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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for mix shots
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls and what a great
Speaker 1: time to be a football fan in America as it
Speaker 1: is football time, not only in Texas but all across
Speaker 1: the Great USA. A lot of people didn't think we'd
Speaker 1: be at this point eventually, but we've got with one
Speaker 1: cut down day in the NFL on Saturday, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have begun preparations as we speak for the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams a week from Sunday. Micky, it's a great
Speaker 1: time to be alive in America as it isn't Oh,
Speaker 1: it certainly is, Bill, And you know what, we had
Speaker 1: football outdoors on a grass field today for practice, so
Speaker 1: moving right along. That new field is down and ready
Speaker 1: to go. Didn't rain any here this morning, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were able to practice outdoors. And yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if everybody thought we were going to get to
Speaker 1: this point, but we're here, and it looks like it
Speaker 1: just might work, at least for this first week of
Speaker 1: the season. Ever, since we're getting this season ready to
Speaker 1: go just under the gun, just like Mickey got here
Speaker 1: for mix shots, just under the gun. Right. Well, whether
Speaker 1: I like it or not, I'm the pessimist of this group,
Speaker 1: and I must admit I didn't even think we get
Speaker 1: this far. So I'm a little bit optimistic now. Uh My,
Speaker 1: my optimism was a little bit taper today because I
Speaker 1: thought Mick was gonna miss the whole show. All right,
Speaker 1: So you want me to pull back to Carton and
Speaker 1: tell you what happened? Yes, I was in dire need
Speaker 1: uh to go to the eye doctor because my glasses
Speaker 1: I sat on him and they were no longer workable.
Speaker 1: They were about in bad shape as my bicycle. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now, so you haven't been buying your bike, so
Speaker 1: your ass it's probably pretty big right now. Yeah, right, No,
Speaker 1: I've been riding the stationary bike, you know. I tell
Speaker 1: you I set to use now because I was gonna
Speaker 1: use Derek Douglas Barraclough's office because he hadn't been coming in. Well,
Speaker 1: he came in to day so anyway, I had I
Speaker 1: a doctor appointment, and I rushed back here just in
Speaker 1: time to do my fan report that's usually at twelve twenty,
Speaker 1: but it was at eleven twenty today because I think
Speaker 1: the Arrangers had an afternoon game. Ye, So I walked
Speaker 1: in just as they were going to me, and then
Speaker 1: I told them I have to be done at eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: and so we were done at eleven thirty, and here
Speaker 1: I am. I don't know about that, spags. If this
Speaker 1: was Eddie Robinson or Tom Landry, you would have been fined.
Speaker 1: If you're on time, you are late. Let's remember that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and for Joe Abazanos on time, I was
Speaker 1: ten minutes late, and Nicky. There are a lot of people.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who think you sat
Speaker 1: on your glasses a long time ago, and so they're
Speaker 1: very happy to hear that you now I have glasses
Speaker 1: where you know, I get some new ones, so maybe
Speaker 1: you can see right right. So what's your take on
Speaker 1: this football team now? As we are now down to
Speaker 1: forty eight hours away, a little over forty eight hours
Speaker 1: away from the cut down time in the NFL get
Speaker 1: down to fifty three, and had a practice this morning.
Speaker 1: They were in pads this morning. Weren't they had a practice? Yes,
Speaker 1: they were preseason and got another practice on Saturday. But
Speaker 1: obviously the decisions will be made to buy then on
Speaker 1: this fifty three man roster. Yeah. Absolutely, And they started
Speaker 1: making the decisions yesterday. I believe it was up to
Speaker 1: seven guys that they released, and really the only two
Speaker 1: guys you know of of somewhat note would have been
Speaker 1: Devin Smith, who was on the team last year. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to him. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: good training He just didn't do anything in training camp
Speaker 1: to kind of stand out, so they they let him go.
Speaker 1: And then Adam Redman, who was on IR the backup
Speaker 1: center guard candidate, they also let him go. So you know,
Speaker 1: those were the only two. You know, Mitch Hyatt had
Speaker 1: it's gonna need knee surgery. They least him injured. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll clear waivers and he'll go back onto injured reserve.
Speaker 1: So they started whittling down the eighty to get to
Speaker 1: fifty three. And you know, if you look at it, Bill,
Speaker 1: you know they've got a few decisions to make here
Speaker 1: and there, but nothing major. I don't think, and I
Speaker 1: don't see any you know, we get to this point
Speaker 1: and it's always, well, is there going to be a
Speaker 1: veteran that's gonna get let go that you didn't expect?
Speaker 1: And I just don't see that happening now. Davin Smith.
Speaker 1: That was a young man from Ohio State. Correct, Correct,
Speaker 1: And remember he had the really good game the first
Speaker 1: game he got in there, and then he kind of faded.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why is they they he
Speaker 1: didn't play special teams, and so they started using Ventel Bryant, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, a couple of days ago suffered a
Speaker 1: knee Well it was at the Cowboys night, right Bill,
Speaker 1: He suffered the knee injury in the warm up. So,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, it was a shame because I thought this
Speaker 1: guy had some talent and he certainly I did too.
Speaker 1: I did two spacks, I really did, and they just
Speaker 1: couldn't find a spot for him. So, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they it was one of those things where they do
Speaker 1: a veteran, kind of a veteran guy of favor, let
Speaker 1: him go early, give him an opportunity to latch on
Speaker 1: maybe with somebody else. Now, that would be a good
Speaker 1: thing because you know, and Bill will talk about it.
Speaker 1: You've got a great talent coming in as Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: That kind of ups your upsta Anne just a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: you gotta bring it now. Whatever you were doing last year,
Speaker 1: which was, you know, somewhat adequate. He had that touchdown
Speaker 1: first game of the season, beautiful touchdown, by the way,
Speaker 1: gave us a lot of hope and optimism for him.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, you don't hear anything from
Speaker 1: him for the rest of it, for the entire year.
Speaker 1: And now here he is in training camp. You got
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb coming in making plays, You've got this this
Speaker 1: great wide receiver corps. You gotta step your game up
Speaker 1: a little bit. You gotta do something different from last
Speaker 1: year because now you've got all these studs coming in
Speaker 1: here from college, and you've also got two studs that
Speaker 1: were already here in Gallop and the Cooper. So I
Speaker 1: guess he just did step his game up. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: then if you factor in the fact that Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: was healthy and really didn't he was one of the
Speaker 1: stars of training camp. You know, it kind of goes
Speaker 1: under the radar, but he had a really good training camp.
Speaker 1: Former I believe it was sixth round pick Boise State,
Speaker 1: and then Noah Brown kind of came out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and had a good camp. So there's your five right now.
Speaker 1: So now their question at wide receiver, are you good
Speaker 1: with five or do you want to keep a six guy?
Speaker 1: And and so we'll see where that decision goes. I'll
Speaker 1: point out we are on periscope as usual. I'm monitoring periscope,
Speaker 1: so if you have any comments, any questions, I can
Speaker 1: pass them along, and also monitoring Twitter as well. I'm
Speaker 1: at CBS eleven Bill Jones or Mick Shots. You can
Speaker 1: follow along there and ask any questions as we go along.
Speaker 1: So at the wide receiver position you're making, you're thinking
Speaker 1: to keep five the obviously the big three Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: and Noah Brown. And then and when what happens with
Speaker 1: Ben Tell Bryant. Yeah, we'll see with his injury situation
Speaker 1: with the knee, I mean, he might be a guy
Speaker 1: that you say, gosh, I really liked him. I can
Speaker 1: just put him on injured reserve at the final cut.
Speaker 1: And remember injured reserve this year is a little shorter
Speaker 1: and there's more movement that can take place there, so
Speaker 1: they may try to keep his try to keep his
Speaker 1: rights because I think that they liked what he could do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was another guy that would you know, the
Speaker 1: reason he was active at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: He was a special teams guy and that was something
Speaker 1: that like I said, Devin Smith wasn't and Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: you know, he would be one of their top two
Speaker 1: punt returners if you figure Seat Lamb if they're going
Speaker 1: to allow him to do that. But if they don't
Speaker 1: want him to do it full time, then Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: was doing it some last year. So yeah, five for sure,
Speaker 1: and then we'll see where I'm not sure anybody else's
Speaker 1: you know, John V. Johnson had a really nice last
Speaker 1: couple practices. I don't know if that's going to be
Speaker 1: enough to get him on the fifty three man roster,
Speaker 1: but I think it could get him on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: And remember the practice squads expanded this year to sixteen guys,
Speaker 1: and you have four spots that have no limit on
Speaker 1: ac crude seasons, so you could put a veteran on
Speaker 1: there if he clears waivers because at four or six
Speaker 1: I thought it was six spots or six spots, you're right, sorry, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I mean that's huge now, but they can
Speaker 1: protect up to four each week, right, correct, And then
Speaker 1: the other aspect, maybe we go through this practice squad.
Speaker 1: The situation, it's all because of COVID. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got a fifty three man roster, they cut down two
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Your game day roster is gonna be fifty five.
Speaker 1: So there's two players that can be promoted from the
Speaker 1: practice squad to the game day roster and then you
Speaker 1: can put them back on the practice squad without them
Speaker 1: having the clear waivers for the coming week, right right,
Speaker 1: And if you keep eight offensive linemen active on game day,
Speaker 1: you can stretch that to forty eight man roster for
Speaker 1: the game day instead of forty six. Yeah wow. So
Speaker 1: so anyway, and that's so it's gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 1: Of course, the cutdown is on Saturday afternoon, and then
Speaker 1: they clear waivers what by noon on Sunday, and then
Speaker 1: that's when the sixteen man practice squads are being put together.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting with veteran players. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can be a crusty old, fifteen year veteran, easy on
Speaker 1: that crusty old okay, and be on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: I like, no, no, you're exactly right. So the waiver
Speaker 1: claim ends at eleven o'clock and then at noon you
Speaker 1: can start signing guys to your practice squad. And Bill,
Speaker 1: that was one reason. And you know you were there
Speaker 1: Sunday night and you understood what they were doing. One
Speaker 1: reason why if you're gonna put sixty guys sixteen on
Speaker 1: your practice squad, and you're probably not poaching off somebody
Speaker 1: else's because you haven't seen those guys. So you want
Speaker 1: to keep as many as your own guys probably as
Speaker 1: you can. And they just didn't want to expose those
Speaker 1: guys out there because it was being streamed Bill Jones
Speaker 1: calling everything. So that's why there was no numbers on
Speaker 1: those jerseys, right, because Bill would have been all over
Speaker 1: all eighty of those guys that were playing, and they
Speaker 1: didn't want to help out the opposition. Bill, Bill, please
Speaker 1: don't help out the opposition. Well, yeah, I made sure
Speaker 1: it's so accurate in everything that you do. This is
Speaker 1: a time that we need you to just treat And
Speaker 1: by the way, Sean mcvain, he admitted in his press conference,
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday that he did watch the
Speaker 1: Cowboys scrimmage and reporters asked him about it, and he said,
Speaker 1: they didn't show anything, and so mission accomplished. As far
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys archid. I know fans out there, you
Speaker 1: had to be aggravating because you're thinking you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to watch a scrimmage. I never advertised it myself
Speaker 1: that we're going to be seeing a scrimmage. It was
Speaker 1: Cowboys night. This is Cowboys night. This is your chance
Speaker 1: to watch Cowboys on the sideline. And the whole reason
Speaker 1: for that was answered in Sean mcvay's press conference yesterday
Speaker 1: in La where he said, yeah, I watched, so they
Speaker 1: didn't show anything. So there you go. Hey, those other
Speaker 1: teams pay attention to what we do here, and you know,
Speaker 1: we get a lot of access to do stuff on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com. So yeah, you gotta watch out
Speaker 1: for that. You know, last year, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I told you this story. I was going up from
Speaker 1: the sideline at AT and T Stadium. The Cowboys were
Speaker 1: playing Philip Alfia and their radio analyst um former wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and he got on the elevator at the same time
Speaker 1: and all I said, Hi, introduced myself. I said, I
Speaker 1: remember you when you were playing. He goes, oh, I know,
Speaker 1: I know who you are. He goes, week week, the
Speaker 1: week of the game, we tune in the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot Com all the time. He goes, you guys are
Speaker 1: really good. We probably get we're really good at spilling
Speaker 1: all the secrets. That's what they're telling you. Yes, so
Speaker 1: you gotta you have to tone them that down just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I gotta admit, guys, I was very
Speaker 1: uh tickled by, uh, this little cat and mouse thing
Speaker 1: that we have going here. I mean here, we've got
Speaker 1: this dire situation here in this country, and that lays
Speaker 1: out certain rules for different teams to abide by, and
Speaker 1: here they are trying to pull pull the wool over
Speaker 1: everyone's eyes. And this is this is just gamesmanship at
Speaker 1: its finest. This is what I'm seeing right now. So
Speaker 1: we don't care what the heck is going on off
Speaker 1: the field at this point, as much as you know
Speaker 1: it is pretty serious. Let's see how we can sneak
Speaker 1: some plays in. Let's see how we can sneak some
Speaker 1: practices in and still be as undercover as possible while
Speaker 1: being right out front with everyone. I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: dog on ballsy coming from all the different coaches. McCarthy
Speaker 1: is one of them. I had spags. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: didn't do it, but I thought it would be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what teams that had new systems coming in
Speaker 1: if they played the same cat and mouse game that
Speaker 1: McCarthy did for the Cowboys. Sou Spags. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: didn't do it, right, I didn't. I didn't have time.
Speaker 1: When I'll guaranteed you sat on your glasses, you couldn't
Speaker 1: see anything. That's true too, that there was a lot
Speaker 1: of teams that probably didn't have scrimmages that they televised
Speaker 1: live like the Cowboys did. Because here you have to
Speaker 1: you know, in a normal season, of course, the preseason
Speaker 1: would be an opportunity for not only new teams with
Speaker 1: new systems to come in and practice it doing other
Speaker 1: other squads. That's the good thing, but it also you
Speaker 1: gotta show your hand when you do something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, now you don't have to show your hand.
Speaker 1: I put it like this. You could show your hand,
Speaker 1: but you just show the back of your cards. You're
Speaker 1: not showing the front of your cards. Is that how
Speaker 1: they're doing it? Well? Yeah, think about this. Ever, since
Speaker 1: you know all about paranoia, right, because at the old
Speaker 1: practice facility with the hotel at the end of one
Speaker 1: of the of the field their days in right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Texts would buy out the second floors because he was
Speaker 1: worried the Redskins during Redskins Week would have a spy
Speaker 1: up there renting a room to watch practice. And I
Speaker 1: believe that's true because when you start thinking about George Allen,
Speaker 1: the late George Allen, former coach of the Redskins, when
Speaker 1: you think about all the antics that he pulled while
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Redskins were having their rivalry, I could
Speaker 1: see him doing something like that. Do you ever have
Speaker 1: to take a cold shower in RFK after a game? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I have not, no, thank goodness for that. That's old
Speaker 1: school walk. Garrison told me the story. They came in
Speaker 1: and after the game and the shower the hot water
Speaker 1: was turned off, and he said, I ain't getting in there,
Speaker 1: and he just kind of got on the plane with
Speaker 1: all the grime on him, probably in his uniform. If
Speaker 1: you know wal Garrison, you know about spying on other
Speaker 1: teams or whatever. There's all sorts of different ways that
Speaker 1: teams can get information about other teams. And Rich Dalrymple
Speaker 1: prior to the Cowboys night broadcast the other night reminded
Speaker 1: me of a story from a Super Bowl twenty eight
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson. You know, that was a year that the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: There was there was only one week in between the
Speaker 1: conference championship games and the Super Bowl, so the Cowboys
Speaker 1: went straight to Atlanta for that week. And so Jimmy
Speaker 1: one day that week, Jimmy Johnson was in his hotel room,
Speaker 1: probably drinking a Heideken or two, and it had his
Speaker 1: TV on, and there was a television report. There was
Speaker 1: a TV reporter who was broadcasting from the Bills practice site.
Speaker 1: You could see the Buffalo Bills practicing in the background there,
Speaker 1: and so Jimmy starts looking a little bit closer at
Speaker 1: the screen, looking not paying any attention to the reporter
Speaker 1: or what he was saying. He was looking at what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Bills back there, and he sees
Speaker 1: he sees them run a shovel pass to Thurman Thomas,
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly with a shovel pass to Thurman Thomas. And
Speaker 1: he said, whoa wait a second, what is that? So
Speaker 1: we called Butch Davis up and said, Butch, in all
Speaker 1: our work on the Bills. Have we seen them throw
Speaker 1: a shovel pass? And but no, they have not run
Speaker 1: a shovel pass. There's no time this season they run
Speaker 1: a shovel pass. Okay, So fast forward to Sunday in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and the Bills run a shovel pass
Speaker 1: and James Washington was right there to put a stop
Speaker 1: to it. They had a emmlar played later in the
Speaker 1: game that wasn't a shovel pass, but it was a
Speaker 1: similar concept and Leon let force to fumble, James Washington
Speaker 1: picked it up and ran fifty yards for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Two huge plays in the game. But that shovel passed
Speaker 1: was something that they picked up just off a local
Speaker 1: TV broadcast. Well, Bill, let me let me tell you
Speaker 1: opposite paranoia of the Bills. So when they were in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl the year before playing the Cowboys, it
Speaker 1: was in Minneapolis, right, and they were at they were
Speaker 1: practicing indoors at the University of Minnesota, and I was
Speaker 1: the pool reporter for the AFC team, so I got
Speaker 1: to watch practice and just basically right a sanitized report. Well,
Speaker 1: the Bill Polian and their security guys saw the lights
Speaker 1: come on on the second floor where the Minnesota coaches
Speaker 1: offices were and they went crazy. They went and found
Speaker 1: somebody to go up there, closed those curtains and turned
Speaker 1: the lights on, right, And I was like, oh wow.
Speaker 1: So the next year they're practicing at Southern Cow and
Speaker 1: the Southern Cow h football field they were practicing on
Speaker 1: at the end of it was the campus pool. They
Speaker 1: wanted them to shut down the high dive because they
Speaker 1: were worried that somebody would have been spying on the practice, right,
Speaker 1: And so I'm watching this and they're I mean, they're
Speaker 1: going nuts. And then the next thing I hear is
Speaker 1: there was a dormitory, a high rise dorm and there
Speaker 1: were students out on the balcony that overlooked the field.
Speaker 1: They wanted them to shut down that dormitory, don't let
Speaker 1: them out there. And I'm thinking, you ought to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more worried about stopping Emmett Smith and
Speaker 1: worrying about the students that probably don't even have any
Speaker 1: idea what's going on on that field. And I was right,
Speaker 1: because they didn't worry about him at Smith or Troy Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you talk about the shovel pass,
Speaker 1: you talk about all of that. It didn't make much
Speaker 1: of a difference in the game. I mean that those
Speaker 1: were big plays Bill, as you mentioned they turned out
Speaker 1: to be, but to me, those were just uh stack plays.
Speaker 1: By that time, the game was pretty much all the
Speaker 1: way out of hand. Well no, no, this is the
Speaker 1: game in Atlanta. This was the close one in Atlanta. Interesting, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so uh and so yeah, the Bills needed to be
Speaker 1: more concerned about that TV reporter doing a stand up.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine someone on the high dive with a
Speaker 1: with a big camera on his shoulder. Yeah, tried to
Speaker 1: get and you know how laid back people in La are.
Speaker 1: I'm sure those students had no clue what was going on,
Speaker 1: but I was. I was interested in watching it, right,
Speaker 1: And I remember, you know, they they practiced pretty light,
Speaker 1: and I know Jimmy had him knocking heads over at UCLA,
Speaker 1: and so the I want to say it was the
Speaker 1: Thursday practice, maybe it was Friday, and they weren't in pads,
Speaker 1: and I looked out on the field and Shane Conline
Speaker 1: made made eye contact with the coaches on the sideline
Speaker 1: and it was like the practice was running a little long,
Speaker 1: and he huld up his wrists like this, and he
Speaker 1: had a watch on and it was like, Hey, time
Speaker 1: to quit, and I'm going this team's in trouble. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like they hadn't lost one Super
Speaker 1: Bowl already. Yeah. No, they hadn't lost two already. They
Speaker 1: were on their way to two more. All right, it's
Speaker 1: getting started here on mix shots when we come back
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. What are is it now? Ten days away? Yep?
Speaker 1: With September third, September thirteenth the opener against the Rams
Speaker 1: and that Brand News Stadium in LA and then the
Speaker 1: home opener the following week against the Atlanta Falcons. It
Speaker 1: will be here before you know it. And basically, Mickey,
Speaker 1: they've started preparations on the on the Rams and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy with his press conference at seven fifteen sharp this morning,
Speaker 1: I know you were tuned in for it, weren't you, Mickey.
Speaker 1: I was sitting there and watching it as no matter
Speaker 1: you were sitting there there, So this was this was
Speaker 1: like an in person that was well, no, it wasn't
Speaker 1: in person, but we no, no, but it was in
Speaker 1: the press conference room, Yeah, it was. Orders were there.
Speaker 1: They've got a new system now. Instead of just calling
Speaker 1: into the WebEx number, Uh, they've set up a spot
Speaker 1: in the socially distance in the press conference room with
Speaker 1: a big screen and I believe Mike can see us
Speaker 1: and we can see him, and uh, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more organized, so everybody's not talking over each other
Speaker 1: trying to ask a question. So on a regular basis
Speaker 1: during the season, are they're gonna be seven fifteen ams? No?
Speaker 1: I think I hope to god this was the last one.
Speaker 1: That's a that's an early wake up call to you know,
Speaker 1: I guess you could watch it at all. In my
Speaker 1: time it's over. You got to rush here for the
Speaker 1: start of the eight o'clock practice. So I usually get
Speaker 1: here around ten to seven, seven o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: which means with a half hour commute, I was getting
Speaker 1: up at five in the morning to get here, and uh,
Speaker 1: we thought we were done with them, but he surprised
Speaker 1: us and had another early one today. But I think
Speaker 1: normally they're gonna practice at I think ten thirty, eleven thirty,
Speaker 1: whatever the cowboys were doing last year, I think eleven fifteen. Uh,
Speaker 1: those will be the normal morning practices. And you know
Speaker 1: he likes to go outside, so uh, they rushed to
Speaker 1: get that field that had a fungus on it out
Speaker 1: of there and laid down an entirely new sided field
Speaker 1: like in two days and it's ready to go, and
Speaker 1: they practiced on it today. They practice outside, and yes, okay, absolutely,
Speaker 1: this is all. This is all why the rain was
Speaker 1: happening and all of that. Uh, they welcomed the rain
Speaker 1: the other day because it that new side was sitting there.
Speaker 1: I guarantee those blades of grass were clapping. Get all
Speaker 1: that free water like that road. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: reason there was a hole in a root. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: that nice grass, that nice natural grass we had on
Speaker 1: the on the on the floor. Yeah. Good Lord knew
Speaker 1: that that that sod was in and needed some rain.
Speaker 1: And so the brain's pain this week. Well, here's what
Speaker 1: I want to know. Here's what I love. I want
Speaker 1: to know here about you and uh Jerry Spags. I mean,
Speaker 1: you guys were like squeezing each other's You guys were
Speaker 1: squeezing each other's apples before the social distancing and everything
Speaker 1: was going on. Now more intimate readings. I'm glad you
Speaker 1: were reading because you know everybody, uh, and Jerry talks
Speaker 1: about all the protocols they go through, and you know
Speaker 1: the testing that people have to do here that are
Speaker 1: around the team, uh each morning when they come into
Speaker 1: the facility, if you're in Tier one or Tier two,
Speaker 1: and then masking up right, and so when we and
Speaker 1: Bill knows, we walk around the hallways here, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta have your mask on. So I was getting
Speaker 1: in the elevator the other day and the door uh
Speaker 1: it was like good, oh, hold on, it was Jerry
Speaker 1: and he was getting in the elevator at the same time,
Speaker 1: and he had his mask on. So don't think just
Speaker 1: because you own the place, you don't have to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, go through all the protocols. And we stood
Speaker 1: on each side of the elevator because the sign said
Speaker 1: no more than two people in the same elevator. And
Speaker 1: so Jerry and I wrote up together but he had
Speaker 1: his mask on. Okay, Nicky, what you make out of
Speaker 1: what Dak Prescott had to say at his press conference yesterday.
Speaker 1: In particular, he wrote about it in nick shots the
Speaker 1: fuller plate that appears that he may have had to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody see everybody keeps asking about the changes in the offense,
Speaker 1: and you know, every time Dak or Mike answers the questions,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, we're gonna use a lot of
Speaker 1: what we did last year, and this just kind of
Speaker 1: add to it, right, and and why not? The offense
Speaker 1: was pretty good. The problem was, Yeah, it was pretty
Speaker 1: good move the football. They just didn't score enough when
Speaker 1: they got in the red zone, right. But it was
Speaker 1: the number one offense in the National Football League, the
Speaker 1: number two passing offense. So when Dak was trying to
Speaker 1: explain what might be different, his explanation was, I'm getting
Speaker 1: more control of what we're doing on the field, like
Speaker 1: in two minute drills, you know, calling my own plays
Speaker 1: during the game, getting the plays that I really like,
Speaker 1: and coordinating with Kellen Moore. And it sounds like Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's kind of encouraging that to give him a little
Speaker 1: bit more authority, and you know, we forget about it
Speaker 1: because it seems like he just got here yesterday. This
Speaker 1: is this fifth season. You know, this is a guy
Speaker 1: and has started what every game for four years. So
Speaker 1: we're talking about an experienced quarterback, and so they're giving
Speaker 1: them sounds like more leeway in decision making in game
Speaker 1: and on the field when it comes to play calling.
Speaker 1: You know. And we can talk about Dak and the
Speaker 1: offense and all the excellence that we had seen last
Speaker 1: year and even some of the mistakes that we were
Speaker 1: able to view, but let's just face it, guys, and
Speaker 1: we always try and build up a particular facet of
Speaker 1: the game or a particular individual in a ball game.
Speaker 1: We dwell on either their greatness or we dwell on
Speaker 1: their failures. What I learned all while I played is
Speaker 1: that I don't care how great you are as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to have some help. And if
Speaker 1: you don't have help, you're going to be great all
Speaker 1: by yourself, and that does not lead to wins. One
Speaker 1: thing that you saw last year Tom Brady average season,
Speaker 1: but he played with a great defense and that's what
Speaker 1: got them as far as they went. Anytime you see
Speaker 1: a team that is coached well with very few penalties.
Speaker 1: They might have a culture of being a smart team
Speaker 1: that doesn't shoot themselves in the foot. You can also
Speaker 1: look at other teams out there that have all three
Speaker 1: fasties of the game working together offense, defense, and special teams.
Speaker 1: How many times have you seen special teams in the
Speaker 1: critical part of a game, especially during the playoffs and
Speaker 1: whether the games really have significance. Have you seen that
Speaker 1: special teams come in and put your offense in a
Speaker 1: great position or pull them out of the hole that
Speaker 1: they could have been in, whether it's for a great
Speaker 1: return or whether it's for a block, something that makes
Speaker 1: a difference in the ballgame. Of course, I'm always harping
Speaker 1: on turnovers. These are things that the greatest quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL have been privy to in regards to their
Speaker 1: teammates and other fascists of the game. So while we're
Speaker 1: looking at what Dak is doing, we must look at
Speaker 1: other fastest of the game. We're talking about the practice
Speaker 1: teams and what you're able to keep. We're also talking
Speaker 1: about probably starters playing special teams. Because at this point
Speaker 1: we've shown that our special teams has not except for
Speaker 1: the kicking game. Our special teams has not really shown
Speaker 1: up for us, and we leave it to our offense
Speaker 1: to make eighty yard drives every time we get the ball.
Speaker 1: There has to be a moment in this organization to
Speaker 1: where we realize that there are other fastest of the
Speaker 1: game and they all go together as three, they all
Speaker 1: go together, and if we're going to go to a championship,
Speaker 1: we can't just depend on our offense. We've seen that
Speaker 1: we must. We must have other fastest of the game
Speaker 1: working for us this season, because that's the only way
Speaker 1: you're gonna get past the Baltimore's, the Rams, the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, all those teams are that are well coached
Speaker 1: through every asset of the game, every fast of the game.
Speaker 1: We got to have that. We must, you know, Nicki,
Speaker 1: one of the things things that I noticed in the
Speaker 1: in the practice on Sunday was in the two minute drill.
Speaker 1: It seemed to be pretty crisp, and uh, it's what
Speaker 1: have you noticed throughout your couple of weeks of watching
Speaker 1: the team practice in terms of a two minute drill?
Speaker 1: You know what? It's almost like the entire practice is
Speaker 1: a two minute drill. Because Mike McCarthy's big on tempo
Speaker 1: in practice, not only tempo of running a lot of plays,
Speaker 1: but I think it also has a conditioning aspect to
Speaker 1: it that there's not a lot of standing around, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of a lot of times, there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of huddles. You know, they're running different guys
Speaker 1: in and out. So from from a two minute standpoint, yeah,
Speaker 1: they do practice that, but they also the tempo and
Speaker 1: practice picks up greatly. Uh. And it's like sometimes I
Speaker 1: catch myself writing down, Oh, they're in two minute. Well
Speaker 1: they're not really in two minute, but uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: the pace that they go at. But yeah, and the
Speaker 1: thing that stuck out to me from Sunday was the
Speaker 1: fact that he's got a lot of trust in Blake Jarwin,
Speaker 1: his tight end. He'll go to him in those two
Speaker 1: minute drills and they're not a little dump off passes.
Speaker 1: You know, He's putting them in in situations to get
Speaker 1: down the field. And I don't think that's any secret
Speaker 1: because that was his strength last year when he was
Speaker 1: catching passes. But I thought that was a good sign
Speaker 1: that Dak has confidence in his tight end who's trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, make his way in the NFL. Uh. You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing is is using Zeke and that's no surprise.
Speaker 1: He caught fifty some passes last year. You know. I
Speaker 1: keep hearing people say, well, you know Zeke's deal was
Speaker 1: when he does his interview, It's like, yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: practicing catching the ball more. I've been practicing lining up
Speaker 1: and doing it as a wide receiver a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, they're gonna start throwing the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: they he caught fifty some passes last year. It's not
Speaker 1: like they Nordom, and a lot of them weren't dump
Speaker 1: off passes. So the versatility to this offense I think
Speaker 1: helps Bill during a two minute drill. And these guys
Speaker 1: seem to understand that when they catch the ball on
Speaker 1: the sideline, you get out of bounds right. You don't
Speaker 1: turn up field like someone did the year before or
Speaker 1: two years before. Well, one thing you have to realize
Speaker 1: is the Cowboys an't gonna need that change of pace
Speaker 1: Bill and Spats. They're gonna need that change of pace.
Speaker 1: There are times last year where even though the offense
Speaker 1: is playing great, there were times when we fell into
Speaker 1: a little bit of a low we just kept trying
Speaker 1: to do the same thing over and over again, falling
Speaker 1: behind and then having to come into the second half
Speaker 1: with all of these passes and the up tempo offense.
Speaker 1: There's a time to do that in the first half
Speaker 1: as well. I think what coach McCarthy is doing, he's
Speaker 1: trying to work on his tempo, controlling the game and
Speaker 1: not letting the opposition's defense control the tempo of the
Speaker 1: game for our offense. I think that's a really good
Speaker 1: UH practice UH demonstration. I think it's also good that
Speaker 1: the players and UH offensively, especially on the same page
Speaker 1: with that, because they're gonna be some some very hectic
Speaker 1: moments out there to where we can't let the uh
Speaker 1: that activity, that upbeating activity mess with our thinking process.
Speaker 1: So if they could be, if they could be on
Speaker 1: the same page while they're in a chaotic situation, to me,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be that's gonna bode well for us offensively.
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing I noticed building practices, especially
Speaker 1: in the individual drills with the quarterbacks. UM they do
Speaker 1: a lot of drills like throwing the ball off schedule,
Speaker 1: and what I mean is it's not just taking a
Speaker 1: five step drop or seven step drop or catching it
Speaker 1: and shotgun and throwing the ball. They've got them doing
Speaker 1: these drills, moving in and outside pylons and cones, moving
Speaker 1: with their feet and then having to throw the ball
Speaker 1: on the run. And it just kind of it made
Speaker 1: me think back to Aaron Rodgers. How good he was
Speaker 1: at that? Right, Yeah, how good he was at that?
Speaker 1: And maybe you can practice that. And that's one of
Speaker 1: those drills where they they throw into that net and
Speaker 1: there's there's uh three rectangular uttle pockets in there, and
Speaker 1: you're supposed to throw and hit in the pocket, and
Speaker 1: you score points the more you throw in there. And uh,
Speaker 1: he's got him moving in and out, in and out
Speaker 1: over over over, and then throw the ball on the
Speaker 1: run and and and this day and age, you've got
Speaker 1: to be able to throw the ball with your arm
Speaker 1: at different slots, uh and and off your wrong foot sometimes.
Speaker 1: And so that's one of the drills I've noticed that
Speaker 1: I thought was very interesting. You know, it's not by
Speaker 1: accident that Aaron Rodgers has been able to make those
Speaker 1: offer platform grows in different armings and so forth. It's
Speaker 1: something that you that he's practiced in the years. And
Speaker 1: there's probably some ideas that McCarthy got in coaching Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers that he added to his practice regiment to be
Speaker 1: able to get hit work in those types of situations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen them throw those sky high hill marys. No,
Speaker 1: we don't want to get into that situation hopefully. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: only at the end of the half. But you can
Speaker 1: imagine if if the Cowboys are going to play with
Speaker 1: with more tempo on offense, there has to be more
Speaker 1: on Dak's play because there's gonna be decisions that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to make on the run. Oh. Absolutely. And
Speaker 1: you know the versatility they have even with their wide
Speaker 1: receivers um, you know, you can do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things, same thing with your tight end. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the versatility of this offense may increase. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not running fancy plays and not a lot of gimmicks.
Speaker 1: You know, there's only and Everson knows this, there's only
Speaker 1: so many pass patterns you can run, right, That's true.
Speaker 1: And it's like you're not reinventing the wheel. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of timing and how you call it. And
Speaker 1: he's relying on Kellen Moore more and more and so
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting, but he also didn't want to
Speaker 1: have to change, especially without an offseason on the field,
Speaker 1: without preseason games. You know, if you can keep some
Speaker 1: continuity between your quarterback and the offensive coordinator, I think
Speaker 1: that's huge. And as McCarthy talked about this morning, I mean,
Speaker 1: he came into his interview with the Cowboys with the
Speaker 1: feeling that he wanted to do to keep Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: as as the offensive coordinator. I mean, obviously he had
Speaker 1: studied the Cowboys intently throughout less season and knew a
Speaker 1: lot about Kellen Moore even before he met him. And
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting this morning and was talking about, Yea,
Speaker 1: he was my guy. He was one of the first
Speaker 1: decisions I made was keeping him as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, at his first interview, when
Speaker 1: he was asked about, uh, you know, keeping Kellen Moore,
Speaker 1: he pointed out that he goes I was on to
Speaker 1: him before I even got this job, and he said
Speaker 1: I had made my mind up that if I went
Speaker 1: somewhere else and he was available, I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: him on. I liked what he was doing. But here's
Speaker 1: I would pay for this to happen. Because what was
Speaker 1: the big criticism of the Cowboys last year that the
Speaker 1: first play of the game or the first down they
Speaker 1: would hand off to Zeke. If the first play of
Speaker 1: the year this year is a handoff to Zeke, I
Speaker 1: will roll on the floor laughing. Okay, what will what
Speaker 1: will you do again? What I said, I will roll
Speaker 1: on the floor laughing, like that was the problem this
Speaker 1: That's why that was the problem with the offense, right,
Speaker 1: because they handed the ball to Zeke too much. And
Speaker 1: now the question is, well, with all these receivers and
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, will Zeke ever touched the ball? And
Speaker 1: it's like, this is the best running back Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: ever had. All right, when we come back here on
Speaker 1: Mick Shots, Mickey, I want you to cut down this
Speaker 1: roster for me, okay. And there's there's much more to
Speaker 1: get to as well. Here's all my notes right now
Speaker 1: if you want to see them. But from SPADs, you
Speaker 1: have no notes on what I asked you to do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: to know what the other four teams with new coaches
Speaker 1: were doing in the off season, SPADs is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll get right on that walls. Yeah, thanks a lot time.
Speaker 1: Time just flies for some reason I don't understand. So
Speaker 1: the question again, ever since this one, we wanted to
Speaker 1: find out if all of the other teams that had
Speaker 1: new systems and new coaches coming in to this year
Speaker 1: if they were playing the same cat and mouse games
Speaker 1: that coach McCarthy did in regards to no numbers and
Speaker 1: no names on the back of the Josephs. All right,
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Speaker 1: for Mickey and Everson here and Mickey you write about
Speaker 1: the decisions, the roster decisions that have to be made
Speaker 1: here over the course of the next forty eight hours
Speaker 1: and you don't expect very many surprises, do you. I
Speaker 1: really don't. I kind of went through it, and you know,
Speaker 1: it just seems like when you look at contracts and
Speaker 1: the guarantees on some of them, I don't see where
Speaker 1: you would see a huge surprise. We talked about the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. We gave you five, would they keep six?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if, and we talked about
Speaker 1: who that might be. You figured they're going to keep
Speaker 1: three tight ends, right, and that's pretty cut and dry
Speaker 1: between Darwin Schultz and Blake Bell. Don't think anybody's gonna
Speaker 1: argue there. Quarterbacks? Would you keep three because de Nucis
Speaker 1: looked pretty good? They cut Clayton Thorson already, or so
Speaker 1: you keep three quarters? And I think the decision maybe
Speaker 1: at running back, we know they're going to keep two.
Speaker 1: Do they want a third? You know, those two guys
Speaker 1: have looked good, but I imagine every team has a
Speaker 1: guy like that on their roster right now. Between Anderson
Speaker 1: and Donald, you know, practice squad guys. Do you want
Speaker 1: a fullback? Maybe you want another full tight end instead
Speaker 1: of a fullback. Ola Nlua has looked good when he's
Speaker 1: gotten opportunities, but there haven't been that many opportunities. And
Speaker 1: then when you look at the offensive line, do you
Speaker 1: keep ten? You know, I can get to nine. I
Speaker 1: don't know who that tenth guy might be. So those
Speaker 1: are some of the decision offensively that you you you
Speaker 1: certainly would have to consider, okay. And then you look
Speaker 1: at the defensive side of the ball. Uh ten defensive lineman, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think and I think I think like nine of
Speaker 1: them uh seem to be uh you know, okay, the
Speaker 1: tenth one, I think you might have to decide between
Speaker 1: uh your was it the fifth round pick Bradley and
Speaker 1: I uh and then last year's sixth round pick Joe Jackson.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can't have both of those. Maybe you just
Speaker 1: get one of them. And really, Michael, let's wreak it down.
Speaker 1: Let's break it down inside guys, outside, guys on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. Okay, inside, obviously you've got done Terry Poe
Speaker 1: and Antoine Woods, Tristan Hill, Neville Gallimore. There's four, right,
Speaker 1: there is Tyrone Crawford. What's he can He's I think
Speaker 1: he's an either Okay, so he's either or right. So
Speaker 1: there's five guys who can play inside right there? Right?
Speaker 1: Four that are legit or for sure inside a fifth
Speaker 1: who was a versatile, all right defensive end with DeMarcus Lawrence, Everson, Griffin,
Speaker 1: Alden Smith. There's three right there. You mentioned Joe Jackson,
Speaker 1: Dorian's Armstrong grew up to five there, so I think
Speaker 1: four for sure with Armstrong and then and then maybe
Speaker 1: either And that's why I didn't even mention any the
Speaker 1: so An I or Jackson. Yeah, I think that's what
Speaker 1: it probably comes down to there. So I just listed
Speaker 1: eleven defensive lineman right there right, and you could go
Speaker 1: long there, you go short somewhere else. You know, they
Speaker 1: only have seven linebackers on the roster right now. You
Speaker 1: could make a case to keep them all. I think
Speaker 1: Francis Bernard, the rookie free agent, has had a nice camp.
Speaker 1: Can you get him on the practice squad? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then what's going to happen with Sean Lee who
Speaker 1: is yet to practice? You know, does he go on
Speaker 1: an injured list to start the season, And then you
Speaker 1: could qualify keeping h Francis Bernard for sure if that happens,
Speaker 1: or what if Sean Lee is ready to go and
Speaker 1: they just uh and I love it. Bubble wrapped him
Speaker 1: another term we used to do. It's no longer trevl
Speaker 1: lit here in twenty twenty. So there's there's that that
Speaker 1: but to me that the linebacker thing too. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a no brainer right there. And then you
Speaker 1: get to the DVS and I think if you look
Speaker 1: at the numbers we just talked about with three special
Speaker 1: teams guys, you could qualify keeping ten defensive backs and
Speaker 1: this one might be more up in the air than
Speaker 1: the other decisions we talked about if you think about it,
Speaker 1: and we can go through that bill if you want, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's have at it. So numerically, I'll just
Speaker 1: go from the top. You've got Darien Thompson at safe,
Speaker 1: d chitabey O Woozier, Xavier Woods, Jordan Lewis, Haha, Clinton Dix,
Speaker 1: Darryl Worley who can play safety or can play some cornerback,
Speaker 1: and he had been in the slot quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Uh C. J. Goodwin had been a corner that you
Speaker 1: used basically last year as a special team's guy. Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs and then Donovan Wilson from last year. You
Speaker 1: liked them at Reggie Robinson you drafted in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: I don't know right there. Yeah, that gives you eleven already.
Speaker 1: And I had even brought up Chris Chris Westry or
Speaker 1: Deonte Burton who has shown up at times too. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if they go along at a position in short,
Speaker 1: somewhere else, it might be in the secondary, just because
Speaker 1: I think they've got a bunch of guys there that
Speaker 1: they would like to hang on to, especially for like
Speaker 1: we talked about the special teams purposes, it seems like
Speaker 1: they're trying to get a lot of starters and a
Speaker 1: lot of experience on special teams or any linebackers being
Speaker 1: considered to be kept on the team simply because of
Speaker 1: special team's abilities on special teams potential, because it'd be
Speaker 1: great to have some of those studs on kick coverage
Speaker 1: and Putmton and things of that nature. Yeah, if Bernard
Speaker 1: makes the team or makes the you know, forty six
Speaker 1: or forty eight, certainly he's a special teamer. Joe Thomas
Speaker 1: plays special teams. Justin March Justin March is a special teamer,
Speaker 1: and then Luke Gifford would play there. Although he's still
Speaker 1: not practicing us. He's been nursing an injury and just
Speaker 1: kind of working on the cords. So and then other
Speaker 1: than your two starters Jalen Smith and Layton Vanderish, probably
Speaker 1: not on special teams. So those other five guys or
Speaker 1: four guys, because they're not going to put Shawn Lee
Speaker 1: out there. We're basically your special teams guys. So you
Speaker 1: might go, you know, you might instead of six linebackers,
Speaker 1: you might keep seven, you know. And then there's also
Speaker 1: you know, the what happens if somebody releases a guy
Speaker 1: and you go, oh, I would really rather have him
Speaker 1: than who I got, and and so there's always that possibility.
Speaker 1: But those things don't take place, I think until well,
Speaker 1: they'll clear waivers, like I said, but it depends on
Speaker 1: when they release them. Now it regards to excuse me, Bill,
Speaker 1: it was glards to Thompson. Now, that was a dB
Speaker 1: that was making all the plays last year, making the
Speaker 1: interceptions and and and practice and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: Am I am I speaking correctly? No, it was Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 1: How's he looking this year? Yeah, he's he hasn't got
Speaker 1: as many opportunities to to to play with the front
Speaker 1: line guys. Uh, And so you know, but I don't
Speaker 1: think they're ready to give up on him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a safety. Now they've got other guys that
Speaker 1: you know, can play safety, you know the versatility. Uh
Speaker 1: so can he play special teams? And when he was
Speaker 1: on the forty six man roster last year, he was
Speaker 1: a special teamer and he was pretty darn good too,
Speaker 1: So I would think that that gives him an inside
Speaker 1: track to remaining on this roster. Okay, when they when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are scanning the waiver wire, Mickey, what position
Speaker 1: are you looking at if you're scanning the waiver wire
Speaker 1: for this Cowboys team? Which is the position you're really
Speaker 1: looking hard at? Offensive line? Because specifically offensive tackle tackle? Right,
Speaker 1: because other than Cam Irving, who has versatility, I mean
Speaker 1: he's actually played guard, uh tackle and has had his
Speaker 1: hand on the football playing center. But after him, uh
Speaker 1: and with Mitch Hyatt, uh gonna have knee surgery and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happened with Brandon Knight. I don't know
Speaker 1: that they have another guy as a tackle that they
Speaker 1: would want to keep on the on the roster as
Speaker 1: a backup, or even a guy that's a um, you know,
Speaker 1: developmental guy, because um, if you if you look at it.
Speaker 1: I mean Terrence Steele, I mean he's one of the
Speaker 1: few guys left that's played tackle. Um okay, and then
Speaker 1: they also have Isaac Alcorn or Mexico Mexico. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: the international player. All right, let me ask you this
Speaker 1: because we all it's it's basically on this day. This
Speaker 1: is this is be the day of the last preseason game,
Speaker 1: a Thursday. It seems like every other year the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are making a trade that's a quote unquote minor trade
Speaker 1: on the around the last preseason game. As you get
Speaker 1: closer to cut down day. All right, you're say there's
Speaker 1: a young player offensive tackle on a team that you're
Speaker 1: interested in. You want to were you if you were
Speaker 1: to work a trade and you're trading from another position
Speaker 1: group work at the Cowboys work a trade like that.
Speaker 1: They said, from that defensive line depth that that you
Speaker 1: have where you might be able to swing something. Maybe
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, it does look a little crowded if
Speaker 1: somebody needed something there. You know, for the defensive line
Speaker 1: that we mentioned, the guys that you might trade didn't
Speaker 1: really wouldn't have played that much. When you're talking to
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, right, you know, one of the interesting guys
Speaker 1: is seventy nine justin Hamilton. He has shown up at
Speaker 1: times in practice, but again I don't know. You know
Speaker 1: what you could get for a guy like that, and
Speaker 1: he may be a perfect guy, a perfect candidate for
Speaker 1: your practice squad. Did you may not want to, you know,
Speaker 1: And as you say, if you if you think you
Speaker 1: have excess and you don't think you're gonna get much
Speaker 1: for him, you you might roll the dice and say, well,
Speaker 1: I can get him on the practice squad and I
Speaker 1: can keep him. I'll tell you what, guys, I still
Speaker 1: have nightmares, and I'm sure that Dad Prescott does as well.
Speaker 1: Of the Atlanta Falcons game, when his backside was never protected.
Speaker 1: We allowed a defensive lineman for the Falcons to make
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl in one game he made his career.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gotten four sacks since he played
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. So we understand how important that tackle
Speaker 1: position is. Would we let's say, God forbid, Thaylon goes
Speaker 1: down again? You know we're looking at some problems. I
Speaker 1: think the problem in the Falcons game was we didn't
Speaker 1: make the adjustment. That coaching staff did not make the
Speaker 1: adjustment I think it would be different here with this
Speaker 1: coaching staff. But at the same time, that's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: you having to relieve other areas just so that you
Speaker 1: can show up the protection of your quarterbacks backside. You
Speaker 1: think they would be willing to go as as deep
Speaker 1: as uh into our wide receive a position if we
Speaker 1: had to give up something that we would go as
Speaker 1: deep as a way to receive a position, because that's
Speaker 1: so attractive for us, you know, And I get that, Everson,
Speaker 1: but think about this. If you've got a good backup
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, you probably don't have two of them, and
Speaker 1: I think those are the that position there is so
Speaker 1: hard to find. And your your points good though, because
Speaker 1: think about this. So, say you know Collins has had
Speaker 1: some back issues that have flared up. They flared up
Speaker 1: last year, they flared up in the offseason. Say he's
Speaker 1: not ready to go for the first game, Okay, so
Speaker 1: Cam Irving's starting. Now, who's your backup tackle? And and
Speaker 1: and when you look at the list, it's like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe one of those guards have to
Speaker 1: move out and help me out at tackle. Brandon Night
Speaker 1: started a game last year, right, But as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: that he looked like he might have done a little
Speaker 1: something to himself. Today, Mitch Hyatt's gone. So the only
Speaker 1: tackles are Cody Cody Whitman is the only other tackle.
Speaker 1: And why are not White Miller? They cut him? Steel,
Speaker 1: Tarrant Steele. Those are the only two other tackles that
Speaker 1: are healthy that are on this roster. So I would
Speaker 1: keep my eyes open for that. But chances are people
Speaker 1: aren't given up on a developmental tackle because they're so
Speaker 1: hard to find. Yeah, every team's got the same problem
Speaker 1: at offensive tackle. So Micky, what do we what's our
Speaker 1: schedule next week? Next week? I think we're supposed to
Speaker 1: start a daily podcast Tuesday. Uh, and right now it's
Speaker 1: at one thirty, and that might be subject to change. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's all the all the podcasts go daily starting Tuesday,
Speaker 1: starting Tuesday, right, we're uh, we got other stuff to
Speaker 1: do to labor on Labor Day, right, Yeah, So can
Speaker 1: you believe it, Mike, Mike McCarthy said it today. I
Speaker 1: can't believe Labor Day's already here. Ach. It just goes
Speaker 1: to show the tunnel vision also that that coaches have
Speaker 1: that oh wow, it's Labor Day. And one other interesting
Speaker 1: thing I saw I saw the other day in practice
Speaker 1: when they went inside at the Ford Center. Uh. They
Speaker 1: the coaches were practicing. They were up in their coaches
Speaker 1: booth with the headsets on when they went into some
Speaker 1: of the team drill, and especially when you brought up
Speaker 1: the two minute drill, they were up there corresponding down
Speaker 1: to So Mike Nolan looks like he's going to be
Speaker 1: in the coach's box. I think he likes being up there.
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was practice the other night, right, and Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore likes it to be on the sideline. But they
Speaker 1: were practicing. Uh. And it was interesting to watch the
Speaker 1: operation in there because there had to be in my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm counting five guys on the front row and three
Speaker 1: on the back, and they all had some input on
Speaker 1: what was going on. It was it was quite enlightening
Speaker 1: that what goes on in that coach's booth. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we hit the ground running on Tuesday with mix shots
Speaker 1: and it can't get here, fat well, I can we
Speaker 1: We can wait until Tuesday. We can enjoy one long
Speaker 1: labor day weekend, stay safe, and then we hit the
Speaker 1: ground running on Tuesday. And I can't wait for the
Speaker 1: start of this season, and I and next week we've
Speaker 1: got our bold predictions that we will make for this season.
Speaker 1: So so Everson, I know you'll have some bold predictions
Speaker 1: for this season. Ready, I'm ready. We need to hit
Speaker 1: on some bold predictions every day. Next week, Everson, you
Speaker 1: need to bone up on those rams too. I want to.
Speaker 1: I'll get right on that spags, all right. I want
Speaker 1: you to study Van Jefferson, a rookie out of Florida, Okay,
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the rang Okay. That does it for
Speaker 1: Mick Shots for this week, and we will see you
Speaker 1: again on Tuesday for more Mick Shots. This has been
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