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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Hey, and it's the start of week
Speaker 1: number two in the National Football League. It is game
Speaker 1: day once again. It's already Thursday again. We got the
Speaker 1: Browns and the Bengals tonight, and we've got Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: in the s WBC Mortgage studios, Everson Walls in the
Speaker 1: SWC Mortgage Walls Studio, and Mickey's probably Everson. Mickey's probably
Speaker 1: gonna get distracted again because he's got his television on.
Speaker 1: He's talking about what's on the NFL net work right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's worried about other teams. He should really concentrate on us,
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. That's the problem with this organization. Too
Speaker 1: many distractions. I could multitask. Don't you worry about that?
Speaker 1: All right? All right, there's plenty that the Cowboys need
Speaker 1: to multitask about as they get set to play they
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Have we have we put the rams game
Speaker 1: behind us yet, Mickey, Oh, I don't know. I've noticed
Speaker 1: a couple of things once I got to see the
Speaker 1: All twenty two that I thought was pretty interesting on
Speaker 1: why certain plays turned out to the way they did.
Speaker 1: But other than that, yeah, I think the team has
Speaker 1: and they've moved on. As Mike McCarthy said the other day,
Speaker 1: you know, after they had their team meeting on Monday,
Speaker 1: it was onto the Atlanta Falcons and so you know
Speaker 1: they're practicing right now that they're probably just finishing up.
Speaker 1: And one of the screens up here, by the way
Speaker 1: is where they're getting ready to interview Dak Pressco today.
Speaker 1: So because remember Thursdays in the locker room was Dak's day.
Speaker 1: Wednesday was Zeke's day, and Zeke explained his feed me
Speaker 1: tattooed to everybody yesterday. And you know, we'll get the audience,
Speaker 1: I'll get the audio of Dak here when we're finished.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, you know, wouldn't it'd be neat while
Speaker 1: that interview is going on on Thursdays with Dak, if
Speaker 1: we can just cut in live and listen to it.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if we're allowed. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're allowed to do that. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask probably not, Yeah, probably not. We need to ask
Speaker 1: Chris that one. We need to ask Chris. Can he
Speaker 1: multitask himself? Now? I bet if we needed to, Chris
Speaker 1: could figure it out. It's a matter of if we're
Speaker 1: allowed to do it. Well, McCarthy's press conference is live,
Speaker 1: then why not the quarterbacks press conference? That's a good
Speaker 1: point streaming live. Yeah, yeah, but speaking of that, I
Speaker 1: was just looking for the problem with if if he
Speaker 1: is going to have his press conference at the same
Speaker 1: time that mix shots is on, that takes away time
Speaker 1: from you, and you do not want to have your
Speaker 1: time taken away, you know, for the quarterback. I'll bend
Speaker 1: over backwards. Oh I like that. I like that. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, guys, what I saw was a few
Speaker 1: guys getting thrown under the bus. You talked about putting
Speaker 1: last week's game behind us. I didn't know that Schultz
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the goat of the game. They
Speaker 1: talked about not just him missing passes, but they also
Speaker 1: mentioned that on that infamous fourth down play that he
Speaker 1: didn't run far enough of field to set the pick
Speaker 1: for a CD LAMB to get past the line to game.
Speaker 1: I hate that the line to game so ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: did not go get to the line to gain because
Speaker 1: Sheltz was too shallow to pick off his defender or
Speaker 1: at least screened him a bit. Now where did you get? Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I can't call it out. I have my own Uh well,
Speaker 1: okay there, now, I have my own devices and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. And then I went back and looked
Speaker 1: at the play itself, and you could you could put
Speaker 1: a little blame there on Shelts, but to the basic yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Now, I'm with you. I'm with your spags.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, let's just be real. He
Speaker 1: could have UH done a better job of picking, but
Speaker 1: so could everyone else that Dad could have thrown a
Speaker 1: better pass. CD still could have uh reached the line
Speaker 1: to gain even with without much extra effort, Right, so
Speaker 1: I see your hands of what? So I finally got
Speaker 1: a chance to see the all twenty two and I
Speaker 1: must have watched that play five times on both shots,
Speaker 1: and yes, CD, CD could have taken another step and
Speaker 1: gained the line he cut it across. But two other
Speaker 1: things happened. Number one, that Joe Looney missed the help
Speaker 1: block on Aaron Donald and Zach Martin got pushed back
Speaker 1: into Dak, and Dak couldn't step up to throw the ball,
Speaker 1: and consequently, instead of leading CD as he was crossing
Speaker 1: from left to right, he threw it right at his
Speaker 1: body and CD had to turn and catch the ball
Speaker 1: in his body instead of catching it here. Had he
Speaker 1: been able to lead him, he would have had enough
Speaker 1: momentum to get across Fuller, who did a heck of
Speaker 1: a job of coming across the formation from the safety
Speaker 1: position and coming up and making a heck of a tackle.
Speaker 1: But if those two things would have taken place, either
Speaker 1: CD runs the route a little bit deeper or they
Speaker 1: block Aaron Donald. Now he probably didn't get credit for
Speaker 1: a pressure on that, but Dak could not step up.
Speaker 1: He had to stand there flat footed and fling it.
Speaker 1: And that's got to be I'm thinking a tough pass
Speaker 1: for a quarterback across a short distance to lead the
Speaker 1: guy so he can catch it out front. And that
Speaker 1: was one of the reasons why that play, you know,
Speaker 1: didn't work the way they had hoped. And as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, on the play before it was third
Speaker 1: and six and they hand off to Zeke. Guess who
Speaker 1: messed that play up. Aaron Donald once again, and Zach
Speaker 1: Martin had his hands full with Aaron Donald. And on
Speaker 1: that play it looked like Joe Looney was supposed to
Speaker 1: chip and then go get the linebacker. Well, he missed
Speaker 1: the chip, so so Zach was protecting to his right.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's assuming he's going to get
Speaker 1: help to the left, but he didn't get it, and
Speaker 1: that screwed the play up. If they had got that block,
Speaker 1: Zeke's gonna score a touchdown because the whole is huge.
Speaker 1: It is all you saw. Connor Williams did a job
Speaker 1: on his guy, and if they had gotten that block
Speaker 1: on Donald, the linebacker was not going to make that tackle.
Speaker 1: When Zeke fell, he slid. You know, you could tell
Speaker 1: he slid that he slid for about another yard. No
Speaker 1: one was even around him when he fell. Of course,
Speaker 1: he was tripped up before he fell. I would have
Speaker 1: to disagree with you a bits bags in regards to
Speaker 1: the defensive back coming up from the safety position. I
Speaker 1: still thought with the momentum that he had, even if
Speaker 1: CD would have if Dak was able to get the
Speaker 1: ball out there a little bit more, CD would have
Speaker 1: had to pull one of his old U miracles and
Speaker 1: catch it and at the same time reach forward. That
Speaker 1: would have been a heck of a move to make.
Speaker 1: And Bill Bill is a CD man that I am too.
Speaker 1: We've seen him do that, of course in college, and
Speaker 1: we know he has the ability. I still think the
Speaker 1: momentum of that collision from that safety still would have
Speaker 1: been a tough reach for CD to reach above the
Speaker 1: line to game. I still don't think he would have
Speaker 1: made the play. But the third down play I thought
Speaker 1: was extremely key, and we started talking about this because
Speaker 1: of because of Schultz. I look forward to Schultz really
Speaker 1: shutting everybody's mouth in regards to how he played this
Speaker 1: past game. This guy's a stud. I think he's a
Speaker 1: stud as well. He enjoyed and almost hit the tat.
Speaker 1: I think he can block better than Jawing and I
Speaker 1: look forward to him making up for being the goat
Speaker 1: of the game. And sorry, Bill, we haven't moved on.
Speaker 1: And I noticed one other thing on that play. For
Speaker 1: a split second, and if Everson looked at this, he
Speaker 1: probably saw it. For a split second. Dak was getting greedy.
Speaker 1: He saw the receiver coming out of the slot running
Speaker 1: basically a post and for a split second there. He
Speaker 1: was wide open, and I think he was thinking, I
Speaker 1: got a touchdown on this play. And because CD was
Speaker 1: wide open before he threw him the ball, he could
Speaker 1: have thrown that ball to CD a lot sooner before
Speaker 1: Fuller broke across the back of the linebackers and came
Speaker 1: up and made that Had he thrown that sooner, he
Speaker 1: would have had the opportunity to turn up a quicker.
Speaker 1: But he saw that guy breaking and just when I
Speaker 1: think he was thinking of throwing on it, the linebacker
Speaker 1: got in the way and he didn't have a clear
Speaker 1: shot and then he came back underneath. But they had
Speaker 1: another alternative on that play, and it looked like he
Speaker 1: would have scored. It would have been a touchdown pass
Speaker 1: had he thrown it sooner. So there was a lot
Speaker 1: of other things in that play, in those two plays
Speaker 1: that I saw that that took place. All right, Bill,
Speaker 1: we're moving on. Bill, We're moving on. But moving on.
Speaker 1: But to that point where and I'm monitoring it on
Speaker 1: periscope and there's a delay on periscope the video that
Speaker 1: Chris Beam is showing up of the play and you
Speaker 1: can really see it on periscope where the linebackers are
Speaker 1: there at the first down sticks, and where CD starts
Speaker 1: his crossing route, he has to start it a yard
Speaker 1: upfield from it because they're guarding that first down line,
Speaker 1: and so it's easy to say that CD needs to
Speaker 1: get further upfield. Well, he can't get further upfield because
Speaker 1: there's two linebackers and then the safety comes up that
Speaker 1: are guarding that first down online on that crossing route
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, And unfortunately, you know, without after the game,
Speaker 1: when no one has an opportunity to see those then
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah, he should have ran, we should
Speaker 1: have executed better. Well, there was other things that needed
Speaker 1: to be executed better. Uh, and he didn't need to
Speaker 1: be executed for running the route short. So there, And
Speaker 1: I watched it again right there, and yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: your knee jerk reaction when you watch it on television
Speaker 1: and you see the result of the play as oh,
Speaker 1: he's got to get further down field. Well, then you
Speaker 1: go back and watch it and well, how's he getting
Speaker 1: beyond the sticks running a crossing route when there's three
Speaker 1: defensive players right on the where the first down line is.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. So yeah, anyway, I guess we'll move on though, right,
Speaker 1: let's move we have to okay. So one of the
Speaker 1: questions on periscope, Mickey, this is from McCarthy's press conference today,
Speaker 1: and it is, what did you think about McCarthy's view
Speaker 1: about pre snap I do that was coming. Why is
Speaker 1: this town so enamored with pre snap motion? Right? Pre
Speaker 1: snap motion? They don't do it enough. That's going to
Speaker 1: confuse the defense. And I thought his action twenty sixth
Speaker 1: in the league and pre snap motion. They only were
Speaker 1: in pre snap motion four percent of the time against
Speaker 1: the Rams, and they didn't do it enough last year
Speaker 1: and they gained more yards than anybody else in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Right, that was Garrett's fault. Now it's
Speaker 1: McCarthy's fault. Right, what is it? What the I was
Speaker 1: glad that he explained pre snap motion. Basically, he said
Speaker 1: it's for two reasons. One to create someone of a nuisance,
Speaker 1: and two, it gives the quarterback a better read on
Speaker 1: what the defense is doing because you're going to see
Speaker 1: if they're in man or zone. And then he went
Speaker 1: on to explain that he did it a lot early
Speaker 1: in his career at Green Bay and then the more
Speaker 1: experienced Aaron Rodgers was able to get He could read
Speaker 1: the defense quickly himself without having to see motion to
Speaker 1: detect if it's zone or if it's man. And he
Speaker 1: didn't want it anymore. He wanted to read it in
Speaker 1: his zone. And talking to Babe Laffenberg, he said Tony
Speaker 1: Romo hated motion because he felt like he could read
Speaker 1: it as good and they didn't need to waste all
Speaker 1: that time run in motion. And when you get into
Speaker 1: a hurry up offense, there's no motion. You're getting to
Speaker 1: the line and you want to snap. You don't want
Speaker 1: to sit there and go okay, come on, get him
Speaker 1: across the motion. No, I don't get why everybody's enamored
Speaker 1: with that. Well, you know that's what the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: really known for. Going our way back to Tom Landry,
Speaker 1: you talk about pre snap motion. We had lineman going
Speaker 1: up and down, We had switches, we had doors set
Speaker 1: was going to swing. He and Ron Springs would just
Speaker 1: be going back and forth. They would have about three
Speaker 1: or four or five pre snap reads just before you
Speaker 1: snapped the ball. I mean, that was that was one
Speaker 1: of the more outrageous, well outlandish, i'd say outlandish movements
Speaker 1: that that any team ever had that that came from
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy. Maybe that guy was he must be
Speaker 1: in our generation that asked that question. Well, because yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I'll ask you. Ever, so, how many straight
Speaker 1: years did the Cowboys go to the playoffs using pre
Speaker 1: snap motion under Landry? It mustn't wait. It took. It
Speaker 1: took him till nineteen eighty four to we finally didn't
Speaker 1: make it. If I'm not mistaken, So come on, let's
Speaker 1: not start comparing everybody the time lander you get You're
Speaker 1: going down a deep rabbit hole with that one. All right, mickey,
Speaker 1: before we take this first break, anything else you want
Speaker 1: to get in off the top here from we probably
Speaker 1: need to or anything else. Yeah, we probably need to
Speaker 1: clear up the portion of practice that we were able
Speaker 1: to see. Um, there was one guy missing from practice,
Speaker 1: and of all people, it was number fifty eight, And
Speaker 1: you're sitting there going, oh, are you kidding me? You know,
Speaker 1: maybe the seventy four of the snaps wore him out,
Speaker 1: but as it turns out, him out. I believe that
Speaker 1: should be true. But apparently, uh, he didn't do a
Speaker 1: good enough job of flossing or brushing his teeth because
Speaker 1: he had a dentist appointment. We'll take that work. We'll
Speaker 1: take that work. He deserves a break. I look as
Speaker 1: I look at the game, he had an amazing game.
Speaker 1: Of course, he made some mistakes and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit later. But the guy just had
Speaker 1: an amazing game for someone that hadn't played for five
Speaker 1: years and for him to play at that high level
Speaker 1: and and and you could see that he was a
Speaker 1: bit fatigued, but but that that's that's football fatigue to
Speaker 1: where you can still line it up and play the
Speaker 1: next play. He did that time and time again. Pretty
Speaker 1: proud of him. And boy, you talk about a steal,
Speaker 1: Will McClay, he deserves another. If he hadn't had a
Speaker 1: raise already, he deserves another raise for going out and
Speaker 1: finding this guy. Actually, you know that on periscope they're
Speaker 1: thanking Jay Glazier for that. Yeah, that's just thank you,
Speaker 1: Jay Glazier and Tom Sula for Alden Smith. Well, Jay Glazier,
Speaker 1: that's where Alden Smith went to do his training, UH
Speaker 1: and not only the physical training but also mental training.
Speaker 1: And he runs a kind of a rehab training center
Speaker 1: where they athletes and UH and in former military people
Speaker 1: that need to rehab and that's where as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, as the story goes, Mike McCarthy ran into
Speaker 1: Alden Smith at Glaizer training session in December, before he
Speaker 1: even knew he was going to become the Cowboys head coach.
Speaker 1: He had gone to la to visit his daughter and
Speaker 1: I don't know if she was working there or working
Speaker 1: out there, but he visited the place and ran into
Speaker 1: Alden Smith. And he kind of told the story when
Speaker 1: he did his first interview after signing with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: how he kind of ran into Mike McCarthy and he said,
Speaker 1: we just kind of talked, just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I kind of liked the guy. And
Speaker 1: one thing after another fell into place. Remember we interviewed
Speaker 1: his agent, Ron Slaven on Mick Shots back in I
Speaker 1: think it was early July, right, and he said yeah,
Speaker 1: and he got a call and said, hey, would would
Speaker 1: you be interesting this guy? So a lot of things
Speaker 1: fell into place, and I would imagine, you know, the
Speaker 1: last thing you would have thought that he would have
Speaker 1: played that many snaps in the first game and then
Speaker 1: be the second guy on the team with twelve tackles,
Speaker 1: the only guy with a sack and by the way,
Speaker 1: his pressure created that interception that Cheeto has to Joe.
Speaker 1: And you're right, well you you say pressure, pressure, you
Speaker 1: know it was more of a club to the head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of pressure, right when you get hit
Speaker 1: in the head, A lot of pressure. And he admitted
Speaker 1: and it wasn't perfect, and even McCarthy said it. And
Speaker 1: you can see there were some running plays that he
Speaker 1: didn't react correctly on the edge, did not he did
Speaker 1: not contain well. And I'm thinking, God, if he did
Speaker 1: it all right, if he did it all right, he'd
Speaker 1: have had twenty tackles. That's true, That's very true. He
Speaker 1: would have been Aaron Donald. Yes, all right, all right,
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Speaker 1: Mix shots and Mickey, I've got I've got a text
Speaker 1: I need to answer right now for work related to purposes,
Speaker 1: and so how do you want me to carry on
Speaker 1: here with a yeah? Why don't you carry it here
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. Well, while I take care
Speaker 1: of this little text that I received that I gotta
Speaker 1: take talk about multitasking. There you go. That's right. I
Speaker 1: can't multitask, So you do your thing. I'm listening while
Speaker 1: I do this. At the injury port that came out yesterday,
Speaker 1: the only guy listed on the Cowboys injury port was
Speaker 1: Jordan who was and it was full practice, so uh,
Speaker 1: he should be full go for this week. I would
Speaker 1: think the same for Brandon Carr, who was signed off
Speaker 1: the practice squad onto the fifty three man roster. Uh so,
Speaker 1: and he's been out there, you know, practicing both days
Speaker 1: this week with the team. Uh. It looks really good
Speaker 1: in the in the drills we get to watch, so
Speaker 1: I would imagine they they try to find some rotation
Speaker 1: that gets him on the field. And as for Atlanta,
Speaker 1: the only significant player that was listed that did not
Speaker 1: practice was Jake Matthews, their starting left tackle. So we'll
Speaker 1: see where where that one goes as the week goes along.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was not able to practice, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they had a couple other guys, but not
Speaker 1: really any of the starters to speak of. So both teams,
Speaker 1: for you know, the guys that are there now are
Speaker 1: pretty healthy. Although I keep seeing that Cowboys injured reserve
Speaker 1: list growing. It's now eight. I think it's started with
Speaker 1: three before the first game or so, and now it's
Speaker 1: stretched out to eight. So that's getting to be quite
Speaker 1: a bit. And that's what I think. Ever since, people
Speaker 1: need to understand about salary caps type stuff when they
Speaker 1: see a team and it's like, oh, they got ten
Speaker 1: to twelve million, why don't they spend it. Well, when
Speaker 1: you start getting guys injured, when they go to injured reserve,
Speaker 1: they're still getting paid, but now you got to you
Speaker 1: gotta replace them with somebody else, and that continues to
Speaker 1: eat into your salary caps. So you've got to have
Speaker 1: a buffer on that cap. And the Cowboys usually like
Speaker 1: to keep about ten to twelve million in buffer just
Speaker 1: for things like that or the ability to maybe pick
Speaker 1: somebody up off off the waiver wire. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: from an injury standpoint, in practice today, as they started,
Speaker 1: they were in pretty good shape except for Alden Smith.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, I can't remember if we
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday or not, but Randy Gregory is
Speaker 1: on the field now. He was conditionally reinstated and he's
Speaker 1: allowed to do conditioning work on the field, his own
Speaker 1: individual drills on the field, and take part in the meetings.
Speaker 1: And so for the last two days, those are the
Speaker 1: first time we saw him out there working with the
Speaker 1: trainers on his own. And he looks pretty good too.
Speaker 1: By the way, I have a you know, a question
Speaker 1: in regards to to equipment. How did Jordan Lewis give
Speaker 1: up his jersey? Wasn't wasn't he number twenty seven last year? Yea,
Speaker 1: he was twenty seven last year and now drey Von
Speaker 1: digs his twenty seven. So here's what here's what he's
Speaker 1: what net, Here's what happened. So uh haha, Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: veteran him and said I want twenty seven, and so
Speaker 1: he gave Oh that happened first. That happened first, and
Speaker 1: then when he got released, I think Lewis just decided
Speaker 1: I'll just keep twenty six and he stayed with twenty six.
Speaker 1: And then Diggs who was thirty one, decided he wanted
Speaker 1: twenty seven, so he took twenty seven. Do you ever
Speaker 1: have an argument about numbers No? One? When I went
Speaker 1: when I went to the Giants. When I went to
Speaker 1: the Giants, of course I wanted twenty four. But uh,
Speaker 1: OJ Anderson, Yeah, he's older than me so and he's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a jerk, so he wouldn't really
Speaker 1: negotiate with me much at all. They started calling him
Speaker 1: instead of Oj, they started calling them old Ja. So
Speaker 1: that was always my little payback for not getting my jerky.
Speaker 1: So that's how I ended up with number twenty eight
Speaker 1: with the Giants, as opposed to having number twenty four.
Speaker 1: Do you remember do you remember Jimmy confused? Go ahead, Bill? No, no,
Speaker 1: you go ahead? Make you what I was gonna say?
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you ever cf He remembered Jimmy's
Speaker 1: first year training camp in Thousand Oaks when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: ended up acquiring Steve Walsh, and Steve Walsh was four
Speaker 1: in college. Well, Mike Saxon had four for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and somebody asked Saxon about giving his number up to
Speaker 1: Steve Walsh, and Saxon said, well, for a price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so somebody told Jimmy ball and I could still
Speaker 1: see us walking back over the bridge and we're coming
Speaker 1: down that path towards the locker room, and somebody asked
Speaker 1: Jimmy about the number. Jimmy exploded and said, yeah, well
Speaker 1: Saxon ought to just take care of himself and make
Speaker 1: sure he's on the team to keep number four. And
Speaker 1: oh everybody. That ended up being the story that night, right,
Speaker 1: and it was the evening. I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: Jimmy like kickers much at all. If you were called
Speaker 1: when we were doing our first conditioning and he had
Speaker 1: us run like seventeen one hundred ten yard dashes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the first thing that happened is that guys over
Speaker 1: there bent over and he happened to be a kicker
Speaker 1: that had asthma. And boy, and you talk about if
Speaker 1: it would have been Facebook back then, he would have
Speaker 1: gone viral by cursing out the kick yo viral even
Speaker 1: then they did. Wasn't find it on YouTube right now?
Speaker 1: Was it a mas w whatever he was, he didn't
Speaker 1: stick around, No, he was getting cut around. He wanted
Speaker 1: going to be the kicker. So Jimmy just sacrificed him
Speaker 1: and yelled at him and said said something like the
Speaker 1: damn asthma field is over there, and he pointed to
Speaker 1: the asthma. My ass over to the other field. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what he said. Jimmy was over there. Jimmy was
Speaker 1: such a bully. If he could bully you, man, he
Speaker 1: would go off on you. Oh my goodness, what a bully.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, we got any other number issues. I
Speaker 1: just remember, remember Jimmy, we'll get you a matchup here
Speaker 1: in a second. I just gotta tell remember jas who
Speaker 1: cares about the matchup. Let's talk about Jimmy. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Remember the game against the Giants. Postgame prescotference, Jimmy was
Speaker 1: so mad and he's talking about it. The worst officiating
Speaker 1: he's ever seen is that? Is that one lost the
Speaker 1: game for us? The officiating. Yeah, that's what did it.
Speaker 1: That's the worst officially I've ever seen. I think it
Speaker 1: was since my daddy. Go ahead. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: that was the ninety season when they went to New
Speaker 1: York and and got clobbered, just got clobbered, and go ahead,
Speaker 1: And then he basically said, the worst officiate I rememver
Speaker 1: seen since since my Daddy said, this is what you
Speaker 1: call them football. Now. If that was in ninety then yeah,
Speaker 1: I was already with the Giants. Yeah we did whip
Speaker 1: their asses pretty well. But if you remember, had another
Speaker 1: to officiated, but there was a person named lt Yeah
Speaker 1: that's what it was. There wasn't officiated. And if you
Speaker 1: remember the year before when you played that, it was
Speaker 1: one of the final games of the season. I think
Speaker 1: it was the second to last game, and you got
Speaker 1: shut out like twelve to nothing I think by the Giants. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it was freezing cold. And after the game, and
Speaker 1: I saw this take place because I had followed somebody
Speaker 1: out to the bus and Jimmy called all the assistance
Speaker 1: off the bus that was going to take him to
Speaker 1: the charter flight and and reamed them. And then one
Speaker 1: of his comments after the game, because you had, like
Speaker 1: I want to say, there was two we were three
Speaker 1: first in goals and didn't score any of them. The
Speaker 1: Giants just shut him down, and Jimmy said, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: just not strong enough. We gotta get stronger. And then
Speaker 1: two games later he fired coach Ward that had been
Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning coach for like everbody and everybody qualified.
Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, they weren't strong enough. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: they weren't good enough. We had no talent on that squad. Guys,
Speaker 1: it was zero talent. I'm sorry, all right, Everson. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about one specific matchup Cowboys secondary
Speaker 1: against these Falcons receivers yea three one hundred yard receivers
Speaker 1: last week against Seattle, and specifically, how about Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 1: when he's matched up against Julio Jones. Wow, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a heck of a match. Obama on Obama. The
Speaker 1: only problem is one guy has about eight nine years
Speaker 1: experience over the other eight hundred catches in his career. Now, well,
Speaker 1: both both all three receivers had not not just one
Speaker 1: hundred yards, but they had nine receptions themselves. Julio, of course,
Speaker 1: is the man. He didn't score, but he had one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty plus yards in the last game. You
Speaker 1: better put your track shoes on Trayvon, That's all I
Speaker 1: gotta say. I'm sure he already, he's already aware of it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they may have talked several
Speaker 1: times on the phone between Trayvon and Julio. But right now,
Speaker 1: really too. Can thank you Cavin Ridley as well. You
Speaker 1: talk about a guy he had two touchdown passes in
Speaker 1: last week's game. You're gonna you're gonna see a much
Speaker 1: more exciting offense than you saw against the Rams. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a lot of the same type
Speaker 1: of mechanisms that are gonna be used. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing on first down. They're gonna make sure that they
Speaker 1: have a short third dawn that they have to deal with.
Speaker 1: They're gonna worry about our defensive line getting pressure, so
Speaker 1: Mattie Ice is gonna get rid of the ball very quickly.
Speaker 1: The problem you have with Julio Jones probably one of
Speaker 1: the most athletic wide receivers in the NFL, and that
Speaker 1: goes out through a number of decades. He's big, he's fast,
Speaker 1: he's smart, he has experience, and he has a connection
Speaker 1: with his quarterback. They have a good combo thing going
Speaker 1: that they've been having going for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs is gonna have a problem with Julio. I
Speaker 1: would rather you get a Woozier on Julio Jones rather
Speaker 1: than have Trayvon matched up against him. I want someone
Speaker 1: with a little bit more experience in dealing with the
Speaker 1: big physical receivers. And let's be real, guys, you can't
Speaker 1: play off man to man with these wide receivers. You
Speaker 1: have to challenge them. You have to make every route
Speaker 1: difficult for them, because not only are they good physically
Speaker 1: and catching the ball, Julio Jones has one of the
Speaker 1: best yards after catch that you're gonna find throughout the
Speaker 1: NFL history, tough to bring down. He's even more dangerous
Speaker 1: after he catches the ball. So, guys, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough game. Yeah, Spat said it during the break.
Speaker 1: You might end up with each team scoring thirty points
Speaker 1: at least. And you know, if the Cowboys play size,
Speaker 1: I bet Atlanta uses motion and get Julio Jones to
Speaker 1: the other side on digs. Right. Oh, you got pre
Speaker 1: pre snap motion. Well we'll be charting pre snap motion
Speaker 1: this week and maybe that will be a key to victory.
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Speaker 1: reason why Mickey was a little slow on the trigger,
Speaker 1: We're all getting set straight by our producer Chris Beam
Speaker 1: on the real story behind why Jordan Lewis gave up
Speaker 1: number twenty seven. Well, as it turns out, after last season,
Speaker 1: twenty six opened up for Jordan Lewis, and so he's
Speaker 1: actually switched to number twenty sixth of his own volition
Speaker 1: because it was his college number at Michigan. So twenty
Speaker 1: seven was available when Hawawk came in. When ha was
Speaker 1: let go, then Dig switched from thirty one to twenty seven,
Speaker 1: and of course Digs wore number seven at Alabama, so
Speaker 1: that made a little more sense making Christopher sounds good.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Everson brought something up that I
Speaker 1: got a mix shot on. By the way, via the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Scouting Report, in their release, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys saw it, but when you talked about
Speaker 1: the amount of yards Atlanta gets after the catch, especially
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, right, well, there's a there's a note here
Speaker 1: in the release, So I'm going to give them credit.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys gave up two hundred and seventy five gross
Speaker 1: passing yards in week Runt one at the La Rams,
Speaker 1: including two hundred yards after the catch, So seventy two
Speaker 1: point seven percent of the Ram's total output through the
Speaker 1: air was rot yards after the catch. So Jared Goff
Speaker 1: never threw the ball more than probably ten yards. You're
Speaker 1: going to see that all over again until the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can stop it. That is the only way that any
Speaker 1: team is going to try in the gate our pass
Speaker 1: rush at least a threat of a pass rush. And
Speaker 1: also with the lack of pursuit that we saw in
Speaker 1: the game as well, most of that yak, most of
Speaker 1: that yak was caused by miss direction, quick screens to
Speaker 1: the wide receivers and guy's missing tackles down the field.
Speaker 1: And you didn't see a linebacker or a defensive back
Speaker 1: in the picture for twenty yards. So if I'm the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. I'm gonna run that play until I see
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys can stop it, you know, and I
Speaker 1: and we said we wouldn't look back. But on the
Speaker 1: big play, I believe it was to Woods. When he
Speaker 1: came across the foremotion at the formation on the snap
Speaker 1: from the Falcons right to left, Goff rolled out to
Speaker 1: his right and then threw back to him going left.
Speaker 1: They set up a screen and there were four offensive
Speaker 1: linemen out ahead of him, okay, four ye. The only
Speaker 1: player the Cowboys had there was Jalen Smith. He had
Speaker 1: no shot right. And here's what happened. They lined up
Speaker 1: a wide receipt and Everson. You know, you kind of
Speaker 1: got to know what the defensive call is, right, So
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming anybody, But they had two wide receivers
Speaker 1: to the right. Cups stayed there and blocked, and then
Speaker 1: they sent At the snap, he came across the back
Speaker 1: of the offensive line to the left, and the receiver
Speaker 1: that was lined up to the left ran one of
Speaker 1: these kind of post routes and Digs went with them
Speaker 1: the whole way. And they had ended up with Digs
Speaker 1: in two safeties on that receiver, and nobody stayed on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys right side of the defense, and I think
Speaker 1: that was like a thirty yard game. So that was
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why the play was so wide
Speaker 1: open that somebody busted a coverage. Well, once again, that's
Speaker 1: the only way you're going to nullify the Cowboys threat
Speaker 1: for a pass rush. And you know, we're not really
Speaker 1: harping on the Falcons necessarily as we continue, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: harping on the Rams, but the Falcons are looking at
Speaker 1: that video, they're looking at the game, and trust me,
Speaker 1: they are chopping at the bits at what our defense
Speaker 1: was not able to do against the Rams. So whatever
Speaker 1: you saw against Los Angeles, you're gonna see it, and
Speaker 1: I think I would have to say, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: it with much better athletes on the edges, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see it with much better running backs in the backfield.
Speaker 1: So as much as Girly didn't get a hundred yards
Speaker 1: against against the Seahawks, that we're gonna get a heavy
Speaker 1: dose of Girly on first down. We're gonna get him
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. And that's what happened with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Their failure defensively was they allowed the Rams to go
Speaker 1: big on the first down, and they never could stop
Speaker 1: anyone on third down really until the second half when
Speaker 1: they finally settled down. But we can't wait till the
Speaker 1: second half defensively to be aggressive. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at the Cowboys defense, what I always expect is
Speaker 1: that same defense that played against the Saints leave that
Speaker 1: was Sunday night. When you look at the potential of
Speaker 1: the defense that we have, that's the game that I
Speaker 1: always look at. Now, maybe I'm crazy, but I think
Speaker 1: that that potential should be lived up to the longer
Speaker 1: they stay together. But it has not. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, it has gone downhill in regards to the
Speaker 1: aggressiveness and in regards to their understanding what the offense
Speaker 1: is trying to do. So somehow, some way, the coaches
Speaker 1: have to find a way to get this athletic defense
Speaker 1: that we have to be more effective in every fast
Speaker 1: of in every fast of the drives, because what you
Speaker 1: see is defensive backs letting tight ends beat them inside.
Speaker 1: When the tight end is almost on the sidelines. You
Speaker 1: have to play for inside routes. When you see defensive
Speaker 1: linemen that are being a food by the bootleg or
Speaker 1: the misdirection, all you got was stay home and then
Speaker 1: that played Tuns into a totally different outcome. These are
Speaker 1: the kind of things that the Cowboys must shore up.
Speaker 1: And that's just all about preparation, guys. It's all about
Speaker 1: preparation and recognition. We have to as a team. You
Speaker 1: don't need great individuals to make good plays. You need
Speaker 1: a team to stop good offenses. And so that's what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have to do. They have to play as
Speaker 1: a unit right now, and even going back to last year,
Speaker 1: they were playing as individuals and it's so disappointing to
Speaker 1: see such an athletic team, athletic unit not live up
Speaker 1: to their potential. And one of the things that one
Speaker 1: of the guys who played so well in that game
Speaker 1: against the Saints that you're talking about was Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: And of course Lewis wasn't there last week, Mickey. One
Speaker 1: of the questions on periscope right now, if Jay lew
Speaker 1: is healthy, how many snaps do you realistically see him
Speaker 1: playing versus Atlanta. He was a full participant yesterday in practice,
Speaker 1: wasn't he. Yeah, we were doing that as you were
Speaker 1: taking care of your work, email or text or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. He's been he's basically fully practiced the last
Speaker 1: three times they've practiced, or four times actually, so he's available.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he's won a job. I mean
Speaker 1: he hasn't. He hadn't practiced since the I think that
Speaker 1: injury occurred the first week of training camp, and training
Speaker 1: camp I understand wasn't that long. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that they immediately say, Okay, you're the slot guy. I
Speaker 1: guess we'll we'll find out because the way they were
Speaker 1: playing it was Anthony Brown was in the slot quite
Speaker 1: a bit. They did a little bit of Darryl Worley
Speaker 1: in there with Lousier on the outside and digs at
Speaker 1: the other corner on the outside. So we'll see where
Speaker 1: he fits in and just how many snaps he might get.
Speaker 1: But I don't know that they go into it and say, well,
Speaker 1: it's it's your job, because they just haven't seen much
Speaker 1: of him, uh in in pats. So yeah, we'll see
Speaker 1: where that one goes. And uh. You know when when
Speaker 1: I said Woods caught that wall for thirty yards, well
Speaker 1: it was thirty one yards, uh, and it ended up
Speaker 1: being almost the majority. He had five other catches for
Speaker 1: seventy I think seventy five yards or something like that,
Speaker 1: and that thirty one got him over a hundred. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got to be careful for that and the
Speaker 1: tight ends, and that was one of the things that
Speaker 1: they didn't adjust to, or maybe they don't want to
Speaker 1: do it, but in that first series there was several
Speaker 1: plays that, um, the Rams went two tight ends and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys stayed in their nickel defense. So I'll be
Speaker 1: interested to see because the Falcons liked their tight ends too.
Speaker 1: By the way, all right, we're out of time on
Speaker 1: this edition of Mixed Shots. Oh my god, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. I have no idea, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll be making our picks, including our
Speaker 1: picks to click when the Falcons come to town on
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