WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Eclectic Thursday Talk 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.600 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:14.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is nick 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.799 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:24.360 official Dallas Cowboys out now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:29.360 and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time for a Thursday edition 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.080 of mix Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio here at 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:40.120 the Star in Frisco. Days away from Cowboys Cardinals and 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.800 even fewer days away, like only one and a half 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.760 days away from a new year. And I'm Bill Jones 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.880 with Mickey Spagnola, and we're trying to get Everson Walls 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.520 on the show. You at least we'll have him via 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.680 telephone here shortly. But we appreciate you joining us and 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.520 the Cowboys out on the practice yield today in shells, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:05.200 and it says here on today's pool report for the 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:11.360 practice outdoors sunny with shells and helmets. And it is sunny. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.840 It's almost seventy degrees after the day started off this 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.840 morning when I woke up at seven at forty six degree, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.600 it was a little cooler this year, it was, yes, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.160 And by the way, for those of you who are 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.920 headed to town for the game on Sunday. If you're 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.880 coming from out of town and you haven't looked at 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.800 the forecast yet, make sure you bundle up because it 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.160 is going to be very cold here. And even though 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.759 there's a roof on the stadium. The last time this happened, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.160 I saw people going to the game and I'm going, yeah, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.319 it's okay to We're just like a jersey. But you 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.080 got to get to the game. That's exactly right. Got 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.400 to get inside. And as you know, if you've been 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.320 to at and T Stadium for most of you, it 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.920 will be a hike into the stadium. And that goes 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.680 for the game on Friday afternoon too. I don't know. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.320 Oh yeah, there is one. What's that's what I thought. Hey, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.280 I think we have someone on the phone line now. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.919 Dewey Everson Walls is joining us old school style via 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.839 a telephone. Hey, can you guys hear me? Yes, we can, 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.560 we can hear us. I'm so sorry, guys, I am 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.639 so popular these days. I'm so busy, you know, I'm 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.000 spreading myself a little thin here, and I just thought 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.280 i'd give you guys just a little a little piece 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:29.639 of me, just a little piece of me that I 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.560 have that Well, there's been technical difficulties all day here, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.520 starting with Mike McCarthy's press conference this morning when he 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.079 couldn't hear us and we couldn't hear him. So it 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.960 was a failure to communicate. That was, for the minute, 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.320 one of the second to last day of the year 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:47.919 and one of the best days of the year for 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:53.359 Mike McCarthy. He couldn't hear the media. Yet I think 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.840 he liked it like that. Yeah, I think I did too. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:01.760 That's right, Mickey just alluded to it. Ever, cent are 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.880 you aware when the college football playoff games are this year? 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.960 That's the what de sympathetic first, right, That's right? That 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.359 would be tomorrow at AT and T Stadium. We've got 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.560 Alabama versus Cincinnati and the Orange Bowl. The night game 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.400 at six thirty is Georgia and Michigan. I gotta say 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.200 I'm a little uh, I'm a little disappointed. I was 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.760 kind of busy yesterday. I did not get to see 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.920 the Oklahoma game. Bill, I don't think you missed anything. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.280 When did the final story? It was forty seven to 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.720 thirty two. Okay, they were reverted back the two they 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.560 reverted back to the old defense in the it was 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:48.800 like thirty to three. It's backups them back, that's right back. Ye. Well, 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.400 so it was almost like a microcosm here. It was 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.840 a microcosm of his time at Oklahoma. You know, in 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.520 his second year there, they won a national championship and 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.480 they played great defense. Royal Williams leading the charge beat 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.240 Florida State in the National championship game. Really was a shutout. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.240 It was thirteen to two. They took a late safety, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.960 and so they played great defense. In the first half 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.040 of last night's game, they were up thirty to three 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.200 and in the second half. It was like the last 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.000 decade of Bob Stoop's football at Oklahoma after he let 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.919 Bret Brett Venables go to Clemson, and Clemson became a 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.240 great defensive team. I wonder if they hadn't been an 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.640 interesting stat um if they're in the if they're in 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.240 the Hut for the National Championship, they are like oh 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.480 and three, oh and four. But when you're just talking 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:39.240 about nine, I guess non tournament bowl games, right, they've 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.760 been yeah, yeah, yeah. Early on in his time there, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.039 he was known as Big Game Bob and uh and 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.120 the only bowl games that he won after after winning 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.719 that national championship, when the games that didn't matter, the 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.839 exhibition games, I wonder are off Enables. I wonder if 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.560 Nables in the second half said, okay, here, I got this, Okay, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.760 but you take over the Apenable's old Clemson team plays 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.520 a pretty good defense. Yesterday I was pretty good game too. Yeah. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.960 So I gotta say the worst Oklahoma loss for me 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.880 was Boyse State. Yeah. Oh yeah. Statue They had the 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:21.120 statue of liberty in a freaking in the proposal after 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.080 the game. That's right, Yeah, And that was actually it 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.719 was no, I was gonna say that was actually before 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.560 Kellen Moore was the quarter Kellen Moore became the quarterback 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.680 there right after that, right after that one got put 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.280 Boise on the map. It was a Fiesta Bowl game, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.000 and you know, as an Oklahoma fan, as one of 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.120 those you roll your eyes out because because there were 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.200 opt outs on the OU team. Okay, have your fun 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.560 at our expense. But that's a memorable game. Here we 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.159 are fifteen sixteen years later. Yeah, they went for That's 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.760 why I was hoping last night that Stoops would call 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.240 a statue of liberty at a lateral fake field goal. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:08.159 You know, that's that's that's that's what I wanted to 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.960 go tell Army. By the way, in the Military Bowl, Yeah, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:16.560 Missouri was without seven starters, a bunch on the offensive 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.320 line well and both running backs. And we're getting to 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.600 get to Cowboys. But one that's we do have a 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.719 national semifinal at the stadium tomorrow. So one more little 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.760 comment on this college football playoff. No reason at the top, Everson, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.560 I asked you when are the games? I don't know 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.880 that a lot of people know when these games are. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.960 And that's this, more than any other reason, is thirty 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.120 you gotta go to an at least an eight team 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.840 college football playoff because for the last month, nobody's been 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.120 talking about this college football playoff. Unless your team is 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.560 involved in it, nobody cares until they kick off and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.560 then and then they have it on New Year's Eve. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.360 What you know, I thought they got horrible TV ratings 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:03.320 on New Year's Eve. Well maybe that's why the second 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:08.280 game starts at six thirty. Get to their party or yea, yeah, 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.920 all right, let's go. Uhh. When we walked in here, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.880 the practice report, the pool report was hot off the presses. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.360 So let me catch you up on the Cowboys practice today. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:24.920 They were in shells outdoors helmets. One guy was missing 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.280 from practice, Quentin Bohanna. Only guy on the active rosser 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:34.080 was not participating in practice. We haven't heard yet why, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.360 so we can assume one of two things. Either he 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.119 had an illness, he had a virus, or maybe three things, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.520 or he had a real injury. Right. Uh, so we'll 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.600 see where that one goes. But Tristan Hill, good thing 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:53.400 is back practicing, so the defensive tackle position will at 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.480 least have like three or four guys that can play 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.480 in there since they lost Hamilton. Did you know that 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.600 Justin Hamilton got signed off the practice squad? Okay? Oh? Man, yeah, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.160 so uh and they liked him. I mean they elevated 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:12.040 him several times, right to help out and he did 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:19.880 all right. Oh Denver, Denver, Denver, Okay. Yeah. This is 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.640 when teams that you know are looking to next year 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.200 raid in people's practice squads, say they can't do anything 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.840 this year and Denver, yeah, right, And that's why Kamara 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:32.880 wound up with the Carolina that picked him up a 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:38.600 week or so. Yes, it was, That's why I was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.800 this is the time you poach, you know, And and 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.840 the Cowboys were trying to get him to the practice 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.319 squad and it didn't have And I knew as soon 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.440 as they released him that he wasn't going to get 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.640 And when they poached him, there was three games left 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.400 and you have to keep him on the fifty three 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.640 for three games. So basically when the season ends, they'll 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.680 still have his rights and they can claim him as 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.880 an exclusive rights free agents. So yeah, they can't get 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:09.480 him back. Okay. So also Tony Pollard, Ezekiel, Elliott, Dak Prescott, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.000 they all spent time on the chords as they have 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.320 been for the last couple of weeks with Britt Brown. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:23.880 All three guys yesterday that were limited, Tyrann Smith, Malik Turner, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:28.719 and Marcus Lawrence were in practice and Jordan Lewis, who 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.200 was on reserve COVID nineteen, was at practice and he 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.800 was activated off the reserve list, so that bodes well 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.079 for him being available for the game. And I saw 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.360 one interesting note and I'm trying to see where I 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.520 wrote it down. It was on the practice report for yesterday. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:56.400 And oh, for the Arizona Cardinals, on their practice report yesterday, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.760 they had nine guys that didn't practice, including, uh, they're 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:07.120 starting safety, but Bubba Baker Baker, Bubba the d's look 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:18.079 like the right. I know, I know they're they're running back. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.360 James Conner did not practice. What's going on with him? 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.400 That's that's legitimate. He's a Pro Bowler as a heel problem. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.360 Tell many touchdowns he's got this year? Yeah, like seventeen 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.280 fourteen fourteen rushing touchdowns and two receiving touch That's why 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.520 he made the Pro Bowl. And yeah, because his yards 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.600 he's only at seven hundred yards in averaging under four 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.000 yards to carry. Zeke's gonna end up rushing for a 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.079 thousand and you know what he's got. He's got ten 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.880 twelve touchdowns. I think he's got I just looked it 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.040 up because he's got two receiving touchdowns. Yeah, but the 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:59.120 Pro Bowl voting takes place in November, so yeah, that's 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:04.040 the fan voting. I'm I know you're being facetious. I'll 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.760 help you out there. Where's my totals? I want to 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:11.720 say ze Zeke was at I guess you know Connor. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.640 I think Connor is one of those guys. I think 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.000 I've mentioned this earlier in the year about just if 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.080 this story is amazing, and I think that's why he 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.920 got some so many votes. So Zeke has ten rushing 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.480 touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns, so he's got twelve and 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.080 he's at eight hundred and ninety nine yards rushing. It's 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.120 gonna have to be a pretty damn good year considering, right, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:41.200 And he's averaging over four yards of carryall, he's over 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.600 four yards of carry. I remember they were dogging him 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.360 about how he has no births, he can't get anything done. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:48.960 I mean if that's turned out to be a pretty 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.959 good average as well. And Connor's average was three point 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:57.400 seven by the way, uh, Zeke is at four point three, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:06.320 so yeah, that's that average is fine. Four point three. Yeah, absolutely. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.600 And the other thing on the Arizona Cardinals, they're leading 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.840 sacker or leader in sacks, however you want to put it. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:22.040 Marcus Golden is on COVID reserve as of yesterday, so 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.319 we'll see if he gets back. He leads the team 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:29.280 with eleven sacks, nineteen quarterback hits, and a kind of 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.040 defensive ends you get out of the University of Missouria 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:37.720 try and I think he went on I think it 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.360 was Monday, that golden win was tested positive. It was 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:47.760 in the paper on the twenty eighth. Yeah, so that's Tuesday, Monday, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.200 twenty seven, So he's got a shot at getting back 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:56.120 for Sunday then with the new rules, Yeah, absolutely, But 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.400 you know, it's it's just interesting looking at Area Zona 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.160 and how their season has taken a u turn from 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.040 where it was after seven games, going from seven to 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.520 OZ until now they're ten and five. So they're three 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.000 and five their last eight games. They're almost the opposite 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.840 of what we were talking about Miami, which lost their 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.839 first seven. These guys won their first seven and then 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.120 three and five. But I think three of those eight 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.120 games Kyler Murray was out. Yeah, but they won two 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.959 of those and they've got McCoy as a backup, so well, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.040 maybe they need to start colting. And so I've just 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.760 been looking at them trying to figure out, Okay, where 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.080 have things gone haywire for them? And of course Everson. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.400 One of the big things is the loss of DeAndre Hopkins. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.319 When you lose a weapon like that, it's going to 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.080 affect things offensively and just let you know how important 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.920 here to that team, because once they lost them, they 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.200 have not been the same team and it's been a 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.840 domino effect like anything else. They can't score, so therefore 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.880 the more pressure on the defense. And this defense was 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.960 highly touted early in the season until the offensive weapons 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.400 started to to to go away, and so yeah, they're looking. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:14.040 You know, everyone has the same excuses all year long. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:19.560 We have all hit that personnel shortage. You know, we've 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:24.040 all had that come down the pike on in every organization, 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.840 and so this one makes me nervous. I want to 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.440 know what the players are doing to really just stay 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.840 out of COVID's way, you know, because you can go 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.120 home to your family, but it's different when you go 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.080 home to your family. Now, let's say you got kids 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.120 in school, right kids come home? I mean, what are 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.640 we doing? Are we isolated for my kids? You know, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.880 as players, because right now this is the most important 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.640 part of the season, and I just want to know 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:59.240 do players and families are they chaking extra precautions and 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.040 how is that a affecting the family live because you know, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.600 we talked about spreading COVID and how important it is 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.120 right now for people to be ready to play ball 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.680 going down to the playoffs. You don't want to be 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.080 that guy that gets COVID at the wrong time, especially 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:19.240 you're a quarterback of a start players. Yeah, this stuff here, man, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.240 it's pass what you're doing on the field. This is 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.720 way going. This is going way part this is going 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.520 put towards what you're doing off the field. And these 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.760 guys are you know, losing some prescious time, uh doing 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.000 a pressure time of the season. That's why I said 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:39.560 yesterday the omni, the omni, especially for Dak, they need 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.280 to shrink wrap them, you know, like like you do 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.120 uh whatever when you put it in the freezer and 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.320 chain him into his room. Don't let him out. Well, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:55.800 and here's the other thing, cousin winters out. It looks 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.000 like it although he has a chance to get back 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.200 in time. Right with the day after it came out 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.880 that Wentz, you know, it tested positive and the rules 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.320 there for an unvaccinated player was that he had to 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.680 sit for ten days. Well, the CDC that very same day, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.000 across the board, the guidelines went from in half from 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.320 ten days to five days, and the NFL adopted it 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.160 and the Players Association agreed to it the next day. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.120 And so Wentz actually has a chance to play this week, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:26.960 I guess now see and That's why the good thing 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.600 was for the cowboys when ever soon and you were 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.080 talking about, you know, their family and friends or whatever, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.680 but the Cowboys were going to allow family and friends 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.280 to come in and get tested. At least now you're 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.800 probably not staying away from them. And then the other 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.080 factor in there is not everybody's got a family, you know, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.960 so guys are getting out and they just need not 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.120 to do it. This is the time, yeah, where all 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.960 of that social stuff. And that's why the bubble was 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.680 so good for the NBA and allowed them to go 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.920 through with god, I don't know, just a small percentage 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.040 positive testing at the time. I think we need to 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.119 take that bubble mentality a home with us, you know, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.720 especially this time of year. And I know it's tough 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.520 holidays and all of that, but man, let's just be real. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.320 Holiday is the one thing. But this is your money, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.120 this is your job, you know what I mean. So, yeah, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.399 family is very important. You can still be with family, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.639 but everyone under that bruf at your home, they should 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.399 be aware of how delicate a time this is for 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.439 everyone in the NFL. Okay, Everson, let me take you 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:39.399 back to twenty three year old Everson Walls. And I 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.440 remember twenty three year old Bill Jones, okay, and when 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:49.760 I'd come home to Dallas and that Greenville Avenue over there, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.639 and we went there, especially over the holidays. And so 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.920 look back in your time capsule, way back forty years ago. 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.240 Years old. Yeah, twenty three years old. I was just 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.440 about to sign my bigger contract. Still living at home 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.560 of mom by the way, Yeah, still still living in 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.480 Hamilton Park. But twenty three years old, still clicking in 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.720 my childhood bedroom. I would have been all over Hamilton 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.159 Park having a ball. I mean, you know, come on, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.880 So how tough is it for these guys that are 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.680 one two years out of college. They're twenty three years 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.480 old and living in Dallas and living in Dallas and not. 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.879 I just remember the interview they did with Charlie Waters. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.280 It was a couple of years ago, and Charlie gets here. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.880 He's playing for the Cowboys. 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Here? 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.879 You got an interesting stat I just kind of stumbled 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:47.960 into because somebody asked me a question about if you're 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:52.320 looking at the Cowboys defense, what concerns you? And I said, 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:57.040 I still am concerned about them giving up big plays 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.879 because even though they basically shut down walk Shington, I 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.919 think they stopped him with like two hundred and eighty 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:10.120 four yards Washington. It was Washington, but they had three plays, 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.680 so fifty seven I think it was fifty seven snaps 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:17.240 for two eighty four or something like that. They had 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:21.919 three plays for one hundred yards, so fifty four plays. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:26.080 They only gave up one hundred and something. Right. So 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:32.240 the Cowboys downfall on defense if they're not getting takeaways, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:35.600 is they keep giving up big plays. So I looked 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:39.720 in the in the stats, and the Cowboys have given 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:44.800 up fifty six plays of past plays of at least 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:48.480 twenty yards, right, And I was thinking, well, just a 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.280 little bit. I've watched Arizona. They seemed to produce a 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:55.399 lot of big plays. Like Kyler Murray loves just throwing 0:23:55.480 --> 0:24:00.479 the ball down the field deep high fifty fifty balls, 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.080 but they complete them well. If the Cowboys have given 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:10.080 up fifty five plays of twenty yards or more, Arizona 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:14.320 has fifty six plays of twenty yards or more. And 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.320 get this. Of that fifty six, twenty four of them 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:22.119 are for more than thirty yards, So forty two percent 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:26.560 of those passes are more than thirty yards downfield. That 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:32.520 tells me that that Cowboys defensive front better have a 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:36.440 good game against the Arizona offensive line because they will 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:38.480 get the ball down the field. And I know they 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.760 don't have Hopkins, but they do have Christian Kirk who's 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:47.200 turned into their basically their leading receiver. And I went 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:49.560 back and looked, and we should never go back to 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.600 look at last year, right, the defense was so poor, 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:57.080 so poorly coordinated. But in that game that the Cowboys 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:01.240