WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Getting You Ready 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.039 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:17.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.040 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.759 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:33.280 and Nicky Spagnola, and it is time for a Thursday 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.320 edition of Mixed Shots as we get you set for 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.839 Opening week in the National Football League. In fact, this 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.639 is opening day in the National Football League. We've got 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.600 football tonight at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City as the 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.760 defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs take on the Houston Texans. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.840 But of course we're more interested in Sunday night football 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.639 at SO five Stadium in Los Angeles. Mickey Spagnola. It's 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.240 the Cowboys and the Rams and a padded practice outdoors today, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.319 the Cowboys getting geared up for some football. As you 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.839 sit there in the you're in the SWBC Mortgage studios. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.120 Everson Walls should be joining us shortly. That sound like 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.959 a lead in from Joe Buck and along shortly will 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.200 be Everson Walls. Yes, I am in in the studio. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.640 Always aspired to be Joe Buck right. Well, I think 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.280 you played it well. Yeah, And I can hear you perfectly. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.440 I don't think we're in delay this time. I've got 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.800 my own headset on, so we should be good to go. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.039 And we're working through our kinks like the cowboys working 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.440 through their kinks, getting ready. And think about this bill. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.000 Do we have all four sports going at once tonight? 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:52.200 We got hockey, baseball, and basketball. That's that's exactly right. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.960 That's right. The local baseball team, the Rangers actually playing 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.240 this afternoon. Stars are playing tonight, the NFL game that's 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.840 going to sweep the ratings, you know that, and Rockets 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.240 playing the Lakers tonight and earlier start at six o'clock. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.639 And I think that they did that purposely knowing that 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.840 the NFL was going to be reigning supreme starting at 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.320 seven twenty or a little bit earlier than seven twenty 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.160 with all the pregame stuff. But it's here final, Yes, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.720 you know, it's interesting, Mickey. I've charted it from the 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.600 beginning of this pandemic, just counting down the days, praying 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.560 that this thing will get over in time for football season. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.560 For sure. Here we are today, this very day, I'm 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.000 going to write this down. We are at the six 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:46.000 month mark on this pandemic. Rudy Gobert couldn't take the 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.280 court was diagnosed with COVID nineteen on March eleventh, which 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.720 was a Wednesday night. That's when our sports world shut down. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.720 NCAA tournament was called out or the conference tournaments, and 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.880 then the NCAA tournament shut down the next day, which 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.000 was a Thursday. We are precisely at the sixth month 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.160 mark right now as we kick off this NFL season, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.200 and it seems like a year. Actually those a long 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:16.600 six months, right, yeah, long six months. But yeah, we're 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.919 not totally out of it yet, no, but at least 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.560 it starts like yeah, yeah, And it seems like the 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.040 NFL has the protocols in place that they knock on 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.400 wood will be able to get this thing going without 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.040 a hitch. And they certainly have done their homework and 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.920 they follow the lead of some other sports. Of course, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.680 baseball has been doing it in home ballparks. But you 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.600 know they're going to go to a bubble once they 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.760 get to the postseason. In fact, one of those bubbles 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.920 is going to be how about that year in the Metroplex. Yeah, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.280 the Rangers are actually going to host the World Series 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.120 as well as the National League Championship Series and a 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.600 National League Division Series and that's the closest the Rangers 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.840 will get to the World Series this year, you think. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.040 But but you know, we got we got so much 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.400 to talk about about this matchup, and uh, and Everson 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.720 rejoins us here in just a little bit. I gave 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.560 him the assignment at the start of the week. I 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.400 wanted in to study up on this Van Jefferson, the 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.800 rookie receiver for the Rams. But they've got a potent 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.680 offense over there, and we've all talked about how potent 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.400 this Cowboys offense is. I think it's it's gonna make 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.560 for some kind of Sunday night. Yeah, I think you're 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.520 exactly right. And you know, while there's so much unknown 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.440 for us following the team, uh, you know, listening to 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.120 Mike McCarthy, it sounds like there's a good bit of 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.680 unknown for the coaching staff going forward, not about his 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.560 own team and maybe a little bit, but about what 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.240 the Rams are going to do. And you know, they've 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.800 got a new defensive coordinator, they got some new coaches 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.479 on the staff, and you know, he keeps pointing out, 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.520 he goes, you know, there'll be thirty percent of the 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.840 stuff that the other teams doing that you're going to 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.119 have to adjust to that you really don't know what's 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.599 going on, and maybe even with themselves. So to me, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.919 these coaching staffs are going to have to be nimble 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.560 on their feet making adjustments and not waiting a halftime, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.839 by the way, doing it in game when they start 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.560 seeing what the other team's going to do, because no 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.040 one really has an idea of what's going to go on, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.520 and without a preseason game, you know, you may think 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.200 your team's ready and the execution is great, but gosh, 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.240 until it's for real, you really just can't know. And 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.200 you know, as hard as it is for us, imagine 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.480 if you were a coach, my stomach would be a 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.520 knots kind of just thinking I know about my team 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:49.200 but not really knowing. And they've had so much extra 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.960 time throughout the pandemic to study all the tape that 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:58.080 they can get their hands on, and so it's it's 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.680 almost like you have to guard against having too much information, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.880 probably as far as a coach goes going into this thing. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.400 But you know, one of the main concerns I would 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.479 have is, yeah, I mean, the starters don't play that 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.800 much in the preseason. But yeah, and you can try 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.599 to simulate game speed out on the practice field game 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.919 hits on the practice field, but you really don't know 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.120 until you start playing. And then again, the tackling. I mean, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.640 we've seen issues with Cowboys teams in the past, even 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.800 when they've had preseason games where it takes a while 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.640 to get up to speed as far as the tackling 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.440 is concerned. So it's it's gonna be very interesting to 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.880 see its starting tonight with this Chief Sexans game. Just 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.760 what brand of football we're gonna be watching here? You know, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.960 everybody asks when you look at it, oh, we got 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:51.960 evert he just jumps in without introducing himself. You know, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:58.320 everybody knows who I'm trying to be as seamless as possible. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.320 You just ruined that from fact. But now, as I 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.400 as I was listening to Bill, we're talked about this 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:10.640 earlier about how the timing is extremely important, not just 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.000 when it comes to covering man to man or things 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.200 of that nature, but when it comes to contact. You know, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.760 you have to have a I mean, you have an 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.240 instinct for it, of course, because you've been hitting people 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.840 all your lives since you're in peewee league. But at 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.040 the same time you have to worry about not just 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.480 injuring yourself, but you have these these still people trying 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.400 to get accustomed to not hitting someone in the head instinctively. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.160 Those kind of things. I think you're gonna see a 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.480 lot of penalties where players are going to be leading 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.720 with their heads unintentionally. Well, it's going to be intentional, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.800 but it's because that's been your instinct for all these years, 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.920 and now all of a sudden, we have to adhere 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:57.760 to these still relatively new rules in regards to contact 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.680 with the crown of the helmet. You see, those things 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.520 have to be they have to be nourished a little bit. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.720 They have You have to have your timing together in 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.440 that regard, so that not just you don't injure your 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.920 player and getting penalty, but you don't injure yourself either 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 as an attacker. You know what occurred to me today. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.520 You know, the Cowboys have this drill where they kind 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.840 of practice tackling and everybody lands on a pad on 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.200 the ground. You know, we always talk about well what 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.480 about tackling, Well what about getting tackled? You know, how 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.840 long does it take to get used to somebody laying 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.800 you out, knocking the daylights out of you, but still 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.040 holding on to the football, you know. And funny story 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.480 from way back when EMMT Smith got to the point 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.199 where in training camp he basically didn't take any snaps 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.679 during preseason, and I remember one time I went up 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.840 to him and I said, well, don't you need to 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.080 take a couple snaps to kind of get used to 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.599 getting hit? And he looked at me like I was 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.400 cross eyed, and he goes, are you crazy? He goes, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.000 I don't need to be reminded what it feels like 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.880 to get hit. But I'm thinking you got to be 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.040 able to remember to hold out of the football when 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.520 you're getting blasted like that. So there's another element. I 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.000 just go ahead. It's not it's not just you know, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.800 being hit, but how you get hit. You see runners 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.160 who will have an amazing ability to take the blow 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.880 on a certain part of their body and keep on 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.959 keep the legs churning. There are times when two defenders 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.560 might come at a runner and instinctively he will know 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.280 how to make those two defenders negate their power by 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.000 you know, sliding in there just at the right time, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.800 the timing has to be impeccable. Best things that dore 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.880 Set and Emma Smith and all the great runners they 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.920 do instinctively, but they do them after they've gone through 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.199 training camp and after they've gone through some preseason games 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.800 to where that timing really does have to be impeccable. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.400 And I gotta tell you, we're gonna see some moments 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.280 to where running backs are gonna look a little bit awkward, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.960 and even the defenders are going to look a little 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:15.000 bit elementary because they haven't really had a chance to 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.280 go at it in preseason and now here it is, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.320 it's game time. It's game time. You're gonna be geeked up. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.520 You're gonna be ready to go out there and play. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.480 And you gotta be careful because these are some unusual 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:34.440 moments with no preparation, a very little preparation. And ever since, 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.200 it doesn't matter that there are no fans in the stands. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.079 From a player's perspective, when you say that, I mean 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.680 you you get motivated to play regardless of what's in 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.679 the stands. You're focused on what's happening on that field, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.800 right I was always motivated the spring practice. It didn't 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.559 really matter, you know, when it comes down to playing ball. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.960 You line up against that guy, you got to make 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.640 sure you do your job. So as much as you 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.240 want to get in there and and hear the fans 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.840 and have them geek you up, so to speak, that's 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.960 after the play is made. So you still have to 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.400 concentrate on making the play first, and that's one of 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.520 what's gonna get you geeked up. And your teammates are 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.920 gonna be supporting you from the sidelines as well. So 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.120 those are the guys that you really need from a 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.880 priority standpoint, you know. And as we've been watching these 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.760 NBA games, I think that's what the guys on the 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.319 court here, they hear the benches. They hear the guys 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.800 on the benches, right, and there's more talking now, you know. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.720 I've always heard professional athletes say, you know, I really 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.240 don't hear the crowd when you're playing. You're concentrating, but 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.840 you can hear the noise, I would imagine, And you 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.840 know there's gonna be pipe there's gonna be piped in noise, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:51.120 and there's a decibel maximum that they're allowed to do. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.600 I want to know who the decibel officiator is that 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.880 you know, Oh wait a minute, it's too loud. You 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.560 got to turn that down. But I like they have 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.520 a governor on the dial, so this is okay. I 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.679 probably have a governor. And I like what Mike when 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.040 Mike McCarthy was answering the question today about the noise 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.280 and you have to get used to it, and he said, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.840 I'm a big believer you've got to make your own 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:17.240 noise when you're on the road. And there's some sense 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.080 to that too, because you know, you play well, you 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.760 quiet that crowd down. And what few fans you have there. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.079 Remember when the Cowboys have been going to LA they've 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.439 had a lot of Cowboy fans in the stadium too, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:35.520 so especially for the playoff game that year. So yeah, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.600 that'll be something they got an adjust to. You is 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.520 when you think about when you think about tennis. You know, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.280 when you think about tennis, you don't have any teammates 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.000 right all you have a coach in the stands. So 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.480 you see the tennis players they really need that. As 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.640 we we sometimes look at the throwback pictures, the crowd 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.560 is geeking up that tennis player after he's made a 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.600 great shot. Well before he makes that great shot, he's 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:05.000 honed in on his opponent only Now. Of course, once 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.719 the play is made, then the crowd gets them geeked up. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.640 But what's really important is you're honed in on making 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.440 that play first. So even in tennis, they still need 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.720 the crowd much more than we do as team players 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.640 because we have teammates, but the same town. The element 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.520 is still there. You have to make the play first. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.400 And I would imagine you remember for your high school 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.760 then your high school basketball days when you were on 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.679 a fast break and you could hear the crowd getting excited. Man, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.079 you were getting ready to hit a layup, right or 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.760 maybe a dunk. I don't know, you don't know, Ali 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.520 you yeah, Allie, you for Bill. I'm sure that's exactly. No. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.800 I do remember that that JV game, that JV game 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.520 my sophomore year against Arlington Sam Houston. I got fouled 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.240 with no time left on the clock. We're down by two. 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.840 I need to make two free throws in order to 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.680 force overtime, and the varsity crowd was roaring okay, and 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.000 I sit calmly, I stand calmly at the line, sink 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.400 both free throws, force overtime, and then we lose it 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.800 overtime exactly what you're talking about. In fact, I probably 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.360 I got the trophy on the wall behind me from 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.400 the r OLD Turner All Tournament Team. N Right, you 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.560 remember Rid right, Mike Battle, those guys at Roosevelt. Yeah, ever, 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.920 soon I can hang with those guys. That's right, Baby 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.320 Ring right right was a bad boy man. It was 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:36.840 that just right. His brother Carl right too, right too, Yes, sir, yes, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:42.800 right story, right story, yeah, try quick story. The RLD 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.160 Turner Tournament. We played Roosevelt on a Saturday morning at 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:52.120 nine am. We show up, We're irving MacArthur. Okay, we're nothing. Okay, 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.120 We're playing Dallas Roosevelt. And it's eight fifty. We're looking 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.640 at the clock, eight fifty nine, and Roosevelt hasn't walked 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:04.960 into the um yet, and so and so the clock 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.520 strikes nine o'clock and here they come strolling in. Ran right, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:14.960 Mike Battle, who played at Baylor. Right, Queint Andrews is 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.080 a great point guard for him. Anyway, they didn't warm up, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.320 they didn't do nothing. They took their sweats off, walked 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.240 out the court, and they beat us eighty five to forty. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.200 Oh my god, I made the All Tournament team. Way 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:31.600 to go bill Way. Yeah all right, huh think I 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.520 think we digressed a little bit, Yeah we did. Yeah, well, Mickey, 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.080 I want to hear what happened on the practice field today. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.600 But how about we take a break first and we 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:46.240 hone in on what you saw on the practice field 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.520 as the cowboys were in pads today getting ready for 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.520 these Los Angeles rams back at a moment, Hey, they're 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.440 cowboys fans with Type Cleaners at home pickup and delivery, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.040 cleaning your clothes has never been more convenient. 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Well, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.320 it was good news for the cowboys because dressed and 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:02.720 practicing once again Xavier Woods, chit Beowoozier and Amari Cooper. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.359 So if those were the three guys everybody was worried about, uh, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.920 they were in full practice today. As a matter of fact, 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.959 I believe when the injury report came out yesterday, Woods 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.080 wasn't even on it, so he should be good to go. 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.040 And really the only guy other than the guys on 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:24.000 injured reserve that aren't practicing can't practice with the team 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.959 that was had been missing was Jordan Lewis and he 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.520 was back on at least out on the field today, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.080 so he was, you know, dressed out like he was 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.639 going to practice and then he got on the resistant chord. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.879 So that was a step in the right direction. And 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.119 really us the first time we've seen him practice in 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.360 or at least out there in like two weeks when 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.360 he turned his ankle in practice when they were inside 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:54.679 the Ford Center. So that was good news. And you know, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.239 the only you know, the only I still and we 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.359 talked about it yesterday, that big question, and by away, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.480 Brandon Carr no worse from the where he was back 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.880 out there again today. Mike McCarthy said, you know, we'll 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.520 just have to see going along, you know, Jerry said 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:11.399 early in the week, you know, he didn't think it 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.080 was you know, reasonable to put him out there having 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:19.959 not gone through any training camp practices, but two practices 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.720 in the row for him. So really, you know, the 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.000 big question mark for the Cowboys I think is the 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.320 fact that, you know, Lale Collins is on ir and 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.480 they've got a compensate for his absence. And we talked 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.879 about it yesterday and you know, first guy up looks 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.840 like it's Cam Irving, but we'll see. Terrence Steele is 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.960 a possibility because those are really the only other two 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:47.280 tackles on the fifty three man roster. Now. Brandon Knight 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.520 has played some tackle, he played tackle last year, he's 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.080 played some guard. So between those guys, that looks like 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.600 what they're going to have to try to do without 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:03.720 Lale Collins on the field. Wow, So how do you 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.240 feel about that? You know, you look at Cam Irving 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.199 last year and going into the season opener for the 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.600 Kansas City Chiefs, he did not know he was going 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:13.639 to be playing a lot in that game. Eric Fisher 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.560 there left tackle, got hurt in that season opener. I 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.440 believe in the first half of the game he got 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.200 put in and he wound up starting eight games at 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.960 left tackle for the Chiefs and season turned out pretty 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.600 well for Kansas City last year, now we'll see him 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:32.280 at right tackle, which I would assume would be better 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.760 for him. The one thing about the Rams, they don't 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.159 have the what appears to be the elite pass rusher 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.359 that some other teams in the league have. So maybe 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.399 he catches a break there against the Rams. But as 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.879 soon as I say that someone will have a career 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.639 day or they'll move, they'll move Aaron Dial from the 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:56.439 middle to the outside. Yeah. Ever since they'll I guarantee you, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:58.919 they will look for the soft spot and say, okay, 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.840 that's where you play. Because I don't think there's any 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:07.400 any doubt that he'll either be up on Joe Looney 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.880 or in between Looney and Connor Williams. And if that 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.520 doesn't work out as well and they're having some luck 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.480 on the outside, he can rush as a defensive end. 0:22:17.520 --> 0:22:19.879 And you know, maybe the good thing for the Cowboys 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.480 is you know, who knows how much they'll be in nickel. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.840 But when they go to the nickel offense, then the 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.280 Rams go four down and maybe the guy the nose 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.960 tackles no longer head up on Looney where he can 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.199 help out one side or the other wherever Donald is, 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:39.680 if he's in the middle at defensive tackle, I'll tell 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:44.280 you what you have to be beware of. Where that 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.880 what they're gonna do with Aaron Donald, you know, with 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.760 lack of preparation, things of that nature, it could be 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:55.399 an opportunity for the Rams to take advantage of what 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.879 they might perceive to be Cowboys not really being prepared 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.840 on that offense of line, especially even with the injury 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.560 two columns. That kind of concerns me just a little 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:09.760 bit because you know, of course you can start moving 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.840 him around and see how confusing things can be for 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.800 the Cowboys offensive line, because even though we're one of 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.520 the best in the league, you know which, we still 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:23.159 depend on what we know and right now it is 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:26.640 all part of the unknown coming into the game on Sunday. 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.160 The other thing with Jordan Lewis, I'm a bit concerned 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:35.160