WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Cards On Deck 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:15.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick shot 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.960 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.680 Dallas Cowboys apt now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:31.400 and Nicky Spagnola, And it is a Wednesday inside the 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.200 SWBC Mortgage studios here at Ford Center at the Star 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.600 in Fresco. I am Bill Jones, And for the first 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.360 time in a couple of weeks, Mickey Spagnola is not 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.559 here inside the studio with him, as he is at 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:51.400 a remote location inside his own s WBC mortgage studio somewhere. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:57.680 Hello Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls with the imposing picture 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.040 of Everson himself looming over his shoulder. And Everson has 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.280 Cowboys gear on, and so does Mickey. How about that? 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.720 And what about Bill? Well, I've got I'm taking a 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.560 TV show, so I've got you. I've got a little 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.560 blue shirt on, so that qualifies as Cowboys gear. I 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.560 got my Cowboys gear right behind me, right here. It's 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:26.280 the SWBC mortgage sign. That's my Cowboys gear. There you go, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.000 very good. I hope you're not lonely in there. Well, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.200 it is kind of lonely here at the start today 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:37.160 because normally on a Wednesday and come out here at 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.000 one o'clock in the afternoon for this one thirty show, 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.319 and the team is out on the practice field, and 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.200 the team is not out on the practice field right now. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.680 Of course, it being a Monday night game this week 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:53.080 against the Arizona Cardinals, so this is actually a Tuesday 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.000 by Cowboys standards. Tomorrow Thursday is Wednesday preparing for a 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.480 Monday game. Although players are on the premises, they're just 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.560 not on in the practice field right now. They got 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.880 an extra day this week, and Mickey, I think we 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:12.520 probably need an extra day after what happened on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.560 I think you're exactly right. And an extra day for 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.040 the coaches too to prepare just as important. But it'll 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.880 be good to get them off they're off their feet 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.519 for a little bit and a little longer too, because 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.000 it not only is it Monday, but it's Monday night. 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.799 So give these guys a little bit more rest in 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.680 between games and that that always helps out and it 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.440 but it mostly helps out the coaches in their preparation. 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.720 They don't have to rush into things. So, you know, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.079 I think the guys the misnomer is it's like, oh, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.280 you've got a Monday night game, you got an extra 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.880 day to prepare. Well, they really don't practice an extra day. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.880 They just get an extra day off and it will 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:02.079 start their normal schedule Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and Sunday. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.360 Since they kind of changed the practice routine here. Uh, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.320 he likes to practice the day before the game, not 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.760 two days before, and then take a day off. Well, 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:19.079 hopefully they can use the extra time, guys, to get prepared, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.160 get Andy Dalton prepared for what he's gonna do, and 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.800 make sure that he has the entire game plan in 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.560 his head. And also they have the game plan for 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.919 the Cardinals themselves. So yeah, they're gonna need this. Uh, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:38.600 Cowboys a first place in the NFC East, something that 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.720 we can all take pride in. But at the same time, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.520 when you're the when you're the best team in the 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.960 worst division, I don't know how much you want to 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.440 brag about. Hey, it still counts if you win the division, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.240 you're in the playoffs. So that so they're not the 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.520 operators not answering the phone at the Star. Our first 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:11.280 place Dallas Cowboys. Let's hope that's last for quite some time. Well, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.480 the news coming out of Phoenix today which was expected 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:21.080 as Chandler Jones, it's official that the Pro Bowl edge 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.720 rusher for the Cardinals, who had nineteen sacks last year, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.280 sixty sacks the last four years with the Cardinals and 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.159 signing there or being traded there from New England. He 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.160 is out for the year. Had needs surgery on a 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.520 torn biceps, And so the Cowboys aren't the only ones 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.120 dealing with injury issues. And that's a very major one 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.800 for the Cardinals losing Chandler Jones, you know what, And 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.880 it ends up being a major break for the Cowboys 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.480 having to start their two undrafted offensive tackles and they 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.760 don't have to deal with that guy. Now. He only 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.360 had one sack this year, but he's still a pain 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.000 and he's awfully good. And Bill, you mentioned his nineteen sacks. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:13.240 I think he had like eleven four some fumbles last year, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.160 so yeah, he can wreck have it a kind of 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.839 an offense. And I bet he was frothing at the 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.440 mouth to be able to go up against a couple 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:26.000 of these young tackles. Believe me, he was figuring Okay, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.400 I'm gonna get my stats up there, right. So a 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.440 break for the Cowboys, especially since you've got two young 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.919 guys protecting now you're new starting quarterback. And he also 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:43.640 finished second in the voting for NFL Defensive Player of 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.279 the Year last year. Wow so, and he finished second 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.800 in sacks. Shaquille Barrett had a half sack more than 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.160 he did. So. Yeah, this guy, you know, they list 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.599 him as an outside linebacker. They play a three four, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.720 but when they go to their nickel, he's the defensive 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:08.240 end that he's coming to get you. The two tackles 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.560 in the quarterback, that's tough. You know, all of that 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.919 is brand new for us. That's something that we're gonna 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.520 have to deal with. H got a lot of confidence 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.960 in Andy. Everyone says that if we're gonna deal with 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.760 a backup quarterback, this is probably the best case scenario. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.080 And of course we've got injuries. They've got injuries. So 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.120 I'm assuming that we're all starting from scratch here. That's 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.960 kind of what it seems like. We're all started from 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:40.080 scratch and just trying to throw some stuff up against 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.880 the wall right now and see what sticks. I think 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.080 that's pretty much the way the entire NFL is going 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.880 right now, Mickey, how do you how do you think 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.560 the two young tackles spared against the Giants the other day, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.440 Brandon knighted left tackle and Terring Steel at right tackle. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.840 You know, I think I think they proved. I think 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.400 they got better, you know, and who knows, maybe with 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:10.440 more opportunities to practice, more opportunities to play, you know, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:15.800 maybe they they do improve. You know, I think they 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.640 each probably had their moments when you say, oh gosh, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.120 what you know, what what was I doing there? But 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.720 for the most part, you know, when you put up 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.280 that many yards of offense and your ability to score 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.240 thirty points with the offense like that, they had to 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.520 do something right. Zeke ran the ball well, the Cowboys 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.680 ran the ball well. So now they got help. But 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.960 that's fine. That's what you have to do. You have 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.320 to adjust and make uh, you know, minor changes. You 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.600 can't expect Brandon Knight to go out there and play 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:52.880 like Tyran Smith, but you know, he did okay, And 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:59.400 I thought Steele continues to improve somewhat. So uh, you know, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.720 as long as they give them help, put the tight 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.440 ends there, let the running backs do a little bit 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.880 of chipping, and I mentioned it yesterday. I like the 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.520 fact that they use two running backs at the same time, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.320 Pollard and Ezekiel in there together, so you don't know 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.760 which one's gonna get the ball, which one might stay 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.040 in the block, which one might go out in the 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:24.000 pass pattern. Gives the defense something else to think about. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.040 You know, you would think that right now, we'll go 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.480 to a little bit more conservative game plan. We talked 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.640 about this yesterday's bags. I thought they were already going 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.000 there before Dad got hurt. It's just one of those 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.440 things where I'm sure they were thinking, we need to 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.120 take a little load off of our quarterback. Well now 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.520 we I think we have no choice but to do that, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.480 And I think that offense would be more defense friendly 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:59.200 for us, meaning that we'll probably have a longer drives. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.840 We're probably gonna run Zeke a little bit more. I 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.559 was hoping we would start to do that anyway, just 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.439 having that throw for so many yards. Yet it all 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.520 looks good, but it's just not a solid game plan, 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:14.959 especially when it comes to how the Cowboys do business. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.880 So I'm looking forward to seeing how we settle down 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.760 using the two tight ends, using the two backs, Now, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.040 having said that, we're still explosive. Even with the two 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.160 tight ends in or the two backs in the ball game, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.079 we're still extremely explosive. You take out one of those 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.520 tight ends, you put it in Pollard, and you've still 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.480 got a very dynamic offensive weapon. So I'm looking forward 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.800 to seeing how diverse we can be, even more diverse 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.360 we can be with a different personnel that we're dealing 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.840 with it. You know, I think I think you ought 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.679 to call what they're gonna do or try to do 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.480 offensively more so balanced than conservative, because I don't think 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.240 you have to be conservative with Andy Dalton. You know. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.840 I listened in on the conference call today with Cliff 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:10.280 Kingsbury and he was talking about Andy Dalton. He goes, well, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.880 I know enough about Andy Dalton, right, UH played at TCU, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:20.160 played his high school ball in Texas. And then he said, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.360 we played them last year. So I was interested to 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.800 see what happened in that game. When Arizona played UH Cincinnati. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.120 The Cardinals ended up winning twenty six twenty three. They 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.760 kicked a walk off field goal to win it, but 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:42.400 the score in the fourth quarter with about four something 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:49.439 to go, the the Bengals were down twenty three to nine, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:55.600 and Andy Dalton led the Bengals on two consecutive touchdown drives, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.360 and on one of them that began, I guess it 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.600 was more than that. It began at seven h seven 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.680 he led him on a ten play seventy nine yard 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.200 drive that took three oh four and in that drive 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.920 he completed eight of nine passes before he threw a 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.760 two yard touchdown pass. And then he came back with 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.640 two minutes to go and let him right down the 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:29.520 field again for another touchdown and threw a touchdown pass 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.160 to go hit him with a touchdown path with two 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.680 minutes left to tie the game. Dalton was twenty seven 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.880 or thirty eight in that game for two sixty two, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:46.240 two touchdowns, seventy one percent completion percentage, and he had 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.439 a quarterback rating of one oh seven point six. So 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:54.000 I don't think Cliff Kingsbury thinks that Andy Dalton can't 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.040 step up and lead this team to a victory, knowing 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.520 what he did to the Cardinals last year against their defense. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.600 And we should point to tell you what that kind 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.959 of also shows how good Kyler Murray is because what 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.040 you say two minutes to go, right, I guess many's 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.760 the only problem when he's scored too soon, and we 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.120 gave the Cardinals a chance, gave him a chance to 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.640 get down and kick a field goal as time expired. Yeah, exactly. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.680 That's something that the Cowboys defense should be looking at him. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.760 Of course, they don't need that game to see it. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.720 You know, Kyler Murray is trying to work on his 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.360 own campaign for being Player of the Year just simply 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:40.520 by his amazing athletic ability and mental acuity as well. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.840 So I'm looking at one of those one of those 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.640 moments where we're gonna still have to set the edge. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.280 He's gonna challenge our defense in every way. He's gonna 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.520 be like the coronavirus of quarterbacks when it comes to 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.880 how he plays. This guy will He will probe and 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.560 pride any way he can to try and find your weakness, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.160 and usually he does find it. I love the way 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.160 we rushed the quarterback last week. It was amazing. We're 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.280 gonna have to do that again this week. But once 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.880 you let him out of the pocket, it's different from 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.520 Lady Daniel Jones out of the pocket. It could be 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.880 it could be catastrophic for your defense. So we have 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.720 to work on that even harder defensively. And by the way, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.520 the touchdown passed the Dalton through the tie of the 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.240 game at twenty three was a forty two yarder, so 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 he can get the ball down the field, and we 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.920 saw that with the passes to Michael Gallop. So to me, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.880 if the Cardinals come in and say, okay, we're taking 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.880 Zeke away, we're not gonna let you do that, then 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.079 you've got to go after them with if they come 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.120 out and man coverage. We should point out in that game, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.079 the Cardinals did have Chandler Jones and he did get 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.240 a sack of Andy Dalton in that game. They're not 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.960 gonna have Chandler Jones this time. They did not have 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.439 Patrick Peterson in that game. And Patrick Peterson, eight time 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.200 Pro bowler, is back playing for the Cardinals this year. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.679 So and as week goes on, we'll break down more 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.000 of the Cardinals. You know, it's interesting. I had a 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.920 conversation with Mike McCarthy last night. 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I 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.760 had a chance to chat with Mike McCarthy, and of course, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.840 it being a Monday game this week, there was no 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.360 Mike McCarthy availability today. I'll have his next press conference 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.119 tomorrow morning. But it was one of the things that 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.080 I found interesting and talking about the Arizona Cardinals, he 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.160 said that he spent a lot of time last year 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.680 looking at the Cardinals with clip Kingsbury coming into the league, 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.400 and um, you know, he had a lot of time 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.840 to study the rest of the NFL. And that's one 0:17:54.840 --> 0:18:00.280 of the things I think, um strategically and schematically, what 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.240 Kingsbury was bringing from the college game, it's probably something 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.920 he wanted to look at those RPOs and that sort 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.560 of stuff, and so he spent a lot of time 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.040 studying so the Cardinals and it's very impressed with Kyler 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:19.679 Murray as well, and just his transition to the NFL. 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.840 The other thing that's interesting is, you know, the quarterbacks 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.720 coach and the pass game coordinator under Kingsbury at Arizona 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:32.760 is Tom Clements, who was McCarthy's long time quarterbacks coach 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:37.520 and offensive coordinator for eleven years at Green Bay. And 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.040 so that was probably another reason why he was taking 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.320 a close look at at Arizona, just because his buddy 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.960 was his coaching Kyler Murray and Tom Clements. So anyway, 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.119 it's it's interesting and ever since you kind of alluded 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.320 to it, with what Kyler has done since he's come 0:18:55.359 --> 0:19:00.360 into the league, he's it's been a smooth transition for him, 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.159 and I think they probably have tweaked things along the 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:10.240 way and part of tweaking is shoring up his offensive line, 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.000 and a big part of tweaking was acquiring DeAndre Hopkins 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.680 in the off season. He's got some weapons and u 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.240 and more than anything, the stage has not been too 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.359 big for Kyler Murray. So this is going to be 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.119 a challenge this week. And off to a three and 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:32.160 two start are the Cardinals this year. You know, Kyler 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.400 Murray should be pretty comfortable playing at eighteen and T Stadium, right, 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.200 that's right. I don't want to get too comfortable. I 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.560 don't know. I don't know how many high school games 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:47.080 he played there. I tell the story all the time 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.359 about how amazing he was in high school, and of 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.000 course we know about college, and you know he played 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.440 at Alan, so uh, you know, I grew up out 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.760 here in Dallas and most of my relatives live out 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.560 on the South Side. So talking you know, South, o'cliff, 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.920 you're talking to Soto, You're talking Duck and Ville, Cedar Hill. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:11.440 I pulled against Kyler Murray every ball game that I saw, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.240 and I am over. I am over for that that 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.840 moment in my life and his life as well. He 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:23.280 has been amazing and he didn't just win it easily. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.320 These games were where he was challenged in every way. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.440 Great coaches, Coach Sample. We all know about Coach Sample. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.560 We all know about Cedar Hill and how how talented 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.720 they are. Duck and Ville de Soto. He comes out 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.840 and when his clutch time, they might be behind, and 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.920 he will drive all the way down the field. And 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.800 I'm not talking about easy passes. I'm talking about dropping dimes. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.520 So he made me a believer way before he went 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:57.760 to A and M and before he ended up at Oklahoma. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.399 So I was so glad. I know Bill too, but 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.520 so glad he ended up in Oklahoma. That was some 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.840 of the best times, best football I think I've ever 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.160 seen in my life, well in the and the other 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:09.920 part of it. He was just a starter of course 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.560 for one year at Oklahoma. And one of the best 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.640 games that he played was against Texas in the Big 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.879 twelve championship game at AT and T Stadium. He had 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.000 a pass to his big tight end with two minute 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.879 and that was a great game back and forth. The 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.280 score was in the high thirties. I can't remember the 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.600 exact score. They had to come back to win it, 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.919 and he had a great pass to his tight end 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.040 Grant Calcatera with two minutes left in the game. That 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.879 was just perfectly placed. But you go back, and for 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.080 those who don't live in the area to give some 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.879 background on what I mean is, I would say that, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.840 especially at the highest classification of Texas high school football, 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:56.040 which is Class six A, he is probably and I 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:57.879 may not even need to put a probably on it, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.439 he is the most accomplished high school player ever to 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:04.560 come out of the state of Texas in high school football, 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.760 due to the fact he won three straight state championships 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.960 for Alan High School. His sophomore year, he was not 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.160 the starter at the beginning of the year. It took 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.680 about three games into the year because he had transferred 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.680 in I think, to Alan, and it took him about 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:23.240 three games before they realized what they had and they 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.080 were reeled off. You know. He never lost a game 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.320 and then they won it. Never lost the game, and 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.399 then they won it all. And in Texas, you're playing 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.800 sixteen games. I mean, you're playing an NFL regular season 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.800 to win a state championship. So you're talking sixteen and 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.280 sixteen to sixteen and Ozero. Yeah, as much as I 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.359 love this guy, I do love him. I had to 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:51.440 grow to love him, I still say, and I'd love 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.879 to have a little back and forth on this. Still 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.280 save bench Young is probably the best high school quarter 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.439 back to come well, and I'm saying the most accomplish 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.240 that and no doubt, no doubt, I'm one, I'm the 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:08.280 state championship and so forth. Yeah, I understood, I understood. 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:13.280 But having said that, I still believe Vince Young maybe 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:17.800 our best high school quarterback. Well since I've been a lot, 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:19.680 since I've been a lot, and I can't I don't 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:21.959 think I ever saw Vince Young play in high school, 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.199 so I don't know. I see what he grew up 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:30.840 in the Houston. Mister periscope, mister YouTube, you should have 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:33.720 all kinds of videos. No, no, I can. I can 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:37.240 go look look it up one day and enjoy yourself. Okay, 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.440 it's gonna be a long video, you know what. I'll 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:47.399 take a look at those Earl Campbell videos too. In 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.000 other words, I mean, we could go on and on talking, 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:53.560 you know, talking about a high school player. That says 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.080 a lot. Even if you're in the conversation for greatest 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.440 high school football player to come out of the state 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:04.639 of Texas, that is a mouthful right there. And I 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.119 don't know people in the lad The people in the 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.240 lado are raising their hands right now, hold up, waiting minute. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:13.120 And we know about Jonathan Gray here since he didn't 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:17.520 do anything after college and unfortunately suffered one, I think 0:24:17.560 --> 0:24:20.640 but two achilles injuries in college and he never got 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.760 to the league because of that. But and I don't know, 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:28.240 there's to speak of Kyler Murray playing at AT and 0:24:28.280 --> 0:24:31.840 T Stadium. There's no telling how many games he played there. 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:36.440 Because here in Texas regularly those six playoff games you're 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.400 playing every year, at least half of them were probably 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:42.800