Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And as if on Q, my beagles
Speaker 1: start barking at the top of their lungs just as
Speaker 1: Mick Shots get started. You might be able to hear
Speaker 1: him in the background as we go along here because
Speaker 1: they're excited that it's one thirty on a Thursday afternoon
Speaker 1: and time for another edition of mix Shots. As we
Speaker 1: get you ready for the Cowboys and the Niners. My
Speaker 1: dogs are old Everson and Mickey, but they're not old
Speaker 1: enough to remember the good old days of this rivalry.
Speaker 1: But maybe a new rivalry can get started on Sunday
Speaker 1: at noon at at and T Stadium. How you guys doing,
Speaker 1: don't even don't even bring up old San Francisco Cowboy games.
Speaker 1: I have been getting phone calls. Hey, Everson, can we
Speaker 1: talk to you about the Cowboys San Francisco rivalry? Or No,
Speaker 1: I know what you want to talk about. You don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about the rivalry as soon as I
Speaker 1: say one word and it starts with a C. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Okay, So this is why you
Speaker 1: really call me? Right all right? Let you know I'm
Speaker 1: not even returning their call. You guys want to talk
Speaker 1: about it. I'm all in because I respect you guys.
Speaker 1: These guys, I don't know. They didn't call me when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys played Buffalo. You know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: beat I beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl. I got
Speaker 1: no call. Then you know, I didn't get a call
Speaker 1: when the Rance and Buffalo, the Giants of Buffalo played
Speaker 1: this year, if they played even last year, come on,
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't try to fool the old man like me.
Speaker 1: They won't happen. He played the Niners in the I
Speaker 1: want to know. So the rivalry, what was there more
Speaker 1: than one game against San Francisco that stood out during
Speaker 1: that time? Well? Uh, eventually that game did. But of course,
Speaker 1: uh what was that brody? And uh was a stock
Speaker 1: back a decade earlier? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: setting and it was an amazing game the Cowboys proposed
Speaker 1: to themselves. I think they went super Bowl that year,
Speaker 1: big win in the Bay. Uh, But like you said,
Speaker 1: that was that wasn't a rival back then Rocking Cowboys
Speaker 1: were just kind of a rival. But that's what it
Speaker 1: and it basically that's kind of when it started. It
Speaker 1: basically costs Dick Nolan his job because he was the
Speaker 1: head coach of the forty nine ers back there in
Speaker 1: the early seventies. Sure, wow, so here we are. Here
Speaker 1: we are later Mike Nolan and Dick Mike Nolan the
Speaker 1: former head coach of the forty nine ers, uh, and
Speaker 1: goes up against the Niners here on Sunday. But let's
Speaker 1: just be real now, it became a rivalry, uh after
Speaker 1: the catch game, and of course in the nineties. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, in the nineties, but in the eighties
Speaker 1: there was in the night wasn't really a rivalry other
Speaker 1: than one game, you know. But that's the only way
Speaker 1: that he could veil his it's true purpose for that
Speaker 1: phone call. Okay, that's funny and I and I didn't
Speaker 1: even mean to bring it up ever since I was
Speaker 1: kind of thinking of the nineties rivalry when I was
Speaker 1: talking about bo and Romo here and then I stepped
Speaker 1: at it. But that's cool. I like talking about it
Speaker 1: because you know, we always I always tell people if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for myself getting so tired of being dumped
Speaker 1: on about that game. I had to keep reminding people.
Speaker 1: I had to remind people that I had the three
Speaker 1: turnovers in that game and probably could have gotten MVP
Speaker 1: if we don't lose the ball game. And uh, for
Speaker 1: some reason, you know what was Boomer Boomer right? Boomer's
Speaker 1: Boomer's name Chris Chris Burman. Chris Berman at that time
Speaker 1: was a I guess a local Bay area reporter. And
Speaker 1: we all know that ESPN had just started up around
Speaker 1: three to four years prior to that, because I remember
Speaker 1: I was in college when it first started. I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: this is great. And so he happened to be a
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers fan, and he was on the field
Speaker 1: for that game, and he was just as excited as
Speaker 1: he was a player. So all on ESPN. Of course,
Speaker 1: he becomes part of ESPN and all, oh my god,
Speaker 1: anytime he got a chance, he bring it up. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Joe dwy you guys are amazing, you know,
Speaker 1: And I always took a fence because here was my
Speaker 1: thought process. You've got a rookie from Grambling State University
Speaker 1: who was not drafted. You've got a too great to
Speaker 1: me great story the organizations, and I thought the narrative
Speaker 1: would be, you know, mister naive. I thought the narrative
Speaker 1: would be, man, they were coming at this rookie, and
Speaker 1: the rookie stood up. But when it was all said
Speaker 1: and done, it was a great battle, and forty nine
Speaker 1: ers came out. My name was never mentioned except for
Speaker 1: in regards to that picture in the end zone, and
Speaker 1: I took the fence to that. I said, had a
Speaker 1: great game. Chris Burman doesn't want to same thing about
Speaker 1: it because he was so on the forty nine ers job.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was ridiculous. So so let me
Speaker 1: let me, let me tell you circumstances. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: let me tell you a little story about how big
Speaker 1: a fan Chris Berman was of the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: When I was covering the Super Bowl, uh in Miami
Speaker 1: when they beat was Cincinnati, right, eighty eight maybe eighty seven?
Speaker 1: What was eighty eight, I think right? And so the
Speaker 1: auxiliary press box, right, the auxiliary press box was basically
Speaker 1: in the stands. That's where my seat was. And he
Speaker 1: and his esp Chris Burman and his ESPN colleagues were
Speaker 1: about oh, about three or four rows behind me and
Speaker 1: off to the other section right, he was sitting in
Speaker 1: the stands outward, and I was covering the game right
Speaker 1: outwardly cheering for the forty nine ers. And I was like, seriously,
Speaker 1: and and and it goes back to what I said
Speaker 1: the other day. You you call yourself a journalist and
Speaker 1: you're out here cheering for the forty nine ers. So
Speaker 1: that's how big a homer he was. Oh, he was
Speaker 1: big time homer. I have never really talked to him
Speaker 1: after that, because if I would have, I would have,
Speaker 1: you know, articulately, would you given him theticularly? I would
Speaker 1: have given him the business articulately. And uh So, like
Speaker 1: I said, we never talked. I have a feeling he
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a cowboy fan also until of course Jerry
Speaker 1: comes along and you've got you know, these gregarious uh
Speaker 1: personalities with with Dionne and Mike and those guys. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think he before that in the eighties
Speaker 1: and seventies, I doubt he was a cowboy fan at
Speaker 1: all because he took way too much joy in that win,
Speaker 1: and he lost all of his journalistic awareness, you know,
Speaker 1: because like I said, as far as I was concerned,
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone that had three turnovers, not many
Speaker 1: that had actually three turnovers defensively in the championship game,
Speaker 1: And that has never been mentioned. And I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I was a victim of a perfect imperfect storm,
Speaker 1: so to speak. So that's why people listen. That's why
Speaker 1: people listen to Mick shots. You kind of get that
Speaker 1: perspective that no one else gets. Gotta get it in, baby,
Speaker 1: gotta get it in. Mike. Yes, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: a little more perspective on this rivalry that Everson is
Speaker 1: very familiar with. Now, you didn't when did you get
Speaker 1: to the Metroplex? When did you get to Dallas? Who
Speaker 1: met Mickey middle of the eighties? Mickey middle of the
Speaker 1: eighty fourth season of the eighties. And so so you
Speaker 1: remember the Cowboys playing the Niners back in the early
Speaker 1: seventies when the Cowboys started first going to Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: But Everson and I being the same age, we remember
Speaker 1: it intimately growing up in Dallas, And it was actually
Speaker 1: in ninety the Boys played the Niners three straight years
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I mean, just like they did in
Speaker 1: the nineties when they had the conference championship matchups against
Speaker 1: the Niners. They did it in the seventies two and
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy, which was the first year the Cowboys
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl and lost to Baltimore. They
Speaker 1: beat San Francisco out in San Francisco in the Conference
Speaker 1: Championship game fourteen. That's right, that's right. The next year,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys played the Niners at Texas Stadium in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy one and beat them fourteen to three and on
Speaker 1: their way to winning the Super Bowl over the Dolphins. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then the game that Everson is alluding to was
Speaker 1: December twenty third, nineteen seventy two, when Roger Staubuck and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys trailed the Niners twenty eight to sixteen with
Speaker 1: two minutes left in the game, and Stabuck throws a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to make it twenty eight twenty three, and
Speaker 1: then Tony Fritch with behind the leg on side kick
Speaker 1: that was recovered by the Cowboys behind the back or
Speaker 1: whatever you however you want to call it on sidekick
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to win it. That Saint Larry Cole, the
Speaker 1: classic rolling rolling around on a sideline. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Cowboys won that game thirty to twenty eight, and they
Speaker 1: that was the first round of the playoffs. They actually
Speaker 1: lost to the conference championship game that year. Um so.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the other was that was that
Speaker 1: Candlestick Park? Was that stealing? I bet? I bet? The
Speaker 1: first time was keys Are Stadium was keys Are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first one was keys Are I believe, I have
Speaker 1: to look it up. And then they moved into Candlestick
Speaker 1: after that. And here's the thing, and they had astro
Speaker 1: turf from what I would call because uh Bubba Cole
Speaker 1: was rolling around on astro turf. Family that there you go.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right. So the thing that I remember
Speaker 1: about the thirty to twenty eight win over San Francisco
Speaker 1: more than anything. And I'll even say here fifty nearly
Speaker 1: fifty years later, forty eight years later, it might be
Speaker 1: my favorite day of watching football ever. I remember growing
Speaker 1: up at Irving. It was a cold, bitterly cold day,
Speaker 1: two days before Christmas, and the first game of the day,
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders played the Pittsburgh Steelers, and basically on
Speaker 1: the final play of the day of the game, ball
Speaker 1: batted up in the air. Frank O'harris grabs it. It
Speaker 1: was the immaculate reception as the Steelers beat the Raiders.
Speaker 1: That was the first game of the doubleheader. Second game
Speaker 1: of the doubleheader was the Cowboys against the Niners, and
Speaker 1: you had that scenario in the last two minutes where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys came back to win. You don't get much
Speaker 1: better than that watching football. And I'll tell you what. Now,
Speaker 1: let's jump to nineteen eighty two, right before our game,
Speaker 1: if I would call that, was when Kellen Winslow. Oh wow?
Speaker 1: Was that the time that Kellen Winslow fell was dehydrated
Speaker 1: and they had to carry him off the field after
Speaker 1: he rescued. Was was was that the same weekend? I
Speaker 1: gotta I'll be looking it up here. But I remember
Speaker 1: I remember watching that game on TV. I remember the
Speaker 1: immaculate reception watching it on TV, but I do not
Speaker 1: remember see. I would have been on on Christmas break
Speaker 1: from college that year in seventy two, and I remember
Speaker 1: watching the game and I was in our in our
Speaker 1: little uh uh I guess it was the TV room,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, and I'm watching it
Speaker 1: on TV. My mother's cooking, and I started screaming, Hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta come and see this. You're not gonna believe
Speaker 1: it to the immaculate reception. I remember that, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure I watched the next game, but I have no
Speaker 1: recollection of watching it on TV. That's so funny you
Speaker 1: mentioned that about your mom cooking. Uh. And in regards
Speaker 1: to Bill, of course, my number one football afternoon was
Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, nineteen seventy five, the Hail Mary. Of course,
Speaker 1: that was my sixth that was my sixteenth birthday, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, so here comes the Purple People leaders
Speaker 1: and they had been handing it to us. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many times before that game we could not
Speaker 1: beat the Vikings because of Carl Alan Page Marshall. They
Speaker 1: were just an amazing squad, Chuck Form and those guys
Speaker 1: and the And when we finally beat them on my birthday,
Speaker 1: I go running. I was I was only boy, I
Speaker 1: only the only boy in the house, the youngest. So
Speaker 1: I'm the only one watching football in the house. And
Speaker 1: I'm running around the house trying to find someone to
Speaker 1: celebrate with. And my mom, my mom is in there
Speaker 1: making my birthday cake and she's gotten fired. And I go, Mom,
Speaker 1: you who believe that the Cowboys just be the banking
Speaker 1: and I'm running on she go, that's good baby, And
Speaker 1: that was it making my cake. And it was so
Speaker 1: anti climactic for me because this is my birthday. I
Speaker 1: had no one to share that with. And so still
Speaker 1: it was one of the that was my greatest afternoon
Speaker 1: of football. We finally beat the Purple people eaters in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, December twenty eight, that's try And okay,
Speaker 1: I've looked up now of January tenth, nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 1: the day that lives a in for me forever, someon
Speaker 1: walls and for me like that. Yeah. And uh. Then
Speaker 1: in fact, the early game that day was Cincinnati against
Speaker 1: San Diego, um the twenty seven It was a twenty
Speaker 1: seven seven final score of the Bengals won the game.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't talking about that wasn't the game that
Speaker 1: was a classic then, because the one that was a classic,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, the San Diego won the game
Speaker 1: them in two. Yeah, they won that game and and
Speaker 1: and that's why it was such a So was this
Speaker 1: the so which was the the incredibly cold game in
Speaker 1: since wasn't it Cincinnati and San Diego? That was that
Speaker 1: was the one that was the same weekend as the
Speaker 1: catch game. Okay, so that would this would have been
Speaker 1: the game that that was. I don't remember, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to see on Pro Football Reference. They don't
Speaker 1: have the conditions, uh, the weather conditions. What happened. Here's
Speaker 1: what happened, Bill, Here's what happened the week prior to that.
Speaker 1: The Charges won that game in such a dramatic fashion
Speaker 1: the week prior to that, because they go from Miami.
Speaker 1: What he's dehydrated and everyone is just just drained, and
Speaker 1: then they go directly to the coldest game in NFL history.
Speaker 1: So that was the the comparison. There. You go from
Speaker 1: from being depleted to the seven days later you're playing
Speaker 1: in minus fifty eighth degree weather. So that was that
Speaker 1: was the dichotomy that the Chargers had to deal with him.
Speaker 1: That's how I remembered that game, and and and I
Speaker 1: found the weather conditions, the official weather conditions that day
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. It was minus nine degrees and the wind
Speaker 1: was at twenty four miles an hour a windshield of
Speaker 1: minus thirty two. And so that was the That was
Speaker 1: the first game of the doubleheader on the day of
Speaker 1: the catch in January tenth, nineteen eighty two. And by
Speaker 1: the way, that would would not be that would that
Speaker 1: may be my worst day of watching football. Yeah, me too, Bill, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be. That would be Kellen Winslow by the way,
Speaker 1: from the University of Missouri. By the way, just throw
Speaker 1: I taught interesting. Yeah, don't just don't throw in junior?
Speaker 1: How about that? But I didn't say anybody. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you do. I raised him right, I couldn't do it, Junior.
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Speaker 1: did you watch practice day. We're gonna get that. Let's
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Speaker 1: As we're welcome you back here to Mix shots, as
Speaker 1: we had some encouraging word from Mike McCarthy as far
Speaker 1: as the condition of those cornerbacks. So at this morning's
Speaker 1: press conference, but I wonder what was going on at
Speaker 1: practice today Every sudden, I wonder if there's anybody who
Speaker 1: might be able to fill us in on what was
Speaker 1: seen at practice today, someone that a bird's eye view.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, maybe Mickey knows. And I
Speaker 1: would have liked to say the Cowboys have a secondary problem,
Speaker 1: but it's not a secondary problem. It's a primary problem.
Speaker 1: Because journalist, how about that wordsmith? So the good news
Speaker 1: is is that uh, Trayvon Diggs, Chitubey Awoozier did participate
Speaker 1: in practice. We'll see how just how much they did. Uh.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown Uh, and these guys were all limited yesterday.
Speaker 1: Uh did practice? Uh? So did uh Donovan Wilson. We'll
Speaker 1: see if he did enough when the practice report comes out.
Speaker 1: But Xavier Woods was on the resistance chords and he
Speaker 1: didn't look like he was going to practice. So they
Speaker 1: really need Donovan Wilson to be ready to go because
Speaker 1: Thompson would be a backup. And if if Wilson can't go,
Speaker 1: I think the next guy up would be Reggie Robinson,
Speaker 1: and he hadn't played a down a football yet other
Speaker 1: than special teams in the National Football League. They also
Speaker 1: didn't have Deontay Burton out he was out with a
Speaker 1: shoulder yesterday and today. Rashard Robinson, who started last week
Speaker 1: at corner with a knee, he didn't practice. And remember
Speaker 1: Saveon Smith has been trying to practice through with a
Speaker 1: cast on his hand that he broke a bone on
Speaker 1: in the game and came back and played. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's secondary. They're gonna need these guys like Digs and
Speaker 1: Wilson and de Bay to be able to come in
Speaker 1: and play in this game. Otherwise, I don't know who
Speaker 1: else they would put it. Safety, the Parker guy that
Speaker 1: the safety. He's still on injured reserve. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little problematic back there. So they better hope Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson's ready to go. Okay. Ever since we talked about
Speaker 1: the COVID effect on injuries yesterday and stuff. For the
Speaker 1: life of me, though, I cannot remember back in your
Speaker 1: day this many injuries amongst uh, let's just take the
Speaker 1: cornerback position. I just can't remember teams going through this
Speaker 1: many cornerbacks in a season. What's what's what do you
Speaker 1: think is going on? I don't know, but you kind
Speaker 1: of take we took it for granted back in the day.
Speaker 1: I can't remember one game Dennis Diamond was hurt. I
Speaker 1: don't recall ever. I think I finally missed UH plays
Speaker 1: in the second half of a Minnesota game back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six or seven. I think I had to
Speaker 1: sit out the second half with a growing problem. Other
Speaker 1: than that, our secondary was always intact. Michael Downs hurt
Speaker 1: his thive first game of his career against at that time,
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins. He was out for one game. But otherwise,
Speaker 1: oh man, this is this is unusual. Charlie Waters. If
Speaker 1: you recall miss an entire year and he was in
Speaker 1: the booth after just totally messing up his knee and
Speaker 1: he was never the same after that. He came back
Speaker 1: in eighty one and participated and was my godsend and
Speaker 1: ended up retiring after that. You know, I was talking
Speaker 1: about to SPADs about this, uh yesterday, and SPADs got
Speaker 1: a little aggressive. But I talked to my Sam about it,
Speaker 1: and I still think that the whole thing is valid.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not all about a bunch of training
Speaker 1: camps and a bunch of offseason work and all of that,
Speaker 1: but I am about fine tuning, and you have to
Speaker 1: have a timing or intertinct in your head, which is
Speaker 1: what off season is for. My son's a chef, and
Speaker 1: we were laughing about it. He was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: if I had been in the kitchen for a while
Speaker 1: and I'm throwing around all these knives, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta be careful if it's your first day back in
Speaker 1: and you hadn't been doing it for a while, so
Speaker 1: that could lead to injuries, either to yourself or to
Speaker 1: your fellow chef mate. So those kinds of things are
Speaker 1: pretty much universal. They just haven't had the concerted concentration
Speaker 1: on your technique, on your body itself. You can lift
Speaker 1: weights all you want, you can run sprints all you want,
Speaker 1: but you have to get into football mold before you
Speaker 1: start playing football, and it takes a little bit more
Speaker 1: than just a meager offseason that we had, of course
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic. And by the way, there's one
Speaker 1: other injury that probably should be noted. Ezekiel Elliot did
Speaker 1: not practice yesterday because of the bruise on his calf.
Speaker 1: He was on the Resistance chords today and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said if he did anything, it would be working on
Speaker 1: the side on his rehab. So that'll be two days
Speaker 1: in a row that Zeke didn't practice. They don't really
Speaker 1: practice on Friday. It's more of a walkthrough, so he
Speaker 1: may not do anything all week and then they'll get
Speaker 1: the game time and see if he's able to go.
Speaker 1: And if he's not able to go, then everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: get their wish and they're gonna see Tony Pollard carry
Speaker 1: the ball twenty times. Yeah, I cannot wait for this.
Speaker 1: This does happen, SPADs, I wouldn't be looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: It's tough when you're, you know, coming in and playing
Speaker 1: the entire game. Jack. It's always good to relieve some
Speaker 1: It's always good to relieve someone who has set a
Speaker 1: particular tone for the game and you came in, come
Speaker 1: in as a change of pace. Now they're gonna be
Speaker 1: prepared for you for the entire game and most likely
Speaker 1: will make adjustments before that game is over, from beginning
Speaker 1: to end. So yeah, let's I don't look forward to it.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that Zeke will come through as he always does.
Speaker 1: I hope he runs well as he has been doing
Speaker 1: all year long. I might add I think I want
Speaker 1: him to play because I want him to continue to
Speaker 1: get his confidence and instincts back, because it's clear that
Speaker 1: Zeke is not too comfortable running behind the makeshift line
Speaker 1: that he's dealing with, and he's kind of feeling the
Speaker 1: pressure a little bit. Yeah, and the way I pointed
Speaker 1: it out on that is Okay, let me see Pollard
Speaker 1: get the dirty yards. Like we see the flashy yards
Speaker 1: to the outside when there's a hole there, What about
Speaker 1: when there's no hole? Is he running up the middle
Speaker 1: and pushing the pile instead of losing a yard, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get three or four. That part we haven't seen
Speaker 1: from him yet. Well, we see from Zeke all the time. Well,
Speaker 1: just look at the last three games Tony Pollard, the
Speaker 1: last three and this is nothing against Tony Pollard. I
Speaker 1: think he's good potential, But the last three games. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna get on Zeke for not getting a
Speaker 1: hundred yard games whatever. The last three games for Pollard,
Speaker 1: he had four carries for twelve yards against Washington. He
Speaker 1: had eight carries for twenty two against Baltimore and it
Speaker 1: was seven for ten yards until the last play of
Speaker 1: the game. It was garbage time. That really was garbage
Speaker 1: time where he gave it to him for a twelve
Speaker 1: yard run that got him up to eight for twenty two.
Speaker 1: And then in Cincinnati he was eleven carries for thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards total. That up the last three games, he's
Speaker 1: got twenty three carries for seventy three yards. It's just
Speaker 1: over three yards to carry. So I mean, but people
Speaker 1: don't look at stuff. We look out if we go
Speaker 1: without if we go without Zeke, I think we go
Speaker 1: without Zeke's bags. We're going to have to be way
Speaker 1: more diverse, and how we use our running back in
Speaker 1: this game, we have to pass it to a more
Speaker 1: more deceptive plays, more screen passes. I wouldn't be I
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't make a habit of running him up
Speaker 1: the middle. And unless you have those sure fire quick
Speaker 1: hit plays that well, you can utilize his speed and quickness. See.
Speaker 1: I want to go one more deep. I want to
Speaker 1: see rick o'doondle. Here you go. Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: I want to go one more deep. I want to
Speaker 1: see saw Alanolua. I knew it. I knew he just
Speaker 1: wanted to say his name. I knew. Well you you
Speaker 1: will see a fullback in this game, by the way,
Speaker 1: and I'll allow you build to pronounce the guy's name.
Speaker 1: But Kyle, well, he's a four time Pro Bowler on
Speaker 1: the other side, and in fact, he's been scoring touchdowns
Speaker 1: for the Niners here lately with their situation at running back.
Speaker 1: And that's Kyle Uschek, and the last four years he's
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl. Now, part of that is there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of teams with fullbacks, and so that
Speaker 1: fullback spot there's not a lot of competition for the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl fullback spot. But seriously, to his credit, I
Speaker 1: mean he's he is as as good as they come
Speaker 1: at that position and play and as more than just
Speaker 1: a fullback. Obviously, he can carry the ball, you can
Speaker 1: catch it, and he's you know, he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: height that you would have that you normally see in
Speaker 1: a tight end, but as a U, he does some
Speaker 1: tight end type stuff which they've needed. Uh, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about blocking U. They've needed it with Kittle out,
Speaker 1: you know, and so the second tight ends had to
Speaker 1: move up and become more of a receiving guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kittle is back practicing, but he is not expected to
Speaker 1: be back for this game now. Most right, he mostert
Speaker 1: it according to uh the Niners Kyle Shanahan. Uh, it
Speaker 1: looks like he he felt like he would be good
Speaker 1: to go by the end of the week. So well,
Speaker 1: he didn't practice, yester, he didn't practice yesterday, right right, right,
Speaker 1: So we'll see. Yeah, McCarthy. McCarthy talked all about McCarthy
Speaker 1: talked all about the fullback and how he's so versatile
Speaker 1: they can use him in three different ways. You know,
Speaker 1: he blocks Obviously he handed the ball, as Bill said,
Speaker 1: they throw the ball to him. So we'll see how
Speaker 1: the Cowboys adjust when they come out with a basically
Speaker 1: running personnel. A question. I have a question. I have
Speaker 1: a question, and Spags you are always around. I mean
Speaker 1: to answer it before you ask it. They'll stay in there, Nickel. Yes,
Speaker 1: come on, man, come on, man, come on, Spags, come
Speaker 1: on man, you have influence. You are an influencer. You
Speaker 1: you have boy, are you? You're pretty good? By the
Speaker 1: way you knew exactly what I was gonna ask. We
Speaker 1: could play Jeopardy, right, can we Can we even get
Speaker 1: a suggestion? And do they have a suggestion box there?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Yeah, well I think if we yeah,
Speaker 1: we can't get to it. And I think if we
Speaker 1: asked it, I think before we asked it in a
Speaker 1: conference call, we would get Well, we can't be giving
Speaker 1: away a game plan for you. You know. Yeah, they've
Speaker 1: just been doing it every week and it hadn't worked.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, you hadn't stopped and run yet.
Speaker 1: Any other team makes adjustments and the question has to
Speaker 1: be posed to either the head coach or the DC
Speaker 1: for I mean, I don't know where the story is
Speaker 1: true that he's out of here after this. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's almost as if it's a done deal. I
Speaker 1: think people are playing the odds on that one. They
Speaker 1: put that in the headlines as if I conclusion, yeah,
Speaker 1: without any any pure evidence, right or at least expressed evidence.
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. I'm here, all right, it's
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Speaker 1: And I think last week, last week I combined Dalton
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Speaker 1: or something like that. The dingles, the dingles, the dingles.
Speaker 1: All I did look up the we were talking about
Speaker 1: the cold temperatures on that day that will go down
Speaker 1: in infamy, or has always gone down in infamy forever.
Speaker 1: Sin Wals Tuary tenth, nineteen eighty two. The game in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati was minus nine degrees and the wind chill was
Speaker 1: minus thirty two the ice ball. The game time temperature
Speaker 1: was thirteen below zero, so we've got the record on that. However,
Speaker 1: the wind chill was less than thirty two. Was twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven I think at game time. But if you
Speaker 1: if you talk to anybody who played in that game,
Speaker 1: the windshill was was minus fifty eight. So so there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how how accurate were those readings back really in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven? Yeah, I don't know how that works. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they had the same, you know, instruments
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, I don't. I don't think Harold Taft
Speaker 1: had the same, which, by which, by the way, go
Speaker 1: ahead could have been around I was gonna say, by
Speaker 1: the way too. So about right at two weeks after
Speaker 1: that game, on January tenth, nineteen eighty two, if my
Speaker 1: memory serves me, right one, Bear Bryant passed away and
Speaker 1: I had covered his what turned out to be his
Speaker 1: last game. UH Alabama played No Alabama played uh met
Speaker 1: They played Illinois in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, and
Speaker 1: it was freezing cold, and I remember after the game
Speaker 1: there was nowhere for him to do uh an indoor
Speaker 1: press conference, so they had him standing on a box
Speaker 1: outside and I mean it was cold, and I looked
Speaker 1: at him and I'm going, God, Lee, he doesn't look
Speaker 1: good at all. He just was kind of ashen color,
Speaker 1: and I thought maybe it was because it was cold. Well,
Speaker 1: two weeks later, so it would have been January twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: I believe, is when he passed away. And I was
Speaker 1: working in Jackson, Mississippi then and ended up getting sent
Speaker 1: to Tuscaloosa to basically cover the memorial and the funeral
Speaker 1: of Bear Bryant. Yeah, so I've got a I've got
Speaker 1: a certificate. I got a certificate from the Liberty Bowl
Speaker 1: that I was at that game and covered it. How
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah, you gotta you gotta keep that spag.
Speaker 1: You know, he and he and Eddie Robinson were really close,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they were, they became close
Speaker 1: just because of, you know, the dynamics of each of
Speaker 1: their careers. Of course, one is a Power five school
Speaker 1: coach and the others of HBCU great and UH coach.
Speaker 1: Robinson had to eventually pass up Bear Bryant. I think
Speaker 1: he passed up Bear Bryant year at the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken that that's that's uh. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're looking up William, I know you will, but I
Speaker 1: think he did pass up Bear Bryant here at the
Speaker 1: against Pravview, Yes, sir, the Southwest Caroline's classic and uh,
Speaker 1: you know Coach Robinson was the same way, uh, Spags.
Speaker 1: You know, once they are taken away from what they love,
Speaker 1: their livelihood, not just what they love, because they both
Speaker 1: had wives that loved them and took care of them
Speaker 1: until the day they died. But when you take away
Speaker 1: your livelihood in that manner at that age, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not just the weather, right, Spags. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: how cold it was outside. I think that I think
Speaker 1: it was just a depletion. Knew this was the end. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And the same with Coach Robinson. It's you know,
Speaker 1: these guys give all their lives, not just to the school,
Speaker 1: but to the kids. And uh, you know, when you
Speaker 1: when you feel like there's no uh, you're not your
Speaker 1: usefulness has gone. Uh at that age, I think they
Speaker 1: just kind of give up. And that's that was sad,
Speaker 1: But once again, it was a an opportunity to really,
Speaker 1: uh just celebrate both of those amazing coaches. Along those lines,
Speaker 1: another legend Joe Paterno. Uh yeah, similar. He passed away
Speaker 1: very soon after his last year with Penn State. Uh
Speaker 1: and and Mickey by the way, uh Bear Bryant. His
Speaker 1: last bowl game was the Liberty Bowl, and the year
Speaker 1: before was the Cotton Bowl. And in fact that was
Speaker 1: the first, uh my first year working at a Lubbock
Speaker 1: TV station, we came and covered the Cotton Bowl. And
Speaker 1: so I was at and got an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: at a Bear Bryant press conference. I think I had
Speaker 1: the courage to ask a question. I don't know. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: so that would have been a year before he died.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you. So, you know, it was
Speaker 1: like god Tuesday or Wednesday of the week they were
Speaker 1: going to play Old Miss, and Tuscaloosa was only like
Speaker 1: a three hour drive from Jackson. So we would go
Speaker 1: to that press conference, right, and he's in one of
Speaker 1: these big lecture halls. So he's on a stage, the
Speaker 1: seats go up like you're in a theater, and he
Speaker 1: would answer all these nice easy questions from the local people, right.
Speaker 1: And so I decided that I did the same thing.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I got enough nerve, I got to
Speaker 1: ask this question. So I asked the question, he didn't
Speaker 1: like it, and all of a sudden he started answering
Speaker 1: in the deepest mumbled Southern drawl you ever heard. And
Speaker 1: I don't think I understood a word he said, but
Speaker 1: he answered it. I think right, But he didn't want
Speaker 1: to answer. That's the way Southern's answered questions that they
Speaker 1: don't want to answer. All of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: real thick, you know what I mean. It's like a
Speaker 1: foreigner when they really don't want to answer a question.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, that accent kind of works this
Speaker 1: way in there, and you're like, wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: just happened to the guy I was talking to? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny Bill, you bring up Joe Paul as well.
Speaker 1: He and Coach Robinson. If I'm not mistaken, they are
Speaker 1: one and two respectively in uh win in the wing
Speaker 1: column as far as college games are concern Am I correct?
Speaker 1: I think he probably probably are right a minute, for
Speaker 1: a minute, Coach Robinson had it, and then then when
Speaker 1: Joe Paul passed on, they added the other two that
Speaker 1: they had tried to take away from him, and boom
Speaker 1: jumped him right back up to the top. So you
Speaker 1: got the one two, right there, Edie, Joe Paul and Eddie. Hey,
Speaker 1: here's one other forty nine ers. Note that we probably
Speaker 1: should draw you back into actual Cowboys at forty nine ers, right,
Speaker 1: sounds like Shanahan's gonna stick with Nick Mullins. Nick Mullins
Speaker 1: as the quarterback, and so I kind of looked up
Speaker 1: his staff. You know, his quarterback rating eighty five seven.
Speaker 1: That's not all that great. He's got ten touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in ten interceptions. That ain't the way the ratio is
Speaker 1: supposed to break, right, It's supposed to be two touchdowns
Speaker 1: to every one interception. And San Francisco, by the way,
Speaker 1: in their last seven games, well, I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: yesterday they've had at least two turnovers a game in
Speaker 1: those seven They've had eighteen turnovers in the last seven
Speaker 1: game and they're now for the season a minus seven.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys are only three behind him at minus ten.
Speaker 1: They're gaining. Wow, how about that? So that secondary becomes
Speaker 1: even more important. We might get some picks, you never know,
Speaker 1: never know. I think that made me one of my
Speaker 1: predictions for tomorrow is at the Cowboys will even things
Speaker 1: up in the turnover ratio with a forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I have a good feeling about this. In fact, you know,
Speaker 1: I said that I was look up on those. We
Speaker 1: talked about tiebreakers, and I did the math on it,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, Mickey, here's what the Cowboys need to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. They need to win three in Washington
Speaker 1: needs to lose three. Yeah, you didn't like how the
Speaker 1: Common games were looking for a tiebreaker, right, that's it
Speaker 1: the problem for the Cowboys if they now, if they
Speaker 1: just had the conference record ahead of the common opponents
Speaker 1: on the tiebreaker breakdown, then the Cowboys would be in
Speaker 1: business where the Washington would only have to win two
Speaker 1: other last three and the Cowboys would have a shot
Speaker 1: in a three way tie with the giants in Washington,
Speaker 1: but not with common opponents because it Cowboys, they ain't
Speaker 1: looking good in that common opponent. Yeah, glory, I kind
Speaker 1: of figured out that in Washington. And which, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when I said they're the plus minus is
Speaker 1: a minus ten. Now they've actually moved up. They're now
Speaker 1: in a four way tie for twenty ninth. M Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: saying we're finishing on a good timing. The timing, the
Speaker 1: timing is perfect, now, that's right, we will start. We're
Speaker 1: building up to a crescendo there, right, We're trying to
Speaker 1: just build it on up, moving on up, and so
Speaker 1: to the east side. Um um, so the east side.
Speaker 1: So this week, this week, Cowboys beat the Niners, and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna take this one week at a time. Okay,
Speaker 1: Cowboys beat the Niners and Seattle beats Washington. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: my I'll give you that early prediction, and then next
Speaker 1: week we'll be concerned with Cowboys taking on Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: Washington has Carolina next week. Now that's a little that one. Well,
Speaker 1: but at least I could Are they in Carolina? You
Speaker 1: would ask me that I got that written down somewhere,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure where. But you know what, if they
Speaker 1: if they beat if they beat the Niners, and I'm
Speaker 1: eligible to pick them to beat Philadelphia, here you go.
Speaker 1: Or maybe I should just keep picking them the lose,
Speaker 1: right because they've played better when I've picked them to lose,
Speaker 1: not necessarily. All right, Well, that does it for a
Speaker 1: Thursday edition of mix Shots. And uh, we've got a
Speaker 1: big Friday ahead. Our picks to click. I've already given
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