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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
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Speaker 1: Walls and the star of the show one Mickey say
Speaker 1: good to be back with you guys. Hasn't been on
Speaker 1: the air since I think it was the Monday before
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame Brad Shamonai did. That's right, a
Speaker 1: version of Mick Shots from Yeah, that's not the same,
Speaker 1: and it's not the same if ever since, So if
Speaker 1: the trio's not here, then it ain't work. It's the
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty one season debut of Everson Walls.
Speaker 1: He's got all of these hot sports opinions about what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have done over the last twenty eight days.
Speaker 1: It was four weeks ago today that the Cowboys charter
Speaker 1: landed in Oxnard, California, And how much has happened in
Speaker 1: the last four weeks quite a bit, a lot of speculation,
Speaker 1: a lot of speculation, a lot of injuries. As Brad
Speaker 1: Sham would say, we'd go to training camp to find
Speaker 1: out who's gonna get hurt, and we did. They're not
Speaker 1: even practicing the way we used to know about. So
Speaker 1: what's today the seventeenth, Yeah, four weeks exactly right, twenty
Speaker 1: eight days took off on July twentieth, that's right. And
Speaker 1: so how far away are we from September ninth in
Speaker 1: Tampa yesterday at twenty two days? Twenty two? Okay, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say just over week. Yeah, just over three
Speaker 1: weeks away from that, and they're not quite ready to go,
Speaker 1: but not a matter of five guys today won't be
Speaker 1: ready to go because they have to get to eighty
Speaker 1: five on Have you got roster? Got No? But I
Speaker 1: would imagine there's a couple guys that are going to
Speaker 1: end up on injured reserve UM, which means they're out
Speaker 1: for the season. They out because if they're on injured
Speaker 1: reserve before the entire season. Yeah, Now, if you're on
Speaker 1: the fifty three for a day, then they can put
Speaker 1: you on returnable i R, which is three weeks. Again.
Speaker 1: But I would think from what I've heard of injuries,
Speaker 1: uh uh, sha wu Alonalua probably gonna go on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: He's got a neck injury and it's pretty severe. Give
Speaker 1: me his number, fullback. He was going to make this
Speaker 1: team too, was and wanted. He played well in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game and unfortunately got hurt in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game too, And it's a neck injury,
Speaker 1: and that's a bad thing for a fullback because even
Speaker 1: when you come back, you're gonna stick your neck in
Speaker 1: there again. You have to, right otherwise, yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: making the team. So yeah, he's a good kid too.
Speaker 1: And then they don't, and then I'm sure. And see,
Speaker 1: here's the key thing on these cuts. You don't want
Speaker 1: to cut like camp bodies because you need them for
Speaker 1: these preseason games. If you're not going to play your
Speaker 1: starters like, they don't have an excess of offensive linemen
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, that guy's not making a team, I
Speaker 1: can get rid of them. So I would have imagined
Speaker 1: down the road wide receivers, down the road, defensive backs.
Speaker 1: I think those guys are probably the most expendable of anyone.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe they're running back. I mean, I'm feeling
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really some show since I say they having
Speaker 1: excessive defensive backs. Okay, that's what I mean, all right,
Speaker 1: not that they don't need him, but you gotta find
Speaker 1: out where you can get throwing shade on Murray? Right,
Speaker 1: was it Jamal Adams? That's the other breaking years around
Speaker 1: the league? Right now? Jamal Adams has a four year,
Speaker 1: seventy two million dollars contract. Seventy two or seventy seven.
Speaker 1: Well it's seventy two. I think it's it's posted seventy.
Speaker 1: But no, it's your remark. He didn't say for a safety.
Speaker 1: He said for a blank safety. See. I was about
Speaker 1: to get on Bill about his whole quarterback thing. I
Speaker 1: saw him the other night, you know, hurting the other night.
Speaker 1: Did a great job. By the way, Well thank you, game.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, your tid bits out here him
Speaker 1: all the time here, So now the fans get here
Speaker 1: the good stuff though. But I wasn't get on you
Speaker 1: because it was always about the count. You know, about
Speaker 1: the little quarterbacks, and everything's about Texas quarterbacks and from
Speaker 1: oh my god, you know how the his but now
Speaker 1: it's bags. Now Man's bags is killing them. Well in
Speaker 1: the scheme of things because of the salary cap. I
Speaker 1: just think eighteen million dollars a year is a little
Speaker 1: excessive for the safety deep I know, I know. So
Speaker 1: do you want him Maray Cooper or do you want
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams? Oh? I want him Cooper. Yeah. And that's
Speaker 1: the trade off, right, because if you want to use
Speaker 1: his eighteen million for a wide receiver, his his his twenty.
Speaker 1: But if you can't afford to twenty, then okay, And
Speaker 1: now I got eighteen and I got a safety? Is
Speaker 1: all right? Just Jamal Adams a safety? Or is he
Speaker 1: more than a safety? I think he's more than a safety,
Speaker 1: And that'll bring one of the topics we'll call up today.
Speaker 1: I think, when I think and when I look at
Speaker 1: Micah Parson, I don't look at him as a linebacker.
Speaker 1: I look at him as a football player. Interesting, and
Speaker 1: I can use him in so many different ways, which
Speaker 1: means when it get when Michael Parsons gets to the
Speaker 1: point of franchise tag time in his career, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have enough sacks that he's gonna want to be categorized.
Speaker 1: He must have been reading my column, because did you
Speaker 1: hear his remark on hard knocks? He basically said, I'm
Speaker 1: a football player, And I said, zactly, I think Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams is a football yeah, and I think you're right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: All right, back on the cuts for a second. Okay,
Speaker 1: to your point on it's not necessarily the bottom guys
Speaker 1: on the roster that are getting cut today. Here's an
Speaker 1: example of it in New York with the Giants. They
Speaker 1: cut Alfred Morris. I saw that. Okay, that's not because
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. I'm just reading through the lines here. It's
Speaker 1: not because Alfred Morris is necessarily at the end of
Speaker 1: his career. They know he's in shape now, they know
Speaker 1: he's ready to go, and they probably told Alfred Morris,
Speaker 1: stay in shape and you may be back once we
Speaker 1: have an injury, or once the first game of the season,
Speaker 1: so he cannot be any and then he can't take
Speaker 1: a guaranteed contract, right, And if you're veteran and you're
Speaker 1: on the roster for the first game, then your base
Speaker 1: salaries guaranteed. You can do it once. But but you
Speaker 1: do you do it now too, because he's been in
Speaker 1: camp long enough, he's and he was on the team
Speaker 1: last year, and you know he's in shape, and you know, okay,
Speaker 1: you got him in reserve now and he's just hanging
Speaker 1: out near the facility, right yeah, And so the Cowboys
Speaker 1: might have someone like that. I don't, I'm no one
Speaker 1: comes to mind right now, but there could there there
Speaker 1: are cuts that happened this week where it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: mean these guys are out of the league, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they've got anybody on the rock. It could
Speaker 1: be someone who's dealing with some sort of nagging injuries,
Speaker 1: not going to be able to play, and they aren't.
Speaker 1: They don't think we'll get picked up by another team,
Speaker 1: but he might be a practice squad candidate. You know
Speaker 1: the other thing about the new rules that were instituted
Speaker 1: because of COVID last year and they're continuing this year
Speaker 1: as far as the practice squad and injured reserve. When
Speaker 1: we watch these preseason games, more than ever before, there
Speaker 1: are more players playing in these preseason games that are
Speaker 1: going to be on NFL rosters and actually play in
Speaker 1: NFL regular season games, especially with an expanded schedule with
Speaker 1: seventeen games, where before you know these guys, you could
Speaker 1: roll your eyes at these preseason games and say, these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be working half these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be at home deep one, you know, in a month whatever, No,
Speaker 1: you know, you just do the math on it. You
Speaker 1: got fifty three man roster, you got a sixteen man
Speaker 1: practice squad. There's sixty nine players there, and that didn't
Speaker 1: even account for the ones that go on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: You're up to seventy five out of right, and which
Speaker 1: was Mike McCarthy's. And that's just to start the season.
Speaker 1: I meant, when Green Bay won the Super Bowl, they
Speaker 1: use seventy seven players. I bet, wow, at the end
Speaker 1: of the season, I bet you if you went back
Speaker 1: to last year too. It's not fair last year because
Speaker 1: there are so many opt outs too, But I bet
Speaker 1: at the end of this season you will find that
Speaker 1: there are, on average, of the ninety man rosters in
Speaker 1: training camp, seventy five to eighty players on each team's
Speaker 1: ninety man roster are on an NFL roster and some
Speaker 1: capacit counting practice counting practice squad. This season, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: because fifty three and sixteen, dude already up to seventy yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, and then injuries irs guys that just fall
Speaker 1: by the wayside and you got to replace them. So
Speaker 1: that's why the salary cap is so important because somebody
Speaker 1: will say, oh, they got five million dollars left. Well,
Speaker 1: you need a little cushion there, right, because if you
Speaker 1: put a guy on IR, that salary counts and now
Speaker 1: I got to replace them. And chances are when I
Speaker 1: replace them, if it's not a young guy, it's going
Speaker 1: to cost me another million dollar. So, yeah, you've spoken
Speaker 1: of the cushion. The cushion is always important. That's been
Speaker 1: your big deals, right. But with our signings this year,
Speaker 1: I must admit this is one of the best draft picks,
Speaker 1: draft choices in draft fin Hounds that we've ever had.
Speaker 1: I think this class is amazing. I really do. Going
Speaker 1: back to the game itself, not the Pittsburgh game. Was
Speaker 1: not really impressed with the Pittsburgh game. But when you
Speaker 1: could see and I always talk about the culture, you
Speaker 1: can kind of see the culture with Darren Quinn. It
Speaker 1: changes a little bit more pressure, creating more chaos. Offensively,
Speaker 1: you'd love playing for him. Oh man, they are bringing it.
Speaker 1: If they are bringing it, that that front seven is
Speaker 1: extremely aggressive, and to me, that's what I would like
Speaker 1: to have. It's no secret that I wasn't a fan
Speaker 1: of the flex defense because it just left the dbs
Speaker 1: a hanging out to drive this defense does not do that.
Speaker 1: It gives them an opportunity to change up. You don't
Speaker 1: have to have the same look all the time. If
Speaker 1: you're going man to man, you don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a quick blitz, all out blitzed, single blitzone blitz.
Speaker 1: You don't know what it's going to be. And as
Speaker 1: a defensive back, that gives me so many more opportunities
Speaker 1: to where my head games that I'm playing with the
Speaker 1: wide receiver can be a little bit more effective. And
Speaker 1: so I just enjoyed seeing the front front for they
Speaker 1: were just just gone buck wild out there, you know
Speaker 1: last night, and Bill, I don't know if you noticed
Speaker 1: this or not, because you guys were mostly on a
Speaker 1: tight shot right. Well, eventually we started show actually plays
Speaker 1: my impression from last night, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was because they were on artificial turf, but those
Speaker 1: defensive ends were getting off the line of scrimmage, Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory and Dorence Armstrong to the point they were given
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith and Lell Collins problems and I was just
Speaker 1: amazed how how fresh they look now. They gave Randy
Speaker 1: basically the weekend off, right, he didn't have to fly
Speaker 1: to Arizona. They sent him back hit a little bit
Speaker 1: of a foot deal going, ok, but his takeoff was
Speaker 1: amazing it and it was it was even more. I
Speaker 1: mean I saw somebody said, oh, yeah, he was throwing
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith around. I said, WHOA, let's not go that.
Speaker 1: He might have been beating him around the edge. He
Speaker 1: wasn't throwing him around, right. And the same thing with
Speaker 1: Dorence Armstrong. I mean, his stats from that preseason game
Speaker 1: were absolutely amazing I think it was. And he only
Speaker 1: played a half five five tackles, two sacks I think
Speaker 1: it was two tackles for losses, and he had at
Speaker 1: least three or four quarterback pressures and a forced fumble
Speaker 1: maybe or recovered from what I can't if I recall correctly.
Speaker 1: One of those pressures or sacks was against Kelvin Beecham,
Speaker 1: who's a starting right tackle for Arizona. It wasn't in
Speaker 1: the game about these weren't just backups. Yeah. Now, now,
Speaker 1: the Arizona offensive line in the second half was bad, Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean they they they have done what they have
Speaker 1: done what they can to try to shore up their
Speaker 1: offense their first team offensive line, which they really needed
Speaker 1: to do for Kyler Murray and and they did that
Speaker 1: a year ago. And those they have those guys basically back,
Speaker 1: but the backups are not good right there. But again,
Speaker 1: Armstrong was getting pressure of getting pressure against the start
Speaker 1: I would call, so that stayed. That stood out to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then what you were saying about the draft choices, Uh,
Speaker 1: now one of them they really need to come through
Speaker 1: is uh. Also Diggi Zua with the Neville Gallimore injury. Um,
Speaker 1: he's got the dislocated elbow. Uh. And they're saying four
Speaker 1: to six weeks. So even on the shoal that hurt
Speaker 1: me to watch it, right. Um, if it's four so
Speaker 1: he's got two weeks now and two weeks into the season. Um,
Speaker 1: they could put him. He'll go on injured reserve for three,
Speaker 1: which is and the and the rule on IR is
Speaker 1: he is alluded to, is he's on the fifty three,
Speaker 1: then you put him on IR. And it's the it's
Speaker 1: a minimum three weeks now on IR. So he could
Speaker 1: be back for the fourth game, practicing for the fourth
Speaker 1: game if he's ready to go. Otherwise you know, the
Speaker 1: fifth game, but you don't have to carry him on
Speaker 1: the roster the entire time hurt and make him inactive.
Speaker 1: So there's things like that they have to massage. Once again,
Speaker 1: the depths alone, I saw many playing and bringing it.
Speaker 1: In the first half, he was playing second team to
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore at the three technique, and then in these
Speaker 1: last practices after he got hurt, he's been working with
Speaker 1: the first team a defensive tackle with Carlos Watkins, And
Speaker 1: so I think it has to be a concerted effort
Speaker 1: to get off because we had what three or four
Speaker 1: encroachment penalties, correct, Yeah, yeah, you're right, yeah, And so
Speaker 1: you can tell me in that minds we have to
Speaker 1: get off on the defensive line. And to see it's
Speaker 1: like they're trying, even against the run, they're trying, They're
Speaker 1: they're penetrating to try. It's almost getting back to where
Speaker 1: Marinelli was doing right to you penetrate and try to
Speaker 1: muck things up in the backfield. And that happened a
Speaker 1: few times as well. Yeah. Yeah, the offensive lineman that
Speaker 1: we're whiffing on our d lineman and they were going
Speaker 1: straight to the running back. And I'll tell you another
Speaker 1: guy is going to cause problems on the on the roster.
Speaker 1: He's coming on now. He had to slow start to training.
Speaker 1: Cam Semi Philoco the wide receiver. I think you know
Speaker 1: he showed up in that game. He makes really nice catches,
Speaker 1: a couple of catches yesterday, uh, last night. So you
Speaker 1: have to gain the trust of the quarterback. You could
Speaker 1: see that the quarterbacks trusted him. Yeah, because obviously the
Speaker 1: routes are true. And he's a great talking of course. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's big so and and he's got a great opportunity.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see what happens with the Malik Turner Turf
Speaker 1: Troe injury. Yeah, that he suffered the other night. But
Speaker 1: that that opens the door for Fijoko to show what
Speaker 1: he can do. And a lot of it's on special
Speaker 1: teams also. And one of the other injuries that I
Speaker 1: think it was a shame, uh, their fourth round pick,
Speaker 1: Josh Ball, the offensive tackle. Um. I think he could
Speaker 1: have competed for that backup swing tackle job and he
Speaker 1: suffered the high ankle sprain and I don't know how
Speaker 1: soon he would get back. Um, and that position still
Speaker 1: got to be addressed. I'm sorry, UM, right now you're
Speaker 1: going with who if I'm not sure? How about that uh,
Speaker 1: they've been they've been using and they've they flipped him
Speaker 1: now they had they had tied Naski at left tackle,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele at right tackle with the backups, and then
Speaker 1: when they had to start playing him with the first team,
Speaker 1: Tacky struggled some. So this last time, when they didn't
Speaker 1: like last night, when they didn't use the times, they
Speaker 1: didn't use Lele Collins and um Tyrann Smith, they moved
Speaker 1: from the second to right tackle and they were trying
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele at left tackle. So that one's a one
Speaker 1: to keep our eye on. I think because we found
Speaker 1: out the last couple of years that left tackle backup
Speaker 1: guys pretty important. I expected more from him in the second, Yes,
Speaker 1: I expected more from the second. I thought he would
Speaker 1: play a little bit better in the game. He's up
Speaker 1: there in years, thirty six thirty six m. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about that age then, and especially at
Speaker 1: that position, if you're smart enough and you use your
Speaker 1: feet enough, your brain enough. Right, what's Jason Peters He's
Speaker 1: thirty nine and just got signing and the Bears want
Speaker 1: to make him they're starting left tackle. I think you
Speaker 1: just said use your feet, Yeah, yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to give Steele a chance.
Speaker 1: Now he struggled last year, undrafted rookie. Okay, I understand
Speaker 1: on that offensive line, and they started him day one
Speaker 1: at right tackle. He's got some experience and he was
Speaker 1: one of the guys that their offseason workout awards got stronger.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. So he is twelve years younger than
Speaker 1: he that's how young he is, right, Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: we'll see what get what happens there, like who actually
Speaker 1: gets that job? But in my books, if they ain't
Speaker 1: sold on any of those guys, Zack Martin's my backup tackle.
Speaker 1: He we ain't messing. I like the assorted uh rotation
Speaker 1: that they had going on at offensive line. Yeah byest
Speaker 1: In there. Then yeah, Connor Williams is trying to do
Speaker 1: some things and so you like that they well I
Speaker 1: just want to see what they're doing, right, Well, what
Speaker 1: they're trying to find they got a recipe. What they're
Speaker 1: trying to find out is if Connor Williams can be
Speaker 1: that backup center because you save a spot on the
Speaker 1: fifty three right and you save money against the salary
Speaker 1: cap because and the date, say the game day roster, right,
Speaker 1: because now you don't need two guys, a backup guard
Speaker 1: and a backup son. I am definitely a biest guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that's my due. Yes, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean facts, the first time I've ever say said his
Speaker 1: name correctly. So that just lets you know he got
Speaker 1: it close anyway, or you can or you can go
Speaker 1: back to badass. Okay, that's yeah. Somebody tried to point out, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're having competition for the starting center job. No, beyond
Speaker 1: is the starting center. They just want to see on
Speaker 1: the game day roster. If the center gets hurt, can
Speaker 1: Connor Williams go over there and take it without mucking
Speaker 1: up the offense? His snaps now are still little left
Speaker 1: to be desired. And Zach is a little guy. Is
Speaker 1: a little Zach is also a guy that's in for
Speaker 1: that too. Backup center, Zach Martin no no back up, backup, tackleup,
Speaker 1: no back besides Connor Williams now, Connor McGovern has some
Speaker 1: experience in college, but he hasn't played it yea four years.
Speaker 1: So uh if knock on wood, if Beyondage went down
Speaker 1: with an injury, then then what at center? Well? Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean farneyac is the only other guy that played
Speaker 1: center left. That's why they're playing Connor Williams there is
Speaker 1: since they don't have anybody with any experience as a
Speaker 1: backup center. That's how valuable Joe Looney was to the seat.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't have any experience either as a center,
Speaker 1: but at least he has NFL experience. I wonder, so
Speaker 1: you would like for Connor Williams to be efficient enough
Speaker 1: at center that if Beatas went down with an injury,
Speaker 1: Williams could move slide over to center and Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: would be your left guard. I wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: the full offensive line the way we wanted. I don't
Speaker 1: give a damn who you put the center, as long
Speaker 1: as you have the supporting cast in tyrone. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: long as you can. Yes, you make the snap with
Speaker 1: take everything else. And he two snaps in a row
Speaker 1: in that game. He went high nuck, mucked up the play,
Speaker 1: and then he hit himself in the butt with the
Speaker 1: one that went short. Yeah, they have a nice laugh
Speaker 1: on that within the did they were not Bill, That
Speaker 1: was babe, because I seared somebody. I was actually I
Speaker 1: got to listen to you guys because the NFL network
Speaker 1: picked up your broadcast. Did they did it? Did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, and and so um somebody said, oh,
Speaker 1: I could certainly understand that. But they said he was short.
Speaker 1: He short. One snaps was short. I go, he wasn't short.
Speaker 1: He didn't even get so, you know, And if we're
Speaker 1: worried about stuff we're worried about on the offense, we're
Speaker 1: worried about backup positions. Right, we just talked about it. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then the quarterback spot and we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: And you got to have some money, so, uh, something's
Speaker 1: going to happen in Chicago. I'm gonna make that prediction. Quarterback. Oh,
Speaker 1: I think they liked their kie. But you think you start,
Speaker 1: you think he started. Think, well, then they got two
Speaker 1: veteran backups that have been in the league for ten
Speaker 1: years and make a lot of money. It's no competition.
Speaker 1: They can't keep both Daltons fos Is out. But you
Speaker 1: know what, it's going to cost him sixteen million in
Speaker 1: dead money if they let him go. They signed it
Speaker 1: should when they signed him to all of that. The
Speaker 1: cheapest one to let go would be Dalton because his
Speaker 1: guarantees only like four and a half million. But Foles
Speaker 1: did not show last year or to me even the
Speaker 1: year before that, that he's capable. And with this Chicago squad,
Speaker 1: now Philadelphia is one thing, that Chicago squad there, he
Speaker 1: does not look comfortable back there. He hadn't looked comfortable
Speaker 1: last year and the year before that. And that was
Speaker 1: only a few games. That wasn't a seventeen game season
Speaker 1: that he got Philadelphia the super Bowl, right, And he's
Speaker 1: never really every time somebody's given him a chance, they've
Speaker 1: always moved to somebody else. Was Ville. Yes, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you're right. Um. And so what they're hoping for,
Speaker 1: even though it would still be the salary cap hit,
Speaker 1: is that whoever loses out there, maybe there's another team
Speaker 1: that has a need for a quarterback. And and don't
Speaker 1: you think some of these other teams that drafted a
Speaker 1: guy in the first round, they're gonna fall in love
Speaker 1: with that guy And it's like, Okay, this veteran a guy,
Speaker 1: you might be out the door. I think Folds will be.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get picked up by someone that, right,
Speaker 1: I truly believe, right, yeah, by one of those teams
Speaker 1: that has that quarterbacks. Yeah, okay, Um, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear what Everson has to say, not only about quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but cornerbacks. How about you, Mickey? Would that be good?
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about quarterback number one? Okay,
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Speaker 1: Mickey has been practicing read. Sorry, I've been I've been
Speaker 1: saved up. I didn't have to do it when I
Speaker 1: was on the other shot. I think he's just happy
Speaker 1: to be in studio. So he's more focused yea, and
Speaker 1: more focused normal. Yeah. I just thought he maybe he
Speaker 1: he practiced reading during the his hand and everything. Look
Speaker 1: at him, man, it was what is it? Uh? It
Speaker 1: was good? Good for you? It's darker. Huh. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I go this way, you might give me all right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you want to talk Deck, I think we should. So
Speaker 1: it looks like from a throwing standpoint, he's good to go. Um.
Speaker 1: He spent last Tuesday in an Oxnard, Uh, for about
Speaker 1: thirty throws. I think it was going up and down
Speaker 1: the field with Amari Cooper, who by the way is
Speaker 1: also off pup by now looking good. Yes, you see
Speaker 1: the shoots. Seen the slant he ran yesterday planeted with
Speaker 1: his repaired foot. He was on the right side and
Speaker 1: took the slant and left and when he cut the
Speaker 1: ball it looked like he was shot out of a cannon.
Speaker 1: So so were those booze I was hearing at Forge Simmer.
Speaker 1: You don't think they were coops O. I was wondering
Speaker 1: who caught the ball right, But anyway, he they went up.
Speaker 1: Cooper was running routes like they called to play and
Speaker 1: he would run his route and Dak was throwing to
Speaker 1: him and I think he threw about thirty times. And uh,
Speaker 1: he wasn't going full speed like throwing with top velocity.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, the ball never hit the ground. Um.
Speaker 1: So that was a good sign that I just cannot
Speaker 1: wait to watch him on Saturday night against the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: And we are not sure that's gonna happen. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking forward. He has not been in any competitive period
Speaker 1: throwing the football, meaning team. Um, he did a little
Speaker 1: seven on seven, but he hasn't been in any team.
Speaker 1: And last night at the practice that was open to
Speaker 1: the public, um, he did all the other stuff. And
Speaker 1: then when they got in the team, he didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. Uh. And then McCarthy before the practice
Speaker 1: basically pointed out that if he doesn't play against Houston
Speaker 1: on Saturday, he's not playing in the final preseason So
Speaker 1: if he's going to play then, and and his other
Speaker 1: point on that was it a lot of it depends
Speaker 1: on who he's playing with, right, because if you're playing
Speaker 1: him in the last preseason game and that's his only appearance,
Speaker 1: then you're playing your starters on offensive line, you're playing
Speaker 1: your starters on at widdriss hers for everyone if Yak's
Speaker 1: going in for his own. But he made it sound
Speaker 1: like if he doesn't play this week, he's not playing
Speaker 1: in the fourth that's just for the young guys. And
Speaker 1: as he pointed out, he said, there's no urgency from
Speaker 1: my perspective to see Dak play against Houston, meaning they're
Speaker 1: not going to force it. Just to say, Okay, you
Speaker 1: need to play in a game because you haven't played
Speaker 1: in one since October eleventh, and they just don't look
Speaker 1: as a bit of merit. Though. Yeah, it's such a
Speaker 1: weird situation, you know, I feel like it's my son
Speaker 1: out there or something, especially when you see the break
Speaker 1: that he had and coming back from that horrific injury.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm nervous about him getting out there,
Speaker 1: but you gotta do it eventually. You gotta take that
Speaker 1: first step. Now. Of course, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: the last game. If it's gonna be a game, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be this one. It's Bill said, I would like
Speaker 1: to see him get some action. I think he wants.
Speaker 1: He definitely wants to, and I think from a quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 1: you know, you can do all the practice you want,
Speaker 1: right and and I'm not worried about I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about his arm, and I'm not worried about his foot.
Speaker 1: What I'm worried about is the inactivity, because you got
Speaker 1: to see things as the quarterback, right, you got to
Speaker 1: go through Rogers. Yeah, you gotta see it. You gotta
Speaker 1: get in man, and you gotta try to close on again.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I mean, I would imagine
Speaker 1: when Bill played quarterback. Um, you know, if you've ever
Speaker 1: played quarterback, actually, even if it was pickup games, you
Speaker 1: gotta get used to seeing everybody in fourth grade. Fourth grade,
Speaker 1: that's what that's that's what we figured out. I needed glasses.
Speaker 1: I couldn't see. I could not see the receivers now field.
Speaker 1: We practice it like dusk, and I just heave the
Speaker 1: ball down field. I didn't you just say something? Well
Speaker 1: I did. After every game, I Louis checked my eyes
Speaker 1: and I needed glasses. But I launched my opportunity to
Speaker 1: play quarterback ever again so bad. You know how many
Speaker 1: points we scored I played for the Army in the
Speaker 1: irving YMCA. How many points we scored those season? Zero?
Speaker 1: Where's the quarterback of a team that scored zero points?
Speaker 1: All right? So I'm just saying, you gotta get back,
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess you can simulate it in practice,
Speaker 1: but it's just not right. I'm sorry. You can't spat.
Speaker 1: You got you gotta recognize defenses and you know, do
Speaker 1: your read. And I know it's all about what you know.
Speaker 1: Most teams, and especially the way this offense is it's
Speaker 1: all about what we do. Nobody can stop us, right,
Speaker 1: but adjustments have to be made. And I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: I'm a defensive back and I see Dak hadn't played
Speaker 1: all offseason. I'm jumping routes. Yeah, I'm jumping routes. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting down on routes. I'm gonna make it extremely difficult him.
Speaker 1: Show me you can throw that deep pass even though
Speaker 1: you haven't been practicing. Oh, I mean you and practicing,
Speaker 1: but a full practice since last what September? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: wells that first week in October. Right, So I would
Speaker 1: say that it might be a detriment of these guys,
Speaker 1: and I think it's putting them under some undue pressure
Speaker 1: because in the you can tell on hard knocks and
Speaker 1: and all of that, he's ready to go, and he's
Speaker 1: he's he's having been a little uh uh cheeky, you
Speaker 1: know about being pulled out of drills. How about that
Speaker 1: one hate gg I got this, you're out right right?
Speaker 1: Or oh I've been sitting around right time. I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta need my webs, I need my rest man.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, he was, he didn't. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's ever really heard of correct nipped in the butt.
Speaker 1: Yeah he meant but yeah, so you know that lets practice,
Speaker 1: but also shows you how competitive he I was, no
Speaker 1: doubt the battle. You see a different Dak Prescott on
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks because that's the dude that gets out there
Speaker 1: and throws for a four hundred plus yaws a game.
Speaker 1: That's the guy in there. But of course when we
Speaker 1: try to interview him, then he's gonna be and he's
Speaker 1: mister corp. Why would Dak have ever heard of that
Speaker 1: nippet in the bud anyway? But but but he probably
Speaker 1: thought he heard but but it was. But they probably
Speaker 1: didn't hear it that often. So where did you hear it?
Speaker 1: I'm a grown man. I know why das never heard
Speaker 1: that before because it's on Andy Griffith Show. Barney Fife
Speaker 1: used to say it all the time, and you gotta
Speaker 1: nippet morning, and so that's why from our era you
Speaker 1: got a better perspective of who Dak is on her.
Speaker 1: I love I love watching that. Somebody told me they
Speaker 1: were bored with it. I said, how could you be
Speaker 1: bored with it? They they showed you Dak's personality, They
Speaker 1: showed you Micah Parsons purse, Joseph. Joseph wasn't then, Joseph, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what happened or something. You know how I
Speaker 1: can tell that it resonates with a younger crowd, you know,
Speaker 1: and for us when we're out there and you haven't
Speaker 1: been in training camps and stuff, you know it. You
Speaker 1: try not to be jaded about it, but there's so
Speaker 1: much that we kind of take for granted because we
Speaker 1: have seen just the whole layout and everything at training camp.
Speaker 1: And for someone who hasn't been there, like my daughter,
Speaker 1: my youngest daughter, she's texting me last Tuesday night, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, all this stuff about Dak and she thought
Speaker 1: it was so funny when Zeke stole the bicycle and
Speaker 1: you know, and so she's going on and on about it.
Speaker 1: She loved it, and it's a lot of that same
Speaker 1: stuff that you're talking about. Yeah, sign, My daughter is
Speaker 1: a crazy cowboy fan, so it doesn't take much further
Speaker 1: watch it. But she's extremely interested this year just because
Speaker 1: of the new players. Yeah, Dak, You've got Zeke and
Speaker 1: instead of hearing them, like you said, with these corporate
Speaker 1: cowboy with marks, really get to see the guy, especially
Speaker 1: with Dak because Dak as you said, Dak when he's
Speaker 1: he's saying everything that you're supposed to say when the
Speaker 1: cameras rolling, and now you can see him. Now they
Speaker 1: do know that cameras are there. But you can't fake
Speaker 1: that stuff like that. He would not take an extra
Speaker 1: effort to show, right, Yeah, he didn't. Or even Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons when he was he was Mica is as real
Speaker 1: as there is. Oh he did. He forgot the microphone?
Speaker 1: Who was there? Right, I'm hungry? Do we get no
Speaker 1: food here? And practice staff fetus? Right? And that you
Speaker 1: know the lions are always hungry. But that part his
Speaker 1: conversation with Dan Quinn on the telephone, like the phone
Speaker 1: was ringing, he picks it up, bellow, and it's like okay,
Speaker 1: So he tried to talk us way back in right,
Speaker 1: and Quinn's like, no, we've had enough. He goes, no,
Speaker 1: I want more, and Queen goes, I want more too,
Speaker 1: But you're done. Right. But this group of even the
Speaker 1: group of rookies there as Parsons is Joseph, they're kind
Speaker 1: of un usual rookies. They have a little flare to
Speaker 1: them other than just being good football player. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: or vander esh being the veteran then start laughing at
Speaker 1: him because, oh, I'm sure you want to you want
Speaker 1: to play war? What did the coach say? You got
Speaker 1: to sit? And he laughs, right, and they was doing
Speaker 1: the math on Okay, I'm gonna be sitting for two
Speaker 1: and a half hours, and then he was absolutely right, exactly,
Speaker 1: let me tell you we're gonna be sitting the next
Speaker 1: fourteen hours because we showed up at four thirty that
Speaker 1: night in the morning, I guess I should say coming
Speaker 1: back from Canton when he was adding up the hours,
Speaker 1: and he had it pretty right. And the Canton is
Speaker 1: Eastern time, so that's seven thirty Canton time. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Uh so Dak's not playing until September ninth,
Speaker 1: that's what sounds like. It sure sounds like it, even
Speaker 1: though he because they only have well they got two
Speaker 1: more like full practice about the offensive line they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: They're gonna practice Wednesday because today was walk their glorified
Speaker 1: walk through. Thursday was I think was going to be
Speaker 1: an off day. They were going to practice Friday. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they're running out of time. Do you give me about Tyrone?
Speaker 1: What about those guys are ready to go? Are they
Speaker 1: going to play, I would imagine to play against Houst.
Speaker 1: They'll play against Houston to give Garrett Gilbert a chance, right,
Speaker 1: because you throw those other guys out there, how are
Speaker 1: you gonna, you know, evaluate your quarterbacks. And by the way,
Speaker 1: on the cuts, five cuts are coming here within the
Speaker 1: next twenty two minutes, they'll be announced and then five
Speaker 1: more cuts come or five or whether it be cuts
Speaker 1: or players placed on ir and then five more players
Speaker 1: will be cut next Tuesday. So that gives you an
Speaker 1: eighty man roster to play the last game against Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: And there's probably about thirty guys who won't play in
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, and I don't think Zeke's going to
Speaker 1: get a carry either, by the way, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: need my next question, Yeah, I don't think. So you
Speaker 1: see him yesterday, I mean you've any all tim, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's just he's moving so well. Yes, Is
Speaker 1: this is this unusual? K Barkley? Is he gonna play
Speaker 1: this preseason? You know, it's becoming more and more usual
Speaker 1: that they're not playing at all. I mean last year's team,
Speaker 1: every team, and it was two years ago. I remember
Speaker 1: the Rams Cowboys played the Rams in Hawaii okay, and um,
Speaker 1: they didn't play their starters. They're key starters the entire preseason.
Speaker 1: I think that was may have been the first year,
Speaker 1: maybe in the year before that I had heard of
Speaker 1: a team, and there's more teams that have taken on
Speaker 1: that that. So that's why jed Go played first preseason
Speaker 1: the second preseason game, because he's new to that team,
Speaker 1: to Detroit. Yeah, he's new to Detroit and Detroit and
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, I guarantee you has a different philosophy than
Speaker 1: McVay does. Preseason game, different pros and everyone. You know. Look,
Speaker 1: if you just look at the running backs, they seemed
Speaker 1: to make the transition from knowledge to the NFL a
Speaker 1: lot faster than any other position. If you think back
Speaker 1: to Emmett Smith his rookie year, he didn't go to
Speaker 1: training camp, he didn't sign to the Tuesday before the opener,
Speaker 1: and then he got in there and almost gained a
Speaker 1: thousand yards. And then in ninety three missed the first
Speaker 1: two games of the season. That's one of the best seasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: every and he so Barkley coming off an injury, there's
Speaker 1: no way he's playing, which reminds me and I'm sure
Speaker 1: I've told Bill this story. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: heard it, so it had to be I don't know,
Speaker 1: ninety four ninety five somewhere in there. They weren'ting to
Speaker 1: play Emmett in the preseason, and so we were talking
Speaker 1: and I said, well, don't you need to go out
Speaker 1: there and just kind of used to getting hit again.
Speaker 1: He goes, are you crazy? He goes, I know what
Speaker 1: it feels like to get hit. I don't need to
Speaker 1: be reminded. I said, your honor, I withdraw the question Smith.
Speaker 1: But now he's different from other running backs that you
Speaker 1: would say, well do you need your timing? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not just about getting hit. But once again, that's Immam
Speaker 1: other running backs, which is a bunch of lesser running
Speaker 1: backs than Emma Smith. I would I wouldn't be so
Speaker 1: confident about their abilities to just step in and not play.
Speaker 1: And again, you got to see things right, You got
Speaker 1: to see the whole react, footwork, the steps. You know,
Speaker 1: some things are just instinctive, but if you don't practice,
Speaker 1: those instincts can lag a little bit, especially when you're
Speaker 1: practicing in training camp these days and you're playing touch football. Right,
Speaker 1: they ain't hitting you, are they not? Let's put it
Speaker 1: this way. They're not hitting twenty one, they barely hit twenty,
Speaker 1: but thirty four, thirty six, thirty seven they kind of
Speaker 1: get smoked. Ye Kelvin Joseph hit a guy yesterday in
Speaker 1: practice he did. Uh huh, Yeah, twenty four was twenty
Speaker 1: four four Joseph. But yeah, but I bet it was
Speaker 1: one of those numbers that I pointed out. I can't
Speaker 1: remember who when I know I wrote it down. If
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Speaker 1: You were talking about you wanted to talk about twenty four? Yes,
Speaker 1: so what twenty four? Kelvin Joseph, But it was number
Speaker 1: twenty four? Think about number twenty four. I like him,
Speaker 1: I really do. You know, he's been having some issues,
Speaker 1: but he's playing tight. He's never I don't I've never
Speaker 1: seen him really out of position. Guys have been kept called.
Speaker 1: A couple of short passes on him, nothing that really
Speaker 1: alarmed me at all. I'm not necessarily worried about, uh,
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks as much as I was worried about the sages.
Speaker 1: And I saw the young man came up because I
Speaker 1: called him because because my my gospel quiet teacher. Her
Speaker 1: name was miss Kazik. But I don't think that's that's CAZy.
Speaker 1: And in the way I remember CAZy. He said his
Speaker 1: nickname growing up was crazy crazy CAZy. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought he came up and he laid a good hit
Speaker 1: on somebody, Yes he did. I thought our secondary looked
Speaker 1: good all the way. But Joseph is, uh, he's kind
Speaker 1: of lagging behind the show. For some reason. People like
Speaker 1: right more than they like well, they see right, you know.
Speaker 1: In the mini camp the OTAs, he was either catching
Speaker 1: he was either intercept in the past daily or knocking
Speaker 1: a ball down. Once the pads came on, I thought
Speaker 1: he somewhat regressed or not regressed. He just didn't do
Speaker 1: anything that said, oh look at that, and then lately
Speaker 1: he's back at it again. His size is even if
Speaker 1: he's beaten at six to four, you know, got them
Speaker 1: long arms and you can cover a lot of ground
Speaker 1: even if you're beat So he showed up some. But
Speaker 1: Joseph got off to a slow start, I thought. But
Speaker 1: he didn't have much offseason. He missed like ten ten
Speaker 1: days with covid um and yeah right in the middle, right,
Speaker 1: and so it took him a little while to get going.
Speaker 1: But they have him work in second team left cornerback
Speaker 1: and at times he'll get a snap or two with
Speaker 1: the first instead of Anthony Brown. I think they worry
Speaker 1: about him being young. Um, there's a couple of times
Speaker 1: you know where he when he gets beat, he gets
Speaker 1: beat being too aggressive. Imagine that right twenty four being aggressive.
Speaker 1: But he has unique skill to catch up. Now, he
Speaker 1: got beat on a deep one last night and he
Speaker 1: couldn't catch up. But the majority of the times when
Speaker 1: I see him beaten and he makes it a tie
Speaker 1: and to be able to make a play on the ball, man,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna he's gonna make it tough for
Speaker 1: you to get past him. Consistently, he may be one
Speaker 1: of those guys like Kevin Smith, because when they drafted
Speaker 1: Kevin Smith in the first round in ninety two, um
Speaker 1: I Colt started and then about nine ten games in
Speaker 1: the season, Kevin Smith took over. Yeah, where you can
Speaker 1: see that coming, right, because I hold was probably the
Speaker 1: most even more unorthodox than I would you talk about.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't know what the hell he's playing by the
Speaker 1: way he's lined up. Sometimes he looked like he was
Speaker 1: ten yards off the wide receiver. He wouldn't move, and
Speaker 1: he would jump every route, and if he didn't, if
Speaker 1: he wasn't right, then they were going by him. But
Speaker 1: what I liked about this secondary, and not just Joseph,
Speaker 1: but I was always upset with the Cowboys secondary, whether
Speaker 1: it's linebackers or dbs, there's not a concerted, unified path
Speaker 1: to the ball. If I'm going against the running back
Speaker 1: and I see a tackle or a blocker coming in
Speaker 1: front of me and he's leading the way for that guy,
Speaker 1: I attack it a certain way because I know my
Speaker 1: help is coming from a certain place, So you have
Speaker 1: a coordinated attack on that running back when he's down
Speaker 1: the field. I did not see that at all last year.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give up my outside shoulder. If I
Speaker 1: know the blocker is coming on that outside shoulder, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give up my leverage to the running back.
Speaker 1: They did that so much last year, whether you're a
Speaker 1: linebacker or whether it's a defensive back. In this preseas
Speaker 1: this last preseason game, you could see that they limited
Speaker 1: the big runs because of the way that the safeties
Speaker 1: and the cornerbacks attacked the runner or even the interference
Speaker 1: in front of the runner. That is extremely important spags.
Speaker 1: That can mean you can go from having an eighty
Speaker 1: yard play to just an eighteen yard play. That is
Speaker 1: extremely important to know to have a concerted effort as
Speaker 1: a secondary, to know where your help is coming from
Speaker 1: and where you're the strongest, because you can't just give
Speaker 1: up on certain plays. Then you're just opening the door
Speaker 1: for the running back. You have to close that door,
Speaker 1: make him go to another door, and that should be
Speaker 1: where your help and they did that very well in
Speaker 1: this last ball game. That's the kind of things that
Speaker 1: I look for. Of course, making plays on the ball
Speaker 1: is great, but when you're giving up historical amount of
Speaker 1: numbers in the running game, something has to be done
Speaker 1: on how we attack the running back. It's not just
Speaker 1: a defensive call. Is how do we approach it once
Speaker 1: he breaks and gets into the second day, saying that
Speaker 1: was one of the problems they had the second half
Speaker 1: against Arizona when they brought in how do I stave it? Say,
Speaker 1: it's Steve Stiveler, the quarterback svel He was running all
Speaker 1: over the place, and I was thinking back to last
Speaker 1: year with Kyler Murray ran for seventy some yards against him,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, this is that second album yards
Speaker 1: against us as well? What team was he on? Alan
Speaker 1: the quarterback Hotel. Yeah, he came Washington, from Washington, he came.
Speaker 1: We couldn't stop him from running, so he plays. So
Speaker 1: you know we we we kind of romanticized the sack, right,
Speaker 1: We romanticized pressure on the quarterback. Their problem last deer
Speaker 1: was stopping the run, and I keep trying to remind
Speaker 1: people of that, especially when they want to make an argument, well,
Speaker 1: they should have taken an offensive lineman in the first round,
Speaker 1: or they should have taken a cornerback. I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're those guys going to stop the Cowboys from giving
Speaker 1: up five yards to carry five yards to carry. So
Speaker 1: I gotta see that, you know, and losing Gallimore for
Speaker 1: the first part of the season shirt didn't help because
Speaker 1: he was really active and I thought he's gonna be
Speaker 1: really good. Now we'll see what oh diggi Zoa can do.
Speaker 1: He's young. At times, he makes plays, at times he
Speaker 1: gets pushed out of there. So maybe a few more
Speaker 1: snaps that they can develop that. The other thing they
Speaker 1: got going for him is that they've got some defensive
Speaker 1: ends when they get into nickel situations that can move
Speaker 1: inside and rush from a tackle position. Basham can do
Speaker 1: it now. He's been out with a hamstring. I think
Speaker 1: it was a hamstring in tree um uh Brett Urban
Speaker 1: he can move inside also, so they have some guys
Speaker 1: that can rush from from inside in nickel situation. But
Speaker 1: uh Bohannah was a little bit slow coming along. But
Speaker 1: I think he's starting to get there. But he's more
Speaker 1: of one technique than anything else. Right, Yeah, if he
Speaker 1: does anything other than that, I'm impressed. Yeah, huge, because yeah,
Speaker 1: he can move pretty well well. I've seen him get
Speaker 1: pushed out of there, so I mean there's a reason
Speaker 1: he was a sixth round pick. Right, Everybody didn't say, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's a walking starter right that it was a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick. But to me, if whoever you draft,
Speaker 1: whatever round, wherever you come from, you gotta be coachable, right, Okay.
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm him, if I'm as big as
Speaker 1: Bohannon is and I'm getting pushed out of there, then
Speaker 1: it's after that coach to stop me from getting pushed
Speaker 1: out of there? Coach, what am I doing? Want to
Speaker 1: show me? Sometimes it's just one thing that you have
Speaker 1: to deal with. So, you know, talent is one thing.
Speaker 1: Coaching is extremely important, you know what. And that's a
Speaker 1: good point because we talk about Dan Quinn as the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Well, Number two, dan Quinn's the defensive line coach.
Speaker 1: That's how he made his bones in the NFL coaching
Speaker 1: before he became a quordinator. Number three George Edwards is
Speaker 1: the linebackers coach. Now that's he was here late nineties,
Speaker 1: became a defensive coordinator. It's listed as a senior defensive
Speaker 1: assistant right exactly. But he's taken over where which he
Speaker 1: should have last year, and I think he's a really
Speaker 1: good coach. And then they brought in Joe Witt had
Speaker 1: been a secondary coach with Mike in Green Bay and
Speaker 1: just watching him another really good experienced coach. You know,
Speaker 1: nothing against Linquist last year, Maurice Linquist, but he had
Speaker 1: been a college guy. This was his face coaching in college,
Speaker 1: Buffalo head coach. Congratulation. Yeah no, And he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's from Dallas and play a d An m But
Speaker 1: it was his first year in the NFL. And there's
Speaker 1: a difference between yelling and coaching, right, you gotta teach,
Speaker 1: you gotta teach. And I think they've improved the teaching
Speaker 1: quality on their defense. Now it's you know, we haven't
Speaker 1: seen him get beat yet, right, and you know which
Speaker 1: they will and going seventeen and old. Hey, who was
Speaker 1: impressed with Jaylen Smith last game coming down the line
Speaker 1: making plays. I was shocked he was here. You say
Speaker 1: that because there was a big discussion this morning on
Speaker 1: the fan on how bad he is. And I just
Speaker 1: think he was out of position last year. He is
Speaker 1: not a weak side linebacker. I don't know what convinced
Speaker 1: him that he was, but he wasn't. He cannot go laterally,
Speaker 1: He's got to go downhill straight, you know. And and
Speaker 1: and don't tell me he was always laid on the
Speaker 1: pile for a tackle. You know, when you make one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty tackles in the NFL, you did something right.
Speaker 1: That's trying to say about lack. Yeah, right, tackles. It
Speaker 1: is hitting machine. I don't care where it is. If
Speaker 1: you get done somebody two d and twenty times in
Speaker 1: one season. Yeah right, So, and I've seen him being
Speaker 1: used in better situations, like when it's nickel, get him out,
Speaker 1: you know, that's not his deal. You see, that's where
Speaker 1: they've got They've got enough personnel, right, and Quinn is
Speaker 1: going to use that personnel to the best of their abilities.
Speaker 1: Like everybody got excited the preseason game, well, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: came out in three wide, So the Cowboys came out
Speaker 1: in their nickel and their first nickel is Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: and Keane O'Neill at the linebacker spot. So they're, oh,
Speaker 1: they they've already it's run, you know, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: they're that they're the first nickel, you know, And they
Speaker 1: weren't originally the first nickel, but as camp went along
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, they finally got these guys up there.
Speaker 1: And the key thing with Parsons is, especially when he's
Speaker 1: on the nickel like that. They don't know if he's
Speaker 1: covering or blitzings right, and boy, he's got it on
Speaker 1: their base defense when they go three linebackers. Imagine that
Speaker 1: using three linebackers against a two tight end offense, which
Speaker 1: they didn't do last year. Uh, he's on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So a lot of times if you got
Speaker 1: to cover up your strong side linebacker, you play him off. Right,
Speaker 1: he is on the line of scrimmage, and they don't
Speaker 1: know if he's covering that tight end in man, if
Speaker 1: he's just dropping, or if he's blitzing, and and and
Speaker 1: he can come from the back side against the run.
Speaker 1: By the way, somebody that showed his salt, I guess
Speaker 1: proved his salt. I guess you even know how to
Speaker 1: say that, Bill Keanu Neil Huh, I thought I love him,
Speaker 1: showed his intellect in the ball game, that's where. And
Speaker 1: of course I know I was one of the first
Speaker 1: ones talking trash about him when they signed him and
Speaker 1: the other Atlantic guy. But Casey, he've already and now
Speaker 1: you've complimented. I don't mind swallow my words. That don't
Speaker 1: bother me. If you showed me something, then I will
Speaker 1: give you credit. And what he did was showed me
Speaker 1: a lot of awareness. He was always in position and
Speaker 1: as a linebacker. We didn't really see that much last year. No.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, linebackers and corners busted coverages. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you see less of that, and we still
Speaker 1: haven't seen whatever Malie Cookers got to offer. He basically,
Speaker 1: I think yesterday was the first time in pads in
Speaker 1: competitive situations. Um had to pick six by the way,
Speaker 1: he was on a chip ball, but it was by
Speaker 1: your guy, right. Yeah, and then you talked about it penalties.
Speaker 1: This team needs to be solid. We always thought all
Speaker 1: fast to the game, need them all and you have
Speaker 1: to stop hurting yourself. I mean, be a smart team.
Speaker 1: We just want that. Last year and I'm looking in preseason,
Speaker 1: I see few ap penalties even though uh the encroachment
Speaker 1: led to the field goal. Yeah, head coach wasn't happy.
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't would have made it anyway. He
Speaker 1: probably would have made it anyway. Yeah, you know it's
Speaker 1: guy's a vegan, but still you don't want to give
Speaker 1: them those kind of opportunities. But once again, if my
Speaker 1: emphasis on getting off on the D line, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get that. You can't get both. You can't have someone
Speaker 1: so disciplined to it. We got batter than getting off
Speaker 1: on the on the defensive line and no penalties. You
Speaker 1: were talking about the winning field goal, Yeah, he made it.
Speaker 1: I made it by that much, and it didn't matter
Speaker 1: whether it was good or not. We were still going home.
Speaker 1: That's right, because the decent game defensively, you know, the
Speaker 1: TV ratings on that it was still going strong at
Speaker 1: twelve thirty at night had ended. It had basically it
Speaker 1: never never fell off. Everybody misses this stuff exactly. That's right. Good.
Speaker 1: I don't feel as bad at six am. You got home?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's when my flight left was six am?
Speaker 1: Did it really? That's so I got like two hours,
Speaker 1: walked in the door at six am. All right. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting here checking Twitter and seeing if there's any reports
Speaker 1: about Cowboys moves here at three o'clock and nothing has
Speaker 1: come out yet. Not posted yet on cowboys dot com,
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot thing posted yeah's the next show Thursday,
Speaker 1: same time, same station, two o'clock on Thursday. Oh, I
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to report the new first one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not seeing it it's not breaking. As soon
Speaker 1: as we sign off, it will break. Let's give it
Speaker 1: another fun Okay, I guess that does it? Unless you
Speaker 1: got something a parting mix shot. You have a parting
Speaker 1: mix shot. We make that habit every every show, a
Speaker 1: parting mix shot. I was trying to look to see
Speaker 1: if anybody sent me an email and say, okay, it's
Speaker 1: time to put it up. No, no, not yet, all right,
Speaker 1: we can. We can talk for four more minutes. There's
Speaker 1: nothing after, is there? Is there? Chris? Now the interviews there? Okay,
Speaker 1: they're doing interviews now, all right with the media. What's
Speaker 1: the schedule the rest of the way. So practice tomorrow,
Speaker 1: um full practice, Thursdays and off day because today, while
Speaker 1: they didn't like practice in pads, they practice and they're
Speaker 1: here for meetings. And then Friday is a shorter practice
Speaker 1: in game on Saturday, and the Friday practice is open
Speaker 1: to fans at Ford Center. That's one of the ones
Speaker 1: that are open right yep. This Friday, and then the
Speaker 1: following Friday and Saturday practices leading up to the five
Speaker 1: preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars minus Tim Tebow on
Speaker 1: a Sunday. On a Sunday afternoon. Were you shocked by
Speaker 1: that move? I must admit I was shot that it
Speaker 1: was like it's done. I mean I would be given
Speaker 1: the guy in the preseason. I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I know that wasn't It's only played the
Speaker 1: miss block. I heard everybody talking about about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, man, I've had tackles that look like that.
Speaker 1: Give me. I've been there, done that. Brother. I never
Speaker 1: taught me how you feel. I'm sure you didn't play
Speaker 1: like that the entire game, but you know, when you're
Speaker 1: when you're a lightning round like that, it's unfortunate. Uh.
Speaker 1: As much as people are pulling for you, guy, you
Speaker 1: have probably twice as many pulling against you. It's like
Speaker 1: America today. Yeah, like a like Oh I thought I
Speaker 1: was love, not universally all right, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna get take one last here to see what they did,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna strike out. We're not gonna know who
Speaker 1: the final five players on the roster are. The m haner.
Speaker 1: They're they're posting the story right now. They are hold on.
Speaker 1: So let's just nobody see if we can get two
Speaker 1: more posting the story right This is breaking news. No
Speaker 1: one wants to follow this show. Breaking news from the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. We're standing by to find out who
Speaker 1: the final eighty five players on the roster will be
Speaker 1: get those five guys, Uh, you've already got one on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. It's not like we're gonna look at some
Speaker 1: and go, oh no, right, that guyable, I'm sure. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: come on, by the way, tomorrow they won't be practicing
Speaker 1: outdres anyway. Okay, I think I got it. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: he's got it. With breaking news, we got the breaking
Speaker 1: news sounder. Three of the five players were injured, including
Speaker 1: it said the first cut down date reduced from ninety
Speaker 1: to eighty five. Three of the five players were injured,
Speaker 1: including twenty twenty fourth round pick Reggie Robinson. So the
Speaker 1: cornerback they moved to Texas and Tulsa. He had He
Speaker 1: suffered a toe injury and it was likely to keep
Speaker 1: him out for the rest of the season. Shawu alana
Speaker 1: Lua I mentioned goes to ir Um, so he's not
Speaker 1: eligible to be brought back. Rookie linebacker Anthony Hines. At
Speaker 1: least they cut all the local guys waved injured. Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's three three local guys don't have to payer
Speaker 1: plane and then they release cornerback Kyron b Own. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was with the Jets last year. He was
Speaker 1: a late pick up and he got training camp. He
Speaker 1: got hurt from where though? From number thirty six? Uh
Speaker 1: he's from Akron Oh okay, never man. And then the
Speaker 1: last one was wide receiver Brennan Eagles from Texas, Texas,
Speaker 1: another local. Basically from there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: There's your final cuts or your first cuts. So nothing, okaymatic, Well,
Speaker 1: that was breaking news though on shots where we do
Speaker 1: here and we got to thank William Pikins yea with
Speaker 1: his tweet saying it's gone all right, very good, Chris.
Speaker 1: Let's thanks for letting us linger for five minutes. Chris
Speaker 1: is not even back there. Yeah, we got up on
Speaker 1: us like five till we may not be streaming right now.
Speaker 1: They have already signed us off. I saw it on here. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, that does it for mix Shots. Breaking
Speaker 1: news for mister Spagnola to close us out. See a
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