Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot,
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Half now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Where's Mickey? Where is Mickey? For the
Speaker 1: first time in those storied history of mix Shots, we
Speaker 1: don't have Mickey delivering his weekly shots here on Mick Shots.
Speaker 1: I am Bill Jones with Everson Walls, and for the
Speaker 1: second straight week, we've got Danny Siak filling in I
Speaker 1: guess for Mickey. This week she filled it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't do a half bad job, I guess. Or
Speaker 1: maybe you're so desperate to film Mickey spotless. You know what,
Speaker 1: she's here. Let's just let's bring her back. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Let's looking at you as much better this time in
Speaker 1: the morning, you know what I'm saying. Anytime, let's just
Speaker 1: be honest. Well, we got so much to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know what. It is now a new month. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's June first, and the Cowboys. We
Speaker 1: can say this. The Cowboys are out on the practice
Speaker 1: field after a long weekend and it's the second week
Speaker 1: of OTAs and before you know it, mini camp will
Speaker 1: be here next week and the off season will be over.
Speaker 1: It like starts one week and it's over the next
Speaker 1: week anymore. And I was out the size and the
Speaker 1: guys up, Oh were you? Yeah? I was kind of
Speaker 1: fantasizing a little bit, and then Danny came and got
Speaker 1: me out of it. You know, hey, that was what
Speaker 1: you're looking at. I was like, you know, I think
Speaker 1: I could take these guys, you know, uh huh yeah,
Speaker 1: just initially I thought that, and then I've snapped out
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, yeah, sorry, my bad. That's okay. We'll
Speaker 1: start without you. Well, we're gonna try to make do
Speaker 1: without Mickey somehow, some way. And I don't remember call
Speaker 1: what Mickey said he was doing this week. He's doing
Speaker 1: something that really doesn't matter. We won't we won't even
Speaker 1: hear about it, whatever it is. Once I find a
Speaker 1: phone number, we can take phone calls too. Did y'all
Speaker 1: take any phone calls last week? We did? We took one.
Speaker 1: We took one, okay, had one caller. Well, maybe Mickey'll
Speaker 1: call him that all the calls are going to come
Speaker 1: from us, that's right. How is your Memorial Day weekend?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, man, we would just blessed this weekend.
Speaker 1: What we just with the weather. I had a great weekend.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys did too, hanging out with both. Okay,
Speaker 1: so what is your ideal weather day? Because yesterday it
Speaker 1: was raining, Like, oh no, that was no But I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Friday, Saturday beautiful days, right, yeah, beautiful days.
Speaker 1: We had some events, of course, graduations was this weekend.
Speaker 1: And my sister in law is like, we keep calling them.
Speaker 1: We've elevated her her her position on the school board.
Speaker 1: Because we don't know exactly what she does. We just
Speaker 1: said she's the president, that's all. We just called it
Speaker 1: the president of the school board of Richardson School. I
Speaker 1: know that she's the first African American on the Richardson
Speaker 1: School board in their history. Wow. And she's been doing
Speaker 1: a lot of work. And of course, her son, Brian,
Speaker 1: he graduated this past weekend, so her signature is on
Speaker 1: his diploma and that very cool. And she presented him
Speaker 1: with his diploma as he walked across the stage. So
Speaker 1: you can imagine she, you know, tried to play it
Speaker 1: off and be all cool and gave it to her.
Speaker 1: Then she just runs up and hugs him on the neck.
Speaker 1: And so which high school did he go to? Richardson
Speaker 1: High School of yours? They were no rival, They were
Speaker 1: no rival on that field. They were the Richardson Eagles Field.
Speaker 1: I torched them. Yeah, yeah, I killed him. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah they played Eagle Mustang Stadium, Richardson Stadium and
Speaker 1: Rego Wildcat Wildcat Ram. Yeah we're sharing with Lake Hilands.
Speaker 1: Just be Lake Highlands too. Yeah. Man, I made a difference. Man,
Speaker 1: I made a difference. They never would. You know, my
Speaker 1: first my only year playing football, uh in high school,
Speaker 1: my senior year, you know, when I found decide to
Speaker 1: play football, we smoked him. We smoked all our district guys.
Speaker 1: You know, was your sister an athlete? Uh? They were,
Speaker 1: but they didn't back then. Back then Title nine had
Speaker 1: just come on. Wong. I mean, we're so old, Danny
Speaker 1: girls girls basketball in our day. Yeah, there were six
Speaker 1: on the court. They could they had three on one
Speaker 1: end of the court. Yes, across half court. They couldn't
Speaker 1: cross because you guys didn't have the ability to just
Speaker 1: drop the ball. Girls didn't have this and they didn't
Speaker 1: girls didn't have this quote unquote, they didn't have the
Speaker 1: stamina the yeah, let's say quote unquote, because I know
Speaker 1: that wasn't true. You know that wasn't true. I thought
Speaker 1: you would say, like maybe they led him play with
Speaker 1: six as an extra. I didn't mean like six total.
Speaker 1: Are you on one? So you had three on three
Speaker 1: on one end and then three on three on the
Speaker 1: other end at the same game. That is insulting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Well, you know, and then Iowa, look, man,
Speaker 1: this is yeah. They continued that like up until about
Speaker 1: a decade ago. I don't know how long ago. They
Speaker 1: stopped it in some state in the Midwest. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what state it was. I don't know why. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's what it takes a few of people if you're
Speaker 1: going five on five. So yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: they were thinking. But that's great though you're not fo there.
Speaker 1: Don't look at us. Okay, we didn't. We didn't think that,
Speaker 1: all right. One one other note on school boards okay,
Speaker 1: and uh my parents more great parents. My mom went
Speaker 1: to every single school board meeting when we were going
Speaker 1: to school. She was that person when when when I
Speaker 1: have a twin sister, Janet okay. When we graduated from
Speaker 1: high school, we were the last to come through. They
Speaker 1: presented her with a plaque for attending every school board.
Speaker 1: Please don't come this is your plaque um to never
Speaker 1: come in again. We'll have your pictures. That's a great
Speaker 1: parent right there. Well, well, no, you're right. My sister
Speaker 1: was the same way. Of course, as we talked about
Speaker 1: my sister in law Virginia. But my sister Grather, she
Speaker 1: always on them. I mean, you know, make sure that
Speaker 1: her kids would treat it right. She had four boys
Speaker 1: in school, three boys in school and a daughter, and
Speaker 1: she wanted to make sure her kids would treat it right.
Speaker 1: She was always up there, just like your mom. And
Speaker 1: that's just to me, that's just the way it should be. Uh,
Speaker 1: they want to She knew everyone by their first names,
Speaker 1: and they knew her when she walked in the building.
Speaker 1: Because you know, you have to look out for your kids.
Speaker 1: When you start talking about institutions, whether it's educational or what,
Speaker 1: you have to be careful that no one gets left behind,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think it can happen. It's the
Speaker 1: system itself. Sometimes it's not perfect. So then you have
Speaker 1: to make sure that you know the details are paid
Speaker 1: attention to, and that's what those PTA's afore, that's what
Speaker 1: those parents are for in regards to communicating with the system.
Speaker 1: But so proud this weekend. Uh, you know, after the events,
Speaker 1: after the graduations, went to you know, restaurants and just
Speaker 1: had a great time. It was. It was just one
Speaker 1: of those weekends that wasn't too hot, wasn't too cold,
Speaker 1: sitting in the shade family, you know, don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about a whole bunch of people around. I just
Speaker 1: really was one of the best weekends. I think I'm
Speaker 1: going down to Austin tomorrow for my niece's high school graduation.
Speaker 1: I hope the weather's good. University of Florida, Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: what's your nephew you gonna do? Uh, he's gonna go
Speaker 1: to Old State. He's going to Home and State University.
Speaker 1: Sure is. He was, like I said, honor student. You
Speaker 1: graduated with honors. And I think he did get that
Speaker 1: academic scholarship. He's he's well accomplished. These kids now that
Speaker 1: way smarterer than than I was. All Right, So Danny,
Speaker 1: what does June first mean? Well, first of all, summer
Speaker 1: should be summer. If we hadn't feel like summer yesterday,
Speaker 1: not today either. Uts are back and this is the
Speaker 1: big day for cuts, right that would make a difference
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Can yep, you see you can see some
Speaker 1: cuts made. You can see some trades, cuts made over
Speaker 1: and uh, well, if you cut a player, make him
Speaker 1: now a lot of times on cuts they can and
Speaker 1: it's already happened, you know two months ago. You cut
Speaker 1: a player, you just make it a June first designation.
Speaker 1: And so for salary cap reasons, it affects things like that.
Speaker 1: But as far as trades go, Uh, this Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: possibility of Julio being traded by Atlanta, and I think
Speaker 1: that I saw this morning the Rams it kind of
Speaker 1: backed out on it. Tennessee is a big player on that.
Speaker 1: But June. I haven't looked at his contract, but I
Speaker 1: assume one of the things they're waiting on on that
Speaker 1: was to get past June first, so that from a
Speaker 1: salary cap standpoint, it's easier to trade him. And so
Speaker 1: things should start happening along those lines. And there's other
Speaker 1: players that have provisions in their kind or right, or
Speaker 1: it's because of the way the salary cap structure is
Speaker 1: in the NFL. There's possibilities that other players could get
Speaker 1: traded after June first. And you also had me start
Speaker 1: a countdown at the end of last week. Today is
Speaker 1: now one hundred days away from the Cowboys season opener Thursday,
Speaker 1: NFL opener Thursday night, August ninth against the reigning Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Chance September ninth. Oh, my gosh, September ninth against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Oh, one hundred days from today. I had
Speaker 1: to stay, so I got backtrack. Julio General says he's
Speaker 1: never coming here. He said there's no way he'd considered.
Speaker 1: Did he really? He really did. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's for real. Yeah, that's for real.
Speaker 1: He had a phone conversation that was wild. Do you
Speaker 1: think he was one he called him in the show?
Speaker 1: I didn't see that. Yeah, And they made the big
Speaker 1: deal about that because they said they may have gotten
Speaker 1: in some trouble, like maybe it was I don't knowing
Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know how that goes,
Speaker 1: but that was very rare. You know. Is he still
Speaker 1: pissed off about the watermel one thing? Get over it.
Speaker 1: You guys lost a lot more games after that, and no,
Speaker 1: I think he looked at the roster. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: see that too. See He's like, you ain't coming here.
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper is like, you ain't coming on my side.
Speaker 1: Gallop is like, hey, look I'm the biggest visor star here.
Speaker 1: So Cooper lamb Gallop Blake jar One. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can't block like I can't. And so there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of there's not enough boss to go around
Speaker 1: for Huleo to come here. Money seemed like it was
Speaker 1: the way he was looking at the dude. To Danny,
Speaker 1: he get it like. It wasn't like oh I don't
Speaker 1: have enough room because the roster is so good. He's
Speaker 1: like he has like you know, this dame for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And that the reason I think he was asked specifically
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys is there was a picture that was circulating.
Speaker 1: Some fan ran into him, I think maybe at a
Speaker 1: mall here, and he was wearing a Cowboys sweatshirt, and
Speaker 1: I think that was why I think he specifically asked
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys. So he had some gear on him
Speaker 1: dead Okay, yeah, I'm also it is the coolest gear.
Speaker 1: We do have, the best get you still wear? Where
Speaker 1: is it today? Not today? Not today? Man? I felt
Speaker 1: so comfortable after this past weekend. This is this is
Speaker 1: my word clothes. I'm going home after this and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do some some renovating at the house. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, so second week of OTA, he's going
Speaker 1: to be Thursday before the media can get out and
Speaker 1: look at him again. And after seeing the reports from
Speaker 1: last week, Um, you know, right now, things look pretty
Speaker 1: good with this team. A year ago, right, they looked
Speaker 1: pretty good with this team too, though. A year ago
Speaker 1: we were just in heaven. Man, we were like, we
Speaker 1: are gonna take over the world. Will McClay got down
Speaker 1: with the signings. Everything was amazing. He probably gave him
Speaker 1: what a minus just just for the signings last year, right,
Speaker 1: And then then football started. Football didn't even truly start
Speaker 1: before a lot of those free agents were cut. McCoy
Speaker 1: got hurt first, right, and the it wasn't the first
Speaker 1: first real basically, it wasn't even a drill yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just very start of it. Yeah, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: where's first practice where? By the way, he's in Tampa
Speaker 1: and he tweets a lot about the world champion Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. I think he wants to join them. And
Speaker 1: waiting for an injury to happen. Maybe um we might
Speaker 1: we might see him in September. Romper, that's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: what a good game. And he would have made a
Speaker 1: big difference even just from a locker room standpoint, much
Speaker 1: less on the field last last year. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: turned back to clock a year ago and think about
Speaker 1: all the signings. Yeah, yep, don Terry Poe, John Terry
Speaker 1: don't well you can bring that up close because SPACs
Speaker 1: is not here now right now. Yeah, we got that
Speaker 1: maybe the first mix shot of the day right there,
Speaker 1: John Terry Poe, don't get me started. Safety hahaw, Clinton
Speaker 1: Dix defensive and Everson Griffin. Remember they got a was
Speaker 1: it what? What pick? What did they get from Detroit
Speaker 1: when they traded him, um sixth round? Maybe? I think
Speaker 1: it probably was something like in cornerback Daryl Worley. Those
Speaker 1: were all the big free agency signings last year that
Speaker 1: don't even make it their full season. And I never
Speaker 1: was sold on the defensive backs. I just never was.
Speaker 1: I just don't think we prioritize them. Of course we
Speaker 1: got the you know, Treyvon Diggs, we signed him high
Speaker 1: up in the draft. I get that, but I think
Speaker 1: as an overall vision for the for the Cowboys, I
Speaker 1: don't think we really put much stock into free agent
Speaker 1: defensive backs and I wasn't happy with that sign either.
Speaker 1: And even for those guys last year, it was more
Speaker 1: they were fillers until there were rentals, basically until the
Speaker 1: young guys came along, because they didn't know for sure
Speaker 1: at the time that Darryl Whorley, for instance, okay, he
Speaker 1: had h he had started fifteen sixteen games for the
Speaker 1: Raiders the year before and played a little bit of
Speaker 1: safety at the end of that year as well as cornerback,
Speaker 1: and he's a former I think third round draft pick
Speaker 1: um and in twenty fifteen, I think, but they they
Speaker 1: didn't know for sure if Treyvon Dix was going to
Speaker 1: be able to step in and start right away, and
Speaker 1: then they had Dix and and with Dix that was
Speaker 1: that was a It's one of those familiar roles that
Speaker 1: you have you want to bring in because McCarthy was
Speaker 1: coming in. You want to bring in players that you're
Speaker 1: familiar with, and that was one of those guys. He was,
Speaker 1: you know, came in from the Packers. He did well
Speaker 1: there had gone on to the Bears didn't do so well,
Speaker 1: and when he came here, I think he was hoping
Speaker 1: he'd be a nice little comfort zone in the secondary
Speaker 1: for coach McCarthy and that did not work out. His
Speaker 1: off season and his preseason must have been horrible for them,
Speaker 1: not to even make it to the level that they
Speaker 1: wanted him to. And because that's that's a signing that
Speaker 1: you say, you know what, we got a spot for
Speaker 1: your dicks. You know, you and I've been knowing each
Speaker 1: other for a minute, this is for you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and deal with these guys. I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: you in the future because of your experience. They didn't
Speaker 1: even get to that point. So I just let you know.
Speaker 1: Whatever he was doing on the field was not working
Speaker 1: out at all. So what makes you feel more confident
Speaker 1: in defensive act? The sign this year and Jayron cursed
Speaker 1: de Monte Gaze and then Kean O'Neil, who's gonna play linebacker?
Speaker 1: But you know, how's that safety experience? Why do you
Speaker 1: feel better about that? I don't know if I do
Speaker 1: necessarily feel better about that. I feel better about the
Speaker 1: rookies than I do the free agent signings. I guess
Speaker 1: I kind of take myself back there, you know, when
Speaker 1: I came out as a rookie, signed or not. I
Speaker 1: don't care where you're drafted. Once you get in those drills, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's man to man. You know, I gotta make plays.
Speaker 1: I have to. I have to live up to what
Speaker 1: I have to do. It's all about being coached well,
Speaker 1: learning well, maturing physically mentally as you go through camp,
Speaker 1: improving every day. If you don't see that, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you don't see that for yourself, then you shouldn't even
Speaker 1: be in the league. I don't care what age you are.
Speaker 1: And so I'm hoping that these young kids can come
Speaker 1: out and bring that energy, you know what brings some
Speaker 1: whole different mindset to the team, and you know what
Speaker 1: mine is. You're gonna give up some plays just the
Speaker 1: way it is because it's the NFL, But you have
Speaker 1: to look forward to making your plays during the right
Speaker 1: time of a ball game. You watch these NBA playoffs,
Speaker 1: you know, we always you know Lebron, I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of Lebron, but any superstar player or any player
Speaker 1: worth his salt, you know that there's a time of
Speaker 1: when you have to make plays. You don't necessarily make
Speaker 1: plays all game long, but there's a time when making
Speaker 1: your play is important and it's essential. And that's what
Speaker 1: I want these guys to have in their mindset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get beat here and there, that's the way.
Speaker 1: That's the way it goes because you're young. But make
Speaker 1: sure you understand the gravit of the situation and make
Speaker 1: those plays when you have to make those plays. That
Speaker 1: was something Trayvon Dix talked about last year in his
Speaker 1: rookie season, was learning the mental strength you have to
Speaker 1: have in a game of you're gonna have mistakes, you're
Speaker 1: gonna give plays up, but it's how do you bounce
Speaker 1: back that next play? How do you stay confident, how
Speaker 1: do you put it behind you? How do you move forward?
Speaker 1: And that was something he talked about a lot last year.
Speaker 1: Here's what I was thinking on the way here my
Speaker 1: approach to the game, and I would imagine others did.
Speaker 1: I never talked to any other defensive backs about this,
Speaker 1: But when you look at the game, the way that
Speaker 1: you have to complymentalize it. There's only five seconds of
Speaker 1: action per play. You got to think about that. It's
Speaker 1: only five seconds that you have to really, really concentrate
Speaker 1: on what's going on. That intensity is strong for five seconds.
Speaker 1: After that, you got to use the rest of it
Speaker 1: to steady yourself. You know, as you go back to
Speaker 1: the hell, you can't be worried about what happened those
Speaker 1: past five seconds. You know, you just have to be
Speaker 1: worried about the next five seconds that comes up. So
Speaker 1: instead of worrying about an entire game that has to
Speaker 1: be played, you got to break it down into it.
Speaker 1: Where they say you can't eat the elephant in one bite.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't ephant. You know, you gotta break
Speaker 1: it off into pieces. And that's the way you have
Speaker 1: to do a ball game. You can't be overwhelmed by
Speaker 1: the mentality of the entire ball game. Just those five seconds.
Speaker 1: That's all you have to concentrate on doing an entire drive.
Speaker 1: And it kind of helps you poise yourself so that
Speaker 1: you're not worried about all those things that can happen.
Speaker 1: You just worry about the next five seconds. Remember, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget it, you know, I don't think I'm sorry
Speaker 1: um answer your question on I think another reason that
Speaker 1: there's I think they're one of the reasons there should
Speaker 1: be more faith in the signings of Kazie and Keyan
Speaker 1: O'Neil this year is because of the dan Quinn had
Speaker 1: him last year and had him the last four or
Speaker 1: five years. McCarthy's situation. Yeah, but but but it has
Speaker 1: but it had been several years since McCarthy had Clinton Dix.
Speaker 1: Plus he's on even though he's the head coach, he's
Speaker 1: he's focused on the offensive side of the ball. If
Speaker 1: if haha, Clinton Dix's defensive coordinator or secondary coach, who
Speaker 1: were the ones that were he worked with before, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that he was familiar, Like if he was like if
Speaker 1: this secondary coach Joe Witt who had him in Green
Speaker 1: Bay was recommending signing him, then would be a different story.
Speaker 1: But what wit wasn't here last year? And so so
Speaker 1: so dan quinn knows these guys. He knows exactly where
Speaker 1: they are from a health standpoint as well. And I
Speaker 1: think especially in the and I don't know so much
Speaker 1: about Kazia, he may fall in the same category. But
Speaker 1: the fact last week you can kind of read into
Speaker 1: who the Cowboys media people put in front of the
Speaker 1: camera's first and the first OTAs, and Kean O'Neil was
Speaker 1: one of those that they put up front and center. Okay,
Speaker 1: that tells you the a that he likes talking to
Speaker 1: the media. You know, he can be a spokesman. He's
Speaker 1: has that mentality about him and also communicate with h
Speaker 1: that's right, and can communicate with his teammates and UM
Speaker 1: and that there is going to be a primary role
Speaker 1: for him on this team, even though they're saying they're
Speaker 1: lining him up and he's learning a will linebacker right
Speaker 1: now he mentioned with the will and the dime linebacker.
Speaker 1: That's I think basically it's where you're looking at him
Speaker 1: where he can basically still be the buck safety that
Speaker 1: he was in Atlanta, where um where he was specialized
Speaker 1: in and made plays, made the Pro Bowl in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: But in the sub packages. You know, in seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the time they were in sub packages, if not
Speaker 1: more than that. I was gonna ask you think we're
Speaker 1: gonna start off in nickel again, right, I mean, it
Speaker 1: depends on what the other team comes out in. But
Speaker 1: if they're coming out and with three receivers, four receivers,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see you know that's right? Yeah, so UM,
Speaker 1: but you know, after last year, I would imagine no
Speaker 1: matter what your strength is when you play the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a two tight end package, just based
Speaker 1: on what you saw last year. In fact, until they
Speaker 1: proved they can't stop the run and they can't stop it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's I think that's something they should be
Speaker 1: prepared for, be prepared for the three linebacker set, the
Speaker 1: typical run situation, first down run defense set. I'm hoping. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: I think another point you kind of touched on, Everson
Speaker 1: is having Neil and Kazee from Atlanta is thinking about
Speaker 1: the locker room aspect of it, and not just maybe
Speaker 1: a veteran presence, but the fact that they've worked so
Speaker 1: closely with Dan Quinn so recently as well as that
Speaker 1: helps maybe any sort of communication barrier between the players
Speaker 1: and what Quinn is looking for and what he likes,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you're out of practice you have
Speaker 1: a question. I think that is really helpful too, especially
Speaker 1: like I mean, they're still pretty young the Cowboys, like
Speaker 1: in that defensive backgroup in safety, so and the fact
Speaker 1: that Casie looked, yeah, coming off that achilles injury in October,
Speaker 1: like the fact that he seems like he will be
Speaker 1: ready to go. I think that's really important for them too,
Speaker 1: and they probably saw that before they signed him. If
Speaker 1: you recall such confusion last year and no one that's
Speaker 1: the excuse. No one knew what they were doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so now you bring in these familiar faces from
Speaker 1: the Quinn defense, you have some guys that can communicate
Speaker 1: to the other players, Okay, this is what you're doing wrong.
Speaker 1: I can see this. So they can have other coaches,
Speaker 1: not just you know, on the sidelines, but sometimes out
Speaker 1: there on the field with them making sure those adjustments
Speaker 1: are made. So hopefully it'll make Jalen feel better because
Speaker 1: he had major complaints about it. If I'm not mistaking,
Speaker 1: some of the d lineman had complaints about not knowing
Speaker 1: the scheme. So maybe that takes away the excuse well
Speaker 1: of that and that, and that gets back to just
Speaker 1: the whole dynamics of the pandemic last year and not
Speaker 1: having any on field practice sessions last year, I mean,
Speaker 1: where they were having to hit the ground running. And
Speaker 1: they've admitted that it was a mistake last year making
Speaker 1: so many changes with when they didn't have an offseason,
Speaker 1: you know, and you can't in three weeks time get
Speaker 1: them up to speed. I'd be like trying to learn
Speaker 1: the flex, right, we were blessed one thing doing it
Speaker 1: on zoom. Okay, when you're doing virtually whatever, but you
Speaker 1: got to be out on the field and with a
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. They don't know, they don't they don't know,
Speaker 1: they don't have a knowledge of the players. Even coming
Speaker 1: back how they learn, how how do you coach certain players?
Speaker 1: They're what their mentality is, their personalities and so forth
Speaker 1: them and and but not to mention the free agents
Speaker 1: that came in. And usually when you've got to coaching
Speaker 1: a holdover coaching staff, at least you've got, you know,
Speaker 1: sixty percent of your players that you've worked with before,
Speaker 1: and maybe you've got forty thirty to forty percent newcomers
Speaker 1: that you got to learn. But they didn't have any
Speaker 1: of that. So they're learning August fifth that oh this
Speaker 1: guy he's you know, I got to show him exactly
Speaker 1: on the field how to do it. And if it
Speaker 1: was if it was the same defense, that'd be one thing,
Speaker 1: if they were carrying over the same defense, But they
Speaker 1: want the other thing about it. No preseason games either
Speaker 1: to where to where? All right, it's one thing you're
Speaker 1: in practice, not going up against any body. It's another
Speaker 1: thing when you're playing in a game, even if it's
Speaker 1: a preseason game, and you know, bullets start flying and
Speaker 1: now totally different exactly I mean, and that's when the
Speaker 1: coach realized, oh, we didn't go over that. He didn't
Speaker 1: understand that. You know, I have been I'm not much
Speaker 1: of a coach, but I do know some stuff, and
Speaker 1: I've coached kids some camps in the offseason and I
Speaker 1: try to show them some of the stuff outen. It
Speaker 1: works out pretty well. They're pretty good at communicating with
Speaker 1: me what they don't know. But there are times when
Speaker 1: we're in the classroom and everything is so simple, like God,
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, we got it, we got it as
Speaker 1: soon as we get out there. I mean, I'm from
Speaker 1: all over the place, yelling, yelling, none of y'all know y'all,
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's easy to happen. That to me, that's
Speaker 1: the norm. The exception would be for it to work
Speaker 1: out easily. So yeah, that's that's what's gonna happen. And
Speaker 1: thank god we don't have to deal with that this offseason.
Speaker 1: That reminds me of school, like you do really poorly
Speaker 1: on a test and your parents like what happened, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I understood it during the week and
Speaker 1: during my homework, but you know, you get to the
Speaker 1: test and you just you don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: like if your mom's working with you, like, oh, you're
Speaker 1: so doing so well, got it? Oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: gonna do great. You're gonna do great. It wasn't the
Speaker 1: same problem that you're going there, you pick up the test,
Speaker 1: you go, I don't know what the hell is going on.
Speaker 1: I used to say, well, you know, no one else
Speaker 1: in then class did well what my parents were I
Speaker 1: don't care how the other students did. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: edition of Mix Shots without Mickey. How am I doing
Speaker 1: so far? I think I'm doing very great and great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it was up to me, say that the phone's
Speaker 1: gonna ring and it's gonna be Mickey, and I please
Speaker 1: tell Danny to get up and leave. I want my
Speaker 1: spot back if you want to, he was saying, Televens
Speaker 1: to get the hell out of this to the phone
Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.
Speaker 1: Give us a call if you have a question. Um
Speaker 1: OTAs picking back up today to memorize that phone number
Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight five five to two nine. I
Speaker 1: don't know that when you were practicing during the break
Speaker 1: that your device what what's it called? However, you remember
Speaker 1: something that's really going to help you. Yeah, no, all right,
Speaker 1: here's the way to remolve for all of you out there.
Speaker 1: This is the way to remember the number eight eight eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: come on eight five five, So eight is eightman? Right?
Speaker 1: Fifty five? What are you going with? Every I went
Speaker 1: with familiarity, Danny Spratlan Sprat, We mixed that nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: Tennessee volunteer middle linebacker never made it to the season.
Speaker 1: I'm good. Who all right? And I'll go with Leroy Jordan,
Speaker 1: which is always fifty five? Which is always better? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: l and you'll go with late okay, all right? Twenty two?
Speaker 1: Who are you going with? Oh? You can go to her.
Speaker 1: I know where she's going with it going in. Come on, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta go a bullet I'm going bullet um all right, then,
Speaker 1: you got a ninety seven, you can go and you
Speaker 1: can split it and go nine and then seven if
Speaker 1: you'd like. So are you thinking, see that's where it
Speaker 1: gets to you? You can't. I think Drew Henson was set.
Speaker 1: So I go ninety seven, have some Griffin Man, you
Speaker 1: got everything I got, or you could go Jason Hatcher,
Speaker 1: Leroy Grain. So there you go. You're going a week
Speaker 1: and see if you remember that. So the phone number
Speaker 1: is eight eight eight, Troy Aikman, Leroy, Jordan Bullet, Bob Hayes,
Speaker 1: Leroy Glover. There you go. I like the boy Glover. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. There you go. We got it. You
Speaker 1: were going to ask a questions I was. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember where we give you some breaking news. Some
Speaker 1: breaking news. We have a signing in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: It is my guy, my guy, Rex burkehead is signed
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texas. Play a wildcat, right. I love
Speaker 1: that guy, Man rex Burger, you know, Superman going back Tom.
Speaker 1: I don't have my big green notebook with me, but
Speaker 1: rex Burke. And it wasn't because he was gonna be
Speaker 1: some Hall of Fame running back or something like that.
Speaker 1: But here's a guy that can be your third back,
Speaker 1: and you saw it in New England and what he's
Speaker 1: done there loves you for that long. H That's right. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. The Texans new GM is Nick Casserio,
Speaker 1: who was with the Patriots. Okay, and so there's the
Speaker 1: connection why Burkehead just signed with the Texans. And he
Speaker 1: tores a c L And that's why I wasn't signed.
Speaker 1: I did not know that last season he tores a
Speaker 1: cl So he's good to go. I talked to his
Speaker 1: dad last week asking how it was going, and uh,
Speaker 1: and dare the ball? His dad played fullback in college
Speaker 1: at like Kent State or something. His dad actually worked
Speaker 1: I think for the FBI, work in work security. He worked.
Speaker 1: He's worked security around here at the Star and at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium. I go. I go back to
Speaker 1: that twenty thirteen draft though, and in my big green notebook,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, we're getting to the third day, we're
Speaker 1: getting to the fifth round. We're going he got a
Speaker 1: draft Burkehead. He'll be I mean, he can play, he'll
Speaker 1: be a core special teams guy. He's you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about it. As far as running back. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a high character guy whatever. He went in the
Speaker 1: sixth round of Cincinnati. Well, here we are. It's that
Speaker 1: was two thousand and thirteen. It's now two thousand and
Speaker 1: twenty one. He's going into his ninth year in the league.
Speaker 1: You know what who the Cowboys drafted in the fifth
Speaker 1: round that year in twenty thirteen. Joseph Randall. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: Joseph Randall was there pick in the fifth round and
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa. So anyway, well Joseph round Yeah, promise, yeah, yeah, promise.
Speaker 1: I mean you always have a chance on the on
Speaker 1: the on the Birkhead. But you know what are the
Speaker 1: odds that he's going to be as his long jam
Speaker 1: with he's going to be Oh, I mean if you
Speaker 1: just looked but with Birkhead. And that's why I was
Speaker 1: so sold on him. It's unless he got hurt whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: he was going to be the guy that you can
Speaker 1: depend on for as long as his career goes. And
Speaker 1: I think because and the talent versus potential, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: sometimes potential and went out and in his case it did,
Speaker 1: and so that but you can't always bank on that.
Speaker 1: Well no, but but everybody wants to go see Rex
Speaker 1: was You could see it with Rex. I mean he was,
Speaker 1: he might be he's one of the top five. Uh.
Speaker 1: I haven't done my Nebraska football history, but definitely as
Speaker 1: far as popularity goes, he's one of the top five
Speaker 1: Nebraska football players ever. But he was accomplished as and
Speaker 1: he was athletic. He got a knock for not being
Speaker 1: athletic enough. He had like a thirty nine vertical. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you went into that scouting combine, I got a
Speaker 1: picture I'll show you of him at his workout where
Speaker 1: he's just he was a terrific at Plano High School.
Speaker 1: As a freshman, he could dunk a basketball five ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: he played on He played on the varsity basketball team
Speaker 1: as a freshman, and their team won the state championship
Speaker 1: that year. I mean, I do recall that. Yeah, ye,
Speaker 1: incredible athlete whatever. And so he had the athleticism to
Speaker 1: go with the high character and everything else that you
Speaker 1: want in a in a and a player on your
Speaker 1: football team. And see what what And of course, no,
Speaker 1: you know everything you're telling me. Some of these are
Speaker 1: surprises for him. I didn't know he could he could
Speaker 1: hoop like that. You give me the only thing he
Speaker 1: couldn't he couldn't get extra credit for me. The reason
Speaker 1: he lasted to the sixth round is because he ran
Speaker 1: like a four six five forty. And see, when you
Speaker 1: when you have players like that, there are some players
Speaker 1: that you would you turn they turned out to be
Speaker 1: just good college players, and that was probably a concern.
Speaker 1: But he ran like a three nine five twenty yard shuttle,
Speaker 1: which was like the best at the combine if you
Speaker 1: put his out, take the forty out and the rest
Speaker 1: of his combine numbers, and he was in the top
Speaker 1: three to four of the running backs in that class.
Speaker 1: With me, I think you take the forty, the thirty,
Speaker 1: the vertical and take all of that out and then
Speaker 1: I'm good. Yeah. But anyway, and then Randall had we
Speaker 1: already knew he had issues coming in, you know. You know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Plano was proud because he's Rex is my sisters. She's
Speaker 1: like three grades above me. So I would have been
Speaker 1: around him playing athletics his senior year, my freshman year,
Speaker 1: like in the building. And after he got drafted, like
Speaker 1: it was such a big deal and he would come
Speaker 1: back and do you know, awards ceremonies for them, and
Speaker 1: he I don't know if he still does obviously not
Speaker 1: last offseason he did like a fundraise or five king.
Speaker 1: He used to do it around Plano like the athletic
Speaker 1: Tea did it. And the year that my family did it,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton came and was like doing stuff there too.
Speaker 1: He does it's a Team Jack trifecta, which is a
Speaker 1: it's like three on three basketball football camp in something
Speaker 1: else I can't remember, but anyway, I guess he's a
Speaker 1: five K. But it benefited pediatric brain cancer research. He
Speaker 1: became friends with a what was then a six or
Speaker 1: seven year old boy, Jack Hoffman, who was a huge
Speaker 1: Nebraska football fan, and there was a great video from
Speaker 1: the spring game where they Jack Hoffman he was the
Speaker 1: biggest Rex burk Head fan in the world. And so
Speaker 1: they got to know each other and everything, and so
Speaker 1: at the spring football game, last play of the game,
Speaker 1: they gave the ball to little Jack Offman and the
Speaker 1: team leaping down the field and he scores a touchdown
Speaker 1: of the spring game whatever you know. And he's still
Speaker 1: I mean, he's good. He's like fifteen years old now
Speaker 1: or something and doing well. But uh, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: say all that, it's it's a great illustration in the
Speaker 1: draft and where you have to look beyond what their
Speaker 1: forty time is, beyond what they did in college and stuff,
Speaker 1: and really find out what that player is all about.
Speaker 1: And that's why I think that's why there's so many
Speaker 1: misses in the draft too. Uh, they just started doing this.
Speaker 1: You know, they've never gave a damn about your background
Speaker 1: or whether it's pretty myopic. I mean, can you run
Speaker 1: the forty? First of all? When the hell is a
Speaker 1: forty come from? Right? No? That's always confused me. But
Speaker 1: you know, they break it down into these these categories
Speaker 1: and they think that I don't know who came up
Speaker 1: with it, but this is the way that you analyze
Speaker 1: a potential star or a potential player. They've never really
Speaker 1: gone to this length as they have now, which is
Speaker 1: smart to me, because you missed out on a lot
Speaker 1: of really good players. You've had a lot of problems
Speaker 1: in this league from players who were off let's just
Speaker 1: be real of low character in this NFL. I mean
Speaker 1: we're talking about going back through history. Nowadays, as we've
Speaker 1: gone TV more and more, much more exposure. Think they've
Speaker 1: tried to eliminate those problems, and I think they've done
Speaker 1: a good job at it. My beef of course, being
Speaker 1: from an HBCU. I don't think they drafted one brother
Speaker 1: from a black college. I don't think they did this year,
Speaker 1: and they're doing now. I think they were supposed to
Speaker 1: do it this year or last year, maybe within COVID
Speaker 1: to mess it up, but they're doing. I think like
Speaker 1: basically an additional Senior Bowl and stuff next year they've
Speaker 1: announced for HBCUs. Well part of it, they didn't have
Speaker 1: a season, okay, so they were playing a spring season.
Speaker 1: They had a spring season, so there were I'll get it.
Speaker 1: Fbs FC FCS is the North Dakota State and that's
Speaker 1: why the draft is going to be there's so much
Speaker 1: more work being put into the draft next year because
Speaker 1: there's so many more players in the draft next year.
Speaker 1: Uh players used the ability that for for another year
Speaker 1: of eligibility the players and at that level. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: And there were there were the fewest players basically ever
Speaker 1: in the draft this year, you know, as far as
Speaker 1: draft prospects interesting, you know, so playing what we're going
Speaker 1: back into the fall, they're going to start back again.
Speaker 1: We'll start everyone's playing in the did Yeah, so it'll
Speaker 1: be back on the normal schedule. With about probably three
Speaker 1: hundred more players, maybe more than that in the inventory
Speaker 1: than what you know, scouts a lot to travel. Ye, yep,
Speaker 1: Well we'll see. If rex Burke had plays in the
Speaker 1: preseason game against the Cowboys, a possibility, I wouldn't even
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even if I were him, coming nine years
Speaker 1: in the league. He shouldn't even have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that you know he knows
Speaker 1: what he's doing. And that's the thing that you want.
Speaker 1: You want players that are accomplished at not making mistakes.
Speaker 1: You want players are consistent. I just remember, I am
Speaker 1: so confused at these mistakes I see on the field.
Speaker 1: My dad was one of my first coaches, and any
Speaker 1: coach that I had after that, it was all about,
Speaker 1: regardless of how good you are, you have to do
Speaker 1: it right first. It was always about doing it right,
Speaker 1: being in the right position. I recall learning how to
Speaker 1: tackle the whey they showed us how to do it.
Speaker 1: It was never about throwing your head in there anywhere
Speaker 1: of you know, hitting the way these guys were hitting
Speaker 1: these days where they get injured. There was a way
Speaker 1: that they showed us how to tackle. Now, I still
Speaker 1: hated the contact, but I still had to do it correctly,
Speaker 1: and that that was why we had to do it.
Speaker 1: When we played with the flex defense at cornerback, that
Speaker 1: was we were so detailed on where we lined up
Speaker 1: and where we ended up on our back pedal. In
Speaker 1: order for that flex defense to work, you had to
Speaker 1: be strong where you're strong, and if you if you're
Speaker 1: gonna be weak, you just gotta come up and make
Speaker 1: the tackle, because that's what it's all about. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have a weakness in the defense. Know where you're strong
Speaker 1: and know where your weakness is. I just don't think
Speaker 1: they paid that detail is paid attention enough too these
Speaker 1: days from the coaches, not from the players, but this
Speaker 1: should come from the coaches, and I just don't see that.
Speaker 1: That's why you have mistackles. You know, you a player
Speaker 1: of defensive backs out of the position on deep balls
Speaker 1: or any ball in the air because the progression has
Speaker 1: not been taught. And I truly believe that defense is
Speaker 1: obviously going to be a big area of concern and
Speaker 1: focus this year for the Cowboys. Head coach Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: is going to use eight of their allotted ten OTA
Speaker 1: practices before mandatory Minicamp June eighth through the tenth. I
Speaker 1: want to hear from the two of you about your expectations,
Speaker 1: because when there's a new coach that comes in, you
Speaker 1: have a little bit of a grace period for them
Speaker 1: and adjusting and understanding that. But now that McCarthy is
Speaker 1: entering his second year, and now that he's going to
Speaker 1: have a normal off season, how do your expectations change
Speaker 1: for him and this team and what you're expecting to
Speaker 1: see from him. How about we do this since it's
Speaker 1: twelve twelve right now, how about if we come back
Speaker 1: and do that last segment here, however, expectations changed? Worth
Speaker 1: the question? Okay, yeah, it's a good teas all right,
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Speaker 1: called in tell us how we're doing without him here
Speaker 1: on Mick Shots. But I guess he's still sleeping wherever
Speaker 1: he is. But if you would like to Carr's how
Speaker 1: old is Mickey? He'd been not be on his bike.
Speaker 1: I know that much. Old people don't sleep. We don't
Speaker 1: sleep at all. I'm not even good. I'm gonna move
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Speaker 1: you would like to call us though, And you have
Speaker 1: a question eight eight eight eight five five two to
Speaker 1: nine seven. But you probably already remember the number based
Speaker 1: upon Bill Jersey number. Reminder, that's exactly right, eight five
Speaker 1: five two ninety seven. That's the way, guys. Huh. I've
Speaker 1: always done it that way. That's right, all right. So
Speaker 1: your question, Danny, that you posed before that break, can
Speaker 1: you repeat it? Yes. Entering his second year here in Dallas,
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McCarthy now has a full offseason to
Speaker 1: work with. What are your expectations for him this year?
Speaker 1: You going first, Everson? You know, I am, I am,
Speaker 1: And it's jotting down notes. It's well because you know,
Speaker 1: I go off the whales and start talking about myself.
Speaker 1: We had noticed, But how have my expectations changed? And yeah,
Speaker 1: because last year, when when you have a new coach,
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of grace understanding, right, might
Speaker 1: take him a little time. But second year now and
Speaker 1: now that he no and there and to me, the
Speaker 1: only reason I beg the difference because you do have
Speaker 1: that grace with the new DC, you know, with with
Speaker 1: Quinn coming in, I think it we're kind of still
Speaker 1: right back at that uh, that moment of not knowing,
Speaker 1: you know, really not being sure, because like we said
Speaker 1: last year, man, we were on it. I mean, we
Speaker 1: just thought the offseason signings were amazing. We could just
Speaker 1: see ourselves seamlessly going back into another year. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be great. Defense is going to be well, who knew
Speaker 1: at this time last year we'd be giving up historic
Speaker 1: numbers in the rushing game, And so this year I
Speaker 1: think it's all like a domino effect. We got better
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. Okay, this is me being optimistic. Okay, because
Speaker 1: I'm a Cowboy fan. We got better defensive lineman. And
Speaker 1: to me, I know how this works. The better your
Speaker 1: defensive lineman play, the better your linebackers play. I dogged
Speaker 1: out Jaylen Smith many times last year because I could
Speaker 1: just see him out of position. I do realize that
Speaker 1: you can't always put that on the linebacker. Your defensive
Speaker 1: lineman have to be able to if they don't keep
Speaker 1: that offensive lineman off of that linebacker, they better make
Speaker 1: the play. And we didn't have either going on last year. No,
Speaker 1: no d lineman were making the plays, and therefore j
Speaker 1: Jalen and and Van drest were getting cut off every time,
Speaker 1: and it was just a disaster. I can't see that
Speaker 1: happening this year. I think we're much better prepared personally wise,
Speaker 1: not just scheme wise, and personally l wise, to me,
Speaker 1: is really the important improvement here. Without d Lineman getting better,
Speaker 1: I don't think Jayalen's gonna play any better because he's
Speaker 1: got number nine. I think that's just some mental thing
Speaker 1: that he's got going on. When it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: was gonna make him play better? Is number ninety seven?
Speaker 1: You know number ninety six? You know those guys are
Speaker 1: going to make him play better. It's not the jersey
Speaker 1: that he has on his back, and I truly believe it.
Speaker 1: And I think as much as anything, it's getting the
Speaker 1: players back healthy on offense too. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: if a year ago, if you would have said, all right,
Speaker 1: you all right, let's put it this way. If even
Speaker 1: go back last year, we didn't know when Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was hired a year ago in January, we thought Travis
Speaker 1: Frederick was going to be the starting center still for
Speaker 1: several years, okay, And so when he was hired in
Speaker 1: January of last year, he thought his offensive line was
Speaker 1: going to include Travis Frederick at center, Tyrn Smith at
Speaker 1: left tackle, Zach Martin at right guard, and Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: at right tackle. So what did he have last year?
Speaker 1: Or Travis Frederick he retires in March, okay, a month
Speaker 1: before the draft. Then they drafted Tyler Biadas in the
Speaker 1: fourth round. Okay, all right. They had Lyle Collins for
Speaker 1: no games, they had Tyrn Smith for two games, and
Speaker 1: they had Zach Martin for ten games. So if you
Speaker 1: would have told us a year ago that those were
Speaker 1: the number of games that the offensive line was playing,
Speaker 1: I would have said, they're going three and thirteen. There's
Speaker 1: no way they're lucky to go six and ten. And
Speaker 1: then not to mention the quarterback, Yeah, we will forget
Speaker 1: about that in the tight end in the first game,
Speaker 1: you know, but I think you're gonna have some injuries,
Speaker 1: and so they could have offset the Blake Jarwin injury
Speaker 1: if the others at least, you know, three of the
Speaker 1: five others were still available. But well, clearly the teams
Speaker 1: had handled COVID the best, and injuries were the ones
Speaker 1: that ended up being some more successful. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: that I remember the Pittsburgh game last year, in November
Speaker 1: and just in the Pittsburgh was unbeaten coming in here.
Speaker 1: And if you looked at that Pittsburgh roster, it was
Speaker 1: with the exception of one linebacker who went down with
Speaker 1: an injury, and that was that was right before the
Speaker 1: trade deadline, and they were able to make a trade
Speaker 1: with the Jets and get a replacement linebacker to come
Speaker 1: in here. They had absolutely no injuries going into a
Speaker 1: November game. There was a reason that the Steelers were
Speaker 1: exactly because they were healthy. And so if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: there is, in my opinion, if the Cowboys have the
Speaker 1: same kind of fortunate history at fortunate injury situation that
Speaker 1: the Steelers had last year, there's no reason the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can't be you know, nine and two and November, you
Speaker 1: know we have them. I think Pittsburgh was undefeated. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys were looking for like maybe their third
Speaker 1: or fourth win two like they were not doing hot
Speaker 1: by that point. Well, they were on their fourth quarterback.
Speaker 1: We scared the Cowboys worst, I mean scared the hell
Speaker 1: out there. We should have won the game, and we
Speaker 1: really should have. So it just lets you know that
Speaker 1: the team has the potential. Obviously, the system is gonna work.
Speaker 1: But the injuries themselves. I don't look forward to those
Speaker 1: same mishaps this year. And let's say we had half
Speaker 1: of those mishaps. That's the worst case scenario for me.
Speaker 1: Let's say we yeah, let's say one offensive lineman goes
Speaker 1: down instep of you can make up for one offensive,
Speaker 1: you can't make up for three. And and let's you know,
Speaker 1: and of course with dak being back, you got your
Speaker 1: quarterback back zeke Is. You know, he's a little bit
Speaker 1: leaner this year. You know, we we're looking for him
Speaker 1: to hold onto the ball this year. A lot of
Speaker 1: things that happened to us last year was so much
Speaker 1: of a Murphy's law, you know. I mean, what could
Speaker 1: have go wrong, could have gone wrong, went wrong? And
Speaker 1: I just I just I can't see us having that
Speaker 1: same snake bit type of attitude and happenstance this year
Speaker 1: coming in. I cannot see that. That's the way it
Speaker 1: usually works in this league. I mean, when you have
Speaker 1: a horrible injury bug one year, the next year it
Speaker 1: turns around on you. That's right, that's how so. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: having said that, sometimes those injuries happen because your players
Speaker 1: get longer in the tooth. You got older players and
Speaker 1: so older players, and that's what happened in free agency
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, the reason that Don Terry Poe,
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy, you know, were you know, didn't make it
Speaker 1: through hardly any of it. And Don Terry Poe wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily an injury, was coming off an injury, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't playing up to snuff because he's coming off an
Speaker 1: injury and coming off of COVID no off season, and
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't ready to go. I think that'll
Speaker 1: be really interesting this year, and now that there are
Speaker 1: seventeen games because they got rid of a preseason game.
Speaker 1: But the thing is is the players are still playing
Speaker 1: another game because a lot of those starters weren't playing
Speaker 1: in the final preseason game anyway, so they're getting an
Speaker 1: extra game. So that'll be interesting to see in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, whose body is going to hold up for
Speaker 1: that extra week, that extra game, or if you get
Speaker 1: to a point where if you already have your spot
Speaker 1: in the playoffs solidified, like maybe you're going a full
Speaker 1: two weeks without your starters, that's interesting because there are
Speaker 1: going to be some things that come up because of
Speaker 1: the seventeenth game. There are gonna be some things that
Speaker 1: are going to come up that we you know, we
Speaker 1: just never figured. Yeah we hadn't. You could we have
Speaker 1: an NBA situation where players you're you're you're resting players
Speaker 1: as you go. Yeah, management, load management, have load management?
Speaker 1: Why not? I mean you could? Why not assure you
Speaker 1: get off to a good start, you know, and you've
Speaker 1: kind of solidified your playoffs status. I can see that
Speaker 1: happening and see that it always back backfires, you know. Management,
Speaker 1: of course they want that extra game. You got extra money.
Speaker 1: It's all about the money. But then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: players are gonna do something else that's going to be
Speaker 1: something that's gonna counter what you wanted to do. So now,
Speaker 1: like you said, load management, you know that seventeenth game,
Speaker 1: everyone's loaded up about it. You know, it could be Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Giants or whatever. Never the schedule is like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for this game right here. Well, the way
Speaker 1: the season turns out, like that game may not even
Speaker 1: be that important. And now you want to make extra
Speaker 1: money on this game. You might have it on Monday
Speaker 1: night and hardly no one's playing anoe of your start
Speaker 1: as a play that could happen. It could happen. Now
Speaker 1: we have another issue in regards to playing fans being
Speaker 1: upset because you want to come see your favorite player play.
Speaker 1: Oh well he's not playing this week. That wasn't question
Speaker 1: pulled the San Antonio spur. Yeah, Like if you know,
Speaker 1: if you go and you save up money, that's why
Speaker 1: fans get so mad. You save all this money to
Speaker 1: go watch Lebron play and he's sent out for load managements.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wondering, like if you go and you
Speaker 1: want to watch Dak and Zeke and Amari and that
Speaker 1: end of the day, Now, we don't need that. We
Speaker 1: have the district sign, you know, we have it wrapped up.
Speaker 1: We have to you know, the conference even wrapped up
Speaker 1: all right last week. Ota is the one practice we
Speaker 1: got to see the best thing that came out of
Speaker 1: that practice, in my opinion, was watching Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: seeing that he right now is already to a point
Speaker 1: where he literally he could play in a game right now.
Speaker 1: He said it a month ago that he could play
Speaker 1: in a game right now, But the way he's moving around,
Speaker 1: he's in great shape now that they may be keeping
Speaker 1: him out of some drills just to make sure that he,
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't get stepped on or whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: But he looks great, and that's the best thing because
Speaker 1: that's the first time we are able to really lay
Speaker 1: eyes on him uh in a practice since the injury.
Speaker 1: That that was the best thing that came out of
Speaker 1: last week. You know. Me, I'm always about the uh
Speaker 1: uh I guess ans Hillary aspect of it. Not only
Speaker 1: is he looking good, it inspires those others too to
Speaker 1: pick up their pace. We were just outside like, oh,
Speaker 1: Blake Jars got this helming on, you know, and it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: Blake's like, look, that's not the only one working hardly
Speaker 1: around here, you know about tiring and lyall were exactly
Speaker 1: well all you know. That's I love that to where
Speaker 1: we're all influencing each other and it's like, Okayda's not
Speaker 1: the only one doing work around here. And then it'll
Speaker 1: all show up, you know. The other thing. One other
Speaker 1: thing that caught my eye regards to DAK was Keanuneil's interview.
Speaker 1: Did you catch it when Keanu was talking about Dak
Speaker 1: and talking about his leadership, and I think it was
Speaker 1: a little dig at Matt Ryan in Atlanta he said
Speaker 1: something and I just heard it once. I didn't go
Speaker 1: back and listen to it again, but it was like
Speaker 1: it's it's refreshing seeing a quarterback like that. That is
Speaker 1: a big deal though, for I mean, he's he's the leader,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's out there because he feels
Speaker 1: ready and obviously right, the staff and the coaches feel
Speaker 1: he can be out there doing what he was doing.
Speaker 1: But I think that's a big deal to be out
Speaker 1: there and camaradering, the leadership and the energy that he
Speaker 1: brings in wanting to take you know, his teammates to
Speaker 1: the next level. And nothing against nothing against Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: but that is that is Dak Prescott's personal quickly with
Speaker 1: Keana Neil, if he was able to touch on that,
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty time. I mean we probably didn't.
Speaker 1: The fact that he would probably say the same thing.
Speaker 1: This is because you really don't know what Prescott is
Speaker 1: like unless you've been around him, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: always it doesn't matter whether he's walking into his own
Speaker 1: locker room or going to an event somewhere. When he
Speaker 1: walks in the room, he has a presence about him,
Speaker 1: trying exactly and he's he has an engaging personality where
Speaker 1: I mean he genuinely asked about you, how you doing well.
Speaker 1: He's polite. He's a polite person and it's not just
Speaker 1: you know, window dressing. I think he really is interested
Speaker 1: in what you're saying. You know that that's something that
Speaker 1: you can't teach that. You know, that's something that has
Speaker 1: his mom and his dad taught him growing up. See
Speaker 1: that's the other thing when you go back to the
Speaker 1: whole draft. All right, So why is it that Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is the only quarterback standing with the team that
Speaker 1: drafted him in two thousand in sixteen? Every other quarterback
Speaker 1: has been traded, cut, or benched wild fourth round pick.
Speaker 1: I think he was their second pick that round, right, right,
Speaker 1: Charles Tapper was the first pick, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: fifth in the draft. But they had two fourth round
Speaker 1: picks and they took it. And so fourth round you're
Speaker 1: starting a new day in the draft. This is the
Speaker 1: third day of the draft. If you're in the quarterback
Speaker 1: position is so important. Okay, if he is on your
Speaker 1: radar and you got two fourth round picks, are you
Speaker 1: taking the defensive end out of Oklahoma? Who's making a
Speaker 1: basically a position switched from a three to four four
Speaker 1: three or whatever you know, or you're gonna take that quarterback.
Speaker 1: That shows that we're not really sold on this quarterback,
Speaker 1: but we got a draft quarterback, so we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and take him. With the second fourth round conference that
Speaker 1: he was in, you have to look at his career there.
Speaker 1: We talked about the other day, he had Mississippi State
Speaker 1: as the number one team in the country over Alabama.
Speaker 1: You can probably find it on YouTube. The last home
Speaker 1: football game that Dak played at Mississippi State. There's a
Speaker 1: great video on YouTube. They make the the dog Walk
Speaker 1: or whatever they call it Mississippi State from either from
Speaker 1: the dorm to the stadium or wherever they bust lets
Speaker 1: them out to the stadium, and it is it's Mississippi
Speaker 1: State and it happened. It is. It's like a three
Speaker 1: quarter mile water It was long, and there's a camera
Speaker 1: on him and it's all just lined with Mississippi State
Speaker 1: fans just packed and he's walking through it to go
Speaker 1: to the game that day. I mean, the video goes
Speaker 1: like five minutes. It's going on and on and on.
Speaker 1: You can see just how how much he meant to
Speaker 1: Mississippi State football if they don't already have the statue
Speaker 1: built there, they're gonna have a statue built there. And
Speaker 1: once again, no disrespect in Mississippi state. I don't know
Speaker 1: they ball like anybody else, but you did not expect
Speaker 1: them to even rear their heads in this conference at all.
Speaker 1: And here this guy comes from, Uh Louisiana, North Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Report come on with Harton? Really right? And that's how
Speaker 1: you saying, yeah, I mean, come on, just un Let
Speaker 1: you know, man, the stories can come from anywhere. And
Speaker 1: that's what I like about his story. You don't have
Speaker 1: to start off with this amazing life. Matter of fact,
Speaker 1: some of those lives start off very ordinary, and he
Speaker 1: made ordinary into something great. And that's what I like about. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: look at that clock. We made it through an hour
Speaker 1: without Mickey here. That was possible? That a breeze. You
Speaker 1: know what? Maybe who well, maybe I can't. I'm not
Speaker 1: in a position to make this. I will make this
Speaker 1: suggestion that we just add Mickey's chair over there. He
Speaker 1: can have his back to the camera, uh, and Danny
Speaker 1: can be a long fang that wouldn't do a good thing.
Speaker 1: All right, That does it for this edition of Mick
Speaker 1: Shots Forever and Danny, I am Bill, and we will
Speaker 1: be along next week, although the time may be a
Speaker 1: little different because we got mini Caamp next week and
Speaker 1: so whether we're on eleven thirty on Tuesday, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Maybe later in the day on Tuesday. We will let
Speaker 1: you know. I tried, yep, minicamp next week? Are you
Speaker 1: guys and you know you guys are like falling and
Speaker 1: say hey, there's yeah. We do have some rules. I
Speaker 1: think I think media gets maybe every day of minicamp now, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's still limited how many can show up, so
Speaker 1: getting Yeah, I think Mickey has seniority over me by
Speaker 1: kry pretty sure he does. He has Mickey has seniority
Speaker 1: over everybody ibout as many years as I've been alive.
Speaker 1: I wonder does Mickey have seniority over everybody in the
Speaker 1: building except Jerry. I don't know that the list will
Speaker 1: be very long. Honestly, might have seniority over us, but
Speaker 1: we don't listen to it. Senority. He is older, He
Speaker 1: doesn't mean okay, is it for Mick shots and We'll
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