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Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a Fabulous Football Friday
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots. Live. Inside this WBC Morgan Studios
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco is one Mickey Spagnola. Hello,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Hello, I thought I was listening to Keith
Speaker 1: Jackson there for a while. Who None. We got Everson
Speaker 1: Walls because we could not do without you. We could
Speaker 1: not do without you, sir, Our promise you if I
Speaker 1: had to, if I had to start this show with
Speaker 1: Spag's voice every day, it would be a down there. Okay,
Speaker 1: So thank god foot builds out. What are you trying
Speaker 1: to say? God, Hey, I'm not trying. I just said it.
Speaker 1: I'm Saturday, and we already for a fabulous football weekend.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, this is the second full football weekend
Speaker 1: of the year, because obviously it's the fourth weekend of
Speaker 1: NFL games, but it's the second almost full weekend of
Speaker 1: college football, and so that sort of completes my Saturday
Speaker 1: and we go into Sunday. And so that's why I'm
Speaker 1: extra excited about And we're in the month of October.
Speaker 1: This is a football month, October, and that's why Mickey
Speaker 1: Spagnola the Cowboys are gonna turn the thing around in
Speaker 1: the month of October. October turnaround, Mickey, Mickey and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So we're expecting Spags to help us turn around the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Now you're in trouble if
Speaker 1: I got a turn around, but it should be fun.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the next forty five minutes, we'll
Speaker 1: be breaking down what the Browns bring to town. They
Speaker 1: are riding a wave of momentum. They've won two straight
Speaker 1: games over the likes of the Cincinnati Bengals and the
Speaker 1: Washington football team. So you know that they are brimming
Speaker 1: with confidence as they come in here and take on
Speaker 1: a one in two Cowboys team. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: that's what makes this game all the more important for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They can't afford to get to one in three.
Speaker 1: They've got to even this record at two and two. Mickey, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you know this is as Mike McCarthy said yesterday,
Speaker 1: and important three games stretch when you have the unusual
Speaker 1: three home games in a row. And again, they just
Speaker 1: got to clean themselves up. If they clean themselves up,
Speaker 1: you know, they should have no problems in this game,
Speaker 1: I would think. But again, so it's kind of a
Speaker 1: they need to Micky, Micky. They need to take a
Speaker 1: COVID approach to this. They got to clean themselves up.
Speaker 1: They got to wash their hands, I said, I said
Speaker 1: on Monday morning after the game Saturday, they need to
Speaker 1: go buy some extra strength, mister clean. And so if
Speaker 1: they can take care of themselves, they'll take care of
Speaker 1: the Browns. But first and foremost, they got to take
Speaker 1: care of themselves. They got to cut the turnovers out.
Speaker 1: They got to execute. They can't have mistakes that lead
Speaker 1: to big mistakes that lead to turnovers, and you can't
Speaker 1: fumble kickoffs and then recovered at the one yard line, right,
Speaker 1: So if you eliminate all that stuff, and you eliminate
Speaker 1: the mistakes, then yeah, you ought to be able to
Speaker 1: overcome them, the opposition. But when you got to overcome
Speaker 1: yourself and the opposition, yeah, it's not a pretty sight.
Speaker 1: And we've seen it, you know, it's fifty fifty. One
Speaker 1: time you do, one time you don't. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of the way it goes. And on the other hand,
Speaker 1: when you look at the Browns, boy, they are feeling
Speaker 1: so good about themselves right now. I don't think I've
Speaker 1: I've played for a more prouder organization than the Cleveland Browns. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they're older than the Cowboys. They don't have any type
Speaker 1: of American America's Team Moniker or anything. They're just the
Speaker 1: Browns who have been the Browns from the beginning of time,
Speaker 1: except for when I think they were the Saint Louis Browns.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, that Cleveland Browns organization has
Speaker 1: been through a lot. They are two and one, and
Speaker 1: when they're riding a two game winning street, these guys
Speaker 1: are really feeling good about themselves. It's gonna take a
Speaker 1: herculean effort to just knock them down the side, just
Speaker 1: knock them down the peg, because they are really feeling
Speaker 1: confident right now, and that makes me a bit uncomfortable. Well,
Speaker 1: and they're playing football the way they want to play
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, and I think
Speaker 1: it starts with the move they made in at the
Speaker 1: end of last season where they brought Kevin Stefenski in
Speaker 1: as their head coach, Alex van Pelt as their offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and by the way, he of course has ties
Speaker 1: with Mike McCarthy. This is the second straight week the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gone up against an offensive coordinator who has
Speaker 1: close ties with McCarthy. It was Brian Schottenheimer a last week.
Speaker 1: Of course, McCarthy coach for his dad, Marty Schottenheimer with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but Alex van Pelt, the OC for the Browns,
Speaker 1: was on the Packers' staff, And in fact, the relationship
Speaker 1: McCarthy has with Van Pelt goes back to when Van
Speaker 1: Pelt was a quarterback at the University of Pittsburgh and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was just getting started in the coaching profession.
Speaker 1: And then they got Bill Callahan as the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: and that is where the Browns really had to shore
Speaker 1: up this team and give Baker Mayfield a chance to
Speaker 1: do what he can do on offense. Because they they
Speaker 1: drafted one offensive tackle, they signed another one in free agency.
Speaker 1: They already had a two time Pro bowler at one
Speaker 1: of the guard spots in Botonio, and now they can
Speaker 1: focus on running the football with Chubb. We'll see if
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is healthy for this game on Sunday. But
Speaker 1: that's their emphasis. It takes the burden off Baker Mayfield. Mickey, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and absolutely, And you know that was so. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys got to listen to Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: press conference today, but I had a question all teed
Speaker 1: up in my mind yesterday and they kind of ran
Speaker 1: out of time and didn't have a chance to jump in,
Speaker 1: But I wanted to ask him about the Cowboys having
Speaker 1: played their nickel defense those first three weeks of the
Speaker 1: season against teams that basically are throwing the ball, run
Speaker 1: three wide. But now you're going to face another a
Speaker 1: team that is not that way, is not structured that way.
Speaker 1: They like to run the ball. We talked about it yesterday, Bill,
Speaker 1: you talked about how many I think it was seventeen
Speaker 1: plays for a fullback. They like to play a lot
Speaker 1: of two tight end. So my question to him is
Speaker 1: going to be, how are you going to adjust your
Speaker 1: base defense? Can you still stay and play all that
Speaker 1: nickel or you're gonna have to have an extra linebacker? Well,
Speaker 1: Todd Archer, ESPN Dallas asked that question. Mike started the
Speaker 1: answer with, I'm sorry, are you part of the Cleveland
Speaker 1: coaching staff? He wanted no part of that question, right,
Speaker 1: And Eddie came around and said, will be in whatever
Speaker 1: personnel we need to be in to stop him, and
Speaker 1: so that was that. But this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: different opponent. They do like to run the ball. Now,
Speaker 1: it'll be a question if it ends up being all
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, because Kareem Hunt had had a groin injury
Speaker 1: and he didn't practice these last two days and it
Speaker 1: was starting to sound like it might be doubtful that
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. We should find out more about
Speaker 1: that after the Brown's practice today. But yeah, they have
Speaker 1: a few injury problems themselves, not just the Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. They better batten down the hatches against
Speaker 1: this run. Otherwise they ain't gonna never get a chance
Speaker 1: to rush Baker Mayfield. You know, it's so funny that
Speaker 1: coach McCarthy's trying to be coy. There's really only so
Speaker 1: many things you can do, right, Maga. We know what
Speaker 1: the options are. I'm sure Cleveland already has anticipated and
Speaker 1: practiced against the different scenarios and personnel that the Cowboys have.
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I spast can sit here as
Speaker 1: we did yesterday and talk about the different options that
Speaker 1: we might have. You're gonna have to put in another linebacker.
Speaker 1: If you don't put another linebacker, then you're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking like the Chicago Bears with that forty six. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a safety the linebacker right next to each other.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be kind of crowding the line a little bit,
Speaker 1: especially if they already show with the two tight ends.
Speaker 1: We already know what we have, so the personnel is
Speaker 1: not gonna be Then they can't come out with any
Speaker 1: type of personnel that's gonna just befuddle the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. They know they've only got like
Speaker 1: one or three options to deal with, and that's all
Speaker 1: we can do. So I think we pretty much know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. They know that we know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So all this secrecy and all this you know, playing
Speaker 1: coy To me, it's kind of cute, but some unnecessary,
Speaker 1: you know what he as the other thing? It go ahead, Bill,
Speaker 1: you go ahead, Mickey. I was gonna say he also
Speaker 1: other we got to play. We have to pull back
Speaker 1: the court. They're on a two second delay compared to me,
Speaker 1: so I have to slow down. Um, okay, I'm going uh.
Speaker 1: He also pointed out if if Cleveland watched the game,
Speaker 1: went over the Seattle game last week and saw how
Speaker 1: susceptible the Cowboys were to the deep pass, you know,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, they're gonna think we're very gonna
Speaker 1: be run conscious. And he goes and I would imagine
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some play action and want to go
Speaker 1: deep on us to see if we've corrected our coverage problems. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the other part of that too, is when you
Speaker 1: go back and look at what Seattle did, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, i'ven't studied Seattle a week to week to
Speaker 1: know if this is something that they normally do with
Speaker 1: their offense. But you go back to the Rams game
Speaker 1: and what the Rams do. Sean mcvay's offense, they run
Speaker 1: a lot of type formations, bunch formations with their wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Will McClay was explaining it when the Cowboys played the
Speaker 1: Rams last week. It's like an inside out type offense
Speaker 1: that the Rams run. There's a lot of plays that
Speaker 1: the Seahawks made against the Cowboys last week where they
Speaker 1: were running from that sort of bunch formation and it
Speaker 1: confused the Cowboys. And that's one of the reasons if
Speaker 1: you look back at some of those plays and some
Speaker 1: of those receivers were running wide open, is the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were having difficulty dissecting who's got who, and they're leaving
Speaker 1: guys open, either underneath or deep. It happened numerous times
Speaker 1: in the game, as we all saw. But teams. To
Speaker 1: the point is teams go to school on what's worked
Speaker 1: the previous weeks. Now we've got all the teams have
Speaker 1: three weeks of evidence of okay, what has been working
Speaker 1: against this defense, and that's where you have to self
Speaker 1: scout yourself to make sure that you take care of
Speaker 1: those issues. That's funny. I like that bill, because that's
Speaker 1: what they do. If you see something has worked, then
Speaker 1: you say, okay, have they learned their lesson? And it's
Speaker 1: bags you funny. You said they're gonna go deep on
Speaker 1: them with the play action to see if we've showed
Speaker 1: up our deep pass coverage here. We hadn't done that
Speaker 1: for three years. We are you talking about it? So
Speaker 1: we've never learned that lesson. That's that's a given. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the running game, we can't. We've
Speaker 1: got to pick our poison obviously with this this defense
Speaker 1: that we have, and as long as our ends can
Speaker 1: can can shore the corner, as long as we can
Speaker 1: shut down the wide plays and the bootlegs and things
Speaker 1: of that nature, it will limit what the Browns offense
Speaker 1: can do. So we have to worry about what our
Speaker 1: defense is made to do. We have to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone plays where they have to play. That has to
Speaker 1: be a given. Otherwise we're going to be reacting to
Speaker 1: every offense that comes in here as opposed to being
Speaker 1: the ones that force the whole pace of the game.
Speaker 1: We have not defensively controlled the pace of the game
Speaker 1: in quite some time. That's where we need to start,
Speaker 1: regardless of what the opposition comes in with. You know,
Speaker 1: and what Bill talked about with the Bunch stuff, all
Speaker 1: you gotta do is go look at the goal line plays,
Speaker 1: the two point conversion plays. They bunched everybody up and
Speaker 1: then busting them out, and the Cowboys had no clue.
Speaker 1: And the worst one was Bill, was the touchdown when
Speaker 1: Lockett was on the right side Bunch and he went
Speaker 1: all the way behind the formation to the left, and
Speaker 1: nobody noboddy went with them. So yeah, I'm sure I
Speaker 1: heard Troy. I wanted to ask you about that, Spags.
Speaker 1: That's when I Troy talking about our defense and he
Speaker 1: mentioned that we have a goal line defense that is
Speaker 1: man to man on one side and zone on the
Speaker 1: other side, which is what the weakness was in that defense,
Speaker 1: according to Troy, makes zero sense to me that a
Speaker 1: defense like that exists. Is that something that we have
Speaker 1: done throughout throughout this year, or is that something new
Speaker 1: that we tried, or is just Troy just speculating. Well,
Speaker 1: all I know is if he was on the side
Speaker 1: where there was man demand and he ran into the zone,
Speaker 1: the zone wasn't there, The zone was playing man demand.
Speaker 1: So all I can't think of a defense that has
Speaker 1: man on one side and zone on the other. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't even fathom a defense like that because because
Speaker 1: if on the locket play, you know, and it's easy
Speaker 1: or it's actually difficult for us in our position and
Speaker 1: not knowing what defense they're supposed to be in, right,
Speaker 1: because I mean, we can look at the coaches film
Speaker 1: and we can think that, Okay, this guy made a mistake. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know for sure if who was in the
Speaker 1: right defense, if anybody was, but anybody, I mean, it
Speaker 1: looks like on that locket one it was like a
Speaker 1: two man game, Russell Wilson and Tyler Lockett and he
Speaker 1: ran that out and Trayvon Diggs. You have a rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback on that side, and he was slow to react
Speaker 1: on it and they having beat. But I have no
Speaker 1: idea whether Diggs is the guy that was at fault
Speaker 1: on it or not. But it gets back to whether
Speaker 1: it was that play or the play where Diggs got
Speaker 1: beat deep. I mean he was beat by a ton
Speaker 1: of a little stutter step, and met Calf had him
Speaker 1: beating him, would up knocking the ball out for a turnover.
Speaker 1: But I asked you, Everson, how tough is it from
Speaker 1: a mental standpoint for a cornerback like Trayvon Diggs coming
Speaker 1: in here. This was his third NFL game, He didn't
Speaker 1: have any preseason games, he had no offseason on the
Speaker 1: field instruction. How difficult is it from a mental standpoint
Speaker 1: for him to be able to make plays on the
Speaker 1: spur of the moment like that and be able to
Speaker 1: read what's going on and not get caught flatfooted. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing you have to realize, of course, that the
Speaker 1: unusual situation and circumstances that really affected his offseason you
Speaker 1: talked about in lack of preseason. But if you're going
Speaker 1: to come in and start, regardless of how many times
Speaker 1: you get beat, and boy, I've been there as a rookie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, those balls are gonna be flying over your
Speaker 1: head because they're looking right at you when you come
Speaker 1: out of the hubble. I remember Joe Eisman winked at
Speaker 1: me one time. Jim Hart, you just basically pointed at
Speaker 1: me and said, we're coming at him. So you're you're
Speaker 1: always going to be the target of any quarterback just
Speaker 1: because of your experience. But once once you settle in,
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens, how many times you get beat,
Speaker 1: you have to stick with what's good for you. And
Speaker 1: what's good for Trey Vonn is the fact that he
Speaker 1: has the ability to catch up. He has the athletic
Speaker 1: ability to cover any type of route. All he's got
Speaker 1: to do is mentally calm himself down because right now
Speaker 1: things are happening so quickly that he feels like he's
Speaker 1: out of source. Whether he must do is and I
Speaker 1: always did this. You have to speed up your thought process.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't be out there as if you're
Speaker 1: half asleep. You have to be You have to turn
Speaker 1: your brain and somehow you have to turn your brain
Speaker 1: into a faster thinking machine, and therefore you can react
Speaker 1: quicker from brain to feet. He's always been able to
Speaker 1: do that. It's natural. He just has to allow himself
Speaker 1: to do that amongst the fears that he has of
Speaker 1: getting beat. The worst thing about the cornerback is to
Speaker 1: be afraid to get beat. You can't be afraid because
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. You have to say, okay, you got
Speaker 1: me that time. This time it's mine. There's no such
Speaker 1: thing as defense of offense when the ball is in
Speaker 1: the air. Built no such thing at all. Once it's
Speaker 1: in the air, you think like a receiver, not as
Speaker 1: a defender. And that's what he's dumped all throughout college.
Speaker 1: He has to continue to do that in the pros,
Speaker 1: even though right now things are going so fast and
Speaker 1: we were up against your break here. But one day, yeah,
Speaker 1: what that bell was? Thanks dat when name caught me there? Everson,
Speaker 1: you played against Jim Hart. Jim Hart Jim Hart started
Speaker 1: his career in nineteen sixty five, and you played against him. Hey,
Speaker 1: I can't help it. He's got a longevity. Don't care
Speaker 1: on me because he's rugs everything. All I know. If
Speaker 1: he lined his big building up there and he could
Speaker 1: still throw that ball, okay, and he had great receivers
Speaker 1: you know, back there, And don't just start talking trash
Speaker 1: about the quality of quarterbacks, Spags. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that ever again. You know it was one of
Speaker 1: the greats. Damn right, you damn right, you tell Spags that, right.
Speaker 1: I don't care if he did. Let me see, I
Speaker 1: don't care if he did throw two hundred forty receptions
Speaker 1: and only two hundred nine touchdown passes. He was one
Speaker 1: of the greats of all time. Oh, shut up, Bill,
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Speaker 1: just talking about Everson having faced Jim Mahart, the legendary
Speaker 1: Saint Louis cardinal quarterback. Well, Mickey just pointed out during
Speaker 1: the break that last weekend, of course of Mississippi State
Speaker 1: beat LSU, the defending national champion. First time that a
Speaker 1: defending national champion has lost the season opener since when
Speaker 1: Mickey nineteen seventy eight. It was Notre Dame. They pointed out, Well,
Speaker 1: I told the rest of the story because I covered
Speaker 1: that game. Missouri in Warren Power's debut as a head coach,
Speaker 1: beat went to Notre Dame and beat him three to nothing,
Speaker 1: three to nothing because former Missouri head coach Dan Divine,
Speaker 1: now the head coach at Notre Dame, had the ball
Speaker 1: first in goal three times inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: and he refused to kick a field goal even when
Speaker 1: the ball game got down to the last minute. They
Speaker 1: went for it on fourth down, got stopped with Joe Montana,
Speaker 1: a quarterback. By the way, what a dummy. Oh my guy,
Speaker 1: he was tied. He was indictnant that he was going
Speaker 1: to have to kick a field goal to tie the game. Boy,
Speaker 1: we're winning this one right. Well they didn't. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: by the way, field I was just there was just
Speaker 1: pointed out Bill that Chris Bean was born in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight. Who Christ, Wow, So there you go, mad,
Speaker 1: you go a little all right? I got a little
Speaker 1: trivia question for you, as he looks older. But that's okay,
Speaker 1: little trivia question. As we asked at the end of
Speaker 1: the show yesterday about how many players on the rosters
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys and the Browns played in state championship
Speaker 1: games at either Texas Stadium or at and T Stadium, Mickey,
Speaker 1: did you do your homework? Absolutely did not. Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, starting quarterback for the Browns, won a state
Speaker 1: championship for Lake Travis High School at ATNT Stadium in
Speaker 1: two eleven, which happens to be the same year in
Speaker 1: January twenty eleven, Mike McCarthy won a Super Bowl at
Speaker 1: ATNT Stadium. That's okay. Who is the backup quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. It is case Keenum. He won a
Speaker 1: state championship for Evelene Wiley High School their practice squad.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Garrett Gilbert won not one, but I think two
Speaker 1: state championships for Lake Travis High School and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Backup quarterback Andy Dalton played in a state championship game
Speaker 1: for Katie High School at Texas Stadium. So there you go. Well, wow,
Speaker 1: so there's four of them. Search Alex stats coordinator played
Speaker 1: for San Antonio Churchill High School. Didn't make it to
Speaker 1: the state championship. They loved their Texas quarterbacks the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: Do I refuse to do that homework there, Bill, because
Speaker 1: I have never been close to a national championship or
Speaker 1: state championship. So I have been close to a professional
Speaker 1: football champion, Yes, I have. So I was a typical
Speaker 1: late bloomer. I have no great high school stories. Hey,
Speaker 1: Bill Mickey, you need an injury report here for going
Speaker 1: into I want to know it's Yeah, well who's playing?
Speaker 1: It sounds encouraging. Tyrann Smith did practice yesterday on a
Speaker 1: limited basis, which means he took part in the eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven and when Mike McCarthy answered the question today
Speaker 1: about how he looked, he said, Iron is on track
Speaker 1: to play based on everything yesterday is in the direction
Speaker 1: of playing Sunday. So that was encouraging. And they also
Speaker 1: on a DeMarcus Lawrence, even though he hasn't practiced these
Speaker 1: first two days with the knee, he said that feels
Speaker 1: like he'll give us. He'll give us a goal on
Speaker 1: that day, so it looks like that he uh, they're
Speaker 1: just trying to get him to the game. Now, Trayvon
Speaker 1: Diggs only practice on a limited basis, and to me
Speaker 1: that means that he didn't take all the snaps and team.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm sure they're trying to protect that shoulder
Speaker 1: and what they're doing, guys is trying to make sure
Speaker 1: all three guys get to the game on Sunday. They
Speaker 1: don't leave it on Friday in a practice, So that
Speaker 1: sounds good. Kareem Hunt for Cleveland is we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens today. But he has not practiced either Wednesday or
Speaker 1: Thursday with a groin injury. Odell Beckham was limited yesterdays,
Speaker 1: bat flared up, and Ronnie Harrison Junior had an illness.
Speaker 1: He did not practice. Their encouraging news was Denzel Ward,
Speaker 1: the cornerback that looked like he's going to be out
Speaker 1: with a groin injury, did practice on a limited basis,
Speaker 1: So we'll see where that one goes. But as farre
Speaker 1: as for the Cowboys, it seems encouraging and Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: felt really good about Tyrn being ready to play. So
Speaker 1: the question would be, are you going to take Brandon
Speaker 1: Knight and put him where Tarren Steele was at right
Speaker 1: tackle of Tyrant's playing, or to Steel stay there, and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy basically said, you're going to have to tune
Speaker 1: in Sunday to find out. What do you think, Mickey, Mickey,
Speaker 1: have you been able to look closely at Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: and tearing Steel and making an evaluation yourself? You know,
Speaker 1: I just get the feeling that they're gonna stick with
Speaker 1: Steel over there. I think I think I gotta go ahead.
Speaker 1: I kind of I agree with you. I think it,
Speaker 1: especially since he's in playing on the right side. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, when you go back and look, and I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at the entire game, but Coach's film of
Speaker 1: a lot of the game. Of course, he didn't play
Speaker 1: the entire game. He played forty one or the eighty
Speaker 1: two snaps, so I've seen most all of his snaps
Speaker 1: in the game. And you know, I don't think that
Speaker 1: he had as many issues as maybe. You know. There
Speaker 1: was one play where LJ. Callyer. It was on the
Speaker 1: fourth and one where he got beat by LJ. Callyer,
Speaker 1: their defensive lineman from TCU. That Zeke wound up getting
Speaker 1: the first down just barely on the play that was
Speaker 1: right before he came out. But in past protection, I
Speaker 1: think he was okay. You know, there were times where
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight was not as effective, especially in run blocking,
Speaker 1: and so I think that they would go a Steal
Speaker 1: at right tackle and Tyron at left tackle. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you know, I think the other thing I would
Speaker 1: imagine since Brandon Knights had so much work at left tackle,
Speaker 1: it's easy to switch to the right side, but as
Speaker 1: the as the backup swing guy. But I don't know
Speaker 1: that Steal's taken any snaps on the left side, so
Speaker 1: they may be looking at it that way too, if
Speaker 1: everything is equal. So right, we'll see. So Brandon's been
Speaker 1: taking the snaps at left tackle, right, yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: we'll see how that all that turns out. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the good news is is, uh, Tyrone will be on
Speaker 1: the looks like he'll at least start the game out
Speaker 1: there at left you know. And another thing that I
Speaker 1: think we haven't touchdown about starting the game this past
Speaker 1: game at cornerback, Darryl Worley started at right corner. That
Speaker 1: was his first start for the Cowboys with Chitube o
Speaker 1: Woozier out and Trayvon Diggs moving over to the left side. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, that was a nice veteran picked up.
Speaker 1: I thought that they got in the offseason and free
Speaker 1: agency because he's also been given them some snaps previously
Speaker 1: at safety too. So a guy that can kind of
Speaker 1: do both. I think certainly, uh, certainly has helped out
Speaker 1: the defense on that side, you know, and he did
Speaker 1: he was the one to get No, it was Brandon Carr.
Speaker 1: I think he got called for a hold or interference too,
Speaker 1: didn't he And two and Brandon Carr got one in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Yeah, and then I think Worly man
Speaker 1: on that drive, we had three of them. I believe
Speaker 1: he had two of them. I believe Worly had the
Speaker 1: interception that was negated by the Jordan Lewis uh past
Speaker 1: interference or hold or hold or whatever they called on him.
Speaker 1: That was a critical play. Uh. You know, but you
Speaker 1: look at you know, Brandon Carr was only in the
Speaker 1: game for three snaps on defense, Yeah, and one of
Speaker 1: them was the passive affairs in the end zone, and
Speaker 1: he didn't make a good play in run defense, as
Speaker 1: I guess it was. Carson was trying to score on
Speaker 1: the edge and got him out of bounds at the
Speaker 1: one yard line on a goal line play that was
Speaker 1: right after that one. But Worley played seventy three snaps
Speaker 1: at right cornerback last week. And I agree with you,
Speaker 1: I thought at the time, I mean, if people do
Speaker 1: you did their research on Daryl Worley, he was a
Speaker 1: third round pick out of West Virginia, and then he
Speaker 1: last year he started every game for the Raiders and
Speaker 1: in fact started at safety in the last game of
Speaker 1: the year for the Raiders last year, and so especially
Speaker 1: and I thought that maybe at the time that they
Speaker 1: may want to bring Diggs along more slowly, where Worley
Speaker 1: would start to start the season. As it turns out,
Speaker 1: they've had injury issues anyway, and so now both of
Speaker 1: them are starting, but Diggs was going to obviously they
Speaker 1: had made up their mind Diggs was going to be
Speaker 1: the starter to begin with. Anyway. Well, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not sold yet on Worldly. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: just haven't seen anything now as far as just having
Speaker 1: you know, bodies out there, which is what we need. Carrio,
Speaker 1: body experienced guy. I want them to show me that
Speaker 1: great interception. But here we have defensive backs who are
Speaker 1: they're not just creating passion offenses. They're not. They're creating
Speaker 1: it because they won't move their feet. The fact that
Speaker 1: you have to reach out and grab someone all the time,
Speaker 1: first of all, that means that he has closed that
Speaker 1: gap on you. And it happens all the time. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're gonna close the gap on the defensive back. They're
Speaker 1: gonna close that cushion. But you have to be prepared
Speaker 1: to turn. You know, you have to be prepared to
Speaker 1: negate his progress without using your heads. That's something that
Speaker 1: that was done all the time back in the day,
Speaker 1: and I guess that's just not the thing that they
Speaker 1: do anymore. But your feet have to react as a
Speaker 1: post to your hands reacting so that we can start
Speaker 1: making some of these plays. Every time you see pressure,
Speaker 1: like a so called coverage sack with the Cowboys, it's
Speaker 1: the result of a hold in the secondary, and that's
Speaker 1: something that we can't we can't have. It allows the
Speaker 1: opposition to just march down the field without having to
Speaker 1: make a play. So make them make a play, don't
Speaker 1: just give it to him. That's what I've seen so far.
Speaker 1: So see you guys. Everson has a different bar of
Speaker 1: ability at the cornerback position. He wants them to make
Speaker 1: a play. I just don't want them to get beat,
Speaker 1: you know. But one of those plays that Everson that
Speaker 1: you're talking about was a big play on their one
Speaker 1: of their touchdown drives in the second quarter of the game.
Speaker 1: On Whirley, he was calling for a hold and it
Speaker 1: negated a sack buying Jordan Lewis, And it was on
Speaker 1: a third and ten play. They're punting if if he
Speaker 1: doesn't hold. Now, the one of the reasons that the
Speaker 1: sack occurred was because Worldly held on the play and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson held the ball because of that. But having
Speaker 1: said that, that was still it was a critical third
Speaker 1: down play. One other thing I want to bring up
Speaker 1: before the break because I just looked at it this
Speaker 1: morning and on the coach's film, and it was Dak's
Speaker 1: interception at the end of the first half, okay, which
Speaker 1: was a huge turnover in that game. If you go
Speaker 1: back and look at the coach's film on it, Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper at the top of your screen. There he's on
Speaker 1: the right side. Okay, the ball it was a quick
Speaker 1: snap because they were it was less than a minute,
Speaker 1: fifty seconds left and a half. Okay, you the ball
Speaker 1: is snapped to Dak. He's got the ball in his
Speaker 1: hand if you freeze it right there, Amari Cooper is
Speaker 1: still in his stance. He was not ready to go
Speaker 1: at the snap of the ball. What happened on the
Speaker 1: play is Dak looks left, okay, and then he comes
Speaker 1: back right where Cooper is running a post or a
Speaker 1: slant okay, over the middle, and then Dak double clutches
Speaker 1: because Cooper wasn't there yet because he was late getting
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. He double clutches. Shaquille Griffin
Speaker 1: jumps the route. He's got safety help, and he comes
Speaker 1: up with the interception. But it all started with Cooper
Speaker 1: not getting off the line of scrimmage. He wasn't ready
Speaker 1: to go at the snap of the ball. And then,
Speaker 1: let me add to that bill. When I went and
Speaker 1: looked at it, just as he was trying to step
Speaker 1: into that pass and throw it, he got the ball
Speaker 1: off and then he got blasted from the blind side.
Speaker 1: So coverage broke down also, so a lot went into that.
Speaker 1: And then I went and looked at you know, and
Speaker 1: Deck's you know, what deck is good at and Everson
Speaker 1: understands the quarterback has to do this. He falls on
Speaker 1: his sword. Right, we got to execute better. I got
Speaker 1: to get the ball out of my hands. So on
Speaker 1: the sack fumble to start the second half, here's what happens.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys go two tight ends, two wide receivers. They're
Speaker 1: gonna max block right and just send two guys deep,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to do a play fake and throw deep. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what goes on. The The Seahawks decide, ah, no,
Speaker 1: we think you're gonna throw the ball, so they rushed
Speaker 1: eight guys. Eight guys they rushed, and Dak is waiting
Speaker 1: for somebody to get open. There's nobody open, and there's
Speaker 1: nowhere to throw the ball because only two guys go out.
Speaker 1: So he's saying, I got to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of my hands. Quicker, Well, I don't know where he
Speaker 1: was gonna throw it because the middle of the field
Speaker 1: was wide open, but there wasn't a receiver to be
Speaker 1: seen because the two tight ends stayed in and blocked.
Speaker 1: And then the tackle on to the Cowboys left beats
Speaker 1: uh Connor Williams and he puts it, comes in and
Speaker 1: hits him and the ball comes out. There was nothing
Speaker 1: he could do but that quarterback And there was one
Speaker 1: game it was either last year or two years ago,
Speaker 1: he was taking the blame for all this, and he
Speaker 1: was answering the questions and basically saying the same thing.
Speaker 1: And afterwards I went over to them. I said, boy,
Speaker 1: you got a lot of stab wounds in your chest.
Speaker 1: And he goes, what are you talking about. I said,
Speaker 1: I know what you were doing, and you were taking
Speaker 1: the fault for the mistakes of other people. And he
Speaker 1: just kind of smiled at me and goes, I'm the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that that was an adjustment they
Speaker 1: decided at halftime they were going to do that. They
Speaker 1: came out in a two tight end because because they
Speaker 1: did that a lot in the first half where Schultz
Speaker 1: and Bell when they were on the field at the
Speaker 1: same time, they were still throwing the ball and they
Speaker 1: were max protecting and they only had the two wide
Speaker 1: receivers out on Rouse, and so they decided we're going
Speaker 1: we're coming after them the next time they do that,
Speaker 1: because they didn't believe the Cowboys were going to run
Speaker 1: the ball when they had two tight ends in the game. Yea,
Speaker 1: all right, we got our picks to click when we
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Speaker 1: we've got precious little time to get to our picks
Speaker 1: for this week because we've had such a good discussion.
Speaker 1: For once, it wasn't my phone. Yeah, first time all year.
Speaker 1: It's not ever since fault. All right, So how about
Speaker 1: ever since, since you haven't had time to talking on
Speaker 1: this show, we'll give it to you first, your pick
Speaker 1: to win and your picks to click. Cowboys and Brown's
Speaker 1: noon kickoff on Sunday. As I told you last week,
Speaker 1: I always picked the Cowboys. It's just a matter of
Speaker 1: how they're gonna win. Right now, I am looking at
Speaker 1: the score of Cowboys winning twenty four to twenty those
Speaker 1: the numbers are gonna be down just a bit. Passing
Speaker 1: yards gonna be down. I think Zeke is gonna have
Speaker 1: a decent game. I think Zeke's gonna get over one
Speaker 1: hundred yards in this particular ball game. I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna be heavy Zeke. I think that's gonna lead for
Speaker 1: us to win the ball game with a lower score
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty Dallas Cowboys win. My guy, my
Speaker 1: guy for this game. With all of the running, we're
Speaker 1: gonna throw some play action in there. We're gonna catch
Speaker 1: him off guard a little bit. You're talking about that
Speaker 1: eight man blitch front. I think the Browns are gonna
Speaker 1: have some type of a scheme in that manner. They're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna come up with that. They're gonna game
Speaker 1: plan that formation, and my boys, Scholtz is gonna get
Speaker 1: out there with that play action. He's going to be
Speaker 1: the main target. I see eight catches for shows at
Speaker 1: least one touchdown. Cowboys going in twenty four to twenty
Speaker 1: with their second win of the season. All Right, I
Speaker 1: got you down. I wrote it all down, boy, I
Speaker 1: just gotta remember where I put it on Monday. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: That'll be file number thirteen. I will go. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of in the same boat with Everson on the score.
Speaker 1: I've got the Cowboys twenty six twenty three. I think
Speaker 1: that they have enough offense and just enough defense to
Speaker 1: hold this team to a reasonable amount of points. And
Speaker 1: Mike pick the click because the Browns are gonna be
Speaker 1: so worried about Alden Smith after his three sack game
Speaker 1: that Everson Griffin is gonna finally pay and destroy whatever
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns throw at the Cowboys. Wow, Okay, Everson Griffin.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen much from Everson here, so it's it's
Speaker 1: time for Everson Griffin to make an impact here. We
Speaker 1: just kylam Griffin when he's not playing. As they hear
Speaker 1: they used to say in the in the old days,
Speaker 1: it's time for him to shake a leg. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Cowboys to win twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty. And have you noticed that people are kind
Speaker 1: of down on Zeke this week? Yes? Ye, coming out
Speaker 1: of the Seattle game. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's that
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder. I think he's probably hearing it.
Speaker 1: And I think we've heard he's heard a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about this run game that the Browns have. And
Speaker 1: so I'm picking Zeke Elliott to click this week. He's
Speaker 1: my pick to click twenty seven twenty Cowboys win. We're
Speaker 1: all the same range as far as the score goes.
Speaker 1: I'm like how the Cowboys last week they were they
Speaker 1: realized that that Zeke wasn't really, He just didn't seem
Speaker 1: to have his foot work together. The brain and the
Speaker 1: feet weren't working well in the hands, so they tried
Speaker 1: their best to get it to him in several different ways.
Speaker 1: They say, Okay, you're not running the ball, well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep getting it to you on passes. This is
Speaker 1: what we promise you in the offseason. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: a catalyst for us. You're gonna be our you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna throw all these things out at them,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be our guys when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done. They tried the best to put that into
Speaker 1: the game plan and implement it. Just wasn't working that day,
Speaker 1: just wasn't working well. They keeping this is gonna be
Speaker 1: his game. They kept trying to take advantage of him
Speaker 1: with those screen passes and they just weren't coordinated. Then
Speaker 1: the one time they were, Joe Looney got called for
Speaker 1: being illegally down filled and he was like five or
Speaker 1: seven yards so, and then another time his guy made
Speaker 1: the tackle coming down the line right. So, yeah, the
Speaker 1: screen wasn't working. Joe had a lot to do with them.
Speaker 1: The ineptness of the screen, would Mickey who is a
Speaker 1: Missouri at this week? They are at Tennessee at Tennessee
Speaker 1: this week and they're still out Tennessee and they're still
Speaker 1: searching for a quarterback. Anytime I hear the coach say yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna play both of them, that's like I don't
Speaker 1: like to hear. Oh no, no, no, no, Craig Morton, No,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Craig Morton, Rodgers, not happening. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at college football Alabama and Texas A and M
Speaker 1: at two thirty on CBS is one of the featured
Speaker 1: matchups TCU in Texas tomorrow. Where are the Sooners play
Speaker 1: at Iowas State? And they bet they better win Tomorrow
Speaker 1: They're play Ioways State and then next week the Cotton
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Speaker 1: next week, and Grambling is gonna check with you guys
Speaker 1: in the Springtime special edition. We're moving on to the Springtime.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we'll see you guys in April sometime. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about it there all right. In the meantime, we'll
Speaker 1: enjoy Cowboys and over under. How many fans we're gonna
Speaker 1: have in the stands on Sunday twenty five thousand. We're
Speaker 1: going up by four thousand and two five, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be twenty two five. Yeah, it doesn't matter who as
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