WEBVTT - Mick Shots: All Saints Day 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:07.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:10.959 Cowboys. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.560 This is Mick Shot streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.640 Com and the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:31.440 Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.400 And it's story time with Mickey on another edition of 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:39.400 mix Shot. You guys inside podcast studios. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:46.040 Well, what are you doing with all that? We're already start. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.000 So I've got a green notebook, Mickey's got his legal pad, 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.440 and he's got all sorts of other sacks and so 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.200 you know, ever since's got pieces of paper next to 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.520 him over there, and know they have nothing to do 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.440 with the New Orleans Saints, the Dallas Cowboys. 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.280 They are what there is reads. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.480 I want to make commercials. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.440 He's a marketing I'm going to make sure Chris has 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.640 trusted to you can trust. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:19.800 He's spending his time proof reading periods where they belong 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.760 in copy and so forth. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:23.959 And in the meantime, we have. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.480 Football players arriving on a football field here at the 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.160 Star and for helmets and pads too, Helmets and pads 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.840 once again, how many helmets and pads practices do they 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.040 have it's like seventeen or so. It's like, I don't 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.600 think we don't get them well, but they use them early, 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.319 and maybe there's a certain point in the season, like 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.960 the last few weeks of the season. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.600 You only have a certain you have to use them. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:50.840 Up before a certain date. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.600 So how do you have My number in my mind 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.440 was thirteen. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.680 I don't know that makes sense. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:04.480 Yes, yeah, thirteen padded practices and we already used one last. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.600 Week, and I think you're limited to one a week 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.280 with that kind of scars without being shape all year long. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.919 Thirteen I'd be like my body, like, man, I am 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:15.400 done anything. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.280 Like Daryl Johnston would always tell me, he goes the 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.000 worst shape I was ever in is at the end 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:22.840 of training. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:23.880 Camp in Austin. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:24.640 In Austin. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.079 Yeah so, but yeah, they don't want to work them 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.720 too hard yep. And I think if you make the playoffs, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.040 you get an extra one week. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:38.760 Wow, one a week? Yeah, okay, well you're welcome. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:39.320 Yep. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.640 So here we are with a practice report in front 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:49.320 of Mickey's microphone right there that he's looking at at it, 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.280 and the two concerns this week on the practice exactly. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:58.960 Right, Jake Ferguson and Marshawn Neelan both were expected to 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:05.440 start the practice today with the rehab guys, and then 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.160 he said they would see if they can get into 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:13.680 anything towards the end of practice. But I think when 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.760 everybody goes out there and within five minutes or so 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.640 to watch practice, they'll see that Jake Ferguson was just 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.240 in jersey and shorts. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.840 You're predicting that, Yes, I'm predicting it. And he didn't 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.919 sneak a peek out there on your way down the hall. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.040 They're going to see it eventually, right, And that Niland 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.280 was in helmet and pads, So that's a chance. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:41.960 A chance. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.680 And and Ferguson hasn't given up on himself. You know, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.320 he talked about yesterday it's like the pain with the 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.480 bone bruise. It sounded like he could manage that. The 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.040 deal is your the MCL sprain, which is a low 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.400 grade spray. But he said, you know, if I can go, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.040 i'll go. But if I can't play to my standard, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.920 then there's no sense going out there and putting the 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.160 team in jeopardy. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.760 If you listen to the internet, doctors out there, the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.320 ones on social media, they say there's no chance with 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:17.200 a bone bruise. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.719 Really, yeah, and so they diagnosed them from the Yeah 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.839 that's right, okay, you for that absolutely amazing. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:31.040 Uh So, you know, I think there's some hope. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.159 But as I just got done saying on my radio spot, there, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:36.880 hope doesn't heal. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:43.760 I like that, So hope doesn't heal. So well, you'll see. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.080 We'll see where that one goes. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.640 And then the other guy that didn't practice yesterday still 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.479 John Stevens with the hamstring, although he was doing some 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.039 running yesterday, not just you know. And both of the 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.400 guys that I just got done, well, all three of 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.160 them when they work on the cords, they were moving well. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:06.520 But it's straight line stuff either straight ahead or sideways, right, deliberate, yeah, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.400 and it's premeditated steps. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:08.839 Right. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.160 So at some point you got to find out can 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.559 you can you play football? So I think that's to 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.600 be determined at this point, and they won't determine it 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:24.040 till Saturday because that's really their last practice, so they'll 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:25.880 give an injury for it after that. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.360 And so on the tight end depth chart, yes, then 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.960 you have Luke schoon Maker, the second round pick from 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.960 last year and Brevian span Ford college free agent this. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.960 Year, and then after that. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.520 You said his name correctly. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.440 Mickey's the one that's. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.400 I finally listened to it. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.520 It is span Yeah, or at least somebody that was 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:56.680 doing a TV spot on them. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.000 How do you know they have it right? 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:00.599 Guy? 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:07.560 It was it was an in house University of Minnesota. 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.440 And so since he was there for six years, you would. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:09.960 Take it. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.640 They got it right and come to Bill the source. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.320 I like that, uh huh, so he would be second. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.120 Although you never know. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.400 I mean, like the Ryan Flinoy, Floridy Floy and the 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.840 media guy that says Flinoy. I've never had an opportunity 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.640 to actually ask him. I had to go with what 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:30.680 the media guide said. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.000 Basically, the media guy says Florida. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.800 R yeah, f l A with the accent on the 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:43.119 NOI all right. So there's a Texas Rangers picture making 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.520 a start tonight, his first major league start. His last 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.840 name is Rocker. His first name is spelled k U 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.480 m A R. So how would you pronounce I know. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.719 How I would pronounce it, but I hear it's. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.880 Kumar Kumar Rocker right right. Well, we get an email 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.640 from the Rangers this week, saying, in anticipation of Rocker's 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.159 first major league start, we don't let you let you 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.960 know that the correct pronunciation of his first name is 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:17.760 Kamar Kamar Kamar, not Kumar. Yeah, so anyway, that's like, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.520 so you just never know. It's like span everyone's been calling. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:23.800 The little U. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.160 But everyone's been like in the case of Brevin span Ford, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.440 even though people call him that, that may not be right, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.160 you know, until we talk to the person himself. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.240 I did not know we were going down this rabbit hole. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:42.160 And then there was the Texas Rangers pitcher named Esteban Lowisa. Okay, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.520 and so we got word when I was doing Ranger games, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.240 we got word that Esteban Lowaisa wanted his name pronounce 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.640 a Stayban Lowisa. So we start calling him a Steban Lowisa, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.840 And in the next game he does like a public 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.559 service announcement and identifies. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.720 Himself as Esteban Lawais. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:05.640 All right now, cry oh and so, uh, if if 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.080 Ferguson can't go, I think they have a couple things 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:14.960 they can do. And if Stevens is still unable to play, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.080 you know, you can call Princeton off the practice squad. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.160 But he's more of a blocking guy. If you needed 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.679 three tight ends on the field at the same time. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:24.679 Uh. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.680 And then the other thing I think we talked about 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.840 yesterday is a hunter lepke. You can give the full 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.680 back some more snaps in different areas to make up 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.600 for maybe one of the tight ends not being not 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.600 a guy that's going to go down the seam and 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.760 catch a pass, you know, twenty yards downfield. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:44.800 But you could do. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.679 That guy either. Yeah, he's a converted full back exact college. 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.079 So you know, you just just got to adapt. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.480 You just do different things to uh make sure that 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.040 you compensated for sins not out there. Well, let's remember 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.800 he was second on the team last year with seventy 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.440 one catch up. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.880 And it tells you a lot how the Cowboys feel 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.800 about their tight end room. When there was a receiving 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.120 tight end that they traded at the end of camp, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.280 end of the preseason to the Kansas City Chiefs, Peyton Hindershot. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.200 So they clearly like these other tight ends. And so 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:31.880 now they soon, probably sooner than they wanted to see it, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.199 they're going to get their opportunity. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.800 Yeah, And if you can get Stevens out there, then 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.760 I think they'd feel much better about the receiving part 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:39.959 of the tight end group. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.920 So, well, that is a guy I hadn't played in 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:43.880 a NFL game before. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:44.200 Yeah. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.440 Yeah, at least yesterday he was doing more than just 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.720 the chords, So that was encouraging that maybe it's coming along. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:52.080 All right. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.440 So now how about the defensive line and with Marshawn 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.440 Neeland And the other thing to consider this week is 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.880 you get al quad in Mohamed back from his suspension. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.120 He had a one game suspension he served, so I 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:09.800 assume he's in the mix coming off the suspension list. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.680 And then you also have a guy like Carl Lawson 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.120 who's on the practice squad. And so if Marshawn Nielan 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.920 can't go, what do you think the options are? Mickey, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.040 I needed a checkling thing on the quad and Muhammad. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.679 Because I was thinking maybe I missed. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.560 It, they released him. They did release it at the 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.560 end of training camp. Okay, yeah, all right, so he's 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:40.480 not a choice. Well, Tyrus Wheat, it is one of 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:46.640 the defensive event that's on the fifty three. You can 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:51.000 use Chauncey Golston out there. Although both of those guys 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.559 played a lot of snaps on the nickel inside as 0:10:54.679 --> 0:11:00.400 pass rushers. Nieland played a bunch inside, so it's not 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:05.319 just a true defensive end. And and then yeah, you're 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.280 right on the practice squad if they need if if 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.840 Lawson was ready, I don't know if he is or not, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.800 because remember he just got there at the. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.920 End of played in a preseason game. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.680 He played the last preseason game. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:20.600 I believe you're right. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.840 So well, I'm trying to remember he may have got 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.680 into the Vegas game too, but. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.160 I know he played in the last Well at one point, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.559 remember they brought him in, Uh, then they let him go, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.480 so he didn't really practice well. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:35.440 They let him go. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.720 Before the final cut on the final and then they brought. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.280 Him practice practice squad, which wasn't unusual, and especially considering 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.080 the fact he also factors into that veteran player that 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.080 you don't want to guarantee his contract. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.960 This week of the season, and at least that's gone 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:52.800 on around the league. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.320 You're seeing a lot of veteran guys getting signed to 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.160 the regular roster this week across the league because they 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.200 don't want to guarantee the contracts. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.840 A personally so so, but you only can elevate two guys, right, 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.680 And they elevated Vigil last week, which was a good 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:17.880 move because when Kendrick's either dehydration or cramps, heuh. He 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.240 came in and played a couple series before Kendricks. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.520 I think he had back like snaps yea. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.719 And he he was on their special teams too, by 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.280 the way, So then you would you would have to decide, 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.280 do I do I need to elevate a tight end 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.559 if Stevens can't go, or do I need to elevate 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.880 a defensive end if Kneeling can't go, or you know, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.680 you just play Parsons more defensive end. Although they played 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.240 him all over the field and I loved it, and 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.439 I think he did too. 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:54.400 He seems to be. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.439 Falling in love with Mike Zimmer By the way, if 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.040 you listen to those his press conference. 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:02.400 I knew they were going to get along very. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.120 Well, right, Yes, you know, And you know what it 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.720 is when people talk about guys they're not coachable or anything. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.640 Players want somebody to help them be better, and once 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.080 they realize that doesn't matter what they're telling them to do, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.120 they'll listen right. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:17.440 Well. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.560 The other thing on its like in the case of 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.520 Eric Kendricks. There was something that came out that Kendricks 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.600 said something about Zimmer's hard coaching style, and people take 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.120 that out of context and think that that, oh, Eric 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.679 Kendricks would never want to play for Mike Zimmer again, right, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.040 you know he was miserable there or whatever. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.000 It wasn't true at all. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.400 You know, he winds up playing here and he's the 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.000 quarterback of his defense whatever. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.079 And so it takes. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.520 Again, Yes, yeah, when you when you take you know, 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:49.520 someone says something that trying to be open and candid 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.320 about a situation, and then you take people take it 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.160 who don't know anything about it and run with it 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.200 and say, oh, he must not like They assume he 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.200 must not like playing for that coach. No, he was 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.120 just describing situation, you know. Yeah, it doesn't mean he 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.120 doesn't like playing for him at all. So so people 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.320 thought that Parsons wouldn't want to be coach hard like Zimmer. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:10.400 His reputation. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.360 You just knew that they were going to come with 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.400 the same mindset. I could never see them not getting along. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.600 Plus, he he talked about how he said that you know, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.960 Mike has kind of given him the opportunity when he's 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:28.240 on the field, depending on whatever defensive call they have 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.160 to maybe adjusted to what he sees or where he 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.800 sees a weakness on his own without without you know, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.400 being told, Okay. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.880 He's always been that person that says, I want to 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.560 get better than where I am made. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.880 Now right, And then Zimmer he gets finding, he gets 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.960 around Micah and they meet every morning and you see, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.960 and he figures out how sharp Micah is and how 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.840 football savvy he is, and there's a trust that develops that, yeah, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.240 you can make that call, you can do you know, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.680 if you see that, then do it. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.840 I think what's more important is that he and Kendrick 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.920 get along, not just get along, but understand how they 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.840 can both impact the hell out of this defense. Kendrick's 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.440 doing his thing, he knows the plus is going to 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.680 be over there doing his thing. If they know what 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.080 each other are at all times, man, they can play 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.200 off each other so well. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.800 And that doesn't mean if he's at linebacker or defensive end, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.920 just playing off of what each guy's doing. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.640 Knowing where he could be on any particular play. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:28.920 You know. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:33.640 In one of the interesting things for this game, I 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.000 guess I didn't realize that I had just looked at. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:39.119 You know, they scored the Saints scored forty seven points, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.080 and Carr did this and Kamara did this. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.640 They ran for one hundred and eighty yards. That have 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:48.160 to be number one in the league. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.240 Right, So this is going to be a good test 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.520 for this team to see if they are on their 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.720 way to fixing the run defense. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.080 Ongoing things. Man, Right, this is gonna be all year long, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.040 at least until let's say Thanksgiving to what we realize 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.240 what kind of run defense do we really have. We're 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.280 not gonna it's not gonna be a fix all. We 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:18.840 know that Cleveland didn't. That wasn't our you know, best game. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.400 It won't be our best game. And this will be 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.560 probably one of the worst offensive lines we've gone up 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.000 against when we went up against Cleveland. Right, So now 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.520 you have to realize that this is a more established 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.160 group and they're gonna come in here hoping to do 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.040 just what they plan to do all season long, and 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.640 that's run the ball, play good defense, and just make 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.960 sure a car doesn't have to make too many amazing 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.960 plays because sometimes he can play out outside himself. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.440 You know, across the league, typically the turnover there is 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.640 from year to year for teams is within it may 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.840 be up to thirty three percent of your roster turns 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.040 over every year. It's for sure twenty five to thirty 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.280 percent of your roster. When you look at the Saints, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.359 they have kept virtually everybody from last year, and there's 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.919 one Basically they have ten of their eleven starters on 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.320 offense and ten of their eleven starters on defense or 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.560 back this year. And they finished the season so strong 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.280 last year they won four other last five games, and 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.000 the coaching staff is intact as far as defense is concerned. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.880 Now they bring in Clint Kubiak as their offensive coordinator. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:27.800 It's his first year. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:34.159 But that continuity that the Saints have I think is 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.239 telling in why you know it was a mismatch in 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.040 Game one when you're taking on a Carolina team with 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.399 a brand new head coach who did not play his 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.800 young quarterback in the preseason and Bryce young and so 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.919 they were totally out of sorts Carolina was. And so 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:57.359 now this is going to be a real test for 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.399 New Orleans this week. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.760 I think both teams, when you're analyzing him, you got 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.920 to throw out the first game. Throw out Carolina, who 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.560 knows what they are or not, and really the Cleveland thing, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.679 who knows right? You're I mean, you were playing a 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.400 quarterback that has played twelve games over the last what 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:22.359 three years, with backup tackles, with backup tackles. Now they've got, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:30.440 speaking of injuries, their rookie starting left tackle was limited 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:31.520 in practice. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.880 With a back. You're not going to say his name, Talise, Talise. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.320 It was a set up. Last name's Fuaga. I got 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:45.600 the Fuaga. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.640 Part right, Well, you didn't say it. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:47.080 Well. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.920 I was still struggling on to lease right to Let's see, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:52.600 let's go to Leise. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:53.400 To lease Fuga. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.600 Yes, who is the fourteenth pick in the draft out 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:56.399 of Oregon State. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.960 So they've got a rookie starting at who. 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.760 By the way, is making the same conversion that our 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.920 right our left tackle is who played right tackle in college. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.280 Fuago played right tackle at Oregon State. 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.960 And then their right tackle, Trevor Penning, is in his 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.240 third year and reading about him, there was not a 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.200 lot of people happy with his previous. 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.000 A lot of fans and media wanted him. He was first. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.280 Nineteenth overall two years in twenty twenty two out of 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:28.120 Northern Iowa. 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.600 And then their left guard Lucas Patt I can do 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.960 this one. Lucas Patrick has a toe injury and he 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:40.320 did not practice yesterday. So their their offensive line, which 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.639 was under fire before this first game. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.119 You know, got a couple of injuries. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.320 They got to You can say the center's name too. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:48.560 You got that one down. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.959 Oh, Eric McCoy, and you got the right guard, says 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:54.080 our Ruez. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:54.760 There you go. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:55.240 All right. 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.040 That's sets the tone there. 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.920 And by the way, Nate and Frisco likes this offensive 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:00.879 line for the Saints. 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:01.440 Oh he does. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.320 That's not good talking with him this morning. That ain't good. 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:06.119 All right. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.080 We're just getting started on this edition of mix Shots. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:11.439 By the way, ever, since you're not here tomorrow, right, 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.000 not here, so you need to make your picks by 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:14.920 the end of this show. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.360 Okay, why can't I just send the man tomorrow? 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.280 Oh you want to let him? Yeah? 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.359 Sah, okay, you can have another day. 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.280 Tough game, man, yeah, tough game all right, diagnosed, So. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.280 We will not tease that ahead for today's show. 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.120 Tomorrow show, but we'll come up with something to talk 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:33.040 about next when Mix Shots continues. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:37.399 At a moment, Hey, cowboy fans, I'm Dak Prescott quarterback of 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.240 the Dallas Cowboys. 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