WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Catching Up 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:16.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shots 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.680 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.360 Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:32.200 and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are for another week 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:37.320 of Mick Shots. Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:44.040 Spagnola back home in his SWBC mortgage studio at Ford 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.440 Center at the Star in Frisio. It's yes, it's it's Mickey. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.080 Did you spend your whole holiday there at the SWBC 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.280 Mortgage studio? I am proud to say that I was 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:02.080 here on Friday, but not Saturday and Sunday. There you go, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.480 all right, So you had your Thanksgiving holiday consisted of 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:10.000 a normal weekend day, Saturday and Sunday off. Of course, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.400 you spent Thursday at at and T Stadium, And maybe 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.600 we won't have to talk about that for very long 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.240 here on this edition of Mixed Shots. But we've got 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.440 so much to get to since we last convened ever 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:28.400 sin hours. Your Thanksgiving, Ah, Thanksgiving was kind of normal, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:33.080 except for the depressed part of it. You know, everything 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.360 was fine before three thirty, and then all of a 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:41.480 sudden things just went downhill. My weekend was just as 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.119 average as any trying to play it safe. So I'm 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.119 kind of in a brooding mood right now. That's why 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.120 that's why I bought my hoodie. I'm all in, you 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.520 know what I'm saying. Still all in, Still all in, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:02:00.160 but nonetheless brooding. Can I can I take that stance? Can? 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.280 I can totally understand that I showed up with the 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.560 hood all I thought maybe he was doing it with 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:12.280 the windows open outside. Well, you got to have a 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.080 proper ventilation here in these COVID days, So I would 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.839 advise everyone, even if it's forty outside like the day, 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.440 Uh yeah, keep the keep those windows open. We went 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.000 good ventilation, all right, Mickey, There's so much to get to. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.760 Where should we start on this edition of mix Shots? 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.760 How do you think? Bill? Uh? Last time we talked 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.800 was Wednesday? Right, So much has taken place, not only 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.720 with the Cowboys on the football field, not only with 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.560 Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Marcus Paul passing away after 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.880 our show, and then all the stuff that's happening in 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.480 the league along with the Cowboys. Thursday night game being 0:02:55.560 --> 0:03:00.840 pushed back to the following Tuesday. I'll leave it up 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.120 to you, since you're steering the ship, where you want 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.480 to exactly start this thing, because a lot of this 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:13.320 is tied together too, by the way, Yep, that's exactly right. Well, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:18.800 I'm always start with Marcus Paul because on Friday morning 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.920 I taped the Mike mcco and I got the feeling 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.600 and of course he did a media availability I think, yeah, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.840 Friday morning too, right, Yeah, And I got the feeling 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.160 that he had basically spent and by then he even 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.440 though it hadn't been officially announced yet, I think he 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.920 pretty much knew that the game against the Ravens was 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.120 going to get pushed back, so he didn't have to 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.600 do the normal things that you he would do on 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.720 a normal work week, which is what it would have 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.840 been had the game still been played on Thursday. And 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.520 so I think he spent a good portion, if not all, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.960 of the morning on Friday morning taken in phone calls. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.480 You know a lot of people knew that, you know, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.880 he obviously had a game on Thursday, and they didn't 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.360 call about Marcus until Friday morning. Uh, And so I 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.840 think and he talked with the I believe the family 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.240 on Friday morning and so forth. And I think that 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.720 is you know, it's at a point after all that 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.400 had transpired in the previous seventy two hours, that you 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.880 sit there and you just, um, you reflect on one 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.680 what's happened, you know, you know. And in fact, he 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.960 apologized at the end of a taping of the Mike 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.440 McCarthy Show that he just didn't have the energy. I said, 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.120 I didn't either. I mean, none of us had energy 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:44.080 after that, And so I can only imagine what those 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.280 close to the family are still going through. And then 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.680 for the players too, as we talked about last week. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.160 You know, the players are very close. We're very close 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.039 to Marcus and Natural Uh, you know, probably as close 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.320 as any coach to the team and the team. Lake 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.159 vanderash talked about it, uh, you know, especially for him. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.840 You know, he had been side by side with him 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.680 throughout the offseason because coming office surgery, he could be 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.880 at the Star when he was at back home in Idaho. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.560 And so anyway, Uh, that's kind of where it was 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.919 on Friday. Yeah, and it was it was it was 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:25.440 even emotional draining. I think after we got the word 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.920 here when the announced or the you know, the statement 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.360 came out. It was about quarter to six on Wednesday, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.720 and you were just kind of waiting to see UH. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.039 And then after you know, the game and going over 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.880 everything the guys said. Mike McCarthy said on his press conference, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:49.920 Jerry said, when he did his radio interview, and UH, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:55.880 I got charged with writing about Marcus for the Game 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.000 Day upcoming Game Day magazines, and I'll tell you what, guys, 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:06.280 and I sort of wrote the story from the aspect 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.159 of after I read all this stuff that came out 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.600 about him, all the tweets from from Syracuse, the university, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:18.720 from the former assistant coach Randy Edsel, who recruit recruited 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:24.640 Marcus to Syracuse, to Darryl Johnston, who I didn't put 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.000 two and two together. They were teammates and co captains 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.479 their senior year there, UH in eighty eight, to the 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.440 Giants coming out with statements and all the people that 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.240 he had touched. I was sitting there going, you know, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.880 I feel cheated because I didn't get to know him 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.120 that well, but I felt like I got to know 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.360 him by listening to everybody else react to him. And 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.120 by time I got done with that, I was emotionally 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.560 drained from just going through the whole thing and kind 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.880 of reliving it and seeing how much he meant to 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.080 so many different people and so many any different walks 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.880 of life, to the point that you know, he was 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.800 a teammate Ron Riverez at Washington and you know, and 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.600 he had to coach the game on Thursday, and it 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.440 sounded like they were pretty close. And even in the 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.520 pregame show on Thursday, Michael Strahan talking about how they 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.239 were they were bus run or they were ride buddies 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.720 to the airport for the away games that they spent 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.280 that time together, and he goes, and if you know 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.480 about your ride buddy to the airport, you end up 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.560 being pretty close. So it was just amazing how many 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.960 people he touched in his not only professional playing career, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:47.400 but when he became strength and conditioning assistant at New Orleans, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:52.360 followed Mike Woissick to New England, he was with the Jets, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.920 and then I guess what I missed was that he 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.000 spent eleven seasons with the Giants and won two Super 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.920 Bowls with them, three with the New England and Pat Hanlon, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:07.080 who's their community vice president of communications. I had a 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.440 couple of tweets that were very heartfelt, and yeah, it 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.200 was amazing how many people he touched. But as you said, Bill, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:24.600 strength and conditioning coaches, they touch everybody. In fact, one 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.280 guy that I got a text from was who I 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.560 hadn't put two and two together at all on it. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.920 But it's just sort of an example of you don't 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.280 realize how close the fraternity is if you haven't been 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.640 in that fraternity like Everson has been in. You know, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.679 a friend of mine, Brian Jones, who works for CBS 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:47.640 Sports college football analysts, he texted me back last week, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.200 asked me what I knew about his condition and so forth, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.760 and I was like, so, how do you know. I mean, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.440 he was with the Saints and when Marcus Paul was 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.560 with the Saints twenty years ago, before he was with 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.960 the paid Reach. Remember Wisick was with the Saints for 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.200 a short time. Uh, and so he was his assistant 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.000 there with the Sataness. So that's how he got to 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.800 know him. And then he's and Brian said, he's one 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.959 of the greatest guys that he has met that he 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.400 met in his entire time in the NFL. And you 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.360 know too, a couple of things in regards to what 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.319 you just mentioned, Bill, you are so right. Just being 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.880 an athlete going through the league and having many years, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.440 you're blessed to go through it. And if you're blessed 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.640 to play with several teams, then you're going to have 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.000 a connection in some kind of way. There's always going 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.800 to be a six degree of separation, and that's just 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.800 as a player. And he continued to be part of 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.760 different staffs even after he played, and that really solidified 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:50.280 his relationship throughout the entire NFL with whoever he touched. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.600 And I'm sorry I don't know her name, but his 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:58.120 daughter Conspats what's her name, Tabitha, Tabitha Man. She really 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:05.000 personalized everything for us with the words, her words of 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.439 hope and and just her words of love and then 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.080 recollecting what her father meant to her and also where 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.760 he meant to so many other people. So I thought 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:24.240 Tabitha's addition to this entire emotional experience, I just thought 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.600 it kind of tapped it, topped it off in the 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.120 right way to where you know, yes, it's a game, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:35.400 but right now, this is someone's father who's going through this. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.760 And so that family U had had my prayers and 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.160 I'm sure everyone else's, and really that's that's what's more 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.280 important here than anything else. And by the way, she 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:51.839 posted uh Friday or Saturday that her dad was an 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:56.439 organ donor and saved four people's lives. Right, I saw that. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.520 I saw that bill Thanksgiving Day. Basically, wow, I didn't 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.080 see that. That's that's amazing, you know. And and the 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.680 thing that it kept coming out about him was that 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.679 he was such a sweet person and it was always 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.200 nice around here, and my only interaction would be passing 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.200 him at the training table during lunch, and always a 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.360 smile on his face, always kind of upbeat and moving quickly. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.959 And I wish I could remember who said this, but 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.680 they talked about what a nice guy he was, but 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.000 in the job he was in and so close to 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.720 the players, being nice was one thing, but also figured 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.360 out how to be tough to get guys to do 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.959 what he wanted them to do. And that's not an 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.040 easy juggling act a lot of times for those guys 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:51.040 in that position. Because again, offseason, he's the head coach, right, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.160 he's in charge because the coaches aren't allowed to be 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.760 around the players during that part of the offseason workouts 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.480 in training, and it sounded like, yeah, the guys and 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.880 you know, all they had to say after the game, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.640 and the fact that I think a couple of things 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.280 stood out. It looked like part of the team meeting 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.280 Wednesday night, Mike McCarthy let the guys stand up and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.720 say what they had to say about them, whoever wanted 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.000 to talk. And then, you know, before the game, after 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.840 they finished their pregame warm up, they all gathered in 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.920 a big circle basically kneeling, and it looked like Sean 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.800 Lee was kind of in charge of saying something, holding hands. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.760 And then the other thing I noticed guys before the game, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.640 and I don't think this might have gotten on television, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.760 but before they did that started the tribute on the 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.360 big video board, the offensive lineman. The whole group towed 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.200 the line together. They were the only ones there for 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.000 the before the start of it, like they were braced 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.800 for it. And after the tribute, they kind of went 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.439 in a circle and they hugged each other and went 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.520 around and it was like, oh my god, you guys 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.520 are going to break my heart, you know. And so yeah, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.560 there was a there was a lot of outpouring of emotion. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.280 And the thing that you know, kind of occurred to me. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.400 If you count fifty three guys on the roster, you 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.200 got sixteen guys on the practice squad. You got, however 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.240 many guys that are injured reserve. And I counted it 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.720 all up, and it got into you know, the seventies, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.640 high seventies, and I wanted to see how many guys 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.240 were no more than twenty five years old, and I 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:38.320 counted forty nine, forty nine. And think about when you 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.000 were twenty five, people close to you, other than maybe 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.760 your grandparent, they didn't pass away. You were young, and 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.439 they were young. And for these guys to have to 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.680 deal with somebody that close to them passing away less 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.160 than twenty four hours before kickoff, I'm sure it was 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.480 a very very tough emotionally time for them that night, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.600 even you know, before the game started. And I'm not 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.640 saying it affected how they played, because those guys came 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.840 out and played hard, but just to have to go 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:14.520 through that a young age is very tough. And you know, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.080 something else about that spacts When you think about society today, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.480 everything is just more public. It's just the way it is. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.760 It's hard enough having to deal with the loss of 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.200 a loved one privately, but that's something that you can 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:33.680 compartmentalize maybe easier because you don't have to necessarily share 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:39.360 it with everyone. But when it's when it's a and 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.960 after where everyone's involved, it can be taxing. It can 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.040 be emotionally taxing. It's like being at a funeral. You know, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.120 you really don't the emotions don't come out until you're 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.560 around all of the sadness and the emotion. So when 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.720 everyone you know, around the sports world and everyone's commenting 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.600 on it, you know, now it's out there in public. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.080 And to have to deal with something like that, uh, 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.640 like you said, at such a young age, and then 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.640 you know you mentioned just everything that's going on in 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.840 twenty twenty, it's uh man, it's a lot to deal 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.400 with and and I feel for these young young guys, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.480 but you know, they gotta get through it. They gotta 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.760 get through it. Well. I think that Uh. You know, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.200 we talk a lot of times about the bye week, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.040 whether it came in a good time or not. The 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:34.040 postponement of this game came at a good time, being 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.600 able to give them a long weekend here and postponing 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.520 it to where they didn't have to be back. Uh, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.800 they're they're not back into to practice until Wednesday, um 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.880 and uh with a game push back till Monday, and 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.720 that still gives them an extra day to prepare for 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.960 the Ravens and Ravens play a game on Tuesday night 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.560 with with what's left of the Ravens due to COVID. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:01.360 Uh right now, Yeah, we think Thursday a Tuesday night. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.280 In fact, at least they'll have a quarterback, right at 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.760 least a quarter Yeah, so when we come back, and 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.560 there's so much to get to in terms of whether 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.400 a team has quarterbacks or not, whether the Ravens can play, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.440 and so much more. 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So, Mickey, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.840 for your read coming up here, You're gonna have to 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.520 find something other than the start to talk about. Unfortunately, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.320 I think those were forwarded to me, and I forgot 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:30.800 all about him. Oh that's why you didn't have it, okay, right, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.400 And so I looked at Dog, I'll look at Monday 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.800 last week. Oh, we got single game tickets for Washington. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:42.080 You know, it brings us to the San Francisco forty 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.359 nine Ers, who the Cowboys will play on December twentieth. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.720 They got a little issue there in Santa Clara, California, 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:52.000 where they cannot play any football games there, and they 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.600 got two home games the next couple of weeks. And 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.760 apparently San Francis forty nine Ers have reached an agreement 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.680 with the Arizona Cardinals to host their next two games 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:07.640 against Buffalo and Washington at State Farms Stadium there in Phoenix, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.960 which is now what they call the Dome Stadium there 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.640 in Phoenix that the Cardinals play in. So I guess 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.000 the Cardinals must be on the road the next two weeks. 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.239 And I was thinking, Mickey that it would be and 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.320 I looked up. Arizona is not allowing fans in the 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.399 stands now. There for a little while they were, but 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.480 the COVID outbreak has hit Arizona to the point where 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.760 they did not allow fans in the stands for the 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.800 latest Cardinals game, nor would they for San Francisco. But 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:39.480 I was thinking what the Niners ought to do is 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:45.280 come here to Arlington and seeing as how they play 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.680 the Cowboys the third game down the road, they could 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.719 host their two home games this Monday night. It's scheduling 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.480 from Monday against Buffalo and then the following Sunday against Washington, 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:00.400 and then they would play the Cowboys the following Sunday, 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.040 and they could just set up shop here for a 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.320 couple of weeks and work out at Globe Life Park, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.920 the Rangers old baseball park which has now been converted 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.239 to football. They'd have their own locker room they stay at. 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.800 The Omney. Would have been the great little bubble for them, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.200 but they've decided to go to Arizona instead, and and 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.119 and the key on it would be they would be 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.360 able to play in front of as many fans as 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.760 they bought tickets up to what Cowboys have had thirty 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:27.840 thousand in there, but they decided to go to Arizona 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.400 route instead. Wow we've had thirty thousands. Yeah, yeah, Wow, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:37.960 that's tough. It's a big stadium. You can better be 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.320 that only feel not only filled a lot of real 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:43.560 estate in there that only fills a third of it. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:48.879 So it was thirty eight I think on third on Thanksgiving. 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:53.480 So yeah, have they opened the suites back up yet? Uh? 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.720 Some of the suites. I think people had the right 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.680 to use their suites, A lot of them remained empty. 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.400 And remember the way they sold tickets. It was like, 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.960 I think season ticket holders had the right to purchase 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.760 tickets to two games and then after that it was 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.399 general general public. But there was rules that you know, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.280 if you bought four tickets then it had to be 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.480 four people sitting together. You can't you know, sell them 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:23.639 to some stranger. It had to be the people in 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.000 your group. So I don't know how well they can 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:31.800 enforce that, but yeah, yeah, man, it was weird last night, 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.919 you know, or yesterday watching the game the Packers and 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.119 the Bears with nobody or there was a smattering of 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.280 a few people at lambeau Field to watch that game. 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:47.960 That was strange, you know, I would think from the 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.960 forty nine ers perspective on that. Yeah, and if you 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.679 could pre sale tickets and you knew in advance it 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:58.760 was gonna happen, I mean, how many fans people are 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.399 hungry for football. But could you get twenty five or 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.520 thirty thousand for a Niners Bills game here, a Niners 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:10.240 Washington game here. It's pretty tough to sell that many 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.240 tickets in that amount of time. Yeah, I can't. I 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.439 can't see that. Yeah, and you just wouldn't do it. 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.720 And the other part of that is who is going 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:20.560 to handle the cost of staffing it and everything. So 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.960 from the Niners perspective, they probably would just say, hey, 0:23:24.080 --> 0:23:26.879 it's as you know, it's a loss. We're not getting 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.360 fans in the stands. We might lose money if we 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.119 took on that assignment. You got to have more staff 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:35.760 that comes here to handle it, or you hire people 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.400 here to handle it. They may have just to say 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.639 that said, you know what, it's easier to just do 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.320 this Arizona thing. From a travel standpoint, it probably was easier. 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.560 You know, they could have played the game at at 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:51.159 Global Life Park if they needed to. They could that 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.920 option too. They could go outdoors there, that's right, because 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:58.639 there's boxing there. There's boxing at AT and T Stadium Saturday. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.639 So I don't think they want to stay in Dallas 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:05.159 for three weeks. Bill, that be you'll just being a 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.800 forty nine er. You know, yeah, I don't think they 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:11.320 feel very comfortable no matter where they were going to 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.560 have to go because they can't practice that their their 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.199 place in Santa Clara. They can't practice either, no no 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:24.359 contact anything. I don't think even high school sports are 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:28.800 being played, canceled everything. Yeah, I knew that, and in fact, 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:31.040 in California high school sports who was put on the 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:33.880 back burner till the spring. Yeah, Shanahan wasn't the most 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:37.600 happy with the NFL or with the CAB and they 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:40.600 didn't communicate with them at a time. They found out 0:24:40.600 --> 0:24:42.320 when they were on the on the flight to the 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:44.760 to the Rams game, that that's what was going to 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:47.840 take place. Do you think that was a distraction? But 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:52.640