WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Last Call 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:16.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.080 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.799 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:34.000 and Nicky Spagnola and it is Mick Shots on this Friday, 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:38.200 the second Friday of the regular season for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.239 I am Mickey Spagnola along with me, Everson Walls, and 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.159 Bill Jones will be joining us in a moment. You know, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:51.199 this is a twenty twenty Everson and technologies. You know, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:56.640 sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hey, that's okay. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:01.040 I love the fact that we can lower our expectations 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:07.080 during this COVID era. It takes all the pressure off 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.160 of everything that we do. So if you screw up, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:16.399 everybody's been through it. Yeah, absolutely, and the Cowboys it's 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:21.520 a regeneration day Friday for the team. He kind of 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.840 we talked about this last week how Mike McCarthy has 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:30.399 traditionally flip flopped the Friday Saturday schedule where the Cowboys 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:35.240 used to have their Friday practice and a walkthrough on Saturday. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.960 Mike McCarthy prefers to have the walkthrough on Friday and 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.520 do the light practice on Saturday to keep them more 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:51.360 in game mode going into Sunday. So the Cowboys have 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.800 already had what they call their mock game. And when 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.040 he says mock game, ever since, it's basically the walkthrough, right, Okay, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.559 first team defense, okay, first team nickel defense, Okay, punt 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:08.200 return and everybody does the walkthrough that's traditionally held on Saturday. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.720 The bad part for us is we don't get a 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.120 new injury port tomorrow after the practice. So when they 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:22.360 give out the status on Friday, as the NFL demands, 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.000 it's an estimation now for the Cowboys. And you know 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.000 that used to hack me off when the Cowboys were 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.840 playing the Packers and there were injuries and we would 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.080 get an estimation on Friday because they didn't practice, and 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.520 then Saturday you didn't know if they're going to update 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.200 it or not. So that's the situation the Cowboys are in. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.200 And you know they had three guys that did not 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.920 practice yesterday that we certainly weren't aware of. I think 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.799 when we did the show, Tyrant Smith, most notably with 0:02:55.840 --> 0:03:00.839 a neck injury. McCarthy said, he suffered it in individual 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.120 drills and so he didn't work and they're gonna, you know, 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.760 have to wait and see probably till Sunday to see 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.560 if he's good to go. Amari Cooper didn't practice listed 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.680 as a foot, but McCarthy and even Cowboys owner Jerry 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.920 Jones seemed optimistic that he would be he would be 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.280 ready to go, so from an injury standpoint. And then 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.800 the other person that didn't practice yesterday, Alden Smith, and 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.920 we talked about that. We knew that he went to 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.560 the dentist, so he should be good to go. I 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.200 don't know if he got hit in the mouth, but 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.800 I think you know, from a toothache, you can numb 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.280 that sucker and player right, right, But if if hey, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.200 it ain't worth practice, Okay, right, I don't want to 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.720 have to go to practice with with my tooth being 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:55.280 so uncomfortable. It's it's a few things that can take 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.120 down a big man and take down a very talented man. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.600 Dion Sanders had to retire because of his toe. Right 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.920 if you recall, right, the turf toe and everyone comes 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.840 up to me and goes man, he could have played 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.680 with a turf toe like no, he can't. You know, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:19.000 it sounds very benign, but it's extremely painful and it 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.080 goes straight to the core of what an athlete needs, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.160 and for the most part, that's his feet. Yeah, go 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.880 go try to do something back, go, try to do 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:32.440 something without your big toe right athletically and you don't 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:38.240 realize it. And then and then pain that goes with it, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.919 not just to do it without the toe, but to 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.760 inject pain while trying to use it. That's the other 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.719 part of it that is key. And when you start 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.120 talking about the different practice schedules, that's very unusual for 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.520 me to hear what McCarthy does. I don't know how 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:58.080 many other coaches do that, but we were always accustomed 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:02.200 to on Saturday, we're just messing around, you know, I mean, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.720 we knew exactly what to go through. The coaches would 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.440 always point out a situation to where okay, this is 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.440 where you're ready for one of their bread and butter moves, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.320 something that they always use, something that they always do. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.240 So you don't want to be beat by the obvious. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.719 So those are the things that you really go over. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.840 When I was in New York, you know, a little older, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.520 I pushing twenty nine thirty years old and Pepper Johnson, LT, 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:35.400 Call Banks, Renee Thompson, Mark Collins. After the Saturday practice, 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.640 which was just a walkthrough. If it was a home game, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.880 we would get out there and play a all out 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:51.320 touch football game. I mean we were going for one time. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.960 LT had me beat and I clearly pied. I pushed 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.640 him in the back and because he was going forward 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.480 as well, and boy, he was so mad in me. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.560 We almost got into a fight in the locker room. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:09.840 That's how intense those touch football games were. So it's 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.320 funny that you mentioned how he changes the strategy. I 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.320 didn't realize it, but while going to the Giants, my 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:21.640 strategy changed individually because that those touch football games, you know, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.880 they were religious, they were definitely religious. Yeah. Absolutely, So 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.000 that's kind of the Cowboys schedule and will play that 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.960 first home game and still Jerry Jones said that the 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.239 attendance at AT and T Stadium for Sunday's noon kickoff 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.080 against the Atlanta Falcons won't be determined until Saturday. So 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.200 to me, that means they're going to sell tickets until 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.800 they either hit the maximum they're allowed to allow in 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.760 or just give people every chance to continue selling or 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.400 buying tickets. And so this is going to be a 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.400 little bit strange because you go from a stadium with 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.239 nobody in it last Sunday in LA playing the Rams 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.920 to a stadium now that has some uh capacity. We 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.920 don't know what it's going to be. Uh. They talked 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.880 about it being twenty five percent, but it's still gonna 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.000 have to be an eerie feeling with people spaced out 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.080 like that. Uh. And it was counter even strange last night. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.559 If you watched the Thursday night game right with people 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.880 kind of spaced out, Yeah, you know, this is funny. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.560 So I remember, yeah, they did, and I think they're 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.920 allowed to do it to a certain level, even though 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.800 you have fans in there. I remember turning TV on 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.680 about a week or two ago and it was the 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.119 Cubs were playing a home game against the Cardinals, and 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.440 I looked and I and my initial reaction was, Wow, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.640 no one wanted to go to the Cubs game today? 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.000 And then I remember, you're not allowed to be in there. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.000 You could say, I could see past all of that. Yeah, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.800 it really is hard to get past this narrative that 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.280 we're in. Now. You know, you end up turning on 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.000 the TV and you might see a throwback game and 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.320 they are fans at the game. You go, wow, you 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.760 know that's what I'm missing, you know, you just you 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.320 just forget about that. That what we took for granted, 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.400 all those all those you know, months ago. So in 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.520 regards to what I saw last night, which was a 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.640 good game by the way, Uh, they piped in fans 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.560 cheering as well as you know, you had the regular 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.199 fans there, but only six thousand if I'm if I 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.640 think that's what it was. Yes, I couldn't see if 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.760 they had some type of protocol in regards to UH 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.800 seats that were exed out, you know, like you can't 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.120 sit here or you do they have that? Is that 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.720 what the Cowboys are going to be dealing with? Uh? 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:58.240 In regards to having those seats clearly visibly designated, Yeah, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.640 I don't know about that. What they were supposed to 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.840 do is cover up the first eight rows of the 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:09.480 stadiums surrounding the stadium. So and that was for marketing 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.360 purposes because they could put advertisement on the type over 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:18.560 the seats, right. Uh and then after absolutely make money 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.360 some way, right And you know, and I thought of 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.559 this today. Um, you know, there was some teams or 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.720 coaches complaining that some stadiums were going to have fans 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.120 in them others weren't, and they acted like it was 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:37.360 a disadvantage, and I was thinking, Hey, remember the NFL, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.920 this is revenue sharing NFL, and the visiting team gets 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.400 a cut of the home attendance, right, so don't be 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.000 complaining because your club's gonna make some money off the Cowboys, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.960 no matter how many people they put in there. Right, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.040 it used to be sixty forty. I don't know what 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.440 it is now, but the split used to be sixty forty, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.720 so uh that that occurred to me to day. So anyway, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.959 we got two and two teams coming into this uh 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.000 game or and one teams coming into the game trying 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:16.840 to avoid O and two, which makes the percentages pretty 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.400 slim to climb out of that hole. Uh so early 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:24.359 in the season. But from a from the Falcon standpoint, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:29.480 from an injury situation, uh, they they got everybody excited 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:36.680 yesterday when Julio Jones uh was he was listed as 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.560 make sure I get it right limited with a hamstring, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.480 and evidently going into that the last week of training 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 camp he did have some problems with his hamstring and 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.800 he uh. They they kept him out of practice for 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.080 a while, but he wasn't on the injury port going 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.600 into the Seattle game. But he jumped up on it 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.000 yes day, although dan Quinn kind of minimized it and 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.760 said it's really not that serious. So it's probably one 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.720 of those things where Thursday's a real heavy day and 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.920 you go, Okay, let's give him a break and then 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.680 get him back in here on Friday. So that's really 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:21.160 their only injury. Of note, they're starting center. Alex mac 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.360 did not practice, but it was not injury related, so 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.559 they're in pretty good shape other than a few backups. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.920 And we know the cow We know the Cowboys situation. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:39.640 You know yesterday you know, without Tyrn Smith at practice, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.079 So you got Terrence Steele still at the right tackle, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.240 and my assumption is Brandon Knight, who would be the 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.679 next guy up, would be at left tackle. And I 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.360 think this would probably mean if if Tyrn can't go, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.760 Alex light who the free agent tackle they signed early 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.559 in the week. Um, you know, he's probably got to 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.680 be active one way or another. He probably has to 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.640 be active. And remember you want to keep eight offensive 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.240 lineman active on Sunday because that allows you to keep 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.560 forty eight guys active instead of forty six if you 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.320 have eight offensive linemen. So it's a good chance he 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.200 has um. He has a helmet on. Do we have 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.880 Bill Jones? Now? Bill Jones? I am here? Are high 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.040 William Sir? I felt I felt like Joe and Bill 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.160 Jones will join us in a moment. You know, a 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:43.040 few technical issues with my phone, you know, were Usually 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.920 usually if you turn it off and turn it on, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.560 it fixes the problem. But in this case, I had 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.760 to turn it off and turn it on twice. You 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.360 have been dopted twenty percent of your pay for today. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:02.720 Percent of zero is still zero. Matter of fact, I 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.640 had to do that last night in the middle of 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.000 the fourth quarter. I had to turn my TV off 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.400 and turn it back on. It's like, come on, what 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.160 are you doing? The game's just getting tighter? But that happens, right, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:19.640 really wow, Okay, Joey's about time for a break? Yeah, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.319 it really is. You can. You got just the time 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.840 to get it to a break and come back and 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.600 do the read. All right, let's do that. Let's take 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.400 a break, and we've got a live read coming up 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.880 next here. I'm mix shots. 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I mean and and 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.679 do you think it's just gonna it's gonna be one 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.480 of those deals that and I know you're you're not 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.399 a doctor unless it's spouchy you portrayals, right, one of 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.760 those deals where they tested out on how he feels 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.760 when he wakes up on Sunday morning or what do 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.800 you think I think they take it to Sunday? Um, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.160 I think that uh, you know, he probably won't do well. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.600 They're not gonna do anything today. And he did not 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.840 take take part in the walkthrough practice Amari Cooper did, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.480 by the way, So Mike McCarthy pointed that out. So, uh, 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.879 you know, if he couldn't even do the walkthrough, uh, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.360 And I would imagine they hold him out Saturday and say, okay, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.200 let's see if we can get him to the game 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:57.160 on Sunday and then it's a h a Sunday decision. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.920 As as as Jerry said when he did his more 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:06.240 interview on the radio and his Friday segment when they 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.480 were kind of peppering from that, he goes, yeah, you 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.280 know what, I wouldn't mind telling you, but I really 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:17.560 don't feel like telling the Atlanta Falcons. Okay. So, so 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.000 Jerry was playing the game too, so we'll we'll see 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.199 where that one goes. But it is troubling. I mean, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.280 they had enough problems with Tying in there protecting Dak 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.760 and that's gonna be a big, uh, you know, a 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.040 big part of the game. And last night only reminded 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:38.760 me of that the game in Atlanta when the Cowboys 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.520 gave up what seven sacks or so, because Adriana's name 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.400 came up. I think he was playing for the Cleveland 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:52.560 Browns maybe uh, And last night he's still playing. I 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.640 thought he made all his money off of that game 0:18:54.680 --> 0:19:00.320 and retire. I in fact, I tweeted after he did 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.600 that he just needs five more career and then he 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:10.320 got hurt in the next series. Yeah right, that really 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.879 when you think about it, guys, you know, whenever tyring 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.560 Uh has problems, of course, it makes a big difference 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.920 in the timing of everything that we do on offense, 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.120 and with him not in the game, it's even more 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.640 so to where you can see the difference in everything 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.600 we do as a team, especially if you're coming up 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.760 against the defense that has worth anything. If I would 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:39.440 call when we played the Falcons last time, their defense 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.520 was not good at all, but that one guy came 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.680 out and had that good game and it made their 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.200 defense look outstanding. So it lets you know how one 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:53.160 person can make a difference in our scheme offensively. That 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.760 kind of concerns me a little bit. And even when 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.720 you look at the other side, I might be a 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.600 bit encouraged if I'm the Cowboys, because Julio Jones has 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.520 that same effect with the Falcons, And so if you 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:13.280 see him not at full strength, then that and if 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.800 he ends up not playing, I don't know, we'll see 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.159 maybe he could even tweak it doing the game, or 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.360 you can see that he might not be at full strength. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.040 It totally takes it totally changes everything that you want 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.240 to do on the defensive side for the Cowboys. So 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.600 these are two, you know, injuries that would we should 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.920 really keep an eye on because they could really change 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.200 the balance on these scales as far as this game 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.120 is concerned, you know, And I think if that if 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.720 that does take place, I think the Cowboys have to 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.159 make some sort of adjustment to the offense. If you 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.119 thought they didn't get the ball down the field much 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.199 in this game against the Rams, I would think this 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.879 has to be quick passes, get the ball out of 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:02.320 Dak's hands be a little bit more screen smoke screens 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.879 to the wide receiver. You just don't want him hanging 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:09.879 onto the ball and put put those guys in a 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.440 tight situation. But you know what, when you go back 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.399 and look at it, and you know, I thought they 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.080 were just giving kind of lift service to uh Terrence 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.560 Steele's performance, but he kind of held up. There was 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.720 a couple plays and that's going to happen, right, But 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.639 you know, the run game, I thought he did fine. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.640 And and the more I watched, the more I saw 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:37.159 here was the problem and it and yes it was 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.880 Aaron Donald, but it wasn't all Aaron Donald. A lot 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:45.040 of times what the rams were doing is they were 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.719 attacking Joe Looney. They were going right after him with 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.640 brockers h and he wouldn't even line up over him. 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.200 He was lined up over Connor Williams, and he would 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.600 make a bee line to hit Joe Looney. And a 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.520 couple of times he hit him and he pushed him 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.320 right into UH Zack Martin and caused him to get 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.679 pushed off balance. And then Aaron Donald broke through UH 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.320 to mess up a play. And they did it a 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.200 couple times and I said, oh, so that's what they're 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:20.280 trying to do. Uh So, you know it's a copycat league, 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.239 and and you know teams will try to find the 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.879 soft spot. Um so. And the one time I thought 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.160 Connor Williams got beat by Aaron Donald, Oh he's doing 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.359 his interviews right now. I see him on the screen, 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:37.560 So I'm must tasking again. Uh, he didn't go, he 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:40.880 didn't get beat. When he went back to to pat 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:43.800 to set up for his pass block, he tripped over 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.679 Joe Looney's foot. Joe Looney's foot was right in his way. 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.480 Uh so, uh, you got to better keep an eye 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:54.040 on that. So when we talk about okay, there's a 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:57.760 sub over there, there's a sub over there. The left 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:02.200 guards coming back from ACL surgery, Well, the center didn't 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.240 play center last year. He was a guard. He was 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.600 the backup center, but he only got the couple handful 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.560 of snaps in in mop up time. The majority of 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.080 the key snaps he played was at guard. So he 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:19.640 really hadn't played a game at center since twenty eighteen 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.960 when he took over for Travis Frederick. You know, to 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:28.800 meet spas. There are certain teams that kind of flipped 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:30.959 the script on you, and I think the Falcons are 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:35.400 one of those. I think that the defense clearly feeds 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.880 off of their offense. I think if we don't contain 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.680 that passing game, if we don't contain that running game 0:23:42.720 --> 0:23:48.840 with Gurley, then that's what really feeds that entire team. 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:50.719 And of course you won't have a bunch of fans 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:52.880 there or anything like that, so it kind of negates 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.199 your home field at Van is just a bit. But 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:00.800 just in regards to what kind of pace their defense 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:06.040 might play with, really depends on what kind of assistance 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:12.400 our defense gives us as Cowboys, because let's face it, 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.080 they fed off of the offense the last time we 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:20.080 played them, and this time you saw last week the 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:23.480 Falcons offense they had of a five hundred yards I 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.080 mentioned it yesterday. That's gonna be a track meet and 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:28.840 if you can't keep up, we could we could easily 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:31.879 get get blown out of this game just based on 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:35.400 how good their offense is. And to be frank, how 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.240 in apt our defense has has been shown to be. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.919 So we got to be careful. We really did. Let 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.960 me ask you about the defense, and in particular, you know, 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:47.960 there was something interesting that Mike McCarthy mentioned yesterday in 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:52.399 his press conference about the number of defensive backs the 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:54.600 Cowboys have on the roster, you know, and it said 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:58.359 old cliche in the NFL, you never can have enough cornerbacks. 0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:01.480 You never can't have enough dB But what you're really 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.400 seeing in the NFL now, and he was alluding to this, 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:09.400 are the teams are playing more defensive backs. And I'm 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.960 wondering what the Cowboys might do with what's going on 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:17.480 at linebacker with this team and now, obviously especially in 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:20.120 a case against Atlanta, with Gurley back there, you've got 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:21.800