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Speaker 1: And here it is. It's high noon on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving week at the Star in Frisco, and we are
Speaker 1: inside the SWBC podcast studio, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and
Speaker 1: the star of the show, Mickey Spagnola. There. That's because
Speaker 1: we got an audience, right, that's what they're here for, right,
Speaker 1: We've got a tour, some mix shots. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: cowboy fan and a cowboy cap and jersey fist bumping
Speaker 1: when he heard just make sure no one attacks me
Speaker 1: from behind. I didn't know your family was in town.
Speaker 1: They're all my family. They are the ones that listened
Speaker 1: to us, by the way, Yeah, that's it. That's just
Speaker 1: our family. You'd be surprised. I was guy that was
Speaker 1: at some event and a guy came up, the black
Speaker 1: dude too. He came like, hey, man, I listen to
Speaker 1: you guys out time, like really like man, I just
Speaker 1: wondered if he had a job. I wasn't sure. So this,
Speaker 1: uh was it Saturday? Night. Um, we were in a
Speaker 1: little pub downtown Minneapolis, and um, we were standing at
Speaker 1: the bar waiting for a drink, and two guys come
Speaker 1: up to me and goes, hey, are you can we
Speaker 1: take a picture. It's like, oh, yeah, absolutely. They were
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans making a road trip to Minneapolis too. You
Speaker 1: go watch the game. So and they said, damn, Brian,
Speaker 1: I thought you'd be Yeah. Right, that doesn't happen. Size
Speaker 1: is a little bit different. Right, Well, here we are.
Speaker 1: We are just over forty eight hours, fifty one hours
Speaker 1: away from kickoff. All of a sudden, the New York
Speaker 1: Football Giants will be here before you know it, and
Speaker 1: it'll be Thanksgiving afternoon at three thirty. Cowboys and Giants,
Speaker 1: a battle for second place in the NFC East, two
Speaker 1: teams that are seven and three coming in. Boy, you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at this game, there's a huge It
Speaker 1: seems like there's a huge difference between eight and three
Speaker 1: and seven and four if you win, right, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: especially when you have a team in your division right
Speaker 1: probably got the best record in football, and the next
Speaker 1: best record in football. You're tied with that team in
Speaker 1: the division, although you've got a game in hand. So
Speaker 1: if you beat the Giants, not only do you have
Speaker 1: a better record one loss, but you also have the sweep.
Speaker 1: So it's almost like a two game lead against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and then you're also looking at Indianapolis, Houston and Jacksonville
Speaker 1: the next three weeks. Absolutely, now that all sounds good
Speaker 1: as well, but I can still smell the breath of
Speaker 1: the Commanders down our backs. Well, they're they're coming. And
Speaker 1: you know when you have a coach like that, you know,
Speaker 1: Rivera is one of those guys. The team loves to
Speaker 1: play for him, and you can see it on the field.
Speaker 1: So when everybody else was giving up on them and
Speaker 1: they at the bottom of the division, okay, they're the
Speaker 1: NFC East like we know it, and then next thing
Speaker 1: you know, they only have five losses and they are
Speaker 1: on our butts. I like it though. I like the competition.
Speaker 1: I like the pressure. I like the fact that we
Speaker 1: came through under pressure this last game. And I gotta
Speaker 1: say one more time. I know we don't we're done
Speaker 1: with the Packers, But when I see a brother kick
Speaker 1: a sixty yarder twice, it gives me pause on my
Speaker 1: decision not to kick a field gold in that game
Speaker 1: against the Packers. It still gives me pause. I think
Speaker 1: we still based on those two sixty yarders and its
Speaker 1: history of hitting sixty yarders. I know when all that
Speaker 1: crap it was it was forty degrees warmer, How long
Speaker 1: would that that field going to be? Man, that's easy
Speaker 1: for him, That's easy. All you had to do is
Speaker 1: look at the kickoffs that direct and then you know
Speaker 1: what what Well, I'm really disappointed in him, Bill and
Speaker 1: me or you. He said, he said, if they were
Speaker 1: to score, then you know, everybody's gonna come down score
Speaker 1: anyway on your defense. He would have your defense though,
Speaker 1: this is this is the Cowboys defense here. What did
Speaker 1: they do in overtime? Who the Packers? Now the question
Speaker 1: would have been question field goal? What would they do
Speaker 1: where they marched down and kidd goal? They would have
Speaker 1: scored a touch. You don't know that they set it
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the field. The kids. When
Speaker 1: you make a field from twenty eight yards, the future changes.
Speaker 1: Now there's the future that when you make the field goal,
Speaker 1: it's different from if you just kicked it off to
Speaker 1: him in overtime and they drove down and and different,
Speaker 1: and had you made the field goal and kicked off
Speaker 1: in that direction, they would have ended up with the
Speaker 1: ball at the thirty five. But it's a different one.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you stop him when you have to? When
Speaker 1: when they got the ball have been a totally different
Speaker 1: So you're telling me, see this, this is where you get,
Speaker 1: you get these problems of of of this. Careful now,
Speaker 1: the revisionist history that we talk about, Oh, well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen the same way. No, mother, what precedes evidence?
Speaker 1: Did you see that it wouldn't have happened that way? History?
Speaker 1: There are games where they've actually stopped someone. There are
Speaker 1: games when Aaron Rodgers has actually been stopped, and there
Speaker 1: are moments when has happened. They didn't do a lot
Speaker 1: of stop it in that second half, and that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that they wouldn't have done it at that moment.
Speaker 1: Well there's a different moment. Well, your assumption is he
Speaker 1: would make the field goal. Yes, right, that would be
Speaker 1: and that's the worst part. What he making sixty yards? No,
Speaker 1: it's not sixty yards, it's indoors. Which, by the way,
Speaker 1: since you brought this up, got an opportunity to talk tomorrow, Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. No one's talked to him. So my question was,
Speaker 1: when you were getting ready to approach to kick the ball,
Speaker 1: did you hear a whistleblow? And he goes, no, no,
Speaker 1: he goes, I didn't hear anything. I said, did you
Speaker 1: see anything? Because I saw the referee behind the play,
Speaker 1: I saw the back judge, and he said, the two
Speaker 1: guys under the goal post that were judging if it
Speaker 1: was good or not, they said it was good. They
Speaker 1: didn't wave it up. So somebody on the sideline must
Speaker 1: have got a call down from either the replay guy
Speaker 1: or the NFL overlooking things. And that's great sky judge,
Speaker 1: but over selective sky judge. It's over. Though they can
Speaker 1: call all they want. It's over. I know you can't
Speaker 1: go back and change it, but they but they did.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I wonder what would have happened if he
Speaker 1: missed it. Would they have called down? They badead. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, that's crazy. I'm sorry that that was. That's
Speaker 1: There have been a few moments in this season and
Speaker 1: past seasons where we had huge screw ups on the
Speaker 1: referees point yeah, and no one said, uh what moments passed?
Speaker 1: I got to move on, we run another play boom
Speaker 1: mess it? So how I mean to me, it's like
Speaker 1: a Prestons has been set. He said, that means that
Speaker 1: you can go back at any time and change something.
Speaker 1: So I asked him, I said, so they after they
Speaker 1: waved it off, you know what was your thoughts and
Speaker 1: he goes, well, he goes, I was actually gained confidence
Speaker 1: that I had made it. Yes, and he goes, and
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I hit it good. Um, And
Speaker 1: I said, but there was a long delay for you
Speaker 1: to think about it. He goes, Now, it actually allowed
Speaker 1: me because I initially was pissed that that happened, and
Speaker 1: he goes the long delay helped me calm down because
Speaker 1: if you remember, not only did they review it for
Speaker 1: I don't know how long, right, it seemed like five minutes,
Speaker 1: but then um, Minnesota, Oh, the head coach O'Connell. O'Connell,
Speaker 1: he started talking with the head referee like he didn't
Speaker 1: call a time out, but he was acting like it
Speaker 1: was a legal icing, right because he kept needing explanations
Speaker 1: and this and that, and I go, he's just stalling
Speaker 1: to ice him, right, and he goes, No, it actually
Speaker 1: helped me calm down because I was really mad. And
Speaker 1: I said, and the second kick he goes, oh, I
Speaker 1: hit it. I said, well, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw where it landed, but it landed five yards behind
Speaker 1: where the first one landed, and it was dead solid,
Speaker 1: perfect down the middle. So yeah, and so we had
Speaker 1: a really good conversation about sixty yarders opposed to fifty
Speaker 1: forty five, and he goes, in my mind, I want
Speaker 1: to kick him all the same. He goes, Now, if
Speaker 1: it's past sixty, then it's a little bit different because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to drive right. Gotta you gotta let
Speaker 1: it go, he said, But from sixty I felt good
Speaker 1: enough in my normal routine and swing that I can
Speaker 1: get it there from there. So in perfect conditions, in
Speaker 1: perfect conditions, Yeah, not when it's twenty twenty below and
Speaker 1: my kickers standing on the sideline with his foot in
Speaker 1: front of the heat. Yeah. Right, So he was trying
Speaker 1: to make sure he could feel the ball off his foot. Right.
Speaker 1: You know, after a forty to three win, you notice
Speaker 1: the cap that I'm wearing. You and Jared, did you
Speaker 1: get that from Terry? I did not know. Tell us
Speaker 1: the story. This is a team that could compete for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, right, I don't have the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: cap On, No, he couldn't. He was like, definitely right,
Speaker 1: And then uh, I thought it was funny. McCarthy then
Speaker 1: on Monday when he did his press conference, said well, uh,
Speaker 1: just a little while talking to GM Jerry, he was
Speaker 1: concentrated on the Giants, right, And he goes, and then
Speaker 1: there's Owner Jerry, who is gonna be positive and wants
Speaker 1: to look forward. So they asked Jerry about it today.
Speaker 1: They played it for him and he basically said, well, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: He goes, but think about this, so GM Jerry, you
Speaker 1: know we're it's the Giants, they're the next opponent, the
Speaker 1: division opponent. Uh, somebody that you know we've already beaten once,
Speaker 1: we need to beat twice. He goes, now, but Owner Jerry,
Speaker 1: he can think past Thursday. He can think to Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham and and you know they've got that meeting. I
Speaker 1: guess company he won't. They wouldn't say when it was
Speaker 1: going to be. And he goes in there and he said,
Speaker 1: and that's and and and he said that's what the
Speaker 1: owner should be doing, because the owner has to write
Speaker 1: the check. And then he went into this long explanation
Speaker 1: about you know, things you have to consider. He goes,
Speaker 1: if I have a chance to improve my team, I
Speaker 1: should do that as the owner. And he goes, and
Speaker 1: think about this. The owner doesn't have to talk to
Speaker 1: the GM to see what the player's ability looks like.
Speaker 1: We're the same person. And so I think it was
Speaker 1: a really great explanation. And he said, so here's and
Speaker 1: they were going, well you, but it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: you want to pay guys from outside. You rather pay
Speaker 1: your own guys. He goes, well, here's what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. If I pay this money on one guy,
Speaker 1: if I can use that same amount on two or
Speaker 1: three guys, Now I got to make a decision, right,
Speaker 1: is he worth one guy? Or can I use that
Speaker 1: money for three guys? And he's not just talking about
Speaker 1: this year, he's talking about down the road, because, as
Speaker 1: Bill has been pointing out, we got a lot of
Speaker 1: guys here a new contracts. Yeah, guys that you got. Yes.
Speaker 1: Now Pollard's in the because we keep talking about digs
Speaker 1: um lamb. Well, now Pollard's in the conversation too. Right,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna sit there and go we're just letting
Speaker 1: this guy go. Parsons and Prescott aren't far off, no,
Speaker 1: and you're right, and so now how much can you
Speaker 1: spend on citing a thirty year old Odell Beckham Junior,
Speaker 1: and I thought Stephen gave a good explanation of the
Speaker 1: things you have to decide before you could do this.
Speaker 1: He first said health like we got to see how
Speaker 1: healthy is and Windsy ready to play? He said, Secondly,
Speaker 1: vision like, how do we see him fitting in to
Speaker 1: the offense? And then he said as usual. Third is business,
Speaker 1: meaning money, and he said the biggest thing, uh oh.
Speaker 1: Then he went on to say, so, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: on our mind. He goes, but the biggest disappointment was
Speaker 1: the loss to Green Bay. So, uh what did they
Speaker 1: expect him to say? Yeah, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not being Jerry, that's just being Yeah, that's just
Speaker 1: being part of the staff. And he didn't want to
Speaker 1: say much because he knows it's a negotiation. But I
Speaker 1: mean in regards to us going being Super Bowl with
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah bowl. Well, and as Mike as
Speaker 1: McCarthy pointed out, he goes, well, that goes back to
Speaker 1: the goal at the beginning of the sex, right, So
Speaker 1: why would you you know they act like it's such
Speaker 1: a that's Jerry, Yeah, probably up the Cowboys. That's really
Speaker 1: And that was everybody's story last night on the news.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if and that's good. Yes, everybody
Speaker 1: did it, but I heard it for most parts. Jerry
Speaker 1: said the Cowboys are going No, he didn't say it.
Speaker 1: He just said they look in that game super Bowl
Speaker 1: or a Super Bowl contest. Yes, I mean what who's
Speaker 1: in the race right now would not say that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think you know, they'd love to just blow
Speaker 1: it up with Jerry. But to me, that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: got some news to get to, but first let's get
Speaker 1: to your injury report. Yes, the Cowboys did not well.
Speaker 1: They had a walk through practice tomorrow soon it wasn't three.
Speaker 1: They had seven guys that were projected if they had
Speaker 1: held a regular practice that would not have participated. And
Speaker 1: the same thing basically for the giants. So I think
Speaker 1: the only guy on here that they were somewhat concerned
Speaker 1: with UH is still Anthony barr Um. Evidently McCarthy said
Speaker 1: either on Saturday or Sunday he strained the hamstring again.
Speaker 1: Because their intention was he was going to be able
Speaker 1: to play. He I think it was sad. It might
Speaker 1: have been Saturday after Saturday's practice. Uh. It's like because
Speaker 1: he was getting snaps, uh, defensively during the week, so
Speaker 1: they thought he was good to go, but he didn't,
Speaker 1: and so Damon Clark ended up um getting a bunch
Speaker 1: of snaps right up him. Let's see here, Clark had
Speaker 1: forty three snaps and six wild special teams and they
Speaker 1: didn't have They didn't have that many plays, did they.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the majority. They had forty three at least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean that many means all that Betty fifty seven.
Speaker 1: So he had forty three or fifty seven snaps sown. No,
Speaker 1: I think I saw maybe in there once on third down.
Speaker 1: The majority of it was either Parsons and vander Esh.
Speaker 1: If Parson was on the line, vander Esh was one linebacker,
Speaker 1: and then however you want to classify curse. And then
Speaker 1: there were other times. There were times when they didn't
Speaker 1: have a linebacker, but a lot of times it was
Speaker 1: fourth in our third and twenty three or something. I
Speaker 1: thought that I thought we could come out before this
Speaker 1: game and we were worried about our woes. It's for
Speaker 1: a stopping the run, and I thought we could put
Speaker 1: in an extra defensive linement. Oh would try something like that.
Speaker 1: I think the Bears of the Lions do it every
Speaker 1: once and then, well, you know there were times when
Speaker 1: they would put four down linemen and Parsons on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage to make five on third down to
Speaker 1: try to confuse the pass rush. Um. Yeah, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was very complimentary of to Marcus Lawrence today too. But
Speaker 1: it's about his ability to not only be a special
Speaker 1: pass rusher, but the way he plays. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about that last Yeah, absolutely so the h and as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, they've got Parsons listed as knee ankle. Uh.
Speaker 1: They just felt like, you know, he could be limited
Speaker 1: the rest of the week, but they feel like he
Speaker 1: can play so and plus you see how well the
Speaker 1: backups did when he was out right. I mean there
Speaker 1: was a lot of positive plays even when he was
Speaker 1: on the sideline. So that helps us. And by the way,
Speaker 1: three of the guys that would have missed yesterday, it
Speaker 1: was this illness that keeps going around. So Fowler Hankins
Speaker 1: and Kelvin Joseph who got sick during the game because
Speaker 1: they started him off at left corner, right and they
Speaker 1: immediately threw over there too, and then he got sick. Yeah. Probably,
Speaker 1: and then Anthony Brown came in and played the rest
Speaker 1: of the Yeah, because you know last so last week
Speaker 1: Anger had the illness and he was able to come
Speaker 1: in and punt um Joseph gets the sad. Yeah. Right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say I don't see any illness, must not
Speaker 1: go around in uh. In East Rutherford, the dnps for
Speaker 1: the Giants are all of injury, so and they got
Speaker 1: a bunch of them. They're often of line. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't have their starting lineup here? Do you happen to
Speaker 1: have it? There's they've They've lost Evan Neil a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. They're a right tackle the Bookie first
Speaker 1: round draft. He's being listed as limited. He's missed the
Speaker 1: last couple of games. Uh Josh zoo Zudu. He has
Speaker 1: been filling in as at guard. Okay Feliciano, he's a center.
Speaker 1: Is he starter? He has started some? Yes, he has started,
Speaker 1: and but this last game he get hurt and he
Speaker 1: only played fifty five snaps, almost played the whole game.
Speaker 1: He's got a neck injury and didn't would not have practiced.
Speaker 1: Tyree Phillips, offensive lineman, neck, Yes, that's another starter. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he would not have practiced. And then they're starting
Speaker 1: corner a Dory Jackson. I believe he's the yeah, mcl yeah,
Speaker 1: so they and they already I think they lost some
Speaker 1: guys and they lost cabo of Xavier McKinney, the safety
Speaker 1: d a couple of weeks ago his ATV accident, and
Speaker 1: Wandel Robinson a cl yeah, and he had ten catches
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, so they've got some injury problems too,
Speaker 1: and it's a short week. You know, we're so lucky
Speaker 1: to where blessed to where we Uh, our depth is
Speaker 1: really pretty good. You could say, let's say Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: goes down, got for bid, and uh you look at
Speaker 1: the backups. I mean, we've got some very capable gentleman
Speaker 1: that can not play as well as Parsons, but they
Speaker 1: can fit in with the scheme very well to where
Speaker 1: you can get by for a little bit. You could
Speaker 1: get by to think about getting by, you got doing
Speaker 1: some armstrong. He's playing like a madman. And you've got
Speaker 1: of course d Law playing his butt off. Vanders is improving.
Speaker 1: And so you know, you you look at there, you
Speaker 1: look at the Giants injury list, than if we had
Speaker 1: an injury list like that, it would be devastating. But
Speaker 1: I think we would have nice good players. Yeah up.
Speaker 1: And if you know, you lose Parsons linebacker and bars out, well,
Speaker 1: now you got Clark play. It might open the door
Speaker 1: for some guy like Luke Gifford to get on the field.
Speaker 1: And and and we forget about Fowler. I always forget
Speaker 1: about Fowler. They've got him playing defensive end. He is
Speaker 1: playing defensive end as a starter, no, as a rotation.
Speaker 1: You think he could step back. I don't think he hasn't.
Speaker 1: He's always he's been just a defensive end. Yeah. So.
Speaker 1: And also when the question came up about um Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith moving to guard in Peter's play left tackle, Jerry
Speaker 1: basically answered the question, when Tyrone Smith returns, he's the
Speaker 1: left tackle and Tyler smiths and they're get then they're
Speaker 1: trying to give him some snaps in the and also
Speaker 1: to if need be, if uh they need that other
Speaker 1: guard spot, Tyler Smith can play there and give Peter
Speaker 1: some snap at left tackle. They've decided he's a left tackle,
Speaker 1: so he's not a guard. Tyler Smith is definitely a guard. Uh,
Speaker 1: he could play guard. Yeah, he's gonna play guard. He would.
Speaker 1: He's gonna when Tyron comes back, he will slide into guard. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that makes him. Yeah, so they did draft a
Speaker 1: guard first. Mind, there you go, I'll try. I knew
Speaker 1: that's where yea, by us. He's a guard by necessity,
Speaker 1: that's why he's playing. And you know what, he was
Speaker 1: pretty darn good in the run game uh this past week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of that stuff was going left. Um, so, uh,
Speaker 1: they had something going there and then that you know,
Speaker 1: if that's the way it works out, then you've taken
Speaker 1: care of your backup guard spot with McGovern being active,
Speaker 1: instead of having to move somebody up off the practice
Speaker 1: squad to be that backup guard, center, backup. So your
Speaker 1: point about backups and being able to uh exist for
Speaker 1: at least the rest of a game or a game
Speaker 1: or two, you probably don't want to do that on
Speaker 1: a long term basis. But so, how many Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame offensive linemen are on this Cowboys team? One for sure,
Speaker 1: two for sure, yes, two for sure, Yeah, and maybe
Speaker 1: great for sure with Jason Peters and and and maybe
Speaker 1: one in the making. Uh so you get Zach Tyrn.
Speaker 1: Jason Peters is in like a nine time pro bowler, right,
Speaker 1: and Terrence Steele playing pretty well. Oh and by the way,
Speaker 1: I did ascertain that that uh play at the end
Speaker 1: of the half to get the ball to the lamb,
Speaker 1: that was a designed rollout because we saw the two
Speaker 1: offensive linemen there. So I was talking to be Idish,
Speaker 1: I said, so, did you just happen to go out
Speaker 1: there because he thought he needed help or was that
Speaker 1: a playing you know, called play? He goes, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was called so he rolls, he motions out there,
Speaker 1: and I think Steele might have been the other guy.
Speaker 1: They still missed the guy. Yeah, but they were there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was too late though. That's that's all they needed
Speaker 1: was Casey had to run maybe, But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: almost the Aaron Rodgers play right, just the other way
Speaker 1: because it looked like most of the flight of the
Speaker 1: ball was out of bounds. You understand. Oh, when he
Speaker 1: caught it, it was over there, I mean, but the flight, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was also out of Yea, it wasn't like he
Speaker 1: threw it and it happened to go out of mind.
Speaker 1: That pretty good. Yeah, that's that's still putting that online.
Speaker 1: They're just you know, amazed at that play period, the call,
Speaker 1: the route, the catch to throw, all of that. So
Speaker 1: tell me this. So the Cowboys in three weeks have
Speaker 1: scored on offense forty two, twenty eight and forty So
Speaker 1: sign Odell Beckham? Where is he fitting in? And not
Speaker 1: thought after this game that they would be more? You know,
Speaker 1: we don't need him. You know, we can play cute,
Speaker 1: We can play coy because we're doing well. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: when you negotiate that comes into play. That comes into play, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'd love him to improve our team, but we're cool
Speaker 1: but desperate. The negotiation is all about marketability with Odell,
Speaker 1: for him, for him, I mean no, the pitch to him,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, is marketability. Right, Okay, you're playing for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys house. Look what we have a chance to do
Speaker 1: this year? Right, yeah, that's going to be there. That's
Speaker 1: that's Jerry's ownership owner pitch, right is think what you
Speaker 1: can do being on America's team. The GM pitch would be,
Speaker 1: oh god, we need you. I'm not hearing that, you know,
Speaker 1: so you got to line up that nil money, all right.
Speaker 1: A couple of news items. The Final Four is coming
Speaker 1: to AT and T Stadium in Arlington in two thousand
Speaker 1: and thirty. Okay, this is what twenty twenty two, two
Speaker 1: thousand and thirty, so seven and a half years from now.
Speaker 1: So the guys playing in that game are great school
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, because it'll be eighteen yeah, ten years
Speaker 1: and a half years old. We'd better stay that's right, uh,
Speaker 1: and the we right well, and the women's the next
Speaker 1: year twenty thirty one, okay, And the twenty eight Modern
Speaker 1: era player semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's
Speaker 1: Class of twenty twenty three have been announced. And there
Speaker 1: are three players who played for the Cowboys who are
Speaker 1: among the twenty eight semifinalists. You want to tell us,
Speaker 1: you want to guess, No, it's too dangerous. Darren Woodson. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has now been a semifinalist seven times, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and each of the last five years. And that,
Speaker 1: by the way, was on the big screen in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I saw that crap, crap. DeMarcus Ware a semifinalist for
Speaker 1: the second straight year. Okay, and then Zach Thomas, a
Speaker 1: former Cowboy and of course former Miami Dolphin who is
Speaker 1: a semifinalist for the fifth straight year. There are your
Speaker 1: cowboy connections to the twenty eight semifinalists. What happened to
Speaker 1: the seniors? Well, these are the modern era yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: ever ever since not the modern la. Yeah. Now, Chuck
Speaker 1: Halle is going in. He of course in August. We
Speaker 1: already knew that. Yeah, right, Chucky. But they delay in
Speaker 1: reass of seniors, right, that comes up much. It was
Speaker 1: in August where they had the vote, uh to name
Speaker 1: the finalists and which is and then to vote them
Speaker 1: in the vote them in Super Bowl or leading up
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. So we got to wait another
Speaker 1: year before we can talk about try so we know,
Speaker 1: but we know Chuck Alley is going in, going here, okay,
Speaker 1: even though technically he hasn't been uh voted in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is done, so it'll be in academic when you
Speaker 1: said next year, yeah right, So there you go talk
Speaker 1: about about time that uh they can they can add
Speaker 1: to their spiel on the on the tour here okay,
Speaker 1: here here are the ALLI being an MVP. Just to
Speaker 1: sort through it. The players who are semi finalists in
Speaker 1: their first year of eligibility. Okay, so any of these
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of famers in your mind, Jarry Evans,
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, Dwight Freeney, James Harrison, Durrell Reevas, they are
Speaker 1: first beer eligibility semifinalists that can affect the Woody and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus where Freney. Maybe that's all I was going to say.
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas pretty dominant his career, he was, Yeah, with
Speaker 1: all of them are Yeah, that's right. It's hard to do.
Speaker 1: So there you get judge how other people would look
Speaker 1: at offensive Lineman was just so prevalent for so long.
Speaker 1: It was long jab at the end it was production. Ye.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there you go. That's the news of the
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Speaker 1: fifty nine years ago today, where were you guys? I
Speaker 1: was three, so you weren't aware that the president got
Speaker 1: killed in your hometown. Now I was aware of that
Speaker 1: for some reason. I remember that. I just remember it
Speaker 1: was crazy. I do I remember something. I remember a
Speaker 1: bunch of crying. I do remember that, I really do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm told that I remembered. I'm told
Speaker 1: I remember this the funeral that lasted for days, or
Speaker 1: the the programming I guess on our little black and
Speaker 1: white TV that lasted for days. And I apparently asked
Speaker 1: my family, my parents, whatever, when's this show going to
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Speaker 1: got to watch it on TV when Walter Cronkite made
Speaker 1: the announcement. I remember them they ken't bringing I'm like
Speaker 1: a bill. They kept bringing it up to me, right,
Speaker 1: and that's why I kind of remember. It was always
Speaker 1: brought up to me. I remember two moments when my
Speaker 1: mom was crying a lot her dad's funeral, and that
Speaker 1: moment right there, that was one of the I think
Speaker 1: few times I'd seen adults cry. And there were a
Speaker 1: bunch of teachers were crying because they were all in
Speaker 1: there kind of with us, or there were other teachers
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Speaker 1: I remember walking home and yeah, it was even at
Speaker 1: that age I wasn't well, I was ten, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was pretty traumatic. It was. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: since we're here, yeah, we're still here in North Texas.
Speaker 1: Probably should have mentioned we're still here right now. The
Speaker 1: Morning News had a guy that was in He wrote
Speaker 1: a guest column on the op ed page, and he
Speaker 1: was in high school and his several people in his
Speaker 1: class got to attend President Kennedy's function in Fort Worth
Speaker 1: before he came to Downs, so they were actually in
Speaker 1: the room listening to him before they left. Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was pretty good. Everybody kind of remembers it. If
Speaker 1: you're old enough, you know exactly where you were. So
Speaker 1: that was fifty nine years ago today. Yeah, all right, um,
Speaker 1: what would you like to get into in our final
Speaker 1: five minutes? Here? What you got on that league? See
Speaker 1: what's on my list here that probably needs discussion about.
Speaker 1: And we do have a show tomorrow, right, Yes, we
Speaker 1: got Okay, we'll get into maybe the giants more a
Speaker 1: little bit tomorrow. Oh, I know it. I was going
Speaker 1: to point out when McCarthy was talking about the guys
Speaker 1: that were ill, he said, there will be some ill
Speaker 1: guys that won't practice today. He goes, there were a
Speaker 1: number of guys wearing masks today in their their meetings.
Speaker 1: It's been going around because they don't want the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole position to get white doubt. And he said,
Speaker 1: and there were a lot of ginger shots. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys were familiar with the ginger shot.
Speaker 1: And I go down the hallway during Yeah, you probably
Speaker 1: need one, right, they were giving those out during COVID.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm speaking out of turn. The coach
Speaker 1: was under the weather when we taped the show on Thursday, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've been going around, Um but I you know,
Speaker 1: when I look at this game with the Giants and
Speaker 1: where the Giants are right now injury wise, and really
Speaker 1: when you look at the even the way they've played
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, they are not the seven and
Speaker 1: three arrow pointed. They are trending down and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a real opportunity now on Thursday to send them
Speaker 1: further in that direction of trending downward. I remember what
Speaker 1: that was. Before this week, they were looking at, hey,
Speaker 1: they could after losing the Green Bay, they could lose
Speaker 1: two the Vikings and then losing the Giants, so they
Speaker 1: could possibly have a three game losing streak going here.
Speaker 1: Now we're looking at this totally differently, looking at a
Speaker 1: game winning streak possibility you look ahead, or a five
Speaker 1: game winning streak if you really start looking ahead to
Speaker 1: what's on the horizon after Thanksgiving with as you go
Speaker 1: into the AFC South. Now, last year, the win over
Speaker 1: Minnesota was that the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It was prior.
Speaker 1: It was prior to that the books right there, because
Speaker 1: it was October, it was Halloween. So when did the
Speaker 1: Bronco loss happen? It was after Minnesota, and it would
Speaker 1: have been uh, just prior to Thanksgiving a thing too straight,
Speaker 1: or because they end up losing to the Raiders on Thanksgiving. Okay,
Speaker 1: because Mike McCarthy was asked about not having won a
Speaker 1: game on Thanksgiving here yet, m and we mean what
Speaker 1: they're going up stuff? We used to win all the time.
Speaker 1: Kansas City was a week before, oh, okay, so that
Speaker 1: was the loss, and then the Raiders in Minnesota was Halloween,
Speaker 1: and then the loss to Denver and then a very
Speaker 1: similar score to UH Sunday's game forty three to three
Speaker 1: over Atlanta, Atlanta. That was the game. And then there
Speaker 1: was Sunday before Thanksgiving was Kansas at Kansas City and
Speaker 1: then the loss to Vegas and then a four game
Speaker 1: win streak after that. So three of those were on
Speaker 1: the road, New Orleans, Washington and the Giants. But this
Speaker 1: time the three are at home, that's right, including Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: including Thanksgiving. So it's it's the Giants the Colts, but Houston,
Speaker 1: is that right? But look at what the Giants have
Speaker 1: done here recently, going back a month ago October twenty
Speaker 1: three at Jackson, they won twenty three seventeen. Okay. The
Speaker 1: next week they were at Seattle and lost seventeen thirteen.
Speaker 1: Then they lost the bye week they did because they
Speaker 1: lost Sevier McKinney that right. Then they came they played
Speaker 1: Houston and won by a touchdown twenty four to sixteen,
Speaker 1: and then they lost to Detroit thirty one eighteen. So
Speaker 1: on a six point went over Jacksonville, a loss at Seattle,
Speaker 1: the bye week, a win over the worst team in
Speaker 1: the league, and then a loss to the Lions. That's
Speaker 1: what they've done the last month. They are not trending upward.
Speaker 1: This is a game that the Cowboys should take command
Speaker 1: of from the start. How familizing does that sound at
Speaker 1: green Bay? I mean reguess to I would narrative for
Speaker 1: the game. It sounds like what we said about green Bay.
Speaker 1: And then but you take into consideration their season opening
Speaker 1: win when they went for the two point conversion right
Speaker 1: over Tennessee over Tennessee and squeaked out that win Carolina.
Speaker 1: The second week of the season they won by a
Speaker 1: field goal over a bad team, and they lost to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Um London they were they play Green Bay
Speaker 1: in London and won by five. That their best win
Speaker 1: is probably Baltimore twenty four twenty, right before this stretch
Speaker 1: I just talked about, and that was that was a comeback.
Speaker 1: I think also if I if I remember correctly, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you can't you can't take them lightly,
Speaker 1: but but they are not trending well right now, so
Speaker 1: you should be able to. So that's why somebody I
Speaker 1: heard it. I didn't memorize it, but it sounded like
Speaker 1: the point spread was double digit, like the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: double digit favors. Favorites were favorites in Minneapolis. Yeah, point
Speaker 1: and a half. That's crazy. They knew something, they didn't
Speaker 1: know something. Then it's nine. Now, well I've got on
Speaker 1: this app it says nine. Okay, they don't trust Kirk Cousins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what that is. And I can say this much
Speaker 1: Dak's performance has you know, his past performances has never
Speaker 1: you know, value than two the line, the betting line. Right, Oh,
Speaker 1: they got Dak. Okay, No, I don't think that's ever happened. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if I remember also correctly, and we can go
Speaker 1: more into this tomorrow, Daniel Jones ran for a bunch
Speaker 1: of yards against that Cowboys in that in that first
Speaker 1: head runs a bunch of yards against every Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you got to be He had nine carries for seventy
Speaker 1: nine yards against the Cowboys. You can take it to
Speaker 1: the house. Yeah, just like Justin Fields can. Yeah. He's
Speaker 1: more of a straight line runner, but he's got the ability.
Speaker 1: He's got good legs. Man, guy's got run at least
Speaker 1: a four or five. Well, I'll say this, if he
Speaker 1: was running the play, Hurts ran for the winning touchdown.
Speaker 1: He could have done that too. And you could have
Speaker 1: done it too. By the way, great great fall they design.
Speaker 1: How do you not defend the quarterback drawing. I'm watched
Speaker 1: shams quarterback. I can't remember if I knew they were
Speaker 1: gonna run now they now they showed it well on
Speaker 1: the replay. Kelsey it was almost like Kelsey the center
Speaker 1: was the decoy and he headed right okay, and then
Speaker 1: Hurts just read it like we're sitting in the press
Speaker 1: box in and whatever down and distance. It was at
Speaker 1: that point I said, he's gonna run it all the
Speaker 1: way out the stadium. So basically they they you credit
Speaker 1: the Giants coaching staff because they won that play on
Speaker 1: the place designed formation. I mean the Eagles to the Eagles,
Speaker 1: they won that play pre snap with with their formation,
Speaker 1: they knew what the way they were gonna line up defensively,
Speaker 1: and so they basically had one guy, the linebacker who
Speaker 1: was responsible for Hurts, and he went and he went
Speaker 1: with Kelsey. Yeah, and then Hurts went the other way
Speaker 1: right up to middle. But the defensive linemen work, they
Speaker 1: parted the red sight basically, well, they did what they
Speaker 1: always do, they go outside. Yeah. Oh. And having said that,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, so he had two carries for two yards
Speaker 1: because they were touchdownsitch. So when people look at his
Speaker 1: average per carrie, let's put it in perspective, because when
Speaker 1: you only need one yard, you're only gonna get one yard.
Speaker 1: You got two touchdowns. I'm good, right, Okay, especially the
Speaker 1: second one when he bounced in there and then spun
Speaker 1: out and he had to do it because we tried
Speaker 1: to do it with Polot and it just wasn't worth right.
Speaker 1: And to me, which was the other thing, I said,
Speaker 1: see get him in there, you do it. That's it,
Speaker 1: that's it. And I you know, first of all, I
Speaker 1: love Polot. I mean, godle this guy is such a
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise. I'm not surprised about necessarily anything that he's
Speaker 1: doing wing. I'm surprised that we're using him as much
Speaker 1: as we are, which is great, but man, there's still
Speaker 1: something about Zeke going in there getting those tough yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I can say this, if Zeke has some of
Speaker 1: the openings that Pilot had, then he would be getting
Speaker 1: more yards. Okay, I'm just sorry. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. It seems like Zeke's the blocking schemes on Zeke,
Speaker 1: it seems as if they're made for the tough yards.
Speaker 1: They're not doing any fassy blocking. Right. Whatever he's getting,
Speaker 1: he's getting pretty much on his arm. And you know,
Speaker 1: the other thing you notice also is he's not hunting holes.
Speaker 1: He's hitting. He's where the ball is supposed to go.
Speaker 1: Too many times and I'm not being critical, but he's
Speaker 1: hunting like picking and jumps and sometimes it works, oh
Speaker 1: no doubt. Sometimes it did work. Yeah, sometimes he doesn't, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what you can't do that on
Speaker 1: the goal line, right, And he tried that on the
Speaker 1: goal line and we lost. You got to go We
Speaker 1: lost the yard. Yeah, speaking of got to go to time,
Speaker 1: it's like it's pastime. Y'all can sit here and talk
Speaker 1: all you want to, but I'm believing you got you
Speaker 1: got stuff to do. Okay, all right, we'll talk at
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