Mick Shots: Back To Football – Sorta

Here inside the SWBC podcast studio, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and the man who wrote the book on this rivalry with Washington. No, no, that's that's old McDonald n Missouri fall. How's the part I'm going out to chop some wood. I'm splitting some For those not watching on Dallas Cowboys dot com just listening, how would you describe what Nicky has on today? It's a it's flannel gold black, and there's some bread in there too. It's very bright. It's

a yield signment. Did you see me coming? You better to yield? So was this a Christmas present? Yes? Oh okay, so he was, and it was and it was cold morning, and it's not honor of Missouri, right and they're playing the Hogs today or tonight. Oh basketball? Yeah, how's your how's the banking? Arkansass is high? No? No, Missouri they're twentieth. But last week they beat Kentuck Tucky. That and they

beat Illinois. Okay, look out, all right, very good. That the first time in a long time they've beatn too right, Uh no, but this first time in a long time to beat Kentucky fasture. Okay, So on that note, we'll have more on Norm Stewart and the Missouri Tigers later on big shots. But let's get to the task at hand. But you guys brought it up. No, you brought it up. You wore that. Yeah, hey, there are football player is going to be on a football field very soon here

at the start and frisket. Don't you love those days? It'll be interesting to see, um just how much they do. Um you know if you watched. I mean I saw yesterday there were teams that were supposed to practice, and I don't know how much they practiced. I saw a bunch of them shut down the locker rooms. Um. I think it was Jacksonville had the offensive lineman. Is that where he's at? Schriff Brandon Schurff sheriff. He was the kind of the spokesman for the team, and then they

closed the locker rooms. Will be interesting to see what they do today. I think they were still debating. And Jacksonville and Tennessee are playing on Saturday, and so that's why they had their locker room availability yesterday. And this is the first time for the Cowboys players to be back and with media availability come and I'm not sure how much I mean, you know what, everybody's going to be asked, right, and so I don't know how much

they want to talk about it. I don't know if you guys listened to McCarthy, but they spent most of the team meeting discussing that, having the chaplain in there, guys, yeah, and having just kind of talk the psychiatrist. Yeah. I don't know if Chad was there, but that that's I think was his main goal this morning, was to take care of everybody and let everybody talk. And you know, this kind of uh brings up what happened when Marcus Paul was only what two years ago leading into the

Thanksgiving Day game. Uh, And they didn't have much time to recover, by the way, because I believe it was Tuesday, it took place and they found out he passed away. It was before the game. I think, so, uh, kind they've been through this before, not that this is the same, but I'm sure you know these guys, I mean, you know, I'm sure this has affected him. Well you would call and I'm, like I said, I'm very pleased at the

change in the temperature. You know. Yeah, how people treat this now, how they they treat athletes who are out there really putting themselves in danger every every game. You remember Mike going down, Michael playmaker Michael, Yeah, yeah, and I was yeah, I know, yeah, and that was despicable even then, was despicable, right right, And so nowadays, I'm pretty sure you know that that that climate is no

longer exists. And by the way, um, kudos to you, Bill for bringing up Chuck who Hughes yesterday and I don't know if people saw it, go to the Dallas Morning News. Uh, Brad Townsend did a really good story of his, uh this happening to Chuck Hughes and getting ahold of his h his his wife, his son, and a I believe it was either a brother or nephew.

He interviewed. He's from he was from Yeah, and uh uh talking to them about you know, the memory and they were talking about, Yeah, this brought I mean, it's fifty one years ago, but it brought back, you know, memories, emotional memories for when that happened to him. He played at West Texas No, no Texas El Paso. So what was it back then? Texas Western? Oh, it may. I don't know when the change went from Texas Western to

Texas El Paso. But yeah, So anyway, if if anybody go to the Dallas Morning News website, it's a front page story. It's rightly have an iconic picture of Dick Buckas standing over him trying to get right. Yeah, yeah, it was. It was really good. And so that what year was that? Okay? Well also in seventy one, it would have been about it was about time Texas Stadium opened, but right, which yeah, and six days I think that was like October twenty fourth, maybe, yeah, six days later.

It was when the TCU head coach Jim Pittman died on the sideline of a heart attack. In nineteen seventy one. It's October thirtieth, nineteen seventy one, had a heart attack on the sidelines of a game against Baylor and Waco and passed away at the age of forty six. Yeah. Yeah, So so anyway, I you know, it'll be interesting to see, you know, the concentration in practice and if they can get back into the routine. I mean, there is a

game to play on Sunday. I saw the injury report for early guys missing for the Commanders, and it was lengthy, including their running back Robinson. But wasn't he coming back from some sort of injury? I am not sure recently, of course, prior to the season he was shot and then came back and made a great return and I've checked on that might have been it. Yeah, but it

was pretty long, so I don't know. And then my buddy John Kim that helped write the book that Bill brought up, said that when they the part of practice they got to watch the first drill they did, the reps went to Sam how their rookie quarterback, and then the second drill they did, the reps went to Taylor Heineke. So they were kind of rotating sounds like they're positive play both guys. Carson through three picks last yeah, yea,

his reputation and the team. So they decided they were making that change and going to take a look now that their playoff chances are. Yeah, so they may who knows that, As Mike McCarthy said, yeah, I would just get ready for all three. And it happened just like last week. And you get ready for whoever you get ready for, and all of a sudden, the guy that they signed eight days ago starts against Ship. I mean, that would be amazing if three games in a row

they faced backup quarterbacks. That's right, with Minshoe the Philadelphia game and and then Joshua Dobbs last week starting again today or this week, and then we'll see what happens. Now, Heineck was the one that kind of gave them the impetus to contend for that. You could make the contention that Heineke is actually their starting quarterback. Yeah, and that was just playing He's not bad. I mean, he's Menshoe. Yeah, I mean there's good good quarterbacks. I don't I don't.

I'm not gonna dog these guys because if you throw things on time and you have the weapons they have, then they can be potentially dangerous. Yeah. But now they talked about the other day the comeback player of the year, and they were talking about getting ready for Kyla. I think they said, Russell Wilson's gonna end up being called like black predicting for next year the comeback player, who the comeback So who's had a horrible season this year?

So those are the candidates for Comeback Player of the Year next year. But then you think about he just brought up Robinson he got shot. Now that's a comeback, yeah right, I mean he should win his hands down, so he'd be the comeback player of the Year this year. He's got to be. I mean, he's got to be the man got shot. I mean he is bawling right now,

and that's a mental comeback. Yeah. So I mean, let's just see who wins this because if whoever wins it over here him, if they went it over him, like man, this guy must have been through fire and come out on the other side. I'm burning. Okay, So the team will be on the field twelve fifteen, Okay, yep. So what else did you glean from Mike McCarthy's press conference today or anything else even from the coordinators the other day that you want to bring up to get us

started here, you know he was. I mean, he spent the majority of the first part of the press conference just talking about the players, taking care of the players, um, you know, UM, talking about just kind of letting them talk. Listen. And I guess the big news we should get to if we have time to hear, is the roster moves I made. Yeah, they release James Washington. Poor guy, man, he just never had a Yeah. I mean, you think about it. He had It was a hamstring in the

off season. He missed all the offseason work, and then the first day of pads he fractures his fifth metatarsul. Finally gets back. Unfortunately, when they were going to do the ramp up, it was around Thanksgiving. They weren't practicing for a couple of games there, so they waited, and then he played, uh in two games, eleven snaps in one game, four and another. Um. But you know, I think they they tried to use them on special teams. The guy probably not ever played special teams before, UH,

and so they ended up releasing him. Yeah. And that's why, right, because you've got a guy with more experience, more production, and no injuries and no injuries and looking pretty dark good too. By the way, So here's the other thing they they you know, so obviously they opened up a roster spot. Um, they've got a problem at back up center because they've used three different guys off the practice

squad and all three have their elevations have expired. Um. It was Dakota Vley, Aviante Collins, well Hoffman and brock Hoffman. And Collins is more of a tackle, but they but he had played some center, I think, but they his his has been used up, so they need somebody to be the backup center. Now on the practice squad on injured reserve is Alec Lindstrom, who is a center. Uh,

he's only played in one game. He's only had one elevation. Um, so they could elevate him, or they could sign if they think these other guys are better, they can sign him to the fifty three. Uh if if they go that direction, So be interesting to see how And you would think, well, they're gonna they're going to obviously with the Beadish injury, they're gonna go with. I mean, you're now one injury away from this guy actually playing in

the game. Before they were two injuries away. Now you would have done what they did right, you move Connor mcgun So it's whoever they consider to be the best candidate to play a full game. If the starting center McGovern goes down, you know, early in a game, so they got to cover that. And Hoffman has been the most recent one that's been up. So but that is

the roster move that you would anticipate. Why why they're making the move now with Washington, it is because they were going to need a roster spot this weekend, and then they you know, we likely you know, after everybody gets to watch practice, see what they're doing at the tackle position. If they're going to move tiring to left and then do something at right tackle. Um, if they're gonna leave Tyler Smith at at guard? Okay, is there any part of it which James Washington, I'm okay, we're

now to the last game of the season. Okay. If a team doesn't pick him up, okay, he's now if you have an injury at you still have him handy, you know, And or would there be yeah, don't go don't go home and start working on the ranch, right right, right, don't go out to Stamford yet, you know, and and even over the next several weeks if he remains out there as a free agent, or you could sign him

to the practice squad. If right, that's what I was talking about, right, practice squad, because you're right, one injury at wide receiver, and so you got you got. So you're making this decision on Okay, at what position do we have the most depth and what player may not be picked up. Here's a veteran player, you know what teams picking him up who basically hadn't played this year,

you know, have coming off an injury. And so even from that standpoint, it seems to be a prudent move as far as a roster manipulation to do that, right, because if you if you put sign him back to the practice squad, even though you're technically a free agent, if someone picks them up, they got to pay him three weeks and there's only one game left, one game left, and then you better have you know, you better be

in the playoff. But even at that, you'd be paying him if you got beat in the first round, you're paying him another game. Well, here's here's the other thing on James Washington is he was a veteran minimum guy, salary guy, and so uh, he's a great young man, you know, and everyone roots for him, and he had the unfortunate injuries not only in the off season, but as you've detailed and first day of practice. But the bottom line is there wasn't a lot of clamoring for

him in the free agency. In the off season. He was a veteran minimum guy. This was a prove it year and next year is going to be another. Now, prove it year for James Washington. A lot of times we because they are our players, we put more value on them that you know. But the bottom line is you follow the money in this way. We invested in him, right,

a lot of time. Yeah, right, that's the main right, that's why we look at him as I was, right, Yeah, and it's not just with him with idiot players, yeah, rehab, Yeah, that's yeah, right. But there's a there's a reason t why Hilton has been t Y Hilton for a decade in this league. And I was waiting on the I was waiting on the t Y when he caught them U fifties. He does that, he does that? Oh yeah, why yeah, he does that. Yeah, he did it. But

he's my new favorite player. Just talking to him, he's great. And then I think the other thing they've got to continue working on is what they do at that third quarterback the cornerback position. Um, you know, are they happy with Nashon Wright? Remember they picked up Mulling. He's been with him and he's played quite a bit, uh in the league. If they're looking for more experience, Um, so

interesting to see what they what they do there. So those those two things center are actually three center tackle and then what what they continue to do with the cornerback position. I mean, you know, if you're gonna pay the guy, you might as well play him. Talking about Joseph if you need him, I mean, there's no need in just having him bare. I know. Will you know

what this kid? He can't get out of his own way, right, he's doing what he's supposed to do, going down covering the punt and he's in position to just stand there and then the punt comes more to his way and the guy runs into him to catch him. There's a flag, but you can see the athleticism. Yeah, oh yeah, speed. I think it's you know, once again, if we're paying, we should go ahead. And you know, with the depth problems that we're having, right, we just may be forced

to play him and you're gonna have to trust a god. Eventually, you're just gonna have to trust I might trust amid Man. Okay, we'll come back with more of that in a moment. Making. You need to go out to the practice field and see who's on the field today. And when we come back here on mix shots, Yes, we have breaking news from Washington. We will tell you who will start at quarterback for the Commanders against the Cowboys on Sunday at three twenty five. The Medal of Honor is our country's

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He found out he's reading that like literally as he started reading that because Mickey was out on the practice field and he and I think that the players players actually were blinded by Mickey when he went out on the practice field. Was that supposed to be Cowboys Nation World? Are the hoodies? Yeah? And I said, what did I say? No, I don't know you. Yeah, first I said tease year. He didn't say gear, right, Yeah, yeah, that was grabbed not gear. I know. Yeah, Well, he get a chance

to proof for he did ahead of time. I said fees. I was gonna say fees, not tease. They stopped practice for you when you went out there in that shirt. Look like noodles. Let's yield, we gather. And I don't think they could see me through the window. Oh you were just on this side. I couldn't go very far that you were late. I did notice that it looked like h Layton vander esh was out there with a

helmet on. Yay, So that bodes well for the two weeks from man the first week of the playoffs cool and he said he would do a little something, so that was good. And Lyndstrom they were going to start his twenty one day ramp up. But McCarthy when he spoke about him, um um Farney um, yeah, yeah that's what I meant. Um. They he sounded like, you know, we might he might be ready. And when I talked to Farniyac on Monday, he said, yeah, I'm good to go.

Now we'll see how much they let me do. So well, it's certainly made sense to wait until now on Farneyac because of the short weeks. The last couple of weeks right exactly, because if they did, they would have wasted a week last week, right, They aren't really practiced, so he could have been ready, really yeah, two weeks ago and they just waited until the full week to get

him a full week or press. So that that's a that'll be interesting to see if they think, well, he's practiced three times this week, he's good to be the backup. You just never know when you need the backup. M all right. And with the breaking news from Washington, Ron Rivera has announced who his starting quarterback will be on Sunday against the Cowboys. Sam and they are going with the rookie Sam How Wow, why not? You gotta see

fifth round draft pick out of North Carolina. Okay, McCarthy said he liked what he saw from him at North Carolina, so no, Heineke, Well, he would probably be the backup in Wentz would be inactive. Poor Wins. They'll be looking for a job. Sam how last year at North Carolina head in twelve starts, twenty four touchdown passes, nine interceptions. He's only six one let's say six one two twenty and fifth round draft pick number one hundred forty four

pick in the draft this year. Please don't tell me. He runs the football well. Last year at North Carolina, he had eight hundred and twenty eight yards rushing in eleven touchdowns. Thousand yards. He had eight hundred and twenty eight yards rushing in North Carolina last year. Last year, in his last year at North Carolina, yes, some guy named Sam so he had. He had twenty plus passing touchdowns. He had nine picks and twenty four touchdowns the previous year.

In twenty twenty, he had thirty touchdown passes in seven picks, but only ran for one hundred and forty six yards. Probably got sacked a lot. You know in college they count the sacks on their rushing totals. Well, I mean, so he could have gotten a thousand yards of rushing.

He could have and got sacked for a thousand yards two thousand nineteen twenty nineteen, he had even more touchdowns thirty eight touchdowns and seven interceptions for the tar Heels yards per attempt in twenty twenty ten point three yards per attempt. So there you go. He was. His coach likes to put it up in the air. I know that much. I like that Mac Brown Brown. That's right, Mac Brown. He's aware down. Yeah, as soon as he got to North Carolina, he was all offense, no defense.

I mean, that's just how they played. I think that thirty eight touchdown. I think that was about his first max first year. He learned that from Lincoln Riley. Huh, Lincoln still needs to learn some things. That's right. That's right. Um, So anything else you see you out on the practice field, they were still stretching. Okay, you never see anything out there? Know why out there? For? Why you go out there just for stretching? Well, and then you leave me hanging.

That's what the that's what they my bad eyes and bad light, and that's what they purposely let us watch. That's part of the right. That's strategic. It's like a filibuster. Strategic. By the way. Also the breaking news from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, UH, it is confirmed that they will be announcing the fifteen Modern era player finalists for

the class this evening. It was originally scheduled for last night, and out of respect for Damar Hamlin, UH, they postponed it and now they're going to go ahead and do it tonight at seven o'clock Central time on the NFL Network. And UM, of course, Darren Willson and DeMarcus ware are among and Zach Thomas, a former Cowboy, also for the last year half his career. It's one year, right, we're going to claim we claim her bad early, don't we claim? Actually, actually,

I don't know that we claim her bad early. Yeah, he does not claim USA. Oh you can if you want, though, I mean it's not in their media. Guy, do you realize that that was an entire rookie year with Mike Ditka and did not know that he coached there? What do you mean eighty one? He wasn't here in eighty one? Yeah, because he went to the Bears in like eighty two. Coach, you didn't wait, you were a player on the roster teams as a rookie. I did, Oh you did? I did?

He was just he was there. I don't even remember him. I have no thoughts of that was forty one years ago. Well no, I mean even even like twenty years ago. I had I missed him. I missed him. I missed it all of eighty one. I had. I had balls flying over my head, man, I had stuff. You were a rookie kie head swimming, yes, trying to figure out where my next interceptions coming from probably looking for his next meal where you're still living at the hall. Yes,

I had no problem with but the meals. Mom was loved. I was loving Mom. But wait, he was your special teams coming and I played. This is my point, this is my dilemma here. I mean, dude, I played. I do the Gunners. I'm gonna kickoff team like I did all my whole career field goal block. I don't know. I don't remember him. I don't remember I don't remember him. I looked at Maybe he just had the title and did something else somebody else did. Maybe I just stayed

out of trouble and he didn't yell at me. Was Alan Lowry there? Oh no, no, Alan didn't get there until we saw about demise. Okay, we don't say that about my fellow Irving I'm sorry Mare. Oh wow, man, he had a tough time. He came in with a

whole different attitude than the boy. The boys, they tore him up, Alan Lowry, I'm thinking, Alvan there, you got it, so sorry, well, good thinking Alvan running backs coach Alan Lowry was all at Irving High School at the University of Texas and the Special Teams don't you remember, let me tell you we're real quick. You know who taught me how to get in a three point stance at the Irving MCA and it was Alan Lowry. He was playing for the He's probably at Irving High School. Then

maybe a senior in high school. Baby was going to Texas or I can't remember. He may have already been at Texas and he did a clinic at the Irving Y. Alan Lowry taught me how to get into it. He looks great. He never he just doesn't look that old, you know. But now he Uh No, Alan Lowry, I remember, I thought he's talking about how the van No, no, he you come in as a running backs coach to media guy, I need to check one thing, okay before I see it. Well, Mickey is checking that one thing.

He says it. Yeah, Everson, what is your take on this team that coming into this week as far as UM playing a Washington team that has nothing to play for? What does this team need to play for? Obviously you're hoping that the Eagles lose to the Giants who have nothing to play for, and that the Cowboys win. But in getting this team ready for the playoffs, what is it that the Cowboys need to clean up this week. You know, whatever they do clean up, they're going to me.

I feel better about them doing it during the game. I feel better about them playing this game as much as they should play it until you realize that it's out of hand. I want them to play this game to win it with starters in the game. We were talking during the break about you know, I wouldn't say tanking a game, but resting your players for that last season that just never votes well to me. For the Dallas Cowboys, and you're looking at this team because of

our weird inconsistencies. I think we should play this out. I just don't feel like we are that team that is there. You know. I think we still are hungry. I think we're still better than last year, but we are still not there. And I don't care if you go against a Washington practice team, I don't care what it is. We still need to get out there and stay polished. When against the Tennessee practice team last week, yeah,

and you see what happened. You see what happened. So no, I think we're always in the position to get better, especially this team. Like they said, I think it was last week we got a young squad. We have a really young squad. I think it's best for us, and I guess I'm old school Tom Landry, par Sales, Belichick, Eddie Robinson. We just don't rest, you know, we play,

We play it out to the end. You know, I'm right there with you, especially if they've got to have a potential shuffle in the playoffs on that offensive line. Those guys need to play together. You can't just act like, Okay, we're just going out right and you don't need to be you know, they will. I mean, I'm sure there'll be scoreboard watching or they'll have somebody monitoring the Philadelphia game.

But yeah, just go playing. Just go play, go play, and when don't go out there with any other alternatives, like, you know, don't go out there thinking I can just you know, take it easy here, don't get sloppy in your technique. Digs need to guys like Digs. They need to take this this point, this game and really mentally be where you're supposed to be right and right now. Digs is not mentally what he needs to be. QUI

he's guessing. He thinks he's smarter than everybody else. We all do, and they're getting him, Yeah they are, and that could you don't need that going into the playoffs, nor end the playoffs. So all of those guys that are not quite where they need to be. Uh, you your season didn't end what it started. Guys like Durance Armstrong still playing well, but you know, not getting the pressure that we were accustomed to getting. This is the

time to go ahead and shore that up. See if you can better yourself this game better than you've been doing the last two weeks, which, by the way, Durrance had a pretty hectic week last week because his uh, the families getting ready to he was getting ready to have his well not him, but uh first child. And I think he left here on Tuesday his daughter was born. Oh maybe it was Tuesday. He was there Wednesday, and then he had to fly on his own from here

to Tennessee on Thursday, the morning of the game. And I looked at him, I said, I take your word on Southwest Edie goes yeah, he goes yeah. I mean he he was like beaming. He said it was great, but it was pretty hectic. Heavin fly and then play that in that game, and he actually showed up a little bit. But well, if it was that week. Yeah, but he's still holding at eight sacks. And you know, he started off pretty well the guy that's been coming

on as Dante Foller. But what I was going to say is, you know, and I keep harping on these these last several games, they haven't had many sacks. They had two games with no sacks, I think, one with one, and then last week they had two. Uh So it's like, yeah, come on up to pace. Well I looked and I was thinking they were they were at forty five at some point. Well they're at fifty one. Uh And I

just happened to, you know, kind of peruse fifty one sacks. Well, they had fifty nine in two thousand and seven, so this is the most since two thousand and seven, and it's the second most since if you don't count the strike season in eighty seven. This is the second most since eighty six, when they had fifty three. So not only were you guys kind of intercepting passes at eighty five eighty six, but they had fifty three sacks. That

here they tend to come with each other. Yeah, right, yeah, And then and in speaking of sacks, Donovan Wilson is has the most sacks of any safety this year, five and he's matched Bill Bates single season safety record had five if yeah, I think it was eighty eighty four maybe, um, but yeah, that was the record for a safety because they ain't really blitz the safeties that much they back then. Uh. And then Bates didn't play much after. I mean when

Jimmy got here. I remember every year offseason, Bates was just frantic. I don't know if I'm gonna make the team that you know, they don't want to right, yeah, yeah, right. Eddie would always make it right. But then when they got to the Super Bowl, finally he had tours acl uh, like I don't remember if it was in the playoff game or right before the season ended, and he couldn't play, and he I could remember him telling the story of when they were out there for the national anthem uh

in Pasadena for the Super Bowl twenty seven. He was out there and he was trying to show him he could run. It's like Bill, he never could run, which which is another thing. When when this happened, I was thinking of the different injuries I've seen that you know, have been really serious. And I remember him that one

year and you you would have been there. It was a preseason game and they were going to have him return punts and he ran right up the middle as fast as he can and you know, Bill, he wasn't gonna avoid anymore. And he got slammed and he was he tells the story. He was knocked out right. And they said when they when they got to him, he was snoring on the field. We shouldn't laugh about, right. It's a it's a it's a strange, strange story. And you you know you mentioned Michael and then the the

wide receiver that was from he was from Arkansas. Um, the guy that he was an Armstrong. He fractured his knee cap twice and he did the second one when we were in training camp, and he did it right in front of me. And I swear to god I heard it. You know, I probably didn't write, but you've seen when a guy goes down like that. Yeah, I just don't remember his name, sir, and Anthony Armstrong Anthony, I'm not sure. We'll look it up. And I've got an update for you as we go to break here

on Damar Hamlon. The Buffalo Bills have issued a statement saying that Damar remains in the intensive care unit and critical condition, with signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight. He is expected to remain under intensive care as his healthcare team continues to monitor and treat him. And of course, we keep Damar hamling in our thoughts in prayers. Let's go to breaking. We'll wrap up mixed shots in just a moment. We paid how much for those lessons? Set? Great?

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that media game? Looking for the guy I was looking for that cracked his kneecap twice from Arkansas and Arkansas Wide Receiver. Yeah, okay, well we're back on the air now, Mickey, I got I gotta, I gotta give up. I can't be Yeah, maybe you can tweet it out or something. You have more breaking door something, No, that's we're caught up on our breaking news items. One thing I will say about what's going on now, I think they're better that mister Hammond gets. I think the tension will ease

around the entire league. You know, I would I would imagine things do hang on his recovery. I mean, you know, just as far as mentally in regards to all the players around the league. You know, if something would have if he would have passed on during that game, you got a whole different thing going on in the league. And the fact that he is getting better, I think the players talking and all of that, the fact that he's getting better, I think those conversations go a little

bit easier, they're a little bit better. But if something, you know, if he takes it, I don't even say if things would have been different, then I think our attitude in this room and around the whole league would have been different. You know, they had his UM. I believe it was his uncle that helped give a update last night out by the hospital that while he was still in critical condition, uh, they had reduced the amount of oxygen he was getting from one hundred percent to

is excellent. So they were trying to encourage his lungs to take over and that guess they were trusting him. UM. So that was that was encouraging. But again it is my understanding that they take forty eight hours to try to keep him as stable as possible and then so that you get past that forty and forty eight hours will be tonight, right, So and they you know, they need to kind of calm him down to test him, right, right, you had to go through all those tests. Well that's why,

I mean, that's why they put him sleep. Yeah, of course, yeah, so they could you know, insert them the breathing tube. So yeah, it just it just kind of creates a pall over everything. And I'm sure guys, you know, I mean, I don't know if we're going to get to talk to him, but you know, how into practice can you be, you know, just thinking about it, and you know, it's not just what you saw on the field, it's how

everyone relates to it individually. Yeah, everyone has a memory, a story of you know, what they saw besides what happened the other night, and they compare that to it, and so they'll see they'll see that they might go to thinking about what happened with their parents when they were in the hospital, or a tragedy within from a family member they started compared. You know, it all brings

up those kind of memories. So it's not just football, right, you know, it goes way outside of that because now you're talking about Okay, you know, man, that looked just the way my you know, my mom before. You know, when they tried to help her out or something like that. So it's it's you know, it's tough because it brings

up everything that you're afraid to bring up. Yeah. I was talking to somebody here yesterday and they were, you know, seeing it right, and it's like, well, we went through that two years ago with Marcus Paul, and then it dawned on me when we were back at the ranch. John Chang was the same thing when he um, I believe he had a brain aneurysm or a stroke and he fell out ahead of the department. Yeah, and he

fell out right there in the hallway. Um, you know, and uh yeah, it brings back, it brings back, you know, those memories. And you know, I think you said it yesterday about you know, when you're that young, you don't

normally see people pass away hopefully right. Yeah. Um. And I remember when we had the bus crash twenty sixteen going to training camp, when we got out of the bus and we were all, you know, okay except for Emory's arms all cut up, and went running back to see if we could help the people in that car. And when I got within ten yards, it was like, I can't do anything, and my young guys. I told him, do not look, and they looked, and it affects Yeah, yeah,

no doubt about it. And that's the thing with this. It played out on national television. We all saw it for everyone to see. Yeah, all right, Uh, we're out of time on this edition to mix Shots. Keep tomorrow hambling in your prayers and we'll be back again tomorrow at noon for another edition of mix Shots. Wait on one. I wanted to thank all the people on Twitter that came to my defense, pointing out when the tweet came out with my column, Uh it, the backlash was really bad,

but lately everybody said, hey, we know what happened. So I appreciate everybody's sticking up for me. That's cool, because yeah, they were on you man, they were on you man. What does happen? You ain't you know what's going on? What did that guy do? Who is this bumm they're talking about? All right? Anyway, now we're done, okay, and Mickey will never tweet again right now, even though he didn't tweet them to do it again? All right, and we'll chat at you again tomorrow on Mike Shot for Cowboys.

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