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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are. It's a fabulous
Speaker 1: Friday edition of Mixed Shots. As we are, well, we
Speaker 1: are forty eight hours away from halftime at AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The media just can't get
Speaker 1: enough of the fact that the Cowboys got flex down
Speaker 1: on Sunday night football playing at noon on Sunday on
Speaker 1: CBS eleven in Dallas Fort Worth. I'm am quick to add,
Speaker 1: and this is Mick Shots. This is Bill Jones, this
Speaker 1: is Everson Walls, this is Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studio, and this is must win time for your
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Right, Mickey, we finally got to that point,
Speaker 1: right we've been, They've been yelling at it, and it's
Speaker 1: got a must win, a must win. Well now mathematically
Speaker 1: it's a must win. You're exactly right. And I would
Speaker 1: imagine since it's a Sunday noon game, we're not getting
Speaker 1: Tony Romo doing the game? Are we? We probably aren't.
Speaker 1: I need to figure out who is doing that game.
Speaker 1: It's in the notes, I'm sure. Oh wait, I can
Speaker 1: tell you, babe, all right? Who is who has the
Speaker 1: call on CBS Kevin Harlan and Trent Green with Kevin
Speaker 1: Harlan and Trent Green with Melanie Collins on the sideline.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine Kevin Harland is very good friends
Speaker 1: with Mike McCarthy. The Harland family very involved with that
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer outfit through the years, and so they
Speaker 1: probably so maybe that will be something that will bode
Speaker 1: well for Mike McCarthy, at least from a broadcasting standpoint.
Speaker 1: He's got the play by play guy on his side,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. And I guess I should have said
Speaker 1: Tony Romo does Tony? Does Tony Romo ever give us
Speaker 1: a win? I can't recall, Well, did he do Atlanta?
Speaker 1: Did what might have done? Minnesot he didn't do. No,
Speaker 1: Minnesota was probably a fin. No. Minnesota was near Jonathan
Speaker 1: Vill mcgae loves so much Jefferson. He brought us a win,
Speaker 1: Kenny Albert, Right, that's the reason you like, Vill brought
Speaker 1: us a win? His voice reminds me of victory. That's
Speaker 1: probably what it is. You know what that that it
Speaker 1: me of, you know, being in Oklahoma grad My whole
Speaker 1: family went to OU to school, and so when they
Speaker 1: would play it like in the Orange Bowl, and the
Speaker 1: game would typically be on NBC and Jim Simpson or
Speaker 1: somebody would be calling the game with Paul McGuire or something,
Speaker 1: and OU would be doing a horrible at the game,
Speaker 1: and I'd get phone calls from my sisters saying, these
Speaker 1: announcers are horrible. No, if your team is horrible, that's
Speaker 1: the reason the announcers are horrible. That's like blaming the
Speaker 1: weather man for the weather. That's rights, like, like the
Speaker 1: weather man actually makes the weather. Yeah, that's pretty pretty rich.
Speaker 1: That's what we had when I did Ranger games with
Speaker 1: Tom gree We had a saying, our broadcast, we can
Speaker 1: have an not that we ever would have an Emmy
Speaker 1: Award winning broadcast, but we could. We could be operating
Speaker 1: at the ultimate levels that we could possibly operate. But
Speaker 1: if they're losing ten to one, it's a horrible broadcast.
Speaker 1: And so it has everything to do with the play
Speaker 1: of the team on the field. So it's hard it's
Speaker 1: at the salvage in competence in the in the commentator's boots,
Speaker 1: exactly like blaming us. However, the team we didn't pick
Speaker 1: him right right right there, that's right. They might start.
Speaker 1: So over the course of the next forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you whether whether you're going to enjoy the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday or not. One are the chances that
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans will enjoy this game against the forty nine ers, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like Charles Barkley. I guarantee, I guarantee
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna win this game. That's yeah. Are
Speaker 1: they gonna Are they gonna enjoy? Kevin Harland and Trent
Speaker 1: Green on the broadcast, Mickey, what do you think Kevin
Speaker 1: Harland's good? Um No, I'm saying you dismissed my whole point.
Speaker 1: That is, I got it broadcasters where your team's playing.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to say it because then that goes
Speaker 1: against his mantra of you know, they gotta win two
Speaker 1: in a row. So he can't really commit right now.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe next week he can commit, or or
Speaker 1: if I can, then you know what, I'll never Yet,
Speaker 1: we got a big problem you care after that, wait
Speaker 1: till next year. And by the way, what I said,
Speaker 1: what I said, Melody Collins was the sideline reporter. She'll
Speaker 1: be the lower section of the of the stands reporter
Speaker 1: by the way, because they're not allowed on the field.
Speaker 1: There you go. And by the way, I have an
Speaker 1: update on Tony Romo broadcasting Cowboys games. This from Justin
Speaker 1: Ferrell on Twitter, and you can tweet us at spags
Speaker 1: fifty two. Are you monitoring Twitter, Mickey h You mean
Speaker 1: like right now? I am so good? Yeah, like right now.
Speaker 1: If you want to, if you want to communicate with this,
Speaker 1: go to at CBS eleven Bill Jones, because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at your tweets and the mentions on tweet deck right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Romo called the Giants Cowboys game this year,
Speaker 1: which we won but lost, and we won, we lost
Speaker 1: because we lost DAK that game. They beat the Giant
Speaker 1: with DAK. Then no, he means, because he's saying Romo
Speaker 1: called the Giants game the Cowboy game this year, which
Speaker 1: we won but lost, and we won when he did
Speaker 1: the Chiefs game in twenty seventeen. All right, but but
Speaker 1: he's saying we won the game, but we lost Dak,
Speaker 1: so we really didn't win the game. So all right,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Justin Farrell, thank you, Justin so Nicky,
Speaker 1: give us a practice report where you there. They're not
Speaker 1: doing much. They're not doing much practice wise today. And
Speaker 1: now it's a McCarthy Friday and the walk through day today,
Speaker 1: so we'll go off of what we saw yesterday and
Speaker 1: what Mike had to say today. So when he was
Speaker 1: asked about Trayvon Diggs, Donovan Wilson, and Anthony Brown, he
Speaker 1: said he is optimistic that they all will play on Sunday. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they should, and they already had participated in what
Speaker 1: he calls a mock game, not a walkthrough, a mock
Speaker 1: game already this morning, so he feels pretty good about that. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was not quite as uh positive about Zeke playing
Speaker 1: as Jerry Jones was when he was asked this morning
Speaker 1: on his segment on the on the Fan if he
Speaker 1: thought Zeke would play, and he said absolutely absolutely, and
Speaker 1: uh said uh, and he said, but you know that's
Speaker 1: Jerry doctor, Jerry Jones saying it. And he goes in,
Speaker 1: it's not my he said, it's not my knee, it's
Speaker 1: not my ankle, it's not my hamstring. But I think
Speaker 1: he'll play, so anyway, I thought, I know, but the calf.
Speaker 1: He mentioned everything else but the calf, and as Zeke,
Speaker 1: sometimes I think Jerry, Jerry didn't get the memo. Sometimes
Speaker 1: Jerry just doesn't get the memo right. But as Zeke said,
Speaker 1: you know, it was stiff on him first couple series
Speaker 1: in this past game, and then it kind of worked
Speaker 1: itself out. Since it's a bruise, it's not a tear
Speaker 1: or a strain and so and then H McCarthy said
Speaker 1: he thought Chitube Woozier was ready to go, so that
Speaker 1: bodes well for the corners along with Donovan Wilson ready
Speaker 1: to go. But I think there'll still be a question
Speaker 1: mark on Xavier Woods, who missed practice yesterday with a
Speaker 1: groin injury, a groin strain, and we'll see where that
Speaker 1: one goes. He was less definitive on Woods. He said,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be ready to go Sunday. We'll see
Speaker 1: where he's in practice, what he does in practice tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So that's probably a game time decision. If Woods can't go,
Speaker 1: Darien Thompson and then Donovan Wilson will be the safeties.
Speaker 1: And then it looks like they'll have their Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was fully practiced yesterday, so that's good news there. And
Speaker 1: then we'll see where they go at the cornerback position
Speaker 1: if they have for one of the few times their
Speaker 1: top four corners all dressed and ready to go. Deonte
Speaker 1: Burton and Richard Robinson neither one has practiced all weeks,
Speaker 1: so I would imagine they're down in this game. You know.
Speaker 1: I was we always kind of talking about some off
Speaker 1: the wall things about this segment and when you look
Speaker 1: at how teams are handling injuries this year versus all
Speaker 1: other years. I was listening to a show and they
Speaker 1: were talking about how things may change forever, never going
Speaker 1: back to the way it was in regards to preparation.
Speaker 1: Even in regards to the coverage of sports. What do
Speaker 1: you think have you even thought about the spags the
Speaker 1: changes that might be made, not just in practices and
Speaker 1: how they prepare for the week now, how they prepare
Speaker 1: for the year, what the offseason might look like, and
Speaker 1: you know, a post vaccine, a post vaccinated world, what
Speaker 1: do you think some changes are going to stay in place,
Speaker 1: even in regards to how you guys cover the squad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about covering, but I read where the
Speaker 1: owners when they had their past meeting, when they put
Speaker 1: off the final decision on the seventeenth game, which Jerry
Speaker 1: thinks it's definitely gonna happen. It's just a matter of
Speaker 1: when they announce it. And then how they handled the preseason.
Speaker 1: But I saw one thing they they were talking about
Speaker 1: was maybe loosening the rules on injured reserve, like how
Speaker 1: long you have to be out. I think they liked
Speaker 1: the way it worked this year with guys being able
Speaker 1: to go on IR but only for three weeks and
Speaker 1: after that you were eligible to come back. And maybe
Speaker 1: also and you know, they were going to expand the
Speaker 1: practice squad I think from whatever it was last year
Speaker 1: to twelve this year, and then they expanded into sixteen,
Speaker 1: and I think they kind of liked that the fact
Speaker 1: that that you could put more veteran guys on the
Speaker 1: practice squad and then call guys up that stuff might change.
Speaker 1: I think they liked the way that that has worked
Speaker 1: this year. And I don't and I don't think they
Speaker 1: saw much abuse of remember how you when you guys played,
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, we liked this guy, but we really
Speaker 1: don't have room on the roster. We're gonna put them
Speaker 1: on IR for four weeks and then assuming after four
Speaker 1: weeks somebody else is gonna get hurt, and then we
Speaker 1: can bring them back. And so they started stashing guys
Speaker 1: when they weren't even hurt. But I think they liked
Speaker 1: the way it worked this year, So I think, um,
Speaker 1: it's about I think we might see you were loopholes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were loopholes. Yeah, and so but it really and
Speaker 1: the game day roster too, Bill too on how you
Speaker 1: can call a guy up on Saturday and then put
Speaker 1: them back down on Monday off the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster or fifty five. I think they liked the way
Speaker 1: that worked. Yeah, scheduling preseason versus the number of games. Also,
Speaker 1: are they going to change the number I'll continue to
Speaker 1: deal with? Change the number of teams that make the playoffs. Well,
Speaker 1: they had already been talking about expanding that, right, and
Speaker 1: they just expanded it more. So I think that will
Speaker 1: go forward. I think they'll like that. I think the offseason,
Speaker 1: I think everybody realized this was a big miss this year,
Speaker 1: not having an off season. Uh, and we can go
Speaker 1: to you know what you said about the injuries and
Speaker 1: I think soft tissue injuries, uh certainly are affected by
Speaker 1: not having the off season they're normally having. I think
Speaker 1: they realize now maybe more than they need that, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and then camps. Yeah, and then and then you know,
Speaker 1: maybe three preseason games, but knowing you need uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the preseason games, you need the longer training camp like
Speaker 1: they used to have. I think they'll go back to that.
Speaker 1: And this is assuming we're all in the clearer and
Speaker 1: safe right that they don't have to clean keep the
Speaker 1: distancing going on once the vaccine is and that's what
Speaker 1: I said post post vaccinated world. Yeah, they you know,
Speaker 1: speculation is by the end of July, you know, everything
Speaker 1: should be fine. And I'm like, whoa, just the time
Speaker 1: for football season because of course that's you know, we're
Speaker 1: worried about here. See. And then the other thing I
Speaker 1: think is going to be interesting. And and Jerry was
Speaker 1: asked the question, you know, could he would he mandate
Speaker 1: that everybody on the team is vaccinated? And he oh,
Speaker 1: he put up the stop sign on that, right, because
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you just can't do that, right,
Speaker 1: you can suggest it and make it available. Uh. And
Speaker 1: and then if you don't take advantage of it. It's
Speaker 1: like the flu right, you don't have to have a
Speaker 1: flu shot, it's made available to the team and then
Speaker 1: you're on your own. If you know, something happens, do
Speaker 1: you want to take that chance? So I don't know
Speaker 1: if go ahead, I was gonna say, Tom Landry, would
Speaker 1: you know, always with the veiled threats, sometimes not so veil.
Speaker 1: He said, Okay, you don't have to take a flu shot,
Speaker 1: but if you don't take a flu shot and you
Speaker 1: get sick and miss a game or practice, you will
Speaker 1: be docked in your page accordingly. So that kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like he I used to hate it
Speaker 1: when he did that. We always were the most abused
Speaker 1: team in regards to time off in training camp. And
Speaker 1: there are certain rules that are set in place by
Speaker 1: the union and the League Office that we all agreed to.
Speaker 1: So Tom Landry will never adhere to that. It was
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Landry. I'm gonna, you know, do what I
Speaker 1: want with my team. And so one time somebody dropped
Speaker 1: a dime on him. They called the union, called the
Speaker 1: league office. So he comes in up there and he's
Speaker 1: upset and so he goes, okay, guys, the league office
Speaker 1: called and said I have to give you guys time off.
Speaker 1: But then he goes, if one of you guys is
Speaker 1: one second late for curfew, you know we're gonna run forever. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Tom. You know now we're out, haven't trying to
Speaker 1: have a good time in La or wherever we are,
Speaker 1: and and everyone's watching the watch like, okay, guys, you
Speaker 1: know we had curfew was a new at midnight, and
Speaker 1: so everybody's in the room by ten thirty just to
Speaker 1: make sure that we didn't have any unfortunate mishap. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the coaches still like to do what they like to
Speaker 1: do with their team, regardless of what the rules might be,
Speaker 1: sometimes especially if they can get away. All right, we
Speaker 1: need to take a break because I'm looking around me
Speaker 1: and I have an unfortunate mishap here in my office
Speaker 1: because my beagle Romo has a broken through the barricade
Speaker 1: on the stairway and he has made his way into
Speaker 1: my office. Where to go Romo is? He is by
Speaker 1: himself today, And the reason I have to I've got
Speaker 1: things in this room like candybars and stuff that dogs
Speaker 1: cannot get to low lying areas. There's peanuts over there
Speaker 1: there's candy corn over there from Halloween. There's stuff in
Speaker 1: here that but dogs haven't been here for two months,
Speaker 1: and the broken down the barricade and he's made his
Speaker 1: way in here. Well, here's the issue that the read. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't get done, Here's the issue that I
Speaker 1: have today is that Romo's brother Bo had had surgery
Speaker 1: this morning, and so Romo, for the first time in
Speaker 1: his life, basically is by himself downstairs, and he got restless.
Speaker 1: It's probably it's probably better that he broke the barricade
Speaker 1: and came upstairs, because otherwise he would be breaking into
Speaker 1: the Christmas presents under the tree downstairs. So it probably
Speaker 1: better that this is happening. But let me go take
Speaker 1: care of that and we'll be back with more mix
Speaker 1: shots in a moment. But Mickey, be ready to do
Speaker 1: that read. In case I'm not there, I'll do the opening. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, and soon to join us here will be
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, who's on dog duty right now, and Romo
Speaker 1: don't forget coming back. And I think, Bill, Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know it's got one of I got one of
Speaker 1: those baby gates that we put up so that the
Speaker 1: baby or the dog get get up, come up the stairs,
Speaker 1: and Romo is the one creature in the world who
Speaker 1: can knock it down out and well getting better than
Speaker 1: now he is. Yes, he's very athletic too. He really
Speaker 1: is a very athletic. He's thirteen years old. We got
Speaker 1: him Christmas thirteen years ago, two thousand and seven, which
Speaker 1: was the end of Tony Romo's first year as a
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, first full season as the Cowboys starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: So he's he's he's living a good life. So the
Speaker 1: other dog is named Quincy. Yeah, I actually I actually
Speaker 1: wanted to name him TiO, and I got Boh hell no,
Speaker 1: hell no, hell no. And uh so yeah, they named
Speaker 1: him Bo. So it's Bo and Romo and Bo bohead
Speaker 1: surgery today. We go pick him up at the vet
Speaker 1: later today. He's doing all right coming out of surgery.
Speaker 1: Romo's having a harder time than bo is. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: so Bo. That's cool. Black Obama, that's cool. Wait there
Speaker 1: we go. That was even that was that was a
Speaker 1: precursor to Barack Obama. So that was it was actually
Speaker 1: an omen that Obama would be elected the following year.
Speaker 1: In fact, that would have been during the primaries and stuff.
Speaker 1: So there, Yeah, that's when he made the speech, when
Speaker 1: he made the speech during the National Convention. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, that's right. All right, So where are
Speaker 1: we now? I got one for you. Well now now
Speaker 1: that Romos put up. So you know how we talked
Speaker 1: about how we thought the pandemic the limited off season
Speaker 1: contributed to injuries. We debated that. I was curious if
Speaker 1: Everson thought maybe a shortened uh preseason or no preseason,
Speaker 1: a shortened training camp, no offseason had anything to do
Speaker 1: with the cowboys problems with turnovers in that first nine
Speaker 1: games of the season when Zeke was fumbling that we've
Speaker 1: never seen them fumble like that before. They were turning
Speaker 1: the ball over left and right. I was just wondering
Speaker 1: if you think maybe that affected your ability to take
Speaker 1: care of the football. And you know, I do spags
Speaker 1: and I think it's not just you know about Zeke fumbling,
Speaker 1: and I think we can all agree on this. When
Speaker 1: when a guy fumbles, it's never really just the guy
Speaker 1: that you see in front of you that makes you fumble.
Speaker 1: It's always the one that tackles you that you're prepared for,
Speaker 1: and it's the hit that you are not prepared for.
Speaker 1: That usually jokes you. Case in point, we talked about
Speaker 1: Scholtz missing a block I think it was against Arizona,
Speaker 1: and Zeke's running through there. The holder is wide open,
Speaker 1: he's about to make a move, he's about to make
Speaker 1: some steps and he's think he's gonna go Mentally, he's
Speaker 1: he's already ten yards ahead, and a guy comes unblocked
Speaker 1: off of Sheltz and blast him and then there goes
Speaker 1: the ball. That's because of the surprise. So the answer
Speaker 1: to that in regards to no training camp is you
Speaker 1: have to be your timing has to be down, not
Speaker 1: just as an individual, but also as a team. And
Speaker 1: because of the fact that we've got all these guys hurt,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman hurt, you got a new tight end coming
Speaker 1: in the game with Schultz because Jarlon went down. So
Speaker 1: now you're looking at the timing is a little bit
Speaker 1: different when you have a whole different cast that that's
Speaker 1: performing at that point. So long answer to your question is,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It has something to do with it.
Speaker 1: Even with wide receivers quarterback combos. You know you gotta
Speaker 1: work on that. You have to work on that. You
Speaker 1: can't just come in two guys two different individuals and
Speaker 1: just come in right away and you have your timing down.
Speaker 1: That's something no matter what kind of jailing you have, no, no,
Speaker 1: no matter what kind of connection you have with your
Speaker 1: wide receiver verse quarterback, that's something that has to be
Speaker 1: worked on over and over and over. And we're just
Speaker 1: we're just talking about one receiver and one quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: just not to mention when you're talking about the cast
Speaker 1: of people that have to get together and the timing
Speaker 1: has to be just right. So yeah, soft tissue or
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. So I was gonna say so
Speaker 1: I did a little deeper dive into the Cowboys takeaway giveaways.
Speaker 1: I can't remember if I pointed this out the other day.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have had twenty four turnovers. Twenty of those
Speaker 1: were in the first nine games, four of them were
Speaker 1: in the last four games. But how about this on takeaways,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have fourteen. They had seven in the first
Speaker 1: nine games and now seven in the last four games.
Speaker 1: So do you think it's just a coincident in those
Speaker 1: last four they went two and two and in those
Speaker 1: first nine they went two and seven. I think when
Speaker 1: we talk about the stuff that's really caused this team
Speaker 1: to be in the situation is you know, we've talked
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks, we've talked about the offensive line, but
Speaker 1: when it comes down to their disparity on takeaways and
Speaker 1: giveaways has been immens And the other thing that I
Speaker 1: saw was the opponents points scored after takeaways. They have
Speaker 1: scored seventy five points off of takeaways in twelve games
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys didn't have any turnover this last game,
Speaker 1: So in twelve games it's been seventy five points. And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in those first twelve games had only had
Speaker 1: twenty eight points off of takeaways until this last game
Speaker 1: when they had three and they added seventeen to it,
Speaker 1: so they were there. At this point, they're a minus
Speaker 1: thirty on takeaways points because of turnovers, So to me,
Speaker 1: that has had a big factor and why they're sitting.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's like, well, it's this, this, this and this,
Speaker 1: but how do you how do you qualify that many
Speaker 1: turnovers and that few takeaways. Here's my rule of thumbs fags.
Speaker 1: And you may have heard it as well. You've been
Speaker 1: around many practice field. Bill, you can chime in on
Speaker 1: this as well. They always say in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. Defense has the advantage. That's always what you hear,
Speaker 1: because you know, defense is where we want to be.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much for guys to coordinate different positions
Speaker 1: on the field, whether it's zone or matchup zone in
Speaker 1: that regard, and it seems like those stats bear that out.
Speaker 1: We were actually able to get turned overs early on
Speaker 1: because the defense is ahead of most offenses because of
Speaker 1: the fact that they didn't have that off season. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, the talent allows you to come through and
Speaker 1: make plays, but in those crucial points that I always
Speaker 1: speak of, those critical moments, those are the ones that
Speaker 1: you that really suffer for you offensively, those critical moments,
Speaker 1: third downs, wanting to do well on first and ten,
Speaker 1: you know, goal line. Those those are the situations where
Speaker 1: the defense starts off ahead of the offense of every offense,
Speaker 1: and then as the season goes on, then the offenses
Speaker 1: start clicking and and you know, between receivers and timing
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. You know, that's that to
Speaker 1: me bears that out, and I noticed on San Francisco.
Speaker 1: So they've gone in these their last four games, they're
Speaker 1: one in three. Actually they're there, I think one in
Speaker 1: five or six in the last six or seven games.
Speaker 1: But anyway, offensively, they've turned the ball over these last
Speaker 1: four games ten times, ten times, they've gotten eight takeaways,
Speaker 1: but they're they're a minus two when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: So you know when here coach say that, and coaches
Speaker 1: say it all the time on how turnovers have the
Speaker 1: biggest effect on games, and it kind of goes in
Speaker 1: one ear out the other, and we're sitting there going, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But I think if you look at it, uh, boy,
Speaker 1: that has had such a big effect on what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done over those first nine games of the season.
Speaker 1: And see to me, to hear you say that and
Speaker 1: to hear that heat that a coach has said that.
Speaker 1: You know, I've never really listened to the defensive coaches
Speaker 1: when they talk. I don't know if they put emphasis
Speaker 1: on turnovers verbally. They can, they can put the emphasis
Speaker 1: all they want, but if you don't practice that, If
Speaker 1: you know turnovers are important, you're not just talking about
Speaker 1: strip sacks and fumbles. You're talking about the ones that
Speaker 1: make the biggest impact, you know, the biggest stat that
Speaker 1: makes the biggest impact on the ball game. So to me,
Speaker 1: there needs to be a huge effort for the entire organization. Yes,
Speaker 1: we love offense. We I've mentioned it before, offense salves tickets.
Speaker 1: But we know the defense wins games, and specifically turnovers
Speaker 1: win games. So why is it that defensively, regardless of
Speaker 1: who you draft, all this of what personnelity is, why
Speaker 1: isn't that culture here to create turnovers if you know
Speaker 1: that they are important. That's the question that I would
Speaker 1: have to ask this the defensive coordinator and the second
Speaker 1: day of the coach with the Cowboys. Okay, we're up
Speaker 1: against a break and when we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to tell you the real reason that the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Niners got flexed out of Sunday Night football is sort
Speaker 1: of related to what you're talking about here. But the
Speaker 1: other thing about turnovers, Mickey, is the strange thing as
Speaker 1: far as the Cowboys giveaways are is that is that
Speaker 1: they happened early in games. Typically, when you have turnovers,
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's because you're playing from behind,
Speaker 1: they'll happen late in the game or you'll have interceptions.
Speaker 1: But in the Cowboys case, in the first part of
Speaker 1: the season, many of those turnovers came in the first
Speaker 1: half of games or on the first play of the
Speaker 1: second half in Seattle. Uh. And it's when a game
Speaker 1: is either still under control where you've got a shot
Speaker 1: at it, or exactly and so you dig yourself this
Speaker 1: huge hole. And uh and And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that had to do with the fact that it
Speaker 1: almost felt like from an offensive standpoint, the Cowboys went
Speaker 1: into games with the mentality that we got to score
Speaker 1: so much that almost with the mentality that we're behind
Speaker 1: and we got to do more than what is necessary
Speaker 1: early in games. And a case in point, I mean
Speaker 1: touchdowns that they scored on the first drive of a game.
Speaker 1: They have they got none, Yes, they have not. They
Speaker 1: have not scored a touchdown. And it's almost like they're
Speaker 1: trying too hard to rather than that's let the game
Speaker 1: come to them. Yeah, that's exactly right, and I've always
Speaker 1: seen it. And a lot of those turnovers were, especially
Speaker 1: when Dak was all, yeah, that was a lot of
Speaker 1: Zeke's problem. He was trying too hard to make something
Speaker 1: out of nothing and our trying to get an extra
Speaker 1: yard or two, and he got careless. So this will
Speaker 1: be shocking, and I'll let you go to break games.
Speaker 1: The five games after the opener against the Rams, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys giveaways three three, three, two and four. That's shocking,
Speaker 1: and it was shocking at the time, and it's even
Speaker 1: more shocking now than when we come back the real
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Speaker 1: And you know it. You know what's the problem with
Speaker 1: this delay? When I know I made a mistake and
Speaker 1: there's no reaction, and then I keep going and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there's laughter, and it's like, oh, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, that was a line before that. Stay keep
Speaker 1: up with me. You know that that read was sort
Speaker 1: of like the Cowboys season. It was. It was teetering
Speaker 1: there at the beginning, there was a there was a
Speaker 1: fumble there in the first part of the season. There
Speaker 1: have to make a comeback strong. Yeah. Yeah. The way
Speaker 1: the way he finished in the fourth quarter of that
Speaker 1: read gives me a hope that the Cowboys might finish
Speaker 1: this season strong. See again, I put two words together.
Speaker 1: I'm reading Anniversary and my eyes are already on featuring,
Speaker 1: and I combine the words again. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: I gotta see me have alop Blooper reel that put
Speaker 1: it together. Please, Chris, that's my whistler. You know how
Speaker 1: we used to do show and tell in school. I
Speaker 1: found this in my dad's old jewelry box. It's a
Speaker 1: stop watch and it has to be it has to
Speaker 1: be at least seventy years old, right, So the back
Speaker 1: fell off of it. The back has an engraved train engine.
Speaker 1: Probably can't see it, it's not close enough. But I said,
Speaker 1: I wonder if this thing works. So I kind of
Speaker 1: wound it. All of a sudden, things start ticking and
Speaker 1: I go, I wonder how long it will work? Well,
Speaker 1: I said it at nine o'clock and it's picking up time.
Speaker 1: It's not losing time. How about that? Oh wow, it's fast.
Speaker 1: It's not keeping accurate time. Yes, it's time. It's saying
Speaker 1: that we have three minutes left in the show. Hey,
Speaker 1: you talked about watch stories. I got one for you. Though.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys used to give away Bomb and Marcia watches
Speaker 1: for I mean every week they give away three of
Speaker 1: them from Zoe's jewelry. I believe Rock just start back
Speaker 1: did the show and they had the Offense, Defensive and
Speaker 1: Special Teams MVP, and they gave away these beautiful bomb
Speaker 1: and Marcia watches of some French Watch and it's it's
Speaker 1: just below or maybe on the same level as rolettes.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know it's extremely expensive. I
Speaker 1: kept mine everyone else that I know of because they
Speaker 1: were giving them away so much. All the guys on
Speaker 1: the team cannot find the bomb and Marcia watches. I
Speaker 1: still have mine. I got it in nineteen eighty one
Speaker 1: and I still have it. So, Bill, you're always talking
Speaker 1: about a loose track on time and how old I am.
Speaker 1: I know how old that watches Okay, that watches thirty nine,
Speaker 1: that watches thirty nine years old, And I will keep
Speaker 1: that watch as long as as I can. And maybe
Speaker 1: after I'm gone, maybe my son will be digging it
Speaker 1: out like like you're doing SPADs, digging it out of
Speaker 1: my jewelry old jewelry box somewhere and taking a look
Speaker 1: at you. Always good to have memories like that. Man,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool stuff. That's very cool. Hey, Bill, before
Speaker 1: you explain why the game got flexed, I wanted to
Speaker 1: point this out real quick. How about Jalen Giton. Do
Speaker 1: you guys remember Jalen Guiton Alan High School? I saw
Speaker 1: him the other night last night. He was texturing it
Speaker 1: up against the Vegas against Vegas for the Chargers a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, had the big interference call in the
Speaker 1: end zone that got him down there to score the
Speaker 1: critical touchdown. He's been bawling for them now. I always
Speaker 1: thought it was good. They just he got a little
Speaker 1: nicked up at the end of training camp that year
Speaker 1: and they sort of gave up on him. I just
Speaker 1: always thought he had something well, and he was Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's UH go to receiver at Alan High School back
Speaker 1: in the day. And there was a reason there was
Speaker 1: a reason he signed with Notre Dame out of high
Speaker 1: school because he he he there was a reason he
Speaker 1: signed with Notre Dame. That was because he's good. He's good, right,
Speaker 1: and he wound up he wound up finishing up at
Speaker 1: North Texas and UH, and then he got an opportunity
Speaker 1: with any any He flashed with the Cowboys that in
Speaker 1: that preseason as well, but the Cowboys didn't keep him in.
Speaker 1: The Chargers are benefiting now, all right. The reason is
Speaker 1: the cowbast thing. I gotta say, he can he can
Speaker 1: go deep. Yes, you know that that system is made
Speaker 1: for him. They go deep all the time. That's where
Speaker 1: he exposes the dbs. That's what he's best. I mean,
Speaker 1: here we go deep sometime, but most of what intermediate
Speaker 1: timing routes and things of that nature. Maybe it just
Speaker 1: obviously wasn't a good fit for him. He's good where
Speaker 1: he is right now with that rookie quarterban Red And
Speaker 1: he scored I remember he scored a touchdown in a
Speaker 1: preseason game. It was on a deep pass with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: All right, So the real reason the Cowboys in Niners
Speaker 1: got flexed out of Sunday Night Football look no farther
Speaker 1: than the quarterbacks. Okay, think about around the league, how
Speaker 1: many teams have lost their starting quarterbacks this season. And
Speaker 1: this kind of goes back to what ever since? And
Speaker 1: you alluded to it earlier when you're talking about the
Speaker 1: turnovers early in the season, But then you talked about
Speaker 1: how much a starting quarterback has to get on the
Speaker 1: same page with his receivers, not just one receiver, but
Speaker 1: the whole arsenal of receivers. All right, Think about how
Speaker 1: costly it is for the teams. And we got two
Speaker 1: teams playing on Sunday they lost their starting quarterbacks back
Speaker 1: in October, and how costly it has been for both
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Niners. As Mickey pointed out, since
Speaker 1: Garoppolo went now with an injury in October, the last
Speaker 1: game that he started and finished for San Francisco, they
Speaker 1: went to New England and won thirty three to seven.
Speaker 1: They were starting to hit their stride even with their injuries.
Speaker 1: They had already lost Nick Bosa for the season and
Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas to injuries, but they were hitting their stride
Speaker 1: with a thirty three to seven win on the road.
Speaker 1: They were four and three. Then they go to Seattle,
Speaker 1: Garoppolo gets hurt. They've lost five out of six games
Speaker 1: since then. And yeah, they don't have the same quality
Speaker 1: backup quarterback maybe that the Cowboys have with Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: But it's enough to get your starters enough reps in
Speaker 1: practice in an abbreviated preseason, much less your backup. And
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the reasons that Dalton struggled
Speaker 1: at first. And now he's kind of hit his stride
Speaker 1: a little bit here the last couple of weeks. But
Speaker 1: how many other teams in the league have lost their
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks. Cincinnati lost Joe Cincinnati lost Joe Burrow. But
Speaker 1: but you look around the league and and what other
Speaker 1: teams have lost their starters for the for the season
Speaker 1: for an extended period of time. Yeah, I mean Washington
Speaker 1: made a change, Okay, but that was because Haskins wasn't
Speaker 1: wasn't playing well and they put Alex Smith in. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the Dolphins made made the decision because they've
Speaker 1: got to Uh. It wasn't an injury deal there. The
Speaker 1: Bears are undecided between Falls and Drubisky. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, let me starters have been playing for
Speaker 1: let me do it for you. So Buffalo has had
Speaker 1: the same guy the whole season, right, Miami switched New England. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was an injury. Ryton Darnald got hurt with the Jets,
Speaker 1: didn't he Uh, Pittsburgh Big Ben was out for a while,
Speaker 1: Cleveland all the way through Baltimore with COVID. You mentioned Cincinnati, Uh, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: I don't remember Hill Way, Indianapolis with Rivers, Okay, all
Speaker 1: the way, Houston all the way. Jacksonville has switched all
Speaker 1: the way. They switched in Jackson and Jacksonville Jackson Jacksonville
Speaker 1: and the Jets don't count. Okay, Okay, thank you. Kansas
Speaker 1: City was good last way. Las Vegas lost their starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Right Denver, they've had car throughout the year. Yeah, Denver
Speaker 1: lost Drew Locke for tindhead an issue, and where they
Speaker 1: didn't have a quarterback. Now they have a quarter back
Speaker 1: one game. Yeah, and then they didn't have a quarterback
Speaker 1: for one game. But Drew Lockett had heard an ankle.
Speaker 1: I think it was her shoulder. Uh. The Chargers have
Speaker 1: their garo. Okay. Washington lost THEIRS, The Giants lost THEIRS.
Speaker 1: Philly didn't lose THEIRS, but they decided to lose them.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys lost there. Yeah, the Giants would be the
Speaker 1: other team that lost THEIRS. But he's gonna come back
Speaker 1: him been lost for the season. Minnesota and Green Bay
Speaker 1: have been strong. Chicago they had to change Detroit Stafford.
Speaker 1: Didn't Stafford have a COVID? Did he actually sit out
Speaker 1: or did he actually? But he's been there, he's been
Speaker 1: there throughout Okay. New Orleans lost Drew Braman had an issue. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Yeah, that's the other one. Breeze Breeze Atlanta, Carolina, Uh, okay,
Speaker 1: and then okay with the Saints, how have the Saints
Speaker 1: looked without Breeze? Defense? Yeah, try, But but offensively, offensively,
Speaker 1: they're sitting there with Taysom Hill and you're sitting there
Speaker 1: wondering how come they gave Taysom Hill all that money,
Speaker 1: you know, right, But but in his defense, he hadn't
Speaker 1: other same reps throughout the off season in preseason that
Speaker 1: Drew Brees had. It's a quarterback. He can't have all
Speaker 1: the reps he wants. But that defense is always gonna
Speaker 1: be the stabilizer for that tim all right, So until
Speaker 1: very quickly, Yeah, that's try Who's gonna win Sunday? Well,
Speaker 1: you know that was you know mice pick Cowboys, Baby
Speaker 1: twenty one Cowboys. Hey, my pick to click the running
Speaker 1: game particularly uh thundering Lightning. I have it. Zeke's running
Speaker 1: game is gonna be if he plays, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: strong either way. If Polot play is still gonna be strong.
Speaker 1: And I look for Polock to be a effective receiver
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Look for that to be key
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys getting some one on one space out
Speaker 1: there for us talented young man. Okay, and I am
Speaker 1: picking the Cowboys to win the game on the final
Speaker 1: in the final minute or so of the game in
Speaker 1: the back right corner of the end zone. CD Lee, okay,
Speaker 1: over Richard Sherman to make the catch to win the
Speaker 1: game for the Cowboys. Vis Walls is gonna be very heavy.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's exactly right. It's not DC Dwight Clark.
Speaker 1: It's CD Lamb with the catch for the Cowboys that
Speaker 1: keep them alive and the playoff chase. But CD and
Speaker 1: in Washington loses to Seattle. Until next week, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are still a Lot five and the race for the
Speaker 1: NFC East Championship. So you know what, you know what's funny.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is everybody in San Francisco's picking
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and everybody in Dallas is picking the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. So I guess I'm picking at twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Twenty seven? All right, wasn't it? Wasn't that the score? Memory? Okay? Seven?
Speaker 1: What do you want to rub it into Cubby for?
Speaker 1: This is? This is the redemption game. I like that.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take it. That's right, okay, And
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it on Monday at one thirty. And
Speaker 1: remember the game is at noon on Sunday. If you
Speaker 1: haven't heard, it's not at Sunday Night Football. It's noon
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