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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it is Mick Shots on this Friday,
Speaker 1: the second Friday of the regular season for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I am Mickey Spagnola along with me, Everson Walls, and
Speaker 1: Bill Jones will be joining us in a moment. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a twenty twenty Everson and technologies. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hey, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that we can lower our expectations
Speaker 1: during this COVID era. It takes all the pressure off
Speaker 1: of everything that we do. So if you screw up,
Speaker 1: everybody's been through it. Yeah, absolutely, and the Cowboys it's
Speaker 1: a regeneration day Friday for the team. He kind of
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week how Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 1: traditionally flip flopped the Friday Saturday schedule where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: used to have their Friday practice and a walkthrough on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy prefers to have the walkthrough on Friday and
Speaker 1: do the light practice on Saturday to keep them more
Speaker 1: in game mode going into Sunday. So the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: already had what they call their mock game. And when
Speaker 1: he says mock game, ever since, it's basically the walkthrough, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: first team defense, okay, first team nickel defense, Okay, punt
Speaker 1: return and everybody does the walkthrough that's traditionally held on Saturday.
Speaker 1: The bad part for us is we don't get a
Speaker 1: new injury port tomorrow after the practice. So when they
Speaker 1: give out the status on Friday, as the NFL demands,
Speaker 1: it's an estimation now for the Cowboys. And you know
Speaker 1: that used to hack me off when the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: playing the Packers and there were injuries and we would
Speaker 1: get an estimation on Friday because they didn't practice, and
Speaker 1: then Saturday you didn't know if they're going to update
Speaker 1: it or not. So that's the situation the Cowboys are in.
Speaker 1: And you know they had three guys that did not
Speaker 1: practice yesterday that we certainly weren't aware of. I think
Speaker 1: when we did the show, Tyrant Smith, most notably with
Speaker 1: a neck injury. McCarthy said, he suffered it in individual
Speaker 1: drills and so he didn't work and they're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: have to wait and see probably till Sunday to see
Speaker 1: if he's good to go. Amari Cooper didn't practice listed
Speaker 1: as a foot, but McCarthy and even Cowboys owner Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones seemed optimistic that he would be he would be
Speaker 1: ready to go, so from an injury standpoint. And then
Speaker 1: the other person that didn't practice yesterday, Alden Smith, and
Speaker 1: we talked about that. We knew that he went to
Speaker 1: the dentist, so he should be good to go. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he got hit in the mouth, but
Speaker 1: I think you know, from a toothache, you can numb
Speaker 1: that sucker and player right, right, But if if hey,
Speaker 1: it ain't worth practice, Okay, right, I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to go to practice with with my tooth being
Speaker 1: so uncomfortable. It's it's a few things that can take
Speaker 1: down a big man and take down a very talented man.
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders had to retire because of his toe. Right
Speaker 1: if you recall, right, the turf toe and everyone comes
Speaker 1: up to me and goes man, he could have played
Speaker 1: with a turf toe like no, he can't. You know,
Speaker 1: it sounds very benign, but it's extremely painful and it
Speaker 1: goes straight to the core of what an athlete needs,
Speaker 1: and for the most part, that's his feet. Yeah, go
Speaker 1: go try to do something back, go, try to do
Speaker 1: something without your big toe right athletically and you don't
Speaker 1: realize it. And then and then pain that goes with it,
Speaker 1: not just to do it without the toe, but to
Speaker 1: inject pain while trying to use it. That's the other
Speaker 1: part of it that is key. And when you start
Speaker 1: talking about the different practice schedules, that's very unusual for
Speaker 1: me to hear what McCarthy does. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many other coaches do that, but we were always accustomed
Speaker 1: to on Saturday, we're just messing around, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we knew exactly what to go through. The coaches would
Speaker 1: always point out a situation to where okay, this is
Speaker 1: where you're ready for one of their bread and butter moves,
Speaker 1: something that they always use, something that they always do.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to be beat by the obvious.
Speaker 1: So those are the things that you really go over.
Speaker 1: When I was in New York, you know, a little older,
Speaker 1: I pushing twenty nine thirty years old and Pepper Johnson, LT,
Speaker 1: Call Banks, Renee Thompson, Mark Collins. After the Saturday practice,
Speaker 1: which was just a walkthrough. If it was a home game,
Speaker 1: we would get out there and play a all out
Speaker 1: touch football game. I mean we were going for one time.
Speaker 1: LT had me beat and I clearly pied. I pushed
Speaker 1: him in the back and because he was going forward
Speaker 1: as well, and boy, he was so mad in me.
Speaker 1: We almost got into a fight in the locker room.
Speaker 1: That's how intense those touch football games were. So it's
Speaker 1: funny that you mentioned how he changes the strategy. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it, but while going to the Giants, my
Speaker 1: strategy changed individually because that those touch football games, you know,
Speaker 1: they were religious, they were definitely religious. Yeah. Absolutely, So
Speaker 1: that's kind of the Cowboys schedule and will play that
Speaker 1: first home game and still Jerry Jones said that the
Speaker 1: attendance at AT and T Stadium for Sunday's noon kickoff
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons won't be determined until Saturday. So
Speaker 1: to me, that means they're going to sell tickets until
Speaker 1: they either hit the maximum they're allowed to allow in
Speaker 1: or just give people every chance to continue selling or
Speaker 1: buying tickets. And so this is going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit strange because you go from a stadium with
Speaker 1: nobody in it last Sunday in LA playing the Rams
Speaker 1: to a stadium now that has some uh capacity. We
Speaker 1: don't know what it's going to be. Uh. They talked
Speaker 1: about it being twenty five percent, but it's still gonna
Speaker 1: have to be an eerie feeling with people spaced out
Speaker 1: like that. Uh. And it was counter even strange last night.
Speaker 1: If you watched the Thursday night game right with people
Speaker 1: kind of spaced out, Yeah, you know, this is funny.
Speaker 1: So I remember, yeah, they did, and I think they're
Speaker 1: allowed to do it to a certain level, even though
Speaker 1: you have fans in there. I remember turning TV on
Speaker 1: about a week or two ago and it was the
Speaker 1: Cubs were playing a home game against the Cardinals, and
Speaker 1: I looked and I and my initial reaction was, Wow,
Speaker 1: no one wanted to go to the Cubs game today?
Speaker 1: And then I remember, you're not allowed to be in there.
Speaker 1: You could say, I could see past all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is hard to get past this narrative that
Speaker 1: we're in. Now. You know, you end up turning on
Speaker 1: the TV and you might see a throwback game and
Speaker 1: they are fans at the game. You go, wow, you
Speaker 1: know that's what I'm missing, you know, you just you
Speaker 1: just forget about that. That what we took for granted,
Speaker 1: all those all those you know, months ago. So in
Speaker 1: regards to what I saw last night, which was a
Speaker 1: good game by the way, Uh, they piped in fans
Speaker 1: cheering as well as you know, you had the regular
Speaker 1: fans there, but only six thousand if I'm if I
Speaker 1: think that's what it was. Yes, I couldn't see if
Speaker 1: they had some type of protocol in regards to UH
Speaker 1: seats that were exed out, you know, like you can't
Speaker 1: sit here or you do they have that? Is that
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys are going to be dealing with? Uh?
Speaker 1: In regards to having those seats clearly visibly designated, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. What they were supposed to
Speaker 1: do is cover up the first eight rows of the
Speaker 1: stadiums surrounding the stadium. So and that was for marketing
Speaker 1: purposes because they could put advertisement on the type over
Speaker 1: the seats, right. Uh and then after absolutely make money
Speaker 1: some way, right And you know, and I thought of
Speaker 1: this today. Um, you know, there was some teams or
Speaker 1: coaches complaining that some stadiums were going to have fans
Speaker 1: in them others weren't, and they acted like it was
Speaker 1: a disadvantage, and I was thinking, Hey, remember the NFL,
Speaker 1: this is revenue sharing NFL, and the visiting team gets
Speaker 1: a cut of the home attendance, right, so don't be
Speaker 1: complaining because your club's gonna make some money off the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: no matter how many people they put in there. Right,
Speaker 1: it used to be sixty forty. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is now, but the split used to be sixty forty,
Speaker 1: so uh that that occurred to me to day. So anyway,
Speaker 1: we got two and two teams coming into this uh
Speaker 1: game or and one teams coming into the game trying
Speaker 1: to avoid O and two, which makes the percentages pretty
Speaker 1: slim to climb out of that hole. Uh so early
Speaker 1: in the season. But from a from the Falcon standpoint,
Speaker 1: from an injury situation, uh, they they got everybody excited
Speaker 1: yesterday when Julio Jones uh was he was listed as
Speaker 1: make sure I get it right limited with a hamstring,
Speaker 1: and evidently going into that the last week of training
Speaker 1: camp he did have some problems with his hamstring and
Speaker 1: he uh. They they kept him out of practice for
Speaker 1: a while, but he wasn't on the injury port going
Speaker 1: into the Seattle game. But he jumped up on it
Speaker 1: yes day, although dan Quinn kind of minimized it and
Speaker 1: said it's really not that serious. So it's probably one
Speaker 1: of those things where Thursday's a real heavy day and
Speaker 1: you go, Okay, let's give him a break and then
Speaker 1: get him back in here on Friday. So that's really
Speaker 1: their only injury. Of note, they're starting center. Alex mac
Speaker 1: did not practice, but it was not injury related, so
Speaker 1: they're in pretty good shape other than a few backups.
Speaker 1: And we know the cow We know the Cowboys situation.
Speaker 1: You know yesterday you know, without Tyrn Smith at practice,
Speaker 1: So you got Terrence Steele still at the right tackle,
Speaker 1: and my assumption is Brandon Knight, who would be the
Speaker 1: next guy up, would be at left tackle. And I
Speaker 1: think this would probably mean if if Tyrn can't go,
Speaker 1: Alex light who the free agent tackle they signed early
Speaker 1: in the week. Um, you know, he's probably got to
Speaker 1: be active one way or another. He probably has to
Speaker 1: be active. And remember you want to keep eight offensive
Speaker 1: lineman active on Sunday because that allows you to keep
Speaker 1: forty eight guys active instead of forty six if you
Speaker 1: have eight offensive linemen. So it's a good chance he
Speaker 1: has um. He has a helmet on. Do we have
Speaker 1: Bill Jones? Now? Bill Jones? I am here? Are high
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Speaker 1: few technical issues with my phone, you know, were Usually
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Speaker 1: have been dopted twenty percent of your pay for today.
Speaker 1: Percent of zero is still zero. Matter of fact, I
Speaker 1: had to do that last night in the middle of
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Speaker 1: are you doing? The game's just getting tighter? But that happens, right,
Speaker 1: really wow, Okay, Joey's about time for a break? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: whether it's the high Energy co ed Dance Team, I
Speaker 1: always think that of Mickey being on the co ed
Speaker 1: dance team, the Dallas Cowboys Rhythm and Blue, I think it. Mickey,
Speaker 1: you had a lot. I think I would. I would too,
Speaker 1: and I'd surprise you with my moves at my age,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, would surprised us. Whatever you do would
Speaker 1: be a surprise. The problem with Mickey being on that
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Speaker 1: I probably got the Blue Park. I would be in
Speaker 1: the same boat. Yeah, that's right. All right. Well, we've
Speaker 1: got the Atlanta Falcons coming to town this weekend, and
Speaker 1: we've got injured reissues that of course you've already detailed. Mickey,
Speaker 1: have concerned? Are you on tyrant? I mean and and
Speaker 1: do you think it's just gonna it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those deals that and I know you're you're not
Speaker 1: a doctor unless it's spouchy you portrayals, right, one of
Speaker 1: those deals where they tested out on how he feels
Speaker 1: when he wakes up on Sunday morning or what do
Speaker 1: you think I think they take it to Sunday? Um,
Speaker 1: I think that uh, you know, he probably won't do well.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do anything today. And he did not
Speaker 1: take take part in the walkthrough practice Amari Cooper did,
Speaker 1: by the way, So Mike McCarthy pointed that out. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if he couldn't even do the walkthrough, uh,
Speaker 1: And I would imagine they hold him out Saturday and say, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see if we can get him to the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday and then it's a h a Sunday decision.
Speaker 1: As as as Jerry said when he did his more
Speaker 1: interview on the radio and his Friday segment when they
Speaker 1: were kind of peppering from that, he goes, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, I wouldn't mind telling you, but I really
Speaker 1: don't feel like telling the Atlanta Falcons. Okay. So, so
Speaker 1: Jerry was playing the game too, so we'll we'll see
Speaker 1: where that one goes. But it is troubling. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had enough problems with Tying in there protecting Dak
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a big, uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: big part of the game. And last night only reminded
Speaker 1: me of that the game in Atlanta when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: gave up what seven sacks or so, because Adriana's name
Speaker 1: came up. I think he was playing for the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns maybe uh, And last night he's still playing. I
Speaker 1: thought he made all his money off of that game
Speaker 1: and retire. I in fact, I tweeted after he did
Speaker 1: that he just needs five more career and then he
Speaker 1: got hurt in the next series. Yeah right, that really
Speaker 1: when you think about it, guys, you know, whenever tyring
Speaker 1: Uh has problems, of course, it makes a big difference
Speaker 1: in the timing of everything that we do on offense,
Speaker 1: and with him not in the game, it's even more
Speaker 1: so to where you can see the difference in everything
Speaker 1: we do as a team, especially if you're coming up
Speaker 1: against the defense that has worth anything. If I would
Speaker 1: call when we played the Falcons last time, their defense
Speaker 1: was not good at all, but that one guy came
Speaker 1: out and had that good game and it made their
Speaker 1: defense look outstanding. So it lets you know how one
Speaker 1: person can make a difference in our scheme offensively. That
Speaker 1: kind of concerns me a little bit. And even when
Speaker 1: you look at the other side, I might be a
Speaker 1: bit encouraged if I'm the Cowboys, because Julio Jones has
Speaker 1: that same effect with the Falcons, And so if you
Speaker 1: see him not at full strength, then that and if
Speaker 1: he ends up not playing, I don't know, we'll see
Speaker 1: maybe he could even tweak it doing the game, or
Speaker 1: you can see that he might not be at full strength.
Speaker 1: It totally takes it totally changes everything that you want
Speaker 1: to do on the defensive side for the Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: these are two, you know, injuries that would we should
Speaker 1: really keep an eye on because they could really change
Speaker 1: the balance on these scales as far as this game
Speaker 1: is concerned, you know, And I think if that if
Speaker 1: that does take place, I think the Cowboys have to
Speaker 1: make some sort of adjustment to the offense. If you
Speaker 1: thought they didn't get the ball down the field much
Speaker 1: in this game against the Rams, I would think this
Speaker 1: has to be quick passes, get the ball out of
Speaker 1: Dak's hands be a little bit more screen smoke screens
Speaker 1: to the wide receiver. You just don't want him hanging
Speaker 1: onto the ball and put put those guys in a
Speaker 1: tight situation. But you know what, when you go back
Speaker 1: and look at it, and you know, I thought they
Speaker 1: were just giving kind of lift service to uh Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele's performance, but he kind of held up. There was
Speaker 1: a couple plays and that's going to happen, right, But
Speaker 1: you know, the run game, I thought he did fine.
Speaker 1: And and the more I watched, the more I saw
Speaker 1: here was the problem and it and yes it was
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, but it wasn't all Aaron Donald. A lot
Speaker 1: of times what the rams were doing is they were
Speaker 1: attacking Joe Looney. They were going right after him with
Speaker 1: brockers h and he wouldn't even line up over him.
Speaker 1: He was lined up over Connor Williams, and he would
Speaker 1: make a bee line to hit Joe Looney. And a
Speaker 1: couple of times he hit him and he pushed him
Speaker 1: right into UH Zack Martin and caused him to get
Speaker 1: pushed off balance. And then Aaron Donald broke through UH
Speaker 1: to mess up a play. And they did it a
Speaker 1: couple times and I said, oh, so that's what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. Uh So, you know it's a copycat league,
Speaker 1: and and you know teams will try to find the
Speaker 1: soft spot. Um so. And the one time I thought
Speaker 1: Connor Williams got beat by Aaron Donald, Oh he's doing
Speaker 1: his interviews right now. I see him on the screen,
Speaker 1: So I'm must tasking again. Uh, he didn't go, he
Speaker 1: didn't get beat. When he went back to to pat
Speaker 1: to set up for his pass block, he tripped over
Speaker 1: Joe Looney's foot. Joe Looney's foot was right in his way.
Speaker 1: Uh so, uh, you got to better keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. So when we talk about okay, there's a
Speaker 1: sub over there, there's a sub over there. The left
Speaker 1: guards coming back from ACL surgery, Well, the center didn't
Speaker 1: play center last year. He was a guard. He was
Speaker 1: the backup center, but he only got the couple handful
Speaker 1: of snaps in in mop up time. The majority of
Speaker 1: the key snaps he played was at guard. So he
Speaker 1: really hadn't played a game at center since twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: when he took over for Travis Frederick. You know, to
Speaker 1: meet spas. There are certain teams that kind of flipped
Speaker 1: the script on you, and I think the Falcons are
Speaker 1: one of those. I think that the defense clearly feeds
Speaker 1: off of their offense. I think if we don't contain
Speaker 1: that passing game, if we don't contain that running game
Speaker 1: with Gurley, then that's what really feeds that entire team.
Speaker 1: And of course you won't have a bunch of fans
Speaker 1: there or anything like that, so it kind of negates
Speaker 1: your home field at Van is just a bit. But
Speaker 1: just in regards to what kind of pace their defense
Speaker 1: might play with, really depends on what kind of assistance
Speaker 1: our defense gives us as Cowboys, because let's face it,
Speaker 1: they fed off of the offense the last time we
Speaker 1: played them, and this time you saw last week the
Speaker 1: Falcons offense they had of a five hundred yards I
Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. That's gonna be a track meet and
Speaker 1: if you can't keep up, we could we could easily
Speaker 1: get get blown out of this game just based on
Speaker 1: how good their offense is. And to be frank, how
Speaker 1: in apt our defense has has been shown to be.
Speaker 1: So we got to be careful. We really did. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you about the defense, and in particular, you know,
Speaker 1: there was something interesting that Mike McCarthy mentioned yesterday in
Speaker 1: his press conference about the number of defensive backs the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have on the roster, you know, and it said
Speaker 1: old cliche in the NFL, you never can have enough cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: You never can't have enough dB But what you're really
Speaker 1: seeing in the NFL now, and he was alluding to this,
Speaker 1: are the teams are playing more defensive backs. And I'm
Speaker 1: wondering what the Cowboys might do with what's going on
Speaker 1: at linebacker with this team and now, obviously especially in
Speaker 1: a case against Atlanta, with Gurley back there, you've got
Speaker 1: to respect the run. You've got to be able to
Speaker 1: play the run. But I wonder if if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: might be leaning towards using more dbs than we've seen
Speaker 1: in the past, and that might be one of the
Speaker 1: ways that they can offset the loss event of the linebackers.
Speaker 1: If you've got some some dvs, you can play play more.
Speaker 1: Mc nicol moore dime. And one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: bring it up, which team had which was the best
Speaker 1: defensive team in the National Football League last year? The
Speaker 1: Patriots exactly. The Patriots had the best defense in the league.
Speaker 1: They ranked first in points given up, only given up
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty five yards given up. Most importantly, they
Speaker 1: were second in the league in takeaways, and they had
Speaker 1: twenty five interceptions last year. I looked at the snap count.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to look at the game. I watched
Speaker 1: the game as it aired locally here in the New
Speaker 1: England Miami game, and but I'm just looking at their
Speaker 1: roster and looking at the strength of that defense. Is
Speaker 1: their defensive backfield, no question. I mean, they've got some
Speaker 1: players back there. But if you look at their snap counts,
Speaker 1: I did the math on it, and in that game
Speaker 1: against Miami last week, they had a total of three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five snaps from the defensive backs on
Speaker 1: sixty two plays. That averages out to five point nine
Speaker 1: defensive backs on the field per play. So they are
Speaker 1: averaging having six defensive backs on the field. And I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if that's sort of if maybe some of the
Speaker 1: other teams in the league of studying New England and
Speaker 1: then you know, it's kind of the trickle up effect
Speaker 1: from college football to the NFL. These offenses you need
Speaker 1: more dbs on the field. It's the old We've seen
Speaker 1: it in a Big twelve for the last twenty years now,
Speaker 1: and it's why Big twelve teams can't compete now when
Speaker 1: they get on the national level against Alabama or Clemson
Speaker 1: because they have to recruit so many dvs. But I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if the Cowboys may be leaning that way. That's
Speaker 1: interesting you bring up Belichick. Of course we did that
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl against Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: We had all linebackers and we had all dbs in
Speaker 1: the game for the most part. But of course that
Speaker 1: offense depicted us to do that. But when you think
Speaker 1: about some of the offenses in the NFL, you can't
Speaker 1: do it against every team. Some teams that some of
Speaker 1: them are just traditional NFL teams that they have big
Speaker 1: linemen in the game, they're gonna pound you if you
Speaker 1: bring in dbs. It's just, you know, you depict what
Speaker 1: how you want it. You want it hard, you want
Speaker 1: to saw and it's dictated by how a game plays
Speaker 1: out too. No doubt, Bill game, New England had the
Speaker 1: lead on Miami, so Miami's playing from behind. But still
Speaker 1: it's pretty rare that you're going to do your dying
Speaker 1: defense that much during a game where you're averaging over
Speaker 1: the course of the game. Having six dbs on the
Speaker 1: field every play, Well, what they're looking at is, and
Speaker 1: you talk about it, what you're looking at is you're
Speaker 1: looking at offenses that are coming out with number tight
Speaker 1: ends and of course the number wide receivers. They see
Speaker 1: that their offense has opened up. So once again, it's
Speaker 1: because of what the offenses are starting to do, and
Speaker 1: as you said, coming and being influenced by the college ranks.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if this will surprise you,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the Cowboys took more than five snaps,
Speaker 1: not in their nickel defense. They were in nickel defense
Speaker 1: as basically their base defense. And I just counted it up, Bill,
Speaker 1: there are six dbs that played in the game. They
Speaker 1: total two hundred and seventy six snaps. There were seventy
Speaker 1: three stabs on defense, uh total that the Rams ran offensively,
Speaker 1: and so they they rarely you know, and if they
Speaker 1: had a third linebacker on the field then it was
Speaker 1: usually Alden Smith and they had four down linemen to
Speaker 1: go with that, so they really went in a three
Speaker 1: three four. They were basically playing him as a strong
Speaker 1: side linebacker and a couple of times they did it
Speaker 1: with Dorin's armstrong so r. But know if that was
Speaker 1: a problem stopping the run, and that's why everybody thinks
Speaker 1: immediately Jordan Lewis is going to start in the slot. Well,
Speaker 1: do you want him having to play the run a
Speaker 1: lot at five nine or whatever he is five ten,
Speaker 1: Maybe you gotta be careful to compare, to compare Dallas.
Speaker 1: I did the numbers on Dallas in The Cowboys average
Speaker 1: four point eight defensive backs on the field per play
Speaker 1: and the Patriots were five point nine. So and the
Speaker 1: thing about that is when you look, the dbs were
Speaker 1: making a lot of the tackles on running place. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that was not good our safeties exactly. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: that the number of dvs on there. They were making
Speaker 1: it ten yards down the field. That was a very
Speaker 1: uncomfortable site because when you when you have your free
Speaker 1: safety making a bunch of tackles and they were doing
Speaker 1: such a good job because they had to, Uh, that's
Speaker 1: that's a little disconcerting and recross to give run defense.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's something I'm going to study as as
Speaker 1: as the year goes along and just see how teams
Speaker 1: are playing at their dbs and so forth as we
Speaker 1: go along. You know, I'm looking at the Dolphins ran
Speaker 1: the ball a total of twenty two times against the
Speaker 1: Patriots in that game. You know, of course they got
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard and Matt Brida now as their backs in Miami. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's make our picks, our picks to click,
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Speaker 1: we make our predictions here. Mickey, we've what we say,
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of capacity at AT and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: We determined its brown twenty two five. Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe that's what we said, and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything to change that. And Jerry Jones basically said this
Speaker 1: morning that they would determine the capacity once they get
Speaker 1: to some point on Saturday, So that means they're still
Speaker 1: selling the single game ticket to the Falcons game for
Speaker 1: Sunday's noons start, and I think if they're there are
Speaker 1: six games where in the NFL where fans have been
Speaker 1: in the stands. Last night in Cleveland they had around
Speaker 1: six thousand fans, you know, just watching on television. It
Speaker 1: just helps to have even just six thousand fans in
Speaker 1: the stands like in last night's game, and it kind
Speaker 1: of kind of looks like a preseason game in the stands.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of preseason games look like have
Speaker 1: that smattering of fans in the stands. It just it
Speaker 1: helps me psychologically watching the games when there are some
Speaker 1: fans at least in the stands. What okay, what's the
Speaker 1: over under? Let's say the over under is twenty thousand
Speaker 1: on fans? Are they? Is it gonna be over or under?
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm gonna go slightly over? Okay?
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm going over the Where are
Speaker 1: you talking more ninety thou something? Right? Capacity? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: going over, So I'll go over to I think it'll
Speaker 1: be right around that twenty two. Jerry will not let
Speaker 1: let us go under. It's no way. Jay Jones will
Speaker 1: let us go on do on that No way he'll
Speaker 1: bring the neighborhood right. Okay, come on, let's go to again.
Speaker 1: You want to go you want to go around the
Speaker 1: horn on these picks. Let me start with the click. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me see if this changes your mind. Okay. I
Speaker 1: did some really hard research today. I read the Atlantic Constitution. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Falcons have never started OH and two with Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan at quarterback, and that goes back to uh two thousand.
Speaker 1: I guess he took over in two thousand and eight. Uh.
Speaker 1: They also figured out since two thousand and seven, one
Speaker 1: hundred teams have started OH and two, twelve made the
Speaker 1: playoffs ten head winning records. And I continued to look,
Speaker 1: and I noticed that only two teams kind of in
Speaker 1: this era, I guess since Jerry bought the team, only
Speaker 1: two teams has won the Super Bowl starting OH and two,
Speaker 1: and it was the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: As we know in nineteen three. The last time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were OH and two was two thousand and ten.
Speaker 1: They finished six and ten the two times before that
Speaker 1: two thousand and one and two thousand and five and
Speaker 1: eleven and five and eleven, and during ever since time
Speaker 1: OH and two obviously in nineteen eighty nine, one in fifteen,
Speaker 1: and then sixty three they finished four and ten. And
Speaker 1: we know what happened in nineteen sixty. But here was
Speaker 1: the amazing stat and I had forgotten this. They had
Speaker 1: gone seventeen straight years from nineteen sixty five to ninety
Speaker 1: to eighty one, winning the season opener, winning the season opener.
Speaker 1: They lost it in eighty two and then four more times,
Speaker 1: so they went twenty one of twenty two years winning
Speaker 1: the season opener. How about that, that's the home opener, No,
Speaker 1: the season over, season opener, season opener, season opener. All right,
Speaker 1: so said, are we picking the game or the pick?
Speaker 1: Are we picking? Pick the click first? Let's let's do Oh,
Speaker 1: we have five minutes left here, let's do let's do
Speaker 1: picks to click first? How's that? Did I win last week? First?
Speaker 1: Did I win last week with Ezekiel Elliott? Um? I'm
Speaker 1: trying I head to Marcus Lawrence. So I won. I
Speaker 1: believe I won with Michael Gallop. Okay, just by your fault,
Speaker 1: I give you the Michaelson. I'm gonna give it all
Speaker 1: the way, give me the past. So you're on mix shots.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are one and oh okay, right, So, uh so, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you got you got the tea box. If you get
Speaker 1: you won last week, you got the tea box. So
Speaker 1: you go first. My pick the clicks gonna be Greg Zerline.
Speaker 1: Whoa okay, Greg? There how many field goals for him?
Speaker 1: He's gonna kick five field goals and I'll just give
Speaker 1: you my pick right now. The Cowboys will win twenty
Speaker 1: three to twenty two. Oh okay, wait a second unstable
Speaker 1: field goals? So they're's a touchdown and conversion touts down
Speaker 1: a two point conversion, that's right. What was the final
Speaker 1: score again? Twenty three twenty two two? Okay, so when's
Speaker 1: the two point conversion gonna happen? Is it gonna be
Speaker 1: like on the final play to win the game or
Speaker 1: walk off, he decides to go for the two point
Speaker 1: conversion and not over time. That's right. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a reversal of the Jets game from last year when
Speaker 1: they were trying to tie it to go into overtime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that Jets game. You will never forget that Jets game.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you ever said who's your pick to click?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna copy spags from last week. U Zeke did
Speaker 1: a damn good job last week. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to continue to run his butt off. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Falcons will be able to handle him as they
Speaker 1: did last time. He looks in great shape. He looks
Speaker 1: in great shape, and his vision I think is just
Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. Score. I'm gonna go a few field goals,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be a track me. Like
Speaker 1: I said, thirty one to thirty eight Cowboys. Wow, that
Speaker 1: is a track me, all right, thirty eight thirty one
Speaker 1: Cowboys win? All right? I am gonna to go with
Speaker 1: my pick to click in his first home game as
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy. That would be who do you think
Speaker 1: I'm going with Lamb? What about Treyvon things he's matched
Speaker 1: up against these Alabama guys. Isn't that a better storyline?
Speaker 1: Guess what? They got a rookie corner start two A J.
Speaker 1: Terrell one slot ahead of C. D Lamb. Okay, and
Speaker 1: so that tells me that CD's gonna be playing with
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder. And so CD Lamb is
Speaker 1: my pick to click against these Atlanta Falcons. I could
Speaker 1: hear Boomer Sooner playing in the background. Oh what a second,
Speaker 1: I got it. Oh, where is my Let me see
Speaker 1: how mobile I am here? I got Oh? No second,
Speaker 1: right back, he's turned, he said, I'll be right back. Oh,
Speaker 1: right back. So this is gonna be good. Two teams
Speaker 1: with starting rookie corners and having to go up against
Speaker 1: the Wavers. By the way, a side note from from
Speaker 1: my uh my pick is uh I think I think
Speaker 1: Diggs is gonna get a pick. I do get that
Speaker 1: out of here. C d Lamb C d Lamb is
Speaker 1: my pick to click. Here you go. That thing's gonna
Speaker 1: here all right. By the way, I was there when
Speaker 1: my things shipped over in the Orange Bowl. You better
Speaker 1: be glad. I like, oh you, you better be glad.
Speaker 1: I like, oh you otherwise I'll be clowning you right now. Bill.
Speaker 1: So I've got Cowboys winning behind C. D Lambs three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Three let's go, let's go thirty one to twenty Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: There you go, hey, I want to mention a side note.
Speaker 1: A side note. I believe that Diggs is going to
Speaker 1: get an interception in the ball game. I don't know
Speaker 1: how what he's gonna give up, but I believe he's
Speaker 1: gonna get his first interception of his NFL career. All Right,
Speaker 1: there you go. So it's a day for rookies in
Speaker 1: front of twenty two thousand fans on Sunday at ATNT
Speaker 1: Stadium and Cowboys need to win this game. We'll be
Speaker 1: back to wrap it up on Monday, Mickey. Where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be watching the game from AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: press box? All right, good nice, all right, come on along, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see you on Monday. Enjoy the game everybody, and
Speaker 1: we'll wrap up. Hey, Cowboys win on on Monday, all right,
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