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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola High Noon on I Wednesday, inside the
Speaker 1: SWBC podcast studio. This is Mick Shots, and oh, how
Speaker 1: we missed you the last forty eight hours is Mickey
Speaker 1: was doing his annual community service yesterday and we didn't
Speaker 1: have a show yesterday, and oh he's frowning now. Everson
Speaker 1: is here with his grambling on Mickey and Bill vest
Speaker 1: by the way, yeah, it's been thirty six. Well it's
Speaker 1: been my day. Yeah. I missed Monday show because we
Speaker 1: had the Landry Awards ceremony and I had prep work
Speaker 1: I had to do. You missed the victory song? I tried,
Speaker 1: I did. I thought about that walking in the door
Speaker 1: today that I missed the victory song. So maybe we
Speaker 1: need We are stampeding into a new week as the
Speaker 1: Cowboys hit the practice field today and a little different
Speaker 1: schedule as the head coach will be addressing the media
Speaker 1: later at three o'clock this afternoon, but we were in
Speaker 1: the locker room already. You are in the locker room
Speaker 1: afore we get to the nuts and bolts. Since you
Speaker 1: didn't have an opportunity, you want to give us your
Speaker 1: impression of that big victory over the Texas to win
Speaker 1: the state championship, which kicked off State championship week. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the rest of the state championship
Speaker 1: games are now getting underway with six man football going
Speaker 1: on right now at AT and T Stadium, the first
Speaker 1: of twelve all straight games over the next four days.
Speaker 1: But it all kicked off with State Championship game number one,
Speaker 1: and it was the Cowboys winning another state title over
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. And your thoughts when the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: the football at the two yard line in the final
Speaker 1: minutes of that game, you know what thought crossed my mind?
Speaker 1: I said, well, if Baker Mayfield can do this without
Speaker 1: a practice, Prescott can do this. That did not run
Speaker 1: across my mind at all. First, Baker Mayfield did it
Speaker 1: without a time out and without a practice in the
Speaker 1: last forty seconds of the game. Surely Dad could have
Speaker 1: done that three times over. It was my emotion was
Speaker 1: swinging because I thought the guy had scored before we
Speaker 1: made the goal line stance, and so that's what got me.
Speaker 1: So I was I was already in a negative mindset,
Speaker 1: but of course winning when we made the stop, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm a little bit more. So
Speaker 1: you're telling me there's a chance we can win this game.
Speaker 1: Football team, and they did. They acted like a football
Speaker 1: team in the last three minutes of the game. And
Speaker 1: my point was, since you brought up Baker Mayfield when
Speaker 1: he did it ninety eight yards for a touchdown, they
Speaker 1: threw a parade. Oh man, Dac did it. It was
Speaker 1: like they stole they stole the win, that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact they showed was these touchdown they I really
Speaker 1: really talk about the drive. It was like, oh, and
Speaker 1: then the Cowboys going to the end. And in fact,
Speaker 1: I heard a I don't even remember who it was,
Speaker 1: but it was a national sports talk show the next day,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about how great the Eagles are playing,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles got the NFC all wrapped up now
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys and he and then he said, and
Speaker 1: you got the Cowboys, they're struggling, and like what after
Speaker 1: they had just barely beat in Detroit. If I'm not mistake, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, and did he not watch the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: the previous four weeks, you know, the previous month where
Speaker 1: they're averaging thirty six points a game or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and so and then they scored twenty seven and they're struggling.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, we've been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of that. Finally you've got some pundits. Who are they?
Speaker 1: Actually I think it was Booger And how he got
Speaker 1: that name, that is really something I only want to
Speaker 1: think about. But considering he was the only one to say,
Speaker 1: give Dak his flowers, and that's a nice term that
Speaker 1: the young people use now, give him his flowers because
Speaker 1: he did what he did. He said if that would
Speaker 1: have been Joe Burrow, if that would have been Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: then we would have been talking about how amazing and
Speaker 1: clutch that drive was. So that's the difference, you see. Well,
Speaker 1: and then the difference also as far as a what
Speaker 1: was then a one ten and one now a one
Speaker 1: eleven and one Texans team being able to be in
Speaker 1: that position at the end of the game. It goes
Speaker 1: back to if you muffle punt, they recover. If you
Speaker 1: turn the football over then this thing and even out
Speaker 1: in a hurry. These are grown That's what I was
Speaker 1: talking about the day before yesterday's bags and I would talk.
Speaker 1: I'm like, these are grown men. You know, They're not
Speaker 1: like college kids who you know, eighteen year old sophomores
Speaker 1: and things of that day. These are grown men who
Speaker 1: have families to feed, so I can play ball. How
Speaker 1: about number five for them, a rookie out of Baylor,
Speaker 1: Jalen Petrie. Yeah, I mean that kid can play. And
Speaker 1: the reason he's a big twelve defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year last year for Baylor, and the reason that Baylor
Speaker 1: went six and six this year. They don't have guys
Speaker 1: like him on the team anymore. But you know, those
Speaker 1: are the things. And the Texans happened. How about the
Speaker 1: way Malie Collins played with the Texans. Yes, and you
Speaker 1: know he played well here too. It just they couldn't
Speaker 1: afford him, right exactly. They had to pick and choose. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who keep They've got a really good left tackle and
Speaker 1: Larry Me Tunsil too. Yeah, it has played well all year.
Speaker 1: And I think I think McCarthy after the game mentioned
Speaker 1: maleaku uh and whoever did the trans they put Davis
Speaker 1: in parentheses. They didn't understand it. It was talking about
Speaker 1: Collins As. Yeah, and it's like this guy ball and
Speaker 1: you know this was their super Bowl. They were playing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys their state championship. That it was their super
Speaker 1: bowl in Texas, the state championship. Yeah. I wish we
Speaker 1: had the in house feed. I could watch you want
Speaker 1: to watch, especially at and T Stadium. So did they
Speaker 1: play on the whole field? Yeah? I was gonna asks,
Speaker 1: but is that why you know they bring the it's
Speaker 1: ten yards in so so it's five yards five Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: what do they do rope it off? No, they have
Speaker 1: they have like a line watching it right now. It's
Speaker 1: Benjamin against Lorraine Benjamin. Have you ever been to Benjamin, Texas? Benjamin?
Speaker 1: It's one one fourteen, headed right out to Lubbock. I've
Speaker 1: driven through Benjamin many many a time, and I'm surprised
Speaker 1: they have six people, you lap? Okay, So they showed
Speaker 1: their enrollment for their high school forty four kids in
Speaker 1: fourth grad Wow, I think I got pulled over and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well they need the money. Well, they used to have
Speaker 1: a bathroom there. You can stop it between Seymour and
Speaker 1: Dickens and uh used to be able. There was a
Speaker 1: little convenience store, but it got shut down, so that
Speaker 1: I was your favorite. Yeah, you got to hold it
Speaker 1: another forty five minutes. Sorry, I asked. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: like a green book for tray journeyman up a journalist.
Speaker 1: That's good stuff. That's right. Uh. I just look a
Speaker 1: little courthouse there which I found out abou all right,
Speaker 1: so right, you know, uh, here's the way I would
Speaker 1: like to set the table as the Cowboys are back
Speaker 1: to work today. Just like I mentioned, this National pundit
Speaker 1: had the Eagles already winning the number one seed in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Basically, okay, look at things now with four
Speaker 1: games left in this season, and look at the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Look at the Eagles. If and we're looking at now
Speaker 1: with a Thursday night game after Thanksgive, we are a week,
Speaker 1: two weeks in a day away from the Cowboys having
Speaker 1: played in the next three games. Okay, if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win those three games, we are basically going into the
Speaker 1: last week of the regular season, and the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: a chance to have the number one seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1: If you if you look at it, the Eagles and
Speaker 1: I've had it called up, I've got to find it. Um,
Speaker 1: the Eagles schedule. Oh, I wrote it down, I write it.
Speaker 1: Do you want their schedule? Thank you? Yeah? At Chicago, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're at Chicago this week. Yeah, Then at Dallas at Dallas,
Speaker 1: and they play at home against New Orleans and then
Speaker 1: the Giants and the Giants and Giants is at home. Correct. Okay.
Speaker 1: But if let's say it plays out where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win their next three the Eagles win their other two
Speaker 1: games and lose to the Cowboys, the Cowboys are now
Speaker 1: one game behind the Eagles going into the last week
Speaker 1: of the regular season, and the Eagles are hosting a
Speaker 1: Giants team that likely will be needing a win to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs and against and the Cowboys will be
Speaker 1: playing at Washington r If the Eagles were to lose
Speaker 1: to the Giants, the Cowboys will have the high breaker
Speaker 1: on the Eagles. They will split head to head, and
Speaker 1: they will have a better division record than what the
Speaker 1: Eagles have, and they also have a better they have
Speaker 1: the head to head tiebreaker over Minnesota, which is another
Speaker 1: team that might be in contention for that number one
Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs. I mean they're dropping fast, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: But what we're looking at here. If the Cowboys can
Speaker 1: take care of business the next three weeks, we're going
Speaker 1: into that final week of the regular season and there's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot on the line, meaning a
Speaker 1: first round buy in the playoffs for both teams. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and who we're bringing in Washington, there might be a
Speaker 1: playoff game available further Washington. That's right, exactly. The Giants
Speaker 1: have it pretty tough too. You want to know their schedule. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're at Washington this week, then they go to Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and then they play Indianapolis at home, and then they're
Speaker 1: at Philly. So all right, so all the cow did.
Speaker 1: A pundit point out all the Cowboys needed to do
Speaker 1: was win this game against Jacksonville and they clinch the playoffs. No, no,
Speaker 1: that was the Cowboys are struggling. That was part of
Speaker 1: the pundit says, the Cowboys are struggling. Are they're they're
Speaker 1: excited about? Um? The Cowboys failing down the stretch? Um?
Speaker 1: And there should always do you know at the end
Speaker 1: of the sea. And there's an r in there. That's
Speaker 1: very possible too, by the way, because if Seattle loses
Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers, Okay, I thought you said
Speaker 1: an ort and Detroit loses, Detroit loses to the Jets,
Speaker 1: that's a possibility, then they clinch no matter what they
Speaker 1: do on Sunday in jackson We're not interested in that though. No, No,
Speaker 1: we're interested in winning at Jacksonville, keeping things interesting for
Speaker 1: and getting Christmas Eve, getting this struggling team back on track.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, And you know, but one thing I
Speaker 1: am concerned about once again is the matuity. You know,
Speaker 1: we aren't. They were there, you know, in regards to
Speaker 1: taking care of business and having all the breaks go
Speaker 1: your way, um, not hurting ourselves in certain situations. And
Speaker 1: we have through in this game, I'd say, through all
Speaker 1: facets of the game. We kind of put ourselves behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball. No sacks by anyone. I think they said,
Speaker 1: that's the first time did you mention something this year? Weird?
Speaker 1: I have to go back to next year to see
Speaker 1: you lead the league in sacks. You lead the league
Speaker 1: in sacks and coming to a game and get no sacks,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think that's like some type of
Speaker 1: odd you know, milestone nobody wants to be part of.
Speaker 1: So what you want is consistency down the line, and
Speaker 1: that's what everyone's excited about Philly. They're showing a little
Speaker 1: bit more consistency. They're blowing out who they should blow out.
Speaker 1: And you know, even with the Giants game they won
Speaker 1: in New York that was pretty impressive. And the way
Speaker 1: that they won in New York, I think the Giants
Speaker 1: right now they're just as they're defeated team as well.
Speaker 1: You talk about dropping like flies, the Giants are dropping
Speaker 1: real hard, just like the Vikings. When you saw how
Speaker 1: the secondary played, I mean, you know those balls that
Speaker 1: were going up in the air. First of all, you
Speaker 1: have wide receivers that were all by themselves. People have
Speaker 1: fallen down. The other was even when they converge on
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, they act like they had blinders on.
Speaker 1: So they looked a lot like the incompetent secondary that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys showed during the worst times of last night.
Speaker 1: I think the Giants are just being exposed for what
Speaker 1: they are. I give them credit for being able to
Speaker 1: do what they did at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: but they weren't winning games convincingly. But I meant they
Speaker 1: did win games. And it started started with their first
Speaker 1: game of the year against Tennessee when they decided to
Speaker 1: go for two with the minute left, and then they
Speaker 1: rolled that to a win over the Panther lost to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, they won by eight over the Bears, by
Speaker 1: five over the Packers, and a good win against the
Speaker 1: Ravens by four, Jacksonville by six, and then starts a
Speaker 1: run of loss to the Seahawks, beat the Texans, lost
Speaker 1: to the Lions, lost to the Cowboys, tied the Commanders,
Speaker 1: lost to the Eagles, and now they're sitting there playing
Speaker 1: Washington this week, don't yeah, yeah, And so they have
Speaker 1: now what is it, one win since October twenty third
Speaker 1: for the Giants. So I think that's when Dave Ball
Speaker 1: was doing all the pumping. We got them, and while
Speaker 1: Washington has been going in the other direction. And uh,
Speaker 1: and to your point on the Eagles, they've been winning
Speaker 1: convincingly most weeks, although they have had um a couple
Speaker 1: of games where they've had to squeak back. Yes, it
Speaker 1: could have gone either way with those those the score
Speaker 1: comes out with two score win, but you know, during
Speaker 1: that time it was really tight. It could have gone
Speaker 1: either way. And Eagles lost to Washington thirty two to
Speaker 1: twenty one on November fourteenth, and then the next week
Speaker 1: at Indianapolis was the game where Hurts scored on the
Speaker 1: quarterback draw to win at seventeen six. Everybody knew he
Speaker 1: was going to run the ball, that's right to just
Speaker 1: let him go right up to the middle. And since
Speaker 1: then they beat the Packers forty to thirty three, and
Speaker 1: then blew out the Titans and the Giants, and so
Speaker 1: they are on a roll like no team could possibly be.
Speaker 1: So to emphasize what caught the anomaly that Everson pointed
Speaker 1: out about no sacks for the first time this year, Yes,
Speaker 1: you have to go back to the fifth game of
Speaker 1: last year to find the last time they had no sacks.
Speaker 1: So it was the first time in twenty five consecutive
Speaker 1: games they had. What game was that the Giants? Okay,
Speaker 1: and then they were shut out on sacks in the
Speaker 1: opener against Tampa Bay. So it's only three times in
Speaker 1: thirty games, so this would have been okay the previous
Speaker 1: thirty games. So the last three times the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: been shut out on sacks or what they lost to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in the season opener, ye, no sacks, no sacks,
Speaker 1: and then the Giants no sacks in games last five
Speaker 1: of last year, last year, okay, and that this was
Speaker 1: the third. It's amazing against the Texans. Against the Texas,
Speaker 1: did they have their entire starting offensive line in the
Speaker 1: game who had given up thirty three sacks already this year.
Speaker 1: That's okay, But you know what, it was a combination
Speaker 1: of things. Right. You knew they were going to run
Speaker 1: the ball. Everybody knew it. They ran it thirty seven times.
Speaker 1: They rolled out the quarterbacks a lot, They threw three
Speaker 1: step drops, just get the ball out, throw it, throw
Speaker 1: it screens. The one time they attempted a deep ball
Speaker 1: and ended up being the touchdown when I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody got a good look to see
Speaker 1: if the guy stepped out of bounds before he caught
Speaker 1: the caught the ball. But that was it. It was
Speaker 1: get the ball out and then you're running the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So that gives you something else to think about. And
Speaker 1: the fact that, and I'll stay on this till forever.
Speaker 1: You line Micah Parsons up the defensive end every snap
Speaker 1: that he plays, and they're gonna neutralize him because they're
Speaker 1: gonna put two guys over there. If he's at linebacker.
Speaker 1: They can't set their offense to take care of him.
Speaker 1: And I think at one point maybe Dorance Armstrong had
Speaker 1: something going on in that game. I can't remember if
Speaker 1: he stepped out or not. Well, he's got the sprained ankle.
Speaker 1: I remember when when that happened during the game, because
Speaker 1: he ended up playing just thirty snaps forty five of
Speaker 1: the of the game. Um, do you think it's because, well,
Speaker 1: he didn't know how well he was gonna play during
Speaker 1: the game. But you know Van Dress ends up with
Speaker 1: fourteen combined tackles. Yeah, I was wondering that was an
Speaker 1: adjustment that he made during the game. Like, Okay, Vandy's
Speaker 1: got taken care of here, then I can move him outside.
Speaker 1: But you're saying it's not the game with Parsons outside. Well,
Speaker 1: and then you also had bar back and your Clark
Speaker 1: Casher and Damon Clark has been earning more snaps too,
Speaker 1: and so you feel like you've got more more depth
Speaker 1: there and more more people you want to get on
Speaker 1: the field at linebacker, and so use Parsons where he can.
Speaker 1: I'm okay spotting him, Yeah, because I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: don't make a difference. It makes a difference in the
Speaker 1: ball game when he's on that inspects. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know what he made no difference to this game.
Speaker 1: And but and the other part of it is, though,
Speaker 1: is when you give them the football at the plus
Speaker 1: twenty four yard line, the plus twenty seven yard line,
Speaker 1: and when they at last pick what was it the
Speaker 1: plus four yard line or whatever it was, any team
Speaker 1: in the league is going to have going to be
Speaker 1: right in the game all the way to the end.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just that they turned it over. It was
Speaker 1: where on the field they turned it over, right where
Speaker 1: they didn't have to go do anything to get in
Speaker 1: the end zone. Although you gave them the ball at
Speaker 1: the two and let him go ki a kick a
Speaker 1: field goal, right right, right, So all right, we should
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Speaker 1: WBC podcast newsroom. Mickey, Well, there was one number sixteen
Speaker 1: in the locker room, t Y Hilton, t Y Hill.
Speaker 1: And he says he's been here for two days and
Speaker 1: he's been going over the offense ten hours a day
Speaker 1: for two days, by the way, and he feels like
Speaker 1: if the coaches think he's ready to go, he's ready
Speaker 1: to go because he's been working out. So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have signed a wide receiver who goes by initials team
Speaker 1: they are BJ's a matter of fact. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact. When when they asked him what and I
Speaker 1: was impressed with this, What do you bring to this team?
Speaker 1: And he said, I bring leadership. I can help with
Speaker 1: my knowledge. Didn't mention anything about playing. It was like,
Speaker 1: I'm here to help, sort of the Jason Peters approach
Speaker 1: to helping the other offensive lineman. Since somebody asked him,
Speaker 1: can you still run? And he looked up quizzically and goes, well, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't do anything. That's the deal, right uh And
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, And I thought it was interesting
Speaker 1: also talking to Malate Cooker because he played with them
Speaker 1: at Indianapolis. And by the way, Hooker, you know, he
Speaker 1: played the last game with his hand not in the cast. Well.
Speaker 1: Part of his rehab he had his hand immersed in wax,
Speaker 1: so he had like a wax hand and he was
Speaker 1: walking around in a plastic bag with it. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a mold to some kind of therapy.
Speaker 1: And when we asked him about you know, um t y,
Speaker 1: he said, well, I know this. He can catch the
Speaker 1: deep ball for us, and he can catch the screen
Speaker 1: and take it to the house. So uh and he
Speaker 1: looked in shape. U it looked like he gained a pound.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons he said he decided to take
Speaker 1: a break this year after going through last year with
Speaker 1: the next surgery groin problem. He said he wanted to
Speaker 1: watch his kids play football. And he's got a fifteen
Speaker 1: year old son, wow, believe it or not, well thirty three,
Speaker 1: so yeah, eighteen. And he said they were done with
Speaker 1: their football. And so basically I told my agent, if
Speaker 1: anybody calls, let me know, and the Cowboys were the
Speaker 1: team to call. That's crazy to be able to do
Speaker 1: something like that, to disengage from what you were really
Speaker 1: born to do, right, and and just give rid just
Speaker 1: for one year, for the most part of one year,
Speaker 1: and and I'm back. Yeah, And he said. Somebody asked him,
Speaker 1: did you start missing it. Yes, No, I got to
Speaker 1: do what I never get to do. I got to
Speaker 1: go to all my kids games and they can look
Speaker 1: up in the stands and see me sitting there, and
Speaker 1: he goes that was important to me. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: especially depends on how this works out. I think this
Speaker 1: is one of the better ideas and moves the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have made in a long time. And it's you know, well,
Speaker 1: we're always out here. We're so smart, you know, we
Speaker 1: look at things like from a drone, we look against
Speaker 1: them overhead, and we always think we know how the
Speaker 1: land lay everything was about OBJ. I love to call
Speaker 1: anyone anywhere mentioning the name T. Why Hilton, right, did
Speaker 1: you guys? It was? It was in It was in
Speaker 1: training camp. Oh okay, but he was off everybody's radar
Speaker 1: since then because he had he wasn't one of those
Speaker 1: that made the rounds, you know, or had his name
Speaker 1: in training camp and Michael Gallops not back, yeah, Noah
Speaker 1: Brown and what nothing. And so they were like, people
Speaker 1: were saying, you gotta go sign T Why Hilton? I
Speaker 1: did not know that play? Yeah? And uh, I just
Speaker 1: think this is this is one of the and this
Speaker 1: when I said moves like this. It's not just the move,
Speaker 1: it was how they made the move. Guy, it was
Speaker 1: kind of slick. You know, no one knew about it
Speaker 1: under the radar. And as much as we have Jerry
Speaker 1: being as bombastic as he is most of the time
Speaker 1: and his words are always either taking out of context
Speaker 1: or really blown enough too much, this was something that
Speaker 1: was uncowboy like right right. You know, no one knew
Speaker 1: what was going on, and when the deal was done,
Speaker 1: it was one of the better deals that you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to hear about hopefully as this season goes on.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't expensive. He wasn't sitting there, you know,
Speaker 1: hunting and hold your hostage. Right. They basically over four
Speaker 1: weeks guaranteed him six hundred thousand dollars. He gets fifty
Speaker 1: thousand more for each game he plays in the regular season,
Speaker 1: so that's a potential two hundred thousand more and up
Speaker 1: to seven hundred thousand if he in playoff incentives. So
Speaker 1: it comes to like one point eight million total max.
Speaker 1: Why not, you know, it's not like you're breaking the bank,
Speaker 1: and it's not like you had to sign him to
Speaker 1: a two or three year deal, and you know, and
Speaker 1: and spread out signing bonus. So from a from a
Speaker 1: salary cap standpoint, it just made so much sense to
Speaker 1: if he was ready to play those numbers by me again.
Speaker 1: So it was six hundred thousand guaranteed, and then fifty
Speaker 1: thousand each game per game, and then some in set
Speaker 1: of playoff incentives, like because usually you play for free
Speaker 1: on your base salary right in the playoffs and just
Speaker 1: make money for being in the industry. And it said
Speaker 1: it had it had seven hundred thousand in playoffs incentives.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if it meant his performance or
Speaker 1: just the teams playing the team's performance. Right, So so
Speaker 1: it gets up to the potential for one point one
Speaker 1: point eight million. When I saw that's nice for two
Speaker 1: months work right? No, no, and so um, you know,
Speaker 1: and he he said he was been working out. You know.
Speaker 1: Somebody said she looks like a guy who's really too
Speaker 1: hyper not to work. Yeah. Yeah, I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: he's kind of thin ye by the way, but three
Speaker 1: is what he's listening. But see he's he's NFL tested thin, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's taking all the blows you can take. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's shown that he can withstand, you know,
Speaker 1: an entire season of being targeted on both sides, offense
Speaker 1: and defense. So this is a guy. Man, if he's
Speaker 1: he's turping, but proven right and ten years yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about four or five Pro Bowls if
Speaker 1: I'm not four Pro Bowls. Led the league in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen with one thousand, four hundred and forty eight yards receiving.
Speaker 1: So and you know what, he seems to be a
Speaker 1: very likable guy. And this is not saying anything about
Speaker 1: OBJ or anything. They asked him where where do where
Speaker 1: do you play? He goes just plugged me in. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like slot. Okay, you know what? This reminded me
Speaker 1: of the Shawn Jackson. Remember last year he ended up
Speaker 1: with Vegas. What did he come in here? He ended
Speaker 1: up maybe three catches, but one of them was to
Speaker 1: the house to the house, right, So with him, if
Speaker 1: I send him on three or four nine routes and
Speaker 1: complete one, but it might go to the house. And
Speaker 1: it's the it's the mindset that it puts into the
Speaker 1: and they got to cover him right now. They know
Speaker 1: that he's a factor, right and we haven't shown anyone
Speaker 1: We've had turpin and for some reason we haven't even
Speaker 1: have we even attempted a deep past to him, No, no, once.
Speaker 1: So but I bet one of the first or second
Speaker 1: if he plays on Sunday, one of the first or
Speaker 1: second things they do, they're gonna send him. It's a
Speaker 1: matter of trust, right And they don't trust Terpin, not
Speaker 1: because you know, to be trusted. But he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been proven yet in that particular situation, you know, as
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, as opposed to we turn him in,
Speaker 1: you know. And McCarthy brought up a point about turping
Speaker 1: the other day about you know, he's played a lot
Speaker 1: of football this year. You know, we got him in
Speaker 1: thirteen games, but he had played what did they play
Speaker 1: USFL eight something like that, so he's he has not
Speaker 1: really had a break. Yeah, but I know I have
Speaker 1: been playing down I know, I mean, but I do
Speaker 1: get it that you can get into a monotony and
Speaker 1: all of that. But yeah, we I think a flash
Speaker 1: from him also with spark this team, you know, into
Speaker 1: a into a height that we could really use. But
Speaker 1: I thought, I just it just looked like he was
Speaker 1: so happy to be here. He went and sat at
Speaker 1: his locker, you know, but he didn't run anybody off
Speaker 1: if they came by and tried to continue because they
Speaker 1: had him out for a press comment. Now, he's always
Speaker 1: been a very outgoing, you know, media friendly player, always
Speaker 1: has been. I like the I love the t why thing.
Speaker 1: You know, he doesn't go crazy with it. And a
Speaker 1: bunch of majors does this, and he goes on, you know,
Speaker 1: he does this thing. Somebody asked him, well, were you
Speaker 1: following the OBJ thing? And think, okay, well he's not
Speaker 1: here like me. He goes, no, I followed it at all.
Speaker 1: He goes My agent called and said, the Cowboys are called,
Speaker 1: and you know, within two or three days they had
Speaker 1: the thing knocked out. Crazy. But you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had it. Even though there may not have been conversations,
Speaker 1: there may have been conversations in terms of how's he doing,
Speaker 1: you know, what is is he in shape? That sort
Speaker 1: of thing leading up to the OBJ visit, But that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys knew they had that in their hip pocket
Speaker 1: when OBJ was here. Now they also say, well, I
Speaker 1: sound like I'm spreading rumors. I'm going to bear to
Speaker 1: somebody over here. Uh that the Cowboys still no, Jerry
Speaker 1: said it. They are still Jerry said after the game
Speaker 1: So here's here's where it was put to me. When
Speaker 1: when this whole thing started, it was like ten percent
Speaker 1: chance of signing them. Now twenty percent. So it's up,
Speaker 1: but it's twenty percent probably for next year. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: at this time they realize, oh, b J, really he's
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. Well, no one else's We haven't heard
Speaker 1: anything else from anybody else, because you would, you would,
Speaker 1: you would think t Y is a rental for this season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of his age. He's the turn thirty three last
Speaker 1: month November fourteenth, so at age thirty four, middle of
Speaker 1: the season next year. To me, I see him as
Speaker 1: another Cob either way, Cobb when job came in here
Speaker 1: from Green Bay. Sure, very good player he did. He
Speaker 1: caught many passes for us in that one year. I
Speaker 1: wish you were many they got called back due to famlies. Yes,
Speaker 1: he even got a bonus for the amount of catches
Speaker 1: that he be thinking about a half million dollar bonus.
Speaker 1: Think about the experience he brings to because other than
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, who was basically a special teams player, none
Speaker 1: of these other white receivers, well, James Washington now that
Speaker 1: he's on the field, had four years. None of the
Speaker 1: other ones had three until you know, Washington got out there.
Speaker 1: Now Noah, I think he's in his fifth year, sixth
Speaker 1: year or something like, but it was all special teams
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the Yeah, and so um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he adds that, and it looks like he is okay
Speaker 1: to be the teacher. He's fine with that. He's always
Speaker 1: been fine with that. Yeah, you know, it's not the
Speaker 1: first time they brought somebody else in and he had
Speaker 1: to be the under he had to be the guy
Speaker 1: that everyone just kind of depended to be there, depending
Speaker 1: on to be there. And boy was he there on
Speaker 1: Sunday when when we really really needed them. To me, god,
Speaker 1: just one of the best players of the year for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys period. The sideline route, a deep, deep out
Speaker 1: route to Noah Brown, diving catch. Yeah, two defenders, That
Speaker 1: to me was so clutch. It wasn't just the abilities,
Speaker 1: it was the moment that we needed right uh during
Speaker 1: the game. So, what is t Y Hilton's first name?
Speaker 1: You know what? I meant to look that up and
Speaker 1: I'd hadn't done it yet, so I guess it would
Speaker 1: start with a T. Terrence Eugene Eugene Marquis t Y Hilton.
Speaker 1: His son, Eugene Hilton Junior, is a sophomore at Zionsville
Speaker 1: High School in Indiana, first team All District and already
Speaker 1: has an offer from Purdue University. So there you go,
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Yeah, speaking of like father like sons, speaking
Speaker 1: of Purdue, Anthony Brown's birthdays tomorrow, Oh he is, ah,
Speaker 1: He's with you. There you go, and he's probably going
Speaker 1: to get an offer from Louisville since the Purdue coach
Speaker 1: just went to Louisville, Jeff Brohm. So anyway, all right,
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Speaker 1: our final seven minutes of the show, here's more news
Speaker 1: you can use from Mickey Spagnola. So the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: get to my note. Had signed a bohemoth big defensas
Speaker 1: TA six four, three hundred and sixty one UM Anthony
Speaker 1: rush us Uh defensive tackle. He's last been with the
Speaker 1: Eagles signed with him on December sixth. They've led him go.
Speaker 1: He started the season with Atlanta. He played four games
Speaker 1: with them this year, actually played six games last year.
Speaker 1: He's kicked around on special I mean on practice squads
Speaker 1: and um, you know about four or five other teams
Speaker 1: he's played thirty games in his career, yes, ten starts,
Speaker 1: forty tackles, four tackles for loss. So Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: looking for that big body. Now that they know that
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins with the sprain or strain peck is out
Speaker 1: for the regular season, they're hoping he's back for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But this is a big, big body. They've signed him
Speaker 1: to the practice squad by okay, okay, which is not unusual,
Speaker 1: right for any veteran player. Right now, he's well traveled
Speaker 1: in the last three years he had. This is his
Speaker 1: tenth stop, been three years now, multiple stops at the
Speaker 1: same started it. Well, here here's his uh resume Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: The Raiders, Philadelphia, Seattle, Chicago, Green Bay, Tennessee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Dallas.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And sometimes you know, you catch
Speaker 1: that that that fit. It's like a woman looking for
Speaker 1: a husband. Guy had a fit. If it don't work right,
Speaker 1: just don't work right, you take out your and on you.
Speaker 1: Guys don't deserve me. So I think they had to, um,
Speaker 1: see if I got this right, release Malik Jefferson from
Speaker 1: the practice forgotten that the former land Reaward finalist Malik
Speaker 1: Jefferson was on the practice squad still all season, he's
Speaker 1: been on the practice squad kind of kind of quiet.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's uh, that has taken place, and they
Speaker 1: should get a padded practice tomorrow out of Tyrant Smith,
Speaker 1: which will be his first padded practice since he was
Speaker 1: injured with the detached what was it detached hams hamstring?
Speaker 1: So are we still going with um he needs two
Speaker 1: padded practices to play in a game or I don't
Speaker 1: know if that second padded practice got superseded by yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened to steal um? So it'd be interesting to
Speaker 1: see if indeed, you know, I would imagine this is
Speaker 1: going to be a shared uh position, like maybe give
Speaker 1: him four five snaps here, four or five snaps there
Speaker 1: at right tackle. I don't know if you want to
Speaker 1: disrupt everything I said right tackle not and you're talking
Speaker 1: about who uh uh Tyrann Smith? Tyrants? Interesting now that
Speaker 1: play right tackle is for his rookie years. That's just me, um,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't know you want to start
Speaker 1: moving everybody around and and really over overreact to the
Speaker 1: josh ball thing, because until those two plays he struggled
Speaker 1: with he had played decently. I'm not saying great, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying good. But he played. No one knew he
Speaker 1: was in the game in the third quarter, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: and then he got beat and you know he stood
Speaker 1: there and talked and said, I, you know, had bad
Speaker 1: hand placement on one of them, bad set. I was
Speaker 1: a little late. Um. And so there was too critical plays. Um.
Speaker 1: But I just don't know that you kick him to
Speaker 1: the curb because he had only played eleven snaps in
Speaker 1: his NFL career before that game. Uh, you got to
Speaker 1: go back to college when last time he would have
Speaker 1: played a full or I should say snaps of significance.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because now Jason Peters has played eleven snaps
Speaker 1: at right tackle in his career. Right, he was in
Speaker 1: on the last drive of the game, which was an
Speaker 1: eleven play drive. So both that sounds good. Whatever that
Speaker 1: offensive line was, then I like that offensive Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a shared thing with Peters. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 1: know if you want to, but you have to simplify
Speaker 1: it in practice, right this week. You have to figure
Speaker 1: it out as the week begins. That okay, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. And I Peters and ball for this
Speaker 1: game against Jacksonville. I would say it's it's a Peters
Speaker 1: and Ball shared responsibility at right that way, and then
Speaker 1: he got Tyron Smith and Tyler Smith at left tackle,
Speaker 1: you can put it, and then Tyler can move into
Speaker 1: left guard too, and Tyler goes to left guard. If
Speaker 1: indeed there's dead set on putting Tyrn Smith at left tackle, right, yes,
Speaker 1: and then which that's what you want, and then figuring
Speaker 1: out right tackle that's what you That minimizes a lot
Speaker 1: unless they just they Tyrn is even though he hadn't
Speaker 1: played right tackle in eleven years. Um that he says,
Speaker 1: oh I'm comfortable I can go right tackle, then five yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, because otherwise you're thinking if if they do
Speaker 1: the deal with Tyrn at left tackle and then Tyler
Speaker 1: moves inside, now McGovern's your backup center guard, right, So
Speaker 1: is McGovern more valuable at left guard than whoever's sharing
Speaker 1: snaps at right tackle. That's what it's going to come well,
Speaker 1: plus the continuity. Right right now, we're looking at continuity.
Speaker 1: Tyler's more comfortable, he could be more comfortable at left tackle.
Speaker 1: If Tywan says that I'd over here, I'm a pro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can go the right would you like to deal
Speaker 1: run to the right with with and here's what you
Speaker 1: can see Zack Martin and Tyler tyront Tyre and with
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson, and we'll see what his situation is coming
Speaker 1: off the concussion. And you got your Connor McGovern as
Speaker 1: your fullback again and double up and play a tight end.
Speaker 1: Protects that right tackle position where you can probably you
Speaker 1: can put Tyler Tyrant at left tackle, Tyler at left guard,
Speaker 1: and beardist Martin and then Peter's at right tackle and
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern as a ten. Yeah, we got this cover.
Speaker 1: That's a jigsaw puzzle. Now you may not need it
Speaker 1: as much against Jacksonville because they only have twenty three
Speaker 1: sacks on the season, but that might be a formula
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia's pass running. Yes, so they can gosh, they
Speaker 1: almost can experiment with it a little bit. Or you
Speaker 1: put Anthony Rush at fullback. See the three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty pounds coming up the Afridgerator Perry with the touchdown,
Speaker 1: who you could score on the goal line with that
Speaker 1: right so in the way you can't. The guy that
Speaker 1: was playing on tv H was it Sunday night, Monday night?
Speaker 1: The left the tackle for New England. He was like
Speaker 1: six eight cent brown. It was that him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just it was the biggest man.
Speaker 1: He was in the huddle and he was heading shoulders
Speaker 1: over everybody else. It's unbelievable. Well, we are out of time.
Speaker 1: Well we'll continue this now. I don't think we get
Speaker 1: to watch practice today, so we probably won't have a
Speaker 1: clue yet. What they're doing with the oh line shuffle,
Speaker 1: get a son. Practice is right after the coach's press conference.
Speaker 1: They're going with that late schedule again, I think believe so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so at three o'clock is Mike McCarthy's press conferencen't miss
Speaker 1: and he'll have lots of answers. I have all those
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