Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it is time for another edition
Speaker 1: of Mick Shot. Sand We're happy you could join us
Speaker 1: all along the Dallas Cowboys Network as it is Thursday
Speaker 1: at eleven am. That's our regular time slot during the offseason.
Speaker 1: You've got Bill, You've got Mick, You've got Everson. And
Speaker 1: even though it is May twenty first, there's still plenty
Speaker 1: to talk about. Because Mickey Spagnola, the NFL year never ends, No,
Speaker 1: it sure it doesn't end. Good Thank goodness for us,
Speaker 1: right that something keeps happening and happening and happening. And
Speaker 1: I knew we hit that lull there for a little
Speaker 1: while after the draft, and we did all the post
Speaker 1: draft stuff and now we get something else. The facilities
Speaker 1: are starting to open, including the Cowboys. And ever since
Speaker 1: I see he upgraded his background, mine got downgraded. But
Speaker 1: ever since got a great mural behind us. Hey, come on, man,
Speaker 1: that's my first interception of fifty seven. All right, really, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first game against the Riskins that came
Speaker 1: up the bench. I was scared as hell. Got in
Speaker 1: the game. Dozman throws up a duck and I don't
Speaker 1: know why I caught it like that. I could have
Speaker 1: easily gone up with two hands, but I cradled it
Speaker 1: like a baby to make sure that that was gonna
Speaker 1: be my first I didn't want to screw it up.
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham did Hunt, Yes, I be so how long
Speaker 1: have you had that pick? Ara? Everson? Man, I've had
Speaker 1: this since, I believe since nineteen eighty one. I had
Speaker 1: to drag it out one one about Twitter fans. He
Speaker 1: kind of gave me a little a few tips and say, hey, Everson,
Speaker 1: you look kind of bland back then once you put
Speaker 1: the background in. So finally I took his advice. I
Speaker 1: slid this thing in here, and you know, now you
Speaker 1: can see how Usa look what I had black hair.
Speaker 1: It was a long time ago, all right, well, very good. Well,
Speaker 1: as you can see, as most of everybody still working
Speaker 1: from home, although some are getting back to the office,
Speaker 1: and in fact there are some back at the office
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco as well, including one owner,
Speaker 1: president and general manager of your Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, it back to the Star. Let's hear what
Speaker 1: Jerry had to say upon his arrival. Great to be
Speaker 1: back in the office this morning. I thought there was
Speaker 1: no better place than right here in our office, my
Speaker 1: office to participate in the virtual league meeting that we're
Speaker 1: having in the days and weeks ahead. I look forward
Speaker 1: to welcoming many of our employees back to our workplace.
Speaker 1: We're committed to doing what is safe and smart and
Speaker 1: everything that complies with all the rules from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of our state, our county, our cities, as well as
Speaker 1: the NFL rules. This is a big day for our clubs.
Speaker 1: I think it's a big day for the NFL. I
Speaker 1: think it's a big day for sports. It's a big
Speaker 1: day for building confidence. We're going to be very deliberate,
Speaker 1: but we're also going to be very determined. We will
Speaker 1: keep a close eye on the comfort and care of
Speaker 1: our employees as we're involved in this transition. They'll do
Speaker 1: it the right way. So good to see some movement
Speaker 1: as facilities are reopened, and as Jerry alluded to, there,
Speaker 1: of course it's a limited capacity right now. Coach is
Speaker 1: not allowed on the premises, and as far as players
Speaker 1: are concerned, it's only players who are rehabbing from injuries
Speaker 1: or surgeries. But Mickey, it is a good sign that
Speaker 1: there is now a movement at the Star in Frisco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of a step in the right direction and kind
Speaker 1: of gives you hope that things might continue to partially
Speaker 1: open up. And I think, Bill, we need to point
Speaker 1: out it was it was a partial opening. The NFL
Speaker 1: has put a limit to how many people personnel, you know,
Speaker 1: the different departments can be at the building, so it's
Speaker 1: not a wide open everybody come in. Obviously we're still
Speaker 1: dooming mix shots from our respective homes. But it is
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. I guess it does
Speaker 1: give you some hope that things will relax at some point.
Speaker 1: We still have a long ways to go. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think the big thing that I keep hearing and
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Cowboys are kind of following this. While
Speaker 1: things are opening, relaxing the restrictions, we still have to
Speaker 1: be very vigilant about making sure we do all the
Speaker 1: things we need to do to keep ourselves safe. Not
Speaker 1: only that, guys, you know, you think about the Corona,
Speaker 1: and you think about the age of not just guys
Speaker 1: like ourselves. I could see some old reporters going in
Speaker 1: there trying to get a story coming out with more
Speaker 1: than what they wanted. A better story, right, right, must
Speaker 1: bigger story. But I think I think you really have
Speaker 1: to worry about the owners themselves. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: they're up in age as well. God forbid, something happened
Speaker 1: to one of the owners and they have a tough
Speaker 1: time dealing with this. I mean, this is just something
Speaker 1: we have to deal with. And I'm like Jerry Man.
Speaker 1: I know Jerry's, you know, unfortunately losing a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's a side note for him, unfortunately, But
Speaker 1: just the NFL itself and how they're going to go
Speaker 1: about doing this. This is an extremely serious situation, not
Speaker 1: just COVID itself, but the fact that the owners in
Speaker 1: the NFL are losing a lot of money. These are
Speaker 1: things that are weighed so heavily. So now we have
Speaker 1: to balance safety versus economy. And it's not just out
Speaker 1: there in the real world. But I would say the
Speaker 1: real world is the NFL, because you're talking about there's
Speaker 1: so much money at stake, and not just the money
Speaker 1: part of it, but you think about the fans themselves. Somehow,
Speaker 1: sports and football it just kind of brings people together
Speaker 1: in some way to where it might look the spiritual
Speaker 1: the nation. So when he talks about how important this is,
Speaker 1: it is a lot to do with money, but it
Speaker 1: also has to do with a lot of the spirit
Speaker 1: of this country right now, which is wow, it's just
Speaker 1: so unusual, so unusual, you know, guys, what I saw
Speaker 1: that it was pretty eye opening to me. I saw
Speaker 1: an article on how and I think it might have
Speaker 1: been nationwide. There might have been just in Texas, but
Speaker 1: it was a three phase opening for high school football,
Speaker 1: and the first two phases, one of the restrictions was
Speaker 1: that no coach sixty five or older could take part
Speaker 1: in any kind of weight training, conditioning, or whatever they're
Speaker 1: allowed to do in the first two phases. So that
Speaker 1: was like, oh my wow, that's good. That's I did
Speaker 1: not know that. How are the use facts are you're
Speaker 1: gonna checking out high school football? I would have been
Speaker 1: furling them for sure. I mean, when you when you
Speaker 1: think about the what they're trying to do. My friend
Speaker 1: and I were making jokes the other day about, well,
Speaker 1: how are they gonna make the helmets differently, and because
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to change the uniforms and everything if
Speaker 1: they're even thinking about doing this again. So when you
Speaker 1: talk about the mask that they're talking about building a
Speaker 1: new helmet with masks in ninety five masks in the helmets,
Speaker 1: these are things that I have to be considered if
Speaker 1: you're gonna try and open up this season. So that's
Speaker 1: just a professional aspect of it. What about high school kids?
Speaker 1: You know what what high schools have enough money to
Speaker 1: where these helmets are gonna be you know, remade, uh
Speaker 1: and and conform to some type of standard. Uh that
Speaker 1: that the new standard that Corona has brought to us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's beyond my pay grade trying to figure out figure
Speaker 1: out any of that stuff. You know, the NFL has
Speaker 1: an advantage over the other sports most all the other sports,
Speaker 1: and that since their regular season doesn't start until September,
Speaker 1: college football is in the same boat. And the NFL
Speaker 1: can now and not just sit back. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: they're doing what they can. I'm sure it was the
Speaker 1: principal thing that the owners talked about in their meeting
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. But they can look and see how things
Speaker 1: progress as far as baseball goes, if basketball gets going
Speaker 1: back at it, and hockey as well, soccer which has
Speaker 1: started overseas, and they can kind of see how it
Speaker 1: progresses and be able to get proactive on some of
Speaker 1: the things that the measures that they take in order
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody is safe. No, absolutely, Bill, And
Speaker 1: that's why you know, I saw comment JC Tredder, the
Speaker 1: new NFLPA player president, did a conference call with the media,
Speaker 1: and you know, his point was, well, this is all
Speaker 1: fine and good, but we can't play football without physical contact.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't play football without us being you know,
Speaker 1: can't stay six feet away. So he said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of things to discuss to figure
Speaker 1: out how we can go back in practice maybe, but
Speaker 1: we got to play a game. There's got to be
Speaker 1: a lot more things to be talked about to make
Speaker 1: sure keeping the players safe. You know, the thing, the
Speaker 1: thing that's that's gonna be prevalent now, it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be in phases. Of course, you're talking about practice
Speaker 1: is one thing. I like what you said's facts. Practice
Speaker 1: is one thing we can get out there. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of camps that are considering rescheduling
Speaker 1: as well because of the relaxation in the in the standards,
Speaker 1: and you have to come up with your own by
Speaker 1: laws in a gross of those camps now, because you know,
Speaker 1: even though they're not they're not that together like full contact.
Speaker 1: You know, this is no contact camps, but you still
Speaker 1: want to have some type of standards to where you
Speaker 1: got kids so far away from each other. You know,
Speaker 1: you still want to do the social distancing, which is
Speaker 1: really you gotta put them the air quotes because social
Speaker 1: distancing and football and basketball and hockey, those are the sports. Okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to go with activities, then yes, you
Speaker 1: can play golf. Okay, you can play tennis, and you
Speaker 1: can play those other activities. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: real sports, those three that I just brought up, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a difficult task to see how you can
Speaker 1: keep the corona down in regards to such close physical
Speaker 1: contact play in playout, game in, game out, and saying
Speaker 1: goes for baseball too. I mean there's you know, there's
Speaker 1: still an activity kind of still an activity not I
Speaker 1: don't know. All right, there was some news that was
Speaker 1: made yesterday make you Spagnola I'm not sure if Alden
Speaker 1: Smith is a Missouri grad, but you are a Missouri grad, right, absolutely, am.
Speaker 1: And I remember watching him when he played there, and
Speaker 1: when he left a year earlier, I wasn't real happy
Speaker 1: because he was awfully, awfully good at Missouri and it
Speaker 1: was reflected in the San Francisco forty nine ers in
Speaker 1: twenty eleven selecting him with the seventh pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, the NFL came out yesterday and
Speaker 1: announced that he's conditionally reinstated. He can join the Cowboys
Speaker 1: virtual offseason program on May twenty six, So that's a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction. But again, he's got to
Speaker 1: continue to do all the steps required of him to
Speaker 1: be able to end up playing. So that was good
Speaker 1: news for him, good news for the Cowboys. Now again,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much they're counting on him to
Speaker 1: instantly make an impact. Got to remember Bill Everson, he
Speaker 1: hadn't played any football in five years. Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough one, guys. You know, when you talk
Speaker 1: about the limitations that he's gonna that will put upon
Speaker 1: him in regards to this whole COVID, then that just
Speaker 1: adds to the drama really, and it kind of adds
Speaker 1: to his recovery because you know, he's had some some
Speaker 1: type of substance abuse problems, not just that, but some
Speaker 1: some personality problems to where those things can be enhanced
Speaker 1: under these type of conditions. Let's face it, guy, just
Speaker 1: because he's got a little money in his pocket and
Speaker 1: he's had some success in regards for the steps he's
Speaker 1: taken to get back in the league, there's still a
Speaker 1: mental process that he obviously still has to deal with.
Speaker 1: And this whole shutdown it has not it won't bode well.
Speaker 1: It usually does bode well for people with those kind
Speaker 1: of issues, So he has to be even more conscious
Speaker 1: of the issue that he has in front of him.
Speaker 1: Forget football right now, he's already taken care of that.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing that those steps have been taken
Speaker 1: to get into where he is now. But man, he
Speaker 1: still has a foundation that he has to stay strong
Speaker 1: and regards to his personality and regards to things that
Speaker 1: he's dealing with internal well, that there's a very smart
Speaker 1: contract from both sides, both the player and the team
Speaker 1: as far as the way this thing is structured, as
Speaker 1: far as his money that he can make before the
Speaker 1: season starts. I believe, if my memory serves me right
Speaker 1: on the breakdown and his contract, his reinstatement paycheck amounted
Speaker 1: to around ninety thousand dollars yesterday. Thirty days from now,
Speaker 1: he gets another fifty grand and then at the beginning
Speaker 1: of training camp another one hundred thousand, and then second
Speaker 1: preseason game another one hundred thousand, and then another one
Speaker 1: if he makes the team in September. And so, but
Speaker 1: it's very smart the way they've done that along the
Speaker 1: lines of what you're talking about. Ever sin there as
Speaker 1: he's got some financial incentives as we creep closer and
Speaker 1: closer to the start of the regular season in September,
Speaker 1: where he will make obviously more money. It's packaged in
Speaker 1: his deal per game incentives as well. Yeah, Bill, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you mentioned that, because you know, when everybody just
Speaker 1: kind of does a cursory story and they point out
Speaker 1: that he signed a one year, four million dollar contract
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, that's somewhat misleading, And you're exactly right,
Speaker 1: there's all those steps. So the only money he's made
Speaker 1: so far was the ninety thousand yesterday when the NFL
Speaker 1: conditionally reinstated him, his base salary is nine hundred and
Speaker 1: ten thousand, So basically that would be the base salary
Speaker 1: for a guy that's been in the league as long
Speaker 1: as uh, as long as he's has And then you're right,
Speaker 1: it's you know, uh, if you if you go to
Speaker 1: training camp, if you last a couple of weeks in
Speaker 1: training camp, if you play a second preseason game, and
Speaker 1: then there's a per game active roster bonus forty thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty five dollars for each game, and
Speaker 1: then they're sacked bonuses too, So that's how this thing
Speaker 1: ends up getting to four million dollars on a one
Speaker 1: year deal. So, uh, you know, you would hope that's
Speaker 1: that's one of those old contracts. Yes, it is, right,
Speaker 1: it's sort of you know what, it's sort of It
Speaker 1: sort of reminds me of my days back in the factory,
Speaker 1: working in the summers during college, where you could take
Speaker 1: one of the jobs they bid on them, and then
Speaker 1: there was piecemeal like the more you produce, the bigger
Speaker 1: your hourly wage went up, right, And you should have
Speaker 1: seen the incentive on those guys that that was their
Speaker 1: full time, year round drive, and you know what they
Speaker 1: did you guys. Uh, they would loaf the first half
Speaker 1: of the day, and then after lunch they knew what
Speaker 1: they could do and they would drag us means along,
Speaker 1: minions along, and they would start humping. And I'm going,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is safe. I need my
Speaker 1: fingers through the rest of my career, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what it reminds me of. It reminds me
Speaker 1: and I can say this because I'm in Oklahoma grad
Speaker 1: if it reminds me of those summer jobs that our
Speaker 1: Sooner players had back in the day where if you
Speaker 1: show up this Friday, we'll give you one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: If you show up two two weeks from now, we'll
Speaker 1: give you another fifty grand if you show up two
Speaker 1: weeks after that. But out Bill, that's absolutely I'm sure
Speaker 1: they had that at Hambling too. Gun Oh yeah, Grabbling
Speaker 1: had that. Yeah, we had better grammar. Yeah, all the
Speaker 1: money we had three round that program. Yeah we had that. Hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, guys, I like this, uh, this this
Speaker 1: thoughts of all the smith. You know, I've been had
Speaker 1: a lot of time on my hands. You know, I've
Speaker 1: been in the Little Work album upstairs. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good. I think if I just kind of
Speaker 1: cut this off a little bit right, maybe diet or something,
Speaker 1: you might want to die it. I die it, But
Speaker 1: that's that's may. If I die, I might be able
Speaker 1: to fool somebody. I might come back at some Cuban
Speaker 1: or something and they might not know where I am. Well,
Speaker 1: you know it just it just adds another uh, you know,
Speaker 1: aspect to that defensive end spot because it's really one
Speaker 1: of the spots. They didn't really address it in free agency,
Speaker 1: somewhat addressed it in the draft with the fifth fifth
Speaker 1: round pick of a name, but again, from the team standpoint,
Speaker 1: the only guy with any amount of experience they could
Speaker 1: put at that right defensive in spot if they had
Speaker 1: to play tomorrow was Tyrone Crawford. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy coming off hips both hips, yes, not just
Speaker 1: one hips, plural, and did it within a you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a three month period. Now he is saying
Speaker 1: he's good to go, he'll be ready to go when
Speaker 1: they do football activity. But again, he basically played like
Speaker 1: five games last year and he's getting up in the
Speaker 1: h I know, he's twenty nine, getting close to thirty.
Speaker 1: So this kind of adds to Okay, let's see what
Speaker 1: we got here. It's gonna be one of the more
Speaker 1: competitive positions I think if we ever get the training camp,
Speaker 1: and who knows. You know, this made bode well for
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory getting reinstated, but has to do a lot
Speaker 1: of this has to do though, with the NFL monitoring
Speaker 1: the steps these guys are taking. And if you look
Speaker 1: at Alden Smith, you know, he's been working out in
Speaker 1: LA and supposedly for the last nine months drug and
Speaker 1: alcohol free. So that's a step in the right direction,
Speaker 1: and that's what the NFL wants to see and they
Speaker 1: need to see that from Randy Gregory too before they
Speaker 1: let him take that next step. And to me, you know,
Speaker 1: helping those guys take those steps, if you can be
Speaker 1: part of something, and you know, people sort of are,
Speaker 1: you know, depending on you, maybe this helps in whatever
Speaker 1: rehab you're going through physically, mentally, drug rehab, you know,
Speaker 1: and all that's gone through the whole bit. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got a list over here of all the things
Speaker 1: that it's happened to him from twenty thirteen through twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen when he was indefinitely suspended and he had some
Speaker 1: problems and it looks like maybe someone finally has identified
Speaker 1: his troubles and maybe he's on the right path. But
Speaker 1: he's got to continue to do it, and Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: has to show that also. Maybe you get both back.
Speaker 1: But again we're talking guys that haven't played in quite
Speaker 1: some time, and I don't think you can just assume
Speaker 1: that allow this guy's good to go forty plays a game.
Speaker 1: But we'll see you hope the best for people like that,
Speaker 1: but again, they got to prove it. All right, We're
Speaker 1: just getting started on this edition of mix Shots. How
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Speaker 1: news that's out there. Looks like I see Dak Prescott's
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Speaker 1: my trending on Twitter is Dak Prescott. And there's a
Speaker 1: report out there from that noted journalist Chris Simms that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have offered Dak a five year, one hundred
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars deal that will make him the
Speaker 1: highest paid quarterback ever. You know, Bill that So wait
Speaker 1: wait wait, wait, stop, stop stop. Let's go with our
Speaker 1: doctor that we have in the office today. Yes, we
Speaker 1: still got doctor Fauci here in the form of Spagnola.
Speaker 1: So doctor doctor Fauci, could just please tell us what's
Speaker 1: really happening here, please, So what's what's the prognosis on
Speaker 1: this that contract? So if my math is correct, and
Speaker 1: Bill you went to Oklahoma, you can back me up here.
Speaker 1: Five years, one hundred and seventy five million. I believe
Speaker 1: that comes out to thirty five million a year, correct, yes, correct, okay,
Speaker 1: And I think Russell Wilson what he averaged on his extension,
Speaker 1: but remember he had a year left on his old
Speaker 1: salary that reduced the average. But the four year extension
Speaker 1: came to thirty four or something. My understanding of what
Speaker 1: the offer was it was maybe a half million less
Speaker 1: than what Russell Wilson extension average, So this is probably
Speaker 1: in the ballpark. And the other part of the equation
Speaker 1: was the signing bonus was upwards in the vicinity of
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars fifty so on a five year deal.
Speaker 1: And you know, we kept using that number as to
Speaker 1: show what happens if you sign a long term deal.
Speaker 1: And I always threw out, well, if it's fifty million,
Speaker 1: just for math purposes, you divide it by five, and
Speaker 1: the pro rations ten million a year on the salary count,
Speaker 1: and that first year, you know, if you give him
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars tomorrow, you know he doesn't need more
Speaker 1: than a five million dollars base salary that rookie year.
Speaker 1: You would cut that franchise tag in half of what
Speaker 1: he would cost for this year. So yeah, and again,
Speaker 1: and I think the one things that we've talked about
Speaker 1: in this show about the proposals were, you know, we
Speaker 1: kept saying, well, we kind of got an idea what
Speaker 1: the cowboys are offering. We don't know what the other
Speaker 1: side is asking for. And I think for an example,
Speaker 1: just to throw it out there, I would say, well,
Speaker 1: what if it was forty million a year, Will you
Speaker 1: do that? And so yeah, So you know, this gives
Speaker 1: you some basis for, you know, keep people keep asking
Speaker 1: why didn't it done? They just need to pay them.
Speaker 1: This is embarrassing. He's your franchise quarterback. Well, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but this is not just a one year deal. You
Speaker 1: have to spread this out over the life of the
Speaker 1: contract with the assumption that the salary CAP's going to
Speaker 1: go up. It might not go up next year. It
Speaker 1: might go down if we don't have one hundred percent
Speaker 1: fan participation during this season. So you kind of get
Speaker 1: an idea. The other thing build that I saw, Everson,
Speaker 1: was that I saw where there was there was fourteen
Speaker 1: players franchised. There are still six that haven't either signed
Speaker 1: the franchise tag or of a long term extension. And
Speaker 1: that includes Dak Prescott. So he's not the only one
Speaker 1: out there, but he's the only one we hear about constantly,
Speaker 1: at least once a week. Well, you know, I think
Speaker 1: the issue to me with this whole thing, you're talking
Speaker 1: about social media. You're talking about the impatience of not
Speaker 1: just the NFL but the fans themselves. In regards to
Speaker 1: Corona and now we have our own little in house problem.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get out of quarterback signed. Now, if
Speaker 1: I'm going to look at this from an only standpoint,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I want to get this done as quickly
Speaker 1: as possible. I want to get this out of the way. Now.
Speaker 1: If you look at it from that Prescott standpoint, obviously
Speaker 1: they are in no hurry to do anything. You know,
Speaker 1: you can sit up here and play with numbers like
Speaker 1: that all you want, Stags when it all comes down
Speaker 1: to it, come on right, you know you're you're I
Speaker 1: would say nitpicking, But I'm not the guy that's looking
Speaker 1: at playing with ten million dollars, you know, or less,
Speaker 1: depending on how the contract is stated. And so from
Speaker 1: a fan standpoint, I want this to hurry up and
Speaker 1: get done. You know, from a former players standpoint and
Speaker 1: a union rep you have a player that's taking a
Speaker 1: look at every aspect of this contract to make sure
Speaker 1: that everything's tied down well. His representatives are doing the
Speaker 1: same thing. And when it's all said and done, I
Speaker 1: think Dad is looking at what potential contracts are gonna
Speaker 1: come after his from people in the same position such
Speaker 1: as and I think mainly Patrick Omes is the one
Speaker 1: guy that he's looking at. I think he wants to
Speaker 1: make sure that whatever Homes Mahomes does that it doesn't
Speaker 1: lead that too far in his way. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a prior thing in regards to which quarterback is
Speaker 1: going to get paid the most. I'm the oldest, I've
Speaker 1: been doing it longer. Yes, you got the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: that's great, but my numbers are out here. And Mahomes
Speaker 1: could say the same thing. He has his own stats
Speaker 1: and accomplishments that he could put in there. But I
Speaker 1: think as a from from player, from a player's standpoint,
Speaker 1: I think Dak is making sure that whatever happens when
Speaker 1: this is all said and done, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be underpaid. When Patrick Mahomes and other quarterbacks come up
Speaker 1: for their time to sign, yeah, you know, and I
Speaker 1: understand this. And from an agent standpoint, they want to
Speaker 1: do the best they can for their client, but also
Speaker 1: there themselves, right so they can go out there and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: with my agency, got Dak Prescott, I get the game.
Speaker 1: And if you don't ask for forty, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you don't get thirty five because if you ask for
Speaker 1: thirty five, they may say thirty three. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I understand how the negotiations go, and you know, and
Speaker 1: as things are going right now, he's not missing anything,
Speaker 1: so you know this will continue until there's a deadline,
Speaker 1: which is July fifteenth, where you got to either do
Speaker 1: the long term deal or say, okay, I'm very bold,
Speaker 1: I'll play on the franchise tag for thirty one point
Speaker 1: four million. And I'm sure the way they're looking at it,
Speaker 1: if you franchise this year and next year, he would
Speaker 1: total sixty nine million dollars. So when you structure the contract,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're looking at it and say, okay, for
Speaker 1: two years, I gotta in cash, make sixty nine million dollars.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, you hear these numbers. He's asking
Speaker 1: for forty Okay, fine, but what's the guarantee, because that's
Speaker 1: the important thing. The guarantee is what it's all about.
Speaker 1: And I think on Russell Wilson's contract on the extension,
Speaker 1: the guarantee was one hundred and seven million dollars, which
Speaker 1: is far less than thirty four million a year, So
Speaker 1: that's the important number. We can hear these big numbers,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but there's always some sort of phony money
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years that the team can
Speaker 1: get out of and not pay these exorbitant base salaries
Speaker 1: if they want to. And I'm gonna throw this at you,
Speaker 1: guys decide. And I ain't saying it's accurate or what.
Speaker 1: But every year, and I kind of back in the day,
Speaker 1: got to know Pete Prisco CBS Sports. Every year he
Speaker 1: comes out with his top one hundred rankings of players,
Speaker 1: and I love the way he kind of puts it
Speaker 1: out there. It's like, Okay, have at it. You know,
Speaker 1: this is my opinion. If yours is different, fine, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I'm accurate. But on his list, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: was the forty sixth ranked player. Right or wrong, that's
Speaker 1: one man's opinion. Uh so again, Uh, you know, this
Speaker 1: will continue to go a week by week and we'll
Speaker 1: see if there's an end, but I've guarantee you by
Speaker 1: July fifteenth, we'll know something for sure. I have got
Speaker 1: to see that list. I've got to see that list.
Speaker 1: Forty eight, forty six, Yeah, forty six. Wow, quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: ahead of me. Yeah, you know I didn't count that.
Speaker 1: Zeke was seventeenth. He was the second running back. Uh.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey was first. I think he was uh number five, yes, wow,
Speaker 1: and uh so yeah there was uh and I just
Speaker 1: kind of look, so there was there was six quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the in the top twenty, okay, and six and
Speaker 1: six defensive vans slash outside linebackers sort of pass rushers.
Speaker 1: So that was twelve of the twenty at those two positions.
Speaker 1: The other thing about the reports about the Dak contract is,
Speaker 1: obviously this has been reported on over the course of
Speaker 1: the last few months, that Dak wants a shorter contract.
Speaker 1: Cowboys went a longer contract, and the what Chris Simms
Speaker 1: is saying is that he wants a four year year deal.
Speaker 1: If they agree to a five year deal, they would
Speaker 1: like a really big number at the end of that
Speaker 1: fifth year to cover them for what the market might
Speaker 1: be at the position five years from now. And there's
Speaker 1: reports that that big number might be north of forty
Speaker 1: five million dollars in that fifth year. And you would
Speaker 1: assume you talk about guarantees in the contract, that you
Speaker 1: would assume that the agent is also wanting that to
Speaker 1: be pretty much pretty much a well close to being guaranteed. Usually,
Speaker 1: if you have a these NFL contracts, if you've got
Speaker 1: that kind of money in the last year of a
Speaker 1: contract and it's he's never seen that money. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And think about it. If I give him fifty million
Speaker 1: in a base salary, which is guaranteed, and if the
Speaker 1: total amount was one hundred and seventy five, well, now
Speaker 1: we got one hundred and twenty five million if that's
Speaker 1: what they're asking for, And that's what they get, one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million divided by five for base
Speaker 1: salaries if they were equal, which is twenty five million
Speaker 1: a year plus the ten million on the pro ration.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about the quarterback taking up thirty five
Speaker 1: at an average of thirty five million a year over
Speaker 1: the five years. You know, I'm so surprised that Little
Speaker 1: Sales was able to get this information. I mean, Spags,
Speaker 1: you and Jerry must not be meeting regularly like you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got it wrong. He must have. He must have
Speaker 1: an end with the agent. Okay, you need to come
Speaker 1: back to the yacht and see what's going on. Man,
Speaker 1: you and Jerry need to resume your meetings. This just
Speaker 1: reminded me of Super Bowl last year in Atlanta. I
Speaker 1: was there and Dak did a media availability and the
Speaker 1: local media was there. In national media there as well.
Speaker 1: It was a Sleep the Company endorsement. He's got whatever
Speaker 1: that is. But anyway, Chris Simms was there, and so
Speaker 1: I was just sitting here thinking about this. Well, Dak
Speaker 1: and Chris Simms, they must be tight, you know, they're
Speaker 1: in that quarterback club together, I guess, And so maybe
Speaker 1: Chris is getting that information from Dak. There's a funny
Speaker 1: little story, all right. Chris Simms does his interview with
Speaker 1: Dak off to the side, and then Dak came to
Speaker 1: the Dallas Fort Worth Media and Dak says to us,
Speaker 1: who is that? Not so unless they've gotten really close
Speaker 1: together here in the last fifteen months or so, I
Speaker 1: don't know that they were. I know they weren't very
Speaker 1: close fifteen months ago. So we will see, all right, Mickey,
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Speaker 1: So how about we go a longer last segment, and
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Speaker 1: the top of the show, the Star in Fresco and
Speaker 1: other NFL facilities are open on a limited basis right now.
Speaker 1: As you saw, Jerry Jones was back at work for
Speaker 1: the virtual owners meeting he did from the Star on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Only a certain percentage of employees can be in the building.
Speaker 1: Coaches can't be there yet, and players as a whole
Speaker 1: cannot be there. Only injured players rehabbing from injuries or
Speaker 1: surgeries can be there. And Mickey about we talk about injuries,
Speaker 1: and I'm wondering if Mickey Spagnola can return to the
Speaker 1: Star for rehab. Well, I need to get special dispensation
Speaker 1: to be able to go in the building. But rehab
Speaker 1: will be in my future. And one of the reasons
Speaker 1: you see me with a blank background instead of my
Speaker 1: Wheati's box behind me and my dartboard was because those
Speaker 1: are upstairs at my house and I can't go up
Speaker 1: the stairs. On May third, at the almost conclusion of
Speaker 1: my two hour bike ride, I tried to cross four
Speaker 1: lane highway to get to where the sidewalk was so
Speaker 1: I could be safe. And I cleared three of the lanes,
Speaker 1: and the red lights that were all on in both directions. Well,
Speaker 1: the one that I was trying to cross turned green
Speaker 1: and there was a truck pickup truck there in the
Speaker 1: last lane, and he started without seeing me, and I
Speaker 1: got broadsided on my bike kind of went flying a
Speaker 1: little bit, and my foot did not come out of
Speaker 1: the bike pedal stirrup, and I kind of knew, you guys,
Speaker 1: what was wrong when I felt the pain behind my
Speaker 1: left leg and I was in denial, but my sports
Speaker 1: writing medical training taught me that there was something wrong
Speaker 1: with my achilles tendon. And I waited a couple of
Speaker 1: days and called doctor Cooper, who got me in to
Speaker 1: the Carol Clinic. He's the Cowboys orthopedic surgeon and all
Speaker 1: he had to do was touch the back of my
Speaker 1: leg one time, and he confirmed my biggest fears that
Speaker 1: I had torn my achilles and a week ago Monday,
Speaker 1: I had surgery and it was the first surgery I've
Speaker 1: ever had, and all of a sudden, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it just kind of hit me those days leading up
Speaker 1: to it, what these athletes, the Cowboys, players, all the
Speaker 1: guys that have to have surgeries must go through, not
Speaker 1: just from a physical standpoint, but from a mental stamp point,
Speaker 1: because suddenly you're in the hands of the anesthesiologists and
Speaker 1: while these guys are really good and the surgeons really good,
Speaker 1: you're still at their mercy. And boy, from a from
Speaker 1: a metal standpoint, you just can't get over it. You
Speaker 1: just can't get through it. And it made me think
Speaker 1: that and Everson, you can talk about this. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we treat player injuries and surgeries like wow, right to
Speaker 1: put a band aid on it, you know, spit on it,
Speaker 1: and no big deal surgery. Surgery You got to do
Speaker 1: it to repair an ACL you got to do it
Speaker 1: to repair a torn laboring or a rotator cuff. But boy,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, surgery is no joke. And it
Speaker 1: gave me a new appreciation for these guys what they
Speaker 1: have to do to continue their career and get back
Speaker 1: on the field, and for me, the torn achilles could
Speaker 1: be one of the worst injuries to rehab. This is
Speaker 1: going to be a long haul and probably next time
Speaker 1: you guys actually see me in person, you'll see me
Speaker 1: on one of those kneel down scooters paddling my way
Speaker 1: along in the hallways because I've got a big old
Speaker 1: walking boot on and I've got to be in it
Speaker 1: for quite a while to make sure that the technique
Speaker 1: they used to put the ten the achilles tending back
Speaker 1: together doesn't get stretched out before it reattaches itself. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and Everson, I know you went through the surgery when
Speaker 1: you donated the kidney back in two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: in my right to donate it to Ron Springs, And
Speaker 1: had you had surgeries before that, never had had surgery before.
Speaker 1: That was really blessed. I think you and I were
Speaker 1: count of a light. We were both trying to stay
Speaker 1: out of the phrase fads as much as possible. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to get my head off in as and
Speaker 1: have some surgery. But have you played on thirteen fourteen
Speaker 1: years out thirteen years no surgery? The achilles is also
Speaker 1: my biggest fear I would imagine from any athlete you
Speaker 1: have to think about Kevin Durand and just was an
Speaker 1: amazing athlete that he is to be able to come
Speaker 1: back so far, you know, from from what he went
Speaker 1: through a last year. Uh. You know, we think about surgeries,
Speaker 1: and I always think about running backs, you know, whenever
Speaker 1: we think about surgeries, because they're always getting hit on
Speaker 1: their knees and their legs and their ankles, and now
Speaker 1: you take away their livelihood, like like we did with
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset. He leaves the Cowboys after they brought in
Speaker 1: herschel Walker, which I thought was one of the craziest
Speaker 1: moves I ever made in Cowboy history. He goes to Denver,
Speaker 1: of all places, and here he tore his ACL. If
Speaker 1: I recall while in Denver, Well, we look at that
Speaker 1: and I think he was on the back end of
Speaker 1: his career. He was over thirty plus years old at
Speaker 1: the time, and for a running back, that's old. And
Speaker 1: Dorsett was able to gain close to a thousand yards
Speaker 1: post ACL surgery. I thought that was just amazing how
Speaker 1: we did that. We don't, you know, we shouldn't take
Speaker 1: these surgeries for granted. Of course, just you and you
Speaker 1: and I lay people right now. It's hard enough because
Speaker 1: we have nothing to get back to. These guys are
Speaker 1: on a schedule and they have a legacy that they
Speaker 1: want to extend. And so when you think about trying
Speaker 1: to come back from something like that, the urgency that
Speaker 1: they that they feel after probably right after surgery, when
Speaker 1: they're just feeling just helpless. You know, I can't do
Speaker 1: anything right now. I pulled the muscle one time and
Speaker 1: I felt like they should shoot me like a horse,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you've got these guys
Speaker 1: with bones that are trying to heal, muscles that are
Speaker 1: trying to heal, and they've got to get back into
Speaker 1: the fray and be as good as they were before
Speaker 1: they left. And that that kind of pressure. That's something
Speaker 1: that we take for granted as fans, but it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be taken for granted at all. Yeah, And if you
Speaker 1: think about it, and I was trying to count up
Speaker 1: and buy my count. You know, from the start of
Speaker 1: training camp last year to around now, you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had at least a dozen surgeries, and you
Speaker 1: know a lot of these, you know, you're you're talking
Speaker 1: about what can you get back in time for the offseason?
Speaker 1: Could you back in time for preseason or the regular season,
Speaker 1: and these guys have to work awfully hard every day.
Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, Bill mentioned what facilities being
Speaker 1: closed to the coaches and players except for the guys
Speaker 1: do and rehab, except for the guys coming back from
Speaker 1: surgerboys or injuries that they've got to work on day
Speaker 1: in and day out. And I was told, and I
Speaker 1: was reminded several times that look, you know, your livelihood
Speaker 1: doesn't depend on you being back for the offseason in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, So you got to take your time
Speaker 1: and not rush this because this is a real serious injury.
Speaker 1: And if you try to get back too soon, you know,
Speaker 1: you could ruin the surgery and you'll be limping for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. And you know, and when
Speaker 1: I asked, uh, you know, is there an alternative the
Speaker 1: surgery and the foot specialist at the Carol Clinic told
Speaker 1: me doctor Curry, he said, yeah, there's there's an alternative.
Speaker 1: I can put you in a boot for two months
Speaker 1: and the tendon will kind of reattach itself, but you'll
Speaker 1: limp for the rest of your life and you'll never
Speaker 1: do anything again athletically. And I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't think I have a choice. Let's go, and
Speaker 1: so here I am. I'm my scooter and my boot.
Speaker 1: And it was hard to talk about it. First, What
Speaker 1: are you doing riding your bike for two hours? Stags?
Speaker 1: That's the problem. You're boding too long. Now you're you're
Speaker 1: exhausted trying to sneak across a ten learning highway and
Speaker 1: you and you'd surprised you didn't make it. Okay, you
Speaker 1: only have twenty seconds and you can see the count
Speaker 1: it's counting for you was counting down. What are you
Speaker 1: His life is counting down The first time, I figured
Speaker 1: all I needed was five seconds, right, But you know,
Speaker 1: you're very places to go. They don't have time to
Speaker 1: wait on some old doctor fauci to cross the street. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, you know why I did, And you're right,
Speaker 1: because I was so anxious to get home. I had rode.
Speaker 1: I rode way too long and it was like I
Speaker 1: just gotta get back, and it's like, okay, I can
Speaker 1: make this. You know. On the other thing you do
Speaker 1: is you beat yourself up because there's all these little
Speaker 1: decisions you made along the way. Oh, I could have
Speaker 1: gone this way, I could have waited, I could have
Speaker 1: gone that way. What if I hadn't stopped here to
Speaker 1: drink water? Uh? And it just it drives you crazy
Speaker 1: and uh and then you have to just sit there
Speaker 1: and accept it and go, okay, let's make the best
Speaker 1: of it. So, you know, working back right now, not
Speaker 1: all that bad. Now. Now you found out what it
Speaker 1: feels like to be hit. Oh man, you found You've
Speaker 1: been writing about it all this time. Now you can
Speaker 1: say I know what it's like to be hit by
Speaker 1: somebody like Zach Martin. You know, it reminded me of
Speaker 1: and I can't remember which running back it was, and
Speaker 1: it might have been Emmett. He was talking about getting
Speaker 1: tackled and he goes, yeah, just think about if I
Speaker 1: carried the ball twenty times. It's almost like I got
Speaker 1: in twenty car accidents, the impact of the hits from
Speaker 1: these guys. And you know what, He's pretty right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. It is. Now you can say you're right. Now,
Speaker 1: I know why cornerbacks make business decisions out there. We
Speaker 1: made business decisions bad. Okay, you can not make a
Speaker 1: good business. Oh I did so. So Mickey, what's your
Speaker 1: what's your prognosis for Oxnard? Well, if if we go,
Speaker 1: I would imagine my little scooters coming along with me.
Speaker 1: I kind of pointed out too. When I first told
Speaker 1: the guys at work, you know what happened, I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be this year's uh Sanjay Lyle Kyle
Speaker 1: Kyle Valero. Both guys had foot injuries last year and
Speaker 1: ended up, if you remember, during practice on their little
Speaker 1: pedal scooters, which they don't I'm told don't work real
Speaker 1: great in the grass. But I've got to stay off
Speaker 1: as much as I can. So no pup for you.
Speaker 1: Uh No, maybe not as much standing on the sideline,
Speaker 1: but I can still write, you know. That was that
Speaker 1: was the weird thing. I didn't break and God bless it,
Speaker 1: I didn't break a bone and I didn't hit my
Speaker 1: head because the emergency unit got there. The biggest thing
Speaker 1: they were worried about is if I knew who I was,
Speaker 1: where I was, where I was going, where I lived.
Speaker 1: And I said, they said, did you hit your head?
Speaker 1: And I go by some miraculous happening, uh no, And
Speaker 1: they looked at my helmet and they go, hey, a
Speaker 1: scratch on there. And it's like, God bless it, because
Speaker 1: that's the thing that they most worry about. When something
Speaker 1: like that happens. Good. Well, I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's evident to those of listening and responding on social
Speaker 1: media that you did not have a head injury because
Speaker 1: you're you're still talking the same way you did before,
Speaker 1: still not making any sense. Right, I didn't knock any
Speaker 1: sense into you. It didn't any sense. You're so right,
Speaker 1: he's still hopless, he's still open. Was the What was
Speaker 1: the line? Somebody I had a head scan and and
Speaker 1: they said, yeah, sure enough, they still found there was
Speaker 1: nothing in there. All right? What about the other the
Speaker 1: injuries from the for the Cowboys players this offseason? You've
Speaker 1: alluded to some of them like Tyrone Crawford would double
Speaker 1: a hip surgery from last year, Connor Williams acl yeah,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown actually at triceps injury that he had repaired,
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods a postseason hip surgery. Um, how extensive was his?
Speaker 1: I mean they just say hip surgery. What are we
Speaker 1: done talking about here? With Ann? You know? His was
Speaker 1: his was more of just the clean up of the
Speaker 1: of the labram And last time I saw him at
Speaker 1: the at the Star, you know, he was doing rehab
Speaker 1: and he was he was walking on his own now,
Speaker 1: So he said he was getting better and felt like
Speaker 1: he'd be ready to go in May when they started.
Speaker 1: Uh OTAs you know, the one surgery that you know
Speaker 1: it was pretty serious was Layton Vandersch And that's the
Speaker 1: other one. Yeah, Layton, he had neck surgery, you know.
Speaker 1: And I kept reading that it was a normally invasive
Speaker 1: neck surgery, and I'm going, you know what, there is
Speaker 1: no exactly And that's another thing. I you know, the
Speaker 1: the the these minor surgeries that we're told about, they're
Speaker 1: only minor when there's somebody else's right. Mine was major
Speaker 1: hi and tar and and and so you know, and
Speaker 1: what he had done was significant because he had a
Speaker 1: ruptured disc in his cervical in the neck here. And
Speaker 1: what they do is they take out the ruptured disc
Speaker 1: and they fuse the vertebrae together. Uh. And you know
Speaker 1: guys have had that and they've come back and played.
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnston had it. He came back and played uh
Speaker 1: and you know, and played fullback. But that that's that again,
Speaker 1: that's no joke. When they're messing us is yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: so uh my understanding. And you know, and he spoke
Speaker 1: about it, I think on a national broadcast either first
Speaker 1: this week or late last week about he's ready to
Speaker 1: go and he should be able to do whatever they
Speaker 1: ask him to do whenever they get back on the
Speaker 1: field for football stuff. But boy, you know that's serious.
Speaker 1: And I have been concerned about that surgery, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the minute you brought it up. Anytime you're
Speaker 1: dealing with the neck area, and it's not just the surgery,
Speaker 1: stags and Bill, it's it's the rehab afterwards, and also
Speaker 1: the ensuing contact. Okay, over and over again, you're going
Speaker 1: to right back to where you were. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that you know not all surgeries weaken that particular part
Speaker 1: of the body that's been operated on. But you gotta
Speaker 1: wonder how many more hits you can take when you're
Speaker 1: talking about that procedure of taking something out and whatever
Speaker 1: they're doing with it. That is some very serious stuff.
Speaker 1: And when you're talking about his position, you're talking about
Speaker 1: the horse collar they he loves to wear. There's a
Speaker 1: reason for that protection, but that doesn't always protect you
Speaker 1: because this game goes one hundred miles an hour and
Speaker 1: Vanderesh is not shying from any contact, and neither is
Speaker 1: the person that he's going again, So It always worries me,
Speaker 1: especially that part of the body. So if he feels
Speaker 1: comfortable with it, that's great. But I man, that's a
Speaker 1: tough one that if there was my son, that'd be
Speaker 1: a tough call, no matter how minimally invasive that surgery
Speaker 1: would have been. And you know, when you think about
Speaker 1: what Randy White has gone through, and he had the
Speaker 1: problems with his neck, and you know, and he's pretty
Speaker 1: his neck doesn't Randy White cannot turn around. Randy White
Speaker 1: cannot look up in the sky. Think about how odd
Speaker 1: that is. He cannot look up in the sky if
Speaker 1: something was passing overhead. It's impossible. And that is not
Speaker 1: something that I would look forward to as a young man.
Speaker 1: And if you think about him and how tough he is,
Speaker 1: was you know, he wanted to come back and play
Speaker 1: him at eighty nine season uh, And you know he
Speaker 1: had to be told, you know what, you're a little
Speaker 1: up in age and we're probably gonna move on. But
Speaker 1: had they not told him that, he and he knows
Speaker 1: that was the right thing to do. But had they
Speaker 1: not told him that, he would have tried to come
Speaker 1: back and play him. Of course he would. But that's
Speaker 1: because that's just the way you feel. You don't really
Speaker 1: understand what's going on back there. All you know is
Speaker 1: you can still walk, you can still play, That's all
Speaker 1: you know. Well, Mickey, it's great that you have survived
Speaker 1: it and you're on the fastest cry to getting better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It certainly could have been a lot
Speaker 1: worse because you don't want me doing this show's fags.
Speaker 1: You don't want me now, Bill, Bill, you don't want
Speaker 1: me to be that guy. Okay, Well, all I know
Speaker 1: is I've got two beagles here right next to me
Speaker 1: who want to be fed right now. Bow and Romo
Speaker 1: are their names, and there they came along in Tony
Speaker 1: Romo's first year as the Cowboys starting quarterback. That's why
Speaker 1: one of them was blessed with the name Romo. And
Speaker 1: they have awakened from their slumber and they want to
Speaker 1: be fed right now. So I think that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for this edition of mix Shots. We've got so
Speaker 1: much to get to next week, and in fact, next week,
Speaker 1: how about we picked Cubby's brain on cornerbacks on this
Speaker 1: team that's on the next edition of mix Shots. Have
Speaker 1: a great Memorial Day weekend, everybody, and don't go out
Speaker 1: on a bicycle. Stay safe. This has been a production
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