WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Super Perspectives 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:17.119 and the Dallas Cowboys football Club. This is mick Shots, 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.240 streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.959 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:32.960 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are. It's another edition 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.479 of mix Shots, and I guess officially this is the 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.720 start of the National Football League off season, although the 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.919 Cowboys got a headstart on the National Football League off season, 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.120 and we are here to bring you up to speed 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:54.720 on all things Cowboys. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.280 as we look back at what happened on Sunday evening 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.680 in Tampa, Florida, and look ahead what's going to happen 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.360 with your Dallas Cowboys as things start getting very busy 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.120 leading up to the start of free agency just over 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.720 a month from now. All right, Everson, since you were 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:18.520 the first to join us, you get the first word. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.120 Just to pull back the curtain, Everson just joined us. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.759 Until you get the first word, Everson, Well, I must 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.399 say I was very, very disappointed in the Super Bowl itself. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.880 Proud for Tom Brady, but boy, talk about an anti 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.360 climactic moment. I was really ready for this, this young 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.160 versus old, you know, the old, the old lion, with 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.480 the young lion coming up trying to take his pride 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.760 from him. I thought, that's where this is gonna be, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.280 you know, and you're defending Super Bowl champions in the 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:57.400 Kansas City Chiefs extremely surprised at their lack of prowess. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.720 They looked like they didn't know what they they were doing. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.560 And when it's all said and done, just like Spadge 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.240 and I have been talking about, with the Dallas Cowboys, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:13.800 offensive lineman might be the most important unit on any field, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.880 on any team, on any day in the NFL. The 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.400 tackles that we saw trying to play and protect the 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:30.559 edges for Casey was laughable at best, and it reminded 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.480 me so much of our practice players that we promoted 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.920 with the Dallas Cowboys. That game. There were certain times 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.119 when I saw it looked as if when Mahomes got 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.720 the when the ball was being snapped to him, it 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.280 was almost as if, Okay, when I get this ball, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.240 I'm gonna turn around and run the other way to 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.919 the goal line, and I'm gonna see if you guys 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.280 can catch me because every snap he was running for 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.799 his life during the most crucial parts of the game, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.000 especially on third down. Todd Bows once again, you guys 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.040 realized just how important he is as well. For that 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.400 Tampa Bay team. Tid Bows dialed up a blitz or 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.680 sometimes extra pressure on third downs, and they were so 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.720 bad on Kansasy's offensive line there were times when they 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.360 did not need an extra Russia. Four men on the 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.359 line was good enough. And we'll talk about this later. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:32.200 But Jpp, a guy that we thought was done for 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.760 in after fourth of July when he blasted up his 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.200 fingers that this was gonna be done for him. This 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.280 guy came and showed up, and let's be real, he 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.320 was Todd Bowls. He was Todd Bows heart and soul 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.920 for that defense of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right, Mickey, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.320 I bet you echoed some of the things Everson says. Well. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.240 I think he must have read my column yesterday on 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.640 Dallas Cover Always dot Com. I don't. I don't read 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.200 your column, Spad. Sorry, I don't read your cos now 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:09.320 it sounds like you did. Doesn't read your con I 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.840 think I think he did because the headline was U 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:25.240 Cowboys feel Mahomes pain. What so, what's the what's the 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.480 what's the toughest position in the NFL to find players 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.159 at the offensive line? And you better not go to 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.599 tackle offensive tackle a bit more specifically, but the whole 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:42.880 offensive line. You cannot go out into the Super Bowl 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:48.560 and play four backups out of five positions, and then 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.080 one week before the game, you're gonna you had to 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:56.840 replace your starting left tackle right Pro Bowl tackle, by 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.800 the way, and you made you were so short on 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.880 depth you had to make three changes to fix one. Right. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.080 They moved, They moved the right tackle, who was a 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.960 backup by the way, to left tackle. They moved the 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.320 backup guard to right tackle, and then pulled some guy 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.440 off the bench who hadn't even been with him the 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.240 entire year and was the third starting right guard to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.440 play in the game. And don't you know, Tampa Bay 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.440 was looking and going, I can't wait to play defense. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.640 He was pressured Patrick Mahomes with a bad foot, by 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.880 the way, that's going to be surgically repaired. On Wednesday. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:51.400 He was pressured on twenty nine of fifty two drops. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:57.360 Twenty nine of fifty two, that's fifty some percent. And hey, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.000 do you have a category for running for your life? 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.200 Well what about that? And running for your life? That 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.400 that was a category almost every snap and then his 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.200 receivers decided, let's let the ball hit us in the 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:16.960 face mask or let's drop the ball or fall down. Look, 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.040 here is the bottom line. On Monday morning when they 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.840 do their normal uh interview, and of course it was 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.919 zoomed with the head the winning head coach, and the 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.920 and the MVP of the Super Bowl, so Tom Brady. Uh. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.440 They asked Tom Brady what he was saying to Pat 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:41.080 Mahomes after the game, and he basically paraphrased what he said, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.640 but here was his quote. It's almost impossible to play 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.960 quarterback under durest like that, just the reality of football. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.640 Pat was doing as much as he could to make 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.960 plays last night. He was running around, he was reversing field, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.480 he was doubling back, tripling back. In the end, it's 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.560 tough to do that consistently when you feel God every 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.880 play for a six yard game, I got to fire 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.040 the ball in their thread, the needle between two guys. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.800 That's tough to play like that. And to me, that 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.800 was the bottom line. And how well the Cowboys know 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.320 with all the injuries and movement they had on the 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.720 offensive line all season long. Hey, they could have just 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.960 called the Cowboys and said, what's it gonna be like 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:35.840 to play with two backup offensive tackles and your third 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.880 your third top tackle basically played the year because he 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.760 was hurt. And then you had to play with a 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.920 backup at center because your pro bow center retired. And 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.400 then he gets hurt, and now you got to play 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.920 with a rookie who takes over and plays well at center, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.200 Tyler Biadish. Oh, by the way, he gets hurt, So 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.440 now you got to go back to the backup. And 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:03.600 the only guy standing on the offensive line, Zach Martin. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.720 He ends up with a concussion, he switches positions, and 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:12.080 now he gets hurt and they lose him. So when 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.040 everybody wonders why the Cowboys finish six and ten, and 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:21.400 there's various reasons, you look at what happened on that 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.360 offensive line and you say, okay, go try to win 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.200 a game, much less try to do that in the 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:32.280 Super Bowl. And by the way, I wore black today. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.760 I thought we were wearing black for Black history. And 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.040 then you guys come in, No, I said, I said, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.520 we were representing black. I have my black colleagues Hall 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:48.920 of Fame. Okay, we were representing black but I like 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.800 the styles bags. You look good, and I thought i'd 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.400 support the university that's now ranked tenth in the nation 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:02.200 in basketball. Okay. Oh see, now you just stepped all 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.439 over my black stuff. Man. No wait, now wait, it's 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.720 a it's not a dual beneficial thing. By the way, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.760 and I'm going to propose this from you because last night, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.720 when there was nothing on television to watch, somehow we 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:20.400 ended up on K E. R A TV and I 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:26.560 saw a documentary on the Tulsa race massacre in nineteen 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.720 twenty one. Yes, I had heard all about it, but 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.640 i'd never seen it to the point where they showed 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.680 video from back in the day when there were one thousand, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.559 two hundred and fifty six houses owned by black folks 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.160 burned to the ground, along with stores, schools, churches in 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.400 a mass riot in the city of Tulsa. So I 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.760 did my homework on this black history stuff. By the way, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.079 we're going to have a ceremony for you to get 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:05.480 your black car. You're gonna get your ghetto cars. Man. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.160 We got you. Man. I'm gonna make sure we know this. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.559 I'm gonna go to Black Twitter, okay, and I'm gonna 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:17.240 make the announcement, you know. Uh and and so is 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.000 that you think that to be repeated on k ar 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.040 A Mickey? Is there a chance we could watch that? 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.800 Most likely? Probably they probably need programming right. And it 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.160 was a really good deal because they actually interviewed people 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.320 who were either part of it or their parents were 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.920 part of what had taken place. It was eye opening, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.839 to say the least, especially, I gotta say especially when 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.560 they happened in more than one black city. When I 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.120 say black city, more than one city where blacks were 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.600 doing extremely well. There was one incident a young man 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.200 was telling the story about. He was in his uh 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:03.160 college class his college classroom, and his professor was talking 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.280 about one of those incidents that happened against black people 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.560 by whites and the white supremacist and even the law enforcement, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:16.040 how they joined in. And he was hearing the professor 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.040 tell this story and it was about his own hometown. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.719 Now he's younger, you know, he's up this generation. I 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.960 would say it was around thirty plus years old right now. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.840 So he's hearing about these horrible incidents and about his 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.559 old hometown, and he had never heard the story before. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.760 So he raises his hand to the professor. He goes, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.720 I don't think you know what you're talking about. That's 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.840 where I'm from, and I have never heard this story before. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.679 So it's one of those things where as shocked as 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:52.480 he was, blacks and whites were complicit in not even 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.000 repeating what happened. You know, you can't even bring it 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:03.160 up anymore. People have died, You've lost your whole wealth, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.720 all your wealth that you have, anything that you own. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.400 Hundreds of black families had that happened to them, and 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.200 they tried to say, don't even repeat it again. It 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.480 happened over like a hundred years ago. He had no 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:23.319 idea that this had happened in his hometown. So that 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.240 is amazing. That's an amazing dynamic to me that blacks 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.920 don't even want to talk about what happened to them 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.400 because of fear of retribution, and whites don't want to 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.720 even repeat it, of course because of their complexenness in it. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.800 So that was just a very interesting dynamic that may 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.280 I'm sure it's happened more than we know, and of 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.880 course fees will probably come out more in the future. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.080 But that isn't an amazing, like I said, an amazing dynamic. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.960 For no one to speak of it as bad as 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.160 it was. It was almost like the Capitol and the Insurrection, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.360 you know, trying to act like it didn't happen, and 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.800 then one hundred years from now we wouldn't even know 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.439 that this happened. That's how much it was covered up. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:12.679 Sad stuff. Sad stuff, Mickey Uh and for you ever 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.240 since as well, the rush to the super Bowl? What 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:22.760 was your favorite part of the Super Bowl? Go ahead, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.679 I'm gonna have to think about that. I just didn't 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.560 have a favorite part I was. I was, you know, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.840 I thought the Chiefs would do better. As I saw 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.640 things uh developing, It just you could just see that 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.640 was gonna happen. It was like watching the Cowboy game 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.880 back before they even started getting their feet on them, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.600 their legs under them. I think the most h telling 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:48.760 part of the game was when Winfield Junior he put 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.560 the two fingers up in Tyriek Hill's face. That was 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:57.480 something that was extremely telling because that means he took 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:02.679 their heart. When he did that, He's taking he took 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.040 his brand away from him. At that point, he took 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.320 his whatever self esteem that he had at that moment 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.400 as a defensive back. I've never been a guy to 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.600 to to shove him in someone's face. But as much 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.560 as he was being u beaten in the first meeting 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:25.840 this season, that little instant of payback retribution, it can 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.640 hurt sometimes when you're on the other end of it, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:37.000 you know. Uh, other than seeing Bruce arians able to 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.120 celebrate afterwards for a guy that's been in the league 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:47.600 as long as as he's been, to see that, to 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:53.000 see Todd Bowles have the success he did, uh, basically, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.680 you know what, basically understanding with his front four that 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.440 against the Scrubs, we probably don't need the blitz. We're 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.200 gonna play our little cover two and cover deep by 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.760 the way to make sure they don't get behind us, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.080 and we're just gonna rush with our front four to 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.160 put pressure on Mahomes and then cover the middle with 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:24.400 two linebackers that can play awfully well and basically shut 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:30.600 down an offense that was supposedly not able to be 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.560 shut down. But maybe my favorite part was seeing a 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.880 guy like Leonard Fournette, who had a wonderful career in 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:43.480 college and was just being laid to waste in Jacksonville 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.920 and ended up on the waiver wire at the start 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.040 of the season. That Tampa Bay picked him up to 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.120 run for a touchdown and not only run for a touchdown, 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.480 but put it in a gear. Were guys that had 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.960 the angle on him, could not catch him till he 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.800 got to the end zone. And I felt so good 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.360 for him. Always thought he was a good guy and 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.840 for him to have that success. What were they calling 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.800 him playoff Lenny? Well, now they can call him super 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:21.400 Bowl Lenny. Good stuff. And you know, for me, well 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.200 for me, you know, ever since you talk about Antoine Winfield, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.640 and I thought that one of the most compelling parts 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.680 of the aside from the quarterback talk, when you break 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.400 down the two teams and when you apply it to 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.040 what the Cowboys could use on their team. One of 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.760 the most compelling aspects of watching these two defenses is 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:49.400 to see Antoine Winfield, the playmaking safety who is sort 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:53.200 of a Tyrann Matthew clone. And it's not a coincidence 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.440 that Todd Bowles has him on that Tampa Bay team, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.720 that he targeted him in the draft, that this is 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.880 a guy that I want in my secondary And I says, 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.280 I think also ever said it says a lot about 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:08.280 him what you're talking about as a rookie. He's got 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.359 the confidence in his own abilities that he stands up 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.600 to a Tyree Hill or whatever. But aside from that, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.000 you know, Bowles was at Arizona when Tyron Matthew was 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.680 drafted by the Cardinals. I think Bowles when he saw 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.760 Winfield in this draft he could have a Tyrn Matthew 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.159 type player in his secondary and he showed it. I mean, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.520 he played at a level this season where he along 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.399 with Chase Young with Washington or Neck and Neck NFL 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.640 defensive Rookies of the Year. I believe, all right, But 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.200 then the one sequence in this game, with all the 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.800 talk about Tom Brady and everything, got the end of 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.040 the first half when Brady's thrown for the end zone, 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.600 gets PI call, and then he's got it right on 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:56.280 the goal line with precious seconds left, and it's Tyrn 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.280 Matthew and Antonio Brown, and Antonio Brown runs a little 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.760 pivot move in the end zone on Tyron Matthew. Brady 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.560 Brady fires a missile into his gut for the touchdown 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.639 that that gave them a lead that turned out to 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.560 be insurmountable. And then when Brady, you know the you 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.119 see the offensive lineman go up to Brown in the 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.479 end zone and Matthew's right there, and Brady goes up 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.359 there and he is shouting something in Tyron Matthew's ear. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.520 And then we had to piece it together later to 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.719 see exactly what happened there. And then Matthew comes at Brady. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:38.800 Matthew winds up getting a unsports flight conduct penalty. But 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.040 that whole sequence there, when you break it down to 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.240 one little sequence in the game, and you've got the 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.800 star power on both sides, Brady Honey, Badger, Antonio Brown 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.600 and his story scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.760 I just think that all came together there. That was 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.760 my favorite moment of the entire game right there. Well, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.560 I have to say and two things about that, by 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.880 the way. Number one, to me, that was a BS 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.080 interference call in the end zone. If a dB, if 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.040 the dB can't hold his ground when the wide receiver 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.160 runs into him, uh, and then you get called for interference? 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:23.600 Are you serious? And then number two, so not to 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.640 mention the fact that probably was an uncatchable. Yeah, that's 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:31.040 the entire thing. And that also and that also right, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.560 and then on top of it, and and I kind 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:40.880 of liked the byplay between between Tom Brady and Tyrant Matthew. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.760 But Brady got his saying, and then when Matthew got 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.600 his saying, maybe what he said was it as as 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.320 cordial and he gets the fifteen yard penalty, not Tom, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.520 you know who kind of instigated a little bit. I 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.560 have a feeling that what Brady said wasn't very cordial 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.040 either by an apology, So how do you how do 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.640 you he wasn't saying good coverage on that play? I'm 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.000 pretty sure that wasn't a message. How does that? How 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.000 does that? You know? Where's the equitable in that? You know? 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.440 It's like, come on, you know, it was like it 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.200 was like that early it was like that early personal 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.240 fill on was it Chris Jones where the offensive lineman 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.679 uh shoved the Tampa Bay offensive linemen shoved him and 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.920 he shoved him back, and then he got the fifteen 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.080 It's like, hey, watched the game, and you know that 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:32.919 that's the kind of thing that I was. I was 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.480 not happy about when I think that kind of started 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.600 to ruin it for me from the get they were 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.720 too involved in the game. Itself. You know, this is 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.840 a game to where as Bill said, all these stars, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:53.000 the star polo, You've got the storyline, Uh, just everything 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.160 coming together. You've got the coaches with their own stories. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.400 This is a team coming back to the Super Bowl 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.560 getting handled that the offending champions. They're getting handled. They 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.560 looked like they didn't even want to play the moment 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.640 they came out of the shoot. They didn't look ready 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.760 to play. So yes, all of that dynamic. Referee should 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.920 let that play out, especially when you're talking about that 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.359 law plant. It's almost as if the referee it was 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.160 a late flag. It's almost as if he was considering 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:26.000 should I put my inject myself into the situation or not, 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:30.400 and he decided to do that. That was a bad call. 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.119 It may not have had anything to do with the 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.199 overall result of the game, but it probably would have 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.280 made it a little bit more exciting because once they 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.200 got down there, Once Tampa Bay was recipient of these flags, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:50.320 you could see Kansas City's defense realizing we don't play 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.880 well from behind, and they never have played well from 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.960 behind because you're dealing with a defense that has always 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:02.440 had the luxury of playing from ahead because of Kansas City. Now, 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.840 the other thing that let me say this bill before 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:10.119 we go, I talked about how the offensive lineman was 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:16.480 so critical for Kansas City's offense as you finally realize 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:22.040 they have extremely long developing plays. And when you're talking 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.520 about bringing Tywree Hill from one sideline bringing motion and 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.240 you got them running all the way through the secondary 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.240 somehow ending up way over there on I twenty somewhere, 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.760 it takes time for that to happen. And when you 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:38.880 see that, you have no time for that. Every time 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.800 my homes was to drop back, they didn't make the 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:46.320 adjustment to go to quicker hitting plays. They wanted to 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:48.720 go with the big play over and over again. I 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.760 think they start to read their whole news clippings and 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:53.920 thinking that that is the way you're supposed to only 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.120 win games, and they decide to go with the phenomenal 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:03.200 as opposed to going with the consistent, safe, conservative route 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:07.080 and drive it down the field. So what does what 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.480 does that remind you of? By the way the Cowboys 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.919 play Atlanta in twenty seventeen when they refused to put 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.600 a tight end next to the poor tackle who couldn't 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.680 stand up there, or early this season, when they were 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.359 having trouble with these young tackles to not go to 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.720 tight end more often and call shorter plays that they 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:31.959 finally figured out down the line, but not immediately. I 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:33.880 was sit there to go, why aren't you going too 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:38.120 tight ends? These tackles are terrible. They cannot hold up 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:42.120 against this defensive line. Why don't you flags They had 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.160 to know that they would have issues because your tackles 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.520 are down, so you would think that they would have 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.720 that in the back pocket ready for the adjustment. Well, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:52.960 and I read a quote from Andy Reid early in 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:55.600 the week and he basically said, yeah, you know what 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.879 we got on our offensive line isn't pretty. It's like, 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:01.760 no kidding, it's not pretty. But you didn't have to 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:08.760 have them prove it to you. Goodness great, all right, 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.720 we need to take a break here. 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There have been at times Mickey and 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:57.960 Everson youth football teams who have conducted their workouts there 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:02.119 on the football field there and uh with parents socially 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:06.119 distanced and so forth, there's been activity throughout the season. 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:10.560 Last night, I was at the Mavericks game and in 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:15.080 Victory Park in downtown Dallas. Uh, they actually had fifteen 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:18.760 hundred fans that the first fans in attendance at an 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:22.720 NBA game in Dallas since March eleventh, when the pandemic began. 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:31.000 The Mavericks invited fifteen fifteen hundred vaccinated essential workers, gave 0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:34.320 them free tickets to the game. But it was it 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:37.320 was like a ghost town down there in Victory Park, 0:27:37.440 --> 0:27:42.160 still in downtown Dallas yesterday. You know, you don't have 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.400 the fans. When when you don't have the fans around 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:49.200 an event, you really realize how much you miss fans 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:53.640 at at games and taking it to the National Football League, 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:57.800 and it's remarkable to see what the NFL has been 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:03.000 able to pull off and having a season, and obviously 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.880 in Dallas with up to thirty thousand fans in the stands, 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.000 and being able to do it safely and get all 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:12.280 the way through the Super Bowl. You know, there's not 0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:15.200 a lot of people Mickey six months ago who thought 0:28:15.200 --> 0:28:18.760 it was possible that everything would come off, and there 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:21.520 were hiccups along the way, bumps in the road, obviously 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.919 along the way, but to be able to play the 0:28:23.960 --> 0:28:27.560 Super Bowl on time was pretty remarkable considering where we 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:29.399 were six months ago. Not to say we're out of 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:32.960 it by any means. Yeah, and you're absolutely right. And 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:36.720 you know, I had written last week on Dallas Cowboys 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:41.640 dot com about the accomplishment of the NFL having getting 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:45.800 ready to play a Super Bowl on time, that no 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:49.880 games were canceled. Now they one or two what postponed 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:53.920 along the way, and it wasn't perfect, But if you 0:28:54.040 --> 0:28:57.920 looked at what took place over the course of the 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:03.640 season to get to that point where other leagues you know, 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:06.680 had to either go in a bubble or they had 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:09.840 to you know, cancel games once they started up again, 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:13.400 uh and postpone them. To the fact that they got 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:17.160 there on time, I thought not only was remarkable about 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.920 what the league did, but I think a tribute to 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:26.520 the players uh for keeping themselves uh basically for the 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:34.560 majority uh you know, quarantine and themselves, and for their families, 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:37.840 the families and the medical staffs too. By the way, 0:29:37.880 --> 0:29:41.720 and and since I mentioned that, also should point out 0:29:41.800 --> 0:29:46.920 that this year's ed Block NFL Athletic Training Staff UH 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:51.760 of the Year was the Dallas Cowboys. Uh So, kudos 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:56.120 to Jim Mauer and britt Brown Gaither and Hanson Yang 0:29:56.800 --> 0:30:01.360 for the job they did with this team right with 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:03.920 the amount of injuries that they had to deal with, 0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:07.680 dealing with the pandemic, and Jim was the guy that 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:13.200 was the lead of their COVID nineteen response team. For 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:15.800 them to get this team to the end of the season, 0:30:15.840 --> 0:30:19.560 and I think they only had what two three guys 0:30:19.800 --> 0:30:24.280 miss a game or having to go into quarantine. I 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:29.880 thought was quite remarkable that that took place. But yeah, 0:30:30.200 --> 0:30:33.040 just to see this come off the way it did, 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:40.840 it was I thought, uh, quite quite an accomplishment. I 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:45.720 don't have to say, Guys, looking at this situation and 0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:48.960 looking like where we are right now sports trying to 0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:53.680 play sports in the pandemic, that ed Block award, that's 0:30:53.720 --> 0:30:59.360 probably the most important ed Block award ever issued. We 0:30:59.440 --> 0:31:03.760 have never had a situation like this, and the teams 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:08.840 that handled it better ended up being in the Super Bowl. 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:12.200 But you have to look at the other way, the 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:18.360 teams that were presented with unusual circumstances and for the 0:31:18.440 --> 0:31:20.440 Cowboys to be able to come out of the head 0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:24.720 on that and be recognized that's pretty good, Spags. I 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.680 mean you, I'm sure they take credit all the time. 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:31.880 Any ed Block Award recipients take credit, take they really 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:33.920 take a lot of pride in that. I would think 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:37.200 this particular time you would have to take even more 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:39.640 pride because of the situation that's going on. Should have 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:44.400 been part of the Saturday Night NFL Honors show they 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:48.840 gave out all the awards, along with introducing the new 0:31:49.320 --> 0:31:53.520 guys elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, you know, 0:31:53.720 --> 0:31:58.480 Man of the Year, MVP Offensive Defense, the whole thing, right, 0:31:58.760 --> 0:32:01.200 this should have been in their because of just what 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.480 all right? And one other note on that. The other 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:10.640 thing that that's amazing about it from the from a 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:15.480 football standpoint in the NFL is just from a scheduling standpoint, 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:18.720 you don't have the same wiggle room that as far 0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:22.160 as postponing games as what you do in other sports. 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:24.720 I mean, in basketball, you can you can play three 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:27.000 or four games in a week two months from now 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:30.240 if you need to postpone games. In the NFL, you 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.760 had bye weeks that you could play around with, but 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:35.320 other than that, there wasn't any wiggle room to get 0:32:35.320 --> 0:32:39.760 the calendar done in advance. We saw it throughout college football. 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:42.480 So many teams had to not just postpone games, they 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:45.680 had to cancel games and play shortened seasons. And for 0:32:45.760 --> 0:32:49.120 all teams to be able to play sixteen games and 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:51.640 then to have the playoffs come off without a hitch 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:53.880 is something else, all right, as far as the Hall 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:58.400 of Fame goes, that Saturday Night Show Drew Pearson discovers 0:32:58.560 --> 0:33:01.560 as he was called to a meeting, a business meeting, 0:33:01.800 --> 0:33:05.320 talking real estate with Jerry Jones and Roger Staboch and 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:08.600 then lo and behold who shows up David Baker? How 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:11.840 about that knocking at the door. So here here is 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:16.760 the greatest this might be the greatest upset in NFL history, 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:22.200 That this secret was kept for nearly two weeks, right, 0:33:22.520 --> 0:33:27.960 two weeks because these guys knew, right, and not even 0:33:28.000 --> 0:33:32.400 the people on the forty eight members and the Seniors 0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:36.320 Committee member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting committee, 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.960 they didn't know what the results were, but they had 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:44.920 voted the middle of January, but they didn't know who 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:49.280 made it. Well, the NFL, the Pro Football Hall of 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:52.680 Fame knew, and they went to all these spots, right, 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:59.120 and they they basically told everybody who made it at 0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:02.600 least a week or two before the announcement, and the 0:34:02.640 --> 0:34:05.320 secret was kept. No one let the cat out of 0:34:05.360 --> 0:34:08.279 the bag. And I'll tell you what. I talked to 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:12.400 Drew Pearson on Thursday and not knowing how the whole 0:34:12.400 --> 0:34:14.399 thing was gonna work, and I said, Hey, I'm gonna 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.440 write this. I'm not going to ask you anything about 0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:19.520 you know, you know your thoughts. I said, I don't 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.920 want to jinx you. I said, are you going? Will 0:34:22.960 --> 0:34:25.279 you be in Tampa? And he goes, yeah, I'm leaving 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:27.840 tomorrow to go to Tampa. And I go, do you 0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:30.120 know how they're gonna tell you? And he goes, no, 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:32.520 they haven't said how they're gonna let us know. It's 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:35.120 it's a zoom call or if they're knock on the door. 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:39.239 But I found out. I said, Oh, Drew played it 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:44.120 pretty well because he already knew and and good for him, 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:49.440 you know that was that was just side story. But God, long, long, 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:53.239 long overdue for a guy that played the level he 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:56.880 did the things that he did. Finished his career in 0:34:57.120 --> 0:35:00.840 nineteen eighty three, so eighty four on he had to 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:04.960 wait his five years and then thirty three years in 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:07.960 the making to get in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:11.040 It was a big mystery why it took so long. 0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.400 But as he told me before he went, he goes, 0:35:14.480 --> 0:35:17.440 you know what, he goes. As long as you get 0:35:17.560 --> 0:35:21.399 in he goes, you won't think about the weight he goes. 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:24.480 This was this would be big to me, and he 0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:27.279 said this would be big to my family, and I'm 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:33.680 sure it was on both cases. I think t might 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:37.520 be the only one that might disagree with you on Nett. Well, 0:35:37.560 --> 0:35:40.799 you know what, And if you remember, one of your 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.919 teammates with the Giants, Harry Carson, was you know, kind 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:46.440 of butt hurt because it took him so long to 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:49.120 go in. But at least when it was time to 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:53.000 go in, he went in graciously. He didn't you know, 0:35:53.280 --> 0:35:56.719 yes he did. It sounded like he might not show up, 0:35:56.760 --> 0:35:58.600 but he did. I mean, it's a once in a 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:03.400 lifetime thing. You know, you can't hold that grudge because 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.919 you know now you're gonna be in and people will 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:10.120 be able. And this is what I've always said, guys 0:36:10.520 --> 0:36:13.840 about the Pro Football Hall of Fame, any Hall of Fame, 0:36:15.400 --> 0:36:19.640 it's their job to preserve the top stories in the 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:23.120 National Football League because They're gonna be a point where 0:36:23.120 --> 0:36:25.440 none of us are going to be around to let 0:36:25.480 --> 0:36:28.480 anybody know about the Hall Mary. There's none of us 0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:32.440 gonna be around to know about some of the other 0:36:32.480 --> 0:36:36.480 big plays. So stats are one thing, but the history 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:39.640 of the league and the stories need to be preserved, 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.879 and the job of the Pro Football Hall of Fame 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:45.879 to do that. So you know, fifty years from now, 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:49.040 somebody's gonna walk in there and go, oh, so this 0:36:49.120 --> 0:36:52.200 is how this Hall Mary started. Right, those are the 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.680 things that need to preserve. And I'm not trying to 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.520 blow smoke up ever since here, but there's stories that 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:02.560 of his career that need to be preserved, right, There's 0:37:02.640 --> 0:37:06.239 stories of Darren Woodson's career that need to be preserved, 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:10.920 and and let's do let's get it going. Let's let's 0:37:10.960 --> 0:37:13.640 get this thing done. So when I go into the 0:37:13.640 --> 0:37:18.640 Hall of Fame like I did, gosh more than probably 0:37:18.760 --> 0:37:24.120 twenty twenty three, twenty four years ago, when I went 0:37:24.400 --> 0:37:29.880 into the Olympic Hall of Fame in Switzerland, and I 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:33.120 got to go to a video board and punch Bob Hayes, 0:37:33.680 --> 0:37:38.600 and up came his winning one hundred meter dash in 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:41.520 the Olympics. Right, Those are the things that need to 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:44.560 be preserved, not you know, not just because he won 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.520 a gold medal or two gold medals, but you got 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:50.839 to preserve that story. I had never I've heard of it, 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:55.080 I'd never seen it, and I've rarely seen a hundred 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:58.520 yard dash or one hundred meter dash where the guy 0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:01.719 that won was not hanging on at the end. He 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:05.359 was continuing to pull away from the field. That's how 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:12.239 impressive Bob hayes hundred meter victory was. I told you 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:17.040 a long time, agost Bags. My first memory of football 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:22.719 professional football was Don Meredith to Bob Hayes, and they 0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:26.000 tried it almost every week, more than once, because it 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:28.680 took Bob a little while to learn how to catch 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:31.479 the ball. He was so busy running. He wasn't really 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:35.000 that good of a receiver, and eventually he ended up 0:38:35.040 --> 0:38:38.560 being a serious threat to where he when he talked 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:42.399 about stories, he actually changed the game. He was like 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:45.000 Kareem or will chamber him when they stopped him from 0:38:45.040 --> 0:38:48.320 duncing the ball. You know, they had to change the rules, 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:52.720 and with Bob they had to start playing zone. Zone 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:56.360 didn't even it didn't even there was no zone word. 0:38:56.520 --> 0:38:59.759 It wasn't used in that manner until Bob Hayes came 0:38:59.760 --> 0:39:03.200 a yes, you're right about those story spects, you know, 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.399 and one that one that and I know we're getting off, 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:09.360 but one that he told me, and what the meredith 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:14.400 passed the It was the record long nineties some yards? 0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:19.120 Was it ninety? Whatever? It was. So I remember interviewing 0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:20.960 him and I asked him, I said, so, how did 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.080 all that? I mean, what was the play? How did 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.080 all that work? He goes, well, we got in the 0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:31.360 huddle and and and it was cold. I think it Cleveland, Pittsburgh, 0:39:31.480 --> 0:39:35.040 something like that. The Cowboys were winning, and and and 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:38.120 he basically said, he said, I got in the huddle 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:42.279 and he said. Don looked at me and he goes, hey, Bobby, 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:46.080 it's cold. We've got this thing sewed up. He goes, 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:49.200 I need to get to the bench and have a cigarette. 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:51.400 He goes, so, why don't you just run down the 0:39:51.440 --> 0:39:54.239 field as fast as you can and I'll throw it too. 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:58.560 That's how that play was designed. And they're real. That's 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:00.320 a real man. Let me let me those of the 0:40:00.440 --> 0:40:03.600 bench that have a s I don't need to be 0:40:03.640 --> 0:40:07.000 out here any longer. But those are the things. That's 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:10.120 that's part of the Hall of Fame. It's not all statistics. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:13.000 And unfortunately, I think in this day and age, in 0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:17.040 our analytical day and age, we worry more about numbers 0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:22.440 than we worry about the stories of the league. I 0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:26.120 gotta disagree with you in regards to numbers, Spags. If 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:28.880 it was numbers, Ben Drew would have already been in 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:33.600 before len Swan. If there was numbers, then I'd already 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:39.640 been before Brian Dawkins. And if it was numbers, Cornell 0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:44.480 Green would have been in before Lynch. So you know, 0:40:44.560 --> 0:40:49.720 you look at these newly voted in guys, and as 0:40:50.080 --> 0:40:53.960 we get older, the seniors are falling further and further behind. 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:56.959 I mean, when I had my opportunity a few years ago, 0:40:57.360 --> 0:41:00.520 and that was my last modern day opportunity. After that, 0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:02.440 I went into the senior So they say, what happens 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:04.600 next evers? I said, well, now I have to go 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:08.360 back and get in line behind all those guys, you know, 0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:11.600 all the dead people, guys in wheelchairs, the guys who 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:16.680 you know older than me that still deserve recognition. Ken Riley, 0:41:16.960 --> 0:41:21.640 Ken Riley, that's the story playing for the lowly Cincinnati Bengals. 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:25.200 His entire career. You're know how difficult it is to 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:29.879 play defensive back well on a team that sucks your 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.920 entire career. I don't know how he played, how long 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:35.120 he played. I think it was around fifteen years. The 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:39.520 guy ended up with sixty five interceptions of whatever. He 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:43.160 has never I don't think ever even been considered for 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:46.280 Hall of Fame. So to me, if it was numbers, 0:41:46.680 --> 0:41:48.719 these guys would already be in. What it is now, 0:41:48.719 --> 0:41:53.520 it's facts, It's all about exposure, it's all about noted riety. 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:56.120 It's all about Okay, how many TV shows are you on? 0:41:56.640 --> 0:42:00.280 You know your buddies, you know with your particulars city, 0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:02.880 or how good your Hall of Fame voter is, and 0:42:02.960 --> 0:42:06.040 how much juice he has. So to me, your numbers 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:08.319 are not it. It has gone into a total other 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.600 realm when he comes to social media and exposure and 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:15.080 people on TV. There's no way Howey Long should be 0:42:15.120 --> 0:42:18.000 in the Hall of Fame before Harvey Martin. So if 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:20.799 there was about numbers, then we'd be talking about a 0:42:20.880 --> 0:42:25.800 whole different thing. I think they need many more senior writers, 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:30.399 or at least writers, regardless of how old they are, 0:42:30.920 --> 0:42:34.200 to have some type of empathy towards the guys that 0:42:34.360 --> 0:42:36.840 played before me and some of the guys that played 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:40.240 after me, who are now pretty much forgotten about because 0:42:40.360 --> 0:42:43.160 now we're into the now. Everything's into the now, everything's 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:45.879 into the new. No one wants to talk about when 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:47.960 we used to run the ball on first and second down, 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:51.080 dent thow on third down. But yet Ken Riley still 0:42:51.160 --> 0:42:56.120 ends up with sixty plus interceptions, So that just lets 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:58.439 you know how good he was and what a ball 0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:02.640 hawk he was. Guys himself, Cornell Green, people that really 0:43:02.680 --> 0:43:05.239 need to be in there as Dallas Cowboys. They need 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:09.680 to have someone devoted to not just of course old cowboys, 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:12.719 all those players back in the day that we are 0:43:12.800 --> 0:43:17.120 trying so quickly to forget about. I still remember those 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:20.480 guys because of my age, and they inspired me. So 0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:23.560 when they're to the day I die, I'm going I'm 0:43:23.600 --> 0:43:27.160 going down fighting for them as well as myself. You know, 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:30.319 you think it impacted John Lynch's chances to get in 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:33.400 this year that Tony Dungee got added to the selection committee. 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:36.319 How does he get in ahead of Darren Woodson If 0:43:36.320 --> 0:43:39.880 you're talking safety, that's what I'm saying. Well, Tony Dungee 0:43:39.960 --> 0:43:42.200 was on the selection committee this year. He coached him, 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:45.120 you know. And and the one thing they have done 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:48.480 ever since is with the senior committee. Uh, they have 0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:51.799 these older writers there that have seen these things. And 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:57.879 I borrowed these stats from Rick Goslin, who had been 0:43:57.960 --> 0:44:00.560 here at the Dallas Morning News and he's on the 0:44:00.600 --> 0:44:04.680 senior committee that nominate these senior deals. He pointed out, 0:44:05.320 --> 0:44:09.160 and this was back when they first started thinking about 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:13.120 this year and who was gonna be nominated. There's twenty 0:44:13.160 --> 0:44:17.880 two NFL First Team All Decade selections in the seventies. 0:44:18.360 --> 0:44:22.560 Twenty one of them have butts busts in Canton. The 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:26.520 only one that didn't it was Drew Pearson. They're ten 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:31.320 wide receivers who caught passes in the nineteen seventies in Canton, 0:44:31.760 --> 0:44:35.120 and he listed all of them, No, Drew Pearson. And 0:44:35.200 --> 0:44:39.399 from nineteen thirty, get this, from nineteen thirty through twenty ten, 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:44.080 a span of eight decades, there were seventeen wide receivers 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:50.080 selected First Team All decade. Sixteen of them are in Canton, 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:54.760 the loan exception Drew Pearson. So how do you figure 0:44:55.160 --> 0:45:00.120 that this thing continued to go this long before? And 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:03.359 not only you know, till he got in, but the 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:06.600 fact that when they came up with last year's deal 0:45:06.680 --> 0:45:09.799 with they were going to have the centennial celebration and 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.239 they were gonna put in twenty guys to make up 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:14.920 for what they missed, and Drew was one of the 0:45:15.080 --> 0:45:19.960 selections to be voted into the twenty and he got denied, 0:45:20.239 --> 0:45:22.560 and it was like, gosh, how cruel can it be? 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:26.680 And the guy that was the second team ya all 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:30.840 decades in the seventies was voted ahead of him, and 0:45:31.000 --> 0:45:35.000 Harold Carmich, Harold Carmichael right, who finished his finished his 0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:41.399 career with you right, that was my buddy. 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Coach Schattenheimer 0:49:08.200 --> 0:49:11.160 passed away at the age of seventy seven, and we 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:13.880 should point out that how what kind of impact that 0:49:14.000 --> 0:49:17.920 Marty Schottenheimer had on Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy's career. 0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:22.880 Of course, McCarthy got his first NFL job working for 0:49:23.040 --> 0:49:27.680 the fellow Pittsburgh native, Marty Schottenheimer with the Kansas City Chiefs. 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:32.759 He he McCarthy came to the University of Pittsburgh where 0:49:32.760 --> 0:49:35.480 he was an assistant coach, and was hired by the Chiefs. 0:49:37.080 --> 0:49:39.960 Did quality control for him first and worked up the 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:43.480 ranks with Schottenheimer and the Chiefs throughout his time there, 0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:46.680 which was through nineteen ninety eight, so I believe McCarthy 0:49:46.719 --> 0:49:48.839 would have been with him for six years or so. 0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:54.040 McCarthy spoke with Rick Goslin, of course, Goslin was in 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:56.560 Kansas City covering the Chiefs at the time. Was very 0:49:56.560 --> 0:49:59.960 close to Schottenheimer. He tweeted about him a little while ago, 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:05.120 but he had this quote from McCarthy on Schottenheimer saying, 0:50:05.160 --> 0:50:08.120 if it wasn't for Marty Schottenheimer, I wouldn't be saying 0:50:08.160 --> 0:50:11.200 this because I wouldn't be where I am today. Marty 0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:14.719 gave me my first NFL opportunity in nineteen ninety three, 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:17.040 but it was so much more than that. He gave 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:21.040 this young coach a roadmap for life. Marty's fingerprints can 0:50:21.080 --> 0:50:23.239 still be felt all over so many things I do 0:50:23.320 --> 0:50:25.560 every day as a coach, but it is what he 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:29.440 taught me as a man that I'll be forever grateful for. Professionally, 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:31.959 Marty was the first man I saw open his heart 0:50:32.360 --> 0:50:36.879 and emotionally reveal himself. He was Pittsburgh Proud and the 0:50:36.880 --> 0:50:41.160 definition of authenticity and genuineness. The six years I spent 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:44.359 with him were the most important and impactful years of 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:48.880 my coaching career. He was always teaching and emphasizing. Even 0:50:48.880 --> 0:50:51.040 in my first game as a head coach in two 0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:54.839 thousand and six, which happened to be against Marty, it 0:50:54.920 --> 0:50:58.440 was ugly. After the game. When we shook hands, he 0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:02.360 patted me on the back said, kid, trust me, it'll 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:05.359 get better, but don't ever forget. Make sure to do 0:51:05.400 --> 0:51:08.560 it your own way. Almost fifteen years later, I still 0:51:08.640 --> 0:51:15.279 lean on those words anyway. I think I think the 0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:20.839 impact that Marty Schottenheimer had on Mike McCarthy was profound. 0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:23.960 And if you look at coaches around the league and 0:51:24.040 --> 0:51:26.560 players around the league ever since, you probably have stories 0:51:26.600 --> 0:51:31.440 of coaches that are people that impacted you. And Schottenheimer 0:51:31.560 --> 0:51:35.160 is that guy for Mike McCarthy. Yeah, I was. I 0:51:35.239 --> 0:51:39.560 was never Uh we didn't play Cincinnati much when Schottenheimer 0:51:39.719 --> 0:51:42.880 was there, but I do recall how that he was 0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:47.320 part of that that chain of coaches that really brought 0:51:47.360 --> 0:51:51.200 in that West Coast offense, and that's where it became 0:51:51.239 --> 0:52:00.480 a problem for me because the West Coast offense was had. 0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:05.759 We never had the same rhythm playing against a West 0:52:05.800 --> 0:52:07.880 Coast offense. It was something I had to adjust to 0:52:08.040 --> 0:52:10.719 with forty nine ers and of course, uh with Bill 0:52:10.760 --> 0:52:14.799 Walsh and I think Shottenhammer they have a connection as well. So, yeah, 0:52:14.840 --> 0:52:17.960 the coaches that that really had an impact on me, 0:52:18.520 --> 0:52:20.760 most of them are gone. Most of them are gone, 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:24.360 and uh, I think as you look at it, Jane 0:52:24.440 --> 0:52:27.920 Stallings was the one that had the biggest impact. Not 0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:34.200 necessarily so positive, but you know we ended up, you know, 0:52:34.280 --> 0:52:39.000 really respecting each other, and uh, you know, first meeting 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:41.440 wasn't that great. But you know, coaches just have to 0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:44.120 realize and I think they do as much as they're 0:52:44.160 --> 0:52:46.440 trying to, you know, keep their own feed, their own 0:52:46.440 --> 0:52:48.960 family and things of that nature. You know, there's a 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.880 there's a trust that has to be there between player 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:56.360 and coach, and and when that trust is there, it 0:52:56.480 --> 0:53:01.680 can change friendships. You know. To this Hey, Jene calls 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:05.680 me Edvy, not Everson. You know, that's his term of 0:53:05.840 --> 0:53:09.320 endearment for me, because when he first met me he 0:53:09.400 --> 0:53:16.680 called me boy. So that was an improvement. Heck, he 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:18.879 had it, all right, he had our attention. He had 0:53:18.920 --> 0:53:21.120 it impact on me. The first time I tried to 0:53:21.120 --> 0:53:23.280 ask him a question and he didn't like the question. 0:53:23.320 --> 0:53:28.239 And I said, oh, okay, he gives you that look. 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:30.360 He gives you that Bear Bryant look. You don't like 0:53:30.400 --> 0:53:37.319 it too much, Okay, voice like Bear Bryant. I think 0:53:37.360 --> 0:53:42.520 it's time to go. Somebody's hungry. That ever, ever from 0:53:42.520 --> 0:53:49.240 your house. It's not from my house, all right, Well, 0:53:49.280 --> 0:53:52.040 maybe that you know what that was that was a 0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:57.760 tribute to Marty Schottenheimer Brown's He had out to Brown's 0:53:57.800 --> 0:54:03.439 head coach when the dog Pound got started. The dog 0:54:03.560 --> 0:54:07.240 bound at Everson's house with a shout out to praise 0:54:07.280 --> 0:54:10.279 for Marty Schadenheimer right there. All right, let's turn our 0:54:10.320 --> 0:54:12.640 attention to what the Cowboys they're going to be doing 0:54:12.840 --> 0:54:16.719 here as the we're a little over a month away 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:19.920 from the start of the new year in the NFL 0:54:20.000 --> 0:54:23.120 free agency. There's a there's some things that the Cowboys 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:25.479 are going to be doing preparing for the draft as well. 0:54:25.640 --> 0:54:27.680 We've got don't have the combine, but it's going to 0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:31.879 be very interesting how they scout players this year. And 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:37.480 we we're turning the calendar the page to officially now 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:42.360 Mickey to twenty twenty one. Yes, and first point of 0:54:42.400 --> 0:54:47.800 business for the Cowboys will be to um to try 0:54:48.080 --> 0:54:51.759 to get together with Dak Prescott and both parties knock 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:56.839 out a long term deal that are very delicate we 0:54:56.920 --> 0:55:01.200 see for these quarterbacks right now. So I think that's 0:55:01.320 --> 0:55:05.960 probably their first line of business. And by the way, 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:10.879 we found out over the weekend that Dak had a 0:55:10.960 --> 0:55:17.000 clean up surgery on his ankle that he broke and fractured. 0:55:17.960 --> 0:55:23.319 So from a physical standpoint, it sounds like that was 0:55:23.360 --> 0:55:26.399 a good thing to take place. He needed it, so 0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:30.160 that's got to get done. And then to me, the 0:55:30.640 --> 0:55:34.239 second line of business is this is going to go 0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:37.400 back where we started the show, is to figure out 0:55:37.800 --> 0:55:44.560 the future health of their offensive tackles, because there's a 0:55:44.560 --> 0:55:49.600 lot of offensive tackles available in this draft, and I 0:55:49.640 --> 0:55:52.640 don't know that you need to use another first round 0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:57.680 pick on an offensive lineman, but they've got to figure 0:55:57.719 --> 0:56:02.120 out from a medical standpoint, well, Powans, how's the hip? 0:56:02.400 --> 0:56:07.239 Is it ready to go? With Tyrn Smith having had 0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:12.080 the surgery disurgery in his neck, U did it clear 0:56:12.200 --> 0:56:14.920 up all those things that have been bothering him for 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:17.600 the last couple of years and is he ready to go? 0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:21.600 Because if that's the case, then to me, you don't 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:24.560 take an offensive lineman with that first round pick. You 0:56:24.680 --> 0:56:27.560 got other things that you need to take care of defensively. 0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:32.800 But by the third round, to me, I think you've 0:56:32.840 --> 0:56:37.040 just got a template right there of you better have 0:56:37.480 --> 0:56:42.080 a credible backup offensive tackle to to be able to 0:56:42.080 --> 0:56:45.040 step in and bail you out and not get in 0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:48.480 the situation they've been at that situation at that position 0:56:48.520 --> 0:56:54.839 for the last four or five years. Well, I am 0:56:54.880 --> 0:56:58.960 a different I am under a different mindset, Spags. We 0:56:59.080 --> 0:57:01.960 just talked about how important it was for your defense 0:57:02.000 --> 0:57:06.279 to play well, and how Todd Bows was blessed with 0:57:06.520 --> 0:57:11.279 some of the best active linebackers in the NFL. I 0:57:11.480 --> 0:57:15.480 was a product of that. In regards to the New 0:57:15.560 --> 0:57:22.960 York Giants, Pepper Johnson Lt. Gary Reasons, you know Steve Dice, 0:57:23.400 --> 0:57:25.760 when Dic went up there and playing with the three two, 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:28.120 I mean, he was just blew it up. I think 0:57:28.200 --> 0:57:32.560 we need some very active linebackers, or at least somehow 0:57:32.920 --> 0:57:35.800 take the ones you have and try and create a 0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:39.640 space for them to be active and get them more 0:57:39.760 --> 0:57:43.080 contact with the ball, because that is one of our 0:57:43.120 --> 0:57:45.160 weakest points on our team. I think it's the most 0:57:45.240 --> 0:57:49.320 the second most important union on our squad behind the 0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:52.920 offensive line. And I said this the other day, and 0:57:53.040 --> 0:57:55.880 I hope I'm wrong, Spats, please rebuke me if you 0:57:56.000 --> 0:58:00.160 feel like it. There is a chance, and I'm afraid 0:58:00.200 --> 0:58:03.160 there may be a chance that Dak Prescott will not 0:58:03.240 --> 0:58:09.920 be here with the Dallas Cowboys if negotiations continue with 0:58:10.000 --> 0:58:13.720 the same attitude, because it seems like that they are 0:58:13.760 --> 0:58:18.400 still so far apart, and the injury itself. I think 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:21.760 that is an X factor that is going to determine 0:58:21.880 --> 0:58:25.600 whether the Cowboys go into this negotiation with more vigor, 0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:28.720 go into it kind of looking over their shoulder and 0:58:28.760 --> 0:58:32.320 seeing what they got already. Please tell me I'm wrong. No, 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:37.280 I think he will be here. But here's the deal, 0:58:37.800 --> 0:58:42.439 and and and when anybody talks about this is like, well, 0:58:42.480 --> 0:58:44.760 why don't the Cowboys have him signed? You know he 0:58:44.840 --> 0:58:50.320 deserves this, he deserves that. Okay, fine, But from his camp, 0:58:50.760 --> 0:58:54.160 does he want to bet on himself again, knowing that 0:58:54.200 --> 0:58:57.120 he had an injury that could have ended his career 0:58:58.240 --> 0:59:03.120 and he turned his back on fifty five million dollars 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:07.240 in signing bonus and one hundred and ten guaranteed? Does 0:59:07.280 --> 0:59:10.480 he want to play that game again. I'm not a 0:59:10.480 --> 0:59:15.280 big gambler on financial stuff, right, but boy, if I 0:59:15.400 --> 0:59:18.560 got that sitting in front of me and I just 0:59:18.680 --> 0:59:21.280 had that surgery, I don't know if I want to 0:59:21.360 --> 0:59:24.360 roll the dice again that, oh yeah, I'll just take 0:59:24.400 --> 0:59:26.120 a one year deal and then I'll be a free 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:29.400 agent the next year. So I think there's two sides 0:59:29.440 --> 0:59:32.680 to that, but it has to get settled because we 0:59:32.920 --> 0:59:37.480 see the quarterback position is pretty important. But I agree 0:59:37.480 --> 0:59:40.680 with you on the linebacker thing. I agree with you 0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:44.280 on the linebacker thing. And I've only seen I think 0:59:44.360 --> 0:59:51.200 only one like, not edge player, but a linebacker, linebacker 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:54.880 to being mocked to be drafted in the first round. 0:59:54.920 --> 0:59:57.360 And it's the kid from You're gonna have to help 0:59:57.400 --> 0:59:59.920 me here, Bill from Penn State. Part is a parson. 1:00:00.760 --> 1:00:06.600 Uh he's He's the only linebacker I've seen mocked in 1:00:06.640 --> 1:00:12.040 the first round. You know what, I'll help you next 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:15.040 week with that, because now that the Super Bowl is over, 1:00:15.320 --> 1:00:17.919 it's time for me to dive into my big green 1:00:18.080 --> 1:00:21.440 NFL draft scouting notebook. It's that time of year again, 1:00:21.520 --> 1:00:25.600 Mickey Well and and I just think linebacker, you know, 1:00:25.680 --> 1:00:27.320 And it doesn't have to be the first round, but 1:00:27.440 --> 1:00:30.840 maybe the second round round. It does not have to 1:00:30.880 --> 1:00:33.040 be the first but you just have to hit because 1:00:33.040 --> 1:00:36.640 that linebacker position needs to be you know, you need 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:38.760 three of them if you're gonna play a four to three. 1:00:38.800 --> 1:00:40.800 And it sounds like Dan Quinn wants a play a 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:44.800 four to three, then you need three like it. You 1:00:44.920 --> 1:00:48.160 like that. Anthony Hitchins for the Chiefs heck, Damian Wilson 1:00:48.240 --> 1:00:55.960 started him and they were both fourth round draft picks. Yeah, there, 1:00:56.240 --> 1:01:00.040 there you go. So you just need exactly and and 1:01:00.480 --> 1:01:03.200 you know, and I understand the cornerback thing. What scares 1:01:03.200 --> 1:01:06.200 me on the cornerbacks that are talked highly of, they 1:01:06.240 --> 1:01:11.000 didn't play this last year, right, you know that. I 1:01:11.200 --> 1:01:14.600 worry about your ability to evaluate guys that did not 1:01:14.720 --> 1:01:18.480 play this last year. And I understand the opt out. 1:01:18.600 --> 1:01:22.120 I get it. I thoroughly get it. But to me, 1:01:22.240 --> 1:01:27.000 when I'm evaluating those guys, I would be a little 1:01:27.040 --> 1:01:30.919 bit hesitant to say, Okay, I've seen this guy play 1:01:30.960 --> 1:01:34.440 two years now, he's good. You know, I'm good to go. 1:01:34.640 --> 1:01:38.360 So you got to be careful there. So I just 1:01:38.480 --> 1:01:41.320 think this is your right Bill. This this offseason is 1:01:41.320 --> 1:01:45.240 going to be very very important for the Cowboys to 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:49.640 make good decisions. And ever since, you might be right 1:01:49.680 --> 1:01:51.720 there too. I just saw a little t s on 1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:54.880 the NFL network. They showed a picture a video of 1:01:54.960 --> 1:01:58.120 Dak Prescott and the caption at the bottom of it 1:01:58.240 --> 1:02:02.920 was on the move question mark. Oh Yeah, that's what 1:02:03.000 --> 1:02:05.800 I love about the That's is what I love about 1:02:05.880 --> 1:02:08.840 the offseason. Just throw something out there. We can talk 1:02:08.880 --> 1:02:12.800 about right. Oh yeah, we're gonna stay it up. Bill. 1:02:13.160 --> 1:02:15.320 We're gonna stay it up the SPADs. Bill. We're gonna 1:02:15.360 --> 1:02:17.800 stay it up that right, So we'll stir it up 1:02:17.960 --> 1:02:21.000 next week. Will Dak Prescott be on the move? Will 1:02:21.040 --> 1:02:24.800 he still be with the Dallas Cowboys by next Tuesday 1:02:24.920 --> 1:02:28.560 when we reconvene here on mix shots. We'll see you 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:34.280 next week. Oh Go Cowboys. This has been a production 1:02:34.400 --> 1:02:38.120 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.