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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for another edition
Speaker 1: of mix Shots. And we've got news happening throughout the
Speaker 1: day here at the Star in Frisco. As we are
Speaker 1: at midweek. Hey, this is like a this is like
Speaker 1: the regular workweek begins today for a Sunday game, because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a Sunday noon kickoff against the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: Jaguars at AT and T Stadium, who will be playing
Speaker 1: their first team offense, including their number one overall draft
Speaker 1: pick Trevor Lawrence, who got named by Urban Meyer to
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback to start the season. And here's
Speaker 1: the more shocking thing here, Mickey, he is going to
Speaker 1: start against the Cowboys on Sunday. Really, yes, yes, we'll
Speaker 1: see how good that second team defense is. There you go,
Speaker 1: And so there's your Jacksonville jag news off the top,
Speaker 1: and before Mickey jumps into the news of the day
Speaker 1: here at the Star. Ever since it's great having you
Speaker 1: back here. Thanks to very much. It's funny that you
Speaker 1: mentioned Spags jumping in because he came in out of breath. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. Something's going on now. I was
Speaker 1: worn out from standing out there in that weather. Holy
Speaker 1: what is the temperature? I can tell you when I
Speaker 1: walked into the building after Zeke did his interview, it
Speaker 1: was ninety five degrees and the feel like was one
Speaker 1: o eight. Yes, it's ninety seven right now here in
Speaker 1: the first feel like. If it feels like it, then
Speaker 1: that's what they felt like, one hundred and fifteen. They
Speaker 1: killed me with the temperature and feel like. The index
Speaker 1: is the is the temperature heat index right now? Or
Speaker 1: it's the heat index high today is one hundred four degrees? Now,
Speaker 1: well that gets you're ready for this weather. Absolutely. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what Mike McCarthy wanted. And then you see
Speaker 1: some guys out there doing their drills and and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get ready. Why which sweats on? Zeke had
Speaker 1: as much on and he didn't have the fancy sweats.
Speaker 1: He had the old cotton things, the huge thick that
Speaker 1: he had long too long, or you will wear a
Speaker 1: fifteen years right, two sweatshirts, and it was like, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Yeah, it was this. This was Austin
Speaker 1: at least maybe a little bit of which time he
Speaker 1: always reminds me of. Back in the day, we had
Speaker 1: to make weight, you know, so guys be plodding on
Speaker 1: the weekends and yeah, your weight might be you know,
Speaker 1: you're barely under a pound or whatever. But by the
Speaker 1: time the weekends over, you played your butt off. But
Speaker 1: then on Sunday night, Monday, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here comes Tuesday, you're off. Wednesday you got and may weight.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of time in there, well, a lot
Speaker 1: of recreational time which we don't always use to rest.
Speaker 1: I remember when they were, when they were in Wichita Falls,
Speaker 1: when every morning at nine o'clock was like this, and
Speaker 1: every afternoon it would be one ten or above with
Speaker 1: the wind blowing twenty miles an hour. They had to
Speaker 1: weigh in after practice, and then they had to weigh
Speaker 1: in before the second practice to make sure they put
Speaker 1: back the weight they lost. Interesting, because of the you
Speaker 1: lost so much liquid. No one, no one cared about
Speaker 1: losing weight. All they cared about what you get. They
Speaker 1: made sure you ate too, because the last thing you
Speaker 1: want to do is eat when you're dehydrates, So careful
Speaker 1: these days. It's almost like the mothers. So you're talking
Speaker 1: that they did that in which staff falls. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so what did the GPS say on them back? Yeahs.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when we were in Austin,
Speaker 1: I remember you remember Don Cochrane, right, Yes, of course
Speaker 1: he was the trainer. He would carry around this little
Speaker 1: metal ball and it was supposed to measure the heat
Speaker 1: and the heat index with the humidity and if it
Speaker 1: got the certain thing, they were supposed to take more breaks.
Speaker 1: They ain't call them off practice, but they're going to
Speaker 1: take more breaks. Right when could they start drinking water?
Speaker 1: So I heard um one of the coach, I can't
Speaker 1: remember who I heard this from, was one of the
Speaker 1: coaches they were talking about when he was in high school.
Speaker 1: So it reminded me of high school two hour practice
Speaker 1: in August and we got a break after one hour
Speaker 1: and we got two ice cubes. Because you had to
Speaker 1: be a man. You remember, remember they would keep you
Speaker 1: away from the water. Oh yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: standard practice. No one gets water and and before practice
Speaker 1: you could take a handful of salt tablets, and I
Speaker 1: never did jest those. I never did that. What was
Speaker 1: the point I never understood. I guess you had to
Speaker 1: get sodium in it. I don't know what the hydrating you. Well, no,
Speaker 1: because you think about pickle juice. What's in that's right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all cramping. Yeah. When we when we had wrestling,
Speaker 1: I don't care about you dying, that's just cramp. When
Speaker 1: we had wrestling practice, after practice, we had to run
Speaker 1: the hallways right and the head coach would would would
Speaker 1: hide by the door that was next to the drinking fountain,
Speaker 1: so the door was recessed and he would be hiding
Speaker 1: in there, so you didn't know where he was. Didn't
Speaker 1: want you to stop to get water because that shows weakness.
Speaker 1: It did. I mean, this is high school that lets
Speaker 1: you know their coaches they're just evil people. They enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: They enjoyed it while we were out there just killing
Speaker 1: ourselves and failing, and they just sat there and they
Speaker 1: made it worse because they were point out your failures,
Speaker 1: knowing that they couldn't do any better. The shocking thing
Speaker 1: was nobody died and no one got to That is
Speaker 1: very shocking. How'd you do in the Landry Mile. I
Speaker 1: wasn't at that time. I wasn't a jocker, but I
Speaker 1: was always in shape. So it's the Landry Mile. What
Speaker 1: was it that at the beginning of training camp? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what they called the Landry mile? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: a mile and a half. That's why it's called the
Speaker 1: Landru mile because it's over a mile. Let's let's be
Speaker 1: clearly on that. And he had a time living, yes
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, So Dennis Thurman was the best Rod felt.
Speaker 1: So what times were we looking at? You remember? I
Speaker 1: think at the time I was younger, so I could
Speaker 1: still run it fast and I can't now even though
Speaker 1: I'm better than I'm older. I think I may have
Speaker 1: made a mile and about fifteen minutes. Maybe, oh you
Speaker 1: maybe that's what I'm doing now, I'm walking fifteen minutes now, No,
Speaker 1: it's about ten minutes. And so you went about it
Speaker 1: took about fifteen. It took about fifteen overall the mile.
Speaker 1: The hal I think that it was up a hill,
Speaker 1: wasn't it. No, No, it was just around. If you
Speaker 1: didn't make it, then you had to run the hill
Speaker 1: up to the CC or walk with him to CC. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is up to the butt of the man, because
Speaker 1: you back then, you would have run. If it was
Speaker 1: just one mile, you're running about ten. You would have done.
Speaker 1: You would have done you'd like seven or eight, sure
Speaker 1: you would, you would have done six months. Just didn't
Speaker 1: know me when we were in when we were in
Speaker 1: high school. We had to do it in twelve, which
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that is that's a slow jog. But
Speaker 1: but when you're young, you're not used to running. No
Speaker 1: one was jogging back then. Bill, I mean, you should
Speaker 1: have seen, guys, the Lineman fifteen was was good for
Speaker 1: a linement. I'm just saying we were We hated it.
Speaker 1: We didn't run with purpose. We ran because we were
Speaker 1: been getting punished. We looked at this punishment, so we
Speaker 1: didn't really put that effort into it. And uh and
Speaker 1: baby Loefelberg was telling me the other night that the
Speaker 1: Jimmy in the asthma field beginning of camp in the summer.
Speaker 1: Of course, they did it at Valley Ranch. And I
Speaker 1: want to say, I'm trying to remember the number of
Speaker 1: one tens that Jimmy had was sixteen seventeen one tens
Speaker 1: and they had to do it had depending on the position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a certain amount of time. What they did was
Speaker 1: you would, they would. It didn't matter really, you were there,
Speaker 1: time you were there. It was a matter of getting back.
Speaker 1: You're called. We had to walk back, so that the
Speaker 1: time wasn't just what you did the one tens in.
Speaker 1: It was also the cumulative time of you coming back
Speaker 1: and you had to rest and then the other guys
Speaker 1: would go. So we would go in stages. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you if you the kicker was holding the
Speaker 1: stages up, you know, that's why. That's why he got
Speaker 1: mad at it, because we're going to stages and the kickers.
Speaker 1: You know, he held up the kickers. State was dragging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was dragging the whole thing. And that coach I
Speaker 1: got asthma. Do you remember that? I remember, yes, of
Speaker 1: course I do. It. Well, I mean because he got
Speaker 1: played up and here we are later, we're still talking
Speaker 1: about it. Well, you know what it was. He was expendable.
Speaker 1: He wasn't going to be the guy. It was just
Speaker 1: like hard knocks. We just talked about hard knocks. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything is staged. You know. That was Jimmy's time to
Speaker 1: show that he was Jimmy, that I'm coming in here.
Speaker 1: These guys that used to lose it, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: show him something different. Will you pick up a kicker?
Speaker 1: You know? That was we were not impressed as played
Speaker 1: about a guy that wasn't gonna I think it was
Speaker 1: we knew he wasn't gonna make it Massimo Manka or
Speaker 1: something like that. He was kind of foreign or whatever,
Speaker 1: and that thought that was so cool because I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this guy's dream and now he's being used
Speaker 1: at some peg, you know, and that just kind of it. Really,
Speaker 1: it pissed me off a little bit, but he got
Speaker 1: the message across. Yeah, and we're still one fifty and
Speaker 1: we're still talking about it thirty two years exactly. Bring
Speaker 1: us up to speed on what the news of the
Speaker 1: day is here, Mickey, all Right, the Cowboys had two
Speaker 1: more players go on the COVID nineteen reserve lists. Demonte Kaz,
Speaker 1: who we suspected yesterday when he wasn't at practice and
Speaker 1: they talked about one guy had to be retested. Well,
Speaker 1: he was the guy being retested and ended up testing
Speaker 1: positive along with Connor Williams, is now on the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen list that got one guy off. He gave me
Speaker 1: the protocol Israel Mukuamu got it out, didn't He did,
Speaker 1: and he's back in and so he can play. Yes,
Speaker 1: so he was a close contact. He obviously was vaccinated,
Speaker 1: which means he just needed to have two negative tests
Speaker 1: over a forty eight hour or twenty four hour period.
Speaker 1: If you're positive, if you're if you're vaccinated, understand, if
Speaker 1: you're vaccinated in close contact, Okay, If you're positive and
Speaker 1: you're vaccinated, then you it's a forty eight hour deal.
Speaker 1: I think it might be a five day is that right? Five?
Speaker 1: I think it's five, but you got a test negative
Speaker 1: twice before you're allowed back. If you're unvaccinated, it's a
Speaker 1: ten day period. I'm sorry. Wow. My understanding is if
Speaker 1: you tested positive, if you're vaccinated and tested positive, then
Speaker 1: you have to produce two negative tests at least twenty
Speaker 1: four hours apart from each other, and then you can return.
Speaker 1: And vaccinated individuals will not be subject to quarantine as
Speaker 1: a result of close contact with an affected person. If
Speaker 1: you don't, if you're asymptomatic, and see in the case
Speaker 1: of cam Newton in New England, he had he left
Speaker 1: the area and then he had he had to go
Speaker 1: into quarantine for five days even though he hadn't tested
Speaker 1: positive or anything, but they assume Europe. And maybe it's
Speaker 1: because he's not vaccinated. I don't know for sure. Maybe
Speaker 1: he faas Okay, I'm not sure, but that's a that's
Speaker 1: a different protocol buyer where the five days comes in.
Speaker 1: And it's because he left the area. Yeah, and there
Speaker 1: was a misunderstand he went to see a doctor outside
Speaker 1: the area and because there was a potential exposure and
Speaker 1: when he came back, he had to quarantine for five days. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't test positive or it didn't have any symptoms.
Speaker 1: It was he just came back and he had but
Speaker 1: since he was out, yeah, okay. And then uh ric
Speaker 1: o'dowdell uh ended up with a hip injury after the
Speaker 1: game and he has been placed on injured reserve, So
Speaker 1: that means he's out for the season. So the third
Speaker 1: running back, if they keep three, uh is wide open,
Speaker 1: or maybe they keep a fullback in just two running backs. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trayvon Digs miss practice with an illness, not COVID an illness. Uh,
Speaker 1: this was a good day to miss practice out of
Speaker 1: you were planning ahead, right, Uh. So by my count,
Speaker 1: they've got four guys on injured reserve now because they've
Speaker 1: got five season for the season, five guys on the
Speaker 1: COVID reserve and just two guys left on PUP because
Speaker 1: their line came off and he came out, he was
Speaker 1: activated and that and that's why they made the move
Speaker 1: on Doubtle today to put him on injured reserve right
Speaker 1: to clear the roster. Right. Well, they actually needed to
Speaker 1: clear that roster spot yesterday before they put williams uh
Speaker 1: in kz Okay COVID nineteen. So ten more guys I
Speaker 1: counted are either uh, rehabbing or missing practice because they've
Speaker 1: been hurt. So I counted twenty one guys, including the
Speaker 1: I R guy guy, the COVID guys, the PUP guys,
Speaker 1: and guys that were rehabbing injuries that didn't practice were
Speaker 1: not a part of the practice today, twenty one out
Speaker 1: of well, they started with ninety right, right, so pretty
Speaker 1: shorthanded at the safety position. And you haven't mentioned the
Speaker 1: one the other injury at the safety position. Number six.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and Donovan Wilson, sorry, he was one of
Speaker 1: my ten. Got a groin strain and he left practice
Speaker 1: early yesterday. We weren't sure why he walked off and
Speaker 1: it ended up being a groin strain. So so the
Speaker 1: safety position, that's a good thing. Mcquamou came back today
Speaker 1: because they were down to like four guys. So when
Speaker 1: they lined up with the first team defense, it was
Speaker 1: Jay Run Curse and Darien Thompson the starting two safeties,
Speaker 1: and the second guys ended up being Coil and Parker,
Speaker 1: Stephen Parker and Tyler Coil. Yes, so those were the
Speaker 1: backup guys. So yeah, they were I thought they were
Speaker 1: going to have to start moving corners to safety to
Speaker 1: get through and then mcquamu came back, so yeah, they
Speaker 1: This stuff is real, all right, and and it's going
Speaker 1: around the NFL right now. It's going through this this
Speaker 1: organization right now. And I looked in the paper this
Speaker 1: morning for the high schools that are starting on Thursday,
Speaker 1: there's already ten games this weekend canceled, canceled already because
Speaker 1: of COD. So you know, MCOs the NFL, what team
Speaker 1: is in more direstraates than we are? You know, there
Speaker 1: have been several teams that have have had a handful
Speaker 1: of players who have gone into COVID protocol. In fact,
Speaker 1: the week of the Arizona and the only reason I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with it, Like the Arizona game and preparing for
Speaker 1: the game, they had four or five players that were
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol that week. So it hasn't been unusual
Speaker 1: that teams would have players in COVID protocol. Now, whether
Speaker 1: they tested positive or not, it's uncertain because they don't
Speaker 1: have to reveal that, but um and usually within a
Speaker 1: week those guys come back. And so I think if
Speaker 1: you go around the league, there's probably I don't know
Speaker 1: how many teams, but I know that there have been
Speaker 1: a number of teams that have dealt with I don't
Speaker 1: I don't recall one that that's had as many as six.
Speaker 1: It's what the Cowboys have right now. This is as many,
Speaker 1: if not just one, less than they had all the
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, and it's haven't played a game yet,
Speaker 1: So it tells you this is real. And it's why
Speaker 1: Jerry came out and said what he said yesterday when
Speaker 1: he did his interview with fan He came out pretty strong.
Speaker 1: And the big thing is for the Cowboys right now,
Speaker 1: they've got a ninety three as of the beginning of
Speaker 1: this week, ninety three percent vaccination rate among the players.
Speaker 1: According to Jerry or Steven. I can't remember who said that,
Speaker 1: but uh, and then there are some of that and
Speaker 1: there's that's right, that's right, that was it, that was
Speaker 1: in the release when And this is just the team itself.
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with doctors of the staff,
Speaker 1: of the staff and ninety three percent of the players
Speaker 1: and there are some that are en route to getting
Speaker 1: fully vaccinated. They've had the shots, but they haven't had
Speaker 1: a two weeks or they haven't spent the two weeks
Speaker 1: since the second shot to be considered fully vaccinated. And
Speaker 1: when you start talking about, uh, that's seven percent, is
Speaker 1: that's huge? Well, I mean it's a ninety man roster
Speaker 1: and so um you see, fairly easy to do the
Speaker 1: math there's it is, but probably also depends on the
Speaker 1: quality of that particular player, right, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: one one player may wait more than the other. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got a special teams guy that might be you know,
Speaker 1: test positive. But let's say you've got I don't know
Speaker 1: what names out there, but a wide receiver. They doesn't
Speaker 1: want to take a shot, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he's sick and he's a starter. Well here, here's here's
Speaker 1: the issue. With that. In fact, Buffalo is dealing with
Speaker 1: that right now. I mean Cole Beasley. Cole Beasley's in
Speaker 1: COVID protocol because and it's widely known. Man, he's amazing,
Speaker 1: he's that due. But but he is, and he has
Speaker 1: been very vocal that he's not getting vaccinated. Well, he's
Speaker 1: in COVID protocol right now because he's a close contact,
Speaker 1: not that he didn't test positive, and being unvaccinated, he
Speaker 1: has to spend even if he was considered a close contact,
Speaker 1: he has to spend ten days afore. That started last week.
Speaker 1: So that's the huge thing. Once you get towards the
Speaker 1: regular season. Okay, now you get somebody in his position
Speaker 1: group who test positive and since he was in close contact,
Speaker 1: now the rest of it. Let's say on a Friday
Speaker 1: of another wide receiver test positive. Well, Cole, you're not
Speaker 1: only missing this Sunday's game, but it's ten days you're
Speaker 1: gonna miss next Sunday's game too, if if the timing happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so and so. If you have unvaccinated players, you
Speaker 1: have to keep them away during meetings and stuff they
Speaker 1: have to do. Yeah, you say that they're keeping away
Speaker 1: from who's doing they're doing a lot. No, No, it's
Speaker 1: not so much on the field, okay, because on that
Speaker 1: that's the weird. On the right, you can't. But if
Speaker 1: you're on the sideline, if you're in meeting, especially in
Speaker 1: meetings indoors, they have to be. They're starting to go
Speaker 1: more virtual meetings. They do a virtual meeting with dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: who's still out. They're spreading out. They're having the meetings
Speaker 1: back in the in Ford Center where they can spread
Speaker 1: out in the corridors. So yeah, the whole thing that's like,
Speaker 1: you're going back to where you were. And that's why
Speaker 1: Jerry came out so strongly yesterday and I'm going to
Speaker 1: read you what he had to say. You certainly don't
Speaker 1: want to be doing anything that causes your teammates to
Speaker 1: not be available. All of that comes to the same
Speaker 1: conclusion as far as what you agreed to be as
Speaker 1: far as a player to be part of a team.
Speaker 1: You check eye at the door, so to speak. It's
Speaker 1: about we Everyone has the right to make their own
Speaker 1: decision in regards to their health and their body. I
Speaker 1: believe that completely. Until that decision on yourself impacts negatively
Speaker 1: on others, then the common good takes over arm waving here,
Speaker 1: but everything to do with how I look at our
Speaker 1: team and how I look at our society, and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it right there. It's not just a team, it's
Speaker 1: society as well. So that that could be said from
Speaker 1: sixteen Heldy, Pennsylvania as well as here at the start. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it could be set in the Plano School district
Speaker 1: where they had a big meeting on wearing masks in
Speaker 1: school and everybody there was a bunch of people there
Speaker 1: saying I need my freedom, you know, I should be
Speaker 1: able to decide, and they're saying, no, you better mask up. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this thing is raging once again. So if you want
Speaker 1: some good news, Dak Prescott did for the first time
Speaker 1: take part in some of the team drills the eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven and actually threw the ball and I saw
Speaker 1: him throw the ball a good thirty yards to Dalton
Speaker 1: I think it was Dalton Schultz, and it was a
Speaker 1: completion and his arm didn't fall off. It's still attach,
Speaker 1: still attash all right, So if you needed some good news,
Speaker 1: that was the good news. And Cooper Rush continued to
Speaker 1: take the snaps with the first team in the other
Speaker 1: drills they were doing. But Dak did just a seven
Speaker 1: man passing route thing. He did a little bit of
Speaker 1: seven on seven and then when they did team I
Speaker 1: think he had three separate occasions he went out with
Speaker 1: the first team eleven on eleven. So you think Gary
Speaker 1: Gilbert's performance on leck thereof do you think that had
Speaker 1: anything to do with Cooper Rush being Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: so to do with Cooper Rush's performance not not not Gilbert.
Speaker 1: So if Gilbert would have just really ballowed out the
Speaker 1: way he Rush did, let's say, if their performances would
Speaker 1: have been have been switched. Yeah, that they still think
Speaker 1: they would have No, No, they would not have been
Speaker 1: with that if Gilbert had done what Cooper did last game.
Speaker 1: Just then yeah, he left the door open. Yes he did.
Speaker 1: And now now it's up to Rush to see can
Speaker 1: I do that two weeks in a row? And now okay,
Speaker 1: according to urban Meyer this morning Jacksonville, he said, now
Speaker 1: we'll see. He can may get to Sunday and decide
Speaker 1: against it, but he said that all healthy players are
Speaker 1: going to play, and so Cooper Rush will go up
Speaker 1: against what is essentially Jacksonville's first team defense that they
Speaker 1: did say Miles Jack's playing very well. For him, it
Speaker 1: is not it's probably not going to play the way
Speaker 1: he terms it. It's whether you're game ready or not.
Speaker 1: And he considers Miles Jack to be game ready. Does
Speaker 1: remind you of Jimmy Johnson taking over in eighty nine, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of it has to
Speaker 1: do with Jacksonville. Here's the other thing about The Cowboys
Speaker 1: are in a different position than Jacksonville, not only because
Speaker 1: of expectations, because okay, Jacksonville's got a rookie quarterback. They
Speaker 1: were for their one and fifteen last year. They had
Speaker 1: thought picking the draft, so they whatever they were, and
Speaker 1: so they are not going to the Super Bowl this year,
Speaker 1: right and so? And Trevor Lawrence needs as many reps
Speaker 1: as he can get. It's okay right now and so,
Speaker 1: and you want to get your first team guys out
Speaker 1: there with them, even though they're injury depleted on their
Speaker 1: offensive line. The other difference between Dallas and Jacksonville is
Speaker 1: Jacksonville has a full two weeks from Sunday until their
Speaker 1: first game against Houston. The Cowboys have what is basically
Speaker 1: eleven days before they opened the season the following Thursday,
Speaker 1: So the timing of it is much more like years
Speaker 1: past when we would play a Thursday game to close
Speaker 1: out the preseason and then open the season on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's almost the same type thing. That's why I think
Speaker 1: you'll see more teams that will go ahead. And also
Speaker 1: this is their fourth preseason game and the other Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, and so I think across the league you
Speaker 1: will see it's just up to the coach. You'll see
Speaker 1: more teams playing starters in this game because it timing wise,
Speaker 1: it's just like it was back when you play your
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal game was two weeks before the first game
Speaker 1: and then the fourth game would be on a third play.
Speaker 1: And I kind of looked at it as just Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence himself. I thought that maybe he was him starting
Speaker 1: and probably starting for the entire preseason is something that
Speaker 1: he needed because of him being a rookie and meaning
Speaker 1: to come out strong for Jacksonville. And they can control
Speaker 1: his snaps by players they call right. You don't call
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, five step drop, seven step drops.
Speaker 1: It's three steps out, swing passes, get it out quick,
Speaker 1: so you don't put them. You're still working on those
Speaker 1: basic things yeah, that are going to be your staple
Speaker 1: for your offensive. Just to go over this real quick,
Speaker 1: so active PUP still two guys, Chauncey Golston and Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: I get a feeling both of those guys may end
Speaker 1: up on that to start the season because when you
Speaker 1: start looking at the cuts and you would have to
Speaker 1: make active cuts, meaning they be active put now, but
Speaker 1: they will to go on PUP and then they got
Speaker 1: to miss six weeks, six six games, so they don't
Speaker 1: they do not count against the fifty three man roster
Speaker 1: at that point because they have not participated in a
Speaker 1: practice so far exactly been on PUP since the beginning
Speaker 1: of They also have one guy on NFI Non Football injury,
Speaker 1: t J Vasher, the wide receiver from Texas Tech, so
Speaker 1: they can stash he could stab don't count against them.
Speaker 1: And then already on injured reserve means you're you're out
Speaker 1: for the season Rico Donell, Reggie Robinson, say Wu Lanolua,
Speaker 1: and Mitch Hyatt. And then on the reserve COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: list Malik Hooker, Demante kaz Connor Williams, Ceedee Lamb, and
Speaker 1: Carlos Watkins. So maliek Cooker's getting himself in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a jam here because he was late to
Speaker 1: try to show him what he can still do coming
Speaker 1: back from the ruptured achilles. And he just played the
Speaker 1: first time this past game, and now he's probably not
Speaker 1: playing unless he minor standing with him. He was within
Speaker 1: distance of the second shot, but you have to be
Speaker 1: two weeks removed from the second shot, right, So that
Speaker 1: meant he was late getting his shots. And the safety well,
Speaker 1: now the safety position, you know they're stressed. You know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen is Donovan started working out again?
Speaker 1: Come on, So did you're understanding Hooker tested positive or
Speaker 1: he's a close contact? But where's my list? Um? I
Speaker 1: he's got it, says he's got. He must have tested positive.
Speaker 1: He's got two shots, but he's not two weeks removed
Speaker 1: from the second one. So I think he wasn't a
Speaker 1: close contact. Mcclomu was close contact. Um, where was the
Speaker 1: other guy? I was running to see if I had
Speaker 1: him all on here? So yeah, you know if you
Speaker 1: were if you were vaccinated and it was close contact,
Speaker 1: you'd be back by now, right. Well, if you were
Speaker 1: a symptomatic well it depends like for instance on Hooker.
Speaker 1: If depends on when he got his test, and so
Speaker 1: maybe he gets fully maybe that two week time period
Speaker 1: ends before Sunday, and he could play if he if
Speaker 1: he didn't test, if if he was a client, if
Speaker 1: he makes the roster. No, I'm talking about this Sunday. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1: If let's say let's say he got his second shot
Speaker 1: two weeks ago Friday, right this Friday, two weeks ago, Okay,
Speaker 1: then he would be fully vaccinated on Friday and then
Speaker 1: could play in the game on Saturday if he was
Speaker 1: a close contact. And otherwise if he's not vaccinated, he
Speaker 1: has to spend ten days in quarantine as a close contact.
Speaker 1: So can you leave guys on COVID so you didn't
Speaker 1: have to cut him? Well, one thing about it because
Speaker 1: of the COVID, Because of the guys on COVID, they
Speaker 1: didn't have to do right, Yeah, right, there could be
Speaker 1: some fudging going on. All right, Nicky, do you have
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Speaker 1: right Mickey, correct? Okay, So I want to find out
Speaker 1: hard Knocks last night? Did you like it? I mean,
Speaker 1: how could you not like the intro to the show?
Speaker 1: I was going to say the cinematic quality was top notch.
Speaker 1: I did not see it. Well, oh, you can go
Speaker 1: on Twitter opening it's it's uh. It went viral on
Speaker 1: Twitter and you can watch it. But the drone it
Speaker 1: was three minutes long, three minute drone flight that that
Speaker 1: started out side Tostito's Championship plaza. It flew through a truck,
Speaker 1: through the wind statues through and the audio quality it
Speaker 1: was like a radio sports talk radio was playing it.
Speaker 1: You could hear as it went through the truck and
Speaker 1: then it went through a was a yoga class out there?
Speaker 1: Over a yoga class through the door. Yeah, and before
Speaker 1: it completed, it went through the um the structures in
Speaker 1: the weight room, like where the weights are racked. They
Speaker 1: went right through the middle. Who was having that thing?
Speaker 1: I wanted to meet the pilot, That's what I wanted.
Speaker 1: Somebody would have joystick was doing a helmet. Well, well,
Speaker 1: here's what I understand too. Uh. It took them fifteen
Speaker 1: U fifteen tries and the last one, my understanding was
Speaker 1: it was perfect, so they didn't have to splice. I
Speaker 1: thought they spliced a whole bunch of takes together together.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like no, and now they can. And
Speaker 1: then the funny thing was and I missed it. Somebody
Speaker 1: told me so when they did the credits at the
Speaker 1: end and they were showing some outtakes, they showed one
Speaker 1: where the drone clipped the little statue. Yeah in the
Speaker 1: star area. Yeah, but yeah, somebody flew that thing through everything. See,
Speaker 1: I wonder how in real time and it was a
Speaker 1: small drone. It had to be through. They were fitting
Speaker 1: it through. That's why I took But I just don't
Speaker 1: understand how they do it to be good with but uh,
Speaker 1: and what speed does it go? And as it's as
Speaker 1: it's flying, and how much do they speed it? It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's sped up. I mean, but with
Speaker 1: computer generating technology, you know, you can make the people
Speaker 1: that are in the yoga class not be sped up
Speaker 1: while the drone is spressed. So you can see what
Speaker 1: Bill Jones thinks of hard knocks when that was the
Speaker 1: highlight of his eight minutes show. I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: as we speed the Wow, the Oscar for Best Cinnemon Cinematography. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that just got one? Ye, wasn't it? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think so, you know that's Bill jogging was I didn't
Speaker 1: understand how they didn't continue to address the Dak Prescott story,
Speaker 1: the fact that they film and maybe they were running
Speaker 1: you know, I know they have deadlines, and so his
Speaker 1: workout Saturday at the game was pretty extensive and I
Speaker 1: thought that would be pretty valuable, but they didn't show it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if they weren't allowed to show
Speaker 1: it or what. But they were there filming. But it's
Speaker 1: going to be on this next album. Maybe it's on
Speaker 1: the next episode. Although they had study from the game
Speaker 1: though they did, But now they've got two games and
Speaker 1: you're moving closer to the season. I think it's more storylines.
Speaker 1: They probably had other stories they wanted to tell this
Speaker 1: way week and so, and those in some of those stories,
Speaker 1: maybe those players won't be on the team next week.
Speaker 1: I mean the cutdown day, well, I think a good point.
Speaker 1: That's probably more than anything. So they'll they'll do the
Speaker 1: Dack story where they've got not only this past week,
Speaker 1: but also Sunday his pregame workout. And so two more shows,
Speaker 1: two more shows episodes, so the cuts will happen to
Speaker 1: Tuesday before before the last ye and so the cuts,
Speaker 1: the cuts will actually be in the last episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm mean. It'll be so this week will
Speaker 1: be that will be included for next Tuesday show and
Speaker 1: this last that's getting laked on the last. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's why I think they took a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff that they shot on Saturday against the Texans will
Speaker 1: be in this coming show, and then the Turk and
Speaker 1: everything else, the cutdowns and everything will in the last show.
Speaker 1: And they'll also have the start of the first week
Speaker 1: of practice for the season opener, which I think it
Speaker 1: would be because you're playing a Thursday. It would be
Speaker 1: a Thursday game. The last episode will be of the
Speaker 1: Tuesday before the Thursday game. Yeah, so so they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of more ground to cover. I'm still waiting
Speaker 1: for the Randy Gregory story. We haven't and we haven't
Speaker 1: seen that. We got to get an update on Dak,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. UM, trying to think what else
Speaker 1: that UM, they haven't done much with the with the
Speaker 1: offensive line. They did the al carn story. Considering just
Speaker 1: how much in disarray we were last year and regards
Speaker 1: the offensive line, you would think that that would be
Speaker 1: one of the major stories, just even just a group itself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sort of like them extremely unique individuals themselves
Speaker 1: and the stories that they can tell, you know, that
Speaker 1: would really go well. So that sort of like the
Speaker 1: story we did for the pregame show, the first pregame
Speaker 1: show we did with Nate interviewing the three offensive lineman, Tyring, Lale,
Speaker 1: and Zach, which was really good. They could have done
Speaker 1: a thirty minute show on that. I saw the entire interview.
Speaker 1: You can do thirty minutes on Nate alone. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just asking questions, right, uh and and and you know,
Speaker 1: if Hard knock saw that. They should have said, oh,
Speaker 1: let's use that. You know, it was great. I mean
Speaker 1: it was really informative because usually don't get tiring to
Speaker 1: talk very much. Zach showed a little bit of his
Speaker 1: personality and LALs, LALs, So I thought it was really good.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and they could do that story. So we'll
Speaker 1: see where it goes from there. All right, on the
Speaker 1: practice field today, what else cut your eye besides Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott throwing a thirty yard pass and completing it without
Speaker 1: his arm falling off. Yes, um um, Cooper Rush had
Speaker 1: a couple of good throws, a couple of good deep throws.
Speaker 1: Can you see him improving? I mean, is this just
Speaker 1: Gilbert letting you go? Or is this Cooper restaurant? I
Speaker 1: think getting an opportunity because he's healthy. Remember he missed
Speaker 1: time in practice in training camp. First he had back issue,
Speaker 1: uh and that cost him about three I want to
Speaker 1: say at least three practices uh. And then he had
Speaker 1: developed a shoulder injury. He got hit in one of
Speaker 1: the preseason games and he started missing practice that next week.
Speaker 1: And so finally he got an opportunity. You know, I
Speaker 1: always thought his his downside was he has a slow release,
Speaker 1: like his arm has to go a long way. He
Speaker 1: talked about that last yeah, before before he actually throws
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, if I can, if I can
Speaker 1: put his recognition into dow Ucci, we'd have us a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. I think. Um, And so, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see what he does. You got to do this consistently.
Speaker 1: But at least he's got his name now, at least
Speaker 1: in the conversation, and we'll see how he plays on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm curious what have you seen with Denucci
Speaker 1: and his recognition? You mean, because it's slow. Based on
Speaker 1: what the coaches said, his recognition is not good. I
Speaker 1: was saying, why are you looking? You have no reason
Speaker 1: for your Your eyes aren't supposed to be there. He's
Speaker 1: you know what he's got. I think what you mean
Speaker 1: is Denucci's release. It's a little quicker. No, No, it's
Speaker 1: a lot quick. Yeah, just by nature. And he's got
Speaker 1: a strong arm too. But the release is quicker. But
Speaker 1: the mechanics are horrible. Yes, because the side arm, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and too many. Now it's good to do that once
Speaker 1: he does, because you have to, you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: throw around something that's fine. We see Mahomes do it
Speaker 1: all the day. It looks cute when it's when it's needy, yeah,
Speaker 1: but when when you don't need it, then it looks awkward.
Speaker 1: It's like you got to come over the top. So
Speaker 1: but he's like the Mahomes, no look, pass looks great
Speaker 1: until it gets intersected and return right, yeah, exactly. The
Speaker 1: new che passes right yeah. And and like on the
Speaker 1: fifty two yard interception return, he under threw that ball
Speaker 1: that oh, the one that got the one that got tipped,
Speaker 1: that's the one that got ye and he got Yeah
Speaker 1: it was And when he went to the sideline he
Speaker 1: was curious what happened. And and so a lot of
Speaker 1: it is just he's young, right, And and I think
Speaker 1: it was nust Meyer pointed out to him because he
Speaker 1: thought he threw a nice pass right, Well, it got tipped,
Speaker 1: he didn't get to his receiver and so it was
Speaker 1: under thrown. Yeah. And so that's the difference plan at
Speaker 1: this level and playing it it was gonna be complete, No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. No, And then the last one it was
Speaker 1: just dead. He was just he was just wondering how
Speaker 1: it got intercepted. Yeah, he knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be incomplete. But how did they get Intercep? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's what happened. So you know, he's still getting
Speaker 1: his reps. We'll see, Uh, you might want to keep
Speaker 1: him on. I mean, you got sixteen spots on the Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to get sidetracked, but no, no, So
Speaker 1: where are we as far as a backup quarterback right now?
Speaker 1: I think it's still up in the air, don't you
Speaker 1: no doubt? Right, there's no doubt. And that I look
Speaker 1: at the Jacksonville team that's coming in here. They've got
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks, including C. J. Bethard as a veteran guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they've got who they got. I was looking at
Speaker 1: the roster today, Well they've got not only Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: as a backup, but also C. J. Bethard as a
Speaker 1: backup who's in his fifth year in the league, and
Speaker 1: his actors not giving them. Actually no, they're not giving
Speaker 1: up Minshew. And so that's why I mentioned Cjay Bethard,
Speaker 1: a guy like that who has some starting experience in
Speaker 1: the league. Keep keep keeping up. Those are the guys
Speaker 1: that that'll get cut. And because they also have a
Speaker 1: sixth round draft pick, from last year. Jake Luton by
Speaker 1: by Sunday, I need to know how to pronounce his
Speaker 1: last name for sure. But one of those quarterbacks is
Speaker 1: gonna get cut. They're not keeping four on their fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster, so teams like that. That's why this
Speaker 1: is not going to be settled. Even if Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: has the same performance on Sunday that he had last
Speaker 1: Saturday night, it's not gonna get settled until after the cuts. Now.
Speaker 1: To give you an idea, I wrote down quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: got cut these last couple of days, and it's nothing
Speaker 1: to get excited to be right, uh Kenji Bahard, Jordan
Speaker 1: Tay moved to a move Atlanta. Sie. You just you
Speaker 1: just wanted to do this so you can show up
Speaker 1: and show how you can pronounce these names. Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, former first rounder, got released and in science
Speaker 1: yea again. Yeah, he's about to get released again. He's
Speaker 1: always getting released. So Anthony Gordon, Delvin Hodges, Danny Etling,
Speaker 1: Alex McGough, Eric Dungee. These are guys that that been
Speaker 1: released over these last two days. It looks like it
Speaker 1: sounds like you just read off the Alliance of American y, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: So that so there's still some guys that have to
Speaker 1: be released. Oh, by the way, the Saints signed Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath too. Yeah, yeah, that saw it, and Lance Lenore
Speaker 1: got released by so the way that got rid of
Speaker 1: he Yeah he had. He had been let go as
Speaker 1: a cap casualty. Yeah, back the beginning of the spring, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so he was and it was last week sometime
Speaker 1: the Saint signed. Yeah that's second. There is not that great,
Speaker 1: but he was the best thing they had led him
Speaker 1: in interceptions. Yeah, I mean that's not and I'll do all.
Speaker 1: But you know what, the poor thing about Jeff Heath
Speaker 1: is he's a good player, but you always want better, right,
Speaker 1: He's in that category like, well I can do better
Speaker 1: than that, right, Maybe I always say that about me too,
Speaker 1: exactly what you say. Keep on going right there with you, buddy,
Speaker 1: But no, so, yeah, you got to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire next too. If we're going to
Speaker 1: go for a quarterback, it won't be a young guy, no,
Speaker 1: you would go for another Andy Dalton somebody like that.
Speaker 1: And Andy might create an opportunity for us because you've
Speaker 1: got Nick Foles up there now, he's the starter. Andy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: or at least they said even and he's the starter
Speaker 1: in Chicago for the first game for the first game, yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so Foles is the yeah, Fols still would be
Speaker 1: to me the guy that would be available, would you
Speaker 1: would you? Well, he makes eight million right now, and
Speaker 1: so to what is what is he willing to play
Speaker 1: for big dead money too? Yeah? For them? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then and so and so. Okay, so here's the other
Speaker 1: part of it. How much are you willing to spend
Speaker 1: and as far as salary cap on the backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: what can you do? I would do what you did
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton last year, three million dollars base salary
Speaker 1: with incentives that you can make seven and just as
Speaker 1: an example of that, okay, Sammy as we don't want
Speaker 1: him to make the right exactly. Just to give you
Speaker 1: a gauge on what some of the other teams who
Speaker 1: are considered contenders are spending on backup quarterbacks right now.
Speaker 1: I'm just familiar with Arizona because we just did their
Speaker 1: game in Colt McCoy. His salary is one point two million,
Speaker 1: and he's getting a lot of snaps and he's there,
Speaker 1: but he's their backup quarterback to Kyler Murray. I think
Speaker 1: Chase Daniels probably about the same with the Chargers, you know,
Speaker 1: veteran guys whatever, and so those are in that realm.
Speaker 1: The Folds is at eight million, Dalton, what he's signed
Speaker 1: is it ten million? But it's but his guarantees for
Speaker 1: point five Okay, So so yeah, if you can, you know,
Speaker 1: if you can afford it. They don't have that much
Speaker 1: money on the salary cap remaining, so and that's that's
Speaker 1: why it's a pertinent question. But whoever gets released and
Speaker 1: they look up and say, oh, the season starts in
Speaker 1: twelve days and I don't have a job. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: probably not negotiating real harm, right, If you want to
Speaker 1: get a job, you're not going to start playing one
Speaker 1: team off another to see if somebody will sign me.
Speaker 1: But it has to be somebody would experience starting, right, right.
Speaker 1: I don't want a young guy that's oh you know
Speaker 1: he's this guy's got some talent and it gave up
Speaker 1: on him. And so if I'm hearing you right, then
Speaker 1: if it's got to be someone who has experienced starting,
Speaker 1: there's nobody else on this roster who has real experience
Speaker 1: starting besides Dak Prescott. Oh no, absolutely, And it's the
Speaker 1: same thing where they're at at the backup center spot.
Speaker 1: So they want Connor Williams to show he can do so,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Spagnola's mind, this is this is mix shot.
Speaker 1: It's okay, what does Cooper Rush have to do on
Speaker 1: Sunday to win the backup quarterback job? Repeat what he
Speaker 1: did Saturday night. And I'm not saying he has to
Speaker 1: throw two touchdown passes, but he's got to go in
Speaker 1: there and show that he has command of the offense,
Speaker 1: that he's got quiet feet, that he's not kind of
Speaker 1: looking around and doesn't know where to go with the ball,
Speaker 1: and he has to show a Mojoe moments and he
Speaker 1: has show don't do very well with the Bojoe moments
Speaker 1: in that game defensively, but yeah, those type of thing
Speaker 1: that you're in control, and you know when the play's
Speaker 1: over and I got to throw the ball away, I can't.
Speaker 1: It's the small thing. I cannot get hit from behind
Speaker 1: in the pocket. I cannot get hit from and we
Speaker 1: hang our hands. Mickey cut last week's starter on the
Speaker 1: first series of game when he got hit by from
Speaker 1: behind and fumbled right and happened. You made the roster
Speaker 1: decision right right right? Well here, I've got my roster
Speaker 1: decisions right here. By the way, he's there, he's got
Speaker 1: his rosters. He's watching the game and he just he
Speaker 1: takes a black mark or two of him when he cuts.
Speaker 1: Y'all do that. We got together. That's like today when
Speaker 1: he didn't understand Babe's question. He thought Babe was asking
Speaker 1: him about somebody on the team that came out of
Speaker 1: nowhere that's gonna make it right. Well, he was saying,
Speaker 1: in your past, did you have somebody that showed up
Speaker 1: in the fourth preseason game that just jumped out and
Speaker 1: you got to do it? And McCarthy. McCarthy goes, do
Speaker 1: you want me to laugh? Is this a joke? Is
Speaker 1: this a joke? And anybody he was asking about this team? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he thought he was asking about this team. And it's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this team. I wouldn't do that. I
Speaker 1: was talking about in your Yeah, he came out with
Speaker 1: the best, wasn't the race, right? I can't give away,
Speaker 1: can't give away right. So then he came out with
Speaker 1: about three or four names. I think that that guys
Speaker 1: actually did that when he was um I was trying
Speaker 1: to find where it was that Sam Shields was one
Speaker 1: of them s. Yeah, absolutely, it was Tim, Tim Boyle,
Speaker 1: Matt Flynn, Sam Shields and I forgot his first name, Cumroy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jake Kumero was the white receiver. Yeah yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it had to be a wide receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come out because somebody would do that, right, Because you know,
Speaker 1: if you go back when we were in training camp
Speaker 1: a couple years ago, Lance Lenore was the star of Oxnard, right,
Speaker 1: and then they got to I think it might have
Speaker 1: been the Hall of Fame game, and the lights came
Speaker 1: on and he started fumbling punts. He was dropping passes
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, where did that guy go from? Oxnard?
Speaker 1: And that happens quite a bit, but usually what happens
Speaker 1: in these games. And I remember this is about fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago. I've boys played the Vikings. Jeremy Urban returned
Speaker 1: to punt for a touchdown, and everyone's thinking, well, with that,
Speaker 1: he just won a spot on the roster Tuesday game
Speaker 1: or Friday game or whatever the cutdown day was, And
Speaker 1: there he was Jeremy Urban cut Well, yeah, I could
Speaker 1: remember thousand oaks who was the running back that was
Speaker 1: behind Tony at that time, James Jones. There was another guy.
Speaker 1: What year are you talking about, like in the late
Speaker 1: eighties and hershell Walker. Yeah it was or no, you
Speaker 1: know who it might have been. It might have been
Speaker 1: a defensive back, Victor Scott. Yeah, he was always great
Speaker 1: in Thousand Oaks. And then when it was time to play,
Speaker 1: it was like, where did that guy go? That's who
Speaker 1: it was. Yeah, there was another running back, though I
Speaker 1: would have to look at the media guy. It was like,
Speaker 1: this guy was great, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: when the game started, where did that guy go? Okay,
Speaker 1: when we come see Holly would be another one. That's right.
Speaker 1: He got himself a job returning that fumbled punt. But
Speaker 1: but he and so he made the roster. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's roster just by one game, right, But there's plenty.
Speaker 1: I'd say ninety of the people who star in that
Speaker 1: final preseason game, they're getting cut anyway. Were you doing
Speaker 1: that game? Yes? No, no, well no, Brad was doing
Speaker 1: okay because he got mad. I was interviewing Romo on
Speaker 1: the sideline and all of a sudden we hear this
Speaker 1: screaming and Romo and I kind of looked up and
Speaker 1: we saw it on the scream and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy's going all the way. And I laid out right,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they thought I was going to
Speaker 1: lay out. And so yeah, he wasn't happy with me
Speaker 1: because he didn't get the call that play. I think
Speaker 1: it's just preseason, right, Yeah, give me a break, it's
Speaker 1: just okay, preseason. Get that's like asking Bill about a
Speaker 1: cornerback thing. To me, I'm throwing that play by play. Guys,
Speaker 1: we get very particular if you step on our call.
Speaker 1: It happens this fast game. Actually, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I mean they were interviewing Randy Gregory on the side
Speaker 1: and there's a big play, right, I'm sure you just
Speaker 1: how to eat it right. Actually, actually Randy stopped talking
Speaker 1: when he saw some of that. Randy stopped talking, and
Speaker 1: I don't I have no idea if it got out
Speaker 1: on the air or not. I started calling the plump anyway, anyway,
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Speaker 1: All Right, we just got five minutes left on this
Speaker 1: edition of Mixed Shots. So where do you want to
Speaker 1: go with this last five minutes? Well, how about things
Speaker 1: they still need to sort out in this last preseason game? Okay,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna involve backups, right, yes it is. So
Speaker 1: we mentioned the quarterback. Um, I'm still looking for that
Speaker 1: backup swing tackle. Uh. And it looks like it's come
Speaker 1: down to tying the Secchi and Terrence Steele and now
Speaker 1: the backup center. If Connor Williams can't play on Sunday,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure they would have given him snaps with
Speaker 1: the first team offense to show that he could maybe
Speaker 1: be the backup center. Um, they may not get to
Speaker 1: look at that in another game. And now they got
Speaker 1: to make a decision do we trust him and his
Speaker 1: snaps in the game, do we go with Farniac who
Speaker 1: may not be as good a blocker. And then other
Speaker 1: than that, you got to keep your eye on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire, I think, because that's kind of a significant position.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they want to talk Joe
Speaker 1: Looney out of retirement. But if they did, he did retire.
Speaker 1: I thought they went to another team. No, he went
Speaker 1: to the Giants. I guess the key is they would
Speaker 1: have to trade for him. Did he file his his paperwork? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And if they announced him has retired, right, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if he filed the paperwork or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly because if he, if if the Giants could have
Speaker 1: put him on retired reserve and then you would have
Speaker 1: to trade something for it to get him off of that.
Speaker 1: That's why, um, I think I remember the story text
Speaker 1: could never take Roger off the retired reserve list. He
Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. He kept them there just in
Speaker 1: case I needed. He's still on the ball, so I
Speaker 1: can't understand that. Yeah, I was kind of looking forward
Speaker 1: to I was looking forward to secondary making a lot
Speaker 1: more plays. Uh. This defensive line and especially the front seven,
Speaker 1: they've been doing very well. They've been putting the pressure
Speaker 1: down and I was looking forward to players in the
Speaker 1: secondary making plays during the most important time of the game,
Speaker 1: you know, closing out the half. Of course, those last
Speaker 1: drives that we have that ended up in points for
Speaker 1: the for the opposing offense. I want to see someone
Speaker 1: coming in and I've seen guys that are making tack coverage.
Speaker 1: I've seen that you can see improvement on how we
Speaker 1: approach the tackles. We are more coordinated in our attack.
Speaker 1: I'm still looking for that person to make the drive
Speaker 1: ending play. You know, Darius Thompson is really of feasting
Speaker 1: off of what the front step is doing because so
Speaker 1: we're using him in a very strategic manner when it
Speaker 1: comes to blitzes and things that nature. When it comes
Speaker 1: to run blisses as well, We've been doing very well
Speaker 1: as far as our effectiveness George per carry, YOURDS per catch,
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen the secondary make that play that
Speaker 1: takes us off the field. And when you start doing
Speaker 1: that in preseason, that's where you want to do it,
Speaker 1: because in preseason where it starts and then it goes
Speaker 1: into the season. I haven't seen that player. Nashan Right
Speaker 1: has been going for it. I like the way he's
Speaker 1: doing it. I haven't seen that player though able to
Speaker 1: make the play to what you say, Okay, that was strategic.
Speaker 1: We know that was his game plan. He didn't just
Speaker 1: stumble into it. This is a guy that we know
Speaker 1: can have the intellet to make game game saving plays
Speaker 1: and drive ending plays. So the unfortunate thing for Sunday
Speaker 1: is how many of those guys are they let play
Speaker 1: like the front line guys, um, and from a cornerback standpoint,
Speaker 1: the way without digs in there today, the way they
Speaker 1: were running the cornerbacks. Uh ended up Actually the first
Speaker 1: team was Joseph Kelvin, Joseph and Anthony Brown uh. And
Speaker 1: then the second team ended up being right Unshan Wright
Speaker 1: and I wrote down the number. I think maybe Gilbert
Speaker 1: even played some more out there. Um, let me look
Speaker 1: at my list of dbs and I'll tell you who.
Speaker 1: And So with Wilson, how long is he out? We
Speaker 1: haven't heard. We haven't heard that yet, Like how long
Speaker 1: that's going to be because they really need him now
Speaker 1: you can you can probably start curse and kaz At
Speaker 1: the safety position. I think they would love to have
Speaker 1: him out there. Um, you know Kelly, then Joseph Will
Speaker 1: will probably be a backup, and you got Maurice Kennedy,
Speaker 1: so you can still have a decent number of guys there.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how that Wilson's how was his training
Speaker 1: camp and how was his well? See, he missed some
Speaker 1: time in the off season with was it a groin again?
Speaker 1: And he missed some time and then in training camp
Speaker 1: he was working with he's been working with the first
Speaker 1: he was he was a starter. Yeah, yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: you know with the we've talked about the safeties being
Speaker 1: depleted with the COVID, but really, I mean, if if
Speaker 1: they're going to rest, they won't play Digs for sure, okay,
Speaker 1: And if they don't play Anthony Brown, are they going
Speaker 1: to play Kelvin Joseph? I would think so. I mean
Speaker 1: you're down to not much at cornerback. You have to
Speaker 1: play Joseph and and you're saying they will play think so, yes,
Speaker 1: I think so too, Joseph and so Joseph and right,
Speaker 1: if they rested or if they did not play Dig
Speaker 1: and Brown and Jordan Lewis, you might have to play
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis and Maurice Kennedy. Why wouldn't you play Brown?
Speaker 1: Just being a veteran veterans I know, but here's what
Speaker 1: you don't want. But here's the reason cannot lose him.
Speaker 1: Here is the reason that you don't play play a
Speaker 1: starter eleven days before you're opener in a meaningless game.
Speaker 1: It's it's not the catastrophic injury, the ACL or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's a sprained ankle that's going to keep him out
Speaker 1: eleven days from now. It's something like that, and that's
Speaker 1: that's why they rest the starters. Here's another one. Craig
Speaker 1: Zerline came off pup today, so he actually kicked in
Speaker 1: live action five of eight, five of eight, five of
Speaker 1: eight from what distance various we were so doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: And one of them, no, no, no, I'm with the bags.
Speaker 1: I can tell about your body no more than forty five.
Speaker 1: And and it's like, you know he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: You know this, you know we're gonna kick him, and
Speaker 1: he only needs a couple of weeks to get ready.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, Fossil has a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence in him. You've had a longing for Lirim. I
Speaker 1: not say who I have a longing for just cut Lirim.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's still in town. He missed his flight.
Speaker 1: They didn't like how his last name was spelled right,
Speaker 1: who who? And so um, well, so yeah that one
Speaker 1: he's got a kick, right, I'm I'm would like to
Speaker 1: see more field goal attempts Sunday than touchdowns. Do you
Speaker 1: think Steve Burline can make five out eight? Steve Burline?
Speaker 1: We said the other day, we said the other day
Speaker 1: we were we were talking, we accidentally said Berlin and
Speaker 1: that's okay, and I've done it again, and I told
Speaker 1: him about this. Um instead of instead of saying Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: I would say Donovan Lewis. And so when I saw Donovan,
Speaker 1: who works at the ticket right uh at training camp,
Speaker 1: I said, I just promoted you to starting starting safety,
Speaker 1: so you better live up. Remember the players' names on
Speaker 1: this show. And we're on the Cowboys Network, So so
Speaker 1: I need to see some field goal attempts, Like if
Speaker 1: it's third and five and they're at the twenty throwing
Speaker 1: in completion, I want to out there. He hadn't right,
Speaker 1: he hadn't shown enough. And I want to see the
Speaker 1: deep snapper snap right. I mean, he's got to be perfect.
Speaker 1: We still live up to the guy who's replacing what
Speaker 1: thirteen sixteen affection. Doesn't matter that Jake McQuaid has been
Speaker 1: a pro bowler in his career and min of the
Speaker 1: Lake for ten years. Micky's got to see something from him,
Speaker 1: the same thing. I want to see this young man
Speaker 1: get out there, makes a play, and he's going against
Speaker 1: right the first team offense for Jacksonville. Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to see him make plays. He's too young. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if he can make him or not. He's got
Speaker 1: to start. What have you done for me lately? That's right? Okay,
Speaker 1: that does it? What have we done for everybody lately?
Speaker 1: A lot? Over this hour, We've gone beyond an hour.
Speaker 1: In fact, all right, we'll do it again on Friday
Speaker 1: at two o'clock. It'll be our Jacksonville pregame show Go Call.
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