WEBVTT - 11_22_Mick.mp3 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 Dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:11.799 Cowboys. This is Nick shot, streaming live on Dallascowboys dot 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.840 com and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:25.560 Bill Jones, Savannah Humoller, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:34.400 And here it is Thanksgiving. Yes, time for a stampede line. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.240 I don't did they play this before the nineteen sixty 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:51.159 six Thanksgiving Day game sixty don't know that was the 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.720 first one. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.959 Oh, I think they probably did. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.960 It was your halftime entertainment. It has gone from stampede 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:01.560 to dolly. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.679 I bet it was a marching high school marching bank 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.160 tried or grambling one of them. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.920 No grambling jams. That was not a jam. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.400 And here we are getting you ready for your Thanksgiving Day. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.319 Many things to be thankful for, and one of those 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.000 is the fact we can watch the Cowboys every Thanksgiving Day. True, 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.039 So fifty sixth year that the Cowboys have played on 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.920 Thanksgiving Day, have only missed a couple since nineteen sixty six. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.320 That was nineteen seventy five and nineteen seventy seven, back 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.039 when Everson Walls was a Burkner Ram. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.560 That's right, baby seventy five. I wasn't even playing sports. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.520 You weren't You were a late bloomer. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:48.760 Weren't you? No, I was a. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.400 We're thankful for your honesty. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.400 I was not a late bloomer. Well some weather of 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.800 a late bloomer. Yeah, yeah, we have to talk. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.600 Did you watch the games though? 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:04.200 I did? 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.960 Of course, of course, yes, of course. In fact, one 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.600 of the great memories would have been the triumph of 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:17.320 the uncluttered mind. Yes. In nineteen seventy five, Clint Longley 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:26.200 comes off the bench to Drew Pearson against this Washington team. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.960 Which, by the way, I was just referencing it in 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.639 my mix shots for the website. That one year. We 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:39.560 were in Georgetown before a Washington game and we started 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.720 chatting up this guy and he was a big Redskins 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.480 fan or Redskins fan, they were the Redskins back then. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.000 And we started talking. He goes, I'll just tell you this, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.600 I'm still sick to my stomach about that Clint Longley 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:59.080 that upset my Thanksgiving Day meal. And this would have 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:03.560 been somewhere in the nineties, right, so twenty some years 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.680 later or thirty years later, this guy was still sick 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:07.160 about it. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.960 Well, you know, it's amazing true, was just that guy. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.720 I mean, there was always a the moment. He was 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.080 always big in the moment. You know, how does he 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.680 get deep on people as slow as he how faster 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.639 than Drew? And when he always seemed to get he 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.400 would admit that for a touchdown. I mean, he just 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.239 he had that knack. He had the ability to use 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.520 everything that he had, and he didn't have much. He 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:34.639 didn't have much at all. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.680 You know, and that's why, you know it was so 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.360 hard for him to get into the Pro Football Hall 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.800 of Fame because they start looking at stats and they 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.720 should have started counting moments right right right then that's 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:53.640 worth being preserved. So, Savannah, did you watch Cowboys on Thanksgiving? 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.160 Growing up? I did a chance, I did, Yes. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.760 Like I can recall a few games that we watched 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.000 on things. I mean, we always had football on in 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.080 the house, so it's just one of those thingsgiving traditions. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.640 I can't recall any specific games, but I will say 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.240 my parents are big Vikings fans. So they're from Minnesota, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:15.000 so they used to. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.440 Write, so they remember nineteen eighty seven when the Minnesota 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.479 Vikings game the Texas Stadium. It was a classic game. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.440 So yes, I'm sure that game was. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.960 Forty four thirty eight Vikings won. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.279 That was a crazy game. It was Oh my god. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.120 I was looking at that the other day so much. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.280 Renfro's game, which Mike Renfro, yes, yep, yes, he had 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:36.839 a huge game for the Cowboys. 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.640 That's my I call it my favorite white boy time. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.279 I see it, dude, man, I love I just remember 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.440 watching them practice, and you know, he used to be 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.520 a speech to you know, back in the day. Then 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.599 he messed his knee up, and just watching him run 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.440 on that knee, he would kind of use it to 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.560 his advantage because you know, you think he's running slowly, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.120 but he's really not. And then he puts these moves 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.560 down with that that leg, and it didn't look like 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:07.039 it was natural. So he was really, you know, odd, 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.080 an odd route runner. But he was very good. I 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:15.640 remember against the Patriots, we were in Boston and it 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:21.520 was fourth and something, and I remember, for some reason, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.560 the pet the corner back he bites on an out route. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.839 It's like fourth and twenty. He bites on an out route, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.800 and I look up and I'm on the sideline. We're 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.400 about to lose the game. I'm on the sideline and 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.960 the ball. Danny threw a ball that was one of 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.720 the prettiest passes I've ever seen in my life. It 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.680 looked like it was coming right at me, and I 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.640 was like, wow, it's such a pretty pass. And I 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:46.000 looked down the sidelines and there is Renfro running all 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.799 by himself, and that was the prettiest sight I've ever seen, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:52.120 was him bringing that ball in. And I remember they 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.000 teased me about it afterwards because I was so excited. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:56.520 I was, you know, I gonna do that there. I 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.520 was doing the town and I don't know why. I 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.680 was so geeked up about that moment. So they said 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.120 they clowned me in the offensive room when I did that. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.160 When you did it, yeah, like the episode was really 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.320 excited about this game. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:06.719 You know, I was. 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.480 I was a twenty three seventeen win over the Patriots. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.920 Over time, it does, since. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.440 I think that's when Herschel went off off tackle. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.960 On the left November fifteenth, nineteen eighty seven. That was 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.280 two weeks prior to that Thanksgiving Day game. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:23.200 I was at that game. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.600 I think that was over time. Yeah, because my boy 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.760 Chandler through the block. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.680 Didn't you go like forty something else sixty yards or 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.080 something for the winning touchdown. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.039 I remember that it was overtime. What a great memory. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.960 And it was Herschel's sixty yards for the touchdown. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.159 If I remember, it was like really cold, Yes it was. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.000 I think that's the real around the winners because it 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.560 was at the old It was at the old one 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.719 of course Lett Stadium. Yes, one way in, one way out. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.640 So growing up, I was thankful for the Cowboys because 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.600 they were on television around three or three thirty and 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:04.560 we have big family Thanksgiving dinner in the basement of 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:09.360 my aunt Pat's house. And when we finished dinner, I 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.240 was like, well, I got to go watch football, and 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.840 my aunts would go, yeah, Mickey's got to watch football. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.400 So I was excused to go upstairs because there's only 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.600 one TV in the house. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:18.960 Right. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.160 Then the next thing I know, my uncles are coming up. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.520 They go, well, we got to keep Mickey company and 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.280 they come up and fall asleep. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:28.080 Downstairs. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.120 Yeah they didn't either. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.720 You would have your turkey dinner but prior to the game, right, that's. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.480 Going to say before or after eating. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:41.200 Yeah, that's what the lines after the Lions game is 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:46.640 for the dinner. It's the background for background, always background, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:52.320 and then about two thirty three o'clock everyone collapses on 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.360 the couch or on the floor in front of the TV. 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.920 You get your nap in before the game starts at 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.600 three third. That's why they pushed the kick off back 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.120 to three thirty. Get their nap end and. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.280 It's all playing around it. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.600 Now after all these years, it's Thanksgivings just Thursday. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:08.880 You know. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.120 Well that's the thing like for football people, people that 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:18.400 are involved with football, there's not a holiday really, yeah, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.960 you know if you're on a team. And that that 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.200 goes for college for most colleges that are playing this weekend. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.800 Some some seasons are over before Thanksgiving. But I mean 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.880 even for even for teams that are not playing on Thursday, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.640 Thursday is a heavy practice day around there. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.000 And you play Friday and then you play Saturday. 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.680 And as far as college. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.200 Goes, except if you're Ole Miss Mississippi State. You got 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.280 the egg Bowl on And I'm. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.360 Glad you brought that up because this is actually the 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.600 ten year anniversary of Dak Prescott. One of the great 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.040 Egg Bowl games ever played was Dak. It was ten 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.720 years ago. Three weeks earlier, early November's mom had passed 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.600 away and that and a few days after that he 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.440 played against Texas A and m got hurt and it 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.960 was that one of those like a rock party injury 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.679 where he actually couldn't feel anything in his arm whatever, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.480 And so he rehabbed it for a couple of weeks whatever, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.800 And so he was not cleared to play in the 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.800 Egg Bowl against mississ against Mississippi, and so he's on 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:26.040 the bench throughout the game and Mississippi State falls behind 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.200 and fourth quarter here comes Dak off the bench and 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.599 he not only can throw the football, he you know, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.240 we not only can run the football, but he can 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.240 throw it to and he scored the winning touchdown to 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.079 beat Ole Miss And that egg Bowl that was ten 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.800 years ago. That was the first time really that Dak 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.760 got on the national map, so to speak. But really 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.640 cool moment in his career. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.680 So forty years ago was when I covered my last 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.080 egg Bowl, covered three of them. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:55.880 Yeah, I was there. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.800 Miss Mississippi stated was a thing. That was a big. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.800 Oh aug Mississippi ri The stadiums at that time weren't 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.040 big enough for that big of a game, so they 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.760 played it at Mississippi Memorial Stadium in Jackson. 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.640 We did We did. We had a special section for 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.800 the newspaper just on the egg Bowl, and we would 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.200 write a story about each quarter. There would be a 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.800 story on each quarter in the paper. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.559 The next day. Uh. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.040 And I remember one it was a windy day and 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.720 I think Mississippi State was trying to kick the winning 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.600 field goal and it was a short chip shot, but 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.600 it was into the wind. The wind was blowing so 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.200 hard that the ball got to the goal the crossbar 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.520 and it blew it backs. Did you win the game? 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.600 Did you cover the Archie Manning egg Bowl when he played? 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:58.760 No, Sorry, that would have been just a tad before 0:10:58.840 --> 0:10:59.600 my mind. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.599 Not far, but a little before. Oh yeah, John four k, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:09.120 John four k, Yeah, absolutely, all right, our Mississippi State talk. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:14.440 We're to continue in a moment. That was all miss Yeah. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.679 Ever since, do you have any fond memories of Thanksgiving 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.199 Day games yourself? 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.480 No, not really. I mean, I just it was always 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:24.600 just hectic, that's all. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.319 You like me to remind you of some games you played. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.520 I surge, I was doing. Yeah, I was jotting down. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:32.760 I was. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.800 I was. I was. 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.120 He asked me what I was doing. I studying Everson Walls, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.920 So I'm studying Thanksgiving Days with Everson starting in nineteen 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.320 eighty one. Did you know, Everson that you won the 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.360 first five Thanksgiving Day games you played in. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.079 I knew we had a street going. Yeah. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.640 Eighty one through eighty five you were winner, you walked 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.840 off the field winners. Eighty six through eighty nine, you 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.800 walked off the field losers. You were so you were five. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:04.320 And you know what, if you go back through history, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.120 you'll find that usually when the Cowboys have a good team, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.880 they win on Thanksgiving Day, and when they're not so good, 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.079 they lose on Thanksgiving. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.560 That's what my research taught me. When everybody said, well, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.800 the Cowboys have an unfair advantage on Thanksgiving, and it's like, yeah, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:22.800 and when they were bad, it wasn't unfair, right, exactly 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:23.600 what Bill said. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.840 You had two picks, by the way, in your second 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.880 Thanksgiving Day game against Cleveland in nineteen eighty two. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.840 Oh yeah, yeah, okay. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:37.080 Now, Ricky, feature when you finished with seven right picks 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:38.960 that year? Seven rookie year. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:39.760 It was eighty two. 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.319 It's a short and nine games. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.400 Yeah, yes, they would have had. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.480 Has anybody had seven other than digs? 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:54.400 Since you mean in the NFL, no for the the Cowboys. No, no, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.440 dig is the only one that got that close. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.560 So eleven and seven, yeah, and that's nobody with more. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.439 And right now Bland has, by the way. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:08.880 The NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Deron, Yeah, we 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:09.360 love that. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.120 Six six this year? Is that right? 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:13.760 Four? 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.000 He does have six this year? 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:15.839 Yes, six, right? 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.360 And four return for return. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.800 Man, he's after you run, He's after. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.560 He could make a run. What's in here talking? He 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.680 could make a run. That would be kind of cool. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.080 He got two guys coming after me. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.280 So all the all the top games he's had. He 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.920 had to tie the NFL single season record for interception 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.319 returns for a touchdown to be named Defensive Player of 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.360 the Week. Otherwise it was like, oh, well. 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.680 I think they go by reputation. You think yeah, I mean, well. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.240 It's working out real well for him if they go 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.520 by reputation on All Pro teams and so forth. He's 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:57.800 now established himself that everyone I can't remember who Greg Olson, 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.400 I guess was doing the game. I mean he put 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.400 him on the All Pro team as soon as he 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:02.720 made it to the end zone. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.319 I mean, if he picks one on Thanksgiving when everybody's watching. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.679 It'd be like Diggs all over again. Yeah, right now, 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.719 this this would be great because you know, Bland is 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.679 one of those guys that we needed to step up 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.040 right our secondary. You know, when we're kind of delicate 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.040 in the NFL these days, you missed one particular player, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.840 then it's like a domino effect. You know, it just 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.000 seems to affect everyone. If we would have had problems 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.160 in the secondary and Bland would have been part of 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.520 those problems, then we would have been looking at it 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.840 in totally totally different season. Right now, right you go, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.640 and now you've got you know, Bland to save in 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.520 the day. You know, he's a guy that regardless of 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.560 our inconsistencies for you know, since Diggs got hurt, Bland 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.680 is one of those guys that has been consistent. It's 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.160 kind of hard to believe that when we're looking at 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.160 jay Ron was being the guy first and Donovan was 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.920 really playing well I'm talking about last year, but Bland 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.320 is the one to me this year that's showing what 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:03.400 real pro is all about. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.280 And think about it. He was starting in the slot 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.320 to start the season and then when that happened, it's 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:11.880 like okay, you got to go outside. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:17.120 Yeah, well see That's interesting because you know, that's kind 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.760 of way I thought. You know, it doesn't matter what side, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.680 it just really does in and out. You know, he's 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.000 a player, and that's what I like about him. You 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:28.440 don't really get most veterans don't really get that kind 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.640 of ability early on in their career. I know I 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.640 had to play the slot some, but mostly I was outside. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.600 I didn't start really playing the slot on third down 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:41.840 when I was in New York. Yeah. It take me 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.640 nine years, and I wasn't that comfortable there because it's 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.720 a reposition. But you know, my experience paid off. He 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.440 really doesn't have that much experience, and yet here he is. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.160 He can play any side. That's a luxury to play 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.680 any particular position in that second day, whether it's the slot, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:02.840 left or right. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.400 So they did recognize him in the team meeting this 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.920 week after last Sunday's game, and then coach McCarthy said 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.640 in the press conference on Monday, I don't know why 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.240 we keep talking about him as a surprise. He's just 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.920 when he gets on the field. I think he switches 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.680 that flip and and he's just a different person on 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.760 the field. When we talked to him in the locker room. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.760 He's a little more shy and timid, but I think 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.040 when he gets out there, he's just he's ready to go. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.240 He played wide receiver exactly. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.240 See there's the key, that wide receiver personality. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.400 Man, I mean that's all I did in high school. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.960 I don't That's what I was about to ask you. Yeah, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.720 at Bergner, you played wide. 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.320 Receiver, wide receiver. I've called the touchdown. I wasn't starting. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.080 I called touchdown first first. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.880 Uh got troubled past. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:01.640 No, that was not my brother, mister Haas you know, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.679 he was a returning senior. He's slower than men the time. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.760 Those coaches that will play and the. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.960 Moms that bring the cupcakes. My mom just didn't bring 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.760 cupcakes to the meetings. That's all that was. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.560 So we ended up, Uh you know, those boots come on. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.040 You know how that goes, man, how that goes? My 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.919 mom was working too hard, so you got time to 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.560 make no cupcakes. So you know we sat there and 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:32.080 uh what you saw was uh, the the slower. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.639 They liked him because his name was Hots. They liked 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.199 him because he was, uh just one of those veterans 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.040 that you could depend on. But every time I came 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.960 in the game. They knew I was going to be 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.159 the guy to get the ball. You see. So I 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.800 come in the game, there's number eighty right here washing 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.120 the reverse. He's gonna go for that. They already knew 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.000 what I was running, So every time I came in 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:51.400 the game, they knew we were trying to score. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.560 So when did you convert the cornerback? 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:54.800 Uh? 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.440 At Gramblin. I had to. I had to. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:57.720 Uh. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.840 They wouldn't let me play. I couldn't find the spot 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.639 anywhere else. I came as a safety, and after playing 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.879 so much one on one, I mean that's just you know, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.840 that's a DB's thing, you know, one on one practice, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.280 that's when you show what kind of man you are. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.560 And eventually I got pretty good at it. So I 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.360 was really I came as a safety, but you know, I'm. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.359 Did they get take forty times? And the and the 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.400 fast guys play wide receiver and the slower guys played dB? 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.960 No, no, no, that's not how it went. No no. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.399 But we would have big time races before practice. You know, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.560 our I was conditioning was before so we raced each 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.200 other before practice, and I actually got a little faster, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.920 a little faster, but not as fast as he did. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.160 Your Eddie Robinson did the conditioning before practice. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.639 We stretched, we stretched, we do calistenics, then we run, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.159 then we do the bag work, and then we do 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:54.160 one on one. We are exhausted by half of practice. 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