Mick Shots: America's Rivalry

Dannon Spags? You can tue that on this man. And this is you're telling the sing first long time Cowboy fans. That's right for those of us that grew up Cowboys fans, going back to the Cotton Bowl. Baby a yeah, finish it off, bringing home. There we go. Now it's time for fabulous football fight song Friday. It's Washington Week in Washington. It's Dallas Week. I think it's more Dallas than it ever has been. Washington Week in Dallas. That's exactly right.

And Baltimore though, right, I mean, I don't know, it's land over it's almost yeah, that's right. And uh, mickey, have you been outside today? Not since I came in, but when I arrived here. It was like seventy three degrees. Okay, and it's supposed to be a record high eighty four eighty five degrees. Marry in Frisco, Texas. Mickey is at a vest. You have on it is a vest. Okay, it's your referee. No, it's okay. You got NFL. You got the NFL logo on one sleep. That's his reporter. Yeah,

there's your reporter. Absolutely. And you were at the press conference this morning. I was at the press conference to this morning, and uh, are we still going to win this game? I believe so. Not backing down. Oh, not backing down coaches, not backing down from yesterday. Okay, you got quotes, don't you? I do. I have what he said today about you know what why he said what he said? And um, he said, it's irrelevant of what I said. It's an honest answer to a question from

a great group of people. Yeah, great group of people. He's still on meds. Yeah, still affecting his uh yes, COVID father. He uh yeah, he was. Oh, he didn't back down. He said what he had to say. And Jerry basically said, well, why would he say anything? Damn right, I'm driving this man, I'm loving this. It's just so

amazing because how this thing exploded. It was I thought it was just a kind of a you know, okay, it's an answer, but you know it was in the midst of a two minute answer to your question, and it wasn't like it was premedit. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go into this press conference and I'm gonna tell the world that we're gonna win this game because our team needs to hear this from I'm gonna spice up this rivalry again. We're gonna bring it back. Somebody asked

me if it was premeditated. I said, well, to be premeditated, you would have had to just blurt it out right. I said, if he didn't get that question, you wouldn't have got that answer. And it was a long winding answer the question exactly well. It started off with David Moore asked him about the offense. He said, he said it was his his analogy to what's gone on with the offense over the last four weeks. He said, it's like a rolling blackout, like something good happens and then

something bad happens, and it's always something different. So he got into this long soloquy of you know what happens soliloquy, Yeah, and then he said and then he said, then he said something like, we know what people think of us, meaning he knows where the criticism is. We're comfortable with who we are and where we are. But I'm excited about what's in front of us. We're going to win

this game. I'm confident in that. There you go, So you know, and it's become the theme of the week and what I like about it though it's not like he pounded the tables and darning and we're winning this work. He's really just not that kind of guy. He's not, but the guy who is that guy is prevailing, right, and so him receiving that, then you know that that's gonna be blown up. Yeah, in his locker room and his interviews and fell from here on out. Uh, we

got three weeks right of yeah, three games. This is gonna go. This is gonna go, It's gonna go. I'm loving this, man, This is this is this is old school stuff. Really when you think about it, you know, it's not Jimmy Johnson or anything, but it's a rivalry that really kind of needs to be uh, pucked up just a little bit. Absolutely, And I'm loving this. I'm glad you said that because that's just what I wrote in my college and hasn't appeared. Just Yes, it's like

this rivalry needed to be juice stuff. And it's basically compared to what used to take place, compared this is kids stuff. This is kids stuff. I see nowadays because of social media, we can make kids stuff yea, and blow it up ya back then, you you you could easily dial it down something that was like explosive. They would try to best to dial it down. So now we're building it up. Let's go with it. Yeah, absolutely,

it's right. That's out time. And you know what, and you gotta have both teams uh good enough to want the same thing you And basically I know how the rivalry started, but it didn't get really underway till uh Bruce Allen got there, right and and not not Bruce George George y uh and and and all of a sudden in the early seventies, Washington took something away from the Cowboys they won the NFC. Yeah, he took the banners off of the side of the stadium at Texas Stadium.

That's one thing he did after a win, he goes around, he snatched off all the banners off of Texas Stadium walls and after they came in and kicked out butts. That started it, right. That's when that because you're like George Allen's like crazy hyped on one side, and of course you have to land very manly man on one side on the other side. So when he did that, how dare you do that to Tom land use Dallas Cowboys? That's what really kicked it off. Okay, And how big

is this game you talk about? The Cowboys and Washington will play twice in the next three games. If the Cowboys take care of business and win this game in land Over, Maryland on Sunday afternoon, they will have a three game lead on both Washington and Philadelphia with four games left in the season. Next week, the Cowboys play at the Giants while Washington and Philadelphia play each other. Somebody's got to lose or they could tie. Yeah, and that's as good as a loss. And I get this.

If the Cowboys win their next two games and Washington and Philadelphia tie next week, oh gosh, that didn't Cowboys clinch? The Cowboys clinch n but you can knock Washington out. If you win this one in Philadelphia beats Washington next week, Washington will be eliminated coming here on the day after Christmas. If the Cowboys win, go three and two over these five games, and one of the wins over Washington, then Washington can't catch them because they got to win out

to get to eleven. Right. If the Cowboys win three games and once against Washington, they get they get to eleven. Yes, they definitely they have a bye this week, okay, And so if the Cowboys win, they would be like Washington, they would be three games out with four to play, with a six and seven record. Well, the Cowboys would be nine and four. Cowboys lose this game, Cowboys are sitting there at eight and five and Washington is seven and six, and the Eagles would be six and seven.

It's an NFC East gumbo. Well, it's about time come on. Although it sort of was that last year, except for the fact that they wanted at seven and nine and the Cowboys were one game behind with six and ten. If you can phantom, that was crazy just ending that season last year. It was crazy. So but it's a difference and having a three game lead over Washington or a one game lead over Washington. So if you're gonna win three out of your last five, you might as

well win them. The win them on the front end of it, right, and you would rather do that, right, But as long as they split with them, that's that's significant at least from eliminating Washington from becoming the first NFC East team to repeat since two thousand and four. We're not even going there, bo, how about that? Yeah, wouldn't even four Philadelphia. It is not going to happen that Washington. Washington's not gonna happen. Wouldn't So the train

will continue. You're predicting right here. That's your first pick of the of this day. Yeah, is that the Cowboys will win this division, whether they wrap it up in three weeks or four weeks. Everson Walls futures there you go. That's right like that. So, but it is interesting to note that the Cowboys actually could clinch the divis Asian by a week from Sunday. Yeah, if they win the next two in Washington and Philadelphia tie next week there. Yeah,

that's that's the projectory. We will han trajectory. We will han um behen we before we started stumbling, right, you know, we were just on our way to just running away with this division. And now the Cowboys are pretty close to as healthy as you can be with the exception yeah of the running back, yes, but so is that time for Mick said it right? So Zeke still listed as fully practicing. So uh and then have you seen him?

And I have seen him, and he seems to be running fine to me, especially running like he was in September or yeah, it was the training camp against He's pretty good against air. Yeah, yeah, right, and when there's a hole and when there's a hole there, which is like running against right, So so we just need the hose. Just he doesn't have a problem with his knee. He has a problem with his offensive line not open absolutely,

although no one will say that they won't. So and Tony Pollard d n Pede as we talked about yesterday with his plantar fascia, uh slight tear in it is, I guess how they're describing it. And a game time and he's game time that we'll see and and and Jerry seems somewhat hopeful doctor Jerry, and you know, so we'll see where that was somewhat hopeful. Now that's not real hope. Well, it's still Jerry, it's still If Jerry is somewhat hopeful, that's not now. He's very He's almost definite.

On Michael Parsons, who didn't finish the practice. He was having a problem with his hip, but Mike McCarthy thought it was minor, and Jerry thought that that nothing to worry about. So we'll see what happens. There to be a Debbie Doomsday, I guess it is the best way to put it. If Poston's misses a game, We've got some really good guys coming back. Yeah, but help I know, I know, I know, I mean Gregory Gregory. Gregory's not going to get out there in play sixty snaps. I

don't think. Well, I just mean other guys coming back. We could, but I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't have at the linebacker position. I would either way. But I think he'll he'll be okay. Um, so they're not really worried about that. Gregory evidently was slow a little in practice. He's got a cold, so but again, if he comes back, he's gonna get twenty five snaps or so something like that. And the same thing with Neville Gallimore. I think they're

very definite about him being back. DeMarcus Lawrence is you know, this little one game under his belt. You know, the same thing with Cooper and Ceedee Lamb too. Feeling better. I mean, yeah, they got to be there, you know, kind of removed from where they were with the concussion in COVID that that week under the belt, that extra week on right. Cedric Wilson was still limited in practice with the ankle, but the part I saw, you know, when they were warming up yesterday, he seemed to be

running okay. So and think about him. He does so many different things, right, so you can get injured playing special teams, which he exhales at and so now he might get injured not running a route of trying to block physique, but he might get injured going down on kickoff or covering the punt, yeah, or returning kickoffs. Because if Pollard can't play, now they got to come back with somebody else to stand there and go. They don't always do, except when we have some returns, except when

he kicking short, he takes it to the house. We know what you we know what you want out punt returned to do this game. Although and and so, and remember we talked about it yesterday with edo Smith having signed him. He got into practice and Mike said, he seemed to, you know, work well, seemed to know his way around the offense. So, um, that's encouraging Corey Clement. It's got a little something. You know, He's got some juice to him. So I don't know if he would

be the guy to return kickoffs. Mike Well obviously wasn't going to reveal that fact. Well, you know what they need unless he did to build during his interview with him. They still need holes, Yes, okay, that's what they another one way or another, he though, needs a whole. Clement needs a hole. You know. I saw last night the Steelers couldn't stop Cook and Cook went off. He went but two hundred and something. But but that was that holds all over the place. There was several holes for

him to run through. On one particular play, I mean he was there was opening up. He barely got touched down some place touched. I didn't get touched. And we haven't seen a lot of that here. And I'll talk about a coach who will who will set it straight in a postgame press conference here Mike Tomlin, he said, we love it. We get we got beat on both sides of the upfront, on both sides of the ball.

I mean, he just he doesn't let him have it on his own team said we we can't win these games if we got to be any better up front on offense and defense. I lost concentration when it was twenty one and nine to nothing. What happened after that? Came back? Steelers came back, they came eight. Well they came back and it was thirty six, twenty eight, and well, you get down to the final minute of the game. Pittsburgh got the ball back with more than two minutes left,

no time outs left, they were down by eight. They had plenty of They got it at their own four yard line, so they got to go ninety six yards here. Well, they start matriculating down the field. They get it to about the midfield or there about the forty yard line of the Vikings. Chase Claypool catches a ball and then does a little celebration. I mean, they're in, they're in now in the there's like one minute left, fifty seconds left,

and he does a little first down celebrate. Whatever it was, and then an offensive lineman tries to take the ball away from him and the ball gets kicked, and so they lose like thirteen or fourteen seconds on the clock, going to retrieve the football to go get it placed to continue their hurry up offense. So now they're up against the clock. The whole time, I'm sitting there going they can go down this field in two minutes without

any timehouse with any problem. And then they do a knucklehead thing like that, and now all of a sudden you're having to you. They were throwing for the end zone. Big Ben made a perfect throw on the last play, I think it's was two seconds left, the last play for the end zone, to his tight end in the end zone in triple coverage. He puts it right right there, right there, safety coming across his face. Bob gets knocked

out from behind by Harrison Smith. Big time players make big time plays, and it was tight end had a chance to make that catch even with the guy about to hit him right in his face if Harrison Smith doesn't knock it away. And there was another one that got Tomblin, but but it was twenty nine to nothing, and when that drive started I said, if Pittsburgh goes down here and completes this comeback in two point conversion and winds up winning this thing, Zimmer might get fired tomorrow.

And oh yeah, and uh, by the way, this season's gone for him now, they're just a half game out the playoff spot. And there was another one. Tomlin, one of his players, I'm not sure who it was, did something with his finger to one of the Vikings helmets. He just kind of and they threw a flag. And when he came off the field, they had a close up of Tomlin in the guy's face side by side, and he was like, okay, you just cost us fifteen

yards for bus stuff like that. So so when you quickly with the with Washington on my phone, yeah, it really was. I mean, that's so dramatic. You know, I'd seen it last night, but just watching it again, that was just yeah. And Ben put it right where it needed to be, you know, he had to catch he had it right there, and uh, and I think he

might have held on if Harrison hadn't. Smith came ye Smith, Yeah, Smith knocked it, Yeah, slapped it, but then he also got hit from the other he did, and so tough for him, it was gonna be tough, but he had a chance if Smith didn't swipe it. That's one of those plays like like Dad did with CD. Having it here is great, it's amazing, but if you haven't here, yeah, it's a little bit tougher for you to knock it

out to keep it clost your body. Yeah. Washington already had put out their game status injury report out his back up offensive lineman West Schweitzer and backup linebacker Jordan Canutes. Canoe ConA sick just coup Yeah, he's a linebacker questionable. H Landing Collins with a foot, UH, jam and Davis still in concussion protocol, their starting middle linebacker, UH, running back JD. McKissick still in concussion protocol, and wide receiver

Curtis Samuel who's been coming back from an injury. He's questionable with the groin so UH. Davis was a full participant in practice, but he's got to get out of concussion protocol. Mckissic was limited. So they already went through their workout and um that's their official report. The Cowboys will come out around three o'clock their injury injury Yeah, okay, you yeah, something else you want. In this first segment,

we had to move on. Uh No. I think there was one other Cowboy injury that caught my eye, and it occurred Thursday. They got Sean McEwan out with a neck, and I think it sounded like maybe McCarthy was a little worried about it just because it's a net thing. So somebody brought up number forty nine and he knew who forty nine was Ian Bunting as the tight end on the practice squad. So if they need another tight end, that would really hurt the tight end position because then

you got sprinkle and whoever or a fullback. I guess Nick Ralston gets called back up. Yeah, if he has called fullback, I mean they list him as it, right, some some places will list him as a tight end and he's Sean Nashan Wright still in COVID protocol. Okay, all right, we continue. It's more mix shots than just a moment. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Hey cowboy fas ready to spice up your next watch party, Bring

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activities off the field and excellence on the field. Help Dak earn twenty five thousand dollars donation to his Faith Fight Finished Foundation by voting on Twitter tweet hashtag wpmoy challenge, followed by Prescott through January seventeen. Vote Da vote Dak. I'm all right like it. Okay, So we have yes. So we were talking about the rivalry, and so it looks like Washington head coach Ron Rivera couldn't help himself because he got asked about what Mike McCarthy had to say.

And this is what he said when he was being interviewed by the Washington's in House website when they recorded an interview. Here's what he had to say. I think it's interesting. I don't think it's important. I think that's the big mistakes because as far as I'm concerned, you know, you do that for a couple of reasons. One is you want to get in our head. And so I've told our players this is that's interesting. It's not important.

It's important as our preparation getting ready to play on Sunday. Secondly, he's trying to convince his team, you know. So again I think that's another mistake because he's now made it about him and what he said. It's not about his players anymore. So I think that's a big mistake. That's why to me, you know, you don't do those things. What you do is you focus in on you get ready and you play football. We show up on Sunday

and we'll see what happens. Which is kind of when Mike was asked about what he said a little bit later after he said it, that's basically what he said. They're gonna be prepared, We're gonna be prepared, We're gonna play the game, but you know we were gonna win. I don't think that was a mistake at all for him to try and put it that way. That's another see here's mind control thing he's got going on. Back to McCarthy and when McCarthy said it, it wasn't about

Rivera see at all. And Rivera doesn't know that Rivera was asked Rivera was. I heard the question that was asked of him, and it was, well, McCarthy is basically guaranteed a victory. And then Rivera responds to that that's not what McCarthy did not know, and so context matters on all of this. That's when you sneaky media guys

always try to stir things up. Well, you know, as I always say, the media criticizes coaches because they don't say anything, and then when they say something, it's like, oh, why can you say that? Well, having said that, though, okay, Rivera doesn't care about the context. He's gonna take it and he's going to use it. He's going to use it to motivate his team because no one, no one in Washington knows how how McCarthy he said it. It was guaranteed a victory. So another Alan type move. Right.

And by the way, since you guys caught me off guard yesterday about did we about the book? You got the old book and we can purchase these wear You're gonna get one for a Christmas early Christmas print. No, I'm talking about the listeners and viewers. You would have to dig deep on Amazon to find these, man, That is cool. So the title was America's Rivalry. Who didn't show it? Show the ICA's Rivalry. That's monk, right, that's John Riggins. It's Riggins, the monk down below. Yes, yes, yeah.

And by the way, I think I told you guys that we did this at eighty seven. We did it in ninety seven. Oh wow, I thought it was nineteen. I know, I wasn't thinking straight because we started talking about you. We were talking about the the replacement game. Let me see it again there and so, um, well here this is your commy. Well, thank you, and this is your copy. Thanks. Here go all the graph. Uh no, no, will you sign it for me? No? I don't want to think that you didn't want to. You didn't want

to mess it up. I don't on the side ever since, Well, you sign it, I will sign it, sir. Thank you. Increase the value of that thing. Now, this is really cool, spags. So how many do you have left? By the way, about five? I don't know. I've got I got about five of them at home. It gives me one every year. He never remembers. Good. Then I got oh, thank you, SAgs. I got ten. Well I've got let's see, I've now got I got four grandsons. So now the grandsons can

have my other four copies. You know all know about the America's vibrary. I should have given one to McCarthy because he had to put a video together to explain to the rookies what the rivalry means. And the one I'm going to sign right here thieves steal Joe's day that super knife nineteen. Happy birthday, Joe, damn it all right, No, that was the I was a CUB reporter in Lubbock, Texas. That was the first satellite live shot that I ever did.

It was ABC's Monday Night Football and interviewed Bill Bates after the game live from Texas Stadium. Interview. Because he was a rookie and he's the only guy that would come home, that would come out back out on the field. We did the live shot with a Lubbock TV stage. They had another guy. It was an older guy and he had that little tape recorder and he had a little orange foam on his little mic and he would put it in your face and he had the small

like looked like a transistor radio. He's an older guy out in Washington. No, he was a Dallas guy. Okay, he was a Dallas guy. Kind I can't remember that guy's name. Man, he's one of the older guy out there so too. And he would come you come out on the field just like you were, and he would have that mike and he would always given who is this guy? Does this work? Is this work? That's probably fake? Yeah? He just he just got a bad set up the rivalry.

Go to the back the back cover and read what Jim Lache said about the Redskins hate no better in the NFL. That's Calvin Hill. No the back cover, back the back cover. If you grew if you grow up in Metro Washington, you grow up a diehard Redskins fan. But if you hate your parents, you grow up a Cowboys fan. Jim Lashadren Talbot losing to Dallas was the worst feeling in the world. You'd rather have your arm cut off. Oh my goodness. And Charles Mann, when you

sign with Washington, you sign a contract to hate the Cowboys. Now. Actually, Kelvin Hill was pretty good. I saw Calvin Yeah, I see. He says it caught the imagination of so many people, not only because it was cowboys and Indians, but the law of how we romanticize that part of our history, the Western expansion, the sun Belt city gleaning neo traditional architecture versus the sophisticated East, the center of Powell And

you can see why Calvin Hill went to Yale. Yeah, he went deep like I couldn't have paid him to say it. And then there's Walk Garrison any helicopter that came over the practice field, the coaches would look up like, damn, that's George Allen up there with a notebook. Hey see,

one side is Calvin, one side is exactly right. But see, and we were we were talking about, you know how this juiced up the rivalry, and I got one more ahead, John Dunton, Oh yeah, Joe Fisman is a garb bridge mouth little s o b. He's such a hot dog that all he needs is a bun. They're go ahead, talk about garbage mouth John. You guys the podcast on the Kevil Black, give me a break, bro. Tom Langie was afraid of one person in his entire career, and

that was John doesn't. When John doesn't spoke, Tom Langie never responded. We could shout out some stuff, Hey you go, hey, hey, I know we call you in and say something, but no, John doesn't. Tom would act like he didn't even hear it. Turn off his Plus his voice was so deep and you know you he heard, you know, he heard it so loud. Crazy And let me tell you, Randy White and I did a choe Cowboys game day with Randy White for a decade, and every time he played Washington.

He would bring up Mark Mark. There's no one that he hates on this earth more than Mark Man. In there about Mark Man, uh, you know, I say, Mark

Mark get a pretty good job. You know. We were talking about how Randy Brother, how this silly quote got everybody excited, and I was I was pointing out, it's like, you know, let's go back to Dreyn Telbert saying before the seventy four Thanksgiving game, all we need to do is knocked Roger Staubach out of the game, and we're gonna win because all they had was this rookie quarterback behind him. Right, It's like, yeah, well the rookie quarterback

knocked you Vomlint Longley. But yeah, imagine triumph of the uncluttered mind. Think about that, Lay And I said that your triumph of the uncluttered mind. About the team. Think about if somebody said that this this time, this era, right, if we we're gonna knock him out and then he knocked him out. They did. Then they knocked him out, and the guests who came up behind him, Yeah, that little little pip squeak up a rookie for the time

that I think it was seventy eighth. Washington was trying to run out the clock on a victory and Tisman started running around the back of the end zone and then he took a safety and they got up and spiked it and then the fight started, right because they got him in the end zone. And then you guys breaking up the fun bunch. I was not. It was Michael donah and Thurman. Uh they broke up the deal. Uh yeah, there was all that kind of stuff going on.

I said that that was when the rivalry was a rivalry, right, I mean there was fighting going on. Yeah, it is a matter of fact, matter of fact. I um it was Charlie Waters. They were playing after everybody retired. They were playing a charity touch football game against the Redskins, who were the Redskins back then, and they got into the end zone and I forgot who he got it

mixed up with. But but the guy got all pissed at Charlie, and Charlie goes, you mean you really want to go right now, we'll go and it's like charity touch football. But Charlie, Charlie is all in right, no matter what, he's all in so uh yeah, it was. It was actually a lot of fun. So, by the way, the reason I got books left over in nineteen ninety seven that we wrote it in the spring. The ninety seventh season was like the first time in nearly forever

neither team made the playoffs. Neither team made the playoffs. I remember was eighty four we didn't make it, right as Washington made the playoffs since then? Oh yeah, they did last did ye twice? I think because they beat the Cowboys in twenty thirteen? Was it twenty twelve? Twenty thirteen? Remember they came down to the last game in the season. Okay, and that was a joke, but yes, and a poor one. We're on Dallas Cowboys dot com. I thought i'd throw

that um. And so these were the twenty greatest games in the prior to nineteen ninety seven, Right, could you come up? How many great games between Dallas and Washington can you come up with? Since nineteen ninety seven, there's the debut of the new stadium in Washington, right, which was the overtime win Akmond Rocket. Yeah. And by the way, the Cowboys play or the Cowboys played Washington in Tom Landry's final game, I believe it was or our final final,

uh no, final win. It was because they won in game fifteen in eighty eight. It was amazing. And then um who took over for Gibbs in Washington. Um they Jack Party, Jack Party's first victory as the Washington It seems like plus Jacky after he was he was a defensive course. But that's just crazy. Yeah, him being happy such to be with the organization. Yeah, absolutely, all right, picks to click when we come back here on mix shot, Here we go. Medal of Honor is our country's highest

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Two former Cowboy assistant coach's sons coach for Washington now Okay, Scott Turner offensive coordinator offensive coordinator and Ken zam Peazy is the quarterback coach. Wow that in the family and Jack del Rio, former Cowboy player is the defensive coordinator. A lot of similarities there talking about before we get

to our picks to click. Former Cowboys coaches. Susie Colber is tweeting today that she is hearing that Jason Garrett is the front runner for the Duke head coaching job, having witnessed Jason behind the scenes speaking two teaching young men. Incredibly powerful and truly inspirational. A great fit. Hope this happens. Well, that was his problem here. He was too optimistic. I mean really, they hated the fact that he was optimistic

all the time. He clapped his hands like hey, yes, of course, yeah, and they so they hated that optimism. So the other George Edward was the candidate the Cowboys linebackers coach, actually defensive senior senior defensive assistant. Yes, yeah, who. Michael Parsons, by the way, gives a lot of credit to for his development this season. Yep. And that's and elevating him to that spot has made a huge difference in that linebacker room. I think, I think he's done

a heck of a job. And I didn't realize that I had forgotten he was a former player at Duke. That's where. Yeah. Okay, so time for our picks and our picks to click. All right. I was listening to a Washington radio station on the way in, and guess who they picked to win this game? It wasn't really good to tell me something. I'm in tune. Bill is gonna say next? Wow, wasn't it? Wasn't the cross talk with the station with the fan, was it? I did hear that too. That was part of it too, Yeah, yeah,

it was that same station. Yeah. But they made their picks prior to the simulcast with the fan, which was um obnoxious to say the least. Wow. I mean Washington's kind of a major market, isn't it. Yeah? It pain? You know. I try to just just just to get information or just get to feel for what the opposition might be talking about. For this the purposes of this podcast, I listen, Okay, I sacrifice to listen, and it is all I can do. I mean, I'm out as quick as I can get a feel for it, you know.

So I listened for about three minutes and I just happened to catch them. It just happened to happen to catch them as they made their picks today. All right, So here are our picks. All right? My pick all right. I don't know if you guys saw it, but I got my my little shoes, my run DMCs angle. Yeah, there you go. Are you running with those? Oh no, no, this is just to look good. No, no, these are just ever sing. There you go, Sunday, Sunday game Day. Thank you Bill leading me into it. I got the

Run Dallas Marathon Challenge, So run DMC get it? Got yeah? Yeah, So how about the pick to click. We've got twenty twenty cowboys gonna win because we all know that they have to win, right. My pick to click is mister Diggs Trayvond. I'm looking at it, number ten coming up. He's gonna be my guy. He's gonna get paid back on my clar not just run Dallas Marathon Challenge I got And this is corny, ugly run Uh Diggs makes catches. That's all I could come up with. That's like I

can come up with Diggs makes catches. Yeah, DMC, I can't. Yeah, I got I know that was other hey, but regardless, my pick is gonna be twenty a twenty cowboys and dig is gonna get number ten. Mel wentfield. Look out, yea, all right, in my next you're next, you are so for my prediction, since it's thirty years ago, turned to page ninety one, and you will find my prediction score twenty four twenty one. That's the score, alrighty thirty years later? Alrighty,

So who you got about them Cowboys? When the thirty years later, when the Cowboys spoiled Washington's attempt to have an undefeated season because they were undefeated going into game twelve, Alvin Harper outleaps the defense for a crushing score just before halftime. Hell Mary, first time Troy Hickman completed to hill, Mary didn't get intercepted, and then he got hurt. And

then Burlin won five straight games Steve finished. I think Troy gets credit for that one because they were leading, right, but they won five straight up, which included they win playoff win over Chicago and then the troyd happened. So I'll take twenty four twenty one. And since Michael Irvin ended up being the star in that game thirty years ago, give me CD sam Okay, yeah, and what were the scores of, say, Washington's won four straight games or straight Okay?

And m twenty nine, nineteen, twenty seven, twenty one. They have five of their UH six wins this season have been by six points or less. Their last two games against Seattle and Las Vegas, they won by the identical scores seventeen to fifteen. So no, I know you're not going there. I was gonna go twenty four seventeen, and because seventeen kind of caps off. Okay, what they can do. So they have won seventeen fifteen the last two weeks. Right,

so this week it's Washington seventeen, Dallas fifty. Now I'll go. I'll go twenty seven seventeen. Cowboys win. For some reason, it's just Michael Parsons that just keeps the keps coming out. Even a hip hip or no hip hip or no hip hits six straight games with a sack for Michael Parsons. I would have gone Jay Ron, but I think Diggs. Like I said, when Diggs gets a pick us, that'll be ten huh be getting close, getting close. Keep an eye out though, for Antonio Gibson and at Washington offense.

And here's the other thing. Brandon Sheriff at right guard. All right, Cowboys have a pretty good right guard in Zach Martin. Well, so does Washington. There's a reason he was the fifth pick in the draft, and he's a big reason that Antonio Gibson has been able to do what he's done the last four games, averaging twenty seven touches a game. And well, whoever the Cowboys are gonna line up over the right guard? Who was it? Well Carton? According to Joe thiseman better watch out for Taylor Heineke

because he reminds him of Bret Farve. He really does, does he really? I mean I don't mean Amy guass to his overall, but the ability to keep plays alive, Okay, that is a problem. McCarthy talked about it on the taking of his show. That's how they've been winning their games. There hadn't been any they haven't stuck to the script. Everything has beens it. He just creates it. So you know, we just have to be waited down for you don't

do anything stupid. Sometimes when quarterbacks get out of the pocket, we do stupid things. Defensively, keep your eye on him. That's why Michael Parsons gonna have a big game. I'm not gonna be able to extend plays with Michael Parsons rushing when I thought about you. When I thought about you, you're talking about the guard and all the running. It's gonna be a brutal game. Yeah, it's going to be a brutal game. They are going to be hitting each

other hard and that running game. We're going to have to bust them in the mouth in order for to stop them, because they're gonna be extremely stubborn with that run. And when he pulls it out, it's gonna be the quarterback Heinich running all over the place, getting our defensive lineman tired. So our linebackers better come to play. I wish I could find this real fast, because that's what

they did last year. And as CD said, they asked him about Washington beating him twice last year, and he said, I've put last year in the past, but I don't recall Jack playing in those games. Nope, Washington and yeah, exactly. The first time around they ran for two hundred and eight yards and then well, who didn't run for two hundred eighty Dale, Right, that's a that's a low game. And Cleveland and then one eighty two the second time around, and the quarterback was bawling. I mean come on, man,

it was ridiculous. We had Allen right, yeple Allen was running all over the place on us. Yeah, and the Cowboys were quarterback in one of them by Denucci. Yeah. And then the other one is when Andy right, he got the concussion. He had to come out. That's right. So maybe Denucci finished she finished that one, and then the second time it must have been, um, don't might be look it up? Yeah, because we're out of time. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna look it up. And you got you got

twenty seconds to look it up. All right. It's a colt. It's a marathon. Starts wint til I'm sorry. Ay the clock in the morning, eight o'clock in the morning. Ever since, gonna be you're running the half in the whole Gilbert, I was gilt. Yeah, right a second, we could have got that. So will you be done in time for the game? I will for the games, I'll be done. It will be done. What's your goal? Eleven and a half a mile? Eleven and a half times thirteen point one? Yeah,

hold on, hold on, hold on what a second? I got it unlocked it okay, about two and a half to see thirteen point one times eleven, one hundred and forty four minutes, right, so that's almost it could be. So that's two and a half hours. Yeah, okay, there were good two hours and twenty four minutes, twenty four. There you go. All right, that's your goal. I'm going two hours and twenty four mint going home today. I'm

gonna get my last run in until until Sunday. All right, we'll have a full report on Monday, right on mix shots. I predict, he doesn't. I predict. I finished. I don't know how how well I finished, all right, but I will. Hopefully we will all be here on Monday on mix Shots. Go Cowboys and Everson, thank you very much. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.