Speaker 1: And the official Dallas Cowboys at no. Here are Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and Nicky Spagnola, and it is officially Raiders
Speaker 1: Week here inside the s WBC podcast studio at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey's Spagnola.
Speaker 1: As we have moved past officially Sunday in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and we are looking forward to Red Kettle Day, Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: three thirty on CBS eleven with a lot of prime
Speaker 1: programming leading up to with Hey, he's right for the
Speaker 1: plug and everything right. Yeah, that was so different yesterday.
Speaker 1: We were just so even killed, you know, just no crazy,
Speaker 1: no mention of Super Bowls, none of that stuff, man, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: none of that. Yeah, no mention welcome back with MVP.
Speaker 1: Yeah man, you know, well I I could have been here, Yes,
Speaker 1: we could have used it, specially everybody I'm getting text messages.
Speaker 1: It wasn't thirty say where are you that question mark
Speaker 1: that you expected us to remember ye days later, Vicky,
Speaker 1: I told you five times last week that I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be here on Monday, three days last. Yeah, game,
Speaker 1: the whole game where it happened. Mickey probably got in
Speaker 1: at what six o'clock in the morning one time? Did
Speaker 1: the bus get back to Okay, here you go, got
Speaker 1: to bed at six thirty. There you go. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what I told my wife today.
Speaker 1: I was looking for something that's always in the same
Speaker 1: spot and it wasn't there, And I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: when you get old, you just leave things where they
Speaker 1: are because we can't remember where we put them. Then well,
Speaker 1: there on that note, let's move on to what's going
Speaker 1: on here. As there is nobody on the practice field.
Speaker 1: There's no equipment on the practice. It was a short practice. Okay.
Speaker 1: They started a short week like eleven forty and finished
Speaker 1: by one o'clock. Is this there? I got to hear
Speaker 1: the interviews too. Yeah? Is this their only practice this week? Now?
Speaker 1: They'll go tomorrow. Tomorrow be part mock game. They're walked
Speaker 1: through and part their normal practice on Saturday. When's their
Speaker 1: rejuvenation day this week? You just put your stuff on
Speaker 1: and go play. Actually the stay pard was Monday afternoon.
Speaker 1: It's called stay and there was Monday afternoon. Monday afternoon,
Speaker 1: Well that's usually Monday Monday. Yeah, so nothing, Yeah, nothing changed.
Speaker 1: Rejuvenation day is gonna be Friday, yeah, and maybe Saturday too,
Speaker 1: and then you got to get back to practice on
Speaker 1: the jubilant. I hope they're jubilant. No, you don't want jubilant.
Speaker 1: You need to go place hands on guys to get
Speaker 1: them healthy. Okay, you do an injury report. See how
Speaker 1: I set him on the well, yeah, see, I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing that yesterday. I had no idea what we could
Speaker 1: talking about. I think we rambled on and on and
Speaker 1: on the whole all three segments. So it wasn't any
Speaker 1: different than any other. Just one lesson, one less one
Speaker 1: less rambler. Okay, mackey, give us, give us up to speed.
Speaker 1: What's going on? So McCarthy said that tyring. They listed him, Yes,
Speaker 1: they didn't practice yesterday, right right, but they listed him
Speaker 1: as limited. But I think he took part in most
Speaker 1: everything today, like or at least from the start because
Speaker 1: they cut us off early. But he was doing the
Speaker 1: invential drills, the position drills, and it looked like he
Speaker 1: was ready to step in at left tackle. Were you
Speaker 1: surprised that he did not play on Sunday against Kansas City? No,
Speaker 1: I was. I was not either. And all these reports
Speaker 1: started coming out like on Friday, Oh, he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: If I talked to a member of the media even
Speaker 1: on Thursday, Oh he's gonna play for sure. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I never got I never thought he was this show.
Speaker 1: We never I thought it was still questionable. And as
Speaker 1: Mike said, a lot would determined would be determined by
Speaker 1: how Saturday Plant panned out. And uh. And so the
Speaker 1: tweets start coming out on Sunday morning that like, it's
Speaker 1: breaking news that Tyren Smith isn't gonna play today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, that's not breaking news questions. I mean,
Speaker 1: they had to come out with the official list. I
Speaker 1: think it came out on Sunday, and so that's why,
Speaker 1: well they also for the Sunday morning shows, you got
Speaker 1: to come out with quote unquote yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: that's what everyone was responding to now, because that the
Speaker 1: list doesn't come out till like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half before kickoff. Okay, so they would they were three
Speaker 1: twenty five game means to like ten minutes to two.
Speaker 1: But there was a narrative out there that he was
Speaker 1: going to play on I never never, a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I didn't think he would even just because of what
Speaker 1: we can see the things he was doing out there
Speaker 1: and the times he was kind of standing off to
Speaker 1: the side when they were doing position at individual drills.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing everything. And part of it, in my
Speaker 1: mind on it was, Okay, if he plays Sunday, then
Speaker 1: he's playing Thursday. And so you're asking a guy who's
Speaker 1: coming who's missed a month basically to come play two
Speaker 1: games in five days, right, And it's just like just
Speaker 1: like now with DeMarcus Lawrence. Mike said yesterday that he'll
Speaker 1: be activated to practice soon. Well, I saw somebody today
Speaker 1: report that he was going to practice this week, and
Speaker 1: that's not what he said, and he wasn't out there today.
Speaker 1: He did not say that. Yeah, but he didn't say
Speaker 1: he was right, and so it wouldn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: It's to start in practicing this week. You get one
Speaker 1: practice in, so they'll start him. Well I guess maybe.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they consider this week like Saturday. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're activating him so he can practice Sunday. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: but this week meant so when does the week start
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys when you play Thursday into another thing?
Speaker 1: I would imagine it's on Saturday. That's that's two. That
Speaker 1: would be the Tuesday of a normal work with right,
Speaker 1: so but not today. So uh and you know, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't practicing today by the way, Uh, Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: was not practicing, But that was expected because you got
Speaker 1: to go through the COVID protocol and you have to
Speaker 1: concussion concussion. Yeah, COVID. Sorry, um, somebody else had COVID.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no. The strength Uh,
Speaker 1: Cedric is it Cedric Smith, Cedric Um, the assistant strength
Speaker 1: So yeah, you gotta I mean, you gotta be so
Speaker 1: many days away from the concussion, and then you got
Speaker 1: to go out and do something physically exerting, and then
Speaker 1: you got to show up the next day not having
Speaker 1: any symptoms. So while they're hopeful for him, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great that he's sitting in meetings, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he's good to go. So I would imagine again
Speaker 1: on the practice report, it'll be did not practice and
Speaker 1: then we'll see what happens tomorrow. And and Cedric Smith's
Speaker 1: title assistant strength and Conditioning coach, right, which I believe
Speaker 1: you indicated, And the COVID protocol, Well, there was some
Speaker 1: uncertainty in your voice, so I just well, I was
Speaker 1: trying to memory. I knew I had Cedric right, and
Speaker 1: I'm going, yeah, it is Smith, And then I doubted
Speaker 1: myself because he was Emmett's fullback, I believe at Florida
Speaker 1: in college. Yeah, so you had Smith blocking for Smith
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, okay, I confused it, but I didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't say am it anywhere in there? No, in
Speaker 1: my mind, I was thinking, yes, okay, so we feel like,
Speaker 1: see he's gonna play. I totally up in the air.
Speaker 1: They're optimistic, Let's put it that way. There's there you're
Speaker 1: telling me there's a chance he's got he's got a
Speaker 1: ways to go though, yes, because he didn't. We don't
Speaker 1: have a ways to go to It's a short week.
Speaker 1: I think if it was a Sunday game, I told
Speaker 1: you yes, and if okay, so the physical exertion that
Speaker 1: you're talking about, which he would be doing on his
Speaker 1: own since he wasn't at the workout right, he couldn't
Speaker 1: have done that, can do that on his own, and
Speaker 1: then it would be how he is tomorrow? Correct now?
Speaker 1: Can he have the physical exertion on Wednesday? And then
Speaker 1: how he is on game day can clear him? That
Speaker 1: part I don't know, okay, but it's twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: twenty four hours before game time, No, twenty four hours
Speaker 1: to the physical physical that here, you're fine, And he
Speaker 1: would if I remember correctly, on this stuff too, they
Speaker 1: have independent checkers on these concussion stuff because they have
Speaker 1: somebody on the sideline that exactly with the league, a
Speaker 1: designated on game days, we know that, but during the
Speaker 1: week as well, there's I think that they may have
Speaker 1: to check them also to make sure. Yes, So that
Speaker 1: means next man up? You love here, we saw that,
Speaker 1: you love that. I gave him my theory about next
Speaker 1: man up, and you've heard it. I said, the problem
Speaker 1: with next man up is the next man up isn't
Speaker 1: the man that's it. And so now you're getting diminishing returns.
Speaker 1: So Malague Turner would be, you know, the likely replacement, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, because Brown's already out there, Wilson, Gallup, Well,
Speaker 1: it's Gallup, Brown and Wilson probably, But I think Turner.
Speaker 1: I think Turner gives them a little bit more than
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, not like I really do. Well, don't be
Speaker 1: down on Brown because he dropped the ball. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: everybody dropped the ball. Yeah, they've been dropping in these
Speaker 1: losses for some reason. I think, yeah, the loss, I
Speaker 1: think I think Brown. I think he gives us a
Speaker 1: more physicality. Welcome back, sir, you know. And when we thought,
Speaker 1: when we think about not necessarily going back, because we
Speaker 1: are going forward here, but if we get in the
Speaker 1: same position as last week, why not put Polody anymore
Speaker 1: this time? I thought that, you know, we really should
Speaker 1: have used him a little bit more in the game,
Speaker 1: not necessarily running back. I know, but he's just not
Speaker 1: a true receiver. He's not going to run the routes
Speaker 1: you need for like a seventeen yard out right, I know,
Speaker 1: but I would like to get him the ball quickly
Speaker 1: in space. Well, I think maybe one of the things
Speaker 1: they could incorporate is having he and Zeke on the
Speaker 1: field at the same time. And that's what sprung that
Speaker 1: big run. You go, yes, the fake the wild fake
Speaker 1: leather and then and then and I think people, you know,
Speaker 1: when they're not running the ball, and it's like, well
Speaker 1: they gotta have Pollard in there. Well, the other six
Speaker 1: carries he had, he gained nineteen yards. That's three yards
Speaker 1: of carry. So when when you got to be in
Speaker 1: their bulldozing he's probably not the guy you want to
Speaker 1: regardless of whether we can or not, you need to
Speaker 1: have lineman in there. There they're making the blocks right
Speaker 1: exactly because they keep talking about while you got to
Speaker 1: run the ball, I said, And I was just talking
Speaker 1: um with the guys before us, uh Danny McCray, And
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I said, but I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: and count how many times I wrote down after the
Speaker 1: first down, run, second and eight because they just weren't
Speaker 1: getting any get they weren't getting And you know, I
Speaker 1: would agree with you on a lot of that, but
Speaker 1: I've seen teams they just forced the issue. Yes, I do. Well,
Speaker 1: you just keep forcing the issue. Don't don't relent so much.
Speaker 1: And we were talking yesterday about two consecutive running players, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we couldn't find one. Yeah. I started looking. I
Speaker 1: had a hard time. I just found it. I was
Speaker 1: just looking myself as you're talking, and there was I've
Speaker 1: got Pollard. This is uh this drive that started at
Speaker 1: four or five first quarter, so it was right before
Speaker 1: the right at the end of the first quarter, I
Speaker 1: had a Pollard plus one on a first and ten
Speaker 1: play at the thirty eight or maybe plus two, uh,
Speaker 1: second down and he lost four yards on the next play.
Speaker 1: So those are back to back runs by Pollard and
Speaker 1: see and it's not just but but we're talking one too.
Speaker 1: That's the third series of the game. And on the
Speaker 1: on the first series, it was Zeke plus three pass
Speaker 1: and then it was they got a couple of first
Speaker 1: downs Pollard plus Pollard, then an incompletion. Okay, so it's
Speaker 1: not consecutive runs. Next series, false start on Collins, Zeke
Speaker 1: minus three pass pass. Yeah, well, after the first actually
Speaker 1: after the first series, the second series, they got, um,
Speaker 1: zeke Sorry, I'm sorry, I messed up. So let me
Speaker 1: just do it for you. Go Zeke minus one. And
Speaker 1: now it's second eleven, next possession, first play, Zeke two. Um,
Speaker 1: they got a first down. And then the next after
Speaker 1: Zeke two they got a first down. Uh, got a
Speaker 1: first down, and then first and ten was the wildcat
Speaker 1: play to Pollard and that got thirty one yards. Uh,
Speaker 1: next play a little dump out to Zeke two yards.
Speaker 1: So they just kept getting behind them, not behind the change,
Speaker 1: but they weren't moving much past them. Second and long
Speaker 1: is not a good down. And then and then the
Speaker 1: first possession of the second quarter, UM, first and ten
Speaker 1: at the twenty three they threw a quick out to
Speaker 1: McEwan two yards first down and ten at the thirty
Speaker 1: four too many men in the huddle. They got penalized
Speaker 1: for that. The first minus five for the Cowboys this season,
Speaker 1: um and then first and fifteen they ran it to
Speaker 1: Pollard he got five. But they just can not moving
Speaker 1: the football. And before you're going to me, it's also
Speaker 1: the type of running place. I get it. You know
Speaker 1: we can go wide because we can hold them off
Speaker 1: because a linement is so good. But to me, there
Speaker 1: are times when you need to create more inside blocking
Speaker 1: schemes that can hit them quick, especially with a guy
Speaker 1: like Pollard. And if you get Zeke in there quick enough,
Speaker 1: he's lowering the boom on somebody, the first person he's
Speaker 1: gonna meet, and hopefully that's not a defensive lineman. So
Speaker 1: there are ways that you can. Uh, It's like I'm
Speaker 1: on the goal line. We have fourth and goal or
Speaker 1: whatever sect third and goal. I hate bringing the ball
Speaker 1: back to the running back and having him pick his spots.
Speaker 1: I would rather we just hit it hard, you understand,
Speaker 1: and make them feel us. To me, I think that's
Speaker 1: even if you get one or two yards, it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna send to me a message. It's okay, a
Speaker 1: second and eight. But right now, your defensive tackle still
Speaker 1: has an imprint in his chest. See that's the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff I'm talking about, leaving the impression and from
Speaker 1: an offensive line standpoint, okay, when obviously they had difficulty
Speaker 1: pass protecting all day long, but just the mindset, no,
Speaker 1: they didn't because Dak was supposed to carry the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I see that one more. But it's the mindset
Speaker 1: of being of a road grading okay, and when you're
Speaker 1: established the run, and it also playoff football, right. And
Speaker 1: it also it keeps that defense from pinning their ears
Speaker 1: back and coming after the quarterback when they know that
Speaker 1: you're going to meet me. That's right. Oh I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be pulling. But so this was and there.
Speaker 1: We've had plenty of games in the past, especially last year,
Speaker 1: where they fell behind three touchdowns saying okay, now you
Speaker 1: got to pass well this entire game. You could pound
Speaker 1: it if you if you wanted to. Now, whether you
Speaker 1: be successful or not, I don't know. I think I
Speaker 1: think they were fearful of Casey taken off, right, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that they needed to score a lot of points
Speaker 1: and they didn't trust the defense. That's an all great point.
Speaker 1: All they needed to score was twenty, right as it
Speaker 1: turned out. But when you go into a game thinking
Speaker 1: that we've got to score thirty, then you have a
Speaker 1: different game plan than And I still think, why do
Speaker 1: we not make that adjustment? I mean at halftime, what
Speaker 1: does it score at halftime? Sixteen to three? We're still
Speaker 1: in it, am I? Right? Right? We're still in it.
Speaker 1: So at halftime you make that adjustment. And didn't we
Speaker 1: get the ball fast in the in the third water? No,
Speaker 1: and we still stopped him, stopped him, We still stopped him.
Speaker 1: Got that's who was the interceptions takes to Travis Kelsea
Speaker 1: drop interception that see that was gonna be a it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a twenty three day. But no, no,
Speaker 1: on that drive, on that drive they were gonna score.
Speaker 1: But it was thirty and six at the thirty seven, right,
Speaker 1: So they get the interception. And then here's the problem.
Speaker 1: We find out that we got CD lamps out, okay,
Speaker 1: and all they got to go is thirty six yards
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and they went twenty four and kicked
Speaker 1: the field. Did we not know CD was gonna be
Speaker 1: out after we saw him cup walking off the said
Speaker 1: he was fine. He said it was fine. Why they
Speaker 1: keep listening to these kids, Yeah, they're all gonna say
Speaker 1: that fine. I was like, with you, cowboys got the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm good. They say that justly cowboys got the ball
Speaker 1: And people were scratching their head. How comes CD's not
Speaker 1: out there? I was like, well, did you not see
Speaker 1: what happened at the end of the first half. Come
Speaker 1: come with me right right. I was like when I
Speaker 1: saw that picture, I said, see, he's not playing the
Speaker 1: rest of the day. And this is a guy I
Speaker 1: remember him in college. He got lit up by a
Speaker 1: Baylor guy on a punt return one time and he
Speaker 1: had to be he had to be in concussion protocol
Speaker 1: after that, and he was out. Like that's a difference
Speaker 1: in college in the NFL. With that he missed, he
Speaker 1: missed like one play. Yeah, yeah, he sees two of them.
Speaker 1: Let me take you way of the four. Let me
Speaker 1: take good, good, Let we need to win this guy.
Speaker 1: Let me take you way back to high school right
Speaker 1: our sophomore year and a good friend of mine. You
Speaker 1: guys remember Quinn Buckner, right, Yeah, so he was a freshman.
Speaker 1: We were playing his high school. Was the only game
Speaker 1: we lost. We beat him the first time and we lost,
Speaker 1: and we won the conference titled by the Way Sophomores.
Speaker 1: And uh, he fields a punt and he comes right
Speaker 1: up the middle and it's him and my buddy, who
Speaker 1: is no bigger than higham, maybe a little taller. But
Speaker 1: he didn't weigh anymore. He didn't even try to run
Speaker 1: around him. He just ran light over him, spat. He
Speaker 1: ended up with a concussion. So this is Saturday, right
Speaker 1: we we uh, we leave and the coach told me,
Speaker 1: he goes, hey, Monday, why don't you make sure you
Speaker 1: walk dave the classes. Make sure he gets there. That's
Speaker 1: what they were worried about with the concussion. Right now,
Speaker 1: that's the protocol, right there, Get a teammate, get somebody
Speaker 1: to walk into the class, walk to the class, make
Speaker 1: sure he gets into practice. Make sure he gets to practice.
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. So did Thornbridge win state? Uh?
Speaker 1: Not football? We didn't have football playoffs. We did not
Speaker 1: have football playoffs? Oh what what? Because the state was
Speaker 1: so big, we didn't have football playoff? We wait, we
Speaker 1: ha got a cute little state. What do you mean wait,
Speaker 1: would you Bill? Wait, you got a cute little state.
Speaker 1: It's not like you got the Texas. You're Illinois. We
Speaker 1: had act like that's such a big state. Okay. In basketball,
Speaker 1: every team was eligible for the tournament. But did you
Speaker 1: have it? What do you mean did you have the tournament? Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Did you have football? They didn't have football? How could
Speaker 1: you not have football? Did not have football playoffs? Do
Speaker 1: they now in Illinois? No? Wonder. Yeah, so they decided
Speaker 1: at some point that okay, we can go ahead, and
Speaker 1: but in basketball, and we didn't have by tho, hey,
Speaker 1: we didn't have all this BS six, A five, A four,
Speaker 1: a three. You didn't basketball. Everybody was in the same tournament. Wow,
Speaker 1: got it? And how did thorn Ridge do in that?
Speaker 1: By the way, thorn Ridge went to high school. When
Speaker 1: he was a junior and senior, they won back to
Speaker 1: back state titles. How do you do We always got
Speaker 1: out of the regional and got beat in the sectional. Okay,
Speaker 1: we were a basketball powerhouse, yeah, obviously not a football powerhouse.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. I don't understand that the whole state
Speaker 1: now the football that's like, that's like Texas didn't have
Speaker 1: you couldn't play when we were in high school, and
Speaker 1: even going into the nineties, really you couldn't, at least
Speaker 1: through nineteen eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, you could
Speaker 1: not participate in anything outside of school for you couldn't
Speaker 1: go to summer camps. You couldn't do anything. And so
Speaker 1: for the longest time, like in basketball, Texas never produced
Speaker 1: anything in basketball because you were just playing for your
Speaker 1: school team. You couldn't do anything else, and he didn't
Speaker 1: have camps. Now, in the last thirty years, how many
Speaker 1: great players have as Texas produced. They they've been holding
Speaker 1: back the NBA and the NCAA because they didn't have
Speaker 1: good football. They didn't have good basketball camps. We didn't
Speaker 1: have texts, you couldn't play selectball were We didn't change
Speaker 1: the game bill that changed the game. We didn't have
Speaker 1: junior high football either. When I was in stop talking, man,
Speaker 1: no one cared about football. It was a basketball stage.
Speaker 1: Is not the greatest moment of the greatest moment of
Speaker 1: my athletic career was irving y m C A eight
Speaker 1: and under championship. We wont There was no great school
Speaker 1: football tackle football. Don't don't take that away from him.
Speaker 1: And did the next year, I was the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the army, you know, make points. We scored zero zero. Lord,
Speaker 1: that's when we realized I was in fourth grade. That's
Speaker 1: where we realized I needed glasses and you couldn't throw it.
Speaker 1: I suppose you had equipment too, didn't you. Of course
Speaker 1: we did. We played tackle football without man. We played
Speaker 1: it too on Sunday afternoons and time on the week.
Speaker 1: I plighted on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We played it every
Speaker 1: day in our front yard. We played tackle foot ball.
Speaker 1: We played in a real field. Okay, mix shots continues
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Speaker 1: That was a little uneven there, spects Was it was
Speaker 1: killing it yesterday? Oh yeah? You should have seen his face?
Speaker 1: And was it a slowdown and free admission? Liar? Start
Speaker 1: running back, Chris, I was good, all right? Hey was
Speaker 1: this a Tuesday on the It was a Tuesday on
Speaker 1: the radio. That means Jerry Jones made his appearance. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm a fan, and um, you know, he was optimistic
Speaker 1: about Tyran Smith U. He wasn't sure about Ceedee lamb um. Oh.
Speaker 1: By the way, and we didn't get to zeke Um.
Speaker 1: He was talking out here and he said that. He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's getting better, but it's kind of the same. He
Speaker 1: said BeForever that means uh. And then he said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know when I when I'm running and cutting, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: he goes, but when I fall And I was gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: just don't get tackled, just keep going, right, but he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'm playing and I just have to
Speaker 1: put He said. It feels like you know when you
Speaker 1: stub your toe and you have that momentary pain and
Speaker 1: then you walk it off. He said, when I fall
Speaker 1: and hit the ground, that's what happens, and I just
Speaker 1: have to get up. And if he if he has
Speaker 1: a feeling in his knee as a stubbed toe, he's
Speaker 1: a tough man, right, because when I hurt, I am done.
Speaker 1: I have done. Nothing's broken. But boy, and then the
Speaker 1: broom or just bump anything. The older you get it
Speaker 1: curse to everybody. So they were trying to pin Jerry
Speaker 1: down on Amari Cooper not being vaccinated. Uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: he was basically talking about you know, the funny thing
Speaker 1: he said, if he had been vaccinated, he would have
Speaker 1: ended up playing because they test on Monday, and so
Speaker 1: he didn't have any symptoms, so he might not have
Speaker 1: never known he was positive and wouldn't have found out
Speaker 1: until after the game. And so they asked him something about, well,
Speaker 1: it seems very punitive, and he goes, that's what the
Speaker 1: NFL wanted to have guys get vaccinated. So if you're
Speaker 1: vaccinated US, if you don't get that, if you're not,
Speaker 1: you get tested every day. And then they found out.
Speaker 1: But here was the key thing when they asked where
Speaker 1: you upset with him? And I thought he had it's
Speaker 1: it's about a minute answer, but I thought, and I've
Speaker 1: heard him say this before, but he reinforced it. He
Speaker 1: didn't dance around how he felt about amar missing the game. Again.
Speaker 1: I said it early. You check me at the door,
Speaker 1: and a football team that has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the issues of masking, not masking, getting vaccinated, not getting vaccinated.
Speaker 1: And if I have a tone, I shouldn't. It just
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with it. The facts are, it
Speaker 1: is a wee thing. When you walk into the locker
Speaker 1: room and anybody is being counted on to pull his weight.
Speaker 1: Everybody expects that they look around at each other. They
Speaker 1: understand everybody's rights. They do. We do. Everybody understands our
Speaker 1: rights and our options as it retained to those rights.
Speaker 1: But can you if you forget that it's a wee
Speaker 1: thing and how important your part is. Obviously, these guys
Speaker 1: are rewarded. They're rewarded financially. Now, Mark Cooper is outstanding, folks.
Speaker 1: He's one of the highest character guys that you will
Speaker 1: ever be around in any area. And he's outstanding in
Speaker 1: his mind, in his introspect and how he does things.
Speaker 1: When it was at the Raiders for a year or two,
Speaker 1: he set up a library for the players to read
Speaker 1: during their breaks, which they have. So my point is
Speaker 1: he's an outstanding and we're not in any way nobody's
Speaker 1: saying that he is an outstanding. But this is a
Speaker 1: classic case of hack can impact a team when people
Speaker 1: are at the end of the day, this is not individual,
Speaker 1: it is team. You cannot win anything individually. Before he
Speaker 1: said and we got and we got a pop and
Speaker 1: it popped us, meaning not having them out there. So
Speaker 1: that is that is that's one of the best things
Speaker 1: I've ever heard Jerry say about we And you don't
Speaker 1: ran an individually, I mean, and it's not he was like,
Speaker 1: how he didn't chastise, But it's just a fact the
Speaker 1: way it's set up. You know, it's all about team
Speaker 1: and if you don't take care of business the way
Speaker 1: you're supposed to on and off the field, then those
Speaker 1: consequences are gonna come and and you're gonna be they're
Speaker 1: gonna be pulitive on your butt, right, you understand, And
Speaker 1: you know what it sort of reminded me. We got
Speaker 1: the training camp and the Cowboys as a players, as
Speaker 1: a team were slow to get vaccinated. And Michael Irvin
Speaker 1: came out on National TV when he was asked the
Speaker 1: question about the Cowboys and this was at a time
Speaker 1: when they were maybe forty fifty percent vaccinated, and he
Speaker 1: basically said, if you're trying to do everything you can
Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl, he said, it's no different
Speaker 1: than working out in the offseason. It's no different than
Speaker 1: intending all the practices. You gotta be all in, and
Speaker 1: all in means you need to get vaccinated. And after that,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Jerry started with the wee stuff
Speaker 1: and the vaccination rate rose and rose and rose till.
Speaker 1: I think that because Jerry wasn't talking like that last
Speaker 1: year or not last year, but he changed. Which is
Speaker 1: the two which is that during training? This is my point,
Speaker 1: he wasn't talking like this is a This is an excellent,
Speaker 1: excellent change. I love it so so anyway, just missing
Speaker 1: guys matter. I don't care how good this guy's playing
Speaker 1: or that guy's playing as a as a backup, but
Speaker 1: there's they're a backup and you need your starters out there.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this, uh. I think early in
Speaker 1: the season we were talking about the best the team
Speaker 1: that survives this as a team, that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: one that comes through. It's not going to be the
Speaker 1: most talented, really isn't. It might not even be the
Speaker 1: one with the best record going down the stretch. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be the one that stuck together as a team
Speaker 1: and was able to keep together a cohesive unit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just can't say anything else about that. How many
Speaker 1: do you think are not vaccinated on this team? I
Speaker 1: think they were down to one or two. It's what
Speaker 1: one of them? Yeah, got it down to one now
Speaker 1: to one half or one? Yeah, so well he's good
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season now yeah, good right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's what that was what I was gonna say. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you know, if you'd rather it be now than
Speaker 1: in ride it out, you can ride it out now.
Speaker 1: But it's I mean, it's and it's ten it's ten
Speaker 1: days because he's not playing, can you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: baby Goston, once you have it, yo, yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd proven though they said, well you should, though I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know I had I haven't got it a
Speaker 1: second time. But there what is what is doctor Fauchi
Speaker 1: said about it. It's three months. I believe it's three
Speaker 1: months after you've had you know, he doesn't. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to test again for three months. If he
Speaker 1: tested positive, I say, he can write it out that part.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, because it will show up. What
Speaker 1: I was told after I had it is but you're
Speaker 1: not looking for the NFL. I was working for CBS
Speaker 1: and I still am, and we had testing and according
Speaker 1: to the CDC or whatever govern governing authority, it was
Speaker 1: on it. If you had it, you didn't have to.
Speaker 1: There was a certain amount of time because it would
Speaker 1: be it would at least there would there would still
Speaker 1: even though you're not contagious, there it would show up
Speaker 1: on It could show up on a test when you
Speaker 1: really didn't. I just didn't want to spend one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: So it would be interesting to know that. And so
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you're gonna, if you got
Speaker 1: one unvaccinated player, and uh, I'd rather it'd be, you know,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City and Las Vegas game than a playoff
Speaker 1: game in January. So okay, we continue with more mix
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Speaker 1: in the community today, I am. I was out there
Speaker 1: at the Salvation Army right off of Harry Hines with
Speaker 1: several other former Dallas Cowboys. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys can see it, as me and Rowdy putting some
Speaker 1: stuff in the truck and they see that we're doing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you Christopher. We got another one when I was
Speaker 1: about to steal some stuff because you know I buy,
Speaker 1: I buy uh discount brands. But this is they have
Speaker 1: like real brand name stuff that's a simply lemonade right there.
Speaker 1: I get that. I get the counterfeit stuff. So they
Speaker 1: had the brand names. They come from Tokyo, have different
Speaker 1: misspells stuff on the on the labels that I get.
Speaker 1: So you know, I did when they could before COVID.
Speaker 1: The players, um meant some of the coaching staff would
Speaker 1: go over to that sal Nation Army and serve yeah,
Speaker 1: and serve lunch, you know, bring a plate out for
Speaker 1: the for the people there. And they were so appreciative.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really made you feel good. And they
Speaker 1: wanted to talk football well. And plus it was it
Speaker 1: was very in that regard because we were putting them
Speaker 1: in the cars right, that was very busy. We had
Speaker 1: little little arrangement going. Charles Haley was there, acting like
Speaker 1: he was working. He didn't do anything. He talked to Charlotte.
Speaker 1: She was there the whole time we had the rocket
Speaker 1: was there. He got his beard is grayer than my
Speaker 1: hair on Santa Claus right, yeah, he looked like Santa
Speaker 1: claud Who else did they have? George Tigue was there also,
Speaker 1: Tony Casis was there as well, so we had a
Speaker 1: few guys there. Timmy Nussom was really he and I
Speaker 1: gonna be running in that BMW half marathon December twelfth.
Speaker 1: So while the Cowboys kicking butt me and Tim game,
Speaker 1: that's game day, right, I believe CBS your feels out
Speaker 1: there there about to die. Then all right, you said
Speaker 1: something about Andy Reid. Oh I read this yesterday, but
Speaker 1: I wanted you to hear it. Okay, so after the game,
Speaker 1: and it's worth if anybody's listening to a two days
Speaker 1: in a row to hear it again. After the game,
Speaker 1: they won, and somebody asked him if this was a
Speaker 1: statement game for the Chiefs, like they're back and they're
Speaker 1: a serious contender. Every week is crazy in this league,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure there are any statements. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of consistency going on right now amongst the NFL.
Speaker 1: Here every week is a big time challenge. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about wins and losses haven't been consistent. There are ups
Speaker 1: and downs, and teams are favored and then they get beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. Now. I didn't read this part,
Speaker 1: but he went on, it's what the league strive for.
Speaker 1: Parody in this league, I think they've done a great
Speaker 1: job with that. Every city has an opportunity to win
Speaker 1: football games. That's a great thing, and we're no different.
Speaker 1: We've got to just keep our nose to it and
Speaker 1: bear down as we go, take each game as it comes.
Speaker 1: We haven't proven anything yet. You can talk all about
Speaker 1: it after the season. Go find an island and go
Speaker 1: lay around and tell everybody about it. But right now,
Speaker 1: not so much yesterday, because you can just have a
Speaker 1: good time after it's all over, all right, and then
Speaker 1: in our last a few minutes here mix shots unless
Speaker 1: you got some something else you want to throw in.
Speaker 1: I think we should point out that the struggling New
Speaker 1: York that's where I was going next, found their fall guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. Fired Jason Garrett because he
Speaker 1: is a producing enough. Yeah, it is all his fault.
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens, former Cowboys that is expected to take over
Speaker 1: play calling with Garrett Gunn. Starting with Sunday's visit from
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles Division rival that has won three or
Speaker 1: four by scoring forty four, thirty and forty points in
Speaker 1: those victories. Well, you know when you look at that
Speaker 1: Giant squad, I mean, it wasn't Kitchens helping. Uh he
Speaker 1: was the offensive special assistant. I'm sure he had I'm
Speaker 1: sure he was assisting, right. I mean, so Giants ranked
Speaker 1: dead last in the NFL with forty two offensive touchdown
Speaker 1: since the start of last season. Last year they were
Speaker 1: thirty first in points seventeen and a half, thirty first
Speaker 1: in yards two ninety nine point six. And this year
Speaker 1: they've improved just a little bit twenty five point the No.
Speaker 1: Twenty five, their rank eighteen point nine, twenty thirty yards
Speaker 1: three twenty two point eight. And last year they lost
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley in the second game of the season,
Speaker 1: and their wide receiving corps included Sterling Shephard, Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: and nothing else, right, And so no they got this year.
Speaker 1: They got them this year, so they tried to shore
Speaker 1: it up and then they ka Darius Tony in the draft.
Speaker 1: But they've been injury plagued. The guys they picked up
Speaker 1: and the guys that were holdovers have all been injury plagued.
Speaker 1: Here's the bottom line. Because Jason last week, when they
Speaker 1: kept coming at him about the offense, he said, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to make the decision to say, Okay, we've
Speaker 1: got to allocate this resource because this is important to us,
Speaker 1: meaning offensive line he was talking about. He goes and
Speaker 1: we did that, and he met in Dallas time and
Speaker 1: time again, and all of a sudden, you built a
Speaker 1: really powerful, strong offensive line that's still going today, that
Speaker 1: includes really good players, cornerstone players. So that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do. Yeah, And I'm sure somebody upstairs and
Speaker 1: picked didn't like that whatsoever, because they didn't and they
Speaker 1: and they picked an offensive lineman. It looks like they
Speaker 1: picked the wrong guy because the best thing he did
Speaker 1: on Sunday was catch a pass as a eligible tight end.
Speaker 1: You know they drafted Jones. Jones is okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you can still make that work if you
Speaker 1: had the offensive lineman and things that nature. But man,
Speaker 1: they passed up on a couple of nice players. I
Speaker 1: think they could have had Lamar Jackson instead of Jones.
Speaker 1: They could have had a couple of really nice quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Eli was still playing when Jackson came out, right, but
Speaker 1: you still could You could have got him and said, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get him ready to get them. But I mean,
Speaker 1: just which, by the way, those guys were really good
Speaker 1: last night, Eli and they had Parcels on too. I
Speaker 1: missed that. I've heard about it today Parcels and he's
Speaker 1: really good. But anyway, so he ends up taking the
Speaker 1: fall and you saw it coming. I've got a suggestion
Speaker 1: to TCU athletic director Jeremiah Donati. Oh, here we go,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a Jason still have a home here.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a cowbidy. I'm sure probably. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would suggest to Jeremiah Donati, the TCU had athletic director,
Speaker 1: that he interviewed Jason Garrett for that head coaching job.
Speaker 1: And if, as rumor has it out there that TCU
Speaker 1: might be hiring the SMU head coach Sonny Dike's, I
Speaker 1: would make that same suggestion to the SMU athletic director
Speaker 1: Rick Hart if he hasn't opening for a head coach. Coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Jason has a I think he has that
Speaker 1: that mentality a college count I think, yeah, there's awakened.
Speaker 1: He has patience with kids, you know, who have that potential.
Speaker 1: I think he can really show him the right path.
Speaker 1: And then the other side of Jason that doesn't people
Speaker 1: don't know his patients only last so long, and he'll
Speaker 1: put him in line. Right. Everybody thinks he was like
Speaker 1: a cupcake and he is not, believe me. And I
Speaker 1: think he just didn't want to show it too in
Speaker 1: the locker who you know, while the cameras were rolling,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Right, yeah, exactly, So we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens there with him. But I bet he's not out
Speaker 1: of work long. All right, you're done? Is that your
Speaker 1: last mix shot? Let me see look through that voluminous
Speaker 1: ye will oh, I got one for you. Love that
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs through for two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: yards or mahomes through for two hundred and sixty yards,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven of those yards that I
Speaker 1: looked it up after we talked about it yesterday, where
Speaker 1: yards after catch sixty four percent of their passing yards
Speaker 1: where yards after catch. So you better get back to tackling.
Speaker 1: That's it. Good point, and maybe not play so far
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage all the time. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what before we go, and the question was do
Speaker 1: we sacrifice parsons? Personal stats for the good of the team,
Speaker 1: because when he's at that D line, when he's on
Speaker 1: the line rushing, he gets a lot of nice stats.
Speaker 1: But sometimes, like you were talking yesterday, we just might
Speaker 1: need him in the middle because we are better defense
Speaker 1: while he's in the middle. You understand, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: and you know what I talk about tomorrow. And in
Speaker 1: the last how about this playing defensive end and not
Speaker 1: counting the last game because they basically pulled guys in
Speaker 1: the in the fourth quarter the previous game, in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter against the Giants, he played ninety two against
Speaker 1: New England one hundred percent, against Minnesota ninety seven percent,
Speaker 1: and those were all at linebacker, and this game eighty
Speaker 1: eight eight percent, so a little bit less. It was.
Speaker 1: That's a lot for an edge rusher, right, and you
Speaker 1: got to rotate that guy, right, you'll wear him out.
Speaker 1: I just think he's so versatile. You can do so
Speaker 1: many things in the middle of right, right, No, no,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, and here here's your here's your quote
Speaker 1: of the day. By the way, people, and this is
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. They were talking about, you know, is he
Speaker 1: doing so much as he gets tired? He said, people
Speaker 1: talk about the rookie wall. I just need to keep
Speaker 1: climbing and climbing and see what's on the other side
Speaker 1: of the wall. I need to be a preacher. And
Speaker 1: with that we will be back again tomorrow for a
Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of a Fabulous Football Fight Song, Friday edition
Speaker 1: of Mixtions Onesime t Our earlier tomorrow, twelve thirty So
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