Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and we are off to a flying
Speaker 1: start on a Wednesday edition of Mick Shots. If you're
Speaker 1: watching on periscope, you saw we got started a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes ago. You saw it. You saw it, that's
Speaker 1: the keyword. You saw it. You didn't hear us get started.
Speaker 1: We've got a false start to start this one. But
Speaker 1: we trust that you not only see us, but you
Speaker 1: also hear us. Now, Bill Jones and Mickey Spagnola inside
Speaker 1: the SWBC Mortgage Studios and Everson Walls inside the SWBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Home Studio. Hello Everson, Hello William, Hello Mickey. How
Speaker 1: are you doing people? I'm great you guys. Good to
Speaker 1: be with you. I actually see it. It's Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: I am in person here at Ford Center at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios location. Today
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, I tape a high school football preview show
Speaker 1: in the studios here. Right after we get done with
Speaker 1: mix shots, and so I have permission to enter the
Speaker 1: building on Wednesday afternoons. That's why I am here in studio. Good.
Speaker 1: So there you you know the schedule for me for
Speaker 1: the for at least now, and you could triple up
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Speaker 1: do that too. You got a Legend show coming up.
Speaker 1: Let's say, guys, I really missed the Spagnola Jack Blatt readings.
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Speaker 1: All right? There is a news happening here at the Star,
Speaker 1: and there's news happening around the National Football League. That's
Speaker 1: where we started yesterday. So why don't we start in
Speaker 1: Nashville again today? Because they are not starting in Nashville.
Speaker 1: In fact, they've closed down the facility to the first
Speaker 1: do we call it an outbreak COVID nineteen outbreak in
Speaker 1: the NFL. It took them took three weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. But and now the word comes
Speaker 1: down this morning that the Titans game against the Steelers
Speaker 1: is postponed. They are hoping for the start of next week, right, Nicky. Yes,
Speaker 1: they talked about postponing to maybe Monday or Tuesday so
Speaker 1: we could have a Tuesday night game. And yeah, they're
Speaker 1: they're kind of just waiting to see how the week
Speaker 1: goes because they want to make sure both teams have
Speaker 1: enough or especially Tennessee enough time to practice preparing for
Speaker 1: the game since they shut down the facility. So they
Speaker 1: had another they had three originally players test positive. Another
Speaker 1: one did yesterday, so it's four and five PEP personnel
Speaker 1: people that are in Tier one and tier two, So
Speaker 1: that's nine all together right now. And I guess they
Speaker 1: want to see if they've got a control of this
Speaker 1: and it's stopped and nobody else is going to continue
Speaker 1: to test positive before they open up the facility and
Speaker 1: get back to work. So yeah, the first one that's happened,
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody was like, wow, the NFL didn't
Speaker 1: have They don't have any idea what they're doing. Well,
Speaker 1: they you got to figure this out. You know, this
Speaker 1: isn't like baseball where you play two or you know,
Speaker 1: you push it off and you just played the next day.
Speaker 1: So there's no such thing as in baseball. They played
Speaker 1: seven inning double headers. There's no such thing as playing
Speaker 1: a three quarter doubleheader. Can't do that in football. In football,
Speaker 1: so and that's probably hopefully they'll be able to get
Speaker 1: that game in on Monday or Tuesday and it won't
Speaker 1: disrupt the schedule because we were we were looking ahead
Speaker 1: and when they might be able if they had to
Speaker 1: postpone it until later in the season, and it is workable.
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers would have had to reschedule a
Speaker 1: game with the Ravens to make their bye week coincide
Speaker 1: with the Titans by a week. The good news on
Speaker 1: this right now is though the Titans did play at
Speaker 1: Minnesota on Sunday, there have been no positive test out
Speaker 1: of the Vikings camp and so the Vikings are ready
Speaker 1: to get back to work and get prepared for their
Speaker 1: game against the Texans on Sunday. Yeah, and the other
Speaker 1: thing that came out the NFL and the nfl PA
Speaker 1: sent out a strongly worded memo to the coaches, general managers,
Speaker 1: and team executives that includes a passage that says it
Speaker 1: will address a lack of compliance with accountability measures that
Speaker 1: may include suspensions and or forfeiture of draft picks. Meaning
Speaker 1: if people on the sideline aren't wearing their masks, there's
Speaker 1: going to be more than a financial fine for those
Speaker 1: players and those teams. So they're really emphasizing for people
Speaker 1: on the sideline to keep those masks on during on
Speaker 1: game day, all right, And so in regards to in
Speaker 1: regards to the initial problem that we're having here, it
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of baseball when they first started out.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Florida Marlins had so many
Speaker 1: guys tested positive, and it looked like they were going
Speaker 1: to have to shed everything down, but they continued, And
Speaker 1: initially I think I would have pushed the panic button
Speaker 1: if the Major League Baseball Association didn't what hadn't already
Speaker 1: shown us kind of a blueprint on how you can
Speaker 1: work your way through this thing, knowing it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty, knowing that we're gonna have a Monday or
Speaker 1: Tuesday night game. Heck, you might know we might have
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night game before it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: I mean, because right now there are no limitations, there's
Speaker 1: no those, no template to follow. But I do like
Speaker 1: the fact that the Major League Baseball had these same
Speaker 1: issues initially and they were able to come out of it.
Speaker 1: So I think we'll be able to do the same
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Hopefully. I'm looking forward to I don't
Speaker 1: want to stop the season. It's already on this way,
Speaker 1: you know. Ever since this was almost like a reminder
Speaker 1: because things have been going so well for those first
Speaker 1: two and a half three weeks that you would people,
Speaker 1: probably players tend to relax and say, Okay, well, you
Speaker 1: know there's there's no threat here. Well, this came to reminder,
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy even talked about it today in his
Speaker 1: press conference. He said that, you know, during their team meeting,
Speaker 1: he said they were reinforcing all the things they've been
Speaker 1: doing and re emphasizing to everyone that we got to
Speaker 1: continue on the path we were on, you know, being
Speaker 1: very diligent about following all the protocols and not let
Speaker 1: this thing catch us by surprise. And you know, I
Speaker 1: just think it was inevitable with guys going home that
Speaker 1: at some point, you know, I don't know where you
Speaker 1: contacted it, if you went out and didn't do what
Speaker 1: you were supposed to do going out, which is another
Speaker 1: thing they're going to keep an eye on because I
Speaker 1: can't remember who was it. There was a story about
Speaker 1: some one team found out a bunch of players did
Speaker 1: it some sort of charity thing and they were at
Speaker 1: it without masks on, and so they were going to
Speaker 1: investigate that. But he just can't let your guard down
Speaker 1: just because it seems like everything's reopening well. And the
Speaker 1: big thing about that is that it's not just you.
Speaker 1: If you have a wife, if kids, whatever, or go
Speaker 1: friend or whatever, and you're around other people, and then
Speaker 1: you can't help but be around your family. You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing that football has, which is more challenging,
Speaker 1: obviously with basketball and hockey, they're in a bubble situation.
Speaker 1: In baseball, they weren't traveling, but they're playing every day
Speaker 1: and there's just not much downtime to go out to
Speaker 1: a restaurant or even to be around your family or
Speaker 1: you know, you're in a routine where you're primarily playing
Speaker 1: night games. You're going home, you're going to bed, and
Speaker 1: you're going to the ballpark. The next day, you're traveling
Speaker 1: with the team and you're isolated in a hotel and
Speaker 1: they're taking all the protocols. The problem football has is
Speaker 1: that during the week, yeah, you are practicing starting on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but you're going home after practice.
Speaker 1: You're off a couple of days or a day and
Speaker 1: a half during the week, and there's more opportunities for
Speaker 1: you to be around other people that aren't being tested.
Speaker 1: You know. I saw in today's paper. I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of alarming. After the Stars had been in
Speaker 1: that bubble for what nine weeks? Uh, they flew home, uh,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of fans met them at the airport
Speaker 1: as they were going through the airport, and I saw
Speaker 1: that Hohudobin was taking a picture with a couple of fans.
Speaker 1: None of them had their masks on. And I'm going, Okay,
Speaker 1: you just quarantined yourself for nine weeks and now you're
Speaker 1: out in public with two people you don't know, and
Speaker 1: you're not wearing a mask. It's like, boy, you gotta
Speaker 1: rethink that he didn't leave it, leave it. That's what
Speaker 1: they thought. Happy happen to be over. It's almost likely relief.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that you have is is really
Speaker 1: you have one protocol for the sports teams, but then
Speaker 1: you know, when you go out in public, then your
Speaker 1: state or your city might have a totally different set
Speaker 1: of protocols that you have to adhere to. So there's
Speaker 1: different between what the Cowboys are doing versus what the
Speaker 1: city of Dallas or the Dallas County or Column County
Speaker 1: or the state of Texas. It's different how we approach
Speaker 1: it as private citizens versus the protocol that they have
Speaker 1: to deal with throughout the NFL or all the major sports,
Speaker 1: so that that you're having to jump in and out
Speaker 1: of that, you know, between one one protocol to another protocol.
Speaker 1: They just have to be mindful that we have different
Speaker 1: protocols in the on the team sports for a reason,
Speaker 1: because you are in a unique situation. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the state protocol or city protocol, they're all over
Speaker 1: the place. So you got to ignore those and realize
Speaker 1: the task at hand is to be all in on
Speaker 1: the NFL protocol. You know, and Mickey mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 1: The NFL has there's a reason that there are expanded
Speaker 1: rosters this year. Reason there's an expanded practice squad this year,
Speaker 1: it is because they anticipated that there would be situations
Speaker 1: arise like this, which is why the Tennessee Titans, even
Speaker 1: with four positive cases, can go ahead and play a
Speaker 1: football game on Monday or Tuesday whenever they reschedule this
Speaker 1: for Yeah, and and the other thing that took place,
Speaker 1: I guess the beginning of this week is Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: sent out a memo to all the teams, also emphasizing
Speaker 1: their protocols of you know, how they bring in players
Speaker 1: for workouts, and I think he strongly suggested that you
Speaker 1: might want to back off on that stuff. And one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why Earl Thomas didn't get a workout
Speaker 1: in Houston, and it wasn't just they were evidently gonna
Speaker 1: work out a bunch of players, uh Monday, Tuesday, and
Speaker 1: they kind of suggested to him that you might be
Speaker 1: real careful about that. You might put him in a
Speaker 1: hotel room and make sure you're testing him before you
Speaker 1: bring him into the facility for a workout. So all
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was something he had done. Now,
Speaker 1: all the conspiracy theories that Jerry was flying in and
Speaker 1: had put a halt to the workout because he's gonna
Speaker 1: sign Earl Thomas. Like they probably got thrown down into
Speaker 1: the trash container. And I just assumed that he did
Speaker 1: something controversial, and you know, we're going, yeah, with his background,
Speaker 1: it was probably a good assumption too well. And so Bill,
Speaker 1: that's why I thought it was. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a whole Capinet thing that they the rules got all
Speaker 1: mixed up, and hey, I don't want it this way,
Speaker 1: I don't want it that way. I just assumed that
Speaker 1: it was his cap that had something to do with
Speaker 1: that cancelation. I'm glad to hear that it was simply
Speaker 1: because of a prolocoul spending place. Yeah, And and the
Speaker 1: initial reports kind of came out that way. And first
Speaker 1: Thomas's agent said that no, we were informed by the
Speaker 1: Texans that due to COVID issues, they had to cancel
Speaker 1: the practice. And then Bill O'Brien this morning made a
Speaker 1: point to talk about how how much respect he has
Speaker 1: for Earl Thomas, and they, yeah, they wanted to bring
Speaker 1: him in, but it was a sort of a league
Speaker 1: wide thing that hey, let's they got a notice from
Speaker 1: the league that these workouts, let's let's put a hiatus
Speaker 1: on him for a little bit. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: even if you if you, you know, bring in a
Speaker 1: guy without a workout, he still got a test negative
Speaker 1: three times in four days before he's allowed in the facility.
Speaker 1: So you know, so you almost have to plan for
Speaker 1: two weeks in advance. And the reason that the Texans
Speaker 1: were interested in Earl Thomas is because they had an
Speaker 1: injury at the safety position on Sunday. So you're right,
Speaker 1: these personnel people, I mean Will McClay has to sit
Speaker 1: there and anticipate. Okay, here we are depth wise, Let's
Speaker 1: say at the safety position, what if we lose a
Speaker 1: guy on Sunday, Well, you have to have already brought
Speaker 1: safeties in to make sure that you had them, you
Speaker 1: have them ready to go, or you you understand where
Speaker 1: they are physically okay. And then because even when they
Speaker 1: come in, they still got to pass three tests before
Speaker 1: they can work out with a team. And that's why
Speaker 1: I think when you see you know, the collections to
Speaker 1: Jerry and Steven and Mike McCarthy about well can you
Speaker 1: change this, bring somebody in to help out, and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: we got to kind of do this from within because
Speaker 1: they know even if you bring somebody in, it's not
Speaker 1: for a week before. They're not gonna go out to
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday or Thursday. Any good. You got to
Speaker 1: address it from within. They might be able to clear
Speaker 1: protocol by Friday maybe, And so they haven't been. They
Speaker 1: haven't practiced. You're too heavy days of the week, so
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to contribute. I mean
Speaker 1: just thinking. Just remember when the Cowboys signed Everson Griffin.
Speaker 1: You know that he didn't clear whatever day they did it,
Speaker 1: he didn't clear till Saturday. And then I don't think
Speaker 1: he got into practice either Sunday or Monday the first time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it takes a while, so it's not an
Speaker 1: instant cure for whatever ails you. And speaking of whatever
Speaker 1: ails you, Tyrant Smith, at least practice on a limited basis. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a little tease. Okay, gonna take a little break. Here,
Speaker 1: have full day on Tyrn Smith and where the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: we continue here on Mick Shots, Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Spagnola with your Wednesday practice report. Yes, and
Speaker 1: as I was teasing before we went to break a,
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith did work on a limited basis, but you
Speaker 1: know it was more than on the side doing resisting
Speaker 1: card work. He actually had a helmet and shoulder pads
Speaker 1: on and kind of went through the individual drills went
Speaker 1: through when they do kind of their skeleton lineup with
Speaker 1: the offense and the defenses off doing their own deal.
Speaker 1: So at least he was out there, and the other
Speaker 1: guy that I saw was out there and running effortlessly
Speaker 1: was Ceedee Lamb. So you can put this conspiracy thing
Speaker 1: to bed that he was hurt at the end of
Speaker 1: the game and that's why he wasn't in on whatever
Speaker 1: play everybody's been talking about. So he was out there.
Speaker 1: And after that, the other guys I think were still
Speaker 1: in the rehab that are on injured reserve. Those guys
Speaker 1: were still in rehab. So really they you know, everybody's like, well,
Speaker 1: when are they going to get everybody back? Well, the
Speaker 1: guys on on injury reserve, the only one that was
Speaker 1: eligible to come off was Lele Collins, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like he's ready. And I still think there's something
Speaker 1: else wrong other than the hip that's preventing him from
Speaker 1: rehabbing the hip injury that he had. Jerry alluded to it,
Speaker 1: and all I know is when they started training camp
Speaker 1: and he wasn't initially out there, the back problems he
Speaker 1: had flared up. The back that he had the end
Speaker 1: of last year kind of flared up in the offseason,
Speaker 1: so they were trying to and I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's why or if there's something else. I understand he
Speaker 1: was a little bit overweight, so COVID didn't treat him
Speaker 1: well the way it didn't treat a lot of people
Speaker 1: well that gained weight the quarantine at home. So from
Speaker 1: an injury standpoint, and I believe during the individual drills,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, at least uh uh Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: and chitabey O Woozier have moved on to doing resisting
Speaker 1: chord work, so that's a good sign for them. Uh.
Speaker 1: Chitabey still gotta miss two more games and Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: one more game before they would be eligible to come back.
Speaker 1: And Uh Terrence Steele was out there. So whatever's stomach
Speaker 1: element he had, looks like he was good enough to
Speaker 1: be able to practice today. So we'll see when we
Speaker 1: get the official injury port. But I did notice that
Speaker 1: from Cleveland standpoint, they've got a bunch of injuries of guys.
Speaker 1: A bunch of guys didn't practice. Their starting left card guard,
Speaker 1: Joel h Boutonio, I got it, sort of did not
Speaker 1: practice and they were they were were worried about that one.
Speaker 1: Also Denzel wore their starting corner, uh did not practice
Speaker 1: along with Adrian Claiborne. Cowboys know enough about him now.
Speaker 1: He's a backup and he was the backup to Olivier
Speaker 1: Vernon and he hasn't been practicing, so they've got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a problem there. Also, Greed Williams was
Speaker 1: limited in practice and also uh Hunt Kareem Hump did
Speaker 1: not practice. So they've got some in concerns going into
Speaker 1: this game. Also, that is a heck of a running
Speaker 1: back right there is so what they have not made
Speaker 1: a decision on what he's going to be, if he's
Speaker 1: going to be available. Yeah, it's just early. It was
Speaker 1: an early week. They were it was projecting that he
Speaker 1: would not practice today. Now that's a heck of a
Speaker 1: guy there. They've got a great one two punch that
Speaker 1: we have to deal with. And as bad as I run, well,
Speaker 1: as good as I run, defense was especially against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: I hope that we can hindue that. Yeah, when they
Speaker 1: start talking about the players Association, it's something I just
Speaker 1: had to bring up. With all of the injuries that
Speaker 1: we're having and they're talking about the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: are complaining about the different fields that they're playing on,
Speaker 1: especially in the meadowlands. They were talking about the New
Speaker 1: York Jets Jersey or New York Giants of field. I
Speaker 1: just thought that was so ironic that the forty niners
Speaker 1: are complaining about a field. You know, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that's still below sea level out there in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Santa Clara, but I do know
Speaker 1: that they have no room to talk about how bad
Speaker 1: the field can be. We have to wear spikes this
Speaker 1: long when we went out there for the second time.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know the story. First
Speaker 1: game in nineteen eighty one, played against the forty ninety.
Speaker 1: We got blown out and it wasn't just the field,
Speaker 1: but they had a heck of a squad. Obviously ended
Speaker 1: up winning the Super Bowl that year, but the field
Speaker 1: itself was just it was weighing on us mentally because
Speaker 1: we kept falling down. We couldn't get any traction. We
Speaker 1: went out there for the championship game. We were ready
Speaker 1: this time, we had we had spikes this long. But
Speaker 1: now your legs are completely exhausted, just and your calf
Speaker 1: muscles and everything just from trying to pick up those
Speaker 1: spikes on the top of your shoes. And I just
Speaker 1: thought there was a tragic travesty, not just for our game,
Speaker 1: but as the Cowboys finally went in to kick the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers butt after all those years, they did
Speaker 1: it on one of the worst fields that you can
Speaker 1: ever play on. So I just thought that was very
Speaker 1: It was very ironic that you have the nerve, you
Speaker 1: have the goal to talk about somebody's field when we've
Speaker 1: been complaining about you guys ever since the dinosaurs were alive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Everson, you got to remember, these guys don't
Speaker 1: know what took place forty years ago or thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: So forty my forty, that's basically four Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm freaking old, dude. I just got older. I just
Speaker 1: felt older. Oh my god, I had to bring up
Speaker 1: one more thing that I had to bring a one
Speaker 1: more thing to crack me up. And I know this
Speaker 1: is off topic. H The Philadelphia Eagles, you know, they're
Speaker 1: known for booing the everything Santa Claus Christmas, it doesn't matter, uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And I thought it was so funny with
Speaker 1: no fan participation. They actually put it on the tellustrated boo.
Speaker 1: They actually typed out boo at the stadium in Philly.
Speaker 1: I thought that was just so classic that if any
Speaker 1: team needed to boot needed fans needed to boo those
Speaker 1: fans of being Philadelphia and they're not there. So the
Speaker 1: telestrator put boo on the stadium. When Carson wentz, I think,
Speaker 1: do an interception. So I thought that was very fitting,
Speaker 1: extremely fitting. COVID will not take away the booze. The
Speaker 1: fans may not be there, but the booze remain in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool. And by the way,
Speaker 1: on Candlestick Park, it is now way below sea level
Speaker 1: because they it's been demolished. It's part of the bay. Now,
Speaker 1: that's right, all right, Making anything out of Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: press conference this morning. That struck you, Well, the one
Speaker 1: thing I mentioned really wasn't well his emphasis, I think
Speaker 1: on the turnovers that are bothering the Cowboys. You know
Speaker 1: they have not counting the two fake punts that didn't work,
Speaker 1: they have six. So they're tied for thirtieth in the
Speaker 1: league right now for the most giveaways. Uh, there's two
Speaker 1: teams tied at seventh. I'm going to okay, well, then
Speaker 1: they they have the most because uh, and tied with seven.
Speaker 1: Guess what the Washington Football team and you're New York
Speaker 1: Football Giants. So the three they're not mine. Three of
Speaker 1: the four NFC East teams are at the bottom when
Speaker 1: it comes to takeaways. And the thing I mean turnovers
Speaker 1: and the thing about their giveaways, all six of them, Uh,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the end of game one that
Speaker 1: the interception at the end of the game, the other
Speaker 1: five have all led to scores totally. I believe thirty
Speaker 1: one points. I counted up, so, uh, four touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a field goal, thirty one points and that doesn't account
Speaker 1: for the fumble at the one yard line that led
Speaker 1: to the safety. So that's thirty three points. I look
Speaker 1: at it wasn't a turnover, but it might as well
Speaker 1: been recovering at the one yard line, So thirty three
Speaker 1: points of the Cowboys. It wasn't a safety either. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a safety either. Yeah, and so although I still
Speaker 1: don't think he got out even after he laid on
Speaker 1: the ground, even though no one touched him, but the
Speaker 1: whistle blew. So but anyway, his emphasis was, we got
Speaker 1: to take care of the football. And let me ask you,
Speaker 1: this is a is a failed fourth down conversion that's
Speaker 1: not a fake punt you turn the ball over? Is that?
Speaker 1: That's three the two fake punts and the fourth and
Speaker 1: three that Now, I think it depends on the field
Speaker 1: position on it, okay, because for instance, on the fourth
Speaker 1: and three in La, Yeah, at the eleven yard line,
Speaker 1: you don't make that, and you're giving the ball up.
Speaker 1: I get you, and so that would be yeah. But
Speaker 1: if a fourth if you're going forward on fourth down
Speaker 1: at your own forty where you're losing the field position,
Speaker 1: if you don't make it, then I think that counts
Speaker 1: as a turnover, right right, Okay, So the two fake
Speaker 1: punts count, yes, okay in my opinion, because otherwise you
Speaker 1: could have punted them and flip the field. And that's
Speaker 1: sort of the point on this whole Seattle game and
Speaker 1: why the Cowboys had so many yards of total offense.
Speaker 1: Look where they were starting their drives. I mean the
Speaker 1: Cowboys starting field position for the entire game was the
Speaker 1: average starting field position was their own eighteen yard line.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks average starting field position was their own thirty
Speaker 1: four yard line. And so that's a significant difference right there.
Speaker 1: I think that even goes back to last year if
Speaker 1: you think about especially the first part of the year
Speaker 1: last year, when they weren't getting takeaways and the starting
Speaker 1: field position was horrible. They wait, wait, when did they
Speaker 1: start with takeaway? Well, I mean they finally got one,
Speaker 1: Like the sixth game of the season is the first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last year took a while. Yeah, it was like it
Speaker 1: was Halloween before they got takeaway I think. But I
Speaker 1: think last year also we still had we I think
Speaker 1: our scoring drives had to accumulate to be on the
Speaker 1: average that the most starting position in the league. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that belonged to us last year as well.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing he said that stood out
Speaker 1: to me, Uh, he was talking about the communication on
Speaker 1: defense in particular, uh, and specifically probably in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And he said communication is always the root of defensive
Speaker 1: success or defensive failure. UH. And so I think he
Speaker 1: understands that the defensive of communication has to be better.
Speaker 1: They can't bust assignments, as we were talking about over
Speaker 1: these past two days, leaving guys so wide open. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and Scott and then and they had a bust. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was the Falcons game, right, the tight end Hurst
Speaker 1: there wasn't anybody twenty yards of him, So you had
Speaker 1: another busted coverage. And by the way, Everson, the average
Speaker 1: starting field position for the Cowboys last year, their own
Speaker 1: twenty six yard line that ranked twenty ninth in the league.
Speaker 1: And you know, you get a pretty good head start
Speaker 1: on leading the league in total offense when you got
Speaker 1: more real estate to cover exact starting field exactly. All right,
Speaker 1: we continue with we are blessed. Go ahead, Everson, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. We'll talk about it. Okay, let's tease whatever
Speaker 1: you're gonna say next. Okay, what is Everson? That's why
Speaker 1: we have hold on. Don't tease Everson. Whateverson is gonna
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Speaker 1: last spoke with you on mix Shots, Everson Walls was
Speaker 1: about to say something he was grownund and he's now
Speaker 1: going to say whatever it was he was about to say.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's gonna be pretty anti climactic. I'm just
Speaker 1: hard to add on to what you guys were talking about.
Speaker 1: When you start that that deep in your territory, most
Speaker 1: of the time, that leads to lots of turnovers and
Speaker 1: lots of unfinished. One thing that we did, we were
Speaker 1: blessed to finish those drives. That's why Dak is looking
Speaker 1: for a new contract. That's why our offense has so
Speaker 1: many yards built up. We're blessed to have talents that
Speaker 1: can at least get us out of that hole. The
Speaker 1: problem is you don't want to make a habit of
Speaker 1: that because I don't care how good you are. Eventually,
Speaker 1: defenses are going to catch up with you. Maybe not
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, but all the ones that we're playing
Speaker 1: playing against. So what does Mike Nolan, what is his
Speaker 1: role in this as a defensive coordinator, you know, are
Speaker 1: we going to continue to play off of the offense.
Speaker 1: Are we going to continue to let them be the
Speaker 1: catalysts of the team. Are we going to try and
Speaker 1: participate in some way to give them an opportunity to win?
Speaker 1: Are we going to try and get them better field
Speaker 1: position by being more aggressive defensively? Because that's what Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan has to look at. Does he just throw all
Speaker 1: caution to the win because right now we're playing defense
Speaker 1: very cautiously. And does he does he become more aggressive?
Speaker 1: Does he do more rumblitzes, does he, you know, just
Speaker 1: turn into a title of difference defensive coordinator? Or do
Speaker 1: we continue to go down this road of ineptness coming
Speaker 1: from our defense and especially our secondary we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 1: We have the worst past defense in the NFL and
Speaker 1: along with close to the best passing offense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It pretty much leads to what we've been accustomed to
Speaker 1: eight and eight seasons, you know, five hundred seasons not
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. I'm hoping we make changes quickly enough
Speaker 1: here to what we don't have to worry about making
Speaker 1: changes during the lad when it's desperate, desperate times. I
Speaker 1: want to make those changes right now and see what
Speaker 1: kind of guys we have that can adhere to those changes,
Speaker 1: players and coaches, guests. Who has the worst past de
Speaker 1: fence in the league, meaning giving up the most pass? Seattle? Seattle, Okay,
Speaker 1: Cowboys are twenty and they're three zero. All right? The
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns come here for a noon kickoff on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk a lot about the Browns
Speaker 1: here in the next couple of days. We got five
Speaker 1: minutes left here and to kick off our Browns scouting report.
Speaker 1: Let's just do it this way. What is it that
Speaker 1: concerns you last week? Bill? What is it that concerned
Speaker 1: We're going to kind of tease ahead to Thursday and
Speaker 1: Friday here. What is it that concerns you the most
Speaker 1: about playing the Cleveland Browns this week? It is a
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns team that is looking for its third straight
Speaker 1: win and is every thirty four and a half points
Speaker 1: a game the last two weeks, albeit against Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. Everson, what is it that concerns
Speaker 1: you the most about playing Cleveland this week? The running game?
Speaker 1: Two great running backs, They're very confident right now. They
Speaker 1: lost their first game, but in the last two games
Speaker 1: we came to see what is really going to be
Speaker 1: their strength. Even Odell Beckham has finally come to the
Speaker 1: conclusion that we are not going to be that past
Speaker 1: happy team, you know, throwing the ball all over the place.
Speaker 1: They're going to be a controlled ball club or much
Speaker 1: like we are, but probably won't throw the ball as
Speaker 1: much because their defense gives them a better chance to win.
Speaker 1: So that running game being the capitalist of their attack,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what's going to bother me right there
Speaker 1: with Everson, because, as coaches will tell you, if you
Speaker 1: can't stop the run, you don't earn the right to
Speaker 1: rush the quarterback. And this team is number three in
Speaker 1: the National Football League in rushing yards. They're averaging five
Speaker 1: point two a carry and one ninety per game. And
Speaker 1: we know that the Cowboys have had trouble previously stopping
Speaker 1: the run because they get so focused on putting pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback they forget about the importance of stopping
Speaker 1: the run. So to me, that's the deal. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't looked enough at what they
Speaker 1: do offensively. But in their weekly release, when they sent
Speaker 1: out the depth chart, they do list a fullback as
Speaker 1: part of their eleven man offense. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys really haven't played all that much
Speaker 1: with three linebackers on the field. They've been in nickel
Speaker 1: with these three teams. I don't know that you want
Speaker 1: to line up in nickel against this bunch if they
Speaker 1: got a fullback out there and you're relying on a
Speaker 1: safety or corner in the slot to help support the
Speaker 1: run against these two guys Chub and Hunt and the
Speaker 1: fullback Andy Janovich. He was in the game for seventeen
Speaker 1: offensive snaps against Washington and twenty two offensive snaps the
Speaker 1: previous week against Cincinnati, So they'll go heavy. And if
Speaker 1: the fullback in there, I bet the tight ends are
Speaker 1: in there too, so they want they want to run
Speaker 1: the ball, and Everson mentioned it. You know, Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: Junior seems to be okay with not all about me,
Speaker 1: you know, it's all about the team. And maybe they're
Speaker 1: taking a little pressure off of Baker Mayfield. He's only
Speaker 1: thrown the ball eighty five times in two games, so
Speaker 1: that's less than thirty thirty a game. While Dak is
Speaker 1: you know, probably averaging I'm gonna do it off top
Speaker 1: of my head, probably about fifty a game. It seems
Speaker 1: like with how much the Cowboys have thrown the ball,
Speaker 1: so uh, they'll they'll run it at you and that
Speaker 1: creates more big plays for them. Dack's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three times in three games. That's
Speaker 1: nearly nearly fifty a game, and uh mayfield the last two.
Speaker 1: You have to realize exactly sixteen out of twenty three
Speaker 1: both games. Well, yeah, so stopping the run definitely is
Speaker 1: something that the Cowboys have to make a priority of,
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see how they do it,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're short on linebackers. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been Jalen Smith uh and Joe Thomas uh and and
Speaker 1: at times if they've wanted a third linebacker, it's kind
Speaker 1: of been Alden Smith standing up on the outside with
Speaker 1: the four man run. Now, maybe you go and use
Speaker 1: more of your three four defense and act like two
Speaker 1: of your defensive ends are are linebackers along with the
Speaker 1: two guys in the middle. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know how they're going to do it, but um, that's
Speaker 1: probably bring down the safety as well. You'll probably bring
Speaker 1: the safety down as well and have him feel a hole.
Speaker 1: And they're very good at that. They're very good at that.
Speaker 1: Defense boats them well. Uh, he Woods gets in there
Speaker 1: pretty good. We got a couple of good heart hid
Speaker 1: in the safeties. But then here comes to play action
Speaker 1: pass bags. And when you have that that play action,
Speaker 1: just like with the Dallas Cowboys, it's gonna be some
Speaker 1: big holes in there if you're not careful. And when
Speaker 1: Landry and Beckham catch the ball, regardless of whether you
Speaker 1: throw to him ten times or just one time, each
Speaker 1: time that they catch it, they're trying to take it
Speaker 1: to the house. And if you have those holes open
Speaker 1: up in there because of that play action pass, then
Speaker 1: it's gonna be another track meet that we're looking at.
Speaker 1: And it's just gonna look a little bit different from Seattle.
Speaker 1: But the guy's going to the end zone, it still
Speaker 1: looks the same, all right. Baker said he's okay getting
Speaker 1: in a shootout with Dak Presscott. He said that, yes
Speaker 1: he did. Now he's not he's not, No, he is not, no,
Speaker 1: he is Have you ever heard of Baker Bayfield not
Speaker 1: being confident coming in or cocky or worse than that
Speaker 1: coming in into a any football game that he's played.
Speaker 1: I think he got a very good point there. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta hand it to him after that first loss,
Speaker 1: it was it could have been easy to fold. It
Speaker 1: really could have been. And I have to hand it
Speaker 1: to that entire team on how they kind of pulled
Speaker 1: themselves together and they're bove five hundred for the first
Speaker 1: time I think since Mayfield's been there, I think since
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel was the quarterback in twenty fourteen. Wow, how
Speaker 1: that turnout? All right? That doesn't For this edition of
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