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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And it is a Thursday edition of
Speaker 1: mix Shots. We have pulled Mickey Spagnola away from the
Speaker 1: practice field where he has been a hard at work
Speaker 1: and he's just getting a tan. All he's doing. He's
Speaker 1: getting darker, that is all he's getting. That comes with
Speaker 1: the territory spending the next forty five minutes. Vicky's got
Speaker 1: he's got a legal pad, he's got a notepad, he's
Speaker 1: got the press releases, game notes, stats, he's got every
Speaker 1: everything he's gonna fill us in. You guys might not
Speaker 1: talk today. Oh it's apisode. Here we go, yang, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, full of mix shots, right, this
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots. And the Cowboys have just completed
Speaker 1: a practice out on the practice field on a beautiful
Speaker 1: day for practice here right, Yes, absolutely, and this will
Speaker 1: probably be their hardest practice for this week since it's
Speaker 1: a short week. Um, didn't look like they head their pad.
Speaker 1: Maybe they had shells on. They went easy yesterday kind
Speaker 1: of a walk through. It did look like everybody didn't
Speaker 1: have a helmet. Uh. And then they well, yesterday today
Speaker 1: they had their helmets on. Yeah. Today they okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: so tomorrow will be kind of a rest day and
Speaker 1: then they'll go at it on Thursday. Two notes. Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory looked like he got somewhat of a veteran day,
Speaker 1: and I gave him grief for when I saw I'm
Speaker 1: walking off I said, where are you going? He goes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting older. I said, oh, well, I said,
Speaker 1: you are not old enough to qualify for a veteran day.
Speaker 1: And he laughed and kept going right. Uh, Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: missed it. He had a personal issue to take care of.
Speaker 1: So I knew those two things from the practice. And
Speaker 1: this week when they were doing the individual drills that
Speaker 1: we get to see Michael Parsons was working with the
Speaker 1: linebackers again. So very interesting to see. I don't know
Speaker 1: what kind of offense, Uh Carolina runs. You know, do
Speaker 1: they do a lot of base, because if they're in base,
Speaker 1: they probably want them as they just traded away a
Speaker 1: tight end, Well, they got to have another tight end. No,
Speaker 1: we can't. They're gonna be like that story out of
Speaker 1: Detroit when they cut the kickers and oh, Matt campbelly,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have kicked the ball. He's going for it.
Speaker 1: But actually they like the tight end that's replacing Dan Tremble.
Speaker 1: But more more likely the reason that Parsons might be
Speaker 1: used at linebacker, they use they use a fullback quite
Speaker 1: a bit. Ah, Giovanni Rizzy really is his name from
Speaker 1: the Old Country. Yeah, and in fact from the Old Country.
Speaker 1: As you talk, I will look up how many snaps
Speaker 1: they're fullback back last week, and so that's a significant
Speaker 1: difference from what we normally see week to week in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And that would be and the
Speaker 1: fact that the Cowboys get Bradley and I back, right,
Speaker 1: Mike didn't say that this morning. Might No, might they
Speaker 1: get brat? You said, might they get back? He said,
Speaker 1: there was nothing different on the COVID front. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the fact they've had a practice their main practice today, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're moving into Friday, and so so who's playing
Speaker 1: d pensive end? I would maybe they liked what they
Speaker 1: saw from Chauncy Gholston Basham, Yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: Basham and then Gregory and it's hard not to like anyone.
Speaker 1: They got into the game against the Eagles because the
Speaker 1: entire front line was getting decimated. So yeah, but it
Speaker 1: looked like, I mean, just now they can change. But
Speaker 1: I don't think they would practice just to fake us out.
Speaker 1: Oh they're going to report he's at linebacker if I
Speaker 1: were really at defensive end. Right. Um, So there must
Speaker 1: be something that they saw in the Carolina offense that
Speaker 1: the fullback Giovanni ritchie r c c I there you go.
Speaker 1: Ricci Okay had eighteen snaps on offense at Houston, fifteen
Speaker 1: against New Orleans and twelve against the Job Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: there you go. Every week he's getting fifteen to eighteen
Speaker 1: staff and they're probably thinking, if you know, to give
Speaker 1: Hubbard some help, maybe he needs a fullback out there
Speaker 1: to without McCaffrey. It's just part of their base. That
Speaker 1: might be their base offense because they were doing it
Speaker 1: with McCaffrey in there, and and you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: as much as McCaffrey goes out, maybe they felt like
Speaker 1: a fullback in the middle there helps out with pass protection. Well,
Speaker 1: it's always good to have a fullback. You've got somebody
Speaker 1: small as McCaffrey back there. Just opened up that whole,
Speaker 1: dicing up the middle. So once again Everson Wall's name
Speaker 1: comes up again. Oh yeah, the discussion. So you usual good.
Speaker 1: You saw trey Vin Diggs was named the Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Month in the NFCUM I hadn't started that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when did? When did they start the award? Because this
Speaker 1: note says he's the first Defensive Player of the Month
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, and he joins defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and linebacker Sean Lee twenty thirteen in twenty
Speaker 1: eleven as the only Cowboys to earn the honor. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking they started it in twenty eleven. I mean DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: never DeMarcus Ware. DeMarcus Ware never won that. Come on,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking they started it. Yeah, that must fairly recently,
Speaker 1: the one when they used to do of the week.
Speaker 1: Okay time, when when did Twitter start? That's about it.
Speaker 1: You're looking for things to fill up. Don't ask me.
Speaker 1: Ask me when I started Twitter. You know, Twitter started
Speaker 1: about ten years ago, so that's probably when they started
Speaker 1: that award. So they asked they asked McCarthy if he
Speaker 1: had announced that to the team at the team meeting
Speaker 1: today in the press conference, and he said, no, Rich
Speaker 1: didn't tell me in time meeting. Del Ruth eat it. No,
Speaker 1: they actually don't announce it until about mid warning that
Speaker 1: finally let it go. So when we were out there, Uh,
Speaker 1: someone asked him about, well, how did you find out
Speaker 1: and he said, uh, Mica told me, And they said Mica.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, you know, Mica, he's on social media, right,
Speaker 1: he goes, He goes, I'm not on it. He goes,
Speaker 1: I stay off the internet. So he was the one
Speaker 1: that told him. I rest my case. The reason that
Speaker 1: they do the Player of the Month is to fill
Speaker 1: up a Twitter feed. And by the way, guys, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty six was the first time of the month. Yes,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six, so there was no Cowboy player Charles Haley.
Speaker 1: Cowboys had the number one ranked defense in the league.
Speaker 1: They won the Super Bowl. I went back and looked
Speaker 1: Bill and no that had won it. But with San Sanrasis.
Speaker 1: And we've spent all this time complaining about no Cowboys
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. What about no Cowboy defensive players?
Speaker 1: I think that's the pre requisite right there, he starts
Speaker 1: from the player of the month, player of the week first,
Speaker 1: didn't player of the month? You don't get that. If
Speaker 1: you shout out of that, you're not going to be
Speaker 1: part of the legacy of the NFL has actually won
Speaker 1: it twice. By the way, San Francisco, Well, you know
Speaker 1: what that ninety two season, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody has a media guide, but I want to say
Speaker 1: they ended up with the number one defense and I
Speaker 1: don't know if they had even a player named to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl that year, but you shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to find that out real quick. Interesting, which is I
Speaker 1: think that's what I remember seeing. Uh And if it
Speaker 1: was two, is one or two maybe at the at
Speaker 1: the most because um Darren Woodson wasn't starting at that point. Well,
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the playoff run in ninety two before
Speaker 1: everyone realized that Cowboys had a Super Bowl team. Knew
Speaker 1: early early that season. You remember the Monday Night game,
Speaker 1: which is, well, we're probably looking at pretty close to
Speaker 1: thirty years ago right now. First, it was the first
Speaker 1: week of October ninety two, be twenty nine years ago.
Speaker 1: There was the Monday Night game at Philadelphia where the
Speaker 1: Eagles just killed them. Yeah, thirty one to seven. There
Speaker 1: was a big celebration before the game out there. Yea.
Speaker 1: And in fact, this is how TV has changed and
Speaker 1: just the way the media covers the NFL. I spent
Speaker 1: the entire week out in Philadelphia, uh, covering that leading
Speaker 1: up to the game. Ye for a regular season game,
Speaker 1: a Monday night game, and we spent four or five days.
Speaker 1: This was in Philly, and uh and beat writers from
Speaker 1: here would go and cover the opposing team. I mean
Speaker 1: I spent the whole week going into the Eagles locker
Speaker 1: room that week. Whatever. That's how we two. Okay, So
Speaker 1: when was King Wat's uh the division? Yeah, December ninety one, No,
Speaker 1: they qualified as well, that was very cool. That's when
Speaker 1: they lost to Detroit kat the Bears and then lost
Speaker 1: in Detroit. So ninety two Pro Bowl, Okay, ninety two
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. I was looking at eighty two. That was
Speaker 1: Onnyway when all right, ninety two Pro Bowl. You had
Speaker 1: these fine defensive players for the Cowboys, Troy Eateman, Michael Irvin,
Speaker 1: Nate Newton, Jane Novacheck, Immtt Smith, and Mark Stepnosky. You
Speaker 1: are there were no defensive players, not one yeah, and
Speaker 1: they were the number one defense. Okay, love about ninety three,
Speaker 1: I bet there was a breakthrough. Well that's when you
Speaker 1: had Thomas Everett and Russell Maryland. Yeah, Ken Norton, that's it.
Speaker 1: And that's it. There were three that Charles Hayley, this
Speaker 1: is when they started coming, Leon Letton, Darren Woodson. That's
Speaker 1: ninety four. There's three, okay, five Charles Haley, Darren Woodson too.
Speaker 1: So when did I make it? Five? Was his first year? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: so then and uh and then things started for half
Speaker 1: of all right, and so yeah, like eighty five. My
Speaker 1: other good, my other good, uh, Mick shot on Trey
Speaker 1: Von Diggs was they asked him he if he was
Speaker 1: aware that or what if he knew? Uh that he
Speaker 1: was the first player since eighty five when uh, Everson
Speaker 1: Walls had three interceptions, one in each of the first
Speaker 1: three games, and you were the next player to do that?
Speaker 1: Did you even know who Everson Walls was? And he
Speaker 1: goes U, I googled him. Wow, you got Google. I
Speaker 1: got googled. It is with burning yesterday. I was wondering
Speaker 1: what the heck was so he googled him. Here in
Speaker 1: the last couple of days or when he found out
Speaker 1: today about when he found out about it, and they
Speaker 1: said that was since eighty five. And they said, so
Speaker 1: you never met at me goes now, never met him,
Speaker 1: never heard of me? You never heard of me? I
Speaker 1: mean with all my pictures around here, got they should
Speaker 1: you should know. I mean I've got so many. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm you know, in the locker room and all
Speaker 1: of that, I mean all up and down the wall,
Speaker 1: you know, three or four, five times in the stadium.
Speaker 1: I mean you can you can find my picture on
Speaker 1: one level. Try every everybody. Everybody's heard of Emerson Walls.
Speaker 1: He called me Emerson less. That's a good thing. Did
Speaker 1: he call me Emerson when I googled him? They don't.
Speaker 1: They all did wrong. They were the names. Your name
Speaker 1: is not with the picture, probably probably not, like okay,
Speaker 1: you know who you are. These young guys. Plus, they're
Speaker 1: not walking around this side. I have walked through that
Speaker 1: locker room and didn't draw not one look several times.
Speaker 1: So now these young kids are into social media because,
Speaker 1: like you said, into Twitter, you should have had Player
Speaker 1: of the Year for eighty one. Yeah. Now they were
Speaker 1: two busy telling me what I didn't do. That's the way.
Speaker 1: See that's the way it was in the eighties. But
Speaker 1: pro about what you didn't do? Yeah, of course Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl your names on the wall there by the locker room.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I would imagine I don't know where the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks are, and they list all the guys that were
Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers at those positions. I have not said you
Speaker 1: didn't walk that far yet. I have not. Well you
Speaker 1: can't get there now, Hey, I couldn't get back there then, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's just be real. So that was Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was very cool though, very cool. Look, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: David More just sent me a tech said, Dig said,
Speaker 1: he googled you. He's late on the further. That's good. Damn,
Speaker 1: I'm a relic getting so And you know what I
Speaker 1: thought when it's weird thought, but when when he had
Speaker 1: to pick six the other day, and especially Monday night football,
Speaker 1: I said, well, he just he's just running himself right
Speaker 1: into the Pro Bowls, right, you know, third game of
Speaker 1: the season and Trayvon Diggs just won't him was spotting
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and they were trying to bring up
Speaker 1: so Tan. I think he ended up getting an interception
Speaker 1: or two this year, and they they've been trying to
Speaker 1: pump him up. But when Diggs did that on Monday night, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've just be doing in a time. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: especially the fact that he's got one and every game
Speaker 1: so far, you know, and the other I mean, that
Speaker 1: wasn't the only played that game. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: he had more than three pass fake ups. But that's
Speaker 1: what's back said. They gave him credit for. He was
Speaker 1: all over the field at first. It started off kind
Speaker 1: of weird. He's letting a tight end kind of shake
Speaker 1: him down in the beginning of the first drive, and
Speaker 1: what the heck that was? He let the tight end
Speaker 1: beat him across the middle, he slips and I think
Speaker 1: it was God that he goes another twenty yards after that,
Speaker 1: but no more problems after that, Okay. Ed asked him
Speaker 1: what he thought about it. He said, it's an honor.
Speaker 1: I really appreciated it. He goes, but I got to focus.
Speaker 1: I want to win it again, right about that, Okay,
Speaker 1: he wants to win it again. Okay, and he does
Speaker 1: have that, I guess on ever since since the award
Speaker 1: didn't get started in nineteen eighty six. Now, if the
Speaker 1: award had started in nineteen eighty one. Oh no telling
Speaker 1: how many Everson would have won. All right, so here's
Speaker 1: another goal for Trayvon Diggs. How about you'll make the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowling eight in your first year or your second
Speaker 1: year than his games. Okay, he's already behind Everson there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because ever Everson made the Pro Bowl High Bill, he
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowling eighty two. He made the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowling eighty three. I don't know what happened in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four, but Everson also made the Pro Bowl in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. So there you go. Four out of
Speaker 1: the first five five years in the league. And then
Speaker 1: they started the de so that was for nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: and then they started the defensive player in the month
Speaker 1: of Ward and eighty five. I did not know, uh
Speaker 1: that I didn't have three in the first three games
Speaker 1: in eighty one. I never tracked it, but Redskins was first.
Speaker 1: I think my next big game was the Colt outside
Speaker 1: of the Patriots Monday Night. Just like Digs, we we
Speaker 1: blew them out. I had two picks that that game.
Speaker 1: You're a rookie year. Oh yeah, I wasn't even starting then.
Speaker 1: I was I wasn't even playing. Well, you get on field.
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't starting third downs. I was okay,
Speaker 1: I got my they were playing it was it was trad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh come on, well we played dime. We played dime.
Speaker 1: It started off yeah, everybody. Then that's when the quarterback
Speaker 1: everybody shot gunning. Yeah. So then they ended up going
Speaker 1: to nickel even on first down, but started off on
Speaker 1: Doc got some garbage time. I'm doing the wet scans
Speaker 1: and got in tiesment threw some crap up. I caught that.
Speaker 1: I was scared as hell, and uh, I can't remember
Speaker 1: what happened the next couple of games, but will on Monday. Okay.
Speaker 1: Your first game at Washington interception. Next game was Saint
Speaker 1: Louis and there was no pick, No Cowboys one. You
Speaker 1: had two picks against New England. The next third game,
Speaker 1: yeah okay, and then the fourth game you had a
Speaker 1: pick against the Giants. So four picks in the first
Speaker 1: three games of your career. And then you had another
Speaker 1: stretch in October, October eighteenth, twenty fifth and November ninth,
Speaker 1: the span of four weeks where you had six interceptions.
Speaker 1: You had had two against the Rams, two against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and two against the Bills. My lord eleven picks in
Speaker 1: sixteen games that year. Oh and by the way, two
Speaker 1: more picks in the playoffs. So thirteen interceptions in eighteen
Speaker 1: games and the Pro Bowl, don't forget. Oh and then
Speaker 1: the Pro Bows, did you get any respect? Like they
Speaker 1: quit throwing at you? Yeah, they finally did quit. I
Speaker 1: went out for a while. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: see somebody out there running the fourth seven, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: coming from a cool They couldn't even pronounce Grambling. It
Speaker 1: was still Grambling College to them, and so to the
Speaker 1: you know, co offensive Cordinets could give a damn about
Speaker 1: the HBCU. So they just felt like that guy. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so there you had seven. I mean you had thirteen.
Speaker 1: Let's list just do a regular season. Eleven picks in
Speaker 1: sixteen games. And then he had the strike shortened season
Speaker 1: in eighty two, okay, and the only played nine games.
Speaker 1: Seven picks in eighty two. I was I was going
Speaker 1: for night Train's number, but we had to strike. Yeah,
Speaker 1: night Train Lane. So that was eighteen picks in his
Speaker 1: first twenty five games in the in the league. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that's got to be a record. Eighteen picks in
Speaker 1: twenty five games. I'm going fast four and eighty three
Speaker 1: here you would have to and the first oh you
Speaker 1: fell off, the were picks fell off? Yea, they finally
Speaker 1: recognized him. Four picks, four picks in the first seven games,
Speaker 1: and so that would put you at what we were
Speaker 1: at twenty eight. So that's twenty two out of thirty
Speaker 1: two games. So twenty two picks in your first thirty
Speaker 1: two games in the league. So that basically two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so twenty two picks. And by the way, when you
Speaker 1: mentioned Don Bishop, yeah, I looked it up and he
Speaker 1: had a pick in each of the first five games.
Speaker 1: Oh see, how about that? That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 1: How far did Who's next? Yeah? Whose Diggs going? After
Speaker 1: nixt saying, and I think when they mentioned that, it
Speaker 1: was since the merger in nineteen seventy, so they didn't
Speaker 1: go back any further. But he had as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, he led the Cowboys in interceptions. I think
Speaker 1: three of the four first four years or four of
Speaker 1: the first five. I wrote it down and said mix
Speaker 1: shots on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Um. But but and
Speaker 1: he led the team I think until until mel Renfro
Speaker 1: became mel Renfro, Right, Um, but yeah, I've never heard
Speaker 1: of again Renfro before Rent. Yeah, and that's crazy. And
Speaker 1: he had played in the league several years before with
Speaker 1: I think two other teams, so that's why he didn't
Speaker 1: play long with. He came with the Cowboys sixty to
Speaker 1: like sixty five. Man, dude, I'm glad we're bringing them
Speaker 1: up Pittsburg in Chicago before the Cowboys. And was he
Speaker 1: getting picks there too? Uh? No, he his his all
Speaker 1: twenty two picks in his career came with the Cowboys. Wow.
Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't keep the stat and that's very good.
Speaker 1: That is very good. Yeah. When did they start throwing
Speaker 1: the forward path? Yeah, right before Sammy Ball. No, they
Speaker 1: kept the stats because when I looked, I was looking,
Speaker 1: uh you know, putin since ever since eleven in eighty one,
Speaker 1: no one's had more than most they've had is ten.
Speaker 1: So I was looking going back, going back, and there
Speaker 1: was some in the teams back then. And once again
Speaker 1: I always say it, I don't care how many times
Speaker 1: they threw with me or whoever. You would just think
Speaker 1: with all these passes in the air that more people
Speaker 1: would be playing like Diggs is playing right now. You
Speaker 1: don't have to get two picks a game. But man,
Speaker 1: if you just get one and they're throwing at you
Speaker 1: seven eight times, just one, I always I said it yesterday.
Speaker 1: I still believe it. I say that the game. I
Speaker 1: was telling timmy Newsoon, if he goes for my record,
Speaker 1: regardless of you know, whether you're talking nine or eleven
Speaker 1: or whatever, we're going to the boat. If he if
Speaker 1: he continued, If just he continues on this this pace,
Speaker 1: I think that would be like a catalyst to us
Speaker 1: being a good team and being good enough to go
Speaker 1: to the super Ball, he said. Out there just a
Speaker 1: little while ago, They said, so, what did you work
Speaker 1: on in the off season, because he had mentioned I
Speaker 1: had my hands on a bunch of balls last year
Speaker 1: and didn't hold on. He said, I worked on my hands.
Speaker 1: I've worked on catching the football. So to get picks
Speaker 1: like that, you have to be a gambler. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt. I got a nickname for the defense. What's
Speaker 1: what number? What number is digs number number seven? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: the Thursday and the Sunday. As far as preparation getting
Speaker 1: things in line, it actually benefits the Cowboys that a
Speaker 1: line of plate on Thursday, because they had all the
Speaker 1: intel that they needed and they could go over it
Speaker 1: and have it ready to present to the team as
Speaker 1: soon as the game was over. Based and because Monday
Speaker 1: it's it's so early in the season. If there was
Speaker 1: new stuff, they had an opportunity to kind of analyze it. It.
Speaker 1: I mean from a practice standpoint, I'll guarantee you they
Speaker 1: played Thursday, were they at home run, They were home
Speaker 1: at They were at Houston, all right, So they traveled,
Speaker 1: so I bet they had Friday, Saturday and Sunday off,
Speaker 1: came in Monday, had had a light run, Tuesday off,
Speaker 1: and then practice right So the only difference is they're
Speaker 1: off their feet. They'll get their legs back faster than
Speaker 1: they it says they would have it. They had a
Speaker 1: normal practice on Wednesday and Thursday and with a Cowboys
Speaker 1: or yeah, kind of slowly moving into it, right, say, well,
Speaker 1: I don't care how much time you have to prepare it.
Speaker 1: You better have a good game plan. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it'd better, you know, equal a good game plan because
Speaker 1: if if it ain't working right, I don't care how
Speaker 1: much time you have. Matchups can be amazing. Sometimes. They
Speaker 1: got some great wide receivers on their squad. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about Dawn at all. They've got some talented
Speaker 1: McCarthy touched on that and it was almost like, uh,
Speaker 1: paralysis by analysis. If you do too much and you failure,
Speaker 1: Oh I got these extra days. Let me keep grinding,
Speaker 1: and you get too much and and you overwhelm yourself. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then you also have time to say, oh no,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I got Yeah. That was the best
Speaker 1: thing happened for Super Bowl twenty five. I don't know
Speaker 1: what was going on that, yeah, Bill, Bill, you might
Speaker 1: be able to tell me. But of course that was
Speaker 1: the the the war was going on. But we had
Speaker 1: only one week of prep in between. Yeah, to play
Speaker 1: against buffets. You flew from San Francisco. We went straight on.
Speaker 1: We went straight on and that was that was weird.
Speaker 1: But just not having time to overthink it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was a good thing for us because you
Speaker 1: know Belichick, you know, at that time he was younger.
Speaker 1: He probably would have overthought it, which would be unusual
Speaker 1: for him, But I don't think he ever had that
Speaker 1: much time to prepare for such an unusual team. That
Speaker 1: was the first team that was doing the no huddle,
Speaker 1: you know, so it was kind of different on how
Speaker 1: you had to do with with different personnel. They don't
Speaker 1: give you a chance to sub out, so you gotta
Speaker 1: go with what you got, which we came up with
Speaker 1: the first up. Amiba? Is that what that was like?
Speaker 1: The first I think that's the first time that's ever
Speaker 1: been playing, which Dell Brown stole that for LSU basketball.
Speaker 1: He was playing a matchup zone called it our Amba.
Speaker 1: In that regard, we were the hybrid guys, just like
Speaker 1: we have now. You have the Peppers and the call
Speaker 1: Banks's and the lts and the reasons. What did they
Speaker 1: call their offense back then? It was a something gun offense,
Speaker 1: the Kelly shotgun or something like that. It wasn't shotgun.
Speaker 1: There was something. I thought it was a gun something.
Speaker 1: There was something because he was always in the shotgun
Speaker 1: and they never came off the field. And three wide
Speaker 1: receivers which was somewhat not heard of. First second, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt. We had to Well that was like you
Speaker 1: could say, that's the first game that led us to
Speaker 1: where we are now on how we play defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so you know when you look at that game
Speaker 1: you had, you could have thank yeah, okay, okay, Kelly, Kelly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you look at that, you could have easily
Speaker 1: overthought that, like who do I want to put in?
Speaker 1: You know, a certain situations, they're not gonna give us
Speaker 1: a chance to do this. You know. He could have
Speaker 1: really overthought that big time. But so we only had
Speaker 1: seven days. Did your defense change significantly from what you
Speaker 1: did against San Francisco? The second dary didn't, but the
Speaker 1: personal in the front seven, Yes, the front seven. I
Speaker 1: mean you went from uh taking out the linebacker to
Speaker 1: putting in uh Renee, Um god, what was renee last name?
Speaker 1: He was from Dallas, Texas. Uh, so you had you
Speaker 1: had Renee from Baylor. He was a hurdler and uh
Speaker 1: we had our uh, Perry Williams was at corner and
Speaker 1: they had me at safety. So that's kind of how
Speaker 1: we played the entire game, all right, keep talking, Okay,
Speaker 1: moving on. Yeah, he was our nickel guy. He was
Speaker 1: our nickel guy to play, So all I had to
Speaker 1: do was sit back there and just kind of survey
Speaker 1: the situation. But I worked him so well in that
Speaker 1: slot because he was gonna be playing man to man. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be playing zone. And I kept calling man
Speaker 1: to man because I didn't I like the way that
Speaker 1: they were jamming the receiver's up at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I think it's when they young sounds. We're getting that
Speaker 1: work getting so while he's looking that up, um McCarthy.
Speaker 1: One of the other things, yeah, right, Renee Thompson McCarthy
Speaker 1: said that when you have a top flight quarterbacks, the
Speaker 1: whole team uh knows they always have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: win the game. And I thought that was, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty indicative of I think probably how this team's feeling
Speaker 1: right now, no matter who they're playing. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: if Dak's Dak and see, they can, like I said,
Speaker 1: they can have all the time they want to prepare. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but can you stop this offense? Yeah? You know you
Speaker 1: there are things that we're we've done. You you can't.
Speaker 1: You don't even you haven't even seen them yet. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a potential we can change anything up. We can
Speaker 1: put CD in the backfield, we can put Zeke at why,
Speaker 1: we can put Polo in the slot, put two white,
Speaker 1: put two offensive linement out wide with a wide receiver
Speaker 1: or anything. And we can still we can still hit
Speaker 1: a six year pass. Yeah, you know, we can still
Speaker 1: hit a four year pass. We can still make it
Speaker 1: seven and long. We can still make our drives manageable.
Speaker 1: And that's the best case scenario. So what do you
Speaker 1: have to look at? How well is that offensive line
Speaker 1: gonna hold up? So it's gonna be our offensive line
Speaker 1: versus there d line with all these first round draft picks,
Speaker 1: first rounds on both sides, that's gonna be the matchup
Speaker 1: right there. He uh Tyrann Smith did a deal out
Speaker 1: there and did an interview. He's got both arms brace stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like he's got the big knee brace one now
Speaker 1: the other one was wrapped up in some black stuff
Speaker 1: and he comes out and it's like, what a specimen.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. He doesn't even look real. How many interviews
Speaker 1: has he done this season? He's been doing it almost one.
Speaker 1: Was gonna once every week, or twice a week, or
Speaker 1: twice once every two weeks. Yeah, for the first eight
Speaker 1: years of his career, he probably did one interview. There
Speaker 1: was you know what, there was like the you know
Speaker 1: how you have the invisible dog fence around the house.
Speaker 1: It was like that fence and it wasn't you didn't
Speaker 1: get past, but it wasn't because he was or he
Speaker 1: just didn't like doing it right, And everyone understood that
Speaker 1: he didn't like doing the interviews, and so every it
Speaker 1: was a sign of respect from the media even then,
Speaker 1: and because people wouldn't, they could see that he wasn't
Speaker 1: a mean person. He's just and every once in a
Speaker 1: while you could walk over there and if you were
Speaker 1: by yourself, you could throw something at him and he'd
Speaker 1: smile and he'd give you an answer, you know, and
Speaker 1: you didn't need a tape recorder because it wasn't long
Speaker 1: enough that you could write it all down, right, But
Speaker 1: he was nice about it, right. Yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: video of him dancing by the way. Really. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: went on a trip with him on a an island.
Speaker 1: You know, one of those cowboys. I hope you didn't
Speaker 1: take any pictures of me that you've saved it on
Speaker 1: your phone. You damn might have it on my phone.
Speaker 1: I should do. This must be a good I'm going
Speaker 1: to show it to you guys. So when we come
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Speaker 1: what concerns you the most about Carolina Panthers? I guess
Speaker 1: the defense I just got to know if it's for real,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll find out. This is going to be
Speaker 1: their biggest test, right. They've got some pretty good pressure
Speaker 1: players up front, So can the Cowboys offensive line you know,
Speaker 1: handle them and give Dak time to operate, give Zeke
Speaker 1: room to roam and if and if they can, then
Speaker 1: I don't know if the defense is that good or
Speaker 1: we'll find out if it is right. Will they will
Speaker 1: they play it straight? Can they play just match up
Speaker 1: and not overload to stop the run or overload to
Speaker 1: stop to pass and take their chance with the other
Speaker 1: area of the offense. This is the game. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we're playing at home. Yes, I am glad we're playing
Speaker 1: because this is a well coached team. And when you
Speaker 1: have the confidence, when you've built that confidence, I don't
Speaker 1: care who you playing against, you built that confidence. We
Speaker 1: have to show them that we are the more experienced team.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately for the Cowboys it's a noon game. So
Speaker 1: the fans, you know, Jimmy, Jimmy, you to say, you know,
Speaker 1: do what you ever need to do to get ready
Speaker 1: and later arriving crowd. You remember this Sunday noon games
Speaker 1: at Texas Stadium. I hate them. People were coming right
Speaker 1: from church. I reacted like they were and they went
Speaker 1: to they went to the seven o'clock service. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: can make it game. People would come dressed from church
Speaker 1: right in the game. And the crowd was so much
Speaker 1: different at Texas State. Yes it was. Yeah, it changed
Speaker 1: a little bit. Even when Jerry bought the team. The
Speaker 1: makeup of the crowd changed. Whatever you got, it got louder, roudier,
Speaker 1: little that's right. Yeah, but and success. And I kind
Speaker 1: of like that because we were a little boogie in
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium. You know, they sit back like impressed me. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was like going to a play, right, and I did.
Speaker 1: I never did like that. That video board that had
Speaker 1: you couldn't even see the video That was no different
Speaker 1: from any other stadium. But there was like the first
Speaker 1: where the with a video boat. It was like electronic.
Speaker 1: It was an electronic video board with like with like
Speaker 1: bub a little bulbs on there that it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be video on there. And so we looked. We
Speaker 1: just sat back and it was like a joy. So
Speaker 1: did you go to games on Sunday? Yeah? You know
Speaker 1: what usually happened is, uh, we didn't have season tickets
Speaker 1: or anything. I'd usually because I lived. I grew up
Speaker 1: in Irving, and which was I mean literally three miles
Speaker 1: from the stadium. And I'd get a call from someone
Speaker 1: and at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, hey you want
Speaker 1: to go to the game. We're going a game. And
Speaker 1: they come by and pick me up and it drop
Speaker 1: us off at University of Dallas the UD campuses right
Speaker 1: there and go down that hill right to the stadium.
Speaker 1: Mom or Dad would drop us off across the crossover
Speaker 1: and go to games. And it happened numerous times. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and I got that. There were games where when I retired,
Speaker 1: you know, you go to church, and I was always
Speaker 1: so nervous watching them. Even after I retired, I was
Speaker 1: I would be glad to come home and see what
Speaker 1: the score is when I got home from church, because otherwise,
Speaker 1: if I'm sitting in church about trans man, I try
Speaker 1: my best name to look at my watchdoing church because
Speaker 1: it's too tempting. Here we go. But no, you know,
Speaker 1: like if once the prey starts going like man, the
Speaker 1: game is on, you don't want to be thinking that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Did you ever go to the games
Speaker 1: at the Cotton Bowl? I don't know, no, no, because
Speaker 1: I didn't. I I was on the north side. You
Speaker 1: couldn't go that first. I just didn't have relatives there.
Speaker 1: I just just didn't have time, didn't have any pransiportations.
Speaker 1: I was thirteen years old. What the heck I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with Texas Stadium? Was I was twelve years old?
Speaker 1: Eleven twelve years old. I'm not not riding your bike
Speaker 1: down No, I'm not down Central at that time in Greenville,
Speaker 1: it was green Yeah, right, that's right. By the way,
Speaker 1: we're coming up on the anniversary of the first game
Speaker 1: ever at Texas Stadium, which is it was our told
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy one. Yeah, so it's a I mean,
Speaker 1: we're big anniversary. It was we're talking fifty year anniversary.
Speaker 1: It was like first or second week in October, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what you got that book for. It was
Speaker 1: not Mickey's memory. It was against New England nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: and it was October twenty fourth. While you're looking, when
Speaker 1: did we play them in the playoffs? We played San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I believe in the playoffs at Texas Texas Stadium. If
Speaker 1: I'm in nineteen seventy one, yes, it's the NFC Championship games.
Speaker 1: Was at that game, okay? And the opening kickoff San
Speaker 1: Francisco were turned to four a touchdown. No they didn't, no, no,
Speaker 1: they didn't know when with San Francisco that was fourteen
Speaker 1: to three Cowboys win in seventy one. Might have been
Speaker 1: the next year, okay, because Dick Nolan was the head
Speaker 1: coach then, and the number twenty two next year was
Speaker 1: the thirty to twenty eight game at San frans Francisco. Right,
Speaker 1: how what? What? What? What game? Am I remembering? Number
Speaker 1: twenty two? I remember this? Vis Vick Washington, Vic Washington, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: when did he return to kick on us in the stadium?
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to wear about that. I'll
Speaker 1: look it up myself. That's gonna be my charge. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look that up and find out. We get that
Speaker 1: what took care of Don Bishop today? So every everybody,
Speaker 1: uh that was with me that game, they're gone, So
Speaker 1: I can't I can't ask them where it was. I'm
Speaker 1: asking Bill. Everybody's gone. Yeah, everybody's gone. That's that's the
Speaker 1: Shaw Vic Washington. All right, I've got it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get it. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna let's see,
Speaker 1: we're gonna from seventy one. Uh, his award winning radio.
Speaker 1: I know people, people are probably on Twitter. I got
Speaker 1: it right here. Just look at Twitter, you know. Not
Speaker 1: that year. We're gonna go to the next year seventy two. Okay,
Speaker 1: and that guy were in the playoffs every year. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: But they didn't play San Francisco. No, they did. That'll
Speaker 1: just seem like they did. That'll reduce the research. Well,
Speaker 1: let me say this. The first game I went to
Speaker 1: was against San Francisco and definitely a big Washington returnity
Speaker 1: for a testdown. Man. He had five kickoff returns for
Speaker 1: touchdowns in nineteen seventy two, none against none against US.
Speaker 1: So you went to Texas Stadium, Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember the Birds up in The Birds were up there
Speaker 1: with us and comparable, comparably, comparably not that not that
Speaker 1: high that second that second session section right, I couldn't
Speaker 1: get that out, man, oh man. That was back when
Speaker 1: the seats all cost the same amount vic Washington. But
Speaker 1: he was good though. What the seats all cost the
Speaker 1: same amount. The seats were all twenty five dollars when
Speaker 1: I got here. Really, no matter where you sat, no
Speaker 1: matter where you sat, they were twenty five dollars. Now
Speaker 1: you had to pay a seat license remember when they
Speaker 1: first started in seventy one, But yeah, twenty five bucks.
Speaker 1: Or if you had good friends, they just pick you
Speaker 1: up and take you out to the stad drop you off.
Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna have to do more research on
Speaker 1: Vic Washington and Cowboys returning a kid. Yes, all right. See,
Speaker 1: if I think we're about out of time here on
Speaker 1: this edition, we haven't. We haven't used our extra time,
Speaker 1: all right, So we're gonna have a fabulous Football Friday
Speaker 1: edition tomorrow. And you know we hit on our picks
Speaker 1: to click, or some of us hit on our picks
Speaker 1: to click last week. Who will we pick this week?
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