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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a fabulous Football Friday
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots as we get you ready for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals, a noon kickoff in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on Sunday. And are we ever the place to
Speaker 1: get you fired up for some football? Here's the way
Speaker 1: I look at it, Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola, What
Speaker 1: are we gonna be doing a month from now? A
Speaker 1: month from now, January eleventh, In all likelihood, there probably
Speaker 1: won't be a Cowboy game coming up on Sunday whatever Friday.
Speaker 1: That is so here we are here, we are here,
Speaker 1: we are this is the game. This is in Okay.
Speaker 1: We got to get fired up for some football because
Speaker 1: before you know it, and let's say the Cowboys do
Speaker 1: make this historic run all the way to Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty five in Tampa two months from now, we won't
Speaker 1: have football to talk about. We won't have a game
Speaker 1: to look forward to a year from now, is what
Speaker 1: you mean? Two months and one year from now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they and the Cowboys won't be playing for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There there you go. All right, we'll figure out how
Speaker 1: they're going to get to Super Bowl fifty six then.
Speaker 1: But first things first, we are now less than forty
Speaker 1: eight hours away from kickoff in Cincinnati, and Mickey, it's
Speaker 1: time to get ready for some football. Absolutely, I mean
Speaker 1: they're playing Cincinnati, right, We got got to get going
Speaker 1: despite mister the missilem Michael Irvin basically saying if they
Speaker 1: don't win this game, it's time to shovel dirt on
Speaker 1: this season and put an rip. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love it. He could be Hey, he could partner it
Speaker 1: with you, spags. I love that combination. But dirt and
Speaker 1: mister pessimist all together again, that'd be great. But he's right.
Speaker 1: You lose this one and you're down. Who knows you
Speaker 1: get me down three with three to go, right, and
Speaker 1: and if Washington wins, then your your toast. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all on the line in Cincinnati. I got up.
Speaker 1: I got up this morning, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: I got to it. I was on my phone. Next
Speaker 1: thing I know of here comes Spags pops up again
Speaker 1: in his nice suit on his little show on TV.
Speaker 1: And you pointed out something. You said that the Bengals
Speaker 1: were the last and I couldn't be paraphrasing here, the
Speaker 1: last place team when it comes to running the football?
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Actually their thirtieth thirtieth, the thirtieth and
Speaker 1: running the ball. So here we do. We come in
Speaker 1: with thirty second right versus the run. I got that lockdowns,
Speaker 1: we got that a lot, baby, We're proud of that.
Speaker 1: We're proud of that. And that's an improvement. Actually we've improved.
Speaker 1: So from the so, so here we are. Burrows is
Speaker 1: out right, Burrow is out? Yeah, Okay, who's the backup?
Speaker 1: That would be Brandon Allen? Oh, come on, man, who
Speaker 1: is that? Don't tell me, don't tell me. He is
Speaker 1: a Texas high school football player who went to the
Speaker 1: state championship and Bill knows his entire No, no, please
Speaker 1: don't tell Arkansas he would be Arkansas state champion. It
Speaker 1: would University of Arkansas. So you know, the Joneses are
Speaker 1: very familiar with Brandon Allen. We've got the scouting report
Speaker 1: on this quarterback this week. Okay, Brandon Allen is not
Speaker 1: going to do any damage. The problem has not been
Speaker 1: necessarily at the quarterback. And Brandon Allen doesn't run the
Speaker 1: football like Kyler Murray does, like a Lamar Jackson does,
Speaker 1: like even a Daniel Jones does. And so lockdown is
Speaker 1: this show is going right back to our m much optimism.
Speaker 1: We are going to be optimistic on this show. This
Speaker 1: might be the last chance for us to be optimistic
Speaker 1: on this show as a unit. As a unit, you know,
Speaker 1: usually it's Bill and then me and Spas is always
Speaker 1: out of it. But this time we have a chance
Speaker 1: it for all three of us to be in unison.
Speaker 1: Am I right? That we can win this ball game?
Speaker 1: All all four remaining opponents have losing records. How's that?
Speaker 1: That's tells me nothing? That is not enough? That is
Speaker 1: not enough? Okay, which is there's got to be more.
Speaker 1: It's got to be there's got to be more of
Speaker 1: a sad story. And the opponents that we're playing, so
Speaker 1: that's rank for me. Rank them for me of the
Speaker 1: final four opponents, Cincinnati on the road, home against San Francisco,
Speaker 1: home against Philadelphia at the Giants, rank them one to four.
Speaker 1: Which ones the Cowboys have the easiest has the best
Speaker 1: chance of winning one to four, one being the best
Speaker 1: chance to win for being the worst chance to win.
Speaker 1: Out of the final four, well, Cincinnati's one guy one.
Speaker 1: I would think after that, Philadelphia Giants coming up. Philadelphia's
Speaker 1: two h San Francisco's three, only because you're playing at home,
Speaker 1: and then the Giants are four at this point, since
Speaker 1: they probably are playing the best of any of those teams,
Speaker 1: and that appears the Giants will be playing for something
Speaker 1: the last game of the season, you would think. But
Speaker 1: Boo knows, they may have it locked up by now,
Speaker 1: or they may have faded away. I mean, don't they
Speaker 1: have They have the Saints this week? Is that right?
Speaker 1: I have to look, Oh, you're gonna have to go
Speaker 1: to the computer. Now, who do they they play? Arizona.
Speaker 1: We've got the Cardinals. Yeah, at home? Philly flailing right now.
Speaker 1: Arizona does not look good right now at all. The
Speaker 1: Eagles play the Saints. Jalen Hurts debut, starting debut against
Speaker 1: the Saints. Now that's an interesting dynamic there, guys. I
Speaker 1: think I think Jalen Hurts coming in. I truly believe
Speaker 1: that changes. Then tire Eagles team spags you have to
Speaker 1: be very conscious of a guy who's just as good
Speaker 1: as Lamar Jackson when it comes and running the ball,
Speaker 1: and I think a better pass it. At this point,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to Lamar's passing. He's going backwards,
Speaker 1: I would say, only because Lamar Jackson's passing has just
Speaker 1: tanked all of a sudden. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts as a runner, he can run, but he's
Speaker 1: not Lamar Jackson running. Okay, all right, I guess the
Speaker 1: Cowboys he could be. The Cowboys he could be. We
Speaker 1: will see. I'm not pulling for I'm not pulling. Please
Speaker 1: prove me wrong. But from what I've seen from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense and for I've seen from Jalen Hurts, this
Speaker 1: guy can go. And you've seen him, you know what
Speaker 1: he's all about. Of course, I'm not telling anything you
Speaker 1: don't know, but I do believe when it comes to
Speaker 1: open field, maybe not getting out of trouble the way
Speaker 1: he Lamar can in the pocket, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to open field and speed, I think that you've got
Speaker 1: a problem with Jalen Hurst, just like you do with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. All right, how would you compare Jalen Hurt's
Speaker 1: running ability to Kyler Murray. Oh no, no, one compares
Speaker 1: to Kylar, not not even Lamar being compares to Kyler
Speaker 1: and Washington. As far as his speed, uh, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's as fast as Kyler Murray. Oh no, way, no,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. You said as far as oh
Speaker 1: I thought you were questioning. As far as I'm saying, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: as far as speed, you can't compare with Kyler Murray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he cannot. And it's not just the speed, it's the
Speaker 1: quickness that goes along with the speed, right, you know,
Speaker 1: he goes from zevo to sixty like that. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: All right, So we got this whole thing mapped out
Speaker 1: for the rest of the month. Uh, Washington's at San Francisco,
Speaker 1: by the way, that was the other and they're at
Speaker 1: They're at Arizona. The play San Francisco in Arizona. Oh
Speaker 1: that's right. Sorry, they gotta play the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: on the road, on the road. That's right. They're both
Speaker 1: on the road. Okay, So who wins? All right? Do
Speaker 1: the Giants beat the Cardinals at home? Yes? I think
Speaker 1: so too. Defense I'm looking at defense, guys, I am
Speaker 1: looking at defense. It's gonna be tough with that, Washington
Speaker 1: versus San Francisco, though, So, although I do want to know,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the status of Blake Martinez, their linebacker.
Speaker 1: He came out of last week's game against Seattle and
Speaker 1: he's been a big factor in their defense. And if
Speaker 1: he's so, if he's playing, especially with you know what
Speaker 1: Arizona does on offense, Um, I give the Giants a
Speaker 1: good chance of winning, no doubt. Yeah, And now, okay,
Speaker 1: how about Washington, because Washington's the problem. Let's okay, let's
Speaker 1: just say for a moment, Okay, the Cowboys go into
Speaker 1: sense Nati and win. Okay, We're trying right now to
Speaker 1: get it back to within striking distance within a game
Speaker 1: of first place. Okay, And so what has to happen
Speaker 1: this week for that to happen. Dallas has to beat Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and the Giants need to lose to Arizona and Washington
Speaker 1: has to lose to San Francisco in Phoenix. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the way San Francisco has been playing. As
Speaker 1: depleted as they are, they have and they've made the
Speaker 1: most of their situation. So I like San Francisco against Washington.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: Now tell me this is now San Francio. We know
Speaker 1: San Francisco's playing uh in Phoenix? Are they are they
Speaker 1: stationed there? They're practicing there too. I believe they're training there,
Speaker 1: so they're there for the whole traslation, so they don't
Speaker 1: have to travel, right, all right, Right, So I like
Speaker 1: San Francis. Only time they're traveling is sweek to Dallas. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I think I like San Francisco as well Spags only
Speaker 1: because their defense is strong as well, and their running
Speaker 1: backs they they got their running back back up most
Speaker 1: the most dirt, most raheem mos dirt and yeah, most dirt.
Speaker 1: And then they also usual Jeff Wilson, North Texas guy
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, they do it. You know, they
Speaker 1: do it by committee. But most dirt has been good, strong, yes,
Speaker 1: and you know, and that's and that's why even with
Speaker 1: all their injuries, they've been able to to stay in
Speaker 1: games and be have a fighter's chance at the end.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you look at the games, when
Speaker 1: you look at the dynamic of when you look at
Speaker 1: the dynamic of all the teams, the ones that were
Speaker 1: able to keep their defense intact, Number one, and also
Speaker 1: that offensive line. We've seen that that can be a
Speaker 1: disaster or that can be your saving grace out of
Speaker 1: all the issues that you have. If you can keep
Speaker 1: your old line in place, obviously keep a quarterback as well.
Speaker 1: If you keep your old line in place, and you
Speaker 1: keep your defense in place, you've got a chance to
Speaker 1: win most ball games at your end in this pandemic
Speaker 1: era here which by the Cowboys are swinging a miss
Speaker 1: strike one, swinging a miss strike, swinging a miss strike
Speaker 1: three areas. So, by the way, did you happen to
Speaker 1: hear Jerry today talking about keeping a defense in place?
Speaker 1: By the way, yes, he was pretty outspoken about you know,
Speaker 1: we kept the offense continuity in place. We tried to
Speaker 1: change the defense and that was probably a big mistake. Now,
Speaker 1: knowing that you weren't going to have an offseason, you
Speaker 1: weren't going to have a normal training camp, you weren't
Speaker 1: going to have preseason. Yet here we were trying to
Speaker 1: change what we were doing defensively from a technique standpoint,
Speaker 1: from a formation standpoint, and it just didn't work. And
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to that. Now, nobody knew
Speaker 1: back when this staff was getting put together and they're
Speaker 1: making plans for a season in February that this COVID
Speaker 1: night thing, nineteen thing would still be with us in December.
Speaker 1: But I think there's something to be said to having
Speaker 1: continuity with the offense. Meeting Kellen Moore was retained. They
Speaker 1: didn't change the offensive concept. They might have added to it,
Speaker 1: but they didn't try to remake it like they did defensively.
Speaker 1: And I think Jerry said that's probably was the biggest mistake,
Speaker 1: and when they were asking whose fault was, he said,
Speaker 1: the GM had a lot to do with it. You're
Speaker 1: talking to him, so think about it. Although, although I'll
Speaker 1: keep saying this, even though they tried to dabble in
Speaker 1: that three four stuff, which they never ever had the
Speaker 1: personnel to do, they've been playing base basically a four
Speaker 1: to three because they're always in their nickel. And the
Speaker 1: most theay close to the three four and it's not
Speaker 1: really a three four is when they put another linebacker
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage and they have a five
Speaker 1: man line but one linebacker and his safety at the
Speaker 1: linebacker spot. At this point, look, you've got it. You've
Speaker 1: got to be better than what they are. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of players that are on the field that
Speaker 1: we're on the field last year for the eleventh ranked defense.
Speaker 1: So I think there's more to it than not being
Speaker 1: able to adapt to a scheme. And you know, when
Speaker 1: I think about that, Spags, it's easy to say we
Speaker 1: kept the offense intact because you had the same old
Speaker 1: oc Kell. I'm sitting right there. You know, everyone was
Speaker 1: happy what was going on at the time. Dak was quarterback,
Speaker 1: and so why change anything. But defensively, it's hard to
Speaker 1: keep the same system when you come in with a
Speaker 1: different DC. Mike Nolan may not have liked what we
Speaker 1: were doing in regards to the fore man front of
Speaker 1: what we were doing last year. So that's to me,
Speaker 1: that's it's easier said than done. You're trying if you're
Speaker 1: going to change, if you want to change, if you
Speaker 1: want to keep the same defense, then you gotta at
Speaker 1: least keep one of the coaches someone that's aware of
Speaker 1: that eleventh ranked defense from last year. You know, you
Speaker 1: can't tell Mike Nolan to come in and start running
Speaker 1: someone else's defense or christ Rashard defense. To me, that
Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. I mean, you're gonna make
Speaker 1: the change in regards to the system. Now, technique is
Speaker 1: one thing, Spags. If we were good at the particular
Speaker 1: technique last year without down Lineman, then yeah we should
Speaker 1: keep that. But in regards to the entire system, you
Speaker 1: gotta go with Mike Nolan system. That's what you hired
Speaker 1: the guy for. I mean, does that make sense? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does. So maybe when you make the hire, you
Speaker 1: find somebody to fit your personnel and what they were
Speaker 1: doing instead of coming in and trying to overhaul everything.
Speaker 1: But again, as I said, they didn't know they were
Speaker 1: going to be in this situation, right because everybody was
Speaker 1: handed a question January and February. Well, this is going
Speaker 1: to go away. This is just in China, right, we
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about this. Yeah, well we didn't
Speaker 1: need to worry. I got a question, Mickey, Yes, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I got a question. Let's go back to when Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels took over. Well, Jerry did Zimmer was a defense
Speaker 1: Jerry did today and that in his interview. Also, by
Speaker 1: the way, go ahead, Okay, I didn't I didn't hear that, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I was just thinking about it as you're talking,
Speaker 1: and what did Mike Zimmer do? I mean, they had
Speaker 1: a four three defense they were running obviously, especially for
Speaker 1: a Parcels three four defense as Everson is very familiar with.
Speaker 1: They did not have the personnel with Dexter Copley and
Speaker 1: that win. You know, to play fair Alice, you don't
Speaker 1: have Lawrence Taylor. I mean, that's that's right. No, no,
Speaker 1: but but but what they did that first year Parcels,
Speaker 1: even though he wants to run a three four defense,
Speaker 1: he kept the four three defense with Mike Zimmer his
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and then Zim in the second year, they
Speaker 1: converted to the three four. That's when they drafted to
Speaker 1: Marcus Ware and Marcus Spears and they made the transition.
Speaker 1: And how they do in the first year, I mean
Speaker 1: it was incredible that they they qualified for the playoffs
Speaker 1: that year with Quincy Carter at quarterback, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think when when the first year they stayed
Speaker 1: the same with Quincy in two thousand and three with
Speaker 1: Bill and then they started transit. They actually made the transition,
Speaker 1: that's right, They actually made the transition to two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. And as Jerry said, right, so it was
Speaker 1: two years in. That's right. Bill wanted to remember we
Speaker 1: were all over this because that's when we started talking cowboys.
Speaker 1: Bill wanted to draft Marcus Spears with that first pick
Speaker 1: in the first round, and then with the twentieth pick,
Speaker 1: take to Marcus Where. And they said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're taking to Marcus Where. And they d ended up
Speaker 1: getting Spears who fit into a three four and Marcus
Speaker 1: where fit a fourth three four linebacker. And then he
Speaker 1: went on to point out and also that draft we
Speaker 1: ended up with Chris Canny and Jay Ratliffe. So they
Speaker 1: ended up with two players that fit in one draft
Speaker 1: fit a defense that was a three four, and he says,
Speaker 1: you can't always play up that way and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we're switching and now let's go get the four key
Speaker 1: players to fit this defense. They got very fortunate. They
Speaker 1: can't transition. Yes they did. And the key thing on
Speaker 1: that was that Chris Canty had the eye issue and
Speaker 1: so his stock fell to the fourth round and rat
Speaker 1: Leffe was at Auburn. He was just flying under the
Speaker 1: radar for everybody, and that's why they were able to
Speaker 1: get here what a seventh round. The other thing they
Speaker 1: did in that draftive end the defensive tackle. Uh, and
Speaker 1: they found a spot for him. And how about the
Speaker 1: other thing they did in that draft in the second round,
Speaker 1: they drafted Kevin Burnett, linebacker out of Tennessee, and who
Speaker 1: was going to have a really nice long career in
Speaker 1: this league if he didn't tear up his knee. But
Speaker 1: there was another piece to that, to that defense that
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Yeah, so I mean, but you're right
Speaker 1: it was. And so look at in oh three when
Speaker 1: Parcels took over and they kept that four three defense.
Speaker 1: Where did they rank in defense that year? They were
Speaker 1: number two in the league in points allowed two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty and they were in rushing yards allowed number
Speaker 1: three in the league fourteen hundred and twenty five yards
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, And so you had a
Speaker 1: real question market quarterback in Quincy Carter on offense. And
Speaker 1: so you played games to where you weren't getting beat
Speaker 1: defensively and you still had a shot to win games
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. And Bill, if you
Speaker 1: go back and looks if you got your if you
Speaker 1: got your media guide out Zimmer during those five and
Speaker 1: eleven seasons, one of those seasons they were one of
Speaker 1: the top offenses defenses in the league if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: They might have been bad offensively, but defensively he had
Speaker 1: them playing pretty well. Well. They were classail style team.
Speaker 1: That's the way that goes that they were. They were.
Speaker 1: They were middle of the pack. Uh defensively In O
Speaker 1: two they were thirteenth and points allowed at three twenty nine, fifteenth,
Speaker 1: and I just had the rushing yards because I was
Speaker 1: researching that well, trying to put in perspective up the history.
Speaker 1: That's fine points allowed. They were thirteen though, Bill h
Speaker 1: A Right, when you think of d ware coming in
Speaker 1: that is that's the Cowboys launch, that's you. Then you
Speaker 1: look at Ratliffe. As I look at that Super Bowl
Speaker 1: team twenty five I was on, it seemed like he
Speaker 1: was trying to mimic that. I mean, you had Leonard
Speaker 1: Marshall in the middle and now here comes Ratliffe. He wanted, uh,
Speaker 1: what's guy named Candy Canty? He wanted Canty to be
Speaker 1: that guy. But like you said, you talk about the
Speaker 1: eye issues. It's so funny that you don't. I didn't
Speaker 1: really learn that aspect of football until I left the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and went to the Giants because Tom Landry was
Speaker 1: all the ways about deception and uh trickery and of
Speaker 1: course intellect. When when I went to the Giants, I
Speaker 1: learned field position football. That's field position football. We're gonna
Speaker 1: run just like you said, we're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run the ball. We're gonna have a quarterback
Speaker 1: that can manage our team, and defensively that's going to
Speaker 1: be our strength. So we're gonna always be in a
Speaker 1: ball game not because we can score, but because we
Speaker 1: prevent the other team from scoring. And when you don't
Speaker 1: do that, then that's when the field position game comes
Speaker 1: into play to where you may calculate the moves to
Speaker 1: where you can put your defense in the best position
Speaker 1: to make their offense, uh have a scramble situation. So
Speaker 1: do you think about it? In that O five draft.
Speaker 1: In that O five draft, they got they got two
Speaker 1: five techniques and Marcus Spears and Chris Kanty. They got
Speaker 1: a nose tackle and Jay Ratliffe, they got the edge
Speaker 1: rusher into Marcus ware and they basically got one of
Speaker 1: the inside backers in Kevin Burnett as well. Now, Ratliffe
Speaker 1: did not fit the prototype that Parcels liked. The big
Speaker 1: old hunker in the middle. But obviously he was very
Speaker 1: effective as a different type of nose tackle and had
Speaker 1: his best years with Wade go Ahead making so in
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one when they went five and eleven,
Speaker 1: zim had that defense ranked fourth in total yards, and
Speaker 1: then in two thousand and three they were number one,
Speaker 1: number one in defense that year, third against the run
Speaker 1: and first against the pass, and then they fell off
Speaker 1: in two fourth they were still that was the four
Speaker 1: three parcels first year, and then they fell off to
Speaker 1: sixteenth in two thousand and four, but they were awful
Speaker 1: on offense, and then when they went to the three
Speaker 1: four in two thousand and five, they were tenth, thirteenth, ninth, eighth,
Speaker 1: and ninth as Wade Phillips came in. So so the
Speaker 1: point is, if if you can play defense, even if
Speaker 1: you're struggling on offense, you give yourself a chance. But
Speaker 1: if you can't stop anybody and you're struggling on offense,
Speaker 1: you're three and nine after twelve games. All right, we continue,
Speaker 1: we'll go. We went way too long there, But I
Speaker 1: got some more numbers to throw at you about doomsday defense,
Speaker 1: and how good was the doomsday defense back in the
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Speaker 1: give an update on practice. Yeah, they find off this segment.
Speaker 1: They finally had a real practice getting ready for this game.
Speaker 1: They had to go indoors. It's been raining here all
Speaker 1: day long. Uh, they haven't. I haven't gotten the official
Speaker 1: designations of what they did, but I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: mine from the little bit. Rob and I got to watch.
Speaker 1: We were the pool reporters since they were indoors, and
Speaker 1: they no longer can have independent media watching practice when
Speaker 1: it's indoors. Uh. Anthony Brown was out there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess he's limited and gonna get listed as questionable for
Speaker 1: the game. On Sunday. Ezekiel Elliott was out there the
Speaker 1: portion we saw. He was doing rehab work on the
Speaker 1: Resistance Chords, but seemed to be moving quite well doing
Speaker 1: his rehab work. I'm guessing they're gonna list him as
Speaker 1: limited and questionable. Cameron Irving did not practice, so he's out.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith with a foot he was limited yesterday. He
Speaker 1: looked like he was gonna take more part in practice today,
Speaker 1: so I bet they list him as questionable. And Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson did not practice, so he's still out. And then
Speaker 1: you know, nothing around here stays the same for very long.
Speaker 1: Chitubeo Woozier was had to be placed on reserve COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen yesterday. To me, it sounds like it might have
Speaker 1: been contact tracing, just the way everybody's been answering the questions.
Speaker 1: And when Mike McCarthy was asked today if they thought
Speaker 1: Cheeto would be back and he goes, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that hasn't been confirmed yet. So to me, if he
Speaker 1: had tested positive, then that would have been confirmed unless
Speaker 1: it was a false positive. But if it's contact tracing,
Speaker 1: you know, they have different rules on that, especially if
Speaker 1: you don't have symptoms. If you test negative a couple
Speaker 1: days in a row, then you're probably good to go.
Speaker 1: But let's assume he can't go, and let's assume Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown can't go. There goes your two starting corners. There's
Speaker 1: no more Darryl Whorley here. You gave up on him,
Speaker 1: So that means Diggs and Trayvon Diggs is still out,
Speaker 1: although he's improving, but he's still out. So three of
Speaker 1: your top four corners or four of your top five
Speaker 1: corners if you want to include Whorley might not be
Speaker 1: playing and we're okay, three of the four, but you were,
Speaker 1: you were, You were originally including him as one of
Speaker 1: the top four when the season started sotill he played.
Speaker 1: Still he played, Thank you Bill, Thank you Bill. That
Speaker 1: means you are down to play. He's not in the
Speaker 1: top forty one. Well do you feel the same about
Speaker 1: Rashad Robinson? Now, well, well, you know what, He's on
Speaker 1: the team. So so now you are on the roster's on.
Speaker 1: You are down to Rashad Robinson, Deonte Burton and then
Speaker 1: the practice squad Chris Chris Westy and also yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: two guys on the practice squad and two guys you
Speaker 1: didn't think would even be playing this year are gonna
Speaker 1: man the cornerback spots. So will they play Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: Lewis is the one guy that the one I said yeah,
Speaker 1: would they play? No? But will they play him in
Speaker 1: the bass? No? They played him in the nickel all
Speaker 1: last week. I know, I know they will and the nickel,
Speaker 1: But what when they come out with two tight ends,
Speaker 1: will it Jordan Lewis be the outside because they're still
Speaker 1: gonna be in the nickel. Don't try to get under
Speaker 1: my skin. That's right, I'm sorry, I momentarily forgot that
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if they have three tight ends on
Speaker 1: the field plus two running backs, we're still in the nickel.
Speaker 1: I forgot. Yeah, I can see why that upsets you, Spags,
Speaker 1: because it has made zero sense throughout the entire season,
Speaker 1: and for some reason, we will not change that. Has
Speaker 1: anyone just tied him down and said, dude, we need
Speaker 1: linebackers in the game. Has anyone talked about that, anyone
Speaker 1: mentioned that to coach McCarthy. Does Mike Nolan ever do
Speaker 1: an interview? They haven't done it. They haven't spoken since
Speaker 1: before the Minnesota game. I believe you can't hide forever, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, eventually, you're gonna have to show that you
Speaker 1: have linebackers on this team for something other than special teams.
Speaker 1: I saw. I think it was Joe Thomas was a
Speaker 1: guy's name for the eight. He's out there blocking, Sean
Speaker 1: Lee still on the team, waiting to do something. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they feel more confidence in Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: stopping the run versus Thomas or Sean Lee. This is
Speaker 1: amazing to me. You're talking about these cornerbacks. You can
Speaker 1: get upset about the cornerbacks all you want spags. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who we put out there. I put Jay
Speaker 1: Lou Smith out there a cornerback and he could probably
Speaker 1: do just as bad a job as Brown or as
Speaker 1: a Woozier did last week. Now, let's be real. I
Speaker 1: know Woozier came back, he's been injured, things that nature.
Speaker 1: But mentally, you have to put yourself in a better
Speaker 1: position and able to sleep out there. The entire ball game,
Speaker 1: and Brown's entire career to me, has been a sleepwalk you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what cornerbacks you put out their spags.
Speaker 1: They need to just play zone, play safe because at
Speaker 1: this point they haven't stopped anyone pass or run. Let's
Speaker 1: be real, now, whether we've gone against the run of
Speaker 1: the pass and these particular games, they would have been
Speaker 1: successful regardless, it didn't matter. They would have been successful.
Speaker 1: We've got Colton McCoy would have come out and passed
Speaker 1: for some yards if they would have done whatever they
Speaker 1: need to do because we haven't stopped anyone run or pass.
Speaker 1: So don't be upset about the lack of cornerbacks. We've
Speaker 1: been having the lack of cornerbacks all season. And kay
Speaker 1: along those lines, how about the wide receiving corps. For
Speaker 1: the Bengals, you got six four A J. Green, you
Speaker 1: got six four T. Higgins, second round draft pick out
Speaker 1: of Clemson, and their leading receiver is Tyler boy Do
Speaker 1: six two. Well, at least Higgins was limited this week
Speaker 1: at practice so far, so maybe so maybe the answer
Speaker 1: is Chris Westy, who is a six four corner. Six four.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go, there you go. Maybe
Speaker 1: it just that you can reach up, you can knock
Speaker 1: something down. And now for the good news. And Tyler
Speaker 1: Badish was actually he's on IR, but they actually started
Speaker 1: him practicing, so I think, you know, you only have
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to take him off IR after
Speaker 1: he once starts practicing. So we'll see how soon he
Speaker 1: can get back. Well, we don't need Tyler Beannest anymore.
Speaker 1: We shored up the offensive line the last game against Baltimore,
Speaker 1: they had their best game in the year. The offensive
Speaker 1: line got fixed last week. They need Tyler Beatish in
Speaker 1: the center. I don't think there's any spot on this
Speaker 1: team where we can say we're good. No, all right,
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier about doomsday defense. Real quick before we
Speaker 1: go to break here. Doomsday defense back in the good
Speaker 1: old days in the late sixties when they first coined
Speaker 1: the term the doomsday defense. All Right, I told you
Speaker 1: I did my little research on run defenses in the past.
Speaker 1: Where did the Cowboys rank in run defense sing in nuts,
Speaker 1: Let's say nineteen sixty six, which of course is the
Speaker 1: year that they played the Packers in the NFL Championship Game,
Speaker 1: the first time they were number one in the league
Speaker 1: and run defense, that flex defense it's made for the
Speaker 1: run Ice Bowl year in sixty seven, number one in
Speaker 1: run defense, sixty eight, number one, and run defense sixty nine,
Speaker 1: number one, and run defense. They fell to tenth in seventy,
Speaker 1: but they shorted up the next year, went to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, number two, and run defense number one, number three,
Speaker 1: number two, number four, all the way through the decade
Speaker 1: of the seventies. And we talked about it, the offensive
Speaker 1: players the Cowboys have had in their history, and Mickey
Speaker 1: talked about the Super Bowl teams in the nineties, the
Speaker 1: defenses that the teams had out there. Even though we
Speaker 1: did we just talked about the triplets on offense. It's
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys have had Super Bowl type teams that
Speaker 1: defenses ranked up there near the top in the League,
Speaker 1: and not to mention in the secondary you had Cornell
Speaker 1: Green and you had mel Renfro and then you throw
Speaker 1: in herb Adelaide for a couple of games. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd love to see what their past
Speaker 1: defensive numbers were whenever you have time for that. Well,
Speaker 1: what year would you like? I can't see them those years,
Speaker 1: those sixties years, those start and sixty six, seventy five
Speaker 1: or okay, sixty six, they were seventh, sixty seven, eleventh, eleventh, eleventh,
Speaker 1: and then seventy they were third, and then they fell
Speaker 1: to nineteen nineteen, sixteen and fourteen. Here, all right, here's
Speaker 1: the problem with those numbers. But the problem with those
Speaker 1: numbers is the Cowboys were so far ahead in games
Speaker 1: that the other team was throwing the football. That's true, buddy.
Speaker 1: In domineteen seventy five, when they returned to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: they were eighth, seventh, and then in seventy seven they
Speaker 1: were second, seventy eight, they were fifth, seventy nine, they
Speaker 1: were third. Oh, look it happened in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: Takeaways in nineteen eighty one they were twenty first. What happened?
Speaker 1: We were picking off passes. Man, about that that was
Speaker 1: we were picking off passes. Tell me how many interceptions
Speaker 1: we got in nineteen eighty exactly to talk about in
Speaker 1: that era the takeaways where the more were important. We
Speaker 1: had at least we had at least thirty two interceptions,
Speaker 1: no mistake, old yourself, short, you had thirty seven thirty
Speaker 1: seven picks. How many years and we have to go
Speaker 1: back for the Cowboys to total thirty seven interceptions. I
Speaker 1: wonder what was the whole day before nineteen eighty one?
Speaker 1: To me, that's the difference. So here you've got these
Speaker 1: young pups coming in here. Number twenty six, Michael down
Speaker 1: from South Oacliffe High School, Roy Fellows from where the
Speaker 1: University of Missouri, and he got everything walls and he
Speaker 1: was a wife and he was a wide receiver. You
Speaker 1: got ever some walls fore agent coming from g SU
Speaker 1: and that is not Georgia State. We're talking Grambling State University. Baby,
Speaker 1: and you come in with it. Eighty three they had
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven interceptions. Eighty four, twenty eight, and nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five with Thurman Steves they had thirty three interceptions.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, that's legendary stuff, y'all are good old day.
Speaker 1: I need a raise. I need a raise right now.
Speaker 1: This a man on this show. Come on good old days,
Speaker 1: all right? Our picks to click? Who are Who's gonna
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Speaker 1: the way through this season, through twelve games, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have how many interceptions? They have five interceptions? So
Speaker 1: to get more than the thirty seven we were talking
Speaker 1: about that one season, we have to go back five
Speaker 1: years to get to forty one. That's too funny, that's
Speaker 1: too funny. That's way funny. I'm sorry, I can't. I
Speaker 1: cannot believe that. How far we have fallen? Guys, Come
Speaker 1: on all that hard work by Dexter klinks game. Okay,
Speaker 1: So of those five interceptions and of the players who
Speaker 1: have a chance of playing on Sunday against the Bengals,
Speaker 1: all right, how many will how many interceptions this season
Speaker 1: will be represented on the field for the Cowboys as
Speaker 1: they take the field in Cincinnati. Because Trayvon Diggs won't play,
Speaker 1: he's got two picks this year. Looks like Cheeto won't play.
Speaker 1: He's got one pick, and so that leaves two picks
Speaker 1: left out of the five Smith right. And the other
Speaker 1: look what I found. The other is from Tuesday Night.
Speaker 1: Tuesday Night, Darian Thompson. Yeah right, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: that one. I'm so mad. When I watched the game,
Speaker 1: I don't even remember. It was early early in the game.
Speaker 1: Tip ball and the middle of the field diving interception,
Speaker 1: that turn which one turned into just a field goal.
Speaker 1: It was that one, right because the kickoff return ended
Speaker 1: up a touchdown. Am I right? Jak it up, you'll go,
Speaker 1: I'll look it up. And in the meantime, ever since,
Speaker 1: we need your picks, picks to click this week in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: you guys talk me into it, man. I like this
Speaker 1: guy's college career. He was all about making plays. He's tall,
Speaker 1: like you talked about. I'm gonna go with Robinson having
Speaker 1: a decent game. I'm gonna go with him. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with him getting an interception because they're gonna be
Speaker 1: some balls throwing up there from these two backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And I look for the Cowboys to win. Believe it
Speaker 1: or not. I know you guys believe it. You're he's
Speaker 1: gonna start right, Yeah, I know. I'm so confident. You
Speaker 1: know it doesn't take It's give me a sliver of
Speaker 1: sunlight and I'm gonna take it. Okay, So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Cowboys best case scenario twenty three to seventeen. Twenty
Speaker 1: three to seventeen. That's right, And I was going well
Speaker 1: with Gallup last last week, but you know we didn't
Speaker 1: win the game. So um and by the way, that
Speaker 1: was a field goal drive after the Darien Thompson interception. Mickey,
Speaker 1: you are right, Yeah, that's that's not hard to You
Speaker 1: could just guess. All right, Nicky, what are your your pick?
Speaker 1: I am going to go with Ezekiel Elliott against the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth ranked rushing defense of Cincinnati. The Cowboys will
Speaker 1: be able to run. My next question was where they
Speaker 1: where's their defense ranked? That wixt just a little bit
Speaker 1: above the Cowboys. Uh. As we've been saying for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, I am obligated to pick the
Speaker 1: opponent because the Cowboys have not obligate obligated. I am
Speaker 1: a man of my word, and I'm gonna pick the
Speaker 1: same star I picked last week. Cincinnati twenty three, Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, twenty all right, it's the return of
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to Cincinnati, right, Yes, Okay, So Andy returns
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati, and what a triumphant return it will be
Speaker 1: for the redheaded Andy Dalton who goes into Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys build a twenty two to nothing lead in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Dalton will be my pick to click
Speaker 1: and it will remind me of that day thirty five
Speaker 1: years ago. In fact, it was a December day in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati in nineteen eighty five, when December eighth, ninet. I
Speaker 1: turned on the television and the Bengals led the Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty two to nothing in the first quarter. They led
Speaker 1: twenty two to three and halftime. They had forty three
Speaker 1: points by the end of the third quarter, fifty by
Speaker 1: the end of the game. It was a fifty to
Speaker 1: twenty four Cincinnati win. And so this is the revenge
Speaker 1: game for the redhead as Andy Dalton and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: beat the Bengals fifty to twenty four on Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. I was hoping my battery ran out before
Speaker 1: you finished with all of that, but damn it didn't
Speaker 1: do it. Half game. If that happens, I'll send you
Speaker 1: a pizza party for your family. Hey, just so you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about this a little while ago about what
Speaker 1: do you do with certain film certain games that you lose.
Speaker 1: We never watched it. We never watched that video. We
Speaker 1: ever watched that video. We had just lost the Chicago
Speaker 1: for you for nothing. The week after that, we go
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati and we get blown out, as Bill just mentioned.
Speaker 1: Came back the next week and we beat the Giants
Speaker 1: for the NFC East back in Texas Stadium. Now bring
Speaker 1: that up, Bill, we're about that. Take that with you
Speaker 1: for this weekend. Take that with you. We're out of
Speaker 1: time on this edition too. Well, at least the Bears
Speaker 1: Brooks and Larry kinnerbrew that day. At least the Bears
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl. Right, they were pretty good. Yes,
Speaker 1: they were doing the super Bowl Shuffle all the way
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl that year. All right, that does
Speaker 1: it for mix Shots, and enjoy the fifty twenty four
Speaker 1: win on Sunday, and we will be back here to
Speaker 1: talk about it at one thirty on Monday on Mick
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