WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Old & Older Days 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:22.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.760 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.479 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:41.800 and Nicky Spagnola. And as if on Q, my beagles 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.800 start barking at the top of their lungs just as 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.400 Mick Shots get started. You might be able to hear 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.320 him in the background as we go along here because 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.520 they're excited that it's one thirty on a Thursday afternoon 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.000 and time for another edition of mix Shots. As we 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.880 get you ready for the Cowboys and the Niners. My 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.080 dogs are old Everson and Mickey, but they're not old 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.840 enough to remember the good old days of this rivalry. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.600 But maybe a new rivalry can get started on Sunday 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.559 at noon at at and T Stadium. How you guys doing, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:18.920 don't even don't even bring up old San Francisco Cowboy games. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.160 I have been getting phone calls. Hey, Everson, can we 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.960 talk to you about the Cowboys San Francisco rivalry? Or No, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.080 I know what you want to talk about. You don't 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.280 want to talk about the rivalry as soon as I 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.360 say one word and it starts with a C. Hey, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.120 let's talk about that. Okay, So this is why you 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.240 really call me? Right all right? Let you know I'm 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.640 not even returning their call. You guys want to talk 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.480 about it. I'm all in because I respect you guys. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.880 These guys, I don't know. They didn't call me when 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.000 the Cowboys played Buffalo. You know what I mean. I 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.880 beat I beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl. I got 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.520 no call. Then you know, I didn't get a call 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.360 when the Rance and Buffalo, the Giants of Buffalo played 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.320 this year, if they played even last year, come on, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.440 don't don't. Don't try to fool the old man like me. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:15.680 They won't happen. He played the Niners in the I 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:20.680 want to know. So the rivalry, what was there more 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.760 than one game against San Francisco that stood out during 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:30.400 that time? Well? Uh, eventually that game did. But of course, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.320 uh what was that brody? And uh was a stock 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.280 back a decade earlier? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was a 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.280 setting and it was an amazing game the Cowboys proposed 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.960 to themselves. I think they went super Bowl that year, 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.320 big win in the Bay. Uh, But like you said, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.600 that was that wasn't a rival back then Rocking Cowboys 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.600 were just kind of a rival. But that's what it 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.560 and it basically that's kind of when it started. It 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.800 basically costs Dick Nolan his job because he was the 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.760 head coach of the forty nine ers back there in 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.120 the early seventies. Sure, wow, so here we are. Here 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:14.520 we are later Mike Nolan and Dick Mike Nolan the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.679 former head coach of the forty nine ers, uh, and 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.080 goes up against the Niners here on Sunday. But let's 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.040 just be real now, it became a rivalry, uh after 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.480 the catch game, and of course in the nineties. Uh, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.440 you know, yeah, in the nineties, but in the eighties 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.239 there was in the night wasn't really a rivalry other 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.880 than one game, you know. But that's the only way 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:44.600 that he could veil his it's true purpose for that 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:50.120 phone call. Okay, that's funny and I and I didn't 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:51.880 even mean to bring it up ever since I was 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.320 kind of thinking of the nineties rivalry when I was 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.080 talking about bo and Romo here and then I stepped 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:03.280 at it. But that's cool. I like talking about it 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.440 because you know, we always I always tell people if 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:11.320 it wasn't for myself getting so tired of being dumped 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.880 on about that game. I had to keep reminding people. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.839 I had to remind people that I had the three 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.279 turnovers in that game and probably could have gotten MVP 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.920 if we don't lose the ball game. And uh, for 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:31.480 some reason, you know what was Boomer Boomer right? Boomer's 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:36.520 Boomer's name Chris Chris Burman. Chris Berman at that time 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.320 was a I guess a local Bay area reporter. And 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.440 we all know that ESPN had just started up around 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.880 three to four years prior to that, because I remember 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.720 I was in college when it first started. I'm like, man, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.360 this is great. And so he happened to be a 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.479 forty nine Ers fan, and he was on the field 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.760 for that game, and he was just as excited as 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.840 he was a player. So all on ESPN. Of course, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.120 he becomes part of ESPN and all, oh my god, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.640 anytime he got a chance, he bring it up. Oh 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.240 my god, Joe dwy you guys are amazing, you know, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.640 And I always took a fence because here was my 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.880 thought process. You've got a rookie from Grambling State University 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.359 who was not drafted. You've got a too great to 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:30.200 me great story the organizations, and I thought the narrative 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:35.000 would be, you know, mister naive. I thought the narrative 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.000 would be, man, they were coming at this rookie, and 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.479 the rookie stood up. But when it was all said 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.080 and done, it was a great battle, and forty nine 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.000 ers came out. My name was never mentioned except for 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.480 in regards to that picture in the end zone, and 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.080 I took the fence to that. I said, had a 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.280 great game. Chris Burman doesn't want to same thing about 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.040 it because he was so on the forty nine ers job. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.840 Oh my god, it was ridiculous. So so let me 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.720 let me, let me tell you circumstances. I was gonna say, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.400 let me tell you a little story about how big 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.159 a fan Chris Berman was of the forty nine ers. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:16.080 When I was covering the Super Bowl, uh in Miami 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:21.359 when they beat was Cincinnati, right, eighty eight maybe eighty seven? 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.080 What was eighty eight, I think right? And so the 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:30.880 auxiliary press box, right, the auxiliary press box was basically 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.880 in the stands. That's where my seat was. And he 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.479 and his esp Chris Burman and his ESPN colleagues were 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.840 about oh, about three or four rows behind me and 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.800 off to the other section right, he was sitting in 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.320 the stands outward, and I was covering the game right 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.560 outwardly cheering for the forty nine ers. And I was like, seriously, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.920 and and and it goes back to what I said 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.279 the other day. You you call yourself a journalist and 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.400 you're out here cheering for the forty nine ers. So 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.480 that's how big a homer he was. Oh, he was 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.040 big time homer. I have never really talked to him 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.440 after that, because if I would have, I would have, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:22.240 you know, articulately, would you given him theticularly? I would 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.840 have given him the business articulately. And uh So, like 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.000 I said, we never talked. I have a feeling he 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:34.360 wasn't necessarily a cowboy fan also until of course Jerry 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.760 comes along and you've got you know, these gregarious uh 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.120 personalities with with Dionne and Mike and those guys. I 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.560 don't I don't think he before that in the eighties 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.400 and seventies, I doubt he was a cowboy fan at 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.880 all because he took way too much joy in that win, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.880 and he lost all of his journalistic awareness, you know, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.160 because like I said, as far as I was concerned, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.040 I don't know anyone that had three turnovers, not many 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.239 that had actually three turnovers defensively in the championship game, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.240 And that has never been mentioned. And I think that, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:16.280 you know, I was a victim of a perfect imperfect storm, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.480 so to speak. So that's why people listen. That's why 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.760 people listen to Mick shots. You kind of get that 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.680 perspective that no one else gets. Gotta get it in, baby, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.400 gotta get it in. Mike. Yes, I'm gonna give you 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.480 a little more perspective on this rivalry that Everson is 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.120 very familiar with. Now, you didn't when did you get 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.240 to the Metroplex? When did you get to Dallas? Who 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.280 met Mickey middle of the eighties? Mickey middle of the 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.120 eighty fourth season of the eighties. And so so you 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.880 remember the Cowboys playing the Niners back in the early 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.440 seventies when the Cowboys started first going to Super Bowls. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.760 But Everson and I being the same age, we remember 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.480 it intimately growing up in Dallas, And it was actually 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.240 in ninety the Boys played the Niners three straight years 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.520 in the playoffs. I mean, just like they did in 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.040 the nineties when they had the conference championship matchups against 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.400 the Niners. They did it in the seventies two and 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.800 in nineteen seventy, which was the first year the Cowboys 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.120 went to the Super Bowl and lost to Baltimore. They 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.960 beat San Francisco out in San Francisco in the Conference 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:24.480 Championship game fourteen. That's right, that's right. The next year, 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.480 the Cowboys played the Niners at Texas Stadium in nineteen 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.959 seventy one and beat them fourteen to three and on 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.640 their way to winning the Super Bowl over the Dolphins. Okay, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.520 and then the game that Everson is alluding to was 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:45.160 December twenty third, nineteen seventy two, when Roger Staubuck and 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.200 the Cowboys trailed the Niners twenty eight to sixteen with 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.920 two minutes left in the game, and Stabuck throws a 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.240 touchdown pass to make it twenty eight twenty three, and 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.120 then Tony Fritch with behind the leg on side kick 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.080 that was recovered by the Cowboys behind the back or 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.359 whatever you however you want to call it on sidekick 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.960 touchdown pass to win it. That Saint Larry Cole, the 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:15.240 classic rolling rolling around on a sideline. That's exactly right. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.160 Cowboys won that game thirty to twenty eight, and they 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.240 that was the first round of the playoffs. They actually 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.760 lost to the conference championship game that year. Um so. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.760 And by the way, the other was that was that 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.240 Candlestick Park? Was that stealing? I bet? I bet? The 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:35.360 first time was keys Are Stadium was keys Are. Yeah, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.520 the first one was keys Are I believe, I have 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.080 to look it up. And then they moved into Candlestick 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.480 after that. And here's the thing, and they had astro 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.320 turf from what I would call because uh Bubba Cole 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.880 was rolling around on astro turf. Family that there you go. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.960 That's right, all right. So the thing that I remember 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.520 about the thirty to twenty eight win over San Francisco 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.679 more than anything. And I'll even say here fifty nearly 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.840 fifty years later, forty eight years later, it might be 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:09.480 my favorite day of watching football ever. I remember growing 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:14.000 up at Irving. It was a cold, bitterly cold day, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.080 two days before Christmas, and the first game of the day, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.640 the Oakland Raiders played the Pittsburgh Steelers, and basically on 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.240 the final play of the day of the game, ball 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.199 batted up in the air. Frank O'harris grabs it. It 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.319 was the immaculate reception as the Steelers beat the Raiders. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.160 That was the first game of the doubleheader. Second game 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.840 of the doubleheader was the Cowboys against the Niners, and 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.120 you had that scenario in the last two minutes where 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.760 the Cowboys came back to win. You don't get much 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.400 better than that watching football. And I'll tell you what. Now, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:50.280 let's jump to nineteen eighty two, right before our game, 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:56.800 if I would call that, was when Kellen Winslow. Oh wow? 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.080 Was that the time that Kellen Winslow fell was dehydrated 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.280 and they had to carry him off the field after 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:10.360 he rescued. Was was was that the same weekend? I 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.640 gotta I'll be looking it up here. But I remember 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.760 I remember watching that game on TV. I remember the 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.160 immaculate reception watching it on TV, but I do not 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:26.160 remember see. I would have been on on Christmas break 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.520 from college that year in seventy two, and I remember 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.360 watching the game and I was in our in our 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.240 little uh uh I guess it was the TV room, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.560 whatever you want to call it, and I'm watching it 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.800 on TV. My mother's cooking, and I started screaming, Hey, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.800 you gotta come and see this. You're not gonna believe 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.640 it to the immaculate reception. I remember that, and I'm 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.679 sure I watched the next game, but I have no 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:57.800 recollection of watching it on TV. That's so funny you 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.360 mentioned that about your mom cooking. Uh. And in regards 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.680 to Bill, of course, my number one football afternoon was 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:12.240 December twenty eighth, nineteen seventy five, the Hail Mary. Of course, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.320 that was my sixth that was my sixteenth birthday, and 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.800 so yeah, yeah, so here comes the Purple People leaders 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.040 and they had been handing it to us. I don't 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.439 know how many times before that game we could not 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.400 beat the Vikings because of Carl Alan Page Marshall. They 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.480 were just an amazing squad, Chuck Form and those guys 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.560 and the And when we finally beat them on my birthday, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.199 I go running. I was I was only boy, I 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.360 only the only boy in the house, the youngest. So 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.840 I'm the only one watching football in the house. And 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.360 I'm running around the house trying to find someone to 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.760 celebrate with. And my mom, my mom is in there 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.600 making my birthday cake and she's gotten fired. And I go, Mom, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.319 you who believe that the Cowboys just be the banking 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.120 and I'm running on she go, that's good baby, And 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.199 that was it making my cake. And it was so 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.920 anti climactic for me because this is my birthday. I 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.280 had no one to share that with. And so still 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.240 it was one of the that was my greatest afternoon 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.040 of football. We finally beat the Purple people eaters in 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.800 nineteen seventy five, December twenty eight, that's try And okay, 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.480 I've looked up now of January tenth, nineteen eighty two, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.160 the day that lives a in for me forever, someon 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:38.200 walls and for me like that. Yeah. And uh. Then 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.560 in fact, the early game that day was Cincinnati against 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.560 San Diego, um the twenty seven It was a twenty 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.920 seven seven final score of the Bengals won the game. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.880 But that wasn't talking about that wasn't the game that 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.400 was a classic then, because the one that was a classic, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.600 if I'm not mistaken, the San Diego won the game 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.720 them in two. Yeah, they won that game and and 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.080 and that's why it was such a So was this 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.800 the so which was the the incredibly cold game in 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.600 since wasn't it Cincinnati and San Diego? That was that 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.480 was the one that was the same weekend as the 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.240 catch game. Okay, so that would this would have been 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.920 the game that that was. I don't remember, and I 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.000 was trying to see on Pro Football Reference. They don't 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:31.840 have the conditions, uh, the weather conditions. What happened. Here's 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.560 what happened, Bill, Here's what happened the week prior to that. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.680 The Charges won that game in such a dramatic fashion 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.080 the week prior to that, because they go from Miami. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.760 What he's dehydrated and everyone is just just drained, and 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:55.200 then they go directly to the coldest game in NFL history. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:00.000 So that was the the comparison. There. You go from 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:05.280 from being depleted to the seven days later you're playing 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.720 in minus fifty eighth degree weather. So that was that 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.160 was the dichotomy that the Chargers had to deal with him. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.120 That's how I remembered that game, and and and I 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.360 found the weather conditions, the official weather conditions that day 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.520 in Cincinnati. It was minus nine degrees and the wind 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.920 was at twenty four miles an hour a windshield of 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.160 minus thirty two. And so that was the That was 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.480 the first game of the doubleheader on the day of 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.680 the catch in January tenth, nineteen eighty two. And by 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.680 the way, that would would not be that would that 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:45.360 may be my worst day of watching football. Yeah, me too, Bill, Yeah, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.080 that would be. That would be Kellen Winslow by the way, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.160 from the University of Missouri. By the way, just throw 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:58.000 I taught interesting. Yeah, don't just don't throw in junior? 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.880 How about that? But I didn't say anybody. Yeah, I 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:10.280 think you do. 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So at this morning's 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.880 press conference, but I wonder what was going on at 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.600 practice today Every sudden, I wonder if there's anybody who 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.560 might be able to fill us in on what was 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:05.200 seen at practice today, someone that a bird's eye view. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:11.720 As a matter of fact, maybe Mickey knows. And I 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.920 would have liked to say the Cowboys have a secondary problem, 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:21.359 but it's not a secondary problem. It's a primary problem. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:29.199 Because journalist, how about that wordsmith? So the good news 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:35.840 is is that uh, Trayvon Diggs, Chitubey Awoozier did participate 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:42.400 in practice. We'll see how just how much they did. Uh. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:47.160 Anthony Brown Uh, and these guys were all limited yesterday. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:52.120 Uh did practice? Uh? So did uh Donovan Wilson. We'll 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.040 see if he did enough when the practice report comes out. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:01.800 But Xavier Woods was on the resistance chords and he 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.960 didn't look like he was going to practice. So they 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.640 really need Donovan Wilson to be ready to go because 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:15.240 Thompson would be a backup. And if if Wilson can't go, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.800 I think the next guy up would be Reggie Robinson, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.320 and he hadn't played a down a football yet other 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:28.159 than special teams in the National Football League. They also 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.560 didn't have Deontay Burton out he was out with a 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:38.120 shoulder yesterday and today. Rashard Robinson, who started last week 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.560 at corner with a knee, he didn't practice. And remember 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.280 Saveon Smith has been trying to practice through with a 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.640 cast on his hand that he broke a bone on 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.640 in the game and came back and played. So yeah, 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.199 that's secondary. They're gonna need these guys like Digs and 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.959 Wilson and de Bay to be able to come in 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.600 and play in this game. Otherwise, I don't know who 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.000 else they would put it. Safety, the Parker guy that 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:16.240 the safety. He's still on injured reserve. So yeah, it's 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.280 a little problematic back there. So they better hope Donovan 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:24.760 Wilson's ready to go. Okay. Ever since we talked about 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.560 the COVID effect on injuries yesterday and stuff. For the 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.680 life of me, though, I cannot remember back in your 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:36.359 day this many injuries amongst uh, let's just take the 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:42.080 cornerback position. I just can't remember teams going through this 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.800 many cornerbacks in a season. What's what's what do you 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:48.840 think is going on? I don't know, but you kind 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.880 of take we took it for granted back in the day. 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.280 I can't remember one game Dennis Diamond was hurt. I 0:22:55.320 --> 0:23:00.520 don't recall ever. I think I finally missed UH plays 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.119 in the second half of a Minnesota game back in 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:08.399 nineteen eighty six or seven. I think I had to 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.240 sit out the second half with a growing problem. Other 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:15.280 than that, our secondary was always intact. Michael Downs hurt 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.479 his thive first game of his career against at that time, 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:24.680 the Washington Redskins. He was out for one game. But otherwise, 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.679 oh man, this is this is unusual. Charlie Waters. If 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:32.159 you recall miss an entire year and he was in 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.879 the booth after just totally messing up his knee and 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:38.960 he was never the same after that. He came back 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:43.480 in eighty one and participated and was my godsend and 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:48.560 ended up retiring after that. You know, I was talking 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:52.840 about to SPADs about this, uh yesterday, and SPADs got 0:23:52.880 --> 0:24:00.119 a little aggressive. But I talked to my Sam about it, 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.520 and I still think that the whole thing is valid. 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.879 I don't I'm not all about a bunch of training 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.520 camps and a bunch of offseason work and all of that, 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:14.120 but I am about fine tuning, and you have to 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:19.280 have a timing or intertinct in your head, which is 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.359 what off season is for. My son's a chef, and 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:24.800 we were laughing about it. He was saying, you know, 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:26.879 if I had been in the kitchen for a while 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:30.320 and I'm throwing around all these knives, you know, you 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.840 gotta be careful if it's your first day back in 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.359 and you hadn't been doing it for a while, so 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:38.280 that could lead to injuries, either to yourself or to 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:42.040 your fellow chef mate. So those kinds of things are 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:49.159 pretty much universal. They just haven't had the concerted concentration 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:53.920 on your technique, on your body itself. You can lift 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.920 weights all you want, you can run sprints all you want, 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:02.560 but you have to get into football mold before you 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.280 start playing football, and it takes a little bit more 0:25:05.840 --> 0:25:09.560 than just a meager offseason that we had, of course 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:13.040 because of the pandemic. And by the way, there's one 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:18.560 other injury that probably should be noted. Ezekiel Elliot did 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.960 not practice yesterday because of the bruise on his calf. 0:25:22.520 --> 0:25:26.000 He was on the Resistance chords today and Mike McCarthy 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:28.800 said if he did anything, it would be working on 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:33.160 the side on his rehab. So that'll be two days 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:37.040 in a row that Zeke didn't practice. They don't really 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.880 practice on Friday. It's more of a walkthrough, so he 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:44.360 may not do anything all week and then they'll get 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.320 the game time and see if he's able to go. 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:50.359 And if he's not able to go, then everybody's gonna 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:53.080