WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Caught in a Time Warp? 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.880 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:17.759 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.920 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:26.880 Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:33.320 and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time to pick up the pieces. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.400 After a season opening loss at the Los Angeles Rams 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:41.159 on Sunday night, it's down to the business of the 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.320 ritual of the season, Mickey Spagnola, as we get into 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.760 the rhythm of an NFL season with the Monday after 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.680 and all the armchair quarterbacks out there, and we get 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.840 to discuss what happened on Sunday night, and then we'll 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.440 move forward and look forward to a home opener against 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.400 the Atlanta Falcons where there will be fans in the 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:07.520 stands at AT and T Stadium next Sunday at noon 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.560 ever Sun and Mickey, how are y'all doing after a 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.880 late Sunday night, Yeah, it was going well. I think 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.200 I was caught in the time warp last night. Everything 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:23.080 changed with the Cowboys offense. Everything changed, but how they 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.480 lose games? Right? The same story, The reason why they 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.200 ended up eight and eight last year can't can't win 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:37.160 close games, have a weird call in there. And if 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.920 you think about it, last year they played seven games 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.360 that were decided by no more than eight points, so 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.080 one possession games, and they went one in six. And 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.400 how do they start off this season going losing by 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.000 three points and not winning a game when they don't 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:01.040 score at least thirty points. So it was all too 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:06.080 familiar to me, you guys, with what took place the 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:12.280 previous season that caused them to go eight Nate, I 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.640 really couldn't. I can't see. You know what we talked 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.760 about all last year and during the problems that the 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:24.040 Cowboys were having, we always talked about the play calls, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.800 and everyone wondered, well, is it Jason Garrett calling the 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.680 plays or is it Kellam calling the plays? Well, who's 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.680 calling the plays? Who's got the final say? So I 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.760 hope we're not going through this crap again this year. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.880 Please tell me that we're not gonna have coach McCarthy. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.919 If he starts clapping his hands all the time on 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.679 the sidelines, I swear I'm done. I'm done. It's too 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.440 much ja ja vu. Last night from a team that 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:56.120 not only is talented, it actually showed how talented it 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.320 is in most parts of the ball game. But that's 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.000 the problems, always, just in most parts of the ball game, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.360 not when we really need it. All right, I'm monitoring 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.480 comments on Periscope, so if you want to chime in, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.320 I will pass them along any questions you might have. Also, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.359 I'm at CBS eleven Bill Jones on Twitter. That's another 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.640 way of participating, as well as Mickey is in the 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.200 s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star in Frisco. Everson 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.079 and I at our respective homes where I guess everybody 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.520 watched at home. Mickey, this ould be strange for you, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.520 not traveling with the team for the first time in 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.880 forever for a game, right, Well, actually it's the second 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.920 time because if you remember that season opener in twenty eighteen, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.520 that was the first one I had missed since nineteen 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.560 the last game of nineteen eighty eight, Remember I had 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.040 the foot infection, came back, that's when you had the incident, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:59.160 and we're suspended, right yeah, right, and so, and this 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.840 was no easier watch. I just feel sorry for the 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.320 fans that they have to watch it on TV because 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.040 you just can't see what you could see if you're 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.160 at the game. Uh, it's hard to determine who's in 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:18.680 the game, who's not, what substitution packages uh they're using, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.800 and basically you're you're always at the mercy of you know, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.760 if they don't put the little stripped down there at 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.760 the bottom with down in distance and keep the clock there, 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.440 you're at their mercy. So yeah, it's hard, it's strange, 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.000 but you just kind of, you know, as we learned 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.479 this year, just to uh make do uh. And I 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.039 don't know where you want to start, Bill, but I 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.480 just thought that this game, you know what this game 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.719 reminded me of. And I don't know, you know, folks 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.200 out there probably didn't don't have an opportunity or don't 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:59.320 watch the Dallas Stars. But when they won the other 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.600 night against Vegas two to one, they were dominated in 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.600 that game, and the story of that game as they 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.159 stole a win, well, the Rams were given the Cowboys 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.760 every opportunity to steal one. Last night after they dominated. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:20.000 They had the ball like thirteen minutes more than the Cowboys, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.719 they had more total yards, more rushing yards, they doubled 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.440 the Cowboys on third down conversions, and yet there were 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.800 the Cowboys at the eleven yard line ready to take 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.520 the lead early in the fourth quarter, and they didn't 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:41.479 take advantage. And so what happens in these games, and 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.919 it never fails when you're gonna play these close shaves, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.679 these one possession games. Too many times, one mistake, one 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:57.799 bad call by the officials, one missed opportunity or decision 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.279 you make will cost you the game. You know, sometimes 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.320 you gotta just go out and beat people. But that 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.359 wasn't the case, and so all those little things that 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.480 I just said all came back to haunt him. They 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.840 made a decision to go for it on fourth down 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.320 instead of kicking the field goal to tie it with 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.400 like eleven forty still to go in the game. When 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.600 they went for it, as the rookie said, Cede Lamb, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.640 I didn't make a rookie mistake. I made a mistake 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.080 by a rookie when he ran his route one yard 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.159 too short and came down and they missed converting the 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.440 fourth down by one yard, and then the bad call 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.360 at the end of the game. And it just never fails. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.240 And maybe now Mike McCarthy understands what that feels like. 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.000 When it happened with the dead catch back in twenty fourteen. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:54.599 So you leave yourself open to have things like that 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.440 decide the game when you need to decide it yourself. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.599 And they didn't take advantage the Rams. If you looked 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.520 at it, didn't you think the Cowboys are way behind 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.120 just because the Rams always had the ball and they 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.480 were always moving it. And then here they were certainly 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.520 an opportunity to win twice and they didn't steal the game. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.560 I think the problem that you have, guys, is the 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.520 same one that we had last year. Once again, we 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.440 need to come out of the box full of steem. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.920 We seemed to at the beginning of the game. In 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.320 the beginning of the second half, it's almost as if 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.640 we're trying to prode and probe and see what's going on, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.800 which you at that point allow your opposition to control 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.760 the clock and control the tempo of the game. You 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.200 could see it so easily. Once the Cowboys had their 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.440 tempo going, they were unstoppable. You saw the matchup between 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.480 our wider receivers and their cornerbacks. Clearly, our wide receivers 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.480 had no fear of Jalen Rose, they had no fear 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.400 of that Ram's secondary I love the battling that was 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.800 going on. Ceedee Lamb was doing his thing, except for, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:21.320 of course, the big mistake on fourth down. What you 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:26.200 can't do as any team, really, the Cowboys found out 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.520 last year and even when I played as a Cowboy, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:34.400 when you put yourself in a desperate situation, more times 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.560 than not, and this is what Spags was speaking on, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.280 more times than not, the referee is going to do 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.559 you in and if nothing else, they're not going to 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.960 do you any favors, meaning they will let that pass 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:53.840 interference call go by against your wide receiver. They may 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.520 not call that holding call against their offensive tackle, when 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.319 your defensive end has a debt, has your quarterback debt 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:06.440 to rights, clear calls that can be missed. Those things 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.760 happen when you put yourself as a team in a 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:15.360 desperate situation. I've been through it myself. Extremely frustrating to 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.800 play in those games, and I found out that it's 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.800 more frustrating to watch it happen, especially over and over 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:29.040 again to this extremely talented Cowboys team. You know, and uh, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.319 you break it all down, and you know, Cowboys, we 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.960 sit here, we talk about what should have been on 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.080 the Michael Gallup play. As Jalen Ramsey clearly sold it 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:46.120 and the official bought it. But on the cheeto, and 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.920 we need to quickly point out on the cheeto interception, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.960 there was Alden Smith did make contact with the head 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.439 of Jared Goff and so that that that call went 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.120 the other way. And to your point, Mickey, it's when 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.040 you have these close games, those calls are all going 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.520 to even out. But there are certain plays that have 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.720 to be made in close games in order to come 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.520 away victorious. And here over the last season and now 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.640 one game this year, the Cowboys weren't able to come 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.720 up with that one play to win the game. Yeah, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.920 and you know, I get it. It's a short sample size. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.920 This is the one game. It's the first game. But 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.720 you know there there there's there's losses that you look 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.320 at and you go that one's going to come back 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.120 in honess. They had one like that with the Jets 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.520 last year. Remember they lost twenty four twenty two and 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.600 to a terrible team by the way, And my point 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.480 after the game was this will come back to Hanum. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.120 Had they won that game, you know, they might have 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.119 won the NFC East, they might have gone to the playoffs. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.680 But you can't lose those games that are winnable, and 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.240 this one to me on the road, no fans, no 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.760 home field advantage for the for the Rams, and you 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.959 couldn't you couldn't take it. It was there and there 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:08.240 was reasons why. So let's think about this. The two 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.600 things we were probably most concerned about going into this game. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.320 The right tackle position would out layl Collins there and 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.800 just what was this defense? How well would this defense 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.000 play well? In the end, they did hold the Rams 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.920 to just twenty points, but it sure felt like they 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.560 scored thirty five and they had trouble doing what stopping 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.160 the run. Gave up one hundred and fifty three yards rushing, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.360 and I would imagine to a couple of running backs 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.720 not a lot of people knew of. They didn't get 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.679 any pressure hardly at all on Jared Goff, and they 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.560 looked like they had no clue that they were going 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.439 to throw to the running back or throw these little 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.600 screen passes to the wide receiver, and it took them 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.120 forever to adjust for that. And so like that, the 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.080 first two possess the Rams had Cowboys heads on defense 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.480 were swimming. And the other thing that I thought we 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.640 talked about that I was concerned about was what was 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.560 going to happen at that defensive tackle position. Well, nothing happened, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.520 and that was a huge problem. There were too many 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.480 plays that defensive front got pushed five yards back. Now 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.640 I understand the fascination with rushing the quarterback, but as 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.480 I always say, if you don't stop the run, you 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.400 don't earn the right to rush the quarterback. And they 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:37.400 were getting gashed right up the middle. That reminded me, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.400 guys of the Minnesota Vikings game here in Dallas. I 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.640 believe that was on Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving weekend, to 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:51.439 where we were being gashed by Dalvin Cook and all 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.320 the running backs for the Minnesota Vikings. What we see 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.360 here is the same thing as last year. And it's 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.280 like you said, Spags, it's only one game. I do 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:05.960 understand that, but what it is, it's so eerily similar. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.800 It's such a continuation from the same frustrations that we 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.800 had all last season, especially when we start to go 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.040 on our little losing streak in the second half of 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.839 the season. These were the telltale signs that continue to 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.439 pile up game after game after game. And then we 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.320 finished the game and we look at the stats and 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.559 we would say something like, oh, well, Cowboys defense is 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.320 still number seven in the league or some crap like that. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.120 When we look at the offense and we'll say, WHOA 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.200 Dak had a good game. Zeke got a close to 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.560 a hundred yards. Everything looked good. That's what the stats say. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.920 But we talked about this, and I have mentioned it 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.079 over and over again. It's when you make plays that 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.160 truly counts for this team. What you saw was a 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:02.199 game continuing drives because we couldn't stop anyone on third 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.000 and two. We couldn't stop anyone on third and three. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.880 Talked about it earlier, all during the week. All three 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.720 facets of the game have to come to play each game, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:19.680 and the penalties have to go away. We assisted the 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.920 cow the Rams offense on the first couple of drives 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.440 with so many neutral zone in factions. These are exactly 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.400 the things that we had to go through last year. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.680 And I don't want to wait to see if the 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.280 head coach is going to do something about it, and 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.800 we're still talking about this at Thanksgiving in twenty twenty. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.800 That is what I do not want. You know, you 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.840 mentioned the third down. They converted fifty three percent of 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.120 their third down opportunities. And if you think about it, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.720 if you're in the low forties, that's really good. Fifty 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.840 three percent to the Cowboys twenty five. They doubled it. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.440 And you know, if you look at the difference in 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.920 the offense as well, that was a huge difference. And 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.760 going back to the defense, who was the best player 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.320 out there, Well, it was the guy that hadn't played 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.800 a game in five years years. He was the best 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:21.800 guy on that defense. Uh. He he ends up with 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:27.200 ten tackles, a sack, a couple of quarterback hits. I mean, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.400 and I thought he was great afterwards because when he 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.400 was getting questions about how well he played, he goes, well, Uh, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.800 it was encouraging, but it wasn't perfect. He goes, I 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.240 made a share of my mistakes out there too, and 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:47.520 and so and he did, especially against the run, crashing 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.480 in and not holding down the edge. Uh. And that 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.160 would have been except I mean, you got to expect 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.600 that he was anxious. I mean, how fired up must 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.920 have this kid been to be able to go I said, kid, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.800 he's now thirty some years old to be able to 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.720 go back out after everything he's done in play a 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:10.440 football game. But there was. It was just it took 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.800 too long for that defense to settle down. You know, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.640 we were sitting here, we were so we're watching the 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:20.640 game upstairs. We got a bank of four screens, and 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.840 it got to halftime and it was like, well, how 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.080 are the Cowboys winning this game? You know? And one 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:32.680 reason was because their new kicker, you know, clunks of 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.240 twenty nine yard field goal off the upright, and you 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.760 know what, with no fans in the stands, that was 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.400 the loudest bang on an upright I think I've ever 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.640 conferred over the television. Right. And then, by the way, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.040 you know, new kicker, and we're all fired up about him. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.200 Maybe some of those kicks between thirty three and forty 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.000 eight we saw him making in practice that he went 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.240 twenty nine for twenty nine. They might have and I 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.560 don't know what they did when we weren't watching, right, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.520 but they only tried one kick further than forty eight, 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.879 and with sixty he missed it, and then he made it. Well, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.920 he missed a fifty three yarder, so now he's one 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.119 for two. That's fifty percent, right, And I understand it 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.800 was fifty yards fifty three yards, but you lost by 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.040 three points and we saw that too many times last year. 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.600 And the most or two of the most troubling things 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.879 to come out of this loss are a couple of 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.720 injuries that the cowboys have to deal with. Now, let's 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.760 get into that when mick shots continues in just a moment. Hey, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.800 they're cowboys fans with Tight Cleaners at Home pickup and Delivery, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.440 cleaning your clothes has never been more convenient. 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Visit 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:06.320 Dallas Cowboys dot dot com slash d c RB for 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:13.640 more information or to book today. All right, very very 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:19.120 good there, Mickey got to practice. Let's get into the injuries. Yes, 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.520 let's go. Let's let's get into the injuries and the 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:28.199 two major ones. Let's start at tight end. As Stephen 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.359 Jones was on the fan about noon today and he 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.080 essentially confirmed that it's an acl that Blake Jarwin is 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.439 dealing with, as he'll he'll be placed on injured reserve 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:43.119 season ending injury. And Layton vander Esh looks like the 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.000 fractured clavicle as the Cowboys announced last night, requiring surgery, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.720 and Mickey looks like six to eight weeks for him. Yeah. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:56.159 The you know, anytime you fracture a bone, uh, it'll 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:01.200 take at least six weeks to heal. They do surgery 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.120 to kind of speed up the recovery time. Hopefully they 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.720 can put a plate in there over the over the fracture. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.560 But that's a tough injury. You know, Tony Romo came 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:18.800 back after fracturing his but then what happened, He refractured it. Uh, 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.120 So that's a tough injury for a linebacker to come 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.679 back from. And now they put him they'll put him 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:30.200 on IR recall. Uh. And you know nowadays it's only 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.359 three weeks, but I'm sure his will be closer to 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:38.399 eight until he comes back. So Joe Thomas, this is 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.159 your big chance. And I would imagine, uh, you know, 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.080 Luke Gifford got back into practice last week and he 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.240 was inactive on Sunday. I would imagine he'll be active 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.000 as as a backup this coming Sunday against the Falcons, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.119 and then they'll need to see if they need to 0:21:55.720 --> 0:22:00.880 put another uh linebacker on the fifty three man roster. Um. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.360 That's just a shame for him. After having the next 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.560 surgery and recovering from that. And you know the scary 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.800 part was you guys, is when they he was sitting 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.240 on the bench and they were they were, you know, 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:16.080 kind of checking him out, evaluating the injury. They kept 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:18.240 messing with his neck and it was like, oh, don't 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:23.520 tell me, right and and and then uh, you know, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:28.320 it ends up being a fractured clavicle his collar bone. Uh. 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:31.359 So you go, huh. But it's like, well, no, that's 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.800 that's bad too. Uh. And then you mentioned Blake Jarwin 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.199 and he'll be on season ending injured reserve. He's going 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.040 to have to have ACL surgery. And normally what the 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:47.120 Cowboys do is they wait, unless there's some other significant 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:49.920 damage in there, they'll wait a week or two before 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.120 they do the surgery to try to build up some 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:56.520 strength uh in your leg before they do the surgery. Uh. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.879 And that's that's a shame because he really had a 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:03.120 good training camp. And now you know, it's like Dalton Schultz, 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.600 this is your life, remember that old TV show. Uh. 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.080 And and Blake Bell will have to be kind of 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:14.679 the utility tight end because Schultz was kind of going 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.280 to function as a fullback, which, by the way, did 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:23.280 you catch Antoine Woods doing his William Perry impersonation on 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:26.880 on Zike's first test out. Hey, he gave a leap 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.760 block as a fullback and wipe that guy out by 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:33.880 the way, So that losing your tight end like that. Yeah, 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:37.200 there's a trickle down effect now, and hey it's it's 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:39.640 the old deal, next man up, because it's pretty hard 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.800 to find replacements out there in free agency at this 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:47.120 stage of the game. And uh and in fact, Batman 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.520 on film on Periscope's asking could they make a trade 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:52.560 or sign a free agent to help it tight end, 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:57.280 linebacker and even at safety the difficult I think the 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.440 thing on the tight end situation. You know, I haven't 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:02.399 been able to go back because a coach's film and 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.200 loaded on NFL dot com yet to see how much 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:08.600 twelve personnel they used. But I did see something where 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.840 Cede Lamb had like eighty seven percent of the snaps, 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.040 So that tells me they were in eleven personnel pretty 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:17.320 close to eighty five percent of the time. And I 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.800 think Blake Bell's role on this team will be as 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:25.439 that second tied end and whether whether Jarwin was healthy 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.199 or not, that is Bell's role as is like the 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.440 second tied end, while Schultz was more of the understudy 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:35.280 to Jarwin, having more receiving ability than than what Blake 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:38.680 bell Kin catch to football and his athletic but he's 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.240 not to that extent obviously, not to where Jarwin was. 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:45.000 Sean McKeon is the other guy that they have on 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.520 the roster who will now be asked to step up. 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.480 But the really bad thing as far as the vander 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:54.480 Ish injury is the fact, of course that Sean Lee 0:24:54.560 --> 0:24:57.440 is starting the season on injured reserve and he's got 0:24:57.480 --> 0:24:59.960 at least two more weeks to go before he would 0:25:00.080 --> 0:25:02.960 be eligible to come off. Yeah, and you know that 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.800 kind of limits that kind of that kind of limits 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:10.640