Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is a Wonderful Wednesday
Speaker 1: inside the SWBC podcast studio at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. Cowboys on the
Speaker 1: practice field on a very windy, windy day. It's not
Speaker 1: a wonderful Wednesday. It's a windy Wednesday. Here sounds like
Speaker 1: the title to the showy Wednesday. There you gooy, he's
Speaker 1: always looking at how do you title it when you
Speaker 1: send it out on social media? And there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, so windy Wednesday. And so I can understand
Speaker 1: why the team was not outside on the practice. They
Speaker 1: were inside because we had to fix this passing game.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to be able to do it
Speaker 1: in the wind. And it was and it was basically
Speaker 1: a walkthrough practice, was it, Yes, no pads, no helmets
Speaker 1: because of the passing game. No whoa no wonder the
Speaker 1: game work out? What do you think what do you
Speaker 1: think Jimmy would have said December, no pads on Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Oh quit if you quit tired right before. Now they
Speaker 1: just did it for health reasons, I mean not health reasons,
Speaker 1: but not to wear the guys out, try to keep them.
Speaker 1: You can't say health reasons. Yes, I know everybody else's
Speaker 1: and now it's going yeah, and it's even expanding. But
Speaker 1: we're good here, Yeah, we're good here. Which fox out
Speaker 1: of Cedric Wilson, Cedric Wilson's so far the only one
Speaker 1: where we just playing. That's after playing the team that
Speaker 1: half of them are you in cod So just goes
Speaker 1: to show you can't catch it out on the field
Speaker 1: from the other team, I guess. Or maybe they maybe
Speaker 1: Washington caught it from Dallas and then whatever you go.
Speaker 1: Or Washington wasn't close enough to the cow that was
Speaker 1: Remember that was last year the Minnesota game, wasn't it
Speaker 1: Like uh oh the receiver for Minnesota's now Adam Feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah he got he tested positive like the day after
Speaker 1: the game. And yeah, and and so that was the thing.
Speaker 1: Browns didn't have to worry about it. Yeah, he's didn't
Speaker 1: socially distance Yeah right, but look at him now, huh
Speaker 1: look at Anthony Brown nets right, all right, Now he's
Speaker 1: missing in a session. It's all week to week with you.
Speaker 1: Now he's missing in after they picked on him, the
Speaker 1: officials picked on him Thanksgiving Day, and now he hasn't proved.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. He's a better player at
Speaker 1: this time last year, Willie, this time this year than
Speaker 1: he's ever been in his entire career. More confident, he
Speaker 1: is more confident, he's looking for the ball, you know, hands.
Speaker 1: All of that he can get on the hands team later.
Speaker 1: And then Traymon proved that in the game on Sunday
Speaker 1: that as long as you turn your head around, you
Speaker 1: can be as close as you want to. I mean
Speaker 1: it was like it was like one on one. You know, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's how you do it. Brown, He said, watch me, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm turning. I mean, that's just what it seemed like
Speaker 1: to me. I wonder if it's just it's just hard
Speaker 1: to know when to turn when the ball's five yards
Speaker 1: short of where it's supposed to be. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When you out there, it's you're you're too afraid to
Speaker 1: turn around. It's it's like you know, uh, Solomon, go mora,
Speaker 1: you know you want to see it, but it's over
Speaker 1: burning him. Sulfur? Did that ever? Didn't ever go through
Speaker 1: your head nose? It's like, well, if I turn and
Speaker 1: I missed the ball, then it's a touchdown. That's where
Speaker 1: the field comes in. And so if I give up
Speaker 1: the reception I can tackle. I'd rather flail and and
Speaker 1: and you know, go forward looking for the worst case scenario,
Speaker 1: which is where the touchdown is. Yeah, but sometimes if
Speaker 1: you don't turn around, he's gonna still make you look foolish.
Speaker 1: You could and your options are a PI or a touchdown.
Speaker 1: You see, we have a technical different just this thing
Speaker 1: in anyway, I lost my head. Okay, you can hear us,
Speaker 1: can I can hear you in the studio here? Okay,
Speaker 1: you talk, tell us, tell us what we need to know.
Speaker 1: I'll try to figure this thing out. Chris is coming
Speaker 1: to hear the minute. He's gonna save us all. What's happening?
Speaker 1: You just continue on, continue on. We were burning sofone
Speaker 1: it doesn't fit there there it goes all right now
Speaker 1: as we continue on, what's happened? Um, yeah, I wish
Speaker 1: I had a real, a real injury. Reports. Since they
Speaker 1: didn't do much. We need something by Tony Pollard was
Speaker 1: at least out there and he was working on the chords. Okay,
Speaker 1: we get this thing back on track, yes, Zeke said,
Speaker 1: he that's good news about Tony Pollard really is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when you got a torn planter fascia. But
Speaker 1: he was working on the chords last week too. And
Speaker 1: the way I running game is going, we gotta have it.
Speaker 1: We need forget the passing game. What about the running game? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. The coach said it got better Kellen
Speaker 1: mort did it? I thought it did. It did Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they had more yards. It just wasn't a
Speaker 1: nice ride and all wasn't effective enough to me. If
Speaker 1: you can, if you can just give them doubt it's effective.
Speaker 1: But you have to answer that ineffective running with effective passing,
Speaker 1: right if he completes the passes, if the blocks are
Speaker 1: made better, and not get it. The reason that they're
Speaker 1: so much closer defensively, the reason that we're getting the
Speaker 1: pressure is because there's no threat of run. Yes, I
Speaker 1: understand that, but you still have to keep them honest.
Speaker 1: And if we make those plays regardless of the pressure,
Speaker 1: and we stick to the game plan, then the running
Speaker 1: game would be thought of in a much better lights.
Speaker 1: And I think it's pretty obvious what teams are doing.
Speaker 1: And Ceedee Lamb kind of pointed it out how teams
Speaker 1: are playing that shell coverage and basically making us execute
Speaker 1: underneath and they don't want to give up the big play. So,
Speaker 1: and I think we said it yesterday. They teams want
Speaker 1: to see if the Cowboys can go eighty yards in
Speaker 1: twelve plays. They don't want them go in eighty yards.
Speaker 1: And we can see that we can do it. You
Speaker 1: just got to execute you that we can do it right.
Speaker 1: And and like you said, they're not bringing down the
Speaker 1: safety because we haven't shown that, and that's what they're
Speaker 1: inviting you to do. It's like, hey, if you can
Speaker 1: do this, and the reason is the offensive line has
Speaker 1: to play better. Uh and now Tyrn Smith's gonna miss
Speaker 1: this game. I think things look like Mike said, well,
Speaker 1: we'll do what we've been doing, which means it's either
Speaker 1: steal or tying the secky Um, I get the feeling
Speaker 1: it's it's steal. Right. There's no way they're gonna move somebody. Everybody,
Speaker 1: they're gonna put leal Collins on the left side and
Speaker 1: Steal on the right, and it's like, no, what do
Speaker 1: you want to do that? Then you're weakening both spots.
Speaker 1: So just left him there and there, and then Steven
Speaker 1: pointed out that there would be a conversation about left guard.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, just judging from the part of practice
Speaker 1: we get to see when they do drills, we don't
Speaker 1: get to see team. Uh, it looks like they're having
Speaker 1: that conversation, and in my opinion, Connor Williams needs to
Speaker 1: be back at left left guard. I don't know that
Speaker 1: they're gonna listen to me, but I think that's what
Speaker 1: needs to happen. I have not seen improvement of guard
Speaker 1: with McGovern. The only thing they cut down on were penalties.
Speaker 1: And so maybe now how many games? That's what I
Speaker 1: was just getting ready to say, That's what I was
Speaker 1: just getting. That's what you do. You don't put Williams
Speaker 1: on the back of his jersey, you put Connor and
Speaker 1: then they don't know which Connor's in. What's it been?
Speaker 1: Has it been four games? Because it was Kansas City
Speaker 1: the Raiders New Orleans in Washington, so four games. So
Speaker 1: maybe now this crew comes in and it's like they
Speaker 1: don't know that everybody was everything he did. They were
Speaker 1: gonna throw a flag for holding, you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: he will have learned that. Make your initial block and
Speaker 1: then you don't have to pancake the guy, right, don't
Speaker 1: drive them comes in. You know, you got the you
Speaker 1: have the initial big hit right, and then from there
Speaker 1: you have to think and just let him go. It's over,
Speaker 1: and that once you have to you have to have
Speaker 1: the patience in your head. You don't have that clock
Speaker 1: in your head. You know that the quarterback hopefully has
Speaker 1: gotten rid of the ball at that time, and then
Speaker 1: you have to play according and even in the running game,
Speaker 1: once you stun him, that guy's out. He's done. Back's
Speaker 1: gone right now, he's gone. He's gone. Because it happened
Speaker 1: to Tyron Smith in this last game when they called
Speaker 1: him for holding. If you go watch it, he had
Speaker 1: the guy blocked and then when the guy goes to
Speaker 1: run in turns and then he kept trying to keep
Speaker 1: blocking him. He just let get your hands off and
Speaker 1: move your feet, right, we do that as dbs and lineman.
Speaker 1: You have to remember your hands and feet work together. Okay,
Speaker 1: there there they work together there in unison right, and
Speaker 1: when you when you're not thinking, okay, hands no feet
Speaker 1: or either feet no hands. The problem for Tyron is
Speaker 1: one of his one of his feet on. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean if you think about it, if you've
Speaker 1: ever done like um, mountain biking, and you learn this
Speaker 1: when you're a little kid, when you're trying to do
Speaker 1: something difficult, turn or whatever, you gotta keep pedaling. You
Speaker 1: don't quit pedal, right, because if you pedal then you
Speaker 1: could you you power yourself through the turn. But once
Speaker 1: you quit, you're in your trouble. Work your footworking. Almost
Speaker 1: pretty much every sport you learn when kids are young,
Speaker 1: we put them on on soccer teams because that's good
Speaker 1: for your footwork. So now all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: go from soccer to baseball. Well, yeah, your footwork has
Speaker 1: to be great. Yeah, the hands, of course, but to
Speaker 1: get to the ball in the proper manner and be
Speaker 1: able to pick it up set your feet to the
Speaker 1: quicker you do those things, the better athletes you are.
Speaker 1: All of that comes from footwork. The only drawback of
Speaker 1: that soccer thing is if you choose to participate. Well,
Speaker 1: I've seen so many young I'm just kind of run
Speaker 1: up and down Hill one of the more one of
Speaker 1: the better athletes I've seen as a young man. When
Speaker 1: he started off as a kid, I remember seeing Tony
Speaker 1: Hill at the soccer matches and his son would be
Speaker 1: at midfield picking flowers. And he turned out being one
Speaker 1: of the better athletes that you wanted to see. I
Speaker 1: believe he went to Plano. They end up going to
Speaker 1: the state finals in basketball, semifinals. In basketball, he was
Speaker 1: the point guard. You know, he was just that kid, right,
Speaker 1: he started off sitting down at the fifty yard line
Speaker 1: while the rest of the team is trying to score.
Speaker 1: He's picking daisies. And he wasn't alone. I've seen that.
Speaker 1: That's why the one time I had to conduct a
Speaker 1: it was youth soccer practice. Right, it was girls, and
Speaker 1: I don't know they were imagine fifth grade or so
Speaker 1: fourth grade. The thing I noticed was they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't under they didn't understand the necessity to go run
Speaker 1: after the ball and be the first one to get there, right.
Speaker 1: I did you know what I did? I saw this
Speaker 1: in a high school. It was a Bobby Knight was
Speaker 1: conducting a seminar at a high school basketball coaches convention
Speaker 1: and he called two guys from the crowd up onto
Speaker 1: the stage and he had one over there and one
Speaker 1: over there, put a twenty dollars bill in the middle,
Speaker 1: and he just shouted out, first one to get it,
Speaker 1: it's yours. And you've seen these two guys just scramble right,
Speaker 1: and he goes. The bottom line is there's got to
Speaker 1: be a consequence to every drill you do as a coach.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a goal and there's got to
Speaker 1: be a consequence. So I said, okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: nothing about soccer, but I do know you got to
Speaker 1: go get the ball. And so I put him in
Speaker 1: two lines and I said, all right, I'm gonna roll
Speaker 1: the ball down the middle. The first one in each
Speaker 1: line go first one that gets there, that team gets
Speaker 1: a point. The team that has give him money. They
Speaker 1: didn't have to run laughs afterwards, and you all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you saw these girls tear and ass to
Speaker 1: get to the ball, right because they didn't want to
Speaker 1: run laps. And so so what you do with Connor
Speaker 1: Williams is in you find him. If he gets holding
Speaker 1: calls right that way, he'll we will stop. Yeah, have
Speaker 1: an incentive there at the end. The incentive is not
Speaker 1: to lose your starting job, right there you go. So
Speaker 1: and he has a free agent to be so there's
Speaker 1: your financial incentive at the end of the sea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely so. Uh and so from an injury standpoint, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna put on the in
Speaker 1: because it wasn't a practice they're going to project, but
Speaker 1: Mike said that they would probably project Zeke as full.
Speaker 1: He was out there. Um, Donovan Wilson was out there too,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if he's getting closer right. I
Speaker 1: think it was a was it a chest I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember growing chest one of the two because he
Speaker 1: hits hard. Yeah, I'm sure he went in and so
Speaker 1: they would like to get him back out there for sure. Um,
Speaker 1: but everybody else that you know, we kind of took
Speaker 1: a look at they were. Um, they were out there.
Speaker 1: I don't see that I have anybody else that was missing. Well,
Speaker 1: why you look for that? Everyone's been speculating on Dak
Speaker 1: McEwan was out there, So that was end the tight
Speaker 1: end and he was actually doing some special team stuff.
Speaker 1: So uh that was encouraging. Uh So no tiring, No,
Speaker 1: no Cedric Wilson. Uh. And I told you about the
Speaker 1: other guys, So yeah, we'll see where all that goes.
Speaker 1: Dak Wilson was a shoulder shoulder, shoulder, thanks, So yeah,
Speaker 1: they could use him back out there. All right, everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about Dak. What's Dak talking about deck? Dak was fine.
Speaker 1: I see you know what, you got no problem throwing
Speaker 1: against air. There's no there's no injury, right Like he
Speaker 1: can't throw on the run. He was you know, they
Speaker 1: practiced that where they roll out and throw on the run.
Speaker 1: He had no problem with that. He had no problem
Speaker 1: with thirty yard passes. He was throwing. The ball wasn't
Speaker 1: hitting the ground, So yeah, so maybe keep the pocket clean.
Speaker 1: What was his words? Did he speak on it? Tomorrow? Tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Thursday is DA day? Zeke was today? Which m Parsons
Speaker 1: talked today to Parsons was really good, by the way,
Speaker 1: You want to report on that when we come back here,
Speaker 1: because that's a lot of stuff. Okay, Yeah, And I've
Speaker 1: got a little something on Michael Parsons as it relates
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Speaker 1: National Signing Day. Look back at Michael Parsons when he
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Speaker 1: want to talk Zeke, you want to talk mica. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk Micah. First man day. What do you think?
Speaker 1: And my little note on Michael Parsons start with this, Everson,
Speaker 1: you remember your National Signing Day when you signed out
Speaker 1: of Bertner High School and Richardson Graham. I believe that
Speaker 1: did not happen. I don't think there was no signing,
Speaker 1: no signing. I barely got a scholarship to Grambling. I
Speaker 1: have to follow my girlfriend to school. Did she get
Speaker 1: a scholarship? Huh? Did she get a scholarship to Grambling?
Speaker 1: In a way? Uncle coach, he coach, he coached on
Speaker 1: the staff. So okay, we believe that. Yet there you go.
Speaker 1: All right. So Micah Parsons was in the class of
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Right. And if you
Speaker 1: recall his recruitment, Ohio State was on him at first,
Speaker 1: and then they had to bow out because there were
Speaker 1: there were some things going on that smacked of violations,
Speaker 1: and so they had out out of his recruiting at
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Yeat Ohio State. So he winds up going
Speaker 1: to Penn State. He was the number four ranked player
Speaker 1: according to I believe it was ESPN, the number four
Speaker 1: ranked player in the nation, number two ranked defensive end
Speaker 1: coming out. The thing that I found interesting looking at
Speaker 1: his recruiting page, they listed him guess what his forty
Speaker 1: time was coming out of high school? What they said
Speaker 1: his forty time was forty three Nope, four two something,
Speaker 1: four six six, four six six. He was listed at
Speaker 1: sixty three, two hundred and forty one pounds, which and
Speaker 1: you can see why he was listed as a defensive
Speaker 1: end coming out and at four six six forty time
Speaker 1: is what they listed him at. And what do he
Speaker 1: run at the combine? Four three six or something? He
Speaker 1: did a four three six and a four three nine, right,
Speaker 1: all right, three six, yeah, And so the number one
Speaker 1: ranked defensive end coming out of that draft was he
Speaker 1: is at Clemson now and I'm looking for his name,
Speaker 1: and he's still at Clemson. He has just finished up
Speaker 1: at Clemson, and where is he? Where'd he go on this? Okay?
Speaker 1: Three and a half sacks this year at Clemson. Okay,
Speaker 1: but he'll be We'll know all about him when he
Speaker 1: is maybe or Thomas is his name. And he started
Speaker 1: nine games for Clemson this year. He was the number
Speaker 1: one ranked defensive end coming out in the nation, in
Speaker 1: the nation, not Pennsylvania, No, in the nation and goes
Speaker 1: to Clemson and Parsons was the number two ranked defensive end.
Speaker 1: So Parsons is here working on twelve sacks season in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Not not to dig on this guy, a
Speaker 1: class only and only. It just shows you how rare
Speaker 1: the talent that Michael Parsons is and only had two
Speaker 1: years at Penn State thanks to the Big twelve Big
Speaker 1: I mean, this is twenty twenty one, the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two recruiting class now for high school. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just so it's amazing how quickly they go from high
Speaker 1: school to the NFL. So he only he only played
Speaker 1: two years at Penn State and only started one because COVID.
Speaker 1: He didn't play his last year because they the Big
Speaker 1: Ten was going to cancel the season. Remember, and when
Speaker 1: they canceled the season, he said, okay, well there's no
Speaker 1: sense me hanging out. I'll get ready for the draft.
Speaker 1: He ended up getting an agent and then like two
Speaker 1: weeks later, the Big Ten goes, oh, no, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play, and it's like, well, can I play?
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, you got an agent. Could you
Speaker 1: imagine it was for Michael Parsons to not play? Yes,
Speaker 1: an entire yeares well and then now he has a
Speaker 1: hard time coming out for one play in preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we think about for colleges now, even though technically they
Speaker 1: don't have agents, they do have agents now in college
Speaker 1: football because here it was just months after Parsons was
Speaker 1: drafted by the Cowboys the NIL legislation passes, and so
Speaker 1: now college players are making money and yeah, technically they
Speaker 1: don't have agents, but there are agents brokering those deals. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, since you brought that up, your guy
Speaker 1: from South Lake, is he going to Texas? Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: going to Texas. Quinn youerswers yea quarterback who so his
Speaker 1: contract he signed at Ohio State. Does that NIL continue?
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's up front money that they
Speaker 1: get on those deals or and I'm pretty sure it's
Speaker 1: probably upfront money that you get. Reportedly it was seven
Speaker 1: figures over a million dollars. See, they're not going to
Speaker 1: put the genie back in the bottle. This is gonna
Speaker 1: this whole thing of recruiting. You go there for one
Speaker 1: semester and you leave. Well, the whole transfer portal thing, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are college football coaches are recruiting. They have to
Speaker 1: recruit their own roster to make sure that their own
Speaker 1: players don't go to the transfer portal, and then they're trying.
Speaker 1: They're recruiting from the transfer portal much more so than
Speaker 1: high school teams. One of the local teams that has
Speaker 1: a number of players that have gone on to college
Speaker 1: football at the highest level and on into the NFL
Speaker 1: Aledo High School. Their coach this year. Normally, at a
Speaker 1: normal practice h during the spring or fall, there might
Speaker 1: have as many as thirteen college coaches practice. They didn't
Speaker 1: kick him out. They don't they aren't showing up this year.
Speaker 1: The coach of Aledo said he had two college coaches
Speaker 1: on campus this year, and he had some of the
Speaker 1: top recruits in the nation. Because the college coaches aren't
Speaker 1: recruiting the high schools now, they're recruiting the points for
Speaker 1: Portal instead. Amazing. So back to Parsons, and obviously it
Speaker 1: was going to come up this week about the comparisons
Speaker 1: with LT. They're playing the Giants, and so somebody asked
Speaker 1: him about it, and yeah, he said, yeah, I've kind
Speaker 1: i've kind of heard it. He goes, but I definitely
Speaker 1: say it's a way too early to compare me to
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. He had one hundred and forty two,
Speaker 1: meaning sacks, so he knew that right, He's looked him up.
Speaker 1: He had who was as LT guy they keep talking about,
Speaker 1: he had a He said, he had one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two. I still got one hundred and thirty to go,
Speaker 1: so I got a long way to go still. But
Speaker 1: he said, you know, I'm honored to be, you know,
Speaker 1: in compared to that elite company. But I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of work to put in. So when you look
Speaker 1: really got a good head on the show. When when
Speaker 1: you look at LT, you look at Derek Thomas, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at a guy like that. Two guys like that,
Speaker 1: you could always find them. You always knew where they
Speaker 1: were going to be right because they're always on one
Speaker 1: side or the other. Right, they would switched side. They
Speaker 1: were just both that good. But when it comes to Parsons,
Speaker 1: you never know where he's coming from exactly he could be.
Speaker 1: He was just as effective coming from the middle as
Speaker 1: he was lined up at defensive end, and that to
Speaker 1: me makes him stand out more than them. This is
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker that is playing like this. He is
Speaker 1: not on the line of scrimmage all the time when
Speaker 1: he makes the biggest impacts in the game. That is different.
Speaker 1: You always knew that Darry Thomas and Lawrence Taylor were
Speaker 1: gonna make their plays on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: They rarely made their plays on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know what he pointed that out. You know the
Speaker 1: thing he pointed about about LT said, he looked up
Speaker 1: stuff and he goes. You know, he was the guy
Speaker 1: that set the tone for a linebacker being in edge Russia. Yes,
Speaker 1: because he was always coming off off the edge and
Speaker 1: he goes and he made that position important. I mean,
Speaker 1: we can go back further. I mean, was it Bobby Bell, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, that dude, Let's just be real, he was
Speaker 1: I mean he was LT before LT, so I'm definitely
Speaker 1: aging myself. But when I saw a video of him playing,
Speaker 1: and then saw a video of LT playing, now you
Speaker 1: see guys like d where you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Darry Thomas. To me, Parsons is still more unique than
Speaker 1: even all of those people. That is crazy to say,
Speaker 1: because those guys didn't drop him. He didn't not drop him, right,
Speaker 1: never know. And this guy's running thirty yards downfield on
Speaker 1: that one player almost getting paid. He affected the interception
Speaker 1: that jay Won got two weeks ago, right, which end
Speaker 1: up being an amazing play on jay Von's plot. But
Speaker 1: just even get to that point he's down the field,
Speaker 1: I believe it was uh, it wasn't Kamar, but it
Speaker 1: was with the backup, the backup running and he I
Speaker 1: mean he made a play on the ball. He didn't
Speaker 1: just run down there and got in the way. He
Speaker 1: made a play on the ball. And he didn't have
Speaker 1: another one this past week. So yeah, um so yeah,
Speaker 1: he's uh uh, he understands, you know what everybody's saying,
Speaker 1: but he's still like, Okay, I've still got a lot
Speaker 1: to learn. Uh. And and what's gonna give the Giants
Speaker 1: problems is that their offensive line other than Andre Thomas
Speaker 1: right the first round draft twice, that the guy the
Speaker 1: tackle other than him. Their offensive line, especially in the middle,
Speaker 1: I've been told is kind of shaking Andrew Andrew, I'm sorry. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he's playing against his buddy, yeah, yeah, right. And
Speaker 1: so that middle, if they're soft in the middle, well
Speaker 1: where do you think they're gonna stand him up? Right?
Speaker 1: They're gonna and and and then the other guys. They
Speaker 1: told you we didn't need anyone on the outside. I
Speaker 1: told you before this game, this past game with with
Speaker 1: d Love back, Greg, you back, we don't even need
Speaker 1: him out there now, boy, but they put him out
Speaker 1: there as a strong side linebacker as a fifth guy
Speaker 1: coming right, and and so and now you got to
Speaker 1: backup quarterback in Glennon. And if they have Frome Frome
Speaker 1: is that from from from he's from Georgia. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know that's gonna those guys are. They're gonna be holding
Speaker 1: the ball an extra second trying to figure things out,
Speaker 1: and they ain't gonna have an extra second. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defensive front could feast in this game. And
Speaker 1: they need to too. Just to make sure that's thing
Speaker 1: you worry about with these games. The discipline still has
Speaker 1: to be there, right, you can feast without being uncoordinated.
Speaker 1: You see, That's what I want them to continue with
Speaker 1: the focus of doing it the right way. And then
Speaker 1: the pressure is gonna come. Don't get two aces and
Speaker 1: and and I'll guarantee you Jason, Oh not Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens right, a bunch of little screens to try
Speaker 1: to slow him down. Yeah, he got sacrificed, Yes he did.
Speaker 1: You know that's right. Everybody's going bad. Everybody's going after
Speaker 1: this right on the way. It's a great advantage for him.
Speaker 1: I'm stay, he gets his money the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: gets a head start off. That's what Jimmy did for me. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: so I can go and do it right. Well, and
Speaker 1: they're that's what they're gonna do. Smoke screen a couple
Speaker 1: of coaches on this staff. I mean dan Quinn, you
Speaker 1: think he Things turned out pretty well for dan Quinn
Speaker 1: after being let go fifty five games into the season
Speaker 1: last because I'll guarantee you the Cowboys didn't wait to
Speaker 1: January to figure out dan Quinn was the next defensive
Speaker 1: court writer. You know, they knew it by Thanksgiving. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go after this guy. Yeah. Absolutely. And the
Speaker 1: same thing with the other assistants that they they brought in.
Speaker 1: You know, we all talk about dan Quinn, but Joe
Speaker 1: went bringing him in the secondary made a difference. Uh
Speaker 1: dirty the defensive line giving aid. You know, they knew
Speaker 1: who they were going to get him. And I'll guarantee
Speaker 1: you they knew that George Edwards gonna get moved up
Speaker 1: to the linebacker coach, even though they kept him as
Speaker 1: the senior defensive assistant or whatever title he has. You know.
Speaker 1: And and somebody asked, well, what were they gonna do
Speaker 1: if dan Quinn leaves? It's like, George Edwards, don't let
Speaker 1: him leave because he's pretty good any and and and
Speaker 1: Parsons had a really neat thing because they were talking
Speaker 1: to him about how he goes out there, and he goes, now, me,
Speaker 1: me and George, he goes we get into it because
Speaker 1: he wants me to do things a certain way, and
Speaker 1: I start freelancing, and he basically says, Okay, that's fine
Speaker 1: as long as you make the play. If you don't
Speaker 1: make it, then we're gonna have talk if if you
Speaker 1: if you go out of bounds and you make the play,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna say anything. But if you don't make the play, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with it. We're gonna have words,
Speaker 1: he said. He told me, we'll have words when you
Speaker 1: come to them. When the coach asked, well, who who
Speaker 1: was the problem, I'm pointed you. You would the one
Speaker 1: and one of the thing on Michael, And it just
Speaker 1: occurred to me. There have been two guys in my
Speaker 1: time covering the Cowboys. When the first time I saw them,
Speaker 1: when they walked into the building, I said, this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna make it. He's gonna make it big. One of
Speaker 1: them was Michael Parsons. He walked in here the first
Speaker 1: day when he after the Cowboys drafting, he came into
Speaker 1: the TV studio and I did an interview with him.
Speaker 1: I came away from that interview was saying, that's a
Speaker 1: slam dunk draft pick. This kid, he just had a
Speaker 1: presence about him. You know who the other guy was
Speaker 1: to Marcus Ware everyone Emmett Smith. Oh really when he
Speaker 1: walked in with that polkadon outfit. I said at Valley
Speaker 1: Riche when he got drafted, I said, anybody who's going
Speaker 1: to walk into this place where in that he's gonna
Speaker 1: make it the colonist that he's comfortable in his own skin.
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Speaker 1: It was so seamless, you didn't even even realize I
Speaker 1: didn't even notice. Yes, Um wow, this is the last
Speaker 1: weekend before Christmas coming up here. I guess I got
Speaker 1: to do some shopping. Um all right, Zeke this tuck Zeke.
Speaker 1: This was funny. They asked him about COVID, right, all
Speaker 1: the teams want to know if they were doing anything
Speaker 1: differently here to try to keep themselves safe. And he
Speaker 1: went through this long answer about we know what we
Speaker 1: have to do to stay safe. Dada, da da, and
Speaker 1: then and and and then Kelvin Watkins asks him, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: but what about you know, if you wanted to go
Speaker 1: somewhere or do something, you know, do you think twice
Speaker 1: about it? I shouldn't do that. He goes, I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're asking. And he goes, well, the Mavericks
Speaker 1: are playing the Lakers. Would you stay away from that?
Speaker 1: To stay out of these uh big crowd. And he's
Speaker 1: come to town, right, He goes in Bron's coming to
Speaker 1: town and he goes, well, I'm going to game. He
Speaker 1: probably didn't know. Yeah, well I'll go into the game.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to skirt this because you're gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he did it. That It was like somebody
Speaker 1: because he ain't. He's got court court side seats. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been enough trouble and been caught on camera enough.
Speaker 1: What's going on? So one more note on Tarson's Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got nine and a half. Pon Parson says, nine
Speaker 1: and a half sacks in the last six games. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the last two guys to win defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year in twenty nineteen, Nick Bosa finished the season
Speaker 1: with nine and Chase Young this last year finished the
Speaker 1: season with seven and a half. So he's got twelve
Speaker 1: but nine in six games. It's probably going to be
Speaker 1: the defensive Rookie of the year, and then we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Player of the Year as things go.
Speaker 1: Since alt is the only one to have done that
Speaker 1: in Night teen eighty one, I haven't studied who the
Speaker 1: other defensive Well, Miles Garrett has fifteen sacks. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's leading into Miles from Arlington Martinton in Texas
Speaker 1: A and m there you go. There's only had in
Speaker 1: high school. At one high school game he had eight sacks.
Speaker 1: It's funny. By the way, Vegas will not let you
Speaker 1: vote on rookie defensive Player of the Year anymore. Oh,
Speaker 1: really they pulled it off the board, off the board.
Speaker 1: So that is impact, guys, t J. When you come on,
Speaker 1: that's the impact right there. T J. Watt leads the
Speaker 1: league in sacks sixteen, okay, and then Garrett's got fifteen,
Speaker 1: Bosa San Francisco's Bosa's got fourteen. Uh Quinn Robert Quinn's
Speaker 1: got fourteen, and then Hendrickson Cincinnati and Juden New England
Speaker 1: twelve and a half, and then Parsons. So he's actually seventh,
Speaker 1: but he's only two away from being third, and he's
Speaker 1: the obviously the leading rookie. And it's not just you know,
Speaker 1: it's not just the sack. He's right, Beware, he's all
Speaker 1: over the field and he doesn't just sack him, right,
Speaker 1: he knows where the ball. It's scary. It's scary how
Speaker 1: how he does sack him. That's why they compare to
Speaker 1: LT because he didn't just sack them. I mean, he
Speaker 1: it was like you can see it coming. It's almost
Speaker 1: like when you're out in Africa and you see the
Speaker 1: jaguar going after the prey. That's kind of how it is.
Speaker 1: You can just see him sizing it up quickly, and
Speaker 1: you know it's inevitable, as asked Taysom Hill about it,
Speaker 1: you know, not that one that he's rolling it. He
Speaker 1: thinks he's gonna run around this guy, right and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden zoom yeah mahomes yeah, same thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are these are people that usually they can get
Speaker 1: rid of that, you know, they can counter that with
Speaker 1: their own talents. It's no, it's no way you can't
Speaker 1: get away. Yeah. So the Super Bowls headed to Vegas. Yes,
Speaker 1: in nebody, super Bowl fifty eight. So February of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, this is super Bowl fifty six. Came out
Speaker 1: of the NFL meetings here in Dallas. So we got
Speaker 1: so far this year yep. And next year we have Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who had a new stadium or
Speaker 1: did they have one already set? Super Bowl fifty seven. Man,
Speaker 1: it would be thirty years after the Cowboys went in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty seven. Unbelievable. It's time, it's crazy. And
Speaker 1: the fifty seventh Super Bowl will be played at Glendale,
Speaker 1: Arizona State Farms Stadium. Oh did they get another one?
Speaker 1: When are we going to get another one? Here? You
Speaker 1: got a bid on it so much I think I
Speaker 1: I mean, this is some reason twenty twenty seven sticking
Speaker 1: in my mind. I don't know what that's the next
Speaker 1: time they're gonna make the bid um because I think
Speaker 1: we're Vegas is the last new stadium, right'd be like
Speaker 1: seventeen years after. I know Seattle didn't have a new
Speaker 1: stadium and it's outdoors and you can't count on the
Speaker 1: weather there um, no one, no one when they built.
Speaker 1: It's that we'll probably not get. We'll never get a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl here another one for in Seattle. Seattle, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they built that, I think before that little Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the Giants hadn't I would do a Super Bowl, Yeah
Speaker 1: they did, but they had a new stadium. Seattle's stadium
Speaker 1: is not new at all. Okay, Um, I'm just going
Speaker 1: through my rolodex of stadiums. I can't think of another
Speaker 1: brand new one. Right. There's a couple that need a
Speaker 1: new stadium in Cincinnati and so yes at Washington. So
Speaker 1: but this was going to be a New Orleans bow
Speaker 1: and a Super Bowl fifty eight is going to be
Speaker 1: the same week of Matty Rock, and I don't think
Speaker 1: they deserve one before. We should have one New Orleans.
Speaker 1: They could have could have moved it here, right, So
Speaker 1: the New Orleans. The reason New Orleans is up on
Speaker 1: the pecking order is not because of the stadium itself,
Speaker 1: although it's not a bad stadium for what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's not a new stadium. It's because because they did.
Speaker 1: They did because of the logistics of New Orleans and
Speaker 1: the I mean, what there is to do it should
Speaker 1: have it there every year? No, they could have it
Speaker 1: here every year or well now with built up around that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's stuff to do. There's another
Speaker 1: hotel there, it's the DFW guys, enough room hotels, anything
Speaker 1: you want to do here, and chances are the weather
Speaker 1: will never be that bad again. Yeah, there's the ice
Speaker 1: that killed it. But they can't judge us on that,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, that's like I said, I remember
Speaker 1: the after that was was in Indianapolis. For the other problem,
Speaker 1: it was fifth he degrees. Because I was there, there
Speaker 1: was no no rain, no snow, so you can't effect
Speaker 1: expect the weather to be as unusual as it was
Speaker 1: back then. Was that was that was? Yeah? Well when
Speaker 1: was the last time that we had a February like that? Yeah? Oh,
Speaker 1: it was this last year. Even worse. And you know
Speaker 1: what about the same same week, right, it was February.
Speaker 1: We were not letting our grids go down like that. Boy,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you trust them, because we certainly didn't do
Speaker 1: much to punish him. Now, the Pro Bowl this year
Speaker 1: is in Vegas. Yes, so I Pro Bowl the week
Speaker 1: this year, this year, this year, and then so February
Speaker 1: and then Vegas gets so the Cowboys won't be playing
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl and right, yeah, so right, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah they gave I was trying to think, as anybody,
Speaker 1: are you gonna get elected? They gave twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: to New Orleans? Oh they did? Yeah, okay, And they
Speaker 1: gave twenty twenty five Super Bowl yes? Why oh because
Speaker 1: lent is later? Yes, one year, and that's because Marty Gross.
Speaker 1: Marty Grosse starts later. I don't know why I thought.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking that was probably have not announced
Speaker 1: that yet. Twenty five, twenty twenty five is the last
Speaker 1: one that been set, and I think for some reason,
Speaker 1: I thought that's what I read a while ago. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are the Bears was to getting new stadium? Mick, uh,
Speaker 1: They are making overtures about going out into the suburbs
Speaker 1: bought the land. I heard, Yeah, the McCaskey family bought
Speaker 1: the land. And that was just a bad idea what
Speaker 1: they did with Soldier Field. Yeah, it's like they put
Speaker 1: they had a a satellite or like this moon thing
Speaker 1: coming land on top of an old stadium. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just weird. And it's still outdoors. And yeah they
Speaker 1: want to indoor stadium. Yeah, they get a Super Bowl draft, right, exactly,
Speaker 1: because nobody's going to Chicago to play the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in an outdoor stadium. Yeah. The only reason they went
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis is because they least had a new stadium
Speaker 1: and a roof on top. Right, You're just not gonna
Speaker 1: do that. They did that one in New York that
Speaker 1: one year, Yes, and they got away with it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was there for that. Yeah, for that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Did you get invited? No? It snowed the day after, right,
Speaker 1: and the Farmers Farmers Almanac, which is the best I'm
Speaker 1: sorry guys, that weather bible. Bro. It was the day
Speaker 1: they said the Super Bowl would be great, and they
Speaker 1: said the day after it was snow and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. How far in advanced did they know that
Speaker 1: when does the Farmer's arm that come out? I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: aren't you familiar with the farmer? He's quoting the Bible,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't know the farmers. But they right every year.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was way. They don't update it like
Speaker 1: the farmers. It's like when they originally wrote the Farmer's Almanac.
Speaker 1: I don't know is right from year to year. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's got predictions what's gonna happen for
Speaker 1: a year. I don't know if they go back to
Speaker 1: eighteen hundred and saying in two thousand and twenty one
Speaker 1: the super Bowl won't be played, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a Is there a book the
Speaker 1: Farmer's Almanac that someone can get for Christmas? I don't
Speaker 1: need it. Could be a stocking. You get a farmer
Speaker 1: to sign it, Walt Garrison. No, just get fine farmers,
Speaker 1: some of them Grison farmer, Walt Garrison is a fighting
Speaker 1: farm And on that note, y, yeah, I've concluded another
Speaker 1: day of broadcasting here on Mixed Shot. Now it will
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