Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. All right, there's been too much negativity
Speaker 1: around here inside the SWBC podcast studio. Welcome to a
Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Mick Shots, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola. And Mickey has just brought it to our
Speaker 1: attentions some positivity. You can talk all you want to
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys having not won a road playoff game
Speaker 1: in thirty years, their record against Tom Brady. But what's
Speaker 1: their record, Mickey against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the playoffs? Well,
Speaker 1: postseason series record, Dallas leads the series two to nothing.
Speaker 1: There you go, there's some well positivity. You're welcome Cowboy fans.
Speaker 1: And by god, last time they faced them on January
Speaker 1: ninth of nineteen eighty three, they spanked them thirty to
Speaker 1: seventeen eighty three. And there was another playoff meeting the
Speaker 1: previous year and it was even worse in January of
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, it was thirty eight to nothing the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And there's a man in the room right here who
Speaker 1: was very much a part of both of those stopping.
Speaker 1: That's when the Cowboys were the Cowboys. So is it
Speaker 1: okay to go back what forty years? If we can
Speaker 1: go back thirty years, we can go back forty yes,
Speaker 1: or if we can go back twenty years, because the
Speaker 1: first time Tom Brady beat the Cowboys was in two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, right, two thousand and three, and you
Speaker 1: know how they clubbed him twelve to nothing, just ripped
Speaker 1: them with Tom Brady at quarters? What kind of offense
Speaker 1: did we? Yeah? Quincy Carter? Oh? Okay? Is that like
Speaker 1: say no more is a verb? Yes, the Cowboys got
Speaker 1: Quincy car the greatest coaching job of Bill Parcel's career
Speaker 1: getting that team into the playoffs, a wild card playoff birth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was better than the Super Bowl years, better than
Speaker 1: the time that Everson Walls got his Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 1: Was that Bill Parcels as the head coach? Was that
Speaker 1: the Marian Barber? Bar was? That was pre Barber? Who
Speaker 1: was the running back? It was Derek Hameron. Wow, I
Speaker 1: didn't say it right? Didn't. I said it didn't matter, no, woman, Hambrick.
Speaker 1: Now they won, They won that game, they won that season,
Speaker 1: and if I remember correctly, the fullback might have led
Speaker 1: them in reception if you look it up. And if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be if you got Richie Anderson, yes, who
Speaker 1: came with parcels sor he was a parcels player with
Speaker 1: the Jets. If you are going to be part of
Speaker 1: a masterful bill plus sales team, then you know it
Speaker 1: was led by the defense and the running game that
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna take it out of the quarterback's
Speaker 1: hands and put it on his offensive and defense. That
Speaker 1: would have been I believe Darren Woodson's last season. He alway,
Speaker 1: he always broken the record. And by the way, well
Speaker 1: he had broken his forearm. By the way, you got
Speaker 1: Hambrick right, right, Nicky, you missed the first I know,
Speaker 1: I know it's Troy. I I know I didn't. Well
Speaker 1: you didn't, Well you didn't. What do you mean? He
Speaker 1: didn't know who the running back was, right? He thought
Speaker 1: I was Richie Anderson eating with sixty nine catches for
Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety three yards, that's a fullback four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He was the starting fullback. That's what they had fullbacks.
Speaker 1: Leading receiver was Terry Glenn with fifty two catches. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. Terry Glen or leading receiver receiver, Davion
Speaker 1: Cason was on that team, and Tony O'Bryant was your
Speaker 1: number eighty eight on that You guys ran Bill off
Speaker 1: after that masterful coaching job. No, he left. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: left off. No, because he couldn't handle losing. So that
Speaker 1: was his first year. That was his first year. Guys
Speaker 1: were afraid of him. Oh I was not. The media,
Speaker 1: the media saying that he was a bully. Don't be
Speaker 1: walking up. The coaches. Assistant coaches were complaining because he
Speaker 1: was too tough on them. I heard about, you know,
Speaker 1: being build a tight The assistant coaches were all his guys.
Speaker 1: By the to review the parcels years, it was ten
Speaker 1: and six and making the playoffs and oh three, and
Speaker 1: then it was six and ten because you had no Qbaty.
Speaker 1: They cut Carter and training camp and Vinny Testaverdi at
Speaker 1: fifty years old, had to be the starting. He had
Speaker 1: Tony Romo on his roster, which he did not like.
Speaker 1: And then in five after drafting DeMarcus Ware and Marcus
Speaker 1: Spears in the first round. And it was a great
Speaker 1: draft beyond that too, including Jay Ratliffe in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: Um it was a nine and seven season five and
Speaker 1: then nine and seven and oh six, which ended on
Speaker 1: the snap on the field goal attempt. Oh god, and
Speaker 1: then they and then a couple of days later he
Speaker 1: was there were There were several days passed, and then
Speaker 1: one day Bill Parcels took his baseball bat and got
Speaker 1: in his car and drove away. He walked away from
Speaker 1: Valley Ranch with his baseball bats with that, But he
Speaker 1: didn't do it soon enough because that allowed Mike Zimmer
Speaker 1: to leave and go to Atlanta. Otherwise he might have
Speaker 1: been the head coach. Well, it's still you guys now,
Speaker 1: you know still of the story that I heard. You
Speaker 1: guys were so afraid of him. You went right sniveling,
Speaker 1: same saying things like he's to me, you guys, Jerry guy,
Speaker 1: mister Jones, He's to me, Well, can you get somebody
Speaker 1: in here, nicer, forget the fact that we're working with
Speaker 1: with spit and paste over You know what. I hate
Speaker 1: to tell you, but you got this one wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got this one wrong. And that's what I heard.
Speaker 1: He was beloved. It's funny that this is all just impromptu.
Speaker 1: Talking about Bill parcel I thought, Man, when I got
Speaker 1: in my truck to to leave home to come here,
Speaker 1: this is what crossed my mind. I was thinking about Mickey,
Speaker 1: and sometimes on these this show Mickey sometimes can get
Speaker 1: like if a tour comes through in the windows behind Mickey,
Speaker 1: that sometimes he can get distracted. And so the thought
Speaker 1: occurred to me that I wonder if Bill Parcels could
Speaker 1: coach Mickey, who, because Mickey was not a can be
Speaker 1: a distract He's the most distractable player on this show.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. He he dropped the dime. I am the
Speaker 1: most realistic one on this show. That you were the
Speaker 1: beat writer, you could have handled this in a different way.
Speaker 1: I do believe. I'm pretty sure you were. Me and
Speaker 1: Bill were like this, then you should have taken that.
Speaker 1: You should have protected he did. He had restract for you, Bill,
Speaker 1: I needed. I wasn't to help everybody else, all right,
Speaker 1: which brings us too. I don't know how we got
Speaker 1: there both here we are talking. Well, maybe it's catch
Speaker 1: we started talking about Tom Brady y because I pointed
Speaker 1: out to right Drew over the Cowboys. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I went back and looked. His first victory
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys was two thousand and three. None of
Speaker 1: those guys are still on this team. The second victor
Speaker 1: tried to get here and tried to stay heround two
Speaker 1: thousand seven. Two thousand and seven was the next victory,
Speaker 1: and none of those guys are here. Two thousand and
Speaker 1: eleven was the next Vision victory. Tyrn Smith, I think,
Speaker 1: was the only player still here from that team. And
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen h two thousand two, twenty fifteen, there
Speaker 1: were Zach Martin, Lawrence, and Tyron Smith. And then in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, there's fifteen guys on this current team that
Speaker 1: played in that game. And then last year there's everybody,
Speaker 1: and this year there's everything. Not everybody from last year matter. Okay,
Speaker 1: this year there's everybody. This year is most everybody, but
Speaker 1: not everybody that started in that first game. By the way,
Speaker 1: things changed and they held Tom Brady to nineteen points
Speaker 1: and an eighty seven quarterback Rady one touchdown, yep, one interception,
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady didn't beat the Cowboys. Well defense, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the point, and that's a point. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: made yesterday. You're not playing Tom Brady, You're playing Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's team. And that's been the problem facing tom Brady's
Speaker 1: team for virtually every team in the league the last
Speaker 1: twenty years is he's always been on a very good team. Well,
Speaker 1: what you see with Tampa is their defense. It's almost
Speaker 1: like if you were going to try and slow down
Speaker 1: the fast break basketball team. That's what their defense does.
Speaker 1: They keep the game intact until you can get situational
Speaker 1: football from Tom Brady. So if you're not gonna go
Speaker 1: up by at least two scores, then they're gonna always
Speaker 1: be within striking rains. And that defense has made sure
Speaker 1: that that's been the case, as they have righted the
Speaker 1: wrong from earlier this season. And when McCarthy was asked
Speaker 1: the question what makes those quarterbacks like Brady Montana five
Speaker 1: Rogers great, he said, situational football. These guys love to
Speaker 1: play two minute drill and he goes and that's when
Speaker 1: they excel. So you better be ahead of them by
Speaker 1: more than the one point the Cowboys were last year
Speaker 1: when they drove and scored and went up twenty nine
Speaker 1: twenty eight with one twenty four to go, and in
Speaker 1: one twenty two. They kicked the field goal to beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys thirty one twenty nine. And it's not just
Speaker 1: the two minute drill. There are certain situation still, certain
Speaker 1: situations that you can categorize as situational football, such as
Speaker 1: you get close to midfield, he's going to take a
Speaker 1: shot to me, That situational football. Certain points of a
Speaker 1: ball game that he's predictable, and most quarterbacks are predictable,
Speaker 1: and that's where you need to play strong and smart.
Speaker 1: McCarthy's exact quote was, the common denominator is the way
Speaker 1: they play the two minute drill almost something they live for,
Speaker 1: always in it, if they have time and downs. And
Speaker 1: you know what, He's absolutely right. And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. Everyone shows a pattern.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you see where a great quarterback X draw
Speaker 1: other things, They draw penalties out of your secondary. I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times we've seen it with my homes.
Speaker 1: He finally get a chance to get get a shot
Speaker 1: at my homes in the pocket, you sack him, but
Speaker 1: he downfield there's a holding call. Yeah, and that bailed
Speaker 1: him out. Or Rogers snapping the ball early to get
Speaker 1: you two things. All of those things that kind of
Speaker 1: stacks the chips in that quarterback's favor. And we have
Speaker 1: done that as well, not as consistently, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you take a look at say even the Texans game,
Speaker 1: you know we had him right where we want him
Speaker 1: when we want the two yard line. We had to
Speaker 1: do with drive down nine their yards and score. Oh
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys do that? The Cowboys did that. Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott quarter Scott did that. I believe he went like
Speaker 1: four or for four on that drive. And CD Bill
Speaker 1: was starting when he got in his car, thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: this has been over reaction. Read one game right. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, in that game last year against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Dak Prescott out played Tom. He threw for
Speaker 1: more yards um, he had fewer interceptions, he had more
Speaker 1: total yards in the game, and it had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with the running game. And his quarterback reading was
Speaker 1: one on one four to Brady's nine seven points in Tampa.
Speaker 1: They did that on grass, none of God's on God's green.
Speaker 1: And it was good grass because it was September, right,
Speaker 1: was painted stuff. Okay, So since it's a Monday game,
Speaker 1: I assume that they've given the Cowboys an extra day
Speaker 1: off this week, the players are having extra day off
Speaker 1: and so this this Wednesday is a Tuesday. Is that right?
Speaker 1: It's not, No, it's not. You can tell. It's playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's the bonus day. And there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there who said they needed a bonus day
Speaker 1: of work. They won't. Oh that's right, they're tired. Pads
Speaker 1: hired here. Yeah, they won't put the pads on today,
Speaker 1: but they'll do kind of a glorified walkthrough practice and
Speaker 1: they're in meetings and all of their practices of glorified.
Speaker 1: Come on, don't be old man, guys. They didn't have
Speaker 1: a salary cap back. How about to get guys hurt
Speaker 1: in practice? Creative plan, be free agency. Speaking of hurt,
Speaker 1: when week come back here on mix shots, I want
Speaker 1: an update from Mickey on who is not hurt and
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Speaker 1: do you know if anything I've been being planned for Monday?
Speaker 1: Get together to watch. I haven't been called for an appearance.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was out there the stadium, I'm sorry the field
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. It was for just regular season games,
Speaker 1: championship plaza. Yes, yes, sir, we did that at least
Speaker 1: three time time. I don't know were they're gonna have
Speaker 1: it at the big stadium this time. This is the
Speaker 1: playoffs as the difference at try all right, So Mickey, uh,
Speaker 1: do we have a any idea of where things stand
Speaker 1: with the injured players as we kick off this week?
Speaker 1: According to Mike mccarthur, everybody is slated to begin practice
Speaker 1: today for whatever they do today that everybody's supposed to
Speaker 1: be in Tyler Beatish, Jonathan Hankinson, Lake Layton Vander esh
Speaker 1: and Duran Bland. I think those are the four main
Speaker 1: guys that they need back on the field. To me,
Speaker 1: the most important one obviously after last week. I think
Speaker 1: that getting back into funny about that, since a lot
Speaker 1: of people to start the season wanted him out of here,
Speaker 1: didn't think he was good enough to play in the league.
Speaker 1: I saw him play for one year after after seeing
Speaker 1: an offense line. I think he's the only candidate. They
Speaker 1: can't play center well on this team, well, at least
Speaker 1: everybody else could go back where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: That's the key thing. Uh. And so it looks like
Speaker 1: if all goes well, and you'll probably find out more
Speaker 1: after they put the pads on either Thursday or Friday. Um,
Speaker 1: so there will not be a practice report today because
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday. It's a Monday game, right, they don't need
Speaker 1: to they don't do Yeah, I think that's right. I
Speaker 1: think that's right. Yes. So, Uh that bodes well. Uh,
Speaker 1: and especially uh well to get Layton back out there
Speaker 1: at linebacker. You know, everybody worries about him being out
Speaker 1: there to call the plays. Everything can call the plays.
Speaker 1: He's got a helmet on with a little speaker in
Speaker 1: it or hearing aid. Uh, it's a matter of once
Speaker 1: you get and you see what they're doing and they
Speaker 1: turn that thing off end. That guy's got to be
Speaker 1: able to make adjustments or read what's going on. With
Speaker 1: his experience of playing inside. Damon Clark's got what eight
Speaker 1: games of NFL experience. Anthony Bars used to be in
Speaker 1: more on the line of scrimmage, not behind the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and having to read things. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that was a huge loss. That should help the defense.
Speaker 1: Hankins if he's healthy enough ready to go. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many snaps to just take up some space
Speaker 1: and keep those offensive linemen off the Cowboys linebackers and
Speaker 1: have another guy in there. They got to pay attention
Speaker 1: to other than Michael Parsons and depending where he lines up,
Speaker 1: So I must admit very aggressive game now. Actually, he
Speaker 1: and Chauncey Gholston, who was a defensive end, and they
Speaker 1: moved him inside and he played much more inside these
Speaker 1: last couple of games, and they're really happy with what
Speaker 1: they've seen. And you know what, the other day, he
Speaker 1: walked by me and I'm going, man, he's big. I
Speaker 1: didn't because when he came here he was built. I
Speaker 1: thought more like a defensive end, right, but I think
Speaker 1: he's grown into like a three technique defensive grown. That
Speaker 1: means he's been eating well probably I bet he's twenty
Speaker 1: pounds than I'm guessing that at Yeah, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to have that. That base is Nate Newton, and Frisco
Speaker 1: always likes to tell me he had what eleven tackles
Speaker 1: in the game. By the day, I think it was
Speaker 1: what it was, I can tell you is that what ghost? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And oh Dicka Zoo it wasn't far behind. Oh Dicka
Speaker 1: Zoo had seven tackles in the game and Gholston had
Speaker 1: eleven tackles twenty two snaps and according to the game
Speaker 1: book anyway, I don't know what. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys coaches great in the film, the game was
Speaker 1: pretty good at that point, so that's pretty impressive. But
Speaker 1: then again, against Sampa Bay, they didn't ever run the ball,
Speaker 1: so there won't be any tackles for the think they're
Speaker 1: going to have to run the ball too. If they
Speaker 1: come out just throwing the ball. I think that gives
Speaker 1: us a better chance to win. I truly do if
Speaker 1: when it's the teams that run on us and keep
Speaker 1: us off balance, keep us honest, those are the ones
Speaker 1: that we have problems with in the playoffs, and if
Speaker 1: you're going to be a successful playoff team, that's how
Speaker 1: you should approach it offensively well. In the season opener,
Speaker 1: they ran it thirty three times for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty two yards with a healthy Leonard four nette yes
Speaker 1: and two of the runs that kind of heard him
Speaker 1: at times. They did the jet sweep with Julio Jones. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he didn't play for six weeks after that, right
Speaker 1: because he was he was so old four, he wasn't
Speaker 1: ready for that. Ye had three catches for sixty nine yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it went. Did you get four nas numbers? Twenty one
Speaker 1: carries one hundred and twenty seven yards and that was
Speaker 1: coming off of being thirty pounds overweight coming into training camp. Boy,
Speaker 1: it looked like a beast in that game. And uh,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's so long ago. It seems like. Um,
Speaker 1: and remember Brady missed, you know, a week or two
Speaker 1: in training camp coming into that game, two or three. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: and they had offensive line problems too, they see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't have any problems in that opener. They scored
Speaker 1: nineteen points. Would you take nineteen points Monday night? I
Speaker 1: will take your chances. Think the Cowboys can get to twenty?
Speaker 1: I do, I do. I agree, I think we I
Speaker 1: think there's been an overreaction to the Washington game. Um,
Speaker 1: those things happened, we know they happened. And the offensive
Speaker 1: line was not the offensive line you are hoping to
Speaker 1: put out there this Monday night. The one that's been
Speaker 1: carrying us the whole season. Right, You talked about it
Speaker 1: going into that they carry Cooper rush into all the victories,
Speaker 1: right and continue to protect Dak and put up all
Speaker 1: the points that we have. So the only guy missing
Speaker 1: is Terrence Steele. And you just hope that Tyrann Smith,
Speaker 1: this will be I think it's fifth start at right tackle,
Speaker 1: will be more in tune to speed rushers than he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was not having a good time last week. I
Speaker 1: don't know the speed rushers weren't slowed down by the grass,
Speaker 1: That's all I know. And we were we were talking
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. How I know he's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: press that issue. I said, all I know is and
Speaker 1: what you said yesterday, and we didn't mention it on
Speaker 1: the show. Dak Scott was seeing ghosts, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. He was. He was imagining things that he
Speaker 1: knew was there, but they were a little bit further
Speaker 1: away than he had expected, and he was trying to
Speaker 1: get passes off with no follow through. It was with
Speaker 1: a panic, you know, And you can't rush those kind
Speaker 1: of throws, especially when the dbs are in such tight coverage,
Speaker 1: and that's what we ran into in the first game
Speaker 1: against Tampa. The tight coverage was pretty awesome coming from
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay side, and it made us. It made us ineffective.
Speaker 1: But if you remember, in that game, there was no
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. The third receiver at that time was Dennis
Speaker 1: Houston and Noah Brown was the second receiver. Houston was
Speaker 1: the third receiver and Lamb was in his first game
Speaker 1: as the number one receiver. I think they held him
Speaker 1: to two catches if I remember correct. I think their
Speaker 1: second area is still a close coverage secondary and that
Speaker 1: needs to be a little bit more in tune to
Speaker 1: the game plan in regards to as he is at home.
Speaker 1: When he's at home, he has much more command in
Speaker 1: the pocket. He feels freely to improvise more at home
Speaker 1: check down check down, as well as taken off himself
Speaker 1: and just salvaging what you can as a quarterback as
Speaker 1: a runner. Those kind of things really throws off the defense.
Speaker 1: And then when he finally gets a chance to sit
Speaker 1: in the pocket, that's when you have a little bit
Speaker 1: more time. They're looking for you to scramble, But here
Speaker 1: you go. CD's open down the field, Brown's open down
Speaker 1: the field, and we can take advantage in that manner,
Speaker 1: and don't forget your tight ends. Oh man, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be key, right, They're gonna be key. Anytime you have
Speaker 1: close coverage like that on the outside, then the tight
Speaker 1: end is the answer. And we tried that against Tennessee,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't keep the defensive linement out. Yeah, Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons has been active on Twitter here in the last hour.
Speaker 1: Let me guess why he was left off the nfl
Speaker 1: p A first Team All Pro selection. NFL players as
Speaker 1: started something new. And before I go, you want to
Speaker 1: hear what Micah had to say about it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then well, I can't say everything that Mica had to
Speaker 1: say about it, but it's a simple tweet fifty three
Speaker 1: minutes ago. Man, I'm in playoff mode. Profanity that list,
Speaker 1: exclamation point. Congrats to those that made it, though they
Speaker 1: deserve it. So this was the vote by the players.
Speaker 1: Started with an ef, yes, started with an eye. Players
Speaker 1: cannot vote for themselves or their teammates. Okay, if you
Speaker 1: miss five or more games, you weren't allowed to vote.
Speaker 1: Players voted for position group they play in and line
Speaker 1: up against. So, for example, centers could vote for the
Speaker 1: best center the best nose tackle, the best interior defensive lineman,
Speaker 1: the best off the ball linebackers. The Cowboys only selection
Speaker 1: on offense, and this was pretty predictable, was right guard
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, and I think they kind of got it right,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Jacobs, Kyle is It. Wide receivers Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Davante Adams, tight end Travis Kelsey, left tackle,
Speaker 1: Trent Williams, left guard, Joel Bitonio, Kelsey at center, Martin
Speaker 1: and Lane Johnson. Defensively, edge rushers Bosa and Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1: And see, I don't know if people look at Parsons
Speaker 1: as an edge rusher, right, I mean he plays all over.
Speaker 1: Interior defensive lineman Chris Jones and Aaron Donald. Think you're
Speaker 1: gonna argue with that nose tackle, Dexter Lawrence, the Giants
Speaker 1: off the ball linebacker Fred Warner and Roquan Smith. I
Speaker 1: don't know about Fred well, I know he had a
Speaker 1: lot of tacks. Yeah, No, I still have no doubt.
Speaker 1: So cornerback Patrick certain and Darius Slay, safety Minca Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: uh and strong safety safety Derwin James. So you can
Speaker 1: be selected if you've missed over five games. No, if
Speaker 1: you'm not putting vote exactly, but yes, because Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: has missed quite a few games. Kick returner Corderyl Patterson,
Speaker 1: Cardell Patterson punt return about that they love this guy.
Speaker 1: That's good. Core special teamers Jeremy Reeves and Justin Hardy,
Speaker 1: kicker Jason Myers, punter Tommy Townsend, and long snapper Morgan. Um,
Speaker 1: so maybe he didn't drop us. Okay, I have a question.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. Maybe that last you said the
Speaker 1: ones who vote on it are people who play that
Speaker 1: position and people both both both Okay, so who plays
Speaker 1: against the long snapper? Oh, they had a thing for
Speaker 1: special teams for no one can line up over the
Speaker 1: long special teams category. Various player leaders from each locker
Speaker 1: room nominated their two top players for the ballot for
Speaker 1: special teams. Other teams probably said, oh, we're worried about it.
Speaker 1: So again on special teams, the nominations came from special
Speaker 1: teams or core teamers category. Various player leaders from each
Speaker 1: locker room nominated their two top players for the valot. Okay,
Speaker 1: so anyway, that means once again, because Cavante didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of votes from the fan voting for the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, so the coaches and the players must have
Speaker 1: voted for and in this case, it's the players voting
Speaker 1: for him, and obviously they understand his threat. We need
Speaker 1: to block better for him, yes, because I want to
Speaker 1: see this guy take it to ch as he had
Speaker 1: much room. Every time he gets room, then the gun
Speaker 1: to escapes on the outside. And that's and I said
Speaker 1: this earlier today when he bobbled the fair catch and
Speaker 1: he didn't have an opportunity to regain it. Why was
Speaker 1: that guy so close to him? Right, somebody didn't hold
Speaker 1: their blood. That's been pretty consistent, right, Unfortunately, that's been
Speaker 1: very consistent. Yeah, and I don't, I mean that was
Speaker 1: that was what I did with Victor Scott. Me and
Speaker 1: Victor Scott whooped a guy so bad one time Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: The guy the commentary said it was unfair. That's how
Speaker 1: badly we beat this guy. And he was supposed to
Speaker 1: be one of those he was gunner. He was a
Speaker 1: gun man. That's something that's never talked about on the
Speaker 1: broadcast or anything. Uh, well, he was supposed to be
Speaker 1: so good they isolated on him. And it was Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: So you only had so many games you know, to
Speaker 1: look at sure, and we wore him out the entire game.
Speaker 1: Now it took two of us, but that's how you
Speaker 1: set up a return right, you know. And if you
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be too outside, your double team outside,
Speaker 1: then the guy's inside. And that's the one that Turpin
Speaker 1: always says. He's looking at all the ones coming from
Speaker 1: the inside. That's how he judges where he's gonna go
Speaker 1: when he catches the ball. So this is random, But
Speaker 1: do you still have VHS copies of games that you
Speaker 1: played in? I did? I don't still no, I don't
Speaker 1: even will. I've had something. You know who it's got
Speaker 1: his yearly notebook that he took before, like notes to
Speaker 1: give prayer for the game. Cliff Harris has got a
Speaker 1: closet full of them, and you can read all his
Speaker 1: notes from when he was preparing for the game and
Speaker 1: the game plans for each game for all those years.
Speaker 1: I can imagine Charlie Wards has the same same thing.
Speaker 1: Because Charlie is still calling out defensive plays. So if
Speaker 1: parsons who's going to make this team, where should he
Speaker 1: have made it? Off the ball? Linebacker or edge rushing.
Speaker 1: He's more effective edge rushing he that's when he makes
Speaker 1: a bigger difference, uh, for this defense. So I and
Speaker 1: I think I saw when these these votes took place,
Speaker 1: because there was somebody that I didn't recognize in the
Speaker 1: locker room handing out bal It's for players who wanted
Speaker 1: to participate, not like every player would participate, right, you
Speaker 1: were monitoring the locker room when I was monitoring the
Speaker 1: locker room, Yes, I know who's in there and who's
Speaker 1: not who's not supposed to be in there, right, Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, there was only four of those guys, and
Speaker 1: he didn't he didn't make it. And Bosa had eighteen
Speaker 1: and a half sacks this season. Yeah, but these this
Speaker 1: voting took place, like well, if it's what I saw, well,
Speaker 1: it took place before Kavante Turpin's it was getting I
Speaker 1: thought it was the four Christmas. I thought it was
Speaker 1: before Christmas. Everything was done right, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: and then we need to go to a break. But
Speaker 1: by the way, it's ridiculous that the Pro Bowl, especially
Speaker 1: now because there's not a game to be played or
Speaker 1: you know, it's just whatever, the Pro Bowl voting takes
Speaker 1: place before the end of the season. Just wait, at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, you know, I mean yea
Speaker 1: nihem Hines kick returned two kickoffs for touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: last game of the season, and it's so rare this
Speaker 1: year that there have been any kickoff returns for touchdown
Speaker 1: and so had the voting occurred to this week, nihem
Speaker 1: Hines probably would have been a kick return bilt. Half
Speaker 1: the league wouldn't have been in their locker rooms to vote.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true. That's true. Yeah, you can't do
Speaker 1: anything online. All right, we'll be back with more mix
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Speaker 1: See my read was so much smoother, even once I
Speaker 1: finally got it once you, once I finally realized you
Speaker 1: guys were setting me up, but it was flawless, and
Speaker 1: you messed up on k post mofing you. That is
Speaker 1: like you're in your DNA right now, sleep now hessed
Speaker 1: many times. That's that's that's the beauty of it. When
Speaker 1: you're doing it in your sleep. You don't get it
Speaker 1: exactly right now what they call it beauty? Okay, just
Speaker 1: like they didn't get the first team All Pro exactly right. Well,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald made that list and he played and started
Speaker 1: eleven games this year, so he missed six games. He
Speaker 1: had five sacks. That's too many. Well, I mean this
Speaker 1: games missed, too many games missed? He had five sacks.
Speaker 1: A player missed five or more games as a week
Speaker 1: fifteen of the season, they were ineligible for a spot
Speaker 1: on the A team. That's what it says. It says
Speaker 1: if a player missed five or more games as of
Speaker 1: week fifteen. Okay, so that's when the voting occurred Week fifteen.
Speaker 1: He hadn't by then, he hadn't, Okay, he had He
Speaker 1: missed all the rest, yes sixteen, So that's why he qualified,
Speaker 1: and his five sacks got him First team All Pro.
Speaker 1: It was Aaron Donald, so he causes problems. J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt make it too, he did not um all right,
Speaker 1: final couple of minutes here of mixed shots and anything
Speaker 1: else in your legal pad you want to get to. No,
Speaker 1: I think we took care of the Tom Brady all
Speaker 1: right discussion. Then, since we just got a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes this seventeen game season, I think is something that
Speaker 1: should not have been done, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: It potentially is going to impact the NFL in a
Speaker 1: couple of years. And let me tell you why. All right,
Speaker 1: what we saw the last three weeks with the Cowboys. Okay,
Speaker 1: with starting with the Philadelphia game. The way, just take
Speaker 1: it from a Cowboys perspective, the last three games. How
Speaker 1: important were these last three games for the Cowboys? Oh,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia one was, It was important. However, going into
Speaker 1: that game, it was assumed by everybody Philadelphia is going
Speaker 1: to win one of these last three games. So the
Speaker 1: luster was taken off that game because of the jack
Speaker 1: lost to Jacksonville the day before. I mean, admittedly, for
Speaker 1: all of us going into that week, okay, well there's
Speaker 1: a chance, but how much of a chance really is
Speaker 1: there of the Cowboys winning the division because because Philadelphia
Speaker 1: had to lose three straight games the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: then you got the Tennessee game and Tennessee didn't have
Speaker 1: to play. I'm sorry that for me personally. I can
Speaker 1: just speak for me personally. The luster was off that
Speaker 1: game because from a practical matter, with three games left
Speaker 1: in the season, all they had to do was win
Speaker 1: one of these last three games. Okay, then the Tennessee game,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter from the Tennessee perspective. And then the
Speaker 1: last game Okay, yeah, technically Philadelphia can beat the Giant,
Speaker 1: you know, can lose the Giants whatever, But Hurtz is
Speaker 1: coming back. It's still it didn't feel and Washington was
Speaker 1: out of it. Okay, whereas before in a sixteen game season,
Speaker 1: then the last two games wouldn't have mattered, right, Well,
Speaker 1: then you diminished the last Oh no, here's what I'm
Speaker 1: because you had to play three more those games were important.
Speaker 1: I agree with. Here's here's what. When you have played
Speaker 1: more games, the value of the games are not as
Speaker 1: important as it when you play you play seventeen games,
Speaker 1: the value of the games are not as important as
Speaker 1: when you play sixteen games. I mean, it's a simple math.
Speaker 1: It just depends on it depends on how many how
Speaker 1: many backup or third string quarterbacks were playing in Week
Speaker 1: eighteen of this season. But that was because there's exactly
Speaker 1: there's extra games being played. The teams have been decided
Speaker 1: before they were but we had another extra game, okay.
Speaker 1: And so what we're looking at is because there there
Speaker 1: is more of a definition between the good teams and
Speaker 1: the bad teams. The more teams you play, just like
Speaker 1: in baseball, they play one hundred and sixty two games
Speaker 1: in a baseball season by the by August, you know which,
Speaker 1: the basically you have ten of the thirty teams that
Speaker 1: are knocked out of it. Okay, how drama there wasn't
Speaker 1: the same there there. I'm just telling you, as we
Speaker 1: go forward, there's not as gonna be the same drama
Speaker 1: in these with the extra game, with the seventeenth games,
Speaker 1: the drama in the league, all these teams had to
Speaker 1: do this. I disagree, right, I disagree. And here's and
Speaker 1: here's the other thing that's going to happen on it
Speaker 1: as we go forward and college football starts this playoff,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be more interest in that college football playoff
Speaker 1: the last three weeks of the NFL regular season than
Speaker 1: there is on the NFL games. When football start, college
Speaker 1: football starts, it's March matchess. You want better, get better,
Speaker 1: get ready for the eighteenth game. I know, and I'm
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I'm just telling you. It's I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: the more games you play, the less valuable the games are.
Speaker 1: And let's be real, guys. Now you start talking about
Speaker 1: playing more games, then you get into okay, well what
Speaker 1: happened with the sympathy and regards to the players themselves
Speaker 1: in their health. Then you go back to damar, right,
Speaker 1: and now you're like, Okay, do they really care about
Speaker 1: these players? But then you only play two preseasons. I
Speaker 1: can just tell you from my own perspective following this team,
Speaker 1: I felt like these LA three games were preseason games
Speaker 1: because it's already been determined. This team's going to the playoff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they where do they go in the playoffs? We
Speaker 1: still have we still have a chance to get home fields.
Speaker 1: Not much one, but go down. Tell you don't take
Speaker 1: that argument to Jacksonville. They wouldn't be in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: or Detroit, Green Bay or Seattle. Yeah, so that's with us, Yes,
Speaker 1: if that may be the outlook, but with these teams,
Speaker 1: that was crucial. I just I look around and I
Speaker 1: see way too many third string quarterbacks playing in Week eighteen.
Speaker 1: All right, We continue with more mix shots tomorrow at noon.
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