WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Home At Last 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:17.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.160 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.880 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:31.720 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are in person, live 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:37.480 and in person at the Star in Bill Jones, Everson 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.560 Walls and the star of the show one Mickey say 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.400 good to be back with you guys. Hasn't been on 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.520 the air since I think it was the Monday before 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.800 the Hall of Fame Brad Shamonai did. That's right, a 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.680 version of Mick Shots from Yeah, that's not the same, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.600 and it's not the same if ever since, So if 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.880 the trio's not here, then it ain't work. It's the 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.720 two thousand and twenty one season debut of Everson Walls. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.480 He's got all of these hot sports opinions about what 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.160 the Cowboys have done over the last twenty eight days. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:21.480 It was four weeks ago today that the Cowboys charter 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.080 landed in Oxnard, California, And how much has happened in 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.640 the last four weeks quite a bit, a lot of speculation, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:34.039 a lot of speculation, a lot of injuries. As Brad 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.200 Sham would say, we'd go to training camp to find 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.200 out who's gonna get hurt, and we did. They're not 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.759 even practicing the way we used to know about. So 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.440 what's today the seventeenth, Yeah, four weeks exactly right, twenty 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.720 eight days took off on July twentieth, that's right. And 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.760 so how far away are we from September ninth in 0:01:54.960 --> 0:02:02.240 Tampa yesterday at twenty two days? Twenty two? Okay, I 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.800 was gonna say just over week. Yeah, just over three 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.000 weeks away from that, and they're not quite ready to go, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.080 but not a matter of five guys today won't be 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.079 ready to go because they have to get to eighty 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.800 five on Have you got roster? Got No? But I 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.440 would imagine there's a couple guys that are going to 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.200 end up on injured reserve UM, which means they're out 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.360 for the season. They out because if they're on injured 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.840 reserve before the entire season. Yeah, Now, if you're on 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.359 the fifty three for a day, then they can put 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.639 you on returnable i R, which is three weeks. Again. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:45.240 But I would think from what I've heard of injuries, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:51.000 uh uh, sha wu Alonalua probably gonna go on injured reserve. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 He's got a neck injury and it's pretty severe. Give 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.960 me his number, fullback. He was going to make this 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.760 team too, was and wanted. He played well in the 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.800 Hall of Fame game and unfortunately got hurt in the 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.079 Hall of Fame game too, And it's a neck injury, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.120 and that's a bad thing for a fullback because even 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.520 when you come back, you're gonna stick your neck in 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.840 there again. You have to, right otherwise, yeah, you're not 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.680 making the team. So yeah, he's a good kid too. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.600 And then they don't, and then I'm sure. And see, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.680 here's the key thing on these cuts. You don't want 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.920 to cut like camp bodies because you need them for 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.760 these preseason games. If you're not going to play your 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.400 starters like, they don't have an excess of offensive linemen 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.800 to say, Okay, that guy's not making a team, I 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.640 can get rid of them. So I would have imagined 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.280 down the road wide receivers, down the road, defensive backs. 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.640 I think those guys are probably the most expendable of anyone. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.960 And maybe maybe they're running back. I mean, I'm feeling 0:03:55.000 --> 0:04:01.360 I'm feeling really some show since I say they having 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.080 excessive defensive backs. Okay, that's what I mean, all right, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.600 not that they don't need him, but you gotta find 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.280 out where you can get throwing shade on Murray? Right, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.880 was it Jamal Adams? That's the other breaking years around 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.320 the league? Right now? Jamal Adams has a four year, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.719 seventy two million dollars contract. Seventy two or seventy seven. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.400 Well it's seventy two. I think it's it's posted seventy. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:32.400 But no, it's your remark. He didn't say for a safety. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:38.320 He said for a blank safety. See. I was about 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.880 to get on Bill about his whole quarterback thing. I 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.640 saw him the other night, you know, hurting the other night. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.400 Did a great job. By the way, Well thank you, game. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.880 I really enjoyed it, your tid bits out here him 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.279 all the time here, So now the fans get here 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.599 the good stuff though. But I wasn't get on you 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.479 because it was always about the count. You know, about 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.200 the little quarterbacks, and everything's about Texas quarterbacks and from 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.800 oh my god, you know how the his but now 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.800 it's bags. Now Man's bags is killing them. Well in 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.159 the scheme of things because of the salary cap. I 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.040 just think eighteen million dollars a year is a little 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:17.960 excessive for the safety deep I know, I know. So 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.680 do you want him Maray Cooper or do you want 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.080 Jamal Adams? Oh? I want him Cooper. Yeah. And that's 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.280 the trade off, right, because if you want to use 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.799 his eighteen million for a wide receiver, his his his twenty. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.279 But if you can't afford to twenty, then okay, And 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.520 now I got eighteen and I got a safety? Is 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.800 all right? Just Jamal Adams a safety? Or is he 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.200 more than a safety? I think he's more than a safety, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.279 And that'll bring one of the topics we'll call up today. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.520 I think, when I think and when I look at 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.120 Micah Parson, I don't look at him as a linebacker. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.440 I look at him as a football player. Interesting, and 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.000 I can use him in so many different ways, which 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.400 means when it get when Michael Parsons gets to the 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.760 point of franchise tag time in his career, he's gonna 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.400 have enough sacks that he's gonna want to be categorized. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:15.080 He must have been reading my column, because did you 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.000 hear his remark on hard knocks? He basically said, I'm 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.200 a football player, And I said, zactly, I think Jamal 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.120 Adams is a football yeah, and I think you're right. Yeah, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.720 All right, back on the cuts for a second. Okay, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.520 to your point on it's not necessarily the bottom guys 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.080 on the roster that are getting cut today. Here's an 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.080 example of it in New York with the Giants. They 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.960 cut Alfred Morris. I saw that. Okay, that's not because 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.280 Alfred Morris. I'm just reading through the lines here. It's 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:51.159 not because Alfred Morris is necessarily at the end of 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.960 his career. They know he's in shape now, they know 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.039 he's ready to go, and they probably told Alfred Morris, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.720 stay in shape and you may be back once we 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.680 have an injury, or once the first game of the season, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.000 so he cannot be any and then he can't take 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:12.280 a guaranteed contract, right, And if you're veteran and you're 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.960 on the roster for the first game, then your base 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.840 salaries guaranteed. You can do it once. But but you 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.320 do you do it now too, because he's been in 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.440 camp long enough, he's and he was on the team 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.960 last year, and you know he's in shape, and you know, okay, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.600 you got him in reserve now and he's just hanging 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.400 out near the facility, right yeah, And so the Cowboys 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.560 might have someone like that. I don't, I'm no one 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.240 comes to mind right now, but there could there there 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.080 are cuts that happened this week where it doesn't necessarily 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.240 mean these guys are out of the league, but I'm 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.080 not sure they've got anybody on the rock. It could 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.680 be someone who's dealing with some sort of nagging injuries, 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.240 not going to be able to play, and they aren't. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.040 They don't think we'll get picked up by another team, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.120 but he might be a practice squad candidate. You know 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.920 the other thing about the new rules that were instituted 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.520 because of COVID last year and they're continuing this year 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.240 as far as the practice squad and injured reserve. When 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:12.360 we watch these preseason games, more than ever before, there 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.360 are more players playing in these preseason games that are 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.800 going to be on NFL rosters and actually play in 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.000 NFL regular season games, especially with an expanded schedule with 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:32.400 seventeen games, where before you know these guys, you could 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.240 roll your eyes at these preseason games and say, these 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.120 guys are gonna be working half these guys are gonna 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.640 be at home deep one, you know, in a month whatever, No, 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.719 you know, you just do the math on it. You 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.480 got fifty three man roster, you got a sixteen man 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.160 practice squad. There's sixty nine players there, and that didn't 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.280 even account for the ones that go on injured reserve. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.920 You're up to seventy five out of right, and which 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.200 was Mike McCarthy's. And that's just to start the season. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.199 I meant, when Green Bay won the Super Bowl, they 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.320 use seventy seven players. I bet, wow, at the end 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:05.880 of the season, I bet you if you went back 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.440 to last year too. It's not fair last year because 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.400 there are so many opt outs too, But I bet 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.280 at the end of this season you will find that 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.120 there are, on average, of the ninety man rosters in 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.800 training camp, seventy five to eighty players on each team's 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.760 ninety man roster are on an NFL roster and some 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.320 capacit counting practice counting practice squad. This season, yeah yeah, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.280 because fifty three and sixteen, dude already up to seventy yeah, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:39.280 so yeah, and then injuries irs guys that just fall 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.880 by the wayside and you got to replace them. So 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.440 that's why the salary cap is so important because somebody 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.079 will say, oh, they got five million dollars left. Well, 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.800 you need a little cushion there, right, because if you 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.080 put a guy on IR, that salary counts and now 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.560 I got to replace them. And chances are when I 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.520 replace them, if it's not a young guy, it's going 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.240 to cost me another million dollar. So, yeah, you've spoken 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.920 of the cushion. The cushion is always important. That's been 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.520 your big deals, right. But with our signings this year, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.679 I must admit this is one of the best draft picks, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.280 draft choices in draft fin Hounds that we've ever had. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.920 I think this class is amazing. I really do. Going 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.319 back to the game itself, not the Pittsburgh game. Was 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.760 not really impressed with the Pittsburgh game. But when you 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.520 could see and I always talk about the culture, you 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.679 can kind of see the culture with Darren Quinn. It 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:34.520 changes a little bit more pressure, creating more chaos. Offensively, 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.520 you'd love playing for him. Oh man, they are bringing it. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.600 If they are bringing it, that that front seven is 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.080 extremely aggressive, and to me, that's what I would like 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.240 to have. It's no secret that I wasn't a fan 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.920 of the flex defense because it just left the dbs 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:54.080 a hanging out to drive this defense does not do that. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.160 It gives them an opportunity to change up. You don't 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.960 have to have the same look all the time. If 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.520 you're going man to man, you don't know if it's 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.240 gonna be a quick blitz, all out blitzed, single blitzone blitz. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.000 You don't know what it's going to be. And as 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.880 a defensive back, that gives me so many more opportunities 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.080 to where my head games that I'm playing with the 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.000 wide receiver can be a little bit more effective. And 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.800 so I just enjoyed seeing the front front for they 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.720 were just just gone buck wild out there, you know 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.600 last night, and Bill, I don't know if you noticed 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.360 this or not, because you guys were mostly on a 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:31.600 tight shot right. Well, eventually we started show actually plays 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.560 my impression from last night, and I don't know if 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.559 it was because they were on artificial turf, but those 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.280 defensive ends were getting off the line of scrimmage, Randy 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.280 Gregory and Dorence Armstrong to the point they were given 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.520 Tyron Smith and Lell Collins problems and I was just 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:56.520 amazed how how fresh they look now. They gave Randy 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.120 basically the weekend off, right, he didn't have to fly 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.280 to Arizona. They sent him back hit a little bit 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.040 of a foot deal going, ok, but his takeoff was 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.880 amazing it and it was it was even more. I 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.840 mean I saw somebody said, oh, yeah, he was throwing 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.520 Tyrn Smith around. I said, WHOA, let's not go that. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.120 He might have been beating him around the edge. He 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.760 wasn't throwing him around, right. And the same thing with 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.160 Dorence Armstrong. I mean, his stats from that preseason game 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.880 were absolutely amazing I think it was. And he only 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:32.160 played a half five five tackles, two sacks I think 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.280 it was two tackles for losses, and he had at 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.480 least three or four quarterback pressures and a forced fumble 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.000 maybe or recovered from what I can't if I recall correctly. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:48.000 One of those pressures or sacks was against Kelvin Beecham, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.719 who's a starting right tackle for Arizona. It wasn't in 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.160 the game about these weren't just backups. Yeah. Now, now, 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.679 the Arizona offensive line in the second half was bad, Yes, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.120 I mean they they they have done what they have 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.160 done what they can to try to shore up their 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.839 offense their first team offensive line, which they really needed 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.320 to do for Kyler Murray and and they did that 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.160 a year ago. And those they have those guys basically back, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.520 but the backups are not good right there. But again, 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:21.200 Armstrong was getting pressure of getting pressure against the start 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.360 I would call, so that stayed. That stood out to me. Yeah, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:28.000 And then what you were saying about the draft choices, Uh, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.440 now one of them they really need to come through 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:36.360 is uh. Also Diggi Zua with the Neville Gallimore injury. Um, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.040 he's got the dislocated elbow. Uh. And they're saying four 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.560 to six weeks. So even on the shoal that hurt 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:48.640 me to watch it, right. Um, if it's four so 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.640 he's got two weeks now and two weeks into the season. Um, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:57.280 they could put him. He'll go on injured reserve for three, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.839 which is and the and the rule on IR is 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.840 he is alluded to, is he's on the fifty three, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.000 then you put him on IR. And it's the it's 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.080 a minimum three weeks now on IR. So he could 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.600 be back for the fourth game, practicing for the fourth 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.560 game if he's ready to go. Otherwise you know, the 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.200 fifth game, but you don't have to carry him on 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.840 the roster the entire time hurt and make him inactive. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.080 So there's things like that they have to massage. Once again, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.720 the depths alone, I saw many playing and bringing it. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.200 In the first half, he was playing second team to 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.120 Neville Gallimore at the three technique, and then in these 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:41.560 last practices after he got hurt, he's been working with 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.600 the first team a defensive tackle with Carlos Watkins, And 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.920 so I think it has to be a concerted effort 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.000 to get off because we had what three or four 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:59.080 encroachment penalties, correct, Yeah, yeah, you're right, yeah, And so 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.320 you can tell me in that minds we have to 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.960 get off on the defensive line. And to see it's 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.200 like they're trying, even against the run, they're trying, They're 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.640 they're penetrating to try. It's almost getting back to where 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.280 Marinelli was doing right to you penetrate and try to 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.080 muck things up in the backfield. And that happened a 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.920 few times as well. Yeah. Yeah, the offensive lineman that 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.600 we're whiffing on our d lineman and they were going 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.120 straight to the running back. And I'll tell you another 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.760 guy is going to cause problems on the on the roster. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.400 He's coming on now. He had to slow start to training. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.880 Cam Semi Philoco the wide receiver. I think you know 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.280 he showed up in that game. He makes really nice catches, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.000 a couple of catches yesterday, uh, last night. So you 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.120 have to gain the trust of the quarterback. You could 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.120 see that the quarterbacks trusted him. Yeah, because obviously the 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.600 routes are true. And he's a great talking of course. Yeah, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.880 he's big so and and he's got a great opportunity. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.520 Now we'll see what happens with the Malik Turner Turf 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.200 Troe injury. Yeah, that he suffered the other night. But 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.480 that that opens the door for Fijoko to show what 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.480 he can do. And a lot of it's on special 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.120 teams also. And one of the other injuries that I 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.400 think it was a shame, uh, their fourth round pick, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.360 Josh Ball, the offensive tackle. Um. I think he could 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.560 have competed for that backup swing tackle job and he 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.480 suffered the high ankle sprain and I don't know how 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.560 soon he would get back. Um, and that position still 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.600 got to be addressed. I'm sorry, UM, right now you're 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.920 going with who if I'm not sure? How about that uh, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.000 they've been they've been using and they've they flipped him 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.760 now they had they had tied Naski at left tackle, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.800 Terrence Steele at right tackle with the backups, and then 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.760 when they had to start playing him with the first team, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.840 Tacky struggled some. So this last time, when they didn't 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.000 like last night, when they didn't use the times, they 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:01.840 didn't use Lele Collins and um Tyrann Smith, they moved 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.040 from the second to right tackle and they were trying 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.600 Terrence Steele at left tackle. So that one's a one 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.840 to keep our eye on. I think because we found 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.800 out the last couple of years that left tackle backup 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.480 guys pretty important. I expected more from him in the second, Yes, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.680 I expected more from the second. I thought he would 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.320 play a little bit better in the game. He's up 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:27.760 there in years, thirty six thirty six m. But you know, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.439 when you're talking about that age then, and especially at 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.320 that position, if you're smart enough and you use your 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.960 feet enough, your brain enough. Right, what's Jason Peters He's 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.640 thirty nine and just got signing and the Bears want 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.680 to make him they're starting left tackle. I think you 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.119 just said use your feet, Yeah, yeah, and you know, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.560 and I think they're going to give Steele a chance. 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.879 Now he struggled last year, undrafted rookie. Okay, I understand 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.360 on that offensive line, and they started him day one 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.119 at right tackle. He's got some experience and he was 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:03.320 one of the guys that their offseason workout awards got stronger. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.480 So we'll see. So he is twelve years younger than 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:14.200 he that's how young he is, right, Yeah, and so 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.000 we'll see what get what happens there, like who actually 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.680 gets that job? But in my books, if they ain't 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.040 sold on any of those guys, Zack Martin's my backup tackle. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:28.680 He we ain't messing. I like the assorted uh rotation 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.760 that they had going on at offensive line. Yeah byest 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.560 In there. Then yeah, Connor Williams is trying to do 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.439 some things and so you like that they well I 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.400 just want to see what they're doing, right, Well, what 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.440 they're trying to find they got a recipe. What they're 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.479 trying to find out is if Connor Williams can be 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.359 that backup center because you save a spot on the 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.320 fifty three right and you save money against the salary 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.399 cap because and the date, say the game day roster, right, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.160 because now you don't need two guys, a backup guard 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.680 and a backup son. I am definitely a biest guy. Yeah, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.240 I think, yeah, that's my due. Yes, yeah, and I 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.040 mean facts, the first time I've ever say said his 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.200 name correctly. So that just lets you know he got 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.159 it close anyway, or you can or you can go 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:18.080 back to badass. Okay, that's yeah. Somebody tried to point out, Oh, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.679 they're having competition for the starting center job. No, beyond 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.720 is the starting center. They just want to see on 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.120 the game day roster. If the center gets hurt, can 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.200 Connor Williams go over there and take it without mucking 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.760 up the offense? His snaps now are still little left 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.080 to be desired. And Zach is a little guy. Is 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.359 a little Zach is also a guy that's in for 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.960 that too. Backup center, Zach Martin no no back up, backup, tackleup, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.199 no back besides Connor Williams now, Connor McGovern has some 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:51.679 experience in college, but he hasn't played it yea four years. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:56.320 So uh if knock on wood, if Beyondage went down 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:02.040 with an injury, then then what at center? Well? Uh, 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.800 I mean farneyac is the only other guy that played 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.840 center left. That's why they're playing Connor Williams there is 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:14.600 since they don't have anybody with any experience as a 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.800 backup center. That's how valuable Joe Looney was to the seat. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.000 But he doesn't have any experience either as a center, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.840 but at least he has NFL experience. I wonder, so 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.280 you would like for Connor Williams to be efficient enough 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:29.919 at center that if Beatas went down with an injury, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.960 Williams could move slide over to center and Connor McGovern 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.040 would be your left guard. I wanted to talk about 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.640 the full offensive line the way we wanted. I don't 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:40.280 give a damn who you put the center, as long 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.399 as you have the supporting cast in tyrone. Yeah, as 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.480 long as you can. Yes, you make the snap with 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:50.160 take everything else. And he two snaps in a row 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.200 in that game. He went high nuck, mucked up the play, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:55.359 and then he hit himself in the butt with the 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.200 one that went short. Yeah, they have a nice laugh 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:05.679 on that within the did they were not Bill, That 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.159 was babe, because I seared somebody. I was actually I 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.960 got to listen to you guys because the NFL network 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.880 picked up your broadcast. Did they did it? Did? Yeah? 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:20.919 I didn't know that. Yeah, and and so um somebody said, oh, 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.359 I could certainly understand that. But they said he was short. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.240 He short. One snaps was short. I go, he wasn't short. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:34.880 He didn't even get so, you know, And if we're 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.240 worried about stuff we're worried about on the offense, we're 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:42.080 worried about backup positions. Right, we just talked about it. Uh, 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.160 and then the quarterback spot and we'll see how that goes. 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:50.760 And you got to have some money, so, uh, something's 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:55.239 going to happen in Chicago. I'm gonna make that prediction. Quarterback. Oh, 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.879 I think they liked their kie. But you think you start, 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:02.760 you think he started. Think, well, then they got two 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:05.920 veteran backups that have been in the league for ten 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.320 years and make a lot of money. It's no competition. 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:13.879 They can't keep both Daltons fos Is out. But you 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.240 know what, it's going to cost him sixteen million in 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:19.680 dead money if they let him go. They signed it 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.560 should when they signed him to all of that. The 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:24.879 cheapest one to let go would be Dalton because his 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.919 guarantees only like four and a half million. But Foles 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.320 did not show last year or to me even the 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:34.240 year before that, that he's capable. And with this Chicago squad, 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:38.000 now Philadelphia is one thing, that Chicago squad there, he 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.040 does not look comfortable back there. He hadn't looked comfortable 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:41.560 last year and the year before that. And that was 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.719 only a few games. That wasn't a seventeen game season 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.520 that he got Philadelphia the super Bowl, right, And he's 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.200 never really every time somebody's given him a chance, they've 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.960 always moved to somebody else. Was Ville. Yes, yeah, I 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.679 think you're right. Um. And so what they're hoping for, 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.040 even though it would still be the salary cap hit, 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:05.760 is that whoever loses out there, maybe there's another team 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:09.120 that has a need for a quarterback. And and don't 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:11.119 you think some of these other teams that drafted a 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.160 guy in the first round, they're gonna fall in love 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.520