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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 Tuesday as we
Speaker 1: get you set for Cowboys and Cardinals. It seems like
Speaker 1: a long ways away still because it's Monday Night football
Speaker 1: this week at at and T Stadium, two days removed
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys win over the Giants, and I thought
Speaker 1: to kick off today's show we pull back the curtain
Speaker 1: a little bit there, Mickey, because Everson showed up early
Speaker 1: for today's show. He was. He was forty five seconds early,
Speaker 1: which means forty five seconds ago he tuned in on
Speaker 1: ready to go. He was ready to go, That's right,
Speaker 1: which led us to a little conversation. You asked, or
Speaker 1: maybe it was Chris Beam, our producer, asked h Everson
Speaker 1: if he ever got fined by Tom Landry back in
Speaker 1: the day. And Everson, did you ever get fined by
Speaker 1: Tom Landry for being late? Oh? Yes, oh yes, Tom Landry,
Speaker 1: what do you've ever been late? Here? You've never been
Speaker 1: late here. You just I've never I've never been fined here.
Speaker 1: That's what we've been say. I've never been fined here.
Speaker 1: Yes I have been late. Thank you guys for not
Speaker 1: docking my pain. I really AMPLI wait a minute, we
Speaker 1: might we might go talk to Big rib Hey me
Speaker 1: and Big Rober like this, all right, leave Big Rob alone?
Speaker 1: No I did uh. Let me see back in back
Speaker 1: my rookie year in eighty one, the Cowpitals used to
Speaker 1: leave out of love Field. If I'm not mistaken. You
Speaker 1: know we had to. We would would fly out of there.
Speaker 1: And one time I missed the flight. You know, we
Speaker 1: would just drive up to the talk. We wouldn't We
Speaker 1: didn't have to go through security or anything like that,
Speaker 1: just drive up to the plane. And and man, I
Speaker 1: was a little late. So you know, Tom, he's gonna
Speaker 1: show the rookie. You know, they'd be eleven interceptions and
Speaker 1: all of this. No, you're not too big for your britches,
Speaker 1: getting too big for your britches. So I got fined.
Speaker 1: I think I got fined just for missing the flight,
Speaker 1: like two hundred bucks or something. But I had to
Speaker 1: get my own flight up to New York, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I missed the flight. I believe that's when
Speaker 1: we went into overtime against the Giants in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: It was like the last game of the year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you made an almost all the way through the season
Speaker 1: then almost. Man. You know me, Man, I'm always just
Speaker 1: just like right there. That's story in my life. Got well, Everson,
Speaker 1: don't feel bad because Michael Irvin missed the flight to
Speaker 1: Detroit one year. I remember that. And we'll see Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike was Mike was a kept man by the organization.
Speaker 1: See he was one of their favorites. Yeah, I wasn't
Speaker 1: he was. He wasn't favorite. He wasn't favorite enough. When
Speaker 1: Jimmy Uh looked at his watch and saw the door
Speaker 1: wasn't shut, and they said, uh, didn't it time to go?
Speaker 1: And they said, well, Michael's not here. What time are
Speaker 1: we supposed to leave? One o'clock? What time is it
Speaker 1: one o two? Shut the door, let's go, and and
Speaker 1: and Michael had to get his own flight, go to
Speaker 1: Detroit on his own and Uh, Jimmy UH basically announced
Speaker 1: to the team and the team meeting that Michael, Michael
Speaker 1: will be punished for missing the flight. Uh. He will
Speaker 1: not start the game. He has to miss the first possession,
Speaker 1: and North Turner promptly asked if they kicked off, is
Speaker 1: that the first possession if the Lions have the ball first? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I can imagine what the conversation was like when, uh,
Speaker 1: when Tom decided to leave me. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: wasn't much talking at all. They probably wanted to leave early.
Speaker 1: They probably want to leave earlier. What is it, uh
Speaker 1: five till closed the door. Yeah, that's probably what Tom said.
Speaker 1: Now here's what he said, Emerson, He said Emerson, who Emerson? Emerson?
Speaker 1: He's late all the time. Yeah. Thanks Ali, Chris for
Speaker 1: bringing all of this up. I really appreciate you, buddy. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm actually one who brought it up on the air.
Speaker 1: Chris just brought it up before year. But okay, Mickey,
Speaker 1: bring us up to speed on what is going on. Well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys obviously end up losing two more starters. By
Speaker 1: my count, that'll be nine starters that have been placed
Speaker 1: on injured reserve at some point the start of this season.
Speaker 1: Obviously Dak Prescott after his surgery, Tristan Hill tour as
Speaker 1: acl he'll go on injured reserve. You know, what And
Speaker 1: that's one of those things where you know, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get hurt like that and out for the season,
Speaker 1: don't do it in the same game that the franchise
Speaker 1: quarterback gets hurt, right, because you become this footnote at
Speaker 1: the bottom and also injured bags. And you know, and
Speaker 1: he's been playing well, he was probably playing the best
Speaker 1: of any of those defensive tackles, had great, most tackles
Speaker 1: of them all, and uh, you know, it's a shame,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they're gonna have to go without him. I
Speaker 1: would imagine Neville Gallimore gonna get more snaps, and who
Speaker 1: knows for if they need more bodies on game day,
Speaker 1: maybe they bring somebody up off the ID. An idea,
Speaker 1: I got an idea. I don't. I don't. You probably
Speaker 1: couldn't pass the COVID protocols in time for Monday, but
Speaker 1: maybe you could. I saw the Saints release Marcus Hunt,
Speaker 1: the big six eight six nine defensive tackle out of
Speaker 1: SMU who blocks all the kicks. Oh, big guy, big fellow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: big old to guy y. Yes, here's my fun. Okay,
Speaker 1: just get him in here. He didn't even have to
Speaker 1: practice with the team. Okay, just get him in here.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are playing Kyler Murray on Monday Night. Stand
Speaker 1: as tall as he can, because Kyler Murray will never
Speaker 1: be able to throw over here. So there you go.
Speaker 1: So I build it. Did they did? They just release
Speaker 1: him yesterday. Yeah, so as long as he's been with
Speaker 1: another team, the COVID thing doesn't. Uh, you don't need
Speaker 1: to do it. Was very Saints had a game last night,
Speaker 1: and so you don't need to do the three negatives
Speaker 1: in four days. You just have to come in and
Speaker 1: pass the initial country test and you're to get him
Speaker 1: in here. So he in here, bring him in and
Speaker 1: at least for spoil team, right, but they can guarantee you. Fossil,
Speaker 1: I mean he's blocked. Uh. He set the NCAA record
Speaker 1: for block kicks at s and you and he earlier
Speaker 1: this season he had one for for the Saints. Gary.
Speaker 1: I bet you Fossil is in there lobbying right now.
Speaker 1: We got to get this out. And at least he
Speaker 1: did was he was, he was he was a specialist.
Speaker 1: I was a specialist at an interception. This guy's a
Speaker 1: specialist at blocking kids. It was amazing. He was Yeah
Speaker 1: at s mu he I mean he came to this
Speaker 1: country to play basketball and not the side. And it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, no, you can play some football and
Speaker 1: Russian right Russian? Yeah yeah, and uh yeah, as long
Speaker 1: as he just stands up and doesn't you know, go
Speaker 1: off sides when you block one or or for some
Speaker 1: reason they have twelve guys on the field when you
Speaker 1: block one. Get that stuff straightened down. But anyway, going
Speaker 1: back to Tristan Hills, so uh yeah, too bad on that.
Speaker 1: Also a little update on on Dak's surgery. I found
Speaker 1: out that the compound part of it fracture. The compound
Speaker 1: means you you the bone broke the skin, But it
Speaker 1: wasn't like the fractured bone broke the skin when he
Speaker 1: dislocated his ankle. The ankle bone when it turned. Uh
Speaker 1: bas bags, keep asking, keep going, keep asking if I
Speaker 1: knew anything new because it twisted the way it wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be twisted, and it caused the skin. Um
Speaker 1: to to boy, you think you messed up that you
Speaker 1: think you messed up the Jack Black commercial. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But but but the good news on this is that
Speaker 1: the doctors believe that um, he should be this is
Speaker 1: not one of those career threatening things. He didn't suffer
Speaker 1: any nerve damage. Uh. And the reason one of the
Speaker 1: other reasons why they rushed him the hospital and didn't
Speaker 1: the surgery or they took so much time on the
Speaker 1: ground putting the brace on there, um that you have
Speaker 1: to make sure that whatever the injury is, it doesn't
Speaker 1: stop the blood flow uh into your foot. That's what
Speaker 1: they were most concerned. You know, the infection party did
Speaker 1: They said they did it. They did it in that
Speaker 1: air cast, and that's what took so long before they
Speaker 1: moved him. And then my understanding was after that, you know,
Speaker 1: there's probably not as much pain because they fixed the
Speaker 1: dislocation uh and then and they just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure the blood flow is continuing, because that's when you
Speaker 1: get in trouble if the injury causes the blood flow
Speaker 1: to stop. So anyway, it sounds like, you know, the
Speaker 1: four to six month deal is pretty accurate. And so
Speaker 1: maybe by April when they start the offseason, if indeed
Speaker 1: they start the offseason on time, um, that he should
Speaker 1: be by then ready to go. As Mike McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll challenge the timeline for sure. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: and Dad, they'll have to slow him down to make
Speaker 1: sure that he doesn't do anything. But as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I found out that I guess I was
Speaker 1: in good company because the doctor uh that did the
Speaker 1: surgery was the same one that fixed my rupture to chilles.
Speaker 1: So oh wow. So evidently he only does big time
Speaker 1: He only does big time surgeries, right yeah, Okay, No,
Speaker 1: that means that means he lows. That means he lures
Speaker 1: himself to the common man. That's what it means. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's be real. But I mean, really, man, I you know,
Speaker 1: we of course play for Dad, but I'm glad you
Speaker 1: mentioned Tristan Hill. You know, we just really can't ignore
Speaker 1: the fact that this young man was having a great
Speaker 1: year so far. I mean, considering that the line was
Speaker 1: having problems. We could really use him, of course on
Speaker 1: this team. But I'm hoping he comes back as well, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, spat to be considered a footnote, you know,
Speaker 1: that's not what you want. This guy's career is extremely
Speaker 1: important to him and his family, and I just hope
Speaker 1: that he comes out of this okay, and hopefully we
Speaker 1: can have him back next year, probably hopefully better than ever.
Speaker 1: My prayers go up for both of those guys, So
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that that is that is known. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. It reminds me of the Gallows humor
Speaker 1: when we be flying on the charter and the weather
Speaker 1: but be really bad and everybody bet on a panicking
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, boy, if this thing goes down, you know,
Speaker 1: I know what the headline is. And then the last
Speaker 1: paragraph also perishing in the PS. It's a PS in
Speaker 1: the article PS. Also they went down. It was it
Speaker 1: was like it was like when we had the bus
Speaker 1: crash going to training camp in twenty sixteen and uh,
Speaker 1: we were we were non what did they call us? Uh?
Speaker 1: Non significant personnel was on the bus. Non essential, non
Speaker 1: essential personnel was on the bus. And I said, my
Speaker 1: mother thinks I'm first essential. Well, well at least you
Speaker 1: weren't insignificant. Yeah right, yeah, non essential. Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: quarterback coming in here too, there, Mickey, Yes, Garrett Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are bringing him in off Cleveland's practice squad. So again,
Speaker 1: since he's on a practice squid, it shouldn't take him
Speaker 1: as long to be allowed into the building. Bill I
Speaker 1: I was shocked when I start looking up his uh
Speaker 1: you know, and we I guess because we knew of
Speaker 1: him at Lake Travis High School in Austin, played what
Speaker 1: two years at UT and then transferred to SMU. It
Speaker 1: seems like Sky's been around half our lives played we played, remember, well,
Speaker 1: how long ago has it been? At the Texas played
Speaker 1: in the National Championship game two thousand and nine seasons
Speaker 1: and nine, and Colt McCoy got hurt early in that
Speaker 1: game and Gary Gilbert came in to replace him against
Speaker 1: Alabama and m and then he wound up transferring to
Speaker 1: SMU and he was a sixth round pick of the
Speaker 1: Rams or something. I think it may have been the Rams.
Speaker 1: The Rams, yeah and so or actually, and then he
Speaker 1: ended up in New England. He's got several teams, so
Speaker 1: he's got a national championship, a high school championship ring,
Speaker 1: a national championship ring, and he won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with New England. I believe has he ever started, uh?
Speaker 1: Not high school? He did in high school and then
Speaker 1: I think he started the year the next year after
Speaker 1: the national championship and he lost the starting job. But
Speaker 1: he went to SMU and started. And then how about
Speaker 1: this in twenty nineteen before he joined the Cleveland Browns. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was the starting quarterback of the Orlando Apollos in
Speaker 1: the AAF League, and after eight games before the league disbanded,
Speaker 1: he was the leading passer in that league for the Apollos.
Speaker 1: By the way, So you're saying it's another Curt Warner
Speaker 1: in the making, is that what you're telling me? Well,
Speaker 1: he was. I don't know that Kurt Warner had a
Speaker 1: published as much early on in his life as what
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert did. I mean Garrett Gilbert coming out of
Speaker 1: Lake Travis, he was one of the most celebrated high
Speaker 1: school quarterbacks ever to come out of Texas. In fact,
Speaker 1: he was the national the Gatorade National Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Uh you know he was, he was it and uh
Speaker 1: and then at Texas, Uh you know, I didn't pan
Speaker 1: out there and he wound up transferring SMU. I'm looking
Speaker 1: through right now as far as his professional careers with
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Patriots, the Lions, the Raiders, the Parrot Liners,
Speaker 1: then the Alliance of American Football, Orlando Apollos, and then
Speaker 1: this year with the Browns who loved accumulating UH. Texas
Speaker 1: high school quarterbacks with Baker Mayfield, Case Keenom and then
Speaker 1: UH Karrett Gilbert so well. He apparently Mike mccarth he
Speaker 1: served yield. He served as Baker Mayfield's backup quarterback last year,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter of he just didn't have I think he
Speaker 1: only had to play, like maybe go in for two
Speaker 1: games or something like that, which was highly unusual because
Speaker 1: because Garrett Gilbert was at Lake Travis and Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: younger than him, followed him at Lake Travis as the
Speaker 1: quarterback won a state championship. Anyway, so here, here's Garret
Speaker 1: Gilbert's here. Here's what happens when you're around a long time.
Speaker 1: When when I heard they were going to sign him,
Speaker 1: and I'm starting to go look his stuff up, and
Speaker 1: I typed in Gail Gilbert, Well, that's his father, right,
Speaker 1: I had the wrong Gilbert. Well, and of course Gail
Speaker 1: Gilbert played in the NFL, and I was a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback for many years. So how about this thing? He
Speaker 1: is Andy Dalton. Do not get hurt, please? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: but we should, we should clarif I've been Denucci is
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback now, the rookie seventh round draft pick
Speaker 1: out of James Madison, and at least for this game.
Speaker 1: You know what the other insignificant fact. I found out
Speaker 1: about Gail Gilbert. You know, he played with Buffalo, right,
Speaker 1: so he loses four consecutive Super Bowls. He's on those teams,
Speaker 1: and then the next year he ends up in San
Speaker 1: Diego and they get beat by San Francisco in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So he owns the stitch in of all
Speaker 1: player that has been to five consecutive Super Bowls and
Speaker 1: lost them all and he factored into none of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd ever had to play. All right, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: have no words for the family. I have no words
Speaker 1: for the family. I'm sorry. So if you're looking for so,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for lineage there and you want to
Speaker 1: have a bat all you want and if that's all
Speaker 1: you want, back up court back super Bowl and getting Gilbert.
Speaker 1: So hopefully that'll follow suit here because Garrett Gilbert foller
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. Right, he's already at one. So what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen here is the Cowboys. Now we're good. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do the backwards and what his dad did, Okay,
Speaker 1: his dad up low and then San Diego, well he
Speaker 1: did New England. So now the Cowboys will win. Poor
Speaker 1: with Garret Gilbert is about by the way to back
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Speaker 1: talk about Yeah, well, I guess we bring people up
Speaker 1: to speed on DAK was in fact Mike McCarthy visiting
Speaker 1: man at the hospital yesterday morning. Then he was released
Speaker 1: in the afternoon and back home. As Mickey mentioned off
Speaker 1: the top at four to six month time frame, looks
Speaker 1: to be what it is. I wouldn't it all be
Speaker 1: surprised if Dak with his if there's any way for
Speaker 1: Dak with his work, ethic and belief system and so forth,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he'll be, you know, as soon as
Speaker 1: they get him out of a boot, he'll be doing
Speaker 1: his rehab. And so he'll be, you know, at the Star,
Speaker 1: rehabbing the injury, and you know he'll do it with
Speaker 1: everything he's got. You know. The other thing I ran
Speaker 1: across and I had forgotten this. Remember Alan Hearns's injury
Speaker 1: the wide receiver Cowboys in the playoff, very similar to
Speaker 1: what Dak uh Dak suffered, and he he came back.
Speaker 1: So the doctors think this is not one of those
Speaker 1: career threatening or career altering UH injuries that you can
Speaker 1: recover from this UH and and get back. I think
Speaker 1: he still was in Miami. Yeah, yeah, last year he
Speaker 1: had he was a primary receiver for the Dolphins year
Speaker 1: and that injury occurred, of course, very late in the
Speaker 1: season and so uh that that was really going to
Speaker 1: put his opportunity, um, you know, on the back burner.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys, the Cowboys did him a good there
Speaker 1: and they kept him throughout that off season and all
Speaker 1: the way and his rehab and so forth was was
Speaker 1: able to be accomplished. And uh, and then he got
Speaker 1: the opportunity back home in Miami. Well one of the
Speaker 1: really like dak another one of the really good guys
Speaker 1: Alan hearns. Yeah, absolutely so. So it is an injury
Speaker 1: you can return from and uh and and come back
Speaker 1: and play at the same level. Assuming all goes well.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to keep an eye on it,
Speaker 1: make sure there's no infections sit in or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he should come back and be good to go.
Speaker 1: All right. How about Andy Dalton as the quarterback going forward? Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, here's a guy who led the Bengals to
Speaker 1: five straight playoff appearances. He's up there either the number
Speaker 1: one guy all time at Cincinnati with the passing records,
Speaker 1: and which is saying a lot when you consider they
Speaker 1: had Ken Anderson, him Boomerissias in there back in some
Speaker 1: glory days back in the eighties for the Bengals when
Speaker 1: they made it to a Super Bowl with Boomer. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, Dalton has some of the same qualities as
Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint, Mackey. You talk about his accuracy
Speaker 1: that you've noticed right off when you're watching him in
Speaker 1: training camp. I mean, the Cowboys are in a good position,
Speaker 1: probably a better position than most any team in the league.
Speaker 1: If they did have to lose their starting quarterback with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, well, you know, it made me, you know,
Speaker 1: go back and think, when's the last time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have had a backup quarterback this accomplished. It's been quite
Speaker 1: a while. You know. You can say, well, Vinny Testaverdi,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't supposed to be the starter that year.
Speaker 1: You know, he was supposed to be the backup. Um
Speaker 1: and I don't know, Vinnie had taken his team to
Speaker 1: five consecutive playoffs and uh, and he did it his
Speaker 1: first five years in the league too. If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Three times in the Pro Bowl, you know, I was
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, and I'm going, you know, no, no, uh,
Speaker 1: nothing against Jason Garrett, but you probably had to go
Speaker 1: back to Rodney Pete or Steve Berline. Steve Berline, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for that half half a season. I thought Steve Berline
Speaker 1: was the most effective UH coming off the bench when
Speaker 1: they made that year, and he was so affective that year.
Speaker 1: UH back in the nineties, I thought that UH choice
Speaker 1: should have allowed him to start that game as well
Speaker 1: against Detroit. No, he did, no, he did. He did
Speaker 1: if I would call though we couldn't stop Dabby Sanders. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they decided that would have been a good thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They decided late in the second quarter to see if
Speaker 1: Troy because Troy wasn't real happy. He thought he should
Speaker 1: have started that game. Yeah, he thought he was ready
Speaker 1: to go, but he came in late in the second
Speaker 1: quarter and the game was already over. They they they
Speaker 1: they just couldn't beat that team. Well, but then you
Speaker 1: go back to the Cowboys and under Landry and with
Speaker 1: Gil Brandt and tex Ram I mean, they always had
Speaker 1: more than one quality quarterback on the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: starting in UH in nineteen sixty well sixty five, with
Speaker 1: Greg with Meredith and Greg Morton and of course Starback
Speaker 1: was fulfilling his naval commitment. And then when Starback was there,
Speaker 1: he had Starback and Craig Morton and Landry. Couldn't you
Speaker 1: know that the thing he couldn't figure out which one
Speaker 1: to start, to the point they would shuttle in plays
Speaker 1: on that almost kept time out of the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: That and then you had and then you had Danny
Speaker 1: White backing up Roger after stop. Yeah. Yeah, So, um
Speaker 1: it's the quarterback controversy going back to the to the
Speaker 1: sixties is always the thing with the Cowboys, and uh,
Speaker 1: you're probably looking at so this is kind of a throwback.
Speaker 1: Uh now you can't do it anymore. And because of
Speaker 1: the free agency and the salary cap and so forth,
Speaker 1: to have that those type of quarterbacks on your team.
Speaker 1: But Cowboys are very fortunate to have Andy Dalton and
Speaker 1: and And the biggest thing is they you know, they'll
Speaker 1: tweak things as far as their offense is concerned, but
Speaker 1: they don't have to, you know, they can just keep
Speaker 1: rolling as far as this offense goes. And so it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting. Um, you know how they work
Speaker 1: things now with Dalton as the quarterback. You know, I'm Dalton.
Speaker 1: Dalton came in the game. They had they had to
Speaker 1: continue the game plan. That's what I liked about it.
Speaker 1: They had to continue the game plan. They I don't
Speaker 1: think they changed anything. As a matter of fact, he
Speaker 1: still kept going to the same targets that Dak was
Speaker 1: going to, especially that big third down to Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: that ended up allowing us to go for that go
Speaker 1: ahead touchdown. I believe by by Zeke Elliott. One thing
Speaker 1: that I saw in the game though, when we're looking
Speaker 1: at matchups Coop and Bradberry, they must have been really
Speaker 1: going at it on the corner, because I don't think
Speaker 1: Coop got the target from Dak at all during the ballgame.
Speaker 1: Was it one target for that one target from Dak? Correct? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: because Dalton came in and immediately hit him on the
Speaker 1: sideline and and then almost threw a pick six because
Speaker 1: Bradberry jumped that bad boy he ran that route for Coop.
Speaker 1: Then all of us and Gallop is on him. He's
Speaker 1: on Gallop, and I would imagine the coverage was good.
Speaker 1: Dalton had to make that amazing throw on the run
Speaker 1: that was against Bradberry going to Gallop on that play.
Speaker 1: I thought, Coop, you know how it is with Coop,
Speaker 1: You're always looking at his body language. You really can't
Speaker 1: really tell from his expression, but he did not look
Speaker 1: too happy in the ballgame because it was almost like
Speaker 1: he was non existent, and so go ahead. The other
Speaker 1: part of it is he just had forty two snaps
Speaker 1: in the games. Who just two thirds of the snaps?
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out what going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to what's going on there? And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you guys brought that up because that's been the discussion
Speaker 1: now all day long. It's like, how did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to change their offense to fit Andy Dalton. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have to change much that they have
Speaker 1: to be concerned about. And Kellen Moore talked about we'll
Speaker 1: have to make some adjustments, but he said, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to run the office. And then there's this
Speaker 1: thought that, well, now you just rely on on Zeke.
Speaker 1: Well if you think that the Arizona Cardinals are thinking
Speaker 1: the same thing, right, Oh, we better get ready for
Speaker 1: Zeke because he's coming at us. You can't just say, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the ball, you know, and everybody brings
Speaker 1: up the one drive when they got down seventeen three
Speaker 1: and in a fourteen place seventy five yard drive they
Speaker 1: scored the touchdown. They ran the ball ten times. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, all right, But but you can't just say
Speaker 1: Zeke's carrying the ball thirty times a game now because
Speaker 1: we got Andy Dalton as a quarterback. No, the reason
Speaker 1: why you got Andy Dalton as your backup is because
Speaker 1: he can come in and run your offense. Now, the
Speaker 1: one thing that will change is and this will go
Speaker 1: to the offensive line. You know, Dalton won't get you
Speaker 1: out of bad situations the way Dak could if the
Speaker 1: offensive lines not given him protection. He's not going to
Speaker 1: get out and run like Dak or maybe buy time.
Speaker 1: But you know the one pass he threw to Gallop,
Speaker 1: he rolled out, he had to get out of the
Speaker 1: pocket and I thought he was going to throw the
Speaker 1: ball away, and he threw it on the run and
Speaker 1: very accurately, too, very accurately. The key thing will be
Speaker 1: can these offensive tackles, the more they play, the more
Speaker 1: they practice, can they improve as the season goes along?
Speaker 1: And give him some protection. Now, maybe the difference you
Speaker 1: have is you play your tight ends a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You give those guys some help. You ask Zeke instead
Speaker 1: of going out for passes as many times, Hey, let
Speaker 1: me chip. And if you noticed in the game against
Speaker 1: the Giants, they employed two running backs several times, so
Speaker 1: one could go out and one could chip. That might
Speaker 1: be something you would see instead of going two tight ends.
Speaker 1: So they'll make some adjustments. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: you have this guy. Everybody looks at his last year
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. He had nothing. He had nothing. He didn't
Speaker 1: have an offensive line, especially, he didn't have a J. Green. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's all he had probably previously, right Hyer
Speaker 1: boy too. But yeah, so anyway, Uh, this guy could play.
Speaker 1: You know this this is not this is not bringing
Speaker 1: in Kyle Orton or anything. This guy could play. I
Speaker 1: think I think, I think, uh, the game plan would
Speaker 1: remain the same, but as you said, it's facts bringing
Speaker 1: into two tight ends. I think it'd be a bit
Speaker 1: more conservative. Uh. And we talk about the drive, the
Speaker 1: fourteen play drive. Uh, that's really to me quintessential Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboy football. I think Dak would rather have it that way.
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboy coaching staff would rather have
Speaker 1: it that way. I think when we have that game
Speaker 1: plan in and it's effective, that's when we're most successful.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it is and the way that
Speaker 1: defense was playing, not necessarily being lights out, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. They still gave up twenty points to a
Speaker 1: woeful New York Giants offense. But they only gave up
Speaker 1: twenty points to a New York Giant offense. That's still
Speaker 1: something that you can hang your hat on. Because we
Speaker 1: hadn't stopped anyone. Our stoppage on drives was more than
Speaker 1: we've ever stopped anyone. I would imagine in this game,
Speaker 1: we probably stopped more drives and we did the previous
Speaker 1: drives led up to this point. So you did see
Speaker 1: some continuity defensively which really led to them feeding into
Speaker 1: our offense and how we were able to make plays
Speaker 1: and not necessarily feel the pressure to score every time
Speaker 1: while we're on the field. So that's something I think
Speaker 1: is going to be different in regards to our game plan,
Speaker 1: a little bit more conservative. Zeke is going to get
Speaker 1: the ball more. But don't expect Dalton just be sitting
Speaker 1: back there like a sitting duck. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna try and move us down the field.
Speaker 1: And he can. Like you said, he's got the ability,
Speaker 1: very durable quarterback, very doable quarterback, and he's very similat
Speaker 1: So let's give him the benefit of the doubt at
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Speaker 1: final segment here of mixed shots, and we should point
Speaker 1: out Mickey that there is a rather large birthday today.
Speaker 1: There is Jerry Jones. October thirteenth is his birthday. Wow,
Speaker 1: turns seventy eight, seventy eight, seventy eight today, and still
Speaker 1: kicking up a storm. By the way, He's been kind
Speaker 1: of quiet here lately in regards to all this social
Speaker 1: injustice is going on and all these protests, so a bit,
Speaker 1: you know what, he hasn't been quiet. He just hasn't
Speaker 1: been available for interviews because you think about it. You know,
Speaker 1: after every home game, or every game, not just home home.
Speaker 1: In a way, he would hold court before they basically
Speaker 1: opened the locker room and the head coach would speak.
Speaker 1: That's not happening anymore because of COVID and all the
Speaker 1: NFL protocols for it. So really the only time we
Speaker 1: hear from him now is twice a week when he
Speaker 1: does his segment on one oh five three the Fan,
Speaker 1: or when he puts out a statement like he did
Speaker 1: after Dak got hurt, so you know he had it.
Speaker 1: He had an interesting comment today was right at the
Speaker 1: end of the interview about how he lives his life
Speaker 1: and he always have being positive, the fact that his
Speaker 1: glass is always half full. He said, I couldn't I
Speaker 1: couldn't stand myself if I was negative all the time
Speaker 1: and wasting my energy on negative thoughts. He goes, that's
Speaker 1: why I'm so positive. He goes, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of how he used the word, but he used
Speaker 1: the word naivety, not naive, naivety that he goes to
Speaker 1: a fault. That's me. If that's what I am. I
Speaker 1: may be very naive, but I'm always looking towards the positive,
Speaker 1: or how I can turn something negative into a positive.
Speaker 1: As he said, when the COVID hit and no one
Speaker 1: was sure if this season would go off, and if
Speaker 1: fans would be in the stands, and and and his
Speaker 1: thoughts were somebody said you have to put an asterisk
Speaker 1: on this season. He goes, if you put an asterisk,
Speaker 1: then it should be an asterisk that we pulled this off. That,
Speaker 1: And he was saying this before we went to training camp.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that was his kind of his thoughts on
Speaker 1: life at seventy eight years old. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: the same thing, even like when the Lakers won the
Speaker 1: other day, Um, you know, after for those NBA teams
Speaker 1: and when Tampa Bay won, when in the NHL and
Speaker 1: so forth, those guys had spent so much time away
Speaker 1: from their families and stuff in the bubble. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't take away from a championship that is won
Speaker 1: in these circumstances. In fact, I think it's enhanced actually
Speaker 1: for their team to come through under these circumstances. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the other thing that the positive spirit
Speaker 1: that and that was what I was taken aback by
Speaker 1: or not surprised by. But I was inspired by actually
Speaker 1: Jerry at is opening press conference before training camp, that
Speaker 1: positive spirit that he had about the pandemic and so forth.
Speaker 1: That is the same attitude that is a hallmark of
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I mean, I remember a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago and the Cowboys had that horr Mobile stretch in
Speaker 1: November where they were getting blown out three straight games.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the numbers on it. But and I
Speaker 1: guess it was that when Zeke was suspended, and I
Speaker 1: remember I did a sit down interview with Dak. It
Speaker 1: was it was in the days after the Thanksgiving Day game,
Speaker 1: and I was just blown away by how confident he
Speaker 1: was that that team was going to turn it around.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you if you sat down with Dak today,
Speaker 1: even after what happened on Sunday, that he would have
Speaker 1: that same attitude that this team can do it, and
Speaker 1: as soon as he can get in there with his
Speaker 1: teammates and so forth, he is going to be doing
Speaker 1: everything he can to get behind Andy Dalton and his
Speaker 1: teammates and so forth and do what he can to
Speaker 1: help them accomplish what they had set out to do
Speaker 1: with this season began. So they were five and three.
Speaker 1: They were five three after the first eight games, and
Speaker 1: then Zeke got suspended for six in a row. They
Speaker 1: lost the next three straight twenty seven seven to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: thirty nine nine to Philadelphia, and twenty eight six to
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and then turned it around and won four
Speaker 1: of the last five games. That see right, and that
Speaker 1: and that was after that Thanksgiving game. He's when I
Speaker 1: and I was drainting doing the interview with him, I
Speaker 1: was like, man, this is gonna be horrible. The team
Speaker 1: is playing awful, and I felt I felt lifted myself
Speaker 1: coming out of the interview. I'm going to accomplish something
Speaker 1: today after talking to it. That's the that's the kind
Speaker 1: of leader that guy is, and he'll be like that
Speaker 1: even when he's not playing. I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: when you look at most accomplished athletes, um, you're motivated
Speaker 1: by by one or two things. It's either you're gonna
Speaker 1: be motivated by positivity. Are you're gonna be motivated by
Speaker 1: by the the missteps that you might have taken in
Speaker 1: your life, you know, because you you Sometimes anger can
Speaker 1: can lead to achievements as long as that anger is
Speaker 1: channeled in the right way. Uh. Sometimes you get mad
Speaker 1: at yourself, you know, sometimes you get mad at the situation.
Speaker 1: But at one point you go, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking this anymore. After a while, you stop pointing
Speaker 1: fingers and you point to yourself and say, it's up
Speaker 1: to me to make this right. And so yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You can say that comes from a point of anger,
Speaker 1: or it comes from a point of positivity, but at
Speaker 1: all points to the fact that you need to take
Speaker 1: care of business and a change needs to be made.
Speaker 1: So I don't care how you how where it comes from. Uh,
Speaker 1: motivation can come from many different places. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a good point everything because you know when when I
Speaker 1: would every year, i'd go to training camp and you know,
Speaker 1: with either eighty or ninety man rosters, they're thirty guys
Speaker 1: on there that they don't have a chance in hell
Speaker 1: of making the team right. But I but I always
Speaker 1: see these athletes that you know, we used to call
Speaker 1: camp bodies, like you're just there for training camp, but
Speaker 1: so positive about yeah, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make this right. And it it made me think if
Speaker 1: you don't have that attitude and you go in thinking
Speaker 1: they just got me here for three weeks and then
Speaker 1: I'm done, you can't you can't perform right you you
Speaker 1: won't have you won't even give yourself a chance. But
Speaker 1: I've seen athletes and I don't know if it's confidence
Speaker 1: or just the fact that you've got to be positive
Speaker 1: otherwise you've got no shot whatsoever for a miracle to
Speaker 1: take place. In nineteen eighty one, I must admit I
Speaker 1: don't know if I was naive, partly insane, but you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna be there for six weeks if you're
Speaker 1: if you're gonna make if you're like the first round pit.
Speaker 1: I packed for six weeks when I went to Thousand
Speaker 1: Oaks my Wookie year. I had a big suitcase and
Speaker 1: I will all my clothes. While I was there, I
Speaker 1: didn't watch anything, So as far as I was concerned,
Speaker 1: I had no choice. I was angry about not getting
Speaker 1: drafted and all of that. So like you said, like
Speaker 1: I said, that anger can sometimes motivate you, uh to
Speaker 1: really think outside yourself and never give up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I was one of those camp bodies bags, I know
Speaker 1: what you mean. It was twenty five rookie dbs and
Speaker 1: they didn't give any one of us a chance to
Speaker 1: make it. Mike Downs started it and then I was
Speaker 1: able to finish it. So it was good stuff. That's
Speaker 1: the same naivete that Jerry was talking about on the
Speaker 1: radio today. I mean, how to have it. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't look at the numbers. I mean, yeah, you
Speaker 1: realized there were guys there, There were twenty five other
Speaker 1: guys there. You realized that, I mean people were drafted
Speaker 1: that year, and you weren't drafted, but it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: You could know that that same mindset that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it. I'm you. You can be mad all you want,
Speaker 1: you can be mad all you want, but if actually
Speaker 1: you gotta get down the business, and that's what that's right.
Speaker 1: Probably why Jerry was able to last at Arkansas as
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, right, he doesn't look like an offensive lineman. Probably,
Speaker 1: what do you think he weighed back in what nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty sixty one sixty two, what about Jimmy Johnson saying
Speaker 1: Jimmy two, both of them, Yeah, they might have been
Speaker 1: two twenty. I don't know. I doubt it. I doubt Yeah.
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at it. A roster like
Speaker 1: an Orange Bowl roster from an OU team from nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty six, and the lineman the biggest guys on the
Speaker 1: team were like two hundred and ten pounds. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: All right. I think we've about done it here already.
Speaker 1: I'm inspired by these stories of overcoming that Everson Walls
Speaker 1: has brought us today, and Jerry Jones on the right, Jos,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, j j and and being on time trying
Speaker 1: let's go out out and buy US, an NFL team
Speaker 1: or something. I feel good. Let's go bet on a
Speaker 1: horse race. There you go, all right, and we will
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