Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Okay, is the last show before a game,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Yes? It is. It's the Eagles coming to town. Right,
Speaker 1: fly Eagles Fly, and we're not playing that song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go. I have a scroll by. Yes, tis
Speaker 1: the season. Tis the season to beat the Eagles on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve at at and T Stadium. We're live inside
Speaker 1: the s WBC podcast studio, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola. Everson
Speaker 1: Walls has decided to take off early for Christmas apparently,
Speaker 1: but he's given us his picks to click on Saturday
Speaker 1: and Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays to all of you as
Speaker 1: we get you said for a Christmas weekend in Arlington.
Speaker 1: Was Everson scared of the snow or what? I don't
Speaker 1: I think the cold, blustery conditions outside. In fact, I
Speaker 1: was wondering what producers Supreme Chris Beam was gonna play.
Speaker 1: We have to play Stampede but yesterday he was trying
Speaker 1: to play Ristmas music. It didn't sound like Christmas music.
Speaker 1: Christmas music, and that's what it was on until the
Speaker 1: scroll down till Bill tried producing. He go, hey, this
Speaker 1: is jingle bells. Apparently I can hear it a little bit.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really get you fired up for football, but yeah, meow.
Speaker 1: Although I found an interesting station on the way maybe
Speaker 1: home the other day. It was holidays. Maybe we need
Speaker 1: that as a bed for Mickey's stories about his station
Speaker 1: he's listening to. It was holiday soul, Holiday soul. I
Speaker 1: would like that. So how can I find that one? Serious?
Speaker 1: Channel forty nine? Okay, all right, very good. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was interesting some of the names they came up with,
Speaker 1: because basically, I don't know if any of the soul
Speaker 1: singers are singing Christmas songs these days, but back in
Speaker 1: the day they Mailia Jackson. Yeah, good stuff there, my
Speaker 1: daddy's favorite, Della Fitzgerald. All right? Uh? And but I
Speaker 1: was you know what I was singing on my way
Speaker 1: into day? What's that? Bill? Oh? The weather outside is frightful?
Speaker 1: Do we get in trouble for that? If I sing it? Chris?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think that's a recording. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. I think those are like it should be
Speaker 1: a recording, and now it is a recording. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, we will once again say, because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what's going to happen on Friday or Saturday,
Speaker 1: but there's a roof over the game on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: I'm the windows. The doors will be shut, and those
Speaker 1: doors will be shut, the roof will be shut. I
Speaker 1: can't help you on the way into the stadium though,
Speaker 1: and when you get there, yep, yep. But for those
Speaker 1: of you outside the area right now, and the blue
Speaker 1: Norther struck about nine o'clock this morning, actually eight o'clock
Speaker 1: this morning is when I was batting down the hatches.
Speaker 1: I put my coverings on the faucets outside, and as
Speaker 1: soon as I did that, here came the wind. So
Speaker 1: you think that's the reason why when I left the
Speaker 1: house at nine thirty my newspaper wasn't on the driveway.
Speaker 1: The weather right now here in Frisco, Texas is it's
Speaker 1: nineteen degrees and windy, and it was when I woke up,
Speaker 1: it was probably in the forties, and so it is dropped.
Speaker 1: It quickly dropped from forty five to in the twenties
Speaker 1: in the eight o'clock nine o'clock hour this morning, and
Speaker 1: right now we're sitting at nineteen degrees here, and I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping my freeze protection on my pools work exactly
Speaker 1: same here, huh. And and it's supposed to continue like
Speaker 1: this into Saturday, and it's supposed to get down to
Speaker 1: the low it says here the low today will be
Speaker 1: eleven and then tomorrow you say it gets down to
Speaker 1: eight on Saturday morning. Yes, but it's supposed to warm
Speaker 1: up a little bit during the day. And the wind,
Speaker 1: I think the wind advisory the wind chill advisory last
Speaker 1: I saw us through tomorrow mid afternoon or something like that,
Speaker 1: and so maybe the wind will die down a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it really difficult. I went out this
Speaker 1: morning to take care of some pool stuff and it
Speaker 1: was cold and wind blowing. Yes, absolutely, So I was
Speaker 1: looking ahead to the Tennessee game to see what the
Speaker 1: temperature wasn't be that on the Thursday night game, and
Speaker 1: I was explained to my wife, was like, it's great,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like, you know, high in the fifties,
Speaker 1: low in like the thirties. She's like, whoa this weekend
Speaker 1: for the game. It's gonna be this degree, I said, honey,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a dome,
Speaker 1: so I don't really care about that, and there's no
Speaker 1: dome in Tennessee and there's no until twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Now I think they're gonna build and just got approved today. Mick.
Speaker 1: Oh really, yes, I saw that come across breaking new
Speaker 1: stadium or just a new stadium with the roof. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants the Super Bowl nowadays, that's right. Does Buffalo want
Speaker 1: win or do they want ten inches of snow during
Speaker 1: the game. They're gonna do ten inches during the game, okay,
Speaker 1: and so uh elsewhere around In fact, you got an
Speaker 1: outdoor game this week and in the United States of America,
Speaker 1: and it's going to affect your fantasy football team, yeah,
Speaker 1: or your college football team. We had a game tonight, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, And there's probably games every day, but there's
Speaker 1: a game tonight in Fort Worth the Baylor Bears. That's right,
Speaker 1: the arm Play Air Force, the Armed Forces Bowl. It's
Speaker 1: on the TCU campus. And so we're talking right now.
Speaker 1: It's nineteen degrees and no telling what's going to be
Speaker 1: at six thirty tonight when they kick off. Went to
Speaker 1: that game last year, by the way, well maybe you
Speaker 1: should go this year now, Sit out, sit outside, Mickey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we got some breaking news from Philadelphia this morning.
Speaker 1: We know, or do we know, who's gonna start at
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Nick Sirianni announcing that it
Speaker 1: appears that Gardner Minshew will be the starting quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think if you were trying to pull a fast way,
Speaker 1: you don't do it this way. It come out and
Speaker 1: lie and you go, oh, do you know what? You know?
Speaker 1: Maculate recovery right on the anniversary of the maculate reception tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It is right, that's right, that's right. So yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like Minshew will start for the Eagles. I mean
Speaker 1: that was just that was just logical, right. They've got
Speaker 1: too much, you know, to put on the line to
Speaker 1: play one game when you know you're in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and you got the best record and all you gotta
Speaker 1: do is win one more game, and you can't let
Speaker 1: your emotions take over and go blow. We ain't losing
Speaker 1: to them, boys. We're going to put our best players
Speaker 1: out there. I think you have to be reasonable and
Speaker 1: it sounds like they are. And um so Gardner Minshew,
Speaker 1: who last started for the Eagles win uh two years
Speaker 1: the Cowboys Cowboy game game of the season right last
Speaker 1: last season? Yeah, that's right, six final score. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: need I mean they didn't need to win that game, right.
Speaker 1: They got into the playoffs with a nine and eight
Speaker 1: record record, right, so they were they were already in
Speaker 1: they were. I think they were resting up, guys, I
Speaker 1: think as as I remember. So. Yeah, at least the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will know where the quarterback is. He should be
Speaker 1: in the pocket, and he's probably not running seventeen times
Speaker 1: in the game, which will make it somewhat easier. But again,
Speaker 1: that pass rush needs to get going somehow, some way.
Speaker 1: Can't have go through having problems in at your cornerback
Speaker 1: position and then have one sack in the past two games.
Speaker 1: That's got to get better. And by the way, since
Speaker 1: producer Supremus sent it to me, the Nashville Metro Council
Speaker 1: approved the term sheet for a two point one billion
Speaker 1: dollars domed Tennessee Titan Stadium. The step likely ensures that
Speaker 1: the new stadium will be opened by twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: With a few final votes in the coming months. So
Speaker 1: think about this. When the Cowboys built their new stadium
Speaker 1: at and T that was two thousand and nine, which
Speaker 1: when it opened, yes, and the price tag was over
Speaker 1: two billion dollars. Everybody was just a gas. Now every
Speaker 1: stadium that's built is more than two billion dollars, right,
Speaker 1: They were just ahead of their time, and now the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are one billion at the time. Well, I think
Speaker 1: it got to two billion though it was a proof
Speaker 1: and Jerry made investments that went beyond it. I think
Speaker 1: it got up to one point five or something. I
Speaker 1: don't think it hit two because the Metal Lands was
Speaker 1: two and we're all like, man, they don't even have
Speaker 1: a roof here or a big video board. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it it climbed up there and everybody was a gas. Oh,
Speaker 1: how could they spend that much money on a stadium. Well,
Speaker 1: now that's what they cost and more and thirteen years
Speaker 1: into it. That's when you make some improvements as well.
Speaker 1: It's with technology and when you have a video board
Speaker 1: like that, there's enhancements that you make. Yeah, you were
Speaker 1: probably at two g back there. Now you got to
Speaker 1: get to five years and it amazing how quickly time
Speaker 1: flight thirteen years. Yeah, I know, I know, because the
Speaker 1: stadium doesn't seem old right, No, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stadiums out there that we're twenty years old and
Speaker 1: they were time to get a new one. Right. Here's
Speaker 1: the other thing is we're not affected by this cold
Speaker 1: weather right now. But at Texas Stadium, when it got
Speaker 1: to nineteen degrees, it felt like nineteen degrees in that place,
Speaker 1: and the pipes froze. My famous story on that last
Speaker 1: game of the eighty nine season when it got so
Speaker 1: cold they had to shut down the bathrooms because the
Speaker 1: pipes froze, and so they finished it off losing their
Speaker 1: fifteenth game of the one in fifteen season, and my
Speaker 1: esteemed colleague at the Times, Harold Frank luxA, said, yeah,
Speaker 1: this season was so bad they couldn't even flush it
Speaker 1: all the toilet. That's one of those where why did
Speaker 1: I think of that? Right? That's why Luxo was luxA? Yeah, lots, Alexa.
Speaker 1: All right, bring me up to speed on what we know.
Speaker 1: After McCarthy addressed the media, Michael Parsons is back in
Speaker 1: the building, so it looks like he's good to go
Speaker 1: with whatever illness he had. And you know, darn well
Speaker 1: that you know he was gonna play in this game.
Speaker 1: Even though he came down with the illness early in
Speaker 1: the week, he probably played through it on Sunday, so
Speaker 1: that's good news. It sounds like that maybe Luke Gifford
Speaker 1: will get some defensive snaps and not just be a
Speaker 1: special teams player. We did find out that they're hopeful
Speaker 1: that Jake Ferguson will clear the concussion protocol today, so
Speaker 1: we'll see where where that goes. And I think we
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier in the week. You know, he's
Speaker 1: like their best blocking tight end, and I think they
Speaker 1: missed him over these last critical plays. Yeah, some critical
Speaker 1: critical plays, and then they are sorting through what they're
Speaker 1: going to do at the cornerback position. I think we
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday and the day before as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, about hey Deron Bland's played the second
Speaker 1: most snaps of active cornerbacks this season. Just put him
Speaker 1: at left and I think you mentioned that McKenzie Alexander
Speaker 1: has been a slot corner, so that seems to be
Speaker 1: the easiest thing to do. We'll see what goes on
Speaker 1: assuming that McKenzie Alexander is ramped up right yeah, well
Speaker 1: he should be right. He's been playing all season, isn't. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And Alexander was actually with the Dolphins in the preseason.
Speaker 1: We signed late and then he injured his groin, went
Speaker 1: on injured reserve, and then they he was released off
Speaker 1: injured reserve at the cutdown date basically, and so he
Speaker 1: wasn't with a team. So he did have a groin
Speaker 1: injury that he was coming back from and that's why
Speaker 1: he was not with another team. And they would have
Speaker 1: to elevate him practice squad, practice squad, if that's the
Speaker 1: way they go, but they would have to elevate another
Speaker 1: corner anyway to help out. And you know, Calvin Joseph,
Speaker 1: and you know what, this might not be all that bad.
Speaker 1: I think they miss Kelvin Joseph on special teams and
Speaker 1: so he'll probably go back to his regular job that
Speaker 1: he's had there. So that's good to go. And then
Speaker 1: I think t Y Hilton maybe maybe get some snaps.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's this week, but I would
Speaker 1: think for sure Thursday night in Tennessee. So we'll see
Speaker 1: where if the ghost appears. As I found out it
Speaker 1: was his nickname in Indianapolis, Oh Yeah, the ghost ghosts
Speaker 1: because he said in one minute, I'm here and the
Speaker 1: next gone. I love his confidence. He's pretty funny fully.
Speaker 1: Um So yeah, So from a you know, roster standpoint,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine they continue with Tyrn Smith at
Speaker 1: right tackle. And my guess is there's no more rotation there.
Speaker 1: He's he's in good. I mean, he played fifty four snaps, um,
Speaker 1: so I would imagine he could play twenty more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think he's the guy there. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: as as they continue to say it's great, you know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately you lose Terrence Steele, but you're going to put
Speaker 1: a gold jacket in there. And as we found out
Speaker 1: from UH and we can talk about the Pro Bowlers,
Speaker 1: but with Zach Martin being selected for his eighth time,
Speaker 1: tying Tyrn Smith for the second most Pro Bowls by
Speaker 1: a Cowboys offensive lineman, only Larry Allen with more with
Speaker 1: ten um, that tells you the level that they would
Speaker 1: have on the right side of that line, assuming Tyrant's
Speaker 1: playing at his Pro Bowl former level. To have those
Speaker 1: two guys next to each other, and as I said yesterday,
Speaker 1: all I know it was quite a site to see
Speaker 1: Tyrant and Zach pulling till their left together. Not a
Speaker 1: good sign for the defensive end over there. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into the Pro Bowl stuff and much more
Speaker 1: as we're just getting started here on Mick Shots, and
Speaker 1: we'll have our picks to click coming up later in
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Speaker 1: better as we get closer, in closer to the arrival
Speaker 1: of Santa Claus. Digging deep into the closet by the way,
Speaker 1: I um, I saw Saint Nick last night, and I considered, uh,
Speaker 1: making a visit to see him. There was too long
Speaker 1: of a line. You know where I went last night?
Speaker 1: Note I wasn't out here. He had become I guess
Speaker 1: he had. He had, I guess been here. And then
Speaker 1: he ventured over to the gay Lord, and I was,
Speaker 1: we're at the gay Lord last night. We went to
Speaker 1: ice at the gay Lord with what's that Chris? We
Speaker 1: did that too last night, not last night, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's an venture over there. Yeah. It was very
Speaker 1: it was it was it was nice, ice was nice,
Speaker 1: and was called it was called it prepared for this
Speaker 1: morning's wintry weather that came in. But two grandsons and
Speaker 1: they enjoyed it. And but but I went over. It
Speaker 1: brought back memories of our legend show or actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a legend show that we used to do
Speaker 1: for several years there at the Gay Lord. And um,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Santa Claus used to be still
Speaker 1: the same spot there right in front of the restaurant
Speaker 1: where we would do the legend show there. Ye at
Speaker 1: the Gay Lord. There's there are sports. So if you're
Speaker 1: coming into town, I highly recommend it. And um, you
Speaker 1: have to have tickets. Um but um, you have to
Speaker 1: have tickets for everything in life. So uh but and
Speaker 1: it was a good crowd of people there. But if
Speaker 1: you're coming in go go out there and check it
Speaker 1: out there and it's a it's a warm place to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a big thing. If you're coming
Speaker 1: into town for the game, you know, you can park there.
Speaker 1: There's a plenty of parking there. You go into Gay
Speaker 1: Lord and you can spend the entire evening and enjoy it,
Speaker 1: or you can it's like a city and it's in itself.
Speaker 1: It's so big. You can come to the Star and
Speaker 1: take a tour that. We're gonna see Santa across from
Speaker 1: Ascension today. Actually the children are going over there. Very good,
Speaker 1: so got in it before he left. Good good. You know,
Speaker 1: Santa's got a very busy schedule coming up and not
Speaker 1: dresses warm play well that he was booked on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I heard, well, that's the problem. The problem for Santa
Speaker 1: on Christmas when when you when when Christmas Day falls
Speaker 1: on a Sunday and the NFL schedules how many games
Speaker 1: are scheduled for or what twelve games scheduled on Saturday
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve? And you're gonna starting tonight, Yeah, Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: the Jets tonight, and there's three games actually there's a
Speaker 1: game Monday night, and then there's three games on Sunday, right,
Speaker 1: and then one game tonight. So eleven games on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and you're going to see him if you watch every
Speaker 1: single game on Saturday, you are going to see him
Speaker 1: at every game, right, It's amazing how he gets round.
Speaker 1: He gets around, boy. And then there's a Sunday there's
Speaker 1: a Saturday night game that slays pretty fast, and so
Speaker 1: he's gonna not gonna get done with that game until
Speaker 1: what eleven o'clock, nearly midnight, and then he's got to
Speaker 1: make his rounds. So what what what bills trying to
Speaker 1: say for Saturday and Sunday? If relatives are coming over
Speaker 1: to the house, they better like football. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: and stop all right? Seven Cowboys Pro bowlers and you
Speaker 1: want to run them down, I'll do it real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not a secret since it came out
Speaker 1: last night about what seven o'clock. It's something like that.
Speaker 1: Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, Treyvon Digs, CD Lamb, Micah Parsons,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, Cavant Turpin. So you had three defensive players,
Speaker 1: Parsons for the second time, dig second time, d law
Speaker 1: for the third time in his career, three offensive players
Speaker 1: as Mickey mentioned, Zach for the eighth time in his career,
Speaker 1: CD for the second time, Tony Pollard for the first time,
Speaker 1: Incavante Turpin for the first time as a rookie. And
Speaker 1: you're specialists. You know a lot of times when these
Speaker 1: things happen in Cowboy gets selected and everybody's like Wow,
Speaker 1: it's all those Cowboy fans voting. Well, the Cowboys did
Speaker 1: not get that many votes from the fans to propel
Speaker 1: them into the Pro Bowl. Parsons did, Martin did. That's it.
Speaker 1: They were the leaders, right yea. And so what took
Speaker 1: place is the coach and player votes put these guys
Speaker 1: over the top, especially somebody like DeMarcus Lawrence who wasn't
Speaker 1: at the top of the charts in sacks. And somebody
Speaker 1: didn't just vote and say, well, there's the sack leaders.
Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for that guy. That guy, and
Speaker 1: that guy shows the respect that coaches and players have
Speaker 1: for d law and what he does is overall game right,
Speaker 1: because if you look at you know, his numbers as
Speaker 1: a as a defensive end, he's been pretty darn good
Speaker 1: against the run. He's got a lot of quarterback pressures,
Speaker 1: six sacks. So I think that somebody looked and recognized
Speaker 1: how well he was playing fifty fifty. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Fifty tackles for a defensive lineman is huge. If you
Speaker 1: look how well he's played against the run, has six
Speaker 1: tackles for loss and thirty six quarterback pressures along with
Speaker 1: two forced fumbles, two recovered fumbles and I believe one
Speaker 1: of those was for a touchdown against the Rams. Was
Speaker 1: that right? So yeah, So the respect I think these
Speaker 1: players got from opponents was the reason why you know,
Speaker 1: everybody talks about you know, okay, Ceedee Lamb. But he
Speaker 1: wasn't top two or three in receptions in the league,
Speaker 1: but he was awfully good and he had big effects
Speaker 1: on games and so he got votes. Same thing with
Speaker 1: Trayvon digs All. He's got his three interceptions, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't like everybody just looked at the interceptions and voted.
Speaker 1: They understand who was giving them problems. Same thing with
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. Now he assuming he has a nice day
Speaker 1: on Saturday, he's going to have a thousand yards season
Speaker 1: as a basically shared position at running back, and his
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage is up there among the league leaders
Speaker 1: when you can count rushing yards and receiving yards. And
Speaker 1: then Kavante Turpin, for a guy to make the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl without a return for a touchdown, it shows the
Speaker 1: respect that he has from coaches in this league and
Speaker 1: how they, from a special team standpoint, have had the
Speaker 1: game plan with Turpin on the field. And I was
Speaker 1: looking at those stats, and so he's seventh in kickoff returns,
Speaker 1: averaging twenty three point seven and he's tied for seventh
Speaker 1: in the league. What is in the conference? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: you got the listener, I didn't look at the conference.
Speaker 1: Here he goes you. Let me see the list. I've
Speaker 1: got the punt returns. Punt returns, he's sixth. Let me
Speaker 1: see the list. All right, it doesn't look like who's
Speaker 1: ahead of him in the in the NFL. Uh In
Speaker 1: kickoff returns, Uh no, Wan, that's an NFC player, right, Nixon,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, that's two, Gibson Washington three, and then Turpin
Speaker 1: is so he's the fourth NFC right yeah. And then
Speaker 1: in punt returns, Calif Raymond from Detroit's one ahead of him, second, okay,
Speaker 1: Williams Atlanta Okay, and then Turpin so he's third. So
Speaker 1: he's third and punt returns in the conference fourth in
Speaker 1: kickoff return the only one that's Todd seven in both categories.
Speaker 1: So that tells you that respect he had. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: good for him. I mean we're talking about a guy
Speaker 1: that wasn't on a run. Well, here's the other thing,
Speaker 1: is it's great that you have a kick return for
Speaker 1: a touchdown that raises your average quite a bit. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Uh and and I didn't look right away. So there's
Speaker 1: been only how about this NFL kickoff returns? Only one
Speaker 1: for a touchdown so far among the six guys that
Speaker 1: are listed here, and you know why he Uh, the
Speaker 1: guy from Minnesota's number one had a ninety seven yard
Speaker 1: return for it. He's actually from also from Frisco, Texas.
Speaker 1: Is he really Frisco kid? Which high school do you remember?
Speaker 1: I'll say it's Heritage Frisco Heritage High School, Kay, and
Speaker 1: I'll believe you. And on punt returns, only two have
Speaker 1: been for touchdowns Raymond And is it Marvin Jones New England. No,
Speaker 1: that's Marcus j Marcus rookie out of Houston. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: very good. And that was eighty four yards, so that
Speaker 1: jacked up his average, right Yeah, but he's he's legit,
Speaker 1: right yeah. And and Wongo is two. I mean they're
Speaker 1: he's he's a kid that played at Ioways State and
Speaker 1: a very good special teams player for the Vikings. I
Speaker 1: just think it takes nothing away from him, but it
Speaker 1: does show the respect that Turpin has where teams trying
Speaker 1: to punt away from him, kick away from him. You know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the other thing. You know, Maher has had
Speaker 1: a very nice season for the Cowboys, and one of
Speaker 1: the things that he's done very well is kicked a
Speaker 1: ball through the end zone where you don't have returns
Speaker 1: on kickoffs. He's up there. He has more touchbacks than
Speaker 1: any kicker in the league, and his touch back percentage
Speaker 1: I think his second in the league. But the guy
Speaker 1: that ended up being selected from Seattle were the kickers
Speaker 1: here Myers, Jason Myers. So in the NFC he's first
Speaker 1: and points scored with one fifteen and his conversion on
Speaker 1: field goals twenty six of twenty seven Mars twenty three
Speaker 1: of twenty six, but only one miss was less than
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards. What's what's Maher? You have, Maher over
Speaker 1: fifty plush yards he has He's getting ready to hang
Speaker 1: out a second now, you can find it in there,
Speaker 1: got it right here. He has made nine of eleven
Speaker 1: field goals from fifty plus. That's the most fifty yard
Speaker 1: field goals in a single season in Cowboys history. And
Speaker 1: if he makes one more fifty yard or he will
Speaker 1: tie for the most in a single season in NFL history,
Speaker 1: which is ten. Well, that's telling when two of your
Speaker 1: three misses are from beyond fifty yards right, both fifty
Speaker 1: nine right and Brandon McManus in twenty twenty, Justin Tucker
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, in Blair Walsh in twenty twelve are
Speaker 1: tied with the ten fifty plus yard field goals in
Speaker 1: a single season. So that tells you where Mahler was
Speaker 1: this other guy, you know, maybe he didn't try fifty
Speaker 1: nine yarders. You know, mare didn't try two fifty nine
Speaker 1: yard ors, his percentage would be the same. All right,
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Speaker 1: Christmas song? There got another Christmas song? Maybe? Maybe? Fee,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't recognize Christmas memories. It's called
Speaker 1: Christmas Christmas memories. Man. This will get you fired up
Speaker 1: for the game, fired up for a holiday weekend. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. All hanging up on us, hanging up
Speaker 1: Deck the Halls remix. And you didn't like it, so
Speaker 1: deck the halls. Yeah. See, here's a Deck the Halls
Speaker 1: remix that's much better than whatever that last things you played?
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Speaker 1: next week. Um mickey, Yes, Scoutboys and the Eagles, And
Speaker 1: what is your biggest concern facing this Philadelphia Eagles team?
Speaker 1: Even though Jalen Hurtz isn't there, Gardner Minshew can throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, So I want to see
Speaker 1: that they get this defense somewhat settled heading towards the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Like I said, in my opinion, you put Bland out
Speaker 1: on the corner replaces the injured Anthony Brown, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, I saw yesterday at the locker room. He
Speaker 1: was on his little neel down scooter and he seemed
Speaker 1: to be in somewhat better spirits that you can have.
Speaker 1: He's he was just like, I just can't believe the
Speaker 1: timing of this, meaning, you know, the team's ready to
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs and you know and he won't
Speaker 1: be able to play. So we'll see if they take
Speaker 1: care of that position. Because one of the problems they've had,
Speaker 1: we talked about it yesterday, was given up big pass
Speaker 1: plays of late, especially these last two games. So they
Speaker 1: got to get that settled heading towards the playoffs when
Speaker 1: they're going to play much better quarterbacks in the first
Speaker 1: and if they make it second round, for sure, you know,
Speaker 1: and I said it at the time when the Eagles
Speaker 1: acquired Menshew and via trade with Jacksonville, which was August
Speaker 1: of last year, right at the end of training camp
Speaker 1: last year, that it was a shrewd move by Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to obviously Jacksonville had Trevor Lawrence and Menshew had been
Speaker 1: a veteran guy who had started twelve games in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: he started another eight games the previous year in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and it's insurance. And at that time, nobody knew what
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was going to turn out to be. You know,
Speaker 1: in fact, it was Menshew probably looked at it day,
Speaker 1: I'm competing for the starting job. Right now, Hurts has
Speaker 1: taken control of it and he's on an MVP pace
Speaker 1: this year. But you look at menshow us career in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and in twenty ninth, the thing that stands out
Speaker 1: to me is he has protected the football um In
Speaker 1: his career, he has forty one touchdown passes and only
Speaker 1: twelve interceptions and so that says a lot and playing
Speaker 1: on some bad teams in Jacksonville two. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's I don't Obviously they can't. They can't
Speaker 1: do the same things offensively that they can do with
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurt's ability to run the football, but he is
Speaker 1: a competent backup quarterback for the Eagles. And to your point,
Speaker 1: the concern for the Cowboys is that cornerback position and
Speaker 1: then also stopping their run game even without Hurts, and
Speaker 1: and the fact that vander esh isn't playing and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Hankins has been out and going to be out a
Speaker 1: little bit more now. I think they're hopeful that um,
Speaker 1: since next week's a short week, he gets back Vanderish
Speaker 1: for the Washington game and then ready to go into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So they're not going to push it. And
Speaker 1: this also probably means that by the way can run
Speaker 1: the football to Mia. Michael Parsons will maybe play a
Speaker 1: little bit more linebacker, and a lot of that depends
Speaker 1: on Dorence Armstrong his health and we'll see because he's
Speaker 1: been limited all week. We'll see where that one goes.
Speaker 1: And the maturation of Sam Williams and how much, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's going to have to play more if Dorence
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Michael Parsons playing linebacker. So we'll see. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting see how they divvy up Parsons snaps where
Speaker 1: exactly where he's at because you put them at defensive end,
Speaker 1: and like I said yesterday, the lot that Jacksonville put
Speaker 1: the running back to that side, they put the tight
Speaker 1: end not to the line of scrimmage, but several yards wider.
Speaker 1: But if he was going to rush to the outside,
Speaker 1: then the tight end could chip him. And you know,
Speaker 1: as Mike McCarthy keeps saying, that's going to be his
Speaker 1: life getting chipped the rest of his career. What about
Speaker 1: against the Eagles defense, which, by the way, fifty five
Speaker 1: sacks on the seat. Yeah, I was gonna say, this
Speaker 1: will test the Cowboys pass protection, and it'll test it
Speaker 1: pretty well. So I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: has to happen. I hate to have coach speak, but
Speaker 1: they've got to make them respect the run, you know,
Speaker 1: and teams have scored points on him. It's not like
Speaker 1: you know, all their games the Packers would a day
Speaker 1: they ended up putting thirty three on them. The Giants
Speaker 1: had twenty two. Hecked, the Bears scored twenty, which is
Speaker 1: pretty good for the Bears. Now, they're a long away
Speaker 1: from that season opener when Detroit put thirty five on them.
Speaker 1: But teams have scored. You've got to make Washington scored
Speaker 1: thirty two, right, and I missed Washington, Yeah exactly, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you can put some points on him that.
Speaker 1: The key thing is, do not turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: It's Christmas time. Don't be sending out gifts on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: right like they did against Jacksonville. If ball's thrown to
Speaker 1: you catch it and protect your quarterback, all right, Which
Speaker 1: brings us to our picks and our pick to click. Yes,
Speaker 1: and okay, Everson has participated. He has, he has participated,
Speaker 1: and in a text message he has the Cowboys. His
Speaker 1: pick to click is Sam Williams. He predicts a sack
Speaker 1: and a tackle for loss for Sam Williams in this game. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not even if he gets that, that's not winning.
Speaker 1: He also picks a Cowboys win of twenty four to fourteen.
Speaker 1: All right, so a relatively low scoring game for the two.
Speaker 1: I guess he does realize there is a roof on
Speaker 1: the stadium. We're not playing in the elements, and these
Speaker 1: are two rather high scoring teams. I am I'll go next.
Speaker 1: I'm going Cowboys twenty seven sixteen. Let me let me
Speaker 1: put this in the tech so Everson has it, yes, Mickey,
Speaker 1: twenty seven sixteen Cowboys and the newly minuted Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence will have a big day on
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl tackle lane John Shnson. It'll be a nice
Speaker 1: matchup on it. But they'll move him around. And if
Speaker 1: you notice what they were doing towards the end of
Speaker 1: that Jacksonville game, they were rushing Lawrence inside at times,
Speaker 1: Darence Armstrong inside even I think one time I think
Speaker 1: I think I saw a Fowler with Sam Williams on
Speaker 1: the outside with parsons and then moving Parsons inside two.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you do when you put when
Speaker 1: you blitz parsons from inside, they can't sit there and go.
Speaker 1: We're putting two guys on him, right, you know, because
Speaker 1: you got problems with the other guys on the outside.
Speaker 1: So plus you get a step on the double team
Speaker 1: if you're coming in over the center. So but I'm
Speaker 1: going with DeMarcus Lawrence and by the way the Speaking
Speaker 1: of Pro Bowlers, the Eagles have eight Pro bowlers, and
Speaker 1: three of them on the offensive line, and Jason Kelsey
Speaker 1: who is really good at center, Landon Dickerson and his
Speaker 1: second year in the league, former Alabama center playing guard
Speaker 1: for them, and then Lane Johnson, also a Pro bowler
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. But do you readly, and this may
Speaker 1: be a prick of hurts running around a lot. They've
Speaker 1: given up thirty five sacks, So I think that's compared
Speaker 1: to maybe the Cowboys had twenty four. Maybe that's off
Speaker 1: the top of my head something like that. Cowboys. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's nineteen sacks the Cowboys have given up on offense
Speaker 1: and two of those were last week. Yeah, and Cowboys
Speaker 1: at forty nine sacks and holding on defense, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles have been sacking the quarterback left and right here
Speaker 1: the last three weeks and all the way up to
Speaker 1: fifty five. Now, all right, um, here's how I made
Speaker 1: my pick, pretty scientific, I understand, right. Yes, with this
Speaker 1: cold weather blowing in, I decided I need to top
Speaker 1: off my gas tank, and so I stopped at a
Speaker 1: gas station on the way in, and I said, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna put thirty bucks in and because it's too
Speaker 1: cold to stand out there and put anymore than that
Speaker 1: many gallons that gets you. I think it was at
Speaker 1: two sixty nine a gallon anyway, all right, So I
Speaker 1: stopped it around the thirty dollars mark ed. It came
Speaker 1: to thirty twenty six. Cowboys win thirty to twenty six
Speaker 1: the final score. I think that's closer than twenty four
Speaker 1: fourteen or twenty seven to sixty. What this score will be? Thirty?
Speaker 1: Have you done that before? Am I the only one
Speaker 1: that does that? If my team has a big game
Speaker 1: and I'm at the gas station and I've stopped the
Speaker 1: guess at it's okay, whatever it lands on, that's going
Speaker 1: to be the score, like fifty two to thirty. My
Speaker 1: scientific there For a while, my scores were in the eighties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mine are. When I wake up the day, we have
Speaker 1: to do the picks, and a number in my head
Speaker 1: immediately that's that's true, and that's what I go. Does
Speaker 1: it work with the lottery has not so far? So far,
Speaker 1: because I'm still here, all right. So my pick to
Speaker 1: click yes against this Eagles defense that gets to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: the football out to Tony Pollard. Get the football out
Speaker 1: to Tony Pollard in space, and the first time pro
Speaker 1: bowler Tony Pollard is going to shine on covers afternoon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do that, okay, Yeah, I want to see that
Speaker 1: that pitch out. Yeah, left, And you saw the different
Speaker 1: things that they were doing with both Pollard and Zeke
Speaker 1: on the field against Jacksonville short week. You have a
Speaker 1: little bit of that same stuff in your game plan
Speaker 1: this week, right, So and that's something that they didn't
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not just inserting, right, that's part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it gives Philadelphia less time to prepare for it.
Speaker 1: Same thing next week for Tennessee by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, Thursday night game. So there you go. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, that does it? Does it for us for
Speaker 1: the week? Yep. And we will be back next of
Speaker 1: course with a Thursday game. It's a travel day on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and so next week and travel back basically on Friday,
Speaker 1: and so um no, we'll be back on Friday. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Friday, but we won't be on the
Speaker 1: air on Friday already canceled. I don't know that Monday
Speaker 1: next week. He is our Monday, Tuesday, Friday. Oh we
Speaker 1: are Friday, okay, all right, I may not be Friday,
Speaker 1: depends on the Coaches Show. Oh so that's it's all
Speaker 1: about me? Or if you go, oh no, never mind,
Speaker 1: let's just drag him in here with you. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Yeah, he'll have a long week
Speaker 1: that week, a long weekend. Can practice here for what
Speaker 1: he's going to do on TV. Yeah that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: All right, So Monday Tuesday for sure and Friday next week?
Speaker 1: All right? That does it for or this week and
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