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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Spagnola. Well, we made a streak of one
Speaker 1: one straight when all three of us here in the
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage studio for Mick Shots. But today it's myself,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls, and Bill Jones. I think he's
Speaker 1: been burning rubber or something. He said he had a
Speaker 1: tire problem, and you guys thought it would be me,
Speaker 1: didn't you, right if anybody was gonna be oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be ever since. And you know he had
Speaker 1: to go to the tire place to get it fixed
Speaker 1: or get more tires, I'm not sure, and you know
Speaker 1: how long that takes. So Bill should join us shortly, hopefully,
Speaker 1: and in the meantime, Everson and myself will try to
Speaker 1: hold down the fort here. As the Cowboys are into
Speaker 1: the off season with strength and conditioning going on. This
Speaker 1: weekend Friday and Saturday, the Rookie Mini camp will take place.
Speaker 1: Be interesting to see just how much they're allowed to
Speaker 1: do out on the field. I know, ever, since it's
Speaker 1: basically gonna be individual drills, the position guys, you can't
Speaker 1: go up against each other during this mini camp, but
Speaker 1: it is a mandatory mini camp, so they should have
Speaker 1: around let's see thirteen undrafted free agents, eleven draft choices,
Speaker 1: and a couple veterans. So somewhere or guys, let's put
Speaker 1: it this way, they were on the team, uh last year.
Speaker 1: I think Ben d Nucci qualifies. They need a quarterback
Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, throw passes to wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So probably twenty five twenty six guys will be out
Speaker 1: there uh this weekend, so uh, that certainly is going on.
Speaker 1: I think since last we uh spoke on Mick shots,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had a visit from quarterback Jeff driscoll. And
Speaker 1: while everybody was all excited that he was going to
Speaker 1: sign immediately, I think after he got here, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: found are they probably already knew the rest of us
Speaker 1: found out that he had more visits to take. Now
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's a pretty Cinderella. They wants to take
Speaker 1: a guy that's uh, he's searching for his fifteen fifth
Speaker 1: team since being drafted in the sixth round of twenty sixteen. Wow. So, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see where that one goes. That was always going
Speaker 1: to be I think a financial thing. How much can
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offer him? Um? I mean he's only started
Speaker 1: nine games, so I don't know that that, uh is
Speaker 1: the prerequisite to be a veteran backup quarterback. But at
Speaker 1: least he's been in the league. Tell me something about him.
Speaker 1: What's up with Jeff driscoll? I must admit I am
Speaker 1: in the dock here. Yeah, he's he just never I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was recognition because you know when
Speaker 1: he when he transferred from Florida the Louisiana Tech. Yes,
Speaker 1: he had a right down the street Louisiana. Yeah, he had.
Speaker 1: He had a nice season there. Uh, you know through
Speaker 1: the ball well. Um, but from my understanding, arm strength
Speaker 1: wasn't a problem. It was just more of recognition and
Speaker 1: seeing things and um. So we'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things that Cowboys still need to
Speaker 1: take care of, uh, is figure out who that backup
Speaker 1: quarterback is going to be. They have their own three
Speaker 1: candidates still with Ben Denucci, Cooper Rush, and Garrett Gilbert
Speaker 1: and another veteran potential backup got resigned. Blaine Gabbert resigned
Speaker 1: with the Bucks, so oh not coming here. So he's
Speaker 1: They actually gave him a two and a half million
Speaker 1: dollars base salary for one year. And it is so
Speaker 1: nice to be a quarterback, right, and the best thing
Speaker 1: to be accomplished don't have to play, yes, just you know,
Speaker 1: get used to the clipboard, and when it's time to play,
Speaker 1: you go out there and you just kind of stink
Speaker 1: up the joint and they're like, no, no, your best
Speaker 1: place is over here with the clipboard, right, instead of
Speaker 1: all the team. No, you're gonna stick around with the
Speaker 1: clipboard as a quarterback. How many defensive backs do you
Speaker 1: see sticking around after they've gotten toasted two or three? Right, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go there and then just hold the clipboard for
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator. I just don't see that happening. But
Speaker 1: what I do see is a little bit of tear
Speaker 1: coming up into my eye. I see the thirteen undrafted
Speaker 1: free agents, right, if we're talking about nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: that would be myself, Michael Downs would be in that category. Guy.
Speaker 1: Just a whole bunch of guys, A couple of guys
Speaker 1: from Ohio State back in nineteen eighty one, and a
Speaker 1: couple more kind of on their way in eighty three,
Speaker 1: right with Bill Bates. And yeah, just think about that, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we're just looking at them as
Speaker 1: just you know, insignificant individuals. You know, next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: you might see it. Like you said, Bill Bates in there,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, Michael Downs marked two and that you, I mean,
Speaker 1: do you think we have one? Well, it's to be
Speaker 1: difficult because when you had eleven draft choices, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to really miss for one of those guys or
Speaker 1: two of them to be able to make the team.
Speaker 1: And not knowing what the OTAs are going to look like, like,
Speaker 1: how much of an opportunity are you really going to
Speaker 1: have to go out there and show what you can do? Right?
Speaker 1: And at this point, you know, and what if they say, oh,
Speaker 1: we're doing OTAs virtually, Yeah, then you really don't have
Speaker 1: much of a chance to be able to make the team.
Speaker 1: And you know, who knows where the preseason's gonna go,
Speaker 1: so that stuff is still up in the air. I
Speaker 1: have to say, if I would to come in as
Speaker 1: a free agent under these circumstances, and it was still
Speaker 1: the Tom Landry Dallas Cowboys with the same flex defense.
Speaker 1: I still think I would have gotten it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've made the team right, But
Speaker 1: I still think I would have gotten here in regards
Speaker 1: to what to do, regardless of how few practices we've had,
Speaker 1: you know, what kind of reps would I would get.
Speaker 1: I still think I could. I could get it because
Speaker 1: those couple of times Gene starters threw us in the fire.
Speaker 1: I mean like during preseason in a ball game. I
Speaker 1: remember when Randy Hughes went down and I had to
Speaker 1: come in in the red zone and we're talking about
Speaker 1: playing thirty three X in the red zone, and I
Speaker 1: just had to go for it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You couldn't. You couldn't think at the time. You had
Speaker 1: to know. And you know, the other safety wasn't looking
Speaker 1: at me. He's a veteran. I'm a rookie. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't hear rookies back there. I'm like, hey, well
Speaker 1: they don't want to hear it. I'm here. You should
Speaker 1: have studied, and just so happened. I gathered right, So
Speaker 1: when you got here as an undrafted free agent. Did
Speaker 1: you start counting the numbers of the veterans and going, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to beat somebody out to be able
Speaker 1: to start doing that until we got to camp, all right,
Speaker 1: And then that's when the veterans got there, So our
Speaker 1: two weeks were up. Nobody's counting anything right now. It
Speaker 1: was twenty five rookies. Okay, it was twenty five rookies,
Speaker 1: so nobody's counting anything but twenty five right now. You
Speaker 1: got you have to find your place in line just
Speaker 1: to go through the drill. There was some guys didn't
Speaker 1: even make it through drills almost all day because there
Speaker 1: was so many of us stacked up. So you didn't
Speaker 1: count veterans at that time. But when they came there
Speaker 1: two weeks later, which is the way we used to
Speaker 1: do it. Veterans came in two weeks after the rookies
Speaker 1: were all worn out, nappy headed tans, i mean, breath stinking,
Speaker 1: when we were just horrible. By the time the veterans
Speaker 1: got there. They come in looking all pretty, and then
Speaker 1: that's when we started to count. We saw Aaron Mitchell,
Speaker 1: we saw Steve Wilson, you know, we saw Wade Manning.
Speaker 1: You know, these are guys that, for some reason, I
Speaker 1: guess you look at the Cowboys then as now, wasn't
Speaker 1: much put into the secondary. There just wasn't much put
Speaker 1: into it. As much as it was an extremely complicated defense,
Speaker 1: flex defense, four defensive backs, they just didn't didn't put
Speaker 1: much money into defensive backs. You had, Charlie was still there,
Speaker 1: you had Cliff was just had just left, Cliff Harris
Speaker 1: had just left Hall of Famer. Uh, Dennis Sturman was
Speaker 1: being moved over to corner. I mean, we were just
Speaker 1: a hodgepod, I would say, less potential than they have
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys secondary right now. So with you and
Speaker 1: Downs making it in the secondary, who didn't make it
Speaker 1: like you cost somebody when we started counting numbers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was gonna be between Steve Wilson and Aaron Mitchell,
Speaker 1: those two guys. Those two guys, because Benny Blonds is
Speaker 1: a veteran, he's gonna stay. Benny was until Bill Bates
Speaker 1: got there. Benny was integral in our in our plans. Still,
Speaker 1: of course, Charlie was still our starter. Dexter Clinkscale being
Speaker 1: a very close You could have just said Dexter or Charlie.
Speaker 1: But you know, Charlie because of the experience. And so
Speaker 1: we're sitting in the meeting room. The numbers have been
Speaker 1: figured out through all the defensive backs, and so we said, okay,
Speaker 1: one person has to go. We step into the meeting room.
Speaker 1: All of us are still there. That one person has
Speaker 1: not gone. The number is still the same. By the
Speaker 1: time the meeting started, someone had tapped Aaron Mitchell on
Speaker 1: his shoulder and told him he was going to Tampa Bay. Oh,
Speaker 1: so that's how trade to the meeting? You yes, Well
Speaker 1: or Fellows? Mike Downs was all the way in her
Speaker 1: He was in choice. Fellows was a draft choice seventh
Speaker 1: round seven B if I'm not mistake, University of Missouri,
Speaker 1: though wide receiver. He came in. It was seven to
Speaker 1: eighty seven B. He and Ken Miller. Ken Miller from
Speaker 1: Michigan State. Fellows was seven B. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I may have it mixed up and Fellows. It was
Speaker 1: between Fellows and myself really on who would have been
Speaker 1: able to go. I had three interceptions in the preseason,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't drafted. So what kind of weight does
Speaker 1: that give me? You understand? So that's what we didn't
Speaker 1: understand was Aaron Mitchell going to be the guy that
Speaker 1: stuck on and was I'm going to be the guy
Speaker 1: that was out of there? So I think it was
Speaker 1: between Mitch, myself and Ron Fellows on who would have
Speaker 1: been that third person when they found a place for
Speaker 1: Mitch to go. Then all of a sudden, we're looking around,
Speaker 1: Mitch is gone, and everybody's kind of well, the young
Speaker 1: guys are kind of exhale, especially me and round Fellows.
Speaker 1: So that's how that went. So all we gonna find
Speaker 1: a Michael Downs in this free agent, these these undrafted
Speaker 1: free agents. And the other question I have spags when
Speaker 1: you're looking at just how bad our defense was and
Speaker 1: looking at how we attacked the defense in the draft
Speaker 1: and free agency. By the way, with all the safeties
Speaker 1: they signed in free agency, yes, of course, the new
Speaker 1: guys from Atlanta, those guys. How many I see more
Speaker 1: people making the team than we think. I mean, you
Speaker 1: talk about draft choices, how many do you usually make
Speaker 1: the team in the draft? You know what I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: If you got eleven, if you get seven to make
Speaker 1: the team and not counting the practice, you've probably done well, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, not everybody is gonna make it. Uh, the
Speaker 1: last guy drafted probably. You know, I don't think he
Speaker 1: should go out and spend his signing bonus just yet.
Speaker 1: There's my list here, Matt Farni. Yeah, he ought to
Speaker 1: be careful the safety Israel, although they kind of liked
Speaker 1: that he was a corner h mukamu mumukuamu. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you better be careful there. But I could see one
Speaker 1: two rhythm with I could see seven and I think
Speaker 1: you know, Nashon Wright, we'll see, right, wasn't thought of
Speaker 1: highly by other teams in the draft. The Cowboys did so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think the key thing of all this
Speaker 1: is is going to be the competition because if you
Speaker 1: if you look at it, you know they ended up
Speaker 1: uh drafting uh three defensive linemen, but they signed three
Speaker 1: veterans in free agency, Basham, Carlos Watkins, and Brett irv Urban,
Speaker 1: so you know there's three guys right there. Uh. They
Speaker 1: limited the competition with releasing uh Antoine Woods last week,
Speaker 1: which you know, it was too bad. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was pricing himself out now he was a
Speaker 1: restricted free agent. He was going to count two point
Speaker 1: one million. But I think they were a little worried about.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they gave him an offer, like
Speaker 1: to get a two year deal and then lower his
Speaker 1: base salary for this year and give him a little
Speaker 1: upfront money, or if it was just the fact that
Speaker 1: he just didn't fit into the defensive tackle position that
Speaker 1: Quinn envisions with a three hundred and thirty pounds sixth
Speaker 1: round draft choice that they brought in. Right, I gotta say,
Speaker 1: coming from this defense, no matter how well you might
Speaker 1: think you have played, considering all the circumstances, I can't
Speaker 1: see many of our free agents or veterans getting much
Speaker 1: love from other teams across the league. I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: you mean, if you're gonna cut somebody, if I Wood,
Speaker 1: I just see Woods was going to visit the Colts,
Speaker 1: I mean he would really and you know, we saw
Speaker 1: how well he played. Yeah, we saw that he did
Speaker 1: as well as he could under circumstances. Does everyone else
Speaker 1: see that? Does does the rest of the league see that?
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm if I'm a GM or if
Speaker 1: I'm type of scout and I'm looking at the Cowboys
Speaker 1: having the worst run defense in the history of the
Speaker 1: franchise this past season, why would I go after somebody
Speaker 1: from our defensive line or linebackers. Why would I go
Speaker 1: out to somebody that we just released or was just
Speaker 1: you know, well resigned. In his defense, when he finally
Speaker 1: got to start those last seven games, they played a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Do you think the other teams the
Speaker 1: position played better. Let's think that the teams actually are
Speaker 1: they gonna the deep enough to Terry Poe was so
Speaker 1: bad that me and you could have gone in and
Speaker 1: played better. Well, a little insider trading there. So the
Speaker 1: Colts defensive coordinators Matt Eberflews, who had been the Cowboys
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys under Rod and Mirror knowing, so maybe
Speaker 1: he asked Rod Heywood about this guy. You know, we're
Speaker 1: looking for a kind of a run stopping nose tackle. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: maybe they're probably looking at season trading and looking at
Speaker 1: this season as an exception, right, you know, to the rule,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, Okay, let's go back to what we
Speaker 1: liked about Woods in the beginning. Right, they'll probably go
Speaker 1: back to the previous notes forget this past season. Right,
Speaker 1: this was in an operation. Let's see what we what
Speaker 1: we thought about him before this past season. That has
Speaker 1: to be the thought process, right, and and like I said,
Speaker 1: so this is going to be interesting with all the
Speaker 1: competition and think about it. They also had five defensive
Speaker 1: starters uh in that final game that aren't hearing right,
Speaker 1: So you lose Chitubey Woozier, Xavier Woods, Tyrone Crawford, Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: and Alden Smith. So those guys, uh, basically uh and
Speaker 1: oh this and que guy. They they had six guys
Speaker 1: that totally of the snaps on defense. So there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some openings. Now we assume Kelvin Kelvin Joseph is
Speaker 1: a walk in starter at corner. I don't know, uh,
Speaker 1: oss O Diggi Zua, Yeah, you know, but you got Tyring,
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill coming back, Deville Gallimore played well. So I
Speaker 1: think there's just gonna be some really good uh competition
Speaker 1: and death and death and maybe a little bit depth, yeah,
Speaker 1: and a little bit more size. So if you look
Speaker 1: at the draft choices, uh, I mean the only walk
Speaker 1: in starter for sure is Micah Parsons and boy he
Speaker 1: better start. Yeah. Yeah, I just have a drama free
Speaker 1: training camp, you know. And I did a little bit
Speaker 1: more and we'll get into this at some point. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe next week after we actually see him out here.
Speaker 1: But what a stud athlete he was in high school.
Speaker 1: He didn't just play football eighth bill Bill said, he
Speaker 1: and he uh. And then when he got to uh
Speaker 1: Harris Harrisburg High he transferred from another school. Uh. They
Speaker 1: went to the state championship. His junior year, he was
Speaker 1: the star running back. Not only the star running back,
Speaker 1: but the star defensive end. Looked huge, right, he looked huge.
Speaker 1: As soon as and as soon as uh the football
Speaker 1: season was over, he was starting on the basketball team.
Speaker 1: And then he ran track. He was running the hundred
Speaker 1: meters at two hundred and twenty pounds. Localf, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: who by the way, found out that football speed and
Speaker 1: track speed maybe a little bit right, unless you know
Speaker 1: how good Willie Galt and Ron Brown was how fast
Speaker 1: they were. They end up being on the World championship
Speaker 1: for about one hundred meter relay team. Yeah, and Metcalf
Speaker 1: can't touch them. He ran up. He ran in that
Speaker 1: in that meet, the USA Track and Field Golden Games
Speaker 1: and Distance Open. Uh, he ran at ten three seven, right,
Speaker 1: So he was last in his heat, just in his heat,
Speaker 1: and he was fifteen of seventeen guys that ran the hundred.
Speaker 1: So for him to qualify for the US Trials Olympic Trials,
Speaker 1: he needed to run a ten point zero five and
Speaker 1: he is ten point three seven. Let's think about the
Speaker 1: guys that we know that were fast. We just talked
Speaker 1: about Ron Brown, Rams, Willie Galt, Bears, Tony do a set, Yes,
Speaker 1: Tony Doo a set could have in the race. I
Speaker 1: bet he could have. He could have. I wonder if
Speaker 1: Dion would have could have. Yeah. And also Chris Johnson
Speaker 1: from Tennessee right running back, you know, and I saw
Speaker 1: I saw the video of Metcalf's hundred, and he was
Speaker 1: good for fifty yards and then the guys start pulling
Speaker 1: away a little bit. I think, lets you know how
Speaker 1: fast those guys were, how fast Doorset was Chris Johnson.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of the most impressive thing I
Speaker 1: saw in a hundred uh in in track trials in
Speaker 1: eighty eight and the Olympics was Florence Joiner Griffin flow Joe.
Speaker 1: She had the one leg, one leg, one tight leg, yeah,
Speaker 1: and she at at sixty or seventy meters she was
Speaker 1: still accelerating. Most people, you know after fifty or sixty
Speaker 1: year probably not at top speed anymore. No, she was
Speaker 1: getting faster. I had to learn something. Of all people,
Speaker 1: herschel Walker. I never listened to him, but because I
Speaker 1: must have overheard it, I here he wants a run
Speaker 1: for governor. Yeah, he needs to just go back and
Speaker 1: run forwards. But he told me something that was interesting.
Speaker 1: He said, track is about not about who's the fastest necessarily.
Speaker 1: How did they put it? He said, it wasn't just
Speaker 1: about racing the opponent and being faster than him, you don't.
Speaker 1: It's who slows down the soonest, right, you see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, because it's not like you just
Speaker 1: talked about top end speed. We all come out a
Speaker 1: certain way, but how long can you maintain that pace? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: And so most of course slow down at the end.
Speaker 1: So that's that was very interesting on how we said it,
Speaker 1: and it made me look at track a totally different way.
Speaker 1: It's not about how fast you accelerate through the line.
Speaker 1: It's about who slows you know, who doesn't slow down?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Who can maintain That's my
Speaker 1: lasting memory from the hundred meter championship race in eighty
Speaker 1: eight in the Olympics, when Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis, Yes,
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there watching and I had a really
Speaker 1: good media seat. I was like in the middle of
Speaker 1: the hundred meters and Ben Johnson's going right, Carl Lewis
Speaker 1: is motoring, but all of a sudden, Carl Lewis is
Speaker 1: like this, He's looking. He ain't getting any closer. He's looking.
Speaker 1: And the third time he looked with like ten meters
Speaker 1: to go, and he can't believe he's getting beat. Now.
Speaker 1: If you can see the look on his face as
Speaker 1: he's running, yeah, that's perturbed, Like how is this happen?
Speaker 1: How am I not catching that? He knew something was wrong,
Speaker 1: and then he knew something afterwards. We knew something was
Speaker 1: wrong because after the race, the runners would go into
Speaker 1: the locker room they would do their testing, and we
Speaker 1: would sit in this to militarized zone and they would
Speaker 1: walk back out for interviews. Well, we waited and waited
Speaker 1: and waited for Ben Johnson and he finally came out
Speaker 1: after a long time and every we're all sitting there
Speaker 1: going on something I don't know, And yeah, they tested
Speaker 1: him right away, he tested positive, tested him right away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know when the guy wins like that, just come
Speaker 1: in side, now, come here, we have a test for
Speaker 1: you right here. And let's remember now Johnny Lamb Jones, Yes,
Speaker 1: was another one that we had here. Ye now, that
Speaker 1: is world class speed right there. That's not you know,
Speaker 1: just a uh. He wasn't to me, he wasn't a
Speaker 1: football player. We always talked about Bob Hayes talked about
Speaker 1: guys like Dorset. They were football players who just happened
Speaker 1: to be fast. Right, There's a difference between being a
Speaker 1: track guy and trying to be trying to play football.
Speaker 1: That's what Johnny Lamb tried to do. Alexander Right. Alexander
Speaker 1: right is another same thing. Remember the speed, Well you
Speaker 1: weren't you were gone. That was the next year ninety
Speaker 1: He was the second round pick. Got here late because
Speaker 1: he held out. His agent was arguing that he was
Speaker 1: a first round pick. He got picked twenty eighth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that year twenty eighth because the Cowboys forfeited their
Speaker 1: first round pick for the supplemental draft, so there was
Speaker 1: only twenty seven, and his agents were arguing, no, he's
Speaker 1: got to make first round money. He was the twenty
Speaker 1: eighth right now they're going sorry, it says twenty seven
Speaker 1: here he's the first and he had all the speed
Speaker 1: in the world, but he just couldn't master playing wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And see that's the difference. I remember Jake Gaither talking
Speaker 1: about Bob Hayes. You know, he said, look, guys, just
Speaker 1: because he's fast, that doesn't mean he's a track guy.
Speaker 1: He is a football player. Yeah, that runs. And the
Speaker 1: difference is the muscles in the legs. When you look
Speaker 1: at track guys, they always went straight ahead. Everything's just
Speaker 1: straight ahead. But we're talking about football player. You're talking
Speaker 1: later movement and talking about boast, quick boasting, going straight.
Speaker 1: Here's a quick, funny story, sorry for you, and we'll
Speaker 1: get it. Go to break Um Washington, the track star.
Speaker 1: He played for the Oakland A's. I can't think of
Speaker 1: his first name, and he basically was They basically brought
Speaker 1: him in to be a pinch runner. And I remember
Speaker 1: one time he got to first base. He was playing
Speaker 1: the White Sox and Dick Allen was the first baseman
Speaker 1: and he was a big horse racing fan. And so
Speaker 1: Washington gets to first base. They throw over to you know,
Speaker 1: keep him close. He takes the ball and he rubs
Speaker 1: it down the back of his calf. And somebody asked
Speaker 1: them afterward, what are you doing? He goes, well, you know,
Speaker 1: when when I check out horses that are racing, I
Speaker 1: check out their legs. I was going to see how
Speaker 1: strong that calf muscle was. Yeah, and he just he
Speaker 1: couldn't master hitting. He just couldn't do it. So but
Speaker 1: they kept him as it was like the DH runner,
Speaker 1: you know, designated dr designated runner. When when we when
Speaker 1: we come back, I want to you know, pick your
Speaker 1: brain on who like the greatest athletes, all right, and
Speaker 1: and the other thing. We're gonna come back because we
Speaker 1: seek the offensive linemen out there, their strength and condition.
Speaker 1: And it made me think about this offense coming up
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Speaker 1: for the year. For some of us, knowing what games
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Speaker 1: one schedule and saying exciting here on Mick Shots, We're
Speaker 1: excited to welcome back Bill Jays. William I said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you hear me say I have some struggles? I said,
Speaker 1: Bill must have been burning some rubber with his tires
Speaker 1: and at worem up, I did hear you say that? Actually,
Speaker 1: there's you know, as a result of the power outage
Speaker 1: in North Texas back in February, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of houses that are basic having to be reconstructured because
Speaker 1: of damage. And one of them is my next door
Speaker 1: neighbor's house. Now it's not my house, but the next
Speaker 1: door neighbors. Last week, my wife had a nail and
Speaker 1: her tire and today I found a nail. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna blame it on the construction next door. But I'm
Speaker 1: on my way out there, and I actually left the
Speaker 1: house early. Okay, I'm gonna get there early. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show up forty five minutes in advance. Okay, Mickey's gonna
Speaker 1: be so proud of me, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm driving down the road about fifteen minutes from my
Speaker 1: house and alarms go off in my truck. I got
Speaker 1: something wrong with the tire I stopped off at. Fortunately
Speaker 1: I was like two blocks away from a discount tire
Speaker 1: and so I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it,
Speaker 1: but they could. There was a nail in my tire.
Speaker 1: And so now I had returned to the house and
Speaker 1: I actually listened to the first segment of the show,
Speaker 1: and uh, I quickly got on because I was afraid
Speaker 1: I was going to lose my job because you were
Speaker 1: doing so well for a segment. So was this? So
Speaker 1: the house being fixed? Is that the house of the
Speaker 1: neighbor who fell in the pool? No, that's the other
Speaker 1: that I have to visit your neighborhood, one of these danks.
Speaker 1: Just ride around and see what. We'll let the guard
Speaker 1: gate know that you're coming. No, don't let him know.
Speaker 1: He might hurt himself. So since we let see if
Speaker 1: we can let you on, and Bill, I'll let you.
Speaker 1: I'll let you take over here. I'll just set us
Speaker 1: up with this. Since we mentioned the schedule, I thought
Speaker 1: maybe we'd take a look at at least we know
Speaker 1: the Cowboys opponents and we'll find out tomorrow. Uh, the
Speaker 1: order of play, obviously they have. I did this about
Speaker 1: a month or so ago. Uh, they've got fourteen opponents,
Speaker 1: you know, in just counting the NFC East once the opponents,
Speaker 1: plus the seventeenth game this year with New England. So
Speaker 1: it's three opponents from the NFC East, four from the
Speaker 1: NFC South, four from the AFC West, and then the
Speaker 1: third place finishers in the AFC North and I mean
Speaker 1: the NFC North and the NFC West. So I went
Speaker 1: back and looked, and I was looking at all the teams.
Speaker 1: They have to play home games against the three NFC
Speaker 1: East teams, plus Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Carolina, Denver and the Raiders,
Speaker 1: and then the away games against Kansas City, the Chargers, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: New England, New Orleans, and Tampa Bay. I circled the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers as maybe that's the Cowboys opener to
Speaker 1: open up Sofi Stadium for a football game. What do
Speaker 1: you think or if you have a better guess on
Speaker 1: who you think the Cowboys would open up You mean,
Speaker 1: you mean with you're assuming there will be fans in
Speaker 1: the stands, so open up Sofi Stadium with fans in
Speaker 1: the stands, yes, as opposed to last yees? Right, Um,
Speaker 1: you know that could be one. And you know I
Speaker 1: penciled in the Rams as the what would be the
Speaker 1: Cowboys second preseason game at Sofi Stadium this year, because
Speaker 1: of course they're going to play in the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game on Thursday, August fifth, I think is the
Speaker 1: date on it. I believe pas Ohio, and I thought
Speaker 1: with camp in Oxnard would be it would be. And
Speaker 1: also with the Cowboys playing and being an NFC team
Speaker 1: only getting the eight home dates this year and nine
Speaker 1: away games, I would think they're going to give them
Speaker 1: two home preseason games in just one road preseason game
Speaker 1: with the otherwise the three game preseason schedule, Cowboys play
Speaker 1: four because they in the Hall of Fame. So if
Speaker 1: you're breaking camp in Oxnard, you play the Rams at
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium in the what would be their second preseason
Speaker 1: game didn't come home for the last two m assuming
Speaker 1: it makes Yeah, Well, if Jerry has his way, we're
Speaker 1: going to Oxnard, right, I mean the way it stands
Speaker 1: right now, Jerry wants to be in Oxnard, and they're
Speaker 1: making out that preseason schedule as well as the regular
Speaker 1: season schedule now. So but anyway, yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: a good thought. You know. The other thought that it's
Speaker 1: out there is, how about the Cowboys open at the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs Tampa Bay. Yeah, that'll be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have to look at what Tampa Bay's schedule
Speaker 1: is to see who they want them opening with. They
Speaker 1: get the tough schedule rights, you get the toughest, well,
Speaker 1: the two teams in the corresponding division, so they would no,
Speaker 1: not really, because they get Washington, okay, because they were
Speaker 1: first placed in the NFC East rights you put that aside,
Speaker 1: and then and then they would get the I don't
Speaker 1: know what their corresponding division is what the other one,
Speaker 1: uh they have to play. So yeah, that'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see if they want to replay of the NFC
Speaker 1: title game, um or whoever they're playing in the AFC.
Speaker 1: But obviously they'll they'll host an opener on with the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers drama. But that sounds pretty good. And actually,
Speaker 1: actually Tampa Bay fin is second in their division, so
Speaker 1: they've got a second place schedule because the yeah, because
Speaker 1: the Saints won that division, not the postseason, so they
Speaker 1: get So they get the Giants. If you say so,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who what the final standings are? You
Speaker 1: got it figured out, Mickey, I do not. It's been
Speaker 1: so long ago, I know. No, No, Tampa Bay's playing
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Um. The Cowboys are playing the NFC South right,
Speaker 1: that's right, And so they're playing Washington and the Giants
Speaker 1: and the Eagles too. Yeah, Tampa Bay's playing all the
Speaker 1: NFC's teams. So Chris has their thanks, Chris, Chris has THEIRS.
Speaker 1: So Tampa Bay at home, they've they've got Buffalo, the Bears,
Speaker 1: Miami and the Giants. In a way, they've got I
Speaker 1: mean the non division games, they've got the Rams. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Rams Tampa Bay verse is the Rams um New England?
Speaker 1: Oh in Indianapolis. Okay, well, okay, hold on there, Micky.
Speaker 1: For the for the audience in general, do they go
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has the Rams or do they say WHOA,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay has the Cowboys. Well, that'll be interesting to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. Or maybe they get the Bills. Buffalo Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay would be yeah, yeah, the Bills in Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: would be closer to I mean, if you're looking at
Speaker 1: teams that are projected to do something this year or
Speaker 1: a possible future Super Bowl matchup, right as if they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it, Tampa Bay is gonna make it back there,
Speaker 1: which they're not. On the record in May eleven, Guy
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is not going to the super Bowl again
Speaker 1: this year. Down he's not here, That's what it is.
Speaker 1: He's somewhere else. I think that's affecting his decision in
Speaker 1: his boldness. So how about this the thing? The thing
Speaker 1: I figured out with when I was looking at who
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had to play, I figured out of their
Speaker 1: last of their fourteen opponents, the last time they've met
Speaker 1: each of those opponents, they have a five and nine record.
Speaker 1: Not surprised, so they haven't these they haven't fared very well. Uh,
Speaker 1: they beat Atlanta so the last time they played. Obviously
Speaker 1: last year they beat Uh, they beat Philadelphia the last
Speaker 1: time they played, and then the other teams. The last
Speaker 1: time they played in one a game was the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, Kansas City and Tampa Bay. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, they've beaten Tampa Bay seven of
Speaker 1: the eight last meetings. They've dominated them. Unfortunately the other
Speaker 1: way around with New England. Um, I think they've They've
Speaker 1: lost the last six games they've played to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: It's like playing against Jordan, though, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: your whole career is going to be effected if you
Speaker 1: were in the Jordan era. Yeah, most likely you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna run up against some problems. How about this.
Speaker 1: They've lost five of the last six to Arizona, the
Speaker 1: last two to Minnesota. They lost the last meeting with
Speaker 1: the Saints, and their three and ten against the Saints
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety eight. Lost the last two to Carolina,
Speaker 1: last six to Denver, last three to the Chargers, in
Speaker 1: the last six to New England. What did they win?
Speaker 1: Oh so indivision? We only win individual games. That's it.
Speaker 1: So nicky. Even before the schedule comes out, you're ready
Speaker 1: to predict a Cowboys looking at the history a good thing.
Speaker 1: History doesn't decide. Here's the way I look at it.
Speaker 1: Every year when the when we already know now that
Speaker 1: the teams have been put together, trades have been made
Speaker 1: for the most part, whatever, we kind of know who
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are going to be for all the teams
Speaker 1: that Cowboys play. So you look in the division and
Speaker 1: You've got Daniel Jones with the Giants, you got Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick with Washington, and you've got Jalen Hurts with Philadelphia. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a manageable schedule right there. For the Cowboys. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's look at the NFCS, NFC South. Whoever
Speaker 1: New Orleans is going, whoever is going to win that
Speaker 1: battle in New Orleans, Taysom Hill or Jamis Winston as
Speaker 1: your quarterback in New Orleans, all right, Tampa, you got
Speaker 1: Tom Brady Carolina. You've got Sam Darnold, who is unbeaten
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys in his career. And then you got
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan in Atlanta, all right. And then you look
Speaker 1: at Arizona, Kyler Murray he won here last year, and
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins at Minnesota and at a road game at Minnesota,
Speaker 1: I believe, as well. Then New England. It's whoever wins
Speaker 1: that battle between Cam Newton, and depends on when it
Speaker 1: is in the schedule as well. Cam Newton might be
Speaker 1: the starter at the beginning of the year, Mac Jones
Speaker 1: might be the starter towards the end of the year,
Speaker 1: or it could be Jared Stidham. And then you go
Speaker 1: to the AFC West, and you've got Herbert with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: Far with the Raiders, Drew Bridge of course with Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and then you got Aaron Rodgers with Denver. So there
Speaker 1: you have it. Oh Aaron Chers, Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 1: They say he's not going anywhere. Bill, I say this.
Speaker 1: I say this. Forget the freaking quarterbacks. You're starting to
Speaker 1: make me mad. A give you know you always bring
Speaker 1: up these quarterbacks in that relationship with how that's just
Speaker 1: gonna depict every success that these teams have. You better
Speaker 1: start looking at that defense in Tampa. See how well
Speaker 1: they're gonna play this year. Let's see if they can.
Speaker 1: Can't this team all the way just like they did
Speaker 1: last time, from the NFC Championship Game into the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl by just controlling that entire narrative the entire season.
Speaker 1: How will Aaron Rodgers play if he plays with Green Bay,
Speaker 1: will that defense be able to show up and support him?
Speaker 1: He's upset about so many things he needs to be
Speaker 1: upset with his defense not being able to hold it down.
Speaker 1: You know that, to me, that really has so much
Speaker 1: to do with the success. And Tampa Bay showed that
Speaker 1: last year. As much as I was getting on y'all's
Speaker 1: case during the season about talking about Brady and Rodgers
Speaker 1: and all these guys. Todd Bowls was the hero of
Speaker 1: that Tampa Bay team. His coaching staff and his defensive personnel.
Speaker 1: They made the difference in the entire NFL. And they
Speaker 1: you can see it. They were improving week by week,
Speaker 1: game by game, and by the time the playoffs started,
Speaker 1: they were a well oil defensive team. I just hope
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can be just in that same neighborhood because
Speaker 1: we are going to need, as we know, our defense
Speaker 1: this entire upcoming season. And it's sure helped Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: that that Kansas City was without Eric Fisher, their starting tackle. Schwartz,
Speaker 1: who was a starting guard, moved to tackle. And I
Speaker 1: see where the Colts just signed Eric Fisher for one
Speaker 1: year nine point four million hunt for a guy coming
Speaker 1: off of a ruptured achilles in mid to late January
Speaker 1: before the Super Bow. It's a great one year contracted. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: usually you're gonna come in you know, well, you just
Speaker 1: prove it to us first and then we'll go from there. Well,
Speaker 1: they they seem to like his one year potential. I'm
Speaker 1: coming off a darn achilles and I don't think I
Speaker 1: got quite that much. Talk to Jerry Man, make him
Speaker 1: understand where you're at exactly. Bill, Should we hit the
Speaker 1: okay break here? Do you want You got another topic
Speaker 1: you want to hit before? Yeah, we need to go
Speaker 1: to a break. But I've got something on Twitter here
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about. Because I didn't hear
Speaker 1: this in the first segment. Clarence Yee is asking on
Speaker 1: Twitter and you can tweet at me at CBS eleven,
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, if you got any questions for Everson or Mickey?
Speaker 1: All right? Did you mention Claude Elle Washington in the
Speaker 1: first segment? I was trying to think of his first name.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Washington and I couldn't remember Claudell. Yes I did.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, okay, Well, he says, you're talking about
Speaker 1: Claude Elle Washington. I remember him from his Braves days
Speaker 1: when our cable provider in Saskatchewan finally picked up the
Speaker 1: GBS of the eighties wide receivers speed Tyreek Hills High
Speaker 1: School two hundred meter time twenty point one four got
Speaker 1: him sixth at the Rio Olympic Finals. Claude Elle, Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you talking about Claude Elle Washington. What were you
Speaker 1: talking about? Everson brought up we were talking about football
Speaker 1: speed versus track speed, and we brought oh oh, and
Speaker 1: we brought up deep. It wasn't Claude Ell. No, it
Speaker 1: wasn't claude Elle Washington. That was HERB Washington, Herb Washington,
Speaker 1: who was pinch runner for Yeah, yeah, Charlie Finley with
Speaker 1: the A's in the seventies. BIRB Washington was an Olympic
Speaker 1: sprinter and they signed him just to try to steal bases.
Speaker 1: But Claude Elle was a great player for Oaklint. In fact,
Speaker 1: Claude remember ever since you remember claude Elle Washington. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't really build, and I watched a lot of baseball,
Speaker 1: but the A's had a lot of great players. Go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he had a short time with the Rangers. Claude
Speaker 1: Ell had the broadest shoulders I think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: on a baseball. Yeah, it was her. It was Herb Washington,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, it was the pinch runner. So anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, and digress, but he was the pinch runner.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the difference in speed, and Everson said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I always looked at sprint's legs compared to football legs
Speaker 1: and the speed. And I said, I told the story
Speaker 1: of him being on first base against the White Sox
Speaker 1: when he played with the A's and they threw over
Speaker 1: and and Dick Allen took the ball and rubbed it
Speaker 1: down his calf to see what his calf muscle was
Speaker 1: like for a guy that fast. It was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Were they were the White Sox playing in their shorts
Speaker 1: that game? I don't believe they were way back in
Speaker 1: the day, but yeah, it would have been in the
Speaker 1: It would have been that the seventies. Yeah, yeah, they were.
Speaker 1: They were played some games with shorts on. Yep, we continue,
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Speaker 1: all right, and at seven seven o'clock tomorrow night the
Speaker 1: schedule release, right, Yes, Everson, You know I always uh,
Speaker 1: your voice is truly missed on some of these readings
Speaker 1: after especially after Mickey reads them. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, the different, the difference is just just vast, right.
Speaker 1: So I started thinking about guys with silky voices like yours.
Speaker 1: Always think about somebody like a Mike Doocey or somebody
Speaker 1: like that, right, And Mikey can sing. Mike has a
Speaker 1: great singing voice. He always acts like he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to sing, but then he just all you gotta do
Speaker 1: is just problem a little bit. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: he's Frank Sinatia somebody. And so I was wondering, with
Speaker 1: your silky voic voice, do you have a great singing voice?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that for TV announcers to have a
Speaker 1: great singing voice? Is that is that how it goes?
Speaker 1: I you know, I like to think I have a
Speaker 1: great singing voice, and my wife would beg the Jeffer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. Dale Hanson doesn't have a great singing voice.
Speaker 1: He just doesn't. He just not that dude. But guys
Speaker 1: like yourself, Doocey, you know, it seems like you guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I know Doucy can can blow. Ducy can blow?
Speaker 1: Can you blow? I know? Yeah, yeah, I know. I've
Speaker 1: heard him, you know at ticket events. He's he has
Speaker 1: sung publicly, and so he's got a lot of talent singing.
Speaker 1: Maybe I will debut my singing voice one of these
Speaker 1: weeks on mixture. I'll defer to both of you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I ain't singing, No, I am not. I
Speaker 1: can't even dance, Bill, So I'm sure you could dance
Speaker 1: better than me. So No, I just figured with the territory.
Speaker 1: You know, the shower is scared of v sing. Just
Speaker 1: what else? So Bill, Yeah, we got ten minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna I was gonna do this. We we've
Speaker 1: talked about the defense, how it needs to improve, and
Speaker 1: all the defensive guys they've brought in so the other day.
Speaker 1: Uh and and it's kind of happening right now. Uh
Speaker 1: with the strength and conditioning going on. I look out
Speaker 1: on the field and I see Dak running normally right,
Speaker 1: really being able to run. I see Lale Collins running. Uh.
Speaker 1: Last week with his shirt off, it was the greatest
Speaker 1: three hundred and ten pounds you've ever seen. With Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith running filing his surgery along with Lale surgery. Zack
Speaker 1: Martin was out there. Uh and and Tyler Badish was
Speaker 1: out there. So that's four fifths of the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: line that at some point last year was missing. The
Speaker 1: five starters. You know, those four guys out of the
Speaker 1: five only started sixteen of the sixty four games, and
Speaker 1: Martin started ten of those, Yet the Cowboys ended up
Speaker 1: gaining five thousand, nine hundred and forty nine yards three
Speaker 1: seventy one a game. They finished fourteenth in the NFL.
Speaker 1: In offense, I figured out that was the seventh most
Speaker 1: total yards in the last thirty seven seasons of Cowboys football,
Speaker 1: seven seventh. With that many guys missing on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: dedn't throw in Dak only starting five games, jarwins, starting
Speaker 1: won games. All six of those guys were back on
Speaker 1: the field, working and running well. So I'm thinking, if
Speaker 1: you just look at what they have coming back, adding
Speaker 1: to the guys that did what they did last year,
Speaker 1: managing to gain that many yards, this offense could breed
Speaker 1: could be prolific this year. Considering they'd had to start
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks last year and they still scored thirty points
Speaker 1: eight times last season, winning six games. So it just
Speaker 1: dawned on me looking at that, with those guys coming
Speaker 1: back and what this offense did last year, basically without
Speaker 1: the majority of them, they could be pretty darn good
Speaker 1: this year, health permitting. When when you look at when
Speaker 1: you look at last year, spags a lot of those
Speaker 1: years at the first four games, that was out of
Speaker 1: necessity because we were always coming from behind, but they
Speaker 1: were coming, but they were coming. No, they were able
Speaker 1: to come, no doubt about that. I am hoping we
Speaker 1: don't have the need to score those mini points. Maybe yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to score those mini points
Speaker 1: because every time we did that, it brought us out
Speaker 1: of our game plan. And when when when Dad was hurt,
Speaker 1: I mean, his stats took us. I think by week
Speaker 1: eight they we were still like the top five passing
Speaker 1: they were in the league, simply because of what he
Speaker 1: did in those first four games. And I think they
Speaker 1: finished pretty high in in passing u as. I will
Speaker 1: look it up here real quickly, and it really it
Speaker 1: really showed us up, you know when it came finished
Speaker 1: eighth overall throwing with four quarterbacks starting, two of those
Speaker 1: starting their first NFL games. And and so when I
Speaker 1: the other thing, I looked at those six starters that
Speaker 1: I mentioned only started twenty two of a possible ninety
Speaker 1: six games, and they still put up that many yards. So,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, Tyrn Smith looked really good
Speaker 1: out there. I'm telling you it was the best three
Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds you've ever seen. I hope your
Speaker 1: rights bags and so there they were out there today
Speaker 1: working and and and the other thing we got to
Speaker 1: remember is, you know Connor Williams, I guess is considered
Speaker 1: the weak link, but he was coming off ACL surgery,
Speaker 1: right and he started all sixteen games. Interesting, so because
Speaker 1: I know I was one of those guys that was
Speaker 1: definitely on this case. So when you look at the offense,
Speaker 1: the only two things I think that need to be
Speaker 1: figured out is who's the backup quarterback and who's the
Speaker 1: backup swing tackle. Now they signed the veteran Tyn Secki.
Speaker 1: He's thirty five going on thirty six, He's been playing
Speaker 1: for a long time and not all in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Uh And so they got to figure that one out.
Speaker 1: They did draft Josh Ball, who might be able to
Speaker 1: be good enough to challenge him for that backup job.
Speaker 1: And then the guys that got experienced last year, Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele. We'll see where that goes. But really offensively
Speaker 1: is probably has no doubt our most important offense period,
Speaker 1: absolutely period. And talking to Mike McCarthy after one of
Speaker 1: the draft day press conference, he was just ecstatic with
Speaker 1: the progress that Lele Collins and Tyrn Smith have made
Speaker 1: since their surgeries. Zack Martin's fine, Tyler Beadish is fine.
Speaker 1: So that could make a huge difference on what this
Speaker 1: offense is able to do and maybe be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball a little bit more consistently instead of
Speaker 1: having back up undrafted free agents starting at the tackle position.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little bit nervous about,
Speaker 1: you know, Dag's leg. I really am. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie about that. I was hoping that we don't depend
Speaker 1: on him as much. Yes, we paid him a whole
Speaker 1: lot more money than he made last year, and we
Speaker 1: depended on him a whole lot in previous seasons. But
Speaker 1: I was hoping that this running game can really I hope.
Speaker 1: I was hoping he could be a compliment to our
Speaker 1: running game. And I know they're saying a lot for
Speaker 1: somebody just got the just got the bank rolled out,
Speaker 1: But I would think that we'd be smart not to
Speaker 1: put too much pressure on him right the way. Well,
Speaker 1: talking about that, and you guys, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: the surgery he had the injury was the same surgery
Speaker 1: that Hearns had at the end of that season. I
Speaker 1: think it was the twenty eighteen season, and he came
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen, went through training camp. They ended
Speaker 1: up releasing him, but then he ended up playing these
Speaker 1: last two years, I believe, for the Dolphins and played well.
Speaker 1: So you know they the medical people think Dad will
Speaker 1: be just fine. But again, yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have to rely on him him as much as they
Speaker 1: did last year in those first four and what three
Speaker 1: quarters games. Zeke Elliott has to be that leader that
Speaker 1: we've always wanted him to be coming in amazing and
Speaker 1: he looks good out there. He looks like he's lost weight.
Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't feel so desperate to gain that extra
Speaker 1: yard two and get careless with the football. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, right, And the other thing we need
Speaker 1: to remember, now that we've seen this for almost a year,
Speaker 1: he was coming off COVID in the summer too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so who knows what that might have done to his
Speaker 1: atlantical effects? Right? Yeah, all right, Bill, I think I
Speaker 1: took up the whole Well, I got a question for you,
Speaker 1: Mickey about the offensive line. Yes, who's the backup center?
Speaker 1: What happens if Tyler Biadis goes down with an injury?
Speaker 1: Who's your Who's Who's lining up is the backup center
Speaker 1: even as they start offseason, no tas and stuff, assume
Speaker 1: they have. My guess is they're going to ask Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern to put his hand on the ball. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then I believe I'm trying to remember I saw this.
Speaker 1: I think ty n Secki has played every position on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I don't know that you want him
Speaker 1: to play. He doesn't look like he's built to play center. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's like six eight, I know, yeah, yeah, it would
Speaker 1: be the first six eighth center in NFL history. But
Speaker 1: will come up, but we'll come up to Dak's chest.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have to lean over to get the ball.
Speaker 1: He's just you know, be right there. And you know
Speaker 1: what they can you know, Joe Looney still out there
Speaker 1: if they need to go that route. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. And that's I was looking at the well
Speaker 1: and I was looking at even their undrafted guys, and
Speaker 1: I'm not as familiar. I need to research them. But
Speaker 1: they don't have a center, you know, someone that I'm
Speaker 1: aware of who has a much experience snapping the ball.
Speaker 1: Even among their backups. They've they've they've focused so much
Speaker 1: on trying to get that swing tackle. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: still early. I mean it's only May eleventh right now,
Speaker 1: and so they've got time. And like you said, they
Speaker 1: got Looney out there, as you know, and then Looney
Speaker 1: factors in as far as a salary cap. Even now
Speaker 1: they're up against it, and so they've got to they
Speaker 1: may have to sort some things out. But um, I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that because that's that's one thing that
Speaker 1: any coach is always looking at. What if this player
Speaker 1: goes down with an injury, what if that one goes down?
Speaker 1: And and the other thing on Connor Williams is even
Speaker 1: coming into the league, there was some speculation among scouts
Speaker 1: that eventually his best position might be center in this league.
Speaker 1: And so I wouldn't be surprised even at this offseason
Speaker 1: if they give him some some some reps at center
Speaker 1: as well, just to see what they have there. But
Speaker 1: you know what that was said, That was said last
Speaker 1: offseason and it didn't happen. He volunteered and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So remember Connor McGovern started at center, uh in I
Speaker 1: believe it was twenty seventeen Penn State, am I right?
Speaker 1: Was he at Penn State? Connor McGovern, right, he started
Speaker 1: one season center, so I'm thinking he he if he
Speaker 1: doesn't win the starting guard job, or if even if
Speaker 1: it's up for grabs, uh, then he's your Joe Looney
Speaker 1: can swing between backup guard on game day and backup center.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's what they're looking at right now.
Speaker 1: See how that goes, and then you could always if
Speaker 1: you don't like what it looks like, you tell Joe Looney, well,
Speaker 1: you still don't have a job for you know, veteran
Speaker 1: uh exception. Uh, you know, we'll we'll get you one
Speaker 1: more year if you still want to play, and you know,
Speaker 1: he'll play with and we'd rather play is around him
Speaker 1: because last year it was all backups. Nothing was ever
Speaker 1: you know, we never had continuity in any position last year.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he might play better with a little
Speaker 1: continuity on both sides of Megawn. It's almost like we
Speaker 1: forget Lele Collins played no games and Tyrann Smith played
Speaker 1: two games. That's huge, and we're telling Luney to come
Speaker 1: in and save us, and the guy that you brought
Speaker 1: in to be the backup ended up playing like five games.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that the offensive line just kind of dominated
Speaker 1: what happened up front. You know, then you're starting two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in their first NFL games with that offensive line
Speaker 1: because convoluted, everything was convoluted. It was great. That's good.
Speaker 1: I think he played better with more experience around him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I would do with her,
Speaker 1: with the number of tackles that they have, who who
Speaker 1: don't look like on paper that they could play in
Speaker 1: side at guard, meaning Josh Ball who's a six seven
Speaker 1: guy terring steel, Brandon Knight would be a guy that
Speaker 1: I would think they'll have give reps inside at guard
Speaker 1: as well, which would I think it would behoove him
Speaker 1: to do that too, to add the experiensition flexibility to
Speaker 1: make the roster too. Didn't they move him in there?
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight, Yeah, I think he's Yeah, he's been primarily
Speaker 1: a tackle even in his career at Indiana, but you
Speaker 1: look at his body type and he would be one
Speaker 1: that would be more more effective than some of the
Speaker 1: others probably moving inside. So that's another thing to look
Speaker 1: out for as we go along. And hopefully we'll have
Speaker 1: some access here in the next few weeks. Hopefully they'll
Speaker 1: have OTA's out there where we can come watch and
Speaker 1: take a look at him. Well, we shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to look at we should be able to look at
Speaker 1: the rookies this weekend with the rookie rookie Minicamp, and
Speaker 1: that's happened. That's happened at other places around the league too,
Speaker 1: So I know the Jets. There was a video of
Speaker 1: the of the Jets work out when they got their
Speaker 1: rookies together the weekend after the draft. All right, that
Speaker 1: does it for this edition of mix Shots. So we'll have, Mickey,
Speaker 1: we will have plenty to talk about if we have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to look at these rookies over the weekend
Speaker 1: next week, don't you think be some great individual drills
Speaker 1: will get to see. Yes, absolutely, Okay, I'll be able
Speaker 1: to see there you go Everson making a comeback, and
Speaker 1: we'll see how he fares with those rookies as well
Speaker 1: over the weekend. All right, that does it for mix Shots,
Speaker 1: and we will see you again next Tuesday at eleven
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