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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Half now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Now it's officially Rams Week at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, as the Cowboys hit the practice field
Speaker 1: earnest preparations for the season opener against the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Rams at SOFI Stadium on Sunday night. Welcome to Mick Shots,
Speaker 1: Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls, and it's
Speaker 1: about time we played some football. We are on the
Speaker 1: eve of the start of the National Football League season,
Speaker 1: as the Texas are traveling to Kansas City today to
Speaker 1: take on the Super Bowl champion Chiefs on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: It is here, guys. Hopefully they're traveling safely too. By
Speaker 1: the way, I can't believe. I can't believe that the
Speaker 1: season is even starting. You guys know I was the
Speaker 1: pessimist of the group. I must be. I'm amazed that
Speaker 1: the NFL has actually gotten the schedule going and we'll
Speaker 1: about to watch some football. I'm as happy as Bill.
Speaker 1: I'm as happy as Bill Jones now. And the Cowboys
Speaker 1: actually got there first official regular season practice in today
Speaker 1: this morning and they just finished up. So they went
Speaker 1: about oh an hour and forty five minutes today outdoors
Speaker 1: on top of it on that new field, and we
Speaker 1: are anxiously anticipating the first injury reports of the sea. Yeah, right, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I wonder when the official ones will come out, but
Speaker 1: I could at least tell you who was there and
Speaker 1: who wasn't. Uh. Chitubey A Woozier uh and Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: were participating in practice, along with Luke Gifford, by the way,
Speaker 1: and he'd been out for a couple of weeks. Uh,
Speaker 1: so those three guys were in there. Uh, Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: got back in practice the offensive tackle uh and Brandon
Speaker 1: Carr was out there, so uh he must have been
Speaker 1: in pretty darn good shape because they had him in
Speaker 1: a helmet and uh he was going through the drills
Speaker 1: and actually going through uh some of the well the
Speaker 1: skeleton team stuff that the defense was doing. And he
Speaker 1: was at safety by the way, so uh so he
Speaker 1: is he is not on He's on the practice squad
Speaker 1: still technically, but you know he's a guy if they
Speaker 1: decide that they need him on Sunday, they can promote
Speaker 1: him to the to the roster on game day. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I checked on those salary sites and his dollery is
Speaker 1: the maximum of a veteran can get on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: which is twelve thousand dollars a week. So I would
Speaker 1: imagine if they at some point promote him to the
Speaker 1: fifty three, he'll get at least at least the veteran minimum,
Speaker 1: which I believe this year for a guy that has
Speaker 1: ten years in the league is minimum base is one
Speaker 1: point three million. So but yeah, he was out there.
Speaker 1: So the only people that I didn't see practicing that
Speaker 1: was on the fifty three man roster was Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: He was still working on the resistant chords. And everybody
Speaker 1: can take a deep breath because Amari Cooper was out
Speaker 1: there participating in the portion of practice that everybody was
Speaker 1: able to watch. Now, one thing they also came out
Speaker 1: yesterday the first well I don't know how official it is,
Speaker 1: but it is a depth shark I got released yesterday
Speaker 1: and there was much uh consternation in the local media
Speaker 1: about that depth chart because there were only ten starters
Speaker 1: listed on as Mickey Mike McCarthy still at work, right,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna know what we're doing with that other spot.
Speaker 1: But I think if I if I counted him right,
Speaker 1: they did have five. They did have five. Don't despair there,
Speaker 1: um Yeah, and you know, and it's it's probably going
Speaker 1: to be another wide receiver. But they didn't want to
Speaker 1: say they're going three wide and they didn't want to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't want to. They didn't want to tell the
Speaker 1: Rams what formation they coming out in, what first all
Speaker 1: they were using on the first and not have a
Speaker 1: fullback out there, so I try they didn't have They
Speaker 1: only had one tied end on the depth chart, they
Speaker 1: only first team, they only had two wide receivers, no fullback,
Speaker 1: and so they're not gonna tip their hand and what
Speaker 1: formation they're coming out in. And I noticed on Twitter
Speaker 1: the other concern was is they had, uh they only
Speaker 1: have two linebackers out there because they listed Alden Smith
Speaker 1: as a linebacker. Uh so uh, it's like, look, I
Speaker 1: like that. I like I like the fact that they
Speaker 1: threw it out there that Okay, their speculation we might
Speaker 1: be in a three four defense, Okay, chew on this row. Yeah, exactly. So,
Speaker 1: uh no, no secrets getting out of here at the
Speaker 1: Star at this point and a lot of deceptions. Tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm loving this. I'm loving this bill past sales, throwback
Speaker 1: mode that we're in, you know, with all the gamesmanship
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with, I love it. Man. They're using
Speaker 1: and unfortunate situation which caused a lot of concern for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. But you know, only a good
Speaker 1: coach is going to use it to your advantage so
Speaker 1: that we can have as many advantages that we can
Speaker 1: have during this ballgame. This is this is a throwback
Speaker 1: type situation. You know. Ever since I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this when I when I heard some complaining in the media,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, at some point, you're
Speaker 1: gonna wish Jason Garrett was back here. He was much
Speaker 1: more open about injuries, he was much more open about
Speaker 1: where guys were gonna play, and mccarthury ain't given away nothing.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we first met him back in January,
Speaker 1: it was it was a really informative meeting that he
Speaker 1: had with the people that covered the team on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. And somebody asked me about it, and you
Speaker 1: know how it went and I said, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: really good. He's a nice straight shooter. And he goes, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: don't get used to it, because I heard from the
Speaker 1: guys that cover the team in Green Bay he doesn't
Speaker 1: give up anything once the season starts, and I think
Speaker 1: we're starting and seeing that was my question. I was
Speaker 1: wondering if anyone had talked to the guys that covered
Speaker 1: the team, yeah, doing the off season and when all
Speaker 1: this was going on, is this something that you yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely yeah, And he's uh, and he's pretty good when
Speaker 1: he and I don't know if it's the technology that
Speaker 1: it's kind of messing up with the press conferences. But
Speaker 1: at the end, if he gets a question when it's
Speaker 1: almost done, and I don't think he likes it, it's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't you hear that? Well, we gotta go to
Speaker 1: my wife all the time. Man, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: you like Bill Parcels. He would just start telling a
Speaker 1: story and the story would be so good you forgot
Speaker 1: what the question was. That's what check out the end
Speaker 1: of today's press conference and Mickey's alluding to right there
Speaker 1: because he got he got the last question, which was
Speaker 1: something about protocol on the sidelines or something, and then
Speaker 1: he decided in his own mind that was going to
Speaker 1: be the last question, but before it signed off, Okay,
Speaker 1: he said, Rich said that was the last question, so
Speaker 1: unlike Jason have to point out that's an endor and
Speaker 1: he would walk off. Speaking of his press conference, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good press conference today. I thought
Speaker 1: I thought he was revealing on kind of what he
Speaker 1: told the team in their meeting today and the emphasis
Speaker 1: on not losing games, making mistakes that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and just the in general the mindset of what the
Speaker 1: expectations are here in Dallas. He said it from day
Speaker 1: one when he got the job, that he embraces the
Speaker 1: high expectations super Bowl expectations that they should have here
Speaker 1: in Dallas and uh and he talked on him. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I thought that was that was probably the best part
Speaker 1: of the press conference because I think the question he
Speaker 1: got was do you worry about the expectations of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys because they're always high? And he basically said, no,
Speaker 1: that's what the expectations should be. I'm not coming in here,
Speaker 1: he said, I'm not one of these guys that under
Speaker 1: what was it sells and over promotes overproducers yeah, he goes,
Speaker 1: I expect us to produce and I don't come in
Speaker 1: here in men's words. So you know, he basically pointed out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: my expectation is to come here and win every game
Speaker 1: and so and he goes, And that's what every team
Speaker 1: in the league's probably thinking. So yeah, I thought that
Speaker 1: was a really good part of the press conference today
Speaker 1: and maybe as revealing as he's been since this week began.
Speaker 1: You know, when you think about coaches, new coaches coming
Speaker 1: in and you hear those press conferences, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you just hear it just sounds like they're just saying
Speaker 1: words because that coach may not be proven. This coach
Speaker 1: has proven. Coach McCarthy has been there before. He's won
Speaker 1: with some of the better players in history, one of
Speaker 1: the better quarterbacks, probably go down to one of the
Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in history. But what you have to understand
Speaker 1: is he knows what the formula is to win. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're talk talk about going all the way to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, Guys, you've been a part of this
Speaker 1: fadge bill. You've been a part of it. We've seen
Speaker 1: it with the Cowboys. I was there with the Giants.
Speaker 1: It takes a special group and a lot of luck
Speaker 1: as well to go to a super Bowl. This team
Speaker 1: has what they need to go. All they need is
Speaker 1: the leadership itself. And I like what he said during
Speaker 1: the press conference. We cannot beat ourselves. You guys heard
Speaker 1: me talk about it this past week about how we
Speaker 1: need all three fasts of the game. But what we
Speaker 1: also don't need or a bunch of penalties that are
Speaker 1: going to take us out of position and put us
Speaker 1: in situations and all of a sudden, that kind of
Speaker 1: becomes the culture. Like last year with the Cowboys, there
Speaker 1: were many games, big games where we're trying to make
Speaker 1: a comeback after putting ourselves in a tough position, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, untimely penalty stops us on a
Speaker 1: big play, stops us on a touchdown. You can ask
Speaker 1: Reddy Cop we handle Cop about that one in regards
Speaker 1: to how many touchdowns will call back just on his yardsties.
Speaker 1: We got right happy about that. I'm not gonna feel
Speaker 1: too sorry for him. But at the same time, for
Speaker 1: as far as the team is concerned, those touchdowns could
Speaker 1: have meant a lot and made a big difference in
Speaker 1: the Cowboys season. Weren't If it weren't for those penalties.
Speaker 1: Sort of like you hope the Stars learned last night
Speaker 1: with the amount of penalties they took in that hockey game.
Speaker 1: You just don't want that to be a culture, uh
Speaker 1: in regards to losing games and how Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: like the fact also Bill and Everson that he brought
Speaker 1: it when he was asked about the Rams in last
Speaker 1: year's game. He said, hey, we broke it down. We
Speaker 1: showed him basically why you scored forty four points. Uh,
Speaker 1: And he goes, you know, and we and that's the
Speaker 1: way you got to be able to play. And I
Speaker 1: had forgotten that they scored forty four points against that
Speaker 1: Rams team. It was towards the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And you know that he said, well, yeah, it could
Speaker 1: create motivation, but for the uh, for the Rams. But
Speaker 1: you know, nothing they can do about that now, you know.
Speaker 1: You know. You look at it though, and with the
Speaker 1: changes that have occurred on that Rams team in this offseason,
Speaker 1: not only in personnel on the playing field, but also
Speaker 1: in their coaching staff even more so than usual, I
Speaker 1: don't think that you can take much out of what
Speaker 1: happened late in the season last year. Though that was
Speaker 1: a big a big loss from the Rams perspective because
Speaker 1: it basically knocked him out of a chance of getting
Speaker 1: back into playoffs last year. Uh, you know, it's interesting,
Speaker 1: you know Wade Phillips, and we'll get more into it
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days into the game planning.
Speaker 1: It goes into into this one. But you know, Wade
Speaker 1: Phillips is no longer the defensive coordinator. Brandon Staley is
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, thirty nine years old in his first
Speaker 1: year as a DC. And McCarthy in this in the
Speaker 1: in the Packers staff. Members of this staff who were
Speaker 1: with the Packers have some familiarity because he comes from
Speaker 1: the Vic Fangio school. He was an assistant under Fangio
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears for a couple of years, then
Speaker 1: last year with the Broncos. And so when when Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy talks about the differences in that the three four
Speaker 1: defense that Phillips runs has compared to Fangio, I think
Speaker 1: that's what he was talking. And he also pointed out
Speaker 1: that from a personnel standpoint that you know, they've got
Speaker 1: two assistant coaches that were with the Rams last year,
Speaker 1: Skiff Pete, John fossil So they got a little insider
Speaker 1: information on personnel. Now, you don't know how they're going
Speaker 1: to use some of these guys, but you can pick
Speaker 1: their brains and say, Okay, what does this guy do?
Speaker 1: What are his tendencies? Uh, And that's some pretty good
Speaker 1: intel going into the first game, even though you don't
Speaker 1: have any tape on this team. I think that helps
Speaker 1: out from a player to players standpoint. Those guys know
Speaker 1: and I've said Staley's thirty nine years old, He's only
Speaker 1: thirty seven and first time as a DC in this league,
Speaker 1: so we'll callin plays for the first time. That's an
Speaker 1: interesting element here in this first game. And then McCarthy
Speaker 1: also talking about Sean McVay, the respect that he has
Speaker 1: for McVay, the success that he has had at such
Speaker 1: a young age, early in his career as a head coach,
Speaker 1: and they've gone up against each other a few times.
Speaker 1: McVay now going into his fourth year as the Rams
Speaker 1: head coach. Jared Goff's had a couple of big games
Speaker 1: against those Packer teams, three hundred yard passing games. So
Speaker 1: I think that McCarthy, although I don't know that he
Speaker 1: was asked about golf per se today, I think he
Speaker 1: has a lot of respect for golf and what the
Speaker 1: Rams on the Cowboys defense is probably thanking God that
Speaker 1: those two running backs that ran over him in the
Speaker 1: playoff game are no longer there. I was like govermenting
Speaker 1: that about the personnels bads, because boy, they lost some
Speaker 1: good ones. They really did. Those are to me, when
Speaker 1: you talk about two of the three very integral parts
Speaker 1: of their team, you go to the free safety part
Speaker 1: of it as well. In the secondary they just lost
Speaker 1: I believe his name is Eric Whittle, a great free
Speaker 1: safety for the Rams. This guy's uh, you know, he's
Speaker 1: not there anymore, and they've gonna have to fill that
Speaker 1: sitch that position in very well. That's a key position,
Speaker 1: especially when you're going up against the top offense. And
Speaker 1: last year, yeah, they also had one of their starting
Speaker 1: linebackers get hurt and they had to put him on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. I think it was Travian Howard was slated
Speaker 1: to start, so they won't have him either to TEU.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well but again, you know, as we keep saying,
Speaker 1: we'll see, because we haven't seen a lot yet. No
Speaker 1: one isn't anything yet. And Jalen Ramsey is a very
Speaker 1: happy man. We get into that and much more in
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Speaker 1: in movies back in the day? Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: We had a drive in theater on one block over
Speaker 1: from where we lived. It was the greatest thing in
Speaker 1: the world. When we got old enough to stay out
Speaker 1: after the sun went down. And what we would do is,
Speaker 1: so you know, our our our house faced the other way,
Speaker 1: and then there was neighbors behind us, and then the
Speaker 1: drive in. So uh during during the day or maybe
Speaker 1: at night. Uh, we'd sneaked the Brave Ones underneath the fence.
Speaker 1: During the day, we'd dig a hole so we can
Speaker 1: go crawl underneath the fence, and we'd said the Brave
Speaker 1: Ones in and they would go and turn the speakers
Speaker 1: up on the ones where there was no cars. Right,
Speaker 1: so we could sit on the curb across the street
Speaker 1: and watch the movies. Uh. And if I remember correctly, Um,
Speaker 1: it was Planet of the Apes and those everyone I
Speaker 1: was going to say when the Planet of the Apes
Speaker 1: first came out it was X rated, I think. And
Speaker 1: so we we sat on the corner and watched the
Speaker 1: Planet of the Apes. Now it might have taken two
Speaker 1: days because depending on which way the wind was blowing,
Speaker 1: we could hear or we couldn't hear. And then the
Speaker 1: real Brave Ones we sent him to the concession standing
Speaker 1: get his popcorn. Well, there was nothing like the gym.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows about the Gem and I drive in theater.
Speaker 1: I know, Bill, you remember that. You got to remember
Speaker 1: the Gem and I drive in theaters right off a
Speaker 1: central expressway. Remember, right, awesome Hamilton Park. We could we
Speaker 1: could we could sit on we could also set on
Speaker 1: our porches. They had three screens. Uh, spags, so you
Speaker 1: could sit on your porch and you could see a
Speaker 1: screen or two, especially from Cherrell's house. She was right
Speaker 1: there across the street. And we were so bold we
Speaker 1: didn't because I guess we lived right there. We didn't
Speaker 1: really care about sneaking in. We would just bummer USh
Speaker 1: the gate and we would climb the fences. You know,
Speaker 1: we had the fences like uh, like what the yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what we had. Yeah, had the Cold Good medal.
Speaker 1: And that's how I learned how to climb fences so well,
Speaker 1: because you had to. You had to be good if
Speaker 1: they caught you. When you got caught at the top
Speaker 1: of the fence, usually someone was gonna kick you back out.
Speaker 1: But once you've made it to that concession stands fags,
Speaker 1: then you were all its over. It was over your
Speaker 1: end there him. But those are the best times of
Speaker 1: Gem and I drive in theater, had a great time.
Speaker 1: One more funny one more funny thing is we'd see
Speaker 1: the neighbors because they charged you per person, right, So
Speaker 1: what the neighbors would do is they'd have a couple
Speaker 1: that would drive in, but the other couple that would
Speaker 1: be in the back seat, they put them in the
Speaker 1: trunk so they could sneak it and not pay for
Speaker 1: the other two admissions. I don't say that we did that,
Speaker 1: but I'll say I had some friends who did that.
Speaker 1: We had Gem and I drive in at Gem and
Speaker 1: I it was a dollar a call old just a dollar.
Speaker 1: And so however many people you could put in the car,
Speaker 1: Devil's great. But of course they didn't know about the
Speaker 1: ones in the trunk. So yes, bag that was Universal
Speaker 1: and Mickey. At the one eighty three drive in and
Speaker 1: irving just down the highway from Texas Stadium, we weren't
Speaker 1: worried about turning up the speakers. We just sit outside
Speaker 1: and watch the movies from outside, if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. We didn't need any sound. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean one more note on drive in theaters. Everson,
Speaker 1: do you remember when Texas Stadium had drive in movie theaters?
Speaker 1: I'd working light there. That's right, This is a throwback
Speaker 1: at the Star now, all right, time fum to come back,
Speaker 1: time fum to come back. That's right. That's that's one
Speaker 1: of the one good thing that has come out of
Speaker 1: the pandemic. One all right, Jalen Ramsey is smiling ear
Speaker 1: to ear one hundred and five million dollars something like
Speaker 1: twenty one and a half million a year, And that's
Speaker 1: almost as much as Everson made in his entire career
Speaker 1: in the All right, oh boy, I thought I was
Speaker 1: so proud of my contract. I had an annuity. Was whoo,
Speaker 1: you're having annuity? Nowadays, no one needs annuity. Just give
Speaker 1: me all my money. Now I don't have my own annuity. Now,
Speaker 1: it's got to be an amazing thing. Uh. We saw
Speaker 1: how Deshaun Watson reacted to his contract and how emotional
Speaker 1: that was for him. Uh, that's just the way he
Speaker 1: was as a person. That's just his his uh, you know, temperament.
Speaker 1: But when you look at Jalen Ramsey, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys would call his last year in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I think it was he pulled up in a he
Speaker 1: pulled up in the bricks truck with music and dancing girls.
Speaker 1: If i'm if, I might add with video music and
Speaker 1: all of that. So the difference between those two is just,
Speaker 1: you know, it covers the spectrum. But he's a guy
Speaker 1: that that will clearly live up to his contract. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is never I can't remember him having any offseason
Speaker 1: to where he had a you know, gave up an
Speaker 1: unusual amount of plays. This is a guy that has
Speaker 1: been deserving his money for a long time. You know,
Speaker 1: as a defensive back and as a as a form
Speaker 1: of player, you want to you pull for guys who
Speaker 1: get that money, but you also want to see them
Speaker 1: live up to it. And I think he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's going to live up to it, despite the fact
Speaker 1: he only had one interception last year. Everson, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he shut down. He shut down a whole lot of
Speaker 1: wide receivers. You you find me one wide receiver that
Speaker 1: talks trash about Jalen Ramsey, and I'll give him a
Speaker 1: lot of credit because he must have gotten something done
Speaker 1: because Jalen shuts him down. He shuts him down, and
Speaker 1: he only needs forty seven more interception than in his
Speaker 1: career to match everything loss. He'll get there. He'll take
Speaker 1: a while, but he'll get there, all right. Speaking of contracts,
Speaker 1: a couple of as far as what the Cowboys are concerned,
Speaker 1: let's start with Randy Gregory gets a contract extension yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did, Bill and it was basically a one year deal.
Speaker 1: And you know what they and and when you look
Speaker 1: at it, you know what they did, he's gonna he
Speaker 1: would have been on He's still on his old contract.
Speaker 1: So next year, providing everything works out this year, he
Speaker 1: would be a restricted free agent, and you know, the
Speaker 1: restricted free agent tender for a guy like him was
Speaker 1: going to be at least two points some million second round, right,
Speaker 1: So what they did is they basically advanced him two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand for this year. And because he hadn't been
Speaker 1: getting paid, Remember, they tried to sign him to an
Speaker 1: extension while he was suspended, and the NFL said, nah,
Speaker 1: he can't do that. So basically, next year he's gonna
Speaker 1: make what he would have normally made as a restricted
Speaker 1: free agent at your original draft choice. So it helps
Speaker 1: him out because you know, he's getting paid week to
Speaker 1: week and I'm sure he paid dearly to go through
Speaker 1: the rehab that he had to go through to be
Speaker 1: able to you know, recover and get reinstated. So basically
Speaker 1: kind of did him a favor and gave him some
Speaker 1: money ahead of time. And the Zach Martin restructure, what
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys gained eight million dollars to the salary
Speaker 1: cap this year and everybody's like, oh, whoa, what are
Speaker 1: they going to use it for it. Well, that eight
Speaker 1: million gives him about twenty million under the cap meeting.
Speaker 1: That's what they have left. And normally they like to
Speaker 1: keep ten to twelve in reserve for things that come up,
Speaker 1: like you got to pay a guy goes on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: you got to replace him. There's another salary. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine they're going to keep Brandon car on a practice
Speaker 1: squad salary of twelve thousand dollars a week, which is
Speaker 1: what he's on right now, because when he moves to
Speaker 1: the fifty three, he's got a he's got at least
Speaker 1: make the minimum, and so you know, and the minimum
Speaker 1: for a guy that's got ten years in like he does,
Speaker 1: it's it's about a million and a half a year.
Speaker 1: So there's more expenditure there, so you gotta have a cushion.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing, you guys, what you can
Speaker 1: do is if you end up under the cap and
Speaker 1: you don't use it all, then you can use it
Speaker 1: next year. And they may need it next year just
Speaker 1: because of what happens with the pandemic and not making
Speaker 1: as much money off the turnstiles. You know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will get some allowing fans in, but like this weekend
Speaker 1: and Rams ain't making anything because got a brand new
Speaker 1: seventy two thousand seat stadium and they're not letting fans
Speaker 1: in and that's something you share with the visiting team
Speaker 1: and there's no share there. So the revenue is going
Speaker 1: to go down next year, the cat might go down.
Speaker 1: We got to see how it plays out, and you
Speaker 1: know what, and then what would you would you think?
Speaker 1: So it only the pro ration, So they take that
Speaker 1: that money they saved giving him the money up front,
Speaker 1: and they pro rated over the length of the contract,
Speaker 1: so it really only adds to the contract another one
Speaker 1: point eight million a year because he had a pretty
Speaker 1: lengthy contract already. I think what I was my question was, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's say we went into another situation where we bring
Speaker 1: in a guy like Cooper the way we did a
Speaker 1: few years ago. Would that money be enough? You know,
Speaker 1: would it make a difference in bringing someone else in
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys might feel that they needed that was
Speaker 1: out there on the market, depending depending on ever since,
Speaker 1: on how much the guy's base salary is, because that's
Speaker 1: all if you trade for a guy, you don't trade
Speaker 1: for the pro ration on the siding bonus. You just
Speaker 1: trade for the base salaries, so you know, you know
Speaker 1: had they I'll just give you an example, since everybody
Speaker 1: talking about Earl Thomas, you know, his base salary for
Speaker 1: this year was a guaranteed ten million dollars, so if
Speaker 1: you traded for him, he would you would hit ten
Speaker 1: million immediately on your salary cap. So you got to
Speaker 1: be careful. Those things go into decisions to make trades
Speaker 1: or not make trades. And if I remember correctly, when
Speaker 1: they traded for Amari Cooper, he was still on his
Speaker 1: first year salary, I mean his first contract, his rookie contracts,
Speaker 1: so the base salary wasn't prohibitive to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I can't give you all I gave you because I
Speaker 1: gotta pay that contract. You've got to give me some
Speaker 1: draft choice relief, so that all goes into it. And
Speaker 1: for the team that does the trading, you know, the
Speaker 1: rest of his pro rated signing bonus all escalates into
Speaker 1: the salary cap immediately. So depending on how much you
Speaker 1: had left, you got to take that on on your
Speaker 1: salary cap. So to make a trade, you better have
Speaker 1: some money left under the cap and no one more
Speaker 1: thing on contracts. A lot of talk about Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: signing his contract and comparing it with Dak and Mickey,
Speaker 1: that truly is apples and oranges, considering the fact that
Speaker 1: Watson had two years left on his contract. The numbers
Speaker 1: are out now on Watson's contract, and I think you
Speaker 1: alluded to this or mentioned it yesterday, but just to
Speaker 1: inhas reemphasize it. The numbers that I'm looking at. Rather
Speaker 1: than a four year, one hundred and fifty six million
Speaker 1: dollar extension, it really is a four year, one hundred
Speaker 1: eleven point eight nine million dollar contract. Because the Texans
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, after four years can get out
Speaker 1: of that contact with just a five point four million
Speaker 1: dollar dead cap hit in twenty twenty four, and so
Speaker 1: the average that is around what twenty eight million dollars
Speaker 1: rather than the forty million dollars. Yeah, absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: and no one, no one, And I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's not that hard to look that stuff up, right,
Speaker 1: but everybody wants to put out there what the agent
Speaker 1: wants out there, four years, one hundred and sixty million. Well, no,
Speaker 1: he's still got two years on his original contract, so
Speaker 1: it's a six year deal, and you take what they
Speaker 1: owed him for the next two years and base salary
Speaker 1: added to the one fifty six and you don't get
Speaker 1: more than one eighty and six years at one eighties
Speaker 1: thirty million, So I don't know that that just blows
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys were offering Dak right out of the
Speaker 1: out of the water. It's basically he got a nice contract.
Speaker 1: And the key thing for those guys that Dak and
Speaker 1: his people didn't value is he just got guaranteed that money.
Speaker 1: And he got a twenty seven million dollars signing bonus
Speaker 1: in the bank today, which Dad could have had fifty
Speaker 1: million in the bank today, but that wasn't enough. And
Speaker 1: so you know, to me, and I've always said this,
Speaker 1: and I hadn't changed my mind. Not knowing if you
Speaker 1: were going to play this year or not not knowing
Speaker 1: what the money was going to be. To get fifty
Speaker 1: million in the bank in April May June, boy, that's
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Speaker 1: you for taking more time off the clock. I like
Speaker 1: that fad. That's a good slick way to do it.
Speaker 1: Man says we're at a loss of time. Think we're
Speaker 1: at a loss of time. Job. One thing that was
Speaker 1: brought up in uh Mike McCarthy's press conference are the
Speaker 1: sideline protocols and only eight in the box at this
Speaker 1: new stadium in Lackey, Bill. There's a lot of protocols
Speaker 1: that they've got to adhere to. UH. Number one, after
Speaker 1: you get past the players on your traveling squad, UH,
Speaker 1: you're only allowed seventy more people to travel. And that
Speaker 1: includes an entire coaching staff that numbers like twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty and anybody else you bring along. Also, there's
Speaker 1: a limit to how many people can be in the
Speaker 1: bench area that aren't coaches or aren't medical people. You
Speaker 1: got to count all these folks and they've they've only
Speaker 1: got so many. And you've got to be in tier
Speaker 1: one or tier two to be in that area, which
Speaker 1: means which means you got to be you're you're one
Speaker 1: of the people that are being tested daily daily. UH.
Speaker 1: And if and if anybody's gonna go with you that
Speaker 1: hasn't been tested daily, you better start this week early
Speaker 1: and start getting tested, uh, if you're gonna be on
Speaker 1: the field. So field access is going to be really restricted.
Speaker 1: Along with the size of the booth. They're only going
Speaker 1: to allow so many in there, so they're not packed
Speaker 1: in there like sardines. Uh. And and they got to
Speaker 1: try to social distance. So there's a lot of protocols
Speaker 1: that the coaches the players have to adhere to. UH
Speaker 1: not to mention the testing that will go on before
Speaker 1: they get on the plane, and then after they get
Speaker 1: to the hotel, uh, they're not allowed to leave, and
Speaker 1: they're not allowed to have their buffet dinner or as
Speaker 1: a team dinner. Everything's got to be individual either contactless
Speaker 1: delivery or room service to your room, or if you're
Speaker 1: gonna use the restaurant in the hotel for the guys
Speaker 1: to eat at, the restaurant has to close down to
Speaker 1: the public. So there's a lot of restrictions for teams traveling,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine the teams tomorrow are are going
Speaker 1: to be the first ones they have to go through
Speaker 1: all this. So if the players got to order a
Speaker 1: room service, how much perdem are they getting? Are you
Speaker 1: ever tried to order room service in La there? Per
Speaker 1: diem will more than cover it. We used to get
Speaker 1: We used to get one like twenty one padium and
Speaker 1: then we would all gambler the way on the plane,
Speaker 1: on the way to wear we were going. So the
Speaker 1: twenty one dollars didn't really mean much at all, all right,
Speaker 1: So get ready the Patriots play the Dolphins, and of course,
Speaker 1: a former Patriots assistant coach, Brian Flores, the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins. I guarantee you there's gonna be sideline
Speaker 1: gate coming out of the Patriots game this weekend. Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick's gonna have too many people and on the sideline,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do some counting. I'll guarantee you. They probably
Speaker 1: only give out so many passes. So if you if
Speaker 1: you have too many on the sideline, is it a
Speaker 1: sideline violation? Can you get penalized during the game? What's
Speaker 1: what's the enforcement people on the field. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like hockey, right, when you make a bad game, they
Speaker 1: would probably they would probably get fined. They would probably
Speaker 1: get fined afterwards, maybe right. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they would penalize them there. I think they would
Speaker 1: probably find them after the game. There'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of video searching to see who kept up with all
Speaker 1: the priorities and things of that nature. I want to
Speaker 1: ask about the you know, like when they once they
Speaker 1: come off the field doing timeout SPADs. I see it
Speaker 1: in NBA where they try to keep a little social distancing,
Speaker 1: but the only dealing with about five to seven people
Speaker 1: at a time. You know, now you're looking at at
Speaker 1: least eleven guys that are going to be huddled up.
Speaker 1: Let's say they have a timeout. Something important is going on.
Speaker 1: They're not trying to social distance with eleven guys in football, uniflies,
Speaker 1: are they? I mean I don't think so. I mean
Speaker 1: you mean, like if there's a time out and you
Speaker 1: bring out the whole offense to the sideline to talk, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I have seen anything on that, but they
Speaker 1: have suggested heavily if you're on the sideline to you know,
Speaker 1: wear a mask. They're not gonna mandate it, but they're
Speaker 1: heavily suggesting. And Mike McCarthy talked about that the other
Speaker 1: day about you know, him getting used to coaching with
Speaker 1: the mask on from the sideline. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm in a like Kellen Moore, you know you
Speaker 1: gotta call plays boy, you better practice enunciating with a
Speaker 1: mask on, if that's what you've got to do talking
Speaker 1: to the court back right, you can't understand, you can't
Speaker 1: understand anybody. Yeah, everything is muffled. It's well, there's no
Speaker 1: cry to worry about. Say, they don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the noise, but I'm sure they'll have some type
Speaker 1: of pipe music coming in well. And so when you
Speaker 1: look at that, I think that would be a that's
Speaker 1: a major concern to me. And it's not just doing
Speaker 1: timeouts bags. It's like when the defense comes off the field,
Speaker 1: we gotta get together and talk about it, you know.
Speaker 1: And so once we're doing that, you're not just dealing
Speaker 1: with eleven guys. You're dealing with more because you got
Speaker 1: substitutions that'll come in on third down, so you have
Speaker 1: to deal with those that personnel. You have to deal
Speaker 1: with the guys that are backing up, and you might
Speaker 1: be shuttling in different players different positions. That kind of
Speaker 1: thing seems a little dangerous because these players, they're not
Speaker 1: in a bubble the way the NBA was. They didn't
Speaker 1: bring in their families until playoff time. But but here
Speaker 1: you've got players going back home after the games. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you look at the NBA when
Speaker 1: they when they have a timeout, they huddle up there.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got guys that sit the extras are
Speaker 1: sitting in their seats, but the coaches in the middle
Speaker 1: of a huddle with five or six guys, and I
Speaker 1: would imagine, you know, I just think with the amount
Speaker 1: of testing, because these guys have to have to test
Speaker 1: on Friday, they have to test on Saturday before they
Speaker 1: get on the plane, and then Sunday. From what I've read,
Speaker 1: you've got to do a temperature check before you leave
Speaker 1: the hotel, and then you got to do a temperature
Speaker 1: check before you enter the stadium. Now I understand you
Speaker 1: can probably pass the temperature check, can still be infected,
Speaker 1: but I think with that amount of precautions, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: once you get on the field, that you should be okay,
Speaker 1: and that's what they're hoping for. So yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So then in a situation like the Cowboys are in
Speaker 1: this week where they're traveling to LA, how many of
Speaker 1: the and not knowing for sure who's passing all those
Speaker 1: tests leading up to the time the charter leaves. Okay,
Speaker 1: how many on the practice squad are going to travel
Speaker 1: with the team in case they have a breakout? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I would imagine, you know, you're not going to
Speaker 1: take an extra sixteen guys because that'll count against your total,
Speaker 1: but you'll probably take some of those guys and at
Speaker 1: least take the four that you protected that no one
Speaker 1: could sign that you say, okay, these guys are important
Speaker 1: to what's going on. But you know, like even before that,
Speaker 1: you remember when Kellen Moore was traveling, he was on
Speaker 1: injured reserve and the Cowboys were bringing him along to
Speaker 1: be an extra set of eyes on the sideline. You
Speaker 1: can bring some of those guys, and you can bring
Speaker 1: you know, and you'll bring the guys and I would
Speaker 1: imagine everybody's gonna have eight offensive linemen so they could
Speaker 1: at least expand the game day roster to fifty five
Speaker 1: before you have to cut back to forty eight. So
Speaker 1: you'll have some extra guys. And the the testing on
Speaker 1: Saturday is a point of contact testing where you find
Speaker 1: out the results immediately. You don't have to wait twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. But so so there will be some practice
Speaker 1: squad guys that have their bags, I would think so
Speaker 1: and ready to go depending on those Saturday morning tests
Speaker 1: and Bakers Jerry, if they have to, they're flying standby.
Speaker 1: So if if they don't, if if the regular a
Speaker 1: guy on the fifty three or fifty five doesn't pass
Speaker 1: the test, then you get on the charter. Otherwise you
Speaker 1: got you gotta get on Jeremy. You have to get
Speaker 1: on Jerry's private plane if you're gonna come late. My
Speaker 1: questions bags is we used to have to If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, didn't we have to fly on the plane
Speaker 1: with you guys? Media on this plane? No media? So
Speaker 1: what what? So? How do you what do you guys?
Speaker 1: Do you guys? I think from from what I've been
Speaker 1: told from the guys at the newspapers, they're probably at
Speaker 1: least traveling to the first game because everybody's worried about
Speaker 1: the social injustice protests and if the TV doesn't show it,
Speaker 1: then you'll never see what took place. So I think
Speaker 1: they want their guys there. But after that, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much they're going to travel. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at what's going on with the hockey UH
Speaker 1: and the NBA. The NBA only let so many media
Speaker 1: people into the bubble, uh, the NHL not very many.
Speaker 1: And I think the local newspapers here did not send
Speaker 1: anybody to Edmonton to cover the stars. They're doing it
Speaker 1: off a TV and the virtual interviews, so and you
Speaker 1: know what, and even if you drop into the game,
Speaker 1: you're going to listen to the interviews. In the press
Speaker 1: box because they're not going to let you in the
Speaker 1: locker room. The only people being yeah, you can't even
Speaker 1: get down on that level. And there's no and I
Speaker 1: can tell you the TV stations, none of the TV
Speaker 1: stations are sending there's no hanging out on the field beforehand,
Speaker 1: uh during warmups either that's all been restricted, right and
Speaker 1: the other thing and we gotta we gotta go. But
Speaker 1: for local TV stations, there's no access down on the field.
Speaker 1: They're up in the stands shooting at a low level
Speaker 1: what they and they're in a stationary spot and usually
Speaker 1: they would roam the sidelines and not anymore, not not
Speaker 1: during this. All right, how does it for mick shots?
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down those matchups? Everson is all prepared
Speaker 1: for this tomorrow Cowboys versus Rams, Mick shots again one
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