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 Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it's time for another edition of
Speaker 1: mix Shots. It is our final edition of mix Shots
Speaker 1: for the month of March, and we are now less
Speaker 1: than a month away from the first round of the
Speaker 1: National Football League Draft, which is Thursday, April twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola inside the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage studios there at Ford Center at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. And there's so much to get to
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys are trying to put this team together
Speaker 1: and the NFL is talking about putting a schedule together
Speaker 1: that includes seventeen games, one fewer preseason game. Let's start
Speaker 1: with you, Micky, how are you doing on this fine
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. I am doing great. And you know what,
Speaker 1: when you are with a bunch of older guys, don't
Speaker 1: ever start the show by saying this is the finals.
Speaker 1: I said, Oh no, does he know something I don't know?
Speaker 1: Why did you hear? So? How you doing? I am
Speaker 1: doing well. This is what the last day I believe
Speaker 1: of National Women's Mouth. Is that correct? No, y'all want
Speaker 1: the world don't tomorrow? Yeah, I'm what are you honoring today?
Speaker 1: I am honoring today my mother who has passed on.
Speaker 1: This is her birthday today, Weta Walls. The Weta is
Speaker 1: o U I d A. I would always have to
Speaker 1: clarify that it's French. So the old is silent. And
Speaker 1: I always help something against my people because they name
Speaker 1: us all of these weird names. I never liked Everson,
Speaker 1: you know, of course, you know, you know my mom
Speaker 1: gave it to me, so I have to love it.
Speaker 1: But everyone always said it wrong. Emerson. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: my dad's name was Welling w E L l O.
Speaker 1: And all these country names. Her name Weeda. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like when you get the mail. When you get
Speaker 1: the mail, all of our names are misspelled. I don't
Speaker 1: care growing up all of our names are misspelled. But
Speaker 1: happy birthday to wed the Walls. This is her birthday
Speaker 1: to day, so I have to definitely honor her. And
Speaker 1: if you check my Facebook post, you know you'll see
Speaker 1: that you know gave a little honorarium to it, just
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody realize how much we loved her
Speaker 1: and how important she was to Hey, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for her, guys, oh my god, you you wouldn't know me.
Speaker 1: You would not know me. I would never know you. See,
Speaker 1: just like most mothers, they saved our lives. They saved
Speaker 1: us from ourselves. So I want to thank we the
Speaker 1: walls for doing that and saving me from my my
Speaker 1: my worst habits that I had that she had to
Speaker 1: break me from. I'll put it away. Hey, there's only
Speaker 1: one person, only one person on this show that that uh,
Speaker 1: nobody had trouble with spelling first or last name. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ever said I was gonna say, I was gonna
Speaker 1: tell you go through life with the name Bill Jones
Speaker 1: and then complain about right. I can see the other
Speaker 1: side of that. I would love to have a unique name.
Speaker 1: I can see. I can see the other side of that. Definitely,
Speaker 1: where your high can I've had more. I've had more
Speaker 1: volves added to my last name than you can shake
Speaker 1: a stick at. And well we're at it. Then I'll
Speaker 1: give a shout out to my late mother as well.
Speaker 1: Her birthday April third, coming up this week twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: they were born exactly coming up one week apart, March
Speaker 1: twenty seventh April third, and how how amazing is that?
Speaker 1: And then twenty nine years later they came together in
Speaker 1: marriage and here we are today, all right there, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are trying to come together in marriage with
Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks in free agency, and
Speaker 1: they still have a one huge gaping hole in one
Speaker 1: spot in their secondary. Mickey, where do you where do
Speaker 1: you think the Cowboys are in free agency right now?
Speaker 1: And of course that gaping hole right now in the
Speaker 1: secondary is at one of those starting cornerback spots. Is
Speaker 1: they have not replaced Cheetawwoozia who signed with Cincinnati. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I understand that with a with a veteran. At
Speaker 1: least they have Anthony Brown who they did sign last
Speaker 1: year to a multi year deal, so they can use
Speaker 1: him as a veteran starter no matter what happens or
Speaker 1: should happen in the draft or if the guy's ready
Speaker 1: or not, Mike, gaping hole still is the backup quarterback
Speaker 1: position that they have not addressed yet. I was encouraged
Speaker 1: though listening to Mike McCarthy last week during his media conference,
Speaker 1: saying that they have spoken to several veterans and they'll
Speaker 1: continue to kind of monitor that position. But he did
Speaker 1: call the quarterback position and I know Everson doesn't like
Speaker 1: this the most important position on the team, and to me,
Speaker 1: one should get Dak Prescott signed. The next most important
Speaker 1: position is the guy behind him. And I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure they're willing to go into training camp with three
Speaker 1: guys that have like a combined uh three starts. Maybe
Speaker 1: I think I added them up if I got that correct. So, uh,
Speaker 1: that's something that we should keep an eye on. Although
Speaker 1: you know what, guys, with with how volatile the quarterback
Speaker 1: position is along the league, there's gonna be some guys
Speaker 1: released or some guys gonna be cheap, especially after the
Speaker 1: draw up last year. Mickey, Right, exactly where did Cowboys
Speaker 1: get Andy Dalton last year? It was after Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: was drafted number one overall by Cincinnati. So so true,
Speaker 1: So yes, as that goes, yes, absolutely, that's right. Well, Jed,
Speaker 1: I just want to let you I just want to
Speaker 1: let you guys know that you know, with the absurdity
Speaker 1: of this, uh, the safeties that we've been signing of
Speaker 1: course you know my position on them. I have decided
Speaker 1: to commit myself to working out and I'm going to
Speaker 1: try out for the Cowboys at safety. So there you go.
Speaker 1: I love that we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna put
Speaker 1: that out there. I mean, I I instead of fussing
Speaker 1: about it, and we're gonna do something about it. So
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get out and
Speaker 1: I'll be in my yard. I only have ten yards
Speaker 1: of sprint sprint space back there, so I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in the backyard doing ten yards sprints. I'll be getting
Speaker 1: ready for you. I can probably set you up with
Speaker 1: one of those one year veteran exception deals, so your
Speaker 1: only count nine hundred and eighty seven thousand, five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars against the salary cap, okay, because that's all these
Speaker 1: guys that we're getting and you only get one year exactly.
Speaker 1: I saw. I saw the parade. I saw the parade,
Speaker 1: last week's bags of signings. I saw the guys, and
Speaker 1: I gotta say, they look they look older than me, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of those guys are just some old
Speaker 1: looking dudes. Man. I can't I couldn't have grown up
Speaker 1: in this area. These are some of the toughest looking
Speaker 1: guys I think I've ever seen. I don't even think
Speaker 1: they're even out of their thirties, and they're looking like this.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you when you talk about the
Speaker 1: gaping hole, Yeah, that that secondary is something I'm still
Speaker 1: concerned about. When you're talking about bringing back Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: and guys like that. My concern with young defensive backs
Speaker 1: and they can't be they can't keep playing young if
Speaker 1: you keep playing all these games. I remember in eighty
Speaker 1: one Madden said about us in our secondary, we want
Speaker 1: Thurm and Stieves yet, but our young secondary. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, by the time you get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: there are no more rookies. You know, you should have
Speaker 1: that experience. So I'm looking for the Cowboys secondary to
Speaker 1: show me some experience. The thing that frustrates us so
Speaker 1: much by watching our secondary is that we don't make
Speaker 1: heads up plays, you know, and that that concerns me.
Speaker 1: We don't show the experience that we should have after
Speaker 1: playing all of these games that we've been playing, not
Speaker 1: just in one season, but over two or three seasons.
Speaker 1: I would hope that they would show some type of experience,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the way we did back in the day
Speaker 1: and the way most good secondaries do it. You start
Speaker 1: to play the team, okay, and I play your technique,
Speaker 1: necessarily you play the team, and you start to anticipate
Speaker 1: what they're doing. We just in our secondary, I just
Speaker 1: don't see, when I say playmakers, guys that are heads
Speaker 1: up enough to sniff out of play and then make
Speaker 1: that play. I would just love to see more of that.
Speaker 1: And in that regard, I don't give a damn who
Speaker 1: we signed as long as they can make these plays. Now,
Speaker 1: these guys that we just signed, they have experience, so
Speaker 1: hopefully with that experience they can sniff out a few
Speaker 1: plays and be able to make a difference in our secondary.
Speaker 1: Just remember, because he had seven interceptions in one season, yep,
Speaker 1: and somebody and Mickey Well I had I had to
Speaker 1: correct somebody on that because they said those seven interceptions
Speaker 1: are more interceptions than any Cowboy player had since Michael
Speaker 1: Downs in nineteen eighty three. I oh, no, eighty four
Speaker 1: And I said, no, oh, I think some guy named
Speaker 1: Walls had nine and eighty five. Okay, that's true. How
Speaker 1: do they forget about me? Spas? I don't know I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of listing. Oh my god, man,
Speaker 1: you know you guys, you guys should give me more
Speaker 1: shout outs on whatever you do, because obviously I am
Speaker 1: fading in everyone's memory. So thank God for this show.
Speaker 1: I can bring it back up. Well, no, thank you
Speaker 1: for the show, because I think we spoke about that
Speaker 1: and I remembered I said, no, I think Everson had
Speaker 1: nine one crazy, I don't remember. I love Michael Downs,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember any Michael Downs interceptions. I remember
Speaker 1: every single one of Everson Walls seven interceptions of this career. Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, in fairness to Mike, he saved my
Speaker 1: ass many times. So uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to differ with you on that one, Bill because
Speaker 1: Mike might never forget me on that one. That's what
Speaker 1: the boys need to do. They need to get local
Speaker 1: guys like Everson Walls out of high school and Michael Downs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we knew the culture coming in. We knew Tom Langer
Speaker 1: didn't play, We knew we were going to have to
Speaker 1: work hard, and we knew our secondary already sucked. So
Speaker 1: we came in ready to play. We came in ready
Speaker 1: to go. And Charlie Waters like, come all in here,
Speaker 1: young fellow. You could do all the work and I
Speaker 1: can sit back here on my one leg and just
Speaker 1: have a good time and play it out. That's just
Speaker 1: what happened, you know. The bottom line? Yeah ahead, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. The bottom line on these safeties though, is
Speaker 1: you know they're basically signing wall to one year deals,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't preclude them from drafting a guy uh,
Speaker 1: you know, second third, fourth round, uh to go along
Speaker 1: with Donovan Wilson. I saw where demonte Kaz. Is that
Speaker 1: how I say it? Bill, Yes, that's how you say it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's right or not right, Caz case,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, he basically signed a one year
Speaker 1: deal for the veteran exception, so that kind of tells
Speaker 1: you what kind of market value he may not have had.
Speaker 1: So his cap hit for this year is only nine
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven thousand, five hundred dollars that I
Speaker 1: was going to give Everson. So with the veteran exception,
Speaker 1: you get a you get a minimum signing bonus which
Speaker 1: is one hundred and thirty seven thousand and five hundred
Speaker 1: and then basically it's a one year, one point two
Speaker 1: seven million dollars deal, so very similar to those other
Speaker 1: offensive line I mean defensive lineman. They signed offensive lineman too,
Speaker 1: by the way, all these one year deals that they've
Speaker 1: been signing, and Bill I also saw and expect it's
Speaker 1: less money than less money than those guys early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those were those were four and five hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: signing bonuses and this was just a two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus per Kaze and in fact mentioned market value.
Speaker 1: It turns out Xavier Woods had a better market value
Speaker 1: than demonte Kazi did because he signed for basically what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were given these other guys, which was a
Speaker 1: base of one point seven five million with incentives up
Speaker 1: to two point two five with Minnesota over the weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because his signing, they at least gave him a signing
Speaker 1: bonus of five hundred thousand with a base of one
Speaker 1: point two five So his cap hit is one point
Speaker 1: seven five for this year. So to me, that tells
Speaker 1: me that he didn't price himself out of the Cowboys market.
Speaker 1: They just decided to go ahead and move on. And
Speaker 1: if you look at all these other contracts, they signed
Speaker 1: guys to Terrell? Is it Terrell? Terrell Basham had the
Speaker 1: most lucrative deal. If lucrative is two years, five point
Speaker 1: five million, So again that's not an extreme amount when
Speaker 1: his base salary is two point five million for this
Speaker 1: year and he has three point seven five million guaranteed.
Speaker 1: So again that's lucrative as far as I'm concerned. Yes,
Speaker 1: but what you see going around the league right now,
Speaker 1: but this is but ever since, right it's a lot
Speaker 1: of one year deals and everybody's kind of hoping for
Speaker 1: a prove it deal that they can come in and
Speaker 1: have a good year and then get a bigger contract
Speaker 1: when the salary cap goes back up next year. I
Speaker 1: do recall when I went to the Giants from the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Obviously I was one of the higher paid players on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys before they got rid of me, and then
Speaker 1: when I signed with the Giants, now you're like starting
Speaker 1: all over. I do recall coming in with a two
Speaker 1: year deal. I think you're like half a meal apiece.
Speaker 1: And that wasn't bad back then, but it wasn't anything
Speaker 1: that you could, you know, really brag about, especially coming
Speaker 1: off the career that I had had, So it made
Speaker 1: me by signing that short term deal. I was gonna
Speaker 1: be hungry anyway, but you definitely understand the urgency of
Speaker 1: the situation because if you don't play well, if you
Speaker 1: don't practice well in training camp, then they really had
Speaker 1: invested that much in you, so you can be out
Speaker 1: of that, you know, And so I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that I made. You have to make a quick impression.
Speaker 1: I was a veteran, so they were looking forward to
Speaker 1: me making plays. But if you're one of the younger
Speaker 1: guys out there trying to sign a one year deal
Speaker 1: like that, you better come in making smoke happen from
Speaker 1: day one. That needs to be your incentive. So to
Speaker 1: put that money into perspective. In eighty six, when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys the usfl folded in, the Cowboys signed Herschel Walker.
Speaker 1: It was basically a one million dollars a year deal
Speaker 1: and that was considered huge, right. And I remember when
Speaker 1: Tony Dorset reported to training camp and somebody said, well,
Speaker 1: what do you think of herschel getting a million dollars?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I feel like a million dollar man. Hint, hint.
Speaker 1: He wanted he wanted to get his but that was
Speaker 1: that was that was that was considering that was considered
Speaker 1: very controversial as well as it was bringing in a
Speaker 1: guy like Hersha Walker when you already have a future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer in your in your backfield, that's when
Speaker 1: you knew things were going off the rails over Valley Rent.
Speaker 1: Getting back to my point about the gaping hole at
Speaker 1: at cornerback, I think it's clear right now, it's clear
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are taking a cornerback in either the
Speaker 1: first or second round of this draft. Uh do you
Speaker 1: think they're fine? Though, Mickey? As far as any any
Speaker 1: more veteran guys at cornerback before the draft, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it would have to be another very inexpensive
Speaker 1: one year deal on somebody. If that guy is out there,
Speaker 1: you know, they still have Rashard Robinson, right, and you
Speaker 1: know he's got a little bit of experience. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, at times he played well and then towards
Speaker 1: the end he didn't play very well. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if they look at him as a corner And
Speaker 1: the same thing with c J. Goodwin. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a special teams guy, and you know he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's just going to count one point six million against
Speaker 1: the cap. They signed him to a three year a
Speaker 1: three year deal and gave him an eight hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars signing bonus. So but again, how about Maurice Kennedy
Speaker 1: And they have his right opted out? He was signed
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, he was signed last offseason. He opted
Speaker 1: out right and all those contracts carry over to this
Speaker 1: year and so technically he's still on the roster. But
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about But they haven't released no, no,
Speaker 1: they Yeah. Experience think the biggest thing is you want
Speaker 1: you want to go into the draft having all your
Speaker 1: positions filled where you don't have to draft for need.
Speaker 1: You have priorities, but you can go out and you
Speaker 1: can Basically, I think the best philosophy through free agency
Speaker 1: is you do enough where you could actually go out
Speaker 1: and play a game on draft day where you don't
Speaker 1: have to fill in the desperate need. I would say
Speaker 1: that Cowboys have a pretty desperate need UH in the
Speaker 1: secondary to add talent back there, but they don't have
Speaker 1: to UH in the first or second round do that. UM.
Speaker 1: And there's other veteran guys out there, uh in veteran
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that are out there in free agency too. That
Speaker 1: will probably still be out there even after the draft
Speaker 1: and see how it shakes out. Yeah, then after where
Speaker 1: your draft at France goes down. Right, So well, you
Speaker 1: talked about you talked about Robinson's facts. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: This guy's he played cornerback in college. Correct, Yes, he
Speaker 1: did play corn cornerback. Tall. I know people, he's not that.
Speaker 1: He's a little bit tall for a cornerback. You know
Speaker 1: the way they have coming out of college these days.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you look at somebody who's had
Speaker 1: one year experience, you expect them to come in the
Speaker 1: next year and you know, after having a few games
Speaker 1: under their belt to be able to improve. I have
Speaker 1: played with young players. I came in playing with young players.
Speaker 1: Was that I was that young player. Initially, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Charlie Waters was very concerned about who was coming in
Speaker 1: when they brought it in, Michael Downs. But this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, came in and did what Michael Downs did.
Speaker 1: Even though Bill doesn't remember any of his plays. Michael Downs,
Speaker 1: actually he actually played had a pretty good career. Uh
Speaker 1: And even when I'm w he did. Even when I
Speaker 1: went to the Giants, we had two young safeties that
Speaker 1: we had to deal with, and that was Greg Jackson
Speaker 1: and Myron Guiden, and those two guys stepped up because
Speaker 1: you had two cornerbacks that had a little bit of
Speaker 1: experience in myself and Mark Collins. So you have to
Speaker 1: look forward to them developing, don't. We don't We have
Speaker 1: to look forward to them making plays. I knew I
Speaker 1: was disappointed about Brown and talked about how they don't
Speaker 1: really they need to use their games and that game
Speaker 1: experience to get better. Someone that they have signed the
Speaker 1: younger guys, they have to show improvement. They have to
Speaker 1: show development. Hopefully Trayvon can show that this offseason. This
Speaker 1: train account. But as you say, we go into a draft, yeah,
Speaker 1: we might need to draft a corner but I still
Speaker 1: want what I signed and what I paid for in
Speaker 1: previous years to show me some type of development. Either
Speaker 1: they bring it out themselves. You have to have coaches
Speaker 1: that are able to show them the era of their
Speaker 1: ways and make them improve. I just I have seen
Speaker 1: players come here and who have been stagnant in their development.
Speaker 1: If you don't come in ready to play, that's great,
Speaker 1: but you have to show me improvement and development. I
Speaker 1: want to see that in our young guys. And we
Speaker 1: need to hear a break. But we also need to
Speaker 1: make the distinction that there are two Robinson's in that
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary. Of course, Richard Robinson, who started some games
Speaker 1: at cornerback last year. I believe it was three games. Now,
Speaker 1: he was a fourth round pick back not of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys of San Francisco back in twenty sixteen, so he's
Speaker 1: a more veteran guy. And then the guy you're talking about,
Speaker 1: Everson Reggie Robinson, who was the Cowboys fourth round pick
Speaker 1: last year and didn't get much playing time and was
Speaker 1: actually the previous regime. And as far as the defensive
Speaker 1: coaches are concerned, we're looking at him at safe and
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see what Joe Witt Junior,
Speaker 1: the secondary coach, and Dan Quinn view Reggie Robinson, whether
Speaker 1: he works at safety or at cornerback, and of course
Speaker 1: we won't know that probably until after the draft and
Speaker 1: we get into OTAs and so forth. All Right, there's
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Speaker 1: movings and shakings in the draft and what happened last
Speaker 1: Friday with San Francisco moving around, and how all of
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Speaker 1: his press conference last Thursday let the cat out of
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Speaker 1: now to and what is our producer Chris Beams said
Speaker 1: it was like a four page post on Instagram is
Speaker 1: doing just that. But Mickey, he had a lot to say,
Speaker 1: He had a lot to say that's exactly right. You
Speaker 1: can only imagine. There's so many people that have impacted him.
Speaker 1: First and foremost is his wife, Kelsey. He points out
Speaker 1: he's been at his side through all of his surgeries
Speaker 1: that he's had and throughout his journey. Mickey Tyrone nine
Speaker 1: years in the NFL with the Cowboys, and that's a
Speaker 1: very nice career. A third round draft pick out of
Speaker 1: Boys State, you know, and a really good soldier for
Speaker 1: a third round pick. I always have to call him
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman because when he would show up the
Speaker 1: training camp after preparing in the off season to play
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, it's like, well, you know what, we need
Speaker 1: you a defensive end. And then the years that they said, okay,
Speaker 1: you're a defensive end, and then they get injuries inside
Speaker 1: and said, well Tyrone, you're a defensive tackle. And he
Speaker 1: never complained. He did what they asked him to do
Speaker 1: and did it at a very professional level. I remember
Speaker 1: one year we gosh, I think, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it was in the off season or it was the
Speaker 1: beginning of training camp. I was interviewing him and I said, so,
Speaker 1: what are you a defensive end or defensive tackle? He said,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You tell me, he goes whatever they
Speaker 1: tell me to play, I will play. And he would
Speaker 1: adjust his weight because he would come in a little
Speaker 1: heavier to play defensive tackle, and then they had to
Speaker 1: move out the defensive end or he driveway to play
Speaker 1: defensive end. And they said, well, you know what, at
Speaker 1: two seventy, we want you at defensive tackle. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna be to me. His legacy here over nine years
Speaker 1: is he did whatever they asked him to do and
Speaker 1: did it as well as he could. That's a great
Speaker 1: legacy to have two Spags. When you look at his
Speaker 1: career and we talk about the sacrifices he made physically,
Speaker 1: think that the hip surgeries that he had in the
Speaker 1: off season, and then he still comes back and tries
Speaker 1: to contribute as best he can. You know, I coach
Speaker 1: some kids every once in a while, and yes, Spags,
Speaker 1: I do teach them all the bad habits that I
Speaker 1: learned in the NFL. And one thing I tell them,
Speaker 1: I said, the more you can do, the more you
Speaker 1: can do. That makes you more valuable to almost any
Speaker 1: team that you're on. If you're playing cornerback and they
Speaker 1: ask you if you can play safety, you say, yes,
Speaker 1: I can play safety now. In fact, you tell them
Speaker 1: you were a safety. You just tell them whatever you
Speaker 1: want to want they want to hear, to make sure
Speaker 1: that they have a comfort zone with you. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had a great comfort zone with Tyrone Crawford, a guy
Speaker 1: that you know, we talked about the big names in
Speaker 1: these organizations, and the big names are always what drives
Speaker 1: that notoriety. But when it comes to really the heart
Speaker 1: and the soul of the teams, this guy's like Tyrone Crawford,
Speaker 1: who are the ones that really keep us in good standing?
Speaker 1: And once again I throw guys like Michael Dowell's in
Speaker 1: there who just did all the hard work and really
Speaker 1: didn't get much fans fair for it. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford is he should go down as one of
Speaker 1: the favorite Cowboys of this particular generation of players. You know, guys,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just can't define a player's career by stats.
Speaker 1: You have to be around it and see it. And
Speaker 1: I know before he decided that hip surgery was in
Speaker 1: his future, dual hip surgery, by the way, he was contemplating,
Speaker 1: do I really want to come back and play? You know,
Speaker 1: I've done a lot and I'll tell you what. I've
Speaker 1: got the greatest respect for anybody in this game, including
Speaker 1: a couple of these dbs. The Cowboys sign that come
Speaker 1: back from a torn achilles, that's no joke. That is difficult.
Speaker 1: And he tore his in training camp and I'll never
Speaker 1: forget it was a couple of years later. He went
Speaker 1: down and let out it was early in training camp,
Speaker 1: the loudest screen you ever heard, and they carted him
Speaker 1: off and his biggest fear was he retore the achilles.
Speaker 1: It didn't, It wasn't. It ended up being a really
Speaker 1: bad ankle foot sprain, but he worried so much about that.
Speaker 1: So the fact that he came back and played another year,
Speaker 1: I think that's just a credit to who he is
Speaker 1: and the fact that he wanted to come back improved
Speaker 1: to everybody that he could come back and play. You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing, Mickey, just look at last year with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and he was in the last year of
Speaker 1: his contract. This shows I think the respect that the
Speaker 1: organization had for Tyrone Crawford because if you look at
Speaker 1: what the breakdown on his contract last year, what was it.
Speaker 1: He had a base salary of eight million dollars last
Speaker 1: year and they could have very easily released him and
Speaker 1: saved a lot of money on the salary cap. But
Speaker 1: they had so much respect for Crawford, not only his
Speaker 1: ability as a football player, his leadership in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and his want to to come back from the surgeries
Speaker 1: that he would be able to get back to be
Speaker 1: able to contribute on the field, that they didn't tear
Speaker 1: up that contract. They didn't release him, and they and
Speaker 1: he played it out, And that is uncommon in this league.
Speaker 1: But I think it really shows the respect that the
Speaker 1: entire organization, the coaching staff in the front office had
Speaker 1: for what Tyrone Crawford had contributed to this team. You know,
Speaker 1: I gotta say one thing as you look at the
Speaker 1: different organizations when you go back to the eighties, seventies,
Speaker 1: and then you compare them to the old regime to this.
Speaker 1: When I say new regime, more recent regime with Jerry
Speaker 1: and the guys, it's a little bit more politically correct,
Speaker 1: don't you think Guys back in the day give brand
Speaker 1: Tex Stram. They wouldn't give a hoot about any player,
Speaker 1: no matter how much respect he had. We had guys
Speaker 1: offensive lineman like Coop the point guardways have Coop that
Speaker 1: played on a bad knee almost his whole career, eventually
Speaker 1: had to have knee replacement. You know, you had an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and tight ends who were playing with search
Speaker 1: with bad injuries all the time, and they knew if
Speaker 1: they got the surgery, they were gonna get cut right
Speaker 1: after they came back. You know, it's so different now
Speaker 1: compared to what it was then. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a good thing, because we were winning back then,
Speaker 1: even though we were being treated like crap. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean like like dog crap. But now the way
Speaker 1: that Jerry Show's favor in a good way took out
Speaker 1: like Tylone Crawford, you, I don't think you have gotten
Speaker 1: that type of treatment. Tyrone Crawford wouldn't have gotten that
Speaker 1: type of treatment if we were still over a Valley ranch. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 1: I was gonna point out one thing when you asked
Speaker 1: about gaping hole on the roster, and I was gonna
Speaker 1: bring up the linebacker position. And I think you got
Speaker 1: a good look at the guy I've been talking about.
Speaker 1: What if you got to number ten and the best
Speaker 1: defensive player in the draft is still on the board,
Speaker 1: would you take a linebacker named Micah Parsons, Mike Parsons, Wow,
Speaker 1: just go look at his tape, the Penn State linebacker,
Speaker 1: and it blows you away. His speed. I think he
Speaker 1: ran a four three nine at his protam No that okay,
Speaker 1: that's all. It's hand it's hand salivating. Now you got
Speaker 1: me salivating here. I'm salivating now. Now he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be there, and I'm gonna be mad now when the
Speaker 1: draft going, And to make elevate a little bit more.
Speaker 1: He's six three and one eighth two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: six pounds and he bench pressed two twenty five nineteen
Speaker 1: times and ran and that was the slowest one that
Speaker 1: they hand timed him. Now because it's not the combine,
Speaker 1: but they hand timed him for three nine. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you're around the four five as a linebacker, I'm
Speaker 1: still impressed. You know that. That is amazing. I did
Speaker 1: not know his forty time was that good. I thought
Speaker 1: he was really just all initiative and drive. But he's
Speaker 1: also extremely talented. So that's something that I'd love to
Speaker 1: go with. And you're talking about the gap guys, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Tyler Crawford leaving and all them didn't sign
Speaker 1: right they're not bringing back Aldon Smith. There's a big
Speaker 1: gap right there in our defensive lineman positions. So you know,
Speaker 1: if we have a defensive lineman that's available, that's a
Speaker 1: hell of a defensive lineman. Are there any out there
Speaker 1: Spags that you would I know you wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: same feeling as you would with the Penn State guy,
Speaker 1: but any defensive lineman out there that would make us
Speaker 1: change our minds and go another direction. If he's the
Speaker 1: best available player, well we're ready to pick. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I don't know that they go defensive end that early,
Speaker 1: and no tackles are probably available at that point. But
Speaker 1: all I know, and you know, say what you want
Speaker 1: about Charlie Casserley or however he evaluates people, but castile,
Speaker 1: he said. Number one thing about Parson. He finds the
Speaker 1: football instincts jump off the tape and he can pass,
Speaker 1: rush off the line of scrimmage, blitzing or blitzing. So
Speaker 1: you know, if anybody needs to look, just go look
Speaker 1: at the twenty nineteen Cotton Bowl and he was the
Speaker 1: most valuable player in that game for Penn State. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, look at the linebacker position other than the
Speaker 1: two guys you know, are starters with Layton Vanderish and
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. As I said last week, who's next, because
Speaker 1: it's Luke Gifford, Bernard Francis and they don't really have
Speaker 1: anything else. So now they talked about playing Kean O'Neil
Speaker 1: starting off with the linebackers, but again he's two sixteen,
Speaker 1: And I understand playing safety and making tackles against the run,
Speaker 1: but lining up at linebacker and trying to make tackles
Speaker 1: is another thing. And so especially if it's not Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially if it's not in nickel situations. So yeah, to me,
Speaker 1: linebacker is a need. And you know, and I get it,
Speaker 1: You don't you have to get everybody in the first round.
Speaker 1: You got a hit on second round, third round, fourth
Speaker 1: round guys that can come in and play. And again
Speaker 1: I'll go back to Bill bringing up the safety position.
Speaker 1: You know, this this this draft is not all about
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one because all these guys we talked about
Speaker 1: signed one year deals, So who knows if you can
Speaker 1: bring them back if they have a good year, or
Speaker 1: what if they don't have a good year and you
Speaker 1: got to move on. So, yeah, you name a position
Speaker 1: on defense, and I got my hand in the air
Speaker 1: and saying, yeah, they need one of those. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: So here's the other thing though about this draft for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, with what's happening with the quarterback market. In
Speaker 1: this draft, you're looking at and Urban Meyer basically admitted
Speaker 1: this past week that they're taking Trevor Lawrence number one overall,
Speaker 1: number two. The Jets are taking a quarterback, and the
Speaker 1: most of the speculation is Zach Wilson out of BYU.
Speaker 1: And then you've got San Francisco moves up and gives
Speaker 1: up the ranch to move up from twelve to three.
Speaker 1: Uh and obviously they're taking a quarterback at three. Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Now. Now the speculation is who who
Speaker 1: is it that John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan have their
Speaker 1: eyes on at quarterback. Let's say Lawrence and Wilson go
Speaker 1: one and two to the Jags and the Jets. All right,
Speaker 1: is it Justin Fields, the Ohio state quarterback. Is it
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, the North Dakota State quarterback, or is it
Speaker 1: Mac Jones the Alabama quarterback that the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: have their eyes on? You know, most of those the
Speaker 1: quote unquote, so called experts with the mock drafts prior
Speaker 1: to San Francisco moving up to number three on Friday,
Speaker 1: they basically had it as Lawrence, either Wilson or Fields.
Speaker 1: There's your top three. Trey Lance also in the mix
Speaker 1: in North Dakota State, although there's not a great body
Speaker 1: of work on him just yet. It only played one
Speaker 1: game in the fall because North Dakota State didn't have
Speaker 1: a season, and then mac Jones was he was considered
Speaker 1: on mid first round whatever it will. Now, the scuttlebutt
Speaker 1: around the league is that it's actually mac Jones that
Speaker 1: the Niners are interested in and that he would fit
Speaker 1: shanahan system. Well, the Niners were at mac Jones pro
Speaker 1: day last two day and I'm sitting here watching it
Speaker 1: right now, and both Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch are
Speaker 1: at Alabama's second pro day to day and mac Jones
Speaker 1: is out there throwing a second pro day in front
Speaker 1: of those coaches, which is going to lead to more
Speaker 1: speculation that it's actually mac Jones. How does this relate
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. Well, now you're looking if if that
Speaker 1: is true and mac Jones is going to be the
Speaker 1: third pick, well then you've got justin fields you got
Speaker 1: Trey Lance. There could be five quarterbacks taken in the
Speaker 1: top nine picks of the draft, meaning that for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys picking at number ten and they're out of the
Speaker 1: quarterback market, you're basically looking at a five player draft
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. As far as positions of need for them,
Speaker 1: that's pretty remarkable for them. They're sitting at a pretty
Speaker 1: good spot. The Cowboys are at number ten. Well, if
Speaker 1: you think about it, if there's nine picks ahead of them,
Speaker 1: if five end up being quarterbacks, and I'll guarantee you
Speaker 1: they're waving the flag for that, Yeah, take them quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There's probably two wide receivers they're going to go in
Speaker 1: the top ten, and there's a tight end as a
Speaker 1: tight end, and at least two offensive linemen probably worthy
Speaker 1: of a top ten pick. So when it gets to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, unless somebody does something you don't expect, they
Speaker 1: should have their choice of cornerback. And if the Giants
Speaker 1: don't take Micah Parsons because they I think they think
Speaker 1: he's the next Lawrence Taylor, then he's sitting there for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys too. And then you have the option of, well,
Speaker 1: what if somebody one of them top five quarterbacks hadn't
Speaker 1: gone yet, and somebody wants them at ten. You know,
Speaker 1: if you move back a couple two or three spots,
Speaker 1: you can get another second round pick for sure. Maybe
Speaker 1: if it's if they think they're getting a quarterback, you
Speaker 1: get next year's first or something. So they're in a
Speaker 1: pretty good spot at number ten because they don't need
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And I like that position because to me,
Speaker 1: it would be just like last year. I'd be extremely comfortable.
Speaker 1: If you've got these quarterbacks going all in the top
Speaker 1: five picks, then they're gonna make room for the roster
Speaker 1: for these quarterbacks, and that just might mean a veteran
Speaker 1: has to be let go, and one of those veterans
Speaker 1: could come here to the Cowboys. We could sign him
Speaker 1: as we did Andy Dalton last year, and we could
Speaker 1: save that money as far as draft as concerns and
Speaker 1: things of that nature and signing bonuses, and we could
Speaker 1: go that route while picking up a good defender, a
Speaker 1: good cornerback, or a good linebacker instead in that first round.
Speaker 1: To me, that's a good idea. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to go. All right. We got much more to get
Speaker 1: to in regards to not only the draft, but also
Speaker 1: the NFL owners convening this week and things are going
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Speaker 1: how I've failed to mention off the top, Mickey? How's
Speaker 1: your college basketball bracket doing? It was doing really well
Speaker 1: until Arkansas let me down last night. Yep, that's right.
Speaker 1: We had a gold Southwest Conference matchup of Baylor versus
Speaker 1: Arkansas Baylor one, and now we got another old Southwest
Speaker 1: Conference matchup in a national semifinal as Baylor plays Houston.
Speaker 1: And it's the first time in thirty seven years since
Speaker 1: the days of five Slam A jamma, that Houston is
Speaker 1: in the final four. Five slam a jamma. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. Kelvin Sampson's done a wonderful job. Yeah, school,
Speaker 1: and I think it gets overlooked. And by the way,
Speaker 1: my saving grace to make up ground, I had picked
Speaker 1: Houston to go to the finals against Gonzaga. So if
Speaker 1: they can somehow some way beat Baylor, I would be
Speaker 1: in pretty good shape. All I know. In regards to we,
Speaker 1: I forgot about the women's muff. Uh. The Baylor women
Speaker 1: are not feeling too celebrated right now. Well, it's such
Speaker 1: such a shame for losing that manner. How do they
Speaker 1: not make that call? How do you call? They could
Speaker 1: have called it. Both of them should have got four shots. Now,
Speaker 1: those girls, those girls should have gotten arrested. That's how
Speaker 1: hard they hit her. One hitter in the arm, the
Speaker 1: other hit in the face. That's that's an assault. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they could could let that go.
Speaker 1: Everyone's tweeting about it and how you know, the miscarriage
Speaker 1: of justice that occurred. Just you just hate to see
Speaker 1: a game go down like that. I know, rest I
Speaker 1: have swallowed the whistle, you know, in the last few seconds,
Speaker 1: last possession, so to speak. But some things are just
Speaker 1: so obvious you gotta you gotta call it as even
Speaker 1: though if it goes against your you know, whatever thing
Speaker 1: you got going on. If I was Kim Lucky, I
Speaker 1: would have got thrown out of the game. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much time was left, like point eight seconds
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, they would have had to
Speaker 1: carry me off the court before they restarted the game,
Speaker 1: which is why why I'm not a coach? Right? And
Speaker 1: which which network carries the women's tournament? ESPN? Yeah, yeah, right, guy?
Speaker 1: Conspiracy theorist. Literally, I know this for a fact that
Speaker 1: inside those uh that building at ESPN, the Yukon women's
Speaker 1: basketball team probably is more is more popular than the
Speaker 1: New York Yankees inside that building. Interesting, Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: was unquestioned that you have to make that call. It
Speaker 1: was crazy as we celebrate National Women's mouth here on
Speaker 1: mix shots. Okay, so today and tomorrow the virtual owners
Speaker 1: meetings will take place, right, and it seems like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a rubber stamp to play a seventeenth
Speaker 1: game and reduce the preseason to three games. So where
Speaker 1: do you guys thought thoughts on that? Because that issue
Speaker 1: and how they decide to go forward with the offseason
Speaker 1: in relation to OTA's mini camps and what the players
Speaker 1: will be allowed to do are not allowed to do
Speaker 1: this year seem to be the biggest issues of this
Speaker 1: owner's meeting. You know, to me, this is typical of
Speaker 1: you know, this American business. It's the way businesses they
Speaker 1: are on capitalism. If they're gonna pay you more money,
Speaker 1: then they want to drain more out of you. That's
Speaker 1: just the way it is. They're getting this this great
Speaker 1: TV contract and I'm talking about the NFL owners getting
Speaker 1: this great TV contract, they know that they're even though
Speaker 1: that they're receiving money, they know they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay a lot out. That's what Dak Prescott's entire strategy
Speaker 1: was in regards to holding out for more money, so
Speaker 1: to speak, knowing that the salaries are going to go
Speaker 1: up after this new TV contract. So the owners are
Speaker 1: sitting in the meetings going, hey, guys, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay all these players, and they're typical owner fashion.
Speaker 1: What can we get out of this from them? We don't.
Speaker 1: We're going to pay them, but we're going to also
Speaker 1: increase their output or their their load. We're going to
Speaker 1: increase the load that we put on them as players.
Speaker 1: And that's just the way business is. They don't want
Speaker 1: to so call and they think give away that money
Speaker 1: and not get anything from it, So they decide to
Speaker 1: add another game to it. And when you when you
Speaker 1: think about it, what the NFL started way back in
Speaker 1: the day with maybe twelve games spags. If i'm then
Speaker 1: then when then fourteen? Then fourteen games? Was the was
Speaker 1: the the limit there? Back for a minute, because I
Speaker 1: know that's when Night Train Lane end up getting like
Speaker 1: fifteen freaking in the setons in fourteen games, something that
Speaker 1: I never I knew I'd never be able to do. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: fourteen games. Now after sixteen nine he would go seventeen them.
Speaker 1: I mean, what happens when they have the next TV contract.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move it up to nineteen are We're going
Speaker 1: for a twenty games season, no preseason? I hope I'm
Speaker 1: gonna try and get all they get out of it.
Speaker 1: I hope when they do that, still doing mixed shows.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm still align with the still doing that.
Speaker 1: The show may go on. They want to be a
Speaker 1: co host. So yeah, hey Bill, what do you think
Speaker 1: because this seems like the nfl PA gave some concessions
Speaker 1: up from a monetary standpoint, from captap to basically they say, okay,
Speaker 1: you can decide if we get a seventeenth game. It
Speaker 1: seems like it's just a rubber stamp procedure here now.
Speaker 1: And I think where the where the player? Where the
Speaker 1: owners convinced the players it would be worth her while
Speaker 1: to do that is because of they knew what was
Speaker 1: available in this TV contract. If they not only expanded
Speaker 1: to where you got a seventeen game regular season, but
Speaker 1: more importantly than that is you expand you extend the
Speaker 1: season on indo February. From a TV standpoint, February is
Speaker 1: a sweet month and which is big for TV as
Speaker 1: far as their ratings go and their sales and so forth.
Speaker 1: They make a lot of money during that month of
Speaker 1: February if you've got NFL games on your network, and
Speaker 1: so now you're gonna, for instance, the twenty twenty, well,
Speaker 1: this coming super Bowl will now be played. I think
Speaker 1: it would be February thirteenth with a seventeen game season,
Speaker 1: fresh back a week, and so now you're taking up
Speaker 1: half of the month of February, which is a huge
Speaker 1: TV ratings month, and you're I think the regular season
Speaker 1: would not end until January ninth or tenth, so your
Speaker 1: postseason is starting in mid mid January. You're basically going
Speaker 1: mid January to mid February on it. So I think
Speaker 1: that's that was one of the keys on it. And
Speaker 1: it gets back to whatever since talking about it's money,
Speaker 1: you know, but I think the NFL, and I know
Speaker 1: the horse is out of the barn. It's a done deal.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. But the NFL has since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven, I think has had the perfect setup of
Speaker 1: the sixteen game season. One of the reasons that the
Speaker 1: NFL is so popular is the fact that every game
Speaker 1: really matters during this season because they play sixteen games.
Speaker 1: Compare it, Compare it to the NBA or the NHL,
Speaker 1: and you've got these eighty two game seasons, these NBA
Speaker 1: regular season games. Who cares who went? We already know
Speaker 1: by just looking at the rosters who's going to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. There's there's no meaning to these regular season games.
Speaker 1: And so I think with the NFL, when you're stretching
Speaker 1: it out to a seventeen game regular season and who
Speaker 1: knows a couple of years and they may go eighteen
Speaker 1: games whatever, I think when you take the importance of
Speaker 1: the regular season games away, you may be walking down
Speaker 1: a path that you don't want to go down. Well.
Speaker 1: And then the other part of it is from a
Speaker 1: player acquisition stand point, and everything can speak to this,
Speaker 1: just the wear and tear on players. We're seeing the
Speaker 1: injured list us being used more and more. Of course,
Speaker 1: last year was a different year because of COVID, they
Speaker 1: had different rules, but uh uh yeah, you basically have
Speaker 1: to have a ninety man roster that Mike McCarthy's talking
Speaker 1: about last year or last week, because you're you're with
Speaker 1: your practice squad and everything. You're basically we're gonna use
Speaker 1: seventy five eighty players during the season. Good point. That's
Speaker 1: a good point, Well, and Andrew, the injury's a gonna
Speaker 1: pile up. Go ahead. Fact now I was I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say yeah, And I think possibly they need
Speaker 1: to adopt some of the things they did last year
Speaker 1: to get through the pandemic affected the season. You know
Speaker 1: what about you know you there's no load management in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and especially if you keep it the playoffs
Speaker 1: the way they were right and you only get one
Speaker 1: team gets a buy. No one's loafing the last two
Speaker 1: or one or two weeks of the season because that
Speaker 1: buy is so important. And then the fact that you
Speaker 1: might have the extra teams in the playoffs, I think
Speaker 1: that's significant. The other thing I've seen where the way
Speaker 1: they're going to have a rotating basis the NFC will
Speaker 1: play the AFC in corresponding divisions. So from the Cowboys standpoint,
Speaker 1: the NFC East will play the AFC East in the
Speaker 1: corresponding position. You've finished which means the Cowboys would be
Speaker 1: at New England for the extra seventeenth game of the year,
Speaker 1: and the AFC's hosting the seventeenth game this year. Next
Speaker 1: year it'll be the NFC. So yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: going to happen. And I think that they have to
Speaker 1: continue to consider the forty eight man game day roster
Speaker 1: and can continue to make adjustments to injured reason deserve
Speaker 1: where you don't have to be out for eight weeks
Speaker 1: before you're ready to come back. I think those are
Speaker 1: things that need to be discussed now. The thing that
Speaker 1: bothers me is the NFLPA is pushing for virtual OTAs
Speaker 1: and virtual mini camps, and J. C. Treder is, the
Speaker 1: player president of the nfl PA, keeps saying that the
Speaker 1: league was better last year not having an offseason, and
Speaker 1: I disagree with him. I think defenses suffered tremendously with
Speaker 1: not having an offseason, and all we gotta do is
Speaker 1: look out the window here and see what the difference
Speaker 1: was with no offseason and not an excuse, right because
Speaker 1: everybody played by the same rules. But I don't think
Speaker 1: the level of play was as high as it normally
Speaker 1: is by eliminating the offseason help, and it hurts the
Speaker 1: players because young guys don't haven't as much an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Now it's one less preseason game right to impress people.
Speaker 1: And you got no offseason to make an impression on
Speaker 1: anybody if you don't have that training. And I still
Speaker 1: say it increases the level of injuries that take place
Speaker 1: without that type of preparation for the regular season. Well
Speaker 1: I have. I'm going to charge this to one of
Speaker 1: you guys. Since I don't do homework, maybe we should chart.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should chart that. I mean, take a look
Speaker 1: at you know, how did they score me more points
Speaker 1: this year? Did we have more defensive injuries this year?
Speaker 1: Those are kind of things I could I could say,
Speaker 1: it could be easily checked out. But as you look
Speaker 1: at Bill's scenario, Go ahead, Bill, Well, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I've done the research, and the Cowboys gave up more
Speaker 1: points than they have in the sixty one year history.
Speaker 1: Said there, you go by this team anyway. No, but
Speaker 1: I would have to say, based but based on your
Speaker 1: logic in regards to February being such a marketing month
Speaker 1: for TV and things of that nature, why don't we
Speaker 1: just move the season? Push the season back. Instead of
Speaker 1: worrying about August and training camp and preseason games in August,
Speaker 1: why don't we move all that stuff into September and
Speaker 1: then you can have your regular season going into late January,
Speaker 1: and then the super Bowl is going to be later
Speaker 1: into February. I don't see a reason why we are
Speaker 1: held to starting the preseason in August or in September.
Speaker 1: I don't is there any advantage to that. We could
Speaker 1: change that as opposed to adding another game. You understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Just move the season back as opposed
Speaker 1: to adding another game if you want to take advantage
Speaker 1: of February. That's my point. Well, understand that the new
Speaker 1: shows start the beginning of February. I mean the beginning
Speaker 1: of September. I Television, it's back to TV. That's right
Speaker 1: to the to be in. The new season starts with
Speaker 1: the Sunday after Labor Day, Right, that's the whole that's
Speaker 1: win the seasons. But the NFL season starts also, Well,
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do about fourth did July? Then? What
Speaker 1: about what about fourth did July? We want to get
Speaker 1: some of that money too, right, I mean, come on
Speaker 1: that again, Mickey, that is so old school, right, I know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that thus moved the season back. That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: moved the season up to you know, late September. Why
Speaker 1: I'm married to that. But I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: All right, we run out of time. Oh No, of
Speaker 1: mix shots, I had a list for you and another
Speaker 1: the top the top guys at at Ohio State were
Speaker 1: scheduled to work out today other than justin Field, so
Speaker 1: linebacker Baron Browning, linebacker Pete Werner, offensive lineman Wyatt Davis,
Speaker 1: and Josh uh I didn't write his name down very well.
Speaker 1: Josh McGee. Maybe defensive tackle Tommy Togia and running back
Speaker 1: Trey Sermon. Those are their top guys, huh. So. And
Speaker 1: and we're being told that Mike McCarthy is at Ohio State.
Speaker 1: So why would he be at Ohio State? Probably got
Speaker 1: tons of players to keep an eye on. This is
Speaker 1: not all about the first round, right, And you've got Browning,
Speaker 1: the linebacker, is the most notable name as far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned on that list. He's from Kennadale right here
Speaker 1: in the metroplex. The first rounder is he considered the
Speaker 1: first rounder? He's in his name, No, he's not. In fact,
Speaker 1: I looked at I looked at a top one hundred
Speaker 1: list Pro Football Focus. That he's not on the top
Speaker 1: one hundred. I would think though, he's probably could move
Speaker 1: up into the second or third pun isn't that the
Speaker 1: poor linebacker who ended up in single coverage on DeVante
Speaker 1: Smith in the championship game? No, it wasn't Baron brown Okay, No,
Speaker 1: it was a different linebacker. Yeah, Brownie, h Brownie was
Speaker 1: highly all Ohio State players are highly recruited. But he
Speaker 1: was one of our Landry Award finalists three years ago
Speaker 1: coming out of Cannadale, and uh now he'd be He
Speaker 1: looked very good in the Cowboys uniform, and he's got
Speaker 1: those same qualities where he can rush off the edge
Speaker 1: a little bit too. All right, Anyway, as long as
Speaker 1: it's a big game notebook, Hey, I'm starting, I'm starting.
Speaker 1: What are you saying? I said? As long as that
Speaker 1: that poor Ohio State linebacker that was chasing Dete Smith, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I'm starting to fill up my twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one Big Green NFL Draft scouting notebook, and so I'm
Speaker 1: going to have some nuggets for you out of that
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks. Leading up to the draft, and
Speaker 1: I'm kept mine right here. Okay, all right, I'd better
Speaker 1: hurry up. Chris is leaving the room. Chris is walking
Speaker 1: out of the room. All right. That does it for
Speaker 1: Mick Shots, for Everson and Nicky. I'm Bill and we
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