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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is the Wednesday before Christmas,
Speaker 1: and we are here to talk Cowboys with Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: at Everson Walls as Eagles Week is now officially underway.
Speaker 1: As everybody is back in the building, including Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 1: Look at Mickey. Everson's got our red Christmas tie on
Speaker 1: with suspenders. Oh Saint Mick somewhere today, So I'm good. Oh,
Speaker 1: Satan Mick is in the house. Maybe that's what we
Speaker 1: need to We need to rename the Monkey Sat Mick
Speaker 1: or Sat Nick. Huh. Boys, you see you should have
Speaker 1: thought of that yesterday. That's actually pretty good. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right? Yeah, I see now that a periscope is
Speaker 1: up and going now, and so I can see that
Speaker 1: you've got Saint Mick at your side inside the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studio and Mickey is dressed festivally for the occasion,
Speaker 1: probably been inside Forward Center and watched a little practice
Speaker 1: today too, right, Mickey, Yes, we did. They needed a
Speaker 1: pull report today from Rob and I, and so we
Speaker 1: got to watch those warm ups and stretch and a
Speaker 1: couple of individual drills. And I can tell you that
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott was on the resistance chords working off to
Speaker 1: the side during the time we were there. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: made it sound like that he would be limited to
Speaker 1: these first couple of days, but kind of hopeful that
Speaker 1: he would be able to play on Sunday against the Eagles. There.
Speaker 1: The Woods were not there, Xavier and Antoine they were
Speaker 1: gonna miss practice with their respective injuries. Neither was Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh But Michael Gallop looked like he might be
Speaker 1: doing something. At least he was out there. He went
Speaker 1: through the team stretch. The wide receivers were sort of
Speaker 1: off to the side doing their stuff with the Special
Speaker 1: Teams unit working and then but he had his helmet,
Speaker 1: so that bodes well for maybe doing a little something,
Speaker 1: And Mike McCarthy thought that from what they've seen over
Speaker 1: the last past two days that he should have a
Speaker 1: good chance of playing on Sunday. So that's what we
Speaker 1: saw in practice, Although we haven't heard yet. Why but
Speaker 1: the bell Doozer was not at practice tonight. Hmmm. Interesting. Okay,
Speaker 1: no Blake Bellott practice because he didn't have anything. Now
Speaker 1: he did, Yeah, so hopefully it was a personal matter
Speaker 1: or something. But yeah, he was not there and we
Speaker 1: hadn't heard yet the reason for that yet. Well about
Speaker 1: the other ou sooner Uh, Okay, Gallimore was out there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked like he was ready to go. So and
Speaker 1: Mike didn't even mention him with the with the injury guys,
Speaker 1: So it looked like he was good to go. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I guess without ant twine Woods out there justin
Speaker 1: Hamilton would they had been using him at the other
Speaker 1: defensive tackle spot. Uh. And then when they were going
Speaker 1: to their nickel in the game, if you noticed, I
Speaker 1: mean the nickel when it was definite passing situations, uh,
Speaker 1: they moved Aldon Smith inside with Tyrone Crawford as the
Speaker 1: pass rushers, and then Randy Gregory was the defensive end
Speaker 1: along with DeMarcus Lawrence. That was an excellent move. That
Speaker 1: is the first piece of individual defensive coaching I think
Speaker 1: I've seen all year long. They made an adjustment, I mean,
Speaker 1: and first of all, good afternoon. Bill. You know you
Speaker 1: didn't even get around to introducing me. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I want to say hi to the people. I got
Speaker 1: my spash special on here. You see that special? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my mix got my mix shot special. I had to
Speaker 1: wait till I got a little warmer. And all right,
Speaker 1: look there there you go, look at that. See that.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one that listens to Bill. I'm the
Speaker 1: only one that listens to Bill. Even though this is
Speaker 1: yours show. We were supposed to be pretty festive in
Speaker 1: regards to our what we crowned out. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: very cool, spact. You look very good. But I must say,
Speaker 1: you blew it. There you go. It's got the tag
Speaker 1: on it and everything right there. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: you're right. You know, I checked my stock show. I
Speaker 1: checked my stocking caps. I checked my stocking caps that
Speaker 1: we had, and I've got a pretty small head, but
Speaker 1: none of them fit. So I said, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna let it just sit up like like
Speaker 1: like like one of those color things. So that's Those
Speaker 1: are Christmas trees on top of your head? Ever since
Speaker 1: that is okay, make noise too, very nice. Noise can't here,
Speaker 1: but they make a little noise. I'm cool. Well, just
Speaker 1: let me know when we need to make noise. I'll
Speaker 1: put the batteries in satan Nick and get a little
Speaker 1: clapping going on. Oh wow, sat Nick comes with batteries too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, except that I don't have the
Speaker 1: push button, so it doesn't turn off unless I take
Speaker 1: the batteries out. We can sing Christmas carols in our
Speaker 1: last segment if you'd like. I don't sing. Let's not
Speaker 1: no please. I cannot sing or dance, by the way,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can remember. I can remember in third
Speaker 1: grade we'd count off and we'd have like four different
Speaker 1: teams in the class, and we'd be counting off and
Speaker 1: I'd say the number, and then the kids that were
Speaker 1: going to be on that team. Goal, of God, we've
Speaker 1: got him on the team. When I tried out, when
Speaker 1: I went to my first choir rehearsal at my church
Speaker 1: in Hamilton Park, we had a very strict music teacher,
Speaker 1: you know, choir leader, and boys, she scared me. I
Speaker 1: mean she scared me. She would play the music and
Speaker 1: threaten you at the same time as she lips some
Speaker 1: things right. And my first song, my first solo, I
Speaker 1: had you have to do it. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: writer passage in everybody's church or whatever. My writer passage
Speaker 1: was to have my first solo. I cried as I
Speaker 1: sang throughout the entire so ote it. I was like nine,
Speaker 1: maybe nine years old. I hated it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: like saying your first East of speech. You always punk out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You get up there and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, there's too many people, and
Speaker 1: then you go running to your mom. You're sitting there
Speaker 1: lap and start crying. Something that's pretty much might bring
Speaker 1: all right, the breaking news out of Washington today. I
Speaker 1: just saw an NFL network they have stripped the captain
Speaker 1: label for Dwayne Haskins. And so, of course that game
Speaker 1: of a great importance to the Cowboys Washington taken on Carolina,
Speaker 1: and so he's no longer captain Dwayne Haskins. He wasn't
Speaker 1: practice today, however, I saw a report that he cannot
Speaker 1: be in meetings. He only can do zoom meetings. So
Speaker 1: he can be on the practice field with his team,
Speaker 1: but he can't, but he has to go virtual once
Speaker 1: they're off the practice field. So wait a minute, the
Speaker 1: NFL and punish him apparently, there was a report that
Speaker 1: the the Washington football team, as a reporter put it,
Speaker 1: they worked out a deal with the NFL on something.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what that deal entails. I bet
Speaker 1: Denver would like to know what the deal is practice
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, that's right? What what is what is this
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill making deals? What is going on? This guy's
Speaker 1: getting the pardon already? Is Washington? Yeah, everybody else is
Speaker 1: getting pardons. They might as well pardon him too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll be I'll be tracking that deal was possible
Speaker 1: and he and he's not and he's not even being
Speaker 1: set in as a prison already. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: really understand that that's even part of the the process
Speaker 1: of protocol. Yeah, you know, you have to do this
Speaker 1: and you have to do that. But if we can
Speaker 1: make a deal, then yeah, all of that goes away.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That sounds very fishy to meet. I mean,
Speaker 1: which team was it the players got fined for being
Speaker 1: at that charity thing? Giants? Was it the Giant? I
Speaker 1: think it was the Giants? Huh the Raiders, that's right? Thanks? Yeah, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's going on right now. But as far
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys are concerned. They are concerned with a
Speaker 1: different quarterback, and that would be the rookie Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: this week, and over the course of these forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: we'll discuss a lot about how do you defend Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the more fascinating aspects
Speaker 1: of this matchup is the way the Eagles are using
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and what the Cowboys are going to do
Speaker 1: to defense Jalen Hurts. And one guy, Mickey, you did
Speaker 1: not mention your practice report because he would not be
Speaker 1: at practice. That would be late in Vanderesh, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will be without Vanderesh this week. It looks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I've I've taped like four different things,
Speaker 1: and so it's like I just figured I mentioned Layton Vanderish,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to play. I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: got a now high ankle sprain, he's out for at
Speaker 1: least a couple of weeks. So, uh, yeah, he will
Speaker 1: not be at practice this week for sure. And so basically,
Speaker 1: and as you alluded to or you've mentioned before with
Speaker 1: the Woods, both Antoine and Xavier looks like they'll be
Speaker 1: out this week. Vanderish out. So you're down three starters
Speaker 1: on defense this week. Yeah, absolutely, And you know with
Speaker 1: Xavier out, they they are. When he left the game,
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson and Donovan Wilson took care of safety, and
Speaker 1: then at the linebacker spot it was Sean Lee and
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas and you know it was funny they were
Speaker 1: so when they were practicing, uh, special teams, Thomas and
Speaker 1: Gifford and whoever else Bernard they're at with special teams.
Speaker 1: So the linebackers are over at the side there and
Speaker 1: there's only three of them, and I looked and I go, God,
Speaker 1: that's like getting one on one, you know, special attention
Speaker 1: you get, you get individual instruction over there when you're
Speaker 1: a linebacker. You got two linebacker There was actually three
Speaker 1: linebacker coaches and three linebackers. So they shouldn't make a mistake, right, Well, No,
Speaker 1: that lets you know what the priority is gonna be
Speaker 1: for this weekend. We know what's gonna happen. Well, it's
Speaker 1: like going back to ou Bill. It's like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be another big twelve game. Hurts is gonna be running
Speaker 1: the same offense pretty much. They probably land at Ou
Speaker 1: in regards to the RPO putting the pressure on them
Speaker 1: one way or the other. You better contain every play,
Speaker 1: make sure he doesn't get outside. I mean, we know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. We have to do is go back
Speaker 1: and look at the Kyla Murray game. We can see
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in regards to what the defense is
Speaker 1: going to be facing. And I don't know without with
Speaker 1: our few linebackers that we have left, we know that
Speaker 1: we have no choice but to be in that nickel,
Speaker 1: even if we thought about changing, which obviously we never will,
Speaker 1: but I still, even if we had that option, having
Speaker 1: these few linebackers, Philly think they're like it's blood in
Speaker 1: the water for Philly. They're gonna they're gonna come after
Speaker 1: them and go up, come at their weakness defensively, you know.
Speaker 1: And if they only have three linebackers, no big deal
Speaker 1: because they only played more than one. You know, they
Speaker 1: played two, but never mores and you know sometimes just one.
Speaker 1: So three is fine, and I hope and is going
Speaker 1: to lead over to the secondary right rights. Fact. Now
Speaker 1: you got another another safety that's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: ready and playing in a position that they're not accustomed
Speaker 1: to playing in as well. Um, it makes situational football
Speaker 1: even more important. And maybe that's what they were going
Speaker 1: over as they would being isolated. You know, certain things
Speaker 1: you just have to expect in certain situations, and maybe
Speaker 1: you play one of the corners as a safety. I
Speaker 1: would think that Anthony Brown could probably do that. If
Speaker 1: Trey Von Diggs is ready to take more snaps at
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position, Jordan Lewis in the slot, Chitebeo
Speaker 1: Woozier at the other corner, maybe you use him in
Speaker 1: that situation because he's played in the slot before. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to adjust. But that's this season, right,
Speaker 1: It's all about adjusting and how well you do. And
Speaker 1: you better adjust to Jalen Hurts. I went back and
Speaker 1: looked and added up his numbers. You guys over these
Speaker 1: over the last two starts, he's run the ball twenty
Speaker 1: nine times for a hundred and sixty seven yards. He's
Speaker 1: got five hundred and five yards passing with four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions by the way, yep, and even with a
Speaker 1: guy that hadn't had a chance to get game planned.
Speaker 1: That usually happens the first game spags, but when it
Speaker 1: comes to the second game, there's usually an adjustment that's made. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: we see a little tendency. But Peterson, I've always said,
Speaker 1: I think he's really underrated as a coach. I think
Speaker 1: he anticipated those uh potential failures that comes with a
Speaker 1: second start. And let's just see how well he hasn't
Speaker 1: prepared for this game. Because at this point this year,
Speaker 1: I don't think defensively we've ever we haven't been out
Speaker 1: coaching anyone. It's gonna all have to come from effort alone.
Speaker 1: And we were talking about the DBS and the Nickel package.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be a little bit more outnumbered even as
Speaker 1: we get down in the goal line spags, because you know,
Speaker 1: Brown is pretty decent out in coverage in the same
Speaker 1: and there he's still not comfortable with him in that slot.
Speaker 1: But still, when you get down that goal line, you
Speaker 1: need to you need somebody with some bigger shoulder pads
Speaker 1: to come in there. And now that's when you're going
Speaker 1: further into the top of the defensive backfield. And who
Speaker 1: you're gonna come up with that Someone who's a harder hitter,
Speaker 1: you know. And I can't believe this came out of
Speaker 1: my mouth. A couple of times this week. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd rather see the starter Carson Wentz playing
Speaker 1: quarterback than Jalen Hurts. Hmm. I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: some costing me. I'm not lying when they when they
Speaker 1: put Hurts there, it's like, and we talked about this, guys.
Speaker 1: I told you, guys, this this guy is dangerous. And Bill,
Speaker 1: you you were referring back to when he came to
Speaker 1: ou and you know, some of the weaknesses that he
Speaker 1: clearly had. That's why he went second round. But you
Speaker 1: clearly some of the weaknesses that he had. But what
Speaker 1: I do recall, and we touched on that yesterday as well,
Speaker 1: is his improvement when he was at Alabama coming into Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Clearly a different quarterback. Yes, still made mistakes, but his
Speaker 1: skills passing wise and pocket presence wise. Just as a
Speaker 1: leader from a quarterback position became more diverse, his entire
Speaker 1: game became more diverse once he came to OUA. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals sacked him six times last week, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: on the season, Carson Wentz was sacked fifty times in
Speaker 1: twelve games, fifty sacks that the Eagles had given up.
Speaker 1: And now with Hurts coming on no sacks the first
Speaker 1: week against New Orleans but six sacks last week against Arizona.
Speaker 1: With a young quarterback, a rookie quarterback like Hurts, what
Speaker 1: do you do as far as maybe bringing the heat
Speaker 1: against him and blitzing him. I'd love that situation. You
Speaker 1: bring the heat, but it has to be a control
Speaker 1: blitz because all he wants to do is break that containment.
Speaker 1: And the other thing I wouldn't do. I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: show him the blitz because that's when I think you
Speaker 1: give him an advantage. I wouldn't show him the blitz.
Speaker 1: I would disguise it very well and when I'd come
Speaker 1: with it. I would love for the Cowboys to come
Speaker 1: with a zone blitz. The best zone blitz can get
Speaker 1: any young quarterback. And I think you use that very
Speaker 1: often and you put that doubt in his head as
Speaker 1: to whether it's going to be man to man the zone.
Speaker 1: And I think that the way Peterson is game planning,
Speaker 1: and McCartney talked about it as press conference today, it's
Speaker 1: basically they've already used every quarterback run package or run
Speaker 1: scheme that you can imagine already, and I think you're
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of that, and that puts
Speaker 1: the defense off balance where they can't bring it so much.
Speaker 1: And the other thing with Hurts, and I saw this
Speaker 1: last year when I watched him at Oklahoma, is because
Speaker 1: he runs so effectively. When he doesn't see what's available,
Speaker 1: what he what he wants to go with in the
Speaker 1: passing game, he tucks it and runs it. And so
Speaker 1: whether you use a spy against him or whatever you've got,
Speaker 1: you've got to always be mindful that he's uh. He's
Speaker 1: fully capable of tucking it and running with it. Hey Bill,
Speaker 1: even though he's a decent pass it better than what
Speaker 1: he always was at Alabama, I still think we have
Speaker 1: controlled rushes for this guy. Just be a control of rush.
Speaker 1: The lesser of the evils is to make him throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Even though he's doing well and he passed
Speaker 1: the ball well, I think you're in trouble if you
Speaker 1: let him break containment. That will break down our defensive
Speaker 1: backfield as it always does. I would rather pick my
Speaker 1: poison and keep him in the pocket. Keep him in
Speaker 1: the pocket and make him come pleat the ball, make
Speaker 1: them start them, make them run the play they call,
Speaker 1: don't let them improvise. There you go, no, no improvisation.
Speaker 1: We don't do whether in the second day when someone improvises.
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Speaker 1: three twenty five kickoff on Sunday the Cowboys and the Eagles.
Speaker 1: And of course the Washington Carolina game has now been
Speaker 1: moved to three h five, so there'll be some scoreboard
Speaker 1: watching on that AT and T Live FX video board
Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium. And here's the latest Mickey
Speaker 1: and Everson on Dwayne Haskins. As Haskins, Washington has fined
Speaker 1: Haskins in addition to stripping him of captain. Haskins will
Speaker 1: not be suspended and will start against the Panthers if
Speaker 1: Alex Smith is not good to go. Head coach Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera says the decision on the punishment was based on
Speaker 1: league standards. So I'm I'm wondering that deal that Washington
Speaker 1: had with the league. I guess the league basically told
Speaker 1: him handle it according to league standards on your own
Speaker 1: and we'll see if the league comes down with something
Speaker 1: at the league agrees with what Washington is doing here.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that made it different
Speaker 1: from the Bronchos situation is, you know, there was security
Speaker 1: video inside the Bronchos facility where the quarterbacks were all
Speaker 1: together in a meeting without mask on, and that's what
Speaker 1: helped cause their they'm all to go into COVID and
Speaker 1: they wound up having to play a wide receiver at
Speaker 1: quarterback that game. So it's okay, though, to go and
Speaker 1: not have a mask on in a nightclub and hanging out.
Speaker 1: I don't no, I don't know. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: maybe the difference and every day and I did call
Speaker 1: it a nightclub by the way, Well someone should have
Speaker 1: worked on the statement they released. I mean, just use
Speaker 1: the words stripping. You know, they kind of a little
Speaker 1: tone deft there, Right, he was stripped. Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: you could call it a gentleman's club. Huh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never been there. I don't know
Speaker 1: whether there's gentlemen in there. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: what kind of class are we dealing with, you, You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, at least they had they had
Speaker 1: Washington Football Team T shirts on I heard, oh there
Speaker 1: you go, there you go, all right? In keeping with
Speaker 1: the Christmas season, what would you give the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: help them beat the Eagles on Sunday? What is it
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys need for Christmas in order to beat
Speaker 1: the Eagles on Sunday? Are we talking intangibles? Are you
Speaker 1: you talking the games? Whatever you would like, whichever way
Speaker 1: you like to go with it. What what do the
Speaker 1: Cowboys need from Santa Claus to beat the Eagles on Sunday?
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys need heart, That's what they need.
Speaker 1: So basically talked to Santa Claus. But they need some heart.
Speaker 1: Whoever whatever saying it gets it we can take back.
Speaker 1: Because let's think about the last times that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia have played, especially going back to I think
Speaker 1: that was last year when Philly came through here with
Speaker 1: two injured tight ends and allowed both of them to
Speaker 1: just flourish up and down the field. We almost here,
Speaker 1: we are, We've got a chance to do something in
Speaker 1: our own hands, and we just failed miserably. I've always
Speaker 1: thought that, when it comes down to it, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lacked the heart to make the big plays against Philadelphia
Speaker 1: when they've needed it throughout the past. I've been so
Speaker 1: disappointed in that, and I'm wondering, even with giving up
Speaker 1: the big plays that we give up defensively, even giving
Speaker 1: up the run as we do consistently, I still want
Speaker 1: to see somebody show some guts. I still want to
Speaker 1: see the really the team that I've seen the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks as far as Okay, we may be
Speaker 1: giving up plays, but we're gonna get the turnovers. Hell,
Speaker 1: that was nineteen eighty one for us. Gave a plenty
Speaker 1: of yardage, but we got We led the league in
Speaker 1: picks more than once, you know, in those in the eighties.
Speaker 1: So I understand that philosophy, because if you feel like
Speaker 1: you're outmatched in regards to skiing, then the players themselves
Speaker 1: have to take it upon themselves to make the difference.
Speaker 1: So they need heart. Well. Against the tradition of Christmas,
Speaker 1: it will be better to receive than give gifts on
Speaker 1: this day, which means the reason the Cowboys, a big
Speaker 1: reason why they've won these last couple of games, is
Speaker 1: that they have gotten takeaways instead of giveaways. The last
Speaker 1: two games, it's been seven takeaways and no giveaways, and
Speaker 1: I went back and added this stuff up. After nine games,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were a minus thirteen on the turnover differential,
Speaker 1: they were two and seven. In the last five games,
Speaker 1: they are a plus seven in the turnover differential and
Speaker 1: they're three and two. So I don't think that's a coincidence.
Speaker 1: And you know, Mike McCarthy talked about it today. You know,
Speaker 1: he said, wherever you coach the NFL college, high school,
Speaker 1: you know, turnovers, the side games, and with a struggling offense,
Speaker 1: they need some gifts to have shorter fields, to be
Speaker 1: able to score touchdowns and maybe score more than the
Speaker 1: nine points they've scored the last two times they've played
Speaker 1: Philadelphia because nine ain't gonna get it on Sunday. So
Speaker 1: the biggest difference though, between now and the first time
Speaker 1: they played the Eagles is who's playing quarterback for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This time around. It has been Denucci. Last time around,
Speaker 1: absolutely Bill. And let's remember this too. I know they
Speaker 1: got beat twenty three to nine, but uh, with five
Speaker 1: thirty four left in the game, it was fifteen to
Speaker 1: nine and the Cowboys had a third and six at
Speaker 1: the Philly twenty one yard line. Right They're going in,
Speaker 1: they're they're ready to score. Uh and uh uh, And
Speaker 1: so the Nucci gets sacked by t. J. Edwards, he
Speaker 1: fumbles the balls recovered on the ground on his back
Speaker 1: by the Philadelphia Eagles, and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: ball gets ripped out and flutters back towards their goal line,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden McLeod picks it up and
Speaker 1: goes fifty three yards for a touchdown, and they did
Speaker 1: not rule down by contact for some unknown reason, and
Speaker 1: suddenly anything and for some reason, sixteen seconds later, it's
Speaker 1: now twenty one to nine. And then if you remember,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys didn't move the ball, and they took the
Speaker 1: safety on purpose to try to get an on side
Speaker 1: kick so they can try to catch up. So it
Speaker 1: was a ball game. Neither team was really moving the
Speaker 1: ball there. Cowboys had four takeaways in that game, if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, but I think if I remember also correctly,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ended up a plus two in that game,
Speaker 1: so they had two giveaways. So again they were in
Speaker 1: that ball game with Danucci starting his first NFL game
Speaker 1: as a rookie, and when you look at the difference,
Speaker 1: speaking of who you're starting at quarterback, you know, let's
Speaker 1: just look at Andy Dalton. You're talking about turnovers or
Speaker 1: lack thereof, it's because Andy's really trying to come into
Speaker 1: his own I was looking on Twitter this this morning
Speaker 1: and one of the post was, as you look at
Speaker 1: this angle the Dalton to Cede Lamb play. I think
Speaker 1: when he kind of broke out of the pocket and improvised,
Speaker 1: that was a hell of a past, guys. I mean
Speaker 1: he dropped that in there on a dime. And all
Speaker 1: weekend they were talking about quarterbacks that were making these
Speaker 1: great throws. You always got the Mahomes, You've always got
Speaker 1: Brady and oh, guys, that's a hard throw. Just look
Speaker 1: at it. No, none of those throws last weekend was
Speaker 1: more difficult than the past that Dalton made on the
Speaker 1: run to Cede Lamb on the improvisation moved. I think
Speaker 1: he's really starting to feel himself at a great time.
Speaker 1: He's peeking, feeling comfortable with the offense and those and
Speaker 1: it's keeping us from compounding our mistakes. When you have
Speaker 1: a quarterback back there that keeps things under control and
Speaker 1: you feel like can make those passes. What about the
Speaker 1: pass he made to Cede Lamb big time third down? Passes.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is something that makes me feel a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable, uh with him back there as opposed
Speaker 1: when he first started. And you know, he threw that
Speaker 1: ball to the CD on the big the big play
Speaker 1: on the run, and he didn't set his feet. He
Speaker 1: threw it off a one foot and it was perfect
Speaker 1: because a lot of times when you're running like that,
Speaker 1: turn right and you throw the ball, the ball's gonna
Speaker 1: drift to the right, right and it's gonna go out
Speaker 1: of bounds. And he threw it parallel to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and Bill was indeed because you have to
Speaker 1: be careful because the safety was coming over as well
Speaker 1: over the top. So if you throw it too far
Speaker 1: to the left, okay, over the receiver's head, safety has
Speaker 1: a chance to make a play. Too far to the right,
Speaker 1: he's out of bounds. He made it look much easier,
Speaker 1: and of course CD did as well. They made that
Speaker 1: look much easier than it really was. And it's certainly
Speaker 1: easier to play quarterback in this league, and your stats
Speaker 1: will wind up being better if you're playing from ahead
Speaker 1: and your so your defense is getting the takeaways than
Speaker 1: what happened the first half of this season. When you're
Speaker 1: playing from behind. Dak had great stats, okay, because and
Speaker 1: he did a great job coming back in those games.
Speaker 1: But what you want are the stats where or you're
Speaker 1: playing ahead, like like what the Cowboys had in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Dak's rookie year, when they were scoring touchdowns on the
Speaker 1: first drives of game. It's incredible. They've gone fourteen games
Speaker 1: now and haven't been able to score on the first
Speaker 1: possession of a game. So that your gift in the
Speaker 1: position we're in right now. Yeah, there's my gift. That's
Speaker 1: my gift to the Cowboys. A touchdown on the first
Speaker 1: drive of the game. About that. That'd be really good
Speaker 1: if we get a score first. Oh my god, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna turn off the TV even without the
Speaker 1: benefit of a takeaway. Go seventy five yards on the
Speaker 1: first drive of the game for a touchdown and things
Speaker 1: will be okay. All right, We've got our picks to
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Speaker 1: we've got an update on the Bell dozer. He was
Speaker 1: a misspractice today after being sent home with illness, a
Speaker 1: source told Michael Gilkin of the Dallas Morning News. Bell
Speaker 1: has tested negative for the coronavirus IRUs. So that is
Speaker 1: great news that he's tested negative, but that's why he
Speaker 1: missed practiced today, according to a source. So there's the
Speaker 1: latest on Blake Bell. So it wasn't that he felt
Speaker 1: really bad. Being cautious, right, Well, he has tested negative
Speaker 1: for the coronavirus who and of course they test all
Speaker 1: the time. But he just wasn't feeling well. And so
Speaker 1: if you've got any any sort of illness symptoms at all,
Speaker 1: I think they send you home. Yeah, that's why. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean, That's what I mean. I'm just hoping
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Speaker 1: we've got ten minutes left here making anything else before
Speaker 1: we make our picks to clicks that you'd like to
Speaker 1: get to um from your notepad there from practice today
Speaker 1: or any or anything from this week. I think I've
Speaker 1: I've about exhausted the mix shops. Oh one more, and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of kind of right about it. So you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry keeps getting asked no matter what happens out there,
Speaker 1: it always relates to Dak Prescott's contract. Right, So remember
Speaker 1: remember when he first got hurt, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna affect you know, Dak, you know his contract.
Speaker 1: And then the Cowboys started losing and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: now the price is going up because they can't win
Speaker 1: without him. Well then they started winning with Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh see they can win without him.
Speaker 1: The price is going down. Right, Yeah, don't need him anymore.
Speaker 1: So it just keeps vowling back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 1: And now the question on Tuesday was, now that you
Speaker 1: see what happened in Philadelphia with Carson Wentz once he
Speaker 1: signed a long term deal and he's on the bench,
Speaker 1: does that give you hesitation to sign Dak to a
Speaker 1: long term deal? Well, Jerry went on a three minute
Speaker 1: rent on the fact that and basically to paraphrase it,
Speaker 1: and I think we have a cut on it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Chris had it ready to go or not,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty interesting. Ready to have anything going Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that, Well that's okay, that'll get us
Speaker 1: to ten. Okay, Well, all you've got to do is
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning or any morning and not
Speaker 1: have any room under the cap. Wake up in the
Speaker 1: morning and I'm not woe is me, not in these
Speaker 1: times with the troubles and times of that America's in.
Speaker 1: But all you've got to do is wake up. You've
Speaker 1: spent all your credit card, which means you've extended your
Speaker 1: player contracts out beyond that they're playing years, which is
Speaker 1: a common practice to get room under the gap. Wake
Speaker 1: up when you've spent all your credit wake up when
Speaker 1: you don't have any money, and wake up when you
Speaker 1: need football players now that will say, how in the
Speaker 1: world does that happen? And then you go back and
Speaker 1: trace what happened, and you were not responsible by extending
Speaker 1: the amount of dollars out past the years that they
Speaker 1: were to be valid or to be used. And that's
Speaker 1: called salary cap. And that's what you don't not pay
Speaker 1: somebody because you don't want to pay them or they're
Speaker 1: not a good to a great player. You do it
Speaker 1: because you've got to manage the whole picture. And when
Speaker 1: you see players with big contracks that aren't really heading
Speaker 1: you in the right direction, then and in the future,
Speaker 1: that's the price you pay. And that's when you sit
Speaker 1: there and work and negotiate and try to get the
Speaker 1: you know, you try to get your cap down as
Speaker 1: much as you can. I call it the light theory.
Speaker 1: When you walk out of a room, you ought to
Speaker 1: turn the light off if there's nobody in it, because
Speaker 1: all you're doing is keeping the light on for the
Speaker 1: rats and the mice. There's nobody in there to see
Speaker 1: the light, and so you turn that light off. What
Speaker 1: you do is on every negotiation, you turn the light
Speaker 1: off because you may not think you need that light
Speaker 1: in that room when you can't afford it, you will
Speaker 1: need it. There's no question you'll need it at a
Speaker 1: certain time in the future. So you negotiate every time
Speaker 1: you can for the benefit of having more available for
Speaker 1: the players around the very player you're talking to. Now
Speaker 1: that's not directed at any player, that's just a negotiation.
Speaker 1: Now you know why the other day the lights went
Speaker 1: off in here, right, So to pair of the raise
Speaker 1: to paraphrase what he said, and this was yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: to paraphrase what he was saying. All this stuff everybody
Speaker 1: keeps saying that's going to affect the negotiation. The only
Speaker 1: thing affects the negotiation is the Dallas Cowboys salary camp
Speaker 1: and that they're not going to pay them more because
Speaker 1: of something they're not going to pay them less because
Speaker 1: of something. They're gonna negotiate a deal with DAK when
Speaker 1: they can start in next year. That makes sense for
Speaker 1: what they can afford along with affording all these other
Speaker 1: players the Cowboys have, because you don't want to start
Speaker 1: sacrificing Zack Martin. I can't afford Zack Martin anymore. Right,
Speaker 1: he's too expense. I can't afford to Marcus Lawrence anymore.
Speaker 1: I got to use all this money to pay my quarterback.
Speaker 1: So to me, they have not changed their stance one
Speaker 1: bit from where they were back during training camp early
Speaker 1: in the season when they basically offered him a five year,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million dollars deal with one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten guaranteed and fifty five million up front,
Speaker 1: which comes to right at thirty five million a year.
Speaker 1: And that's what all these other quarterbacks technically are getting
Speaker 1: if you get past how it's being divided out because
Speaker 1: it's addition to their previous contract. So to me, he
Speaker 1: keeps getting asked, but he keeps talking about make sure
Speaker 1: you turn that light off. I haven't heard that. I've
Speaker 1: heard him say that before. Right, you got to save pennies, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the Rats might be the media, man.
Speaker 1: I think that's true. So anyway, and I thought the
Speaker 1: Rats like the darkness. That's when they start right around.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. All right, let's let's make our picks.
Speaker 1: Came and it's gonna be interesting because Mickey can actually
Speaker 1: pick the Cowboys to win now since they won two
Speaker 1: in a row. Ever said, what are you going with? Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you guys, you know I always go take
Speaker 1: a securitis route to my answer. But my pick to click,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go Andy Dalton. You know, after that
Speaker 1: pass I saw him make the CD, not just that one,
Speaker 1: but the other one down the scenes as well. Just
Speaker 1: the way the wide receivers have been winning the one
Speaker 1: on one battles, I wanted to go with one of them.
Speaker 1: We were comfortable in our running game, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: before we started screwing up in the last game that
Speaker 1: we played against him. I hope they stayed within the
Speaker 1: big penalties because that can make things a whole lot easier.
Speaker 1: But I'm going with the deja vu. And Bill's gonna
Speaker 1: love this because his boy is involved in it. You're
Speaker 1: talking special teams. They're gonna have to make the difference.
Speaker 1: I've always said this guy. Special teams can just make
Speaker 1: things so much easier for us. They haven't been making
Speaker 1: any mistakes. Gregg the leg's been balling, he's been kicking
Speaker 1: the ball. Well, it's gonna be another Kmart situation, Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Philadelphia. The punt return game is gonna make the
Speaker 1: difference this time. I was looking at Ceedee Lamb in
Speaker 1: the last game. There was a couple of times when
Speaker 1: he misread just how much room he had in the game,
Speaker 1: at least twice. And you kept talking to the guys
Speaker 1: that were holding up the ends coming down the field, like, man,
Speaker 1: my bad, you had him next time, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You can see they were conversing. CD's gonna be extremely
Speaker 1: aggressive returning the ball this weekend, and I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna break one, and I'm hoping that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the one that makes a difference in the ball game.
Speaker 1: I picked the click as Ceedee Lamb. I got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys winning the game twenty four seventeen. All right, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it, especially on Christmas weekend. Picking
Speaker 1: Lamb to be your uh right there, sir, alright. He
Speaker 1: also all right, pastor there also has is brimming brimming
Speaker 1: with confidence because he had the on side kick return
Speaker 1: last week. Here's a lot of green pasture out there
Speaker 1: for lamb. All right, Mickey, Yes, what's your pick? I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna put a Lamb in a major or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, yeah, Bills, really he's really feeling it
Speaker 1: right now. It's pick the click is gonna be DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have multiple sacks in this game, and suddenly
Speaker 1: a guy that's got five and a half is gonna
Speaker 1: end up after this game with eight sacks for the season,
Speaker 1: and everybody can get off his back. Cowboys twenty four,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia twenty three. It's gonna be a close game, and
Speaker 1: Andy don't gonna lead them downfield for the winning score
Speaker 1: being a touchdown or a field goal, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: win three straight and ever so, what was your pick?
Speaker 1: First score? Twenty four, seventeen twenty four, seventeen, twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty three. All right, my pick to click is a
Speaker 1: guy who always seems to play well against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: It might be the last time I'm able to pick
Speaker 1: this guy as my pick to click. I'm the president
Speaker 1: of his fan club from before he even was drafted
Speaker 1: by the Cowboys in twenty ten. He's getting an opportunity
Speaker 1: and he is going to pick off Jalen Hurts. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about my man. Sean Lee is to pick the
Speaker 1: Click against the Philadelphia Eagles. He is going to have
Speaker 1: a pick in it because Jalen Hurts is prone to
Speaker 1: untimely turnovers. It will probably be in the red zone.
Speaker 1: As I look into my crystal ball here, Sean Lee
Speaker 1: is the pick the Click and the Cowboys win. Um,
Speaker 1: you got twenty four twenty three and twenty four seventeen.
Speaker 1: I'll split the difference in go twenty four twenty the
Speaker 1: final score Cowboys win. Now the other question, does Washington
Speaker 1: beat Carolina. I think Haskins is gonna have a messed
Speaker 1: up date. I think Teddy Bridgewater will show his even
Speaker 1: tempered leadership. I'm speaking hard. I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 1: think they can do I'm really pulling for them to
Speaker 1: do it. I think Teddy b is gonna be the
Speaker 1: main reason Picky. I agree with him. If my quarterback's
Speaker 1: not smart enough to stay off, stay out of a
Speaker 1: club like that without a mask on. I don't want
Speaker 1: him under center for me. I'll tell you what. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think I think Carolina is gonna win, and
Speaker 1: the biggest player the game is gonna be a stripped
Speaker 1: sack of Dwayne Haskins that will be returned for a touchdown. Interesting,
Speaker 1: there you go, just keeping with the theme. You got
Speaker 1: that right, Mickey got it? I got it? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, that doesn't We're gonna okay, We're gonna end
Speaker 1: this with someone singing a Christmas carol ahead. It's like
Speaker 1: Everson cry, Satan, Everson cry as we go out with
Speaker 1: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. How's that? Hey? Bill? You
Speaker 1: pat the pimp? The way you're talking to if you're
Speaker 1: if we're singing, you're doing a solo? All right, Mary, Christmas, everybody,
Speaker 1: very little Christmas. That's right. Will see you on Sunday
Speaker 1: and on Monday, we'll wrap it up here as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will still be alive in the NFC East. Happy
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