WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Final Predictions For SNF 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:24.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.960 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World head hours at 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:37.960 the Star in Frisco the scot Teacher. Here are Mickey Spagnola, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.400 Brian Brauns, Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and it is 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:48.760 a fabulous Football Friday edition of Talking Cowboys inside the 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:53.040 SWBC Mortgage studios here at the Star in Frisco. As 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.920 we get you set for the Cowboys and the Minnesota 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.360 Vikings Sunday Night football this week at at and T Stage. ADM. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.080 Bill Jones alat with Mickey Spagnola and Rob Phillips. Much 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.520 to get too over the course of the next hour 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.080 or so. As uh, we are on TV again this week. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.160 We made it another week on Texas twenty one in 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.039 Dallas Fort Worth and you better believe it's Talking Cowboys. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:22.520 We are Talking Cowboys right right? Okay? I not sure 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.600 where you're going with that, Mickey meaning we're getting ready 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.759 to start, yeah, and we're starting on time, unlike this 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:35.600 team does. Oh Spagnola here coming on Talking Cowboys. That's 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.520 right and on my mind since I wrote that for 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.280 my column for today. Okay, he quickly pitches his column 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.240 to the masses out there. Go ahead and pitch your 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.080 shirt to cowboys, duck bitch your shirt too, for what 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.280 are you wearing there? The Drew Persian throwback shirt? All right, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.440 he's going muscle beach too. It's about tatty degrees outside 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.400 and it's about forty degrees inside. Yes, WBC for the team, 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.880 right you are by the way, all right, so let's 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.200 take a good look at it. Okay, here you go, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.320 got his on I do, okay, and it's Drew Pearson 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.800 as well. Yea, so it's the is the Drew Pearson 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.919 T shirt the T shirt of the way. Wait, as 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.120 they're playing the Minnesota Vikings. That's right, just happened to 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.000 happen that way. Huh. Yeah, that's that's very nice. And 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.880 they're trying to explain why down the hallway here where 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.320 the display is worth the home the Hail Mary uh 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:37.520 sequential thirty six frame display the Stairway to Heaven. You 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.000 need to get both of you need to go to 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.160 the stairway the Drew Pearson Hail Mary Stairway here at 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.320 the star and get your picture taken and tweet it out, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.800 make our pink. There you go. That's a wonderful idea. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.679 That's good afterwards. And by the way, the rival run 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.040 here and a break and run back. Can we call 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.760 it a rivalry between the Cowboys and the Vikings? Do 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.000 they play often enough to be a rivalry? I thought 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.320 about that this week. I don't know if you can 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.880 call it a rivalry, but there have been great moments 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.240 between these franchises on and off the field. Oh that's right, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.639 Oh yeah, you would have taken off the field too. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.040 In fact, this is wow. I wonder what the date was, well, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.880 it have been would have been in the month of 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:23.880 October's October nineteen thirty years removed from the Herschel Walker trade, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.600 the most influential trade, possibly in the history of sports. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.440 Possibly when you think about it, it it was after the 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.280 Green Bay game. I can look it up then, okay, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:39.080 nineteen eighty nine, you know, And really you go back 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.600 to the seventies and the matchups the not only the 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.520 Haill Mary, but there were several playoff matchups between the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.119 Cowboys and the Vikings in the decade of the seventies 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.360 as well. And if I remember Bill, they played them 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:55.440 twice that year in nineteen seventy five, eighty nine. Okay, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.880 oh the Packers. Okay, they played the Packers in the 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.160 season finale, and they also played the Packers on October eighth. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.680 So it happened after that because there was a sparring 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.880 match after the game with Herschel Walker, who was feigning 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.600 no idea that there was a trade oh going on? 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.719 So a verbal sparring match with the locker room after 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.560 the game post game something. It was with Randy Galloway. Oh, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.520 leave it to Randy Galloway to get into a verbal 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.640 sparring match with Herschel. Herschel got the last word. Oh, yes, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.400 he said something. Herschel said some remark about well, you 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.160 guys are real smart or something like that, and Randy said, well, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.640 at least we finished college at Herschel said, whoa. At 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.239 Herschel said, I thought the idea of going to college 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.520 was to figure out how to make money. That's a 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.400 heck of a comeback right there. And then just a 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.480 few days later, Galloway got the final word through Jerry 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.240 and Jimmy working the trade the Minnesota Vikings. So that 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.040 would have been and the week of October tenth or so, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.719 so it was in that mid mid October thirty years ago. Yeah, 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.760 they made a couple of trades around the deadline that year, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.840 because I was looking it up. The last time the 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:14.640 Cowboys made consecutive trade deadline multiple in consecutive years, and 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.760 I think it was ninety two, But they made like 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.520 three that months, and I think that was surprising. I 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.120 think that one trump the others though, in terms of 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.359 players and significance. For sure, the impact leading to the 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.159 Super Bowl victories, you know, but it's not often that 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.719 the Vikings come here to play the Cowboys. It seems 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.240 like the Cowboys have been traveling to Minnesota when they 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.920 do play. They were here. The last time the Vikings 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.760 played here was in twenty thirteen, which would have been 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.200 the year before Zimmer became the head coach, I think. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.040 And so actually Jason Garrett in his as coached against 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.240 Mike Zimmer just one time is well, no, because Mike 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.440 missed that game. Oh that try he had the ice 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.560 tray and he was bedridden. Twenty and sixteen, that's right 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.160 up there in Minnesota was a seventeen fifteen Cowboys win. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.760 In that one. Was that the Kyle Wilberg game? Yes, Yes, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.080 Kyle Wilbur recovered a fumble down on about the ten 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.000 yard line, leading to the go ahead touchdown for the Cowboys. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.280 That was a that was a rock fight, I think 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.160 is what I called it yesterday. I think Dack threw 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.800 for one hundred and thirty something yards and you know, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.160 he talked about it yesterday how he feels like he's 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.760 a much better quarterback now. They do have similar personnel 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.080 and scheme to when they did three years ago. So 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.200 that's one reason why they've been able to sustain so 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.680 much success. Was Zimmer's defenses. But it's it's gonna be 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.240 it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough to move 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.520 the balld score points again. Defense it was almost a 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.320 repaid of the Hail Mary score seventeen fourteen. Yeah right, 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.760 you know, but the Vikings have only played at AT 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.760 and T Stadium. Oh I take yeah one time twenty thirteen. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.360 They said the previous time that before that, there was 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.599 six years prior to that. It's when they Vikings came 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.440 to Texas Stadium in two thousand and seven. So and 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.919 even before that, you have to go back to two thousand. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.480 So it's black every once every six or seven years, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.720 the Vikings come here so here recently, so it's well, 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.280 I was gonna say, it's every time the Cowboys go 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:21.280 thirteen and three kind of sort of, well, yeah, it's 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.800 gonna be a heck of a winning street that way. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.600 But as I alluded to off the top back in 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.800 the seventies, the Cowboys played the Vikings and the playoffs 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:34.440 in nineteen On Christmas Day nineteen seventy one in Minnesota, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.880 it was a Cowboys win, and then they played in 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.960 the NFC Championship Game in seventy three, which was a 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.600 Vikings win twenty seven to ten. And then in seventy 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.080 five was the Hail Mary Game, the Cowboys winning seventeen fourteen, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.520 and then again in the NFC Championship Game January first, 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.280 nineteen seventy eight. So the seventy seven season. Of course, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.280 the Cowboys won the Super Bowl that year, and then 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.480 unfortunately they played him in the playoffs in two thousand nine. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.720 Was it? It was two thousand and nine, and that 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.360 did not go so well. Turn out so well, that's tried. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.480 Thirty four to three was your final score, and that 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.360 was the first possession of the game, and Wade Phillips 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.560 decided to kick a field goal instead of going forward 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.120 in a fourth and short, and that's what sold it 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.880 to Mickey Spagnola that you can't win these games with 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.080 field goals. You have you're playing this offense that just 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 scores thirty some points a game. It was the quarterback 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.480 of that Vikings team, one, Brett Farve Well, he was 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.599 pretty good. It's pretty good. But also, and this is 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.440 one final Cowboys Vikings memory, one of my favorite memories 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.480 was Thanksgiving Day nineteen eighty seven, which was a forty 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.240 four to thirty eight overtime, overtime game that was actually 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.000 won by Minnesota. Mike Rentfro, I think, had a huge 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.520 day that and if I remember, Darren Nelson had the 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.960 winning touchdown. He ran like twenty or thirty yards for 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.840 the score. And then he was part of the trade 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.880 to the Cowboys for the Herschel Walker deal and refused 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.120 to come here. He said, no, I'm not coming, and 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:11.520 Jimmy said, that's fine, I'll him anyway. Because remember they 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.760 had the draft choices trade, uh chain to each one 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.240 the guys, and if the guy didn't you didn't keep 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.840 the guy, you got the draft choice. And that's where 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.520 Mike Lynn screwed up because he thought Jimmy wanted players 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.280 to win right away. Because Mike Lynn looked at his 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.880 at Jimmy's roster and said, he needs players. He's going 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.240 to take these guys. But no, he didn't think he'd 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.840 sacrifice the whole eighty nine. He had the big picture 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.320 in mine. So anyway, that's a trip down Cowboys Vikings 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.720 memory Lane. And when we come back here on Talking Cowboys, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.680 how about we dive into this current edition of the 0:09:46.720 --> 0:10:15.680 Minnesota Vikings to Talking Cowboys. Talking Cowboys continues from inside 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.440 the SWBC Mortgage Studios here at The Star in Frisco 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.600 on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort Worth, Big Weekend 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.960 not only at the stadium on Sunday, but there's also 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.959 a Salute to Service Plaza party tomorrow on Saturday on 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.839 Tostito's Championship Plaza. The Salute to Service Plaza Party and 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:42.000 enjoy live entertainment, military ceremonies, Dallas Cowboys alumni autographs, and more. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.840 After the event festivities, the Star will be hosting the 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.800 top two Madden players as they face off in the 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.040 EA Sports Madden NFL twenty Club Championship presented by Spire. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.240 Rob will have more on that coming up shortly here 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.080 on Talking Cowboys. So am I to assume this is 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.520 our salute to service game on Sunday night? It would be. Yeah, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.400 So I need to find my Daran's day coming up 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.920 on Monday. That's right, Okay, I gotta find my pin 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.040 to wear. Okay, very good, we'll look forward to that. Yes, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:15.080 we listened to you on the pregame. See me, you'll 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.760 have to ance, Yeah, just tell us. Yeah, that's right. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.960 All right, let's get up to speed on the news 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.840 on this team, and let's start with Amari Cooper. What 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.439 are we hearing on Amari Cooper right now? I didn't 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.120 listen to Jerry on the fan this morning. I was 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.760 in Jason Garrett's press conference with you, Mick. Yes, but 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.120 Jason Garrett sounded hopeful that Amari could do something out 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.679 there today. Amari told us in the locker room yesterday 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.440 Thursday that that he didn't listen to the doctor. Yeah, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.080 he didn't, really, it wasn't he couldn't recall the results 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.360 of the MRI on his bruised knee, but that he 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.320 felt like it was a manageable deal. Yeah, So obviously 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.640 there's some optimism that he can go Sunday. Right, They're 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.880 going to do what they can to make them as 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.280 comfortable as possible during the week, and he will play 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:07.960 on Sunday. I have one hundred percent confidence in that. Okay, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.560 all right? Any other items on the injury front, Adam 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.640 feeling out for the Vikings. He's gone out for the 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.640 two practices this week, and I can't imagine that all 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.760 of a sudden he's going to be fine on Friday, 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.439 And so I would I would think what they're gonna 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.439 do is I bet they list them as doubtful, questionable 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.640 and take it up to game time to see if 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.880 that thing comes around. Strained hamstring, has a few extra 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.120 hours Sunday. Yes, Yes, he played seven plays last week 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.360 against Kansas City and that doesn't well. Yeah, you would 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.120 think that they would want to get that thing right 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.600 before he tries it again. Yeah. I think the only 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.800 person that Cowboys will be without is is Cameron Fleming. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.320 I think he's still out. He could be another week 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.000 after this. Yeah. The fact that vander esh is going 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.120 to practice again today or expected to at least on 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.000 a limited basis that that bodes well for Sunday. Looks 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.520 like at this point, and Jeff, I think they're more 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:05.640 concerned with him being able to manage that knee with 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.640 the stick twelve stitches in it. He's also got a 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.240 shoulder going on and it might be one of those 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.640 things where you can play through the season and then 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.280 take care of it afterwards. But they were more concerned 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.080 with the twelve stitches to make sure he didn't do 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.400 anything to break the heesion. And here's the latest on 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.439 what Jerry Jones did say on the Flagship one oh 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.520 five three the Fan just moments ago this morning. He 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.160 says he expects Vanderesh to play after missing last week's 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.959 game with the neck issue, and Amari Cooper, he's hopeful 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.560 he has a total clean bill of health if we 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.760 were drafting him or signing him to not wait, let 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.600 me go back to this when he comes to Cooper 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.000 to his injured d Jones said, the wide out has 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.080 quote a total clean bill of health if we were 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:01.200 drafting him or signing him tonight, oh or trading for 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.480 him like you did a year ago. Y hold our 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:08.520 breath for a new contract. Okay, there you go. And 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.920 anything else from Jason Garrett this morning not really just 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.960 updating those injuries. I had a question for the host actually, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.600 because you've been in and out this week, assuming all 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.080 of your linebackers are ready to go healthy for this game, Yeah, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.960 that was gonna be my question from the panel too. Well, 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.280 make Billy go ahead. You asked the question, what do 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.360 you do with Sean Lee snaps? If if LV we 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:32.720 call him Layton as Jason Garrett said this week, but 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.240 what do you what do you do with sho Sean 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:40.239 snaps if everybody's healthy? You know, I like the idea 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:45.600 of and it's very difficult for any of us because 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.400 we don't know the exactly where Layton vander ish Esh 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:54.320 is coming back from that. I mean, if we're going 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.200 to assume he's ninety percent ready to go, then you 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.120 would probably assume they would just resume what they were 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.680 doing before, which is he gets ninety percent of the 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.040 snaps at the at the will, I would, yeah, and 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.200 just based on what we've seen from Lee, and I 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.000 think you have the luxury of Eason vander Esh back, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.040 yet maybe not give him the full load if you want, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.360 you know, And so I would we kind of lean 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:24.000 that way. I think Minnesota and how they play might 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.760 answer your question better because they like playing a lot 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.200 of two tight ends, and so that means you're in 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.320 standard defense, so that means you're strong side linebackers on 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.920 the field a heck of a lot more. And I'll 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.680 still maintain this. Maybe he plays more on nickel for 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.320 Jalen Smith. Maybe they like the way he plays more 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.720 in pass coverage or having vander esh you know, he 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.640 could play in the middle and Sean can play on 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.400 the strong side. Maybe he gets more snaps that way. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.920 I just think they have to take advantage of his 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:01.720 ability to diagnose things on the field somehow, some way. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.280 And with Michael Bennett here now as a third down 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.000 pass rusher, the guy can play defensive end and give 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.120 to Marcus Lawrence a break. I don't think. I don't 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.920 see no need to line up Jalen Smith as a 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.840 pass rusher standing up on the line of scrimmage as 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.040 one of the defensive tackles. And when you look at 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.520 the snap counts from last week's Vikings game against the Chiefs, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:30.000 Kyle Rudolph their number one tied end, Herb Smith Junior, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.280 their number two tight end. Rudolph had fifty five snaps 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.760 and Smith had forty three their third receiver snaps in 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.040 the game, and there were let me go over to 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.280 the offensive lineman and I can tell you exactly seventy one. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.520 So fifty five of the seventy one Rudolph was on 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.080 the field, forty three of the seventy one Smith was 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.440 and another gauge on that without having going play by 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.080 play and seeing who was on the what packages were 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.840 on the field. Lakwan Treadwell was basically their third receiver. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.640 He had twenty snaps in the game. Now they lost 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.679 theeland after seven snaps. He'll play more this week. And 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.960 so they had Digs and B. C. Johnson where their 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.000 top two receivers as far as snaps go, and Diggs 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.520 had sixty three and Johnson at fifty nine. They also 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.280 use a third tight end in Tyler Conklin. He had 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.240 fourteen snaps on offense, and their fullback C. J. Hamm 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.479 had twenty two snaps. So there's a lot of twenty 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.200 one and twelve personnel that they use, some twenty two 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.280 personnel as well. They even go three tight end. Talking 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.159 with Will McClay about it, they're they're in base a 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.160 lot more to your point, and so I think you're 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.720 going to see those three linebackers, Jalen, Leyton and Sean 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.480 on the field a lot in this game time, you know, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.640 and going forward if everybody's healthy, regardless of the personnel 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.560 groupings you're facing. We've seen them have a bit of 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.240 a rotation. We saw it last year before Sean got hurt. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.600 They would put bandaresh in for a series, and maybe 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.400 that's something they try to do just to get Sean 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.040 on the field little bit more. Mickey's right about sub packages. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.560 That's a possibility as well. We've seen that even a 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.919 few games ago, and last year we did it. We 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.639 saw it when m Sean Lee was battling injuries early 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.639 in the season and they were breaking Vanderschien as well, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.399 And so they've got we've seen examples of it before 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.919 where they'll they'll bring in a guy for a series 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.320 in the base you know at the just an embarrassment 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.639 of riches and we weren't even talking about Joe Thomas. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.159 You know, you just quoted Chris Rochard there what he 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.600 said that yesterday did Yes, he did, embarrassment of riches 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:37.400 and talking about back position. 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Yes, So we have a specific 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.959 time now on that Madden six Championship six o'clock on 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.720 Saturday evening. So do I watch that in Missouri, Georgia. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.639 I was about to ask you what your game time 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.680 was on your game six o'clock six o'clock, Missoo and Georgia. 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.639 Good luck with that prime ESPN. The Suitors are finally 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:36.440 in primetime against Iowa State on Saturday night. Another big 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.200 local game is TCU and Baylor. Yeah, that's a big 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:44.280 rivalry game. Baylor comes in unbeaten and Gary Patterson's gonna 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.040 have those horn Frogs ready for him. Though. I have 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:52.360 a feeling SMU have. They're playing homecoming at eleven am 0:22:52.400 --> 0:23:01.040 against a team okay, with players, and and I did 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:05.760 mention that Oklahoma is playing Ioways State at seven o'clock 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:09.080 on Saturday, died. Okay, wait a second, now that you 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:12.520 mentioned it, I gotta find SMU. They're playing East Carolina. 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:16.040 They're playing Robert Jones Alma Maters. Bring it back to 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:19.240 the Cowboys. They'll bounce back. They'll bounce back. Dwayne Harris, 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.359 he's Carolina, right, yes, okay, speaking of the he's with 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:26.600 the Raiders now, isn't he. I believe so. They won 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.600 last night over the Chargers. And at the end of 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:34.000 the game, Carl Joseph picked off a pass I think 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:35.800 and got hurt on the play. And he might he's 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.320 having an MRI. I might be out of the year. 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:38.840 And I was just listening to John Gruden. He was 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:43.359 talking about him and LaMarcus Joiner. They at the safety position. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:46.119 They already lost their rookie Jonathan Abram, and now in 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.320 one fell swoop, they may be losing a couple of 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:52.560 other safeties. In this league, it is so tenuous. You know. 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.919 We were taping a segment with Will McClay is the 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.200 Film Room segment, which you can check out on Dallas 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:01.960 Cowboys dot com. We were waiting while Mickey finished up 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:06.400