Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time for another edition of
Speaker 1: Mick Shots inside the s WBC podcast studio at Ford's
Speaker 1: Center at the Star in Frisco. It is a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's a day off for the Cowboys players, but it
Speaker 1: is not a day off for Mickey Spagnola, who has
Speaker 1: his tie on and he's ready for broadcast duty. I
Speaker 1: thought they just had a week off when they came
Speaker 1: back for a day. They come back for one day
Speaker 1: of work and then they get another day off. Why
Speaker 1: can't we get this game? We need a union, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's a pretty good deal for yeah. But
Speaker 1: we are here to power through this and the game
Speaker 1: week officially starts tomorrow is the Cowboys take on the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings and making you have your Viking purple audit
Speaker 1: do yep. I made a point today. I'm taping the
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy Show this evening. I always have to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: who are they playing this week? I like wearing a
Speaker 1: purple tie with my gray jacket that I'm wearing this week,
Speaker 1: and I had to make a conscious decision that Nope,
Speaker 1: go with the blue. It didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 1: I just go in my closet and go, Okay, what
Speaker 1: do I want to do today? All right? All right?
Speaker 1: So yes, is this a big day? A big day?
Speaker 1: Is this a big day in let's say, Dallas Fort
Speaker 1: Worth or Texas Sports? Texas Sports? Is this a big day?
Speaker 1: October twenty? It's not in history? But today the answers yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Chris Beams says, yes, okay, why is it a big day?
Speaker 1: Help me? What's happening in Houston? It's the World Series?
Speaker 1: MAC Game one of the World Series. What's happening? And
Speaker 1: what's happening at the American Airlines Center tonight? Basketball? That's
Speaker 1: rights home opener against the Houston Rockets. Oh, I see
Speaker 1: where you were going. You were talking history. So later
Speaker 1: on this episode of mix Shots, yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: ask the question and we can discuss why is the
Speaker 1: NFL so much more popular than these other sports? To
Speaker 1: the point that Mickey, you just proved my point right there.
Speaker 1: You didn't even realize where It didn't come to your
Speaker 1: mind when I said, this is a big day that
Speaker 1: the World on World Series is the great state of Texas.
Speaker 1: I know you knew, but it didn't if it, okay,
Speaker 1: if the super Bowl was being played in Texas today,
Speaker 1: you would know that. I mean, it would be the
Speaker 1: first that you would say, of course, a ticket for it.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys home opener is today, all right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you play eighty two games. We'll get into this.
Speaker 1: We'll get into this a little bit later, but this
Speaker 1: will be a testament to the popularity of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Now I knew. I knew the Stars had their homeowner
Speaker 1: on Friday, though you hadn't asked me that. All right,
Speaker 1: Was it a big Monday night football game last night?
Speaker 1: Oh my lord? What did we talk about yesterday? The
Speaker 1: value of quarterbacks? Yes, right, yes? And how important there?
Speaker 1: And that's why. But you weren't watching the Mannings and Brady. No,
Speaker 1: the value of quarterbacks. Oh that was brutal. You know what,
Speaker 1: here's my test on any how popular a TV show
Speaker 1: is or a sporting event. I was off yesterday, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't at the TV station. So I was home watching.
Speaker 1: I would have loved to sit in my living room
Speaker 1: and go ahead and watch the Money Night game, even
Speaker 1: flip over to Tom Brady on with the Mannings on
Speaker 1: the Manning Cast, whatever. But my wife had control of
Speaker 1: the remote, so we're watching the Voice instead. So but
Speaker 1: if okay, good, point is my point is we only
Speaker 1: have one TV in the house. No, no, I've got
Speaker 1: I could have. It's a rare weeknight where I'm home.
Speaker 1: So I felt a obligation of sorts to go ahead
Speaker 1: and stay in the living room and watch TV with
Speaker 1: the wife. Okay, I'm not going to retreat to the
Speaker 1: patio or I've got a TV or the bedroom or
Speaker 1: the men you know upstairs. Whatever. Okay, so I gave in, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're watching the Voice. So I was just on my
Speaker 1: iPad watching the game when she's watching the Voice. But point,
Speaker 1: my point is. My point is that if if it
Speaker 1: was the New Orleans Saints with Drew Brees at quarterback
Speaker 1: versus the Seattle Seahawks with Russell Wilson at quarterback, she
Speaker 1: would have watched that over the Voice. But if it's
Speaker 1: Geno Smith for Seattle against Jamis Winston for New Orleans.
Speaker 1: She's got no interest whatsoever. Do you not think that
Speaker 1: at some point in that game, Sean Payton is thinking
Speaker 1: to himself, for fifteen years, I had Drew Breese and
Speaker 1: now I got this. And Pete Carroll's sitting on the
Speaker 1: sideline looking at his quarterback next to him, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: on the sideline, going oh my god, how did I
Speaker 1: get into this section? And I did not hear Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll after the game, but I heard what he apparently
Speaker 1: said after the game that he probably he would wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been in Seattle as long as he's been in
Speaker 1: Seattle if he did not have that quarterback who is
Speaker 1: on the sidelines leading the way the last however long
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about how important the quarterbacks were
Speaker 1: yesterday yep. We talked about the top teams in the league,
Speaker 1: in the NFC, in the conference and who the quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Would you like to run them? Those again? Starting with
Speaker 1: the unbeaten Arizona Cardinals, kyler By the Rams have one loss.
Speaker 1: They Matthew Stafford, the Packers have one loss. Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: now Boys have one loss. Jack Prescott, Who am I missing?
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Tom Brady in the Bucks. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: they played that last night. Now I understand it was raining, right,
Speaker 1: what is it called a bomb cyclone or something? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I think Peyton Sean called it a bomb typhoon.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had it right. All I know
Speaker 1: it was rated pretty hard most of the time, right,
Speaker 1: the wind was blowing. But still the easy passes they missed,
Speaker 1: you know, and the one that ends up being the
Speaker 1: what was it an eighty four year our touchdown pass?
Speaker 1: Right Geno Smith to Metcalf, He pushed the dB down,
Speaker 1: just pushed him to the ground. And and and the guys,
Speaker 1: those guys that do Monday night football, by the way,
Speaker 1: they are so critical of everything, everything that goes on.
Speaker 1: They or something. It's unbelievable. It gets annoying, especially the
Speaker 1: play by play guy. Just tell me what's going on.
Speaker 1: I don't need to hear your opinion. That's why you
Speaker 1: got the other two guys. But they never mentioned the
Speaker 1: fact that Metcalf just shoved Lattimore to the ground. How
Speaker 1: did the officials miss it? Well, Lattimore is for the ride, honestly,
Speaker 1: because he grabbed onto him from the jump. Then they
Speaker 1: should have called interference one way or another right, and
Speaker 1: and but that that was it. That was the play
Speaker 1: of the game, and that was was that the first series?
Speaker 1: It was, wasn't it on? I hesitate to be critical casters, Well,
Speaker 1: I can do it, but that is something on the
Speaker 1: Monday night broadcast. They've they've struggled so much to come
Speaker 1: up with a team for the Monday night broadcast. And
Speaker 1: that's where Witton got thrown a disservice. And I've worked
Speaker 1: Joe Tessa tour was intern with me Channel five back
Speaker 1: in the early night. Well, you needed to teach them
Speaker 1: a few more or less. But but I think it's
Speaker 1: more though that they're they've been coached or taught, or
Speaker 1: they feel an obligation to be more than than the game.
Speaker 1: And it's and they're opinionated and so forth. That what
Speaker 1: they need, though is to go back and go listen
Speaker 1: to Monday night football when Monday night football was the thing. Right,
Speaker 1: We're going back to the seventies and the eighties with Dandy,
Speaker 1: Don Meredith and Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, he was never
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, go back and listen to Summer All
Speaker 1: with Madden Summer All was as was understated as you
Speaker 1: can possibly be and Madden was the show. Okay, Nance
Speaker 1: with Romo, I'll yet Nance. Let's Romo be Romo okay,
Speaker 1: and so anyway, yeah off that soapar anyway, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was That game was brutal, That's all I got to say. Well,
Speaker 1: and so I missed the Brady with the mannings. Okaye
Speaker 1: that I tuned in and the second half after she
Speaker 1: went to bed and uh, so I caught the last
Speaker 1: quarter of the Manning cast. They had Breeze on at
Speaker 1: the end. They had Sue Bird, who's a star for
Speaker 1: the Seattle w NBA team on prior to that. Um
Speaker 1: and um. It was not even when Breeze was on
Speaker 1: at the end, it was it was not apparently what
Speaker 1: I'm hearing it. The Brady part of the Manning cast
Speaker 1: was like, apparently it was pretty good. I've got a
Speaker 1: solution for you. Okay, your on your scene TVC Yes. Yes.
Speaker 1: So we treated ourselves at Christmas to buy a bigger TV.
Speaker 1: So we moved the other TV and I thought I
Speaker 1: could just carry it into the bedroom, right it was
Speaker 1: it was too heavy for one person, so I just
Speaker 1: kind of put it on the floor off to the
Speaker 1: side in the no and it's still there. It moved.
Speaker 1: It moved on Saturday because we were hosting a somewhat
Speaker 1: of a little neighborhood party. Right, so from December twenty
Speaker 1: twenty whatever, Yeah, where nobody could come in your house
Speaker 1: to Saturday. That TV's been there, right, And I've got
Speaker 1: a one of those little plug in tennis to get
Speaker 1: the local channels, and I can connect my laptop to
Speaker 1: it to get the other channels. You can. Well, I
Speaker 1: can sit there and watch if I wanted to the game,
Speaker 1: and she could have watched the voice if she wanted
Speaker 1: to at the same time. Uh. And all I heard
Speaker 1: for for eight months was gosh, looks like trash. My
Speaker 1: wife would put up with it, right, there's no way.
Speaker 1: And so a buddy of mine built a new house
Speaker 1: and in his living room he had one of those
Speaker 1: entertainment things against the wall and he put slots for
Speaker 1: two TVs. Wow, one for him one that's great, Right,
Speaker 1: you don't have to go to another room. Hey, I've
Speaker 1: threatened to do that. And if you want to listen, no, right,
Speaker 1: you can just put our headphones on and plug it.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I've done. We've got patio. This is
Speaker 1: eight years ago we added on to our patio whatever.
Speaker 1: So I got a TV out of the back porch
Speaker 1: and if I sit, I can watch a game on
Speaker 1: the patio and pretend that I am engaged with whatever
Speaker 1: is happening and I'm sharing, right, So anyway, Baby Loffenberg
Speaker 1: gun on me once after I first put that in.
Speaker 1: It was like I put it in. It was January,
Speaker 1: NFL playoff time, and so I was on the back point.
Speaker 1: She was watching whatever she's watching the living room. I
Speaker 1: had all winter gear on and I'm watching NFL playoff
Speaker 1: games on my back porch and Baby Loffenberg still kidded
Speaker 1: me about that. I'm gonna have to move it back
Speaker 1: in there tonight and watch the World Series at the
Speaker 1: same All right, do you want to get your Brady
Speaker 1: story in? Now? That's what I was leading to with
Speaker 1: the Manning cast, and Brady revealed about the six hundredth touchdown. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm the fan that had the balls and he was
Speaker 1: nice enough to give it back. Right, Well, it's turned out, okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have that ball, right, But you know, in
Speaker 1: twenty years is that going to be a big deal?
Speaker 1: But the big deal is today, right, because he ended
Speaker 1: up getting what two signed jerseys? I believe, Okay, the
Speaker 1: team had already committed to giving him two this fan
Speaker 1: Byron Kennedy or yes, yeah Byron Kennedy. The team had
Speaker 1: already committed to giving him two signed jerseys and assigned
Speaker 1: the helmet from Brady, assigned Mike Evans jersey, as well
Speaker 1: as the wide receivers game cleats, plus a one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars credit to the Buccaneers store and season tickets for
Speaker 1: the remainder of this year in all of next year.
Speaker 1: And then was that enough? No, that was not enough.
Speaker 1: Gets sixty thousand dollars worth of bitcoin? Wow, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what that is? Can I down? That's what Brady
Speaker 1: revealed that last night with the mannings, right, So can
Speaker 1: I take that bit going down to the store and
Speaker 1: I'll give me change? Got me? I need to go
Speaker 1: down to the Mavericks home opener and find out from
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban what do you do with that? What do
Speaker 1: you do with it? But I think he made out.
Speaker 1: He made out like a bandit. He certainly did. That's right,
Speaker 1: And so did Jerry talk about that this morning? He did, Okay,
Speaker 1: he talked about things that he valued and he said
Speaker 1: that football would have been like your firstborn, your baby.
Speaker 1: That's that's how important it would have been. And he
Speaker 1: told the story that when he was sixteen years old,
Speaker 1: he had the family, had a friend who was a
Speaker 1: big deal with the Blackhawks in Chicago, and he got
Speaker 1: him to go into the clubhouse of the Chicago cub
Speaker 1: and he said he went up to Ernie Banks with
Speaker 1: a baseball and got an autograph. And he said he
Speaker 1: still has it to this day. Really that he uh,
Speaker 1: he kept it and it was it meant so much
Speaker 1: to him because of Ernie Banks, right, and knew of them, obviously,
Speaker 1: Ernie grew up here in Dallas. Uh and uh, he said.
Speaker 1: He finally, at some point later in life ran into
Speaker 1: Ernie Banks and Ernie said, well, very glad to meet you,
Speaker 1: and he goes, well, I met you long time ago,
Speaker 1: and Ernie goes, really, I would have remembered that, he goes, No,
Speaker 1: I was sixteen years old and you signed my baseball.
Speaker 1: And this is long after Ernie retired kind of moved
Speaker 1: back to finally move back to Dallas towards the end
Speaker 1: of his life. But yeah, he's that was his answer
Speaker 1: to it, was, I had I've heard I've always thought
Speaker 1: I heard, like all Jerry's story, there's always another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one too. By the way, Ernie
Speaker 1: Banks Baseball signed. So do you have a White Sox players,
Speaker 1: I've got a sign anything. I've got a faded, very faded,
Speaker 1: and only I know what's on there. Pete Ward autograph
Speaker 1: used to play third base for the White Shocks, and
Speaker 1: I think he was at some sort of promotion for
Speaker 1: our Little League association and he came and signed. And
Speaker 1: in one year I got Bob Fellers. Wow. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna yeah, right, No, I've got I've got I've
Speaker 1: got a a coaster from the shoelas Joe Jackson's uh
Speaker 1: Museum in Greenville, South Carolina. I didn't know there was
Speaker 1: one there. My sister and brother in law went through
Speaker 1: and they got me a momento. So were you a
Speaker 1: big autograph seeker? No? I scared. I was scared to
Speaker 1: get turned down, so I didn't want to. I never
Speaker 1: understood it as a kid, I never understood it. However,
Speaker 1: the one time. There were a couple of times I
Speaker 1: remember getting autographs. One of them was at an exhibition
Speaker 1: baseball game in Arlington. My dad had said go down
Speaker 1: there and get whoever's auto. I don't even remember who
Speaker 1: it was, Okay, But the time that I really remember
Speaker 1: was we were at Market Hall in Dallas and Bob
Speaker 1: Lily was there making an appearance, and we my dad
Speaker 1: and I. We walked by Bob Lily as he was leaving, basically,
Speaker 1: and my dad. He walked by us, and my dad
Speaker 1: caught up with him and I got his autograph. And
Speaker 1: that's the only autograph that I really remember getting as
Speaker 1: a kid was Bob Lily's. And so and that was
Speaker 1: and so that was a happen. We talked with Bob
Speaker 1: Lily a little bit, you know, and so that was
Speaker 1: It was just an impromptu thing, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I have no idea what I did with that autograph.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here's how goofy I was. So in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three, they were having the fiftieth anniversary Major League
Speaker 1: Baseball All Star Game and they to commemorate it, they
Speaker 1: went to where it was first held, in Komiski Park
Speaker 1: in Chicago, and I got to go in there and
Speaker 1: cover the festivities right and and the game. So they
Speaker 1: had the old timers deal the day before, so I
Speaker 1: go in the locker room the clubhouse, and my childhood
Speaker 1: idol was in there, Louis Appersio, right, Little Louis right,
Speaker 1: I could identify what Right learned to bunt. I was
Speaker 1: fast back in the day, I said, I was fast, okay,
Speaker 1: just like him. I could steal bases, bunt and get
Speaker 1: the first base. And everybody was sitting there interviewing him,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of stood and watched, and I
Speaker 1: marveled at joke. I said, I can't go ask him questions.
Speaker 1: That's my idol, right, Louis Apparichio, who is by the way,
Speaker 1: still alive, yes, eighty seven years old from Venezuela. I
Speaker 1: was looking to see if they've got his height in here.
Speaker 1: I bet he was no more than five nine five eight.
Speaker 1: I can find it some other place. That's funny that
Speaker 1: he would lead the league and stolen bases or be
Speaker 1: there at the top. Hmm, heck of a short stop
Speaker 1: and list it. It's five nine, five nine sixty on
Speaker 1: Baseball Reference. All right, when we come back here, bring
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Speaker 1: more mix shots and as the team returns to work
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. They had a little Halloween party last night.
Speaker 1: You saw that, did you? I did not. They had
Speaker 1: There are some pictures making the rounds. I think guess
Speaker 1: it was last night. I don't know. De Marcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: Halloween party. Staffed the house, invited the guys over, and
Speaker 1: there are some pictures floating around. And Dak was there
Speaker 1: and so he was moving around. Apparently he wasn't on
Speaker 1: crutches or apparently not. Nope, what on that little scooter
Speaker 1: that he used to have, Not that I'm aware of. So,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned yesterday, it looked like they were gonna
Speaker 1: do something something out on the field. Yes, looks like
Speaker 1: they did kind of a mini camp practice. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: so they actually returned to work yesterday. They did their
Speaker 1: cross self scout across the hall. Across the hall, Yes,
Speaker 1: And it was interesting to hear Zach Martin talk about
Speaker 1: it on you Know and how he goes and talks
Speaker 1: to the defensive coaches to kind of they analyze what
Speaker 1: the offense is doing. I don't know how they analyzed
Speaker 1: him since he's played so well if Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is accurate, right, But yeah, So, and we talked about
Speaker 1: Dak poking his head out the door and you know,
Speaker 1: basically not wanting to do the interview because he screams out.
Speaker 1: He goes, if I came up there with you today,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have anything to write about the rest of
Speaker 1: the week. Well, I think when Jerry Jones did his
Speaker 1: interview uh today on the fan, he said that based
Speaker 1: on you know what we saw yesterday, he was very encouraged.
Speaker 1: Uh he said, I feel very good about where Dak is.
Speaker 1: So uh. You know, he pointed out that he seems
Speaker 1: far less concerned about the calf strain than he was
Speaker 1: about the shoulder muscle strain in training camp. Uh. He
Speaker 1: said it's must the calf is much less sensitive, is
Speaker 1: how he put it. So. Um, so we'll see. My
Speaker 1: guess is tomorrow Dak will do kind of the early stuff. Uh,
Speaker 1: he'll do the indoor uh kind of quarterback school that
Speaker 1: they call whatever drills they do amongst themselves. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then probably be limited in practice. My guess is they
Speaker 1: won't ask him to do a lot, if any, in
Speaker 1: the team drills at least tomorrow, and then see where
Speaker 1: he's at on Thursday. But it seems like from what
Speaker 1: he Jerry had to say, what Stephen said on Monday,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like all systems go at this point. Okay,
Speaker 1: And you can check out wherever on Twitter, just search
Speaker 1: and you can find a picture of that celebrating celebrating Halloween. Yes,
Speaker 1: so there you go. Was he dancing or anything? I
Speaker 1: don't know, there's just a picture. And then after our show,
Speaker 1: by the way, which always happens, right, Cowboys announced that
Speaker 1: Lele Collins was officially on the fifty three man roster.
Speaker 1: I think they did that move on Friday. They release
Speaker 1: Nick Ralston, the rookie fullback, and then sign him back
Speaker 1: to the practice crowd. So Lele Collins will be officially
Speaker 1: practicing this week with the team for the first time
Speaker 1: after serving his five game suspension. Michael Gallop, they started
Speaker 1: his ir return clock. He would have three weeks to
Speaker 1: practice before they have to make an official move there,
Speaker 1: so he should be in practice. Dorance Armstrong, I hear
Speaker 1: is going to be returning to practice, and they also
Speaker 1: started the practice for Francis Bernard who was on IR
Speaker 1: and Tristan Hill, who had been on pup since the
Speaker 1: start of training camp. So those guys all should be
Speaker 1: practicing this week, and then I think as the week goes,
Speaker 1: we'll see if in all you know or whoever might
Speaker 1: play in the game on Sunday night. Leale Collins, it depends, right,
Speaker 1: he's played one game in the Cowboys last what twenty
Speaker 1: two So do you send him right out there with
Speaker 1: one padded practice after six weeks or do you say, well,
Speaker 1: let's practice a week and then see where you go
Speaker 1: next week. I think there's some consternation out there, most
Speaker 1: of it, I think. I don't think it's fan driven.
Speaker 1: I think it's talk radio driven. That oh, what's the difference. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Sometimes I think the fan is
Speaker 1: smarter than talk radio. That the Cowboys are are upset
Speaker 1: with him, and you know, because they won't say he's
Speaker 1: immediately going to start this Sunday that they they're they're
Speaker 1: thinking that, well, I don't know, maybe we'll trade him,
Speaker 1: or maybe we're still mad at him for the five
Speaker 1: game suspension, which none of it made sense to me whatsoever.
Speaker 1: When you had a Pro Bowl quality right tackle, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna mess with him. He's gonna be here. There's
Speaker 1: no way you're trading him. Why because because because Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele is taking over the right tackle. But even if
Speaker 1: I know, even if I know, Okay, let's for a second,
Speaker 1: say Terrence Steele is playing at a Pro Bowl level.
Speaker 1: If you are five and one and lead your division
Speaker 1: by three and a half games at the end of October,
Speaker 1: why would you trade any assets away? Right? Because when
Speaker 1: you got eleven games left in the season, plus the
Speaker 1: presumable the line is a week from today, you're adding
Speaker 1: assets trading them away, exactly. And that's the way jerf
Speaker 1: have we not seen year to year how fleeting this
Speaker 1: is to have opportunities like this. And that's what Jerry
Speaker 1: pointed out last week. He said, we don't need to trade.
Speaker 1: We got guys coming back. Those are our trades, right,
Speaker 1: they're coming back to the roster. You're certainly not trading
Speaker 1: away guys that you value. And he said, we're going
Speaker 1: to have a hard enough trouble fitting these guys back
Speaker 1: on the roster, right, Let alone bring it in somebody
Speaker 1: from outside. So yeah, I was very amused at that.
Speaker 1: And I'm also amused that the Michael Gallup talk about Yell,
Speaker 1: you know he's going to be a free agent. You
Speaker 1: got Cedric Wilson. Well, guess what, Cedric Wilson going to
Speaker 1: be a free agent next year too. So don't try
Speaker 1: to get fancy. Don't start looking ahead when you're in
Speaker 1: the moment right now. Stay in the moment. You got
Speaker 1: an opportunity here. Why would you do anything to your
Speaker 1: roster to diminish the talent right and the depth that
Speaker 1: you need going forward because you don't know, but what
Speaker 1: what might happen. This isn't baseball, it's not the NBA
Speaker 1: trade deadlines. Yeah, it's a different game. People point would
Speaker 1: point out, well they got rid of Jalen Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: well there was a reason for that, and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking the money reason. They're right they Jalen Smith wasn't
Speaker 1: valued as far as his play on the field in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I didn't hear his and maybe I
Speaker 1: wasn't paying attention enough to the Packer game this past Sunday,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember hearing his name, and the week
Speaker 1: before in his first game back playing for the Packers.
Speaker 1: He played seventeen snaps and he zeroed out. He didn't
Speaker 1: have one participation. And it's not to knock him. That's
Speaker 1: just where where he is shown to be in his
Speaker 1: career at this point, right exactly. And um, yeah, this,
Speaker 1: I mean there's talk about, there has been in the past,
Speaker 1: talk about, well you got so much wide receiver and
Speaker 1: gallops in his contract year and what could you get
Speaker 1: for him? I mean, why would you want to trade
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup? Plus you look at their situation now without
Speaker 1: Gallup h and one wide receiver gets hurt, right, then
Speaker 1: what right? What if it's ceedee lamb? You feel good
Speaker 1: about Cooper, Cedric Wilson and Noah Brown going out there? Right?
Speaker 1: Probably not? So yeah, just be sensible and think about today.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about a year of tomorrow's. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: all those guys should be back in practice and we'll
Speaker 1: see how much they're able to do. But but for
Speaker 1: for Gallup, Tristan Hill, and Francis Bernard, they all have
Speaker 1: three week window. So we're looking at at Minnesota home
Speaker 1: against Denver, home against Atlanta, right, and then at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: So there's something that those guys, the three weeks, those
Speaker 1: are three So would they by three weeks would get
Speaker 1: let's say, in the case of Gallup, he would have
Speaker 1: to be activated before the Atlanta game or do they
Speaker 1: give him the Monday after for the following week? Think
Speaker 1: you get three full full weeks? Yeah? So, and then
Speaker 1: Kills a different story because he was on pup. So
Speaker 1: those guys, if I remember correctly, you got three weeks
Speaker 1: once they start practicing, and then you have two more
Speaker 1: weeks to decide if you want to put them on
Speaker 1: the fifty three or leave him on PUP for the
Speaker 1: rest of the year. All right, So the next question
Speaker 1: on let's say, on Gallop, come the three week window
Speaker 1: opens for practice for him, Let's say three weeks from now,
Speaker 1: they determine that he's not ready or he had a
Speaker 1: setback in practice, he's he then is still on ir
Speaker 1: is can you have can can he come back? I
Speaker 1: think not? I think once for the season. Once you
Speaker 1: start the three three week window, then then you got
Speaker 1: to make a decision, and and then you're if you
Speaker 1: don't activate him within the three weeks, he's done for
Speaker 1: the years. So in their mind, they wouldn't start him
Speaker 1: back to practice if they didn't think within a three
Speaker 1: week window that he'd be back and ready to go. Henny,
Speaker 1: who knows he might be back this week, right because
Speaker 1: they might have done this last week. We don't know
Speaker 1: where he is, right, you know, But because there was
Speaker 1: no reason right to start that window in case he
Speaker 1: did have a setback, right, like they started the windows
Speaker 1: two games ago for Kelvin Joseph and Sean McEwan. And
Speaker 1: so those guys are getting close to they have to
Speaker 1: make a decision on them, right, they were on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: But again, you're getting all these guys back, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to start cutting people, right, And if you
Speaker 1: look at the roster, there's not a bunch of you know,
Speaker 1: stuff at the end of the roster that you're going, yeah,
Speaker 1: I really don't need that. They're just here for developmental purposes.
Speaker 1: I mean, start looking at it. Whore you cutting? I
Speaker 1: counted last night that in their release that has the snaps,
Speaker 1: they've played sixty guys already and there's only six games.
Speaker 1: So now if you're going to bring some of these
Speaker 1: guys back, um, so they have played sixty guys. There's
Speaker 1: a sixteen man practice squad now some of those practice
Speaker 1: squad guys are included in the sixties right now, I
Speaker 1: probably and you know what, I didn't count the practice
Speaker 1: squad guys. So if I remember correctly, when Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: talked about it, you said we played sixty three guys. Okay,
Speaker 1: so so those are the prec but I think on
Speaker 1: the on the list of snaps, they list the practice
Speaker 1: squad guys like you could have played some of those games,
Speaker 1: so I think it's sixty. But yeah, and then there's
Speaker 1: been some comings and goings on the practice squads. So
Speaker 1: basically started training, you got a ninety man roster in
Speaker 1: training camp, and so roughly seventy six guys have had
Speaker 1: jobs right Okay, at least yes, um this season out
Speaker 1: of the and they understand that some of them weren't
Speaker 1: necessarily back and forth, right But yeah, and this day
Speaker 1: and age, and with these rules as far as I are,
Speaker 1: which I love, which I think they should have done
Speaker 1: a long time ago myself, and made more economic sense too,
Speaker 1: when you're investing so much money in these players that
Speaker 1: if they're able to come back within three weeks, then
Speaker 1: bring them back, you know. And you know, and the
Speaker 1: thing that the thing that governs. That is a salary
Speaker 1: cab where you can't stash guys, right. But the other
Speaker 1: thing is they may sit there and go, well, okay.
Speaker 1: And the only two guys that we didn't mention, Lawrence
Speaker 1: and Neville Gallim, were probably a couple of weeks away.
Speaker 1: But what we didn't mention was they can sit there
Speaker 1: and go okay. Maybe these guys are ready to play.
Speaker 1: But if we bring them back, whom I cutting? You know,
Speaker 1: say say it's Gallum, You're gonna cut seem for Hoko
Speaker 1: because if you do, then he's got to go through
Speaker 1: waivers and somebody might look up and go, oh, I
Speaker 1: had a fifth round grade on that guy too. I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to add him to my team, and
Speaker 1: you don't get him on the practice squad. So maybe
Speaker 1: some of the decision is, well, let's wait a week
Speaker 1: because somebody might get exactly they got to go to
Speaker 1: IR and now I've got an open spot, and it
Speaker 1: creates a spot organically instead of saying, you know, or
Speaker 1: or when um Tristan Hill comes back, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to cut somebody if you're gonna put him on the
Speaker 1: fifty three and they don't have enough defensive tackles as
Speaker 1: it is. So I mean, what are you doing, is Bradley,
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of teams out there with sub
Speaker 1: five hundred records who would just love to take a
Speaker 1: flyer on him right and put him at and we
Speaker 1: can stash him at the end of our roster or
Speaker 1: play him Jacksonville or that. You know, Houston's got all
Speaker 1: these veteran players, They're gonna be getting rid of something
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys, even if they don't trade
Speaker 1: them that and bringing young guys. Why would you Why
Speaker 1: would you play veteran guys when you're as bad as
Speaker 1: the Texans are right now, you can be you can
Speaker 1: be really bad not playing those guys. So you work
Speaker 1: on your future and think about it. When Gallimore comes back,
Speaker 1: somebody's got to go, Lawrence comes guarantee those defensive ends
Speaker 1: got to go. Guarantee a team like the Texans, they
Speaker 1: are just gonna be vultures for people managing that. And
Speaker 1: you should be right right exactly, absolutely, Yeah. So there's
Speaker 1: in fact, I think if you let go a guy,
Speaker 1: you expose the guy to waivers, you can just basically
Speaker 1: almost be assured he's gonna be picked up when you
Speaker 1: have a roster like the Cowboys have right now, and
Speaker 1: and and they've almost used. I mean, the only guy
Speaker 1: I'm going to say this off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: I bet the only guy that hasn't played that's on
Speaker 1: the fifty three is Will Greer and Cooper. Did Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush get a snap or two? No? He did not.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can look that up real quick.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said it. He did. He go in
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia the game Philadelphia. Yeah, so Will Greer is
Speaker 1: probably the only person on the fifty three that has
Speaker 1: not played the snap and Cooper Rush had three snaps
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Speaker 1: What do we be at five minutes left on this
Speaker 1: episode of Mix Shots. We'll dive into the Minnesota Viking
Speaker 1: tomorrow and it is a Minnesota team when you look
Speaker 1: at them. Of course they had to buy Also this
Speaker 1: past week, highly unusual both teams coming up about that
Speaker 1: make it equitable. And let's see they played. Their last
Speaker 1: game was at Carolina, which they won in overtime. They
Speaker 1: have two straight wins to get to three and three
Speaker 1: on the season. Have you looked at who their losses
Speaker 1: are against? They lost the season opener at Cincinnati. How
Speaker 1: are the Bengals doing this year? Pretty good? They lost
Speaker 1: to them by three points twenty seven, twenty four. Their
Speaker 1: second game, they lost at the Arizona Cardinals by one
Speaker 1: point thirty four thirty three. Pretty good team. Then they
Speaker 1: beat Seattle thirty to seventeen, and the fourth week they
Speaker 1: lost at home against Cleveland fourteen to seven. So would
Speaker 1: it surprise you if they up and beat the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and Sunday Night? Now last two games they beat Detroit.
Speaker 1: This is this is the counter. Those are three pretty
Speaker 1: good teams. They lost too. They beat a winless Detroit
Speaker 1: team by two points, nineteen to seventeen two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: On the October tenth, back, Carolina handed them what was
Speaker 1: then their third straight loss in overtime thirty four twenty eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I take it back now having said that, Okay,
Speaker 1: in this league, I mean the Vikings are coming off
Speaker 1: a bye. They got two straight wins. I don't care
Speaker 1: who they're against. They are capable and their home right,
Speaker 1: and they'll have a roof over their heads, right, and
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer pretty good defensive coordinator. Right, and McCarthy and
Speaker 1: Zimmer have matched up a time or two over the
Speaker 1: last half decade, so and they should have some insight
Speaker 1: into that Minnesota defense with George Edwards now on this side,
Speaker 1: the former coordinator Cousins on the season has two interceptions
Speaker 1: and thirteen touchdown passes, and you know he likes to
Speaker 1: air it out. And Adam Feeling and Justin Jefferson had
Speaker 1: an ankle issue prior to their last game, but he
Speaker 1: played and had eight catches for eighty yards. He's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it was just and then they got Dalvin cookback
Speaker 1: and Cook has two one hundred yard games, but his
Speaker 1: backup Andrew or Alexander Madison also has two one hundred
Speaker 1: yard games. So they they what they have done and
Speaker 1: we'll dive deeper into it as a week goes on.
Speaker 1: They've shored up that offensive line a little bit and
Speaker 1: they got their first round draft at Christian Derris saw
Speaker 1: back last game he made his first start at left tackle,
Speaker 1: and so so this is going to be another test
Speaker 1: for this Cowboy defense. It's exactly yeah, And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of the Achilles heel right now of this team
Speaker 1: is how well can this defense play and can they
Speaker 1: keep up the takeaways at the rate that they've been getting.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Vikings are not turning the
Speaker 1: ball over on offense, They've only given it up five
Speaker 1: times so far. So this is going to be and
Speaker 1: it's a night game on television. Oh's they're gonna televising.
Speaker 1: They're gonna televise this one. And it's the Sunday Night crew,
Speaker 1: not the Monday Night crew. Okay. And so I'm just thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: we started with the World Series Game one, so one
Speaker 1: in two or Tuesday and Wednesday an off day Thursday,
Speaker 1: so it'll be assuming it's not a sweep, Game five
Speaker 1: of the World Series in Atlanta on Sunday night. So
Speaker 1: which which is going to have better ratings? Is it
Speaker 1: the Cowboy Vikings Sunday Night Football or Game five? So
Speaker 1: they're doing two three two? Now? Uh yeah? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it used to be to one one. That's not
Speaker 1: a good idea, No, like that one. No, no, they
Speaker 1: changed it for travel purpose purposes for the media. Well,
Speaker 1: the NBA did that, I know baseball did the same thing.
Speaker 1: I believe they did. Okay, right, all right, last back
Speaker 1: this that goes back to when the Celtics are playing
Speaker 1: on the Lakers every year in the NBA Finals, coast
Speaker 1: to coast. It would go to seven games and they
Speaker 1: would have to fly for Boston to LA and back
Speaker 1: for games five, six, and seven. Yeah, that was before
Speaker 1: the It wasn't very smart. The media outlets started having
Speaker 1: financial difficulties. That was what caused the financial difficulties. It's
Speaker 1: probably right, all the money we spent traveling to cover things. Right,
Speaker 1: So we are in agreement that that the NFL is
Speaker 1: the most popular sport. That's what we have decided here.
Speaker 1: I think we need to argue about that because it's
Speaker 1: in Texas, right, the World Series three times in five years?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Right? Yep? Because it was here last
Speaker 1: year at so so think about it. It's been ten
Speaker 1: years now since our local baseball team was in the
Speaker 1: World Series, Okay, And it's been ten years now since
Speaker 1: our local NBA team has been in the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: and won it. And it's been twenty five years since
Speaker 1: our local football team has done it. But this is
Speaker 1: about to change, right, This is the twenty sixth year, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: the worms turning. But our hockey team, your hockey team,
Speaker 1: they were there two years ago, right. Unfortunately nobody can
Speaker 1: see it in person. In person, yeah, Tampa Bay in
Speaker 1: the way. I got so tired of seeing the signs
Speaker 1: up when we went to Tampa for the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all over town it was like two times I
Speaker 1: am defending Stanley Cup Champions, Cup Champions. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that does it for this edition of mix Shots, and
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