Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
Speaker 1: Shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, here we are. It's a Wednesday
Speaker 1: edition of Mick Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio here
Speaker 1: at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. And there's
Speaker 1: so much to talk about, and where or where do
Speaker 1: we start? Mickey Spagnola, where would you like to start? Build?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are back at practice indoors, indoors, and a
Speaker 1: shorter practice because they're getting ready for an uncommon opponent
Speaker 1: and they wanted Mike wanted the team to watch more film.
Speaker 1: I thought it was because they had a Sunday night
Speaker 1: game that was part of it, and they got back late.
Speaker 1: So he come on to keep him off his feet,
Speaker 1: off their feet a little bit longer, but it was
Speaker 1: going to be a shorter keep him off his feet
Speaker 1: and Dak yeah, well somebody somebody asked him about Dak
Speaker 1: and he said, well, he'll be limited, but this is
Speaker 1: going to be a limited practice. So if he's limited
Speaker 1: in a limited practice, he's probably full so everybody's limited.
Speaker 1: So everybody's limited today. So he was out there doing
Speaker 1: all the same stuff he's been doing, looking fine. Uh taken,
Speaker 1: And this time instead of continuing and do his rehab stuff,
Speaker 1: he was over with the quarterbacks and the centers taking
Speaker 1: their pre practice snaps and he was working with be honest,
Speaker 1: So that's done. If nothing, if he was going to play,
Speaker 1: there's the sign. So there's the sign right there. Right,
Speaker 1: he's status quo. That's what he wants through this limited
Speaker 1: practice and be a full go tomorrow. Yes, full practice absolutely. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've solved that riddle. Now what other riddle would
Speaker 1: you like to address? Hold on guys, you know that
Speaker 1: sneaky Now, they were very sneaky last week. So yeah,
Speaker 1: my feelings are hurt because I wasn't in on everything
Speaker 1: last week. Well i'll tell you what bags you should
Speaker 1: have told me, man, because I know you were in there.
Speaker 1: They got to feel very good about how it turned out,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they want to push the envelope
Speaker 1: any further. Okay, So next riddle, what about left tackle? Well, now,
Speaker 1: all we could see them do was their little position drills,
Speaker 1: and they were doing this, uh half a line most
Speaker 1: of the time, so it was three guys against two
Speaker 1: guys and a linebacker. They would act like they were
Speaker 1: the linebacker, right. So when they had the three man
Speaker 1: little deal out there passing guys off, there was a
Speaker 1: center be Idish, there was a guard Martin, and there
Speaker 1: was a tackle Lale Collins h on the right hand
Speaker 1: side of the center. Okay, so that's the way they
Speaker 1: were doing that drill. Now I'm not saying when they
Speaker 1: get in the team that's the way they're gonna line up,
Speaker 1: but if you see the left wing. But at one
Speaker 1: but at one point they had that I had to
Speaker 1: set you up. Okay, you can't. You can't tell the
Speaker 1: end right away. And then just before they chased us out,
Speaker 1: they did have a five man line out there. Terren
Speaker 1: Steele was to the left. So what do you hear
Speaker 1: yesterday here on Mike shots that that's probably what they
Speaker 1: would do. Because Terren Steele took naps in training camp
Speaker 1: at left tackle and tied and the Secki was standing
Speaker 1: off to the side watching And as far as I
Speaker 1: remember back, the last time Lyle Collins lined up as
Speaker 1: a left tackle was LSU, I would think so so
Speaker 1: so well was Tyland Smith doing this? He did not
Speaker 1: practice and as Mike said, Tyrant, he'd be hard pressed
Speaker 1: to play this week. Really, yes, So the bone spur
Speaker 1: must be a significant spur, you know, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't feel threatened by that at all. I don't. I
Speaker 1: think this team is starting to look look at the
Speaker 1: long haul, you know, or did you just look at
Speaker 1: the Broncos depth chart and their edge rushers. I don't
Speaker 1: care who it is. Okay, I'm not gonna lie. We
Speaker 1: know they don't have Von Miller anymore. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't care who's not been there. I can look it
Speaker 1: up for you. I don't care who it is U.
Speaker 1: And that's why I was here, that this team is
Speaker 1: starting to look long term, almost just automatically, and only
Speaker 1: because we have that bad luxury to do that, because
Speaker 1: of the talent that we have, because the depth that
Speaker 1: we have. I think this is the moment where you
Speaker 1: know how you run. They say it's a marathon, it's
Speaker 1: not a sprint, right, I'm looking at this season. It's
Speaker 1: not a marathon. Your career will be a marathon, you
Speaker 1: know I'm talking about This is like a This is
Speaker 1: like a four hundred. It's four hundred meters. My dad
Speaker 1: used to say, if you can go four hundred at
Speaker 1: that time, if you go four hundred forty yards when
Speaker 1: he told me this, he said, you can do anything
Speaker 1: in the world. That's what he told me. So you
Speaker 1: see the pace that you run in the four hundred,
Speaker 1: that's what this season is. Started off strong first one fifty.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to kind of just kind of cruise,
Speaker 1: not just kind of like flatlined, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: just flat road. It just flat roaded. Right now. We're
Speaker 1: not you know, we're not trying to blow everyone out.
Speaker 1: We're trying to I think we're trying to see how
Speaker 1: we're reacting to so many different scenarios. I think we're
Speaker 1: testing ourselves as we go along to see what scenarbios
Speaker 1: will work best for us. Here's what gives me confidence
Speaker 1: going forward if indeed they go that way, is that
Speaker 1: Monday when Mike talked about left tack or tackle whatever
Speaker 1: they might do, he said, well, we've got options. Basically
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you, but a lot will depend on
Speaker 1: game planning, so to me, and this is what gives
Speaker 1: you confidence. They have made the necessary moves to compensate
Speaker 1: for guys' absences. They haven't just told somebody, Okay, go
Speaker 1: in and do what Tyran does, or go in and
Speaker 1: do what Layo does. They've game planned using their resources
Speaker 1: to compensate for maybe a lack of talent at that
Speaker 1: spot because you've got somebody else stepping in. And I
Speaker 1: think last year in that regard was the old blessing
Speaker 1: about it because because we went through so much crap
Speaker 1: and we deal so many lessons, still paid a heavy
Speaker 1: price for having to play as an inexperienced starting tackle
Speaker 1: in the National Football League that he probably had no
Speaker 1: business in there right, but out of necessity, and he
Speaker 1: grew up. Let's look at from a team standpoint, defensively,
Speaker 1: it was the best thing to happened, because now we
Speaker 1: realize all those mistakes that we made, we're not making
Speaker 1: the same mistakes. We are learning from them, not just
Speaker 1: as individuals, but just as a team overall. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that to me, that's a sign of maturity. Don't
Speaker 1: come in here and think you're going to reinvent the
Speaker 1: wheel in one offseason that there was no off season
Speaker 1: and barely a training camp and no preseason but then
Speaker 1: you're going to do all of this exotic stuff on defense,
Speaker 1: and once again, you know created what creators do, I
Speaker 1: guess you know, as the as the second half of
Speaker 1: the season went down, defense actually started to get better. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, guys started to learn what was going on.
Speaker 1: So you kind of use that as momentum coming into
Speaker 1: this season. That's the only reason last season to me
Speaker 1: was you know, a little bit important, you know, for us.
Speaker 1: So you need to preach to the folks out there
Speaker 1: because I think there's a lot of fans out there
Speaker 1: might be people listening to us. I don't know that
Speaker 1: are they want to get excited about this team, but
Speaker 1: they're hesitant because they're scared. And it's like, okay, it's
Speaker 1: seven games in now, and we've seen some evidence that
Speaker 1: this thing could be pretty good. But what you got
Speaker 1: to remember is just enjoy the journey. Don't keep looking
Speaker 1: at the end. Right, Oh, they're not going to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bow. How about just you know, let's win
Speaker 1: the Yeast first, win a playoff game, maybe two, and
Speaker 1: then see what happens. But don't start looking at the
Speaker 1: end because you're scared. That's that's what I mean, That's
Speaker 1: what I mean, we're just flat We should just flat
Speaker 1: road it now. Keep your head down and keep just
Speaker 1: keep grinding, keep grinding. And you're not trying. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you're not trying to just blow everyone out. You're only
Speaker 1: playing to your potential each week. Don't put too much
Speaker 1: pressure on yourself. Understand that you have a long season
Speaker 1: to go to where you can still get better, but
Speaker 1: just at a proper pace. That's all it is, because
Speaker 1: it's all about timing going to the playoffs. It really
Speaker 1: is all about timing. That's why I want everyone to
Speaker 1: be shored up. And it kind of seems like we
Speaker 1: have that luxury this year. And in the NFL, when
Speaker 1: you have a good team, a contending type team, there
Speaker 1: are going to be some blowouts along the way. But
Speaker 1: just as easily those blowout wins, they could just as
Speaker 1: easily be a coin flip game too. You just you
Speaker 1: don't know. It just kind of you and it's overcoming
Speaker 1: obstacles along the way that makes the journey fun to
Speaker 1: watch it on a week to week basis. I mean,
Speaker 1: the last two weeks are two great cases in point.
Speaker 1: Each one of those games could have gone the other way,
Speaker 1: so we'd be sitting here four and three instead of
Speaker 1: six and one, if they have the Cooper doesn't get
Speaker 1: that right. I mean we can point to specific plays
Speaker 1: and both of those games that had that not happened
Speaker 1: or if that whatever, you know that that the previous way,
Speaker 1: the two previous years, that that would have totally been another.
Speaker 1: But what's fun about it is they put together a
Speaker 1: roster to be able to offset losses so far, you know, right.
Speaker 1: And I think this was the kind of the message
Speaker 1: Mike was given. I don't know if it was the team,
Speaker 1: but somebody asked him about his about the team where
Speaker 1: they're at, you know, what his feelings are, And he said,
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing because I wrote this down as he
Speaker 1: was speaking, he said, we're winning different ways, getting over
Speaker 1: the adversity hump, more confidence after the last two games
Speaker 1: because there was different things they had to deal with.
Speaker 1: Right now where he's talking about freaking Mojoe moment, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, man, that's what it is. Because every time
Speaker 1: that we do make a mistake, somehow we answer to
Speaker 1: where that mistake is minimized, and then it keeps us
Speaker 1: in a game in striking conditions that like like the
Speaker 1: Patriots game. He kept us in striking position. Even when
Speaker 1: it came to the Chargers game as you're going on
Speaker 1: the road. That did I really thought that did a
Speaker 1: whole lot for us. Casey's interception in the end zone.
Speaker 1: To me, that right there, that was one of those
Speaker 1: how you hit the crossroad and a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of decision making where things could have happened one
Speaker 1: way or the other. That was just like that first
Speaker 1: cross road because if he makes that in say, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't make that interception, then we probably lose that
Speaker 1: ball down. How about how about the image of the
Speaker 1: head coach right now compared to a year ago? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: when when a year ago? A month ago? But what's
Speaker 1: what does he do? And and well and on the
Speaker 1: heels of a year ago where this crazy guys going
Speaker 1: forward on forth that or other these fake months and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, you know, and uh, it just takes
Speaker 1: last game for instance, Uh Randy Gregory the plays on
Speaker 1: the sideline. It just the camera just catch captures McCarthy
Speaker 1: on the sideline saying something, have no idea what he
Speaker 1: said to Gregory after the late hits, you know, on
Speaker 1: that position all right, And I'm Betty said that just
Speaker 1: keep playing, keep playing with your aggressive way. Right, there
Speaker 1: were the Mojoe moments that we chronicled, you know, and
Speaker 1: now those you can see those Mojoe moments. Oh what genius.
Speaker 1: I mean they've worked on that every single day. All right,
Speaker 1: it was on hot night. Think about Think about what
Speaker 1: is some of the things Jimmy's remembered about as cutting players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: John Roper also sleep in a team meeting. Oh Jimmy,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna put up with that. But what would
Speaker 1: he do if it was Michael or Emma who fell
Speaker 1: asleep in the meeting? Mickey told told the guys just
Speaker 1: let him sleep about they Curvin Richards, okay, alright, last
Speaker 1: regular season two, yes, the season was over. He fumblest
Speaker 1: season and uh he fumbles twice in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of a blowout game. And Jimmy was so upset after
Speaker 1: that game and the next day cuts Curvin Richards and
Speaker 1: all they had at the running back position going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs in ninety two was Emmett Smith, Darryl Johnston,
Speaker 1: and Tommy ag And Jimmy said, Nope, where I can't
Speaker 1: trust this. Curvin Richards, who was a fourth round draft
Speaker 1: pick the year before, by the way, Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: so Tommy Ag if something happens to him, it Tommy
Speaker 1: AG's my running back going into the Philadelphia game and
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Okay, so now fast forward, So to go
Speaker 1: back to Landry too. There you go, gick out some stuff.
Speaker 1: Go ahead. So now fast forward to yesterday. Bradley and I. Okay,
Speaker 1: Bradley and I. Thirty six hours after he jumped off
Speaker 1: sides on the punt. Okay, that gave new life to
Speaker 1: the Vikings. They went down and kicked a field goal
Speaker 1: to take a ten three lead in the game. What
Speaker 1: did Jimmy do on Tuesday afternoon? He cut that? Bradley
Speaker 1: and I didn't he make it except if he clears waivers,
Speaker 1: they'll probably put him on the probably put him on
Speaker 1: the I gotta say, well that when the other thing
Speaker 1: that camera caught McCarthy. Now everybody's gonna say, you see
Speaker 1: that McCarthy. Yeah, he's got in charge of the game.
Speaker 1: He's not taking any of this. He's gaining that Jimmy refutation.
Speaker 1: You know, when theeree, because it was a five yard
Speaker 1: penalty and he got five and a half, you need
Speaker 1: to know what to do. It's fact. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: probably he did it just the right way. That was
Speaker 1: your fault. And I, okay, you blew that. Come on,
Speaker 1: I don't be an idiot. And this we go out Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell is going on with
Speaker 1: those referee Go out there and keep balling, but how
Speaker 1: does that happen? Five yards is five yards not five
Speaker 1: and a half. And so all of that was understood.
Speaker 1: That was inferred doing their conversation. We all know it
Speaker 1: was BS, get your butt out there and keep on balling.
Speaker 1: That's it. And the point is the point is the
Speaker 1: point it was not cut because he jumped off right
Speaker 1: and and and the point is that they were probably
Speaker 1: they probably have three I mean they have three moves
Speaker 1: they have. That's kind of timely. He just yeah, you
Speaker 1: think it like felt a little good or something that's
Speaker 1: a little But if Jimmy was coaching the team, he
Speaker 1: would have everybody Jimmy, He's not gonna put up with that,
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, he basically said, wait,
Speaker 1: stop before we take a break. Did you guys see
Speaker 1: Fox Fox H post game this weekend, after the after
Speaker 1: after the after the noon game, after the noon guy, dude,
Speaker 1: Jimmy is still beating me down about us getting into
Speaker 1: it after the way, bro. He brought it up again,
Speaker 1: how transition. They were talking about how sorry a team
Speaker 1: was playing, I think because I think Detroit was playing
Speaker 1: or something, and so he compared it. Oh, I just
Speaker 1: had him, great player, everything I had to tell him,
Speaker 1: and he was just usful. Will you shut up, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: just beating a dead horse? You know, first of all,
Speaker 1: tell the entire story number one second, about to shut
Speaker 1: the hell up with that dude. He puts that in
Speaker 1: his motivational speeches. I need a cut, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Give me something. He brought it up twice
Speaker 1: on that same show, and I'm thinking to myself, you
Speaker 1: made the Hall of Fame. Can you not block me
Speaker 1: a little bit? Can you give me some love? I mean, goodness, gracious,
Speaker 1: And I had to bring that up. Guy. That just
Speaker 1: got to me like, well, he bought it up. I
Speaker 1: knew it was coming. I'm sitting there, minded my own business,
Speaker 1: you know, not worried about the anything until tonight. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I know I'm gonna be Norvo was
Speaker 1: watching the game and I just I felt it. I
Speaker 1: knew he was gonna say, yeah, that's just like a
Speaker 1: go ahead, just a great player. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1: But but at least he said you had a great play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's he's just started saying that. Now, how that Belichick
Speaker 1: as he doubses my Hall of Fame. Yeah, now that
Speaker 1: Belichick says you belong in the hall, right right? He
Speaker 1: had to kind of balance to be at that end
Speaker 1: of game thing. Yeah, yeah, my life. But but the
Speaker 1: narrative this week, if Jimmy we're coaching this team is
Speaker 1: he doesn't care he's getting the attention to this team.
Speaker 1: They're six and one. They can't start feeling good about
Speaker 1: themselves because, by Gully, if you jump offsides on a punt,
Speaker 1: he's gonna cut you on Tuesday. Yeah right, right, if
Speaker 1: if it was, if it was, if it if it
Speaker 1: was Zach Martin jumping off side, you know, okay, we'on't
Speaker 1: pick up third and ten instead of third and five. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: I think he would. I think he would definitely coast
Speaker 1: and have those same words. But Zach would be on
Speaker 1: the field, as he said, he wouldn't be. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: even hear it. Right, So here's the bottom line. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say then, we can go to break when
Speaker 1: they asked about when he was asked about Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: talking he can do more of this week, possibly play,
Speaker 1: he said, I hope, So we'll see see how the
Speaker 1: work goes this week. But if if he's coming back,
Speaker 1: they put Jabril Cox on IR, so they need another linebacker,
Speaker 1: so probably Fancis Bernard who started his IR return And
Speaker 1: it looks like Sean McEwan is ready to come back.
Speaker 1: So they were gonna need three spots. Well they got
Speaker 1: three spots now and and so for the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys that are coming back, the guys, somebody's got
Speaker 1: to get cut right, So don't be jumping off side
Speaker 1: either either don't jump off sides or make sure you
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Speaker 1: to just drag. When I was reading, I went back
Speaker 1: to the sentence. I already a right that could be
Speaker 1: a problem. Yes, hey, we'll move on. Okay, So Gallop
Speaker 1: once again, no surgery, Uh, no surgery. It was a calf,
Speaker 1: just calf, okay, and so and he was so the
Speaker 1: beginning of practice, Gallop, Zeke and Dak were on the
Speaker 1: cords with Britt doing there. They're basically resistant stuff. And
Speaker 1: then he finished early and he was over with the
Speaker 1: ride receiver. So it looked like he was going through
Speaker 1: all of practice. I mentioned no tyring in practice, Jarwin
Speaker 1: with a hip uh not in practice? Digs Diggs was there, Okay,
Speaker 1: I would imagine he was going to be limited. And
Speaker 1: that's the same foot. Is that the same foot that
Speaker 1: that he's been having the ankle ankle? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: it was. And then what are the odds of that
Speaker 1: he's trying to make a tackle down low looking kicked
Speaker 1: by and the thing that happened, and this was because
Speaker 1: when when I told Nate that Gyrowin missed, he goes.
Speaker 1: I knew it. I knew it, he goes. They just
Speaker 1: threw a bad pass and he got hit like that
Speaker 1: he goes that was the quarterback's fault. Kind of let
Speaker 1: him in. Remember our discussion about the dbs. So uh
Speaker 1: so Elsie was dressed, Diggs was dressed, Tristan Hill was
Speaker 1: dressed practicing Joseph, and Joseph was out there. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and he played may look good with that number one.
Speaker 1: Didn't need twenty four special special teams. Yeah, he had two,
Speaker 1: what two defensive snaps and I think he had like
Speaker 1: seventeen um special team snaps. Yeah. So, if you look
Speaker 1: around the rest of the National Football League and you
Speaker 1: take a gander at the standings, especially in the NFC,
Speaker 1: you will find the Cowboys at six and one leading
Speaker 1: the NFC East. You will find the Cardinals and the
Speaker 1: Rams at seven and one tied atop the NFC West.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers have fallen to six and two now atop
Speaker 1: the NFC South, and the Packers are at seven and
Speaker 1: one leading the NFC North. And the Packers have a
Speaker 1: matchup the marquee matchup in the league on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Why can't wait for Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: versus Aaron Rodgers some guy named Love oh Jordan Love, Yeah,
Speaker 1: versus Patrick Mahomes. He's been he's been immune immunized, but
Speaker 1: but not vaccinated. Right right? What was known? How he
Speaker 1: just got the benefit of the dad just because yes,
Speaker 1: you guys are horrible man, you know, not really just
Speaker 1: stop man, y'all never let us get away with that
Speaker 1: back in the nineties and eighties. Now all of a sudden, oh,
Speaker 1: just because he's Aaron Rodgers. He's amazing and he's so
Speaker 1: good and he could just say anything he wants to be, like, Okay, dude,
Speaker 1: thank you. Now he goes along and everyone starts thinking
Speaker 1: about it. Hey, that is an odd word did he use,
Speaker 1: isn't it? I mean you just finally remember that they
Speaker 1: asked him that this summer. You guys are just now
Speaker 1: on to it. I mean, come on, man, stop being
Speaker 1: so google guy. This guy man was chicken pox. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means. You know, did he drink something?
Speaker 1: You know, evidently he did something and he wanted the
Speaker 1: NFL to qualify that as getting vaccinated. Yeah, he tried
Speaker 1: to create some sort of he tried to create his
Speaker 1: own narrative. Let's just yeah, that's all he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and y'all fell for it. So you're thinking the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: these guys at the top that they've been chasing, maybe
Speaker 1: one by one. The Cardinals lost last week, yes, and
Speaker 1: so they felt to the Packers, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: they were. One of the reasons the Packers had to
Speaker 1: run the ball so much against the Cardinals was because
Speaker 1: COVID had hit their team and Davante Adams and um
Speaker 1: uh Lazard was a close contact. He couldn't play in
Speaker 1: that game. Their defensive coordinator who was out as well
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol, and so uh so the Packers may
Speaker 1: have some more so coming up and so well. So
Speaker 1: now you got the Packers playing a game against a
Speaker 1: Chiefs team that has struggled, but they now don't have
Speaker 1: their quarterback going up against my homes. So this can
Speaker 1: impact the Cowboys in the guests in the UH. As
Speaker 1: we look ahead two months to a playoffs scenario, got
Speaker 1: to start thinking long term. We got to start thinking
Speaker 1: to where we have that timing just right to where
Speaker 1: we hit the ground running. Did the Rams have a
Speaker 1: tough game coming up? They they're in the West, So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a given. I think they week nine. This is
Speaker 1: Week nine, that's right, the Titans, but they don't have
Speaker 1: Derek Ray. They do have Adrian get Adrian Peterson by gol.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Adrian Peterson will be ready to go
Speaker 1: if Texas from Texas, come on, Bill, you know the
Speaker 1: baby from Texas, East Texas to go, baby East Texas.
Speaker 1: That's right, even better, that's right. That's what my people.
Speaker 1: That is the Sunday night game, the Rams and the Titans.
Speaker 1: So interesting. But again, take care of yourself. Another thing
Speaker 1: that I saw in regards to the rest of the league,
Speaker 1: the top MVP candidates in the NFC or the in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I guess, MVP candidates, who would who would
Speaker 1: be your top three in the NFC or then let's
Speaker 1: go NFL top three? I know my first one? Well
Speaker 1: would that Brady be my first? Okay, Derrick Henry probably
Speaker 1: be up there, but not now. But well, at this
Speaker 1: point you set up to this point. Okay, let's go nods.
Speaker 1: You got to be on the field odds to win?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, let me find it on here
Speaker 1: did did did the Cowboys winning without DAK help or
Speaker 1: reduces qualifications? Let's say here? And you also got to say,
Speaker 1: who's coming up with this MVP odds? This is from Vegas.
Speaker 1: This is from your favorite source. What's your favorite source?
Speaker 1: P f F from PFF Pro Football Focus. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. Is Matthew Stafford your MVP favorite? He's
Speaker 1: right up there, Yeah, he's right up there. Anyway, they
Speaker 1: the three that they have, which I retweeted with a hashtag,
Speaker 1: Dallas Matthew Stafford forty nine percent, Dak Prescott twelve percent,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray eleven percent. Two from Dallas and one who
Speaker 1: plays in Dallas. No, Brady, two from Dallas and one
Speaker 1: who plays in It's very good, Bill. Yeah, so Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers wasn't in that. He was not nobody in the discussion. Well,
Speaker 1: because Green Bay so good that he's not carrying that
Speaker 1: team's according to Pro Football Focus, your favorite entity. So wait, wait, no, Brady,
Speaker 1: I guess that's the way they've graded it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you can crade that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I never Grady too much quitted, But Dan,
Speaker 1: he's bawling, now you know why I said, PFF, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's bawling. Someone replied, that's weird because Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: the betting favorite. Apparently, the betting favorites are Josh Allen, Kyler,
Speaker 1: Murray Dak Prescott, Tom Brady, Matthews, Stafford, Aaron Rodgers, Lamar.
Speaker 1: I'd put him at the bottom of that list, which
Speaker 1: is still a great list, but I'd put him at
Speaker 1: the bottom of it anyway. So you just brought the
Speaker 1: house down. I just thought it was interesting. Yes, it
Speaker 1: was because of the Dallas connection. It's exactly right. Yeah, absolutely, yea,
Speaker 1: all right, what else is in your legal pad? H
Speaker 1: Let's see. Oh with Um, I was talking about guys
Speaker 1: that they might have to activate this week make room
Speaker 1: for him with Jarwin, depending on his hip, they need
Speaker 1: another tight end. So I would think if McEwan is ready,
Speaker 1: then there's your tight end. You got to bring them
Speaker 1: up and that. But they've got three spots, so linebacker,
Speaker 1: tight end, um, and wide receiver that would be three spots.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see Joe and start kind of getting
Speaker 1: back into his with him. Yeah. That was too bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he was it looked like it and he I
Speaker 1: mean there were a couple of passes he was open.
Speaker 1: He missed them. He was high or wide or behind
Speaker 1: whatever it was, but he was open down with him
Speaker 1: hip yep, he's out. He's not going to practice today,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens going forward. M Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's only so many balls to go around. True, that's true.
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, going up against a Broncos team
Speaker 1: this week that coached by Vic Fangio, And have you
Speaker 1: seen where they rank on defense scoring defense Denver? Yes,
Speaker 1: number two in the league scoring defense. I saw that. Well,
Speaker 1: defense is not their problem. Their problem has been offense.
Speaker 1: Now you talked about the missing the two edge rushers
Speaker 1: they've had. Chubb's been out almost all of the sites.
Speaker 1: Now Miller miss last week and actually, tell me a
Speaker 1: few guys are heard of this. So they're listing their
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker and week side linebacker because they play
Speaker 1: a three four. The starter on the week side is
Speaker 1: Malik Read backed up by Aaron patrick Um and then
Speaker 1: on the strong side it's Jonathan Cooper backed up by
Speaker 1: Stephen Weatherly. Weatherly they just traded for here in the
Speaker 1: last week. He played his first game this past week,
Speaker 1: all right, And Cooper is a rookie KY seventh round
Speaker 1: draft pick out of Ohio State. And they just played
Speaker 1: Baron Browning for the first time all year on defense
Speaker 1: and They've got him listed as their starter in one
Speaker 1: of their starting inside line He's a third round pick
Speaker 1: from Ohio State out of Kennadale Baron and the other
Speaker 1: starting inside linebacker is justin. Yeah, I'll try that Stern.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to see if it was
Speaker 1: a type. No, they're in the wrong order. It's it's
Speaker 1: strand misspelled. It's st r n r n a D
Speaker 1: st r d So it's strand. But they got the
Speaker 1: n and that kind of or not not not Austrian
Speaker 1: maybe fifth round draft pick last year. So Bradley experienced
Speaker 1: basically all right, Bradley chubb uh first round pick in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, fifth overall pick, is only played in one game?
Speaker 1: Is he? Is he hurt? I would assume. So, so
Speaker 1: when they went into the season, they're thinking, we got
Speaker 1: Chub on one side, we got Miller on the other side,
Speaker 1: and where Chubb is listed on injured reserve, there you
Speaker 1: go drop out in their secondary. There's a very familiar name.
Speaker 1: Oh Patrick sustain Nuh, the second who as a tram
Speaker 1: pretty well, yeah, that's right, right, that's right. But what
Speaker 1: would you rather have the all purpose linebacker or a corner,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna discuss that when we come back on
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Speaker 1: last time that the Milwaukee Bucks, let's see, let me
Speaker 1: backtrack won the NBA title. Okay, let's go with the
Speaker 1: Braves instead, and I okay, exact research on it. The
Speaker 1: last time the Atlanta Braves won a world championship was
Speaker 1: wine nine ninety five season. Yeah, the last time okay,
Speaker 1: the last time the Dallas Cowboys won, I guess on
Speaker 1: the Bucks it was seventy one, which was like the
Speaker 1: first time day Cowboys won. Fifty year anniversary of that. Yeah, season,
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Speaker 1: But all right, so the last time the Bucks before
Speaker 1: this year. The last time the Bucks won was in
Speaker 1: seventy one seventy two in that range in the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won Super Bowl that year, and the last time the
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Speaker 1: meny omens, so go celebrate right now. Don't be afraid.
Speaker 1: It's it's a given, says it. It's it's a deal.
Speaker 1: It's it made me think of that was Everson just
Speaker 1: showed me on Twitter shot. I guess the Rangers tweeted
Speaker 1: it out, a picture of Ron Washington basically congratulating him.
Speaker 1: And that's the way baseball famous famous quote. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course for manager. For those who don't live in Dallas,
Speaker 1: Sport Worth or in Texas, Um, you need to look
Speaker 1: up his interview Washes, Yes, okay, just type it in,
Speaker 1: it'll come up. It was the goofiest thing I think
Speaker 1: I've ever heard in my life. Um and New Orleans. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he seems like he's in East Texas. No, he's Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah, I have to look at
Speaker 1: that accent. He uh evidently did the interview with a
Speaker 1: beer in one hand and a cigaretted the other he's
Speaker 1: so old school man, and they asked him something about
Speaker 1: I guess it's something saying he had about what's the
Speaker 1: secret to baseball or something, and it was something about
Speaker 1: elbows and asses. And all I heard was somebody talking
Speaker 1: about right. And he ended up doing a dance form
Speaker 1: or something. He was feeling no pain. This is after
Speaker 1: John Washington told the entire team months ago they would
Speaker 1: turn it around, jump into first and win it all.
Speaker 1: Everyone will be looking at our acid elbows. Well that
Speaker 1: sounds that means you're dancing or whatever. That means. That
Speaker 1: means they'll be in front. They'll be in front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll be in front. Yeah. If you ever when you
Speaker 1: ran the four hundred meters, yes, were you? Were you?
Speaker 1: And I saw everybody's when he attempted to man but
Speaker 1: the only man to two hundred. That's what you mean? Yes,
Speaker 1: I just thinking that view that you had when you
Speaker 1: ran the four hundreds. They made me, they made me
Speaker 1: in junior high run the eight hundred. And what were
Speaker 1: you seeing in front of you? I beat cinder that's
Speaker 1: when they had the cinder tracks. Beat one guy fell down.
Speaker 1: You tripped him. You know when we would run eight
Speaker 1: hundred in practice, right, and it's a pace thing. Yes.
Speaker 1: I got out there and these guys are running. There
Speaker 1: are no pace juncts even in practice. That's the track
Speaker 1: practices the worst ever. I got no ship. I was
Speaker 1: just hoping they didn't lap me. If you can make
Speaker 1: it through a track season, then you are man. Got
Speaker 1: all these tall, skinny guys in here. Little shortened me.
Speaker 1: Too many whistles and too much, too much. Okay, So
Speaker 1: you asked this question before we went to break. Yes,
Speaker 1: Are you're feeling good about the Cowboys first round draft
Speaker 1: pick or what they could have had if Patrick Curtan
Speaker 1: had fallen to them. Well, supposed lay Curtan was going
Speaker 1: to be the pick. All I know is he is
Speaker 1: the NFC Defensive Player of the Week for eleven tackles
Speaker 1: and four of those for losses and two I think
Speaker 1: it was two quarterback pressures. He was all over the place,
Speaker 1: you know what. You know what. The good thing about
Speaker 1: it was he came out of the Bye mad because
Speaker 1: he didn't make any critical plays, any splashed plays against
Speaker 1: New England, even though he wasn't very happy with his
Speaker 1: even though he had like nine tackles or seven tackles
Speaker 1: something like that, and he wasn't happy with his people
Speaker 1: were though, and so he said he rededicated himself, took
Speaker 1: care of his body during the bye week, and then
Speaker 1: started coming in at five thirty in the morning so
Speaker 1: he could watch more tape before they got to you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta you gotta know. Belichick probably designed some
Speaker 1: really complicated trying to take advantage, which probably allowed him
Speaker 1: to make those tackles, but not where he wanted to write.
Speaker 1: He probably a lot of trackdowns and tackles down the field, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and this one and you know and see that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Vikings watched tape on him, but
Speaker 1: getting him to get well, I don't know. Maybe they didn't,
Speaker 1: not the way he played, because the way teams had
Speaker 1: taken advantage of him at times was sending their running
Speaker 1: back out in the pattern down the field and he
Speaker 1: had to drop. They were sending their running back out
Speaker 1: into the flat and he all they had to do
Speaker 1: was go sideways. That you want to look at these guys. Yes, wow,
Speaker 1: well he's not the offensive word. His son is. But
Speaker 1: here's his son is. No, he's not, well, he's listed.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing here's the thing. Everyone along with Patterson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone tries that against him. The Giants tried it when
Speaker 1: Barkley messed up his foot. They lined them up out.
Speaker 1: Why that seems to be something that people are gonna try.
Speaker 1: They're gonna continue to try that to try to catch
Speaker 1: him in space. It hadn't work yet though, Why Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, especially the sideways stuff. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get those in the gaps so quickly they don't
Speaker 1: even have a chance to use their angler. Hea. He's
Speaker 1: one of those guys you want going forward, yes, And
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys who wants to get to
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah. I mean he's he's racing his teammates
Speaker 1: to get to the tackle. Well, that stuff in preseason
Speaker 1: and and they're they're like, okay, let's race, right, everybody's
Speaker 1: there with Okay, we're gonna race. Let's see whose second,
Speaker 1: who's third. That stuff in preseason was no joke. He
Speaker 1: said he wanted to make all the tackles, you know,
Speaker 1: and Vanderesha was kind of sticking it in the room.
Speaker 1: And don't think Vandues is thinking, well, now, he probably
Speaker 1: beat vander about two or three tackles and there you go.
Speaker 1: All it does is get snap counts. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: All it does it It just raises, It raises the
Speaker 1: bars bags, it just raises. Yeah, he had ninety seven snaps.
Speaker 1: I mean ninety seven percent did in this pass game. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see if I remember correctly, Michael Parsons sixty four
Speaker 1: snaps out of nine seven sixty six. Curse had sixty six,
Speaker 1: sixty four out of seventy three out of seventy three. Wilson,
Speaker 1: how's Wilson doing? Donovan, Yeah, he had thirty one snaps
Speaker 1: forty seven. Probab about Laton Vanderhe well, because they were
Speaker 1: bringing him out on Nickel and Neil would go in
Speaker 1: and I think Neil had just think that it used
Speaker 1: to be our most athletic linebacker. Actually, Nickel thinking back
Speaker 1: to that game and Parsons is sitting there, I want
Speaker 1: to be out there and Layton's sitting next to him,
Speaker 1: and then you'll learn it, you know, he is like
Speaker 1: the last month, Parsons is getting twice the snaps Neil.
Speaker 1: Neil only had twenty three snaps, and that's because they
Speaker 1: were using a lot of two running backs. He's he's
Speaker 1: he's had snaps the last couple of weeks, he's the
Speaker 1: nickel back. Yeah yeah, right. And then our man jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse. By the way, what do they listen to
Speaker 1: him as um ball but football player? Where's he had? Oh?
Speaker 1: There it is? He had this is who two three
Speaker 1: weeks in a row, Kurt Curse one wow, and which
Speaker 1: we didn't know and I think somebody pointed it out.
Speaker 1: He had the green data in his helmet. He was
Speaker 1: he was relaying the plays in if you listen to
Speaker 1: Christie's scales on the Cowboys Radio network, you would learn
Speaker 1: this during the game. That's how good Christie's scale. Christie.
Speaker 1: But and then somebody said, wow, well is he better
Speaker 1: at making the calls? I go, you can make the calls.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is hear them and repeat them.
Speaker 1: But he's in the he's out there every play, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the second helmet. So
Speaker 1: what happens when it gets hurt? If well, then you
Speaker 1: put it in another But you have simple curses helmet.
Speaker 1: You can do it. I was gonna say, I do it.
Speaker 1: That has to pass his helmet on the side. And
Speaker 1: by the way, y'all having a difference helmet and they
Speaker 1: goes down. Here go Bill right, Oh hell now, didn't
Speaker 1: get it for helmet. And they don't have multiple helmets anymore,
Speaker 1: by the way, so when you see it's salute to
Speaker 1: service on Sunday. So they're gonna have the red, white
Speaker 1: and blue stripes. I like the helmet. I like them.
Speaker 1: It's the same helmet. They can stripe them different. Just
Speaker 1: more work, more work for I'm gonna try to Segway
Speaker 1: as smooth as Bill. We talk about helmets. We had
Speaker 1: the safety for the Vikings trying to Rrison Smithson Smith
Speaker 1: trying to rip Ceedee Lambs helmet all. I thought it
Speaker 1: was the one that was choking him. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are having the league look into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they're better. Yeah. That was just exactly what I
Speaker 1: thought as it harried up. As it happened, I said,
Speaker 1: he's choking him, that he needs to be fine. By
Speaker 1: the way, Black Fort number one and the officials sitting
Speaker 1: right there. You go back and look at it. The
Speaker 1: officials talking to Harrison Smith right after it. He saw it.
Speaker 1: He was talking to him, you know, at him, saying
Speaker 1: don't do that. Well, roll your flag right, hands to
Speaker 1: the neck, nor hands to the faith. Unnecessary roughness, right, No,
Speaker 1: just ignorance. That's just that. That was a that was
Speaker 1: a that was an assault. See he's talking. Abre's a
Speaker 1: you can Mike on the Sideline CD. He's talking about
Speaker 1: it after the series. Okay, dad, Dad, he was trying
Speaker 1: to choke me. Yeah, we thought it, but somehow they
Speaker 1: didn't see that or half the holds trying to stop
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory from getting to the quarterback. That's another one,
Speaker 1: by the way, Okay, we can discuss that white on
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