WEBVTT - Mick Shots: End of the Line? 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:17.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.800 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:26.760 Dallas Cowboys out now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:33.000 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, the trend continues around here, never 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.040 a dull moment, and hopefully at the end of this 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.480 day we won't have more breaking news after this edition 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.400 of Mick Shots. This is a Thursday edition of Mick Shots. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:48.159 Bill Jones along with Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.519 studios here at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.080 And we've got Everson Walls. He is hard at work 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.080 jotting notes down as we speak. It's all that he 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.440 search that he has done the last twenty four hours. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:08.119 Hello Everson, how you're doing It's our guy. Hey, I'm 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.360 doing well. I just want to let you guys know 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:18.160 I have an adjustment to my second account. It was 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.320 it was a Sports Illustrated Jenks yesterday as Everson yesterday 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.920 said that his pick to click was DeMarcus Lawrence, that 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.839 he'll have two sacks of Justin Herbert. Well, I there 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.199 all te right, you can write it down. Write it down, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.959 so he's gonna make an adjustment on that prediction. And 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.360 it's again it continues a trend that started back class Friday, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.840 when it was after we signed off from Mixed Shots 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.280 that we learned about the Lyall Collins five games suspension. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.280 Of course, Michael Gallup was ruled out for about three 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.000 to five weeks at that point too, And then Monday, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:01.800 I think it was when the Randy Gregory covid occurred, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.400 and and then of course yesterday it's DeMarcus Lawrence and Mickey. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.560 You can start us off with an update on what 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:14.000 you know as as DeMarcus with the fractured foot had 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:19.480 to undergo surgery. So I laugh when I hear fractured foot. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:21.800 Is it like the whole foot just kind of cracks 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.240 in half? By the way, before you get into it, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.200 we should also point out that Mickey kind of tipped 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.200 this off at the end of yesterday's show because DeMarcus 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.880 Lawrence was scheduled to meet with the media after practice yesterday, 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.760 which coincided basically with the end of the show, and 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.520 you peered outside and you saw that DeMarcus was not 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.480 It's like you know, when you've been doing this long enough, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.520 sometimes you're in tennis, just kind of go up. When Lawrence. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:54.160 When Lawrence because because the injury occurred after the open 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:00.480 open session for the media. Actually they were in some 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.200 sort of drill. Mike McCarthy said. They were doing one 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.280 on one pass rush and he came around, turned the 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.560 corner and fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.280 And guess what, Everson Mickey has experience with a fractured 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.600 fifth metatarsal in his foot. Imagine that I did it 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.799 twenty years ago. Wealths No oh, I thought there was 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.480 when Spags got hit by a car. No, no, no, ago. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:31.440 This was twenty years ago playing tennis. Um. But anyway, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.600 I'll get to that in a second. You're definitely not 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:38.160 tougher than if you were playing ten right, So he 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.280 ends he ends up fracturing the fifth metatarsal h in 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.960 his right foot. So that's the bone on the outside 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.960 that goes up into your little two. And in twenty fourteen, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.800 end of training camp, he fractured the fifth metatarsal in 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.600 his right foot. So this is two for this one. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.880 When he left practice on the injury port, he left 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:13.440 as limited foot and by mourning it was surgery fifth metatarsal. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:19.040 And what they do is they put a little screw 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:24.200 in there to help facilitate a faster healing of that 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.240 very small bone. But it's a very When when you 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.880 hear somebody breaks a bone in their foot, it's usually 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.520 the fifth metatarsal. For some reason, you never break any 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.400 of the others. It seems like unless somebody stomps on you. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.760 So yeah, for him, you know, I remember when when 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.120 we got back to the Star and I mean at 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.720 the ranch, and I remember sitting there talking to him 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.839 about that fifth metatarsal and he was in a boot, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.159 and I don't know, I can't remember if they I 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.440 think they did surgery back then. So he ended up 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.520 And remember the IR rules were different, so I believe 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:06.680 he missed eight games um and then came back time 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.840 at that point and that was the minimum right at 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.200 that point. Uh So here's the deal and and here's 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:18.479 my experience. So when I fractured mine, um, doctor Fowler 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.119 uh was uh was the one who x rayed, which 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.880 is real funny and this is not funny, but you're 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.680 gonna laugh. The x ray tech, the x ray technician. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.400 I'm sitting I'm sitting in the room, right and the 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.600 guy comes in, puts the X ray up on the 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.920 screen and he's looking at it, and all of a sudden, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.560 he goes, oh, yeah, there it is right there. It 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.400 was like celebrating he found where the fracture was. I 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.520 was like, no, this is not a celebration, right. So 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.599 doctor Fowler, who's one of the cowboys, doctor Fowler, I 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.080 will assistant. Yeah, no, he didn't do it. His assistant. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.000 But doctor Fowler's one of the cow boys, assistant to doctors. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.159 And he comes in and kind of explains it. You know, 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.960 we're gonna put you in a boot, and he goes, Now, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.520 if your livelihood depended on your foot, we would do surgery, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.920 put a screw in there, and you probably could get 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.920 back and play four weeks, maybe six. But since you're 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:27.760 not an athlete, then you're out for two months. Oh, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.480 since clearly you're not an athlete. Just looking at you, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.360 and I think he meant a professional, good look at you. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.279 I think he meant a professional. He took a good 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.919 look at you when you first walked into the office. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.040 This guy he's a lost cause that's what he said. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.360 So I'm thinking, since they did the surgery on Lawrence. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.640 The soon as he could get back, is that first 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.200 game after the buy that would be I think the 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.200 you know, the best that could happen. So that would 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.159 be what five five games, plus the byeway, plus the 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.440 bye week, plus the week to get ready for the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.120 next game. So that's almost sound familiar. Sounds yeah, So 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:12.560 sounds just like sounds just like Collins suspension. So now 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.360 here are the Cowboys going into a game where they 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.360 gonna need some pressure on Justin Herbert, the best quarterback 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:26.000 that Gil Brand has ever seen, and they're without probably 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.560 their two starting defense events Randy Gregory. Still in every 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:36.640 time we play somebody, they are the best we've ever seen. Now, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.960 you said this guy is better than Tom Brady. Now 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.040 so here we go every week is gonna be somebody's 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.520 the best that I just quoted your buddy, Gil, that's all. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.280 And he was only a junior in college at that 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.000 time too, by the way. Yeah, and well, hey, you know, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.440 Gil Brand, that's a good call, now, Gil, Gil, I 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.400 talked trash about Gil, but that is a great call. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.240 And he's always had a great eye for talent and 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.160 he wasn't not wrong, And it was the best prospect 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.480 he has seen, probably best quarterback prospect that he wasn't. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.400 He wasn't quarterback of all time, he wasn't comparing him 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:22.520 to Roger Stabok or Bart Star Joe Montana. Okay, So 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.120 what moves have been made in order to accommodate this injury? 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.960 Actually none yet? Okay, DeMarcus Lawrence is still on the 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:40.120 what is a fifty two man roster um? And now 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:48.720 you've got combination of Dorance Armstrong, uh Terrell, basham Um, Braley, 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:54.240 Bradley and I and se Chauncy Goldston as your kind 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.800 of other four backup defensive ends along with by the way, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.760 I guess I shouldn't forget him or Kamara is in 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.280 that boat too, and who knows he may be active 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.120 this week because they're gonna probably need all hands on 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.520 deck to try to figure out some combination and some 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.560 way to get pressure on the posing quarterback. Do you 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:20.320 think they are perusing practice squads around them, especially since 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.679 this is a multiple week and up to two month injury. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.440 Do you think that the obviously the scouting department is 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.160 up to speed on who what edge rushers are on 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.280 practice squads around the league. There is one who was 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.880 in camp with the Cowboys, Rondelle Carter, who's on the 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:40.760 Arizona practice squad right now, right, And then also they 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:47.160 have a couple defensive ends on the practice squad. Brelan speaks, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.800 I believe. And there's one more that's escaping my mind 0:09:52.640 --> 0:10:01.320 because I remember looking in they had two defensive Oh Austin, Austin, 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.160 I can't say it. Follow you, follow you who is 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.079 in the training camp and played in preseason games, right, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.400 so speaks, I thinks has some I was not a 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.959 pronunciation major. I was a written print major. We didn't 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.280 have to talk. Right then I found out you're a man. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:28.520 That's right, absolutely, so well you do well. Here's one thing, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.720 and Mike McCarthy was asked about different people potentially used 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.840 as a defensive end. Now it's not a full time 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.679 defensive end. But in the portion of practice we were 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:46.280 able to watch, Michael Parsons in the individual drills was 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.760 not working with the linebackers. He was working with the 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:53.360 defensive line, which he has done throughout preseason as well. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.400 He has spent time working with the defensive and a 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.319 lot of that and a lot of that is and 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.240 a lot of that is you know, when he's play. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.800 If they're in base defense and he's a four three 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.120 outside and strong side linebacker, you know they can rush 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.320 him off the edge, so he has to kind of 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.120 sharpen up his pass rush skills. You know. Somebody say, well, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.640 they could start him, and I said, if you're playing 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:19.840 a four to three and Michael Parsons, you're strong side 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.360 or weak side defensive end, and you're putting them there 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.000 to rush the quarterback, he ain't gonna get a chance 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.160 to rush the quarterback because they're gonna run right at 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.520 his scrawny little butt. That was Mickey, Who's who said that. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.080 I'm not putting a two hundred and forty six pound 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.360 guy with his hand on the ground against the three 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.840 hundred and thirty pound offensive tackle. What do you think 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.800 they're gonna do. We're gonna run right at you. You 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.400 didn't have to describe it that way. Well, okay, I 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.920 was gonna say skinny. He's scrawny at two. Yeah. Yeah, 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:56.160 that's the first time anyone's ever called Michael Parsons scrawny. Okay, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.400 that's like putting those little skinny safety he's on the 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:05.440 line of screaming last year, right, It's not as bad 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.000 as maybe Jordan Lewis, though, I mean, I don't think 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.960 really Spags, I don't think it's really out of the 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.719 realm of possibilities that uh Michael can go in and 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.320 stifle running play coming his way. He's quick enough, he's 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.560 mean enough, he should enough, agile enough. I mean, you 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:27.520 could have said that about uh God who was the DeMarcus, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.679 the other DeMarcus we had where he was small and 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.959 scrawn in d where he was small and scrawny and 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:39.880 did good for long, though not for long. I'll take 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.280 this for I'll take this the one game right now, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.280 for one game. I'll take the scrawny Michael Parsons up 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.360 against any any offensive linement that the Charges have. And 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.400 when you look at the Armstrong and all these guys, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.600 I'm hoping that we can have this culture like Baltimore 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.520 Ravens sake. Baltimore Ravens have always done with a lot 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.439 of injuries, dealt with injuries, all kind of personnel changes 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.959 when it came to COVID things that nature, and they've 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.400 always been very good, at least a little competent with 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.679 the next man up philosophy. With the Cowboys, we have 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.080 enough depth on this team. I think it's time for 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.560 that culture to emerge for us to what I mean, next, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.760 man up. We don't worry about yes, d laws out. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.040 I mean, come on, d laws out. I know that's rough, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.680 but look, we got Durance and we've got Parsons. That's 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.600 why we brought these guys in here. Let's see what 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.120 ghosting can do. Then we draft this guy. Yeah, let's 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.680 see what our draft picks can do. Put these hungry 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.199 guys in there, man, and let them work. I mean, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.800 Quinn's defense is made to where you can throw a 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.079 lot of stuff at people, and you can cover up 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:46.000 a lot of drawny two hundred guys and see how 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.720 it works out well. And here's the other thing somebody 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.560 asked about Jalen. I don't know about Jalen lining up 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.840 on the outside, but his best pass rush is in 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.640 the gaps up the middle. To me, that's where he is. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.280 He was the best. And I think they've got some 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.080 linebackers that they can use in that situation, all right, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:11.560 And with Parsons, he has experience rushing the passer, going 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:16.480 back to high school schools. Yes, this is like deja 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.360 vu all over again for Michael Parsons. You probably have 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.200 heard the story that he told about his freshman year 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.440 in high school. He was a backup, and you know 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.680 he's a freshman. You know they're not. You don't typically 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.680 have freshman who will who will start on the varsity 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.560 football team. Well, they had an injury on their defensive line, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.120 and so the coach puts Michael Parsons in there to 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.960 replace him, even though he was a scrawny linebacker. And 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.000 what does he do. He came up with the game 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.040 winning of forest fumble. I think it was a striped sack. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.680 I can't remember the exact story, but I do know this. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.280 He went on his freshman year in high school to 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.000 have eighteen and a half sacks rushing the passer. The 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:00.600 coach had no idea he could do that at the time. Okay, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.440 as a freshman in high school. So you're looking for 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.320 another Dak Prescott deal here and so here it is. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:11.120 It's deja vu all over again, where Okay, the former 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.920 Pro Bowl defensive end goes down for the Cowboys and 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.920 and I'm not and I agree with you. You don't. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.000 You don't play Michael Parsons. You know at defensive end 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:26.680 full time, you can play linebacker. But in pass rush situations, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.520 right line him up at at the edge and let 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.880 him get after it. See, and here's the good thing 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.480 about that. If they want him to do that, then 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.000 if they still want to play their nickel, then you 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.920 got Kean O'Neil and Layton vander h exactly. Vander Esh 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.960 has played in that spot and his rooking yet he 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.160 was very he was very good at it. So, uh, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.320 that's where your depth comes in. And then with Dorin's 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.320 armstrong by the way, you know, it's one thing to 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.400 be all Oxnard, Now it's time to be you know, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:06.960 all home sodium. Yeah. Absolutely, and let's see him step up. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.160 We've been hearing about the Durance Dorans, so now it's 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.440 his time. I'm excited about Drance. But it's just like 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.720 Nate knew and always said, same thing, make you laugh, 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.840 make your cry. Getting back to the scarwny Parsons. When 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.640 you have a three hundred and fifty pound guy pulling around, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.800 he's got to keep up with that scarwny two hundred 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.880 and forty pound linebackers. Right, quickness can sometimes overwhelm strength. 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.480 So you got the big guy coming around there, will 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.880 he be adsile enough to be able to handle the 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:41.440 ferociousness and the aggressiveness of Michael Parsons that remains to 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:45.000 be seen. 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Well? 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.479 Aiden Dirty is the other assistant defensive line coat, so 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:59.600 if Quinn's upstairs, then um Aiden's got more responsibility on 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.920 the ground. But yeah, he got hurt, he said. He 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.240 guys ever had major surgery while he played. I think 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.320 he had a knee once at least. Uh So he 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.320 has a torn quad and he somehow got caught up 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.720 in the sled. You know, he would stand on the sled. 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.040 I think when uh they were doing those pass rush 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.040 drills or whatever, and I don't know what went wrong, 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.000 but uh it looked bad when he was laying on 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.200 the on the cart that when they brought him in. 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:31.159 So yeah, no, no, no Leon uh oh he and 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.280 and by the way, he had surgery also. Uh so 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:39.440 Mike announced he's not traveling to LA And then there 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.200 was no Donovan Wilson at practice either. Yeah, what's the 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:47.920 story with Donovan got a sore groin that it looks like, yeah, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.560 I remembered the end of training camp. So uh so 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.360 it looks like Malie Cooker is ready to go. So 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:58.240 let's look at since last Thursday. So it's a week 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:02.200 it's been at the bar, all right, So what's happened 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.240 since last Thursday? All right? Michael Gallup got hurt in 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.760 the game? I all right, Now, Donovan Wilson, I guess 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.560 you could say you got hurt in the game, but 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.640 he's not on IR. He's just not practicing, right, Okay, 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.280 So that was an aggravated injury coming out of the game. 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.480 And then what aggravated everybody the next day was Lyle 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:25.960 Collins being suspended for five games. That's aggravated not only 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.280 him and his agent also. And then Zach Martin comes 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.000 back on Monday. But Randy Gregor, and so did Brandon 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:38.040 Knight got activated on Monday, and but Randy Gregory goes 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:43.840 on the COVID list. That's three starters, okay, um at 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:46.359 three or four? Four? Now four starters. We're going to 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:52.919 Michael Gallup, right, yeah, gall Right, Gallup, Gallup, Wilson, Gregory, 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:57.320 and Collins. And now we've got DeMarcus Lawrence. So there's five, 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:04.000 five starters that started against Tampa Bay that are not 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.879 going to be here this week. And Darren Thompson was 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.119 kind of a starter on special teams and he's on 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:16.000 practice squad ir. So it hasn't been a good week. No, No, 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.840 it's a matter of fact. It's one of those deals 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.360 where I suggested the other day, I said, when Mike 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.520 McCarthy lays his head on the pillow at night, he's 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.840 got to be beaten his head on the pillow, going 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.440 why me? Last year the offensive line, now this year 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:41.679 the defensive line. So when you look at things, you know, 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:44.720 there's a reason that this team has so many linebackers. 0:23:45.240 --> 0:23:48.399 There's are versatile guys, you know, And there's been a 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:52.800 lot of talk about snap counts from the Tampa Bay 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:56.440 game and the fact that Parsons had around fifty snaps. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:00.359 Kean Uneil as well, and Layton Vanderish and Jalen Smith 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.359 we're in the range of fifteen snaps in that game. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.399 Jabril Cox is another guy that has shown some potential. 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.880 But it gives this team some flexibility going forward as 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:13.200 they weather the storm of these injuries. Don't you think, yes, 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:16.439 I think they've got some guys that can. You know, 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.760 obviously you're gonna play Layton vander as significantly more snaps 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:26.400 in this game. I bet Jalen and they even though 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:29.680 the injuries have not occurred per se at the linebacker position. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:33.560 That's the thing with this defense and with defenses across 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:37.000 the league now, these are more hybrid defenses. It's typically 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:38.880 even though they may say it's a four to three 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:41.040 or another team may say they run a three four, 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.359 there's there's so many Especially when you're gonna throw the 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:47.760 ball fifty times, you know, the Chargers through at forty 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:51.520 seven times the other day against Washington. You're in your 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:55.359 nickel a whole lot, you know, with a four man 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:59.719 front and so and there's different ways that you can 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.760 use these linebackers. And it'll be interesting to see how 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:08.639 I was gonna say San Diego La Chargers attack the 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.439 Cowboys defense. You know, will they go three wide or 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.359 will they stay in a more traditional offense forcing the 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:18.600 Cowboys into more of a base. But even some of 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.840 their defensive ends, you know, you could look at them 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:30.400 as stand up outside linebackers too, like who's ready to play? 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:35.919 And Camara? You know, because you know Camara now, now 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:41.239 he's kind of small, right thin, he's tall. Uh, he's 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:45.320