WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Previewing The 2022 NFL Draft 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.120 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:13.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.360 shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.639 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:28.800 and Nicky Spagnola. Oh what a big day? This is? 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.840 How big of a day is it? Mickey Spagnola, Baseball's 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.560 opening tiger teed off this morning and and he parked 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.440 the first hole he did. He did it that And 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.479 we are now how many weeks away? Three? Three weeks 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.239 away from day one of the twenty twenty two National 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:59.080 Football League Draft. This is Mick Shots. Bill Jones on 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:06.440 the line, you take it too long? Bill? Whose voice is, hey, Hey, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:11.520 if you're not here, you're you're your third out of mind? 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:18.000 That's right? Who is that? Bill Jones? Mickey Spagnola inside 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.640 the s WBC podcast studio and on the s WBC 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.440 phone line is Everson Walls. Hello, you know you mis me? 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.840 You know you missed me. I miss you guys too. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.600 I'll say it, man, I'm man enough to say that. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.720 You know I had stuff for you, but now I 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.559 got to keep it for another week. Oh cool. Cool. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.959 You can stew on that, you can grant when I 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.119 get back. No, you're gonna stew on it because I'm 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.480 not telling you what I had for you. It's but 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.880 I have something for Bill. By the way, we have 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:52.600 our Dallas Cowboys Official twenty twenty two Draft Guide. You 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:58.080 think there's more information inside than the Green Green, Well, 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.280 we're about to find out. You don't have any pictures 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.120 in your No, there's no no pictures in my big 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.720 green notebook. Yeah, but his handwriting is way better than 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.959 what you're gonna be reading in print. I don't know about. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:17.120 That's the problem. That's why the Big Green Notebook cannot 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.800 be published. I'm the only person who can read the 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.880 handwriting inside it. So some type of a William hieroglyphics. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.640 That's right, that's right, that's exactly right. So it's the 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:32.399 official twenty twenty two Dallas Cowboys Draft Guide right here. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.800 And where can we find these drafts? Well, you would ask, ye, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:43.160 got that information somewhere here in all my notes. Uh 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:49.400 So if you would like one, Uh, you can find 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:56.720 the direct link for the digital issue. Uh boy, it's 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.880 a long deal. You can go to twenty twenty two 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.919 Draft guide. It seems long. I mean, come on, what happened? 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.520 So you can get it on email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.359 and on the web. And he comes up as b 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:22.120 I dot l y slash twenty twenty two draft guide. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.760 I told you it was involved. Okay, all right, so 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.800 do that? All right? So our visit Dallas Cowboys dot 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.720 com slash star. Okay, Mickey's had his time ever since. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.480 How are things going with you? Everything is great, guys. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.000 I have been extremely busy, and I think also I 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.160 almost thought I had, as the young people say, the VID, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.240 the vid. Yes, that's what they called. You got the VID? No, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.800 I do not. But now I actually took the test 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.160 and everything. I was kind of nervous though I had 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.840 been down for the cow far about a week strong. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.920 Oh my goodness, so much better. Nown back on the 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.040 road and take care of it. All right, very good. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.320 How about you, Mickey? I'm good, rare to go, rare 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.000 to go, twenty one days away from that. Excited about 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.280 all these moves that are happening here behind the scenes. Yeah. Absolutely. Hey, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.960 the visits started this week, that's right. Uh. They did 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:25.240 the Dallas Day on Friday, and this week they started 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:31.000 their thirty National Visits. Guys been coming in daily, so 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.320 have you I've been able to eyeball any of them. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.599 Uh no, whatever they're doing, it's inside the Ford Center 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.400 or it's in the other wing over there. Yeah, but 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.400 we're allowed on the other side. You need to go 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:50.160 just walk around and see. Yeah, well you know what 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.320 I had, but you have you haven't looked inside the 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.880 big green notebook, and so you wouldn't know anybody if 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.760 you saw anyway, right, I don't know they have the pictures. Yeah, 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.920 I didn't walk around with the d That's what you did. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.200 That's what the pictures are for. In the draft guide. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.080 Mickey's walking around the Star with this week with this 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.400 draft guide, and he's trying to match up pictures. There's 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:15.919 Trey Burkes, wide receiver Arkansas. There he is, you know, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.840 Fag used to really be the in the know. He's 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.040 kind of gotten demoted, you know, as the cowboy picking 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.160 or the concerned. So he's just like sitting on the 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:30.120 outside there. William h starting to get in. It's okay, yeah, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.279 it's okay, Well, what do you want to know. I've 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.920 got twenty one names here that are supposed to visit 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.960 or have visited Oh, well, what do you You know, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.640 what you can tell what I have been able to 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.440 tell buy those names in the past, because there have 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.799 been years where the Cowboys don't draft off those visits, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.960 and there are a number of years where they have 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.480 drafted players who visited. Uh, I kind of look at 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.720 and I don't know, I haven't gone back and researched 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.080 it to see if after the fact, if this is 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:01.880 the way the draft played out for but you can 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.120 kind of get a feel for positions that they might 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:10.320 be looking at, which at what at what time during 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.600 the draft. You know, because a lot of those wide 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.760 receivers that they've had in here our first round prospects, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.920 which tells you that they could draft a wide receiver 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.960 in the first round in that right, So you're saying 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.400 they don't necessarily lean towards a particular position of who 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.840 comes to visit, you know, I'm saying they you can 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.560 kind of get a feel that what they're thinking pre drafted. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.440 It all changes once once the draft starts and your 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.400 guy gets taken in the first round. Uh. You know, Um, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.000 but when you've got a number of wide receivers that 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.360 are projected as first or second round picks, who are 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.680 making visits. Then you got a pretty good feel that 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.920 they if they like those guys and some of the 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.200 guys that come to visit their question marks about him, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.040 that that's the reason they brought them in for visits. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.800 They need to find out more about him. It's not 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.760 that necessarily that they liked the guy. It might be 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.000 that they've got He's a suspect as much as a prospect, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.240 so I can know. So what you're trying to say, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.000 Ben William here on mix shot is that the Cowboys 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.960 are looking to draft the wide receivers. Are we going 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.560 public with that right now? That you're saying, well, they 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.920 need to. You know when they went public with that 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.640 when they led him Cooper went to Brown. I tried 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.040 to tell you that two weeks ago, and you kept 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.640 wanting an offensive guard. I'm sticking to that, all right. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:36.000 So here, this is an unofficial list, and it was 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.960 projecting guys that either we're going to visit or have visited. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:46.760 They've got three wide receivers coming in and this is 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.440 only twenty one of the thirty. They can bring in 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.360 three wide receivers, three defensive tackles, two guards, a center, 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.480 and three tight ends by the way one offensive tackle. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.920 So they're announcing they need a tied in. I think 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:07.760 they already said they needed. They also announced that they 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:13.280 need a kicker Blake Jarwin. Blake Jarwin got hurt and 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.760 then Blake Jarwin got released, and so I mean, it's 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.480 it's pretty easy. There are no surprises on this list. No, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.760 when you look at positions speaking, all you have to 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.480 do is just follow along with who's left the team 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:31.680 and look at my shopping list, and there are vacancies 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:37.280 shot there products that still need to be purchased. And um, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.360 I did a little bit of a research here and 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.400 went and looked in the NFL where the money is 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:53.600 going per position? Okay, And I've always said in the NFL, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.800 if you need answers, you follow the money, right, And 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.959 so they had. I saw a list the average pay 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:08.400 of the top five guys at certain positions. And obviously 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.439 the highest paid position is quarterback, right, Well, the next 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:20.400 highest paid position wide receiver. So in the pecking order 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:27.400 of importance, the NFL teams think that the wide receiver 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.000 position is worth spending the next amount of money on 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.520 average salary. When did you do your research the other day? 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.560 The other day? So it wasn't yesterday after Stefon Diggs 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.240 signed his contry. Well, I think was already in there. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.640 Stefan was already in there. Yes, okay, twenty six million 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:55.480 and this was what there basis. I was just gonna say. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.880 If it was done before Stefan Diggs agreed to his 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.520 contract extension, the money for wide receivers just went up, right, 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.640 And this is this is what their average of their 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:14.640 contracts is. Okay, and the top five receivers Tyree Kill, Hopkins, Digs, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:22.000 Julie Julio, Julio, Julio Jones. Uh, and my handwriting so bad, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.040 I can't read what the other one is? Twenty eight million? 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:37.760 Who would have that? Oh? Um, come on, hey, he's 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:42.920 making twenty eight million a year. Who did you mention? Hill, Hopkins, Digs, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:48.240 Julio Jones, Adams and Adams. I can read your legal pan. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:53.160 I'm not even looking at their average average their average 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:58.200 salaries together the five twenty six point seven million dollars, 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.440 and that the most most expensive to lease, the way 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:07.880 you most expensive. DeVante went from the record breakers right, well, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.520 he'll he'll topped them and then yeah, he's been topped 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.800 a lot. That's my point. Yeah, he's been topped like 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.280 four more times. Whoever signs last usually tops, right, and 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.440 then and then if from Stefan's not on that list, no, Diggs, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.440 I said, oh you did say you did say twenty 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.160 six million a year? All right, So so that to me, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.960 that is extremely revealing. I've really I'm kind of surprised 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.959 about that and so disappointed. Got well, running back is 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.640 going to be now back? Are they just gonna be 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.320 like deal, go kickers? You know what I mean? I 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.360 didn't even bother them. Okay, but let's look at that, okay, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.280 because I need to. And the next two, the next 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.880 two offensive tackles they have twenty one point four million 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:03.360 the top five, and defensive vans twenty one million, guards 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.480 sixteen point two million. And this can tell you right now, five, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.640 I'll tell you right now, the only thing cheaper than 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.920 the running back is going to be defensive back. What 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:15.439 do I tell you? How much do you want to 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.200 bet it's gonna be running back to the bottom. And 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.439 defensive backs on top of running back, cornerbacks are around 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:34.600 nineteen okay, nineteen million the top five top So that 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.040 just gives you a little bit of idea of who's 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.880 getting paid in this league. Well, and it's interesting because 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.320 on the Diggs contract, with the amount of money they're 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.800 paying for the wide receiver, they've already dealt the money 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.160 for Josh Allen, the quarterback whose cap hit this year, 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.120 I just called it up. He's at thirty nine million 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.760 this year, forty one million next year, fifty one million 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.079 the following year. Are his cap hits on his contract 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.960 that he signed. Right, Davante Adams is with a veteran 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.640 quarterback who doesn't make that money with that car now, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.600 but he Green Bay could not keep him because of 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.560 the amount of money they're paying their quarterback, Tyreek Hill. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.439 Kansas City got rid of him because they've got two, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.000 you know, salary cap issues themselves, and he was towards 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.679 the end of his deal. And so you're either you're 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.520 making on a lot of these teams, you're making choices. Okay, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.600 Buffalo has made a choice. They're gonna go ahead. They're 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.079 paying their quarterback and they're paying wide receiver top dollar, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.680 but they're going to take away from some other position 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.640 on the field. Okay, Kansas City has made a decision 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.600 where they got their quarterback, They're gonna do whatever they 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.480 can at wide receiver, and they're paying They're playing Chris 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.440 Jones a ton of money defensive tackle and others on 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:55.400 their team, and so you can't pay every position top dollar. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:01.480 So the top five quarterbacks their average their contracts Rogers 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:09.199 fifty million, Watson forty six, Mahomes forty five, Alan forty three, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.520 and Dak Prescott forty And the only one of those 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.840 quarterbacks who has a wide receiver on that list is 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.840 josh Allen Buffalo. I was just gonna say that it 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.200 seems like all of them had to sacrifice someone for that, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:28.760 that's right, which which then explains why the Cowboys made 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:36.600 the decision they made on Amari Cooper. And and you know, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:42.880 and they they got to be right on this that 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.920 the twenty million or the sixteen million they gained on 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:52.480 the cap was more important than having Amari Cooper back 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.920 on the team. So they made they made to me, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:03.040 they made a talent evaluation that his base salary exceeded 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.920 what his production is projected to be in their eyes. Right, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.960 they got to be right because now they got to 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.680 replace him. And that's why I keep saying, you know, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.640 in either first or second round, got to have a 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.840 wide receiver, because right now, who are your top three? 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:29.840 Assuming Gallop misses the first two three four games. Let 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.840 me let's I'll throw this out at you two and Everson. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.000 Look at the wide receiver room and we're Cede Lamb. Okay, 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.920 with the with the players that were in that wide 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.040 receiver room last year, I'm ARII Cooper obviously the veteran guy. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.200 He's the leader of that group. Ceedee Lamb in his 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.680 second year last year, Michael Gallop in his fourth year. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.920 And just knowing the personalities involved there, Okay, all right, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:16:00.200 who when you project forward this coming season in the 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.120 next year, who is the leader of that Who would 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.840 who would have been the leader of that locker room 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.560 or of that room, the wide receiver room one more 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.720 time today, Like if they'd kept a mari Cooper. Oh, 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.720 if they'd kept a Mariy Cooper in that room, Okay, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.600 he's as long as he's with the team, he's still 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:24.880 the leader of that group. Correct. Okay, if it kept Cooper, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.080 you got Ceedee Lamb, you got Michael Gallup. Okay, where 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.400 were the projections as far as growth, as far as 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.800 being a leader on the team for a guy like 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.880 Ceedee Lamb or for a guy like Michael Gallup, and 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.520 is that growth stunted if you have I'm talking away 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.000 from Obviously the number one thing is the production on 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.080 the field, but there are some other intangibles that go 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.800 into this too, in the making of the culture of 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.320 your football team. And I don't know that necessarily you 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.720 don't see very many teams that have two wide receivers 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.240 that are the lead dogs. You know, they're there's a 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.120 lead dog in a wide receiver room. You know. Do 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.720 you mean in the room or on the field. I 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.960 got disagree, God disagree. Look at Tampa before god one 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.400 got hurt, right, And let's say, look at Tampa while 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.240 Antonio Brown was there as well. And I'm talking, I'm 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.760 talking as far as a leader, not not production, but 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.320 as this is the guy that's that's looked up to 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.639 in the room, as he sets the tone for the room. Well, initially, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.440 before I heard whatever I've heard from this past season, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.440 I would have said that Marty Cooper would have been 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:40.960 happy to be that silent leader and Ceedee Lamb, because 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.120 he's a lot more versatile, would be the guy that 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.280 he would just really uh let him take that load, 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.560 the verbal load you know what I mean, And I don't, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.119 you know, based on rumors, that's not how Cooper wanted 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.120 to play it. But before this past year, I would 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:03.720 have said, uh, CD would be easily being a guy 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.919 seeing Anna and from a personality standpoint, with Cooper gone, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.040 I don't know that CD's got the personality to be 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:18.960 the guy that everybody fouls. Michael Michael Gallup is kind 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.360 of quiet, right, and so just and I hadn't met 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:27.879 the guy. I just listened to his interview, But James 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:35.199 Washington might be the most veteran personality wise guy to 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.000 kind of lead the room. If you look at it. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:43.679 Gallop hardly played what two years in a row. At 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.359 least Washington has played off four years. So to me, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.400 now he's got to make his way. You're a newcomer, right, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.520 he kind of mine your business until things start cooking 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.760 right now. But I just think CDs kind of he's 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.560 kind of quiet. He I can't remember who said it. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.760 It might have been McCarthy said, we got the quietest 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.640 wide receiver room I've ever been around. Me. There's no 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.679 guys that are just boisterous. Me me, me, you know 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.960 what I'm saying. Would you have thought that about CD 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:25.120 Bill Um, Well, I think no, I understand where Mickey's 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.439 coming from on that. He's not He's not the Michael 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.600 Irvin type, you know, raw raw type guy. I believe, 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:36.440 I do believe. But I really thought that CD would 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.600 be like, you know, coming up this year. Well that's 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.800 that's where That's what I'm getting at, is maybe now 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.760 he can grow into that role, you know, more so 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:53.639 whereas before he's always going to um, he would follow, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.800 follow whatever, you know, because because because Amari is the 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.320 leader in the room, because he's got the skins on 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.359 the wall. So I think I think his productivity and 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:07.320 responsibility is going to lead forward probably about another twenty 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.720 I agree with you on that. And and I think 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:20.640 Mike McCarthy pointed out that with Amari gone, his opportunities 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.359 are going to increase, and what they're hoping is the 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.960 production increases along with it. And by the way, what 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.200 he's done in his first two years, no other Cowboy 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.320 wide receiver is done. If you look at the production, 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.440 the amount of catches, he's got more catches in two 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.080 years than any other Cowboy receivers had in their first 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.520 two years. And that's that's after having a being part 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.600 of a squad that really, like you said, could you 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.679 always did doubt his potential of the target. And then 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.880 and the other point that McCarthy made is now he's 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.920 the flanker, which that's the position where normally the ball 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.639 was going to the first look and then the outside 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.399 guy and then the inside guy. And he played a 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.440 lot inside. Yeah, I also see a lot of him 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.199 in back in the backfield. Again, I think that's going 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.480 to be a steady diet of that in specially key situation. Yeah, 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.040 I think they're going to really pick up the usage 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.360 of him. I'll see you land. And you know, if 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.440 James Washington hasn't lost a step, you know he's got 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.840 that potential. Also, they didn't use him in that way. 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.760 And even if he has, even if he had lost 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.960 the step, but he's still fast, right, and there's no 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.160 reason why he hadn't lost a step. He's twenty six 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.119 years old. Yeah, you know. And the thing, the thing 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.600 in Pittsburgh, we saw Pittsburgh play the last couple of 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.480 years and the quarterback could not throw the ball deep 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.400 and so and that I wouldn't imagine that probably went 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.760 into the decision making process that the Cowboys said when 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:58.840 they were looking at James Washington, what he can do 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:04.679 for this offs the deep threat because he's home cooking, right, 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.720 home cooking. Yeah, he's from West Texas. Yeah, there you go, Yeah, 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:10.880 there you go. All right, we're just getting started on 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:15.040 this edition of mix Shots. More from Mickey's legal pad. 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.639 If he can read it when we come back, Brace 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:23.240 yourself for an existential question. 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Keyan O'Neil. Yeah, obviously, 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.240 I don't think the Cowboys had much interest in bringing 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:58.920 him back, and Keyan O'Neil did not have interest in 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:01.280 playing the same position and he played last year, and 0:25:01.400 --> 0:25:08.159 so now he's a Tampa Bay buccaneer as a safety safety. Well, no, 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:12.240 I think they said you're a safety here. I don't 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:15.360 think that look the Cowboys the way that I think 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:20.399 they looked at it is the spot his role and 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:27.399 somebody mentioned it, either Stephen or Jerry uh that you know, 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:31.200 they've got Jabril Cox to kind of fill that role 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:36.480 as a nickel U linebacker to go with Parsons and 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:41.960 you've got vander Ish uh so, I think. And then 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:47.240 also the way they used Jay Ryan Curse started reducing 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:52.760 the snaps that Neil got on the nickel, So they 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:56.639 valued Curse getting him back, I think more so than 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:01.000 keeping Neil as a true safety since they tried to 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:03.640 play him at linebacker. Yeah, I kind of. I kind 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:05.760 of made reference to that a couple of weeks ago, 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:07.680 So stop trying to steal my thumb to the bag. 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:12.240 I've already kind of attached on that, all right. But 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:17.200 uh but he actually said Keanu that he wanted to 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:22.160 play which position, safety safety. I can't see him being 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:26.159 a I can't see that. I can't see that. Can 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:30.640 you guys see that as a strong safety? Well, that's 0:26:30.680 --> 0:26:33.640 a different. Now, that's different. I mean that's what that's 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:37.399