The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Nicky Spagnola, and here we are. It's time for another edition of mix Shots and eventually Mickey Spagnola will have his headset on and be ready for another week of mix shots. We do not have Everson Walls this week.
Everson has called out this week and we are here for the next hour and talk about he's on ir We do have obviously we do. You know I can without my headset side as you can. When are we going to open up the phone calls anytime you want, the time you want, any time you want, you want to do it today? How about five two two nine seven two. That's funny because we haven't mentioned it over the course of year or two years, maybe ever since well for sure since March thirteenth, twenty twenty, since the
pandemic hit. So much to talk about we do. But I was like, you know what, just just spur the moment. We take me some questions out there. We ought to take some phone calls since we don't have Everson to fill up the airspace today here inside the SWBC podcast studio, it's March thirty. First, we're moving into April. And you know what April means? The drafters? What's that crispy? The masters? It beats the Yes, I've got it green jackets very goodly,
right yep. And so the twenty twenty two Big Green NFL Drag Scouting Notebook is filling up all right, by the day, by the hour, and so about time we started talking draft over the next few weeks, you've got you got kickers in there. There are kickers in there, all right. There's one from McKinney. There is huh, he's from McKinney and he went to LSU. That's was gonna get drafted. Um. I just read about him, Cade York,
Cade York. He's kind of rated. I think the top kicker and the second top kicker is from Dicker, Oh, Dicker, the kicker, Dicker, the kicker from Texass. You know what, I didn't see his name on a list. He did come out, you know, he started he started his career strong at Texas yeah, he did not kick as well late in his career. The guy from Alabama I saw was listed and he he was I haven't got that deep into I forgot his name. He didn't kick that much, but he kick. Yes, he was good at extra points.
They didn't use him all that much. But yeah, I didn't realize Kaide was from from here. He's from right here in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. All right, we had And the only reason I said that is when Steven did his interview from the meetings and somebody asked him about needs in the draft, and the first thing he said was not needs, needs, not just the draft, but things they still need to work on it. And the first thing that came out was kicker. And it's like, well, yeah,
need a kicker, and they really don't. And you know what, there's really not much out there. I did a little quick look and the top three guys that were unrestricted free agents or considered Michael Badgeley bad How do you say it badly? Did I say it? Right? Um? Chase McLaughlin and Matt m and he was just released by the Jets, who just and they also they had Eddie Pinero. Uh,
he's in a battle. Is their line will be in a battle there because he was a restricted free agent and they went ahead and signed him and uh so rather than him getting released out on the streets, and so he's now I guess his herline is probably the favorite. I'm sure what the Cowboys want to do. I mean, they've got the is it Nagar Nigger the guy that they did sign. That's a young kid. I don't think he's kicked before. Um, yes, kicked before. I mean in
the NFL. I think he's kicked in one game. Well, this boll kicker who's never kicked, we don't have much experience. Uh yeah, um Nagar Chris Nagger Nagara he was from I didn't write that down, but he was a street free agent pickup kicker. So what they have to do? Nice wonder um punter, punter? They got a punter, They spent money, Yes they do. Uh. They probably want to bring in a veteran and then I would think at
some point they draft one. You got four fifth round draft which the sweet spot I think it probably is. Would Kade York last that long? I think I think when you look in fact, the kicker for the Bengals, this year, who was basically one of their best players. He was a fifth round draft pick. He was a fifth round draft pick. So that's kind of the sweet spot unless you're Sebastian Janetkowski, right, unless and that guy's coming out next year from Missouri. So the thicker kicker,
the thicker kicker. Yeah, okay, and he's so he's good, he's real good distance. How do you know? I watch? Okay, I didn't realize Missouri got into scoring position unfortunately too many times kicking m Chris Beam has alerted us that we actually have a phone call. Would you like to kick it off? So to speak with a phone call, do something different? All right, Chris, I threw a curveball. My server just resett it hung them up or not? I got to turn around. Look at this, Chris Beam.
You let us know when you have that server. And if you drop kicker and you're listening at kicker, if you drop caller and you're listening, call back again. But just make sure you're good. That's right, because we haven't done this in a while. That's that's right, all right? Okay? Owners meetings in Florida this week, Um, listen to me about overtime Okay, what did I say last week? Just play football? That's what I say. Just play football, and that's what they just I'll take it a step further
for you. Okay, okay, and just let us throw that this out there, all right. The big what's the biggest issue you with overtime? Play overtime? The biggest issue, The biggest issue has been the biggest what they worry about or what has been the biggest issue? That it was that both teams didn't get a chance with the ball. So winning the coin flip was the biggest issue of overtime, right and now they think they've solved that because both
teams have an opportunity correct with the football. The thought occurred to me, when you do, and I agree, just play football, all right, Let's how about just extending the game. Forget the coin flip, forget resetting the end of regulation. I'm with you. How about at the if it's a tie game, play football. You're just playing. You don't stop you You treat the end of the fourth quarter like it's the end of the third quarter. You put another ten minutes on the clock, and yet you might team
might have the football and they might be down in scoring. Position. The only negative is you don't have the aspect in a high game of trying to beat the clock to kick that game winning field goal whatever. But the point is you got to score anyway, right, and so what difference does it make if you're trying to beat the clock on it? Okay, there's there's the reason why we have downs in football. There's there's still how do they
how do they handle it? In the NBA they play a quarter right right, they play well, four minutes, four minute, five minutes, but they play foot basketball right right, it's not sudden death. They didn't yuck it up. What does the NHL do when they get to the playoffs? You know, it's sudden death, but it's not theirs one to score. But there's both, coin flip both both, yeah, both teams because of the nature of those games. You play has a chance with the ball you play hockey. What do
they do in soccer? They play two fifteen minutes overtimes right before they get to the goofy and you've got every opportunity to take the ball away from the right. Sudden death mech sudden death. It well without the all right, but sudden death means it becomes sudden death whenever coin flip, but it also becomes sudden death if you just play on right, right, and so you haven't taken away the aspect of sudden death. You just continue to play the game and all aspects of the game are still in
play this way. Okay, you have if you're on defense at the end of the game, you got to stop them, okay, And there's and you have no argument. We're just extending the game. So I don't understand why it hasn't even been brought up that just just play like that and take the coin flip out of it, right, Who cares? And especially in the playoffs, right, especially in the playoffs, why why why do you have to get in a
hurry to end the playoff game. Let them play football, don't yuck it up, don't come up with well you got to have a two point conversion. And that's not the way you play the game. Play the game normal. I mean in hockey, I understand what they do in the regular season. It's a long season, eighty two games and they go three on three, okay, But in the playoffs on seven in the NFL, yeah, But in the in the playoffs, it's it's they play hockey, right, It's
it's sudden death. But seven on seven, you take these alignment, take the take the alignment off the field. Yeah, well, they can't play more than sixty minutes. Those are big guys, and we don't want to tire them out, and you don't want to run the football. Just seven on seven. Just throw the ball around, all right? Chris, you said we have a phone call. I do. I have Kevin and Uniontown, Ohio. Kevin and Uniontown, Ohio. You're the first
caller in a couple of years. Are mixed, guys? Good afternoon, guys, Good afternoon. Sure, Hey, a couple of questions and then I'll let you guys go and you to see what you guys say. My here's a couple of my theories. One to me this year, I know we had to clean up to the cap, and that seems like that's what they're doing. Are they planning for more of a next year turnaround instead of additional turnaround because I don't see them. Definitely, we're not as good as we were
last year at this time, especially at certain positions. And Mick, do you see us signing an offensive tackle before the draft. Happens there's I know that the pickings are getting small out there, but I can't see us going into the draft right now with that kind of need. What's your thoughts. I think on the offensive tackle, they'll keep their eyes open for a veteran on a one or two year deal that doesn't cost a lot against the cap, that doesn't preclude drafting a guy and saying, Okay, you know,
this guy's got to start. I think it's open for competition. And then the other thing I think you have to remember at offensive tackle is they you know, Terence Steele right now, if they played tomorrow as your starting right tackle, Now, who's the swing tackle. They're certainly hoping that Josh Ball is what they thought he was drafting him in the fourth round, so you've got to give him a chance. But I don't know that you could just rely on that. So I think at some point in UM I think
Stephen Jones talked about it. You know, they're still looking for you know, maybe it's an offensive lineman that's a guard tackle and can compete for the starting job. But I think that's where they are on that. And as far as for the turnaround, UM, as you know, with Cowboy fans. There's no such thing as a turnaround, right, They're supposed to win the division. And if you look at the teams in the NFC East, aren't the Cowboys
gonna be favorite just because of the quarterback? Well? I think that they're good enough to win the NFC East right now, I mean who I was talking about? Sorry make the interrupt you, but I wasn't talking about us being I agree with you. I do believe that we're the best team on paper an they nfcast. But is that good enough for our head coach to keep his job? Well? Is it his fault? I would say no? But you know how that Yeah, yeah, I got you, I got you. I think they I think they can be good enough.
And you got to let the season play out, right because remember this thing and and um, I can't remember if Jerry pointed it out or Mike pointed it out at this time last year. How good were they? He didn't have Michael Parson Jerry this time last year? Right, Yeah, Jerry pointed out. I agree with that totally. But you know, we were definitely stronger going to his wide receiver group than we are today. You know what the I love the opportunity. I love the word Mike McCarthy used opportunity.
There's a lot of opportunity on this team. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but you got to play it out and see, you know what takes place. And yeah, I think wide receiver. And we talked about it last week. Remember we kind of got into offensive lineman or wide receiver and I was saying, well,
I think the wide receiver is very important. And again, as Steven pointed out, yeah, you go into the draft with what you want to do, and then what happens if a Lamb or a Parsons is sitting there and all of a sudden, your priorities change. Right now, we've got a ways to go yet, I think, and that's why I agree with you, But that's why I'm kind of concerned. I don't want us not to bring in a guard, you know, pick somebody out there free agency
and not go into this draft needing it something. I like the idea of us being an egger draft of what's the best player it is failable on their board, and not be compromised to have no choice but to pick up a guard or center. If that's around you want to go yeah and again, and it has to
be for a reasonable amount of money. And I know, yeah, well yeah, because right now we have you know, very little little cash flow to do anything better, right, absolutely, all right, Kevin, thanks a lot way to start things off. All right, We're going to encourage us to take more phone calls, all right, So our multiple phone lines are open for more phone calls. Which, by the way, on and I did this for mix shot on Dallas Cowboys
dot Com for today. So you're going to be without at wide receiver, right, You're without Marie Cooper, Cedric Wilson, Steven points out, and probably no Michael Gallup for the first two or three games or six. Well we'll see and and and you know Malik Turner, I mean he contributed, right, So I added up the catches of those four guys one hundred sixty sixty three percent of the wide receiver receptions. Is no longer here or counting Gallup for the season opener,
let's put it, okay. And then when it comes to touchdowns, those four guys combined for nineteen touchdowns. That was seventy six percent of the wide receiver touchdown receptions. That's what's missing right now. So if the Cowboys were to play a game this Sunday, the wide receivers would be Ceede Lamb Ceedee Lambton, James Washington, and Semi Fijoko Brown or
Noah Brown, those two four guys basically. And you know, Mike McCarry was somewhat impressed with James Washington, and he said talking I hope he was more than somewhat well sit talking to the people in Pittsburgh. They thought he just needed a fresh start. And he also pointed out that when he came out in the draft, it was a second round pick from Pittsburgh, that the Cowboys had a high grade on him coming out of Oklahoma State.
So to be interesting to see, you know what he can do if he gets I mean, he's gonna get a chance. Right, this is his opportunity. It's a one year deal. And you know, if he likes playing NFL football two hours from his ranch or one hour from his ranch, I guess it's a couple hours because it's just west of Abilene. Then you know, this is his time. He's gonna get the opportunity. So he liked playing football or baylan Hay, Yeah, right, which does he like better?
Who was the offensive lineman that quit on the Cowboys back in the eighties, late eighties or early nineties, and he was gonna go work in his father's roofing business. Changed his mind real quick after he got up on that roof with a letter of degrees and when he got his paycheck. Yeah right, Oh, you're just helping out the family. Okay. So but anyway to Kevin's point, though about is this team better now than it was a
year ago at this time? He's the caller, says no, Jerry said he likes is where this team is now compared to a year ago at this time? What do you think? Well, I think a year ago at this time they were better off, right, But you know they did add But no, we didn't know about the defense, and I don't know if the defense got better or not. It kind of they hold their own. They are counting on young guys to step up now, Is that the answer? Because you can't cover all your holes in the draft, right,
you only got one first year. And see that's the thing in what Kevin would point out too. He would like to and everyone would like for them to fill those holes where you're not having to draft for need in the draft. And that's been what the Cowboys practice has been in free agency, where you sign enough of veteran guys where you can go play. What you will quickly point out is that Connor McGovern has started games before. You can go play with Connor McGovern at left guard,
and it's time, right, this is his fourth year. You know, sitter whatever out the door. I mean, you can't use a he was a third round pick, right, third round pick, fourth year, he got to be more than a part time fullback, part time blocking tight end. Right. And then there's the other thing about that is there will be interior offensive linemen who are still out there who can come in and start for you after the draft. Okay.
There the market is, the money's dried up right now, okay, And so everybody's signing right now are signing veteran minimum deals. It doesn't do those veterans any good to go ahead and sign now. They might as well at this point because that all they're getting as a veteran minimum deal. They can they're going to get that same veteran minimum
deal whether they sign in May or March. Right at this point, now, if you've got some starting experience in this league as a veteran offensive guard or center, you might as well. Wait there, we've seen before wherein OTA's a guy will tear an ACL or whatever and that their needs will arise. But and also from the standpoint, there are teams like the Cowboys who are looking at Okay, yeah, we might draft and a starting offensive guard with the
twenty fourth pick in the first round. But if Michael Parsons is sitting there, or Ceedee Lamb is sitting there, and we don't get that Kenyon Green from Texas A and M in the first round, all right, Now, we'll go sign that veteran that's on the street still, right, who has starting experience then, who actually will be more better equipped to play better snaps for you this year than a rookie would coming in. And that's was the
logic of signing Dante Filer junior. Right, Okay, let's bring in a veteran guy at defensive end just in case, right, and then we'll see what comes up in the draft. So they kind of filled in there. They fill in with Malie Cooker at safety. It's only a one year deal.
Two years, two years, two years, eight million, that's right. Yeah, but they filled in with him last year, signing him during the season, and he proved himself and he's back from his injury and he's and they felt good enough about him that they signed him to a two year deal, just like they did with Curse. Curse was a guy who was a fill in, and he turned out to be their leading tackler on the team last year. I think the biggest disappointment. I mean, look what they did
on the offensive line. They did it of their own volition, right. They decided at right tackle that Terrence Steele could step in for Lale Collins at far less money than collins ten million dollars base salary, right, and and Jerry pointed it out. He said, you know, that's fine to have guys that make that much money, but you got to play to that level. And I got a feeling they don't think Laale Collins played at that level. That's why they let him go. They didn't have to do that.
They did it on their own volition, that's right, because the salary cap savings was not there in that case with with Loo Coolin and the same thing with Cooper. And I also think with Collins they're probably concerned his hip situation, right, that has flared up here in the last game, and they made the decision to let Cooper go. You know, they could have figured it out, but they decided, no,
We're going to move forward. And I saw where they got criticized for only getting a fifth right, But here's the deal. Number One, teams knew that if if the Cowboys didn't trade them, they were going to cut them. So they're not going to give you a bunch of money. I mean a bunch of draft picks. I mean, he's not Tyreek Hill. Right. There was a deadline on that too. He roster bonus the fifth day of the new year.
And the other thing is the team that trades for him has to inherit that twenty million dollars base salary. So now it's like, Okay, I'm taking them on, but I'm not paying you a whole bunch of money. It's the same thing that Cleveland's going through right now with Baker Mayfield. Right. There are teams that would take Baker
Mayfield on, but they're not. He has a guaranteed eighteen million dollar salary this year because they picked up the fifth year option, and so Cleveland is on the hook for that right now, right and there's no team win their right mind right now because there's no there's no vacancy at the quarterback end in the league right now, there's no team that's going to take on that eighteen
million dollars for Bakingfield. It's guaranteed, Yeah, it's guaranteed, fifth year options guarantee, eleveland's got themselves right the only way they keep that's right. And so if I'm trading for him, I'm starting with Okay, I'll give you a seventh What are you gonna do? You want to absorb that contract and the new contract that you just promised and guaranteed till eternity. All right, Carlton and Baton Rouge is on
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you doing? How are y'all doing good? Well? I was just thinking I heard a couple of guys on All y'all podcasts and Joe Loon newses are all the time around the star. If you could talk him out of retirement, you got a guarding center. And then what about us drafted or running back? Uh? I think something would have to jump out at them the third day of the draft running back to a running mom and I think they liked those young guys that they still have rights to.
It's a deep running back class, right And in fact, I think across the board this is going this is a deeper draft than and this is without filling up my green notebook entirely, but just by its nature, it's going to be a deeper draft than what it was for sure last year and in a normal year. And it's because of the pandemic. So you've got a lot more people in the draft this year, and you had
a lot fewer people in the draft last year. I think Mike pointed out, and these were numbers from Will McClay that like a normal year, they would have draftable grades on one hundred and fifty two hundred and sixty players, and this year they have draftable grades on two hundred and twenty to two hundred and thirty players because of the pandemic, so that is returned to college. So just use those numbers one fifty one normal year said one
fifty to one sixty. Okay, let's say one sixty okay, and then this year and then this year they have twenty to twenty. That's six that's two rounds. Yeah, so basically instead of it being in a normal year it's a seven round draft, they view it as a nine round draft and understand that every team has the same number of draftable grades. Well, they are the reason that you get to two hundred and fifty that are drafted and everyone says, oh, yeah, we had a draftable grade
on that guy, is because they're not. They're not the same one hundred and sixty players that every buddy has a draftable grade. Hunt So anyway, so basically you can look at it that a third round pick, a fourth round pick this year, you're more likely gonna have a third round grade on them than in a normal year. Yeah, because I think about in those four fifth round picks, they probably in that room down down the hallway, they probably look at those four fifth round picks as guys
that they will have third or fourth round draft picks on. Yeah, because think about it, thirty two teams times seven rounds, that's like two hundred and twenty twenty five somewhere in their two hundred twenty two, twenty four and now you've got draftable grades on two hundred and twenty of them. So, yeah, this draft is going to be stocked with more players just win. And McCarthy said it, he goes to big thing in this draft is bigger numbers of people that
are available. So and that and that likely has has impacted not only the Cowboys but other teams as far as what they're doing here in free agency. Yeah, there's a lot of guys who aren't in that first wave of free agency and even the second wave a pre agency that are sitting out there on the street and they're not getting the offers that they want, or they're taking the offers because they're afraid they won't have a seat at the table when all the when the music stops.
So they're taking less money as a veteran guy because teams aren't aren't offering more because they feel like that they can fill needs in the draft more so this year than in a normal ye know, Stephen had an interesting comment and we kind of debated it last week.
Offensive linemen or defensive end, And as I was kind of perusing some of the draft lists, it seemed like there was a proliferation of defensive ends that there was a bunch that had first round grades and he made and when when somebody asked him about the offensive lineman, where does that? And he goes, you know what, he goes. The way they play college football, it's really hard to
project offensive linemen these days. So when everybody gets all excited about taking a tackle in the first round, it's like, okay, is he ready to play in the NFL? And over recent years, I think we've seen a lot of busts with those offensive tackles because this isn't college football, and in college football, basically all they're doing is pass blocking and there's not much run blocking going on. And so that gave me pause about, you know, taking an offensive
lineman high in the draft. Yeah, if all things were equal, yeah, could they use and again I'll say it a tackle who can play guard, because usually if you take a guard, that means he can't play tackle. And so at twenty four, you would consider it or you trade down. But your percentage of hitting on offensive lineman high in the draft these days is not as good as it used to be. But with the amount of defensive ends available by time they get the twenty four, there might be one available
that you can say, Okay, this guy can turn things around. Um. So, I just thought that was interesting when he made that comment about offensive lineman. And when it comes to wide receiver, we've we've talked about them. Then the need that the Cowboys have at wide receiver, it's obvious. And man, I look at the wide receivers in this draft, and there there are some who think that there could be seven eight wide receivers go in the first round. I mean
it was. It was a really good wide receiver draft last year with the top three guys, and they all they all came through in their rookie year. I played well, okay, And I think anymore that these there was a time ten fifteen years ago that there was a transition period that wide receivers had to go through in the league. Now I think the guys can step in and play, and so I think when you're looking at some of these teams like the Cowboys with Cooper, like the Packers
with Adams, like the Chiefs with Tyreek Hill. They look at the wide receivers in this draft and they think we can now we may not get a Demante Adams where they not get a Tyreek Hill or a Maury Cooper, but we can get a guy who can who can come in and take a lot of targets and catch a lot of balls as rookie year. And you know there's a couple of guys coming out off of injuries, right Alabama, ye, Jamison Williams. Williams, Yep, he's not going to be ready in the offseason, right, would you use
a first round on him? Maybe you get him in the second. And we know that Cowboys, you've been known to other Alabama gay matching that that also he got hurt and right he I think his was in November injury and so maybe ready in the summertime. That was another wide receiver escape in my mind, that was possibly an injury guy that made would have gone high top ten, fifteen that you know he tours it And that's the thing with Gallup's ACL and the surgery occurring in February.
You need that rookie to be able to come in and contribute right away. Right. So to me, you wouldn't take a guy like that not knowing that he could be ready to play. You know, they did it with Sean Lee right second round. And here again even with a wide receiver. We talked about it with the offensive guard.
Cowboys see what they get in the draft as far as wide receiver, and there's there's gonna be receivers out there, veteran guys out there who again would be able to contribute more at the beginning of the season than a rookie would be that you draft correct and again and after the draft, you never know who gets released after I took this guy with my tenth pick because he's
going to start. That's I think that's the danger in the draft is if you want when you're drafting players, you're drafting these players for If it's a first round pick, you're drafting him for five years because you have you have his rights for five years. Any other player you're drafting him for four years. It's not just about your needs this year. It's it's how are you set at
that position going forward? And that's why when the Cowboys make a decision on Amari Cooper and were he was in his contract right now, you're and with the depth of the wide receiver class and also what you have on your roster, your inventory at wide receiver, where Cedee Lamb is now two years away from getting big money Michael Gallup this year you have you paid big money too. You have to you have to change it over. You have to roll it over in the in the wide
receiver room. And uh and it just happens to be a position now where there's there's a lot more prospects out there, and so you can you can fill the need as opposed to quarterback. Quarterback there aren't. I mean, we've proven quarterbacks that they are coming around every year. There's it's a crapshoot a lot of times as far as quarterback goes. You have to have a high draft pick usually to get one. And by the way, I believe it was McCarthy brought this up, although Jerry touched
on it. Your quarterback, by the way, is going to go through a normal off season, right He didn't get a chance to work that much. He didn't throw that much last year to all these guys coming back from his injury. So he'll have a normal OTAs, he'll have a normal mini camp. They don't have to hold him back, and he'll have a chance to work with these wide receivers, even you know, the young ones, more so than he was able to last year, So that two can make
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Do more. You have a prediction on who the Cowboys might be playing in the preseason year. I hadn't even thought about it yet. Well, with the report coming out yesterday that the Cowboys and Chargers might be practicing practicing, so I'm thinking that may or maybe a preseason game in the Chargers stadium in LA could be the away game, right because they get two home games? Oh yeah? Oh wait, which was it like two way this year? Because we have an extra home game this year, so that's right,
So two it's three preseason games? Yeah yeah, so one in well, they just camp out in LA, right, and I can't remember what we do with Houston, you, well, we had two. We had two home games in one away last year. Houston was one of them. Yes, yes, so we're going to Houston. So the other away games Houston probably, So break camp, go to Houstons and come home and play somebody body at home. Who do you want to play at? Somebody? It's not on the schedule.
Gang of City's not on a schedule. Okay, let's go Gang of City. Okay, and then let's go. Let's go. We did. We just made the schedule, and we're gonna play at London, at at Jacksonville in London. That's what you want to do. Yeah, okay, yeah, please, that's not official, folks. It's been eight years. Yeah, it's not official. Are you making that announcement? Me? No, I'm not. It's been eight years. It was since Joseph Randall played fourteen for the Cowboys
against Jacksonville in London. Wow, and they've got to play and they get eight years since they made that Rex burkehead mistake in the draft, right, and does Brian had the best best single quarter in NFL? Actually nine years since almost missed the bus to go to London, by the way, Yeah, you're right, he's outside the French for a while. He showed up right like if if we were supposed to leave at four o'clock, he showed up at three fifty seven and still had to go through security.
That's why when we remember that I was camped out outside the Valley Ranch, we were getting video. I was doing a live shot and we were getting video as a team's departing to come through. I do remember that, and so here's what happened. This was funny. So the first day were there, I plugged my computer in and it shot the charger. Like I had no charger for
my laptop. Oh, so I had to go down where the cowboys were operating and it was kind of in a hallway a couple of floors below us and find somebody that had a charger that fit my laptop so I can steal some some juice. Right, And so we're supposed to leave at eleven thirty to go to the practice, and so I'm down there and I was going to wait till the last minute to charge my laptop and I get a call um, I think it was from Bryan.
They're on the bus and it's like eleven twenty three and he goes, hey, the bus is getting ready to leave. I said, what time is supposed to leave? He said eleven thirty. I said, I still got seven minutes and and and I said, as Jason Garrett comes walking by, I'm on Dez Bryant time. Eleven thirty means eleventh th if. He busted out laugh. But yeah, it's time to go back. They get three three next three years they they're playing. Then there's a game in Mexico City. And then and
you had one of the German German cities. I can't remember another one. Another one in London at Tottenham, I think, oh, yeah, Hotspur, Yeah, jackson Jacksonville is playing at the Big Stadium. Yeah, they're playing at Wembley. Okay, so let's go. But do you want to go Tottenham? No, I want to go the Jacksonville. Can't go Tattenham. You don't have them on the schedule, all right, so the okay. So Tom Brady retired on
February first. Forty days later he came out of retirement, and then on March thirtieth, Bruce arians says, I'm out of here. Well, I'm going upstairs to the front office. And Todd Bowles is now the new head coach, of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Farmer Cowboys defensive backs coach. Yeah, he spent several years here with Bill Parcels. That's right, yep.
So what do you think that was surprising? Because we kept hearing maybe Aaron's and Tom Brady weren't like see an I die and then he ends up coming back and he ends up getting kicked upstairs. Bruce Arians, by the way, is uh conducting a press conference right now? Sixty nine going on seventy? Okay, if I can read it, it's very small. Chris Beam just sent me Arians all right, here's the quote. It's long. I may not give you
all of it. Succession has always been huge for me, with the organization in probably the best shape it's been in in its history, with Tom Brady coming back. I'd rather see Todd Bowls in position to be successful and not have to take some bad job or crappy job is in parenthesy oh he said something else, not crappy. I'm probably I'm probably retiring next year anyway, in February,
So I control the narrative right now. I don't control it next February because if Brady gets hurt, we go ten and seven, and it's an open interview for the job. I got thirty one coaches and their families that depend on me. My wife is big on not let all those families down. So there you go. That's pretty you know. That is also when Bob Stoop stepped down at Oklahoma, right, that's why he did it, right to say, and there are other coaches that have done that too. It was
when Stoop stepped down. It was in June, and so you're not hiring a new staff then, and you've everything's in place. Everything was in place for Lincoln Riley in the in the entire staff, and you know that. And obviously, Arian says a track record with Todd Bulls, not only in Tampa, but he was his defensive coordinator with the Arizona Cardinals. He has very strong feelings for Bulls, and so he wanted to put him in a position and he's not leaving the organization. He's going upstairs in the
front office. And so he's still still there. And you know, you know, he is sixty nine years old and turn in seventy this year. So yeah, so it makes a lot of sense from that standpoint. Maybe we can do that when we get old when we get old, When we get old, Bruce Arians though his career. You know, obviously he didn't become a head coach until an NFL
head coach until very late in his career. He was an interim coach with the Colts, and then I got the full time head coaching job with the Arizona Cardinals less than ten years ago now. But you go back and look at his history. He was on Bear Bryant's
staff at Alabama. That's how far back. He was a running backs coach at Alabama nineteen eighty one eighty two, Bear Bryant's last year as the Alabama head coach, and so Arians was twenty nine years old then, and he got the Temple head coaching job the next year at the age of thirty. For five or six years he was the head coach at Temple and really didn't did not. He went to Kansas City shortly after that under Marty
shot himer Um. And but he was a college coach for years, and we then went over the decade of the nineties, went back and forth between college and the NFL, and then settled in the NFL around two thousand. Do you want to nugget about it? Was eighty two. Bear Bryant last game. I've got a certificate at the Cotton Bowl. It was at the Liberty Ball, the Liberty Bawl, Okay. And the year before he was at the Cotton Covered. I covered that covered. I covered him at the at
the Cotton Ball. So eighty two and they they beat the snot out of Illinois. Easton was the quarterback. Okay, they couldn't protect him. And I remember the post it was Cole the postgame interview. They didn't have a room, so he stood on some crate like Jimmy used to do at training camp, and it's freezing out and I looked at him and it was like, God, he's he's freezing and he he looks old, right, And I'll be darned if like a month later he passed. That's right.
I mean it was like in February. It was. I can tell you when it was, because it was January, like twenty seventh or twenty eighth, No, twenty sixth, because it got into It was January twenty six at age sixty nine and ages Bruce Arey and I and we ended up going to UH Tuscaloosa because I was working in Jackson, then Mississippi, and we went to Tuscaloosa to cover the funeral. So anyway, I digressed, no, you know, um okay, I was just looking up, you know, with him.
It was so it was a month later, Okay. It was like I remember thinking at the time, Okay, this guy he coaches all his life and then he didn't have coach and yeah, yeah, right, so I could remember. I can't remember if it was that year or the year before we went to Tuscaloosa. They were playing Old Miss and gonna play ol Miss. So in the middle of the week we went there for his press conference and I finally got up enough nerve to ask him a question, and he didn't like the question, and his
Southern drawl went up ten times. Right. I have no idea what he said to answer me right, because he didn't want to answer it. And and it was like, okay, I get it right. Because he answered all the other questions, I could understand him, but what he answered mine had no clue what he said. I was looking it up. Joe Paterno is very similar, all right, Bear Bryant, Okay, he passed away with less than a month after his last game that he coached and Joe Paterno, age eighty five,
January twenty second, twenty twelve. He coached through the twenty eleven season Penn State and then that was it. Yeah, So it's amazing, all right on the Cowboys. In fact, we're getting ready to tape a blitz which you'll see in Dallas Fort Worth on CBS eleven at eleven o'clock on Sunday night and also here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Mickey is filling in for Kyle Yeoman's on the blitz this week. So one of the things we're going to
talk about, let's rehearse it right here, okay, Okay. One of the things we're going to talk about offensive line need versus defensive line need. Okay, which is which is more needy. We kind of touched on that a little bit talking about what Stephen Jones said about comparing defensive
ends in this draft to offensive lineman. To me, for a first round pick and the money that you spend, I think you get more bang for your buck with a defensive end than you do with an interior offensive alignment or a tackle that late in the draft, Because there's going to be a bunch taken before that. I can get that in the second round. I think second round defensive ends drop off considerably compared to the guys
that go in the first round. Okay, we're also talking about offensive guard versus defensive Let's how about we make Okay, you're comparing a guy who can be an offensive tackle maybe if he's not right now, but you're looking at over the next five years, he'll play offensive tackle for
you versus an edge rusher. Right, all right, what about the need offensive guard versus a defensive tackle, then I would I probably, knowing what they have at tackle right now, I could play with those guys unless one of those big slabber knockers from Georgia's available that can't get moved off the line of scrimmage, especially and we're talking not so much for although they may take a guard in the first round, right or you're talking more second, third round,
I could see them doing that. And you can hit on guards there. Right, it's a guard um because because you look at the Cowboys the defensive tackle position, and with with the drafting of Osa Digga Zoo last year, you got him for three more years. Neville Gallimore, you've got him for two more years, okay, and obviously on offense at guard. Mc governor, will you only have him one more year? And then say what you want about we feel good about Galimore and OGGI zoo, yes, you know.
And you got Wilson that you brought in back, right, Carlos Watkins, I said, Wilson, sorry, and he's on a one year deal, and you got Triston Hill. Triston Hill who's on in the last year of his four year deal. Right, So to me, if you're looking to replace, you also have Bohanna as a nose, right, Randy Gregory, I mean and here, oh that was another thing that came up in all this stuff with McCarthy. When he did his deal, he got asked about Michael Parsons and he basically said,
Michael Parsons is a linebacker. He can move around. And he pointed out that of his thirteen sacks, seven came from the linebacker spot, six came from lining up as a true defensive ent. And he said that as an offensive guy, you are doing me a favor if you line up Michael Parsons down in and down out at defensive end, because I now know where he's going to be if he lines up at linebacker, we have the ability to move him around, and you don't know where
he's always going to be. So to Mike McCarthy, he's a linebacker. He's not taking over a defensive end position. So just to clear that up, because I think there was a lot of people, well you got which still may mean he'll have fifteen sacks, right ben, and maybe you know seven or eight ers still at defensive end when they move him around, But you just don't know.
Because the other thing, if you think about what they did towards the end of the year when they were in a four four to whatever, they would line him up like a strong side linebacker on the line of scrimmage next to DeMarcus Lawrence. Now pick your poison, which one you're gonna lock. Here's the other thing. Linebackers can play three downs, right, Okay, you get three you want? You hope you get a linebacker who can be a
three down linebacker, usually defensive ends. Although de Marcus Lawrence he'll play us hard out for you for sixty snaps a game, but he's not You can't ask him to play eighty snaps, okay, And usually he's going to be in the fifty snap to get the most effectiveness out of an edge rusher, he's probably on the field max Fifty snaps out of seventy seventy five in a game. Michael Parsons can be on the field more if you're
playing him at linebacker. And think about this. So Parsons once he started playing predominantly linebacker towards the end of the season. So like Kansas City played eighty eight percent of the snaps, next game, eighty eight point five, next game ninety two nine. Next game it was Washington and it was over after three quarters, seventy nine percent, the Giants eighty eight percent, and then they pulled back. That second Giants game, he only played fifty five snaps. So
you got Lawrence there, I just shut it. Yeah, So Lawrence. New Orleans was first game, wasn't it. New Orleans was the first game he paid. He played fifty two point nine percent, so half the snaps, and then sixty nine sixty three, forty one, sixty five and thirty nine two
and that was the last game. It didn't matter. So so you're looking at six at max sixty percent of the snaps or a defensive end right and and you could always you move them, you could put them at defensive end every now and then, but it also don't
tip it off. But also you want to be in a position where you've got quality linebackers, Like if you want to play him on a certain where you've got a base defense out there of a basically a four to three whatever where you got Layton Vanderish and Jabril Cox on the field at the same time with Michael
Parsons where they can play linebacker. Well, he's lining up as an edge rusher and you're not tipping your hand what you're doing, or you know, still you got that Kean O'Neil spot in the nickel where which you Brill Cox can play that where you can be in a nickel and he can still be an edge rusher and you've got two linebackers on the field to be able to stop the run. Which would be an interesting scenario if they get to twenty four and a linebacker or
two is available, you know, would you do it? Layton vanderis on a one year deal. You're hoping Jabril Cox comes back to be the guy they thought he was after his age. Hey, there's I mean, there's how much how much talk has there been out there, all you gotta go sign Bobby Wagner. Yeah, you know, well that tells that tells tells you that there are a lot of fans out there who believe they need a linebacker. Yeah,
and or just because it's Bobby Wagner. But but if you get a first round Bobby, a rookie Bobby Wagner, Yeah, and save like he would only cost you against the cap the first year, probably a million and a half two million dollars instead of eleven that it looks like Wagner is looking for and one of the reasons why I think Stephen Joins Jones put it out the sounding like they moved on from that. Then Yeah, that's a that's another consideration. And that linebacker from Georgia, you got
him into the Kobe Yes, Kobe Deane. I like him. Yeah, I like him too. Plus he he he checks the boxes another in character as well. Yeah, so those things that that that will come up. But having Parsons is important. And the other point I was going to make, I know, we're running out of time the Cowboys when they basically, you know, Randy Gregory goes to Denver. Now a lot of people thought, well, he averaged fourteen million a year.
They got all that money to play against the cap well his first year cap charge in Denver, and it was basically the same contract the Cowboys had was only six million dollars. So Jerry looked at it as okay, we didn't get that six million, but we took that money and got three players, got Dorince Armstrong, Dante Fowler, and Layton Vanderish. And I looked it up and those guys combined cap hit for this year is eight point
two million. So the six million they had for Gregory, they ended up with three players, and that was his choice. Although I just saw he's having rotator cuff surgery Gregory is. I just heard it this morning when I was driving in and it evidently came up after he signed the contract or whatever. They must have known. Well, when you're signing a contract like that, I can certainly understand how you might enjoy a rotator cuff. I mean, that's a lot of heavy lifting go that, you know. So anyway,
so he's he's he's headed to surgery. But they qualified it as we got a three for one. Now is the talent the same? I don't know if those guys will combine for thirty some quarterback pressures. But he only had I'm not only but six sacks, right, Armstrong had five and considerably less snaps, so and sixteen sacks over the first seven years of his career or whatever. Okay, all right, availability, that's right, that's very important. Okay, that does it for this edition of mix Shots. We're gonna
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