Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys app. Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And it is high noon. Are thereabouts
Speaker 1: here on a Thursday inside the SWBC podcast studio, Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola live in studio Everson Walls at a remote
Speaker 1: location somewhere, I think in America with a white wall behind,
Speaker 1: on top of the world, on top of the world,
Speaker 1: looking down on creation. And we are closing in on
Speaker 1: game day on Sunday at five thirty Dallas time, three
Speaker 1: thirty Pacific time, when the Cowboys take on the Niners.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait for this, not only that game,
Speaker 1: but the three games leading up to it. It is
Speaker 1: divisional playoff weekend, and a lot of people think this
Speaker 1: is the best weekend of the playoffs because you've got
Speaker 1: all this football and some pretty good matchups. So we'll
Speaker 1: get a chance to watch all three games before the Cowboys. Well,
Speaker 1: if you start right, unless you're on a charter and
Speaker 1: during a Saturday afternoon and not able to watch Jacksonville
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Hope the chartering Wi Fi works there
Speaker 1: you go. So, so here is your schedule for the weekend.
Speaker 1: The first AFC game at I'm gonna go Dallas time
Speaker 1: on all of this three thirty I believe on Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon it will be Jacksonville Kansas City. The Saturday night game.
Speaker 1: The Giants play at the Eagles two o'clock Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati at Buffalo, and then Dallas and San Francisco five
Speaker 1: thirty Sunday. So they've designated the Cowboys and Niners the
Speaker 1: marquee game. I would think that is the marquis game.
Speaker 1: Would you ever, sin, wouldn't you say when Dallas plays
Speaker 1: San Francisco in the playoffs, it's a marquee game. You know,
Speaker 1: there's never really any drama in these games at all.
Speaker 1: America wants to see them ended. The one game there
Speaker 1: from a competitive standpoint, there wasn't drama in the NFC
Speaker 1: title game. Jimmy managed to create it beforehand, right predicting
Speaker 1: a victory in the ninety three NFC title game. You
Speaker 1: can put it in three inch headlines. We will win
Speaker 1: the ball game. And then that's when he said call
Speaker 1: my daddy. That was a different one. And then and
Speaker 1: then on the Friday night UH Coaches Interview, UH George Seaford,
Speaker 1: Uh back when they used to have they used to
Speaker 1: have an NFL party and a championship game party on
Speaker 1: Friday night. And Seaford got into town, and you know,
Speaker 1: they asked him about Jimmy's declaration, and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: he sure has a couple brass ones so that the
Speaker 1: book comes from. That's exactly right, that's right, that's za.
Speaker 1: This is funny. The name of Jimmy's book is Swagger, okay,
Speaker 1: And so I just started googling Jimmy and Swagger. You
Speaker 1: know what, I got Jimmy Swaggers. Of course, because I
Speaker 1: wanted to check. I wanted to check on the official
Speaker 1: subtitle on the book Swagger, which you just referenced. And
Speaker 1: I still get Jimmy Swagger. Forget that. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: move on Cowboys and Niners. And we had a Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy press conference already complete it today, just within the
Speaker 1: last hour. We've got football players on a football field
Speaker 1: and this is a big day of practice, Mickey, and
Speaker 1: there's a extra kickers at the facility today. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: oh wait, you missed that Tristan vis Guyano who came
Speaker 1: through here in uh twenty twenty in the in the Yeah.
Speaker 1: And as soon as they signed Greg Zerline, they released
Speaker 1: the kicker who went on and you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's one of those I don't know, can you buy
Speaker 1: like really really short short term life insurance life insurance policy?
Speaker 1: Because do we have a problem his face? I know,
Speaker 1: I know it better not be because I'll wait till
Speaker 1: I tell you this. I mean, this is getting weird.
Speaker 1: This is getting weird. Now the tail is wagging the dog.
Speaker 1: Now what's going They had to make sure they practiced
Speaker 1: and take the look at what brett Or did. Uh.
Speaker 1: So it's an insurance policy. He's on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: by the way. Uh and uh, you know the other
Speaker 1: point is that they just need I think it's for
Speaker 1: a confident standpoint, So you gotta go look at what's
Speaker 1: available that. I wouldn't not be confident at all because
Speaker 1: they signed a guy that his last job he got
Speaker 1: cut because he was ten of fifteen on extra points.
Speaker 1: Is that scary? I don't, I don't. Yeah, and his
Speaker 1: production this year is he's made uh I think it
Speaker 1: was two two of two on field goals, in three
Speaker 1: of three on extra points or vice versa. So he's perfect.
Speaker 1: He's kicked in one game basically, so you catch my drift.
Speaker 1: He's This is only his fourth team this year. He's
Speaker 1: had ten teams since he got into the NFL. I
Speaker 1: believe it was twenty nineteen. He's been with ten different no,
Speaker 1: not ten different teams. Different time for these issues to
Speaker 1: be coming around. Now, what about talking about bad timing?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. This is his journey to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: practice squad. It started in Cincinnati, to Dallas, back to Cincinnati, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Buffalo, the Chargers, New England, Arizona, New England
Speaker 1: again and Dallas again and here we are and that's
Speaker 1: the best they could do. That's what's out there in Yeah,
Speaker 1: slim pickings for for your kickers out there. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: I go back to my word confidence. Okay, so confidence,
Speaker 1: Uh for me, this is just no. You're so you're
Speaker 1: not talking Mohr's confidence to go out there. You're talking
Speaker 1: the team's confidence in mah Okay, okay, now that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And once again, you know how everybody overrapted to one
Speaker 1: game in Dak's career. It just happened to be the
Speaker 1: last one of the regular season instead of the productivity
Speaker 1: over the entire season, and look how that turned around.
Speaker 1: So I know kickers are a different breed, but I
Speaker 1: just think Brett Mayer's a different breed of kicker than
Speaker 1: what we're normally used to. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: But they would need to make a decision by Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon if they were too well, either elevate him to
Speaker 1: the to the forty eight so he could be you know,
Speaker 1: if you had some So basically what this is is
Speaker 1: what's going on out there right now is with Maher.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's out there missing four extra points
Speaker 1: in practice, then you're taking a closer look at Viscaino
Speaker 1: and maybe to elevate him for Sunday right just in case,
Speaker 1: right because he would probably have one miss and then
Speaker 1: your yank them and bring in the guy. My wife
Speaker 1: asked me Monday, she said, you guys need a backup kicker.
Speaker 1: I said, nobody cares a backup kicker on the team.
Speaker 1: Were talking about that's never gonna happen, that's right. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a there's a big battle going on to
Speaker 1: who's gonna be on that active roster, well special teams.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't was it last year or a year
Speaker 1: before they brought in another kicker when Zerline was struggling,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, right, So it's not unprecedented. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And the only other thing he did this year,
Speaker 1: I think in two games he was the kickoff specialist
Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Um and that lasted just two games.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, it doesn't have a lot of experience.
Speaker 1: And I just I just don't understand this because Liara
Speaker 1: Mahira lah who is available? I think I think he is.
Speaker 1: I think he's a free And what about Jonathan how
Speaker 1: much how much experience NFL experience does he have? By
Speaker 1: the way, I got a lot of CFL experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, he was pretty good. And it's like, okay, buddy,
Speaker 1: your first appearance in the NFL is going to be
Speaker 1: in a second round playoff game on the road and
Speaker 1: on who knows what condition the grass will be have
Speaker 1: at it? Okay, all right, so the uh that's that's
Speaker 1: the top of the news for everyone. Finish with this.
Speaker 1: I saw this in the San Francisco Chronicle. Uh, they
Speaker 1: do well. It was online. I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: a paper edition. Some guy named Dennis Young was writing
Speaker 1: on how Jerry Jones flip flopped on the kicker situation
Speaker 1: because I think after the game he was you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't come down, but by Tuesday morning when he
Speaker 1: did his radio interview, he pointed out that, well, we'll
Speaker 1: just have to take a look at this. You know,
Speaker 1: we've we've done this once before, or carrying the kicker.
Speaker 1: So Dennis Young, who wrote the story, said, yeah, Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones flip flopped on Monday morning on his radio segment.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, if you're giving somebody grief, at least get
Speaker 1: your dates right right, don't make a mistake in your story. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm done, Gay, I have something something you go. I am.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed with all of the narrative around
Speaker 1: Dak and the Cowboys and you know, what's dad going
Speaker 1: to do? And they just had all the dominoes lined
Speaker 1: up for them to fall against the Cowboys, right, That's
Speaker 1: all they talked about. Dak Prescott has the most pressure
Speaker 1: on him than any other player in the NFL playoffs. Now,
Speaker 1: who has the pressure on them now after Dak just
Speaker 1: miraculously becomes the savior of the world. Nun's on a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback is well, just kind of straying away from
Speaker 1: from the game this particular game. I think Jaylen Hurts
Speaker 1: has the most pressure on him right now. It just
Speaker 1: it just shifted to the Philadelphia Eagles in regards to
Speaker 1: how they're going to have with their first game, and
Speaker 1: especially when you consider that Jalen is coming off the
Speaker 1: injury and you know, just face the Giants a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago in his return and the way the
Speaker 1: Giants have been playing, and that could be a very
Speaker 1: interesting game on Saturday night. Did he lose one of
Speaker 1: his is going to be a very interesting game. Did
Speaker 1: he lose one of his dimensions of running the ball,
Speaker 1: trying to protect that shoulder, not wanting to get tackled,
Speaker 1: And is he a different quarterback? I know, I know
Speaker 1: if I was a coach, I would not be calling
Speaker 1: too many RPOs for Jalen Hurst because you know, we're
Speaker 1: flying around, not just us, We're flying around. You got
Speaker 1: the Giants that have a lot of confidence right now,
Speaker 1: and like you said, they played against jaln Hursts at
Speaker 1: the end of the season didn't go so well. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he does right now. He is what's Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott was facing last week. But of course the pressure
Speaker 1: is not as much because you're not a Dallas Cowbug quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you've been getting all of this praise all year long.
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's putting you ahead of Dack and almost
Speaker 1: every other quarterback in the NFL. And we hadn't even
Speaker 1: heard from you now really for about two three weeks.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see what he's got going on and how
Speaker 1: healthy is he. And when you consider the Giants and
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale, their defensive coordinator, who has a history with
Speaker 1: some tough defensive teams like the Ravens in his past,
Speaker 1: they may be targeting that shoulder that Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: playing with. I bet they are. There's there's there's no
Speaker 1: equality in criticism, you know, all right? So back to
Speaker 1: this game, Yes, Cowboys and Niners. What do we need
Speaker 1: to know? Coming out of Mike McCarthy's press conference, So
Speaker 1: he pointed out that Jayron Curse will be limited in
Speaker 1: practice with that knee. But I think they feel like
Speaker 1: the rest of these guys are Oh I printed out
Speaker 1: my injury port and left it on the printer that
Speaker 1: everybody else is about ready to go except for Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: And I think I told you guys on Tuesday, what's today, Thursday,
Speaker 1: that he's likely done for the season with that hip injury.
Speaker 1: Somebody just asked me about Jason Peters. I said, it's
Speaker 1: a forty year old man with a bad hip. Kind
Speaker 1: of breed into it, as you will, but that means
Speaker 1: the offensive line is back in order, which which was
Speaker 1: another thing pointed out in one of the analysis in
Speaker 1: the Enemy newspaper pointing out that the Cowboys have problems
Speaker 1: on the offensive line because Jason Peters has a hip
Speaker 1: injury and may not play. It didn't point out that
Speaker 1: that offensive line, you know, that was only his first
Speaker 1: started the year. It's back to back to what it was, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And I've called up the injury report from yesterday and
Speaker 1: officially what the Cowboys had listed yesterday as far as
Speaker 1: curse goes, his participation level was limited as you mentioned
Speaker 1: with his knee, and DeMarcus Lawrence has been has been
Speaker 1: listed as limited throughout the season, and Peters was the
Speaker 1: only one who is a D and P and then
Speaker 1: as far as San Francisco is concerned, yesterday's injury report,
Speaker 1: I'm looking just at names of interest. They have a
Speaker 1: ten time Pro Bowl left tackle themselves, who's had for
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, Trent william Trent Williams. And he
Speaker 1: did not participate yesterday. But it's not because it's because
Speaker 1: he is a ten time a future, ten time Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl future Hall of Fame, uh, left tackle. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I just want to see if this year when he
Speaker 1: lines up on the left side like he did last
Speaker 1: year in the playoff game, and he starts digging and
Speaker 1: his toe, his back foot toe in the ground before
Speaker 1: the snap, if that's a false You remember that. It
Speaker 1: was like he'd sit there. It was it was like
Speaker 1: it was like one of those charging, you know, bulls.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, I'm ready to go, and it's
Speaker 1: digging that foot in the ground. Why is that not
Speaker 1: a false start? But I guess we'll find out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of penalties, Yes, how about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Uh the way the Cowboys have corrected that little issue. Well,
Speaker 1: do we remember the playoff game last year? That's right,
Speaker 1: I'm calling it up right now. I believe it was
Speaker 1: fourteen team stats last year's playoff game, well, Dallas and
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Last year it was fourteen penalties for Dallas
Speaker 1: for eighty nine yards and the forty nine Ers had
Speaker 1: nine penalties for fifty eight yards in that game last year.
Speaker 1: So I saw who's doing the game this year, and
Speaker 1: he is last two years Bill Vinovich. Yeah, the least
Speaker 1: amount of penalties called. There you go. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that has anything to do after they saw last year's game.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that is something that after last
Speaker 1: week's game. After last week's game, the Cowboys ended up
Speaker 1: at the end of the year probably one of the
Speaker 1: least penalized teams in the NFL. Yeah, after the start,
Speaker 1: they got off to right because there was a lot
Speaker 1: of double digit penalties at that point and that has
Speaker 1: always been a point of criticism. And if you can
Speaker 1: clean that stuff up at this critical time of the year,
Speaker 1: that's huge. All Right, We're just getting started on this
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots. We got much to get into.
Speaker 1: In fact, I want to take a look at the
Speaker 1: last three years for Christian McCaffrey versus Tony Pollard when
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Speaker 1: I talked about the watch party on Monday night and
Speaker 1: just how many Cowboys fans were there at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium and Miller Lighthouse. I was out there even
Speaker 1: before the gates open on Monday afternoon, and there was
Speaker 1: starting at five thirty when the gates opened, there were
Speaker 1: it was already filling up very quickly. And when I
Speaker 1: drove away just before kickoff at nearly seven, we left
Speaker 1: the party before the games to get someplace where where
Speaker 1: I could actually get my note bad out and take notes.
Speaker 1: Um it was there were a lot of cars and
Speaker 1: a lot of people still on their way in to
Speaker 1: the party. Well, they decided they're going to do it
Speaker 1: again this week. It was a good idea, a great idea,
Speaker 1: and they're going to do it again on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Of course it is a five thirty kickoff Dallas time
Speaker 1: and the watch party. I kin don't have in front
Speaker 1: of me right now, but I assume if they're going
Speaker 1: to use the same time frame, gates would open at
Speaker 1: four o'clock on Sunday afternoon. I'll try to confirm that. Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: and m four o'clock. Yes, Skates open at four o'clock,
Speaker 1: hopefully for a nice day, right, I haven't looked at
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Speaker 1: the Bay area? I just I've had some rain issues
Speaker 1: here recently, recently the whole month or more than that.
Speaker 1: You haven't looked. I have not. Okay, So that's that's
Speaker 1: another assignment for you. Now. The most important thing is
Speaker 1: if you have to go across the field after the game,
Speaker 1: what shoes to wear? No, the most important things for
Speaker 1: what shoe the kicker? For the kicker? All right? Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey versus Tony Pollard. What led me to look this
Speaker 1: up was a tweet from Edward Er during the Niners
Speaker 1: Seattle game on Saturday. He tweeted something to the effect of,
Speaker 1: I often wonder whenever I watch Christian McCaffrey, why Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard would be like if he was used in the
Speaker 1: same way that Christian McCaffrey has been used both in
Speaker 1: Carolina and in San Francisco. I'm reading into it. That's
Speaker 1: too long a tweet. I mean, it was just often
Speaker 1: wonder what Tony Pollard would do if he had if
Speaker 1: he was used the same way as Christian McCaffrey. So
Speaker 1: I was looked up the last three years because Pollard
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Okay, he's a rookie, okay, So his
Speaker 1: last three years versus Christian McCaffrey. Pollard four hundred twenty
Speaker 1: four carries for two thousand, one hundred fifty four yards
Speaker 1: five point one yards a carry, McCaffrey four hundred two
Speaker 1: carries for eighteen hundred yards four point five yards a carry,
Speaker 1: all right. Receiving Pollard one hundred six catches, nine hundred
Speaker 1: one yards at eight point five yards a catch. McCaffrey
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty nine receptions twelve hundred thirty three yards.
Speaker 1: That's eight point nine yards a catch. So all told,
Speaker 1: Pollard five hundred thirty touches, McCaffrey five hundred forty one touches.
Speaker 1: Pollard three thousand and fifty five yards McCaffrey three thousand,
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards five point eight yards a touch for
Speaker 1: Pollard five points six yards a touch for McCaffrey. Now
Speaker 1: here's the big difference. Touchdowns. Now, I'm not I didn't
Speaker 1: even look at touchdowns, the big difference. McCaffrey has missed
Speaker 1: twenty games during that time, right, But you look at
Speaker 1: the production and when McCaffrey has been healthy and playing
Speaker 1: in games and when Pollard has played, it's almost identical
Speaker 1: their usage. Okay, they're almost identical their production. Okay, But
Speaker 1: I also think McCaffrey is a case in point for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys who decide that we're not going to use
Speaker 1: Pollard as much because we don't want him to get hurt.
Speaker 1: And you see what happened to McCaffrey after he was
Speaker 1: used so much by Carolina the first two years in
Speaker 1: the league. The next two years he misses twenty games.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys have been guarding against overuse for Pollard
Speaker 1: because they don't want to lose him for twenty games
Speaker 1: the next couple of years, or they don't have confidence
Speaker 1: in him that he can. There are other aspects, many
Speaker 1: snaps in a game, and we were gonna be well.
Speaker 1: We will find out once free agency begins how other
Speaker 1: teams evaluate Tony Pollard, because if they allow him into
Speaker 1: free agency, we'll see what sort of offers he gets.
Speaker 1: And by the way, at the end of this year,
Speaker 1: with more touches this year for Pollard, he had a
Speaker 1: bruce thigh at the end of the season and had
Speaker 1: to miss a game and was limited another one. Right,
Speaker 1: so that'll be that'll be the barometer on your little
Speaker 1: deal there what other people think of him, not just
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys perceive him to be. And but but
Speaker 1: it is an interesting comparison when you look at the
Speaker 1: production numbers Pollard and McCaffrey in both rushing and receiving.
Speaker 1: So do you have a comparable with uh my man
Speaker 1: deebo I? That is no comparison, right, the Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: have a comparable player, right that can do both things
Speaker 1: like that? Can you think of one? I wouldn't say that. Okay,
Speaker 1: who do you think that they can handle a ball
Speaker 1: to for four hundred yards rushing as a receiver? Tony Pollard?
Speaker 1: I think all right? All right? So whatever, So what
Speaker 1: do you think of my McCaffrey versus Pollard comparison? There?
Speaker 1: Well off thet before I knew the evenness of their stats,
Speaker 1: I would have thought that McCaffrey has a little bit
Speaker 1: more endurance. That's just the way I would have thought it,
Speaker 1: just by you know, looking at it from a far.
Speaker 1: Pollock has always been that guy that needed limited touches
Speaker 1: because you can see the fatigue in him. If he
Speaker 1: gets to baffle a little bit too often. We talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday, Spats. I think that was off the air.
Speaker 1: I really just saw Tony Pollard as a guy that
Speaker 1: has a little bit more explosiveness than McCaffrey. I just
Speaker 1: I have always thought that just the way Pollock has played.
Speaker 1: I thought he showed it also in the last game,
Speaker 1: in the way he willed himself to just you know,
Speaker 1: get an average over four yards of carry in his
Speaker 1: last playoff game. I thought, I think, I think they're both.
Speaker 1: They both have the same abilities, but off the top,
Speaker 1: I would have thought that McCaffrey would have a little
Speaker 1: bit more endurance overall than Pollard. I guess when you
Speaker 1: look at the fact that he didn't play so many
Speaker 1: games over the last three years, he has been used
Speaker 1: more than Pollock has, you know, based on how much
Speaker 1: he's played. Mickey's busy charting or scribbling something down. I
Speaker 1: lost your guy, I know it. I was hoping that
Speaker 1: Mickey had something to add there, because I was busy
Speaker 1: coming up with something to add to the conversation. I'm
Speaker 1: not finished with my research, Mickey, Well, no, I was.
Speaker 1: I was just since you compared those guys, I was
Speaker 1: trying to compare pass rushers sack guys. So that's off
Speaker 1: a different subject. But if you got more, go for
Speaker 1: it before you move on to that, before you move
Speaker 1: on to that whole lot, before you take on to that.
Speaker 1: I don't think Christian McCaffrey has had a Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at that, who who I'm
Speaker 1: gonna in the backfield with him? Uh? That's Zeke Elliott's level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a luxury that uh Pollard has had his whole career.
Speaker 1: And it's like you SAIDs bags, How is that going
Speaker 1: to affect his UH worth without a Zeke on the
Speaker 1: next team that he may go to. Yeah? Absolutely? Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, and that's a that's a question that's
Speaker 1: gonna gonna get answered. So since you brought up that,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, well, what about sacks, right because right
Speaker 1: away we think Bosa and Parsons, Well, ye, Bosa led
Speaker 1: the league with eighteen and a half sacks, Parsons had
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half. But as I go through this
Speaker 1: whole thing and looking at they ranked the top fifty
Speaker 1: guys with sacks in the league fifty Yeah, tight, fifty,
Speaker 1: And it's more than fifty because there's a huge tie
Speaker 1: at forty nine, right at six and a half. Um,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have another guy in the top fifty with
Speaker 1: Dorence Armstrong tied for twenty seventh with eight and a
Speaker 1: half and San Francisco according to these stats. And I
Speaker 1: guess I should look at their their stats. Uh, they
Speaker 1: don't have another guy with six and a half sacks
Speaker 1: according to the top let's see here, So I should
Speaker 1: look here. The fucon is that I say he's got five?
Speaker 1: Close enough anyway, and omenah who omen who? Charles Amena
Speaker 1: who had a rall at high school in the University
Speaker 1: of Texas four and a half sacks? All right? Could
Speaker 1: you take that paper from from Bickie please? I even
Speaker 1: wrote that down to make sure I pronounced it right,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have it on the right page. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. So they had two guys combined for
Speaker 1: like nine sacks. So from a sack standpoint, obviously the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got to take care of Bosaw and on the
Speaker 1: season the night who ogetto I had one and a
Speaker 1: half last year, and guess the Cowboys in that playoff game.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he was drafted by the Texans.
Speaker 1: The Texans gave up on him and he winds up
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Uh. The forty nine Ers on the
Speaker 1: season had forty four sacks as a team, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had ten ten more I believe that is, and
Speaker 1: their quarterbacks have only been sacked thirty one times. Here's
Speaker 1: the other thing to consider on San Francisco, and this
Speaker 1: is something that I've charted throughout the season in my
Speaker 1: voluminous notebook here offensive line injuries. The forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: have been really one of the healthiest offensive lines in
Speaker 1: the league this entire season, with the exception Trent Williams
Speaker 1: early in the season missed three games. And how did
Speaker 1: they start the season, Mickey, I believe one and two,
Speaker 1: and they were three and four after seven games, basically
Speaker 1: after Trent Williams came back in what would be Week seven.
Speaker 1: They lost to Kansas City in Week seven. Since then,
Speaker 1: they've won every game. And I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: coincidence getting their ten time Pro Bowl left tackle back.
Speaker 1: But when you look at their offensive line, and this
Speaker 1: is something I'm sure that the Cowboys are looking at
Speaker 1: this week in ways that they can take advantage with
Speaker 1: their pass rush. They've got San Francisco's got two veterans
Speaker 1: at tackle, Williams on one side, and a twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: first round picked, Mike mcglinchey's at right tackle. But you
Speaker 1: look at their interior offensive lineman and they've got young
Speaker 1: guys in there now they may be pretty good too.
Speaker 1: But they've got a first year's starter at center, and
Speaker 1: Jake Brindle out of UCLA and Plano East High School
Speaker 1: who's basically a starter for the first time. Alex Mack
Speaker 1: was there long time, of course, and Alex Mack, you know,
Speaker 1: he's could be destined for Knon as well. You know,
Speaker 1: he started seventeen games last year for them at pushing
Speaker 1: forty years old probably, So Brendall's been their starter at center,
Speaker 1: and they're at guard. They've got second round draft pick
Speaker 1: from last year, Aaron Banks, who is starting his first
Speaker 1: year at left guard, and well, actually he and Blake
Speaker 1: Hints have Actually they last year they had Blake Hants
Speaker 1: and Tom Compton were their starters at guard and Banks
Speaker 1: this year as a first year's starter. He backed them
Speaker 1: up last year. And the other guard is Spencer Burford,
Speaker 1: another first year starter, fourth round rookie this year who
Speaker 1: and they lost Lake and Tomlinson who signed a big
Speaker 1: three year, forty million dollars deal with the Jets from
Speaker 1: last year. And so those interior offensive linemen are young
Speaker 1: or inexperienced, one or the other, and that could be
Speaker 1: something with the Cowboys try to take advantage of what
Speaker 1: the Niners have up front, despite the fact that they've
Speaker 1: been healthy all year on their offensive line. So they've
Speaker 1: done a good job all year. But if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a place where they might be susceptible a little bit,
Speaker 1: it would be inside on their offensive line. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned that they have won eleven straight games. This occurred
Speaker 1: to me and it's like, you can't do if right.
Speaker 1: But had the Cowboys like hung on to leads in
Speaker 1: the two games they lost in overtime, they would have
Speaker 1: had a ten game winning street until losing to Washington
Speaker 1: in the seas in finale. So the only thing that
Speaker 1: stood between them in a ten game winning streak was
Speaker 1: losing two games in overtime, right one of them on
Speaker 1: a drop pass pick six. You know, it's interesting how
Speaker 1: many hot teams are still alive in the playoffs, Teams
Speaker 1: that have done well on the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Cincinnati and Buffalo. I think
Speaker 1: that they both have about eight game win streaks, and
Speaker 1: it's it's rare that you have two teams that hot
Speaker 1: matching up against each other in the playoffs, and Kansas
Speaker 1: City has been pretty consistent. Also, all right, we wrap
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Speaker 1: All right? Some news out of Tampa this morning. They
Speaker 1: have fired offensive coordinator Byron Leftwitch, making sweeping changes to
Speaker 1: their coaching staff. As many as five offensive assistants and
Speaker 1: two on defense expected to be let go. Wow, that
Speaker 1: saves the head coach's job or how does that work? Well?
Speaker 1: I would or maybe Todd Bowles that do think about
Speaker 1: think about Tampa Bay? Uh? Since a year ago. At
Speaker 1: this time, Bruce Arians was the head coach. He decides
Speaker 1: to retire in March after Brady had retired, and then
Speaker 1: Brady comes back and Bowls had been announced as being
Speaker 1: promoted to head coach. But think about Byron Leftwitch and
Speaker 1: where he was as far as a hot head coaching
Speaker 1: commodity coming off of Super Bowl two years ago and
Speaker 1: even last year, and now they let him go. Mickey
Speaker 1: working on his microphone as we speak. He wants to
Speaker 1: have you got to hit the cough button back a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I was to raise your microphone a
Speaker 1: little bit so to hear you too. He sounds like
Speaker 1: an old man. It just broke up. I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't sneeze. And I had a very good point to
Speaker 1: make too about Byron Leftwich. K Bruce Arians had a
Speaker 1: little bit to do with Byron Leftwich offensive coordinator status.
Speaker 1: And oh I think Tom Landry had everything to do
Speaker 1: with Byron Leftwich status period. It all I had to
Speaker 1: do with Tom Brady To Landry, I was like, how's
Speaker 1: he gonna tight again? I have to I have to
Speaker 1: sew that together. Bro. I'm choking on. So do you
Speaker 1: think Brady was the offensive cord. They fired Brady too.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to. He's a free agent. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, Birol Leftwits can look like a genius with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady sitting up there in the center. Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Tom Brad, he's gone, and we don't
Speaker 1: need Byron. I mean, come on, that's a no brainer
Speaker 1: to me. I'm sorry, Well, he's not gone yet. He well,
Speaker 1: he's a free agent, so he can. Yeah, he can now.
Speaker 1: So maybe they're making these moves to try to lure
Speaker 1: Brady back. Maybe he's gonna be the offensive that's right,
Speaker 1: he's gonna player coach. Hey, hey, I would not put
Speaker 1: it past him. Think about that. I would not put
Speaker 1: it past them. All right. So, speaking of coaching matchups,
Speaker 1: how about the coaching matchup here where uh, well, on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of changes in San Francisco staff where you know they're
Speaker 1: oc last year is now the head coach in Miami
Speaker 1: is Kyle Shanahan's offense though, but at Shanahan versus Quinn, right,
Speaker 1: and obviously they have the history together in Atlanta, took
Speaker 1: a team to the Super Bowl and had a big
Speaker 1: lead in the Super Bowl against the aforementioned Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, and then Demko Ryan's the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for the Niners. You talk about hot head coaching commodities
Speaker 1: right now, damco Ryans is getting a lot of looks
Speaker 1: around the league right now. You think he's going to
Speaker 1: be distracted. Will Dan Quinn be distracted? And we're doing
Speaker 1: tomorrow with everybody was worried about Quinn being distracted, And
Speaker 1: they've got a coordinator who's going to interview tomorrow. Also,
Speaker 1: I believe in Ryan's right, He's got Ryan's has maybe
Speaker 1: four or five interviews scheduled for tomorrow. That's why I
Speaker 1: said now, But he had two extra days to prepare
Speaker 1: for Dallas. Yeah, they had already played for his interviews. Well,
Speaker 1: they had all you know, they played on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: they had already played Tampa Bay a month ago, and
Speaker 1: so you know that they spent those two days having
Speaker 1: not played Dallas this year, preparing for Dallas and knowing
Speaker 1: that Dallas was probably going to win that game. So
Speaker 1: what scares you you the most about the San Francisco offense?
Speaker 1: What part the offensive line, the running back, debot receivers,
Speaker 1: what part play calling? Okay, because I think I think
Speaker 1: shan I think Shanahan has the ability to cross up
Speaker 1: any defense that the forty nine ers go up against. UH.
Speaker 1: They don't just attack you with strict they attack you
Speaker 1: with intellect as well. I think he's one of the
Speaker 1: better play callers Shanahan UH. In the NFL period, what
Speaker 1: you saw from UH from our defense offense coordinator was
Speaker 1: special and against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. And you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to it, you've got a young
Speaker 1: wide receiver and I I keep I hope I'm staying
Speaker 1: again that's good, good, and and and and with thank
Speaker 1: you Bill not not Nikki mcguil will get it right often.
Speaker 1: So I have to say that that does scare me
Speaker 1: more than anything. Is their ability to spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: Now people talk about Harry Rodgers and Brady and how
Speaker 1: they spread the ball around as well. UH Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: has I think he hit eight different receivers in the
Speaker 1: ball game against the Buccaneers. You know, to me, that's
Speaker 1: showing just how good he can be as an offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Talking about the Dallas Cowboys, UH, Shanahan to me, UH
Speaker 1: is on a different level even from Keller Moore and
Speaker 1: to me, that's saying a lot, because I do I
Speaker 1: do respect Keller Moore when he's at his best, and
Speaker 1: and Shanahan, to me, is even on a higher level
Speaker 1: than that. Well, this will make you feel good because
Speaker 1: I listened to Troy Aikman's radio segment this morning on
Speaker 1: the Ticket and he absolutely agreed with you that not
Speaker 1: only does Shanahan have the personnel to be very versatile,
Speaker 1: meaning you mentioned I you he's got the tight end Kittle,
Speaker 1: he's got the fullback you stick that he likes to
Speaker 1: play with right, And it's like when you have that
Speaker 1: personnel around the quarterback, no matter who the quarterback is,
Speaker 1: if the quarterback is you know, recognizes things, disciplined, accurate,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that you know Brock Purdy was the
Speaker 1: lowest drafted rookie to win a playoff game because he's
Speaker 1: got all this around him. And Shanahan, in Aikman's estimation,
Speaker 1: is is one of the best, if not the best,
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators in the league. And he went back to
Speaker 1: learning from his dad, Mike Shanahan, who learned from Bill Walsh,
Speaker 1: and he said the three kind of put together this
Speaker 1: offense or they Kyle took parts of this and parts
Speaker 1: of that part of his own, and has really put
Speaker 1: together a very versatile offense. But to do that you
Speaker 1: had to have these versatile players. But he was very
Speaker 1: complimentary of what Kyle Shanahan has done offensively. All right, ever, since,
Speaker 1: we're about out of time, and you'll be joining us
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