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Speaker 1: we get you set for the Cowboys and the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings Sunday Night football this week at at and T Stage. ADM.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones alat with Mickey Spagnola and Rob Phillips. Much
Speaker 1: to get too over the course of the next hour
Speaker 1: or so. As uh, we are on TV again this week.
Speaker 1: We made it another week on Texas twenty one in
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Speaker 1: We are Talking Cowboys right right? Okay? I not sure
Speaker 1: where you're going with that, Mickey meaning we're getting ready
Speaker 1: to start, yeah, and we're starting on time, unlike this
Speaker 1: team does. Oh Spagnola here coming on Talking Cowboys. That's
Speaker 1: right and on my mind since I wrote that for
Speaker 1: my column for today. Okay, he quickly pitches his column
Speaker 1: to the masses out there. Go ahead and pitch your
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Speaker 1: are you wearing there? The Drew Persian throwback shirt? All right,
Speaker 1: he's going muscle beach too. It's about tatty degrees outside
Speaker 1: and it's about forty degrees inside. Yes, WBC for the team,
Speaker 1: right you are by the way, all right, so let's
Speaker 1: take a good look at it. Okay, here you go,
Speaker 1: got his on I do, okay, and it's Drew Pearson
Speaker 1: as well. Yea, so it's the is the Drew Pearson
Speaker 1: T shirt the T shirt of the way. Wait, as
Speaker 1: they're playing the Minnesota Vikings. That's right, just happened to
Speaker 1: happen that way. Huh. Yeah, that's that's very nice. And
Speaker 1: they're trying to explain why down the hallway here where
Speaker 1: the display is worth the home the Hail Mary uh
Speaker 1: sequential thirty six frame display the Stairway to Heaven. You
Speaker 1: need to get both of you need to go to
Speaker 1: the stairway the Drew Pearson Hail Mary Stairway here at
Speaker 1: the star and get your picture taken and tweet it out,
Speaker 1: make our pink. There you go. That's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1: That's good afterwards. And by the way, the rival run
Speaker 1: here and a break and run back. Can we call
Speaker 1: it a rivalry between the Cowboys and the Vikings? Do
Speaker 1: they play often enough to be a rivalry? I thought
Speaker 1: about that this week. I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: call it a rivalry, but there have been great moments
Speaker 1: between these franchises on and off the field. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you would have taken off the field too.
Speaker 1: In fact, this is wow. I wonder what the date was, well,
Speaker 1: it have been would have been in the month of
Speaker 1: October's October nineteen thirty years removed from the Herschel Walker trade,
Speaker 1: the most influential trade, possibly in the history of sports.
Speaker 1: Possibly when you think about it, it it was after the
Speaker 1: Green Bay game. I can look it up then, okay,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, you know, And really you go back
Speaker 1: to the seventies and the matchups the not only the
Speaker 1: Haill Mary, but there were several playoff matchups between the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Vikings in the decade of the seventies
Speaker 1: as well. And if I remember Bill, they played them
Speaker 1: twice that year in nineteen seventy five, eighty nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: oh the Packers. Okay, they played the Packers in the
Speaker 1: season finale, and they also played the Packers on October eighth.
Speaker 1: So it happened after that because there was a sparring
Speaker 1: match after the game with Herschel Walker, who was feigning
Speaker 1: no idea that there was a trade oh going on?
Speaker 1: So a verbal sparring match with the locker room after
Speaker 1: the game post game something. It was with Randy Galloway. Oh,
Speaker 1: leave it to Randy Galloway to get into a verbal
Speaker 1: sparring match with Herschel. Herschel got the last word. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: he said something. Herschel said some remark about well, you
Speaker 1: guys are real smart or something like that, and Randy said, well,
Speaker 1: at least we finished college at Herschel said, whoa. At
Speaker 1: Herschel said, I thought the idea of going to college
Speaker 1: was to figure out how to make money. That's a
Speaker 1: heck of a comeback right there. And then just a
Speaker 1: few days later, Galloway got the final word through Jerry
Speaker 1: and Jimmy working the trade the Minnesota Vikings. So that
Speaker 1: would have been and the week of October tenth or so,
Speaker 1: so it was in that mid mid October thirty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they made a couple of trades around the deadline that year,
Speaker 1: because I was looking it up. The last time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys made consecutive trade deadline multiple in consecutive years, and
Speaker 1: I think it was ninety two, But they made like
Speaker 1: three that months, and I think that was surprising. I
Speaker 1: think that one trump the others though, in terms of
Speaker 1: players and significance. For sure, the impact leading to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl victories, you know, but it's not often that
Speaker 1: the Vikings come here to play the Cowboys. It seems
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys have been traveling to Minnesota when they
Speaker 1: do play. They were here. The last time the Vikings
Speaker 1: played here was in twenty thirteen, which would have been
Speaker 1: the year before Zimmer became the head coach, I think.
Speaker 1: And so actually Jason Garrett in his as coached against
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer just one time is well, no, because Mike
Speaker 1: missed that game. Oh that try he had the ice
Speaker 1: tray and he was bedridden. Twenty and sixteen, that's right
Speaker 1: up there in Minnesota was a seventeen fifteen Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: In that one. Was that the Kyle Wilberg game? Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: Kyle Wilbur recovered a fumble down on about the ten
Speaker 1: yard line, leading to the go ahead touchdown for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That was a that was a rock fight, I think
Speaker 1: is what I called it yesterday. I think Dack threw
Speaker 1: for one hundred and thirty something yards and you know,
Speaker 1: he talked about it yesterday how he feels like he's
Speaker 1: a much better quarterback now. They do have similar personnel
Speaker 1: and scheme to when they did three years ago. So
Speaker 1: that's one reason why they've been able to sustain so
Speaker 1: much success. Was Zimmer's defenses. But it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough to move
Speaker 1: the balld score points again. Defense it was almost a
Speaker 1: repaid of the Hail Mary score seventeen fourteen. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: you know, but the Vikings have only played at AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium. Oh I take yeah one time twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: They said the previous time that before that, there was
Speaker 1: six years prior to that. It's when they Vikings came
Speaker 1: to Texas Stadium in two thousand and seven. So and
Speaker 1: even before that, you have to go back to two thousand.
Speaker 1: So it's black every once every six or seven years,
Speaker 1: the Vikings come here so here recently, so it's well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it's every time the Cowboys go
Speaker 1: thirteen and three kind of sort of, well, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a heck of a winning street that way.
Speaker 1: But as I alluded to off the top back in
Speaker 1: the seventies, the Cowboys played the Vikings and the playoffs
Speaker 1: in nineteen On Christmas Day nineteen seventy one in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: it was a Cowboys win, and then they played in
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship Game in seventy three, which was a
Speaker 1: Vikings win twenty seven to ten. And then in seventy
Speaker 1: five was the Hail Mary Game, the Cowboys winning seventeen fourteen,
Speaker 1: and then again in the NFC Championship Game January first,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. So the seventy seven season. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys won the Super Bowl that year, and then
Speaker 1: unfortunately they played him in the playoffs in two thousand nine.
Speaker 1: Was it? It was two thousand and nine, and that
Speaker 1: did not go so well. Turn out so well, that's tried.
Speaker 1: Thirty four to three was your final score, and that
Speaker 1: was the first possession of the game, and Wade Phillips
Speaker 1: decided to kick a field goal instead of going forward
Speaker 1: in a fourth and short, and that's what sold it
Speaker 1: to Mickey Spagnola that you can't win these games with
Speaker 1: field goals. You have you're playing this offense that just
Speaker 1: scores thirty some points a game. It was the quarterback
Speaker 1: of that Vikings team, one, Brett Farve Well, he was
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's pretty good. But also, and this is
Speaker 1: one final Cowboys Vikings memory, one of my favorite memories
Speaker 1: was Thanksgiving Day nineteen eighty seven, which was a forty
Speaker 1: four to thirty eight overtime, overtime game that was actually
Speaker 1: won by Minnesota. Mike Rentfro, I think, had a huge
Speaker 1: day that and if I remember, Darren Nelson had the
Speaker 1: winning touchdown. He ran like twenty or thirty yards for
Speaker 1: the score. And then he was part of the trade
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys for the Herschel Walker deal and refused
Speaker 1: to come here. He said, no, I'm not coming, and
Speaker 1: Jimmy said, that's fine, I'll him anyway. Because remember they
Speaker 1: had the draft choices trade, uh chain to each one
Speaker 1: the guys, and if the guy didn't you didn't keep
Speaker 1: the guy, you got the draft choice. And that's where
Speaker 1: Mike Lynn screwed up because he thought Jimmy wanted players
Speaker 1: to win right away. Because Mike Lynn looked at his
Speaker 1: at Jimmy's roster and said, he needs players. He's going
Speaker 1: to take these guys. But no, he didn't think he'd
Speaker 1: sacrifice the whole eighty nine. He had the big picture
Speaker 1: in mine. So anyway, that's a trip down Cowboys Vikings
Speaker 1: memory Lane. And when we come back here on Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: how about we dive into this current edition of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings to Talking Cowboys. Talking Cowboys continues from inside
Speaker 1: the SWBC Mortgage Studios here at The Star in Frisco
Speaker 1: on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort Worth, Big Weekend
Speaker 1: not only at the stadium on Sunday, but there's also
Speaker 1: a Salute to Service Plaza party tomorrow on Saturday on
Speaker 1: Tostito's Championship Plaza. The Salute to Service Plaza Party and
Speaker 1: enjoy live entertainment, military ceremonies, Dallas Cowboys alumni autographs, and more.
Speaker 1: After the event festivities, the Star will be hosting the
Speaker 1: top two Madden players as they face off in the
Speaker 1: EA Sports Madden NFL twenty Club Championship presented by Spire.
Speaker 1: Rob will have more on that coming up shortly here
Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. So am I to assume this is
Speaker 1: our salute to service game on Sunday night? It would be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I need to find my Daran's day coming up
Speaker 1: on Monday. That's right, Okay, I gotta find my pin
Speaker 1: to wear. Okay, very good, we'll look forward to that. Yes,
Speaker 1: we listened to you on the pregame. See me, you'll
Speaker 1: have to ance, Yeah, just tell us. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get up to speed on the news
Speaker 1: on this team, and let's start with Amari Cooper. What
Speaker 1: are we hearing on Amari Cooper right now? I didn't
Speaker 1: listen to Jerry on the fan this morning. I was
Speaker 1: in Jason Garrett's press conference with you, Mick. Yes, but
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett sounded hopeful that Amari could do something out
Speaker 1: there today. Amari told us in the locker room yesterday
Speaker 1: Thursday that that he didn't listen to the doctor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't, really, it wasn't he couldn't recall the results
Speaker 1: of the MRI on his bruised knee, but that he
Speaker 1: felt like it was a manageable deal. Yeah, So obviously
Speaker 1: there's some optimism that he can go Sunday. Right, They're
Speaker 1: going to do what they can to make them as
Speaker 1: comfortable as possible during the week, and he will play
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I have one hundred percent confidence in that. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Any other items on the injury front, Adam
Speaker 1: feeling out for the Vikings. He's gone out for the
Speaker 1: two practices this week, and I can't imagine that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's going to be fine on Friday,
Speaker 1: And so I would I would think what they're gonna
Speaker 1: do is I bet they list them as doubtful, questionable
Speaker 1: and take it up to game time to see if
Speaker 1: that thing comes around. Strained hamstring, has a few extra
Speaker 1: hours Sunday. Yes, Yes, he played seven plays last week
Speaker 1: against Kansas City and that doesn't well. Yeah, you would
Speaker 1: think that they would want to get that thing right
Speaker 1: before he tries it again. Yeah. I think the only
Speaker 1: person that Cowboys will be without is is Cameron Fleming.
Speaker 1: I think he's still out. He could be another week
Speaker 1: after this. Yeah. The fact that vander esh is going
Speaker 1: to practice again today or expected to at least on
Speaker 1: a limited basis that that bodes well for Sunday. Looks
Speaker 1: like at this point, and Jeff, I think they're more
Speaker 1: concerned with him being able to manage that knee with
Speaker 1: the stick twelve stitches in it. He's also got a
Speaker 1: shoulder going on and it might be one of those
Speaker 1: things where you can play through the season and then
Speaker 1: take care of it afterwards. But they were more concerned
Speaker 1: with the twelve stitches to make sure he didn't do
Speaker 1: anything to break the heesion. And here's the latest on
Speaker 1: what Jerry Jones did say on the Flagship one oh
Speaker 1: five three the Fan just moments ago this morning. He
Speaker 1: says he expects Vanderesh to play after missing last week's
Speaker 1: game with the neck issue, and Amari Cooper, he's hopeful
Speaker 1: he has a total clean bill of health if we
Speaker 1: were drafting him or signing him to not wait, let
Speaker 1: me go back to this when he comes to Cooper
Speaker 1: to his injured d Jones said, the wide out has
Speaker 1: quote a total clean bill of health if we were
Speaker 1: drafting him or signing him tonight, oh or trading for
Speaker 1: him like you did a year ago. Y hold our
Speaker 1: breath for a new contract. Okay, there you go. And
Speaker 1: anything else from Jason Garrett this morning not really just
Speaker 1: updating those injuries. I had a question for the host actually,
Speaker 1: because you've been in and out this week, assuming all
Speaker 1: of your linebackers are ready to go healthy for this game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be my question from the panel too. Well,
Speaker 1: make Billy go ahead. You asked the question, what do
Speaker 1: you do with Sean Lee snaps? If if LV we
Speaker 1: call him Layton as Jason Garrett said this week, but
Speaker 1: what do you what do you do with sho Sean
Speaker 1: snaps if everybody's healthy? You know, I like the idea
Speaker 1: of and it's very difficult for any of us because
Speaker 1: we don't know the exactly where Layton vander ish Esh
Speaker 1: is coming back from that. I mean, if we're going
Speaker 1: to assume he's ninety percent ready to go, then you
Speaker 1: would probably assume they would just resume what they were
Speaker 1: doing before, which is he gets ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps at the at the will, I would, yeah, and
Speaker 1: just based on what we've seen from Lee, and I
Speaker 1: think you have the luxury of Eason vander Esh back,
Speaker 1: yet maybe not give him the full load if you want,
Speaker 1: you know, And so I would we kind of lean
Speaker 1: that way. I think Minnesota and how they play might
Speaker 1: answer your question better because they like playing a lot
Speaker 1: of two tight ends, and so that means you're in
Speaker 1: standard defense, so that means you're strong side linebackers on
Speaker 1: the field a heck of a lot more. And I'll
Speaker 1: still maintain this. Maybe he plays more on nickel for
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. Maybe they like the way he plays more
Speaker 1: in pass coverage or having vander esh you know, he
Speaker 1: could play in the middle and Sean can play on
Speaker 1: the strong side. Maybe he gets more snaps that way.
Speaker 1: I just think they have to take advantage of his
Speaker 1: ability to diagnose things on the field somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: And with Michael Bennett here now as a third down
Speaker 1: pass rusher, the guy can play defensive end and give
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence a break. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: see no need to line up Jalen Smith as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher standing up on the line of scrimmage as
Speaker 1: one of the defensive tackles. And when you look at
Speaker 1: the snap counts from last week's Vikings game against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: Kyle Rudolph their number one tied end, Herb Smith Junior,
Speaker 1: their number two tight end. Rudolph had fifty five snaps
Speaker 1: and Smith had forty three their third receiver snaps in
Speaker 1: the game, and there were let me go over to
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman and I can tell you exactly seventy one.
Speaker 1: So fifty five of the seventy one Rudolph was on
Speaker 1: the field, forty three of the seventy one Smith was
Speaker 1: and another gauge on that without having going play by
Speaker 1: play and seeing who was on the what packages were
Speaker 1: on the field. Lakwan Treadwell was basically their third receiver.
Speaker 1: He had twenty snaps in the game. Now they lost
Speaker 1: theeland after seven snaps. He'll play more this week. And
Speaker 1: so they had Digs and B. C. Johnson where their
Speaker 1: top two receivers as far as snaps go, and Diggs
Speaker 1: had sixty three and Johnson at fifty nine. They also
Speaker 1: use a third tight end in Tyler Conklin. He had
Speaker 1: fourteen snaps on offense, and their fullback C. J. Hamm
Speaker 1: had twenty two snaps. So there's a lot of twenty
Speaker 1: one and twelve personnel that they use, some twenty two
Speaker 1: personnel as well. They even go three tight end. Talking
Speaker 1: with Will McClay about it, they're they're in base a
Speaker 1: lot more to your point, and so I think you're
Speaker 1: going to see those three linebackers, Jalen, Leyton and Sean
Speaker 1: on the field a lot in this game time, you know,
Speaker 1: and going forward if everybody's healthy, regardless of the personnel
Speaker 1: groupings you're facing. We've seen them have a bit of
Speaker 1: a rotation. We saw it last year before Sean got hurt.
Speaker 1: They would put bandaresh in for a series, and maybe
Speaker 1: that's something they try to do just to get Sean
Speaker 1: on the field little bit more. Mickey's right about sub packages.
Speaker 1: That's a possibility as well. We've seen that even a
Speaker 1: few games ago, and last year we did it. We
Speaker 1: saw it when m Sean Lee was battling injuries early
Speaker 1: in the season and they were breaking Vanderschien as well,
Speaker 1: And so they've got we've seen examples of it before
Speaker 1: where they'll they'll bring in a guy for a series
Speaker 1: in the base you know at the just an embarrassment
Speaker 1: of riches and we weren't even talking about Joe Thomas.
Speaker 1: You know, you just quoted Chris Rochard there what he
Speaker 1: said that yesterday did Yes, he did, embarrassment of riches
Speaker 1: and talking about back position. Yeah, yeah, because you basically
Speaker 1: he is a Pro Bowl player player that you can
Speaker 1: that you can plug at any point, Not to mention
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, who has been a starter in another city
Speaker 1: and can step in and play pretty much any spot
Speaker 1: you need a linebacker, all right? More on this matchup
Speaker 1: with the Vikings when Talking Cowboys continues at a moment.
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Speaker 1: If you're not in town this weekend, make sure to
Speaker 1: stop by the plaza party Madden Championship at Dostito's Championship
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Speaker 1: I can watch it. Yes, So we have a specific
Speaker 1: time now on that Madden six Championship six o'clock on
Speaker 1: Saturday evening. So do I watch that in Missouri, Georgia.
Speaker 1: I was about to ask you what your game time
Speaker 1: was on your game six o'clock six o'clock, Missoo and Georgia.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that prime ESPN. The Suitors are finally
Speaker 1: in primetime against Iowa State on Saturday night. Another big
Speaker 1: local game is TCU and Baylor. Yeah, that's a big
Speaker 1: rivalry game. Baylor comes in unbeaten and Gary Patterson's gonna
Speaker 1: have those horn Frogs ready for him. Though. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling SMU have. They're playing homecoming at eleven am
Speaker 1: against a team okay, with players, and and I did
Speaker 1: mention that Oklahoma is playing Ioways State at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: on Saturday, died. Okay, wait a second, now that you
Speaker 1: mentioned it, I gotta find SMU. They're playing East Carolina.
Speaker 1: They're playing Robert Jones Alma Maters. Bring it back to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They'll bounce back. They'll bounce back. Dwayne Harris,
Speaker 1: he's Carolina, right, yes, okay, speaking of the he's with
Speaker 1: the Raiders now, isn't he. I believe so. They won
Speaker 1: last night over the Chargers. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, Carl Joseph picked off a pass I think
Speaker 1: and got hurt on the play. And he might he's
Speaker 1: having an MRI. I might be out of the year.
Speaker 1: And I was just listening to John Gruden. He was
Speaker 1: talking about him and LaMarcus Joiner. They at the safety position.
Speaker 1: They already lost their rookie Jonathan Abram, and now in
Speaker 1: one fell swoop, they may be losing a couple of
Speaker 1: other safeties. In this league, it is so tenuous. You know.
Speaker 1: We were taping a segment with Will McClay is the
Speaker 1: Film Room segment, which you can check out on Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com. We were waiting while Mickey finished up
Speaker 1: his little Next Star thing yesterday in the TV studios
Speaker 1: here just talking about and I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: Will McClure. I mean, what would it be like for
Speaker 1: a GM or a personnel guy with an NFL team.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know from game to game, from
Speaker 1: practice to practice, who you're going to have available. Kim
Speaker 1: Fleming goes down enough practice during a bye week. That's
Speaker 1: why That's why brought Us always says when he was
Speaker 1: in the front office, you hold your breath throughout training
Speaker 1: camp in preseason to start with, because I mean, let's
Speaker 1: be honest, those games don't mean a whole lot and
Speaker 1: so much as writing on it, just the health of
Speaker 1: your roster, not to mention once the pads come on
Speaker 1: and how physical this sport is week to week. Well,
Speaker 1: think about the Vikings Lynnville Joseph. They're starting defensive tackle
Speaker 1: full practice on Wednesday. Thursday, did not practice so evidently
Speaker 1: hurt his knee. Yeah. I mean it happens to every
Speaker 1: team around the league, so it's not excuses for anybody.
Speaker 1: But I don't but it matters. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 1: remember this in the seventies and eighties where guys got
Speaker 1: hurt like this. Well, what happened, Bill was they put
Speaker 1: them on injured reserve for four weeks and then they
Speaker 1: could bring them back and you could bring somebody else
Speaker 1: onto the roster. Uh, And then they would stash guys
Speaker 1: on injured reserve to keep their rights with phony injuries.
Speaker 1: And then the league said, now we're not doing Now.
Speaker 1: That was before the salary cap era, yes, and so
Speaker 1: the salary cap controls that Now. I think what the
Speaker 1: NFL needs to do is go to a baseball injured
Speaker 1: injury UM policy. Out for a while. Yeah, you can back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can bring them you know, a month or whatever
Speaker 1: it is twenty one day disabled. Yeah about not disabled, injured, injured, sorry,
Speaker 1: injured reserve is eight weeks minimum, but you only can
Speaker 1: bring back to two guys, and that is after they've
Speaker 1: already were on the fifty three on September first, okay U,
Speaker 1: two guys could be designated to return. I think for
Speaker 1: any everybody, it would make the product better. You know,
Speaker 1: and you've invested so much money in these players, But
Speaker 1: what controls the stashing of the players is the fact
Speaker 1: every team's got a salary cap. You can't spend beyond
Speaker 1: that salary cap. Those injured players obviously count against the cap,
Speaker 1: and so I think that's something that they because if
Speaker 1: you look at the second half of the season, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys happened to be in really good shape. It's gonna
Speaker 1: say that, knock on wood, their health is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've had a lot of starters banged up,
Speaker 1: and obviously, you know mari Is, he's dealt with like
Speaker 1: four or five different things with his lower body, quad, knee, ankle,
Speaker 1: you know, killes, tendonitis, whatever it was, play or fasciitis.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, and now this large stretch of games
Speaker 1: coming up in a short period of time, it's something
Speaker 1: you gotta manage with him. But overall, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a young team that's been able to stay relatively healthy.
Speaker 1: See that the teams were their own worst enemies because
Speaker 1: they were stashing guys, you know, And then in early
Speaker 1: nineties before the salary cap, they had independent physicians come
Speaker 1: to your practices to make sure that guy was really hurt, right,
Speaker 1: I remember, it wasn't out there practicing because they would
Speaker 1: stash guys and then let him practice right on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: So now you can't do that. So yeah, they were
Speaker 1: their own worst enemies. And then the salary cap made there.
Speaker 1: But you would think as much money as is invested
Speaker 1: in these players that the owners would be all about, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: if I'm paying this guy ten million dollars a year
Speaker 1: and I just lost him because he's got a high
Speaker 1: ankle spring in September, I losing for the entire year
Speaker 1: because we need the roster spot, I mean, and when
Speaker 1: I could have him back by November first and for
Speaker 1: the second half of the year, you know. I think
Speaker 1: what they were trying to do is make it more
Speaker 1: equitable among the teams so that injuries didn't totally destroy
Speaker 1: like you can keep you might have guys that are
Speaker 1: somewhat injured and they could practice and the other team
Speaker 1: might have four guys that are just just let's make
Speaker 1: it fully equitable where a guy can come back when
Speaker 1: he's healthy, he comes back December. If he's healthy December first,
Speaker 1: let him come back to this team and you'd have
Speaker 1: a much better product on the field. It's too bad
Speaker 1: you can't have load management like in them. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: you know. The only that was a topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? You only get sixteen of these
Speaker 1: you don't get eighty two to rest guys. So it
Speaker 1: just doesn't apply to this sport. Oh, because they were
Speaker 1: they were and resting guys back to backs or whatever,
Speaker 1: which is yeah, you know you got to play Sunday Thursday.
Speaker 1: Now you'd take Thursday off. We're going with Cooper Rush. Okay,
Speaker 1: the last couple of minutes of this segment, let's dive
Speaker 1: into the Vikings a little bit. What is it that
Speaker 1: concerns you the most about the Vikings their pass rush?
Speaker 1: I think I think this is defensively. I think Jason
Speaker 1: Witten said it. It's probably the toughest test the offense
Speaker 1: is going to face Hunter two sacks and they're meeting
Speaker 1: three years ago. Griffin on the other side. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm watching Lyle Collins matchup and saying, that's that's the
Speaker 1: one you circle. And he's having a terrific year. He's
Speaker 1: got to be able to handle him on the edge.
Speaker 1: And you just look at the Vikings defense and they're
Speaker 1: they're just good at every level, linebacker, secondary. You can't
Speaker 1: afford to get off to a slow start in this one, Mick,
Speaker 1: and especially making sure your sound against the blitz, because
Speaker 1: they're gonna blitz. I know Mike Zimmer, and Mike Zimmer
Speaker 1: loves the blitz, and on third down, my understanding is
Speaker 1: they will come, they will come with one extra, they
Speaker 1: will come with two extra, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: they'll just play zero coverage and you're man to man
Speaker 1: on the outside and they're bringing everybody, and you better
Speaker 1: be sound on your blitz pickups, your blitz cutoffs if
Speaker 1: you're a receiver, and don't let this quarterback get hit
Speaker 1: time after time after time. Those two guys that Rob
Speaker 1: Hunter and Griffin, they've totaled fourteen sacks in nine in
Speaker 1: nine games. And not only that, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if this number is skewed by who's ever keeping the hits.
Speaker 1: But they've got sixty nine quarterback hits. Sixty nine that's
Speaker 1: a lot. So they better be able to protect Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and not let those blitzes ruin their offense. And
Speaker 1: here's the deal, and here's how you beat it. You
Speaker 1: beat it deep, you burn them, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they might say, you know what, we better
Speaker 1: back off because we're not getting there. That's the only
Speaker 1: way you're gonna beat it. Otherwise they're gonna keep coming.
Speaker 1: I love that matchup of Lyle Collins, the way he's
Speaker 1: playing this season against the Neil Hunter. He's been He's
Speaker 1: played at a Pro Bowl conversation level at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and that's what he's one of. The Hunter and Griffin
Speaker 1: two of the problem maybe the best edge rushing tandem
Speaker 1: in the league or the NFC, or right right right
Speaker 1: up there. And the Cowboys saw with with what the
Speaker 1: Packers were doing with the the Smith quote unquote brothers. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they had some some and all teams have
Speaker 1: had some different brothers. Yeah. I tried that line way
Speaker 1: back when I was covering a basketball game. But there
Speaker 1: were two guys on the team named Smith, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was being cute saying the Smith brothers. I
Speaker 1: get a call from the desk. Uh, those two guys
Speaker 1: aren't related. But seriously, I mean, you talk about what
Speaker 1: Tank and Quinn mean to this group defensively, and these
Speaker 1: guys are in the same conversation. It's the same level
Speaker 1: of play. Really good, all right? We continue with more
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys in just a moment. Back to Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys continues Dallas Cowboys dot com and on Texas
Speaker 1: twenty one in Dallas, Fort Worth, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola,
Speaker 1: and Rob Phillips. You can give us a call and
Speaker 1: be a part of the show. Eight five five okay,
Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight five two two nine seven. We
Speaker 1: come on call forgot the area you've been doing eight
Speaker 1: eight five five two two nine seven. Numbers changed over
Speaker 1: the years. They have six two thousand and four. When
Speaker 1: we first did it, we went well, we changed and
Speaker 1: then we're back to the old reliable, the old reliable
Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight five ninety seven. So what players
Speaker 1: do you put in? I go with I go with
Speaker 1: Emmett and Jason Hatcher two two ninety seven. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going Emmett and Leroy Glover. Okay, okay, eight times? Is
Speaker 1: that your version of the drop and the prefix would
Speaker 1: be eight mon and Leroy Jordan's okay eight five five
Speaker 1: eight five two two ninety seven? Or Bob Hayes and
Speaker 1: give me another ninety seven, Jimmy Jones, Um, that was Jimmy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I wouldn't give you a Triston Hill. Triston
Speaker 1: Hill would be another one. Okay, ye give us a
Speaker 1: call and offer up a ninety seven from Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: All right, I means Rob doesn't have to take emails,
Speaker 1: doesn't all right? Kids table back in the day, Yeah, Daniel, Okay,
Speaker 1: I have missed on a lot of players in my
Speaker 1: big Green NFL draft scouting notes. You're but I am
Speaker 1: proud about the Neil Hunter and it to this day
Speaker 1: and for the rest of his career is gonna bug
Speaker 1: me that he went late third round to Minnesota. And
Speaker 1: I looked at him, I ask one, how is this
Speaker 1: guy not a first round draft pick? We did looked
Speaker 1: at him at LSU. He had no production at LSU
Speaker 1: rushing the pastor, but it looked like and John Chavis
Speaker 1: was the defensive coordinator at LSU. Then when you looked
Speaker 1: at tape of him at LSU. It looked like he
Speaker 1: was coached to defend the run first, and especially back
Speaker 1: then the SEC was a run first conference. But you
Speaker 1: saw glimpses of he could he could go get it
Speaker 1: whenever prompted. Okay, and then his numbers at the combine
Speaker 1: were basically right there with DeMarcus Ware and he slid
Speaker 1: all the way. And here the Cowboys are there drafting
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory late in the second round when there's that
Speaker 1: obvious need for that defensive end. And it was to
Speaker 1: that point I was so enamored with him. On draft
Speaker 1: day I called. I called his old high school coach
Speaker 1: who used to be at the Soto here, Dave Meadows,
Speaker 1: who was at Morton Ranch High School in the Houston
Speaker 1: area down in Katie, and I asked him, Okay, tell
Speaker 1: me about this guy, okay, and he was. He said, well,
Speaker 1: he's the hardest working player I've ever He's an old
Speaker 1: old Texas high school football coach and just about very
Speaker 1: matter of fact about everything and how he's don't name
Speaker 1: the weight room after him, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 1: He's such a hard worker. Uh. I couldn't get him
Speaker 1: out of the weight room. Wait close and turn the
Speaker 1: lights out and he's still in there lifting And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: so what kind of potential do you think he has
Speaker 1: in the NFL? All Pro sold it for me. So
Speaker 1: was he there? Did he get overshadowed by h Mingo?
Speaker 1: Where he was before Marcia's Mango was before him? I
Speaker 1: just slightly Mingo was before um Da Hunter came out
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, and um anyway, well, and he and
Speaker 1: he take Gregory in twenty fifteen, what was he picks
Speaker 1: sixty right, top fifteen talent something like that. Nice ring
Speaker 1: tone by the way, And it's just been the off
Speaker 1: the field stuff, you know. But Gregory at Nebraska showed
Speaker 1: the talent level of an All Pro type rusher. But
Speaker 1: they knew they were taking a chance. They knew it,
Speaker 1: they knew it was a top ten talent. And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and um so anyway, and so now here he is
Speaker 1: forty eight and a half sacks in basically forty two
Speaker 1: starts in his career. Maybe one of the most underrated
Speaker 1: guys in because nobody really talks about it. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: be worried about Delvin Cook. We should be yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean team right, he clearly you know they talk about
Speaker 1: you have an ACL injury and it takes you two
Speaker 1: years to get back to full form. And he's clearly
Speaker 1: back at full form now. You know, fact that Will
Speaker 1: McClay breaks him down in the film room on the
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett Show on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. You want
Speaker 1: to take look at how the Vikings use this guy,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, you know, and somebody said, well they stopped,
Speaker 1: say Quon Barkley. I'm going yeah, but that was the
Speaker 1: Giants offensive line. You know, I this this that guy
Speaker 1: concerns me more so than Cousins. Well, yeah, and there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a Barkley similarity to me, just
Speaker 1: because he's got thirty three catches too, can help you
Speaker 1: in hurt you in a lot of different ways. And Madison,
Speaker 1: their rookie too, is a guy that has worked in
Speaker 1: to the rotation and can get in there and run
Speaker 1: the ball effectively as well. But you know, the run
Speaker 1: defense has been really solid and Shaun Ley has been
Speaker 1: a big part of that. The last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: cut last couple of weeks. Yeah, you know, Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: our producer, does a terrific job, and he told me
Speaker 1: there's a couple of callers on the line. I don't
Speaker 1: do a terrific job of listening. And so is that
Speaker 1: why your phone rang? Though, it's not why phone callers
Speaker 1: are calling you, right, they called me and so I
Speaker 1: gotta text them to say no, there's you need to
Speaker 1: call eight eight eight eight five five two two nine
Speaker 1: seven and Kyle tell me again. Who's on the line. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you've got Michael from Stanford on the here. Michael, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: good morning, Thanks for taking my call. What's up? Um?
Speaker 1: I just have a couple of questions. The first one,
Speaker 1: do you guys think that the Cowboys will do hurry
Speaker 1: up offense to try to tire out the Vikings defense?
Speaker 1: And my second question is do you think Shaun Lee
Speaker 1: has played well enough to get another one year deal
Speaker 1: next year? All right, thank you very much. If Shaun
Speaker 1: Lee wants to play next year, then Shaun Lee has
Speaker 1: played well enough. And as far as I'm concerned, Sean
Speaker 1: Lee can play here as long as he wants to
Speaker 1: play here. I'm with you on that, And yes to
Speaker 1: both of your questions, go hurry up. I mean they've
Speaker 1: done it. You know, if you're if you're moving the
Speaker 1: ball and you're moving with confidence, then do it. Because
Speaker 1: you know we mentioned during the break the high school
Speaker 1: team tied at the end of the game and they
Speaker 1: went for two points to win. We can go ahead
Speaker 1: and reveal that team that was just so I forgot
Speaker 1: belt Line, one of the greatest rivalries in Texas high
Speaker 1: school football. And it all it all sounds good when
Speaker 1: it works, but when it doesn't work and you go
Speaker 1: three and out and it's like, well, what did you do?
Speaker 1: You hurried up and went to the bench and you're
Speaker 1: hanging your defense out. Yeah, it's it's like everybody thinks
Speaker 1: this hurry up is, you know, the panacea of football.
Speaker 1: It's good to solve everything. Well, what if it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: what's the downside? Well, you go back to the bench
Speaker 1: and sit. All right, real quick, we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: Hector in New York. Hello, Hector. Hector's doing constructor Are
Speaker 1: you sorry right now? I tell you he banged up
Speaker 1: talking about des Bran being sign isn't possible to receiver
Speaker 1: receiver at the moment that I don't know. Once mom,
Speaker 1: he's gone. Man, we struggle in the past. The game
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen to it. So you want him to
Speaker 1: sign Daz, Are you willing to sign another receiver number one?
Speaker 1: Like you said, gotta have performed to be a number
Speaker 1: one receiver? Kay Ron and com I don't know about them.
Speaker 1: I love Deaz, but Gallup looked a lot like Daz
Speaker 1: on that touchdown that he had a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: That was very desl and Devin Smith they still have
Speaker 1: him too, by the way, that's right. They don't worry
Speaker 1: about Michael Gallup. I think it's taken him. It's he
Speaker 1: he had surgery. He was a bad half and he
Speaker 1: was out for a little bit, and he's rounding back
Speaker 1: into form. I think he's gonna be just fine. You
Speaker 1: know what that reminded me of. But um one of
Speaker 1: our vocal talk shows that evidently some guy was holding
Speaker 1: and it was on a post game show and when
Speaker 1: they finally went to him, and it was like midnight
Speaker 1: or so, the guy fell asleep, but he had his
Speaker 1: phoe it all you could hear. What's the guy's snory?
Speaker 1: They just let it go right, They thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's midnight, one in the morning. What the heck, it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's a testament. What kind of show postgame show? That was?
Speaker 1: Probably too. All right, we got our picks to click,
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Speaker 1: and uh twenty kickoff of course, and Cowboys in prime
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Speaker 1: a candidate for the Florida State head coaching job. And
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Speaker 1: what a football weekend we're in November. I'd love this
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Speaker 1: going to happen on Sunday night? Okay about some picks
Speaker 1: to click and we're gonna get some winners here. Okay,
Speaker 1: win any last week that would be the Giants game.
Speaker 1: I was a winner last week on my pick to click?
Speaker 1: Who'd you get? I had Jason Witten pretty good when
Speaker 1: you say good leading receiver. I think I may have
Speaker 1: mentioned Blake Jarwin in there too, based on he was
Speaker 1: my my one. A. Oh, that's cheating, So I want
Speaker 1: to go with one I think I got. I had
Speaker 1: d Law Okay, very okay, yeah, Rob, who did you have?
Speaker 1: I had Michael Gallop who he made a sports center.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a very good that's deciding fact. Who
Speaker 1: brought us have? I don't remember, I don't I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I think he took little talent because we are so
Speaker 1: into ourselves that we don't remember who the other people pick.
Speaker 1: All right, so who's your pick to click this week? Mickey?
Speaker 1: I am going to take Michael Gallup because I think
Speaker 1: he's going to get a lot of single coverage. You
Speaker 1: think he's going to show Hector in New York? Right,
Speaker 1: he can be a number one, he can be an
Speaker 1: ex why or Z? There you go. I'm going to
Speaker 1: Michael Gold Michael gall since I got to go first. Okay,
Speaker 1: you stole mine, so I'm gonna go. I'm gonna stick
Speaker 1: with wide receiver, and I'm gonna go with Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: because while we're optimistic Amari can play. Mickey mentioned the
Speaker 1: single coverage. I just think Cobb is due for a
Speaker 1: breakout game and he's played against this defense a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh good points. He's familiar with Minnesota, and I don't
Speaker 1: I've lost track of how many touchdowns he's had called
Speaker 1: back by penalty. Like Mickey says, the more you lose,
Speaker 1: the closer yard of winning. Same with touchdowns, he's due
Speaker 1: for one or two. That's a good one. I like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: of course they're familiar with him too, that's fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could do it? Do it? Do it? Who do you
Speaker 1: think I'm going with Blake Jarwind No, no, no, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: here's my one a last you know what, this goes
Speaker 1: against my NF my big Green NFL draft scouting notebook,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with Lyle Collins is my pick
Speaker 1: to click. I thought you were gonna take to Neil
Speaker 1: Hunter because he's going up against the guy with the
Speaker 1: eight and a half sacks, and I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: need Lyle Collins to play well, and I think he's
Speaker 1: up to the challenge. He's played a lot of good
Speaker 1: speed rushers in his career, so this is not something
Speaker 1: overwhelming for him. So yeah, I think that's if you're
Speaker 1: circling matchups, that's a big one right there for Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to be watching. Okay, so what
Speaker 1: are you going to be watching when you're when you're
Speaker 1: watching the when the Cowboys are on offense, what is
Speaker 1: it that you're going to be watching for. I will
Speaker 1: be watching to see how well they take care of
Speaker 1: the blitzing that goes on. And I'm going to try
Speaker 1: to remember to write down every time they blitz. And
Speaker 1: you're going to think about your first meeting with Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer forty years ago at the University of Missouri, probably
Speaker 1: where he learned to blitz Warren Powers who it was
Speaker 1: nine and eighty. How about when you're watching the Cowboys
Speaker 1: on offense, what is it that you're going to have
Speaker 1: your eye trained on for the press box? Just the
Speaker 1: run blocking and how they're how they're getting to the
Speaker 1: second level and moving things with the offensive line. It
Speaker 1: was a thing of beauty to watch on Monday night.
Speaker 1: And I do I think Zeke's onto something. They're they're
Speaker 1: finding a groove in that regard big challenge this week,
Speaker 1: but I think they're they're settling into where they the
Speaker 1: standard they're used to. That the way the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: run the football really the last two and a half games,
Speaker 1: even the second half against the Jets game where they
Speaker 1: just got into that mindset and they had the backup
Speaker 1: tackles in that game. I understand that they, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is our meal ticket right here, feed zeke yep, all right,
Speaker 1: who wins a game? I've got the Cowboys. And in
Speaker 1: honor of Tony Dorset's ninety nine and a half yard
Speaker 1: run against the Vikings on the final game of the
Speaker 1: eighty two seasons. So it was January third, nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got beat thirty one twenty seven. Well, that
Speaker 1: score is gonna get reversed. Cowboys thirty one, Vikings twenty seven. Wow,
Speaker 1: all right, a lot of points in this one. I'm
Speaker 1: going lower scoring. I'll go with Dallas twenty one twenty.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a slug fest and and may come
Speaker 1: down to the last minute. I wanted in field goals
Speaker 1: on the could be never, by the way, I wanted
Speaker 1: to honor the hell Mary, but I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was gonna be seventeen closing seconds. Here. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Cowboys thirty to twenty. Do you realize it's not one,
Speaker 1: not two, but three games now that the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: gotten the ball with twenty seven seconds or less left
Speaker 1: in the first half and gotten a field goal that's
Speaker 1: stealing a possession. Oh, let me write that down three times,
Speaker 1: tapping against the Jets as well as the Eagles and
Speaker 1: the Giants. Will it happen against Sunday Night against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it on Monday on Talking Cowboys.