they're or they have to keep them on
Speaker 1: their fifty three. If they're hurt after that September first date,
Speaker 1: or if you put them on injured reserve before that,
Speaker 1: they're out for the year. Well here's how you stash
Speaker 1: guys for a seventeen game season. Where you think about
Speaker 1: this spags, they wouldn't do that in the NFL. Damn date.
Speaker 1: The reason that I I'm not changed, Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: a lone ranger on that. Oh no, that's going on
Speaker 1: all around the league. The reason that IR rule changed
Speaker 1: before these last two seasons now because of Covid, it
Speaker 1: was because when he was playing, they were stashing guys
Speaker 1: just the way you sounded on IR. They only had
Speaker 1: to be there four weeks, and so they can stash
Speaker 1: a guy and they're thinking, okay, in four weeks, and
Speaker 1: they were coming up with phony injuries. By the way,
Speaker 1: in four weeks, we're gonna lose somebody. You know, I
Speaker 1: can get him back on the fifty three or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. Back then, I could remember there was a game,
Speaker 1: I want to say, late eighties. I forgot who the
Speaker 1: quarterback was. They were playing Denver, I want to say,
Speaker 1: and they told him we're gonna call a quarterback run play.
Speaker 1: You run towards our bench because the cameras facing the field,
Speaker 1: and just before you go out of bounds, you grab
Speaker 1: your hamstring and then we'll be able to keep your
Speaker 1: rights and put you on IR. Well, the quarterback forgot
Speaker 1: that they ran the play, got to grab his hamstring,
Speaker 1: and I'm going, if he's not smart enough to remember that,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want him on my right.
Speaker 1: But that's what was going on. And if you remember
Speaker 1: then in the early nineties, they started sending an independent
Speaker 1: physician to watch practice to make sure the guys that
Speaker 1: were on IR weren't out there working right, and and
Speaker 1: to double check the injury to make sure hated that.
Speaker 1: Oh suretice with so really the only the only returnable
Speaker 1: guy the Cowboys have on ir right now? Is Josh Ball?
Speaker 1: He can come back after three? And he was legitimately
Speaker 1: hurt with a high ankle spring right. Uh. And they
Speaker 1: didn't have anybody else on the practice squad really until uh.
Speaker 1: They had Isaac Alcorn but he was playing guard. He
Speaker 1: wasn't playing tackle. Uh. And then they signed some guy
Speaker 1: ave Heaviante Collins Collins, thank you? Oh? Is that worried that?
Speaker 1: So he was close? It seems like sissy Larry's brown, right,
Speaker 1: Save Jerry some money. It's the twelfth round. Take somebody
Speaker 1: close here. Give him twenty four? What the hell? Give
Speaker 1: him any number? Yeah, okay, we're gonna take a break here,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back. I'm seeing that Tom Brady has
Speaker 1: just had his press conference, and I'm thinking Micah Parson's
Speaker 1: number maybe playing tricks on Tom Brady because he is
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Speaker 1: Bucks quarterback Tom Brady would like to reiterate one last
Speaker 1: time how much he doesn't like the new number change rule.
Speaker 1: To quote him, I don't want to get into it.
Speaker 1: I've already talked at nauseum about it other than and
Speaker 1: I think it's a this is all in all caps
Speaker 1: stupid rule. Just to put it out there one more time,
Speaker 1: does he sound like bags? I like that old d
Speaker 1: get out. Well, there's Brady. For twenty one years in
Speaker 1: this league. He's been able to identify the linebacker. Oh
Speaker 1: he's a fifty number. Okay, and now you got number eleven.
Speaker 1: And then there's a safety number six, Donovan Wilson, who
Speaker 1: kinda sometimes looks like a linebacker and not got to
Speaker 1: and identify these guys. And there's a fourteen that's a
Speaker 1: linebacker's right now they've given us and so he's been
Speaker 1: studying the Cowboys all preseason. And number forty was forty eight?
Speaker 1: Was it? What was turned into fourteen? And now who
Speaker 1: knows what they're gonna be wearing on Thursday night? Even
Speaker 1: got a cornerback wearing seven. H H. Trey Von. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's weird. Ye. So if you got your choice to
Speaker 1: change your number, would you have changed number nine? Number nine?
Speaker 1: Number nine? Ye? Yes, number nine. I think fortys of
Speaker 1: the best. So you just can't beat that. Now. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a number for a dB, well really
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you're a dB or not. I
Speaker 1: wanted twenty two. Everybody wanted twenty two. Really it was
Speaker 1: Bob Hayes. Everybody wanted twenty two. If you were the man,
Speaker 1: you wanted twenty two. And then when door set game,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody won thirty three. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that just depended on the player himself. I mean these
Speaker 1: are how conic players that Bob Hayes gold medal, Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Come on, everybody wanted to be the fastiest man the world,
Speaker 1: even though I was not close to that. Thirty three
Speaker 1: was my junior high basketball number two my high school
Speaker 1: basketball that that was from No wonder we're together at
Speaker 1: the time, lou Au Center. That's really yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: Larry Burden not at the time. So you mentioned Todd
Speaker 1: Bowles their defensive coordinator, former Cowboy defensive I'm not a second.
Speaker 1: He coached Grambling for a while with Doug Williams as well. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: So they've got three former Cowboy assistants. Casey Rodgers was
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defensive line coach, and their specialist coach Chris Boniol. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah got himself a Super Bowl ring as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, So good for Chris. Yeah, he was the
Speaker 1: kicking coach here. He was. He was the guy that
Speaker 1: spoke up for um hold, I'm gonna blank out the
Speaker 1: Cowboys kicker in twenty eleven when he was a rookie
Speaker 1: Um Bailey, Dan Bailey. He was the one that stuck
Speaker 1: his for Dan Bailey, saying, this guy's better than everybody else.
Speaker 1: And we've brought in there, right, he was something else.
Speaker 1: And then poor poor Bonial. This guy was kicking serious
Speaker 1: important field goals that rookie year, and he was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: my job's on the line. That was you talk about
Speaker 1: a shooting star. M I thought he was just one
Speaker 1: of the best kickers. Yeah, and I think it was
Speaker 1: wasn't just his effectiveness, No, it was it was his style. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was so his mental approach to it. And then
Speaker 1: unfortunately he kind of lost that that you're talking Bailey, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: in fact, and here's the other thing on Dan Bailey
Speaker 1: and to your point, a Boniol having to stick his
Speaker 1: neck out for him. You remember at at and T
Speaker 1: Stadium once training camp resumed back here, he was in
Speaker 1: a slump. That was his rookie season. And there was
Speaker 1: one twenty eleven, right, twentyland was the strike year that
Speaker 1: they didn't have any preseason. Yeah, and so here no,
Speaker 1: not preseason, they didn't have any offset off season. And
Speaker 1: so but he was in a slump and one of
Speaker 1: the practices out there he missed like three out of
Speaker 1: four field goals, and when worked two weeks away from
Speaker 1: the first game, and every everyone he had been kind
Speaker 1: of flawless. Before that, I want to scratching their head going.
Speaker 1: I think they got a problem at Kicker now, right,
Speaker 1: And remember they kept bringing vettering guys in and then
Speaker 1: but he got it together and he was as mentally
Speaker 1: strong a kicker as you will find for so many
Speaker 1: years too. Yep. Absolutely, And by the way, to your
Speaker 1: point on Todd Bowles, I looked it up, and yes,
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight and ninety nine he was a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator at Grambling, and then that was prior and
Speaker 1: then the following year in two thousand, he became the
Speaker 1: secondary coach with the Jets, and then with the Browns,
Speaker 1: and then here with the Cowboys. And you love to
Speaker 1: hear stories like that because the path taken is very unusual,
Speaker 1: so you just never know. People always ask me, well,
Speaker 1: can I don't think I can do this? I don't, dude.
Speaker 1: Everybody's story he starts somewhere, So don't put yourself down
Speaker 1: before you even give yourself a chance. Who knew what
Speaker 1: Todd would be right back way where he be what
Speaker 1: he is now after being the DC at Grambling, come
Speaker 1: on and a head coach and then back to being
Speaker 1: the defensive port and of course he was Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: DC at Arizona before he became the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Jets, and now he is the head coach in
Speaker 1: waiting whenever Bruce Arians decides to hang it up. Good
Speaker 1: guy too, but yeah, that's right, and has always put
Speaker 1: together good defenses. I mean, look back what Arians and
Speaker 1: Bulls did in Arizona. Arians took over in twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: and it was just a couple of years later they're
Speaker 1: playing in the conference championship game against the Panthers. Right absolutely,
Speaker 1: And how about it, speaking of Arians, how about the
Speaker 1: coach the quarterbacks he has coached in his career and
Speaker 1: you go back in his history and now he's what
Speaker 1: seventy years old or whatever he is, and it's easy
Speaker 1: his first head coaching job. And this is, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is something he has in common with Todd Bowles. Okay,
Speaker 1: his first head coaching job was at Temple at age
Speaker 1: thirty in the early eighties. Bruce Arians. Todd Bulls played
Speaker 1: for Temple and undrafted in nineteen eighty six. And so
Speaker 1: that's how far back Bulls and Arians go. Play good
Speaker 1: lay for Arians at Temple, um so and then okay,
Speaker 1: so the quarterbacks that Arians is gun has has coached
Speaker 1: now He's got Brady and in Arizona had Carson Palmer,
Speaker 1: he had Andrew Luck, he had Peyton Manning, he had
Speaker 1: been he had Big Ben also in Pittsburgh. Ay, come on, man,
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston and Jameis Winston. And by the way, we
Speaker 1: talk a lot about Jameis Winston and his thirty picks
Speaker 1: or whatever. How many yards did he throw for year
Speaker 1: before last, not just yours thirty touchdowns? Right? He had
Speaker 1: it was thirty and thirty. It was thirty. They could
Speaker 1: do a thirty for thirty. And that's why that's what
Speaker 1: I always gives me about Jameis Winston. He's so befun
Speaker 1: linked to everybody. Five thousand yards. You talk about the interception,
Speaker 1: Oh man, this guy's crazy thirty interceptions, But god, the
Speaker 1: other side of the ledger is amazing. He's gotten one
Speaker 1: last chance. And once again you could imagine what the
Speaker 1: arian was trying to do to be the quarterback. Whisper
Speaker 1: to Jameis Winston. I mean, do you blame me for
Speaker 1: the thirty picks or do you give him credit for
Speaker 1: the thirty touchdowns? Yeah? Well and again and the five
Speaker 1: thousand yards give me but it also gets back to
Speaker 1: arians offensive philosophy is a vertical passing game, and that's
Speaker 1: where Brady had to get on the right page, on
Speaker 1: the same page with Arians and vice versa, Arians on
Speaker 1: the same page with Brady to marry their to so
Speaker 1: many years of still have to say his defense put
Speaker 1: Brady in that offense in so many good situations, doing
Speaker 1: important time. So you're telling me it's a good thing
Speaker 1: that Donovan Wilson and Demonte kay Z are ready to place.
Speaker 1: That's the next thing where when we're looking at matchups
Speaker 1: in this game on Thursday night, and the pressure that's
Speaker 1: going to be on the Cowboys secondary against this offense
Speaker 1: is going to be pretty unreal. The pressure has got
Speaker 1: to be upfront. Tim guys got to get there. And
Speaker 1: they know it. They've been preaching it all week about
Speaker 1: getting Brady off his spot. And it's not necessarily sacks
Speaker 1: because he was only sacked twenty one. Time to move,
Speaker 1: get him to move and you know, and it started
Speaker 1: with o'diggy zoo is saying, well, yeah, he's not that
Speaker 1: mobile or rookie. They asked him the question, you know, what,
Speaker 1: what do you think his weakness is? And he goes, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he's been in the league, he's forty four
Speaker 1: years old. He's not as mobile, And all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's like, oh, are you worried about you know,
Speaker 1: giving Tom Brady bulletin board? I'm going does Tom Brady
Speaker 1: really needs? And then he came back. They asked the
Speaker 1: question as well, they would, yeah, exactly right. And then
Speaker 1: he came back and said, I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think Tom Brady knows who I am or cares what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right, if you, if you have a rookie
Speaker 1: says something stupid and bad, Brady, that's gonna be an
Speaker 1: alarm goes off with every reporter. They end up right
Speaker 1: in front of his life. And they did, and they
Speaker 1: and and you know, at least here anyway, right, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, well, look what he said about Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: He can't move, Well, he's not as if you leave
Speaker 1: him in the pocket standing there patting the ball, you're
Speaker 1: in trouble. You know what. Though, Now Brady may not
Speaker 1: know Odega Zoo's name. That's a hard name to know, okay,
Speaker 1: but he knows his number. He's changed numbers now, fuse,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's another. That's another thing that Brady he's
Speaker 1: in disguise. Does he know he's ninety seven? He was
Speaker 1: seventy five and now he's ninety seven. Yeah, so now
Speaker 1: we figured out why all the number changes here after
Speaker 1: the last preseason game, and more and more this week too,
Speaker 1: by the way, some more numbers changed. Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to met your disposal the fellow. Everybody's changing the numbers.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I didn't write him down. Well, you
Speaker 1: don't want to report him either, because then Brady and
Speaker 1: they're they're probably listening to us, right, you know, did
Speaker 1: you report what you think you're the Cowboys records going
Speaker 1: to be this year? I did. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: that in the last segment. Okay, Okay, yes, we will
Speaker 1: get to that in the last segment about that passing
Speaker 1: game for Tampa Bay. Though, Hey, mister cornerback over here,
Speaker 1: mister Hall of Fame cornerback, Okay talking to me. That's right, okay, Jack,
Speaker 1: all right. Number twenty four is not playing for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: He's on ir new rookie second round draft pick, Kelvin Joseph. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you got Trayvon Diggs number seven. Now you got
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. Okay, you got Jordan Lewis in the slot,
Speaker 1: you got that the safety position. You say that the
Speaker 1: safeties are ready to go. Okay, z and uh Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: and then they'll bring in jay Ron Curse right at
Speaker 1: at times? What's going on with Molly Cooker? And I
Speaker 1: don't know how they're gonna if they're gonna use him
Speaker 1: or not. I mean they've kind of eased him in
Speaker 1: the things. I mean that last preseason game was his
Speaker 1: first snaps since he tore as achilles. I don't know
Speaker 1: how they'll how they'll use him or I assume he's
Speaker 1: going to be active, but you know, who knows. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's right Nishan Right, I don't know if he'll be
Speaker 1: active either. You can only keep so many, right, and
Speaker 1: if you keep John, if you keep Jordan Lewis as
Speaker 1: your third, Maurice Kennedy as your fourth, I guess you
Speaker 1: could keep one more cornerball always forget about Jordan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't know any any starting too, by the way,
Speaker 1: and by I didn't mention Kennedy too, who had a
Speaker 1: very good preseason. And you're gonna keep C. J. Goodwin
Speaker 1: for special teams persons and purposes, and he's technically a
Speaker 1: cornerback two. Okay, So I mentioned all those guys Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay's receivers, you get six to five. Mike Evans coming
Speaker 1: off a season in which he had thirteen touchdown catches
Speaker 1: in the regular season and that was an off. He'll
Speaker 1: be wearing number thirteen for them, Number fourteen. Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: had sixty five catches in seven touchdown in twelve games,
Speaker 1: only twelve games. I'm gonna save one guy here. Tight end,
Speaker 1: you got Gronk O. J. Howard only played in four
Speaker 1: games last year, with one start, and they're listing him
Speaker 1: as a starter on there. Yes, they are on their
Speaker 1: depth both two tight ends, right, and he's right, so
Speaker 1: we and he was a first Roundabama, Yeah, Alabama first
Speaker 1: round draft pick, all right. And then they've got Scott
Speaker 1: Miller slot receiver who had thirty three catches last year.
Speaker 1: But it brings me, are you bearing the leading It
Speaker 1: brings me to number eighty one Antonio Brown? Okay? And
Speaker 1: remember when Antonio Brown caught the touchdown pass in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and he had kind of been off people's
Speaker 1: radars even though he had joined the team in mid
Speaker 1: season or whatever. And I hadn't really paid attention much
Speaker 1: to how many catches he had during the season, and
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, well, that is nice that Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: got his touchdown in the Super Bowl. Whatever. Will you
Speaker 1: go back and look at his numbers last season? He
Speaker 1: had forty five receptions and four touchdowns in eight games.
Speaker 1: Double that. That's a ninety reception season there for Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: And so what do you think it's done for Brady
Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown? That they've now had an offseason together
Speaker 1: and a preseason together. The fact that it's so quiet
Speaker 1: makes me nervous. No one's mentioning his name and all.
Speaker 1: And if you look, you know, people keep talking about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys triplets at wide receiver. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Arians said, and Arians basically this week was saying that
Speaker 1: that they He said, the Cowboys might have the top
Speaker 1: trio of wide receivers in the league. But I like
Speaker 1: our guys. Yeah right, I'm sure that Scotland, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that was the question this morning around the talk radio
Speaker 1: was which team has the best corps receivers? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that was a big debate this and it's a good
Speaker 1: one one. It's a real good one. What you say, okay,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks can separate them, you know, can really separate
Speaker 1: and one of the key things will be so Gallup
Speaker 1: missed time early or last week, end of last week,
Speaker 1: beginning of this week. I think his uh significant other
Speaker 1: had the birth of a baby. Uh and then CD
Speaker 1: just getting back in the swing of things after his COVID.
Speaker 1: He was pretty funny the other day when he was
Speaker 1: talking about it, and he said, you know, you get
Speaker 1: up in the morning and go brush your teeth and
Speaker 1: can't taste my toothpaste. Oh wow, And he goes it
Speaker 1: taste toothpaste, and he goes and then he said, suddenly
Speaker 1: I got up one morning, I looked in the mirror
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it's meant well, that's a good sign.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I got because there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that I mean, you don't have your taste for a while.
Speaker 1: Oh wow. Maybe, and maybe that's a good sign that
Speaker 1: he had from Utah. He had a lighter case. Lighter case,
Speaker 1: and I do think that is concerning. I was talking
Speaker 1: with a friend who passed COVID right now about it
Speaker 1: and talking about Cowboy players that are been either tested
Speaker 1: positive or whatever, and my own experience having it had it,
Speaker 1: if you had it, depending on how bad it was,
Speaker 1: I can definitely see how it couldn't affect an NFL player.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to play at such a high
Speaker 1: level to compete, and I don't think you can, um,
Speaker 1: you know, any of these guys if they truly have
Speaker 1: had symptoms. Some of them may not know for sure
Speaker 1: until they get out there and play in that heat
Speaker 1: and humidity in Tampa where you've got to have I mean,
Speaker 1: you got to be able to sustain it for a
Speaker 1: long time and play at a very high level, which
Speaker 1: was it's concerning, which was a fact I thought was
Speaker 1: overlooked last year with Ezekiel Elliott. Oh he had it
Speaker 1: in June whatever. Yeah, he didn't have an offseason, he
Speaker 1: didn't have a preseason for col right, Yeah. Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: was great talking about it. I mean, he had it
Speaker 1: during the season and it he said, it lingered with him.
Speaker 1: But it's different for different people, right, you know. But
Speaker 1: but that was you know, Zeke not in shape or
Speaker 1: Zeke you know, wasn't this or that, Well the offensive
Speaker 1: line wasn't in shape, right, But he had that, and
Speaker 1: you never and we didn't at that time. We had
Speaker 1: no idea what the effects would be on people. We
Speaker 1: didn't know about long term yeah effects at that time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so now I would deal with that. And so
Speaker 1: now they got athletes who are have all of this talent,
Speaker 1: they've got all of these this physical ability. It attacks
Speaker 1: them just as hard and sometimes worse than they would
Speaker 1: any Joe blow out there who doesn't even especially because
Speaker 1: their job is to from a physical standpoint, be at
Speaker 1: optimal left and so and so when you watch in
Speaker 1: Domin Kung Sue, I mean, I don't know if he
Speaker 1: had how bad his symptoms were or whatever. When he
Speaker 1: plays on Thursday night, it might be tough for him
Speaker 1: to go very I'll tell you what. Somebody put on
Speaker 1: put a little video on Twitter or maybe on the
Speaker 1: Internet of him working out the other day, and he
Speaker 1: was doing one of those uh them tall block and
Speaker 1: dummy drills. Well, he sure didn't look like a guy
Speaker 1: that was zipping through those things. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was taking it easier, but you know, you have
Speaker 1: to hit this and you gotta get that one kind
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, you have to watch when you're when
Speaker 1: you're scouting off a video, just like when Phil Simms
Speaker 1: is watching Dak Prescotte on hard knocks and saying he's
Speaker 1: concerned about it, that I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: feels talking about I was looking forward, I was looking
Speaker 1: for anything that would say, First of all, you can't
Speaker 1: tell anything, you know. I mean, the passes were the passes,
Speaker 1: and they were just showing us as little as possible exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to show it. But and the real good
Speaker 1: one they showed him throw it. It was up in
Speaker 1: the air, and they never showed where it landed or
Speaker 1: who caught it, or how far down the field. You
Speaker 1: think that wasn't by design, But take that out. They
Speaker 1: mainly isolated on his throwing motion for the most part, right,
Speaker 1: which is what Phiel thought he saw something. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not throwing to see. There was nothing to see. Okay,
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you have too much time between games. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't have too much time now before the next
Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, and we were going to make
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Speaker 1: Everson says he wants to make picks. And so my
Speaker 1: question to Everson is, do you want to make picks
Speaker 1: just for this game? This is the start. We want
Speaker 1: to make pigs for the entire season, not only for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys but for the rest of national football. We
Speaker 1: can we can do both. I'd love to because you
Speaker 1: know you're looking at this is this is it, man,
Speaker 1: You know this is pretty exciting. I got all fired
Speaker 1: up when I watched college football this weekend. Now here
Speaker 1: we are. Um, everybody's doubting the Cowboys, the NFC East
Speaker 1: alone talking about Washington. Everybody said Washington is going to
Speaker 1: be the surprise team this year. You believe that based
Speaker 1: on their defense last year? Yeah, because they were a
Speaker 1: game better than the Cowboys on record. That was my point.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just very curious, not just the NFC East,
Speaker 1: but God Lee. Okay, so where do we want to
Speaker 1: start on these picks? You want to pick this game first?
Speaker 1: Or you want to go for the season first game?
Speaker 1: This game first? Okay, all right, so we'll pick winners.
Speaker 1: It will pick picks to click as well. Ever soon
Speaker 1: you want to go first? Yeah, yeah, I do. I
Speaker 1: want to go win it, I believe it or not.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be good for the Cowboys, but I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna lose. Okay, it's gonna be good for
Speaker 1: the cowboys'll be good for the Cowboys. You know, when
Speaker 1: you start off putting so much hype on one game,
Speaker 1: I don't go for that because there's so much more
Speaker 1: football to be played. And they're seventeen this year, yeah,
Speaker 1: one more than usual. So no, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily worried about this game. Tampa Bay is the more
Speaker 1: polished team at this point. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: How the Cowboys will play well if they played an
Speaker 1: over inspired ball, I don't know. I hope they do,
Speaker 1: but otherwise I just want to see if we can
Speaker 1: make plays. I want to see if defensively we can
Speaker 1: make some plays. I want to see if defensively we
Speaker 1: know how to stop the run. You know. I want
Speaker 1: to see if defensively we can have our Mojoe moments.
Speaker 1: Those things are important. You have a mojo moment, still
Speaker 1: lose the game. But I want to see if you
Speaker 1: can come through and make a play, not just as
Speaker 1: a team, but certain individuals. Their reputation is going to
Speaker 1: be on the line for this first game. Say, I
Speaker 1: think that's the hard thing to judge this team. I
Speaker 1: think you have a certain level of confidence with the offense. Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you look at um, you know what they
Speaker 1: did last year, Um, after the after the Rams game. Um,
Speaker 1: they ended up with four games of five hundred yards
Speaker 1: of offense. Now, is are we going to get that
Speaker 1: again at this point with Dak coming back but not
Speaker 1: having played in any snaps in preseason, which he didn't
Speaker 1: the year before. By the way, UM, no one, no
Speaker 1: one wants to bring that up. Yeah. And then defensively,
Speaker 1: is what we see really what we're going to get
Speaker 1: because what we see so far looks pretty good. Uh,
Speaker 1: They've been pretty good in the preseason games when the
Speaker 1: starters were out there. But again, you're playing against offenses
Speaker 1: that are very vanilla. Uh and who knows, you know
Speaker 1: how long teams are playing their first guys, but it's
Speaker 1: been at least two series, three series that they've gone
Speaker 1: up against and they've really The only uh, downside was
Speaker 1: the third game after the interception, the interception that they
Speaker 1: got the ball at like the twenty three yard line
Speaker 1: or something like that, and they drove right down and
Speaker 1: scored the touchdown. But that's the only touchdown the first
Speaker 1: string is given up. Other than that, it's been field goals.
Speaker 1: So we'll find out now. Unfortunately, they're going up against
Speaker 1: one of the best offenses in the league right off
Speaker 1: the bat. It's not like you you know, starting against
Speaker 1: you know, Missouri State or something. You didn't want to
Speaker 1: say Missouri. You just had those stated I was gonna
Speaker 1: say Central Michigan. But they gave Missouri all they can
Speaker 1: two lane and yeah, right, and yeah exactly. Uh so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's hard to judge it. I think
Speaker 1: now from an overall standpoint, I feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: this team. If the defense can do half as good,
Speaker 1: maybe are half better than what they did last year.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the matchups and so if
Speaker 1: you talk about pick to click, some matchups that are
Speaker 1: gonna be extremely important. Of course, Zekiel Elliott, that's going
Speaker 1: to be extremely important on how he's able to run
Speaker 1: the ball, take the pressure off of that, like that
Speaker 1: against the number one run defense in the league last year.
Speaker 1: So how do you if you were, if you were
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator, how do you attack this defense? Or
Speaker 1: do you think you can run against them? Or do
Speaker 1: you have to throw to be able to run against them?
Speaker 1: I would do what we do, and that's because we
Speaker 1: have no choice. We can't break away from the run game.
Speaker 1: That's just not possible. We have Zeke Elliott. There's no
Speaker 1: way we're doing that. And we certainly not shining away
Speaker 1: from the passing game because that's what we do. So
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about offensive if we're if we stick
Speaker 1: with the game plan, how effective it will be that's
Speaker 1: obviously a whole another thing, which bringing me to my
Speaker 1: pick to click. Tylan Smith is going to be extremely
Speaker 1: important in this game, and I'm so curious to see
Speaker 1: how he plays, because if he plays the entire season,
Speaker 1: this changes our entire look, especially coming from last year,
Speaker 1: because it changes your ability to run the ball as
Speaker 1: right to run the ball to protect them from the
Speaker 1: backs because they could not run the ball with those
Speaker 1: tackles last year. They were they found out how important
Speaker 1: tackles were yea or last year, or reinforced how important
Speaker 1: thought they were. And so that's that's, you know, the
Speaker 1: kind of the curious thing I think this offense can function.
Speaker 1: So to me, it's like, defensively, can they get pressure
Speaker 1: on opposing quarterbacks because they didn't do a very good
Speaker 1: job of it last year. Just thirty one sacks last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm not worried about the sacks as much as
Speaker 1: can we stop they get Yeah, well that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: That's the main thing. Can we stop the I think
Speaker 1: the linebackers are in better positions this year to take
Speaker 1: advantage of what they can do, you know, for all
Speaker 1: the heat Jalen Smith gets, and if they're gonna play
Speaker 1: a two tight end, if they're gonna play both of
Speaker 1: those tight ends, the Cowboys are going to be in base.
Speaker 1: He's going to be in the middle and he needs
Speaker 1: to be going downhill. Vander Esch needs to be where
Speaker 1: he is where he wasn't last year, and then Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: They don't know where he's going to be, which is key,
Speaker 1: I think to this defense now, can can can the
Speaker 1: front hold up? Because you lost a very good guy
Speaker 1: in Neville Galliman. I think that injury hurts him as
Speaker 1: bad as anything other than Zach. But yeah, if they
Speaker 1: can hold up in the front, and seeing they've got
Speaker 1: so many guys that they can move inside in nickel
Speaker 1: situations to create pressure. You know, quiet has it been
Speaker 1: kept to l Basham is practicing? You know he missed
Speaker 1: the last half of training camp. He's a guy that
Speaker 1: can move inside. They can move to Marcus Lawrence inside
Speaker 1: if they wanted to, and or Armstrong. You can get
Speaker 1: all these guys on the field with Randy Gregory. Um
Speaker 1: so another another nice pick to clip, Yes, exactly. You
Speaker 1: know he's my guy. I before training camp, I said,
Speaker 1: this is the guy, uh that that really had to
Speaker 1: step up, that they need this guy to become relevant.
Speaker 1: A lot of football, real good football people, football minds
Speaker 1: have been looking at Randy Gregory Hoyd, yes, and want
Speaker 1: to make sure they take a good look at him
Speaker 1: this year. So um okay, So your pick was Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Okay, Tyrone. And Okay, so that is regardless,
Speaker 1: that's your regardless of what the score is, you think
Speaker 1: Tyrone's gonna have a matchups, That's what that's what a
Speaker 1: matchups extremely important this game because we have to see
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys that were hurting last year.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have big time matchups this year. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. If the Cowboys are to win
Speaker 1: this game, is it is Tyren Smith your pick to
Speaker 1: click that He's he's got to play well for them
Speaker 1: to win. If we win this game, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: partly because of him. Okay, all right, Mine would be
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory. If the Cowboys are gonna win, if they're
Speaker 1: gonna to click, Randy, he's gonna have to emerge and
Speaker 1: be what I think he can be this year because
Speaker 1: just watching him, you know, they gave him that week
Speaker 1: off and when he came back that next time in practice,
Speaker 1: he was like shot out of a cannon. The fact
Speaker 1: that we haven't heard much from him, I think that's
Speaker 1: a good thing, right, yes, and and uh, although I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna hear from him today. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the guys. What time is that
Speaker 1: supposed to be? Okay, So yeah, that's I think. He Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hard to pick the Cowboys to win this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the key thing is that come out and
Speaker 1: play well. Everybody's a lot of people are picking them
Speaker 1: to lose forty four to ten. I just think they're
Speaker 1: better than that, right, I just think they're better than
Speaker 1: that to keep it close in the twenties even if
Speaker 1: they get beat. I mean, you look at this Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay team and they I mean with what they everybody
Speaker 1: coming back. I mean, it kind of mirrors the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in ninety five when they open the season at the
Speaker 1: Giants and one thirty five to nothing. I mean it's
Speaker 1: that kind of It's that kind of team coming back
Speaker 1: and in scene and so forth. That's what I think.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what the what the Cowboys are up
Speaker 1: against in this game. And the only guy, the only
Speaker 1: guy they might have missing from the starting lineup is
Speaker 1: their safety Jordan Whitehead. He's got a hamstring. It didn't
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. We'll see what this practice report has for today.
Speaker 1: So you have a score, how about like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six twenty one, twenty six, twenty five. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a close game. I really do.
Speaker 1: I think that we're gonna see how important Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: is to this team, like what they do defensively. Thirty
Speaker 1: one twenty. I think they'll score in the last so
Speaker 1: many minutes just to kind of put it away. But yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty and I got about thirty to twenty.
Speaker 1: Also Tampa Bay and my pick to click for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is Michael Parsons. I think he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: big first game in the NFL. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is the first time I've ever picked against the cow
Speaker 1: That tells you how sure he is about this pick.
Speaker 1: Pick to click for Tampa Bay is their safety and
Speaker 1: Twine Winfield. Okay, I just I just want to mention safety.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a corner. He's a safety and um,
Speaker 1: but he had he has corners skills and he can
Speaker 1: play slot corner that they played corner. Yeah so, But
Speaker 1: their corners are Carlton Davis who had four interceptions last year,
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunting who had one pick last year, and
Speaker 1: then they've got their third corners Jamal Dean. But that
Speaker 1: safety in Antoine, Winfield is listed as a strong safety
Speaker 1: and speaking as a guy that feasted off of the
Speaker 1: defensive line, I think that's what the second day does.
Speaker 1: The corners, if you're going to look at them, to me,
Speaker 1: Stepha Winfield, I think that's the weakness of the squad. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got we got like one minute left, so we
Speaker 1: need to make our picks. You let's go all the
Speaker 1: way to the super Bowl. Ten seven, ten and seven,
Speaker 1: ten and seven for the Cowboys. Win in the East,
Speaker 1: win in the NFC East, and how far do they
Speaker 1: go in the playoffs. Oh, I'm fking for them to
Speaker 1: go all the way after them. Okay, we're just super
Speaker 1: We're going to improve timely this and the timely fashion
Speaker 1: just the way. Good to win the last eight games
Speaker 1: all the way to super Bowl like Tampa Bay and
Speaker 1: say six and two. We can we can tell who
Speaker 1: they play. Who are we playing in the super Bowl? Ksey,
Speaker 1: That's okay, all right, that was my super Bowl pick
Speaker 1: last year. That was a good pick. That's it. And
Speaker 1: Cowboy win over the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. That's
Speaker 1: a tough homes man. It's hard to go against my homeboy.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that would be okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: to hold off on that one, So make you what
Speaker 1: do you got? I had in my column I said,
Speaker 1: if the defense can be average, that they can transpose
Speaker 1: six and ten to ten and six. And then I
Speaker 1: had to add, oh, there's an extra game, so how
Speaker 1: about ten and seven? So you got ten and seven?
Speaker 1: You got ten and seven was ten and seven also,
Speaker 1: So for the sixteenth straight year, seventeen straight year? How
Speaker 1: many straight years is it? We will have a different
Speaker 1: NFC East champion than what we had the year before.
Speaker 1: The last time they repeat was oh four. Philadelphia won
Speaker 1: like four straight from one through oh four. I say,
Speaker 1: with this, with this squad, I'm very surprised that we
Speaker 1: hadn't doubled up in its right East wins. I really am.
Speaker 1: And and think about it, that shows how quality the
Speaker 1: UNFC East year. Not last year, but when I've been
Speaker 1: when I've been asked the question. And I was on
Speaker 1: with the guys for the one of the radio stations
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC and then the guys at the Giants
Speaker 1: dot Com and they were asking me about can the
Speaker 1: will the Cowboys win it? And I said, well, you
Speaker 1: answer me this, who has the best quarterback in the division.
Speaker 1: It's pretty simple, right, and he's ready to go by
Speaker 1: the way, oil, Okay, I'm going with I'm going with
Speaker 1: ten and seven Cowboys win the UNFC East where I
Speaker 1: write this down, and my super Bowl teams are Kansas
Speaker 1: City and Green Bay is going to come back with
Speaker 1: the vengeance. U yep, that's what I got. Okay, love,
Speaker 1: So we'll close it out. Well, how about we close
Speaker 1: it out with mixed pick? Okay for the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and what the Cowboys are gonna do, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: call it mixed Shotever do we have it's Mickey's minute. Huh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go U Kansas City and um, Green
Speaker 1: Bay myself? Where you really? Yeah? I I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta see Tampa Bay do this? Does a team
Speaker 1: have a Super Bowl hangover? I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see right away, right. Um. But there's so many
Speaker 1: it's just hard to repeat like that. Uh, Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I just don't see anybody else in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: It gets me all excited. Do you have a second
Speaker 1: choice in the AFC, Well, I've got Kansas City and
Speaker 1: Buffalo playing in the KAFC Championship Game. And Green Bay
Speaker 1: and the Rams in the NFC Championship game. Wow, you think, Matthew,
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, yep, yep, that's what That's what I've
Speaker 1: got over there. I hope Detroit did. Now. The big
Speaker 1: thing for Tampa Bay playing in that division with Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Carolina and New Orleans without Drew Brees, they're going to
Speaker 1: wrack up some wins just in their division. So they will.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Cowboys need to do in the NFC.
Speaker 1: That's right, if they're going to get to our ten wins,
Speaker 1: all right, So there you have it. It may not
Speaker 1: start out the way you want it to start out,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like it's going to win to end
Speaker 1: the way you want it too, especially if you're trusting
Speaker 1: in the future Hall of Famer and in the true
Speaker 1: spirit of Dan Quinn. This game is not an end.
Speaker 1: It's a beginning, right, and so we can build on
Speaker 1: what we're doing defensively. So we'll see if what he
Speaker 1: said is that here it all right? And we will
Speaker 1: reconvene on Friday afternoon, right, I believe so, and I
Speaker 1: should be back by then. What's okay, uh tbd TBD
Speaker 1: mid afternoon or so, right, afternoon sometime, so I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't drink. You must doing the game, right, Chris.
Speaker 1: Chris said, one thirty, So maybe it's one. Maybe we're
Speaker 1: talking one thirty. We're talking one thirty. All right. That
Speaker 1: does it for mixed shots. Enjoy Opening Night in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and we'll talk at you again on Friday.
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