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Speaker 3: And finally, finally we got rid of the other guys.
Speaker 3: This is Mickshots. This is Bill Jones along with Savannah
Speaker 3: Humoler as Everson is out today and who knows where Micky, Oh, Mickey,
Speaker 3: Mickey showed up. Wow, Mickey finally showed up for the show.
Speaker 3: How much of a fine Savannah do you think that
Speaker 3: should be?
Speaker 4: I don't know, But Bill, I thought we were gonna
Speaker 4: have to carry it on the rest of the day.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't that we were gonna have to carry
Speaker 3: it on. It was that we get to carry it on.
Speaker 5: To the day.
Speaker 6: There's practice going on.
Speaker 3: Did you notice there is practice going on? I did notice,
Speaker 3: and he was peering out anything out there. Well, I
Speaker 3: noticed that you were watching practice. That's right along with
Speaker 3: Brad Sham and Brad had one last question, one last question,
Speaker 3: and I answered this question, unlike Mike McCarthy, what was
Speaker 3: the question, did you hear the press conference?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Did you hear Brad's question?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Tell the rest of the class.
Speaker 8: So Brad asked Mike McCarthy, so are you get are
Speaker 8: you getting Tyler Smith? And he snaps in practice at
Speaker 8: left tackle and.
Speaker 6: He kind of mumbled something that was inaudible.
Speaker 8: But it was I don't need to answer that.
Speaker 7: How would parcels answer it?
Speaker 6: It's none of your business. Qut nosing around in my bill.
Speaker 7: Let me just give you the scouting report.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, And I think that's what Mike said.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I don't need to provide a scouting report.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 3: I saw you and Brad alongside each other looking at practice.
Speaker 3: Were you talking about the Cowboys or Missouri football? Because
Speaker 3: you've got a huge game this week against Vanderbilt.
Speaker 6: Eleven and a half point favorites.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I don't like to hear that. And it's
Speaker 8: on the road, I think, Oh no.
Speaker 6: In the world.
Speaker 7: Did you go to Nashville and win?
Speaker 6: Oh my?
Speaker 8: But we were also talking about the Cowboys, okay, on
Speaker 8: their recent acquisition.
Speaker 3: And last time the Cowboys were in eleven and a
Speaker 3: half or twelve and a half point favorite. Oh.
Speaker 6: I don't know it was.
Speaker 7: It was Sunday.
Speaker 6: I thought it was nine.
Speaker 3: No, all right, they surprised a lot of people, they did.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 6: Either some people want a lot of money or lost
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 3: By the way, I think I saw either the NFL
Speaker 3: or Fox put out a tweet or post or whatever
Speaker 3: you call it these days about the Kansas City game
Speaker 3: against Chicago being like the most watched three twenty five
Speaker 3: or four to twenty five Eastern Time game in the history.
Speaker 7: Of football or whatever it was.
Speaker 6: Oh, it was yeah this week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, last on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Sunday's game the cheap because Fox had the Cowboys Cardinals,
Speaker 3: which went to a portion of the country, but the
Speaker 3: most of the country got Kansas City and Chicago.
Speaker 8: Because they were hoping that to get a shot at
Speaker 8: Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: And so so then the post comes out that it
Speaker 3: was the most watched game in the history of.
Speaker 7: Football or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 4: Not only that yesterday, there was also another post that
Speaker 4: Travis Kelsey Jerseys went up by four hundred percent in sales.
Speaker 3: Okay, but let me burst the bubble on the TV
Speaker 3: ratings and how Taylor Swift increased the TV ratings so
Speaker 3: much so that it was the greatest game television wise ever. Well,
Speaker 3: it was thirty four to nothing at halftime, and they
Speaker 3: switched to the Cowboys Cardinals game only the Chicago and
Speaker 3: Kansas City markets in the second half. We're getting the
Speaker 3: forty one to seven blowout win. So it was America's team.
Speaker 3: It was the Cowboys, but everyone talks about it.
Speaker 6: It was Kansas City that was part of the rating
Speaker 6: in that slot, right.
Speaker 7: So they switched.
Speaker 3: It was in that same time slot, and nobody would
Speaker 3: have been watching the game unless they just showed shots
Speaker 3: of Taylor Swift and.
Speaker 4: The that's funny in the suite, right.
Speaker 3: But so in all Oh, the Chiefs, the new America's team, No,
Speaker 3: the old America's team is the reason that rating wits
Speaker 3: through the roof.
Speaker 8: So anyway, you got to give Belichick some credit for
Speaker 8: what he had to say when they asked him about
Speaker 8: He said something to the effect that Travis Kelsey has
Speaker 8: had many big catches in his.
Speaker 3: Career, but this might be the biggest one.
Speaker 4: That was good.
Speaker 6: That was good.
Speaker 8: So anyway, so all right, so Billy Price, the Cowboys
Speaker 8: signed a veteran center to the practice squad and a guy.
Speaker 6: That has played a lot in the league.
Speaker 8: He's going on twenty nine years old. And when I
Speaker 8: saw him yesterday six four three oh eight. So he's big,
Speaker 8: bigger than that Harlow guy.
Speaker 7: That you had it two hundred seventy three pounds or.
Speaker 6: Something eighty five I think whatever they listened.
Speaker 7: Which is what he was when he was a junior.
Speaker 8: And do you think the Cowboys put in their roster
Speaker 8: just said, Okay, let's let's do that with a former weight.
Speaker 8: Let's so Billy Price. Did Harlow get any bigger? So
Speaker 8: six puts some pounds in there?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: All right? So what do you make of that we
Speaker 7: were looking? What do we read into that?
Speaker 8: They were looking for somebody with a little bit more
Speaker 8: experience and if Tyler Biattish isn't healthy, then they do
Speaker 8: need a backup center.
Speaker 6: And this guy has.
Speaker 8: Started forty five of sixty nine games he's played in
Speaker 8: the league, three thousand snaps uh and last year, by
Speaker 8: the way, with Arizona, he started eleven of eleven games played.
Speaker 8: And in twenty twenty one, after three years with Cincinnati,
Speaker 8: he was with the Giants and.
Speaker 6: Started fifteen of sixteen games.
Speaker 8: So that kind of beats anything the Cowboys have from
Speaker 8: an experience standpoint.
Speaker 3: Also gives the Cowboys four first round draft picks right
Speaker 3: the exactly offensive line room twenty first pick overall in
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen. It's been around the block a little bit
Speaker 3: in these five years. Cincinnati for the first three seasons,
Speaker 3: the Giants in twenty one, practice squad with the Raiders
Speaker 3: in twenty two, then with Arizona as you mentioned, and
Speaker 3: practice squad this year with the Saints and Remington trophy
Speaker 3: winner out of the Ohio state universe.
Speaker 8: That means they've got two trophy winners. So anyway, that
Speaker 8: was one of the moves they made, and Brad I
Speaker 8: was filling in Brad on the guys a little bit
Speaker 8: of his bio. So Cincinnati didn't pick up his fourth
Speaker 8: his they didn't claim his option year, I guess, and
Speaker 8: then he became a free agent and the Giants picked
Speaker 8: him up, and then Arizona actually he was traded to
Speaker 8: the Giants by the way from Cincinnati. So anyway, that
Speaker 8: you know, we didn't get any clarification on the injuries
Speaker 8: just yet. It said basically that Tyron Smith, Tyler Biattis,
Speaker 8: and Zach Martin would be with the rehab group today
Speaker 8: and so we'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 3: So my question also on Billy Price, and I have
Speaker 3: to do the research myself on it, is does he
Speaker 3: also Now usually those interior offensive linemen have some position
Speaker 3: flex right where they can play center or guard, and
Speaker 3: so the question I would have are they adding because
Speaker 3: there are no tackles out there to add to a
Speaker 3: roster to speak of. You get a veteran, former first
Speaker 3: round draft pick who depth to your interior where you
Speaker 3: also have a starting left guard who's a former first
Speaker 3: round draft pick who started the most every game last
Speaker 3: year at left tackle, and it gives you the option
Speaker 3: to kicking him out to left tackle if you need
Speaker 3: him at left tackle if Tyron.
Speaker 6: Can't go right. And you also have the.
Speaker 8: I guess ability if you get one of those guys back,
Speaker 8: like if Zach's ready to go, then you've got TJ.
Speaker 8: Bass that could play He and Richards and Chuma could
Speaker 8: play left guard if needed, if you had to move
Speaker 8: Tyler Smith to left tackle. So there's some line moves
Speaker 8: and they're just kind of fortifying what you know their
Speaker 8: options are and they need options.
Speaker 6: So anyway, so.
Speaker 8: That's kind of the status of this this offensive line
Speaker 8: going forward. We'll probably no more tomorrow when they actually
Speaker 8: practice in pads.
Speaker 3: But they clearly felt like they needed to fortify the.
Speaker 7: Position on the offensive line.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I don't think they liked the idea of
Speaker 8: Harlow being the backup guy, even though he was on.
Speaker 6: The practice squad.
Speaker 8: And I guess they would have had an opening on
Speaker 8: the practice squad because they sign Goodwin to the fifty
Speaker 8: three on Saturday, so they had an open spot his
Speaker 8: spot on the practice squad.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Savannah's going through your text messages and the
Speaker 3: mine the podcast text line eight one seven two nine
Speaker 3: zero three to two, nine to eight. And I don't
Speaker 3: know if you noticed, Mickey, but Savannah is the talk
Speaker 3: of social media and people want to know more about
Speaker 3: Savannah Humoler Oh today her interviewer, and I've gone through
Speaker 3: the course and we we did talk about Savannah when
Speaker 3: she first arrived here last week. Whatever, But Savannah, the
Speaker 3: floor is yours to give us your your thoughts on
Speaker 3: where the Cowboys are as we enter this week against
Speaker 3: a New England Patriots team that has a Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 3: coming here. Jerry was on the radio talking about Zeke's homecoming.
Speaker 6: Was he on the radio or the app.
Speaker 3: He was, well, he was talking about I saw the
Speaker 3: post about it.
Speaker 7: Yes, so I didn't hear it.
Speaker 3: I did wherever it was okay, talking about Zeke's homecoming
Speaker 3: and that okay. He was asked, will there be some
Speaker 3: sort of tribute to Zeke, ceremony whatever, and he doesn't
Speaker 3: want to let the cat out of the bay, don't
Speaker 3: want to spoil the surprise. And I'm like, speaking of Parcels,
Speaker 3: I'm like, what would what would Parcels say if you're
Speaker 3: talking about the return of a former player and paying tribute.
Speaker 3: What is a homecoming court? We're gonna have a homecoming court,
Speaker 3: gonna crowning the homecoming king.
Speaker 6: Anyway, dress up for the game.
Speaker 4: Honestly, we should just be glad that they don't have
Speaker 4: the Salvation Army buckets out at the stadium.
Speaker 3: Kettle on the Patriots. Good thing, he's coming on October
Speaker 3: first and not on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 8: Nay, exactly, You're an opponent would have the nerve to
Speaker 8: jump in one of those that would maybe Zeke would
Speaker 8: do it with a smile.
Speaker 7: In a space.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But anyway, what do you think things are with
Speaker 3: this team coming off that loss?
Speaker 4: I'm more concerned about the defense right now and them
Speaker 4: getting on the same page. So obviously Cowboys the pass rush.
Speaker 4: They're going to face Mac Jones and right now, he
Speaker 4: is a total of six sacks on him so far
Speaker 4: this season, he's ranked eighth in the NFL and passing yards,
Speaker 4: four touchdowns, two interceptions. So I think our defense really
Speaker 4: needs to get on the same page because they are
Speaker 4: going up against Mac Jones and I believe he's going
Speaker 4: to make some throws this Sunday.
Speaker 3: What concerns you about the Cowboys defense right now coming
Speaker 3: off that game against Arizona.
Speaker 8: Uh, They're gonna have to show me that the run
Speaker 8: defense in this last game was an anomaly, that it
Speaker 8: was just one of those things and it's not like, Okay,
Speaker 8: here we go again against a running game, and you
Speaker 8: know they're gonna want to run the football, right and
Speaker 8: you know this last game, you know Zeke Zeke actually
Speaker 8: got sixteen carries for eighty yards, five yards of carry
Speaker 8: and touch four first downs. By the way, he also
Speaker 8: had has six catches this year for twenty one yards,
Speaker 8: so he's touching the football and I would imagine they'll
Speaker 8: understand how motivated he is for this game. So they're
Speaker 8: going to see a little of that, and they're also
Speaker 8: going to see if these Cowboys can set the edges
Speaker 8: on the run game on that defensive line much better
Speaker 8: than they just ignored in the game against Arizona.
Speaker 3: You know Ramandre Stevenson, he had nineteen carries for fifty
Speaker 3: nine yards against the Jets. By the way, that game
Speaker 3: was played in the rain, yes on Sunday, and Stevenson's
Speaker 3: yards per carry is way down compared to the average
Speaker 3: in the league. Right now, well, do you know what
Speaker 3: I figured out in compared to what he did last year?
Speaker 3: He averaged five yards of carry last year at a
Speaker 3: thousand yard season.
Speaker 8: Which, by the way, the Cowboys, after that deplorable performance
Speaker 8: against the run against Arizona, are now ranked twenty fifth
Speaker 8: against the run in the NFL, and thirty four percent
Speaker 8: of the three hundred and ninety four yards they've given
Speaker 8: up rushing belonged to quarterbacks. By the way, quarterbacks have
Speaker 8: gone twenty four for one thirty four against the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Now I'm thinking Mac Jones.
Speaker 7: Minus forty four. That gets you down to the right.
Speaker 6: Well, no, and then minus what was oh no, that
Speaker 6: was a I'm just taking one playout yeah, that was
Speaker 6: a pass play.
Speaker 8: I was thinking the sixty eight yarder against the Jets.
Speaker 3: See, I think on the whole run game, and we
Speaker 3: talked about it the last couple of days. It's the
Speaker 3: aggressive mentality, right, trying to create habit, create turnovers. And
Speaker 3: I think it's just basically you don't have to take
Speaker 3: away from that, just you have to be fundamentally.
Speaker 7: Sound, gap integrity and be able to.
Speaker 3: There's some responsibility that comes on the way to sacking
Speaker 3: the quarterback.
Speaker 6: Right, you know.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is sacks usually occur when you
Speaker 3: are ahead of a game, not when you are even
Speaker 3: or behind in a game especially, And so the Cardinals
Speaker 3: I think they were just very prudent in the way
Speaker 3: that I mean, they knew exactly what the Cowboys are
Speaker 3: prone to do, pinning their ears back coming after the quarterback,
Speaker 3: and they took advantage of that in that game. And
Speaker 3: I think they set the Cowboys up perfectly with the
Speaker 3: first two plays of the game because they everybody's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: they're going to run the ball.
Speaker 6: They're going to run the ball.
Speaker 8: Well, the first play of the game, they threw the
Speaker 8: ball right, and then you're thinking, okay, but now they're
Speaker 8: going to get James Connor get going in this game,
Speaker 8: and they fake the handoff to him and Dobbs keeps
Speaker 8: the ball and Micah Parsons is tackling a ghost because
Speaker 8: he didn't have the ball, and there goes for forty
Speaker 8: four yards. So I think they set up the Cowboys
Speaker 8: quite well in that early possession.
Speaker 6: But the one that just hurt and hurt and hurt was.
Speaker 8: Allowing Rondell Moore to go forty five yards for a
Speaker 8: touchdown without being touched.
Speaker 6: He didn't even have to make a move. And that one,
Speaker 6: there's no excuse for whatsoever.
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Speaker 3: along with Savannah Humoler and Mickey Spagnola Everson on assignment
Speaker 3: throughout the week, apparently.
Speaker 6: And I think he goes to New Mexico.
Speaker 8: Okay, it's kind of you know, all that secret stuff
Speaker 8: that happens in New Mexico.
Speaker 3: We'll I have to ask you what it comes back here. Okay,
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Speaker 4: And we're going with running backs here.
Speaker 7: It works, It works.
Speaker 4: This isn't necessarily a statement. We have someone asking if
Speaker 4: you know the Cowboys should bring in a bigger, more
Speaker 4: physical running back. But Tony Pollard he is just doing
Speaker 4: great for us right now. If everyone is following. He
Speaker 4: leads the NFL with sixty four carries and has seventy
Speaker 4: four touches and through his first three games of the
Speaker 4: season since Zeke, who was coming back on Sunday, a
Speaker 4: bigger back, had seventy six touches in his first three
Speaker 4: contests of his rookie season in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Well, how about that, Yeah, that is a timely question
Speaker 3: a bigger, more physical back.
Speaker 7: Is that the way it was phrased.
Speaker 3: I like what we're seeing out of rico'dowell so far
Speaker 3: and in that game against Arizona, caught the touchdown, he
Speaker 3: created the touchdown, caught the ball, and I like the
Speaker 3: power that he's running with the play that he made
Speaker 3: and the second half an incredible run after you catch.
Speaker 3: But I like what we're seeing out of Rico Dowell.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Daryl Johnston on the television broadcast
Speaker 3: more importantly said that he likes these backs the Cowboys have, and.
Speaker 8: We saw in short yardage situation what Hunter Lipke was
Speaker 8: able to do.
Speaker 3: So But before I'll let you go, Mickey, but having
Speaker 3: said that, I was a proponent of bringing Zeke back,
Speaker 3: I was at the right cost, and what he's signed
Speaker 3: with the Patriots that was I thought the right cost.
Speaker 3: But the Cowboys had to make that decision earlier. And
Speaker 3: I do not have a problem with the Cowboys going
Speaker 3: the route they went, and I think they are just
Speaker 3: as well off with what I've seen from Doubtell so far.
Speaker 3: And I love the Douce Vaughn edition as well. And
Speaker 3: as you mentioned Lipke, I think they're fine in the
Speaker 3: running back room.
Speaker 7: Now going forward, we're going to see, because.
Speaker 3: Pollard is in his contract years on the franchise tag
Speaker 3: right now, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 7: But Zeke wasn't going a factor into that down the road.
Speaker 8: No, And so here's the deal. The first game of
Speaker 8: the season, they had no problems in the red zone
Speaker 8: or in goal to go situations, and all they had
Speaker 8: missing on the offensive line at that point was Tyler Smith. Right,
Speaker 8: they had four of their five starters in the game,
Speaker 8: and they attacked in two different ways, and I thought
Speaker 8: it was a really good way to compensate for not
Speaker 8: having Zeke there inside the five yard line. First of all,
Speaker 8: Tony Pollard ran right up the middle and scored a touchdown.
Speaker 8: The second time they had an opportunity, he used his speed.
Speaker 6: To the outside to score a touchdown.
Speaker 8: And on a third opportunity, they had Cavante Turpin lined
Speaker 8: up as a running back from nine yards out and
Speaker 8: he sped to the corner outside and scored a touchdown.
Speaker 8: So they sort of compensated for not having a big
Speaker 8: brue are in there with their speed. In the second game,
Speaker 8: there's extenuating circumstances with the lead that they had and
Speaker 8: basically saying let's just be careful here, let's not do
Speaker 8: anything silly, and that's not show the next opponent what
Speaker 8: we have and so they ended up kicking the field goals.
Speaker 6: In that game.
Speaker 8: And didn't do as well inside the scoring touchdowns inside
Speaker 8: the twenty yard line, going two for six. And in
Speaker 8: the third game, I just think they compensated for having
Speaker 8: three backups on the offensive line and they tried, and
Speaker 8: they had two opportunities to score that could have been
Speaker 8: touchdowns throwing the ball to Brandon Cooks ended up landing
Speaker 8: out of bounds and then the interference on Michael Gallup
Speaker 8: where they should have had the ball at the one
Speaker 8: yard line and somebody, I don't know what his explanation
Speaker 8: was to pick up the flag, but they listened to
Speaker 8: them and there would have been two touchdowns right there.
Speaker 8: So the weird thing is the Cowboys have had the
Speaker 8: most possessions inside the twenty yard line. They lead the
Speaker 8: league with fifteen, so they're getting there. They just haven't
Speaker 8: punched it in with the going three for eleven on
Speaker 8: touchdowns in these last two games. So I think we
Speaker 8: find out more this game if number one, indeed they
Speaker 8: have their offensive line back out there, and number two
Speaker 8: that they have a game plan suited for these backups
Speaker 8: that they can practice all week and not at the
Speaker 8: last minute, they have to decide, oh, guess what we
Speaker 8: don't have Tyron Smith. We got to compensate here because
Speaker 8: we can't do this, can't do that. I just think
Speaker 8: they need to use their speed when they get close
Speaker 8: to the goal line.
Speaker 7: I think it's.
Speaker 3: Teams, fans, media, we go through this every year, this
Speaker 3: early in the season. It's too small a sample size
Speaker 3: right to know what they actually have. In fact, there's
Speaker 3: a I'm pretty sure Nate and Frisco believes in this.
Speaker 3: The September football games, it's like these are preseason games.
Speaker 3: They really I've heard that there are preseason games that
Speaker 3: count on your regular season schedule because we're not playing
Speaker 3: starters in August in pre real preseason games. These have
Speaker 3: become like preseason games, and you really don't know what
Speaker 3: you have on the offensive line. And it's the way game,
Speaker 3: the flow of games.
Speaker 7: We don't know what.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys got up on the Giant sixteen to nothing
Speaker 3: the first ten minutes of that game in the season opener.
Speaker 3: They get up on the Jets and so they didn't have.
Speaker 7: To do anything.
Speaker 3: They were fine with kicking field goals against the Jets.
Speaker 3: The only third way the Jets are gonna win that
Speaker 3: game is if you take a risk and turn the
Speaker 3: ball over. Now you get to the Cardinals game and
Speaker 3: you're playing with three backup offensive linemen, and these aren't excuses,
Speaker 3: it's just the reality. We don't know. It's a long season.
Speaker 3: Let's see as we go along the improvements that they make.
Speaker 8: So what I always like to say, do not make
Speaker 8: season long conclusions after every game. Just like we sort
Speaker 8: of warned after a two to zero start, seventy to ten, Okay,
Speaker 8: this defense is pretty good, but let's not call them
Speaker 8: doomsday just yet, right and now after this loss, let's not.
Speaker 6: Overreact to one game.
Speaker 8: Let's let it play out and see if they have
Speaker 8: trouble in the red zone this week again, then maybe
Speaker 8: they've got something that they got to think about. You know,
Speaker 8: I keep the other thing I keep hearing as well,
Speaker 8: they're not getting.
Speaker 6: The ball down the field.
Speaker 8: Well, okay, it's raining cats and dogs against the Giants,
Speaker 8: and they jumped out to a big lead, so there
Speaker 8: was no need to do that. In the second game,
Speaker 8: once again, they got out to a lead and the
Speaker 8: Jets were playing this nice cover two. Then they were
Speaker 8: saying everything underneath, and that's exactly what Arizona did, and
Speaker 8: I think people forget that. If I got this right,
Speaker 8: the first possession of the Arizona game, the Cowboys had
Speaker 8: two penalties on offense.
Speaker 6: They had all start, a false start.
Speaker 8: Delay a game, and then the third possession they had
Speaker 8: in the game, I believe there was two more penalties.
Speaker 6: If I'm right, they had Oh where's it at?
Speaker 7: I hold on?
Speaker 6: And then another false style.
Speaker 8: So again, if you're not protecting your quarterback very well,
Speaker 8: and you got this idea they got to get the
Speaker 8: ball out, then you're probably not getting the ball deep.
Speaker 8: And so you know, I understand the wide receivers don't
Speaker 8: have a touchdown yet, and that's somewhat concerting. But again,
Speaker 8: the first two games, those things were also in play
Speaker 8: and no one complained about them because they won seventy
Speaker 8: to ten.
Speaker 6: So let's just let this play out.
Speaker 3: Man Cooks didn't play the second time, Yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 8: That might have had something to do with not stretching
Speaker 8: the field. So let's just let this play out and
Speaker 8: see and not totally overreact.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that, all right. When we come back,
Speaker 3: we turn our attention more so to the Patriots. When
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Speaker 3: talk about Zeke Zeke talking today?
Speaker 7: Is that right?
Speaker 6: I think yes, he is.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 6: Later today conference call at four o'clock our.
Speaker 3: Time, a conference call with the Dallas media later today.
Speaker 6: Nice of new England to set that up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is good. That is good.
Speaker 3: It's a Patriots team that started the season against Philadelphia
Speaker 3: and fell behind sixteen to nothing in the first quarter
Speaker 3: of that game. Rallied to make it close and lost.
Speaker 7: Twenty five to twenty. That was at home.
Speaker 3: In week one and week two they host Miami and
Speaker 3: in both these games, Philadelphia and Miami, they had the
Speaker 3: football basically in scoring position or getting close to scoring
Speaker 3: position in the case of the Philadelphia game, and weren't
Speaker 3: able to come up with a big play to put
Speaker 3: them over the top. They lost to Miami twenty four
Speaker 3: to seventeen. And why did Miami do The next week?
Speaker 3: They scored seventy points on the Broncos.
Speaker 6: With almost eight hundred yards off.
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 3: And then last week playing at the Jets, they win
Speaker 3: fifteen to ten in the rain to make them one
Speaker 3: and two.
Speaker 8: So they played two five point games in a seven
Speaker 8: point name.
Speaker 3: Right in the first two games. The two losses are
Speaker 3: against two of the three unbeaten teams in the league.
Speaker 3: So are you going to take this team lightly?
Speaker 8: I don't think so, especially after my last performance. Yeah,
Speaker 8: not whatsoever.
Speaker 3: And they do you think they took the Cardinals lightly.
Speaker 7: No, I don't either.
Speaker 6: I think they got beat that's you know.
Speaker 8: People kept saying that, and I said, do not give
Speaker 8: them a soft pill to lay their heads on.
Speaker 6: You know, with an excuse that they took it for grant.
Speaker 8: They didn't know, they aren't They did not play assignments
Speaker 8: sign And.
Speaker 3: I don't think they were full of themselves. I don't
Speaker 3: think they were over confident or any of that. If anything,
Speaker 3: it was they were trying to do what they thought
Speaker 3: has been made them successful. The difference is those things
Speaker 3: that make you successful when you're sacking the quarterback with
Speaker 3: a lead in a game. It doesn't work when you're
Speaker 3: behind in the game or even in a game. And
Speaker 3: I think they were just too aggressive they So anyway,
Speaker 3: Patriots are going to have their attention this week. We're
Speaker 3: going to find out a whole lot more about this
Speaker 3: Cowboys team this week against New England than we found
Speaker 3: out last week against him.
Speaker 8: And I think what everybody forgets is the Cowboys had
Speaker 8: lost six of the last.
Speaker 6: Seven games to the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Think about the Cardinals are just a juggernaut.
Speaker 8: Well two, but it's always something weird. Two of those
Speaker 8: losses were in overtime Zona, right, they only beat him.
Speaker 8: The one time they beat him was in early in
Speaker 8: twenty seventeen. They only beat him by three points too.
Speaker 4: By the way, James in Midland wants to know what
Speaker 4: is coach McCarthy's record against Bill Belichick, and I all
Speaker 4: look up this answer.
Speaker 7: Oh good, let's go for it.
Speaker 6: That's a good one.
Speaker 8: You know, I guess he's playing Bill Belichick the arm
Speaker 8: wrestle or something.
Speaker 7: Like parcels.
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm sure you know. Here's what I
Speaker 6: keep saying it.
Speaker 8: What what stands out to me about the Patriots is
Speaker 8: their defense. They're ranked number five overall ninth against the runs,
Speaker 8: so they really haven't given up much in the in
Speaker 8: the running game, and in the passing game they're they're
Speaker 8: also ranked fifth, so their defense is.
Speaker 6: Played pretty well so far.
Speaker 8: The Cowboys defense has to match what the Patriots do defensively.
Speaker 3: And by the way, the Patriots last year second in
Speaker 3: the league in takeaways on defense they always and I
Speaker 3: think the year before they were up there too. Of course,
Speaker 3: the Cowboys led the league in takeaways each of the
Speaker 3: last two years. And when you look at the Patriots defense,
Speaker 3: the only guy really that they lost from off last
Speaker 3: year's team. Who was a significant player for them was
Speaker 3: Devin mccordy, who retired. They brought basically everybody back on defense,
Speaker 3: and they added draft picks as well. Christian Gonzalez from
Speaker 3: right here in the Metroplex out of Oregon is playing
Speaker 3: very well. Had an interception in the game against Miami,
Speaker 3: and he's been matching up against the top receivers for
Speaker 3: the other teams as well.
Speaker 7: Very athletic guy.
Speaker 3: He was their seventeenth overall pick, number a first round
Speaker 3: draft pick. Second round draft pick key On White is
Speaker 3: playing a lot for him as well, and he's a
Speaker 3: defensive lineman. And so the defense is they're calling.
Speaker 8: Card special teams two, right, don't they have a they
Speaker 8: have a kick block return for a touchdown?
Speaker 3: Well, you're asking me questions. I haven't researched yet.
Speaker 6: I thought, I want to say, I thought I heard that.
Speaker 3: Well, i'll have it for you tomorrow, Mickey, all right, thank.
Speaker 4: You, okay. Coach McCarthy is two and three against the Patriots.
Speaker 8: Brilliant, yes, so, which means he's two and three against
Speaker 8: some gibelling tom right, so.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 3: And he had some guy named Aaron or if it
Speaker 3: was prior to that some guy.
Speaker 7: Named Brett Bratt.
Speaker 3: Correct, I don't know when the games were played. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that can be overrated. Yeah, but I mean you know that.
Speaker 3: The other thing with the Patriots is with Bill O'Brien's
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator. One of the issues they had last
Speaker 3: year is they were doing it by committee as far
Speaker 3: as their offensive coordinator goes, and so they hire One
Speaker 3: of the key things was them hiring Bill O'Brien as
Speaker 3: their offensive coordinator this year. And if you'll listen to
Speaker 3: sports talk radio in Boston, they're wondering what's his offensive
Speaker 3: coordinator doing with this team right now because they're not
Speaker 3: happy with the results. But again, small sample size and
Speaker 3: we'll see where they are. They and of course they're
Speaker 3: getting ripped in Boston because of letting Jacoby Myers go
Speaker 3: and Juju Smith Schuster has not done anything yet for them,
Speaker 3: who they're one of their big free agent acquisitions on offense.
Speaker 8: And they're probably getting ripped even more after O'Brien pointed
Speaker 8: out that they weren't interrogating Will Greer or Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 8: about the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 7: Why aren't you.
Speaker 8: Put him in a dark room right light on him. Yeah,
Speaker 8: O'Brien said, no, we're not doing that. It's like we
Speaker 8: can scout and see what's going on. Now they'll change.
Speaker 8: You know they talk about hand signals, Well, the hand
Speaker 8: signals are on the line of scrimmage, right, those can't.
Speaker 6: Be that difficult to change. The plays come in over
Speaker 6: the headset.
Speaker 8: It's not like there's some espionage going on.
Speaker 3: But the Patriots are not going to get things going
Speaker 3: smoothly until they get their quarterback going smoothly. Rack Jones
Speaker 3: it was two years ago fifteenth overall pick and last
Speaker 3: year he if heed sixty five percent of his passes
Speaker 3: for nearly three thousand yards, went six and eight in
Speaker 3: his fourteen starts, had eleven interceptions and fourteen touchdown passes,
Speaker 3: and was sacked thirty four times. Look at him this
Speaker 3: year through three games, two interceptions, five touchdown passes, He's
Speaker 3: been sacked six times. He has run the ball a
Speaker 3: little bit, which he doesn't seem like the type that
Speaker 3: would run the ball. He's running for his life. I
Speaker 3: would imagine with the eleven carries for fifty three yards
Speaker 3: five yards of carrying, So that is one thing you
Speaker 3: would think if you're going to compare what the Patriots
Speaker 3: do on offense to what the Cardinals did on offense.
Speaker 3: You don't have the running threat or what the Giants
Speaker 3: do on offense. You don't have a running threat with
Speaker 3: Mac Jones a quarterback.
Speaker 8: Right right, and so that's one less thing they should
Speaker 8: have to worry about.
Speaker 3: But so you can pin your ears back and go
Speaker 3: after the quarterback then, right, Do not do that.
Speaker 8: Do not make that mistake again, because I'm sure they
Speaker 8: all have something up there.
Speaker 6: Leave to attack you.
Speaker 3: By the way, there's something I want to get to
Speaker 3: which we didn't get to yesterday after dan Quinn. I
Speaker 3: don't think we got to it yesterday after dan Quinn
Speaker 3: talked Monday on Monday, and it was about Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 3: and I thought he was very good talking about Trayvon,
Speaker 3: and Okay, just we don't have access to talking with
Speaker 3: the coaches or early in the players after Thursday to
Speaker 3: speak of, and so it was after the game before
Speaker 3: the players finally were able to media was able to
Speaker 3: talk to players about the Trayvon injury. And then on
Speaker 3: Monday we had an opportunity with the coordinators and dan
Speaker 3: Quinn was talking about Trayvon and just the devastation of
Speaker 3: that injury on Thursday, and you know he was getting
Speaker 3: texts from friends saying, okay, next man up. Well no,
Speaker 3: there's no such thing as next man up when it
Speaker 3: comes to a player like that, and you see the
Speaker 3: human emotion, the devastation of Okay, you work so hard
Speaker 3: for this opportunity and everything is falling into place for
Speaker 3: a great season, and in one false step, it's taken
Speaker 3: away from you, and there's no Yeah, it's it's right,
Speaker 3: everyone says, you know, it's next man up. Well, no,
Speaker 3: there's no next man up when you're replacing a two
Speaker 3: time Pro Bowl cornerback like that, who is and he's
Speaker 3: been paid like it, probably the second best player on your.
Speaker 8: Defense and had gotten off to a really good start
Speaker 8: if you look at you know already he had to
Speaker 8: force fumbles, an interception, he had a bunch of passes deflected.
Speaker 6: Let's see where is his line here?
Speaker 8: He had six tackles, the force, the force fumble and
Speaker 8: then really a forced interception two if you because they
Speaker 8: didn't give that a fumble, and he had three passes
Speaker 8: defense and was just playing really, really well. And for
Speaker 8: that to happen, you know, you're just kind of heartbroken
Speaker 8: for the guy, and we all, you know, fans and
Speaker 8: everything look at it as well, Okay, how does this
Speaker 8: hurt the team? Well, it hurts him most, probably even
Speaker 8: more so. We forget about the personal aspect to it,
Speaker 8: and we all get this question of how do they
Speaker 8: how do they compensate for him? Well, Dan Quinn pointed
Speaker 8: out one of the three guys that played the best
Speaker 8: in that game against Arizona was Deron Bland, and if
Speaker 8: you think about it, he had he had the interference,
Speaker 8: but after that.
Speaker 6: You didn't see him much at all. On that side.
Speaker 8: They actually attacked Stefan Gilmore more than they Somebody said.
Speaker 6: Why didn't you move Gilmore over there? Well, the problem
Speaker 6: wasn't over there.
Speaker 3: Well. And then the other thing, when we're talking about
Speaker 3: the aggressive nature of this defense, when you lose a
Speaker 3: player like that, I don't, in contrast to the complacency allegations, right,
Speaker 3: you're actually trying. You can you can be prone to
Speaker 3: trying to do too much to offset the loss of
Speaker 3: that place exactly. So they may have been the victim
Speaker 3: of that more so than anything else. Is you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of days before the game, you lose the
Speaker 3: guy that's leads the way as far as takeaways on
Speaker 3: this team, and now everybody feels like they got to
Speaker 3: do more than what they normally do. And you and
Speaker 3: you lose sight of the fundamental defense that you have
Speaker 3: to play to begin with.
Speaker 4: You're making up for the loss.
Speaker 8: And that's and that's another thing that they had to
Speaker 8: compensate because they knew for well, they probably knew on
Speaker 8: Thursday that he was done, but for sure it got
Speaker 8: confirmed after the MRI Friday to you don't practice Saturday.
Speaker 8: It's a lighter practice and you didn't have that much
Speaker 8: time to us everything that. Okay, Deron Bland, you're moving
Speaker 8: from the slot to corner, Jordan Lewis, you're moving from
Speaker 8: the bench to the slot, and you have to make
Speaker 8: a lot of changes. And I'm not giving them excuses,
Speaker 8: it's just you know, fact of how this thing played
Speaker 8: out last week. So now this week, at least they've
Speaker 8: got a full week of practice with Deron Bland at
Speaker 8: right corner, Jordan Lewis in the middle in the slot.
Speaker 3: So as long as they get through practice, yeah.
Speaker 6: Right, golly, how many guys can you get hurt in practice?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 4: Huh, let's hope not any this week.
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