WEBVTT - Mick Shots: In Retrospect 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:06.439 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:09.320 Cowboys. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:16.400 This is Mick Shot screaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.720 and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.680 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.960 No fight song today, despite the fact it's our last 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.040 show of the week. Oh now you can be get 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.240 fired up for another NFL weekend. And this is Mick 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.479 Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio with the star of 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:47.839 the show, Nick Harris, joining Mickey Spagnola and me Bill Jones. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:49.920 Hello, Nick Harris, I'm just ever sound just looking a 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.920 little bit different today, that's all. It's gonna be on fella. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.320 It's gonna be on love having Nick Harris looks like 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:56.720 something ever Soon would wear. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.840 I'll get on leave that hoodie around here because I 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.319 love that. That's a great look. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.040 He has to give me a grambling hoodie and I'll 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.319 give him this, all right, all right. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:09.880 Good exchange. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.440 Actually, they got Raider Scalers on today. I do too. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.279 Oh yeah, yeah, White. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.200 They're in the They're in the news right now. There 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.600 are a lot of moves being made in the last 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.920 twenty four hours around the National Football League, and we 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.960 can get into all of that and much more on 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:33.320 this edition of Mixed Shots. So, Nick, what's on your mind? 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.039 As I love the fact that you have made the 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:42.440 successful transition. That's about an easy as to transition as 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.360 you could make from Dallas Cowboys dot com to start 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.360 to the Star Telegram when it's you're covering the Cowboys 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.400 for the Star Telegram. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.960 Yeah, we were just talking about our pre shows. It's 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.400 been a smooth transition. Fortunately, it's the same job in 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.120 essence at the end of the day, so you know, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.560 staying on top of the same things that I was 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.960 staying on top of before. But yeah, I'm blessed on 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.480 I'm a blessed individual to to still be around the 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:04.920 building and to be on with you guys. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:10.040 Today and to maybe save the Star Telegram. That's exactly right, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.360 moved in ages. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.440 Says an old newspaper guy who still takes his newspaper 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:19.320 paper copy at home. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.760 I appreciate that I was out there to smart and 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:22.400 grabbing it. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.920 Yeah, very good, all right, So make you what's on 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.840 your mind. I can't believe it's already Wednesday. I know, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.919 it feels like the bye week is going quickly. 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.200 It always goes quicker than he was gonna. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.480 I wasn't gonna say first place, Dallas Stars unbeaten at that? 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:38.440 How about that? 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.519 That is incredible? What a shootout? 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:41.959 I went last night? I was there? 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:42.560 Are you? 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:42.839 Yeah? 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:48.680 Okay, I watched on the Victory app. It works, it does? 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.400 So is that their own app? Have they developed it 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:52.480 or is it just kind of. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.720 They actually one of the either Anaheim or l a 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.560 Anaheim Okay, Anaheim is on it, and uh, they're there's 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.320 a room I guess where other teams can join it whatever. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.880 So you just select the team of your choice and 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.680 then and so there are three games that have been 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.480 on Victory so far. They're all archived on there too, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.560 and so and there's team shows also. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.000 It's almost like going to Dallas Cowboys dot com. Yeah, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.880 but you get the game. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.639 Cowboys app and yeah, that would be the Cowboys now 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.560 please Cowboys? 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:30.799 Now? 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:36.840 Would can you imagine that was? How fun would that be? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.400 You can spend all evening? Got it? 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.360 Yeah, I'll tell you this is the age of streaming 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.960 is going to be very fascinating. How it all eventually, 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.080 you know, settles in the next five years. How everything 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.560 kind of trends to because you look at Amazon potentially 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.640 having opportunities and teams starting their own apps. It's going 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.320 to be very fascinating. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.680 What I love saying about it is that it's free. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.960 That Victory app is free. That's why I was tuned 0:03:59.000 --> 0:03:59.680 in last night. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.680 There's not many things on TV anymore that are free, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:03.880 That's that's right. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:08.520 And for myself not able to get Bally Sports Southwest 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.720 because I never did. I never did convert over to 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.440 Direct TV or wherever it is. I needed to find 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:15.480 Bali Sports and I. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.760 Didn't do it out of principle, but go ahead, uh huh. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.080 And so it's been like four years of isolation for 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.200 us when it comes to Stars, Mavericks, Ranger games. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.760 To be find these bootleg websites. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:33.560 That's right. It's nice to be able to without charge 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.279 actually watch the game. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.440 And it's a good thing too because you you have 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.200 multiple TVs in the house. Yeah right, I don't have 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.920 to dominate the television. Yeah yeah, just go and watch it. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.080 On my own and I love watching it on my iPad. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.200 You know that I probably told this story before. When 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:55.720 I was growing up in Chicago, the Blackhawks away games 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.520 would be on TV WGN to start, and and I 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.279 would commandeer the television to watch the black Hawk games 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.520 all the time, right, And my parents got so tired 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.400 of it they bought me a black and white nineteen 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.479 inch TV to put in my bedroom. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.880 That's a wink. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.320 Then people didn't have two TVs. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.880 The nineteen inch television in your bedroom was the was 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.040 that equivalent of an iPad? They gave you an iPad? 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:25.520 What's your game. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.119 On the rabbit ear antennas? 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.839 Oh see, that's what I'm hoping. I'm hoping this will 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.279 get us back to where games are on free TV. 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.159 That's all right, free app and let's do it advertiser, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.400 you know, generated revenue. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.600 So we got the whole thing figured out here on 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:44.480 mix shots, that's right. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.279 We got well that's what we figured out on the 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.760 Cowboys now app. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.400 Too, that's right. And now we're going to take care 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.080 of the Cowboys. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.920 Okay, all right, we only have to say how much. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.360 We only got fifty four minutes and that's when Beam 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:58.240 starts kicking us out. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:03.640 So all right, So what was your take on the 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.360 story of the day yesterday? Nick? 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:10.920 Oh? No shortage of headlines? Right, I certainly with Jerry 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.800 Jones radio availability yesterday. That was a special one. I 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:16.440 think that one's gonna be one of the more memorable 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.039 ones we think back to over the course of the 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.000 next few years. I think more so than anything, I 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.920 think there's just there's pressure around this team right now. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:26.760 You look at it at three and three going into 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.120 the bye week, and it's not a confident three and three. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.960 It's a pessimistic three and three. And the injuries have mounted, yes, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:37.280 and have that Have they played a role to some extent, absolutely, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.400 But I also think at the end of the day, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.640 there are there is talent on this team that has 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.360 not really proven to play at the level that they've 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.640 been expected to. I mean, look at Ceede Lamb specifically, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.080 he's been a guy that definitely looks like he has 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.120 not had a training camp. You look at Dak Prescott 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.960 and he has had a couple of games where he's 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.880 kind of willed the team to the finish line Pittsburgh 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.840 as an example, But at the end of the day, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.279 he probably could do more. I talked about it yesterday 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.159 on Hanging with the Boys. Is there hasn't necessarily been 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.520 a win yet where one of these guys just takes 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.680 over a game. We haven't had the CD LAMB game 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.960 like we had in Detroit last year. We haven't had 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.840 the Micah Parsons game like we had a couple of 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.040 times last year. And I do feel like there is 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.960 some confidence moving forward into the season with that, because 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.559 you will get those games eventually. But up until this point, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.880 it's definitely been a cumulative effort. And when one of 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.239 those guys is not holding up their end of the bargain, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.120 you see what happens against New Orleans, against Baltimore, and 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.840 then against Detroit when nobody shows up. So I think 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.040 it's more so than ever, this has been a needed 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.080 to be a team effort through these first six weeks, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.800 and sometimes you're just not getting it. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:46.520 They haven't been able to really put an entire game together. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.240 They were really good the first half in Cleveland, right, 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.360 and then kind of no show the second half. They 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:59.840 were good against Baltimore for one quarter, the fourth quarter right, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:06.280 Pittsburgh kind of close, and then this one not so much. So, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.720 you know, and the weird thing is you but we 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.560 discussed this the other day. Bill. You know, you win 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.680 three on the road and you lose three at home. Well, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.160 a lot of times it depends on who you're playing 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.680 where you're playing them, because they've played pretty good competition 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.520 at home compared to you know, on the road. On 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:34.880 the road for sure. So and the other thing you 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:40.040 touched on it you got injuries. There's a reason why 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:44.240 we haven't had a Micah Parsons game. He hadn't been 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.240 on the field for you know, two of them and 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.560 left the third one at some point in the third 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:55.760 quarter maybe, So we spend all week talking about injuries, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.840 and then guys don't play, and then they lose and 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.080 it's like, well, what happened? Well, it helps if these 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.160 guys are on the field now at some point, the 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.120 majority of them are going to get back, maybe sooner 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.880 than later. I would imagine DeMarcus Lawrence is out for 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.120 giving to say Thanksgiving Thanksgiving probably, but you're gonna get 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.960 Brandon Cooks back, You're gonna get Michael Parsons back, You're 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:27.360 gonna get Doron Bland back, Kalin Carson back. Uh. So 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:34.160 that'll help that you're not just depending on rookie after 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.320 rookie after second year guy who's not played to try 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.400 to win against teams that are pretty darn good by 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:41.720 the way. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.319 My biggest concern coming into the season, and I think 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.320 for most people, it was the depth of the team 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.760 because you're depending on so many of the either rookies 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.320 or first or second year guys who haven't done it 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:57.280 before now, but they're expected to make that step, and 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.760 so injuries was going to Injuries were going to happen, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.800 because they happened with every team. The problem I think 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.000 it's has been is that the injuries have occurred so 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.000 early in the season, and those guys have had to 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.079 step into those. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:12.760 Like a media media. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:19.080 Yeah, there was no no time ramp up so to speak, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.280 you know, and so they were gonna you were gonna 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.679 have growing pains with the young guys to begin with, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.160 and then you get thrown into the fire against really 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.600 good teams. A Baltimore team that made it to the 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.599 AFC Championship Game, a Detroit team that made it to 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.360 the NFC Championship Game that was virtually fully healthy and 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.199 looked right and and so those were not good matchups 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.800 for this team and Baltimore. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.880 So when the Cowboys played them, were they owing two 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.200 and two coming in? They haven't lost since right, right? 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:52.600 Correct? 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.200 They're four and two now, right so they're still pretty good, 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:56.479 right everybody. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.280 And they yeah, they they're sitting there looking at their 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.320 Raiders game that they lost, like we were looking at 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.240 the Cowboys Arizona game last year that the Cowboys lost. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.240 I mean, that was one they had. They were up 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.280 by ten in the fourth quarter and then somehow blew it. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.840 So they're more like a five and one team there. 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:21.640 But anyway, that's that was the bed that they had 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.480 to lay in because of the salary cap issues and 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.440 that sort of thing, and the lack of activity in 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.880 the off season and free agency. They tried to make 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.760 up for it once they got to training camp, signing 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:36.959 veteran guys who if they had signed those guys back 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.240 in March, everyone would say, okay, that they filled needs there. Well, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.800 it turns out that there's a reason those guys weren't 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.560 signed back in March, some of them, you know. And 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.319 so here we are. But they're three and three and 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.360 they're one game out. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.400 And I think there will be some advantages to playing 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.880 this young talent so much early on. It's just you're 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.600 not going to see the benefits of that until you'd 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.840 be lucky see it this season. But more so in 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.560 the next couple of years. And if you're looking at 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.120 this season in a vacuum, they get the experience, yes, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:08.560 but it's going to come with all the vacuums. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.800 The vacuum that's sucking them up right now is their schedule, absolutely, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.520 and the next five games in particular, and well six 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:21.480 if you counted Detroit last week, where you're playing, uh 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.959 for the next five opponents of first place teams, and 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.400 the other one is Philadelphia. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.000 Can you go five hundred? 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.880 Well, and then if you're that's that that's not the goal, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.640 but I think they should be. If they are, what 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:41.199 would that be? Well, you can't go. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.840 How many games did you leave out? 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.440 So you go at San Francisco, if you are right in. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.520 Philadelphia, Houston, and at Washington. And if let's say you 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:56.640 went two and three during that time, then you're looking 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.640 at five and six headed to Thanksgiving and then okay, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.440 to give you the Giants on Thanksgiving your six and 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:08.000 six after Thanksgiving? Should they be okay with that? 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:08.760 No? 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.480 I think you need to win at least another game 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:13.800 in there. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.800 So you need four and two. You need four and 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.679 two and be seven and five. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.720 Look, is Philadelphia set in the world on fire? 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:25.320 That's a one. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.120 Okay, So Atlanta, so you're putting the two ws. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:33.640 There, Washington. Look who they've played and look who they've 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.600 lost to. When they've played a good team, they've gotten 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.720 beat but they've played better though. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.760 The tough part that I look at is does does 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.680 the opponent have a running game? And if the answer 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.439 is yes, I almost immediately throw an L on the board. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.520 Look at Atlanta, they have two guys. San Francisco. If 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.120 McCaffrey's back, then they'll have two guys. Philadelphia's got they've 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:59.560 got they've got back at guys tough and that's fine, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.599 But then you've got to play well offensively. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.640 That's where all your talent is, where the majority of 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.640 your money is. So you got to play well offensively. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.640 They got to get that going. Yeah. Otherwise, Yeah, if 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.800 they're at the mercy of their defense, they're in trouble. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.000 The offense is not holding up. It's into the bargain 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.600 at all, right, especially with the defense needing the extra 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.480 help with all of the injured starters that have been 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.800 out these last couple of weeks, the offense has been 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.000 needed to step up. And when you look at it, yes, 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.880 you are two and one in these previous three games. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.840 But you scored twenty twenty and nine, right, that's not 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.680 the offense holding up there into the bargain. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.120 So the best offense they had fourth quarter against Baltimore, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.880 the first half against Cleveland, I agree, I agree, And 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.960 then at the rest of it they struggled. And go 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:49.000 figure with the talent you have, you know, and I 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.800 know they were without Brandon Cooks in this game, and 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.320 there will be since he's on IR, but I don't 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.400 know that at that point. What he was doing at 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:04.440 that point was a major deficit. You can manage with 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.280 these other guys. 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Yeah. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.840 I think with the offensive line, specifically patients is actually funny. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.880 I think it is probably one of the trades that's needed. 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:05.800 Whenever you look at. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.760 It, they don't have time, they don't have time for patients, and. 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.480 They don't have time for it this season. And I 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.439 think obviously you could look at the two most important 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.920 positions on the offensive line center and left sackle. I 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:17.960 know arguments can be made for other spots, but those 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.479 are mine and whenever you're putting rookies in those spots, 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.600 that are playing those positions for the very first time 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.680 for a full season, you're gonna have a lot of 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.080 lumps and bruises. And I think you've seen it with 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.359 Tyler Guidon, maybe not as much with Cooper Beb, but 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.040 there's they've still been there. He he's not getting into 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.000 the second level as as as often as you would like, 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.199 especially with the running game that has been non existent 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.879 over the course of the first couple of or for 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.920 the first few weeks. It's it's gonna take time. And 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.479 I think also you factor in Zach Martin just had 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.480 his worst game as a pro, I think by a 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:51.119 mile against Detroit, and if that kind of trend is 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.680 going to continue, then the rest of the offensive line 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.320 needs to find room to be able to pick up 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.000 the slack a little bit. I think the only guy 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.879 that is playing at the level that we have gotten 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.520 used to seeing from that offensive line over the last 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.080 few years has been Tyler Smith. The other four guys, 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.480 they're gonna need to step up, and I there's patients needed, 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.920 but we don't really have the patients for the guys 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.520 like Zach Martin and Terrence Steele, only because those are 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:15.920 the guys that have been here those are the veterans 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.960 that are expected to help kind of elevate that room 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.280 whenever the rookie rookies do need some time to be 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.040 able to step up. So I think all in all, 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.359 there's definitely got to be a different approach with this 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:27.560 group of five upfront coming out of the by and 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.840 definitely they're not going to wait around because it's San Francisco, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.600 so there's gonna be some big time defensive linemen coming out. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.920 I think one of the big concerns as far as 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.600 Zach Martin is he became a patient last week. Thank you, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.880 he showed up on the injury report. We bat back 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:46.800 and a Lee McNeil was rewarded for his efforts on 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.760 Sunday with a four year, ninety seven million dollars fifty 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.560