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Speaker 2: Well one out of three eight bad? I thought the
Speaker 2: song went two out of three bad. Okay, Mickey Spagnola's
Speaker 2: here Nate Newton coming out of the bullpen once again
Speaker 2: to join mickshots here on Dallascowboys dot Com this Friday
Speaker 2: with the as Bill would say, football players on the
Speaker 2: football field right now, the Cowboys going through what they
Speaker 2: call is their mock game, So it's basically it's a
Speaker 2: walk through practice, although they do have helmets on and
Speaker 2: jerseys and they just basically review who's on what team
Speaker 2: and especially for special teams, who's on on the field.
Speaker 2: So we have tours going through Nate Newton.
Speaker 3: Yes we do.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh, you know too bad? They I think
Speaker 2: they can hear.
Speaker 3: Us, Can y'all hear us out there? I don't y'all
Speaker 3: can hear?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All right, that's.
Speaker 3: Too to be picking up pick that girl up for
Speaker 3: your mom, But don't yeah, get that girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good. It's been a good Friday, great Friday.
Speaker 2: The rain finally stopped.
Speaker 3: I don't care like we like the mail man. We're
Speaker 3: gonna keep coming.
Speaker 2: And that's what mix shots does, right, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: There's a holiday, right. I think there's maybe two people
Speaker 2: upstairs working as good besides myself and me and Nate,
Speaker 2: and we appreciate him.
Speaker 3: We got Chris on it. We got Chris on the wheels.
Speaker 3: Is steal back there spending?
Speaker 2: That's right? Yeah, no, you know the holidays over, yes,
Speaker 2: it is right. Christmas.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a Christmas man, and I pray every Christmas.
Speaker 3: I thank the Lord I save you. But I promise
Speaker 3: you this right here, my friend, I've worked since nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty six every Christmas, somehow, somehow, some way, indirectly or directly. Man,
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. Being a cowboy is
Speaker 3: a unique and special thing, whether it's a direct cowboy
Speaker 3: being on that field or indirectly working with you and
Speaker 3: the other guys and all the guys that I worked with,
Speaker 3: and Chris in the back and Jazz and Jesse and
Speaker 3: all those guys. I get excited, man.
Speaker 2: So if I remember correctly you at least played once
Speaker 2: or twice on Christmas. I think once, yes, the ninety
Speaker 2: five season, right, yes.
Speaker 3: I think. Yeah, I didn't even know that. I did
Speaker 3: not even know.
Speaker 2: That at Phoenix, right, yes, went out there and it
Speaker 2: was hot. That was the game you had to win
Speaker 2: to clinch the number one seed. Remember on the on
Speaker 2: the rate on the way out San Francisco got beat.
Speaker 3: Oh I remember that? Can I tell the story I had?
Speaker 3: We were on the plane going there, and somehow this
Speaker 3: is when you start can being able to watch games
Speaker 3: on the on the plane on the plane, and it
Speaker 3: didn't always happen, no way, but you can start watching games.
Speaker 3: Were watching this game, and then I'm telling you every
Speaker 3: player's mind, I thought it was only in my mind.
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, we don't want to we need home
Speaker 3: field advantage. We we we we don't, you know, we
Speaker 3: don't want to have to face forty nine ers, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. At and boy with Green Bay
Speaker 3: did that right there. I had never seen Mike Iver
Speaker 3: run so fast in his life. He ran up for
Speaker 3: down the house. Yeah again, And I thought I was
Speaker 3: a little thinking that way, bro. Yeah, And so that
Speaker 3: was a good thing because even though you don't fear team.
Speaker 3: Matchups are everything, man, especially when you have two high
Speaker 3: caliber teams. Matchups are everything, Yes, sir, And.
Speaker 2: Then you missed the Christmas Day game they played Tennessee
Speaker 2: to end the season in two thousand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went gone, gone, right, Yeah, I was out
Speaker 3: of the league.
Speaker 2: I remember that game because he told me no more.
Speaker 2: Troy was injured.
Speaker 3: He was out.
Speaker 2: Yes, the backup quarterback, Randall Cunningham, yes, suddenly had a
Speaker 2: hamstring pull. He was out, and right the third quarterback
Speaker 2: had to start the game. Oh it was cold, Yes,
Speaker 2: it was miserable. They got shut out. I believe no
Speaker 2: one wanted to play that game, right, well, in Nashville,
Speaker 2: and that was another Christmas Day game I remember covering.
Speaker 2: So yeah, at least we were home for Christmas. Let's
Speaker 2: put it that way. Because some teams had to play.
Speaker 2: I think two teams last night had to play. Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't know how well they played. Six to three. Wow,
Speaker 2: I think I said. I was watching and I said, god,
Speaker 2: I can't believe this game was six to three. My
Speaker 2: wife goes what sport and it was football. We do
Speaker 2: have what I thought we were going to see is
Speaker 2: during Siriani's press conference after their practice on Friday, said
Speaker 2: that Jalen Hurts was still in concussion protocol. So you're thinking,
Speaker 2: if it's Friday and he's still in concussion protocol and
Speaker 2: hasn't practiced all week, it's probably Kenny Pickett starting the
Speaker 2: game Sunday for Philadelphia. The game starts at noon Central,
Speaker 2: so that evens things up a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Both backup quarterbacks having to start the game.
Speaker 3: Yes, And thanks Chris mean for breaking that on me.
Speaker 3: I saw it on the phone and I shipped there
Speaker 3: over there to mix. It's just it's just making even
Speaker 3: more intriguing because Philadelphia needs these wins. Yeah, they need
Speaker 3: these wins to stay safely in the slot that they're
Speaker 3: in and every game because now we have a great
Speaker 3: chance of competing heavily against him this we have a
Speaker 3: great chance. We've been playing on fumes all year. They
Speaker 3: you know, with your quarterback out, we mayn make some
Speaker 3: some crossroads, in roads whatever you want to call it
Speaker 3: on this pickey kid. We should be able to get
Speaker 3: some pressure on them, man, because unless unless, unless they
Speaker 3: want to give it to one guy forty five times.
Speaker 2: And don't be surprised if they do. So what Nate
Speaker 2: is saying that they can just ride Saquon, Yes, sir who,
Speaker 2: by the way, and that's another storyline. We'll do that
Speaker 2: storyline first before we get to the quarterback situation. Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley needs to needs two hundred and sixty eight yards
Speaker 2: in these next two games. He's got one thousand, eight
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty eight yards right now, and he's trying
Speaker 2: to break Eric Dickerson single season rushing record, which is
Speaker 2: two thousand, one hundred and five yards. So the last
Speaker 2: thing you want to happen is he gains the necessary
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty eight yards against you to be
Speaker 2: able to break the record. I saw a story Dickerson's
Speaker 2: not all about having his record, Bro, what do you
Speaker 2: think about that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, I was to you on our flagship station.
Speaker 3: How you got on Dickinson because he didn't break it
Speaker 3: in enough time? Yeah, for the last guy, but I
Speaker 3: just don't want it to be against us. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: missus Dickinson. I watched you break the record. I'm happy
Speaker 3: for you, but I'm just hoping. I don't even want
Speaker 3: to rush for one hundred yards. I just don't I've
Speaker 3: never wanted for the Dallas Cowboys to be to help
Speaker 3: anybody do anything that's against us, right, yeah, So I
Speaker 3: hope we keep him around ninety yards. I hope he
Speaker 3: get out of the game healthy and safe, no touchdowns
Speaker 3: and around ninety yards rushing. And you got to go
Speaker 3: do it against your old team. I think it is
Speaker 3: in New York next week, the Giants. Yeah, go do
Speaker 3: it against your old well that would yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: make sure yeah, yeah, So don't do it against us.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping we hold him down. I'm really hoping we
Speaker 3: hold him down. I hope we you know.
Speaker 2: So Dickerson when he was asked about his single season
Speaker 2: record potentially being broken, if he was for it, and
Speaker 2: he said absolutely not. I don't pull any punches on that.
Speaker 2: So if you held the record, you know, Everson, when
Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs was looking like he could break his, uh, well,
Speaker 2: it was a Cowboys record, but it was the most
Speaker 2: interceptions in a single season by a player, the eleven
Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty one, he was all for of the
Speaker 2: record being broken. Right, if you held a record, do
Speaker 2: you want it broken?
Speaker 3: It just depends on what that record is, Okay, it
Speaker 3: depends on what that, Because some records are sacred, man,
Speaker 3: some records will be talked about forever, right, and if
Speaker 3: you get if you can hold a record like for
Speaker 3: thirty forty years, now, that's.
Speaker 2: Something offensive linemen usually don't.
Speaker 3: We don't have records. We always a part of people records,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And if it wasn't for you, these guys are offensive linemen.
Speaker 2: These guys aren't breaking Russil records.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. I've never held the record of
Speaker 3: that magnitude, so I don't know. You know, you have
Speaker 3: to be in them shoes. I don't wouldn't I want
Speaker 3: in them shoes. Now. I wasn't even a part of
Speaker 3: Emmetts when he broke the record.
Speaker 2: Over, but you were part of the yards along the way?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was twelve thousand of that one hundred. But
Speaker 3: you know them crucial ones where he got the ball
Speaker 3: and they stopped the game, they get even though they
Speaker 3: got whooped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Seattle. Right. So anyway, so as the story goes along,
Speaker 2: when Dickerson the previous record was OJ Simpson, he had
Speaker 2: two thousand and three yards rushing, right, but he did
Speaker 2: that in fourteen games. It was a fourteen game season.
Speaker 2: When Dickerson broke the record, he broke it in fifteen games,
Speaker 2: and then he had another game to add.
Speaker 3: On to it.
Speaker 2: So now he's looking at, well, he better break it
Speaker 2: in sixteen games, because if it's seventeen games, he had
Speaker 2: one extra game. So we'll see what that happens. I
Speaker 2: thought it was interesting to see the list of guys
Speaker 2: who have rushed for more than two thousand yards. Obviously
Speaker 2: Dickerson with the post two thousand, one hundred and five,
Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson had two thousand and ninety seven, Jamal Lewis
Speaker 2: two thousand and sixty six yards, Barry Sanders two thousand
Speaker 2: and fifty three yards, Derrick Henry twenty twenty seven, and
Speaker 2: I forgot that. I shouldn't have forgot it. Terrell Davis
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight yards. Wow, And that was the
Speaker 2: year they won a Super Bowl. Right. Took the pressure
Speaker 2: off of John Elway as you didn't have to be
Speaker 2: totally him. So that'll be one storyline we're talking about
Speaker 2: going into that game and you're figuring that with a
Speaker 2: backup quarterback, they're gonna want to run the ball.
Speaker 3: It's something about that all offensive coordinator who's thinking he's
Speaker 3: gonna outsmart the Holeue Kellen. Yeah, for some reason, I
Speaker 3: don't know why, when coming to the Cowboys when he
Speaker 3: was the coordinator, when he played, when he comes against
Speaker 3: us as a coordinator, he got approves to the world
Speaker 3: he can throw the ball. And not only does he
Speaker 3: proves the way they can throw the ball, he want
Speaker 3: to throw it long. He want to make it where
Speaker 3: they have to hold the ball a long time. So
Speaker 3: I don't know what to think about this game. But
Speaker 3: continue to think how you usually think you're playing against
Speaker 3: the Cowboys, playing of coaching for the Cowboys. Think long,
Speaker 3: think long pass, Give Parsons every opportunity, don't be.
Speaker 2: Handed it off. Yes, well, the first time around, Philadelphia
Speaker 2: ran for one hundred and eighty seven yards on thirty
Speaker 2: eight carries on the Cowboys. So they averaged four.
Speaker 3: Point nine how many carrier game?
Speaker 2: Thirty thirty eight carries, So they ran it a lot.
Speaker 2: And remember that game, it was fourteen to six.
Speaker 3: It halfened, right, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: And so chances are they're going to try to load
Speaker 2: up on the run with their with their running back.
Speaker 2: Now the difference will be and I think we saw
Speaker 2: this in this past. I get my days. Baltimore played
Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving Day, right the Christmas Day, Christmas Day, Yeah, Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: That it makes a difference, I think now, I think
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry's really good, but I saw some holes that
Speaker 2: open up as wide as those window pages. Well, part
Speaker 2: of that, I think is the defense has to worry
Speaker 2: about Lamar Jackson rushing the ball, So you got to
Speaker 2: worry about two guys. You can't just concentrate on one.
Speaker 2: Will McClay was doing a he got on the board
Speaker 2: diagram and some plays that they run, and he pointed
Speaker 2: out that when Baltimore started, they would have Derrick Henry
Speaker 2: kind of offset to one side or the other of
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Well, they decided that because of Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 2: running ability, they put him behind the quarterback. So now
Speaker 2: the defense doesn't know which way he's going right or
Speaker 2: likely to go, and it's made a huge difference. Well
Speaker 2: for Saquon Barkley, I'm sure it has helped that Jalen
Speaker 2: Hurts has the ability to run the football, and so
Speaker 2: that makes it more difficult to stop. Just say, okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to zero in on stopping him. Well, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 2: keep the ball and run on you, right, So I
Speaker 2: think that has helped. You know, I heard Jerry say
Speaker 2: that early when everybody's saying, well, why didn't you sign
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley other than they couldn't afford it from a
Speaker 2: money standpoint. And I know you don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2: He's got Jayalen Hurts next to him in front of them,
Speaker 2: and the ability of Hurts to run helps him take
Speaker 2: defensive tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about Jalen Hurts for Saku.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, same thing right for Lamar and Henry. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's the same thing, you know. Uh, I tell like
Speaker 3: this here, Mick. Uh, you just but you gotta prepare.
Speaker 3: You gotta be in your you gotta be in your gaps,
Speaker 3: you gotta play your responsibility. And yes, uh those are
Speaker 3: top ten or fifteen offensive lines and along with great
Speaker 3: running back quarterback duos which you still got to compete.
Speaker 3: We want to see whether this team will be at
Speaker 3: come Sunday at twelve, flex right into twelve. We just
Speaker 3: want to see what this team will be. We want
Speaker 3: to see what this team. Continue to play hard, continue
Speaker 3: to play smart, especially defensively. They've been playing pretty smart
Speaker 3: football and being opportunistic and getting takeaways, getting off the
Speaker 3: field and on third down. So we'll see. And the
Speaker 3: most important thing that Zim and this defense I've been
Speaker 3: able to do it but led by partisans, is keeping
Speaker 3: people out of the end zone. So can they do
Speaker 3: that this week? Can they replicate what happened last week?
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was a dirty game right
Speaker 3: down to the end of the game. But once again
Speaker 3: the defense took away touched We thought it was a
Speaker 3: sure touchdown in the end zone with Jordan Lewis. And
Speaker 3: then that end of the game, we saw the other
Speaker 3: cornerback Bland come up and he thought he was ran over,
Speaker 3: but he had the ball, and you thought he had
Speaker 3: got ran over, but he had.
Speaker 2: You got to make plays, yes, sir, so the first
Speaker 2: time around, and I know we got to take a
Speaker 2: break here, I said. They rushed for one hundred and
Speaker 2: what did I say, one hundred and eighty seven yards?
Speaker 2: They held Barkley to sixty six yards? Yes, okay, but
Speaker 2: he averaged four point seven. The hard part was Hertz
Speaker 2: ran for fifty six yards on just seven carries, so
Speaker 2: they did not do a good job of keeping him
Speaker 2: in the pocket. He also ran for two touchdowns. Yes, Now,
Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, one of them was a tush
Speaker 2: push a one yard a one yard run, but he
Speaker 2: did get away on an eight yard touchdown run. So
Speaker 2: he had sixty six averaged eight yards of carry and
Speaker 2: two touchdowns. If they don't have that factor, then I
Speaker 2: think the Cowboys have a better chance to maybe slow
Speaker 2: down Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, they do. They do. All of that plays
Speaker 3: a big part in it, man, all of it. Just
Speaker 3: come out with the same physicality you came out with
Speaker 3: it last week. Stay in your lanes. Tackle. They were
Speaker 3: better tackles last week. So just do those things. Replicate
Speaker 3: what you showed last week, and this team should be okay.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll continue on mix shots here on
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Speaker 2: indeed he is the Eagles quarterback.
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Speaker 2: o'clock Cowboys Eagles. And understand that the Cowboys at seven
Speaker 2: and eight, would like to do their very best to
Speaker 2: win the last two games and get to nine and
Speaker 2: eight and at least say we had a winning season.
Speaker 2: And as for the Eagles twelve and three, they need
Speaker 2: to win one more game to be able to clinch
Speaker 2: the NFC East title. I think everybody assumed that was
Speaker 2: going to happen. But Washington's sitting there with two games behind.
Speaker 2: So if Philadelphia should lose both games and Washington wins
Speaker 2: their last two, they finish in a virtual tie and
Speaker 2: we'll go to a tiebreaker.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So how about that? And this was a team that
Speaker 2: was hot on the heels of a first seed in
Speaker 2: the NFC playoffs and a bye, so that loss to
Speaker 2: Washington hurt them, not as bad as it or hurt
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, but they need to be able to win
Speaker 2: the game. And now you know the concussion protocol with
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts still in it as a Friday, and usually
Speaker 2: to get out a concussion protocol, you have to have
Speaker 2: an extensive of workout one day, and then you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to come back the next day and
Speaker 2: be able to show you could do it again without
Speaker 2: any repercussions from the workout. So now that it's Friday,
Speaker 2: he's running out of time. So chances are it would
Speaker 2: seem Kenny Pickett, we'll be able to We'll have to
Speaker 2: start the game. And prior to him going into the
Speaker 2: game against Washington this past week, he had only taken
Speaker 2: seven snaps during the season and only attempted three passes. Now,
Speaker 2: he did a decent job, right. They ended up, you know,
Speaker 2: scoring thirty three points. You'd have thought that was enough
Speaker 2: to win a game, but in the end they kicked
Speaker 2: too many field goals. So you're facing a young quarterback
Speaker 2: without much NFL experience. If you're the defensive coordinator of
Speaker 2: what you're doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing everything I can to slow down miss a
Speaker 3: bar Okay, you got you got to do that. And
Speaker 3: now you give them all different types of look blitz looks,
Speaker 3: blitz sometime not blitz, different uh secondary looks. I mean
Speaker 3: you you just you mix it up on him and
Speaker 3: see if he's ready for that. I mean and uh,
Speaker 3: like I said, pick your poison when you blitz, because
Speaker 3: you can still throw the game well or uh a
Speaker 3: saquon out of that backfield. So you have to always
Speaker 3: know those two guys that coming out of the backfield.
Speaker 3: But you give this kid, uh as many safe, different
Speaker 3: calculated looks as you can as the defensive coordinated without
Speaker 3: compromising your defense, you know, because they have the weapons
Speaker 3: and a lot of times, Uh, these these guys know
Speaker 3: that Mter Pickett ain't. Yeah, as what was as in
Speaker 3: line with with their routes and the timing is the
Speaker 3: word I was looking for. I know their time it
Speaker 3: may not be as great as it was with Jalen Hurt.
Speaker 3: So you either you got to speed him up. You
Speaker 3: got to get him off his mark. He got so
Speaker 3: much sacking. He's just giving good looks and bat down
Speaker 3: a couple of them balls and keep his confidence low.
Speaker 6: So for.
Speaker 2: This year, Pickett is fifteen of twenty seven for one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty eight yards an average of five and
Speaker 2: a half yards an attempt, one touchdown, one interception. So
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a lot of experience playing in this offense.
Speaker 2: And I'm with you on make sure you stop Barkley
Speaker 2: because if he can just rely on that and have
Speaker 2: to throw every now and then, yeah, you're gonna have problems.
Speaker 2: But if you can slow down bark least somehow, some way,
Speaker 2: then get pressure on him.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, yes, sir, because.
Speaker 2: Young young quarterbacks who haven't played a heck of a lot,
Speaker 2: the game speeds up in the pocket. Yes, you don't
Speaker 2: want them to get comfortable. You think the Cowboys can
Speaker 2: do it with their front or do they have to
Speaker 2: load up? But that's where stopping Barkley comes into play, right.
Speaker 3: Right, You stop Barker, slow him down, and put them
Speaker 3: in enough third down situations that's beyond four yards if
Speaker 3: you third and four, third and five thirty six, and
Speaker 3: depending on where you're at on the field, you keep
Speaker 3: them on their ends of the field, on their side
Speaker 3: of the fifty. Now that makes your coordinator aly itchy.
Speaker 3: You know he want to make sure because he don't
Speaker 3: want to be punting that ball, you know. So here
Speaker 3: we go. If you can get him at his reason,
Speaker 3: if you can get up and press a little bit,
Speaker 3: I would uh really mix up with coverages because if
Speaker 3: you press a little bit uh and and and make
Speaker 3: him come off of that first read, that gets Parsons
Speaker 3: in company a second chance to get at him. You know.
Speaker 3: But if he coming back dropping back and he hit
Speaker 3: his first read, got a swing to the backfield, and
Speaker 3: we're not tackling well at which we should tackle well
Speaker 3: to get these guys now now that that you know,
Speaker 3: that gives them confidence. You don't want any quarterback young old.
Speaker 3: If they can get confidence, if these backs can help
Speaker 3: them are these tight ends by coming off that first read,
Speaker 3: you know they can hurt you. But if you take
Speaker 3: away that first read, which is Smith for either Brown
Speaker 3: and he and make him go to this second read,
Speaker 3: that just that just gives you a defensive line of
Speaker 3: chance to get to him. Or he gives coach when
Speaker 3: he goes to those double A gaps a chance to
Speaker 3: pick one of those gaps where they turn the wrong
Speaker 3: way and let one of those linebackers in the on it.
Speaker 3: But you gotta hit him, you gotta disrupt him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if he if he gets comfortable in the pocket,
Speaker 2: then he has more time to go through his reads.
Speaker 2: And let's factor in that he is playing with a
Speaker 2: couple really good wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That Advante Smith and AJ Brown. The dudes a beast.
Speaker 3: I mean, AJ Brown is your big play guy. Smith
Speaker 3: is your mid Smith can do at all. If they
Speaker 3: didn't have a J. Brown, you would see Smith doing
Speaker 3: some miraculous things at number six. I think it's his number.
Speaker 3: This kid is legit. I mean he is special man.
Speaker 3: And when Sa Kuan broke on his sixty eight yard
Speaker 3: jaunt last week, I saw him just running, just run
Speaker 3: down field and catch yeah, catch, just running easily. The
Speaker 3: other guy that was chasing Barkley, they was struggling. He
Speaker 3: just cruised past everybody, just running and talking. You can
Speaker 3: see his hands waving, you know. I mean that's pure speed, bro.
Speaker 3: You can run next to a guy that's wide open
Speaker 3: and you running and talking to a guy and the
Speaker 3: other guy struggling. Yeah. So I'm glad he don't throw
Speaker 3: to him as much as they as they should Devontae Smith,
Speaker 3: because they have AJ Brown, who's gonna ask for that ball?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: St more he leads. He leads the Eagles sixty four catches.
Speaker 2: He's already got one thousand and forty three yards, So
Speaker 2: think about that. He's averaging sixteen point three yards a catch.
Speaker 3: As AJ Brown. Yes, yes, he's a big play guy.
Speaker 3: He's a great contestant ball catcher. I mean, when guys
Speaker 3: are hanging up with him, he can still come down
Speaker 3: with that ball. He has more than six percent chance
Speaker 3: coming down with that ball. So he's special. You know,
Speaker 3: both of these guys are special. It ain't who do
Speaker 3: you double right? It's you who do you make sure
Speaker 3: you tackle, make sure your technique is right. It ain't
Speaker 3: It ain't about I'm gonna put the safety over here
Speaker 3: to safety over there because he got I think they're
Speaker 3: equally good. Now people favor A J. Brown, but that's
Speaker 3: because Devonte Smith run intermediate routes like no other. He's
Speaker 3: a route running guy, man. And when you got a
Speaker 3: guy that can hurt you underneath, that just makes that
Speaker 3: thing getting over the top a little bit more easier.
Speaker 2: So one of the things that cowboys have done. And
Speaker 2: maybe you can explain to everybody how this works out
Speaker 2: is in a lot of recent definite passing situations. Uh,
Speaker 2: Mike Zimmer has loaded the box. They got six guys
Speaker 2: on the line of scrimmage. Yes, now sometimes they all
Speaker 2: don't come, but if they do, problematic for the offensive line,
Speaker 2: knowing who you have to pick up.
Speaker 3: The thing about it is they are good enough and
Speaker 3: experienced enough. You're not gonna you're not gonna fool them. Now, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're not gonna fool but you may fool the quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, the quarterback may be looking up thinking the
Speaker 3: guy coming off the left side, but really is the
Speaker 3: guy coming off the right side? And they don't have
Speaker 3: the hots right, But that that that that old line.
Speaker 3: They pretty seasoned, and they pretty good, and they're nine
Speaker 3: somebody ten. They gonna pick up who they're supposed to.
Speaker 3: And I've seen Barkley and I've seen game, well both
Speaker 3: of them block their guys. So what when he does that?
Speaker 3: That's why I say it's got to be very calculated
Speaker 3: because this offensive line is experienced and they are good.
Speaker 3: Where the mix up gotta come is hoping that he
Speaker 3: has no rhythm with his Wizards receivers yet, like it
Speaker 3: even took Cooper rush a veteran guy two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: to get into a rhythm. So we if we can
Speaker 3: keep him out of rhythm. Because he threw a nice
Speaker 3: sesch down in the game last week, and I'm talking
Speaker 3: about Picket, but the interception he threw, he threw it
Speaker 3: into three guys, and uh, and I don't even think
Speaker 3: Brown was kind of expecting he Brown went and ran
Speaker 3: little in ren route, kind of looked and he go
Speaker 3: three guys just and then he is an interception. So, uh,
Speaker 3: you got to confuse him more than anything. I think
Speaker 3: you have to confuse the quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I think when the Cowboys have been placing that
Speaker 2: many on the line of scrimmage, it's not always Michael
Speaker 2: Parsons rushing on the outside right, so he's coming in
Speaker 2: the middle or he's looping in the middle, and that
Speaker 2: causes some confusion, I would imagine for the offensive line.
Speaker 3: It does. And because the offensive line in the running
Speaker 3: back has the work in concert. And a lot of
Speaker 3: times when you're running games, especially when you have an
Speaker 3: outside linebacker or even a corner, sometimes that done eased
Speaker 3: up in that back though he has them, but they
Speaker 3: run tackle out in out. You get what I'm saying
Speaker 3: now they passing guys and that here here comes this
Speaker 3: this safety or this corner or this outside lineback of
Speaker 3: looping coming all the way back in. Do you want
Speaker 3: to be sure that you're while your running back and
Speaker 3: pick up that defensive men if you say, hey, we're
Speaker 3: gonna pass him out to you, or do you say
Speaker 3: just ease back inside and take that and take that
Speaker 3: that that safety or that linebacker and loop back inside.
Speaker 3: So most people that they're running back just maneuver its
Speaker 3: way back inside. A couple of times we were good
Speaker 3: enough to let Darren Johnson cut that in guy and
Speaker 3: we took care of what was inside. So it's just
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: Have like two seconds to decide, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all. It's all on the move. It's already
Speaker 3: been preordained. Yeah, but can you can you make it
Speaker 3: come to fruition? Is what to deal is?
Speaker 2: Because I think we've seen, you know, with the return
Speaker 2: of Michael Parsons, the Cowboys sacks have certainly picked up
Speaker 2: his return pressure. And it's not all him, but he
Speaker 2: does have eight and a half sacks since return, uh,
Speaker 2: and a lot of it is him looping inside and
Speaker 2: the guard or the center or taking care of something else. Yes,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, look who's.
Speaker 3: Coming and what in The speed that he generates is
Speaker 3: hard to recover. It's all about with parsons. You can
Speaker 3: see him, but are your feet and feet and hands
Speaker 3: quick enough to catch up with your eyes because you
Speaker 3: can see him, but that speed is something else. That
Speaker 3: speed kills man extra quarterback.
Speaker 2: And and and he's going to be he's going to
Speaker 2: be ready to eat too, because he wants to get
Speaker 2: to ten sacks.
Speaker 3: Right, and I think he's he wanted to prove the
Speaker 3: Philly you know, that he can have success against Philly.
Speaker 3: He's tweeted out something.
Speaker 2: Oh he said it yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he wanted to.
Speaker 2: I don't like Philip.
Speaker 3: Yeah he want to. He want to. And and the
Speaker 3: thing is, it's all about the matchup. Uh, you've not
Speaker 3: had success on the right tackle. And I promise Shane Johnson, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I promise you if you get four sacks and they
Speaker 3: on the two of them on the guard and two
Speaker 3: of them on the left tackle, you know, five years
Speaker 3: from out about hey man, Lane Johnson stopped it. Now
Speaker 3: they gonna notice that you have four sacks. Get them
Speaker 3: sacks bro, just about match ups. Go, don't try to
Speaker 3: just run over Lane Johnson. I mean, give me one
Speaker 3: or two reps. Let him know you will come over there.
Speaker 3: But but you got four of the guys that you
Speaker 3: can go whoop up on.
Speaker 2: And he only needs a half a sack to get
Speaker 2: to double digit sacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for every.
Speaker 2: Season hit he's played now in the NFL. Uh one
Speaker 2: other thing on Lane Johnson, I told you that Bill
Speaker 2: was illustrating some place right there was a running play.
Speaker 2: He blocked four different guys going downfield, got the guy
Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage, got the linebacker picked off
Speaker 2: with safety, and somebody else Will was diagramming each block.
Speaker 2: So he's he's pretty darn good.
Speaker 3: Yes, he is.
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Speaker 2: it seems like we forget Zach Martin has been out
Speaker 2: these last few games and the Cowboys won four or
Speaker 2: five here as he went through surgery to repair that
Speaker 2: repair that ankle. So from speaking of injuries, the Cowboys
Speaker 2: had seven guys that did not practice yesterday, okay, and one, two, three.
Speaker 2: Four of them were starters. Now one of those was Lamb,
Speaker 2: so we can eliminate him. Malik Hooker was rest non
Speaker 2: football injury. He did not practice. Nick Vigil, who started
Speaker 2: for Kendricks last week, once again did not practice. And
Speaker 2: he told me he hasn't practiced on a regular basis
Speaker 2: since hurting his foot against Pittsburgh. That's a long time ago, yes,
Speaker 2: And then he comes in and starts his first game
Speaker 2: of the year, plays ninety six percent of the snaps
Speaker 2: and leads a team with ten tackles. Donovan Wilson cropped
Speaker 2: up on Thursday with a knee. He did not practice,
Speaker 2: and I said Vigil, Hooker, Chuma Odogo, who did start
Speaker 2: the game, he still got this toe that's bothering him,
Speaker 2: did not practice on Thursday. We'll see where that one
Speaker 2: goes or if they have to go towards Tyler Geiton,
Speaker 2: because they kind of switched off in the game until
Speaker 2: Get missed his block that one time. Which do I
Speaker 2: know what you want? You want guiding out there getting snaps?
Speaker 3: Not anymore? Okay, The thing is now what you fear
Speaker 3: is him. He's already low confidence, lose job confidence, get
Speaker 3: even lower, but they've giving him some reps. It comes
Speaker 3: to a point where you have to think about the
Speaker 3: team and it's overall psyche and great thing happened about
Speaker 3: six games ago. A guy who I've been begging to
Speaker 3: play played in his name was awesome Riches. The cat
Speaker 3: got out of the bagh. Oh this guy wasn't drafted
Speaker 3: in the first round, but this guy played all right
Speaker 3: for the first time. He really outplayed your first round pick.
Speaker 3: You can't have that happen. You got to stay with
Speaker 3: this bad as bad it's bad, and hope that it
Speaker 3: gets it's good. But once you see something better, it's
Speaker 3: hard to sell to the fans, and it's definitely hard
Speaker 3: for your teammates to be looking like, hold on, man,
Speaker 3: you got sixty million standing back there getting beat to death,
Speaker 3: and you can do something about it and won't so
Speaker 3: when the cat got out of the bag and then
Speaker 3: a tumor came back, which I you know, I did
Speaker 3: not want this guy in the game, which I did
Speaker 3: not want a dog in the game. Apologized. I will
Speaker 3: apologize every chance I get, I'll apologized. He has done
Speaker 3: way better than I thought he could do. Right, and
Speaker 3: he's been a.
Speaker 2: Love which is not great, but he did better.
Speaker 3: He did better. Yes, So now the great thing about
Speaker 3: being a number one pick is you will get first
Speaker 3: in most shots when the season is over to improve
Speaker 3: your physical, your mental, and your spirit spiritual standings. You
Speaker 3: got a chance to build. So yeah, I excuse me,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry for that. I like that. This kid. Uh,
Speaker 3: we'll get another shot at the Cowboys haven't giving up
Speaker 3: on him. But you you, you let the cat out
Speaker 3: of the bag, and it was let out of the
Speaker 3: bag when Austin Richards did what he did, then a
Speaker 3: doga showed up and did what he doing, what he's doing,
Speaker 3: you know, and Cooper Rush has been the recipient of that.
Speaker 2: Well guess what, yes, sir, speaking of awesome Richards, if
Speaker 2: he's ready, he's eligible to come off and injured reserve,
Speaker 2: you know, missed his.
Speaker 3: Window.
Speaker 2: Choir four games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's missed a window of opportunity to the
Speaker 3: thing about it, and see, I hate it. I got
Speaker 3: to bring this up because I promised myself. Every time
Speaker 3: I think about it, I'm glad that ain't one of
Speaker 3: the guys that Missus Jones got to put on my
Speaker 3: Christmas list to sign. We still have awesome riches this
Speaker 3: second year. Yes, so yeah, so we got him at
Speaker 3: least another year. So I'm like, man, my Christma of this.
Speaker 3: It's getting bigger. It's getting big and bigger.
Speaker 2: So unfortunately they're playing better and better.
Speaker 3: Better, Yes we are. This is another test for the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: All right. I don't think my cohorts.
Speaker 3: That your picks and all of that. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: got your picks.
Speaker 2: Let's see if they did it or if they just
Speaker 2: forgot because they were off right.
Speaker 3: Picks to click? Oh man, we should have been starting that.
Speaker 2: I don't see.
Speaker 3: Let's see, well, give us yours.
Speaker 2: Well I hadn't even thought of my pick to click,
Speaker 2: but it needs to be. And I know we've banned
Speaker 2: this because we could pick Michael Parsons every week. I
Speaker 2: think he's even more important now because this defense has
Speaker 2: to play well. To not have Cooper Rush have to
Speaker 2: put up thirty points to run the game. Yes, so
Speaker 2: uh And I was going to pick the Cowboys to
Speaker 2: win this game until three o'clock yesterday. CD goes out
Speaker 2: and I see Jalen Tolbert and for those that are
Speaker 2: watching this with his two fingers here wrapped together because
Speaker 2: he dislocated the pinky finger, I think maybe Eagles twenty
Speaker 2: three seventeen. I think it's a close game, but I
Speaker 2: think we've hit the two biggest things. You've got to
Speaker 2: slow down Saquon Barklay and you've got to get pressure
Speaker 2: on Picket, Yes, and then you give yourself a chance
Speaker 2: to win even though you're on the road because they've
Speaker 2: got a backup quarterback. So I know who you pick
Speaker 2: to win always, But who's your pick to click? Who
Speaker 2: has to have a really good performance?
Speaker 3: Our inside three versus their inside Threealen Carter, Milton Williams,
Speaker 3: and Jordan Davis. They're inside three big stud tackles. We
Speaker 3: gotta deal with them. If we can't deal with them,
Speaker 3: this would be a very ugly game for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: So Carter leads this thing.
Speaker 2: Those three guys, do they remind you of maybe three
Speaker 2: guys you had to play against back in the day
Speaker 2: against the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those Jerome Brown and Seth and Reggie
Speaker 3: and yeah, all of those. Yeah, but these guys are
Speaker 3: not quite there yet. But I'm telling you, Jalen Jalen,
Speaker 3: Jalen Carter is it. He is smart, he is athletic,
Speaker 3: he is huge, he's twitchy. It's just like the kid
Speaker 3: that just left here last week, Vita Vita. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 3: if Vita would lose thirty pounds, he would be unstoppable,
Speaker 3: you know. And that's where Jayalen at now because he's
Speaker 3: still young. Vita's been playing seven eight years. But Jalen
Speaker 3: is still young, so you know, the bigness ain't bothering
Speaker 3: him right now. That's number ninety eight. He'll beast man.
Speaker 3: He is slippery, he is powerful, he's explosive. I mean,
Speaker 3: he he is it man.
Speaker 2: So which guy's tougher, Jordan Davis or Jayleen?
Speaker 3: Give me number ninety eight, brother, Yeah, and then give
Speaker 3: me number ninety three, Milton Williams kid from La Tech,
Speaker 3: And then I'll take Big number ninety. Big number ninety
Speaker 3: is a two down player, first and second downright, depending
Speaker 3: on the run of pass. These other two guys can
Speaker 3: play the whole.
Speaker 2: Game ninety eight. Just watching him last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a.
Speaker 2: Little mean streaking.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I think about it. If you get
Speaker 3: the best of him, he don't get mad. I watched him.
Speaker 3: You get the best of him. But if he get
Speaker 3: the best of you, be ready for him to start talking. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he'll start talking. Man. Yeah, Oh I love him. Man.
Speaker 3: I you know, I hate Philadelphia, but I like great
Speaker 3: players that have the potential to be great and start
Speaker 3: showing you that they can be great.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, we pulled this off, Nate, Yes, sir, I
Speaker 2: don't mean this in a bad way to anybody else,
Speaker 2: but love having you on the show with me, man,
Speaker 2: just like old days, right yeah, in the bat Cave,
Speaker 2: in the Batcave, back at the Rent. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: me and Nate talking cowboys.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's what we've got for you today
Speaker 2: on dallascowboys dot Com and we will be back, maybe
Speaker 2: in full force on mix shots on Monday following this game.
Speaker 2: And thank goodness, it's a noon start. Getting yeah, a
Speaker 2: little bit earlier, you guys, getting done here a little
Speaker 2: bit earlier. And the only other thing that needs to
Speaker 2: happen is the Cowboys need to win the.
Speaker 3: Oh they will.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: All I need is for Picket to give us two.
Speaker 3: All right, you got it?
Speaker 2: So them second secondary get going right all right. That's
Speaker 2: it for mix shots on this Friday. Hope everybody has
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