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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And it's a Tuesday at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Cowboys about to start a three game stretch
Speaker 1: against the AFC South Cowboys about to go eleven and
Speaker 1: three on the season, or a podcast studio, think Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Walls and Mickey Spagnola. What makes you say that I
Speaker 1: watched Monday Night football last night. All I gotta say
Speaker 1: is wow, Yeah, that's pretty boring. I watched Monday Night
Speaker 1: foot ball, and I watched the Houston Texans the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, and I've really liked the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yeah too,
Speaker 1: I still think that's a w And So I've got
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at eleven and three three weeks from now.
Speaker 1: How about you indie through in the first half for
Speaker 1: thirty six yards thirty six The Cowboys have forty five
Speaker 1: sacks right now, they will have fifty hit by the
Speaker 1: Steelers only got three last night and they got t J.
Speaker 1: Watt and they had none. And now they talked about
Speaker 1: was his impact on the game. Yeah, yeah, they will
Speaker 1: have five. If the game in Jacksonville is a trap game,
Speaker 1: you know that that's the trap game. If we win
Speaker 1: that game, and if we win it in the right way,
Speaker 1: that's when I would have the ultimate confidence, the utmost
Speaker 1: confidence in this defense. Because there are certain games that
Speaker 1: you you know, you're away from home, you know you're
Speaker 1: out there in Florida, you know, getting close to Christmas.
Speaker 1: You got Philly the next week. That's set up. That's
Speaker 1: a setup. If you win that game, then you have
Speaker 1: matured as a team. And that's what I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: a maturation as a team. And you need that when
Speaker 1: you play on Christmas and all the way through the playoffs,
Speaker 1: that's when you that's when you show me that you
Speaker 1: are a team that has matured and understand that you
Speaker 1: take care of business first, no matter what's going on
Speaker 1: around you. I thought Matt Ryan was gonna just get injured.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say get killed like that whole season. Yes,
Speaker 1: it has and and that's why they benched him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they benched him for that. Yeah, because they need something
Speaker 1: because Sam Ellinger, they had a like how many offenses?
Speaker 1: They had a bunch of offensive him hurt writer, but
Speaker 1: most of them are back then back. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they've now they've got the rookie they're starting at left
Speaker 1: tackle and uh Bernhard Raymond or Raymond h and he's
Speaker 1: said him, well, but Tyler Smith, Well that's the thing,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, he has improved. I will say this,
Speaker 1: he's improved since he made his first start back sometime
Speaker 1: in October. And that was the game. It must have
Speaker 1: been a primetime game because I watched it and it
Speaker 1: it was. It was not pretty at all that that day.
Speaker 1: So he has improved. Um, And they've been able to
Speaker 1: move Braden Smith back out to right tackle, and they've
Speaker 1: got their center back and um, who's supposed to be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, he's good. Yeah, all right. And they
Speaker 1: got Quentin Nelson who when he came into the league
Speaker 1: he's all everything you know at left guard. So they've
Speaker 1: got a rookie at right guard too that we're playing.
Speaker 1: Last night, it was one jail break after another and
Speaker 1: that was that the same Jonathan Taylor running the ball.
Speaker 1: That's Jonathan Taylor. What happened? I mean, he was a
Speaker 1: study last year. Last year they did the hard knocks
Speaker 1: in season, which was extremely interesting, and Taylor was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the guy. Well, they wanted WinCE to be
Speaker 1: the guy to take him those They need one of
Speaker 1: those last two games, right, and they're going to be
Speaker 1: all by the way we come full circle, Yes we are.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know if he got injured at
Speaker 1: the end of last season, but he didn't do well
Speaker 1: as far as his performance, and therefore Corston Winston didn't
Speaker 1: do well either. Yeah, and they just tanked. I mean
Speaker 1: they tanked. And that to me, that was the beginning
Speaker 1: of the inn for Frank Wright right there, putting all
Speaker 1: of his chips in the Wentz baskets, right, and it
Speaker 1: didn't work didn't work out. So now you've got another
Speaker 1: He came to what the count commanders, right, Yeah, ready
Speaker 1: to go crossing West, gonna take over. He's the man,
Speaker 1: and no longer the man. He's about to get the
Speaker 1: coach fired. This coach fired if he's not careful. Comes Heineken. Heineken,
Speaker 1: and they're drinking that up. I don't drink it though,
Speaker 1: But in fairness to Jonathan Taylor, he has been battling
Speaker 1: an ankle injury. Okay, so that's what happened this season. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but last season it didn't work out at all. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what we've got this week. It's and
Speaker 1: it's a prime time Sunday night game the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: the Colts this week. And so you know, the network executives,
Speaker 1: they all were thinking that Matt Ryan going to the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts was going to be a great thing for
Speaker 1: that branch. I stood right. That's why they got to
Speaker 1: claim that as a Sunday night game on NBC this week. Boy,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys better pull their weight otherwise no one watching
Speaker 1: that game. Well, we beat Minnesota really bad, and they
Speaker 1: cut away to other games when watching. You want your
Speaker 1: team that good? Yeah, you want your team that good?
Speaker 1: Where the rest of the nation is cutting away to
Speaker 1: others as Polo at the end zone, they see later, guys,
Speaker 1: this is done. It's over as long as we can
Speaker 1: keep watching here in Dallas. Yeah, locally, they although a
Speaker 1: lot of people are listening to us right now, they
Speaker 1: don't agree with that because if you're in some other
Speaker 1: area that they cut away from the Cowboy game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry who kiss nobody's cutting away Sunday night though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so what you got on your legal pad there, mickey? Um, So,
Speaker 1: listening to Mike McCarthy made me do a little research.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if last night's game changed at
Speaker 1: any but he was talking about how they've got to
Speaker 1: do better with the penalties. Oh guess they had thirteen.
Speaker 1: How many times you commit thirteen penalties and win the game? Right,
Speaker 1: that's how good they were. They overcame. A lot of
Speaker 1: that was on offense, right, false starts, holding, and I
Speaker 1: think that referee needs to go back and look at
Speaker 1: that one too, by the way. Um, but I mean
Speaker 1: they were overcoming third and fifteens, right, And so McCarthy said, yeah,
Speaker 1: this this can't continue. Right, So I went through and looked.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the second most penalties in the NFL as
Speaker 1: long as last night somebody didn't overtake them. They have
Speaker 1: eighty three as a team, and so behind who Denver
Speaker 1: has eighty seven. Okay, now look at Denver's record and
Speaker 1: look at the Boys record, and that just shows you
Speaker 1: if they clean up some of that stuff, especially the
Speaker 1: false starts. And I don't know if you know this
Speaker 1: is legitimate or not. But he was talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a short week, maybe we should have dialed back
Speaker 1: the offense, not have as many motions and things like
Speaker 1: that complicate the offense because there was false starts to
Speaker 1: was at the tight end or the wide receiver was
Speaker 1: out in the slot that he turned, and it's like
Speaker 1: where are you going? But you know, to me, some
Speaker 1: of these plays all plays, they come from a base, right,
Speaker 1: so you know, you can you can keep that base
Speaker 1: simple or you can expand that base. And to me,
Speaker 1: as long as you have that base you have to
Speaker 1: deal with, you should know what not to do, and
Speaker 1: what shifts not to make, and when not to go
Speaker 1: in motion and things of that nature. The short week,
Speaker 1: to me, I don't think that's a good excuse. They
Speaker 1: we are in week eleven and I just don't think
Speaker 1: that should be an excuse. And I do understand that
Speaker 1: we do have some young guys on this team, but
Speaker 1: the penalties are not being committed by the young guys
Speaker 1: on this team, So to me, I think they just
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, I think they should be
Speaker 1: just smarter because if you're coming if you're coming from
Speaker 1: that base, that's one thing you need to figure out
Speaker 1: as a football player. If you expand it, it's it's okay,
Speaker 1: it's still coming from a particular situation. And you know,
Speaker 1: for you not to know when to go in motion
Speaker 1: and when to be still. I mean, we'll always watch
Speaker 1: it all the time when we're on TV. You can see, well, okay,
Speaker 1: when they came out, no one's still yet. Okay, once
Speaker 1: he goes in motion, they can snap the ball while
Speaker 1: he's moving. But two guys can't be moving while they goes.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are all things that we all know of,
Speaker 1: and so for them to have these kinds of issues
Speaker 1: when it comes to formation wise, that to me is
Speaker 1: it's no exc used to have that formation wise. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't make any sense to me. Especially and the
Speaker 1: other thing, especially when you're playing at home. It's not
Speaker 1: like you can't hear right or you should be able
Speaker 1: to hear, and you've got all the adjustments being made
Speaker 1: at the line for the most part, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're given Dak a little bit at a
Speaker 1: little bit of that autonomy, but man, what is it?
Speaker 1: I just it just seems like you've always got one
Speaker 1: or two people that are not on the same page.
Speaker 1: That's just you know, and here's I guess that's what
Speaker 1: made me feel good about this game. With those penalties,
Speaker 1: I never felt like we were threatened, right, That just
Speaker 1: that to me gives me a good feeling about this
Speaker 1: team overall. They seem to take those penalties, uh, you
Speaker 1: know in phases, they seemed to take it in very
Speaker 1: well so and it seemed like they were getting holdings
Speaker 1: on first down, which gives you an opportunity to overcome it. Right,
Speaker 1: it's the holdings on second and then we did not
Speaker 1: let them kill the drive for the most point. That's
Speaker 1: how we got in trouble in Green Bay, right, you know,
Speaker 1: the drives were killed because of penalty. So I was
Speaker 1: being able to come back against a good team. I
Speaker 1: still think the Giants are a good team. That that
Speaker 1: made me feel good. You remember how many penalties the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had on Thanksgiving last year? Oh, against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: It was seventeen fourteen that were taken anyway, but they
Speaker 1: were accepted. They were It was same too, the Raiders
Speaker 1: had fourteen. Yeah, they had fourteen also the Cowboys last
Speaker 1: year on Thanksgiving. That was that's what you expect though.
Speaker 1: That was the Raiders especially but that the Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: New Raiders, that was the Hockey League crew, right, fourteen
Speaker 1: penalties against the Cowboys for one hundred and sixty six
Speaker 1: yards in that game, Sayers was fourteen for one ten
Speaker 1: and this one was thirteen for eighty six at something
Speaker 1: like that, so twice as many penalty yards. Of course,
Speaker 1: twelve of those penalties were called on Anthony Brown and
Speaker 1: that Thanksgiving they gave us here twelve shut well, you know,
Speaker 1: and so it's eighty six yards. Eighty six yards you
Speaker 1: get docted, But that doesn't account for what you had, right,
Speaker 1: and they had to come back, right, and I think
Speaker 1: I think it was like another forty yards. They should
Speaker 1: have that as a stat also, right, like yeah, because
Speaker 1: here's where they marked the ball. Yes, and so I
Speaker 1: look easily it was like thirty six or forty yards
Speaker 1: they lost on those Could you imagine that those those
Speaker 1: numbers could be astronomical because sometimes you might take you
Speaker 1: might take back a fifty year for a testdown. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I mean so if you take eighty six and
Speaker 1: add thirty six, you know, that's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six yards or one hundred twenty that's a lot of
Speaker 1: in Bill Parcel's talk, one hundred yards means a touchdown, right,
Speaker 1: you gave up a touchdown? And so all last year
Speaker 1: we were just like, Okay, these refs are crazy, these
Speaker 1: rests are crazy. But Dan, we shire trending towards refs
Speaker 1: calling more and more penalties even this year. So what
Speaker 1: is happening here? Are we that undisciplined? I was trying
Speaker 1: to look at answer from that. Well, no, I mean
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious, right, he didn't want to admit it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we are undisciplined. Tuh. They had they had
Speaker 1: a I'm trying to find it. I mean, they had
Speaker 1: a the hold on on Zach Martin, they had a
Speaker 1: first down on the play, they had to bring it back. Said,
Speaker 1: that's your long way of saying, yes, we're on discipline. No,
Speaker 1: that one he panked cake the guy. I still don't
Speaker 1: understand that when you pancake the guy because he turns
Speaker 1: his back on you and it looks like you're holding them. No,
Speaker 1: you're pancaking them. But that's just that's just one. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got thirteen more penalties and it seems to be
Speaker 1: an annual thing now. I guess every Thanksgiving we're going
Speaker 1: to give up Thanksgiving. It's a tradition. Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: have double digit penalties every Thanksgiving with their turkey. All right,
Speaker 1: So what did else did you get out of Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy yesterday? Oh? Or many made a big deal out
Speaker 1: of rest. Who needs rest? The cowboys like he backs
Speaker 1: off on his schedule. Oh, you know, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're in December schedule now, so you show up at
Speaker 1: the same time, you leave at the same time, but
Speaker 1: you don't practice as long cuts back to to keep
Speaker 1: them fresh fresh. You had five days off in a row.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was just kind of a workout. It wasn't really
Speaker 1: a practice, and none of their practices are really get
Speaker 1: I'm with you. The key thing is you now, you
Speaker 1: sleep too long and you can't stop sleeping. That's what
Speaker 1: they're doing right now. They they're about to get into that.
Speaker 1: And they had five days right after Thanksgiving, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, today. Oh,
Speaker 1: we worked a little bit on Monday. We have Tuesday
Speaker 1: off and then we'll come back on Wednesday. Um so yeah, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: since four out of five days off. Yeah, and what
Speaker 1: yesterday was was just conditioning basically and knock off the
Speaker 1: RUSS from not doing anything from three days right. I
Speaker 1: thought the biggest benefit they've had during this time is
Speaker 1: the guys that couldn't play or played through the illnesses
Speaker 1: that maybe by Wednesday everybody's back ready to go that
Speaker 1: flu bug they can kick out of here. Because the
Speaker 1: originally they were gonna go zoom this on Monday, and
Speaker 1: then I think they saw it kind of simmered down.
Speaker 1: So I think they're much better. Jerry thought when he
Speaker 1: was talking this morning that they that everybody should be
Speaker 1: close to being back from the illness part. So the
Speaker 1: other thing is is be interesting to see if they
Speaker 1: start James Washington tomorrow started his clock. Ye his practice
Speaker 1: time twenty one days, and you wouldn't do it until Wednesday,
Speaker 1: So that's a possibility, and then maybe he needs a
Speaker 1: week or two before he can play. Okay, So when
Speaker 1: we come back here on mix shots, you want to
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Speaker 1: All right, we continue here on mix Shots on a
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Mickey mitchened in the last segment about James
Speaker 1: Washington coming back from his injury that occurred back way
Speaker 1: back in training camp, and he's getting closer and closer
Speaker 1: to being activated as far as his twenty one day
Speaker 1: practice window to be back on the active roster. There's
Speaker 1: also the speculation about Odell Beckham Junior out there, and
Speaker 1: reportedly he's supposed to visit the Star on Monday, and
Speaker 1: he has a visit scheduled later this week with the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Bills, and he was in the news
Speaker 1: on Sunday at the Miami Airport and Mickey's now shaking
Speaker 1: his head for those of you who are not watching,
Speaker 1: And so, how how's this wide receiving corps looking for
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team? Well, I think it's it's looking up.
Speaker 1: And I thought that every time Michael Gallup caught a
Speaker 1: pass or Ceedee Lamb caught a pass on Thanksgiving, the
Speaker 1: price of doing business with ob J went down from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys standford, Yes, I don't think they're desperate to
Speaker 1: the point where they got to overpay or overcommit. I think,
Speaker 1: as Jerry kind of called it, it's an additive, like
Speaker 1: it's something else we can add. But it's not like
Speaker 1: a total necessity like it was when you did the
Speaker 1: deal with Amari Cooper making that trade for a first
Speaker 1: round pick. So yeah, I think it would be a
Speaker 1: nice toy to have, providing he's ready to play, and
Speaker 1: that's something that they've got to research. Are you ready
Speaker 1: to go? And if not, win because if you're talking
Speaker 1: about a deep playoff run, say it's two three games, okay,
Speaker 1: and you get two or three games during the regular season,
Speaker 1: that's six providing you win, right. So but I just
Speaker 1: if it's a long term investment, I would have to
Speaker 1: shake my head on that one. What are we looking at?
Speaker 1: What are we looking at right now in regards to
Speaker 1: our future, meaning just this season's finishing out this season?
Speaker 1: What are we looking at him regards to moves being
Speaker 1: made by whide receivers getting better or who's coming off
Speaker 1: of an injury list? How are we looking right now? Well,
Speaker 1: what's this specifically? Are we looking at? Well? I think
Speaker 1: Lamb is starting to show you that he could be
Speaker 1: a number one receiver. I know you've been looking for consistency,
Speaker 1: and I think it's it's it's coming. It's coming, right
Speaker 1: it is? What does he have two one yard games
Speaker 1: in the last three. And it's not just that, it's
Speaker 1: the no mental mistakes last week. And then Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: looks like, you know, I talked to him before the
Speaker 1: maybe it was after the Minnesota game, and I said
Speaker 1: something to him about his confidence. I said, it looks
Speaker 1: like you're running your routes with more confidence. And he
Speaker 1: looked at me and he goes, you see that. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am, And so I think what you saw? And
Speaker 1: thanksgiving him snatching those balls. I think he's a lot
Speaker 1: closer to being the guy that they extended, right. I
Speaker 1: like how Dak throws it. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: likes it, but it seems as if Dak always likes
Speaker 1: to keep the ball only where he can get it right,
Speaker 1: Because when you running those slants, it could be easy
Speaker 1: for a defensive back to pressure you and somehow get
Speaker 1: a hand in there. They're not taking those chances. Everything
Speaker 1: he's getting is right here, and he is the only
Speaker 1: person that can get the ball and it's and usually
Speaker 1: if it's to him, it's high, and he trusts them
Speaker 1: to go up and catch the ball. And then the
Speaker 1: third receiver, all right, Noah Brown, you know he will
Speaker 1: make a catch here. Or there. I think he'll make
Speaker 1: a catch if they put him in the plan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. Yeah, Yeah, he makes the
Speaker 1: catch as they use him, which is that's a veteran
Speaker 1: for you, right. And I don't know, I don't have
Speaker 1: the stats on his like what he's done for the season,
Speaker 1: but he's been kind of reliable. Now maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: get open all the time. I don't know, but he
Speaker 1: is another big target. But then if you're incorporating the
Speaker 1: tight ends the way they have, or you're throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to Pollard, you know you only got one ball.
Speaker 1: So and obviously they liked the two tight end and
Speaker 1: three tight end sets where you can throw out of it.
Speaker 1: It's not just loading up to run. So let's say
Speaker 1: it's no Beckham and then we do something with Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he fits in, you know, as soon as
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. I mean, that knocks probably Tolbert
Speaker 1: out of the five man rotation, right, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to cut somebody to put Washington on the team
Speaker 1: to By the way, Noah Brown has twenty eight catches
Speaker 1: for three hundred eighty four yards, averaging thirteen point seven
Speaker 1: yards of reception in one touchdown, forty five targets. Hand
Speaker 1: me that book. Dalton Schultz, by the way, thirty three catches.
Speaker 1: Just as a comparison, Dalton Schultz thirty three catches for
Speaker 1: three ten and three touchdowns with forty six targets. But
Speaker 1: he hasn't played all that many games, right, He had
Speaker 1: one fewer game than Noah Noah Brown's ten games, ten starts,
Speaker 1: Dalton is nine games, nine starts. So in contrast, Cede
Speaker 1: Lamb sixty four catches, eight hundred and fifty seven yards,
Speaker 1: five touchdowns on one hundred four targets in eleven games. So,
Speaker 1: I you know your third receiver, you know they're not
Speaker 1: going to have that many catches usually, right they were.
Speaker 1: They had an embarrassment of riches when it was you know, Cooper, Gallop,
Speaker 1: Gallop and Lamb. Right, everybody's gonna have a thousand yards.
Speaker 1: I didn't quite work out that way, but I always
Speaker 1: remember the ninety five season. I know this is a
Speaker 1: long ways from there, and you had Michael Irvin, a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame guy, with one hundred and eleven catches
Speaker 1: that year. The second receiver receiver or not in catches
Speaker 1: was Kevin Williams with thirty eight. Okay, now you had
Speaker 1: nova check. He threw the ball to Darryl Johnston. He
Speaker 1: had thirty catches. Darryl Johnson had thirty catches. Geez Emmett
Speaker 1: had sixty two. All right, Now the third receiver, anybody
Speaker 1: remember the third receiver? No, he was gone, Corey Fleming
Speaker 1: six catches for eighty three yards. They won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So the third receiver, you know, that's gravy whatever you
Speaker 1: get out of that guy, right, he got a ring. Yes,
Speaker 1: the same Say you get Odell in and splits time
Speaker 1: with Washington as the third receiver. You know that's that's
Speaker 1: probably a pretty good threat because or fourth however, you
Speaker 1: look at it, and in no matter you know what
Speaker 1: his performances, they're gonna say, oh that's Odell Beckham June.
Speaker 1: We better we better put somebody on him, right, We
Speaker 1: better got to guard him. So yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: how about how about a four receiver lineup set where
Speaker 1: you've you've got let's say you got Pollard in the backfield,
Speaker 1: and you've got uh ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup, James Washington,
Speaker 1: and I mean I know him or Odell Beckham junior,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, or how about this, if you have five
Speaker 1: receivers set, you've got Cede, no running backs, no running
Speaker 1: back Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup, James Washington, Odell Beckham junior,
Speaker 1: and Kavante Turpin on the field at the same time. Which,
Speaker 1: by the way, they had him in more three receiver
Speaker 1: sets in that game. Not no, I know, but they
Speaker 1: put him in motion. You gotta cover him, right, you
Speaker 1: never know? Yeah, that would be pretty sweet, huh. And
Speaker 1: then somebody will complain, why aren't they running the foot
Speaker 1: CD can line up a running back and they've done
Speaker 1: it right, didn't they snap him the ball or go back?
Speaker 1: And yeah? All right? So what about this though, I'm
Speaker 1: just looking in terms of Odell Okay, obviously if he
Speaker 1: is Odell Beckham that he's been in the past and
Speaker 1: we have no idea, let's just say the Rams Beckham
Speaker 1: yeah from last year, Yeah, okay, the Rams Beckham run
Speaker 1: from the playoffs too, okay, has regular season it was yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were all okay until they made they hit the
Speaker 1: stripe go ahead, right, Okay, so we know what he
Speaker 1: would provide as a third receiver. Okay, what about as insurance.
Speaker 1: If you lost CD or Michael Gallup to injury then too,
Speaker 1: and then and how much do you factor that into
Speaker 1: your decision that it covers you, Yeah, in case you
Speaker 1: lose one of those guys, because I don't know that
Speaker 1: if you don't have Lamb or what do you have
Speaker 1: if you don't If if Lamb went down with an injury, Yeah,
Speaker 1: then you're pretty thin, right then you're using those three
Speaker 1: tight ends probably or at least two tight ends. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So that's note. And one of the things
Speaker 1: you got to think about too, what wide receivers is
Speaker 1: you have to threaten teams down the field. You can't
Speaker 1: throw all this little cute stuff underneath. At some point,
Speaker 1: you got to threaten them to back them off. Because
Speaker 1: did you see how the Steelers were playing, man, they
Speaker 1: were they had eleven guys within ten yards of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. That's how they played us a lot
Speaker 1: last year. Those games that gave us problems at forty
Speaker 1: nine is right as well. They did not play the
Speaker 1: deep pass, and we were fussing. But I know I
Speaker 1: was all year last year, we need to go deep,
Speaker 1: and at this point we still haven't and we've been
Speaker 1: blessed because the running game is balling right, and that's
Speaker 1: given that a lot of opportunities to go with the
Speaker 1: play action and he's looking deep down the field, but
Speaker 1: he's throwing intermediate passes keep getting him out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: whereas a lot of room out there making us feel
Speaker 1: more comfortable. We've been able to do that because the
Speaker 1: running game. But let's just say that running game gets
Speaker 1: shut down, we're gonna have to answer with deep passes.
Speaker 1: I say we go ahead and keep trying them. Now,
Speaker 1: don't wait till the playoffs. Okay, guys, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: something going deep. Now, that's something you should be practicing
Speaker 1: throughout and show that threat seeing if you think about it,
Speaker 1: That's what happened in that two thousand and seven playoff
Speaker 1: loss to the Giants when Terrell Owens was hurt right,
Speaker 1: he had the high ankle sprain. They had no threat
Speaker 1: down the field, and so the Giants were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do all the running because you're running back's
Speaker 1: not going to run to the end zone. Mary and
Speaker 1: Barber had one hundred yards of rushing the first half,
Speaker 1: and all they had was like fourteen points and they
Speaker 1: couldn't thread threaten them down the field, so all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the defense is compacting right, and then we
Speaker 1: will take the chance and they'll let you have all
Speaker 1: that under stuff because they're betting that you can't go
Speaker 1: eighty yards in fourteen plays. At some point you're going
Speaker 1: to run out of downs. And that's why even if
Speaker 1: you throw incomplete, you gotta stretch, even if it's incomplete.
Speaker 1: Just like that make them think, well, yeah, but what
Speaker 1: if they catch one right, where's my safety? Well he's
Speaker 1: you know, we had him in the box because they're
Speaker 1: throwing all that underneath stuff. So yeah, that you know,
Speaker 1: we're talking deed. We're not talking just like thirty yard passes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking about going downtown, right, and that we can
Speaker 1: do that. We have the players to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one Hopper wasn't a speeds there, but I remember
Speaker 1: him catching deep passes. Michael Levin wasn't a speech. I'll
Speaker 1: see him catch many of deep passes. So it's just
Speaker 1: a matter being able to track the ball. And I
Speaker 1: know that's what I've obviously was can do. So we
Speaker 1: need to do it before it's too late, because I
Speaker 1: think what's happening and I think we saw it a
Speaker 1: little bit in this last game. Teams are gonna start blitzing, right,
Speaker 1: and the way to control DAK is to blitz right.
Speaker 1: So your offensive line's got to continue to play as
Speaker 1: well as they've been here of late. I don't think
Speaker 1: they gave up a sack in that game Thursday, right, right, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no sacks. That's pretty good. So two straight games no sacks,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And that's what teams will start doing.
Speaker 1: They'll start blitzing and then say, okay, how do we
Speaker 1: cover all these guys? Well, you make sure the quarterback
Speaker 1: doesn't have the time of day in the pocket, asked
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan about that. Okay, when we come back here
Speaker 1: on mix shots, I'd like to look ahead to the postseason.
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Speaker 1: what are we? Eleven and three? We are read right
Speaker 1: and three going into the Eagle game? Okay, not so fast,
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Speaker 1: playoffs are fast approaching, and for the Minnesota Vikings, a
Speaker 1: division title could be fast approaching for them this week.
Speaker 1: In fact, the NFL has issued its Week thirteen playoffs
Speaker 1: scenarios how teams can clinch a playoff spot this week,
Speaker 1: and the Minnesota Vikings, who play the Jets on Sunday
Speaker 1: at noon. If they win that game, they clinch the
Speaker 1: NFC North with win themselves plus a Detroit loss or
Speaker 1: tie in Minnesota. Let me check, Jets and Vikings are
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and the Lions. Uh what are the Lions
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jacksonville? Yeah, playing at home against Jacksonville, So your
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaggs would have to come at Detroit for that
Speaker 1: scenario to playoff. The Eagles can clinch a playoff spot
Speaker 1: with a win, a Washington loss to the Giants, a
Speaker 1: San Francisco loss or tie against Miami. Wait wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: they would clinch a what a playoffs playoff playoffs division Philadelphia?
Speaker 1: Philadelphia can clinch a playoff berth with a win and
Speaker 1: a Washington lost to the Giants in Philadelphia is playing Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Washington lost to the Giants, San Francisco loss or tie
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, and a Seattle loss or tie against
Speaker 1: the Rams. So they are not clinching the this week
Speaker 1: because Seattle is playing the Rams and the Rams are
Speaker 1: not capable of winning a game. Right, we're in agreement
Speaker 1: on that. What do they have a why not have
Speaker 1: a black backup quarterback? What happened to the backup quarterback
Speaker 1: they had. They had Wolford behind Stafford, behind Stafford, and
Speaker 1: I guess he got hurt. Now Perkins Perkins is the
Speaker 1: is the quarterback. But okay, Don perk that's what they're
Speaker 1: gonna go with. John Perkins run wide receivers, last quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think it's his brother's son. He looks like a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Oh, I thought you were saying, okay, Now
Speaker 1: he looks like a one and he runs like one
Speaker 1: six three two fifteen pounds out of South Carolina, I
Speaker 1: think Virginia, Virginia. He started his college career at Arizona
Speaker 1: State and went to Arizona Western, and the Virginia's from Phoenix, Chandler, Arizona.
Speaker 1: And you say he's related to Don Perkins. He said
Speaker 1: it on the broadcast. Yeah, okay. His father, Bruce Perkins,
Speaker 1: played fullback at Arizona State briefly in the NFL. His
Speaker 1: uncle Don Perkins played eight seasons, of course with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the Ring of Honor the late great Don Perkins.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, By the way, I heard
Speaker 1: that they're gonna name a street for him near the
Speaker 1: university in Albuquerque. All right, he's already on the about,
Speaker 1: he's already on the big stadium wall of the outside.
Speaker 1: There's four guys out there, and he's won. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like bigger than life. Picture. Was it was the
Speaker 1: White House on Perkins Avenue? Uh? It was not. No,
Speaker 1: it was not. I was gonna say it was on
Speaker 1: White Who was on Constitution Way? Perkins Supreme said on
Speaker 1: White It was on White Avenue, White Street. It was
Speaker 1: not in Washington, DC. No, that's Pennsylvania. I'd said Constitution,
Speaker 1: that's Pennsylvania. I couldn't. That's that's why they called it
Speaker 1: the White House. That's right. Yeah, Oh there you go. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can take you there, bits you can How do
Speaker 1: you know how to get right? Where would you have
Speaker 1: a key? Or what's going on? Back in the reporting days,
Speaker 1: the best stories came out of the White House? Right,
Speaker 1: and it was also called open locker round. Jerry Or
Speaker 1: was up in a tree in the bushes. In the bushes,
Speaker 1: all right, I wanted to talk playoffs, scenarios. What else
Speaker 1: you got? What are the cowboys that got any where?
Speaker 1: Are the cowboys rank in the NFC right now? They
Speaker 1: are the fourth in your in your opinion? Oh, most
Speaker 1: in your opinion, where do you look around the NFC
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota? You look around the NFC and as second
Speaker 1: best record. If you were to rank the NFC teams
Speaker 1: third best record, man, yes, Philly, Elennesota, Minnesota, yeah, third, okay,
Speaker 1: second best team though to me, second best, second best
Speaker 1: too wide. I'll tell you what, and I just mean
Speaker 1: that simply because you know I'm gonna because they only
Speaker 1: have the one loss' but otherwise I do not think
Speaker 1: that Minnesota obviously is better than that. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say with number three record San Francis, San Francisco's coming on,
Speaker 1: oh no doubt, no doubt, trust me. I can smell
Speaker 1: their breath. But I still think we are the better
Speaker 1: team and the tougher team. The national school of thought,
Speaker 1: I would say has eago Niners. Cowboys, yes, in that order,
Speaker 1: only because they beat this last year. That's the only reason.
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of funny. So if you look
Speaker 1: at points four and points against San Francisco two thirty
Speaker 1: six four and one seventy three against, and they're supposed
Speaker 1: to have a really good defense, right the Cowboys two
Speaker 1: seventy nine four and one eighty seven against, So they
Speaker 1: you know, giving up more points than San Francisco, but
Speaker 1: not that fourteen. Yeah, so I think both of our
Speaker 1: defenses are extremely similar. Yeah, I love the both of them.
Speaker 1: The same mindset, the same personnel, same type of personnel
Speaker 1: in every unit. Their front line is amazing. The linebackers,
Speaker 1: especially Warner, he's amazing. They have a safety in the back.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the young man's name. I think he's
Speaker 1: of Samoan descent. What's the twenty nine named the safety
Speaker 1: for San Francisco. He's a heck of a player and
Speaker 1: he's the one that's making all the plays in the
Speaker 1: secondary for them. Yeah, and so they have a defense
Speaker 1: that's very similar two hours, not just in the personnel
Speaker 1: but in their mindset and how they who found out
Speaker 1: their opposing offenses? And he is to Longa who found us?
Speaker 1: He's all Jay Balon curse, right. I mean, we've and
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson for that matter. You know we've got we
Speaker 1: can match you up with those guys. And once again,
Speaker 1: we're tougher than we were last year. We can make
Speaker 1: the plays this year, and we can prevent plays this
Speaker 1: year without being manhampered by somebody like a debo or
Speaker 1: in ayuk As as big wide receivers and number fifteen.
Speaker 1: I believe this kid is a stud huge wide receiver.
Speaker 1: No auk in number eleven. Number fifteen is the guy
Speaker 1: called the touchdown last week, and he is a heck
Speaker 1: of a player. They've been coming at him a lot.
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings, Yeah, so they have they have good receivers,
Speaker 1: like we have good receivers. I think our quarterback is
Speaker 1: better than theirs. I think our running backs are better
Speaker 1: than theirs, but they still offensively, they have a good outpit,
Speaker 1: good output in the running game, so we are evenly matched.
Speaker 1: But I believe what puts us over the top would
Speaker 1: be dak over Jimmy g all right, let me throw
Speaker 1: this at you, which producers Supreme put me on the
Speaker 1: scent Of the last four games, the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: have not given up a point in the second half.
Speaker 1: I knew that. I knew that. And they're playing crappy
Speaker 1: things against the Rams, the Chargers, the Cardinals, and the Saints.
Speaker 1: I'm not by any of those. Minnesota, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to look at things like that, had
Speaker 1: outscored their opponents in the fourth in the second half,
Speaker 1: no fourth quarter going into four Cowboys eighty three to forty. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I'm not much on stats. That's just what you see. Lay,
Speaker 1: let's play. Let me see. Every game is going to
Speaker 1: be different, especially when you have two teams and there's
Speaker 1: so much alike. It just changes everything. All the variables change.
Speaker 1: So then next time, if we're blessed enough to be
Speaker 1: to meet the forty nine ers, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a heck of a game. And make sure you
Speaker 1: bring your boombox with you. We'll have a home and
Speaker 1: they'll be there'll be booming on the field, and make
Speaker 1: sure you know who Debo is. Okay, Well, the advantage
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have right now over the Niners is they
Speaker 1: have a better record than the Niners. So that's why
Speaker 1: they need to get to eleven and three the next
Speaker 1: three weeks, right, and if you have to play at
Speaker 1: least you get it at home. Get it at home.
Speaker 1: That's right. Has that worked out? So I'm just saying, guys,
Speaker 1: this team will travel. This team will travel. They will
Speaker 1: meet you at your front door. That's what I like
Speaker 1: about this team. It's different, not just the defense. That
Speaker 1: offensive line is stronger than better, a little dumber, but
Speaker 1: as far as plays and Tyron Smith is on the way. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's another one on the way back. Yeah, and I'm
Speaker 1: you know, it's tough coming off of injury for that long.
Speaker 1: Let's say Tyland goes down to get God for a bit.
Speaker 1: We're still in good shape, going back to the way
Speaker 1: we were, the way we are now. I would travel
Speaker 1: with that team to anyone's stadium and feel good about
Speaker 1: So we're out of time. Here are you gonna sit
Speaker 1: here in the studio as and watch the World Cup? Here?
Speaker 1: It's it's a must win game, right? Did you pronounce
Speaker 1: it right? So you don't get called out? Oh? Who
Speaker 1: got called out? Iran? Or Iran? Which Iran? Iran? Iran Iran?
Speaker 1: They call somebody? Somebody on the US team didn't see it.
Speaker 1: The captain, Oh, the captain and their their reporters called
Speaker 1: him out on it. Oh, you don't even know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce our country's name. Oh well, just apologizing and
Speaker 1: pronounce it correctly. What he did? What he did? Okay,
Speaker 1: we move on. Sorry, guys, if they give me are
Speaker 1: you watching it? It'll be on in the hallway up there,
Speaker 1: I think, Okay, I'll peek in. I mean, the reason
Speaker 1: people watch is because if you, you know, miss any
Speaker 1: of you, that that might be the only goal of
Speaker 1: the damn game. I'm just saying. And so a draw
Speaker 1: is not good enough. No, they gotta win. Gotta score
Speaker 1: a goal today, Gotta score now? Is Iran? Are they
Speaker 1: a good team? They beat Whales? Whales? Right? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: we tied h yeah, and we tied England and we
Speaker 1: tied England too. Yeah, now that was a good tie,
Speaker 1: okay from what I okay, see, because England's a good team. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: has to be really good. Yeah, we got this, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so there you got it. We got our
Speaker 1: predictions in. You got you a pick to click? Nod
Speaker 1: not America USA, that's all police. Is that his name?
Speaker 1: Your pick to click? Hes my pick to click, because
Speaker 1: that's the one. He's from here. There's three from here,
Speaker 1: m mc mc McKinney, Weston McKinney. Yeah, here's another one,
Speaker 1: the Colony or something, a little album nice all right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's his name? Weston McKinney, Tay sous Ferrera. They've got
Speaker 1: black guys on the team. Yeah, what's his name? I
Speaker 1: think the kind at the captain. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: the captain Oh, it's a lot of cool nod. We're
Speaker 1: way past time, way past our league on this. Nate
Speaker 1: Newton in the game will be able to give you
Speaker 1: updates on the World Cup. Nate in Frisco will give
Speaker 1: you updates on the World Cup as they do their
Speaker 1: show starting at one o'clock, and we'll chat at you
Speaker 1: again tomorrow here on Mix Shot Cowboys. This has been
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