WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Sports Interrupted 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:17.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.760 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:26.439 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:35.120 and Nicky Spagnola. They know it is time for another 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.520 edition of Mixed Shots, and it's very active at Ford 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.159 Center at the Star in Frisco training camp. Practice went 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.199 a little long today, Mickey's there. We passed ten o'clock 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.680 this morning. They did, They might made it to about 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.560 ten twelve. I think I wrote down, yeah, And so 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.840 you can tell they're they're getting closer and closer to 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:58.840 the start of this regular season, which is two weeks 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.640 from some day. Cowboys will be playing in that new 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:08.319 stadium in Los Angeles against the Amazon September thirteen. Everson, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.360 how are you doing. I'm doing fine this morning, sir. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.720 I'm doing a little bit better than than the entire 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.840 sports world. We've had a little shake up that we 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.880 need to talk about this morning, but otherwise I'm in 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.440 good shape, yep. And we'll get into that. Making anything 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.800 of note that you see on so on the practice field, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.680 because the Cowboys we should point out, as Mike McCarthy 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.039 said that his press conference at seven fifteen this morning, 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.760 the Cowboys have already had talks and we'll have future 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.320 talks today about the things that Everson is talking about. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.759 But they were out on the practice field and they 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.560 got completed at ten twelve, precisely. Ye, the Cowboys did practice. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.200 I noticed there was about a half a dozen teams 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:57.720 that decided today not to practice, but the Cowboys went 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:03.160 through with their regular routine indoors again, or the first 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.400 part for some of the guys outdoors, and then they 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.400 moved indoors and a lot of individual drills, a lot 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:17.320 of just position drills, and then team team type stuff 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.880 for about forty five minutes. Situational things built you know, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.960 first in ten second and four third and two fourth 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.440 and eight things like that. So maybe some of the 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:38.320 stuff will see in the scrimmage on some day, so things. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.560 But yeah, it was you know, another really good practice, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.760 and they finished off with another kicking session. Didn't have 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.040 an official under the goal post this time, but it 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.919 looked like zerline went six for six. I only saw 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.400 one that was kind of hump did that go in? 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.440 But all the rest were kind of right down the middle. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.760 So if he made all six of them again, he 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.840 would have been twenty four for twenty four. So uh, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:15.400 back guys, uh briefly, and they called up Joe Looney 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.000 and Joe Loubi stood while all the players knelt, uh, 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.760 and he addressed the team, and I'm assuming uh he 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:27.919 addressed the team about what took place uh in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Uh. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:29.720 And then they all bowed their heads and I can 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.800 see he let them in a prayer. So that was 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:44.080 kind of a sad out here. And I can also 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.720 point out Layton vander essh talking with the media. Uh 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.080 Uh he says to quote right now, we're lined up 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.040 to have discussions about it during our team meeting this afternoon. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.640 That's still to come. So that's going to be part 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.280 of the team meeting. And so Everson, you wanted to 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.560 jump in with what you're seeing. Of course, as all 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.280 of you know of who have not been buried in 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.720 work here in the last twenty four hours. It started 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.280 yesterday afternoon with the Milwaukee Bucks deciding not to play 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.120 in their NBA playoff game at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.120 and within about a half hour after that, the NBA 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.600 had postponed all the playoff games, all three of them 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.919 from yesterday. There were three Major League Baseball games that 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.400 were postponed as well as the w NBA canceled their 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:39.240 games yesterday and Major League Soccer as well. There are 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.920 several teams around the league who have elected not to 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:48.119 practice today. So Everson weigh in on what you're seeing. Well, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.520 you know, one thing that I love is are the gestures, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.880 and these are That's exactly what they are. These are 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.920 amazing gestures that really saw a little bit of empathy 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:05.600 that hadn't hadn't been shown in any sport in our history. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.440 And the thing that I like about it is you've 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.960 got all these other teams, all these other team sports 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.400 that are participating in these gestures, which is really, I 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.839 think an easy thing to do. Easier with a smaller roster. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.000 You know, you're talking baseball. You know, they only have about, 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.599 you know, maybe fifteen twenty guys that you have to 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.640 deal with on the roster basketball itself, maybe about fifteen 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.360 people that you have to worry about w NBA and NBA. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:40.040 You're talking about soccer a little bit more, but even 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.680 the individual sports such as tennis, one of the young 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.360 ladies decided not to go forward with her semifinal match 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:54.120 as well in tennis and decided to withdraw from participating. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:58.840 And see, these things are These are amazing gestures because 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.320 it's affecting them. Money that these people might get, that 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.480 these athletes might be coming into it can cost them 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.039 a little bit of money. But when you're talking about football, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:13.400 you're talking about fifty five players, and having fifty five 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.360 players on the same accord is really tough. I tried 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.040 to do it back in eighty seven when I was 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:24.160 a union rep. Failed miserably. I might add, all guys, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.000 they you know, when it comes to football, it's a 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.080 different breed in regards to the players, and it's also 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.719 a different breed when it comes to the owners. They're 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.280 much more staunch about taking care of business and trying 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.840 not to let the outside world interfere. That is old school. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.760 That's an old school remedy. Now you've got the new 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.479 school remedy to where you gotta be a little bit 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.039 more empathetic to what's going on. And I'm glad to 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.359 see that. It's a shame what we saw in Wisconsin's 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.560 it's like a broken record now, really I mean, because 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.720 you've got so much video out there really hyping up 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.880 the thing and the tragedy that ensued from that. So 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.520 it's just good to see that at least the players 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.919 are aware of it, and you know, we have to 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.280 get out of this mode I think we are of 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.640 just worrying about well, it's just all about the sport. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:21.000 It's all about our institution. Every institution is touched by racism, everyone, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.840 and that's including the Dallas Cowboys organization. Throughout history, that's 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.400 the way it's been. So I'm just glad that things 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:33.760 are being talked about and they're being noticed by these 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.920 new this new wave of athletes that are coming through it. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.680 You know, Bill and ever since I thought Mike McCarthy 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.640 he had a really good comment. He said, you know, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.640 we looked the sports to escape the things that are 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:55.240 going on the pandemic, you know, the hurricane that was 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.120 hitting the post of Louisiana in Texas, and he goes, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.840 but when it comes to this, he goes, we can't 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.360 escape it. We just can't escape and not talk about it. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.240 And that's why he pointed out that when they would 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.320 have their meetings after practice, they would talk about this 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.960 and see what's going on and maybe this example or 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.200 this instance what happened in Kenosha kind of gosh, it 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.360 just highlights the problem of all the things that have 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.240 been going on, right and everything, and all the protests 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:35.440 and everything we've heard, and yet this policeman still did this. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:41.640 I mean, does not go through your mind when and 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.040 it's hard to put yourself in his shoes on why 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.400 he would make a decision to do that, But you 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:53.520 would think, gosh, you would check yourself, right. I just 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.160 don't get it, and I think that is it just 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.920 illustrates the depth of the problem out there. I have 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.640 to say, guys, and because you know, we're looking at 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.839 this instance and we're worried about how the police are 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.560 looking at African Americans and really looking at society. Being 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.320 the policeman, man, it's a scary job. Let's just all 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.520 recognize that it is an extremely scary job. When you 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.960 take that job on, you have to realize what your 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.440 responsibilities are. You have to be a totally different person 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:32.760 than what we are. You represent law, you represent law 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.120 and order, and you have the gun and all the 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:40.120 equipment that can enforce that, and so with that brings 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:45.679 much responsibility I mean so much responsibility to where sometimes 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.720 you have to sit back and take a breath and 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.680 not just react so quickly to what I think is 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:56.320 fear and fear of the unknown. And that lets you 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:02.080 know just how disconnected the police are. Officers are from 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.760 the community itself. So you know, we in America we 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.319 always try and put a band aid on something before 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.960 we fix the problem. We don't want to go all 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.079 the way back and fix it. They're like, oh, that's 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.480 too much work, Let's just start from here. Well, you can't. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.920 You can't put a band aid on something when it's 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.520 an open wound such as what we have here in 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:32.360 America between the policeman and the African American community. So 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.960 these are things that have to be uh, we have 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.400 to be aware of. We have to we have to 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:44.080 go back and start almost from scratch. Because the the 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.959 the institutions, the law institutions, law enforcement institutions, they are 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:53.480 being trained in a way that has brought much confusion 0:10:53.520 --> 0:11:00.960 and much death unnecessarily checking Twitter, The news out of 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.040 the NBA this morning, by the way, is that the 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.320 board of governors are meeting this morning and the players 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.160 as well, and they are postponing games today and they will. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.360 They are working towards restarting the playoffs on Friday. So 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.960 what will in essence be U two days worth of 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.640 protests here in Dallas. That means the Mavericks game a 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.960 night against the Clippers is postponed until either Friday or Saturday. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.640 But I understand that the meeting last night and Lebron 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.440 James and the Lakers as well as the Clippers, and 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.720 then Kawhi Leonard was leaving the way there there were 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.880 two teams that voted, and basically a poll of the teams. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.040 They will obviously nothing binding, but they voted not to 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.400 resume the season, to boycott the rest of the season, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.840 but they've decided now that the league has decided to 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.360 continue on with the playoffs and do what they can 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.520 as far as enacting of some way to help with 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.760 social justice in America, which is an ongoing thing for 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.880 all leagues right now. What what do you anticipate the 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.600 Cowboys meeting this afternoon to be like? If you I 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.400 would imagine it would be something where the coaches will 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.440 give the players all the time that they want in 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.920 order to address whatever whatever they would like to say. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.400 Right Yeah, Bill, I think you're exactly right. I think 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:31.840 Mike wants guys to basically speak up, get their feelings, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.480 let them say what they feel like they need to say. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.480 And then again, you know, as as Everson said, you know, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.680 you've got eighty guys out there, and not everybody's going 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.800 to agree with everything. But I think if you have 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.040 an open forum for guys to talk and just you know, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:55.920 get your feelings out there and then go forward. But 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.120 it appears, you know, they were all in today in 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:06.280 the practice. I get that it didn't look like everybody 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:11.040 was you know, just not was disinterested. So yeah, we'll 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.600 see where it goes. And like I said yesterday, by 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:18.160 time they finished their basically their walkthrough and their meetings, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.120 and then they were on their own, as he said, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.680 when they left for dinner. And then that's kind of 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.400 when everything hit. So they really didn't have an opportunity 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.880 as a team to address it. And then when you 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.240 start practicing, guys getting ready at seven thirty in the morning, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.880 I think they basically said, Okay, let's practice and then 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.800 we'll talk about this after the practice. And I gotta say, guys, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.040 this is you know, I keep comparing it to the 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.240 eighty seven strike because it's about work stoppage. It really 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.240 that's that's the bottom linement when it comes to this, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:57.160 the decision that they make the example is just like 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.920 here in America as a society, examples have to come 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.960 from the top. The proper example on how to deal 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.120 with this has to come from the top. You can't 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.840 have a mixed message coming from the coach and then 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.520 you have the the owner saying something else or acting 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.760 in another way. So when you talk about work stoppage 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.400 in eighty seven, the team that stayed together the best 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.640 in eighty seven after the strike, after we resumed work 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.200 after the work stoppage in eighty seven was the Redskins. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.480 Their coach, Joe Gibbs was famously known for telling the 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.920 guys either you're all going to be together or you're 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.240 all not going to be together. But whatever it is, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.720 it's going to be together. And in Dallas we were 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.320 you know, we we had scabs going across all our 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:54.440 superstars went across the line and across the picket line. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.800 So that was really the beginning of the end for 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.480 a lot of players and also for coach Landry and 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.880 that entire management organization. When it came to the nineteen 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.840 eighty seven, Strake, that was we didn't know that we 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.560 were dismantling ourselves with the decisions that we were making 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.360 over at Valley Ranch at the time. So there has 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.720 to be coming together from management that's including coach McCarthy 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.280 and including Jerry Jones in regards to how they deal 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.400 with this, because if you have a mixed message coming 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.160 from the top, then it's just like what I we 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.280 got here in America as a society, You're gonna have 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.680 a bunch of you know, bungling idiots running around, I 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.200 know what the hell they're doing. Isn't that kind of 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.080 ironic that back then the Redskins were the model team 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.880 franchise that now the situation they're in now totally different. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.920 Were the difference thirty plus years? Make right? And excuse 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.240 me if I said Redskins does Washington football team? Okay? 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.800 Is that it Washington football team? Washington football team? You know? 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.480 And to that point ever since point there, Mickey Mike McCarthy, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.560 if you go back, you can go on Dallas Cowboys 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:12.080 dot com and watch his entire press conference breaking. I 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.400 don't think I've seen a press conference where he just 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.760 he didn't start off the press conference, just asking for 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.640 questions and said today and right off the top before 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.560 he asked for any questions, he commented on what he 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.000 was watching and what the team were, the players who 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.960 have been watching the last twenty four hours and m 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.800 and clearly is very bothered by what is going on. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.640 Of course, he you know, has a home in Wisconsin, 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.680 his family's up there and um and so it's it's 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.160 hits close to home for for him having been in 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:52.280 Wisconsin for the past fifteen years himself. But larger picture, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.840 I think we're getting an idea and more and more 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.560 with the new coach coming in, we're getting a better 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.000 idea of some of the things away from coaching football, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.320 how to you manage a team and how you're receptive 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.240 to players. We're getting a better idea of why Mike 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.679 McCarthy has been successful as an NFL head coach the 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.480 last fifteen years. Well, you know what, I thought, we 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:21.399 got another example of that that he's not tone deaf 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:27.240 on how he answered the questions about Earl Thomas when 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.280 everybody at the beginning of the week start peppering him 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.000 with those questions. And I thought the key and while 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.920 he straddled defense like, you know, he wasn't going to 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.480 say yea or nay. But I thought the key thing 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.320 he said, and this goes to kind of what you're 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.280 talking about, Bill, He understands the importance of the locker room. 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.840 And he said, at the end of the day, no 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.879 matter what else happens, my focus as a head coach 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.440 has to be on the locker room. So basically what 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.440 he's saying is, if going to bring in a guy 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.400 that's been on two teams now and things have gone badly, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.520 can he fit into my locker room? And regardless of 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.040 how good a player he was. I thought that was 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.480 his emphasis. And I thought again, as you were saying, Bill, 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.199 talking about the team and the players, not just a 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.800 body to bring in and play football, And to him, 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.760 that was probably the more important thing than anything else. 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.159 I'll tell you what, though, if you think of the 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.560 comparison between the coaches now versus the coaches back in 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.800 eighty seven, you know you're looking at an entirely different 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.320 group of group of coaches. You know, Tom Lagie would 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:48.360 not even want to be bothered with anything like this, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.560 which he was never wanted to be bothered with anything 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.480 that didn't have something to do with football. That is 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.280 the old school way Tom Lagie was born, of course, 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.200 back in the forties or whatever. So you're looking at 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.800 a different mentality these days, not just from from coaches, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.679 but also from fans. You know, the NFL and all 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.920 of sports. They're going to lose a lot of fans 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.639 because you've got old school fans are like, look, I 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.359 tuned into mix shots just to talk, just to hear 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.800 football talk. I don't want to hear anything else. I'm 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.440 so tired of watching the videos, which I am as well, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.359 so tired of watching videos and all the arguing. And 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:32.840 you're you're you're bringing your mixing society with sports. Well, 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.159 you were never supposed to separate the two. Let's just 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.440 be real about it, because life goes on when those 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.400 players leave the field. And as social media and all 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.439 of this, you know, starts to to to to flourish, 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.520 it does mud the issue a little bit because now 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.520 you have to worry about things other than sports. As 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.800 a matter of fact, sometimes what's going on those other 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.080 things they are more important than sports. So as much 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.080 as you're gonna lose a lot of fans in regards 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.399 to this new way of sports and new way of 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.960 looking at athletics. You're also going to gain a lot 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.399 of fans that were staying away from sports because it 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:22.240 was so myopic, you know. And then the other part 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.680 of that is if if there are issues, no matter 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.000 what it is, that are impacting the majority of the 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.840 players on your team did not affect your team, and 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.639 you have to you have to get a handle on that. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.200 You have to address it. And we never we never 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.439 did back in the eighties. That just wasn't And I'm 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.280 not just talking Cowboys, I'm talking just all the sports. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:47.119 We never want to deal with anything outside of sports 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.919 as much as it was affecting us all when we 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:54.520 went home away from our arenas. All right, we're just 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.920 getting started on this edition of Mixed Shots, and we're 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.000 going to preview what's coming up this weekend. 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My wife was starving for 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.959 some social interaction, so I had to take it out there. 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:27.080 We wouldn't even let the waitress didn't even have time 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:31.280 to serve people because we kept just monopolizing her time 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:34.200 because we hadn't talked to anyone outside of our own household. 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:38.600 So yeah, I understand not going. I understand not wanting 0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:40.600 to go, but we couldn't take it anymore. We just 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:42.440 had to go. We had a great time too, had 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:46.359 a great time. All right, NICKI gonna tell us about 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.679 practice today. Let's go in depth with what you saw, 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:52.359 what stood out for you at practice this morning. You know, 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.679 it always seems to happen this way and ever since 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:01.240 probably experience this. It's like injury. These are like a disease. 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:04.679 They attack one part of the team and then it 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:07.359 goes and attacks another part of the team. Right, So, 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:11.760 the Cowboys were having problems at on the offensive line 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:16.520 with both Tyrant Smith and Lale Collins, and by the way, 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:22.040 their presumptive swing tackle Cam Irving. We're all missing practice 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:25.119 all last week. In the beginning of this week, well, 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:31.520 at least today, Tyrn Smith and Lale Collins had their 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:35.720 uniforms on their helmets and pads and they did individual 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:40.440 drills before they left to go do their rehab drills. 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.800