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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for a Thursday
Speaker 1: edition of Mixed Shots as we get you set for
Speaker 1: Opening week in the National Football League. In fact, this
Speaker 1: is opening day in the National Football League. We've got
Speaker 1: football tonight at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City as the
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs take on the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: But of course we're more interested in Sunday night football
Speaker 1: at SO five Stadium in Los Angeles. Mickey Spagnola. It's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Rams and a padded practice outdoors today,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys getting geared up for some football. As you
Speaker 1: sit there in the you're in the SWBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 1: Everson Walls should be joining us shortly. That sound like
Speaker 1: a lead in from Joe Buck and along shortly will
Speaker 1: be Everson Walls. Yes, I am in in the studio.
Speaker 1: Always aspired to be Joe Buck right. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you played it well. Yeah, And I can hear you perfectly.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're in delay this time. I've got
Speaker 1: my own headset on, so we should be good to go.
Speaker 1: And we're working through our kinks like the cowboys working
Speaker 1: through their kinks, getting ready. And think about this bill.
Speaker 1: Do we have all four sports going at once tonight?
Speaker 1: We got hockey, baseball, and basketball. That's that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: That's right. The local baseball team, the Rangers actually playing
Speaker 1: this afternoon. Stars are playing tonight, the NFL game that's
Speaker 1: going to sweep the ratings, you know that, and Rockets
Speaker 1: playing the Lakers tonight and earlier start at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: And I think that they did that purposely knowing that
Speaker 1: the NFL was going to be reigning supreme starting at
Speaker 1: seven twenty or a little bit earlier than seven twenty
Speaker 1: with all the pregame stuff. But it's here final, Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting, Mickey. I've charted it from the
Speaker 1: beginning of this pandemic, just counting down the days, praying
Speaker 1: that this thing will get over in time for football season.
Speaker 1: For sure. Here we are today, this very day, I'm
Speaker 1: going to write this down. We are at the six
Speaker 1: month mark on this pandemic. Rudy Gobert couldn't take the
Speaker 1: court was diagnosed with COVID nineteen on March eleventh, which
Speaker 1: was a Wednesday night. That's when our sports world shut down.
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament was called out or the conference tournaments, and
Speaker 1: then the NCAA tournament shut down the next day, which
Speaker 1: was a Thursday. We are precisely at the sixth month
Speaker 1: mark right now as we kick off this NFL season,
Speaker 1: and it seems like a year. Actually those a long
Speaker 1: six months, right, yeah, long six months. But yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not totally out of it yet, no, but at least
Speaker 1: it starts like yeah, yeah, And it seems like the
Speaker 1: NFL has the protocols in place that they knock on
Speaker 1: wood will be able to get this thing going without
Speaker 1: a hitch. And they certainly have done their homework and
Speaker 1: they follow the lead of some other sports. Of course,
Speaker 1: baseball has been doing it in home ballparks. But you
Speaker 1: know they're going to go to a bubble once they
Speaker 1: get to the postseason. In fact, one of those bubbles
Speaker 1: is going to be how about that year in the Metroplex. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rangers are actually going to host the World Series
Speaker 1: as well as the National League Championship Series and a
Speaker 1: National League Division Series and that's the closest the Rangers
Speaker 1: will get to the World Series this year, you think.
Speaker 1: But but you know, we got we got so much
Speaker 1: to talk about about this matchup, and uh, and Everson
Speaker 1: rejoins us here in just a little bit. I gave
Speaker 1: him the assignment at the start of the week. I
Speaker 1: wanted in to study up on this Van Jefferson, the
Speaker 1: rookie receiver for the Rams. But they've got a potent
Speaker 1: offense over there, and we've all talked about how potent
Speaker 1: this Cowboys offense is. I think it's it's gonna make
Speaker 1: for some kind of Sunday night. Yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: exactly right. And you know, while there's so much unknown
Speaker 1: for us following the team, uh, you know, listening to
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, it sounds like there's a good bit of
Speaker 1: unknown for the coaching staff going forward, not about his
Speaker 1: own team and maybe a little bit, but about what
Speaker 1: the Rams are going to do. And you know, they've
Speaker 1: got a new defensive coordinator, they got some new coaches
Speaker 1: on the staff, and you know, he keeps pointing out,
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, there'll be thirty percent of the
Speaker 1: stuff that the other teams doing that you're going to
Speaker 1: have to adjust to that you really don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, and maybe even with themselves. So to me,
Speaker 1: these coaching staffs are going to have to be nimble
Speaker 1: on their feet making adjustments and not waiting a halftime,
Speaker 1: by the way, doing it in game when they start
Speaker 1: seeing what the other team's going to do, because no
Speaker 1: one really has an idea of what's going to go on,
Speaker 1: and without a preseason game, you know, you may think
Speaker 1: your team's ready and the execution is great, but gosh,
Speaker 1: until it's for real, you really just can't know. And
Speaker 1: you know, as hard as it is for us, imagine
Speaker 1: if you were a coach, my stomach would be a
Speaker 1: knots kind of just thinking I know about my team
Speaker 1: but not really knowing. And they've had so much extra
Speaker 1: time throughout the pandemic to study all the tape that
Speaker 1: they can get their hands on, and so it's it's
Speaker 1: almost like you have to guard against having too much information,
Speaker 1: probably as far as a coach goes going into this thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the main concerns I would
Speaker 1: have is, yeah, I mean, the starters don't play that
Speaker 1: much in the preseason. But yeah, and you can try
Speaker 1: to simulate game speed out on the practice field game
Speaker 1: hits on the practice field, but you really don't know
Speaker 1: until you start playing. And then again, the tackling. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've seen issues with Cowboys teams in the past, even
Speaker 1: when they've had preseason games where it takes a while
Speaker 1: to get up to speed as far as the tackling
Speaker 1: is concerned. So it's it's gonna be very interesting to
Speaker 1: see its starting tonight with this Chief Sexans game. Just
Speaker 1: what brand of football we're gonna be watching here? You know,
Speaker 1: everybody asks when you look at it, oh, we got
Speaker 1: evert he just jumps in without introducing himself. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody knows who I'm trying to be as seamless as possible.
Speaker 1: You just ruined that from fact. But now, as I
Speaker 1: as I was listening to Bill, we're talked about this
Speaker 1: earlier about how the timing is extremely important, not just
Speaker 1: when it comes to covering man to man or things
Speaker 1: of that nature, but when it comes to contact. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to have a I mean, you have an
Speaker 1: instinct for it, of course, because you've been hitting people
Speaker 1: all your lives since you're in peewee league. But at
Speaker 1: the same time you have to worry about not just
Speaker 1: injuring yourself, but you have these these still people trying
Speaker 1: to get accustomed to not hitting someone in the head instinctively.
Speaker 1: Those kind of things. I think you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of penalties where players are going to be leading
Speaker 1: with their heads unintentionally. Well, it's going to be intentional,
Speaker 1: but it's because that's been your instinct for all these years,
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, we have to adhere
Speaker 1: to these still relatively new rules in regards to contact
Speaker 1: with the crown of the helmet. You see, those things
Speaker 1: have to be they have to be nourished a little bit.
Speaker 1: They have You have to have your timing together in
Speaker 1: that regard, so that not just you don't injure your
Speaker 1: player and getting penalty, but you don't injure yourself either
Speaker 1: as an attacker. You know what occurred to me today.
Speaker 1: You know, the Cowboys have this drill where they kind
Speaker 1: of practice tackling and everybody lands on a pad on
Speaker 1: the ground. You know, we always talk about well what
Speaker 1: about tackling, Well what about getting tackled? You know, how
Speaker 1: long does it take to get used to somebody laying
Speaker 1: you out, knocking the daylights out of you, but still
Speaker 1: holding on to the football, you know. And funny story
Speaker 1: from way back when EMMT Smith got to the point
Speaker 1: where in training camp he basically didn't take any snaps
Speaker 1: during preseason, and I remember one time I went up
Speaker 1: to him and I said, well, don't you need to
Speaker 1: take a couple snaps to kind of get used to
Speaker 1: getting hit? And he looked at me like I was
Speaker 1: cross eyed, and he goes, are you crazy? He goes,
Speaker 1: I don't need to be reminded what it feels like
Speaker 1: to get hit. But I'm thinking you got to be
Speaker 1: able to remember to hold out of the football when
Speaker 1: you're getting blasted like that. So there's another element. I
Speaker 1: just go ahead. It's not it's not just you know,
Speaker 1: being hit, but how you get hit. You see runners
Speaker 1: who will have an amazing ability to take the blow
Speaker 1: on a certain part of their body and keep on
Speaker 1: keep the legs churning. There are times when two defenders
Speaker 1: might come at a runner and instinctively he will know
Speaker 1: how to make those two defenders negate their power by
Speaker 1: you know, sliding in there just at the right time,
Speaker 1: the timing has to be impeccable. Best things that dore
Speaker 1: Set and Emma Smith and all the great runners they
Speaker 1: do instinctively, but they do them after they've gone through
Speaker 1: training camp and after they've gone through some preseason games
Speaker 1: to where that timing really does have to be impeccable.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, we're gonna see some moments
Speaker 1: to where running backs are gonna look a little bit awkward,
Speaker 1: and even the defenders are going to look a little
Speaker 1: bit elementary because they haven't really had a chance to
Speaker 1: go at it in preseason and now here it is,
Speaker 1: it's game time. It's game time. You're gonna be geeked up.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be ready to go out there and play.
Speaker 1: And you gotta be careful because these are some unusual
Speaker 1: moments with no preparation, a very little preparation. And ever since,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that there are no fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: From a player's perspective, when you say that, I mean
Speaker 1: you you get motivated to play regardless of what's in
Speaker 1: the stands. You're focused on what's happening on that field,
Speaker 1: right I was always motivated the spring practice. It didn't
Speaker 1: really matter, you know, when it comes down to playing ball.
Speaker 1: You line up against that guy, you got to make
Speaker 1: sure you do your job. So as much as you
Speaker 1: want to get in there and and hear the fans
Speaker 1: and have them geek you up, so to speak, that's
Speaker 1: after the play is made. So you still have to
Speaker 1: concentrate on making the play first, and that's one of
Speaker 1: what's gonna get you geeked up. And your teammates are
Speaker 1: gonna be supporting you from the sidelines as well. So
Speaker 1: those are the guys that you really need from a
Speaker 1: priority standpoint, you know. And as we've been watching these
Speaker 1: NBA games, I think that's what the guys on the
Speaker 1: court here, they hear the benches. They hear the guys
Speaker 1: on the benches, right, and there's more talking now, you know.
Speaker 1: I've always heard professional athletes say, you know, I really
Speaker 1: don't hear the crowd when you're playing. You're concentrating, but
Speaker 1: you can hear the noise, I would imagine, And you
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be pipe there's gonna be piped in noise,
Speaker 1: and there's a decibel maximum that they're allowed to do.
Speaker 1: I want to know who the decibel officiator is that
Speaker 1: you know, Oh wait a minute, it's too loud. You
Speaker 1: got to turn that down. But I like they have
Speaker 1: a governor on the dial, so this is okay. I
Speaker 1: probably have a governor. And I like what Mike when
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was answering the question today about the noise
Speaker 1: and you have to get used to it, and he said,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer you've got to make your own
Speaker 1: noise when you're on the road. And there's some sense
Speaker 1: to that too, because you know, you play well, you
Speaker 1: quiet that crowd down. And what few fans you have there.
Speaker 1: Remember when the Cowboys have been going to LA they've
Speaker 1: had a lot of Cowboy fans in the stadium too,
Speaker 1: so especially for the playoff game that year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be something they got an adjust to. You is
Speaker 1: when you think about when you think about tennis. You know,
Speaker 1: when you think about tennis, you don't have any teammates
Speaker 1: right all you have a coach in the stands. So
Speaker 1: you see the tennis players they really need that. As
Speaker 1: we we sometimes look at the throwback pictures, the crowd
Speaker 1: is geeking up that tennis player after he's made a
Speaker 1: great shot. Well before he makes that great shot, he's
Speaker 1: honed in on his opponent only Now. Of course, once
Speaker 1: the play is made, then the crowd gets them geeked up.
Speaker 1: But what's really important is you're honed in on making
Speaker 1: that play first. So even in tennis, they still need
Speaker 1: the crowd much more than we do as team players
Speaker 1: because we have teammates, but the same town. The element
Speaker 1: is still there. You have to make the play first.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine you remember for your high school
Speaker 1: then your high school basketball days when you were on
Speaker 1: a fast break and you could hear the crowd getting excited. Man,
Speaker 1: you were getting ready to hit a layup, right or
Speaker 1: maybe a dunk. I don't know, you don't know, Ali
Speaker 1: you yeah, Allie, you for Bill. I'm sure that's exactly. No.
Speaker 1: I do remember that that JV game, that JV game
Speaker 1: my sophomore year against Arlington Sam Houston. I got fouled
Speaker 1: with no time left on the clock. We're down by two.
Speaker 1: I need to make two free throws in order to
Speaker 1: force overtime, and the varsity crowd was roaring okay, and
Speaker 1: I sit calmly, I stand calmly at the line, sink
Speaker 1: both free throws, force overtime, and then we lose it
Speaker 1: overtime exactly what you're talking about. In fact, I probably
Speaker 1: I got the trophy on the wall behind me from
Speaker 1: the r OLD Turner All Tournament Team. N Right, you
Speaker 1: remember Rid right, Mike Battle, those guys at Roosevelt. Yeah, ever,
Speaker 1: soon I can hang with those guys. That's right, Baby
Speaker 1: Ring right right was a bad boy man. It was
Speaker 1: that just right. His brother Carl right too, right too, Yes, sir, yes,
Speaker 1: right story, right story, yeah, try quick story. The RLD
Speaker 1: Turner Tournament. We played Roosevelt on a Saturday morning at
Speaker 1: nine am. We show up, We're irving MacArthur. Okay, we're nothing. Okay,
Speaker 1: We're playing Dallas Roosevelt. And it's eight fifty. We're looking
Speaker 1: at the clock, eight fifty nine, and Roosevelt hasn't walked
Speaker 1: into the um yet, and so and so the clock
Speaker 1: strikes nine o'clock and here they come strolling in. Ran right,
Speaker 1: Mike Battle, who played at Baylor. Right, Queint Andrews is
Speaker 1: a great point guard for him. Anyway, they didn't warm up,
Speaker 1: they didn't do nothing. They took their sweats off, walked
Speaker 1: out the court, and they beat us eighty five to forty.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I made the All Tournament team. Way
Speaker 1: to go bill Way. Yeah all right, huh think I
Speaker 1: think we digressed a little bit, Yeah we did. Yeah, well, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I want to hear what happened on the practice field today.
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Speaker 1: Way to Go Man, Silky smoth kind of smooth right, yeah,
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Speaker 1: my silky smooth jump shot tournament in the RLD Turner
Speaker 1: tournament back in the day. All right, h Mickey has
Speaker 1: been on that practice field today? Who was out there? Well,
Speaker 1: it was good news for the cowboys because dressed and
Speaker 1: practicing once again Xavier Woods, chit Beowoozier and Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: So if those were the three guys everybody was worried about, uh,
Speaker 1: they were in full practice today. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I believe when the injury report came out yesterday, Woods
Speaker 1: wasn't even on it, so he should be good to go.
Speaker 1: And really the only guy other than the guys on
Speaker 1: injured reserve that aren't practicing can't practice with the team
Speaker 1: that was had been missing was Jordan Lewis and he
Speaker 1: was back on at least out on the field today,
Speaker 1: so he was, you know, dressed out like he was
Speaker 1: going to practice and then he got on the resistant chord.
Speaker 1: So that was a step in the right direction. And
Speaker 1: really us the first time we've seen him practice in
Speaker 1: or at least out there in like two weeks when
Speaker 1: he turned his ankle in practice when they were inside
Speaker 1: the Ford Center. So that was good news. And you know,
Speaker 1: the only you know, the only I still and we
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday, that big question, and by away,
Speaker 1: Brandon Carr no worse from the where he was back
Speaker 1: out there again today. Mike McCarthy said, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: just have to see going along, you know, Jerry said
Speaker 1: early in the week, you know, he didn't think it
Speaker 1: was you know, reasonable to put him out there having
Speaker 1: not gone through any training camp practices, but two practices
Speaker 1: in the row for him. So really, you know, the
Speaker 1: big question mark for the Cowboys I think is the
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, Lale Collins is on ir and
Speaker 1: they've got a compensate for his absence. And we talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday and you know, first guy up looks
Speaker 1: like it's Cam Irving, but we'll see. Terrence Steele is
Speaker 1: a possibility because those are really the only other two
Speaker 1: tackles on the fifty three man roster. Now. Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: has played some tackle, he played tackle last year, he's
Speaker 1: played some guard. So between those guys, that looks like
Speaker 1: what they're going to have to try to do without
Speaker 1: Lale Collins on the field. Wow, So how do you
Speaker 1: feel about that? You know, you look at Cam Irving
Speaker 1: last year and going into the season opener for the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, he did not know he was going
Speaker 1: to be playing a lot in that game. Eric Fisher
Speaker 1: there left tackle, got hurt in that season opener. I
Speaker 1: believe in the first half of the game he got
Speaker 1: put in and he wound up starting eight games at
Speaker 1: left tackle for the Chiefs and season turned out pretty
Speaker 1: well for Kansas City last year, now we'll see him
Speaker 1: at right tackle, which I would assume would be better
Speaker 1: for him. The one thing about the Rams, they don't
Speaker 1: have the what appears to be the elite pass rusher
Speaker 1: that some other teams in the league have. So maybe
Speaker 1: he catches a break there against the Rams. But as
Speaker 1: soon as I say that someone will have a career
Speaker 1: day or they'll move, they'll move Aaron Dial from the
Speaker 1: middle to the outside. Yeah. Ever since they'll I guarantee you,
Speaker 1: they will look for the soft spot and say, okay,
Speaker 1: that's where you play. Because I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: any doubt that he'll either be up on Joe Looney
Speaker 1: or in between Looney and Connor Williams. And if that
Speaker 1: doesn't work out as well and they're having some luck
Speaker 1: on the outside, he can rush as a defensive end.
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe the good thing for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: is you know, who knows how much they'll be in nickel.
Speaker 1: But when they go to the nickel offense, then the
Speaker 1: Rams go four down and maybe the guy the nose
Speaker 1: tackles no longer head up on Looney where he can
Speaker 1: help out one side or the other wherever Donald is,
Speaker 1: if he's in the middle at defensive tackle, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what you have to be beware of. Where that
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with Aaron Donald, you know, with
Speaker 1: lack of preparation, things of that nature, it could be
Speaker 1: an opportunity for the Rams to take advantage of what
Speaker 1: they might perceive to be Cowboys not really being prepared
Speaker 1: on that offense of line, especially even with the injury
Speaker 1: two columns. That kind of concerns me just a little
Speaker 1: bit because you know, of course you can start moving
Speaker 1: him around and see how confusing things can be for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offensive line, because even though we're one of
Speaker 1: the best in the league, you know which, we still
Speaker 1: depend on what we know and right now it is
Speaker 1: all part of the unknown coming into the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: The other thing with Jordan Lewis, I'm a bit concerned
Speaker 1: about that spacts. We need that experienced a third dbat.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come out in that slot. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: mister cupp Is gonna be coming in there trying to
Speaker 1: light things up as as well as he did last year,
Speaker 1: you're talking about hot sauce with a little Hobbaniera added
Speaker 1: to it. That's how good this guy was, because he
Speaker 1: really had a great season last year and he had
Speaker 1: a lot of it from the slot position. So let's
Speaker 1: see how we are gonna do on third downs or
Speaker 1: when they start opening things up, because let's face it,
Speaker 1: their running game is going to be suspect. The Rams
Speaker 1: running game, I think is going to be suspect because
Speaker 1: they lost the running backs. But now here you are,
Speaker 1: you have two really good wide receivers, at least two
Speaker 1: good wide receivers and the heck of a tight end.
Speaker 1: So their their game plan might go from the conservative
Speaker 1: running game plan to really opening it up right away
Speaker 1: and trying to test our secondary. So Jordan Lewis will
Speaker 1: be a guy that we need to have in there.
Speaker 1: If not, we're gonna go with some guys with a
Speaker 1: little bit less experience at playing the Cowboys slot. Well.
Speaker 1: One saving Grace and while they've worked him at both
Speaker 1: corner and safety, Darryl Worley is a guy that can
Speaker 1: probably step into the slot. And you know he started games.
Speaker 1: He was a starter for the Raiders, So from an
Speaker 1: experienced standpoint, You're right about the rest of him, Everson,
Speaker 1: but this guy gives them some experience and they can
Speaker 1: play with it. You know, Anthony Brown has played in
Speaker 1: the slot. They've they've put Cheeto you know, at times
Speaker 1: in the slot. So and the fact that we'll see
Speaker 1: how much confidence they have in in Trey Vun Diggs,
Speaker 1: because if if they trust him outside, then you can
Speaker 1: do stuff with the other guys inside and you have
Speaker 1: the ability to play about three different guys inside with
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis uh not there. And really, I mean it
Speaker 1: seems like almost the majority of training camp that Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis hasn't been here, so it's not like they were
Speaker 1: counting on him at any point during this. So, uh,
Speaker 1: they'll have a pretty good rotation, I would think. And
Speaker 1: you know, and they should cause And here's where those
Speaker 1: saving grace is. If there's a saving grace, they better
Speaker 1: cause problems upfront with that pass rush. You know, they've
Speaker 1: got some guys that can go right, and they need
Speaker 1: to create problems. You know, you mentioned the running game,
Speaker 1: and I referred back to how the Cowboys got beat
Speaker 1: in the playoff game against the Rams. But last year
Speaker 1: when they beat them forty four twenty one, the Rams
Speaker 1: ran for twenty two yards. I had forgotten that. I
Speaker 1: had also forgotten that after the game was seven to seven,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys scored thirty straight points on the Rams, and
Speaker 1: they were beating them thirty seven seven before they scored
Speaker 1: two late touchdowns. So I don't know if the Rams
Speaker 1: go look at that film and get pissed off, or
Speaker 1: are they looking and go, gosh, we weren't really that
Speaker 1: good last time we played this team, or maybe they
Speaker 1: just burned it. Yeah, what I would do, right, no sense,
Speaker 1: look at it this right like that. We don't want
Speaker 1: to see that anymore. You know. That was when, Yeah,
Speaker 1: after Sean McVay was just really throwing out there as
Speaker 1: like one of the smartest coaches in the NFL, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they have this injury to Girly. Girly
Speaker 1: had this weird and they had this weird relationship to
Speaker 1: where all of a sudden, I don't know if if
Speaker 1: he was really as injured as coach McVay said he was,
Speaker 1: or if Girly was as healthy as Girly kept saying
Speaker 1: he was, But that became a clash within that entire
Speaker 1: organization based on that deteriorating relationship that that kind of
Speaker 1: led to a lot of downfall in regards to the
Speaker 1: Rams and a lot of unmet expectations. I would imagine
Speaker 1: that as smart as McVeigh is, I'm hoping well. I'm
Speaker 1: sure the Rams fans are hoping that he has remedied
Speaker 1: that whole situation. But I still believe they don't have
Speaker 1: a proven running back right now. I don't think for
Speaker 1: the start of the game, and I would dare believe
Speaker 1: that they're going to see if Jared Golf is the
Speaker 1: quarterback that they paid all this money too. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: a new contract with Dak Prescott, so let's see if
Speaker 1: Jared Goff can really come through and show that he's
Speaker 1: worth all the money that they just paid him. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna put the ball, I think, in his hands. Okay,
Speaker 1: when we come back here on mix Shots, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: open up my big green NFL Draft scouting notebook and
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a look at a couple of rookies
Speaker 1: that might impact this game for the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: and Everson, I want to get your scouting report on
Speaker 1: your homework assignment for this week. That would be one
Speaker 1: of those rookies taking late in the second round. Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: the receiver from Florida. That's when mix shots continues at
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Speaker 1: That wasn't bass bags. You've actually improved on that one.
Speaker 1: I like that. I got to take reading lessons better.
Speaker 1: Bet those reading glasses have really helped out absolute. He
Speaker 1: got him out of his ass, nicky before we jump
Speaker 1: in more on the rams on that right tackle position
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy the press conference today when he was
Speaker 1: asked about right tackle, Uh, share your little pot on that. Basically,
Speaker 1: I think he pulled a Bill Parcels on because, uh,
Speaker 1: he knew that question was coming. So when he when
Speaker 1: he got the question about update on the right tackle
Speaker 1: and he basically said, I got nothing and then he
Speaker 1: and then he went on to expand and said, uh,
Speaker 1: he goes, why do you think I've been answering those
Speaker 1: other questions so long? I thought we'd run out of
Speaker 1: time before you asked me about it. So that he
Speaker 1: basically said, hey, we'll have eight linemen up. So if
Speaker 1: you have eight linemen up, by the way, uh, you
Speaker 1: can expand the game day roster from forty six to
Speaker 1: forty eight. Uh. So uh, he'll have you know, somebody's
Speaker 1: got to be the backup center, somebody's got to be
Speaker 1: the backup guard. Uh. And you need a backup tackle
Speaker 1: since the tackle backup tackle is starting. So he said
Speaker 1: there'll be a combination of things. So he was very
Speaker 1: very vague. And you know, sometimes, and I keep saying this,
Speaker 1: he becomes more vague than Jason Garrett was. And Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett was putting vanilla when answering some of those positions questions.
Speaker 1: He was down right bage forgive vanilla, das get was
Speaker 1: this bage? He was bad? He was, And a good
Speaker 1: thing for Mike McCarthy right now is he hasn't lost
Speaker 1: any games yet, hadn't want any yet either, But uh,
Speaker 1: and so it's a very good thing before you've played
Speaker 1: a game, because all of it looks like, wow, he
Speaker 1: really looks like he's you know, he's he's making sure
Speaker 1: he's dotting all the eyes, crossing all the teas. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna give away any trade secrets. And so he's
Speaker 1: getting credit for all of that evasiveness right now. But
Speaker 1: if the team starts losing games, then it turns on
Speaker 1: a coach. But it is interesting that is a ploy
Speaker 1: that a lot of coaches using a press conference that
Speaker 1: if you just talk long enough, then you eat up
Speaker 1: all the time and they don't have as many questions
Speaker 1: to ask you because we're out of time. Bill Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels was the professor at that. He would tell all
Speaker 1: these interesting stories and then he'd look at the clock
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh my twenty minutes are up, gotta go.
Speaker 1: He didn't get a chance to ask him what you
Speaker 1: really wanted to ask him. He was great. All right,
Speaker 1: I've got my big green NFL draft scouting notebook out
Speaker 1: let me show it off here. Okay, there's a reason
Speaker 1: in the springtime I do all this work on these
Speaker 1: draft prospects. And I'm telling you I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's I agree with you, Everson that there is not
Speaker 1: a proven established running back for the Rams to replace
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley right now. But the guy they want to
Speaker 1: eventually be that guy is Cam Akers, who they drafted
Speaker 1: in the second round out of Florida State. And he's
Speaker 1: one of my He's one of the guys that I've
Speaker 1: looked at in the draft and thought, you know, this
Speaker 1: guy's got a shot at really being something on a
Speaker 1: bad Florida State team. Last year he had eighteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: and you know, and he I mean, it's a phenomenal
Speaker 1: his what he was coming out of high school in Clinton, Mississippi.
Speaker 1: You remember Marcus Duprie. He was compared to Marcus Dupree,
Speaker 1: who is the greatest player ever to come out of Mississippi,
Speaker 1: greatest running back out of there. And so anyway, he's
Speaker 1: a young guy, just turned twenty one, but he's got
Speaker 1: I think he's got it all and it just remains
Speaker 1: to be seen how quickly can he transition. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys might be catching a break playing the Rams
Speaker 1: in the first game of the year, where he hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to get his legs so to speak, in
Speaker 1: the league and not having the off season as well.
Speaker 1: All right, but let me tell me about Van Jefferson.
Speaker 1: What have you figured out on Van Jefferson, who's at
Speaker 1: other the third receiver behind Cooper Cup and Robert Woods.
Speaker 1: And of course you got Josh Reynolds in the mix
Speaker 1: as well for the Rams. Yes, you know you have
Speaker 1: Josh me Reynolds in the mix. And U was that
Speaker 1: he's an A and M guy, right, Yes, yes, I
Speaker 1: believe he's an A and M guy. Been pretty uneventful
Speaker 1: of him because to Josh Reynolds. But that's why they
Speaker 1: signed Van. They were hoping that they can get some
Speaker 1: size in here. The guys about almost he's almost six two,
Speaker 1: he's about two hundred plus pounds. One of those big,
Speaker 1: strong receivers that you saw in the SEC. I talked
Speaker 1: about the studs that are coming out of college these days.
Speaker 1: He would be considered one of those studs. When he
Speaker 1: came into camp. All the Rams Brass talked about was
Speaker 1: just his amazing hands, his patience as a route runner,
Speaker 1: and his ability to make plays. So when you look
Speaker 1: at him, he reminds you of the old Henry Eller
Speaker 1: type of players, guys who were very disciplined in their
Speaker 1: route running. I saw some videos of him coming off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. If you allow him to sit
Speaker 1: there and make his moves off the line, he will
Speaker 1: cross you up and probably break your ankles. He is
Speaker 1: that kind of a receiver, but I have never seen
Speaker 1: him handle the press well from an aggressive defensive back.
Speaker 1: What I saw with the videos leading up to looking
Speaker 1: him up, I saw a bunch of small dbs. We
Speaker 1: don't deal in really small dbs. Here in Dallas. We've
Speaker 1: got some big guys that are pretty physical, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a real test to see how well he
Speaker 1: plays and if he does play a sum in the slot,
Speaker 1: but his main thing is being out wide and being isolated.
Speaker 1: I have never seen him play in the slot. I
Speaker 1: have never seen him go in motion either. Bill, So
Speaker 1: he looks like one of those guys that they depend on,
Speaker 1: such as a Dad's Bryant. He's gonna be designated to
Speaker 1: be that physical receiver to make the tough catch. He
Speaker 1: made it throughout his entire career at Florida after tram
Speaker 1: from Georgia, and UH, they're waiting on him to just
Speaker 1: live up to his potential. Our goal here, of course,
Speaker 1: in Dallas, is to make sure that he does not,
Speaker 1: and again being his first NFL game too, and uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he started his career at Old Miss and then transferred
Speaker 1: to Florida. Yeah. By the way, you know he's well coached.
Speaker 1: You know, he's well coached. His dad, Sean Jefferson, played
Speaker 1: in the league for many years and he's I believe
Speaker 1: he's still with the Jets receivers coach with the Jets. Yes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Bill on cam Acres, I just
Speaker 1: got a call down from Walter Payton and said, well,
Speaker 1: let's ease up on him being the best running back
Speaker 1: to come out of the state of Mississippi. Okayed down
Speaker 1: the Mississippi maybe the best. Let me let me rephrase
Speaker 1: that he was the most accomplished high school Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: because no no one, no one knew that Walter Payton
Speaker 1: was in Colem, mississip said there's gonna be somebody for Mississippion.
Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna somebody, sure enough, Walter Payton. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you know maybe and Walter's brother probably would would
Speaker 1: maybe disagree with you. Also, that's true, very true. Oh,
Speaker 1: Eddie Eddie Peyton, Eddie Peyton. And by the way, when
Speaker 1: he was talking about when Everson was talking about small receivers,
Speaker 1: I mean small cornerbacks that the Cowboys don't have any.
Speaker 1: I said, all I can think of, And I learned
Speaker 1: my lesson on small corners was Ron Francis, a teammate
Speaker 1: of years ever singing guy can cover. He was always there,
Speaker 1: but he can never get to the football. And you
Speaker 1: know what else, uh you want to you want to chastise,
Speaker 1: you know, for giving up the plays. But he was
Speaker 1: such a humble, quiet young man. Yeah. That is almost
Speaker 1: as if you if you were to engage him negative,
Speaker 1: he would just go into a shell. He was one
Speaker 1: of the more quiet teammates I've ever had. And I
Speaker 1: hope he's doing well. I hope he's doing well in life.
Speaker 1: He was a really good day. Yeah, he wanted to
Speaker 1: do all right. I'm now researching Walter Payton's real late
Speaker 1: for that. Now, Bill you already put Yeah, But when
Speaker 1: you talk, when you talk about Jefferson, he is a
Speaker 1: guy with a great potential. I would be extremely surprised
Speaker 1: if he was significant in this ball game. You're talking
Speaker 1: about Cup who was an extreme and a very established player.
Speaker 1: Everyone else is going to be window dressing for he
Speaker 1: and Bigsby uh, to make it, make it very to
Speaker 1: try and make it an easier day for Jerry Garf.
Speaker 1: You know the guy in the Cowboys, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: need that slot. Yeah. You know the Cowboys that had
Speaker 1: trouble with it in the game last year that they
Speaker 1: wiped him out was Tyler Higbee getting up catching twelve
Speaker 1: passes for one hundred and eleven yards. Now, they pretty
Speaker 1: much shut down that they're wide receivers, but they did
Speaker 1: not control Higbee at all well his entire the last
Speaker 1: half of his season last year. Big plays, big game
Speaker 1: after big games, so we have problems with tight ends
Speaker 1: in the past. We had Spagnola out there operating with
Speaker 1: off of one leg and he kicked out butts last year.
Speaker 1: So tight ends should be a priority for us to
Speaker 1: shut down. When you talk about the slot position, you're
Speaker 1: talking about the tight end position. Those are friendly confines
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. If you want to make a living and
Speaker 1: play it safe, and when you're in trouble, you look
Speaker 1: for the tight end. You look for the slot man.
Speaker 1: That's just offense one oh one. Got to watch out
Speaker 1: for those tight ends named Spagnola, right, I hate them. Micky,
Speaker 1: What do you make of the coaches workout regimen his
Speaker 1: weekly in season practice schedule where on Friday is the
Speaker 1: walkthrough day and Saturday is more of a workout. You know.
Speaker 1: I knew that they did that in Green Bay where
Speaker 1: they moved the practice that you would normally have on
Speaker 1: Friday to Saturday, and it used to upset US reporters
Speaker 1: because the last injury update you would get would be
Speaker 1: from the Friday practice. Well, when they practiced on Saturday,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to change their injury update, so you
Speaker 1: didn't know if significant guys were practice. That's why I
Speaker 1: thought they did it. But Mike explained that it was
Speaker 1: something he learned from track coaches on given the guys
Speaker 1: on Friday kind of a regeneration day. All you do
Speaker 1: is the walkthrough, kind of game like walkthrough, and then
Speaker 1: go ahead and have a light one hour practice on Saturday.
Speaker 1: He said it kind of nights your neurological clock that
Speaker 1: you get yourself in kind of game mentality instead of
Speaker 1: having a day off before you actually go out there
Speaker 1: and play. So he said he learned that from track
Speaker 1: and field coaches and he'd been doing it the last
Speaker 1: several years at Green Bay and he thought it helped
Speaker 1: cut down decrease the amount of soft tissue injuries on
Speaker 1: game day and especially later in the season. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a strategy he's used now in Green Bay
Speaker 1: for the latter part of his coaching career there that
Speaker 1: is the opposite of what every other coach has been
Speaker 1: doing and is doing in the NFL. There's something very
Speaker 1: interesting those bags, because you know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: that gap you have between Friday's practice and Sunday, you know,
Speaker 1: you might your body might become a little bit too relaxed.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think what he's trying to do
Speaker 1: is really Keaton. Not just the soft tissue thing, okay,
Speaker 1: but mentally everything seems to be fresher. I would imagine
Speaker 1: going over on Saturday as opposed to going over things
Speaker 1: on Friday. You know, think about this out of time.
Speaker 1: I know, we're out of time. We're real quick, Bill,
Speaker 1: Even for myself. You work real hard Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: Friday getting ready for a game, and then Saturday you
Speaker 1: lay off. You don't have to do anything. And I
Speaker 1: find myself on Sunday going, oh wait, I gotta go
Speaker 1: back over this stuff to remember what I was supposed
Speaker 1: to remember. On game day, so there might be something
Speaker 1: to it, all right, Bill, go ahead, Okay, So Mickey
Speaker 1: you need to you need to start implementing that in
Speaker 1: your preparation for the game too. Absolutely, So take Friday off. Nope, no,
Speaker 1: take Friday. We're gonna work Friday, all right, We're not
Speaker 1: working Saturday. And we've got our first prediction tonight, the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs beat the Houston Texans. Right, are we
Speaker 1: in agreement? I'm with you, I do agree. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: So we'll see if we are one to oh on
Speaker 1: our predictions for this season. We a Cowboys Rams tomorrow
Speaker 1: on the next episode of mix Shots. So long, everybody.
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