WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Super Show 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.800 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:14.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.040 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:24.320 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:31.520 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are inside the s 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.760 WBC Mortgage studio. And yes, it's time to stampede into 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:44.000 another edition of mix Shots. Bad guys, I think we're 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.200 kind of we're kind of running this into the ground. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.080 I think you need to revisit this. I don't. Yeah, 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.280 I wasn't we need to revisit this decision. Maybe after 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:59.560 the Super Bowl. I wasn't expecting it today, still can't 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.240 get over it refers to the Senior Bowl at the 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:08.000 beginning of it. But but hey, we're pasting. That's Chris 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.080 doing that. That's right, all right, that's Chris doing that. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.280 Then he's stuck on he's stuck in a loop that 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.039 that's right, all right. So I'm about convinced the Cowboys 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.920 aren't going to make it to this super Bowl. It's 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.320 the Thursday before the Super Bowl, and I don't think 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.560 they're gonna make it. But apparently we've got one out 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.560 there in LA. It's gonna say, it looks like we're 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.360 not making it either. But I'm sure big timers got 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:39.039 appearances to make this week. That's right. Man. You know 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.760 I can close the coatain here if you guys are 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.319 feeling kind of left out, you know, if that would 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.160 make you feel better. Hey, you know what ever is 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.840 doing right now. He's there in a hotel room in LA. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.320 He's waiting for that knock at the door. Oh man, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:02:01.480 that's brutal, because that's cutting be pretty deep. Yeah, that's 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.240 got me pretty dam Let me tell you I have 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:09.880 filled up my notebook, okay today with the finalists, with 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.240 the accolades of the finalists for the Pro Football Hall 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.040 of Fame, And we'll find out tonight who the newest 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.560 class members are. And I'm telling you, I got Everson 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.680 Walls on the list here, and Everson could easily be 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.760 in this and then like it, right, yeah, and you 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.320 know what, I don't think so wait, wait, wait, let's 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.760 let's be clear. Let's be clear. I could be on 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.880 that list for the past fifteen years. That's right, let's 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.320 be clear about it. That's right. So I went through 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.440 the whole list and we'll get into it over the 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.440 course of the next hour. And then I went to 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:49.280 Everson's accolades, as Everson he not only shouldn't should be 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.600 in in this class, he should have been in fifteen 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:57.320 classes ago. That's it, brother, preach to him, build very much. Well, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.760 that's gonna use you next time for my team. Walls 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.120 on paying there you go, Yeah, this would be a 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.440 good year not to go in because you're probably not 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.840 getting a knock at the door. Yeah, how are they 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.040 doing it now? Well, they're going to announce it tonight 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.760 at eight o'clock on the Honor Show. So my understanding, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.520 that's when they're gonna find because what they did last 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.360 year they had because of COVID, they couldn't have David 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.000 Baker go everywhere and it was all a virtual thing anyway, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.600 and so they would have former like they did it 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.519 ahead of time. Well, they did it ahead of time, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.120 and I believe it was Roger who surprised Drew with it, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.880 and they would have former players from the organization. Yeah, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.480 central hotel. They were at a central hotel they did 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.760 it was just in their hometown. Whatever they did like 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.280 a week ahead of time or two weeks ahead of time. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.720 They filmed like they brought Drew into here, and that's 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.760 when Rodgers snuck up behind them and surprised. Right, and 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.920 there was David Baker did all of them. David Baker 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.040 did it. He did it, but he snuck up behind 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.240 him while he was talking to Drew right. So right, 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.160 But but I think Roger was there too. They would 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.720 they had a former Roger that was there. I thought 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:15.160 you when you said Theyd Goodell, Oh no, no, no, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.919 my god, come on back. So Baker was ign Baker 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:25.600 was n correct, Yes he retired, Yes he did. Yeah, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.680 So okay, so who who who takes over? Now? I 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.599 was reading up on it last night and I never 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.240 could figure out how they're doing. I don't know if 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.320 they named somebody there. There was a reference to former 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:44.120 players surprising whoever the new members are. Oh and so man, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.479 maybe they're continuing that. I don't know. But but you're 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.080 saying you're you're hearing that they I didn't hear. I 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.719 checked with PR and they didn't sound like, you know, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.680 they were gonna know who was getting it. For instance, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.800 DeMarcus Ware, who obviously is a finalist tonight, he won't 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.799 until everybody else knows. Is that what yourself? Maybe he knows, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.039 but we're not good well yeah, right right, And I 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.440 don't know that they're flying, and I don't know the hotel. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.440 We'll find that out. I don't think so, yeah, I 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:20.040 don't think so. Right because of COVID. Hmm, everything's because 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.800 of COVID. Alright. Ali has been cracking down on it 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.440 for quite some carrying your car to rock and believe that. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:34.000 There are a lot of events, yes laminated all right, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.960 good um, all right, So we're gonna get into the 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.440 Hall of Fame stuff on this edition of Mixed Shots, Mickey, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.680 what else would you like to get into? Right off 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.680 the top here, Well, it's been a while since we 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.880 last convened. It was a WEE could go Monday, the 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.920 Monday after the Conference Championship games is when we last 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.000 got The world could have ended and we wouldn't have 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.120 been able to cover it. Right, it's been so long, Yeah, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.720 it's uh um so wait, how many people picked the 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:10.839 Rams to be in the super Bowl, like back in August? No, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.720 I mean between us like you, you are the only 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.520 one I never said, yeah, let's give proms. I thought 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.200 that ever, Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, I'm just 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.080 checking because you know, it's been a while since I've 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.760 seen you guys. I just want to make sure I 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:31.880 don't misspoke. That's right. He Everson had the Rams versus 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.680 I don't think you picked the Bengals, did you. I 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.360 think everybody had the check. I did not. Yeah, okay, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.919 I did not. And so by the end of the show, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.720 we will make our picks for the Super Bowl. Although 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.000 I haven't given it much thought, and they won the games, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.599 we may have already you know, we might already, we 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.120 might already have gone over it. But I just so 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.880 disappointed in how I just thought this year. You know, 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.600 when you look at how everything and when came about, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.599 no one went into the playoffs with momentum the way 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.599 we always think that they should. You know, anyone that 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.640 did have momentum, they went out in the first round. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.200 And so you know, we start talking about the inconsistencies 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.320 coming from the Cowboys. Well, hell, everybody was inconsistent going 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.680 into the playoffs. So when you look at that, you 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.880 just think about just how close the Cowboys could have 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.320 come to at least going to the Super Bowl this year. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.760 With all of the mishaps during the season, the inconsistencies 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.400 from every team, every every big player, you know, no 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.480 one had a streak going in except for the dog 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.840 one kicker for the Cincinnati Bengals. Otherwise everyone was inconsistent 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.000 in their play And that's why this could have been 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.720 our year. Guys, this could have been our year. And 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.040 that's why I keep getting answered asked the question, especially 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.280 on some radio things they do, about what's the difference between, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.560 you know, the Cowboys and these teams that are in 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.440 the Super Bowl. And so it makes me pause because 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:06.160 exactly what you said about no one streaked into the playoffs, right, Uh, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.560 the fact that they had home field advantage. It's like, well, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.800 guess what Green Bay lost at home? Tampa Bay lost 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.280 at home, Tennessee lost at home. Right, tell me the 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.560 teams that had home field advantage that survived, can you 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:28.880 say Kansas City? Kansas City at home? Right? So, um, yeah, 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:33.079 home field advantage this year didn't mean squat uh in 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.280 in these playoffs. Now, the Rams end up winning at 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.200 home over San Francisco, but they went went to Tampa 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.520 to win, right previously, and San Francisco won their games 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.760 on the road to get to the game. So yeah, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.920 it look to me and I think Everson pointed this 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.640 out last Monday, if I could remember that far back, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.840 it's like, okay, what you know, other than not scoring 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.800 enough points, you know, what was the difference between the 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:08.480 Cowboys moving on and being sent home. Teams made plays 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.559 at times they had to make plays, and the Cowboys didn't. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.560 And to me, that was the difference, no matter how 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.160 poorly they played on the offensive line, how poorly they 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.800 ran the football. The defense at the end, you know, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.520 everybody you know tapped and patting the defense on the back. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.120 But in the game that counted. In the playoffs, when 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.480 they had two opportunities to get San Francisco off the 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.600 field in the fourth quarter after they came within six points, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.280 they allowed San Francisco to hog the ball for like 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.480 six and a half minutes in two possessions, couldn't get 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.720 them off the field. And by time they got them 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.839 off the field, what was their thirteen seconds left or whatever? 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.280 And forget the end of the game. How about the 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.120 beginning of the game, Yeah, the whole quarters. How about 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.120 how about the first drive of the game right where 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.320 it was eleven yards a play. You know everybody's well, 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:06.400 they didn't And I can handle that though I could, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.960 I could I could handle giving it up at the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.559 beginning of the game because even though just like you 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.520 spoke about spags, at the end of the game, we 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.160 still had a chance. Having said all of that, you know, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.040 we still had a chance to win that game. We 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.400 still tried to show up and give us ourselves to 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.720 a chance to score on at least the last play 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.679 twenty five yard line. When it's all said, then we're 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.240 still looking at the twenty five yard line, right. So 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.120 that's what I'm talking about with inconsistencies. That happened to everyone. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.000 And the difference was the difference was was the matchups 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.480 that we had on the field. Their guy whipped our guy. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.520 It had nothing to do with strategy, Okay, that was 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.960 just all about guys not being able to beat the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.240 guy in front of them. That was at the end. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.600 That's when you talk about those last two drive spacks. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.880 Don't know, put yourself in position where you have to 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.839 come back in the game. How about how about being 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.679 ready to play right out of the right out of 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.120 the shoot and uh and Parthy alluded to it in 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.600 the press conference the day after the game, were he 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.920 mentioned even though he said he first said, they they 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.760 seemed I was a nervous They had angst is what 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:16.480 he changed it to. Anxiety? Yeah, and don't don't have angst. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.760 I'm ready to play, you know. And I mean it 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.679 showed right from the start. I mean you go back 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.600 to the nine, nineteen ninety four NFC Championship game. Yeah, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.959 the cowboy Troy Aikman played what people, a lot of 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.000 people consider maybe the best game he ever played in 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.679 his career. But don't fall behind twenty one enough to 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.720 start the game, you know, Yeah, absolutely, And so yeah, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.880 answering they need their own boom box. Yes, And it 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:46.040 gets back to speaking of Aikman. You know Elway was 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.880 known throughout his career all these comebacks. Well I remember, uh, Troy, Uh, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.240 you know people would talk about Troy that, well, you 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.440 know Troy didn't have those comebacks whatever. Well that's because 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.400 they were ahead the whole game, you know. And so 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.840 don't put yourself in position where you have to have 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:06.040 all these fourth quarter comebacks. Don't have anks. Just go 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.520 look at the Olympics, right, you know who don't start 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.720 your event with anks? You know who doesn't have anks? Though, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.199 one of the quarterbacks in this Super Bowl Joe Burrow. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.120 He doesn't have anks when he goes out of he's 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.439 a little different. Yeah, he's a little different. So and 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.040 and I wonder how many turn on necks he has 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.080 in his in his closet. Yeah, right, And I guess 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.840 he was. That's his game uniform. And Sunday he's like 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.160 Tiger on Sunday. Yeah, he likes Tiger on Sunday. That's 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.400 that's his go kick ass outfit. You know what. I 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.200 since you brought up outfits and you brought up the Bengals. 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.480 When I saw the video of them getting off their 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.400 bus and going into the hotel for the first time, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.880 the first person that I recognized right away. No, it 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:56.720 was Frank Pollock, the Cowboys former offensive lion coach that 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:03.160 they sent packing unceremoniously sun out for Paulo Alexander ALEXANDRETI 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:08.040 lasted seven games before they fired him, and Frank Pollock 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.160 ended up going to Cincinnati, then the Jets, and then 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.000 back to Cincinnati. And here he is in the in 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.920 the in the Super Bowl. Yeah, but I saw him saying, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.400 you know, you can't tell me that everyone saw this 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.320 coming though, when you look at how Cincinnati started. Oh no, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.000 you look at how amazing Chase is playing right now. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.480 This guy plays his butt off, especially the last ten 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.720 games of the season. If you were called when he 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.240 first started, it got to camp, and even in the 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.920 first game of the season, this guy's dropping balls all 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.520 over the place. They were they weren't looking at him 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.080 as a bust, but they were surely wondering if there 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.600 was really something wrong with him to where he kept 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.840 dropping all of these easy catchable balls. And now you 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.000 look at him, he's one of the most dynamic players. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.800 Always was the most one of the more dynamic players, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.480 but now he's he's known for his consistent and see 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.199 doing the big moments of the ball game. That's a 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.560 total tournamount right there. Well, you want another total turnaround. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.000 What was the perception when the Rams made the trade 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.839 for Matthew Stafford. What was the perception of Stafford? Well, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.960 he wasn't good enough. He can't carry a team. He's 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.840 only been to the playoffs three times and you know 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:27.560 they Detroit lost all three games. And now thirteenth year 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.120 in the league, he's got his team in the playoffs. 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.880 So what's the difference, right, you think he's got a 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.240 better team with him right now. It's not just all 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.640 of a sudden he decided, oh I know how to 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.240 play this game. All this crap about quarterbacks got to 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.280 put teams on their back, and if you're making this 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.640 much money, then you should have your team in the 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.480 Super Bowl. Well, it depends on who else you're playing with. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.800 He didn't just automatically get better. He's the same quarterback. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:15:01.280 He's got a better team along with him. Also, that's 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.840 my Mickey was almost trying to prove a spa. He 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.360 was almost proving everyone wrong about how this was a mistake. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.880 I'd say about a month before the season was over. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.560 You know he's going to pick six is left and right. Well, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:20.600 he tried to throw one in the championship game. His 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:28.480 team wouldn't let him lose. Quasky Tart dropped one. All right, Mickey, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.200 what do you got on your legal pad there? Oh, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.000 I've got lots, I got Pro Bowl, I got Cowboys. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.360 Everybody's trying to cut this team and get rid of 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.360 players for salary cap reasons, and I see all these 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.880 lists out there, Yeah, you can cut this guy and 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.920 save this but they're not. They're not considering the dead 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.320 money in these contracts that you've got to account for right, Yeah, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:57.080 you can count you can you know, say, okay, well 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.600 if I if I let DeMarcus Lawrence go and I 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.480 don't have to deal with his nineteen million dollars base salary, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.560 well I can say seven seven million dollars. Well, no, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.640 because there's nineteen million in dead money in his contract. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.280 So what you're telling me is that the Cardinals are 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.760 not trading Kyler Murray to the Cowboys for Dak Prescott. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:26.400 Yeah wait, you saw that, don't tell Yes, yes, there 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.880 there's a report out there that that Kyler wants to 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.520 come to Dallas and play for the Cowboys. Well, the 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:37.840 other way that would happen would be if the quarterback 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.560 is leaving here. Go check out that the cap ramifications 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.720 on that. Well, I think I think I wrote it down. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:52.960 Uh oh, I didn't write the nonsense down of what 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.040 the cap hit would be, but it would be like 0:16:55.160 --> 0:17:00.320 seventy million dollars. Yeah, So what what everybody's gotten? What 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.440 everybody's that's got to be a record. Yeah, what everybody's 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.719 missing here is the Cowboys. All they need to do 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.040 is restructure a couple of these contracts like they did 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.480 last year. They're gonna do that again this year with Dak. 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.040 He's got a twenty million dollar base salary and he's 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.120 got a thirty four point four million dollar cap hit. Well, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.520 if you look at what they did last year, they 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.600 ended up with redoing his base salary down to six 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.879 point two five million, And so they take the money 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.200 they pay them in a restructure bonus, and they divided 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.400 over the length of the contracts. So say he's got 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.960 five years left and they and they gave him a 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:50.080 twenty million dollar restructure bonus. Well, now it's only four 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.720 million dollars a year. That's got to account four and 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.600 you're thinking, okay, for five more years, Dak's probably my quarterback, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.640 right the contract says that. So that's what they've got 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.840 to do with his contract. That's what they got to 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.560 do with DeMarcus Lawrence's contract, maybe even Zach Martin to 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.840 save some money to get under the cap so they 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:14.600 can start dealing in free agency. They don't need to 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.560 start cutting people because you start cutting people then. And 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.240 the other thing you've got to consider is the CAP's 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.800 gonna go up next year a lot because the new 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:30.639 TV contract is coming into play next year, meaning twenty 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.639 three okay, not this year, next year, okay, okay. And 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.080 so when you take this restructured a contract and you 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.800 give them the signing bonus and then you spread it 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.960 over the life of the contract, the the increase of 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.359 the salary cap, which was hasn't happened over these last 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.000 couple of years because of COVID, is going to get 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.600 back to normal and you'll be able to absorb those, uh, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:03.240 those that extra money the restructure bonuses in people's contracts. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.120 So that's what they got to do. If you look at, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.879 for example, Zach Martin, his base salary this year is 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.960 eleven point eight four million. Well last year they ended 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.400 up converting nine point four million of his base salary 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.479 into restructure bonus and they cleared seven million dollars in space. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.600 That's what they've got to start doing. But you got 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.320 to do it with guys that you feel like in 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.120 three or four years they're still going to be here 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.680 to absorb the pro rated signing bonus that you gave 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.479 these guys to lower their base salaries. But that's what 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.440 they've got to do. You don't want to start cutting everybody, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.320 because you start cutting people and it's like, okay, cut 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.040 to Marcus Lawrence, who's starting a defensive end because you 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.840 don't have any guarantee that you're going to resign Randy Gregory, right, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.480 and you don't have any guarantee you're gonna go into 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:01.440 the draft and find another Micael Parsons to play defensive 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.560 end for you. And you've got enough trouble at linebacker 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.159 right now. You've got enough trouble. You need help on 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.520 the offensive line. You start cutting people, then you're creating 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.440 more needs for a team that's gonna lose a lot 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.600 of free agents. They got twenty four guys that are 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:23.000 in some form of free agency, and you can't keep 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.479 them all. It's not going to happen. This will not 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.040 be the same team as it was last year. That's 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:32.040 why Jerry said, and I thought this was very uh, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.600 you know, instructive. He said, if I could have the 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.760 same team again with the same health and the same statistics, 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.000 I take them into the playoffs again next year and again. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:46.960 But you're not going to have the same team. You're 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.240 not going to have close to the same team next year. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:55.119 So just because you went why this year right? Exactly important? 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.159 And here was the timing was perfect in regards to 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.359 contracts and keeping his team together. And here was the 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.640 other thing that he pointed out. And I had already 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:10.679 written this the week before until something happened and I 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:13.040 had to rewrite my column. I said, well, this will 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:19.120 save this team was as healthy as you can expect 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.920 for a team to be at the end of the season. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:26.680 And Jerry pointed out that his biggest disappointment was that 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:32.600 we wasted a healthy team and not advancing in the playoffs. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.439 And if you think about it, from the guys you 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.760 projected at the start of the season, saved Jalen Smith 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.560 because they moved on from him. The guys that you 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:45.960 projected as starter, the only one that wasn't available in 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.440 the final in that playoff game was Michael Gallop. They 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:54.080 had everybody else on the field healthy, ready to play, 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.200 and you can ask for more than that. And they 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:01.840 wasted good health by not dancing in the playoffs. And 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.359 as we know, there's no guarantee that you're going to 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.159 be healthy again like this that they were this past 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.480 season next year. Look at what happened in twenty twenty. 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:14.720 Look at all the guys they lost when they got 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.640 to the end of the season at twenty that wasn't 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.320 even the same team. But this was the same team. Hey, 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.880 and they actually got better defensively, which is hilarious, right, 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.120 they were defensively during the end of the season. Yes, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:30.640 without the starters, So that's the one that you mentioned 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:36.479 was gone. What's jal was going? Yeah? Yeah, all right, 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.720 and that was their choice. That's right. He wouldn't have 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.160 been a starter anyway at that point in the season. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:45.840 All right, We got much to get to and going 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.119 to take our first time out here, and I wonder 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.280 if Mickey is rushing up on his German when we 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:56.320 come back here on Mick shots. Brace yourself for an 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.960 existential question. Has your butt been having enough fun lately? 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.080 Have you been treating it well? 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