WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Let's Go 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:15.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.440 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.160 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:32.400 and Nicky Spagnola. It is one thirty on a Tuesday, 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:38.919 the first Tuesday of the NFL season. That's right, Bill Jones, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.200 with Everson Walls and the star of the show, Mick 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.720 Shots himself, Mickey Spagnola. Yes, a round of applause for 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.440 Mickey as we get started on a new season of 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.000 daily shows. And Mickey, how are you doing on this powercast? 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.200 Think everybody should know that wasn't fake applause. Okay, that 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.720 was real applause. And I've got to tell you that 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:09.520 probably since the last week in March until today is 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.959 the first day I'm not either in shorts or sweatpants. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.039 I've actually got a real set of pants on right now, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.920 A real set of pants on. About that that's like 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:28.319 five and a half months later. Everson, do you have 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.399 a real set of pants on? I don't know that 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.880 warm up pants. Well, I'm in my usual I'm in 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.800 my usual shorts, I've been wearing shorts since March eleven, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.520 and I'm going to put on big boy pants myself. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.039 Make you later today as I'm headed to the start 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.400 to take the first episode of the Mike McCarthy Show. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.720 This is very good, and this is like a new 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.360 official start. That's exactly right. This is the official start, 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.200 you know. And for me, the way I look at it, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.400 every year or day is basically the end of the summer. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.200 And so I enjoyed my last day of summer yesterday. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.040 Even when it's a normal year, when training camps started, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.240 you know, in late July whatever, it's still Labor Day 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.040 is the end of summer for me. You know, I'm 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.680 not getting into pool anymore. It's football season for sure. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.639 Cool days over for the summer. I made that decision yesterday. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.080 I had one long last swim of summer yesterday afternoon. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.280 So I'm in shaping raring to go here. Well, good Bill, 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.640 you know. One of the security guards here asked me, so, 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.280 do you have a good long weekend? I said, what 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.680 do you mean we worked? What about Labor Day? I said, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.280 you know, during football season, once training camp starts, the 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:51.960 last holiday you enjoy is basically fourth of July because 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.040 all the holiday days come after all the way through 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.080 New Year's there's not a holiday that we get off. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.360 I'll tell you what. Labor Day. To me, it's not 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.120 a figurative turn all while I played, it was literal 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.919 because coaches tried to kill us on Labor Day. We 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:18.400 labored much throughout my entire football career. Well, there's so 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.880 much to get to. So much has happened since we 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.600 last convened the last Thursday, as the roster has set 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.520 a sixteen man practice squad as well, and that's ever 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.760 evolving all around the league, making us to kick things off. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:38.520 What's your takeaways as this RAMS week has begun. You know, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.760 I don't think when we saw the final roster after 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.119 they had decided to release Haha, Clinton Dix, that there 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.240 really wasn't any big surprise. When we got to the 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.000 fifty three kind of knew what was coming with the 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.600 guys that they ended up placing on injured reserve. And 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.360 to do that, you know, they ended up cutting a 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.040 couple veteran guys that didn't have to go through waivers 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.400 because to put guys on recall injured reserve, they have 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.360 to be on the fifty three man roster for twenty 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.120 four hours. So that got all taken care of by Monday, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:22.440 with c J. Goodwin, Joe Thomas, those guys, and Justin 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.080 March being re signed as they put Lale Collins on 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.200 injured reserve along with Shawn Lee and Ventel Bryan. So 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.480 and I'm not sure they're done with all that just yet, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.440 because if you look at a couple of the guys 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.440 that made that fifty three man roster, there's probably room 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.840 to make some moves. And because of the way guys 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:50.280 that they constructed the sixteen band practice squad, with the 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.800 ability to put what is it like a half dozen 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.239 guys with you know, you didn't have to worry about 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.080 a crude seasons, then there could be some more or 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.719 moves when guys come off of that and they put 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.080 him on the basically fifty three man roster or they 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.359 just promoted him for that Sunday on game day. A 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.440 guy like Eric Smith, the offensive tackle that they signed, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.640 had played with the Giants the previous here, and then 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.080 even Brandon Carr at some point, I think when they 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.159 think he's football ready, he probably gets put on the 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:28.360 fifty three man roster. Also, I gotta tell you, Bill, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.800 I had. I made an urgent call to Spagnola right 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.960 after the show last week. I thought we were being 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:42.440 sabotaged by Spags on his own show. I found out 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.880 about Clinton Dix as soon as we got off the air, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.960 and I texted Spags and I said, did you know 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.640 of this already? I was all ready to condemn him 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.039 as a saboteur, And it was good to know that 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.760 he had no idea because it was just timing was 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.520 too good. Way it was it was right after we 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.160 got done on Thursday, and we got done. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.279 that's right. So well let's start right there. And and 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.040 what do you make, ever son of that move? And 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.520 then the subsequent signing to the practice squad. I didn't 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.560 that's something. You got a guy who's been in the 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.440 league for twelve years in Brandon card he's on the 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.400 practice squad to start things off. I don't think he's 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.480 going to stale the practice squad for long. It's just 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.600 a way of getting things going right now. As as 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.840 Mickey said, as who they get him up to speed, uh, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.080 and see where he is as far as being in 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.720 football shape and that sort of thing. But what's your 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.240 take on on that move, I must have met. I 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:49.000 was shocked, but I was not in on. You know 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:53.239 what was going on in practice, uh, Spags had told 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.560 me after the deal was done, and after I was 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.880 ready to come over there and blow up his house. U. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.080 I assumed that Dix was playing well. I just assumed 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.479 that he was doing making the doing the work that 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.960 he had to do getting the young players ready. But 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.880 when you lose your job in practice, when they bring 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.120 you in, when your guy, your old coach brings you in, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.440 makes you the starting player at a free safety position. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.760 And I believe it. According to the readouts, he lost 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.480 his job almost the same day that he started. So 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.760 those are things I was not aware of, and these 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.880 are things that Spags was aware of, so not surprised 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.240 about it. The reason I was in favor of it 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.800 was simply because we need experience in the secondary. I 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:48.200 truly believe that we have been working with young guys 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.840 for a number of years here now and it has 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.320 not panned out. These same players, we're bringing them back. 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.760 We're bringing back Brown, who I thought was a great athlete, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.480 but he just had never made the plays I wanted 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.000 him to make. You can be a great athlete. All. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.280 You want to have all these tools, but you have 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.480 to be game ready. And I don't mean just physically, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.400 I mean mentally. You have to be You have to 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.160 know how to make a play in the secondary. You 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.360 have to know how to anticipate routes and situations. And 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.480 I think we are a defensive backfield of reactionary players 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.320 as opposed to guys that are really anticipating what might come. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.480 I still see that now. I don't see that how 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.040 that has changed, and that once again it worries me 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.680 because we need that secondary to show what I think 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.760 is a very good defense could be one of the 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.160 better defenses in the NIFFA. So let me give you 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.760 a couple of reasons the Cowboys dissatisfaction with Hawha Clinton Dix. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:55.239 First of all, they cut a guy that they guaranteed 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.760 two point two five million dollars too, not a great amount. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.440 So when they signed him to that one year deal 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.440 and that's all that was guaranteed, that got my intent 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.040 is up that Okay, he's on his third team in 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.760 four years. I don't know how how happy you know 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.679 this guy is gonna be now again to release him? 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.920 When they did, you know they stuffed two point two 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.040 five million of debt money into the salary cap number two. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.240 He started off, as Everson said, working with the first 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.360 set of safeties along with Xavier Woods. They moved him 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.800 after about a week, maybe week and a half to 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:45.160 second team and promoted Dorian Thompson. Darian Thompson, And everything 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.160 we heard about Darien Thompson was how well he was playing. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.760 This is the best he's play. He knows what he's 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.880 due and he can get people lined up. So I thinking, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.559 h maybe that had something to do it. Well, Xavier 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:02.040 Woods last week hurts himself, uh, strains a groin in 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.439 that Cowboys night at at and T Stadium. It was 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:09.520 a Sunday, And the next day when they practice, there 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.000 goes haha, Clinton Dix back with the first team. And 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.480 so they saw him back with the first team again 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.800 for three practices, I believe, and they still weren't happy 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.920 with him and decided to let him go and put 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.319 and get back one point one point five million of 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.640 what they would have owed him. So they're fact dissatisfaction 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.880 with him was on three different levels. So you know 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.840 that's always Bill and ever since my you know, my 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.679 cautionary tale with free agency. You see a name, you 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.320 recognize a name, and you go, oh, yeah, let's get 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.960 that guy because he's good. Well, maybe he's not good 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.800 enough when he's changing teams so so much in a 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.760 couple of years, and evidently, you know, they made a 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:03.120 really smart contract for him, the fact that they didn't 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.760 guarantee the whole thing, which was three point seven five million. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.880 Tay Will McKay. He must have a crystal ball somewhere 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:17.440 because almost every movie he's making right now, he's not 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.080 only making great moves, but he's also covering himself on 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.040 some of the more questionable moves, such as a Clinton 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:29.160 Dick signing. I don't know what, how how was not doing. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.480 I don't know if he didn't have any sense of urgency. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.280 I don't know if he couldn't grasp the you know, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.160 the crust of the defense. I don't know what it was, 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.600 but you know, when you have a guy that has 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.120 had that much promise throughout his career, even though at 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.679 the end you were having some issues, I don't know 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.880 what it could have been in regards to grasping this 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.679 concept of the Cowboys defense. So I'm gonna trust the 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.360 coaches and see that they have decided to go with 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.920 a young group, but even bringing in Brandon cart the 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.680 safety position, he was still part of a defense that 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:11.520 really wasn't showing him to make many plays on the ball. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.000 They were always good at one on one, but not 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.239 making any plays on the ball. So hopefully the experience 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.240 he gained in Baltimore, he can bring it back here 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.600 from in a different position. He was playing corner when 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.959 he was here, but in the different position as safety. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.440 Hopefully he can have some type of experience by having 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.440 that overall view from that safety position that will allow 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.160 him to lead a very year. You know, after that 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.840 first game, we'll we'll find out what the rest of 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.960 the league thinks about haha, Clinton dicks because obviously you know, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.959 he didn't have to go through waivers, but no one 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:53.079 claimed him, No one you know, signed And now you say, well, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.480 maybe they're waiting after the first game, so we don't 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.080 have to guarante. He doesn't have the one time opportunity 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.120 to take guarantee or to take a guaranteed base salary 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.560 if he should get released. So next week, if no 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.079 one claims him, then something's up. The one thing that 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.360 I think took place also in the decision was the 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.880 fact that if he's going to be a backup, he's 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.280 got to play special teams, and I didn't. I don't 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.160 know if they thought he was either willing or capable 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:29.160 to help out on special teams. And the other thing 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.560 to keep in mind, even though he was with the 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.240 Packers was a first round draft pick. Of course, Dom 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.920 Capers was the defensive coordinator of the Packers back then. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.640 This is a different defensive coaching staff, and it does 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.280 raise an eyebrow when he's been through so many teams 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.240 here the last few years. I gotta ask, Okay, Mickey, 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.839 you are in the SWBC Mortgage studios there at the start, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.840 I am let's go, Everson. I've got to ask you, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.360 who is that behind you? That that picture of number 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:02.359 twenty four, Well, let me guess. Hey, I don't recognize 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.160 him because I think it's black head, but it looks 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.640 like Everson Walls. I just always put it up. I 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.559 think I've mentioned it before. Usually I just have a 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:17.760 blank wall behind me. And one of the Twitter followers, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.480 one of our Twitter followers on mix shots, suggested that 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.080 I spruced up the background, so don't mind the don't 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.320 mind the Tequilo over on this side. Just let though Everson, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.160 there's a there's a Larry Brown resemblance in that picture there. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.960 I don't think Larry Brown was even born when I 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.440 got that interception. So let's let's get off of that. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.920 So since we were, you know what, since we were 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.120 talking about a cornerback moving to safety, Everson, what, what 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.360 is that transition for a guy that's played basically corner although, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.320 you know what, towards the end of his career here, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.080 so he was with the Cowboys twenty twelve through twenty sixteen. Uh, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.000 they had some alignments back there when they played three 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.840 safeties across the back and he was one of those 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 safeties on the outside, and they moved somebody else into 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.280 a true cornerback spot. So for Brandon Carr, what's that 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:16.400 transition like? Well, it really depends on your background that 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.240 goes back and ways. I was blessed because at Grambling State, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.360 I played every position in the secondary. In my junior year, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.040 grew up even at Bergner High School, safety was my 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.120 original position. I started playing cornerback at Grambling just in 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.280 order to keep my scholarship. I had to learn how 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.640 to cover. So that's a whole different thing when you're 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.800 in safety. If you're in natural safety, then you have 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.120 an ability to figure out what the offense is trying 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.400 to do almost from the snap of the ball. You 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:52.600 have to understand where where your critical points are before 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.440 the ball is snapped, and then you work your way 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.360 down in progression in regards to what can hurt you 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.680 in your secondary. So I'm hoping Brandon had either known 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.760 before or was able to kind of cultivate that type 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.560 of instinct by being a safety. You know, I played. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.600 To me one of the more underrated safeties that I've 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.800 ever played with was Michael Downs, and Michael Downs was 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.640 by Jane Starters over and over the end. You gotta 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.400 be on the past because the flex was like that 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.720 for a free safety, but you also have to come 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.440 in and plug on the run. So his responsibilities as 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.040 a safety for the flex was totally different. A little 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.760 bit more. They ask more of our safeties back in 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.240 the eighties with the flex defense. Nowadays, you don't really 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.920 have to worry about that. You just make sure that 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.840 nothing gets deeper than you. But to me, a true 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.640 safety that's gonna make some plays, you have to anticipate 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.720 where your dangers are and you also have to figure 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.160 out exactly where they're trying to go with the ball. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.160 And there are times when a safety can make all 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.320 the difference in the world in a passing game. His 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.359 cornerbacks will know to trust him to be there. Number one, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:11.280 The safety himself has to make sure that those cornerbacks 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.320 understand where they need to be. And if you start 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.840 working that thing together as a fluid secondary, it's a 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.479 beautiful thing. And I'm hoping car can understand that there 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.560 are going to be some times in the gold ball game, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.000 especially in the red zone, especially during key parts of 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.479 the game, where bad free safety can make all the 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.879 difference in the world and he can make some plays 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.920 on the ball that can save your team. I'm hoping 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.840 that that's where guys like Brandon Carr can do I'm 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.840 hoping Thompson can do it as well. Even you know what. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.840 And the thing that I think he emphasized or at 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.399 least mentioned during we got a chance to talk to 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.000 him for about ten minutes on one of our virtual interviews, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.639 and he talked about how he needs to study and 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.040 study this defense because he felt like the key to 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.600 play in safety was anticipe patient and I think you 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.200 understand that. And I've always thought that the safety needs 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.600 to know what's going to happen before it happens by 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.520 reading what's going on. I thought that was one of 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.520 the great attributes that Darren Woodson had when he played 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.560 a true safety spot, that he could diagnose what was 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.399 going on. So I thought that was a good sign 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.439 that he knew he needed to study. By the way, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.280 they're not practicing today and he was out on the 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.600 field by himself kind of pantomiming his back pedal and 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.120 turning to like, go get the ball, so he's already 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.000 kind of working on that. He said he was in shape, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.520 said he started strength and conditioning back in February and 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.119 didn't give up even though he wasn't on a team. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.959 So I think that's what people need to understand the 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.200 fact that he didn't go through training camp with anybody, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.240 and obviously there was no offseason, so this is all 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.480 a start for him. And I thought Jerry Jones comment 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.879 on him, I thought was very clear on what they 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.920 think about the safety position because he said we were 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.840 it was a very fortuitous opportunity to sign a guy 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.840 like that. So when he said that and that kind 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.520 of got into the answer about Earl Thomas this morning, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.960 and it sounded like, you know, okay, we got kind 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.600 of a veteran guy back there, and it's not at 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.800 a big price. And by the way, my guess is, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.200 and I haven't seen this yet, that even though Brandon 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.520 cars on the practice squad, he's probably not making practice 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.160 squad money. You can pay those guys whatever you want, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.919 and so I would imagine they signed him to a 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.399 salary and then first chance they get when he's ready. 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:44.439 And Jerry said, probably not this week, but maybe in 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.760 a week or two he'd be ready to go. And 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.840 we got to take a break here. But Brandon's been 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.400 waiting in the wings right here in Dallas ever since 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.880 last season. In fact, I saw him. I was doing 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:02.280 a live shot for CBS eleven in Tostito's Plaza outside 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.199 Ford Center at the Star in Frisco in March, the 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.600 day before he was released by the Baltimore Ravens. He 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.439 was there with a camera crewer doing a promotional shoot 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.080 for a charity. 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