WEBVTT - Mick Shots: The Reinforcements 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:09.080 Cowboys. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:16.440 This is Mick Shot streaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.760 and the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:31.960 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.120 It's a Wednesday here inside the SWBC podcast studio, home 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.400 of your kickball champion Dallas Cowboys. This is Bill Jones 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.480 along with Everson Walls and the legendary Mickey Spagnol. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:49.959 Let's go. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:56.880 As Pittsburgh Steeler Week is underway. Officially, there is football 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.720 gear on a football field and there will be football 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.760 players out there in a matter of moments. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.920 It's going to be an immaculate game. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:11.920 Oh we're going all the way back to nineteen seventy two. Yeah, right, 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.560 same day as the Tony Fritch behind the back on 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.720 sidekick and the Rogers stabach Captain comeback win over the 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:22.839 San Francisco forty nine. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.640 Ers more behind the Achilles. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.000 Yeah yeah, behind the behind the behind the heel, behind 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.280 the heel, behind the hiel. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.000 That's right, that's right. That's what I remember today. That's 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.600 what I remember from that day, My greatest day of 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:42.680 watching football of my childhood was the Immaculate Reception followed 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:48.080 by Captain comeback at San Francisco as the Cowboys rallied 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.640 for a thirty to twenty eight win over the forty 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:51.240 nine ers. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.680 So they asked Mike where was he when he saw 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.000 the immaculate reception? Yep, growing up in Pittsburgh, growing up 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.360 in Pittsburgh, watch it had home on his black and 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.000 white TV, which we all did. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:05.600 Yes we did. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.000 Where were you We actually got a color television? 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:17.600 WoT he hated to bring that up? You know, godly man, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.520 you talk about a guy with a silver spoon in 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:20.000 his mouth. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:25.520 They can smell fresh cash. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.160 You know how, I remember, you know how I remember 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.560 when we got a color television. It got installed, what 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:32.960 delivered whatever? 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.960 You mean the installed installations of the. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:42.040 Same that we turned it on and LBJ was making 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.800 the his announcement that he was not running for president. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:45.280 Wow. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.919 Yeah, so that would have been eight or whatever. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.240 Yeah, yeah, you got your TV and that I know, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.160 you've got a color TV. In the sixties, bro, Hey, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.560 did you go very very affluent? 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:00.880 Herv the neighborhood? 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.440 We still in the six we still. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.280 Had those words go together. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.600 We had one of those console things that there was 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.560 a phonograph on one side and TV on the other, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.960 and the knob broke. I can't remember if it was 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.600 the volume or the channel. Yeah, but we had one 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.880 of those those turnkeys from the coffee can that fit 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.160 into where the knob we're supposed. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:34.920 To go to turn it on. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.760 And yes, yes, and it was always the cheap plastic. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:40.240 Yes. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.480 So it was probably the channel changer because the volume, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.440 you know, it has no no. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.320 Y'all had a channel changer. Well, yeah, it was on 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.160 the TV. Physically, I had to get go and do it. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.480 I had Yeah, we had players. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.240 Oh yeah, yeah, I was put TV and every time 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.600 you want to change, just get the plank. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.160 We not only had a color TV, but we had 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.160 a Cowboy antenna too on top of them. My dad 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.880 put He had all these wires and metal and stuff 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.960 on top of our roof. And actually we had a 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.680 there was a tornado that hit. That's when we can 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.840 watch a Cowboy. That's good because. 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:22.800 Tyler. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.240 Yeah, so we picked up that Tyler TV station. It 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.159 was all snowy and everything, but still we could pick 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:29.760 it out. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.159 And uh so that's why you wasn't tough enough to 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.240 make it in basketball. 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.400 You were a spoiled little. 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:46.440 Kid making a basketball. I started from MacArthur Junior High. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:47.080 Junior High. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.280 We played we didn't play Burkner because y'all were four A. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.080 I mean y'all were three A and we were four A. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.520 Yeah when I got there, our first first first year 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.960 in four A okay, seventeen. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.040 But we played. We played J. J. Pearce, the Baxter 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:03.640 Boys over there. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.359 One of those guys ended up being a high jumper. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 I think we may have had this wide receiver ended 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.760 up being the high jump. I went against him and 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.560 he actually called the pass on One of them. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.200 Played basketball at Texas Tech. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.720 They got hops. Yeah, man, that's right, that's right. All right? 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.640 Were you watching what reception? 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.679 Yes? Yeah, I didn't like it, not at all. I didn't. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.000 I didn't like Pittsburgh by the way, mister pepper mister 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.240 Peppermin's son played basketball at Lake Islets, Okay, and he 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.640 became a a rock star. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:41.240 Is that's right? 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.360 Yeah, that's an immaculate memory. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.920 Okay. Do you want to talk immaculate receptions? You want 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.360 to talk about receiver? This team? 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.280 Man, I am so this mister. 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.520 Pepperman, you don't know who mister Pepper, You know who 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:55.960 he is? 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:56.400 All right? 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:01.599 Okay, we had got some breakheads a circus by the way. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:02.840 Yo. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:09.000 Yeah, uh, I'm breaking news here from Mike Prescott. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:14.000 And Mike McCarthy confirmed that Brandon Cooks is a knee 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.760 issue and he won't be available for this game this week. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.000 I didn't mention how long he was going to be out, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:28.120 but all he would allow is he had a knee issue. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.280 Or he didn't even allow that. But what's been reported 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.960 is that he had a knee issue that was taken 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.400 care of uh in New York after the game, and 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:48.799 that it developed an infection afterwards. And we probably need 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.760 more questions. It just came out late this morning. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.680 So did y'all know that he had New York? 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:56.960 Did? 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.159 No one knows? No one noticed that he was missing? 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.479 Well, I don't know that. We we took attendance on 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.320 the plane ride. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.719 I'm just saying, it's amazing that that this can come out. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.000 That's right. How the reporters on that flight, How could 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.040 you not account for all the players who flying back. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.440 Yeah, so they really tried to keep this sitting. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.920 They may not have had to fly back on the 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.760 plane on a Thursday game. Could you not and have 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.200 Friday off because you're off on the weekend. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.720 Do you think that's the reason that he stayed instead 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.200 of having the procedure here at home. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.600 I can't answer that. Yeah, all I know is he 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:44.320 had a procedure and it was He did allow that 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.840 it was probably a continuation of end of training camp. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.760 He was missing some practices because he had a sore knee, 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:59.560 so it sounded like they did maybe did something he 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.920 would not confirmed. That's why Brandon got off to kind 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.800 of a slow start in these first what four games. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.600 It's like he I don't I'm trying to remember what 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:17.400 his numbers were these first four games, but they weren't 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.960 as high as they were in training camp. With c 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 d missing or well, that was the go to guy. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.239 I'll run down specifically his games. He had four catches 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.560 for forty yards and a touchdown at Cleveland, two catches 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.960 for nineteen yards against New Orleans, two catches for sixteen 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.679 yards against Baltimore, and in this last game Thursday Night, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.400 one catch for sixteen yards, and he played forty six 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.880 snaps against the Giants. CD had forty seven. 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:51.840 Snaps nine total, so he had something bothering them, which makes. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.240 You wonder if he was planning with the mini by 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.280 weekend to go ahead and. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.560 Get maybe cleaned up playing there as a complication, he's 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.800 probably had a little bit of I'm just talking out loud, 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:08.640 if they did a procedure like that, maybe a little 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.840 bit of asus meniscus tear or something, or maybe something 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.960 was floating around in there and you you scope it 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.120 and within a week or so you're ready to And 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:19.720 that's what I. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.160 Was going to say. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.400 They if it wouldn't have been infected gotten infected, then 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.080 he and. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.040 Again this is all speculations. Yes, we have not heard anything. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.240 In fact, McCarthy said, I don't get into specifics of 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.280 the players injuries. These specifics should be answered by the 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.880 players or by the guys on mix shots. But he 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:41.520 will not be. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.160 Well, we've got we've got a sports writing medical degree here, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:47.839 is that right? 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:48.360 That's right? 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.240 Yea master. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.520 So what do the Cowboys do at wide receiver? As 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.840 we confirmed that Cooks is not playing against Pittsburgh this week? 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.880 Oh, they're training for DeVante Adams. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:00.679 Of course. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.640 You're saying that tongue in cheek because. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.920 You just saw it on the TV screen. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.080 News that he had speculation because he. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:12.520 Is very rapid. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.280 Yeah, he is very unhappy when you talk to yourself 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:17.080 on the sidelines. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.240 You look at the look on his face. You know 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:21.840 he's arguing with himself. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.600 Well, you know what, guys are happy when they go 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.880 somewhere else and make money, right, and then when they 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.760 don't win, they're unhappy. Well, the money in. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.320 That case, it was different. Uh, something happened with Carr. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.640 I don't know what happened, but if I recall their 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:44.840 college teammates, right, there's no stake, So hell comes what's 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.160 his name again, Adams? 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.880 They have a house right next to each other. Is 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:50.600 that was that true? 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.120 He bought a house right next to Car and then 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.000 something happened with Car. I forget what happened, but now 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.880 Car has gone Yeah and so, but that's why they 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.079 that's why he came there. He came there to play 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.440 with his college teammate who was half of the decent. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.840 Seeing he's now has Gardner Minshew or Aidan O'Connell as 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.160 his quarterbacks, then they've got a quarterback controversy of sorts 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.520 going on out there right now, which means they don't 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.640 have a quarterback. Well, cars in New Orleans, and another 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.640 guy he has had much success with, Aaron Rodgers, is 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.880 in New York with the Jets. Okay, so those would 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.240 be too likely landing spots for him. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.200 But I'm sure when he signed this contract he assumed 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.400 that Derek Carr was going to be there with him 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.360 more than just one year, and so that affected not 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.440 just his career his numbers talking about Adams, but also 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.200 the direction of the team. And then you got rid 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.600 of the running back as well, George Jones verywell, Josh Jacobs, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.439 and now you're stuck with what you have and I 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.200 don't know what kind of. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:54.920 Moves they were making. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.120 His guaranteed money, Yeah. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.120 I'll take the money, but you still can't win. Money 0:11:59.160 --> 0:11:59.840 doesn't make you win. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.040 It's almost like in college football. You get four games 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.320 into the season, and the rules in college are that 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.880 you can play four games and if you play beyond 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.920 four games, then it counts as a year for you. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.200 You can play in four games and it can not 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.920 play the rest of the season and it can be 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.959 a red shirt year for you. So there are actually now, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.280 especially with the nil and transfer portal, there are guys 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.200 that the team gets off to a one in three 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.640 start the first four games, and they're Okay, I'm out 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.800 of here. I'm going in the transfer portal appreciate. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.880 So this is this is a okay, well. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.959 It happened in Vegas with the quarterback. Now you go 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:42.120 out there with u NLV. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.079 This is a good example of when you get an 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:51.400 injury like they did with the defensive ends, everybody wants 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.120 to bring up, well, who are you going to trade for? 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.320 Right now you get this injury? Had you traded already 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.400 for somebody? Now do you trade for this injury? 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:00.720 Right? 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.439 You can't keep trading every time somebody gets an injury 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:09.800 when it was not yeah, and that's and and if 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.200 it's not season ending now this doesn't sound like it's 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:18.040 season ending. It may be ending during the byewig, who knows. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.840 But you can't just keep overreacting. And then everybody says, well, 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:26.000 you got this amount of money under the salary cap. Well, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.920 one of the reasons they created that money it was 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.960 not for this year. It was to carry over for 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.840 next year when they're really going to be up against 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.319 the salary cap. And then when you explain that to somebody, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.199 they'll go, well, I can't worry about next year. I'm 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.360 worried about this year. I'm all in. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.160 No, we were all in last year. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.760 Yeah right, yeah, Now everybody's mad because we were all 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:49.840 in and that way out. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.840 So you can't just keep every time you get an injury, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.800 say okay, I got to go trade for somebody, and 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:03.559 so yeah, yeah, uh, the Jalens have to step up, 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.880 Jalen Tober, Jalen Brooks, Cavante Turpin and then I would 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.040 imagine Floor Noy. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.600 Uh we got we have confirmation on how you say 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.520 his name floor Flo Floy. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.120 Okay, all right, Illinois. 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.160 Which is easier not to That's what it is in 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:24.880 the media. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.120 Guy, That's what it is in the media guide. But 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.320 and I had meant to, and I had left training 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.680 camp and could not talk to him face to face 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.240 to ask him because there was much talk. Is it 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.760 Floor no Oy? Is it? Then? So preseason games, I 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.320 was using what the Cowboys media department has in the 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.040 media guide Illinois, and Babel Offenburg since then has asked 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.840 him face to face and it is Flinoy. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.560 So we asked Amani how to say his name? 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.760 Also, by the way, after the and what did he say? 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.200 Just what it sounds like. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.800 Oh, ruwarre. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:01.760 That's not how he said it. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.280 Well, a little fit faster, I did it phonetically. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.880 Ship it sounded better than that. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:10.320 Well that's what it is. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:17.760 Oh No, that's o war that's what you said. That's 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:18.360 why I said no. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.840 This last time he said, oh you. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.320 You know when he said we got confirmation, I thought 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.920 he had confirmation that floor. NOI was going to be 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.920 active on No. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.000 We don't know how to say his name. That's all 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:31.760 was activated. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.520 So anyway, when it when it, when it rains at 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.400 poor us, when when injuries hit. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.520 Going on the broad playing against Pittsburgh, and. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.280 I still like the Cowboys wide receivers right wide receiver 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.120 depth better than the Steelers wide. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:52.800 Receiver, no doubt. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:58.000 Yeah, absolutely So when you look at the situation like this, 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.840 you have no but to depend on something that you're 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:03.560 not accustomed to. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.400 That's running game and defense. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.600 Well, if you could run block, then you can depend 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.040 on the running game. And we'll see if they've gotten 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:20.360 better about that, because this offense needs to improve, and 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.880 there's no you know, everybody's concerned about the defense. That 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.920 has been concerned about the defense, and rightfully so. After 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.240 giving up all those points in those second and third games. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:36.080 But the offense certainly isn't offsetting any of the defensive problems, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.080 and they need to be able to step up. So 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.480 we'll see if they've made progress or not. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.160 They're going to have to change the game plan. You 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.880 can't come out with the same type of. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:48.920 Rhythm. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:51.840 You know, we're used to coming back there as soon 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.760 as Dak's back leg hit with throwing passes. With throwing passes, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.880 We've got to really change our mindset when it comes 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.080 to this game. We just don't have the same people 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.720 in place. You've got a lot of young guys out there, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.040 so it's gonna it's gonna take a little adjustment and 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.639 and all of that's going to have to fall on 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.200 the veterans and including your quarterback. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.520 So who would you like to get increased snaps at 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:23.680 wide receiver? Which of those guys we're talking the Tolbert's 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.520 been getting, uh, I mean he got so he's part 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.439 of the big three you're tag So now you're talking 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.679 Jalen Brooks, Ryan Flinoy, Cavante Turpin. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.720 I want that's that's my answer to you got you 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.560 gotta get him open. You gotta get him open. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.639 He's got receiving skills. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.960 He does, and more so than they've taken advantage of 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.000 because when he and and not that it's the same 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.600 level of play. I get it. But when he was 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.399 in the USFL and he won Offensive Player of the 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.800 Year award, it wasn't for his returns. It was he 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.720 was a receiver. I don't know how many games they played, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.760 ten games, maybe regular seasons, he had forty some receptions. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.200 And a great example is the Baltimore game he had 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.199 because they were playing from behind. Against Baltimore, he had 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.200 eighteen snaps on offense. That's the probably the most he's 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.000 had on offense. We had nineteen against New Orleans too. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.879 Both games they were playing from behind, so they were 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:27.719 right nickel and four receiver sets a lot and uh 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.160 so that's why he got more opportunities. He had three 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.760 catches for fifty one yards and a touchdown against Baltimore. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.800 And Mike pointed out when he was asked about Turpin 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.760 that he said he can play all four spots. Very 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.240 proud that he can play off for a spot. I 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.240 think he's grown a ton since he got here. As 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.320 a wide vision. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.679 He was like that at TCU. I mean, he was 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:54.000 a bar right as a wide receiver, not just as 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.720 a return game. 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.520 So it'd be something we can He's singing, hats on. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.440 You still have CD, you still have of Turping. You're 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:02.080 gonna need. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.920 It, and then you can be stronger well. And then 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.359 if Turpin gets increased snaps and he develops more as 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.800 an NFL a wide receiver, then you're even better when 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.240 Cooks gets healthy and gets back. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.840 Now, one thing you have to remember, this is a 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:19.040 Pittsburgh defense that knows how to take people out. They 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.760 know how to eliminate you from the game plan. I 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.080 don't know how their DB's are gonna play, but if 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.240 I'm playing against someone like Turpin, I'm just saying, if 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:32.160 I'm the one of the dbs from Pittsburgh, I'm gonna 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.760 get up and press this guy. I'm gonna make sure 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.400 I take away all the timing that the quarterback thinks 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:38.120 he's gonna have. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:41.679 Can't press him in the slot, can you? 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:42.959 Why not? 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.160 Because he's going to get a free release. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.720 It's not free. Now if you're pressing, you can't. I can. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.920 Why can't I press against the slot. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.680 Because he's not going to be on the line of scrimmage? 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.720 Oh you can steal jack him up. Okay, yeah, you 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.359 can still jack him up. Now, good, good, good on 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:57.800 your part. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.280 It gives him a bit of a disadvantage, but not 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.800 necessarily that much to where it gives him, you know, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.040 free rain, I would not give it. That's not the case. 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.399 It will not be free ring that that I can 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.960 tell you. It will be a little bit more of 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.159 a relief because now I'm not here with him. He 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.320 has this much space, so he better use it. He 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:19.880 better use it. And he's gotta get off the line 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.560 screamings fast because we are a timing and a rhythm 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:24.760 passing offense. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.280 Well, he should get two steps for give me two steps. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:29.200 Two steps. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.760 There's something wrong about give me two steps. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.680 They're gonna they're gonna need it because this game plan 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.680 is I don't think it's gonna be the exciting game 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.840 plan that we're accustomed to. I think we're gonna have 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.680 to dial it down play a much more conservative a game. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:50.800 Pittsburgh has a Cavante Turpin type who's their slot corner 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:55.639 rookie out of West Virginia five nine pound beanie Bishop Wow. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:57.440 It could be the matchup of the year. Is the 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.679 Cap versus Beanie Bishop. 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.040 Yeah, they better worried about CD Lamb. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:03.320 Yeah. 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.879 Well see that's the thing. If they worried about CD Lamb, 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.240 that's great. So then Turpin gets the one on one. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.960 You might like, you're putting CD in the slot against 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.199 five nine pound Benie Bishop. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.600 I don't think they're going to do that. I don't 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:17.680