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hunkered down inside the SWBC Mortgage studios. How do you get such privileges, Mickey, I don't need essential. Yeah, I'm essential, right, Thank you very much. I don't know that it's a privilege. It's sort of a necessity to be here for some of the work. But I can tell you this, there ain't too many people up there. We're in our department coming in on Tuesday. By the way, I think there's two. I think there's two of us up there. Let's just be real. Bill Spags is having problems at home. Yeah,

that's okay. We've got you. We got your bag, buddy. Ever right under the bus right off the shop. Well, but more specifically on that. As far as NFL essential personnel, this has been going on for a few weeks now.

They can't be on at team facilities here on Monday or Tuesday day, and so Mickey happens to be in another The Star in Frisco is so large that Mickey can be in a non essential wing of the Star and that's why he can be on the premises, right, Mickey, do you realize I can't even remember the last time I was on the other side of the building. It

might have been middle of January something like that. I believe that because after that we had, you know, no reason to be over there, and then you know, with a little bit of time off and then there, I mean, we just didn't go. I think the last time they did a deal with the assistant coaches, and I think that was maybe been the last time anybody has been over there, because then February hit and there was no reason to be over there, and then by the middle

of March that that was it. It was closed down. And yeah, I'm gonna go through a whole season without seeing three quarters of the players on this team or meeting them. If you can think about that, I know that, I know Mickey. That is the most important thing. Everyone's wondering about whether Mickey Spagnola has access to the team. But there's a lesser important aspect of that as well. And I was talking with Mike last week. We were taping the Mike McCarthy Show on Wednesday. We normally would

do it Tuesday. Of course, Cowboys played on Tuesday, and we normally tape his show on Tuesday, while we've switched it to Wednesday now because he can't be at a facility on Tuesdays during a normal work week like this one is. But I asked, And last week they were using the television studio to tape a Salvation Army segment, and so I was actually in the press conference room right there in the eighth my segment of the show, virtually with McCarthy over in the coaches wing, the player's wing,

uh the football operations wing. And so I asked, I asked McCarthy, I said, have you even been to this side of the building? And he do you even know where the press conference room is? And he doesn't even know where it is. He has not been to the press conference room because of course, the pandemic hit in March and the Cowboys offseason didn't start until um, you know, and it was virtually when it did start in April. And you know, his opening press conference was done at

Ford Center at the Star. He has no idea where even the press conference room is at the Star in Frisco. That's how crazy this year is. So you tape his show, you guys aren't together, No, but I'm in this. I'm in the TV studio and he is where he does normally does his press conference, which is adjacent to his office there on the and the operations wing inside Ford Center because they're supposed to be coming over to this side because we aren't the testing, right, we can't can't

have any exposure to us. That's right, you guys. You guys are just uh. It's not nothing to do with the Corona. You guys are just play. That's what it is. If if they could have done this years ago, they wouldn't have done this, right, This is only use now, this a long time ago that we could get away from the media like this. I would I would imagine the post vaccine world up at the Star. If McCarthy has anything to do with it. It won't change from

what it looks like right now. Not being around you guys, I would imagine the only time I've been down down there in the in the studio area was when we were outside, and of course I went to the wrong area, you know, Spats gave me specific instructions, and of course I still screwed it up. So I was over the

main are. Yeah, I was about to go downstairs where we do the podcast, you know, pre COVID, and man, they sent me through the ringer, you know, I had to do all of this and then in the test and I'm like, okay, where's fags and you guys are outside. So after all of that I ended up. Of course I didn't want to tell y'all this story before the show went outside, but yeah, I stumbled into that area and it's it's it's you know, it's it's like a

ghost town over there. I have an office, my Ethos Education UH Foundation has an office in the formation, and I haven't been there either. I got this one kidney, so I'm not even thinking about going around anyone and

being in those close confines. Oh sure, Yeah, that's that's understandable and you know, as it relates to McCarthy, go ahead, Mickey, now go ahead and finished with McCarthy and well, I was gonna I was gonna say, I was gonna say, relates to a team that's struggled now at a four and nine record, and you know, the different storylines that emerge as you know the heat is on the coaching staff and so forth. It really affects things. The way

media covers the team too. We don't have and the mintal media in general does not have access beyond the zoom press conferences, the WebEx press conferences that are done where you don't have the walk off with the coach

to get perspective on things. You don't have the opportunity to talk off the record with coaches or players or so forth, and it really it hurts the ability for the media to do their job, and I think in the end it hurts even the perspective of the coaches and the players because what they are actually thinking, even in an off the record perspective, is not able to get out there to the media as easily as it would in a normal year. Yeah, it's very It becomes

very sanitized because everybody gets the same information right. And you know the other thing that I think it also does is when you don't have face to face contact with somebody, a player or coach that you're writing about, I think it encourages people to take shots because you don't have to be confronted with whatever you say or whatever you write. Right, No one's gonna like, oh hey, wait a minute, now, what did you say about me? And you don't get that right, And you don't get

a choice of who you want to talk to. It's basically who they provide for you to talk. Like yesterday, you know, we got the coordinators finally, it's been a while since we've been able to have a conference call with them. So you after Mike did his deal, the coordinator spent ten minutes or so answering questions. But it's easy to throw hard questions at somebody when they aren't looking at you face to face. Um, you know, same thing like yesterday when Stephen got peppered about. You know,

is Mike McCarthy's job safe? You know, it's like all right, you know, I understand you want to ask that, and you can ask tough questions, but it's easier to ask him tough when you're separated, right, and uh so I think that's changed things also, by the way, one thing I was going to point out, I think before I came down, the NFL PA did a conference call and they had uh one of the their doctors, doctor Tom Mayer.

Uh he was he was on the conference call and one of the questions he got and I thought this was somewhat important what they were going to tell the players about the vaccine like and it was like, you know, he first said, uh, you know, you can't make them take the vaccine. We would recommend, amended, But he also

said that what they're telling the players is there. It's not known yet when this group of people in society will be the vaccine will be available, and he said, and it would be unlikely for anyone in the team area to be vaccinated before February first, so meeting before the Super Bowl, but he said it's there. It's their duty though, to let the players know about the side effects that are generally mild and that they only last maybe a day or so if indeed you get any

side effects. So I thought that was very interesting. And he was talking about how the vaccines ninety four effective for the people and that they would certainly encourage the players and their families to get vaccinated, not only for your own good, but to help everybody else out, because you know, you don't want to be the guy that spreads it to somebody else that didn't get vaccinated. So, uh, yeah, it was pretty interesting talking about how, how, how how

they're gonna inform the players down the road. Yeah, I think it's pretty interesting when you look at the NFL and you compare them to other workplaces, they can be extremely intrusive on your privacy as a person because even though we have a union, you know, you don't really look at the NFL as a corporate environment so to speak. I mean, it's it's kind of it's almost an entity to its own in regards to how you deal with

your employees. Usually with the NFL, they take a lot of liberties when it comes to mandating that their players dress a certain way, they have to come and talk to the media. There are certain things that they are bound to do that most corporations don't have the ability to make you do. And now here we come with the COVID, which is extremely important and it goes along the same line as a flu shot that's when they

have to be hands off, right. They can't force you to do anything and say, okay, you take this shot or you're gonna be fired. You know you're gonna be released. That's something that they can't do. But if you don't show up for a press conference, okay, if you don't talk to the media and I'm talking pre COVID and you don't talk to the media and things of that nature, there are certain things within the contract between the player and the organization that clearly I think imposes on infringes

on you know, your rights as a human being. But when it comes to this shot, they can't do that. And I think that's a very interesting comparison in regards to how uh these these organizations treat their employees and

especially their players on those lines. You know, it's just like ever since you mentioned off the top with one kidney, I mean, people have different medical conditions to where I mean, someone cannot dictate to a person whether or not you know that just that person has to make the decision on their own whether they're going to take a vaccine. I'm looking at the clock trying to determine if we got time. That was a great Monday night game last night, and I want to leave enough time for us to

get into that. How about way to do this first? Mackey, you mentioned, well, no, I want to mention this because you take an on time break. We never take an early break. We need to take an on time break. You asked Chris about that. Yeah, you mentioned the question asked to Stephen Jones yesterday, and there was an NFL report that, uh that Mike McCarthy is coming back that the and then and so I have to I have to go on my CBS eleven newscasts last night, sportscast

last night and say that that. And you know, we used the sound bite from Stephen Jones saying he's coming back whatever. And I said, Stephen Jones asking answering the question that nobody's asking because there's there's not any there hadn't been any speculation that Mike McCarthy wouldn't be coming back. Nobody's asking that question. But we in the media, we make it into a story because, Okay, now we got a sound bite confirming that he's coming back. Well, nobody

nobody thought he wasn't coming back next year. I mean, it's just crazy the way our business works, and all it has to do is one tale. The tale is wagging the dog. One person asked the question, right, One person asked the question and and you know, and I think he kind of said, frankly, I don't even think I should need to answer this. Um, you know, I

had even been a thought. And then Mike McCarthy, and then it's got to be asked, Hey, the Stephen Jones gave you, you know, it's like a ringing endorsement, ringing endorsement. That and the way the question was asked to Steven because I think Ian Rappaport had a report that Mike McCarthy is coming back, okay, And so then it gets asked if Stephen on the radio that are you surprised that it's even being questioned that Mike McCarthy. So then

so then Steven has to answer it. So then it gets turned around Mike McCarthy that okay, Well, Stephen Jones says you're coming back. Whatever. It all gets twisted like it's a story all of a sudden, and then this morning Jerry gets asked about it, and so and so now we're going on forty eight hours of a non story where they're having to react to it. It's crazy. And Mike Nolan was asked, that's you guys fault. That's all you guys. Don't say guys, that's why. That's why

y'alls talked about y'all so badly. He called you that. I believe he called you. He was before Trump calling y'all the enemy of the people, if I'm not mistaken, So yeah, now where the defenders of the people. And don't confuse talk radio with us guys. Okay, they're entertainers, were journalists and good. Let's not ever make that mistake again. But but that's the way the old fake news narrative

gets going, is is all right? And by you watch this weekend on pregame shows, the big talk around the in Dallas Fort Worth in Texas, around the Cowboys was whether or not Mike mccarthe'll be coming back next year. There never was any thought about him. Now I was gonna be on ESPN, They're gonna be talking about it all that's right, all right, just getting started on mix shots.

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t Live FX video board during the game. And the game this week against the San Francisco forty nine ers a noon kickoff at AT and T Stadium, And in fact, what a big week at at and T Stadium. This week We've got for those of you not living in the area, we have high school football state championship games this week for the smaller classification starting from Class one A through four A, top two classifications five A and

six A. Everson and Mickey, they're in. They're going into just the second round of the playoffs here in Texas in high school football in Texas. They're going to be playing high school football playoff games Christmas weekend this year. And in fact, they're six weeks of playoffs, and so for the five A and six A schools they're playing all the way until January sixteenth or so this year.

But but here's the deal this week, all right, So you've got you've got high school state championship games starting Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then you got the big twelve championship game Oklahoma and Iowa State at eleven am I think on Saturday, and then the Cowboys in forty nine ers play at noon on Sunday. So there you go. That's your schedule

at AT and T Stadium. That's a lot of field changing out in Texas the next calendar years seems like, can I see though that one of the division one of the one A game, the championship game got postponed or canceled? Yeah? Yes, when when it's a Class one A school and you have a COVID case at a school that only has fifty students to begin with, Uh,

it makes it problematical too. But you know what's happened is, you know, early in earlier rounds of the playoffs, if there's a COVID outbreak on a on a team, on a high school football team, they just got a forfeit the game. They can't play, and so you forfeit the game.

The good news for that team of the town. But the good news for that is they're just going to go ahead and postpone their state championship game and play it like a month from now when they play the other state championship games, so it being the last round, they don't lose playing the game. But uh, but yeah, that's the way, that's the way. It is. Is so crazy. But the show must go on. That's right, that's exactly right.

And it was last night. It was a show that before we get into it, but before last night, though, I want to mention this, what do you think of the announcers on the Cowboy game this week? This past week, he had Kevin Coogler and Chris Spielman doing the game, and I thought, I really liked Mickey shaking his head there. I like listening to Chris Spielman on the game. Spielman was fine. That Spielman was fine, Yeah, yeah, and all right.

And the reason I bring it up is that is the last game Chris Spielman will be doing because he is leaving the Fox broadcast booth and he is joining the front office of the Detroit Lions. That's breaking news, uh this afternoon, so he do so I found I found an analyst that's a that's not a cowboy, a former cowboy. I gotta ask Bill, you know who impressed me since you brought that up, and I think I mentioned his name when he broadcast our game. I thought

Jonathan Villema did a good job. I didn't know who he was by voice when I heard it, but I thought he did a really thorough job in regards to our game. I don't think we won that game, so that's why you might not be so impressed with him. No, No, that was the Viking game. He did the Viking game. He really did a good job. He didn't talk too much. He he just seemed to be very precise in what he was saying. His thoughts were good, and he worked

well with the with the play by play. I did like Spielman, but I enjoyed Villema just a little bit more because I was surprised to hear that was his name in the booth. And from then on when I listened, I was impressed. Yeah, all right, and I and I've hearded Spielman before. I just I just it was a different voice, and I enjoyed it all. Monday night last night.

What do you think of that game? I mean, there are games that happened during the course of a regular season that remember, you know last year was it last year when the Chiefs played the Rams and there was

a crazy game that went into the fifties whatever picks? Yeah, yeah, right, And that was that was like one of the might have been the most memorable game from that regular season, the last Night's Monday Night game, and especially the storylines with Lamar Jackson leaving the game, coming back and first play throws a forty four yard touchdown past to Hollywood Brown and to give him the lead, and then Baker brings him back and then Justin Tucker wins it on

a fifty five yard field goal. I mean that that game had a little bit of everything, you know. I like. What I liked about that game was the drama of it all. To me, a little bit over hyked. In regards to Lamar coming out of the dressing room. It's not like he was Willis Reid with a broken ankle, you know, I don't know. There's one word that he had, you know, just his hamstrings got tight on him. The other word was he had to go relieve himself that one.

So you've got those two, you know, stories out there, and whichever one they are. I mean, Okay, the guy came out of locker room through a touch I didn't I didn't look at it as a New York Knicks Willis Reed moment. Not that particular moment. The entire ball game, now, yes, was amazing because both teams came to play. We know how much Baltimore needed this game, I think more than the Browns needed it, and the fact that they came

out and finally played well offensively. I mean defensively, Baltimore is still in trouble. You know, they still let the Browns just run all over them. May Feel also had a great game, So I think he had You possibly had at least two hundred yards rushing against that defense, and you had Mayfield uh through for almost four hundred yards. So as far as I'm concerned that that whole game, it was a good game. But but the whole Superman coming out of the locker room, I thought that was

a little bit over place. Well did they ever did they ever specify why he went into the locker room? I was working, he did. I was working, and so I was kind of half listening, half working, and then when the game got good, I said, oh, screw work, I'll finish it later. I'm watching this. But did they ever say why he went in during the game broadcast? Yeah, he said it? Who said it? He said that he went in? No, No, I mean during the game. No, I mean during the game. They were saying cramps. During

the game, they said it was cramps. That's what they said. Well, there's different kind of cramps you can have, By the way, I see, that's why you have Tether going off saying it was mentreal Forday's situation could have worked very well doing that situation, and so I don't know he said leg cramp. He Lamar Jackson actually said leg cramp as he explained it. And then he saw mcsoley go down and he comes, you know, coming out of there. He still looked like he was walking tight now, walking with

a tight hamstring and walking with constipation. They looked just the light. Really, I could imagine that you if you want to analyze it. So, I you know, I think it was a little overblown about the bidet. I do eve it was just a hamstring issue. He did he did have a lot of good runs last night. What he did he read for over one hundred yards. What do you mean, okay, okay, that that was your setup? Was that with the ball? Because that was a pretty fog sprit from the locker room to the bench too.

But oh man, well, you know they early on they talked about you can't tell his hands from the ball because he's brown. So I would imagine if he was in a particular situation, you still got brown to deal with. So, you know, after watching that game and you said how it relates to things that we see with the Cowboys. Maybe we just need to get off the defense because even the good teams don't play good defense. You just got to score fifty points, right, This is turning into

college football. At definitely high school football, no one plays defense or there's not enough athletes, so the good ones are all on offense and everybody else go play defense and we'll just try to outscore him. But it lets you know, it lets you know the importance those bags of situational football. You understand there are certain moments in a ball game. You have to be prepared for it because it can make or break your drive, It can make or break your quarter, can make or break your game.

So to me, it makes coaching even more important to be prepared with whoever you're playing with. I don't care if it's a practice player or not. When you when we go over something, you have to listen to what we're saying because this point of the ball game is going to be important. As much as we saw scores and amazing plays, it still comes down to situational ball. The most important situation last night, fourth down in five, right, that's when he comes out of the out of the

locker room. He makes that fourth down in five situational football. It don't get it convoluted with all these great plays. It still comes down to certain parts of a ball game that you have to be prepared for and you have to win that battle. Never let that be confused with all the points of the being scored. See and what do you think of go ahead? And aid Mickey? No, go ahead? Uh? I was gonna say, what what do

you think of Stefanski's decision to go for two? Where they were down thirty four, They were down thirty four twenty They scored a touchdown to make it thirty four twenty six. Now they had missed two extra points earlier. Cody Parky had their kicker, and they decided to go for two to make it thirty four to twenty eight.

And how did it play out after that? They wound up taking the lead, that's right to make it and then comes back to take the lead, the pressure on Baltimore where they had to anyway, it was, it was it was the height of analytics right there, Mickey. You think you think it was analytics or do you think he looked at his kicker and I'm going I'm not missing another extra point. We're better off just going two

and yeah, that's the guy. That's the guy that had a history, right, that's the guy the Bears got rid of. Y Oh my god, is that that guy? Right? And what I expected from him? Who's that that miss forty field goals in the playoff game when Trubisky was having a good season? Was that two years ago? Yeah? Yeah, he banged went off the up anyway. You know, once once they once they made the two point conversion, I was sitting there going, I'm I'm kind of liking this.

You know, they had momentum Old Moe was on their side at that point, and uh, I kind of like the decision because when you think about it, I'm starting to come around on this idea of going for two like that because you you always have the opportunity. You're still only down eight. Okay, even if you don't make it where you're still within a score. That's true. I would have a real problem with it if it was otherwise. You know, I wouldn't agree. I would not I would

not agree with it. If I am down. Let's say I'm down thirty four to twenty five and I'm going for two to get it within seven, I would kick it then to make sure I'm getting within eight. A lot. I'm sure the analytics would say, I don't like a lot of coaches. We had that situation coming about yesterday. Was it? God, I can't remember the team, but they had it. They were trying to they were down by ten,

and they decided to try and score first. And I'm talking to my son and I'm thinking, man, I really kicked this field goal now, because at that time they were just under three minutes to play in the ball game. Let me just kick this field goal instead of trying to grind my way into the end zone and using a bunch of time. Well that's what they ended up doing. They used a bunch of time, and of course they didn't have time to it was I think that it

was the Saints. It was the Saints, wasn't it was because they were down, they were down ten and they needed to score twice. They ended up scoring the touchdown they could have saved. They took him like a minute, took him a minute to see what happened. What happened on the Saints game was they took a sack and then they kicked along field goal, didn't make it, and then Jalen Hurts fumbled. Hurts fumbled, and they went ahead and drove down and scored the touchdown, and then on

the onside kick they came. The one I'm talking about is Miami in Kansas City. Okay, okay, Miami, kse Miami was down there trying to score because they were down by two scores. And if I'm not mistaken, it took him like a minute ten seconds to score. Way too much valuable time, because you still you still need to field goal after you score. So do you go for the field goal first? Get that out of the way. Quick money, quick money, and then you still have time.

Don't even have to do an onside kick. Kick it deep, hopefully stop them, use your timemouth or whatever. Sometimes no timemouse. But it's still a better management of the clock. I think. I think so too. I agree with you. All Right, now we blew through that break and so we're past time on it. So we're back with more mix shots than just a moment. We're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping air waves and taste buds. It's new doctor pepper and cream soda. Let's take a listen, Doctor pepper

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the team will be back to work on Wednesday. Yes, that looks like it is going to be back to work on Wednesday. He's out of it. It looks like he's going to be out of his COVID protocol or COVID reserve issue reserve COVID nineteen. Yeah, Mike McCarthy said, Cheeto would He anticipated him being back on Wednesday. Also said that Savian Smith, with the hand injury suffered in the game. He said he's going to try to go Wednesday. Maybe Donovan Wilson will be back, and maybe Trayvon Diggs

hopefully maybe, he said on Wednesday. So that's kind of a quick injury update. He also pointed out that this week, since it's getting close to the end of the season, what he normally does is through the practices during the week, he's cutting sixty minutes out to make sure he's keeping his team's legs fresh. So how about this, So it looks like the forty nine ers are going to go to CJ. Bethard as their starting quarterback, maybe Benching Mullins.

I went back and looked, and I was thinking CJ. Bethard.

He played against the Cowboys before, and he did. He started the twenty seventeen game against the Cowboys when Kaepernick not Kaepernick, they benched Brian Hoyer and so now the last this will be the third time in a row they've played the forty nine Ers without their starting quarterback because in twenty sixteen, when they played the Niners, Kaepernick was still coming back from three offseason surgeries thumbnee, and shoulder, so Blaine Gabbert was the starting quarterback in that game.

The Cowboys only one twenty four to seventeen. So once again the Cowboys are gonna face C. J. Beethard, who in that game in twenty seventeen completed twenty two of thirty eight passes for two hundred and thirty five yards. He ran five times for thirty but he was sacked five times five times. And guess who caught one pass for five yards in that game? Some guy named Hiccotini, the tight end that's now on the Cows practice squad, Cole Hiccotini caught one pass in that game. Well, I

would not have guessed that. I bet you wouldn't have. How's that for digging up a stat And then the other thing that's questionable for San Francisco is most Dirt has an ankle. They're not sure if he'll be ready to go along with UH. George's kittle is on IR and he's got a foot. They're thinking he might get

back UH this week, but they're pretty definite. Jimmy Garoppolo is not ready to go UH in that game, So if Mostar is not there, Tevin Coleman will share running back duties UH for the for the forty nine ers, who are now five and eight, only one game better than the Cowboys, by the way, oh and by the way, one more, one more, and this one's really important. Deebo Samuel's out. He's got a hamstring and he looks like

he may miss the rest of the game. And that guy is a big renting Yeah, that guy is an He could be the running back if Mosta didn't make it. I promise you this guy's a stun I saw that earlier, Spags. I'm so glad. I don't want him for his sake, right, you don't want to see him hurt. But a guy like Diebo being out, it kind of piques my interests a little bit. And how it can you know, relieve our defense a little bit. Then you're talking about most of being out, but it's backup Coleman. That guy runs

downhill as well. Yeah, this is just that team's culture. That team's culture really a lot like I was in regards to the running game. No matter what, we really want to establish that that position for us offensively, you got kittled out. I think he's gonna continue to be out. You've got Debo out. The Cowboys have a chance, guys,

they really have a chance. I remember when we were one in fifteen, back in nineteen eighty nine, Losing it at home was always so disheartening because you felt like you just let not just your teammates down, but everyone else who was at the game. And sometimes playing on the road can be a little bit of a reprieve for you. Right, we won our only game at all f K. You remember that, Oh, I do very well.

We beat beat Doug Williams and the at that time Washington Redskins, and that was our only winning the season, And it did feel good to play away from home and get away from the from the disappointment that you kept laying down at that time at Texas Stadium. So I think the Cowboys felt a little better being on the road. Winning on the road, that's really a great feeling to win on the road. It really feels better

than winning at home. So hopefully they could kind of get that out of the system like they did in Cincinnati, and come back home and do work. Donovan Wilson being out I can never remember his name, but him being out, of him being possibly in this ball game, that also gives me a little bit of, you know, a little bit of hope, because I really liked the way he

established a presence in that secondary. He's the only one that I saw coming up in a timely fashion and not just throwing his head in there just trying to hit somebody, but he was making timely, precise hits on receivers and running backs. I'd be good to see him come back in the game. Maybe he can make a difference like he did I thought in the Vikings game and propel us to have some type of a defensive, stubborn presence in that second day. You know this, Vike

surprised you about people do what they want. We just might surprise you about Donovan Wilson. So he has started seven games, so just one more than half they've played. He ranked sixth on the team right now, No, tied tied for fifth with forty seven tackles. The guy in fourth has forty nine, so he's almost fourth in total tackles. And he's only started seven games, So that tells you sort of the impact he's had back there as a

safety making tackles. He's got two and a half acts quarterback pressure, two forced fumbles, and obviously he recovered no. Three force fumbles. No, yeah, three force fumbles and two recovered. So yeah, he's made an impact. You know, And I was going to ask you ever since if you ever remember being on a team that and you guys didn't have a practice squad, you had taxi squad or whatever

that stuff was called. But going like having to go three and four deep at the cornerback position to get through a game like the Cowboys did this past Sunday, that's unbelievable that they're out there with practice. We have never we have never had that now, we have never had that, having to go that deep. But you remember in nineteen eighty nine, Jimmy was looking for players from all over the country or maybe even all over the world.

We're out there practicing, and we see people almost what our jersey numbers are out there, you know, trying out for the cowboy and seeing who they can replace. So they were always running guys in the forty they were always having them do drills, and here we are at that time hadn't won a freaking ball game. I think we were oh and eight before we became one and eight. And Jimmy Johnson did not hold any secrets. He's like, look, well,

we're working guys out to take y'all spot. So if you guys want to keep playing like crap like you're doing, one of these guys gonna take your position. That was always one of the most bold, outrageous things I had seen a long time fore. We kind of nicknamed that the revolving door. Right. A guy would come in on Tuesday workout, he would practice for the first time on Wednesday. He would start on Sunday and get cut on Monday.

That happened over and over and over again. That was that was the closest we came build to a COVID situation. Was just to suck as badly as we did in nineteen eighty nine. Hey, I'm gonna leave. Yeah, No, it had an inability. It was foot problem. Yes, talents, I'm gonna leave you this with this stat And I don't know who gets charged with coming up with these things, but LP Latticer, a Canadian, has played two hundred and

fifty games in the National Football League. He is tied with one Eddie Murray for the most games played by a Canadian born player in the National Football League? Who figures that stuff out? And I heard it and I said, well, let me look up and see. Oh. Pro Football Reference has a list of about a hundred names of every Canadian player that played in the NFL and how many games they played, And sure enough, he was tied with

Eddie Murray for two fifty. So on Sunday, assuming all goes well and he gets to go out there and play, he will have played the most games in the National Football League by a Canadian. Oh come on, man, we should be striking up the Canadian national anthem right now. You gotta Chris that co ordinate with the producer man, we should have been do they put their hand on that? What do they do? And then oh, can so I'm thinking he's a shoeing to be He's a shoeing to

be a co captain right on Sunday. Yeah, pretty cool. Co all right, that sounds good. Appreciate it, Mickey ever since. And how about we do it again tomorrow? Another edition of mix Shots, a Wednesday edition tomorrow. How about we'll be here about them Cowboys Share tomorrow seeing them on Thanks Chris. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.