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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are. It's another edition
Speaker 1: of mix Shots, and I guess officially this is the
Speaker 1: start of the National Football League off season, although the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got a headstart on the National Football League off season,
Speaker 1: and we are here to bring you up to speed
Speaker 1: on all things Cowboys. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola,
Speaker 1: as we look back at what happened on Sunday evening
Speaker 1: in Tampa, Florida, and look ahead what's going to happen
Speaker 1: with your Dallas Cowboys as things start getting very busy
Speaker 1: leading up to the start of free agency just over
Speaker 1: a month from now. All right, Everson, since you were
Speaker 1: the first to join us, you get the first word.
Speaker 1: Just to pull back the curtain, Everson just joined us.
Speaker 1: Until you get the first word, Everson, Well, I must
Speaker 1: say I was very, very disappointed in the Super Bowl itself.
Speaker 1: Proud for Tom Brady, but boy, talk about an anti
Speaker 1: climactic moment. I was really ready for this, this young
Speaker 1: versus old, you know, the old, the old lion, with
Speaker 1: the young lion coming up trying to take his pride
Speaker 1: from him. I thought, that's where this is gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're defending Super Bowl champions in the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs extremely surprised at their lack of prowess.
Speaker 1: They looked like they didn't know what they they were doing.
Speaker 1: And when it's all said and done, just like Spadge
Speaker 1: and I have been talking about, with the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman might be the most important unit on any field,
Speaker 1: on any team, on any day in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: tackles that we saw trying to play and protect the
Speaker 1: edges for Casey was laughable at best, and it reminded
Speaker 1: me so much of our practice players that we promoted
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. That game. There were certain times
Speaker 1: when I saw it looked as if when Mahomes got
Speaker 1: the when the ball was being snapped to him, it
Speaker 1: was almost as if, Okay, when I get this ball,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn around and run the other way to
Speaker 1: the goal line, and I'm gonna see if you guys
Speaker 1: can catch me because every snap he was running for
Speaker 1: his life during the most crucial parts of the game,
Speaker 1: especially on third down. Todd Bows once again, you guys
Speaker 1: realized just how important he is as well. For that
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay team. Tid Bows dialed up a blitz or
Speaker 1: sometimes extra pressure on third downs, and they were so
Speaker 1: bad on Kansasy's offensive line there were times when they
Speaker 1: did not need an extra Russia. Four men on the
Speaker 1: line was good enough. And we'll talk about this later.
Speaker 1: But Jpp, a guy that we thought was done for
Speaker 1: in after fourth of July when he blasted up his
Speaker 1: fingers that this was gonna be done for him. This
Speaker 1: guy came and showed up, and let's be real, he
Speaker 1: was Todd Bowls. He was Todd Bows heart and soul
Speaker 1: for that defense of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I bet you echoed some of the things Everson says. Well.
Speaker 1: I think he must have read my column yesterday on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cover Always dot Com. I don't. I don't read
Speaker 1: your column, Spad. Sorry, I don't read your cos now
Speaker 1: it sounds like you did. Doesn't read your con I
Speaker 1: think I think he did because the headline was U
Speaker 1: Cowboys feel Mahomes pain. What so, what's the what's the
Speaker 1: what's the toughest position in the NFL to find players
Speaker 1: at the offensive line? And you better not go to
Speaker 1: tackle offensive tackle a bit more specifically, but the whole
Speaker 1: offensive line. You cannot go out into the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and play four backups out of five positions, and then
Speaker 1: one week before the game, you're gonna you had to
Speaker 1: replace your starting left tackle right Pro Bowl tackle, by
Speaker 1: the way, and you made you were so short on
Speaker 1: depth you had to make three changes to fix one. Right.
Speaker 1: They moved, They moved the right tackle, who was a
Speaker 1: backup by the way, to left tackle. They moved the
Speaker 1: backup guard to right tackle, and then pulled some guy
Speaker 1: off the bench who hadn't even been with him the
Speaker 1: entire year and was the third starting right guard to
Speaker 1: play in the game. And don't you know, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: was looking and going, I can't wait to play defense.
Speaker 1: He was pressured Patrick Mahomes with a bad foot, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's going to be surgically repaired. On Wednesday.
Speaker 1: He was pressured on twenty nine of fifty two drops.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine of fifty two, that's fifty some percent. And hey,
Speaker 1: do you have a category for running for your life?
Speaker 1: Well what about that? And running for your life? That
Speaker 1: that was a category almost every snap and then his
Speaker 1: receivers decided, let's let the ball hit us in the
Speaker 1: face mask or let's drop the ball or fall down. Look,
Speaker 1: here is the bottom line. On Monday morning when they
Speaker 1: do their normal uh interview, and of course it was
Speaker 1: zoomed with the head the winning head coach, and the
Speaker 1: and the MVP of the Super Bowl, so Tom Brady. Uh.
Speaker 1: They asked Tom Brady what he was saying to Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes after the game, and he basically paraphrased what he said,
Speaker 1: but here was his quote. It's almost impossible to play
Speaker 1: quarterback under durest like that, just the reality of football.
Speaker 1: Pat was doing as much as he could to make
Speaker 1: plays last night. He was running around, he was reversing field,
Speaker 1: he was doubling back, tripling back. In the end, it's
Speaker 1: tough to do that consistently when you feel God every
Speaker 1: play for a six yard game, I got to fire
Speaker 1: the ball in their thread, the needle between two guys.
Speaker 1: That's tough to play like that. And to me, that
Speaker 1: was the bottom line. And how well the Cowboys know
Speaker 1: with all the injuries and movement they had on the
Speaker 1: offensive line all season long. Hey, they could have just
Speaker 1: called the Cowboys and said, what's it gonna be like
Speaker 1: to play with two backup offensive tackles and your third
Speaker 1: your third top tackle basically played the year because he
Speaker 1: was hurt. And then you had to play with a
Speaker 1: backup at center because your pro bow center retired. And
Speaker 1: then he gets hurt, and now you got to play
Speaker 1: with a rookie who takes over and plays well at center,
Speaker 1: Tyler Biadish. Oh, by the way, he gets hurt, So
Speaker 1: now you got to go back to the backup. And
Speaker 1: the only guy standing on the offensive line, Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: He ends up with a concussion, he switches positions, and
Speaker 1: now he gets hurt and they lose him. So when
Speaker 1: everybody wonders why the Cowboys finish six and ten, and
Speaker 1: there's various reasons, you look at what happened on that
Speaker 1: offensive line and you say, okay, go try to win
Speaker 1: a game, much less try to do that in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. And by the way, I wore black today.
Speaker 1: I thought we were wearing black for Black history. And
Speaker 1: then you guys come in, No, I said, I said,
Speaker 1: we were representing black. I have my black colleagues Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. Okay, we were representing black but I like
Speaker 1: the styles bags. You look good, and I thought i'd
Speaker 1: support the university that's now ranked tenth in the nation
Speaker 1: in basketball. Okay. Oh see, now you just stepped all
Speaker 1: over my black stuff. Man. No wait, now wait, it's
Speaker 1: a it's not a dual beneficial thing. By the way,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to propose this from you because last night,
Speaker 1: when there was nothing on television to watch, somehow we
Speaker 1: ended up on K E. R A TV and I
Speaker 1: saw a documentary on the Tulsa race massacre in nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty one. Yes, I had heard all about it, but
Speaker 1: i'd never seen it to the point where they showed
Speaker 1: video from back in the day when there were one thousand,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six houses owned by black folks
Speaker 1: burned to the ground, along with stores, schools, churches in
Speaker 1: a mass riot in the city of Tulsa. So I
Speaker 1: did my homework on this black history stuff. By the way,
Speaker 1: we're going to have a ceremony for you to get
Speaker 1: your black car. You're gonna get your ghetto cars. Man.
Speaker 1: We got you. Man. I'm gonna make sure we know this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Black Twitter, okay, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make the announcement, you know. Uh and and so is
Speaker 1: that you think that to be repeated on k ar
Speaker 1: A Mickey? Is there a chance we could watch that?
Speaker 1: Most likely? Probably they probably need programming right. And it
Speaker 1: was a really good deal because they actually interviewed people
Speaker 1: who were either part of it or their parents were
Speaker 1: part of what had taken place. It was eye opening,
Speaker 1: to say the least, especially, I gotta say especially when
Speaker 1: they happened in more than one black city. When I
Speaker 1: say black city, more than one city where blacks were
Speaker 1: doing extremely well. There was one incident a young man
Speaker 1: was telling the story about. He was in his uh
Speaker 1: college class his college classroom, and his professor was talking
Speaker 1: about one of those incidents that happened against black people
Speaker 1: by whites and the white supremacist and even the law enforcement,
Speaker 1: how they joined in. And he was hearing the professor
Speaker 1: tell this story and it was about his own hometown.
Speaker 1: Now he's younger, you know, he's up this generation. I
Speaker 1: would say it was around thirty plus years old right now.
Speaker 1: So he's hearing about these horrible incidents and about his
Speaker 1: old hometown, and he had never heard the story before.
Speaker 1: So he raises his hand to the professor. He goes,
Speaker 1: I don't think you know what you're talking about. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm from, and I have never heard this story before.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things where as shocked as
Speaker 1: he was, blacks and whites were complicit in not even
Speaker 1: repeating what happened. You know, you can't even bring it
Speaker 1: up anymore. People have died, You've lost your whole wealth,
Speaker 1: all your wealth that you have, anything that you own.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of black families had that happened to them, and
Speaker 1: they tried to say, don't even repeat it again. It
Speaker 1: happened over like a hundred years ago. He had no
Speaker 1: idea that this had happened in his hometown. So that
Speaker 1: is amazing. That's an amazing dynamic to me that blacks
Speaker 1: don't even want to talk about what happened to them
Speaker 1: because of fear of retribution, and whites don't want to
Speaker 1: even repeat it, of course because of their complexenness in it.
Speaker 1: So that was just a very interesting dynamic that may
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened more than we know, and of
Speaker 1: course fees will probably come out more in the future.
Speaker 1: But that isn't an amazing, like I said, an amazing dynamic.
Speaker 1: For no one to speak of it as bad as
Speaker 1: it was. It was almost like the Capitol and the Insurrection,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to act like it didn't happen, and
Speaker 1: then one hundred years from now we wouldn't even know
Speaker 1: that this happened. That's how much it was covered up.
Speaker 1: Sad stuff. Sad stuff, Mickey Uh and for you ever
Speaker 1: since as well, the rush to the super Bowl? What
Speaker 1: was your favorite part of the Super Bowl? Go ahead,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to think about that. I just didn't
Speaker 1: have a favorite part I was. I was, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought the Chiefs would do better. As I saw
Speaker 1: things uh developing, It just you could just see that
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. It was like watching the Cowboy game
Speaker 1: back before they even started getting their feet on them,
Speaker 1: their legs under them. I think the most h telling
Speaker 1: part of the game was when Winfield Junior he put
Speaker 1: the two fingers up in Tyriek Hill's face. That was
Speaker 1: something that was extremely telling because that means he took
Speaker 1: their heart. When he did that, He's taking he took
Speaker 1: his brand away from him. At that point, he took
Speaker 1: his whatever self esteem that he had at that moment
Speaker 1: as a defensive back. I've never been a guy to
Speaker 1: to to shove him in someone's face. But as much
Speaker 1: as he was being u beaten in the first meeting
Speaker 1: this season, that little instant of payback retribution, it can
Speaker 1: hurt sometimes when you're on the other end of it,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, other than seeing Bruce arians able to
Speaker 1: celebrate afterwards for a guy that's been in the league
Speaker 1: as long as as he's been, to see that, to
Speaker 1: see Todd Bowles have the success he did, uh, basically,
Speaker 1: you know what, basically understanding with his front four that
Speaker 1: against the Scrubs, we probably don't need the blitz. We're
Speaker 1: gonna play our little cover two and cover deep by
Speaker 1: the way to make sure they don't get behind us,
Speaker 1: and we're just gonna rush with our front four to
Speaker 1: put pressure on Mahomes and then cover the middle with
Speaker 1: two linebackers that can play awfully well and basically shut
Speaker 1: down an offense that was supposedly not able to be
Speaker 1: shut down. But maybe my favorite part was seeing a
Speaker 1: guy like Leonard Fournette, who had a wonderful career in
Speaker 1: college and was just being laid to waste in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and ended up on the waiver wire at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. That Tampa Bay picked him up to
Speaker 1: run for a touchdown and not only run for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but put it in a gear. Were guys that had
Speaker 1: the angle on him, could not catch him till he
Speaker 1: got to the end zone. And I felt so good
Speaker 1: for him. Always thought he was a good guy and
Speaker 1: for him to have that success. What were they calling
Speaker 1: him playoff Lenny? Well, now they can call him super
Speaker 1: Bowl Lenny. Good stuff. And you know, for me, well
Speaker 1: for me, you know, ever since you talk about Antoine Winfield,
Speaker 1: and I thought that one of the most compelling parts
Speaker 1: of the aside from the quarterback talk, when you break
Speaker 1: down the two teams and when you apply it to
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys could use on their team. One of
Speaker 1: the most compelling aspects of watching these two defenses is
Speaker 1: to see Antoine Winfield, the playmaking safety who is sort
Speaker 1: of a Tyrann Matthew clone. And it's not a coincidence
Speaker 1: that Todd Bowles has him on that Tampa Bay team,
Speaker 1: that he targeted him in the draft, that this is
Speaker 1: a guy that I want in my secondary And I says,
Speaker 1: I think also ever said it says a lot about
Speaker 1: him what you're talking about as a rookie. He's got
Speaker 1: the confidence in his own abilities that he stands up
Speaker 1: to a Tyree Hill or whatever. But aside from that,
Speaker 1: you know, Bowles was at Arizona when Tyron Matthew was
Speaker 1: drafted by the Cardinals. I think Bowles when he saw
Speaker 1: Winfield in this draft he could have a Tyrn Matthew
Speaker 1: type player in his secondary and he showed it. I mean,
Speaker 1: he played at a level this season where he along
Speaker 1: with Chase Young with Washington or Neck and Neck NFL
Speaker 1: defensive Rookies of the Year. I believe, all right, But
Speaker 1: then the one sequence in this game, with all the
Speaker 1: talk about Tom Brady and everything, got the end of
Speaker 1: the first half when Brady's thrown for the end zone,
Speaker 1: gets PI call, and then he's got it right on
Speaker 1: the goal line with precious seconds left, and it's Tyrn
Speaker 1: Matthew and Antonio Brown, and Antonio Brown runs a little
Speaker 1: pivot move in the end zone on Tyron Matthew. Brady
Speaker 1: Brady fires a missile into his gut for the touchdown
Speaker 1: that that gave them a lead that turned out to
Speaker 1: be insurmountable. And then when Brady, you know the you
Speaker 1: see the offensive lineman go up to Brown in the
Speaker 1: end zone and Matthew's right there, and Brady goes up
Speaker 1: there and he is shouting something in Tyron Matthew's ear.
Speaker 1: And then we had to piece it together later to
Speaker 1: see exactly what happened there. And then Matthew comes at Brady.
Speaker 1: Matthew winds up getting a unsports flight conduct penalty. But
Speaker 1: that whole sequence there, when you break it down to
Speaker 1: one little sequence in the game, and you've got the
Speaker 1: star power on both sides, Brady Honey, Badger, Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: and his story scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I just think that all came together there. That was
Speaker 1: my favorite moment of the entire game right there. Well,
Speaker 1: I have to say and two things about that, by
Speaker 1: the way. Number one, to me, that was a BS
Speaker 1: interference call in the end zone. If a dB, if
Speaker 1: the dB can't hold his ground when the wide receiver
Speaker 1: runs into him, uh, and then you get called for interference?
Speaker 1: Are you serious? And then number two, so not to
Speaker 1: mention the fact that probably was an uncatchable. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the entire thing. And that also and that also right,
Speaker 1: and then on top of it, and and I kind
Speaker 1: of liked the byplay between between Tom Brady and Tyrant Matthew.
Speaker 1: But Brady got his saying, and then when Matthew got
Speaker 1: his saying, maybe what he said was it as as
Speaker 1: cordial and he gets the fifteen yard penalty, not Tom,
Speaker 1: you know who kind of instigated a little bit. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that what Brady said wasn't very cordial
Speaker 1: either by an apology, So how do you how do
Speaker 1: you he wasn't saying good coverage on that play? I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that wasn't a message. How does that? How
Speaker 1: does that? You know? Where's the equitable in that? You know?
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, you know, it was like it
Speaker 1: was like that early it was like that early personal
Speaker 1: fill on was it Chris Jones where the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: uh shoved the Tampa Bay offensive linemen shoved him and
Speaker 1: he shoved him back, and then he got the fifteen
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, watched the game, and you know that
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing that I was. I was
Speaker 1: not happy about when I think that kind of started
Speaker 1: to ruin it for me from the get they were
Speaker 1: too involved in the game. Itself. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a game to where as Bill said, all these stars,
Speaker 1: the star polo, You've got the storyline, Uh, just everything
Speaker 1: coming together. You've got the coaches with their own stories.
Speaker 1: This is a team coming back to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: getting handled that the offending champions. They're getting handled. They
Speaker 1: looked like they didn't even want to play the moment
Speaker 1: they came out of the shoot. They didn't look ready
Speaker 1: to play. So yes, all of that dynamic. Referee should
Speaker 1: let that play out, especially when you're talking about that
Speaker 1: law plant. It's almost as if the referee it was
Speaker 1: a late flag. It's almost as if he was considering
Speaker 1: should I put my inject myself into the situation or not,
Speaker 1: and he decided to do that. That was a bad call.
Speaker 1: It may not have had anything to do with the
Speaker 1: overall result of the game, but it probably would have
Speaker 1: made it a little bit more exciting because once they
Speaker 1: got down there, Once Tampa Bay was recipient of these flags,
Speaker 1: you could see Kansas City's defense realizing we don't play
Speaker 1: well from behind, and they never have played well from
Speaker 1: behind because you're dealing with a defense that has always
Speaker 1: had the luxury of playing from ahead because of Kansas City. Now,
Speaker 1: the other thing that let me say this bill before
Speaker 1: we go, I talked about how the offensive lineman was
Speaker 1: so critical for Kansas City's offense as you finally realize
Speaker 1: they have extremely long developing plays. And when you're talking
Speaker 1: about bringing Tywree Hill from one sideline bringing motion and
Speaker 1: you got them running all the way through the secondary
Speaker 1: somehow ending up way over there on I twenty somewhere,
Speaker 1: it takes time for that to happen. And when you
Speaker 1: see that, you have no time for that. Every time
Speaker 1: my homes was to drop back, they didn't make the
Speaker 1: adjustment to go to quicker hitting plays. They wanted to
Speaker 1: go with the big play over and over again. I
Speaker 1: think they start to read their whole news clippings and
Speaker 1: thinking that that is the way you're supposed to only
Speaker 1: win games, and they decide to go with the phenomenal
Speaker 1: as opposed to going with the consistent, safe, conservative route
Speaker 1: and drive it down the field. So what does what
Speaker 1: does that remind you of? By the way the Cowboys
Speaker 1: play Atlanta in twenty seventeen when they refused to put
Speaker 1: a tight end next to the poor tackle who couldn't
Speaker 1: stand up there, or early this season, when they were
Speaker 1: having trouble with these young tackles to not go to
Speaker 1: tight end more often and call shorter plays that they
Speaker 1: finally figured out down the line, but not immediately. I
Speaker 1: was sit there to go, why aren't you going too
Speaker 1: tight ends? These tackles are terrible. They cannot hold up
Speaker 1: against this defensive line. Why don't you flags They had
Speaker 1: to know that they would have issues because your tackles
Speaker 1: are down, so you would think that they would have
Speaker 1: that in the back pocket ready for the adjustment. Well,
Speaker 1: and I read a quote from Andy Reid early in
Speaker 1: the week and he basically said, yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: we got on our offensive line isn't pretty. It's like,
Speaker 1: no kidding, it's not pretty. But you didn't have to
Speaker 1: have them prove it to you. Goodness great, all right,
Speaker 1: we need to take a break here. When we come back.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's been interesting dirt throughout football season there
Speaker 1: in the Star District at Tostito's Championship Plaza at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. There have been at times Mickey and
Speaker 1: Everson youth football teams who have conducted their workouts there
Speaker 1: on the football field there and uh with parents socially
Speaker 1: distanced and so forth, there's been activity throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Last night, I was at the Mavericks game and in
Speaker 1: Victory Park in downtown Dallas. Uh, they actually had fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred fans that the first fans in attendance at an
Speaker 1: NBA game in Dallas since March eleventh, when the pandemic began.
Speaker 1: The Mavericks invited fifteen fifteen hundred vaccinated essential workers, gave
Speaker 1: them free tickets to the game. But it was it
Speaker 1: was like a ghost town down there in Victory Park,
Speaker 1: still in downtown Dallas yesterday. You know, you don't have
Speaker 1: the fans. When when you don't have the fans around
Speaker 1: an event, you really realize how much you miss fans
Speaker 1: at at games and taking it to the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and it's remarkable to see what the NFL has been
Speaker 1: able to pull off and having a season, and obviously
Speaker 1: in Dallas with up to thirty thousand fans in the stands,
Speaker 1: and being able to do it safely and get all
Speaker 1: the way through the Super Bowl. You know, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of people Mickey six months ago who thought
Speaker 1: it was possible that everything would come off, and there
Speaker 1: were hiccups along the way, bumps in the road, obviously
Speaker 1: along the way, but to be able to play the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl on time was pretty remarkable considering where we
Speaker 1: were six months ago. Not to say we're out of
Speaker 1: it by any means. Yeah, and you're absolutely right. And
Speaker 1: you know, I had written last week on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot com about the accomplishment of the NFL having getting
Speaker 1: ready to play a Super Bowl on time, that no
Speaker 1: games were canceled. Now they one or two what postponed
Speaker 1: along the way, and it wasn't perfect, But if you
Speaker 1: looked at what took place over the course of the
Speaker 1: season to get to that point where other leagues you know,
Speaker 1: had to either go in a bubble or they had
Speaker 1: to you know, cancel games once they started up again,
Speaker 1: uh and postpone them. To the fact that they got
Speaker 1: there on time, I thought not only was remarkable about
Speaker 1: what the league did, but I think a tribute to
Speaker 1: the players uh for keeping themselves uh basically for the
Speaker 1: majority uh you know, quarantine and themselves, and for their families,
Speaker 1: the families and the medical staffs too. By the way,
Speaker 1: and and since I mentioned that, also should point out
Speaker 1: that this year's ed Block NFL Athletic Training Staff UH
Speaker 1: of the Year was the Dallas Cowboys. Uh So, kudos
Speaker 1: to Jim Mauer and britt Brown Gaither and Hanson Yang
Speaker 1: for the job they did with this team right with
Speaker 1: the amount of injuries that they had to deal with,
Speaker 1: dealing with the pandemic, and Jim was the guy that
Speaker 1: was the lead of their COVID nineteen response team. For
Speaker 1: them to get this team to the end of the season,
Speaker 1: and I think they only had what two three guys
Speaker 1: miss a game or having to go into quarantine. I
Speaker 1: thought was quite remarkable that that took place. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just to see this come off the way it did,
Speaker 1: it was I thought, uh, quite quite an accomplishment. I
Speaker 1: don't have to say, Guys, looking at this situation and
Speaker 1: looking like where we are right now sports trying to
Speaker 1: play sports in the pandemic, that ed Block award, that's
Speaker 1: probably the most important ed Block award ever issued. We
Speaker 1: have never had a situation like this, and the teams
Speaker 1: that handled it better ended up being in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But you have to look at the other way, the
Speaker 1: teams that were presented with unusual circumstances and for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to be able to come out of the head
Speaker 1: on that and be recognized that's pretty good, Spags. I
Speaker 1: mean you, I'm sure they take credit all the time.
Speaker 1: Any ed Block Award recipients take credit, take they really
Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in that. I would think
Speaker 1: this particular time you would have to take even more
Speaker 1: pride because of the situation that's going on. Should have
Speaker 1: been part of the Saturday Night NFL Honors show they
Speaker 1: gave out all the awards, along with introducing the new
Speaker 1: guys elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, you know,
Speaker 1: Man of the Year, MVP Offensive Defense, the whole thing, right,
Speaker 1: this should have been in their because of just what
Speaker 1: all right? And one other note on that. The other
Speaker 1: thing that that's amazing about it from the from a
Speaker 1: football standpoint in the NFL is just from a scheduling standpoint,
Speaker 1: you don't have the same wiggle room that as far
Speaker 1: as postponing games as what you do in other sports.
Speaker 1: I mean, in basketball, you can you can play three
Speaker 1: or four games in a week two months from now
Speaker 1: if you need to postpone games. In the NFL, you
Speaker 1: had bye weeks that you could play around with, but
Speaker 1: other than that, there wasn't any wiggle room to get
Speaker 1: the calendar done in advance. We saw it throughout college football.
Speaker 1: So many teams had to not just postpone games, they
Speaker 1: had to cancel games and play shortened seasons. And for
Speaker 1: all teams to be able to play sixteen games and
Speaker 1: then to have the playoffs come off without a hitch
Speaker 1: is something else, all right, as far as the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame goes, that Saturday Night Show Drew Pearson discovers
Speaker 1: as he was called to a meeting, a business meeting,
Speaker 1: talking real estate with Jerry Jones and Roger Staboch and
Speaker 1: then lo and behold who shows up David Baker? How
Speaker 1: about that knocking at the door. So here here is
Speaker 1: the greatest this might be the greatest upset in NFL history,
Speaker 1: That this secret was kept for nearly two weeks, right,
Speaker 1: two weeks because these guys knew, right, and not even
Speaker 1: the people on the forty eight members and the Seniors
Speaker 1: Committee member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting committee,
Speaker 1: they didn't know what the results were, but they had
Speaker 1: voted the middle of January, but they didn't know who
Speaker 1: made it. Well, the NFL, the Pro Football Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame knew, and they went to all these spots, right,
Speaker 1: and they they basically told everybody who made it at
Speaker 1: least a week or two before the announcement, and the
Speaker 1: secret was kept. No one let the cat out of
Speaker 1: the bag. And I'll tell you what. I talked to
Speaker 1: Drew Pearson on Thursday and not knowing how the whole
Speaker 1: thing was gonna work, and I said, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write this. I'm not going to ask you anything about
Speaker 1: you know, you know your thoughts. I said, I don't
Speaker 1: want to jinx you. I said, are you going? Will
Speaker 1: you be in Tampa? And he goes, yeah, I'm leaving
Speaker 1: tomorrow to go to Tampa. And I go, do you
Speaker 1: know how they're gonna tell you? And he goes, no,
Speaker 1: they haven't said how they're gonna let us know. It's
Speaker 1: it's a zoom call or if they're knock on the door.
Speaker 1: But I found out. I said, Oh, Drew played it
Speaker 1: pretty well because he already knew and and good for him,
Speaker 1: you know that was that was just side story. But God, long, long,
Speaker 1: long overdue for a guy that played the level he
Speaker 1: did the things that he did. Finished his career in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, so eighty four on he had to
Speaker 1: wait his five years and then thirty three years in
Speaker 1: the making to get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: It was a big mystery why it took so long.
Speaker 1: But as he told me before he went, he goes,
Speaker 1: you know what, he goes. As long as you get
Speaker 1: in he goes, you won't think about the weight he goes.
Speaker 1: This was this would be big to me, and he
Speaker 1: said this would be big to my family, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was on both cases. I think t might
Speaker 1: be the only one that might disagree with you on Nett. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, And if you remember, one of your
Speaker 1: teammates with the Giants, Harry Carson, was you know, kind
Speaker 1: of butt hurt because it took him so long to
Speaker 1: go in. But at least when it was time to
Speaker 1: go in, he went in graciously. He didn't you know,
Speaker 1: yes he did. It sounded like he might not show up,
Speaker 1: but he did. I mean, it's a once in a
Speaker 1: lifetime thing. You know, you can't hold that grudge because
Speaker 1: you know now you're gonna be in and people will
Speaker 1: be able. And this is what I've always said, guys
Speaker 1: about the Pro Football Hall of Fame, any Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: it's their job to preserve the top stories in the
Speaker 1: National Football League because They're gonna be a point where
Speaker 1: none of us are going to be around to let
Speaker 1: anybody know about the Hall Mary. There's none of us
Speaker 1: gonna be around to know about some of the other
Speaker 1: big plays. So stats are one thing, but the history
Speaker 1: of the league and the stories need to be preserved,
Speaker 1: and the job of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: to do that. So you know, fifty years from now,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna walk in there and go, oh, so this
Speaker 1: is how this Hall Mary started. Right, those are the
Speaker 1: things that need to preserve. And I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: blow smoke up ever since here, but there's stories that
Speaker 1: of his career that need to be preserved, right, There's
Speaker 1: stories of Darren Woodson's career that need to be preserved,
Speaker 1: and and let's do let's get it going. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get this thing done. So when I go into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame like I did, gosh more than probably
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, twenty four years ago, when I went
Speaker 1: into the Olympic Hall of Fame in Switzerland, and I
Speaker 1: got to go to a video board and punch Bob Hayes,
Speaker 1: and up came his winning one hundred meter dash in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Right, Those are the things that need to
Speaker 1: be preserved, not you know, not just because he won
Speaker 1: a gold medal or two gold medals, but you got
Speaker 1: to preserve that story. I had never I've heard of it,
Speaker 1: I'd never seen it, and I've rarely seen a hundred
Speaker 1: yard dash or one hundred meter dash where the guy
Speaker 1: that won was not hanging on at the end. He
Speaker 1: was continuing to pull away from the field. That's how
Speaker 1: impressive Bob hayes hundred meter victory was. I told you
Speaker 1: a long time, agost Bags. My first memory of football
Speaker 1: professional football was Don Meredith to Bob Hayes, and they
Speaker 1: tried it almost every week, more than once, because it
Speaker 1: took Bob a little while to learn how to catch
Speaker 1: the ball. He was so busy running. He wasn't really
Speaker 1: that good of a receiver, and eventually he ended up
Speaker 1: being a serious threat to where he when he talked
Speaker 1: about stories, he actually changed the game. He was like
Speaker 1: Kareem or will chamber him when they stopped him from
Speaker 1: duncing the ball. You know, they had to change the rules,
Speaker 1: and with Bob they had to start playing zone. Zone
Speaker 1: didn't even it didn't even there was no zone word.
Speaker 1: It wasn't used in that manner until Bob Hayes came
Speaker 1: a yes, you're right about those story spects, you know,
Speaker 1: and one that one that and I know we're getting off,
Speaker 1: but one that he told me, and what the meredith
Speaker 1: passed the It was the record long nineties some yards?
Speaker 1: Was it ninety? Whatever? It was. So I remember interviewing
Speaker 1: him and I asked him, I said, so, how did
Speaker 1: all that? I mean, what was the play? How did
Speaker 1: all that work? He goes, well, we got in the
Speaker 1: huddle and and and it was cold. I think it Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: something like that. The Cowboys were winning, and and and
Speaker 1: he basically said, he said, I got in the huddle
Speaker 1: and he said. Don looked at me and he goes, hey, Bobby,
Speaker 1: it's cold. We've got this thing sewed up. He goes,
Speaker 1: I need to get to the bench and have a cigarette.
Speaker 1: He goes, so, why don't you just run down the
Speaker 1: field as fast as you can and I'll throw it too.
Speaker 1: That's how that play was designed. And they're real. That's
Speaker 1: a real man. Let me let me those of the
Speaker 1: bench that have a s I don't need to be
Speaker 1: out here any longer. But those are the things. That's
Speaker 1: that's part of the Hall of Fame. It's not all statistics.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, I think in this day and age, in
Speaker 1: our analytical day and age, we worry more about numbers
Speaker 1: than we worry about the stories of the league. I
Speaker 1: gotta disagree with you in regards to numbers, Spags. If
Speaker 1: it was numbers, Ben Drew would have already been in
Speaker 1: before len Swan. If there was numbers, then I'd already
Speaker 1: been before Brian Dawkins. And if it was numbers, Cornell
Speaker 1: Green would have been in before Lynch. So you know,
Speaker 1: you look at these newly voted in guys, and as
Speaker 1: we get older, the seniors are falling further and further behind.
Speaker 1: I mean, when I had my opportunity a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and that was my last modern day opportunity. After that,
Speaker 1: I went into the senior So they say, what happens
Speaker 1: next evers? I said, well, now I have to go
Speaker 1: back and get in line behind all those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: all the dead people, guys in wheelchairs, the guys who
Speaker 1: you know older than me that still deserve recognition. Ken Riley,
Speaker 1: Ken Riley, that's the story playing for the lowly Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: His entire career. You're know how difficult it is to
Speaker 1: play defensive back well on a team that sucks your
Speaker 1: entire career. I don't know how he played, how long
Speaker 1: he played. I think it was around fifteen years. The
Speaker 1: guy ended up with sixty five interceptions of whatever. He
Speaker 1: has never I don't think ever even been considered for
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So to me, if it was numbers,
Speaker 1: these guys would already be in. What it is now,
Speaker 1: it's facts, It's all about exposure, it's all about noted riety.
Speaker 1: It's all about Okay, how many TV shows are you on?
Speaker 1: You know your buddies, you know with your particulars city,
Speaker 1: or how good your Hall of Fame voter is, and
Speaker 1: how much juice he has. So to me, your numbers
Speaker 1: are not it. It has gone into a total other
Speaker 1: realm when he comes to social media and exposure and
Speaker 1: people on TV. There's no way Howey Long should be
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame before Harvey Martin. So if
Speaker 1: there was about numbers, then we'd be talking about a
Speaker 1: whole different thing. I think they need many more senior writers,
Speaker 1: or at least writers, regardless of how old they are,
Speaker 1: to have some type of empathy towards the guys that
Speaker 1: played before me and some of the guys that played
Speaker 1: after me, who are now pretty much forgotten about because
Speaker 1: now we're into the now. Everything's into the now, everything's
Speaker 1: into the new. No one wants to talk about when
Speaker 1: we used to run the ball on first and second down,
Speaker 1: dent thow on third down. But yet Ken Riley still
Speaker 1: ends up with sixty plus interceptions, So that just lets
Speaker 1: you know how good he was and what a ball
Speaker 1: hawk he was. Guys himself, Cornell Green, people that really
Speaker 1: need to be in there as Dallas Cowboys. They need
Speaker 1: to have someone devoted to not just of course old cowboys,
Speaker 1: all those players back in the day that we are
Speaker 1: trying so quickly to forget about. I still remember those
Speaker 1: guys because of my age, and they inspired me. So
Speaker 1: when they're to the day I die, I'm going I'm
Speaker 1: going down fighting for them as well as myself. You know,
Speaker 1: you think it impacted John Lynch's chances to get in
Speaker 1: this year that Tony Dungee got added to the selection committee.
Speaker 1: How does he get in ahead of Darren Woodson If
Speaker 1: you're talking safety, that's what I'm saying. Well, Tony Dungee
Speaker 1: was on the selection committee this year. He coached him,
Speaker 1: you know. And and the one thing they have done
Speaker 1: ever since is with the senior committee. Uh, they have
Speaker 1: these older writers there that have seen these things. And
Speaker 1: I borrowed these stats from Rick Goslin, who had been
Speaker 1: here at the Dallas Morning News and he's on the
Speaker 1: senior committee that nominate these senior deals. He pointed out,
Speaker 1: and this was back when they first started thinking about
Speaker 1: this year and who was gonna be nominated. There's twenty
Speaker 1: two NFL First Team All Decade selections in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Twenty one of them have butts busts in Canton. The
Speaker 1: only one that didn't it was Drew Pearson. They're ten
Speaker 1: wide receivers who caught passes in the nineteen seventies in Canton,
Speaker 1: and he listed all of them, No, Drew Pearson. And
Speaker 1: from nineteen thirty, get this, from nineteen thirty through twenty ten,
Speaker 1: a span of eight decades, there were seventeen wide receivers
Speaker 1: selected First Team All decade. Sixteen of them are in Canton,
Speaker 1: the loan exception Drew Pearson. So how do you figure
Speaker 1: that this thing continued to go this long before? And
Speaker 1: not only you know, till he got in, but the
Speaker 1: fact that when they came up with last year's deal
Speaker 1: with they were going to have the centennial celebration and
Speaker 1: they were gonna put in twenty guys to make up
Speaker 1: for what they missed, and Drew was one of the
Speaker 1: selections to be voted into the twenty and he got denied,
Speaker 1: and it was like, gosh, how cruel can it be?
Speaker 1: And the guy that was the second team ya all
Speaker 1: decades in the seventies was voted ahead of him, and
Speaker 1: Harold Carmich, Harold Carmichael right, who finished his finished his
Speaker 1: career with you right, that was my buddy. That we're
Speaker 1: both of our Black Cottars Hall of famers. So I
Speaker 1: was great about that. But when it was all said
Speaker 1: and done, I called him and told him, look, I'm glad,
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, brother. But man, he even he
Speaker 1: felt guilty. Even he felt guilty. So that's just how
Speaker 1: bad it was. All Right, we gotta take a break,
Speaker 1: and we've got much more to get to. We need
Speaker 1: to look ahead to what the Cowboys need to do.
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Speaker 1: Want to mention this before we go further. The NFL
Speaker 1: is mourning the passing of Marty Schottenheimer today. Coach Schattenheimer
Speaker 1: passed away at the age of seventy seven, and we
Speaker 1: should point out that how what kind of impact that
Speaker 1: Marty Schottenheimer had on Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy's career.
Speaker 1: Of course, McCarthy got his first NFL job working for
Speaker 1: the fellow Pittsburgh native, Marty Schottenheimer with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: He he McCarthy came to the University of Pittsburgh where
Speaker 1: he was an assistant coach, and was hired by the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Did quality control for him first and worked up the
Speaker 1: ranks with Schottenheimer and the Chiefs throughout his time there,
Speaker 1: which was through nineteen ninety eight, so I believe McCarthy
Speaker 1: would have been with him for six years or so.
Speaker 1: McCarthy spoke with Rick Goslin, of course, Goslin was in
Speaker 1: Kansas City covering the Chiefs at the time. Was very
Speaker 1: close to Schottenheimer. He tweeted about him a little while ago,
Speaker 1: but he had this quote from McCarthy on Schottenheimer saying,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for Marty Schottenheimer, I wouldn't be saying
Speaker 1: this because I wouldn't be where I am today. Marty
Speaker 1: gave me my first NFL opportunity in nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: but it was so much more than that. He gave
Speaker 1: this young coach a roadmap for life. Marty's fingerprints can
Speaker 1: still be felt all over so many things I do
Speaker 1: every day as a coach, but it is what he
Speaker 1: taught me as a man that I'll be forever grateful for. Professionally,
Speaker 1: Marty was the first man I saw open his heart
Speaker 1: and emotionally reveal himself. He was Pittsburgh Proud and the
Speaker 1: definition of authenticity and genuineness. The six years I spent
Speaker 1: with him were the most important and impactful years of
Speaker 1: my coaching career. He was always teaching and emphasizing. Even
Speaker 1: in my first game as a head coach in two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, which happened to be against Marty, it
Speaker 1: was ugly. After the game. When we shook hands, he
Speaker 1: patted me on the back said, kid, trust me, it'll
Speaker 1: get better, but don't ever forget. Make sure to do
Speaker 1: it your own way. Almost fifteen years later, I still
Speaker 1: lean on those words anyway. I think I think the
Speaker 1: impact that Marty Schottenheimer had on Mike McCarthy was profound.
Speaker 1: And if you look at coaches around the league and
Speaker 1: players around the league ever since, you probably have stories
Speaker 1: of coaches that are people that impacted you. And Schottenheimer
Speaker 1: is that guy for Mike McCarthy. Yeah, I was. I
Speaker 1: was never Uh we didn't play Cincinnati much when Schottenheimer
Speaker 1: was there, but I do recall how that he was
Speaker 1: part of that that chain of coaches that really brought
Speaker 1: in that West Coast offense, and that's where it became
Speaker 1: a problem for me because the West Coast offense was had.
Speaker 1: We never had the same rhythm playing against a West
Speaker 1: Coast offense. It was something I had to adjust to
Speaker 1: with forty nine ers and of course, uh with Bill
Speaker 1: Walsh and I think Shottenhammer they have a connection as well. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the coaches that that really had an impact on me,
Speaker 1: most of them are gone. Most of them are gone,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think as you look at it, Jane
Speaker 1: Stallings was the one that had the biggest impact. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily so positive, but you know we ended up, you know,
Speaker 1: really respecting each other, and uh, you know, first meeting
Speaker 1: wasn't that great. But you know, coaches just have to
Speaker 1: realize and I think they do as much as they're
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, keep their own feed, their own
Speaker 1: family and things of that nature. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a trust that has to be there between player
Speaker 1: and coach, and and when that trust is there, it
Speaker 1: can change friendships. You know. To this Hey, Jene calls
Speaker 1: me Edvy, not Everson. You know, that's his term of
Speaker 1: endearment for me, because when he first met me he
Speaker 1: called me boy. So that was an improvement. Heck, he
Speaker 1: had it, all right, he had our attention. He had
Speaker 1: it impact on me. The first time I tried to
Speaker 1: ask him a question and he didn't like the question.
Speaker 1: And I said, oh, okay, he gives you that look.
Speaker 1: He gives you that Bear Bryant look. You don't like
Speaker 1: it too much, Okay, voice like Bear Bryant. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to go. Somebody's hungry. That ever, ever from
Speaker 1: your house. It's not from my house, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: maybe that you know what that was that was a
Speaker 1: tribute to Marty Schottenheimer Brown's He had out to Brown's
Speaker 1: head coach when the dog Pound got started. The dog
Speaker 1: bound at Everson's house with a shout out to praise
Speaker 1: for Marty Schadenheimer right there. All right, let's turn our
Speaker 1: attention to what the Cowboys they're going to be doing
Speaker 1: here as the we're a little over a month away
Speaker 1: from the start of the new year in the NFL
Speaker 1: free agency. There's a there's some things that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to be doing preparing for the draft as well.
Speaker 1: We've got don't have the combine, but it's going to
Speaker 1: be very interesting how they scout players this year. And
Speaker 1: we we're turning the calendar the page to officially now
Speaker 1: Mickey to twenty twenty one. Yes, and first point of
Speaker 1: business for the Cowboys will be to um to try
Speaker 1: to get together with Dak Prescott and both parties knock
Speaker 1: out a long term deal that are very delicate we
Speaker 1: see for these quarterbacks right now. So I think that's
Speaker 1: probably their first line of business. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we found out over the weekend that Dak had a
Speaker 1: clean up surgery on his ankle that he broke and fractured.
Speaker 1: So from a physical standpoint, it sounds like that was
Speaker 1: a good thing to take place. He needed it, so
Speaker 1: that's got to get done. And then to me, the
Speaker 1: second line of business is this is going to go
Speaker 1: back where we started the show, is to figure out
Speaker 1: the future health of their offensive tackles, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of offensive tackles available in this draft, and I
Speaker 1: don't know that you need to use another first round
Speaker 1: pick on an offensive lineman, but they've got to figure
Speaker 1: out from a medical standpoint, well, Powans, how's the hip?
Speaker 1: Is it ready to go? With Tyrn Smith having had
Speaker 1: the surgery disurgery in his neck, U did it clear
Speaker 1: up all those things that have been bothering him for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and is he ready to go?
Speaker 1: Because if that's the case, then to me, you don't
Speaker 1: take an offensive lineman with that first round pick. You
Speaker 1: got other things that you need to take care of defensively.
Speaker 1: But by the third round, to me, I think you've
Speaker 1: just got a template right there of you better have
Speaker 1: a credible backup offensive tackle to to be able to
Speaker 1: step in and bail you out and not get in
Speaker 1: the situation they've been at that situation at that position
Speaker 1: for the last four or five years. Well, I am
Speaker 1: a different I am under a different mindset, Spags. We
Speaker 1: just talked about how important it was for your defense
Speaker 1: to play well, and how Todd Bows was blessed with
Speaker 1: some of the best active linebackers in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: was a product of that. In regards to the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, Pepper Johnson Lt. Gary Reasons, you know Steve Dice,
Speaker 1: when Dic went up there and playing with the three two,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just blew it up. I think
Speaker 1: we need some very active linebackers, or at least somehow
Speaker 1: take the ones you have and try and create a
Speaker 1: space for them to be active and get them more
Speaker 1: contact with the ball, because that is one of our
Speaker 1: weakest points on our team. I think it's the most
Speaker 1: the second most important union on our squad behind the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And I said this the other day, and
Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong, Spats, please rebuke me if you
Speaker 1: feel like it. There is a chance, and I'm afraid
Speaker 1: there may be a chance that Dak Prescott will not
Speaker 1: be here with the Dallas Cowboys if negotiations continue with
Speaker 1: the same attitude, because it seems like that they are
Speaker 1: still so far apart, and the injury itself. I think
Speaker 1: that is an X factor that is going to determine
Speaker 1: whether the Cowboys go into this negotiation with more vigor,
Speaker 1: go into it kind of looking over their shoulder and
Speaker 1: seeing what they got already. Please tell me I'm wrong. No,
Speaker 1: I think he will be here. But here's the deal,
Speaker 1: and and and when anybody talks about this is like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't the Cowboys have him signed? You know he
Speaker 1: deserves this, he deserves that. Okay, fine, But from his camp,
Speaker 1: does he want to bet on himself again, knowing that
Speaker 1: he had an injury that could have ended his career
Speaker 1: and he turned his back on fifty five million dollars
Speaker 1: in signing bonus and one hundred and ten guaranteed? Does
Speaker 1: he want to play that game again. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big gambler on financial stuff, right, but boy, if I
Speaker 1: got that sitting in front of me and I just
Speaker 1: had that surgery, I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: roll the dice again that, oh yeah, I'll just take
Speaker 1: a one year deal and then I'll be a free
Speaker 1: agent the next year. So I think there's two sides
Speaker 1: to that, but it has to get settled because we
Speaker 1: see the quarterback position is pretty important. But I agree
Speaker 1: with you on the linebacker thing. I agree with you
Speaker 1: on the linebacker thing. And I've only seen I think
Speaker 1: only one like, not edge player, but a linebacker, linebacker
Speaker 1: to being mocked to be drafted in the first round.
Speaker 1: And it's the kid from You're gonna have to help
Speaker 1: me here, Bill from Penn State. Part is a parson.
Speaker 1: Uh he's He's the only linebacker I've seen mocked in
Speaker 1: the first round. You know what, I'll help you next
Speaker 1: week with that, because now that the Super Bowl is over,
Speaker 1: it's time for me to dive into my big green
Speaker 1: NFL draft scouting notebook. It's that time of year again,
Speaker 1: Mickey Well and and I just think linebacker, you know,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have to be the first round, but
Speaker 1: maybe the second round round. It does not have to
Speaker 1: be the first but you just have to hit because
Speaker 1: that linebacker position needs to be you know, you need
Speaker 1: three of them if you're gonna play a four to three.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like Dan Quinn wants a play a
Speaker 1: four to three, then you need three like it. You
Speaker 1: like that. Anthony Hitchins for the Chiefs heck, Damian Wilson
Speaker 1: started him and they were both fourth round draft picks. Yeah, there,
Speaker 1: there you go. So you just need exactly and and
Speaker 1: you know, and I understand the cornerback thing. What scares
Speaker 1: me on the cornerbacks that are talked highly of, they
Speaker 1: didn't play this last year, right, you know that. I
Speaker 1: worry about your ability to evaluate guys that did not
Speaker 1: play this last year. And I understand the opt out.
Speaker 1: I get it. I thoroughly get it. But to me,
Speaker 1: when I'm evaluating those guys, I would be a little
Speaker 1: bit hesitant to say, Okay, I've seen this guy play
Speaker 1: two years now, he's good. You know, I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: So you got to be careful there. So I just
Speaker 1: think this is your right Bill. This this offseason is
Speaker 1: going to be very very important for the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: make good decisions. And ever since, you might be right
Speaker 1: there too. I just saw a little t s on
Speaker 1: the NFL network. They showed a picture a video of
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and the caption at the bottom of it
Speaker 1: was on the move question mark. Oh Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I love about the That's is what I love about
Speaker 1: the offseason. Just throw something out there. We can talk
Speaker 1: about right. Oh yeah, we're gonna stay it up. Bill.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stay it up the SPADs. Bill. We're gonna
Speaker 1: stay it up that right, So we'll stir it up
Speaker 1: next week. Will Dak Prescott be on the move? Will
Speaker 1: he still be with the Dallas Cowboys by next Tuesday
Speaker 1: when we reconvene here on mix shots. We'll see you
Speaker 1: next week. Oh Go Cowboys. This has been a production
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