Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a fabulous Football Friday
Speaker 1: edition of Mick Shots. Bill Jones alongside Mickey Spagnola inside
Speaker 1: the SWBC podcast studio at Ford Center. Here the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco, and Everson Walls joins us from a remote location.
Speaker 1: How are you, Everson? During Fine, sir. It's so good
Speaker 1: to be invited to this show. Spags is very spicy today.
Speaker 1: He is. We want to make sure we do it right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is. And you know why he's spicy today is
Speaker 1: because he's he's on pins and needles because his baseball
Speaker 1: team is playing Game two of a division series right
Speaker 1: now in Houston, so we may not have his full
Speaker 1: attention for the next forty five minutes. You want to
Speaker 1: click tomorrow quick story here. I knew we were going
Speaker 1: to get a quick story last time. It may not
Speaker 1: be that quick. Last time, the White Sox were in Houston,
Speaker 1: the one at All playoff game. I was there to
Speaker 1: watch them clinch the night to two thousand and five
Speaker 1: World Series. It was two thousand and five, one thousand
Speaker 1: and five, sixteen years ago. Wow, I was just a
Speaker 1: youngster then. Yeah, you were like you were like two
Speaker 1: inches shorter then no, taller taller. All right, So here
Speaker 1: it is a Friday before the Giants are here at
Speaker 1: three twenty five on Sunday afternoon, and it's a virtual Friday, right,
Speaker 1: is that what we call it? Here? Might as well
Speaker 1: because there's no practice and mock game day and say
Speaker 1: virtual media availability for the players today. So that's why
Speaker 1: I'm going to start calling it a virtual virtual Friday.
Speaker 1: I think that might be the title. They don't practice
Speaker 1: at all, No, they have a extended walkthrough today and
Speaker 1: then they practice tomorrow. It's the new school way of
Speaker 1: preparing for games. Wow, that is so nice. Just get
Speaker 1: a little stretchy in a little massage, right, and then
Speaker 1: they build up to game day, and then they build
Speaker 1: up to game day, so you get a little a
Speaker 1: regeneration day after padded practice on Thursday, a little bit
Speaker 1: of rest, and then on Friday and then Saturday you
Speaker 1: start looking towards the game instead of being off for
Speaker 1: you get forty eight hours, I work out with more
Speaker 1: bouncing your steps, and you build up to three twenty
Speaker 1: five on Sunday afternoon. Absolutely, I think there be real guys,
Speaker 1: and they would have done that back in the day.
Speaker 1: We would have taken that extra time and went out
Speaker 1: to a club party. You know, well, I would have
Speaker 1: used it to rest. Right. We probably did on Friday anyway,
Speaker 1: we knew Saturday you were off. Yeah, so that may
Speaker 1: be the real reason behind doing it that way. Okay,
Speaker 1: guys that go out on Thursday night rather than Friday night,
Speaker 1: and so it's more time to recover. It's more time
Speaker 1: to recover from from Thursday to Sunday rather than Friday
Speaker 1: to Sunday. I recovered that was not part of ours deal.
Speaker 1: We'd never recovered. That wasn't part of the deal. I
Speaker 1: hear you, all right, Mickeys, So tell us what's going
Speaker 1: on injury wise with this team? Well, nothing changed. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously today will be an estimation, but they'll
Speaker 1: probably put who's gonna play and who's not. Then they
Speaker 1: might a guy or two questionable, but I think everybody's
Speaker 1: good to go. The only guys that that didn't practice
Speaker 1: were the guys we knew weren't going to practice, Dorrence
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Donovan Wilson. Their list in, Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: Zeke limited, but they had the pads on yesterday, so
Speaker 1: it sounded like, as Mike McCarthy said in his press
Speaker 1: conference today that they got through practice just bye and
Speaker 1: he expects them to be good to go. The other
Speaker 1: guys that were limited also practice. Randy Gregory was out there,
Speaker 1: had the pads on, so did Carlos Watkins, so they
Speaker 1: probably will see him tying the secky limited, but if
Speaker 1: he's in uniform, it'll be in a backup role. So yeah,
Speaker 1: from an injury standpoint, they're good. The Giants still on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and that was a full practice on Thursday for them,
Speaker 1: are still without Sterling Shepard and Darius uh Slayton, their
Speaker 1: other wide receivers, so and Jabrill Peppers was just looking
Speaker 1: up as stats and Jabille Preppers did not practice either,
Speaker 1: so they had three starters not practicing on Thursday. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens today. Yeah, has anyone ever thought about
Speaker 1: the potential matchup between Michael Postons and I love that
Speaker 1: match Yeah, I love that matchup. You know, we've spent
Speaker 1: so much time this week talking about the release of
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, so let's dive in right there. Of course,
Speaker 1: se Quon Barkley only played in two games last year
Speaker 1: toward his ACL, and he's been building up snaps this
Speaker 1: year and had last week had his best game. In fact,
Speaker 1: scored on a fifty four yard touchdown pass late in
Speaker 1: the game as the Giants won in overtime over the
Speaker 1: same and they forgot to cover him out flank. That helps.
Speaker 1: That helps even if you got a bad as you
Speaker 1: also had a long play on a screen pass. So
Speaker 1: his ability to catch the football out of the backfield
Speaker 1: as well as run with it, he's he's now full
Speaker 1: goal after coming off that ACL. And so now you
Speaker 1: know Parsons Everson coming off of his UH. He had
Speaker 1: a full plate last week with sixty eight snaps, primarily
Speaker 1: roll at linebacker. And so here we go, Parsons versus Barkley,
Speaker 1: I love it, and Penn State versus Penn State. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling. I have a feeling they're going to
Speaker 1: uh create, you know, keep this matchup going. I really
Speaker 1: don't see uh shay, I'm sorry, I really don't see
Speaker 1: a Parsons lining up on the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 1: see him staying at the linebacker position more so this game.
Speaker 1: I truly believe that, especially if the Giants keep it
Speaker 1: close to where the Cowboys don't really get in position
Speaker 1: to where offense is taken off the imposing offense Giants,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to pass the ball. So let's put
Speaker 1: Parstons on the defensive line. I don't really see the
Speaker 1: Giants looking at that as the optimum position to be in.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna try and keep the game close.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and keep the ball out of our
Speaker 1: offens's hand. So therefore they're gonna run the ball as
Speaker 1: much as possible. And as they run that ball, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be where the matchup begins. That's where you're gonna
Speaker 1: see Parstons and Barcoley going at it. Two Penn State guys.
Speaker 1: Right man, you can't. You can't. We talked about Alabama,
Speaker 1: but this is something that's pretty cool. Two Penn State
Speaker 1: guys going at it. And I'm talking about two of
Speaker 1: the best to ever go through Penn State. And that's
Speaker 1: saying a lot. All Right, I hate to bust your
Speaker 1: bubbles here, but let's not forget Layton Vander As you're
Speaker 1: playing man, he's gonna end up getting the Jalen Smith snaps.
Speaker 1: So I bet Layton Vander gets about fifty snaps and
Speaker 1: then and they're in nickel. In pass coverage, what you
Speaker 1: put Kean O'Neil on Barkley and not Parsons Because that's
Speaker 1: why I hate to bust your bubbles. Come oh man,
Speaker 1: I would love to see them go one on one
Speaker 1: every time, every play we know the matchup is coming.
Speaker 1: When they come out of the huddle, I want both
Speaker 1: of them eyes to be looking at each other and
Speaker 1: in the run game. And in the run game, I'm
Speaker 1: good with that. In pass coverage, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want Parsons in too much pass coverage. I would
Speaker 1: go to appreciate your lack of our yea lack of
Speaker 1: your confidence. Yes, that's right, that's right. We ain't here
Speaker 1: doing you know the movie scripts, you know, but you
Speaker 1: gotta love that the Nitney Lions matched up against Nitney.
Speaker 1: A lion against a Nitney lion. And you know Parsons
Speaker 1: needs to play a linebacker like another Nitney Lion. That
Speaker 1: would be Sean Lee, you know, And when you think
Speaker 1: about but really, seriously, you think about Shawn Lee against
Speaker 1: division rivals. Okay, he always played so well against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I remember games in particular where Shawn Lee he had
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy's number, where Lashaw McCoy could do nothing against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys because Sean Lee was everywhere Leshaun McCoy went.
Speaker 1: And so you know, when you study it always exactly
Speaker 1: that's my points, exactly, you just have to anticipate where
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. When it came to Sean Lee studying,
Speaker 1: he was in the backfield. He knew where they were going.
Speaker 1: He knew where they were going. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of him getting past the interference, getting passive Lee blocker,
Speaker 1: getting past the offensive line. And I remember against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and I remember against the Giants there was one game
Speaker 1: in particular, he was moving faster to where the ball
Speaker 1: was going than the running back was for the Giants.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't a coincidence that it was against these
Speaker 1: division rivals. He knew there because he spent the entire
Speaker 1: offseason studying what they do offensively too. And you know
Speaker 1: who's been in Parsons ear by the way, Penn State,
Speaker 1: Nitney Lyon. See there you go and to Marcus ware.
Speaker 1: That's right, but that doesn't have a kind of state
Speaker 1: that doesn't go with your storylines here like we got
Speaker 1: we got movie scripts going on today. But you look
Speaker 1: at the linebacker rotation and I think it really shows
Speaker 1: why the move was made earlier this week. They've got
Speaker 1: to get vander esh on the field more Antian O'Neill
Speaker 1: coming back to in the Nickels situation. And you know,
Speaker 1: and as Jerry Jones said today on his radio segment,
Speaker 1: you know this was getting rid of Sean. I mean,
Speaker 1: getting rid of Jalen Smith didn't improve the team. But
Speaker 1: remember Mike McCarthy's big picture. They were thinking more down
Speaker 1: the road, they were thinking next year. Uh and and
Speaker 1: so you know it became more of a financial thing
Speaker 1: in the future, not something right now. Yeah. Absolutely, And
Speaker 1: when he balked at it, it was like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: we can't, we can't deal with this. So um that's
Speaker 1: what it came down to. And I see where the
Speaker 1: Packers signed him to, uh, you know, a one year deal.
Speaker 1: I think it was seven hundred and seventies and that's
Speaker 1: that's all it needed to be minimum, right, And I
Speaker 1: think he gets number nine too, So I guess nobody.
Speaker 1: Maybe with the Packers head nine, I guess not. So
Speaker 1: does that count for you know, when he was trying
Speaker 1: to get his jerseys to number nine, they had to
Speaker 1: pay I think change because of his former number was
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars down the drain. Yeah, that's probably
Speaker 1: the biggest financial hit he's taken. That is the biggest.
Speaker 1: That's the biggest hit I could come up with. And
Speaker 1: also it's a tough deal when you have to go
Speaker 1: from Dallas to freaking Wisconsin. Come on, guys, that's bad
Speaker 1: enough right there in one day. Okay, So fill us
Speaker 1: phill us in on how that works. As far as
Speaker 1: Jayalen Smith's contract, how much money Jaylen Smith is seeing
Speaker 1: he's still getting then point to which is the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and so the amount of money the Packers are paying,
Speaker 1: it just comes off with the Cowboys one him uh
Speaker 1: or he gets additional offset. He's double dipping. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you ever double he's hipped their walls? No, sir,
Speaker 1: I've never had that opportunity. Sorry, when you're dealing with
Speaker 1: small contracts like mine, we don't really have to worry
Speaker 1: about it. So, in other words, this is the best
Speaker 1: thing that could have happened for Jaylen Smith. He's got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to double. He's making more money this way
Speaker 1: than had he stayed a Dallas cowboy. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: bet he doesn't get a moving bonus. You don't know. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I know you're right, I do not constant h it's
Speaker 1: with spots. What do you got against Wisconsin other than
Speaker 1: the winners? Hey man? Yeah, the winners? Yeah. Like, what
Speaker 1: do you have against guns other than the bullets? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. Chris Beam did point out that
Speaker 1: he's not getting the nine point two million dollars he
Speaker 1: would have made next year if he was on the
Speaker 1: on the fifth day of the season. Do you think
Speaker 1: anybody else but I'm from that nine point two million.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking he wasn't get in that anyway. And so
Speaker 1: whether he was released now or not, so thus the
Speaker 1: restructure that they prefer, exactly, Yeah, absolutely, yeah. And now,
Speaker 1: actually you also think about it from Jalen's perspective, if
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to get playing time here, then it
Speaker 1: puts him in a pet marketing position to sign with
Speaker 1: whoever it might be next year. By getting snaps with
Speaker 1: the Packers and playing proving that he exactly right. So
Speaker 1: because the thing here was kind of going downhill, right,
Speaker 1: and so actually it's the best thing that could have
Speaker 1: happened for Jalen Smith. So they did him a favor.
Speaker 1: I love hearing myself back in my ear with ever
Speaker 1: since delay. Yeah I would have sounded silly first time
Speaker 1: and second time. Yeah, you're lucky, you're far away right,
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Speaker 1: U Cowboys and Giants three twenty five on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: And do you think go ahead, Mickegan, I was going
Speaker 1: to propose this question to you guys. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: think the schedule makers? That's exactly where I was going
Speaker 1: where you were in the exact same question, Everson, do
Speaker 1: you think the schedule maker had it on his mind
Speaker 1: when he put down Giants at Dallas the fifth week
Speaker 1: of the season that it was the anniversary of when
Speaker 1: the Giants came here last year and Dak got hurt.
Speaker 1: If they did that is extremely cruel, it is, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just call it what it is. You shouldn't even
Speaker 1: do that's it wasn't like it was something that you
Speaker 1: want to celebrate. No, it's not something you want to
Speaker 1: have anniversary to mark down. I mean when it comes
Speaker 1: to revenge or something like that. Yes, when it comes
Speaker 1: to payback, but you don't want to think of this, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is the anniversary of that gruesome injury. You know,
Speaker 1: take it on by Dak Prescott and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: do a follow up on the young band that actually
Speaker 1: made the tackle and see how he's doing these days.
Speaker 1: How's your mental makeup? Sir? Oh, I'm still traumatized. You
Speaker 1: know here there's a year later. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: come on, man, it's there's nothing to to really see something.
Speaker 1: He's a producer on the team. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: a producer still. It's what the guy still Yeah, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: good player, starting safety. So make you what do you
Speaker 1: want to say about it? Yeah? You know what, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't I agree with Everson. I don't
Speaker 1: think this was happenstance. Although maybe they looked at it
Speaker 1: as we're gonna celebrate the return right that. Uh they
Speaker 1: were they were counting dog gone. Well, when they put
Speaker 1: something on TV like that, they cannot wait. They're gonna
Speaker 1: hope someone gets hurt again. No, yes, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. Not the same vein, not
Speaker 1: the same vein. But I would call going back to
Speaker 1: San Francisco when I was with the Giants, and they
Speaker 1: could it was another championship game, so they couldn't wait,
Speaker 1: Oh here we go, no championship game, So I give
Speaker 1: up a pass to John Taylor, like, send me something
Speaker 1: you touchdown in that game? You know, dog gone. They
Speaker 1: had it cute to catch the bro I mean, they
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to put that up there. So, yes, they
Speaker 1: are cruel in that production booth. They are cruel, cruel people. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, probably by May they probably would have
Speaker 1: had Well, they probably didn't have a good indication when
Speaker 1: the schedule came out that he was fully healthy and
Speaker 1: ready to go, by the way at that time, because
Speaker 1: he hadn't taken part in any of the Cowboys offseason
Speaker 1: stuff really other than kind of throwing on the side.
Speaker 1: So but yes, it uh, one day almost from the
Speaker 1: exact day it happened. Uh is it three sixty four?
Speaker 1: Three three sixty five? And let me let me explain
Speaker 1: how this works. Let me explain how this works. If
Speaker 1: the first day of the year is January first, the
Speaker 1: last day of the year is not January first, the
Speaker 1: next year, right, it's December thirty first. So this happened
Speaker 1: on the tenth three sixty five is the elect I
Speaker 1: mean it happened on the eleven, So this is the tenth.
Speaker 1: So this is three hundred and sixty five days later
Speaker 1: of the day. It actually happened very good. Yes, I
Speaker 1: just thought i'd bring some logics three user. But there's
Speaker 1: three hundred sixty four days in between the two days, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, which makes it three hundred and sixty four
Speaker 1: days later. So anyway, if they were doing this, then
Speaker 1: they probably also knew that since Dak's rookie year when
Speaker 1: he lost twice to the Giants, including the his NFL
Speaker 1: opener that year by one point maybe was it thirty
Speaker 1: six thirty five or you got the book right there? Uh,
Speaker 1: and then he lost the rematch. He has not lost
Speaker 1: another game to the Giants that he started, seven straight
Speaker 1: victories over the Giants, So maybe they were thinking, well, da,
Speaker 1: this is this is a pushover for Dak. He always
Speaker 1: beats the Giants. So twenty sixteen thirty six thirty five,
Speaker 1: that's what I guessed. What is it twenty to nineteen? Oh, okay, close,
Speaker 1: there was another game that was thirty six thirty five
Speaker 1: somewhere along the line. So and then they lost to
Speaker 1: the Giants at New York ten to seven in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: So two losses that year by four points. Right there
Speaker 1: you go, And then he's beating him seven straight times, Okay,
Speaker 1: and we're giving him the victory the last game he
Speaker 1: played because he started it, by the way. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it goes on his right, that's right. Even though Dalton finished,
Speaker 1: the relief guy never gets a victory. Ye, So Dalton
Speaker 1: doesn't get credit for that one. And you know what,
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good. They don't have the stat like
Speaker 1: that for relief pitchers. Yeah, and he's been pretty good
Speaker 1: about it. You know. He I think after the game
Speaker 1: this lat past Sunday didn't really want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: but he talked about it extensively yesterday, Um talking about
Speaker 1: you know, but but he but he kept making it
Speaker 1: not to remember what happened, but to recall the work
Speaker 1: he put an to get to this point where he
Speaker 1: feels like his goal was not only to come back,
Speaker 1: but to come back as a better player. And he
Speaker 1: feels like he has done that. Um. You know, when
Speaker 1: he got hurt last year, he had thrown nine touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: I think it was four interceptions in those first five games. Uh.
Speaker 1: This year it's ten touchdown passes in two interceptions in
Speaker 1: four games. And so uh, as I pointed out yesterday,
Speaker 1: his quarterback rating is one sixteen point three, I believe
Speaker 1: uh and uh one sixteen nine he's fourth. So he
Speaker 1: is playing at a very very high level. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what he's most thankful for, the fact that
Speaker 1: the work he put in is really really paid off.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that he pointed out and
Speaker 1: everybody is like, well, have you have you put restrictions
Speaker 1: on yourself running the football? And he says no. He said,
Speaker 1: what I've done, though, is I'm smarter. I'll get the
Speaker 1: yards that I need to get and then either get
Speaker 1: out of bounds or get down, just trying to be
Speaker 1: smart about things on how I finished the run instead
Speaker 1: of trying to bull my way in there for a
Speaker 1: next extra yard or two. So from that standpoint that
Speaker 1: that's the only thing, and that's the only thing that
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done too. They haven't said no, we're not
Speaker 1: going to let you run the ball anymore. And you
Speaker 1: saw him called. I think it's very interesting how they
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys and Day they have noted and especially
Speaker 1: Dak he's noted how he used that opportunity. He used
Speaker 1: that injury as an opportunity, and everyone always looks at
Speaker 1: him kind of side side eyed in regards to why
Speaker 1: he took that approach, and how could he take that approach?
Speaker 1: You know, after he said after all the tears, after
Speaker 1: he wiped away all the tears, and after he had
Speaker 1: moment to himself, he always talked about the commitments he
Speaker 1: was gonna make at that point. He committed to being
Speaker 1: a better person the minute he dried his eyes. And
Speaker 1: that's that's a huge compliment on his part. And you
Speaker 1: talked about being smarter when he's trying to run the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, when he first came into the league, he
Speaker 1: was still thinking Mississippi State versus Alabama. You know how
Speaker 1: he was running all over those guys and breaking tackles
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, and that kind of wears
Speaker 1: on you as a quarterback. He was huge then when
Speaker 1: he came into the league. I think he's lost I'd say, what,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty to twenty five pounds since he's coming to
Speaker 1: the league. And it made him a little leaner, but
Speaker 1: it took away his strength as well. But that's good
Speaker 1: because it allowed him to have a better throwing motion
Speaker 1: number one, And it also made him realize after the
Speaker 1: injury as well, that there are times when you need
Speaker 1: to be smart and just go down you know, don't
Speaker 1: try to on that injury. He was definitely trying to
Speaker 1: break a tackle on a guy who was much lighter
Speaker 1: than he was, and so he thought he could break
Speaker 1: that tackle. Now he's gonna think differently, and that's not
Speaker 1: just good for himself, but it's good for his longevity,
Speaker 1: which is good for the Dallas Cowboy. Yeah. And if
Speaker 1: you remember, he gained on the play like seven or
Speaker 1: eight yards. You know, six was good. Seven was good.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to get to the first down, but
Speaker 1: in his mind, he was going for the first down marker.
Speaker 1: And then he talked about, you know, what he was doing,
Speaker 1: and he said he looks back at it and he goes,
Speaker 1: it's not funny, but it was like, what in the
Speaker 1: world was I doing? Trying to straighten out my own
Speaker 1: foot right? Uh and and and you know, and the
Speaker 1: other thing and then the other thing. I think that's
Speaker 1: happened with his comeback, especially in the offseason when he
Speaker 1: was here every day working. I think it ended up
Speaker 1: being an inspiration to this team, to the other teammates
Speaker 1: to see him working that hard. Uh Lele Collins talked
Speaker 1: about it, how you know, he was kind of on
Speaker 1: the same schedule. Dec was rehabbing from his hip surgery
Speaker 1: and he and he said, yeah, when I saw him
Speaker 1: running like that, you know, it motivated me to try
Speaker 1: to keep up with him, to see him what he
Speaker 1: went through to work that hard that I had to
Speaker 1: do the same thing. And now the guys have said
Speaker 1: the same thing, how it's inspired them to play harder.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when you're the leader, that's part
Speaker 1: of your job, you know. And that's part of the
Speaker 1: contract too. The contracts not all about uh numbers and
Speaker 1: all about wins. It's it's about are you the team leader?
Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones told the story again this morning about
Speaker 1: when they were looking at Dak Prescott and wondering, you know,
Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of quarterback do you want?
Speaker 1: He said he talked to Roger stotterback and he said,
Speaker 1: do I want a guy that can get out of
Speaker 1: the pocket and make plays with his feet? Or do
Speaker 1: I want a guy that's going to stand there and
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball? And he said, Roger said,
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I'm not qualified on the running
Speaker 1: part or the throwing part. But all I can tell
Speaker 1: you is make sure whoever you pick to be your quarterback.
Speaker 1: The guys on the team will follow, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what they ended up with, no doubt about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to ask Roger start back, do
Speaker 1: you pass or you run? This is Roger the Dodger
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I was surprised, he said, yeah, out
Speaker 1: of the pocket with your feet. Yes, that's the one
Speaker 1: you are one of the note on Dak what you
Speaker 1: mentioned about losing weight. I remember talking. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what year this was, uh, three or four years ago,
Speaker 1: might have been after his first year, and he talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that he's he's always had to watch
Speaker 1: his weight and um, I can't remember his first year
Speaker 1: or his second year. He said between the end of
Speaker 1: the season in February first he put on like twenty
Speaker 1: pounds and because he because he wasn't working, and so
Speaker 1: now he so he learned that about his body. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about going back to his college days where
Speaker 1: he's a heavier or whatever. He's learned that he it's
Speaker 1: a year round thing for him to stay in shape
Speaker 1: because it's you don't want to end the season and
Speaker 1: then and then let it go for a month because
Speaker 1: you have to work that much harder to lose the
Speaker 1: weight and so forth. So that's something that he's learned
Speaker 1: as he has come, you know, started his NFL career.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, And Everson probably can vouch for this.
Speaker 1: And in the offseason, don't go back to Louisiana, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: nothing but cards waiting Onia state lives. They don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's greenery anywhere in the state. No
Speaker 1: refridge can be found. They should put a sign up.
Speaker 1: You know where the speed limit is? It should a
Speaker 1: carb limit? Okay, okay. Would you like to hear who's
Speaker 1: not playing for the New York Giants on Sunday now
Speaker 1: or after the break? Well, let's do it after the break,
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Speaker 1: third straight home game for the Cowboys taking on a
Speaker 1: New York Giants team that comes in at one and three.
Speaker 1: So who will the Giants be missing on Sunday? Well,
Speaker 1: we've got their injury report, and as Mickey mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: the Cowboy injury report will not change from yesterday because
Speaker 1: the team is not having a full workout today. All right,
Speaker 1: So here we go out for the Giants. Wide receiver
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton, wide receiver Sterling Shepherd, and safety Jibril Peppers
Speaker 1: all ruled out and also backup offensive lineman Ben brit Uson.
Speaker 1: So no Shepherd and no Slayton for the second straight
Speaker 1: week for the Giants. So the Cowboys really their only
Speaker 1: decisions now, are you know? Who? They might eli eight
Speaker 1: off the practice squad? Uh to the fifty or forty
Speaker 1: They can have forty eight forty eight man roster um
Speaker 1: and they only they're they're only have fifty two of
Speaker 1: the fifty three spots on their fifty three man roster,
Speaker 1: So if they elevate two guys, then they only have
Speaker 1: to cut five players instead of seven. I think is
Speaker 1: that right? Or my math right, they got fifty two
Speaker 1: and they got to get to forty six. I guess
Speaker 1: that's that's six guys. Yeah, they have to be inactive.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have to cut anybody. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I man cut them from the game day roster. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Oh would you like to shed any light on what's
Speaker 1: going on with Lyle Collins? Oh? I got a headache
Speaker 1: on that. Uh, here's what I here's what I you
Speaker 1: know it that the appeals being my understanding it right
Speaker 1: now here, I'll just say this followed Daniel Walack. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: at Walack Legal, he is tweeting about it right now.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this much. The NFL's because the
Speaker 1: hearing's going on right now in Sherman. The NFL's opposition
Speaker 1: brief is now unsealed. He's got the details on it
Speaker 1: all right there. And so just go look at at
Speaker 1: Walock Legal on Twitter and you can learn all you
Speaker 1: need to know about what's going on with Did you
Speaker 1: read what I sent you? I did clear things up
Speaker 1: or give you a bigger headache, bigger headache? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: see the argument. I have a question, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Did he bribe anybody? Or is that on the table.
Speaker 1: Is that what we're talking about here? Are we strictly
Speaker 1: narrowing it down to the test procedure, missing the test
Speaker 1: procedure or whatever? Yeah, And it's it's all very vague
Speaker 1: right on in this bribery thing. I mean, what did
Speaker 1: he do not show up for a test and then
Speaker 1: called the guy and say hey, for a thousand bucks
Speaker 1: right down that I took a test? Well, whereas the
Speaker 1: results it didn't work, It didn't. Yeah, And I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I think I read somewhere where
Speaker 1: his contention was it was a joke or something. I
Speaker 1: guess whoever. But here's here's here's where the argument is.
Speaker 1: The when when the NFL presented their case to the arbitrator,
Speaker 1: they basically said he got five games because he had
Speaker 1: already been suspended four games, and the arbitrator took that
Speaker 1: as this is a second offense, meaning the second suspension,
Speaker 1: when he was never suspended four games. He's never missed
Speaker 1: four games for a suspension, And so I think there
Speaker 1: was some confusion there by the arbitrator on what that meant.
Speaker 1: And so this is what they're trying to argue here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and initially it was two games he could
Speaker 1: have taken it, and then when he didn't, they he said, okay,
Speaker 1: well the arbitrator is gonna have five. But this appeal
Speaker 1: has been going on. It's been an ongoing thing, you know.
Speaker 1: And one of the things, and I still contend this
Speaker 1: with the NFL, they leak stuff to make them sound better.
Speaker 1: I know, Everson, you probably have a hard time believing that.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, and no way. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, when all this testing began and the
Speaker 1: policy began, it was all it was all supposed to
Speaker 1: be top secret, right. The team wouldn't know anything until
Speaker 1: the suspension came down. Nothing comes out of the league office,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden things would leak out of
Speaker 1: the league office about people's suspension. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: because the judge that's hearing it was the judge that
Speaker 1: sided in the favor of Ezekiel Elliott nineteen twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: on his UH suspension that got overturned when it went
Speaker 1: to New York. Okay, time to make our picks. We
Speaker 1: got sick minutes left in the show. All right, did
Speaker 1: we did we clear all that up? We cleared it up.
Speaker 1: You go follow go follow Daniel Wallace on Twitter. Cleanse.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is, even if there's a favorable ruling
Speaker 1: for Lyle Collins today, what are the chances that he
Speaker 1: would play on Sunday. Yeah, Mike McCarthy sounded pretty doubtful
Speaker 1: that he would be able to play, although he's been
Speaker 1: able to get back in the building this week, so
Speaker 1: he's been able to they can see what kind of
Speaker 1: condition he's in, but without having any reps. Even Jerry
Speaker 1: pointed it out. You know you need those reps, so
Speaker 1: I would think so as his spot. Why they have
Speaker 1: fifty two on the fifty three run? No, no, because
Speaker 1: he didn't count, right, But if he comes back then
Speaker 1: they don't have to cut anybody. But that's what I
Speaker 1: mean that that they left that vacant they had well yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they did it on purpose or
Speaker 1: that just they didn't want to bring anybody else because
Speaker 1: you can still bring guys up up practice squad, and
Speaker 1: this week they brought up Um defensive tackle Hamilton, right,
Speaker 1: and they also from a COVID bring up I think
Speaker 1: Ralston was was that so sprinkle and sprinkle thank you
Speaker 1: Chris Um? So uh yeah, um, where were we going before?
Speaker 1: Hickson's ready, He's ready. No, you had asked me if
Speaker 1: he would play. It sounded more like he would play
Speaker 1: next week, if everything was new England next week. And
Speaker 1: and the fact that but from as I pointed out yesterday,
Speaker 1: from his side of the story, he's trying to get
Speaker 1: two game checks back, and instead of losing five, he
Speaker 1: loses three. Okay, Everson, tell me about this game. First off,
Speaker 1: do you get more excited when the Cowboys play the
Speaker 1: Giants because you played for both teams? No? I do not. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have no affiliation towards the Giants anymore. I tell
Speaker 1: people all the time. I love the Giants in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety one. Okay, nineteen ninety I don't like the Giants now,
Speaker 1: and I never did even before that. So let's just
Speaker 1: put that in a bubble throw without and let's deal
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys right now. Let's bury that, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I brought it up. Yeah, they killed me
Speaker 1: with that. I'm not a Giants fan at all. So
Speaker 1: here's what I'm looking at. For some reason, when I
Speaker 1: see this pick, the click, I'm thinking Clint Eastwood, you know,
Speaker 1: you know the music. Everybody looking at each other you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You're coming out of hullo. So
Speaker 1: you know where I'm going with this. Guys, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Michael Parsons. Parsons is gonna be the guy he's
Speaker 1: gonna make. I mean, he's already made a serious impact
Speaker 1: in every game, but he's gonna make this when at
Speaker 1: the linebacker position. He's gonna be working with Bandaresh. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be making plays in the middle the way we
Speaker 1: all wanted j Jalen Smith to do. We're gonna see
Speaker 1: how it's gonna be done correctly. He is my player
Speaker 1: pick to click. I'm looking at the score being thirty
Speaker 1: one to twenty one, Cowboys winning handily. I think the
Speaker 1: Giants might score last minute touchdown just to try to
Speaker 1: keep a respectable score, but thirty one twenty one is
Speaker 1: going to be the outcome. Thirty one twenty one. All right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? Oh? And Jason Garrett too, don't
Speaker 1: don't forget Jason Garrett too. I gotta put him in
Speaker 1: there too, just just for the fact that he's coming
Speaker 1: back home. You know, I don't know his game player
Speaker 1: won't work, okay, so he will be the pick to pick,
Speaker 1: not to click or okay, not to click. There you go.
Speaker 1: Well you got him scoring twenty one point. They did
Speaker 1: something right, Yeah? Really fourteen? The twenty one is just
Speaker 1: you know, oh it's a blowoff touchdown at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a blowoff touchdown. Yeah, all right. Since the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have been averaging thirty one and a half points a game,
Speaker 1: I have complete trust in this offense that they will
Speaker 1: continue at this pace. I still have some concerns about
Speaker 1: the defense, especially the big plays they continue to give
Speaker 1: up at an alarming rate. But I think with this,
Speaker 1: you know, somewhat, this offense controls what the other team
Speaker 1: tries to do offensively because they know they got a score,
Speaker 1: and I think they take chances maybe that they wouldn't
Speaker 1: take if they were playing a team that was averaging
Speaker 1: twenty one points a game. So, having said that, I
Speaker 1: will take the Cowboys thirty two to twenty thirty two
Speaker 1: thirty two one one. You had thirty one twenty one,
Speaker 1: Now you just change now I had thirty two. Don't
Speaker 1: want to be a copycat thirty two thirty two. How
Speaker 1: see it says thirty two thirty two. I'm looking back though, Well, okay,
Speaker 1: how many times have the Cowboys scored thirty two? Tell
Speaker 1: me this and there? How did they sixty one year history?
Speaker 1: How did they score thirty six last week? How did
Speaker 1: they end up with thirty six? That's a little bit
Speaker 1: easier thirty two. For all it takes is going for
Speaker 1: two a couple of times. Now, this time, when they
Speaker 1: funneled the ball in the end zone, they're gonna recover
Speaker 1: it for a safety there you okay, would be a touchback.
Speaker 1: So I mean no, the Cowboys are gonna okay, it's safety.
Speaker 1: Where the other team or the other team, No, when
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, I got you. We're
Speaker 1: trying to make jokes. Listen, So thirty two to twenty
Speaker 1: thirty two, twenty thirty two to twenty and your pick
Speaker 1: to click was he is is ceedee lamb Okay. Gonna
Speaker 1: be a breakout game for the Cowboy wide rece okay,
Speaker 1: because they're going to be concerned with the Mary Cooper,
Speaker 1: they're going to be concerned with Ezekoe Elliott, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna show their versatility once again. All Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Cowboys winning. Um, let's see the Giants
Speaker 1: come in at one and three, the Cowboys at three
Speaker 1: and one, thirty one thirteen Cowboys win thirteen because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are three and one coming in and the thirteen
Speaker 1: And who's the focus going to be on Sunday Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott is your pick to click because the focus
Speaker 1: is going to be on Dak And how many three
Speaker 1: hundred yard games has he had here lately? Three lately?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean, because it's been the run game
Speaker 1: here the less, just the opener, the opener, and so
Speaker 1: Dak is going off in this game, Okay, and actually,
Speaker 1: serious league, I think it's gonna be harder to run
Speaker 1: against this Giant's front than what it was last week,
Speaker 1: even though Carolina came in with the quote unquote number
Speaker 1: one run defense in the league. Uh, they're pretty stout
Speaker 1: up front, and so it's going to be a harder
Speaker 1: challenge running the ball against the Giants. And so the
Speaker 1: Dak's gonna throw the ball for a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: yards and to prove Dak is back. Yes, that's right, guys,
Speaker 1: we got I got one more thing. Okay, we have
Speaker 1: to time in on this. Does Digs get his interception?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a cool does digs get another look,
Speaker 1: Somebody tell me, what do you think? Guys, we gotta
Speaker 1: put that in. As long as he's getting it, we
Speaker 1: gotta put it in. Five games, he'll he'll tie. You
Speaker 1: think was his first name? Don Don Bishop got dive
Speaker 1: in the first five games? And is that what it was? Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, all right? And then for sure he is?
Speaker 1: Is he aware of this? Yeah, you're saying, you're saying yes,
Speaker 1: you're saying, yes he is? Yes? Is what digs? Word? Digs?
Speaker 1: I don't know. He'll have to google. So what do
Speaker 1: you think, Everson? I don't think they'd be stupid enough
Speaker 1: to throw his way. Okay, he got the wide receivers? Hurt,
Speaker 1: h they really come. You know, he's gonna be playing
Speaker 1: against a few backups. I'm sure they'll have him travel
Speaker 1: with whoever they think the best receiver is at this point, Well,
Speaker 1: it'll be gallic. They're just gonna take their lead receiver
Speaker 1: out of the game. No, we're gonna take their leading receiver.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, there you go. All right, there you go. So,
Speaker 1: so I've got Diggs with a pick? Do you too
Speaker 1: have Digs with a pick or not? Sure? Why not? Okay,
Speaker 1: Everson does not because he would be fun. Okay, just
Speaker 1: a far just a fun, yes, just for fun, just fun.
Speaker 1: If that's silly enough, then that if they're still and
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones only has one pick this year and he's
Speaker 1: gonna mary Yep, that's right, that's exactly right. All right.
Speaker 1: That does it for mix Shots where y'all gonna be
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Speaker 1: two o'clock. And I think people can still still purchase
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Speaker 1: The guy you're the faith of stuff and you you can.
Speaker 1: I think you can buy them day day of and
Speaker 1: there'll be some players they're autographing also, oh really oh
Speaker 1: yeah okay yeah, not just me and Everson. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: no we're not signing. No we're not signing. We'll take pictures.
Speaker 1: There you go. I'm gonna be like Date, I just
Speaker 1: take pictures. There you go. All right. That does it
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