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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. It's a fabulous Football Friday edition of
Speaker 1: mix Shots. As we get you set for the final
Speaker 1: game of the two thousand twenty one preseason Sunday at
Speaker 1: noon at at and T Stadium, Urban Meyer, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: and the Jacksonville Jaguars are coming to town. But right now,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola has just returned from Ford Center where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys at practiced, and I can't wait to get that
Speaker 1: practice report from Mickey. He has a booty full of
Speaker 1: information about that's right. I saw Everson as he walked
Speaker 1: into the Star in Frisco, and I saw the life
Speaker 1: of a superstar, even in retirement and National Football League superstar.
Speaker 1: He can't even go from his parking space into the
Speaker 1: start without fans saying, hey, commy, commy, can I get
Speaker 1: a picture? You know, they get more and more devious
Speaker 1: every time, you know, he calls me cumby. You know
Speaker 1: he's name association, right, the former teammate, one of the
Speaker 1: white friends from Hamilton Park. Yeah, well, speaking of Hamilton's Park.
Speaker 1: So since this guy started on Mick Shots, he's all
Speaker 1: over TV now too. People know he's here man last night,
Speaker 1: last night, he's all over the TV because of the
Speaker 1: new coach, Trey Bryant. Yes, the first African American head
Speaker 1: coach at Berkener High School. They also they had an
Speaker 1: African American coach when I first came to Berkener. And
Speaker 1: you know the way the school system was, as you're
Speaker 1: going to integrate the young kids and African American kids,
Speaker 1: you have to have some association, so they would choose
Speaker 1: certain educators or even coaches to make that transfer as well.
Speaker 1: And so one of those transfers was coach John Freeman.
Speaker 1: And he just happened to be my dad's teammate at
Speaker 1: Preview A and M. So that puts some real undue
Speaker 1: pressure on that. So, now, what was your association with
Speaker 1: coach Bryant. Trey Bryant was. I played on that Berkener
Speaker 1: squad with his father with his father, his father, Bubba
Speaker 1: Lee Bryant. His name is Lee Brian. We just called
Speaker 1: him Bubba ly and he's passed on since. Just a
Speaker 1: really cool dude. But he was the one that we
Speaker 1: beat up on because he was on JV so my
Speaker 1: one year playing in high school, he was. He was
Speaker 1: on the practice class, you know. But this was another
Speaker 1: instance of Hamilton Park right right right, that's exactly right,
Speaker 1: that's right, all right. So are they sharpening in any
Speaker 1: iron out on the practice? Sharpened a lot of iron
Speaker 1: out on that practice field today. You know what, it
Speaker 1: was a full practice. It wasn't like we're backing off
Speaker 1: to get ready for the game on Sunday since it's Friday. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was a full practice in pads. Uh. Dak was
Speaker 1: sharp as sharp could go. Another and he was in
Speaker 1: team and he was he was throwing the ball on
Speaker 1: the run. He was thrown with velocity. Uh and looked
Speaker 1: really really good. And we'll talk more about that. DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence was back on the field in team for the
Speaker 1: first time. Uh. And of course, you know, fresh legs,
Speaker 1: he's off the line of scrimmage like he's just screaming, right,
Speaker 1: So he was back out there. Uh. Malik Turner the
Speaker 1: wide receiver, full practice for the first time since he
Speaker 1: I think it was an ankle maybe, so he was
Speaker 1: out there. Not out there, Layton vander esh he there's
Speaker 1: some bug going around the locker room and it's not
Speaker 1: COVID related, you know, It's like, can can anybody get
Speaker 1: sick these days without it being COVID? Right, And so
Speaker 1: that's been going around and he missed and then Lele
Speaker 1: Collins walked off after the first part of practice, and
Speaker 1: he walked off with Jim Mauer. When they went to
Speaker 1: the sideline, the Cowboys, a head trainer h Doctor Cooper
Speaker 1: met him and they talked to doctor Cooper and the
Speaker 1: three of them went in and he never came back.
Speaker 1: And the only thing I saw was Jim Mauer looking
Speaker 1: at doctor Cooper and going like this. He was patting
Speaker 1: right underneath his neck on his chest. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was some indication of what the problem was,
Speaker 1: because you remember, was it a week ago or so
Speaker 1: Lele missed a couple of practices, was a I think
Speaker 1: it was a neck issue, so it might be the
Speaker 1: front of his neck. I don't know, but yeah, so
Speaker 1: he missed the majority of the team the team session,
Speaker 1: which was uh, you know, somewhat troubling. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: what else, Uh, zer Line. Greg Zerline kicked again and
Speaker 1: he went eight of nine time, so much more Mickey's
Speaker 1: approval a little bit more. I feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better about that. And and watched thirty three through forty
Speaker 1: nine and he missed from forty six, but he did
Speaker 1: make forty seven and forty nine. Um. I did see
Speaker 1: one low snap come in the ball landed flat on
Speaker 1: the ground by the LP on speed dot H And
Speaker 1: as usual, the one he missed a he hooked it left.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter that this guy's been in the
Speaker 1: league for a decade and been to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping an eye on that's right. So uh.
Speaker 1: And then they finished practice with a little bit of
Speaker 1: a walk through. They took the helmets off. I think
Speaker 1: the pads came off too, and uh. And then afterwards
Speaker 1: when we went out on the track to do our
Speaker 1: socially distanced to interviews with the players. Uh, it looked
Speaker 1: like the majority of the guys out there were the
Speaker 1: veterans and they were doing windsprints. Look good, they're finally
Speaker 1: starting to get in ship in shape. Right first day
Speaker 1: of training camp, it was like it was I think
Speaker 1: a little bit it had to do with just continuing
Speaker 1: to acclimate to the heat. Um, which I guarantee you
Speaker 1: that because here's the deal today, I'm sure McCarthy would
Speaker 1: have loved to have been out in the heat again
Speaker 1: today to get for Tampa, which is thirteen days away,
Speaker 1: but a little bit better out there to day. But yesterday, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but this was a open practice that fans could come to,
Speaker 1: and so it had to be indoors at Ford Center
Speaker 1: for fans to be able to observe. And since the
Speaker 1: practice started at eleven fifteen, and I think it was
Speaker 1: it was an adult fan practice, right right. There weren't
Speaker 1: any kids there. It was an adult crowd. And then
Speaker 1: it's getting to and so I'm sure he would have
Speaker 1: liked to go on and tomorrow for the walkthrough, right,
Speaker 1: but it's indoors again, right, it's open again fans, that's right,
Speaker 1: So there'll be some kids out tomorrow. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: only going for an hour tomorrow, I think, yeah, ten fifty,
Speaker 1: it's an hour earlier. It's if memory serves me right,
Speaker 1: on the schedule, the practice is from ten fifteen to
Speaker 1: eleven fifteen tomorrow because they got a clear out, that's right.
Speaker 1: Games we've got hey, Everson We've got the Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: Classic tomorrow afternoon at Ford's Center High School football Denton
Speaker 1: Ryan versus Long View. So you go to it. That's
Speaker 1: my people. So'd you go to it? Yeah? Both sides
Speaker 1: of the family. All right, you'll have to come out
Speaker 1: for the Jerry Jones Classic. Man, I'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of people yelling coming. Well, yeah, a lot of people
Speaker 1: do claim me. So did you go to a game
Speaker 1: last night? I watched one on TV. Watched it on TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at at and T Stadium last night. It was South
Speaker 1: Lake Carol and Highland Park. Wow. So a nice game.
Speaker 1: South Lake Carol smoked him. Well, you know their quarterback
Speaker 1: quin Yours declared for the draft. He declared for for
Speaker 1: South Lake Carol, number one quarterback recruit in the nation.
Speaker 1: And I'm about a month ago the name, image likeness
Speaker 1: thing that now college athletes can take advantage of high
Speaker 1: school athletes in Texas cannot take advantage of it. And
Speaker 1: so he has moved on to Ohio State. And so
Speaker 1: it's a great story where he can make money, right,
Speaker 1: And seriously, we're talking up to a million. It could
Speaker 1: be even more now I don't know, but at the
Speaker 1: time we're talking. He had an opportunity to make up
Speaker 1: to a million dollars in endorsements, and he couldn't do
Speaker 1: it here, And he couldn't do it if he wasn't
Speaker 1: in college. And I mean, so he was in a position,
Speaker 1: Yeah right, maybe he doesn't need to go to college.
Speaker 1: He took, he took. He was on track to graduate,
Speaker 1: and so he took one online class that he was
Speaker 1: able to take in like three weeks time, got graduated
Speaker 1: and wound up showing up late at Ohio State after
Speaker 1: their preseason drill started. So anyway, here's a great story though.
Speaker 1: The quarterback for South Lake Carroll Caden Anderson is his name.
Speaker 1: Coming off an ACL injury last year, he finds out
Speaker 1: a month ago. He's a junior, big prospects six four,
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds. You watched him. Uh, the great story
Speaker 1: about his father. He dedicated the game to his father.
Speaker 1: His father passed away a year ago this week. Oh
Speaker 1: my yeah, I mean I'm rooting so so much for
Speaker 1: this kid. And uh he had u uh and it
Speaker 1: was a sudden it was he had was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: a brain tumor, and three weeks later he wasn't here.
Speaker 1: And so and so South Lake Carol put up forty six. Okay,
Speaker 1: but to building. Yes, in fact, their quarterback from from
Speaker 1: last year, Braden Shager, who's a kid that Babe Laufenberg has.
Speaker 1: He's schooled and to be a quarterback since he was
Speaker 1: eight years old. Uh so he's good in spite of
Speaker 1: the okay that show. Braden is at the University of
Speaker 1: Hawaii and he is as a true freshman, just got
Speaker 1: on campus this summer. Is the backup quarterback at AAI.
Speaker 1: They play UCLA I think this weekend, sol uh and
Speaker 1: we get some college football tomorrow, right, we do, right, yea,
Speaker 1: So it's all starting. It's and ready to go. Hang
Speaker 1: in and one of these days when we don't have
Speaker 1: a lot going on, I got some nick shots on
Speaker 1: that that likeness stuff. Oh right, yeah, you can educate
Speaker 1: me even more. Yeah, you know, I'm all in. It's
Speaker 1: going to be some serious unintended consequences for amateurs. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't are they still amateurs if someone's paying them?
Speaker 1: Where did I see one of the schools that they
Speaker 1: were the guys that are walk on that aren't on scholarship.
Speaker 1: Somebody donated money to pick I think it's by Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right. Of course, Cowboys play Jacksonville on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: earlier this week, urban Meyer said that he's going to
Speaker 1: play his starters. He's going to start his starters. That
Speaker 1: was when he named Trevor Lawrence as his starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I saw Bruce Arians today came out and said,
Speaker 1: and of course this is the Cowboys opponent in thirteen days.
Speaker 1: The starters are going to play the first half of
Speaker 1: their final preseason game against Houston. He says they need
Speaker 1: some game snaps they need and so are they now rugly.
Speaker 1: He also Arians also reserved the right to change two years.
Speaker 1: He reserved the right to change his mind though too.
Speaker 1: So sometimes that just that you're just getting the attention
Speaker 1: to the players in practice where you got a good
Speaker 1: couple of good practice. I think he's just trying to
Speaker 1: get a field. Yeah, I really think he's just trying
Speaker 1: for not just his team, but for this professional level.
Speaker 1: He's on right, And but for a lot of teams
Speaker 1: now it's not so much for Dallas and Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: because they're playing the Thursday game. I mean, these games
Speaker 1: this weekend are when you traditionally would play your dress
Speaker 1: rehearsal game. From a calendar standpoint, two weeks away from
Speaker 1: the first Sunday of the season, and so I think
Speaker 1: you're going to see more teams play starters this weekend
Speaker 1: than what you normally would see in the last preseason game.
Speaker 1: So did you bone up on your Trevor Lawrence history.
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. Work, I'm working on it, yep.
Speaker 1: All right. So, and you know there's a former Cowboy
Speaker 1: player starting for Jacksonville, Damien Wilson. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: got went to Kansas City, got on the Super Bowl ring,
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl the next year, and then
Speaker 1: they parted ways. We had two former linebackers Hinton as well.
Speaker 1: The Hitchings was right, Yeah, we got them, and then
Speaker 1: jackson Jacksonville also had Jihad Ward. Yep, had Ward is
Speaker 1: earning the praise of Urban Meyer. I had this press
Speaker 1: conference some former assistant coaches on their roster, and what
Speaker 1: did I do with my Jacksonville deal. I highlighted a
Speaker 1: couple of guys that are coaching there, the only ones
Speaker 1: I've looked at so far, Darryl Bevill as their offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Joe Culling their defensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer as their quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach and pass game coordinator. And of course, uh Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy as a history with the Schottenheimer family. Marty he
Speaker 1: coached with him in Kansas City. You know, Mickey here
Speaker 1: is about Everson. He is about to interview the head
Speaker 1: coach as soon as Mick shots is over. You know,
Speaker 1: comes early. I think we can invite him in. And
Speaker 1: we got a microphone and a chair right over there
Speaker 1: for the head coach. If you can pull those strings,
Speaker 1: I'm glad so Jack Deonville's wide receivers coach, san Jay
Speaker 1: Lyle Okay offensive line coach. And this goes way back
Speaker 1: George Warhop he was a Cowboys offensive line coach and
Speaker 1: the guy that Cowboys gave a chance. Former player, he
Speaker 1: was assistant on special teams maybe two years ago. Carlos
Speaker 1: Polk Okay is with Jacksonville. All right, So so here's
Speaker 1: what I want to do. Since Mickey and you probably
Speaker 1: haven't come up with your questions for the coach yet.
Speaker 1: You probably need some help. I need some help, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so tweet unprepared. You can tweet me at
Speaker 1: CB yes eleven, Bill Jones, what do you want? Maybe
Speaker 1: Mickey will take your questions for it and take him
Speaker 1: to the head coach. I highly doubt it, but I
Speaker 1: offer that service up. I'll let you guys make a
Speaker 1: suggestion here. What do you want to know? Because I
Speaker 1: think I only got three or four minutes, that's all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird because we normally would do the head
Speaker 1: coach live during the pregame show from the stadium, and
Speaker 1: so we taped it the last couple of times, but
Speaker 1: it just kind of looks weird where we're all out
Speaker 1: at the stadium and then all of a sudden, I'm
Speaker 1: on the set interviewing Mike, and so they said, maybe
Speaker 1: we're okay, he's on the set here at the time.
Speaker 1: So now, the first two games it didn't look as
Speaker 1: odd because the team was on the road. I mean,
Speaker 1: well the Arizona game, yeah, so but yeah, so anyway,
Speaker 1: well but we'll see. So what do you want about?
Speaker 1: Five questions? What do you have? Five question What do
Speaker 1: you want to know? Okay, what's your first question? So
Speaker 1: I did this because I'm trying to prepare Mickey for it.
Speaker 1: Probably something about his head, right, you know, something about
Speaker 1: that for some reason, that last preseason game, you're going
Speaker 1: to take another look at Cooper Rush. Are you going
Speaker 1: to give him a decent opportunity with some of the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman actually playing with him? All right? And Everson,
Speaker 1: how would you answer that question? If I was Paul McCarthy,
Speaker 1: I would tell him to go to him that next question,
Speaker 1: next question, none of your business. Might ask him something
Speaker 1: about how they've handled the outbreak of COVID. They did
Speaker 1: get Malie Cooker. I did say that, right. I don't
Speaker 1: know that you did. That is a very impertinent point.
Speaker 1: He's back in pro he's back in practice today, and
Speaker 1: then they have the pseudo walk through or whatever tomorrow
Speaker 1: and then so he'll be playing in the game on something.
Speaker 1: But they're still gonna have guys missing, And I'll probably
Speaker 1: ask him, what do you think the you know, opportunity
Speaker 1: is for the rest of the guys to get back
Speaker 1: in time before you actually start your first game week,
Speaker 1: which would be a week from today next Friday. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't have This doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: a question. We can all look it up. But has
Speaker 1: he ever not played his starting quarterback an entire preseason.
Speaker 1: That's kind of unusual. I like that, it really is. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, everybody starts off with it last
Speaker 1: year outside of last but everybody didn't quarterback last year,
Speaker 1: and it didn't affect Dak because he got off to
Speaker 1: the heck of a start, right. They were averaging thirty
Speaker 1: two points a game those first five games. So and
Speaker 1: then I'll probably ask him something about Dak how he's
Speaker 1: looked in his first live team drills, which I know
Speaker 1: the answer, he's looked awfully, awfully well, I mean today
Speaker 1: was really sharp with some of the throws he made.
Speaker 1: And so and maybe we answer this question because it
Speaker 1: keeps coming up to me, so I know what the
Speaker 1: answer should be, but it should come from him. The
Speaker 1: question seems to be going round is do the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to pull back on their offense to protect Dak's
Speaker 1: arm or are they worried about his ankle because he
Speaker 1: hasn't done this. And my answer to that is if
Speaker 1: they have to change the offense, like we're not going
Speaker 1: to throw a ball past twenty yards or we're not
Speaker 1: going to have him roll out and throw on the
Speaker 1: run because we're worried about his ankle, then he shouldn't
Speaker 1: be playing. You got to be able to go and
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore tried to emphasize that yesterday. He said, we're
Speaker 1: going out to play football. That was his answer, and
Speaker 1: then I think he followed, we're gonna play ball, and
Speaker 1: that's what they should do, because if you're going to
Speaker 1: go out there and try to put reins on him,
Speaker 1: which you can't, right, and he wouldn't follow those directions anyway,
Speaker 1: then he shouldn't be out there, like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to call a bootleg because I'm worried about
Speaker 1: him running or and you know, and and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they've had the discussion about him pulling the ball down
Speaker 1: and running, right, but I think the emphasis on that
Speaker 1: is get what you can and go down, because that's
Speaker 1: how he got hurt. Seven yards would have been just
Speaker 1: fine against the John. The guy was lightweight. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had them by twenty pounds. Probably the guy that
Speaker 1: the guy to tackle out. It was just the way
Speaker 1: it went down, well, and so that was the guy
Speaker 1: wrapped his legs around his to bring him down, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's gotta do what he's got to do
Speaker 1: to bring him down because he's undersized, right, So he
Speaker 1: was just a you know, he was a victim. But
Speaker 1: now I don't need the eighth yard seven's good and
Speaker 1: see you touched on everything that was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: First of all, I think he needs not just him,
Speaker 1: but the offensive line himself. They need practices like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got to get into that rhythm. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the only time they have a chance to
Speaker 1: do it. Was the first team verse first team early
Speaker 1: in practice. It was yes, and I wrote down some
Speaker 1: of his throws and the boy, he was right on
Speaker 1: the money a bunch of times. They this is something
Speaker 1: that can also kind of, uh just kind of make
Speaker 1: him ease up a little bit in regards to how
Speaker 1: anxious he is, because you can feel it. You can
Speaker 1: see it on the whole shows. That's not an act.
Speaker 1: I mean he's and you could you could imagine it
Speaker 1: wasn't like he played an entire season last year and
Speaker 1: now he's starting off not getting to play in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I mean he had he missed twelve games, rights eleven games.
Speaker 1: That is that's just you know, his blood is boiling.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's basically eleven and a half games. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you got that's just you know, yeah, and
Speaker 1: when you're the starting quarterback and now you're making this money,
Speaker 1: you're feeling this, you're feeling that. So many different variables
Speaker 1: in regards that why these practices. I think he needs
Speaker 1: them more than anyone. But I think the entire I
Speaker 1: think more the offense mostly they need this as far
Speaker 1: as the line and Zeke himself, you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: the concession they make. I would think early in the game,
Speaker 1: just let him have a couple easy completions, maybe a
Speaker 1: little out, uh, you know, a little five yard ten
Speaker 1: yard pattern, dumped the ball to Zeke, you know, first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll show you right, everybody back up. Nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: my arm, that's right. So I see no concessions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I would think just the just the first game
Speaker 1: when you haven't played, just to get his confidence read. Well,
Speaker 1: well you've got the sssions, but you got Zeke back here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and you've got this offensive line who's raring to
Speaker 1: go forward. So I mean, you're gonna be what you're
Speaker 1: gonna be. You're gonna be that same team that you're
Speaker 1: intended to be two years ago, and of course even
Speaker 1: last year when Zeke wasn't having such a great year
Speaker 1: before dad got hurt. So, speaking of Zeke type, how
Speaker 1: about if we speak of Zeke when we come back
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Speaker 1: I was waiting now that put a. Mickey was reading
Speaker 1: that spot off his iPhone that you don't have an
Speaker 1: iPhone though, do That's why I know that. That's why
Speaker 1: when I text with him, it's a green bubble, it's
Speaker 1: not a bloom bubble. That's why I know I'm identified. Right.
Speaker 1: But he was reading it off his phone and he
Speaker 1: wasn't sure he'd be able to come through, and it
Speaker 1: was his best read of the year. Let's give credit
Speaker 1: to my new spec. I was gonna say, you must
Speaker 1: have turned up the Yeah, they turned a notch up
Speaker 1: every year. Hey you got there. They bringing it from
Speaker 1: the back, right, Yeah. Do you know what your prescription is? Negative?
Speaker 1: What I don't because Chiquon Hardy said it was fifty
Speaker 1: which is but he meant to say negative two point five. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, he says two fifty and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that's why, that's why, that's why he's by the way,
Speaker 1: he got interviewed again, That's what I'm saying. He got
Speaker 1: interviewed and so he re spects. Is that what they're called.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think that's what the name of
Speaker 1: him mark Yeah, um, and his his nickname is one
Speaker 1: and one right, yeah, because of one. Yeah. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: like the first person I've ever saved one and one.
Speaker 1: We're going to get a heavy dose of one and
Speaker 1: one on Sunday right between him and yeah we got
Speaker 1: one and one. He kind of saved himself on the
Speaker 1: last drive Hardy did or Knox one and one? Okay
Speaker 1: Hardy hard Yeah. May he was having trouble catching the ball,
Speaker 1: having trouble doing everything. Yeah. He's not very big, not
Speaker 1: at all. And I don't think we spoke of Knox
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Did we speak of Knox? One? We mentioned him,
Speaker 1: but because because I mention myself and I couldn't remember
Speaker 1: his name, and then there he was on the show.
Speaker 1: But we didn't even include him in regards to candidates
Speaker 1: for so at least Knox is five eleven two twenty
Speaker 1: three from Marshall, Jaquan Hardy five eight to fifty from Tiffin.
Speaker 1: Yeah he looks five eight. Let's just what about los
Speaker 1: anele gravity? Is that? Yeah? Because no, he had because
Speaker 1: he looked like he had pretty big size. Yeah new
Speaker 1: house like yeah, maybe not quite a new house. So anyway,
Speaker 1: and no one. That kind of leads us to our
Speaker 1: running backs, right, that's exactly right. And um, and by
Speaker 1: the way, Hardy from Tiffin University there, which is a
Speaker 1: school that has produced a Pro Bowl running back in
Speaker 1: the past, believe it or not, Tiffin. This was like
Speaker 1: five years ago. Who was that talk to him? Chris
Speaker 1: Ivory from Tiffin University. I wonder if he was on
Speaker 1: that because if I remember correctly, I think LSU played
Speaker 1: Tiffin one year as one of their non conference games.
Speaker 1: That's typical of the SEC. And then maybe Ivory was
Speaker 1: like crambling or something like that. That's what that's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to moving to the SEC. Maybe we
Speaker 1: get to start conference games. Yeah. Um, they hung with
Speaker 1: them for about a quarter in the people in the stadium,
Speaker 1: We're getting a little bit nervous, all right, so yes,
Speaker 1: he set up Zeke. Yes, the Cowboys restructured his contract,
Speaker 1: and for beb people understand what they did and why
Speaker 1: they did it. They converted eight point six million of
Speaker 1: his nine point six million dollars base salary into a
Speaker 1: restructure bonus. So the reason they do that is to
Speaker 1: lower his cap hit for this year, which cleared six
Speaker 1: point eight million off the cap. And they take the
Speaker 1: bonus that they give them and they divided out over
Speaker 1: the length of his contract, So they divide eight point
Speaker 1: six by five and it comes to adding one point
Speaker 1: seven two million each year for five years, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't like add years. Everybody's like, oh, we got him
Speaker 1: for this or that. Well, the thing it did was
Speaker 1: killed this perception that the Cowboys were ready to get
Speaker 1: rid of them, right, I didn't know that perception was out.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah it was. You don't listen to sports talk,
Speaker 1: right yeah. And then that's why I'm spot you do
Speaker 1: your own spirit radio. And here's the real reason that
Speaker 1: they created some cap space for this year. Okay, now
Speaker 1: he's going to start with the fans first came right, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's the quarterback that you want the backup? Quarterback. You
Speaker 1: want the backup quarterback. You were talking the other day
Speaker 1: about Nick Foles. Nick Foles, okay, so that clear space
Speaker 1: because he said eight meal dead money. I think you
Speaker 1: said something like a lot of more more than that.
Speaker 1: But he's making like eight a year though, right, eight
Speaker 1: meal a year. Oh no, No, the big question came
Speaker 1: out they were going to trade for stuff on Gilmour Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeah, that's not going to cover his
Speaker 1: base salary, by the way. But anyway, so so again
Speaker 1: the reason they did this some cornerback, why would you
Speaker 1: pay that much for right? Right, they only had five million.
Speaker 1: It was just a bit more than five million in
Speaker 1: cap space, which really is not enough to finish out
Speaker 1: a season. Because you got sixteen guys that are going
Speaker 1: to be on your practice squad, you got to pay
Speaker 1: them their minimum for now eighteen weeks. That takes up
Speaker 1: a pretty big chunk. That'll be a couple of million dollars.
Speaker 1: You have to make sure you have enough in reserve
Speaker 1: that when guys go on IR you still got to
Speaker 1: pay their salary and you got to replace them on
Speaker 1: the fifty three. So now somebody's going to make more money.
Speaker 1: So from an operating standpoint, they like to keep eight
Speaker 1: to ten million available to get through the season. So
Speaker 1: this now gives them twelve million available under the cap,
Speaker 1: which will get them through this year. And if you
Speaker 1: don't have to use it all, you can roll it
Speaker 1: over to next year. And you've got a couple of
Speaker 1: guys that you need to would like to resign, You
Speaker 1: don't know if you can afford to resign them, but
Speaker 1: if you add that to your salary cap next year,
Speaker 1: you got a chance at maybe Michael Gallup, or you
Speaker 1: got a chance at Layton Vanderish. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is you can use a restructure mini contract and they
Speaker 1: can still do a couple more if they need to
Speaker 1: and if they want to. But the thing that you
Speaker 1: don't want to do is add years to the contract,
Speaker 1: and that's not what they did. So Zeke gets basically
Speaker 1: instead of having to work for his money this year,
Speaker 1: he gets a check for eight point six million right
Speaker 1: off the bat Garonte. Yeah, and his base salary was
Speaker 1: guaranteed this year, and it's guaranteed already next year because
Speaker 1: the guarantee was if he was on the fifty on
Speaker 1: your ninety man roster five days into this league year,
Speaker 1: it guaranteed next year. So that's what the new deal
Speaker 1: is all the time. Now the smart agents they're making
Speaker 1: sure the next year is guaranteed this year, so you
Speaker 1: don't get into your last year of your contract, which
Speaker 1: is what happened to the cornerback at Miami um Zavian Howard.
Speaker 1: His guarantees were running out this year, so it didn't
Speaker 1: matter what his base salary was next year, it wasn't guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So his agent really made a mistake because the Mahomes
Speaker 1: contracts started this where you it's it's evolving, right, this
Speaker 1: year covers next year, next year covers the year after
Speaker 1: that on guarantees. So stuck, but they redid his contry.
Speaker 1: They did, and that's why he said he was underappreciated.
Speaker 1: You know. It was like Byron Jones was making more.
Speaker 1: Yeah he had thirteen years, was eleven and give me
Speaker 1: a break. But what he was worried about was the
Speaker 1: next year because he had a big under appreciate. So
Speaker 1: when you sign that contract, you ought to look at
Speaker 1: that stuff and don't get into a point where the
Speaker 1: guarantees run out and then next year's base salaries like
Speaker 1: sixteen million. Because if anything happens you don't have a
Speaker 1: good year or you get hurt. They would, they would
Speaker 1: get out of it for no dead money. That means
Speaker 1: that Zeke is gonna carry the heck out of that ball.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this season, he's gonna earn his key. They
Speaker 1: might keep it, keep him in on more at at
Speaker 1: all of the all of twenty six years old too,
Speaker 1: by the way, twenty six he got here at twenty.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a good year. Yes, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a good year. I truly believe he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: good year. That's gonna take a load off of everyone.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's uh, that's report, that's the Zeke report.
Speaker 1: So the why they did it as far as this
Speaker 1: year's salary cap has nothing to do with going out
Speaker 1: and purchasing a high dollar back back up, better back back,
Speaker 1: you know what. The thing we forgot. The still could
Speaker 1: do if they can, if they can get a deal
Speaker 1: like they did last year with Dalton, where it was
Speaker 1: it was three million base and the rest of it,
Speaker 1: that's nocent of you would pay the next year. You
Speaker 1: could do that. Yeah, but actually it does given the
Speaker 1: option now of doing that, because as you pointed, out.
Speaker 1: You need operating cap space, right because you're gonna have injuries.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have back and forth flow from the you know,
Speaker 1: guys get hurt and you got to replace it. Even
Speaker 1: with minimum wage guys, you got to have enough to
Speaker 1: operate and the cap that I'm sorry, and the cap
Speaker 1: right now is just the top fifty one. So now
Speaker 1: you got to add two more base salaries or two
Speaker 1: more salary cap hits to it. He back fingers cross cowboys.
Speaker 1: My sign a former Texas high school quarterback, and Bill
Speaker 1: would be the happiest in the world. He can just
Speaker 1: spouse all kind of can they bring in about it?
Speaker 1: What's the guy's name? Yours? Yours? That's right, bring him in? Now?
Speaker 1: Why is it? Go go to um? And you factor
Speaker 1: in the practice squad on that test I injured reserve
Speaker 1: and everything because the salary is the weekly salary for
Speaker 1: the practice squad guys. That's gone up. UM. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta make sure you have enough operating
Speaker 1: capital to get through the season. I mean, you just
Speaker 1: factor and let's in the past, it's been like seventy
Speaker 1: five grand for the the the annual compensation for a
Speaker 1: practice squad player over seventeen weeks. I mean even if
Speaker 1: you just factor and some get more than that because
Speaker 1: they want to make sure they don't get picked off
Speaker 1: by another try to get picked off. Hey, let's let's
Speaker 1: just average it out at one hundred thousand for each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's six to sixteen man practice squad, and
Speaker 1: you have some veteran guys who will be making more
Speaker 1: on the practice squad because there's some competition going on
Speaker 1: that they want to have that guy in reserve. Well
Speaker 1: that's one point six million dollars right there for just
Speaker 1: for your practice squad that you need. Yeah. Absolutely, So
Speaker 1: it takes up. And by the way, so we talk
Speaker 1: about this backup quarterback thing, and you know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: they got lucky, but Cooper Rush wasn't the backup quarterback
Speaker 1: here twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and twenty nineteen, by the way,
Speaker 1: so somebody trusted him. Now, he only had to throw
Speaker 1: three passes over three years, right, and I think all
Speaker 1: three of them came in twenty seventeen. He was one
Speaker 1: for three, but he had been their backup quarterback, and
Speaker 1: you know, the previous regime thought, okay, well he's our guy.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But this is going to
Speaker 1: be a significant game for him. He's gonna have to
Speaker 1: come out and he's gonna have to duplicate what he
Speaker 1: did last Saturday. I'm not saying he's got to throw
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes, but he's got to show that he's comfortable,
Speaker 1: that he can run the operation, get the plays in
Speaker 1: and out, and you know, bit, Mike's big on Cadence
Speaker 1: and you know, make sure as Cadence is right and
Speaker 1: just feel comfortable running the offense. I like, he just
Speaker 1: looks strong in the pocket. He looks stronger than Gilbert.
Speaker 1: He looks stronger than his feet are quiet. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? Well, he's not like that's good. That means
Speaker 1: he's that's my hercue jerky, wait, that's that's my was
Speaker 1: that the left hand of the right hand back, that's
Speaker 1: that's my young young dig right? That was a no
Speaker 1: handed quarterback. But now he looked he just looked bigger.
Speaker 1: He looked like he was more in control. And like
Speaker 1: you said, you can tell about the footwork, how comfortable
Speaker 1: you are. That means you know exactly where you're going.
Speaker 1: Your progressions are as timely as your throws. And that's
Speaker 1: what you want. You want you want to make sure
Speaker 1: that timeliness is there. And that's why I think that
Speaker 1: you know, whatever you know, Tyrn Smith, I think also
Speaker 1: wasn't out there for much. I think he had the
Speaker 1: bug too. Okay, but you know, you probably got to
Speaker 1: have Beyondish at center. Um, you're gonna have Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: at one guard because you Williams love to have Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: But he's probably still out with on the COVID list.
Speaker 1: So yeah, as much as support you can give him,
Speaker 1: put it out there. Chance Tampa is going to bring it.
Speaker 1: That D line, well, the fund seven is amazing, right,
Speaker 1: they are just amazing. So we need to be prepared.
Speaker 1: I mean we need to be at our best, not
Speaker 1: just physically, but ready to make this happen. In Tampa.
Speaker 1: By the way, they added to their defensive line in
Speaker 1: the draft. Their first draft pick thirty one or two
Speaker 1: overall was Joe Tryon and who's an edge rusher as well.
Speaker 1: He's got some good reports this preseason. So that's why
Speaker 1: that's why that backup tackle position is so important because
Speaker 1: it's roomed this offense for last three or four years. Right,
Speaker 1: they didn't have anybody they can step in and just yeah,
Speaker 1: and we saw that. We saw when everybody talks about
Speaker 1: Tampa's defense, Oh yeah, they tore Mahomes up. No, that
Speaker 1: offensive line was yeah, he had no time, which is
Speaker 1: why they spent so much this offseason on getting that
Speaker 1: Kansas City offensive line back in shape. Yeah. Yeah, absolute players.
Speaker 1: So I'll be interested in how they're gonna how they're
Speaker 1: gonna play it. But they started off with the backup
Speaker 1: tackles being tying the Secky left and Terrence Steele right.
Speaker 1: But these last two weeks, it's been Terrence Steele left
Speaker 1: tying the Secky right. And if we've watched the games,
Speaker 1: the secki is struggled, it hasn't been. And then at
Speaker 1: times Terren Steele gets overpowered steel but he's better, you know,
Speaker 1: last year, but rookie free agent undrafted from Texas Texas Tech,
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, and he just wasn't strong enough. And so
Speaker 1: they finally said, Okay, we can't do this anymore. Zack Martin,
Speaker 1: you're you're the right tackle, and we'll put Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: at right guard. Well to me, if that happens again,
Speaker 1: and whoever that guy is struggles Zack Martin's out there
Speaker 1: this time. This time they would do it less because
Speaker 1: they have confidence in Connor McGovern that he's ready to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL and he's had a good training camp.
Speaker 1: So if if my right guard, if my right guard
Speaker 1: is better than my backup left tackle, then I think
Speaker 1: you got to make that move right. The key word
Speaker 1: there is better. Yeah, that's it. Okay, So how does
Speaker 1: what we've seen this past week with a little COVID
Speaker 1: issues here on the team, how does it affect their
Speaker 1: cutdown date at a position group? Their cutdowns at a
Speaker 1: position group like offensive line, where you need to make
Speaker 1: sure that and for teams across the league in fact,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, you can have a guy on a
Speaker 1: practice squad that you can call up, but especially at
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, they're just aren't very many offensive tackles in
Speaker 1: this league. And I was looking at don't you have
Speaker 1: to keep two offensive tackles on your fifty three? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And every team in the league is going to be
Speaker 1: doing both of those guys. They got to keep both
Speaker 1: of them right. And now with the Connor Williams thing
Speaker 1: up in the air, like they were going to force
Speaker 1: it that he was going to be the backup center. Well,
Speaker 1: the only other guy on this team that has snapped
Speaker 1: the ball last year even in college was their seventh
Speaker 1: round pick Mac Forniac. So I think they got to
Speaker 1: keep him because without without Williams, he's the next guy,
Speaker 1: and he's the guy that's been taking the snaps on
Speaker 1: the second team. So you might so you're looking at
Speaker 1: You're looking at as it stands right now, assuming they
Speaker 1: don't make a trade for you know, they do have
Speaker 1: some positions of strength where they could swing a trade
Speaker 1: and get a backup tackle um. But you're so you're
Speaker 1: looking at outside of the starters Steal Inseccy, Brandon, Knight,
Speaker 1: and Farniac right right, McGovern and McGovern. So you got
Speaker 1: that ten night. That's oftensive linemen, and that's usually what
Speaker 1: you would like to do. And then you keep your
Speaker 1: eye on the waiver wire. But you know what, I've
Speaker 1: been watching the cuts. Not a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: you would recognize their name at tackle get released. How
Speaker 1: many tash we have within the entire group, you would
Speaker 1: have that three back nights play tackle before and you
Speaker 1: got the other two Insecky in steel and then of
Speaker 1: course Zach Martin can slide out right, So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's going to fortune you. And now the other thing
Speaker 1: is when you put guys on the COVID list, um,
Speaker 1: they don't count against your fifty three if they're still
Speaker 1: on it. So you would buy yourself some time if
Speaker 1: indeed that took place. But I would think, just judging
Speaker 1: from the way this thing's going, by next Friday, these
Speaker 1: guys should be cleared, uh and and ready to go.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure the Cowboys are darn well hoping they are.
Speaker 1: And Josh ball the fourth round and then you got
Speaker 1: to decide what you're gonna do with him, because he's
Speaker 1: the guy that should have been challenging for that swing.
Speaker 1: He started his college career at Florida State and then
Speaker 1: he wound up having a transfer to Marshall. Marshall Yeah
Speaker 1: and fourth round direct. Yeah, But we didn't see him
Speaker 1: at all in the preseason. We saw him the first
Speaker 1: week and a half maybe a training camp, and that
Speaker 1: he suffered a high ankle spring and so I just
Speaker 1: saw him finally back like out at practice and t
Speaker 1: shirt and shorts and he was starting to do some
Speaker 1: cord things. So maybe, so my question is on that, Okay,
Speaker 1: it is a long season two. So he's gonna unless
Speaker 1: unless you're gonna place him on IR and he's out
Speaker 1: for the year. But you keep right, but you have
Speaker 1: to but you have to be on the fifty three
Speaker 1: the first day. No, No, to get back. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not not. Yes unless you unless you just want to
Speaker 1: make it a red shirt year for him and you
Speaker 1: put him on IR for the whole year and you
Speaker 1: can't bring him back. He's we don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: considering the fact he could be your guy in the
Speaker 1: second half of the year. If that who is your
Speaker 1: you're left it might try down to keeping Ball or
Speaker 1: keeping Brandon Knight. If you're only going to keep ten,
Speaker 1: you would because because um forniac has worked at guard
Speaker 1: but he did and that could be one of the
Speaker 1: classic cases. Or Insecky But for that matter, right where,
Speaker 1: here's what you do. Yes, you keep Ball on the
Speaker 1: fifty three, you cut the veteran guy. Okay uh, and
Speaker 1: then the next day you put Ball on IR. You
Speaker 1: can bring him back at some point in the season.
Speaker 1: You resigned Insecki and then Brandon Knight needs to learn
Speaker 1: how they snapped the ball if he could. Yes, so no,
Speaker 1: and they've done that before. Remember it was ah, I
Speaker 1: forgot what year it was. They did that with Kellen Moore. Okay,
Speaker 1: they cut him and then because he was a vested
Speaker 1: veteran and he didn't have to go through waivers and
Speaker 1: they told him, don't go anywhere. We're gonna resign you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and you got to I guess you got
Speaker 1: to have a level of trust there. What was the
Speaker 1: what was the what was the limit? Give me the
Speaker 1: time frame where he was vulnerable twenty four hours? Twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. But but as far as the veteran, uh,
Speaker 1: having your your veteran contract, Oh, guaranteed it's the first
Speaker 1: week of the season. But if you're on that first week.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they could do that with Inseci uh and
Speaker 1: and not guarantee his one year deal and just tell him, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to bring you back. Now. Who knows, somebody's
Speaker 1: really desperate. They might yeah, they're gonna be there watching why.
Speaker 1: They might say, well, i'll pay you three million dollars
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, so you have to risk there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, the Cowboys knew Kellen Moore wasn't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be here, but they they did pull
Speaker 1: that off that one year and you can do it,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be because it had to be you know,
Speaker 1: in order to do that, you have to feel really
Speaker 1: good about Terryn Steel that first week, right, Okay? Uh
Speaker 1: and um, especially now we've got to figure out what's
Speaker 1: wrong with reports it was a stinger. A stinger, yeah,
Speaker 1: but if you're having recurrent stingers that can be an
Speaker 1: issue too. You know, Well, that just lets you know
Speaker 1: what they were. They were going at it, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were just going pretty hard. I think that happened
Speaker 1: in in some of that two on two pass rush
Speaker 1: drill because he was out there to start and then
Speaker 1: cow intense was that walked home? Yeah, because those drills
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Speaker 1: Was Cedric Wilson's catch for twenty one yards the best
Speaker 1: dak pass and eleven men drill today? It absolutely was,
Speaker 1: And it was a heck of a catch by Cedric Wilson. Two.
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Speaker 1: ask what was the deepest pass thrown by Dad in
Speaker 1: the drill? He threw a nine route, threw a n
Speaker 1: and he did yesterday or two days ago, right on
Speaker 1: the button to Dove Shelts both uh yeah, Shelts running
Speaker 1: the nine. Yeah. Well he was down fielding one to nine.
Speaker 1: But that was the deepest past like sea route I'd
Speaker 1: seen him throw getting down the field man. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: jar one had a couple of catches for him today,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's my dude. Jarwin is my day. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see him come back. His injury was
Speaker 1: extremely devastating from the team as well, and they'll use
Speaker 1: that too tight end, which, by the way, if it
Speaker 1: was if we want to go back to having to
Speaker 1: use a swing tackle, let's just go too tight ends
Speaker 1: and give that guy some help. Now, I always had
Speaker 1: concerns about the blocking in Jarwin's case, especially, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wonder if he's gotten bad. I know he probably hadn't
Speaker 1: been paying attention, but you know, I know he's no
Speaker 1: winning and we go out to tackling but blocking, they're blocking,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna need uh, they're gonna need him to
Speaker 1: stick his head in there. And he just a few
Speaker 1: bad penalties. I think two years ago they really kind
Speaker 1: of heard this. Yeah, I think it became a proved
Speaker 1: on that and then Schultz is probably a little bit
Speaker 1: better block. Actually, they really like McEwan as that third guy.
Speaker 1: But that's another guy Bill. You know, it's like, can
Speaker 1: you get him on the fifty three because you would
Speaker 1: like three tight ends, but that high ankle sprain, he's
Speaker 1: probably not ready in two weeks. That's interesting get tied
Speaker 1: end because you got a guy like Jeremy Sprinkle who's
Speaker 1: been with Washington for several years, a veteran guy. Could
Speaker 1: that be another one of those situations? You know what,
Speaker 1: we saw a snap the other day that they used
Speaker 1: a tackle when they wanted to go two tight ends.
Speaker 1: So you can always do that, and the tight end
Speaker 1: thing ties into your fullback from our gyle, you know,
Speaker 1: Nick Ralston, can you keep three tight ends and a fullback?
Speaker 1: Or can you keep four tight ends and no fullback?
Speaker 1: So that's running back? You're down doubtle now, and so
Speaker 1: will these other guys step up to make a yeah?
Speaker 1: Or do you scan the waiver wire on the running
Speaker 1: back position and way what's on the waiver wire against
Speaker 1: hardy and knocks and so, I mean, it's possible. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it's possible they would just have They could on Tuesday
Speaker 1: has have two running backs that are on the final
Speaker 1: on the fifty three, not fullbacks, and and I'm including fullbacks.
Speaker 1: They could have just Zeke and Tony Pollard. Not with
Speaker 1: the intention they're going into game day with just that,
Speaker 1: you know, or game week with just that. The next
Speaker 1: day they make their adjustments with who they got a
Speaker 1: place on ir opens up a spot where you bring
Speaker 1: back to fullback, you get the running back or whatever
Speaker 1: there's but every team in the league is going through
Speaker 1: the same yes, juggling act. So who was one last year?
Speaker 1: M or was there a one nice wander? Nice winder? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was right the punter, Yeah, hunter the punter. So
Speaker 1: can we all agree that Amari Cooper is the man? Yes,
Speaker 1: he is the man. Freaking amazing dude, he is amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy, I called him Allen Ivers. He's
Speaker 1: just yeah, And I know I'm stepping on some some
Speaker 1: old u toes Ceedee Lamb could learn a lot from him,
Speaker 1: and you could learn from because one thing I noticed
Speaker 1: about they start talking different techniques, and you could see
Speaker 1: the difference in a lot of Ceedee Lamb's Twitter and videos.
Speaker 1: He likes to approach you straight up. He never takes
Speaker 1: a side. It's almost as if he waits for you
Speaker 1: to commit and then he goes. But he's waiting for you,
Speaker 1: as a defensive back to commit. With Cooper, he always
Speaker 1: attacks at an angle, don't matter what, never straight up,
Speaker 1: and he creates that with his footwork. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: you brought that up. Here in the last five minutes
Speaker 1: the show, because the playmate, Michael Irvin is going to
Speaker 1: be in the broadcast booth on Very Good at noon,
Speaker 1: and he actually has worked with the Jacksonville receivers during
Speaker 1: training camps or the offseason. But you know, they've got
Speaker 1: one kid from DeSoto, Leavisca Chenalt, who was a second
Speaker 1: round draft pick last year. But I'm gonna make sure
Speaker 1: that we dive into that very stuff with Michael about
Speaker 1: Cooper and Lamb. What can Lamb learn from Cooper and
Speaker 1: so forth, and then and tell him Michael that I said,
Speaker 1: hopefully he can make a noon start. Yeah, having to
Speaker 1: start back working out, he's getting a little thickish. Well,
Speaker 1: he's flying around the country. Yeah yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: he's got a lot off. That'll be a good one
Speaker 1: because if you watched Hard Knocks with Cooper trying to
Speaker 1: show Lamb the footwork and he kept and it was
Speaker 1: his after his first practice in teams and he said,
Speaker 1: I got to get my feet right, and that's that's
Speaker 1: his big deal, which is I'm glad you also said
Speaker 1: that because I'm so tired of everybody going well, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys can Afford, Gallop and Cooper, and
Speaker 1: they might have to get rid of Cooper. It's like,
Speaker 1: why would you get rid of the guy that caught
Speaker 1: ninety two pass from from like three different quarterbacks? Who
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at the start, let's I'm
Speaker 1: never It's like, I know, we cost twenty million a year,
Speaker 1: but that's the price to pay for a guy that
Speaker 1: can catch ninety two passes for career high. Yes, his
Speaker 1: career high. I've got a question for you to ask
Speaker 1: the coach. What's that? Ask him? Um, if there's somebody
Speaker 1: on this roster who he thought didn't have a chance
Speaker 1: of a chance of making the fifty three, who's gonna
Speaker 1: make the fifty three? What was his response? Again, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. This is a joke, right, I'm laughing. It's like, Mike,
Speaker 1: let's try this one again. That's why they treat your
Speaker 1: reporters like that. Yeah, well, I mean that would be
Speaker 1: a great question, the best questions. There's no way they're
Speaker 1: going to answer, right, Yeah, exactly. But he just wasn't
Speaker 1: talking about this one. So we're doing this again next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: which is the cutdown day, and clock we might have
Speaker 1: to petition to go a little extra, So we're going
Speaker 1: from two to three on Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Thursday, two
Speaker 1: to three. Are we doing this alternating until the season starts.
Speaker 1: They're going to read so then after Labor Day, which
Speaker 1: will be well, labor day will be nearly game day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we figure out we're readjusting. Yeah, well, I think
Speaker 1: we're We've got Tuesday of that week, okay, and I
Speaker 1: think there's a combined show on Wednesday or are you
Speaker 1: going to the game show that has not been determined.
Speaker 1: I am going to the game. You are, so hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Tampa. You have to and I got
Speaker 1: to back your buy three o'clock on Friday to do
Speaker 1: a coaching show. You gotta you gotta fly there on
Speaker 1: your own or no, on with a tan and let
Speaker 1: us Yeah right at all. Let's just be clear about
Speaker 1: So what were my questions for Mike? Tell me review?
Speaker 1: What do you say? How many times has se uh
Speaker 1: not played the quarterback the entire preseason? That's right, other
Speaker 1: than other than last other than last year? And you
Speaker 1: have one bill? What was what was the first one?
Speaker 1: That was the first one? I don't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: I like the fifty I'm stuck on my fifty three minute,
Speaker 1: we were going to talk about Cooper Rush. Damn, there
Speaker 1: you go. What what he needs to show up? One last,
Speaker 1: one last thing? Do they need another practice such as
Speaker 1: these last two going into the last week of preseason. So,
Speaker 1: in fact, since they're playing Sunday, I bet Monday in
Speaker 1: Tuesday are off days because you don't want to get
Speaker 1: anybody hurt that you're gonna cut, right, and you may
Speaker 1: try to wait till the last minute to cut guys
Speaker 1: because you want to get hope they get through waivers
Speaker 1: and sign them to the practice squad the next day.
Speaker 1: Well and think, yeah, and think about this, what do
Speaker 1: you what did we normally see teams do when they
Speaker 1: played their last preseason game on the Thursday, and then
Speaker 1: you're going into game week on Monday. You would give
Speaker 1: them three days off. So so let's say you gave
Speaker 1: them off Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, which would be like the
Speaker 1: old Friday, Saturday, Sunday, come in Thursday, come in Thursday,
Speaker 1: and get them out there on the field doing stuff whatever. Right,
Speaker 1: and then Friday is like a Monday, right, and so
Speaker 1: and Saturday is like a Tuesday. And then maybe you
Speaker 1: pract so one of those two days is a day off, right,
Speaker 1: and then and then and then went and then your
Speaker 1: startup your game week is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And then
Speaker 1: what's the pace? Then what's the pace? Oh, I have
Speaker 1: to practice pace? You could do you get another one
Speaker 1: of those? I think. I think it will depend on
Speaker 1: if he thinks they need to put the pads on,
Speaker 1: because you remember, you only get so many padded practices
Speaker 1: a year. Start it starts the game week one, game
Speaker 1: week one, so it would start next Friday, right, So
Speaker 1: whatever you do that first week, if you put the
Speaker 1: pads on, that's one I think it was. And then
Speaker 1: once again eleven thirteen, it was not just the rules,
Speaker 1: but all you're gonna overdo it. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You got to make sure underneath right right,
Speaker 1: I mean, of course got the bid. Something happened up man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing practicing? That's hard? You know how
Speaker 1: we are we right hindsight twenty twenty. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that is something you just always have in the back
Speaker 1: of your mind. Let me tell you something. Heat is
Speaker 1: not going to be a problem for this team getting
Speaker 1: ready to play in Tampa. Heat's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: problem it's gonna be plenty hot here next week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They continued to be exactly very hut tried next week,
Speaker 1: so yeah, not too many days off then maybe, or
Speaker 1: at least get them out there running, you know, if
Speaker 1: nothing else, and do your walk throughs outdoors so they're
Speaker 1: they're used to the heat now. The humidity is a
Speaker 1: different thing in Tampa. Yep. Yeah, I mean it's been
Speaker 1: bad here, but I would think it's suffocating there. It
Speaker 1: could and it could get worse with Ida on the way.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Hurricane Ida hitting a New Orleans area
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning out here. So just to be clear, yes, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: two o'clock Tuesday, that's the plan. Yes to three pulls
Speaker 1: to three plus unless we push it back to two thirty,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure at three o'clock they'll announce the cuts.
Speaker 1: All right. So that does it for this edition of
Speaker 1: Mixed Shots. Can't wait to see count Down to Kickoff
Speaker 1: and Mickey's interview with the head coach, which will be
Speaker 1: at eleven a m On Sunday, So Deep Blue would
Speaker 1: be at ten am and then Countdown to Kickoff at
Speaker 1: eleven and Michael Irvin joins Babe Lauffenberg and me in
Speaker 1: the booth for the game at noon. Very good. And
Speaker 1: the Deep Blue is war stories that made a debut
Speaker 1: last night. It's pretty dark and good. Yeah. Story about
Speaker 1: the draft, all right. And he didn't hate the draft.
Speaker 1: He didn't make it the conversation yet, the conversation with
Speaker 1: gilbrad on mail to ste not to draft Cuvey. How
Speaker 1: did you have twelve draft choices? Not to twelve. He's
Speaker 1: a local guy. We can just get him in right
Speaker 1: down street. Yeah, Larry Brown story, that's right, all right.
Speaker 1: They included in the war stories a good okay, that
Speaker 1: doesn't remix shots. Have a great weekend, everybody, and go Cowboys.
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