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football field today. It is an outdoor practice, but not in pads. Mickey Shells by the way, outdoor, Yeah, because the fog lifted finally. I thought the way when I went home last night the fog was sick. It's like, well, they can't practice outside tomorrow. This continues. Yeah, my son went walked the dog last night. Man, it's crazy. He needed great off. Yeah, and good news about practice because I saw Kelvin Joseph, who missed practice yesterday with an illness,

was out there. Same thing with Jonathan Hankins. They had him listed as non injury personal yesterday and he was back or supposed to be back on the practice field too. So good news on the injury. Did you see the Texans injury report? I did. They had eight guys that DNP for either injury rest or personal or illness. Illness. Yeah, no, I think it was more personal personal. I just don't feel like coming in today side. We sucks. No, I

don't think you Yeah right, this hurts just okay. So I have their injury report here, and the most significant thing from that injury report who is who's not on that injury report? The dnps Mario Addison, kne MALIEK. Collins, the former Cowboy non injury rest, Nico Collins wide receiver a foot, Brandon Cook's wide receiver a calf, Troy Hairston fullback, chest Kurt Hiness defensive lineman's shoulder, Jerry Hughes, the former TCU horn Frog, who, by the way, has eight sacks

on the season, and he's non injury rest. Derek Stingley, the number three overall pick in the draft, who missed last week's game as a hamstring and an illness. All the dnps on that list, and so you counted up eight of them, eight of them, and then limited was their kicker with a right groin. I assume he's right footed. He's been very good this year. Yeah, he's a twenty one out of twenty three Kimie fairbar and he has

not missed an extra point. The problem for the Texans He's only attempted fifteen extra points, but he is perfect fifteen per fifteen if they get to the end zone, he's he's been money. Hey man, I don't want to laugh too much. I'm not lying. I know. Not good. That's not a good thing. And we grew up in the church, man. You know, you gotta be careful on stuff like that because it's gonna come back on That's right, That's exactly right. Try not to be too flipping about this.

They have another TCU horned frog, Garrett Wallow, linebacker who is on the injury report with an ankle injury, but he was a full participant yesterday. And when I mentioned there's the name missing from that injury report who is very significant, that would be one Rex Burkhead, who missed last week's game with a concussion, but he apparently is playing this week's homecoming game for Rex Burkhead, the former Plano Senior High wild Kids. Getting your tickets to the game,

you know, he's dad. His dad actually works at at and T Stadium security. Yeah. I think you mentioned that. Yeah, I'm talked about. Yeah, yeah, your little hometown guy. Yeah, that's right. So there you go. There is your Houston Texans report. I actually studied a lot of the Houston Texans yesterday. You did h and felt like I needed, like coach needed to study extra game film of the

Texans to make to familiarize myself with these players. And I actually looked at their depth chart and there wasn't a lot of names I recognized, by the way. There are some though, some m Okay, well, the coach himself is kind of Lovey from Big Sandy, Texas. Lovey Smith. That's my dad said, that's the best looking for back he's ever seen play in his lafe. Yeah, yeah, there's state.

Speaking of state championships, Big Sandy with Lovey Smith and David Overstreet back in the seventies state champion team even before we came along. And my dad, you know those East Texas kids, you know, it's a lot of great athlete.

It's kind from these taxes. My dad was some allegian fields in Marshall, Texas, and he loved some football and there is a former Dallas Cowboy who Lovey Smith very important in his career both in well in college and making a transition, uh position change in college that set him forth on what is should be a Hall of fame career. That would be one Darren Woodson. Lovey Smith was his position coach a state. Yeah, and I knew there was one name familiar on their coaching staff. One

George Warhop. You remember him Cowboys former offensive line coach, um maybe in the two thousands. That's crazy how even the coaches, even the offensive line coaches of someone that you don't recognize. Yeah, it's the one I wreck right. I'm just saying that Warhop was here oh three oh four, so the first couple of years of Bill Parcel's time as Cowboys, so right before Sperrano offensive line coach here

at oh three h four, before Sperrano got here. And then he went to San Francisco as the offensive line coach when Mike McCarthy was the offensive coordinator for the forty nine ers Mike Nolan's first year there. And of notes, since you mentioned offensive line, Tyrn Smith did practice yesterday. They were not in pads, probably shells or whatever. They were indoors and we were in here, and so you didn't get an opportunity. I heard that he was getting

his hands on people and they were not happy. He's got work to do, right, you know, I got to catch up, man. You know, Eddie had his he had his U knee braces on his elbows. Uh. And there were a couple times where he locked on and they weren't going anywhere. And I don't know if he was on the scout team or what, because I'm sure he wasn't getting reps with the regular guys, but they wanted to get him going. And by all accounts, he looked

pretty good. Lacy looked strong, right, So I think I read somebody said that you know he put those um, those knee braces on his elbows, yes, and and that uh they barely fit because he's been lifted so much man. He I mean, he's got hands, but those braces. I was I was watching that yesterday, going, you think it might help me something, make you stronger? No, No, there's no, I'm not. Yeah. Yeah, I think when he first he looks even big with those braces on his arms, he

looks more like the Fox guy. Right when he first got here. I believe it was him. They nicknamed Hotel California because when he got his hands on you, you could never leave. As you were talking about that. As you were talking about that, I was, you know, at the when he goes into the Hall of Fame, which will happen, right, that will be the thing they talk about about his play style more than anything, or his strong hands. Yeah, and and they evidently he hasn't lost that.

And then you gotta say his humility as well. Yeah, I have never heard this guy boast a brag or anything. And I went on the cruise with him one time, one of those cowboy cruises, and uh, it was. It was good to be with him. He's really quiet, really nice, and I had a video of him dancing, so I don't get a blackmail him with that. But now he's real cool. He had a good time. You know, you don't see him shout at all. Right, you know, you know what's interesting about it, because he is he's a

gentle giant. Okay for us in the media, I mean his whole time here over a decade. Now, okay, you don't approach him in the locker room for an interview and it's because he's so big, you know, but he's the nicest guys, but it's not something you get the feeling he enjoys doing interviews, and so it's like he just leaves, okay, but but it's almost like the media

is intimidated by him. Black, a defensive lineman would be even to go up and ask him for an interviews even though yeah he's a because he really, like you said, he doesn't want the interview. I think he's happy with that little persona and I think he kind of that you can kind of feel that, right, right, yeah, hey man, just just it's like bund boundaries. There's people out there. You got to test their temperature before you approach him, right and yeah, hell you know his temperature. They asked

Tyler Smith about it. It was good to see him out there, and he goes yeah, and they were saying, you know, how much does he help you? And he goes, well, he's kind of quiet, especially compared to Tyler. And I was saying, remember and I can't remember who pointed this out, and they go, well, how was he and he goes, man, yeah, he was grunning. He grunted a couple of times. So anyway, he's out there. Yeah, and uh and James Washington. I talked to him for a little bit yesterday in the

locker room. He's ready to go. It's just a matter of when they want to get him going. He's been ready for a couple of weeks, just kind of chomping at the bit. And Anthony Brown did have his surgery on the achilles already this week. Doctor Curry did the surgery, which means he's in really good hands because if he fixed mine, I bet he can fix a professional athletes achilles. Not much, not much cleaned up. Yeah, right, you probably

a lot. Probably, Well, we want to be careful there someone forty years younger, yes, shape yeah, now really I think in real time he would be probably like sixty years younger. If you just got looked at it. It wasn't it wasn't he had he had better achilles in there to repair. Wasn't aging, No, it was not. So anyway, that's kind of a update on somewhat now refresh my memory. Last week, the Cowboys made a move and the roster was now the fifty two. Did it go back? They've

got fifty one now? Okay, so they too because they haven't replaced Anthony Brown, right, and they haven't. They haven't even made a move on Anthony Brown. Ye as yesterday yea, and so so yeah, when Anthony Brown goes on IR, that would be two spots. So they don't even have to make a move, uh to activate James Washington. No, no, like get rid of somebody, right Yeah. And and I think some people were thinking, well, they got James Washington

coming back, they won't have room for Odell Odell. I thought, see everybody's like, everybody's like, um, well, well yeah, you know, we're still discussing this, and they, from what I can tell, over at this point, they're over It's a done deal. They are not over him. It's not happening. And you know, Michael Parsons pointed out that somebody asked Michael, he said, did Odell say, like when you know when he could get back? And he's he said, Odell said, well, yeah,

I'm probably five weeks away, playoffs, five weeks away. But that's getting back into practice now. He's got to ramp up and to be ramped up maybe in time for the Super Bowl. Yeah, can you do that? Just come back for the Bowl? Sure? If he's if you if you've signed him to your roster? Yeah, yeah, can you sign him super Bowl week? I definitely talking can claim somebody off of No, I mean he's a free agent free agents, I don't. I think there's some sort of

rule about that. I don't. I'm not sure. It's been a while since we've Super Bowl rosters. But anyway, so there's the point on a serious note, if he's no better than that, Now, what's he been doing? And you know, when I wrote my column, it was like, when you're on your own, you don't rehab like if you're with the team, right, because somebody's got in jurisdiction of you. When you're rehabbing on your own, you're hiring some guy and you can't make that guy mad, Like he's gonna

get mad at you because he's getting paid. So you're still the boss. He's Yeah, you're the boss, not him. Now think about it. You know, he can wake up in the morning and go, you know, I don't feel like it today. You don't wake up in the morning until britt Brown n I don't feel like it today. Right. You think it's intimidating going up to Tyrne Smith in the locker room. It's really intimidating going up to brittle. Probably Brittle probably get in the car and come and

get this is what we do right now. I don't know how how well he would react to that, but I would be very surprised because that that sounds like that could happen in a very casual manner. I would be very surprised if a professional approached a rehab in a casual manner. So I'm hoping that didn't happen. Here's what I'm hope hoping. And we go oss the explanation. Uh, that's the second one because a second search on the same area. Maybe it's just gonna take longer because it's

the second surgery. No, it is gonna take longer because when they fix it the first time, when they take the what do they take a tendon or some I have no idea. I think they take a tendon out of your out of your fire or whatever and put redo. That's what replaces your the ligament a cl But when you do it the second time, you got to go to the other knee because that tendon is no longer there. But in regards to heal, no, but you got to

now you got two two knees, two legs to heal. Yeah, right, so and to me, I think just the mechan when you start dealing with mechanism in there, one tending, okay, then the second tending. I have an idea that maybe it's just inherently gonna take longer because it's the second surgery. But yeah, the tendon I get, you can get it from another leg all that, But I mean just to go back into that same area that's got to heal a little bit slower than it would after. Maybe it's

easier because the tunnel's already in the Yeah, okay. Here's the report on the original ACL surgery that he had in twenty twenty, and this is from Ian Rappaport. All Right, the procedure, which was performed in twenty twenty, was performed by a non team affiliated doctor, led to a rehab that took longer than expected. While Beckham was training in Arizona, some wondered if he wasn't working hard enough. Turns out, and just not a great surgery. Oh wait, no, just

not a great surgery. That's why that wasn't him. It was the surgery, that's well, let me tell why. When you go through the team because he wasn't on a team. Maybe he was a free agent, was a free agent, and he's a free That's why if if this happened to you and I was your agent, I would tell you you just sign on the practice squad because you get to come to the Dallas Cowboys and rehab here with Britt Brown, not with some guy you hired. Right, even if it cost you money, it's in your best interest.

And Rappaport said, and I don't know what the date is, this is from April, okay. Rappaport reported that Beckham's surgically originally original surgically prepared knee from two years ago was concerning enough that the Rams didn't want to sign him

to a long term deal. They only signed him to a one year deal one point two So before the Rams signed Odell this past season, the knee was a concern because it was not one healthy and so what they are hoping, what Beckham is hoping, is that this second surgery has corrected what was the issue in the first but which which would mean that the rehab might be longer because it's the second surgery on the same knee. Well, it's already longer, and wow, man, that is but you

compare it to like Michael Gallup. Michael Gallup had his surgery in which was a first acl we had it in February, six weeks difference. And and but he had his surgery in February, and then he sort of the timeline on it and he was playing in a game and late October or what where did he come back something like that in November. Yeah, so we're looking at Beckham, he's working on eleven months, right, Yeah, there's basically nine months on Gallup to be back in a game. Yeah.

So yeah, and so here here that the first the initial diagnosis was the Rams weren't happy with what did it looked like? So they only game of one year deal. Then he goes out there and got hurt. And so now everybody else's saying, because you know what, these these trainers that they're they discussed things with each other. It's not like my team's here, it's like they kind of trade. Yeah yeah, and and what's the chances that something else didn't go wrong that needs to be fixed, you know,

like some sort of meniscus or whatever. So he's out there balling with the GLAMs all year on the on the on the bad knee. Well he says, he says that he tore it before the Super Bowl. Yeah, so he tore it before, that's what That's what one of the reports said, and he went out and balled out. I would I would think, well, I don't know about I think partial, but he probably played injured, which is what you know, that's what that way it goes. You're gonna get out there and do what you gotta do.

And he still look good on it until that one. Don't you think at this point you could have worked out for a team if they asked you to after all? Well, no, no, no, no, here's what here's what O'Dell. No, I would not say that he could work out for a team. He's not ready. Here's what O'Dell tweeted on July second. Crazy thought really played the whole back half of the season without an ACL and won a Super Bowl. Oh well that's just what I'm not sure I believe that you can do

that without it. He wants. Well, you saw what he tweeted. You saw what he tweet was yesterday, Right, I did not. I don't think I need to start fight. I didn't follow him. I just heard somebody mention it. He tweeted out a picture of a pawn. Oh yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, you mentioned yesterday. We didn't know what the hell what does that name? Still? I don't know. He didn't have any words, just said pawn. So he's the pawn. So he thinks he's being used. I don't

know he's being blamed. I don't know. I'm just saying, is he being blamed? I'm not using I think there's a reef surgeon. Well he should have came to doctor Cooper. Go go ask doctor Knight. No, doctor Knight. Who was it Schwarber, the baseball player the Cubs? Is it Kyle Scharber? Scharber? Ye, when he tore his acl the beginning of the season in April, and he came to doctor Cooper to Carol Clinic to get his knee reconstructed, and by late October,

this guy was batting in the World Series for the Cubs. Now, think about how quick that is. And it's a I think it's a testament to you know, getting a good surgeon to do your knee. I'm done. You guys are sitting there playing games on your computers and phone. You know he's trying to find some No, I'm trying to figure out what the Cubs of the World series, all right, so we could with more mix shots in just a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award

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This producer Supreme feels like that I need to clarify about Rick Burkhead, Rex Burkhead's dad that the last segment, I said he works security at the stadium. Well he is he in his past, in his career, he has being an FBI agent. In my understanding is Rick told me this he retired from the FBI and so, but I saw him at the stadium. We're a couple of times pre pre pregame a couple of times during the

this regular season. In fact, one of the days I saw him, I can't remember who the Texans were playing, and he said, I said, so I was Rex doing and I was like, who are they playing today? And He's like, I don't know, I mean, how are you? And I'm friends with Rick and so I could say this other year, but I said it to him. I said, so that shows the difference where if my kid was playing in the NFL, I for darn Shure will know who that they're playing in the Chargers this week. It's

been he's been. He's been doing this for thirty years in his life. You know, he's thirty something years old now, probably started playing football at age three, so he's played in the NFL. And honey, who does Rex play this week? But now clear who's playing for him? When you saw him, he was not in the yellow jacket right right and with his whistle that's right, So he wasn't. He wasn't a crossing card r. He wears a suit in his retirement life. I'm not sure he has to wear a

suit anymore. He wears a suit on the silky, so he's in a full blood suit. Ter of fact. You know what, I think I ran into him on Sunday because he came here one year and gave us a lecture on safety in the building effect. So I thank you for strating. All right, don't mean your friends position at the stage, So back to the cornerback position. Back to it. Please talk about this. How are we going to be with Joseph out there? And how is our

dime package going to look well on third down? Normally when they go dime, it's an extra safety curse has been doing that. So first up at taking Anthony Brown's spot is Kelvin Joseph. Okay, and you know, I meant to look this up. I didn't do it to see what was his the most defensive snaps he's played in a game in his career, because I'm thinking last year it wasn't that many. But his names on the top

of the lists on their little scoreboard for special teams. Okay, so they give points from different things, right, well, yeah, he's the gunner, tackles, cists, whatever, and so which made me think, not only do you have to replace Anthony Brown at corner if you're replacing him with Kelvin Joseph, Now somebody's got to step up in his place on special teams because they're not going to send him out

there to play all those snaps. How many injuries on special teams that might uh bleed into the defensive back position. So you got is goodman down, he's good, He's good. Oh he's good. Yeah, okay, down. They don't have any injuries listed there. He went down briefly in the game, but he got twenty special team snaps in which is after the game, and he said he was surprised when he looked up and there were so many people around him and he was on the ground. I said, are

you okay? He's like, yes, I'm fine. So they're going to have to as a backup corner. Now Nashan right will have to be active and he will probably have to take up some of those special teams snaps that Kelvin Joseph would have had if he was out there, and he hasn't been. I can look, Nashan was active for the Giants game. He had seventeen special team snaps

that give yes. So now he's active. And I talked to him a little bit and said, so, I'm assuming you've always played outside yes, and he goes, yeah, he goes, I'm not kind of built to play in the slot. So so he was the reason that he played the kin which was Thanksgiving. Joseph was out with an illness for Thanksgiving and so he was the gunner along with C. J. Goodwin in that game. So I would assume I believe he made a tackle. No, he dideah a mistake as well,

but no, yeah, he's very active right there. Very active about that. To answer your question on how many snaps for Kelvin On defense, he had twenty nine in the game against Indianapolis and eighteen snaps on special teams in that game. Of course, that was the game Anthony Brown got hurt. That's why he had twenty nine snaps on defense. The other game Green Bay is when Jordan Lewis. That was the first game Jordan Lewis missed, and he was

forty one snaps on defense, fifteen on special teams. So he was able to continue doing his special teams when he was filling in there with forty one snaps. But if you're gonna up it to sixty five or seventy snaps on defense, now Nashan Wright will need to be your gunner, right, would y'all agree? Yeah, someone's got to take that place out there. I remember I still started on special teams, but I mean this guy does more than that. I think he's on the kickoff team as well.

And you know when I was on the special teams. If I'm a kickoff team, I'm just a safety. It's not like I'm running down the hall and ass trying to make a tackle. I'm trying to put in a touchdown. So that's not as taxing as being a gunner, but

you're getting double team. You know, you're getting you're getting jammed up at the line of scrimmage and that's a that's a tough task to ask a gut to start and do that at the same time, you know, unless they made a mistake gun this deal, they don't have him down for any defensive snaps for right, yeah, I don't know. I don't have him down for any defensive snaps seventeen special team snaps, right yeah. Yeah, So that's

kind of where they're at now. They did sign I think we talked about it yesterday McKenzie Alexander, and he's on the practice squad. So if they need to elevate him for a body, they can they can see need ramp up time, no, because he well, at least he went to training camp with something that's been a while. But he wasn't he wasn't injured. No, he did. He did have somewhat of an injury because yeah, that's why they released ened it up on r and they released

him and so did we. We obviously we did the physical. He had a groin surgery in the summer and so he passed the physical. Oh yeah, yeah, Well to me. You know, if you're not coming off a recent injury, I don't know how much ramp up time you need. I don't think you need two weeks if you're just gonna come out there and and uh play some special teams.

I was gonna see if they had any other corners on the practice squad, Kendall Sheffield, Sheffield, Well, you know what, Sheffield would probably be the guy they would elevate, who, by the way, was with the Texans in preseason. Yeah, and they know a little bit about him and he's you know, been active, So I would have bet he would be the next guy that would be elevated. And they will still have to elevate a backup center unless Tyrant Smith's playing on Sunday, and I don't think he is.

Would you like a little bit of news? Sure? Why not from Stuart Mandel who's on Twitter. College football writer former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett has emerged as a finalist for the Stanford job. Multiple sources have told The Athletic Stuart Mandale works for the Athletic. The imperfect job for it would be. I always thought, going to think about the college would be where West coast to go. Absolutely, he's a Jersey guy. It doesn't matter. Stanford is the

Princeton of the West, isn't it. That's right? Yeah, yes, Stanford like all the Princeton West. I just made that up. I think they do or something like that. Stanford things to an IVY League school, you know, Oklahoma. But if you're gonna, if you're gonna compare yourself to Ivy League Stanford, Stanford is already an IVY League school. Basically, don't right by the league? Right and now Oklahoma is the Harvard of the Southwest. We all know that. The Brown. So

Jason Garrett a finalist for the Stanford job. I wonder if he will bring Babe Laffenburg. They're a former Stanford cardinal to be his quarterbacks coach. That's interesting. That is not interesting. Nate Newton for the offensive line, Jason Witten for the tight ends. Who I just saw it was named coach of the year at that is it? Are? They in taps had a very nice season at Liberty Christian and Argyle went to attending to how far did

they go? They got knocked out in the playoffs second second? Okay, yeah, after they had to buy the first losing season last year or so, he made progress. Yeah, like the Cowboys. Do you think Charlotte calls for a recommendation over there? Oh yeah, that's a good one. On the Charlotte would call the Stamford for a recommendation for Jason, I would imagine, Yeah, I can see that. You go all right, we continue with more mix shots in just a moment. We paid

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Walter Payton. That's right, Okay, all right, very good and very deserving for Dak Prescott to be the Cowboys nominee. YEA. By the way, yesterday we were talking about Donovan Wilson. Yes, so they asked Michael Parsons what he thought of Donovan Wilson's play this year. And he starts off and he goes, yeah, jag I mean Dono And it was like, well, what are you talking about? And he goes, well, Dono came to me and said, so, if I was one of those animals, what would I be? And Parson goes his

spirit animal, you would be a jaguar. And it's like, why a jaguar and he goes because he he's like one of those jaguars that you know, they're dangerous on the land, but they'll jump into the water and pull out an eighteen foot alligator. And it's like, how do you know that? He goes, I watched the videos and I've seen those jaguars jump in there and pull out the alligator and they take him up the tree. Yeah, so what channel do you think Michael watches more than

any other? It's that Animal Channel, Discovery Channel, Nasal Geographic or that because Wild Kingdom's not on TV anymore, is it. But but he went on with with this Analogy Weekly show and something said, so, so jaguar more dangerous than the lion. He goes, well, us lions, we got the land covered but he's got the land and the water covered. This just comes off the top of his head. Good, right. So they he nicknamed Donovan Wilson Jaguar. That's a good one.

He is a lean, mean machine. That about really impressive. About the recruiting pitch to Odell and that Mica talked about about education, he said, he basically said, did you did you give him a pitch to recruit him? Here? He goes, Well, yeah, he goes, but you know this ain't in college. I can't sit there and go you can get a good education. He is a piece ord uh. And that Donovan Wilson, I mean, you talk about a guy who has made a and he's done it throughout

his career. He's just been able to stay healthy this time exactly. You know, he's got a lot more help this time. Yeah, that too, And we were able to put him in position to where, yeah, we can be choosy on when we bring him down and you know, I'm not forced to when he's in, when he's deep, he's making plays. But also we still bring him down when it's time too, and when we need to now check out this defensive line. He is tied for the team lead with vander Ish with eighty five total tackles.

He has four sacks, two tackles for losses, nine quarterback pressures, one force fumble and one interception and two pass defense n so. And by the way, this is the last year of his contract. So there's another one free agent. Yeah, there's another one, one of those guys that you know you spend money on, Odell Beckham Junior, not knowing when he's going to play again and when he does, how well he'll play. But you got all these free agents next year that you got to take care of, so

you can't be careless with your salary camp dollars. Right as somebody I heard said, come on, Jerry, just take out your checkbook and sign them. So you look at the three safeties, Curse, Hooker, and Wilson. Curse and Hooker are signed through next season. Wilson is a free agent in the spring, yep so, And the next thing you would be doing is putting Israel and mcquamu out there. I like his number, twenty four, number twenty four in

your program. I bet he was just given it. Yeah, he was pretty Say you did ask for twenty four. Everyone wants single numbers these days. I just saw the quote I wrote out about Parkins he goes Parsons. He said, yeah, if you watch videos that Jaguar stuff, that's some crazy s out there. When I take the Mike McCarthy Show every Thursday, in the last segment, I tried to come up with an unsung star. Who would be your nominees for an unsung star on this Cowboys team? Last week?

I asked Will McClay and Will McClay and I used it on the show. Told coach that Will mcclay's unsung star on this team, a guy that that doesn't get the recognition and he's playing very well but doesn't get necessarily the recognition that he deserves. And he said Malik Hooker was his unsung star. I think who we just

talked about him, Thoughtovan Wilson is your unsung star. Yeah, because you know what, he's hardly ever in the lock so he doesn't get interviewed, you know, and after the game he disappears and it's like, man, if i'm your a go ahead. I said, if I'm your agent, I gotta get you out there, right. I mean, he's leading the team and tackles as a safety. That's pretty darn good.

As a matter of fact, the leaders Wilson would eighty five, vander Eshwood eighty five, and then it falls off to jay Ron Curse with fifty seven and Malik Cooker with forty seven. Just total tackles. You know what I like about that is that you don't have a Eugene Lockhart with two hundred and twenty five. He got on a bunch of them with under got one guy? Ohbody else that year I would I would say doing Songstone, Yeah, I'm that's a good one. I am a big fan.

This guy has been doing it all years, starting from really i'd say Game two, especially his emergence has really got You got to capitalize over what's over here. You have to capitalize off of the fact that this guy, Michael Plarston's is bringing the attention. And it's easier said than done, but he's doing it, and he's doing it consistently.

Eight sacks, eight sacks, second on the team. And if you think about this, and it's what I wrote last Friday, when the Cowboys lost Randy Gregory, it was like, oh my god, what are we gonna do? A defensive end? Right and Armstrong got the opportunity. His eight sacks are more than Randy Gregory ever had in a single season. Interesting. I think Gregory's high was six, So he's got eight and I believe he has He's a couple of his plays have led two touchdowns. He scored a touchdown, right,

and they blocked the punt. If I'm not he's blocked a punt and a field goal. Wow, all right, Nate in Frisco has chimed in all he's got he's got something, he's got My guy. This is the guy that I was gonna go with tonight, Okay, and now I probably will go with it. It's an offensive player. Who's an offensive player? Can you think who he might be suggesting? Jake Ferguson, No, he's my guy, Jake Ferguson, he's here. He's your No, No, the guy that I'm looking at

the text as well. I'm looking. Oh, yeah, I'm looking at who. N Yeah, you're too, you're looking yeah, Noah Brown Yeah with three exclamation points. Mickey's not. Mickey's not. Oh, We're gonna have a conversation after the show when Nate comes in here. Nate, you need to talk with Mickey. Here's what I saw before we go out. But here's

what I saw, and I talked about this yesterday. When you have a game like we had and these blow blowout games we've had, it's easy to stick with your game plan and you could practice that, but we do that out here, but then they can do it in real time in the game. I think those opportunities where you need to try your deep game, your deep passing game,

should be worked on during these moments. And the only time I starts going deep was against was too Noah Brown, which I thought was a decent pass, but the dB would not let him go forward. So you have the PI, but we need to work on that. Especially we're bringing back Washington, right we're bringing him into the game. We need to start practicing on our deep passes because as we get closer to the playoffs, and in the playoffs, you know they're gonna sit down on our routes, just

like they've been doing the last show. All you people out there that keep harping on this, please listen to Everson Walls. Somebody asked me the other day, so the Cowboys a running offense, and I'm going, yeah, they're running the ball well, but they're gonna throw it too. And then somebody says, is Dak being too aggressive, and it's like, no, I want my quarterback aggressive. I got to get the ball down the field. And I think he's like, damn

the percentages and all of that. You know, there's some plays that he needs to try it because he knows he has the ability to do it right, the luxury to do it with this defense. I wouldn't do it early in the second first quarter and the second quarter, but there I would take a lot more chances, not without putting my defense in bad situations, and I'm going to depend on them throughout the entire And then the follow up was, yeah, but he's got all these interceptions.

So I looked, and I know these guys have played more games than he has this year. He's got seven picks. Patrick mccolmes eight interceptions, Joe Burrow eight interceptions, Josh Allen eleven interceptions, Aaron Rodgers nine interceptions. So if you're a quarterback, you're gonna get intercepted at some point, right, But you gotta take those throws to keep people from compacting the field.

You can't let them compact the field defensively, like, Okay, They're not going to throw it over my head, so I'm gonna play up tight. We'll see. When you have a forty point game, that's when you want to take those chances. But they still have to be calculated chances. But I didn't understand those guys have had more pass attempts, yes, no doubt, no doubt. And Dak has to have too many interceptions. But as far as I'm concerned, those are interceptions that how they are are covered up a lot

by the fact that we have this defense. This defense is not the San Francisco defense. I don't care about that crap on. However they do their thing. All I know is this our defense can stop any drive anywhere, at any time given the right situation. And having said that, the late entry on the Unsung Hero, Duran Bland played in a significant role as the slot corner after Jordan Lewis, because you just don't find those guys, uh, you know, grown on trees. Yeah, and young guy, young rookie, young

young man. I was gonna say freshman who was at Sacramento State just over a year ago. I finished up at Presdo State. He finished up at Presdos last year, but he was at Sacramento State before that. All Right, that does it for this addition, tain mix Shots Thanks to our loyal listener Nate in Frisco, and we will chat at you again tomorrow here on mix Shots Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club