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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 1: It's another beautiful Thursday morning. The sun is shining. It's
Speaker 1: a great day to have another mix shots with Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, I'm Danny Sarak and although we all are
Speaker 1: all isolated and we're not together, I'm so glad we're
Speaker 1: able to still do this podcast. It's so good to
Speaker 1: see your faces. You know what it feels like we're together.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been getting ready for the show and
Speaker 1: talking for about fifteen twenty minutes, so I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm just across the table from you guys. Everson, I
Speaker 1: feel isolated. I'm in a room by myself. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in a cave. But it's still good to
Speaker 1: see you guys. Well, just the way, we've been able
Speaker 1: to do all of our podcast virtually with the help
Speaker 1: of our engineers and our great, our great staff. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got Chris Beam and Matt Kent helping us out
Speaker 1: with this, the Cowboys coaching staff and scouting department has
Speaker 1: been working closely with the IT department, doing all of
Speaker 1: their interviews and meetings virtually. And last week the NFL
Speaker 1: had announced that this draft is going to be all
Speaker 1: virtual and they're actually going to be doing a mock
Speaker 1: draft to kind of run out some of those kinks
Speaker 1: because as great as technology is, we know that it's
Speaker 1: not always the most reliable. So hopefully those mock drafts
Speaker 1: will be able to help things run more smoothly. Because
Speaker 1: the draft is only one week away from today. You
Speaker 1: know what, God blessed the Internet because if we didn't
Speaker 1: have the Internet, we wouldn't be doing all this stuff
Speaker 1: and there probably wouldn't be a draft that we could see.
Speaker 1: So it's a good thing. Twenty years ago or so,
Speaker 1: this thing got really popular, and that's the way this
Speaker 1: whole thing's gonna work. And you know, as I've been
Speaker 1: telling people, Danny and Everson, that probably the most valuable
Speaker 1: people in this draft will be the IT departments because
Speaker 1: they gotta be perfect. They can't make a mistake. Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you what, the way my draft situation went,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much what they're going to be looking forward
Speaker 1: to I didn't get drafted, so hey, you know, they
Speaker 1: just brought me my contract in my dormitory, you know,
Speaker 1: so this is kind of good. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: almost like a free agent experience. Please guy, But they're
Speaker 1: gonna get paid big money. As much as I love
Speaker 1: seeing that first round and everyone goes up on stage,
Speaker 1: I do love seeing those videos of when the players
Speaker 1: are at their homes and they're surrounded by family and friends.
Speaker 1: Now it'll be a little different. You can't have a
Speaker 1: party of forty fifty people they're celebrating. But I do
Speaker 1: love seeing those videos of when they get the phone
Speaker 1: calls and you're just surrounded by your closest family and friends,
Speaker 1: and it's really intimate, those people who have been there
Speaker 1: with you every step of the way to get getting
Speaker 1: up phone call. Well, guys, that will not What I
Speaker 1: will not miss is looking at all the crazy suits
Speaker 1: that they're going to be having on as they walk
Speaker 1: up to the podium and get their head and they
Speaker 1: meet the commissioner. I will not miss the colors. I
Speaker 1: will not miss the ostrich shoes and loafers that they're
Speaker 1: going to have long. Yeah, you know what they might
Speaker 1: wear the same suits at home. What you think everyone
Speaker 1: will be dressed up at all? And absolutely right, Mamily Sunday,
Speaker 1: Easter Sunday, They're gonna be looking like Easter Sunday and
Speaker 1: they're gonna be all dressed up in the living room.
Speaker 1: You know, guys, this almost reminds me of the first
Speaker 1: draft I sort of took place, or took part in.
Speaker 1: It was back before ESPN and any of the TV
Speaker 1: stations started broadcasting, and there was no radio. It was
Speaker 1: back in nineteen seventy nine. I thought you gonna say
Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen. That's what it sounds up nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Emmerson at Kelen Winslow. I was in Columbia, Missouri, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboy, the Missouri tight end Kelen Winslow, was expected
Speaker 1: to be a first round draft choice. So he invited us,
Speaker 1: the guys that were covering the team, invited us over
Speaker 1: to his apartment to wait for him to get the
Speaker 1: phone call so we could be there, right. So we
Speaker 1: all show up at his apartment and so it's at
Speaker 1: the end of the semester. He had his phone turned off,
Speaker 1: he didn't have any phone service, and he's like, how
Speaker 1: am I going to find out right. So we ended
Speaker 1: up going into the newspaper newsroom and we were watching
Speaker 1: the draft on the APT teletype machine, and you know,
Speaker 1: it would come over that, you know, at number two,
Speaker 1: so and so took somebody. At number three, so and
Speaker 1: so took somebody. And I could see the life was
Speaker 1: draining out of his face because it got into nine
Speaker 1: and ten and he hadn't have been drafted yet, and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, this is starting to get embarrassing, right,
Speaker 1: and then twelve rounds. Then it was seventeen rounds back wow,
Speaker 1: if you can remember, imagine that. So it got to
Speaker 1: the pick number eleven in the first round and it
Speaker 1: comes over the teletype machine, the ap wire machine and
Speaker 1: says San Diego Chargers select Missouri tight end Kellen Winslow.
Speaker 1: And it couldn't have gone to a better place, right,
Speaker 1: remember with uh the offense that they were the air
Speaker 1: Correale and the Chargers. Yeah, and he's thinking, oh man,
Speaker 1: I am a tight end in the slot, right, And
Speaker 1: so he's real calm, and he does the whole interview
Speaker 1: and everything, and we walked outside of the newsroom outdoors
Speaker 1: and he let out the biggest blood curdling yell. You
Speaker 1: ever seen. He was just screaming, celebrating, right, And it
Speaker 1: went from how am I going to find out how
Speaker 1: I get drafted? And we figured it out and that's
Speaker 1: how he found out. Watching it in the Missouri and newsroom,
Speaker 1: It's almost like you guys were dealing with pigeons back then, Maggie.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind that the players
Speaker 1: being drafted probably don't even turn their cell phones off. Ever,
Speaker 1: they just leave them on and they continually charge him.
Speaker 1: So that doesn't worry me. With the Cowboys guys, there
Speaker 1: seems to be news and I'll put that in quotes
Speaker 1: pretty much every week, right, And this week the news
Speaker 1: was about quarterback Dak Prescott, and it wasn't about whether
Speaker 1: or not he's going to sign that franchise tag or
Speaker 1: if he had a new deal. It was reports that
Speaker 1: he had had a large party and had people over
Speaker 1: at his house and that the cops were called to
Speaker 1: break it up, and he made a statement saying that
Speaker 1: that wasn't sure at all that he was following the
Speaker 1: guidelines of having ten or fewer people. They had brought
Speaker 1: food in. There was a picture that was I think
Speaker 1: originally said it was at his house it was a
Speaker 1: table that was set with napkins and everything else you need.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be a picture of the restaurant
Speaker 1: they had ordered from, and it just you gotta think,
Speaker 1: like to other quarterbacks and other teams deal with this
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. If you don't play for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: welcome to be in the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. I gotta
Speaker 1: safe spags that he's been half he's been drawing a
Speaker 1: little bit of attention to himself by having these closed
Speaker 1: door practices with this right, right, have you been seeing
Speaker 1: those Well, yeah, I have seen it. And again I'll
Speaker 1: guarantee you other quarterbacks can be doing this, right, But
Speaker 1: if you're the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, you gotta
Speaker 1: understand the scrutiny you're under. And if you think about it, previously,
Speaker 1: all his scrutiny has been good, right, everything's been great,
Speaker 1: the charity, this this and this. Uh And now suddenly
Speaker 1: I think he's coming in the realization that when you're
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, you don't have a
Speaker 1: personal life anymore. Everything you do is under scrutiny. No
Speaker 1: matter what you do, what you say, I mean, Tua
Speaker 1: is help holding workouts, right, and no one's criticizing him
Speaker 1: because it's interesting, right, But it's the Cowboys quarterback. And
Speaker 1: think about it. Go back to Don Meredith. You know,
Speaker 1: he found it out. Craig Morton found it out. I
Speaker 1: think the only guy that really escaped this and I
Speaker 1: didn't live through it was probably Roger Staubach and he
Speaker 1: was so squeaky clean and they probably couldn't find anything
Speaker 1: about him. Well, you know Rogers, Rogers, Rogers pet Pete was.
Speaker 1: He loved basketball, right, and so he would always participate
Speaker 1: in hoop it up back in the day. And he
Speaker 1: didn't care who he was playing against. It could be
Speaker 1: other football players, it could be brothers from the hood.
Speaker 1: Roger loved basketball. He loved the competition. Now, another quarterback
Speaker 1: that did get into it with their organization, that was Mahomes.
Speaker 1: If you recall after the Super Bowl, he's out there
Speaker 1: showing showing his who game. I think he dunked on
Speaker 1: somebody or was going to the hole. And as soon
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs found out about that, then they gave
Speaker 1: him a call as well. And that was very recent
Speaker 1: and it was like, no more basketball for you, mister Mahomes.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so you know what you could This was
Speaker 1: before you know. I don't know if you were aware
Speaker 1: or not, but the story goes when when Walk Garrison
Speaker 1: first signed with the Cowboys. So we're going back into
Speaker 1: the mid to late sixties. Uh, you know, he was
Speaker 1: he was a rodeo guy. He was a cowboy before
Speaker 1: he became a cowboy. And he was continu inuing to
Speaker 1: participate in rodeos during the season, Like on Saturday night
Speaker 1: he would he would leave the hotel and go perform
Speaker 1: in Mesquite and then come back. And somebody, somebody did
Speaker 1: a story. They say, those were men with men. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's when men were men. That's not these little powder
Speaker 1: puffs to have these days. Somebody somebody did a story
Speaker 1: of it, took a picture, put it in the paper
Speaker 1: and said, hey, how neat is this? The Cowboys are
Speaker 1: letting their player participate in the rodeo and then play
Speaker 1: football the next day. Well Tom Landry found out about it,
Speaker 1: and it was like, Walk, there will be no more
Speaker 1: rodeos than night before day. So can you know what
Speaker 1: the rodeos, I don't know what's tougher the rodeos of
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, which one do you think when
Speaker 1: his life and he was safer. Yeah, he was death
Speaker 1: whist man. This guy like a death whist. That was
Speaker 1: that was crazy. That was crazy. I mean he was roping,
Speaker 1: so he you know, they roped the calfs, jumped off
Speaker 1: the horse and kind of tie them up, right, and
Speaker 1: it's like, are you kidding me? But yeah, that was
Speaker 1: so Anyway, going back to the scrutiny, and if you
Speaker 1: think about it, think about what Tony Romo went through,
Speaker 1: and he understood it that anytime he dated a celebrity,
Speaker 1: you know that people found out. And then he went
Speaker 1: on vacation, right found I mean you got Rodeo and
Speaker 1: you have Cancoom. Okay, right, there's there's there's a big
Speaker 1: difference between that. And we just went off on Romo
Speaker 1: for going to Cancoom. So hopefully for for Dak, you know,
Speaker 1: this doesn't get him to the point where he starts
Speaker 1: closing everybody off and becomes, you know, too self conscious
Speaker 1: of everything he does, even in the locker room, because
Speaker 1: if you think about it, what happened with Romo, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was the best quote ever and then he realized
Speaker 1: I can't say anything either way because people can interpret it.
Speaker 1: However they want so he said a lot and said nothing,
Speaker 1: and that was unfortunate, and you hope that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: the dak with it now now he talks a lot. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: and he's getting paid a lot, so talking about making
Speaker 1: up for it. I think. Earlier this week Tom Pessera
Speaker 1: with NFL Network had announced that the NFL and the
Speaker 1: NFLPA they're figuring out ways to do a virtual period
Speaker 1: for the off season starting Monday, April twentieth. So facilities
Speaker 1: won't be open, but this is going to a lot
Speaker 1: of clubs to start having meetings and going over plays
Speaker 1: and schemes. And that's going to be really important because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a new coaching staff and so they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of things they need to work through
Speaker 1: and they no longer have that advantage of having extra
Speaker 1: time in this off season program compared to teams that
Speaker 1: didn't get a coaching staff over overhaul. And so, Mickey,
Speaker 1: what do you think is going to happen with Prescott
Speaker 1: bring in terms of if he's going to sign this
Speaker 1: franchise tag and if he's going to be logged in
Speaker 1: on those virtual meetings? Yeah, you know what think about this?
Speaker 1: You don't have to leave your house right you can
Speaker 1: sit like we're sitting right now and turn on your
Speaker 1: screen and be there as the meeting's going on. I
Speaker 1: don't know how valuable those type of things will be.
Speaker 1: I'll let Everson kind of speak to that, But all
Speaker 1: I'm thinking is they're going to pay you somewhere around
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty three hundred dollars a day to
Speaker 1: sit there like we're sitting here right now, and you
Speaker 1: don't have to do anything physical. I mean, I understand, okay,
Speaker 1: I need some leverage, and if I don't do this,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll sign me to what I want. But is
Speaker 1: it that valuable you think Everson to participate in those things.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on where you are in your career.
Speaker 1: You know. If you're talking about Dak, No, it's not
Speaker 1: valuable at all, you know. I think I look at
Speaker 1: this something where you know he understands the game very well.
Speaker 1: We all know that you just passed some more yards
Speaker 1: than anybody last year. You know. I don't think taking
Speaker 1: in a new system virtually, no, I don't think that
Speaker 1: that will affect him at all. Now, if you've got
Speaker 1: some quarterbacks that are trying to learn a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of new things. They hadn't had a good year, They're
Speaker 1: coming to a new team. Yeah, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're you're looking at it as a very inconvenience. I
Speaker 1: would say, but for Dad, No, I wouldn't think they
Speaker 1: would make a difference for him at all. And I
Speaker 1: got away Danny. He could turn this into a positive.
Speaker 1: So he could say, Okay, I'm gonna do this, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my perdam and I'm gonna go buy
Speaker 1: lunches for the nurses and Baylor, Scott and White, and
Speaker 1: he could be a hero. Right instead of causing us
Speaker 1: think and say no, I'm not taking part in those things,
Speaker 1: he could actually turn the thing on without even showing
Speaker 1: himself on the screen and listen, right, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: going to sing. When I work with you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do good. Scott. Well, ever since I have to
Speaker 1: say I think I disagree with you about it won't
Speaker 1: be valuable because I mean, Dak is still working with
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, he's working with Doug nus Meyer, who's not
Speaker 1: gonna be the quarterbacks coach who was working with the
Speaker 1: tight end. So he has some familiarity there, but this
Speaker 1: is still otherwise a new coaching staff and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: and dealing with a lot of different, different, little subtle
Speaker 1: things in the game. And I do think that this
Speaker 1: will be valuable. I think this the meetings and kind
Speaker 1: of showing his face and all of that stuff. I
Speaker 1: think this will be valuable for him if he is
Speaker 1: on those calls. I understand the leverage of if this
Speaker 1: role happening in person, he wouldn't be there more, you know,
Speaker 1: because he hasn't signed that tag. And but if you're
Speaker 1: not having to leave your house and you're just logging
Speaker 1: in and you're trying to you know, the meetings are
Speaker 1: what's important for him to make sure that everyone is
Speaker 1: on the same page. Assuming the season starts, it's on time.
Speaker 1: So I think it would be valuable for him to
Speaker 1: show his faith in those I think that takes the
Speaker 1: value away just a little bit. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to have a season this fall, and so there's
Speaker 1: no urgency in this regard the fact that everything is changing,
Speaker 1: the fact that he has to do this all virtual. Well,
Speaker 1: that also the same reason that I think the season
Speaker 1: is going to be in jeopardy because of everything that
Speaker 1: we're dealing with. If they were coming up for the fall,
Speaker 1: you might be right, you might have a case, Danny,
Speaker 1: But I think that everything is going to be pushed
Speaker 1: back to where eventually they're going to have the meetings
Speaker 1: that they need to have before this season even starts.
Speaker 1: But at this point, at this point, I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's that important. You know. I think I kind
Speaker 1: of agree with sort of with both of you. I
Speaker 1: think it would help to be a part because they're
Speaker 1: going to probably be putting in some new stuff, But
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to help to the point
Speaker 1: that if he's not there, it's going to create leverage
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are gonna go, Okay, yeah, whatever you want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna sign you to this because we want you
Speaker 1: to be part of these meetings. He's not going to
Speaker 1: gain any leverage by doing it. All he's getting himself
Speaker 1: is some poor publicity about the whole thing. Well, we've
Speaker 1: got a lot more to talk about still. The draft
Speaker 1: is only one week away from today, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about those players. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: back in time too. We're gonna talk about someone on
Speaker 1: this podcast with his draft and it's not Mickey, So
Speaker 1: stay dude, we'll have more for you right after the break.
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Speaker 1: Star and Danny Everson. This isn't quite a read, but
Speaker 1: I just wanted to tease the story feature story that
Speaker 1: I'm going to have up today on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 1: It's taking a look back at the nineteen ninety draft
Speaker 1: thirty years ago, and it will be thirty years ago
Speaker 1: next this coming Wednesday, when the Cowboys made the decision
Speaker 1: to draft Emmett Smith, and everybody thinks, oh, look what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did at number seventeen, they got Emmett Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a backstory there that I think everybody that's not
Speaker 1: familiar with that draft will be surprised on how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys basically tried to do everything they could to not
Speaker 1: draft Emmett Smith, and in the end they said, ah,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just take this running back from
Speaker 1: the University of Florida, So pay attention. I think it's
Speaker 1: a pretty interesting also. Kind of after that draft thirty
Speaker 1: years ago, Everson Walls made a big decision. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: basically told him that they weren't having him back. I'll
Speaker 1: let him explain that story. It was nineteen ninety and Everson,
Speaker 1: you had a bunch of teams interested in you, and
Speaker 1: you took a while before you made the decision on
Speaker 1: where you were going to sign and continue your career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was thirty years ago. Wow, that's great. I think
Speaker 1: my head was great even then. But now I recall
Speaker 1: a couple of teams. That was the Seahawks. The Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks wanted me badly. That's when Tom Floyd's was the
Speaker 1: GM there, of course, of the former Great Raiders coach,
Speaker 1: and he had moved up to Seattle change teams and
Speaker 1: he had the GM job up there. And I had
Speaker 1: never worked I never worked out on Sam and the
Speaker 1: base turf as that was the weirdest workout I've ever had.
Speaker 1: The turf itself was sand based and it had lumps
Speaker 1: in it. You know, it wasn't even it had lumps
Speaker 1: in like like it was natural grass or something. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself only in Seattle can you have
Speaker 1: sand based turf. I don't think any other team ever
Speaker 1: had that. I went up there and worked out. Tom
Speaker 1: wanted me bad. I knew at that time I knew
Speaker 1: where I was going. I acted like I didn't know
Speaker 1: where I was going, but I knew exactly where I
Speaker 1: was going. I was not going to go to Seattle.
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew where my plans were. I had
Speaker 1: to play behind that front seven they had in New York.
Speaker 1: There's no way I was and I'm pretty sure I
Speaker 1: made it right decision. So I noticed before deleting up
Speaker 1: to the draft, when I was researching the image story
Speaker 1: that we were writing about you and the decisions you
Speaker 1: had to make, and it looked like the Giants or
Speaker 1: the Seahawks wanted you to decide before the draft so
Speaker 1: they could alter their draft accordingly. And then at the
Speaker 1: last minute I think I read or I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was accurate, and you could tell us now
Speaker 1: that the Rams kind of got a little bit interested
Speaker 1: in you, but you didn't make your decision until after
Speaker 1: the draft, when the Giant listened. I was a free
Speaker 1: agent right, Not only that I was, I was not.
Speaker 1: I was never even out of high school. I was
Speaker 1: never held it. That was my time to take my
Speaker 1: recruiting trips. Okay, that's all that was. I wanted to
Speaker 1: go fly, man, I want to go to Seattle. I've
Speaker 1: never been to Seattle. Seattle. Then they it's free to
Speaker 1: they taking me to New York. Come on, man, the
Speaker 1: big apple. I wanted to go there and have a
Speaker 1: good time. Man. I knew exactly what I was gonna
Speaker 1: do from day one. I just wanted to milk it.
Speaker 1: That's all. I just wanted to milk it. Well you did,
Speaker 1: because I think you stretched it out. I think the
Speaker 1: draft that's twenty second and he signed on the twenty
Speaker 1: eighth or something like that. So was your contact with
Speaker 1: the Giants? Was it right with Bill Parcels or did who? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I called Bill myself. I called Bill. I called Bill,
Speaker 1: and it's so funny he answered the phone. There was
Speaker 1: no secretary. I probably called at the perfect time. And
Speaker 1: you know, you have to put on the air of confidence.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if Bill wanted me to not,
Speaker 1: but I acted as if I was, you know, hot stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. So we're on the phone and I'm not
Speaker 1: calling them Coach Parcel. I was like, hey, Bill, it's
Speaker 1: everything you know, So you know, I tried to be
Speaker 1: are and player at the same time. It worked out
Speaker 1: pretty good. So you didn't have your hair is not
Speaker 1: gray and those pictures. Oh you got a little real close, Danny,
Speaker 1: you got a little real close. My just the man
Speaker 1: wasn't even invented yet, I don't think. So. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was tough. And then the bottom line on that decision
Speaker 1: is Everson goes on to win a Super Bowl that
Speaker 1: year with the Giants. So good decision, right, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Seattle was no whether to be found in the playoffs
Speaker 1: that year, So yeah, I think I made a good decision.
Speaker 1: And Mickey, when you were covering the Cowboys, there was
Speaker 1: some mornings that broth that same week. Yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: Everson probably remember this. Um the Cowboys were gonna move
Speaker 1: on from Ed to Tall Jones too. He had played
Speaker 1: his fifteenth season in eighty nine, which at that time
Speaker 1: was the career record until it was tied by Bill
Speaker 1: Bates and Mark two and a and then broken by
Speaker 1: Witton and Ed and Ed knew that Cowboys were moving on.
Speaker 1: He had played eighty nine with Jimmy and towards the
Speaker 1: end of the season. If you remember this, Everson, they
Speaker 1: were going to transition that spot to Tony Tolbert and
Speaker 1: they were gonna start Tony Tolbert, and the media made
Speaker 1: a big deal about ending Ed's consecutive streak of starting games,
Speaker 1: and Jimmy basically said, okay, I'll start him. And then
Speaker 1: after the first quarter, Tolbert's going in, right, so he
Speaker 1: knew it was done, and he basically said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm leaving and and and Ed. You know, he was
Speaker 1: thirty nine at that time, and basically said, you know,
Speaker 1: the coach said he's going with younger players, they're transitioning,
Speaker 1: they're not going to keep me around. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna be back with the Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: he made that announcement and then eventually retired that year.
Speaker 1: But that was a long career. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would replace Ed. You know,
Speaker 1: like last game of the season. I know, I know
Speaker 1: one of fifteen who cares if Tony Tolbit starts the
Speaker 1: last game of a one in fifteen season. You know,
Speaker 1: as I looked back when Jones bought the team, that
Speaker 1: was kind of like a COVID nineteen moment as well.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of changes came in, Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of changes. So yeah, I looked at that as
Speaker 1: you know, one of those moments to where it changed everything.
Speaker 1: We were so accustomed to Tom Landry, you know, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here comes these these jay boys
Speaker 1: as you guys call them at the time. That it
Speaker 1: was almost a COVID nineteen moment right there, because everything
Speaker 1: changed after that. They came sweeping through like a plague.
Speaker 1: But I guess it was a good plague. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you're absolutely right. And then you know ed
Speaker 1: those three guys held that record till this past season
Speaker 1: when Jason Witten ended up playing a sixteenth season for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and now it looks like he's gonna end
Speaker 1: up with the Raiders. What did you think about it, Everson,
Speaker 1: that you know, a guy that's played that long, thirty
Speaker 1: seven years old, but he still wants to get another
Speaker 1: year in. You know, I could relate, Trust me, I
Speaker 1: could relate. It took me a while to just kind
Speaker 1: of realize, you know what, this is not good for me.
Speaker 1: It's not good for my my my ego. I'm up
Speaker 1: here trying to work out for all these different teams
Speaker 1: I've got, seemed like the guys were younger than me
Speaker 1: that was that were evaluating me, And I don't think
Speaker 1: that any of them really remembered who I was. It
Speaker 1: was kind of degrading actually to go through that process.
Speaker 1: So we still put ourselves through it as older players
Speaker 1: simply because you know, that's all we're accustomed to, and
Speaker 1: so you think, maybe I can just give it one
Speaker 1: last try, and it's no different. I was no different.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't take long at that age to realize,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is a bad idea. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I thought it was interesting. This week
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock the Raiders GM, I guess he was asked,
Speaker 1: why why do you want a thirty seven year old
Speaker 1: tight end who's going to be playing a seventeenth season
Speaker 1: when you have a really good tight end in a
Speaker 1: nice tight end room. What do you do and what
Speaker 1: are you thinking about? And he basically said that bringing
Speaker 1: in a guy like Jason Wooden helps the room because
Speaker 1: now these guys can listen to somebody that knows how
Speaker 1: to do it, that's done it, and if nothing else,
Speaker 1: the leadership he brings will help us out and the
Speaker 1: other thing had occurred to me with Whitton this week
Speaker 1: was that when you looked at his numbers in the decade, boy,
Speaker 1: he put up some pretty big numbers, even though he
Speaker 1: missed the twenty eighteen season, and yes, he only had
Speaker 1: the two one thousand yard season, But I thought he
Speaker 1: could have made a point for him to be placed
Speaker 1: on that All Decade team as the other tight end
Speaker 1: with Gronkowski. But Travis Kelsey had won that one, you know.
Speaker 1: And I know he didn't play as many games but
Speaker 1: as Wit, but Whitten had more catches, more yards, the
Speaker 1: same amount of Pro Bowls, and I thought you could
Speaker 1: have made an argument there for Witten to be placed
Speaker 1: on that All Decade team. I think it's just those
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rings that he's missing, and that was probably
Speaker 1: what kept him off the list. And Kelsey, yeah, daddy,
Speaker 1: And you know, winning the Super Bowl probably helped him
Speaker 1: get the notoriety to say, oh, yeah, okay, guy, he's
Speaker 1: played five six years this decade, he's the All decade
Speaker 1: tight end. Yeah, it'll definitely be interesting to see Witten's role.
Speaker 1: You're right, I think that leadership is probably one of
Speaker 1: his bigger qualities at this point in his career. Everything
Speaker 1: that he does for his teammates and those around him
Speaker 1: off the field, and I still think it'll be exciting
Speaker 1: to watch him play. I mean, Cowboys fans who have
Speaker 1: known him and loved him and watched him for seventeen
Speaker 1: years and all he's been through, you want him to
Speaker 1: be successful. It's kind of sad to see a player
Speaker 1: like that. He's going to be in a different jersey
Speaker 1: and it's going to be different, but you still want
Speaker 1: to see him have success. And it's even going to
Speaker 1: be crazy because the Raiders move in to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: They haven't even finished their stadium, so now you think
Speaker 1: it's thirty seven years old, him and every other player
Speaker 1: are going to have to be probably assuming there's a season,
Speaker 1: traveling every weekend, because it came out this week that
Speaker 1: they're having a like a contingency plan where they would
Speaker 1: play games in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and San Diego
Speaker 1: since their stadium isn't finished. That's a lot of travel
Speaker 1: and play for someone who is thirty seven years old.
Speaker 1: Changing I kind of kind I kind of lost you
Speaker 1: guys there for a minute. But here's one thing that
Speaker 1: I wish could have had it. If I could turn
Speaker 1: back the clock. I would turn it back to a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when Witten was in the booth.
Speaker 1: I thought that he still would have had more in
Speaker 1: the tank than he had last year, and having him
Speaker 1: on that team that experienced that resurgence with Cooper coming in,
Speaker 1: I really wish we would have had Whitten at the
Speaker 1: time that year. I don't think Whitten or anyone else
Speaker 1: could anticipate the difference that Cooper would make for that team.
Speaker 1: I think Whitten thought, you know what, this team is
Speaker 1: going to go as far as they can go. I
Speaker 1: think I need to start looking forward to a life
Speaker 1: after football. That's what he was thinking at that time.
Speaker 1: I really wish he could have been with that team
Speaker 1: when we made that turnaround during mid season. Uh possibly
Speaker 1: could have gone on even further, could have beaten the Rams,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe even position ourselves even better for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and maybe it wouldn't even have had to play in
Speaker 1: the wild card. Around that years, I always wonder what
Speaker 1: would have happened if he would have stuck with us
Speaker 1: for that one particular season. You know, that's a good
Speaker 1: point because if you think about and even though the
Speaker 1: Rams offense ran right over the Cowboys defense, the margin
Speaker 1: between winning and losing that game wasn't really that great.
Speaker 1: There was a couple critical calls in that game, uh
Speaker 1: term that we started that in the grasp, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and that that BS call and hands to the face
Speaker 1: on Byron Jones. Cowboys were going to get off the field,
Speaker 1: and then two plays later Girly goes thirty some yards
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and they ended up losing by what
Speaker 1: eight points? Eight points points? And that's a good point
Speaker 1: that a guy like Witten on that team could have
Speaker 1: made a significant difference, especially at the tight end position,
Speaker 1: especially at that two minute drive. You know we're coming down.
Speaker 1: This is when when Dad loves to look for Witten
Speaker 1: in that particular time. We make jokes about you know,
Speaker 1: Witten's yak so to speak. They say, I might have that,
Speaker 1: he might have a negative yak in an entire career,
Speaker 1: but he moves the chains and that's something that we
Speaker 1: needed on that final drive we were down by eight points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you always wonder what could have been. Right, Well, we've
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Speaker 1: is just one week away and what's been fun to
Speaker 1: see on Twitter. I don't know if you guys have
Speaker 1: seen this. A lot of NFL players have been trying
Speaker 1: to see which state has produced the best football players,
Speaker 1: and of course it was pretty much all buy Texas, right,
Speaker 1: But you've got players saying Florida, where Mark Cooper, You've
Speaker 1: got Georgia and all these players are trying to see
Speaker 1: but we know that it's Texas. And there's actually a
Speaker 1: handful of local players in this draft who who've really
Speaker 1: made a name for themselves. And Mickey, I know you've
Speaker 1: been looking at one from Dosto a wide receiver out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lo Viscus Channel wide receiver University of Colorado. He played
Speaker 1: his high school ball at Dosto High, won a state
Speaker 1: championship there with him in twenty sixteen, and played three
Speaker 1: years at Colorado. And he's a kind of a guy
Speaker 1: that maybe fell off the screen just a little bit.
Speaker 1: This year, his software year at Colorado, he led the
Speaker 1: nation in yards per game receiving yards per game, and
Speaker 1: one draft guru described him as maybe the best athlete
Speaker 1: in the draft. He's six one two twenty two and
Speaker 1: he's played all three wide receiver positions at the University
Speaker 1: of Colorado. So he's a guy that you know, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not recognized in that class with the Judy's
Speaker 1: and rug and CD Lamb, but he could be a
Speaker 1: pretty productive wide receiver. And one thing I thought was
Speaker 1: interesting ever since when he went to the combine, he
Speaker 1: only ran like a four or five eight, but he
Speaker 1: needed a core muscle surgery, so he kind of powered
Speaker 1: through it anyway and just at least ran the forty.
Speaker 1: And he's probably faster than that he's had the surgery,
Speaker 1: and maybe teams will not value him as highly as
Speaker 1: maybe he should be. And so if the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: looking for a wide receiver, maybe second round, early third
Speaker 1: might keep an eye on this local kid, because he's
Speaker 1: one heck of an athlete. You know, one thing you
Speaker 1: you want to stereotype some guys in regards to size
Speaker 1: and even speed. I think more than anything, we need
Speaker 1: a slot receiver. I think we need that third down receiver.
Speaker 1: I think jar One's gonna be big for us some
Speaker 1: third downs this year, just as Witting it always has been,
Speaker 1: but Jarding with a little bit more mobility, putting a
Speaker 1: big receiver sixth one, that's a big receiver to be
Speaker 1: in the slot as far as I'm concerned, not just
Speaker 1: six one, but he's over two hundred and twenty plus pounds.
Speaker 1: That would be kind of difficult to see me watching
Speaker 1: him in the slot. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe he's got
Speaker 1: the quickness to do it. Obviously, you talked about him
Speaker 1: playing all three positions, but I'd be very curious to
Speaker 1: see just how effective he would be in the slot
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. You know, one of the things
Speaker 1: Danny Andrrison that I noticed about him is he's one
Speaker 1: of those kind of jack of all trade receivers, like
Speaker 1: you can handle the ball. You could snap him to
Speaker 1: him if you if you wanted to do that. And
Speaker 1: he's a recruit. Who's the stud for the Titans. Who's
Speaker 1: that stud for the Titans? You're talking about him being
Speaker 1: like the uh, the wide receiver for the Titans that
Speaker 1: did so well this year. I think he was a
Speaker 1: rookie oh um. I mean he just took over uh
Speaker 1: in the in the postseason and showed just at the
Speaker 1: end of the season and postseason, he showed just how
Speaker 1: good he was. Uh. And he is. He's not necessarily
Speaker 1: as tall, but my goodness, he is a load to
Speaker 1: bring down very athletic, and I'm wondering if they would
Speaker 1: probably use this young man, if the Cowboys would use
Speaker 1: this young man the way the Titans use uh, their
Speaker 1: young stud in the same manner. Yeah, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of a neat story that the guy, you know, he
Speaker 1: kind of probably could have played in the state of Texas,
Speaker 1: but ended up going to Colorado and uh and had
Speaker 1: a really nice career though. So yeah, keep it, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on him. Uh. He's just one of these
Speaker 1: guys that can do a lot of things for you.
Speaker 1: And you're right, ever since he's he's a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1: But again, a lot of times those slot receivers are
Speaker 1: a little bit smaller, and the loss of all right,
Speaker 1: I meant to say, the defensive backs in the slot
Speaker 1: are usually a little Yes they are, Yes they are,
Speaker 1: And that's a little titbit. That's why Belichick loved big
Speaker 1: defensive backs. And he doesn't care who you were, what
Speaker 1: position you were a customer playing if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a physical defensive back, he liked a lot of size. Therefore,
Speaker 1: we had Perry Williams, who was just as tall as
Speaker 1: I was, maybe taller and bigger, playing at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: It depends on who you play and what their system is,
Speaker 1: but some of them like to be physical on that
Speaker 1: slot receiver because he's so prevalent on third downs and
Speaker 1: that slot position is wide open needs to be filled.
Speaker 1: You have some some receivers from last year, Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: and Davin Smith, and you could try rotate around, but
Speaker 1: the loss of Randal codfree agency has really put that
Speaker 1: as an offensive spot that people are looking at. How
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to draft. And there's a ton
Speaker 1: of depth in the receiver position this draft class, I
Speaker 1: mean it is loaded. But when you look at those
Speaker 1: top names that are going to go early Seedee Lamb
Speaker 1: for the receivers. And what's interesting is, I know, Mickey,
Speaker 1: you found some research about a cool connection for who
Speaker 1: are going to be three top draft picks with safety
Speaker 1: Grant Delpit out of LSU Ceedee Lamb the receiver out
Speaker 1: of Oklahoma, and Kenneth Murray, the linebacker who we talked
Speaker 1: about last week without really amazing virtual interview with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and you found a connection for all three of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, guys, because I was reading a story
Speaker 1: about the Delpit family from New Orleans and they ended
Speaker 1: up leaving New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and evacuated to
Speaker 1: the city of Houston. And he was Grant, the safety,
Speaker 1: was like six seven, eight years old, somewhere in there,
Speaker 1: probably about six or seven, and when they moved, and
Speaker 1: he ended up as a junior, as a junior high
Speaker 1: player playing for this youth team. Well on the youth
Speaker 1: team along with Grant delpot is Ceedee Lamb, And I
Speaker 1: didn't realize Ceedee Lamb also his family was from New
Speaker 1: Orleans and they evacuated and ended up in Houston, and
Speaker 1: these two guys ended up on that same youth team
Speaker 1: along with as Danny said, Kenneth Murray, who was from
Speaker 1: there in the first place, the linebacker. So these three
Speaker 1: guys are playing on the same youth team. You think
Speaker 1: they ever got beat? I just think it's incredible that
Speaker 1: back when your junior high age, what like twelve, thirteen, eleven, uh,
Speaker 1: these three guys are playing on a team, and now
Speaker 1: all these years later, here they are, all three of
Speaker 1: them probably be first round draft choices. It was a story.
Speaker 1: So do we get to do we get to put
Speaker 1: them in the Texas category or the Louisiana category. That's
Speaker 1: that's all that's important. Yeah, that's a good question. Can
Speaker 1: we claim them in Texas or dude, does Louisiana still
Speaker 1: have They were in high school though with Katrina, No,
Speaker 1: they were like five six years old. That was fifty
Speaker 1: I would say Texas. Yes, I'm with you, Danny. I
Speaker 1: would say if basically before eight years old, let's let's
Speaker 1: just say it like that, eight years old, but you
Speaker 1: don't have to show your birth certificate, we'll claim them
Speaker 1: for Texas. Uh. Those guys that a bunch of other guys,
Speaker 1: their lives were going to change forever in one week
Speaker 1: from today with the NFL Draft, the first of those
Speaker 1: virtual rounds. And I want to ask you guys, because
Speaker 1: I think you could argue. I think the argument comes
Speaker 1: down to two positions. For my question of the season
Speaker 1: were to start today, when you look at the players,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have, what is the greatest position of need?
Speaker 1: And I want to hear what you guys think, because
Speaker 1: as fun as it would be to draft one of
Speaker 1: these amazing receivers with pick seventeen, the Cowboys first round
Speaker 1: draft pick, I think it comes down to whether or
Speaker 1: not the Cowboys are going to draft a pass rusher
Speaker 1: on the right side of that defensive line after losing
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn to free agency, or are they going to
Speaker 1: look more at the defensive back position and go for
Speaker 1: a cornerback. So, if the season were to start today,
Speaker 1: what is the biggest area of need for this Cowboys team? Everson?
Speaker 1: I'll let you go first because I wrote about this
Speaker 1: last Friday on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and my suggestion was,
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys look at where you go, you look
Speaker 1: at the position. What position scares you the most, meaning
Speaker 1: not scares the other team? Scares you? On what I
Speaker 1: have if I have to play tomorrow. What do I
Speaker 1: absolutely need if I have to play tomorrow. So I'll
Speaker 1: give the floor to you first. I would look at
Speaker 1: the entire middle of the Cowboys defensive formation. I still
Speaker 1: think even though we just signed a couple of big studs,
Speaker 1: the verdict is still out on them. As far as
Speaker 1: McCoy and the other young man that we just signed, Carolina, Yes,
Speaker 1: and so when you look at those guys, I still
Speaker 1: think that our nose guard tackle position needs to be
Speaker 1: showed up because we got shredded last year. And then
Speaker 1: when you look at the other position. You're looking at
Speaker 1: the linebacker position. Yes, we've got a lot of linebackers,
Speaker 1: got Sean Lee coming back. I understand that, but I
Speaker 1: think we need that linebacker that can completely control the
Speaker 1: middle of our defense, and I know we think we
Speaker 1: have that right now. Van Dersh. I'm still very concerned
Speaker 1: about him just his health period. Forget being a ball player,
Speaker 1: but that surgery. You just worry about that whole neck
Speaker 1: thing that he's going to deal with. So I think
Speaker 1: a good linebacker that can close those creases that were
Speaker 1: left last year when you look at the Vikings game
Speaker 1: and pretty much every game after Thanksgiving to where we
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop anybody. As far as the Rumber's concern,
Speaker 1: and of course the free safety position, yes we have
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix and I really want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about that last week's bags about how this is an
Speaker 1: important acquisition for us. You've got a guy with a
Speaker 1: lot of experience back that they could play either deep
Speaker 1: or I think he could even play up at the
Speaker 1: strong safety position. So to have the luxury of him
Speaker 1: being there is great. But also maybe happy to draft
Speaker 1: a Dell Pit someone of that nature that is that
Speaker 1: can control a ball game. From ten yards deep in
Speaker 1: the secondary. So I'm looking down the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: down the middle of our alignment, defensive tackle, inside linebacker,
Speaker 1: as well as free safety. You sound like you sound
Speaker 1: like a baseball manager. You've got to be strong up
Speaker 1: the middle, right, So you know, if these so, if
Speaker 1: these interviews that they're doing with the potential draft choices
Speaker 1: mean anything. One of the guys that they interviewed over
Speaker 1: the last week or so was ray Kwon Davis, the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle from the University of Alabama, six six, three
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven pounds and he's probably a three technique,
Speaker 1: So Everson, they're obviously thinking that way too. His last
Speaker 1: this past season wasn't as good as his previous two seasons,
Speaker 1: but boy, he's a load in the middle. To me, Uh,
Speaker 1: the position that scares me right now, I think I
Speaker 1: can play at corner back. I probably need another guy,
Speaker 1: But if I had to play tomorrow, I could start
Speaker 1: Chitubey Oloosey, Anthony Brown and Jordan Lewis and those would
Speaker 1: be my three guys, and I think I could get
Speaker 1: by the position that scares me is the defensive end
Speaker 1: spot on the right side, because I don't know that
Speaker 1: they have somebody, you know, everybody will say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they got Randy Gregory, they might have Alden Smith. Well
Speaker 1: it's might on both of those guys. So if you
Speaker 1: had to start tomorrow, who coming off with two hip surgeries?
Speaker 1: How much are you going to get out of him?
Speaker 1: Is he? On Twitter? He said he is, he is ready.
Speaker 1: So if it must, and I agree with you, Mickey,
Speaker 1: and that is the biggest need first and second down,
Speaker 1: that's fine, But who's the pass rusher? Because after that,
Speaker 1: and if you count the four guys that they have
Speaker 1: that we're on the team last year that are still
Speaker 1: there that potentially could play there, those four guys total
Speaker 1: two sacks last year and one of them was Crawfords
Speaker 1: and he only played I believe it was seven nine
Speaker 1: games something like that before they finally said, yeah, he
Speaker 1: probably needs surgery. So to me that that spot there
Speaker 1: is vacant, I can get by with some of this
Speaker 1: other stuff, and at safety I can get by with haha,
Speaker 1: Clinton Dixon and you're right every since I think he
Speaker 1: can play either one. And I'm not sure that they're
Speaker 1: disappointed in what what Woods is DoD Xavier Woods is
Speaker 1: doing it free safety. So maybe Dix plays in the slot,
Speaker 1: I mean down low and as the strong safety, and
Speaker 1: I could get by with that. But from the future, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got positions that they don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: depth that that they're gonna need some help. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the defensive tackle, the nose tackle. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: sure post contracts gonna it says two years by it.
Speaker 1: Bet it's one year. If you look at Gerald McCoy's contract,
Speaker 1: they can get out of it after one year for
Speaker 1: not much dead money. Uh. But yeah, that defensive end spot.
Speaker 1: I just can't hit sitting here to remember. I want
Speaker 1: you guys to remember. I want you to remember these names.
Speaker 1: I want to Cook. I want to remember Cook for Minnesota. Okay.
Speaker 1: I want you I want you to remember anyone that
Speaker 1: had the ball in their hands in Buffalo, Okay. I
Speaker 1: want you to remember all of those games where we're like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on? We can't stop anybody,
Speaker 1: so forget passing the ball. I get it. It'd be
Speaker 1: nice if we could force them into a third and all,
Speaker 1: but we never could because we were always giving up
Speaker 1: chunks of yardage on first and ten. So that's why
Speaker 1: I agree with Mickey. You need someone need that pass
Speaker 1: rush opposite of DeMarcus Lawrence, so that you're forcing them
Speaker 1: to quickly throw the ball. And I agree with Mickey.
Speaker 1: I think if the season where to start today, you
Speaker 1: are confident enough and the starters that you would have
Speaker 1: at Danny. Cowboys are still going to draft a handful
Speaker 1: of defensive backs in this draft, because there's a pretty
Speaker 1: good number of them, some really skilled players. But I
Speaker 1: think right now the biggest need is filling that gap,
Speaker 1: the unknown on the right side of that defensive line.
Speaker 1: Well just remember, just remember, Danny. The dartboards behind me,
Speaker 1: still right. So all these positions we took, we talked
Speaker 1: about cornerback, safety, defensive tackle, defensive van, wide receiver. If
Speaker 1: you threw it at the dartboard at the position, whatever
Speaker 1: you hit, I don't think we could say they're wrong.
Speaker 1: They can use that position. Maybe that'll be what we
Speaker 1: do next week before the draft starts, will have all
Speaker 1: the positions on the dartboard and Mickey will just throw
Speaker 1: the darts and wherever they land, that's who the Cowboys pick.
Speaker 1: I think that would make their job money. Yes, I
Speaker 1: have no wonder. Let's have mixtand they're front of the
Speaker 1: dot board. Oh my gosh, it'll give news, it'll give
Speaker 1: it'll give new meeting to mix shots. Right Ah, there
Speaker 1: you go, jallasbags. Nice. It is always so much fun
Speaker 1: talking with you. I miss seeing you, but this is
Speaker 1: a great second. We hope you guys have enjoyed mix
Speaker 1: shots as much as we do hanging out and talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys football. That'll be it for us today. But stay
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Speaker 1: eleven the Draft show. With one week away, there are
Speaker 1: so much still that they have to talk about it,
Speaker 1: and it'll get you ready for all the different possibilities
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could be making in just seven short days.
Speaker 1: For Mickey Spagnolan, Everson Walls, I'm Danny Serek. Thank you
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