WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Time To Rebound 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.760 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:13.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Nick 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:17.959 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:23.239 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.680 and Nicky Spagnola. I thought this was a Wednesday edition 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:36.520 of a Fabulous Football Fight Song. Friday edition Mick Shots, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:44.600 our last episode. There we go, Dallas. It's almost game 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.200 day here on Mick Shots. I mean we are looking 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.120 at twenty six and nine, exactly twenty seven hours away 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.240 from kickoff three thirty on Thanksgiving afternoon. I'm talking about 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.320 it being the first touch back of the game, right now, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.880 do you think, Well, I just think it's gotten to 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.440 be pretty silly. We get all fired up for the kickoff, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.560 right and everybody's standings, and then it's a touch back. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.360 It's so it's like it's ceremonial. Yeah right, it's yeah, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.160 that's all it is. That's all it's good for. It's 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.120 like the start of the game's anti climax until you see, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.280 I was kind of like the start of mix Shots 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:30.440 was anti clack. But let's go back now to be real. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.760 I'll kickoff coverage sucks? Can we say that? Can we 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.160 say that they get touch backs right man? Because they 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.479 they were giving the Chiefs offense great feel position. That's true, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.960 I mean every time. And that guy's pretty good too. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.920 Is remember his name Hardman? I thought it was Byron 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:52.160 Pringle that was returning. Yeah, we are inside the s 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.000 WBC podcast studio and we're getting your suck for the 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:02.120 Cowboys and the Raiders three thirty toon on CBS with 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.600 Jim Nance and Tony Romo on the call. And the 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.560 short work week is almost over. The Raiders probably boarding 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.640 a plane very quickly out west in Las Vegas, headed 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.720 this way, and the Cowboys are taking a shower and 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.320 eating the lunch there you go, all right, because they 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.280 already get us up to get us up to speed 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.560 on what's going on from behind the scenes. I can 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.800 tell you this much. I sure am glad. Chris Beam, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.560 our producer, sends out those alerts. Uh, this is the 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.440 first time I've ever noticed them on my iPad because 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.799 an hour ago, I'm sitting there at home, I got 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.040 family in town. I'm all distracted and everything. Okay, I 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.560 got an hour to prepare for mix shots and then 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.440 I get I see that alert. I'm like, oh, that's right, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.600 we're an hour early today. I quickly got dressed and 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.919 headed this way. We haven't distractable teammate. That's right, that's right, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.440 So bring me up to speed. All right, let's go. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:04.480 H Tyrant's uh practice. Um. You know, it was sort 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:08.680 of a cross between what they do on Saturday before 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.600 a Sunday game and what they do on Friday with 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:17.280 the mock game walkthrough. So uh, it was about i'd 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:22.839 say an hour almost an hour practice, maybe not quite. Yeah, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:28.519 it was an hour uh and uh and now they're ready. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:34.040 So Tyran Smith practiced. Uh. And as long as everything 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.760 went well today, he's playing tomorrow. Yeah, don't don't help 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.680 me in suspense. Uh. Now with uh ceedee lamb uh. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.440 He's he's practiced today. He was dressed for what they did. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.840 And as Mike McCarthy said, he needs to complete the 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:55.400 last component of the concussion protocol uh today and then 0:03:55.400 --> 0:04:00.440 he has to see the independent doctor the neurologists to 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.800 be the one that clears him. So so as everybody knows, um, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.960 and they can finalize it tomorrow. By the way, so 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.040 even if there's a you know, something that needs to 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.760 wait till tomorrow. They can do that. The Cowboys doctors 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.240 will will look at him, clear him, and then he's 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.120 got to go to the independent guy that's usually not 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.279 usually that is always on the sideline for these things 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.360 on game day. It's like once your doctor checks the 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.120 guy that shows that he has signs of a concussion, um, 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.480 the neurologist has to check him and that's the last 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.119 guy that has the say. So of course they probably 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.800 don't come around and until you get that diagnosis, and 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.479 then he probably comes and hangs around. I don't I 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.440 don't know if he might be there. No, he's on 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.640 the sideline the whole all the time, the whole game well, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.839 I mean practice. Oh now, no, he didn't know. He 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.360 would just go to the doctor and he would get 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.000 checked out. So that's the last hurdle. As Mike said, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.719 If he keeps progressing the way he has, were very hopeful. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:08.279 So um, that sounds you know, encouraging, but again it's 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.840 a concussion and you just really uh never know. Also, uh, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.520 they started the practice clock for DeMarcus Lawrence. Uh, he 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.039 was in practice today, so they get him going on 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.760 a kind of an easy pace. But by Sunday, he'll 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.599 be ready to go, And Mike McCarthy said, the goal 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.080 is to have him ready for New Orleans. So he 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.960 would have practiced yesterday, but he had a funeral to 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.400 attend um, so he got the workout in today and 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.240 then he'll get Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, he'll be able to 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.599 get Thursday, and also right before the game. Oh yeah, 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.880 he'll do that rehab and that's he can do whatever 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.400 the team does right right, So that that would be 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.640 the reason, a big reason why you would go ahead 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.960 and pull the trigger on it now right that it 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.279 shows they are really confident he'll be ready to go 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.680 next year. And Keane O'Neill was just talking about it. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.480 They said, you know what, just having his presence on 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.320 the sideline really helps, you know, He went and said, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.599 you know, we all know about his ability to stop 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.480 the run, we know about his ability to rush the quarterback, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:23.400 but just having his voice out there, his leadership he goes, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.400 makes a huge difference. And he thought the last couple 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.120 of games with him on the sideline really helped out 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:37.599 talking to Michael Parsons between possessions. So that's encouraging. Randy Gregory. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:44.960 It sounds like Washington would be his game. Same thing, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.520 which is the week after new or Yeah, so to 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.400 get another ten days so they can start his practice 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.080 thing and then I have him ready and Neville Gallimore. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:07:00.680 Maybe Washington, but sounds like more like the the next week, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.600 the next week, which is Giants, right, Giants. Yeah, So 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.320 you think about how dilapidated we were, really we are, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.320 I mean, you forget about these guys. Well, that's the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.760 thing coming out of the Kansas City game where yeah, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.840 Kansas City took it to the Cowboys on Sunday. But 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.840 then I'm looking at you know, Kansas City had you know, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.400 Matthew was hurt, and he went ahead and played on 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.560 Sunday because they needed to win. They were bunched up 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.680 in their division. They got the running back back Clyde 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.480 Edwards Hilaire as well, he had missed the previous five games. 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.440 But then you're coming out of this game and the 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.400 Cowboys had so many injured guys, and these aren't injured 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.040 guys that are out for the season. These are injured guys. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.240 They're about to get back here in the next couple 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.840 of weeks. I felt much better about where the Cowboys are, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.480 right now, I mean they played Kansas. It was a 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.320 nineteen to nine game. What you know what it wasn't 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.160 pleasing what Cowboys fans saw. But when you know what 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.480 you're getting back here, I mean you're looking at basically 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.320 four starters on your defense of line and Randy Gregory, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.720 DeMarcus Lawrence, Brent Urban and Neville Gallimore. You know that 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.040 are coming back. And then you played half the game 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.800 without CD. You played the full game with them without Amari, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.840 and they're coming back and how many games without Tyrant 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.320 and then Tyrant? Yeah, and then you're looking at the effort. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.040 To me, the effort kind of make you put these 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:21.680 the guys at the engine in the back of your 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.520 mind because the effort, you see, even though they took 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.080 it to them, they hung in there. I talked about 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.679 the game being boring. Boring games are because of good defense. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.760 That's what you want and if you could win boring, Yeah, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.520 but we also kept them from the fireworks, so to speak. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.200 And that's because our defense actually showed up. And with 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.920 a matter of fact, I've got a T shirt from 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.880 I think it was the late seventies Chicago White Sox 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.720 and it says winning ugly and They weren't pretty love, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.800 but they were just scrapped, scrapping around to try to 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.760 win games, winning and that's what and that's what Kansas 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.760 City did on somethday. They won ugly. But when you 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.640 look at the big picture of this Cowboy's roster, and 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.679 I think you compare it with Kansas City's roster even 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.360 I like where the Cowboys are right now, assuming everybody 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.080 comes back and they're healthy and they can finish strong. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.880 How about this that a hill sighting? Did I see 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:26.080 a hill sighting? Tristan Hill? Yes, he played that right. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.480 He's out there and he and he had a pressure, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.360 at least he did. So here's some words for cowboy 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.200 fan to live by. It came from Kean O'Neill and 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.800 he was asked what is he told the young guys 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.880 on the team, because you still have seven games to go, right, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.640 is still a long season. And what he said, I 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.560 think is a good advice for the cowboy fan. He said, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.040 I told him to stay in the present, let the 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:59.320 season take care of itself, don't start looking down the road, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.200 don't look in the future, focus on the next game. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.920 And I think that's what the Cowboy fan should think. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.120 Of right now, because everybody's worried about after a win, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.520 they're going to win the Super Bowl. After a loss, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.680 they're not going to even get into plays. Just let 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:19.079 the season play out. And part of the fun is 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.360 the is the path to the to the end of 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.400 the season, all right, And you too have to leave 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.199 early today, right, we do, and so we need to die. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.480 We're going to dive into the Raiders. We're going to 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.280 make picks. Anything else. You need to bring us up 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.880 to speed on here. Yes, And we also, I think 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:44.960 need to recognize the one year. Um gosh, it's not 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.440 an anniversary one year since Marcus Paul suffered his stroke. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.240 It was one year ago today and he passed away 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.560 the next day. So one year ago from the Cowboys 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:02.200 game on Thursday. So yeah, and if you think about it, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.160 that's when last year, at this time, the Cowboys world 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:11.800 came to a standstill. They called off practice on Tuesday, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.280 they did very little on Wednesday after they found out 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.080 that he did pass away. Twenty three years as a 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.360 coach in the NFL, he had been a player, And 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.120 as Mike McCarthy said, we've got eighty four guys in 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.040 the locker room and forty of them weren't here last year. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.400 They didn't know Marcus Paul and they had a special 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:42.679 he made a special presentation about him yes yesterday Tuesday, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.520 just trying to tell him. You know what he was 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.240 about the fact that he coached that long in the 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.959 NFL had five Super Bowls with the Patriots in the 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.880 Giants got five Super Bowl rings. And I thought that 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:03.520 the neat thing he said, not about his strength and 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.520 conditioning job, but he said he was talking about the 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.640 strength and conditioning coaches, the equipment guys, and the trainers, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.920 and he called them they're the bartenders of our culture 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.760 because they touch the whole team. Right. And some of 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.600 the guys talked about how much he gave them a 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:28.320 vice about life, about raising children and just how you live, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.760 and so they trusted him to bring certain topics up 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.600 to around him, right. And Mike said, if you're looking 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:39.840 for an example, Marcus is that person. And it's amazing. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.520 It seems like it's a long time ago, but it 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.439 was last year at this time. Pandemic makes it it 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.600 does make it seem like that. Yeah, And when that happened, 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.640 that was you know, couldn't happen at the worst time. 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.480 I mean, of course it couldn't happen. You don't wanted 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.840 to happen anytime. But and Mike, it just piled on 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.600 top of all the other things. And I think Mike 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.960 got surprised about it. During his press com frience on Monday, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.240 was it it was early and he floked at Rich Dalrymple. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.280 He goes, yeah, thanks Rich for preparing me for that. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.720 But he knew and he remembered that at five fifty 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.880 in the morning, they walked from the parking garage into 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.400 the facility and he said. Marcus said, oh, oh, I 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.160 gotta go back. I'll left my phone in the car, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.640 and he goes, and that's the last time I saw him. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.840 So anyway, I thought we owe it to him to 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.000 at least bring him up, and mentioned how much he 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.480 meant to this team in the two years he was here. 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.360 Good jobs. Yeah, all right, We continue with more mix 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.840 shots in just a moment. Hey, Cowboys Fins, ready to 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.400 spice up your next watch party. Bring yokierro guacamole and 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.600 be the game day hero. The yokiro means I want 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.640 and we know you want, great fresh tasting ready to 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.400 serve guacomole for your home gating and tailgating events. Made 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.280 with real avocados and the perfect lend of spices, it 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.800 will be the star of any party. 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Back back to mick shots. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.640 Your favorite WWE superstars return to a T and T 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:53.680 Stadium for Rustlemania on Saturday April second and Sunday April third, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.760 twenty twenty two. Tickets are on sale now get yours 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.880 before they sell out. Visit seek dot com, the official 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.800 ticketing provider of AT and T Stadium. Nice all right, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.160 you want to talk Hall of Fame got semifinalists. I 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:16.640 got the list here? Okay, we have Darren Woodson and 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.920 DeMarcus Ware named as semifinalist. Former Cowboys Zach Thomas also 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.200 on the list. Of course he was just here briefly. Uh. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:30.720 Eddie George is on the list as well. But anyways, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.400 what a six time for Woody to be a semifinalist, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.800 can you believe that? And of course first time for 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.440 Ware it's his first time to be eligible. Yeah, I 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.640 believe that's right. I would say it. For Woody it 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.360 is his sixth time. He was also a semifinalist in 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.080 two thousan fifteen, twenty seventeen, and then this is the 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:54.480 fourth straight year he has been a It's twenty six 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.800 and they will cut down to fifteen before they vote 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.640 on Super Bowl weekend. Right, how many Super Bowls does 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.679 wood He have? Three? Three Super Bowls? Three? Yep, he 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.439 was there all three of them in the nineties. And 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.159 he can't he can't get Come on, man, I mean 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:13.360 this twelve year career. I've always thought about the bias. Man, 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.840 the bias is real. I'm sorry, the bias is real. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.680 I don't know how the heck we got here but 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.800 you know, you bring up DeMarcus where his numbers? I mean, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.000 who's whose record did he break here with the Cowboys? Yeah? 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.320 You know Harvey Martin? Right, I mean, and he can't 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.639 get Harvey Martin mentioned this is the Super Bowl MVP. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:38.160 And John Lynch got in as a safety. Uh. Now 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.760 the year I came in and then who was the 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.600 other guy by Brian? Uh? He made me so mad 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.040 I didn't get in. He got in's with Philadelphia Dawkins. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.240 Bryan Dawkins. I'm sorry Woody versus Dawkins. You know, I'm 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.960 sure who was the other safer? Fans and Philly fans 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.320 feel differently, But I take Woody any any day of 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.600 the week. The other safety last year, the guy from 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:05.040 Denver was it at Water? Yeah, That's that's what got me. Man. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.200 I would have been iouadly fussed about that. You can change, 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:12.920 you would be was Dad's a guy that's crazy. Yeah, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.320 and so even I can fuss all I want, But 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.639 Woody at Water Corn to me, it's just a no 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.800 braining because the diversity that Woody showed. He wasn't just 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.840 a safety. He came down into the slot and covered 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.360 wide receivers. He came out of college as a linebacker, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:36.800 so his his the his ability to adapt. That's why 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.360 I was saying about DBS, it's a little bit easier 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.120 for us to adapt the way Woody went from being 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.800 a safety to a slot corner. That's about as hard 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.680 as going from left tackle to right tackle. You understand, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:53.200 probably even more difficult because you can't change your size. 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.960 You know, you can't change your talent level. When you're 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.359 guarding somebody who's twenty pounds lighter than you can probably 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.560 have got at least two tenths of a second on you. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.720 And the other thing is and I don't know what 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.840 his stats are on this, but I think till the 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.919 day he quit, he was on special teams. You know, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.119 every year, UM coach Joe was going to take him 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.960 off special special teams. And then when the season started, 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.000 it's like, well, you know what do we need you 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.000 to let's go yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, listen, I gotta 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.600 say special teams I always help me, help me. Whom 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.840 up you know, helped me keep keep You know, you 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.040 run down on their first especially now since you don't 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.600 have to cover kicks, you can just run down, just 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.360 get a spring and then cheer when it's a touchback. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.480 We stopped him at the twenty five. So there are 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:45.080 your Hall of Fame semifinalists with Cowboys ties. Okay, congratulations. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:51.640 So for the Raiders defense, Mike McCarthy pointed out that, uh, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.880 they're a man to man and he said, and that's 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.960 probably not going to change. So it comes down to 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:03.919 the Cowboy receivers winning uh their share of the plays. Uh, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:09.119 and it certainly would help if ceedee Lamb actually can play, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:15.160 so uh, give them something else to think about, more 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.119 so than you know, taking guys out, because if you 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.240 go back and look at this last game, there wasn't 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.639 a lot of open receivers either other than that first 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.840 play of the game, right. Uh, So uh, you know everybody, 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.200 and I get so tired of it. And I'm sure 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.000 I said it yesterday. It's like, Okay, Dak's got to 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.639 put the team on his shoulders. Well, it's hard to 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.800 put ten guys on your shoulders. This is a darn 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:47.280 team game, the most pure team game in sports. And 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.120 the quarterback gets the glory, gets the blame. Um, but 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.680 most of it is unfair when you when you look 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:02.840 at our difficulties, it always from constant pressure right anytime 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.200 we've had we've had problems last two losses, last two losses, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.760 lots of pressure and with blitzes. The problem that we're 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.399 having is we're getting pressure. Teams are getting pressure without 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:19.000 blitzing sometimes, and that is what you don't depend on. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.400 If I'm dak, I'm sitting up here, I read the defense, Well, 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.400 it's not a blitz. I don't have to audible to anything. 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.320 I don't have to check to anything. Here we go 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.800 and it feels like a blitz. But now I've got 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.840 receivers running deeper routes because I didn't. I didn't check 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:35.320 the hot. I don't check the hot because that's no blitz. 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.960 And we're still getting pressures if there is one, Yeah, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.560 and they will uh. It looked like I saw a 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.399 stat where they can bring they've been good at bringing 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:48.439 pressure without blitzing's because of number ninety eight. So that 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.679 would be Max Max Crosby. And then I'm gonna let 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.440 you say the other guy's name the other unique way. 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:59.080 That's good. That's why bills are broadcaster and Leon Collins 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.680 was asked about their their guys and he said, well, 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.199 he goes those those defensive ends there and there, and 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.560 they work by the Marinelli rule. They're coming to bring 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.080 pressure to defend the run on the way to the quarterback. 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.080 Stopped the run on the way to the quarterback. When 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:21.280 we played with the Cowboys, our entire uh uh existence 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.560 was playing off the off the receiver just most of 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.359 the time. You had to you had to have a backpedal. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.000 If you didn't have a backpedal with the Cowboys, he 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:29.639 wasn't gonna work. But there are teams. When I went 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.679 to the Giants, the pressure that you put when you 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:37.160 jam the wide receivers playing man to man, it makes 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:41.200 the quarterback hesitated just to beat so that he's got 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.720 to trust that wide receiver to beat that guy off 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:47.040 the line of scrimmage to get his position immediately. Because 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.680 we're talking still timing routes, whether it's man to man 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.080 or or it's it's off or on right. So these 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.240 guys are gonna be playing on because every time Denver 0:22:56.600 --> 0:23:00.480 they pressed our receivers and they sat down on about 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.280 same thing's gonna happen here, and you're gonna have to 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.280 make a decision to you to start going downtown more often, 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.960 going deep more often, or you got to trust you 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.720 guys to beat them in And I would imagine from 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:17.400 a quarterback standpoint, when he sees that press coverage, it's 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:22.000 either I trust him or I'm waiting until I'm sure. 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.720 And that's sometimes right the wait, Yeah, you don't want 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:31.240 to wait. Like Okay, West Coast offense could not do anything. 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.560 San Francisco can't do as much with teams that pressed 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:38.359 the receiver us because it's all about timing. As far 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:40.800 as Crosby goes, he's a he's a really interesting story. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.280 He's out of Colleyville Heritage High School, went to Eastern 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:49.399 Michigan UH and his first year well he obviously it 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:54.680 wasn't highly recruited out of Collyville Heritage and his first 0:23:54.760 --> 0:24:02.560 year he was a fourth round draft pick. Fourth round 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:05.159 draft pick out of Eastern Michigan and his rookie season 0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:08.320 had ten sacks for the Raiders. Interesting story about him though, 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.199 at the beginning of the pandemic, he checked him himself 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:15.720 into rehab for alcoholism, came back in time for the 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.160 start of the season last year, had seven sacks last 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.840 year and when you look at the guys who pressure 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:24.080