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Speaker 1: Friday edition of mix Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio,
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. And it's a
Speaker 1: Victory Friday as well. Senior Pros Senior the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: its Senior Pros Senior as opposed to the College Senior
Speaker 1: College Boy. I didn't know they were so closely aligned. Yes,
Speaker 1: here it is Cowboys going for four in a row,
Speaker 1: just a few miles away from the birthplace of one
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. That's right, who And it was nearly eighty
Speaker 1: years ago that Jerry Jones was born just miles away
Speaker 1: from Sofi Stadi, nearly nearly eighty yearly eighty years Next
Speaker 1: Thursday is the Thursday, that's right right, counting down? We
Speaker 1: count down to Jerry Well, I think a good countdown.
Speaker 1: He needs two wins, he needs two birthday presents. The
Speaker 1: next two weeks. He needs an early birthday present on
Speaker 1: Sunday and a late birthday present in Philadelphia. The follower, So,
Speaker 1: did I hear this? Right? His birthday in Switzer's the
Speaker 1: same or they're like a week abo Switzer just turned
Speaker 1: eighty five? Okay, yeah, yeah, like October fifth something like that.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that yesterday? Maybe? Wait? Wait, Barry's older
Speaker 1: than Jerry. He was coach. He was coaching them at Arkansas. Wow,
Speaker 1: I did not know that. So they they had Switzer
Speaker 1: on yesterday on the ticket? Yeah, did you hear it?
Speaker 1: I hear I heard you hear what happened? Yeah? Jerry called?
Speaker 1: They punked him? Oh no, Gordon did Jerry's voice fake?
Speaker 1: Jerry called fake? Jerry right, he was going, he was
Speaker 1: going along with it, and then he goes, Jerry's that
Speaker 1: your ass was? It was? It was? It was? It was?
Speaker 1: Gordon right? That is so Switzer. The boys got me
Speaker 1: my old u Berkener alarm being in skin. They got
Speaker 1: me one day with with punk call. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember what happened. We were talking about a
Speaker 1: bunch of crap and I don't even know who I
Speaker 1: thought he was. And then finally you just kind of
Speaker 1: catch on. Okay, that's going off the whales, you know,
Speaker 1: And of course they were my alumni. Been in Scan
Speaker 1: from from Bergner. Speaking of Switzer at the course, it's
Speaker 1: either Texas OU weekend or OU Texas weekend, however you
Speaker 1: want to praise it. So Berry headed down here, may
Speaker 1: already be here for it, which rhinds me when you
Speaker 1: the word that you use their mickey or that Barry used,
Speaker 1: reminds me of an old story where gerald Ford that
Speaker 1: switzerd talks about. Gerald Ford learned what it was like
Speaker 1: coming down the ramp at the Cotton Bowl at an
Speaker 1: Ou Texas game in nineteen seventy six. He was in
Speaker 1: town for the coin flip and his Berry, Switzer, Daryl Royal,
Speaker 1: and gerald Ford headed down the ramp to go flip
Speaker 1: the coin, and Switzer tells the story. At OU. Fan
Speaker 1: leans over the ray leg and says, he says, hey,
Speaker 1: who are those two a holes? Switzer? That's all you
Speaker 1: need to know about the ramp. That's right, it's also Switcher,
Speaker 1: So here we are. It's a fabulous by the way,
Speaker 1: I do that. You think they would do that in
Speaker 1: a big ten game Michigan and Ohio State or something
Speaker 1: like that. In Yeah, he's Michigan. Yeah, Michigan man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's one the one to how many, Yeah, the compensations
Speaker 1: he's had. Yeah, that's a good one. He actually played correctly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this is annually my favorite football weekend of the
Speaker 1: year because of the game. And even when we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our lumps, which is going to happen on Saturday,
Speaker 1: here's a reason to tune in. The number one pick
Speaker 1: in the draft is going to be playing quarterback for
Speaker 1: the text not this year's number one, but an eventual
Speaker 1: number one pick in the draft is going to be
Speaker 1: playing quarterback for the Texas Longhorn. Maybe that would be
Speaker 1: different game. Well, no, the difference in the game, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether he's playing or not. But we'll see
Speaker 1: Quit being so negative. But have you seen our team
Speaker 1: play the last couple of weeks. Yeappointed, But it's in
Speaker 1: great hands with Brent Vnibles, I'll say that. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's a reason to tune in at eleven am tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is, by the way, the only Big Twelve game
Speaker 1: involving unranked teams. Every other all four of the other
Speaker 1: Big Twelve games have ranked teams playing each other against
Speaker 1: each other and the game of the day. Much to
Speaker 1: your chagrined Mickey Spagnol, Kansas is unbeaten Kansas hosting unbeaten
Speaker 1: TCU in college game days in Lawrence, Kansas fort for
Speaker 1: the first time since two thousand and seven. Really I believe,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, what is going on in Kansas? Man? They
Speaker 1: are doing something. You know what. They got a bunch
Speaker 1: of transfer portal guys from big schools and they're which
Speaker 1: is how Sonny Dikes did it at this in Brianity.
Speaker 1: So what's the guy's name, Laypole light Phole exactly sure
Speaker 1: how you pronounced last name, but he Lands is the
Speaker 1: first name. He's done. He's done one heck of a job.
Speaker 1: Ye got some players. Do mind me of a key
Speaker 1: to Leeds Kansas squad. That's right back in the day
Speaker 1: they were you know they well we talked about it,
Speaker 1: uh maybe at the beginning of this week where they
Speaker 1: went to the Orange Bowl fifteen years ago whatever when
Speaker 1: they when the Big Twelve screwed Missouri over sent Kansas, Missouri,
Speaker 1: Missouri beat Kansas. Okay, then Missouri went to the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve championship game in lost Oklahoma Kansas. That was their
Speaker 1: only loss of the year for Kansas. Kansas got to
Speaker 1: go to the Orange Bowl. And where'd you guys go?
Speaker 1: We went to the SEC You went to your doom.
Speaker 1: You went to doom. No, we went where they were
Speaker 1: going to pay some money and you go and then
Speaker 1: you got doomed. Yeah, that's a great fight. Yeah, after
Speaker 1: they went to the conference championship game. Hey, did you
Speaker 1: watch any Thursday night football last night? I basically finished,
Speaker 1: almost finished my Friday column last night watching that game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I bet you did, because the watch to watch you
Speaker 1: had no distractions? Whatsoe? So did they figure out when's
Speaker 1: the last time there was an overtime game with no touchdowns?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure you know. Twelve to night. No,
Speaker 1: I'm asking at one point, at one point in the game,
Speaker 1: there was no touchdown. It was the first time this
Speaker 1: year that there were no touchdowns scored in the first
Speaker 1: half of a game. I remember them saying that, so, um,
Speaker 1: twelve to nine, twelve to nine, And it was that
Speaker 1: the game, the score makes it sound more exciting than
Speaker 1: the game actually was. We just talked yesterday about one
Speaker 1: of the greatest games in Cowboys history was a five
Speaker 1: no nothing right playoff win over the Lions. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Everson, you may remember this, that was two
Speaker 1: weeks after the Cowboys beat Cleveland six to two in
Speaker 1: a game which was another great guy. And then we
Speaker 1: were talking about the Doomsday defense. You don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to score a lot of points to have a great
Speaker 1: football game, as evidenced by that. But but this game,
Speaker 1: this was not about defensive excellence. It was about just
Speaker 1: offensive mishaps, ineptitude and ineptitude. Thank you. That's a good
Speaker 1: word that wood Smith. I like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: it was just so hard to watch. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like I was on the phone talking with someone and
Speaker 1: I forgot that a game was actually looking at me.
Speaker 1: You know, that's just how bad it was. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even enough to be a distraction. The game went into
Speaker 1: overtime and the Denver fans were streaming out of the stadium.
Speaker 1: They didn't even stay for I don't blame them, because
Speaker 1: that's the last thing I wanted was for um guys
Speaker 1: who they play with different play Seattle, for Seattle to
Speaker 1: come down and kick that field Indiana the coast. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, Wilson for the coast to come down to
Speaker 1: kick that. Yeah, I did not want that when they
Speaker 1: started driving down, Like, man, this game is not going
Speaker 1: into overtime. What's sitting there going They're on mountain time.
Speaker 1: They don't have to get home for the news, the
Speaker 1: news at ten o'clock. I'll tell you what do you
Speaker 1: think They're sort of starting to rethink that trade for
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Well, you know you can trade for Russell,
Speaker 1: but get him some help, because I can see why
Speaker 1: Russell came there. You're looking at what Cooper Rush is
Speaker 1: doing right now, and really even Aaron Rodgers, you're going
Speaker 1: to allow you you're playing to your defense, like Nate
Speaker 1: always talking, You're playing to your defense, right. Russell came
Speaker 1: there thinking we got a heck of a defense here.
Speaker 1: Really could be one of the best defenses in the
Speaker 1: in the at least in the conference. And they can
Speaker 1: they can help me ride along until we get our
Speaker 1: offensive scheme to togeather in the meantime defense you hold
Speaker 1: it down, and they did. He came there. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: offensively they still have so much well injuries obviously the
Speaker 1: running backs going down. I think a couple offensive lineman
Speaker 1: went down, and now You're sitting there with a horrible
Speaker 1: offense and the defense is that kind of what's that
Speaker 1: side eye? The defense is given the offensive side eye,
Speaker 1: like what the hell you guys wide receiver kJ Hamdler
Speaker 1: is giving the Russell Wilson the side I heard about
Speaker 1: that about that, well he was was that number one.
Speaker 1: He was wide open on the road was wide open.
Speaker 1: Now having said that, go ahead, everything I saw Russell
Speaker 1: was forced to go to the left. My man was
Speaker 1: coming from there and we don't we don't know what
Speaker 1: the reeds were. I mean, but he was looking left
Speaker 1: the whole time. Well, he had no choice because everything
Speaker 1: was was was convoluted on the on the right side.
Speaker 1: He couldn't He couldn't have made that though if he
Speaker 1: wanted to. First of all, he's only five ten, right
Speaker 1: something like that. Whatever those lines, there was a guy
Speaker 1: up in his first two guys that were really coming,
Speaker 1: and so he couldn't even see the guy. And then
Speaker 1: when he threw it, I think he couldn't even see where.
Speaker 1: It was too late then like maybe run the ball.
Speaker 1: Well it was too late then the ball Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: which gets back to how about and we're not going
Speaker 1: to dissect the whole game of the time. But how
Speaker 1: about the decision by Nathani'll hack it. It's fourth and one.
Speaker 1: Your offense has been awful all day, if not all season,
Speaker 1: especially in Indianapolis offense has also been awful all day,
Speaker 1: if not all season. Okay, you're down three, You've got
Speaker 1: two timeouts left, with over two minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: and maybe three you've left. Okay, I think maybe whatever
Speaker 1: it was, Okay, you got the two timeouts and a
Speaker 1: two minute one, yes, okay, yes, all right, so you
Speaker 1: basically have three timeouts. You got two minute one, two timeouts. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, kick the field goal, make it a tie game,
Speaker 1: and then kick off. Rely on your defense to get
Speaker 1: a three and out, and you use your timeouts and
Speaker 1: didn't try to kick a field goal to win the game.
Speaker 1: You're in the Mile High City where you can kick
Speaker 1: field goals from sixty yards. Right, started the way the
Speaker 1: Colts did to tie it up, right, But why didn't
Speaker 1: a thing you'll hack it not do that? It goes
Speaker 1: back to the first game of the year in Seattle.
Speaker 1: That's when he decided to kick a sixty yard field
Speaker 1: goal that was no good and not put the football
Speaker 1: in the hands of his three hundred million dollars quarterback.
Speaker 1: Now the most time he made this decision, because, by golly,
Speaker 1: I'm putting it in the hands of quarter You wanted it,
Speaker 1: you got And my what I exclaimed when I saw
Speaker 1: that play, that's the best play you've got, exactly with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Yeah, and that's the problem. You're gonna use
Speaker 1: your Superman, but you're using it you you don't use
Speaker 1: him in the proper manner. That's a whole different thing now.
Speaker 1: And now he's got a offensive assistant upstairs. That's right
Speaker 1: with veteran advice. Well that came from the first game
Speaker 1: of the week. Yeah, that's right, right, and the second
Speaker 1: week there's also I can't I wouldn't watching the second week,
Speaker 1: but against Houston, the similar content. And that's when they
Speaker 1: all goes back to what Parcels would say, whatever works
Speaker 1: was the right decision. That sure it didn't work, you
Speaker 1: gotta make it whatever you call I believe it's what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say. How good does the Tyler Smith
Speaker 1: draft pick looking for the Cowboys right now? Yeah? Baby?
Speaker 1: And how much criticism did the Cowboys get making that draft?
Speaker 1: A whole lot especially from this guy over here. No,
Speaker 1: come on, man, because you were the one that said
Speaker 1: they took a guard and I said, no, Smith, that's
Speaker 1: but they didn't take a guard tack who was gonna
Speaker 1: play guard first? And then Tyring got hurt? All right,
Speaker 1: if you don't take Tyler Smith at twenty three or
Speaker 1: whatever it was in the first round, okay, the Cowboys pick, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, the next offensive tackle you probably would take
Speaker 1: would be the guy that was out there for Indianapolis
Speaker 1: by Raymond. Raymond. Oh, that's what everybody wanted him. He
Speaker 1: was he was the third round pick. Yeah. Actually there's
Speaker 1: a guy Seattle took, Abraham Lucas in the third round,
Speaker 1: who was playing great at right tackle for Seattle early
Speaker 1: this season. Tyler smiths playing left exactly you left, and
Speaker 1: Seattle took a left tackle with their first round pick.
Speaker 1: Right top ten, so cross so, but that that is
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys were looking at on their draftboard once
Speaker 1: Trevor Penning went now Orleans at nineteen or whatever. And
Speaker 1: now they're looking at their draft war going okay, and
Speaker 1: they had Tyler Smith rated higher than than were they
Speaker 1: took him, right, okay, And now you see, rightly, so
Speaker 1: the way he's playing through the first four games of
Speaker 1: his career. And but if they didn't take that guy,
Speaker 1: that's what you were left with. What Indianapolis was playing
Speaker 1: out there at left tackle, who ended up getting their
Speaker 1: quarterback sack six times. He was under siege the whole game,
Speaker 1: the whole game, and they were missing their center. Ryan
Speaker 1: Kelly was out too, Richard, which, by the way, remember
Speaker 1: I told you about last Thursday night's game and I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure who was all on their their panel the
Speaker 1: post game, and I said, one guy was totally out
Speaker 1: of control, yea, Richard Sherman. Yeah, he was totally out
Speaker 1: of control last night. He was screaming. You know why
Speaker 1: he was screaming. I know, because he remembered the super bow.
Speaker 1: Well got oh yeah, that could be a point. But
Speaker 1: my point is this. He was criticized heavily for being
Speaker 1: uh suspiciously quiet through the whole to concussion thing. No,
Speaker 1: well they well, they were saying that he should have
Speaker 1: said this was his moment you're talking last week, last
Speaker 1: last week, this was his moment to say more. And
Speaker 1: he was highly criticized by a couple of sportswriters. And
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to really make up for
Speaker 1: that thank you over last week. He overdid it. I
Speaker 1: probably when I couldn't hear him, but I saw him
Speaker 1: talking a lot. He's trying to he's trying to compensate.
Speaker 1: He's over compensation. I mean, he was ready to come
Speaker 1: out come through my TV screen. Yeah, And at one
Speaker 1: point Fitzpatrick had to go over there and whisper in
Speaker 1: his ear and I think he was telling him, you
Speaker 1: need to settle down. That's that's I'm just telling you.
Speaker 1: That's an over compensation for not saying enough about toa
Speaker 1: and the things that went on with him last week.
Speaker 1: So and we gotta breaks, so we don't have time
Speaker 1: to really well, we'll do this when we come back,
Speaker 1: all right, Cooper Rush one of the best things that
Speaker 1: he has done. What is the best thing that Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush has done since taking over as the starting quarterback?
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Speaker 1: mix shots here on a fabulous football Friday. What is
Speaker 1: the best thing that Cooper Rush has done besides win games?
Speaker 1: That has enabled this team to win games? Who wants
Speaker 1: to go for I will lack of turnovers? Oh that
Speaker 1: was mine? Because you're smart lack of turnovers. Okay, actually, okay,
Speaker 1: let's make it. Let's make it he had a turnover.
Speaker 1: Let's make it the top two things that he has done.
Speaker 1: Because I will agree with you on the turnovers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess the term that would be low hanging fruit
Speaker 1: if we can all figure that one out. I don't
Speaker 1: having a second answer for you, but I will say
Speaker 1: that it overcomes our inability on third downs, you know,
Speaker 1: not not having those turnovers. This isn't my suggestion is
Speaker 1: in concert with his offensive line that is avoiding the sack. Interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at last night's game Matt Ryan six sacks
Speaker 1: fifty one yards and the hidden yardage that comes with that.
Speaker 1: And Stafford last week or Monday night against the Rams,
Speaker 1: I've got sacks seven times. That was not a productive game.
Speaker 1: They didn't score a touchdown in that game. Let's see,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan did not score a touchdown in last night's
Speaker 1: game getting sacked six times. We saw it with Burrow
Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks of the season where he
Speaker 1: got sacked six and seven times. Have we been have
Speaker 1: we been let off the hook? Because I don't recall
Speaker 1: and maybe it's just because our offensive line is so
Speaker 1: good at this point. I don't recall him being inundated
Speaker 1: while he's in the in the pottom so I don't
Speaker 1: see many are they laying back playing zone on Cooper West?
Speaker 1: Because I don't see many blitzes at all. You haven't
Speaker 1: seen many all out blitzes where he's just under the
Speaker 1: rest like that. I think it might be a game
Speaker 1: plan too that's helping him out. You know the fact
Speaker 1: that they are. I mean, even against Washington, what was it,
Speaker 1: how many yards of carry? The Cowboys get three yards
Speaker 1: of carry but they barely yeah, but they still twenty
Speaker 1: s yes, yes, or twenty sixth. It is the a
Speaker 1: similar offensive scheme and play calling that what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had when Dac was a rookie in twenty sixteen. I
Speaker 1: think I don't think they feel any pressure to have
Speaker 1: him live up to his contract, but I think that
Speaker 1: they rely so much on his ability to pass us
Speaker 1: out of trouble that it's just in. I love how
Speaker 1: you said that it's just in calling Moore's DNA. First
Speaker 1: of all, it's hard to get that out of him
Speaker 1: right now. I think he's fighting with himself at every game,
Speaker 1: with every game plan because he wants to do a
Speaker 1: certain thing, but it's contrary to our success because right
Speaker 1: now we are better off with a more conservative game plan,
Speaker 1: which is not his style, especially with the defense that
Speaker 1: he has. Okay, it's hard for him to play to that.
Speaker 1: You know what, McCarthy had a pretty good comment towards
Speaker 1: the end of his press conference today. He was talking
Speaker 1: about that you got to have big plays, and he said,
Speaker 1: we treat big plays as big fundamentals. He goes, when
Speaker 1: you go into game, I got six fundamentals that you
Speaker 1: have to hit and one of them is big plays.
Speaker 1: And when he calls when he mentioned big plays, he
Speaker 1: mentioned that it was like chunk plays on offense, sacks, turnovers,
Speaker 1: things like that, that all goes into big plays. And
Speaker 1: he said, you want to have thirty a game, and
Speaker 1: he said this last game, we had thirty one, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know he's talking about whatever the whole thing is.
Speaker 1: But he said, that's what this NFL has come down to,
Speaker 1: because they got into about what's going on with the
Speaker 1: lack of scoring in the league. And you know, he
Speaker 1: was talking about the trends that defenses now are playing
Speaker 1: more scheme on first and second down. Before it was oh,
Speaker 1: you go into nickel on third down back in the day.
Speaker 1: Right right now, it's like they're they're concentrating on first
Speaker 1: and second down, which is making third down more difficult.
Speaker 1: Um And and he said, they're they're just scheming more
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive on on those downs. And you
Speaker 1: got a lot of young quarterbacks now playing sooner than
Speaker 1: maybe guys did in the day, right they're not ready.
Speaker 1: And then and we've talked about it all week, I think,
Speaker 1: or last week about just the problems teams are having
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, the offensive linemen. You know, just
Speaker 1: that is the main problem with every team, right offensive line.
Speaker 1: How many offensive linemen? A battle of attrition between offensive
Speaker 1: linemen in the league. That's cocy And I think those
Speaker 1: guys are the ones that are hindered by the rules
Speaker 1: we have now in the off season because offensive line
Speaker 1: have to they've got to be physical, right training camp,
Speaker 1: you gotta have pads on, and you know your limits
Speaker 1: did on how much those guys can practice the way
Speaker 1: they need to practice right, um And you can have
Speaker 1: contact or any sort of you know contact in the
Speaker 1: off season um in OTAs or mini camps. And you know,
Speaker 1: those are the guys that I think lose it because
Speaker 1: the defense it's not as in concert as the offensive
Speaker 1: linemen have to be right, you got to pass off,
Speaker 1: you got to have two double teams and things like that.
Speaker 1: Well it's hard to do that when you're just walking
Speaker 1: through right, and I think that's hampered them along with
Speaker 1: the fact of how they played college football. You know,
Speaker 1: when when you see these these top offensive linemen, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: but did you run block? Because you're gonna run block
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, And you're not always quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: rarely under center, and so yeah, I think all that's
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's caught up with the league
Speaker 1: or just a passing trend, but last night was just
Speaker 1: an indication this year you will you will not see
Speaker 1: this again. Next year. Laws, rules will be made. I
Speaker 1: got this. There will be some rule changes that will
Speaker 1: stop all of this, because they don't want a guy
Speaker 1: like me sitting back talking about how boring a Thursday
Speaker 1: night game was. What I found this stat that last
Speaker 1: year Stafford through a touchdown pass in every game on
Speaker 1: the way to the Super Bowl. He's got zero touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in back to back games now for the first
Speaker 1: time since weeks fifteen and sixteen of twenty sixteen twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: he's only got four passing touchdowns in four games, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure is one reason why Mike McCarthy was taken
Speaker 1: back about being a five and a half boring underdog.
Speaker 1: He was thinking five minutes. Oh no, that's too too
Speaker 1: much for us, guys. No, no, you're on the other
Speaker 1: end of the day. Yeah, right, let's probably crossed his mind. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got a backup quarterback. But have you seen all
Speaker 1: the backup offensive linemen that are out there for the Rams?
Speaker 1: That's right, which will make a Super Bowl winning quarterback?
Speaker 1: The most recent Super Bowl winning quarterback throw six picks
Speaker 1: and only throw four touchdown passes the first four games. Yeah, touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot going on right now. That's, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of catching up with these rules of protecting players
Speaker 1: but not allowing them to improve. Well, the rules that
Speaker 1: need to come up with are rules that protect offensive
Speaker 1: linemen from getting hurt. Well, that's true too, because if
Speaker 1: you look at the Rams, there's a good chance they'll
Speaker 1: have their two starting tackles in three third string guards
Speaker 1: and centers in this game. We'll see if Edwards makes it.
Speaker 1: David Edwards are starting left guard. Miss last game. He
Speaker 1: has a concussion right and so we'll see whether he
Speaker 1: is back for this game. They're starting center. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, Brian Allen started against Buffalo. He
Speaker 1: suffered a knee injury and hasn't returned coming could be
Speaker 1: out for the season. I agree, okay, so and their
Speaker 1: third round draft pick this year, who is projected to
Speaker 1: be their starting right guard. He was in a battle
Speaker 1: with Coleman Shelton in the preseason. On August twentieth, he
Speaker 1: suffered an ACL injury. He's out for the year and
Speaker 1: Shelton and then Shelton in this last game left with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury and he's going to be out the
Speaker 1: next six weeks I think anyway, So they've got and
Speaker 1: then they lost Andrew Whitworth off of their Super Bowl team.
Speaker 1: So Joseph Nope Boom has been starting at left tackle.
Speaker 1: Bobby Evans from Allen, Texas has been has moved from
Speaker 1: tack backup tackle into one of the guard positions and
Speaker 1: actually got seven. He had his first start in their
Speaker 1: last game Monday night at San Francisco at left guard,
Speaker 1: and so I mean, that's what you're looking at. Also,
Speaker 1: I went back and got their starting lineup from the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. They are missing seven of their eleven offensive
Speaker 1: starters from last year. Not I mean not just injury, right,
Speaker 1: just guys Whitworth, Austin Corbett, there's one of their starting
Speaker 1: guards last Year's signed with Carolan in the off season.
Speaker 1: Whitworth retired. Van Jefferson is hurt, he's he's I think
Speaker 1: he's still on I don't know if he's on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: Beckham Beckham is not there and that's huge, right, And
Speaker 1: that's why cups getting all the all the targets. Why
Speaker 1: is that? And they even changed basically changed starting tight
Speaker 1: ends from the from the Super Bowl team. Two things?
Speaker 1: First of all, is Beckham still out there? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know he was injured. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably his own choice. He's I would think, and if
Speaker 1: I were him, I would do it this way because
Speaker 1: the money's not going to be that much different if
Speaker 1: he signs now or signs a month from now. See
Speaker 1: who's the contenders are. I mean the Rams, they're sitting
Speaker 1: there two and two right now. And I mean you
Speaker 1: signed with the Rams, now, Well, what if their season
Speaker 1: goes down, I mean down. Yeah, and he wants to obviously,
Speaker 1: he wants to be on a team that's got a
Speaker 1: chance to win at all. But he's really only seven
Speaker 1: months removed, and that's the thing else. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: gets he gets healthier and healthier as we go along here,
Speaker 1: and there's no yeah, a team is going to pay
Speaker 1: the same amount of money I think for him in
Speaker 1: November as they would now if he will get So
Speaker 1: he's like and see the other hard part about that,
Speaker 1: recovering from an ACL surgery and like you said, seven months, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure, Well the super Bowl was the middle
Speaker 1: of February, probably behind by time he had the surgery
Speaker 1: was close to March. Right, And here's the other part.
Speaker 1: He's not on a team, so he's got to go
Speaker 1: rehab on his own point, right, he should be right now,
Speaker 1: he should be really rehabbing. I mean, think about what
Speaker 1: Britt Brown did for Michael Gallup, right, and he's here. Yes,
Speaker 1: now he's got to rehab hire somebody issue. But yes,
Speaker 1: he had to take it, take it week to week yea,
Speaker 1: and yeah, wait for injury stand But they're not the
Speaker 1: same team, you know, And I don't know if who
Speaker 1: I heard say this. So we refer to the Rams
Speaker 1: as defending champs, and somebody pointing out this ain't boxing.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're a defending chap in boxing, you're
Speaker 1: the same guy, right, This is not the same team, basically, right,
Speaker 1: You're not the same team one year to the next.
Speaker 1: For instance, right now, the Rams have a need, okay
Speaker 1: for a wide receiver, rightly, all right? If Buffalo loses
Speaker 1: a receiver, if Kansas City loses a receiver, if Philly,
Speaker 1: if Dallas loses a receiver, play it out. Wait to
Speaker 1: see what your options are. Yeah, for for Odell and so.
Speaker 1: So my second thing is there going to be a
Speaker 1: cause and effect from this offensive lineman shortage? I mean,
Speaker 1: are we gonna be looking at changing offenses? Well, no,
Speaker 1: just that'd be a market for offensive lineman all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, And guys will say, oh, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen? Come on, man, you know you share.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I was, if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: a father, I got a little thick kid over here, like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: keep beating kids, got jackson, buddy, We're gonna look at work.
Speaker 1: What I think what's gonna be. There's there, and they're
Speaker 1: they're already doing this on practice squads. I mean they're
Speaker 1: practice squads are littered with offensive linemen and they're trying
Speaker 1: to develop them and to where they can be functional
Speaker 1: and competent. You know, there's a number of offensive linemen
Speaker 1: who are late round draft picks or undrafted guys. Cowboys
Speaker 1: starting one right, Yeah, Yeah, that so that's it's just
Speaker 1: you have to you have to continue to mine the
Speaker 1: field for offensive linemen. Uh. Because so it's not so
Speaker 1: much the money, it's the depth. You got to have
Speaker 1: the available Yeah, because the injuries are going to happen,
Speaker 1: as we found out with Tyrant, and you need five
Speaker 1: of them, so that means you got them back up,
Speaker 1: you need ten and and and see that's the other
Speaker 1: thing is they've short they've shortened, you know on game day.
Speaker 1: So there are some teams that go to game day
Speaker 1: with seven offensive lineman active. Okay, maybe you have to
Speaker 1: look at it that Okay, well that's why they made
Speaker 1: the rule about eight to bring two off the practice
Speaker 1: fun So maybe that's where you just go ahead and
Speaker 1: let everybody be active on game day and then that
Speaker 1: you can afford to have more offensive linemen on your position.
Speaker 1: But right of such importance, you know there's another unheralded
Speaker 1: position that we need to address when we come back
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Speaker 1: take it away. What do we need to know? Okay,
Speaker 1: they signed two deep snappers to the practice squad. One
Speaker 1: is going to get the job, and from what we
Speaker 1: saw yesterday and maybe just talking to them, I would
Speaker 1: think the veteran Matt Overton will get the jobs. Thirty
Speaker 1: seven years old, he's snapped in the league for what
Speaker 1: we talked about yesterday, seven teams all last year with
Speaker 1: the Chargers, so it's it sounds like he is going
Speaker 1: to be the guy. Interesting story about you know, we
Speaker 1: never think of this, you know how we kind of
Speaker 1: kidded about the Kicker caravan when everybody shows up, Well,
Speaker 1: they do the same thing he said with the deep snappers.
Speaker 1: He goes, those four guys that came here, he goes,
Speaker 1: I knew two of them, you know, and it's like
Speaker 1: we end up meeting at the airport, right, and we
Speaker 1: share a car. Yeah, right right, and probably go out
Speaker 1: to dinner the night before or whatever. He said, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know these guys and he goes. But you just
Speaker 1: kind of stay in shape and keep working. Then at
Speaker 1: some point somebody's gonna need you and sou and I
Speaker 1: never thought of this, but one of the most important
Speaker 1: thing for picking the deep snapper is who can block
Speaker 1: on punts, because I think the punt block is different
Speaker 1: film field. Yeah, because you it's a slower operation. To
Speaker 1: kick is so fast, right, and the guy doesn't really
Speaker 1: have time to come over you because you can't line
Speaker 1: up over the over the deep snapper. But for a punt,
Speaker 1: they can angle in and they have more time and
Speaker 1: you might have actually have to make a tackle, right
Speaker 1: you just might Yeah. Yeah, So that's that's one of
Speaker 1: the things you have to Yeah, you do have to.
Speaker 1: And you're not just running down eually had to retire, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: like am I gonna run? Kelly? He was pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, look, okay, I got so I need
Speaker 1: to know help on my my team defensive name for
Speaker 1: the cowbu Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, you asked me.
Speaker 1: This was I was charged by Spagnola, So I came
Speaker 1: up with the first one, because you know, we are
Speaker 1: just so good at just shutting down everything that the
Speaker 1: team does us, and so I look at you know,
Speaker 1: what's the best. I don't know the adjective for that.
Speaker 1: So the first one I came up with was assassins again.
Speaker 1: Assassins okay, okay, kind of kind of immature, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I figured that will follow on death is yeah does
Speaker 1: organ So now the second one, the second one is
Speaker 1: when our defense gets going. I mean they are just
Speaker 1: so overwhelming to the offense. They can't breathe. Okay, they
Speaker 1: can't find any way out, there's no way up, with
Speaker 1: no way down. The effects of a tsunami. That the
Speaker 1: tsunami defense. That's all I've come up with, and both
Speaker 1: of them up no very very youth very youthful, immature names.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of hard to beat doomsday, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I can't be Doomsday three. You can't. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that. I can't keep I can't
Speaker 1: even come up with something that would match Doomsday. I
Speaker 1: was hoping my my producer Supreme would come up come
Speaker 1: pull something off his butt, but I don't hear anything.
Speaker 1: So I got man, it's tsunami, you know what. Wilkinson
Speaker 1: continue yorking on it. I will continue that. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we'll talk this up to lesson learn otherwise one one
Speaker 1: one just dawned on me. But you can't use the
Speaker 1: I mean DQ raiders. But you can't use raiders was
Speaker 1: a nickname for a team, right, So why he rejected DQ, dude?
Speaker 1: And why we with the DQ? What's going on to that?
Speaker 1: Qu No, no, no, no, you can't put a person
Speaker 1: to it, right, No, no, you can't put the person
Speaker 1: to well, whatsn't what was the You can't even use mica.
Speaker 1: You can't. No, no, no, no, you can't. One player?
Speaker 1: It was it? World War One? Who were the want
Speaker 1: contrill raider? What was it? We gotta do picks to click? Okay,
Speaker 1: like the War of eighteen twelve? That what are you going?
Speaker 1: Way back? Bro? They're still on horses, all right, we
Speaker 1: need to pick. Well, these guys play like they're on horses. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me start off here my pick to click I have.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough game, I do, uh. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be It's gonna be very close. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna win. I think we're gonna win twenty
Speaker 1: three to twenty and it's homecoming time. So I see
Speaker 1: Fowler as my pick to click. A considered him two sacks.
Speaker 1: Two sacks for Fowler. He was bringing it last week
Speaker 1: and the week before that. You know, he's making his
Speaker 1: uh participation towards ratio towards plays plays made pretty hot.
Speaker 1: It is hot because he only gets like twenty snaps
Speaker 1: a game. So you've been paying attention to Pro Football Focus?
Speaker 1: Huh why do they rate that? Okay? Yeah, see I
Speaker 1: could have my own focus. Yeah, I hope you than Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you going to are going? Go ahead? All right?
Speaker 1: My pick to click is a guy who had a
Speaker 1: kickoff return for a touchdown and a return for a
Speaker 1: touchdown in that same same stadium in Augustan Turpin the
Speaker 1: end zone. It will be Turpin time in La once
Speaker 1: again on Sunday afternoon as the Cowboys are victorious twenty
Speaker 1: four to sixteen. So you have you got like the
Speaker 1: Rams game plan. You know they're gonna kick to him
Speaker 1: twenty four to sixteen. Wow, what a score that torpedo
Speaker 1: Torpeter her pet Okay like that? Yeah? Now you where
Speaker 1: were you when I needed that? For the defense. Now
Speaker 1: you want to try? Yeah, okay, okay, my guy, And
Speaker 1: this is going to be somewhat off the wall, but
Speaker 1: I think where the Rams are vulnerable on offense is
Speaker 1: up the middle, and I think we're gonna see some blitzing.
Speaker 1: So let me have Layton vander ish Okay to make
Speaker 1: a difference. You get a sack and stop the run. Okay,
Speaker 1: we importantly I'm writing this stuff down because I'm kicking
Speaker 1: y'all's asses. Did you you go with a personal name,
Speaker 1: personal score? Where'd you go? I went with Layton vander
Speaker 1: lvs all you need to know l and the score
Speaker 1: because we're nobody's underdog. Uh Cowboys twenty four four, Rams
Speaker 1: twenty one twenty one. Okay, you got two three point
Speaker 1: wins and I got an eight point win, which sets
Speaker 1: up the showdown in Philly next week. We gotta we gotta,
Speaker 1: which means interruption here there there could be. My pick
Speaker 1: to click is make sure we know who the left
Speaker 1: guard is. This is well, the left guard is Connor McGovern. Okay,
Speaker 1: and jay Ron Curse I think will get a full
Speaker 1: dose because he's been listed as full all week, coming
Speaker 1: back after he sprained his knee and that will add
Speaker 1: to what this defense can do. Okay, especially in those
Speaker 1: bunch formations that the Rams like to run. All right,
Speaker 1: got all that down? Got it? I got it? Uh.
Speaker 1: Nate also has a pick to win. Okay, well, I
Speaker 1: always shocking, I always got This is the according to date,
Speaker 1: this is the first regular season game. I think we
Speaker 1: just got done to the preseason played games in one
Speaker 1: coming out of the preseason. So this is the first
Speaker 1: regular season game. And Nate's got Cowboys by one point.
Speaker 1: There you go. Last time they were no like, no,
Speaker 1: they were three and one before they were three and
Speaker 1: one in preseason and eighty nine. That's what everyone remembers say.
Speaker 1: Had I had a fumble return for I was sending
Speaker 1: two yards and a touchdown in that game? Did you go?
Speaker 1: It was not? And off the field arm in arm
Speaker 1: with Zimmy. Yeah, he came and hugged me. Yeah he
Speaker 1: liked me. Then. That was fun? Was it the last
Speaker 1: preseason the one against Houston? No, no, sorry san Diego
Speaker 1: because the one before that before that, because San Diego
Speaker 1: was a walk off field goal. God, I can't leave that.
Speaker 1: I remember a name. We had to go to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and yeah, all the laughter died in sorrow. We
Speaker 1: didn't get our picks right that week, that year, that
Speaker 1: entire year. Right, all right, that does it for another
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