Mick Shots: Decisions, Decisions

The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is nick Shots streaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Savannah Humuller, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.

It's a beautiful Monday morning here inside the sw BC podcast studio at the Star in Frisco, and this is mix shots with out the headset on Nicky Spagnola trying to.

Figure things out, trying to figure it out.

We've got Savannah Humoller, We've got Everson Walls with yes, Yes, my god.

We got Mel Jones Glory Baby, one moment of Welcome back Man.

We got Bill Man here, all this base all nonsense, that's exactly right.

Yeah, I'll finally get done with that.

I got three World Series champions all.

Yeah, three trips. We hadn't gone to cover baseball spring training since the last time they made the playoffs in twenty Even before that, twenty fifteen, they win one World Series and we got to go three times to spring training.

I'm sorry.

Was it packed there?

No?

No, there wasn't.

No one's there to watch them it was normal.

They were bragging about the crowds, but they weren't.

Big, well bigger than what they used to be.

Yeah, okay, let's keep in mind they were coming off the three worst consecutive seasons in the history of the frame.

Don't don't for that. They made up for it all in one year.

Which means there is hope, even for a team that's had three straight twelve win seasons, that you might be able to get over the hunt.

I hope.

So yeah, like the big, big question, you were you able to get the Houston A and M score on the Sunday night Sports special.

We got the score on, but we couldn't show the highlight.

The game ended in time for you.

No, they've got these archaic, ridiculous rules. Okay, So A and M and that was a great game, all right. A and M ties Houston on old buzzer beater and then they lose on overtime whatever. So that happened at what time nine o'clock or whatever it was later or nine thirty o'clock. Well, we were on late. We were on like at eleven o'clock last night.

Oh, you started it.

We started, We started our thirty minute sports show at eleven o'clock, we get down at eleven thirty. Well, san Diego State because San Diego State is playing Yale, because and who cares about san Diego State.

That's all you get Yale.

Only you and Calvin Hill cared about that game.

They made it very far last year. Okay, great line.

Yeah, yeah, it was a fury point game, right, and it's on True TV wherever you can find that. But because that game was still in progress, we can't show highlights of the A and M Houston game. That's how ridiculous these NCAA rules.

I just think if you had started your show normal time at ten thirty, you wouldn't have gotten the score until about ten minutes were left.

In your show. Okay, all right, so you were I was monitoring it and you were taking Oh what's Bill doing?

Yeah?

Is he waiting on this game? And then getting in because the morning news couldn't get it in the newspaper.

They only got they only beat Yale about twenty eight.

So yeah, all right, it was closed.

It was closed. Yeah, and so Grambling won their Grambling won the play in games and then how to go out of state.

Then we saw this big seven foot four guy. Yeah, yeah, well this before guy, he's just thrown us around.

They did the same six.

Eleven guy hanging off his neck. He just like throws him off like hair.

All right, they they did the same thing. Whoever they played yesterday's bad. It's okay, all right. So since you went down that sweet sixteen road, let me give you tie it back to the Cowboys here. And I'm sitting there watching the Tennessee Texas game on Saturday night.

And good game also.

And I don't even know why I even started thinking about this, but oh, I know what it was. I you know, you used to work with Blackie Shearing, Yes, okay, and his in his column, it was very popular scatter shooting while wondering whatever happened to a name from the past, And so I started doing that with the March Madness. I'm watching March Madness games, I'm scatter shooting, well, wondering whatever happened to a former basketball player for the school

That go way back? Yeah, that's too much that.

First Super Bowl. Now, Savannah, you're not in you guys have.

They're barely in it.

Ron would Be remember there? Yeah? Okay, So Ron would Be was an All American basketball player at Tennessee. In fact, he lettered in four sports at the University of Tennessee. That football, he was a punter. Okay, so you had time? Yeah, yeah, he was an All American basketball player. In fact, he was drafted in the NBA as well in the and the ABA. Anyway, wow, and uh. And then he also played golf and there's another sport. I can't remember anyone

Okay, all right, okay, how about legend legend?

How about I got some legends for.

How about North Carolina.

Somebody that's on one of our Jesse Holly Holly.

Jesse Holly played basketball is freshman year at North Carolina. Okay, Iowa State? Is there a Cowboys connection to the Iowa State basketball program? I think seventies Super Bowl? Auto Stowe, Wow, Auto Stowe, Iowa. Still okay, all right, you had a couple of a couple of teams that qualified yesterday. This is not as close a connected. Well, there's a very close connection. Actually. Okay. How about Duke. Is there a Cowboys connection to Duke basketball?

Yeah?

I mean Calvin Hills, Sun Grand Hill. Okay, all right, stretching, but we're stretching it. And then okay, you want to really stretch Now, I got a Marquette for.

You, Oh boy, Marquette basket Marquette.

A Cowboys player who played at Marquette, which does not have a football program.

No, you got me.

George Andre played football at Marquette and they dropped the football program after his junior year at Marquette.

And he played basketball.

No, he didn't, but.

I didn't see him this morning.

This morning, I'm watching this video tribute that's on the Marquette website just in hopes that George and used to give me a six to one here. But at least while he was playing there, they dropped the football program became solely a basketball program. So there's your Cowboys connection to the Sweet sixty.

Real for sport letterman Chuck Holly, who was that West Virginia at West Virginia in.

West Virginia didn't didn't come close to March Madness this year, but he was, yeah, we could go. You know, there was another one we came close on yesterday.

Misigan State, Utah State.

Okay, oh yeah, Michigan State didn't come close. I mean they were played in the game.

Billy Joe, it was it.

Pete Gent play Michigan State. Was he at Michigan State.

I gotta look at Billy Joe did the Utah State.

I don't he didn't play basketball. I have to look at I don't think so, but I'll have to look at that up. That's a good point. But since they're not a Sweet sixteen, it doesn't Cornell Green at Utah State. If Utah State had not lost by fifty, that play made the Sweet sixteen, there would have been another one. But how about that?

Yeah, but that just lets you know how the Cowboys scouting program Gil always been that way, which is a testament to Gilbrand, no doubt.

About that's right.

So anyway, there was another cornerback that played basketball? Was it Utah Wyoming? I have to think about it.

Well, Cornell Green was Utah State? So okay, all right, well what you doing?

That's what I must be really busy out the cover baseball.

Look, I got back down Friday, so I was on March madness over weekend.

All right.

We got an NFL owners meeting that's going on in Orlando, and thirty years ago, we know what happened at that Orlando owners meeting, but anything like nothing like that is happening this time. But they are making this morning, right Yep? Yeah, Orlando, Yep. The hip drop tackle has been outlawed. That's good.

That is good.

That's wiped out two Cowboy players.

Right, you know you can still you can still make.

And then Tony Pollard, you can.

Still make a tackle without doing that. Yeah, you can still make an effect.

Behind without wrap your legs around.

Right, And it's not just the wrapping of the legs. It's a deliberate drop.

I'm gonna call it. I'm going to call this the Tony Pollard rule. Stand that other players have been hurt by it, including Mark Andrews of the Ravens the past year. And but since since rules are named after Cowboys players, it's the Tony poll.

Because we had Roy william And it's helmet Roy Williams of Horse Callar horse Collar.

That's after him, helmet, and it was the help the helmet, taking the helmet off, and.

Probably something after Michael Irvin for pushing off.

That's the come later.

And then, so are you guys on board with the potential new kickoff rule?

Talk to me.

So they're gonna design it somewhat like the x.

F L and John Fossil is the man designing it.

Yeah, so this is the one where instead of doing an on side kick, it gives no.

Kickoff, okay, to start the So the kicker is going to line up at the thirty five y're his thirty five five.

The coverage team is going to be lined up at the opponent's forty yard line, okay, So they're trying to reduce the distance between running and then the impact of that and nobody can move until the ball is either caught or hits the ground because the receiving team sets up between their own twenty five and thirty and they can't move.

And you can't. You can move, you just can't.

You can't go forward right, sorry, till the ball is either caught. Everything gave Savannah has no idea.

I don't think I like it.

Yeah, And then you have to kick the ball. It's got to land between the twenty yard line and the goal line, and you can have two guys a max of two guys back. So once the ball either I guess, hits the ground or somebody catches it, then everybody can advance move. If it's a touchback, meaning the ball lands in the end zone, the ball comes out to the thirty yard line, thirty yard line, thirty yard line. So the idea is the kicker has to land it within twenty yards the twenty in the goal line to be

Now they said they adjusted it on the touch back. Did you just say this touch back it comes out to the.

Right.

The original propose was the thirty five.

And if the ball lands in the end zone, or if it rolls lands and rolls into the end zone, then it comes out to the twenty. So you want they want, they want you to field the ball, I mean catch the ball. So I was looking and it's the stat that came out was in twenty twenty three, only twenty two percent of all the kickoffs had been returned. The Cowboys only had to cover eight kickoff returns. Aubrey had ninety nine. He led the league with ninety nine touchbacks.

And in the Super Bowl there were no returns and there were no returns in the And that'll get this that I'll get the rule changed in a hurry where they want to bring the kickoff back in And it's been used in the XFL they and it's seemed to be successful in the XFL, and so they want to no fair catch, so it's got to be but it hasn't been approved yet right now.

No, that's the proposal. They're going to talk about it, I think today extensively, and there was some thought that the owners might have the mull over it for some time and then maybe there's a vote in the may.

John Fossil is out is in Orlando and he's presenting it to the owners, and and he was he and other special.

Teams came up with the idea in the in the other league.

I don't know what's you talk about John being, well, he's he is kind of leading the charge to try to get kick off.

I'll throw a name out there since you asked the question. There's a guy who actually is from South Lake Carroll High School named Sam Schwarzstein, who was the operations director of the XFL. In fact, he was Andrew Luck's roommate in college at Stanford and Oliver Luck was the commissioner of the XFL that and so Sam has experience in that and he came up with a lot of the rules.

So you have trying to have two things happen.

They don't want the kicking out of the end zone, but they also want returns, right, they want more returns.

And lessen the physical impact of that with more returns, right, because now guys are only going to engage within what ten yards and the return guy is going to I mean, the coverage guys aren't going to build up a heck of a lot of speed to get to the return.

Now what do you think about it, Mickey?

I think it's going to be very hard to officiate with all the different moving parts of where the ball lands and then the different rules of where guys are lining up and who's going to be in charge of making sure nobody's off sides either either way?

Right.

But here's the deal. So you got the Super Bowl, the championship game. You got seventy eighty thousand people all REVVD up. Here comes the kickoff, right, everybody's standing and screaming, and it's a touchback. Nothing nothing?

Right?

Yeah, I mean look at at and T Stadium. You got ninety thousand people all revved up. You've had all this lead in the music, the screen off, Michael screaming on the screen, and then there's the kickoff and it's like taking all the air out of the balloon. Yeah, okay, let's put the ball at the twenty five yard line or wherever they put it. It needed, something needed to happen. I'm okay with it.

I mean, you know, I love to see more returns.

And it's interesting because now you know Cavante Turpin would be a guy that has more of an opportunity. It's interesting because it's, uh, whereas Turpin wasn't a prime wouldn't be a primary kickoff returner when you're talking about guys running down the field sixty yards and you want a bigger guy to return kickoffs. Like Tony Pollard was more of a kickoff return guy. This is more like a punt and so this is more of a Turpin like

The Cowboys try.

You can understand why he put a lot of man hours into this. Honey, we can't go to dinner tonight. I got.

The people, Yeah, the Cowboys.

The Cowboys actually returned eighteen kickoffs, which was pretty high for the league, but they only covered eight.

So who has the advantage the kickoff team?

Well, the a lot of this is going to depend on the kicker's ability to drop the ball in the bucket right between the twenty and the goal line, because you don't want to kick it in the end zone.

Yeah, but that's that you just depending on one person regard.

Yeah, but when you're talking about the meeting of the minds here with with these guys coming together on the front line, who has the advantage.

Do you have?

Does it still momentum go with the coverage team or is the time ain't going to be to where it gives the kickoff return team the advantage Because you're talking about trying to.

Hold your block.

You're talking about trying to hold your block while a guy is coming through this wave, and the wave is not like the punt team to.

Where they're all running down and trying to set up a wall.

This is kind of you're kind of limited in what kind of scheme you can have because you've only got so much room and so much time to hold your block.

Yeah, but the coverage team only has a ten yard run.

Up, which once again, that could be the kickoff return team having the advantage.

Team should be able to block that better.

Right then you can't, and then you'll see the reverses, a lot of reverses on the kick return. The other thing about it is because the coverage team can't be off side, they have to wait until the ball is caught. You can actually set up a return a lot better now where the kickoff team has the advantage. If you have a kicker who can really place the ball in a certain part of the field, and that can give your coverage unit a great advantage.

A difficult thing to put it in the twenty yard slot, there is that difficult.

We have seen kicks go out of bounds.

So remember a lot of times what teams tried to do is directionally kick off right, try to pin it between the number and the sideline. Now with a shorter distance to kick it, maybe you can do that more efficient.

I think this gives a kickers a chance to show the metal.

Yeah. Really, here's the other thing. Is it more of a you do want to try to hit a line hit it hit a pop up or is it? But if they can't, you can't move. But with a line drive and the k in the and the return guy tries to field it goes off his shoulder pad and now it's a mad scramble for a loose football whatever.

You know, the kick has get a chance to really show what they can.

Yeah, it's gonna be coming hard, very interesting, and.

You can watch it in the u f L, which starts this weekend. It does this weekend Arlington, the world champion, Arlington Renegades post somebody on Saturday, Bob Stoops of the Renegades, and they've got I don't know if it will be the exact same type kickoff return, but that's where they got it for the XFL.

Now's the XFL and evaluated.

You know what that may be what they're saying in Orlando right now, the owners are sitting. Okay, we like your proposal. We need to sit on it.

You know what, because I haven't watched the UFL.

Is playing for the next two months. We're gonna meet at the end of the UFL season, and let's let that kind of be the trial and we'll take a look at it and come back and revisit it in May. I think that's a prudent way of looking at it at first.

So they're starting on Easter Sunday.

Yep, well Saturday Saturday. Yeah, okay, m baseball on Easter Sunday. Are you saying that you can't play sports on Easter Sunday? Elite eight games on Easter Sunday depends on Okay, we move on. And we got more of a mixed shot in just a moment.

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Okay, what do you all want to talk about now? Mix shot brought you by Miller Lite. By the way I saw, I don't because that's what I was going to talk about next. If y'all had I lost my my iPad died yesterday? It died it did? I buried it in the well. Let me tell you. On Monday, I went through security at the airport and all of a sudden it wouldn't work really, and I went to the TSA. Guys, have you ever had a case where an iPad or iPhone has not worked after going through

Never ever.

Well, I finally got I finally got it to turn back on. I was able to make it almost through all the week in Arizona. I use it for my sports cast. I use it. My script is on there. And so Thursday night, I'm about to do the sports cast and my pad, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna add lib this sportscast and uh anyway, I did just fine, and it uh so it never came back on. So and I took it to the Apple Store yesterday and it was the motherboard of all problems.

Mister Jones, this is the first generation iPad. We cannot restore this first.

So I am working without an iPad for the first time in forever. I feel like I don't have a right hand.

Now he's just right around the corner. I got my big green notebook computer.

I do have a lap.

Yeah, it doesn't look as good as reading. He'd it's hard to hold a laptop by doing a stand up exactly.

The work issued laptop is humongous, and so yeah, anyway.

Well, you need somebody kneeling in front of.

You, thinking you can do that easy.

He wouldn't have to kneel, he was just that's right, I'll stand up. They had hung bags. I had to hit it, baby, Sorry, I had to hit that one, all right.

So Jerry talked to the assembled media members on Sunday night.

So I don't know that cacult station for him to do the interview that he did.

Are you concerned that the Cowboys have signed one player from outside the organization in the last three weeks and Jerry.

And we have other guys that need to step up, and this isn't over with yet. But the thing that everybody made a big deal out of was when it was pointed out that Dak Prescott's turning thirty and not many quarterbacks win Super Bowls after they turned thirty. And then somebody comes up with about five or six. So he said, I think there are a handful of or more quarterbacks playing who haven't won a Super Bowl that will win a Super Bowl. I think Dak is one

You're talking to quarterbacks who have won their first Super Bowl after age.

Yeah, those two came to mind right away for me.

That's me too.

It can be done. I don't know how how old was Kurt Warner.

Let's find out.

You know, when you look at those two, those two quarterbacks you named, they really had to depend on their teammates, Thank you to win those games. You Peyton Manning was not the Peyton Manning that we remembered from his previous losses.

He wasn't that same guy. They won with the Denver defense.

L Away Way, well, that running game was that was all he needed, what changed.

That's what changed everything for John Alway. That's true. I remember those two.

Kurt Warner was twenty eight years old when.

They so he didn't count. How old was it that one?

Well, Roger to sit out all those years?

Okay, we're working on that as we speak.

He don't have his iPad.

Less than thirty. He was born in nineteen forty two, and they won the Super Bowl in seventy seventy one or seventy two January seventy.

Well, but it was seventy one season.

Yeah, so he was that was right. He was about to turn thirty. To your point, he was just a month away basically from turning thirty, or less than a month from turning thirty.

We'll put that then aster, Yeah, that's right.

In that same calendar year he turned thirty.

Does that art star was thirty?

Brother?

Hey man's really that huffing puff that what you do?

This is what you This.

Was art star sign art Star was thirty. Was born in nineteen thirty four January ninth.

Thirty six season.

Really that was the first super Bowl.

Yeah yeah, but he won NFL championships before.

That's a technicality, but it's a super Bowl at that time, it was the Super Bowls, right, Okay, to your point.

Now, none of these are modern day times, I guess, yeah, that's one thing you could say about it.

That would be sad when John ol William's not Peyton Manning. Modern they are.

They're doing commercials and shows on ESPN right now. They're not playing.

So anyway, that was the one thing everybody took what Jerry said about Dak So, yeah, put a team around him, and that was point.

Okay, so and gets back to putting a team around him.

He got hung up on the the run defense, like we got to improve, right. Well, yeah, the Packers ran for one hundred and forty three yards and three touchdowns, two of them were inside the five yard line. The problem was having to change their defense to play zone, which they couldn't do because they were a cornerback short of having somebody that could step in to replace.

The problem step.

Yes, personnel exactly and.

Back.

That's what I'm talking about now. When I say personnel, that's what I mean. Yeah, I'm not worried about what defense they were playing. It didn't matter what they were playing with the personnel that they had in and there's no way we could have expected to stop them. As we talked about last week, Buffalo was the beginning of the end.

That's what we talked about.

You said that Buffalo was the beginning of the end, and it was because of personnel. It wasn't because of the defense we played. Yeah, we did not have enough linebackers.

Because he was trying to design the defense to compensate.

For each linebackers. That's correct.

Well, this is what our projected defense lineup would look like today.

Can we go okay, let's put it this way, yes, Can the Cowboys go out and let's say the Arlington Renegades could not play in this game, and so you, the Cowboys, you have to go play. You have to step in and start the UFL season on Saturday defending the World Championship turf of the Arlington Renegades. Who who would the Cowboys have to play?

All right? Let's start defensive end MICHAEH. Parsons for defense.

For defense, start good, start.

Tackle osag Azua, Uh, Mazzie Smith or Chauncey Goldston. Okay, DeMarcus Lawrence Lawrence, Okay, you're outside linebacker over shown middle linebacker.

He's not ready to play, but go ahead.

Eric Kendricks. Your other outside linebacker d Moone Clark.

So you would your linebackers would be to Mone Clark and Eric Kendricks, right.

Uh, Trayvon Diggs not ready to play, but go ahead.

Mollie Cooker, Donovan Wilson, Deron Bland, and Jordan Lewis. There's your starters on defense.

So your corners, So your corners, your starting corners. If Diggs isn't ready yet, he can't play because he's coming off as ACL and not ready to go just yet, would be your band Jordan Lewis. And then you also have Nishan Wright and Eric Scott.

And neither one they wanted to play in the first round playoff game because they didn't truy. They trusted Stefan Gilmour more with a harness on his shoulder than playing those when we experienced. Yeah, because the cow.

And then it's safety, as you mentioned Wilson and Hooker, and then you got je Ye Thomas and Israel Mukuamo.

As well and safety.

You're all right, but Marquase Bell, how is Mike Zimmer going to use Markus Bell? Is he now as safety? Hopefully?

Hopefully that's what I say, hopefully or started? He has to be a nickelback. If Theron Bland and Jordan Lewis are playing corner, right if if Diggs isn't ready.

To go the other one, Sam Williams is another one edge rusher type up front too.

Yeah, and Sam Williams and the other thing, then they still haven't it admitted. Is Parsons a defensive end or is he a linebacker? Because if he's a linebacker, then Sam Williams the team.

What is better for the team. Should Michael Passons be on the edge or should he be and the back as a linebacker.

I am a staunch a proponent of linebacker that.

Is in the nickel as well as in my base defense, your base defense, which is a four to three defense. Right, he is your Sam linebacker.

He is my linebacker.

Okay, so but your middle linebacker's Eric Kendricks, right.

Your Will Well Parsons would be the Will de mont Clark.

Would be side.

Okay, Sam right, because he can run. I want the I want him to run. I don't want him to butt heads with a three hundred and thirty pound offensive tackle every snap because he's not gonna win.

You've said that from day one, Yes.

And go watch the tape. You know he might win one out of three or four plays.

So that's in your base four to three. So what does he play in the nickel?

I could move him around, then he.

Could in the nickel, he could be an edge.

He could be my middle linebacker on the nickel and they don't know where he's going.

And you could actually keep Demone Clark and Eric Kendricks on the field.

Yeah, what you would do. What you would do is play nickel? Can he play nickel?

And if not, I've got overshown on the way. Yeah, yeah, hopefully.

Yeah, it is Kendricks at his age of three down linebackers.

Okay, So on defense, then where is more depth needed as we're still in free agency? And then and then with the draft where everywhere where? How would you rank it?

Where would you start in regards to in regards.

Where would you start? And here's where when I mentioned in one of my columns recently, you've got to be right with the decisions you make. Do they trust Mazzy Smith to be able to play that defensive tackle spot, because if not, then I got to use another Day one or Day two draft pick on a defensive.

At this point, I don't see him doing that, like trusting him this point. I don't see them trusting him at this point unless he shows something to where he's coming out. Hey, this is my second year and I'm feeling it.

I know what to do.

I have confidence I'm going to develop mentally physically if he could, if he feels that in himself.

I know I felt it when I played. I know I'm not the only one felt that.

Coming from rookie year to the second year, I feel better, you know, I feel more experienced, I feel more confident. Hopefully he'll think he'll feel like that. The man was drafted number one. You know, he's got to feel something. He's got to feel like he can come in and do something. I mean, he can't just be a guy. Well I was a rookie. That's why I couldn't do this.

He's got himself. He's got to believe it himself. First.

They can show him all they want. Does he believe he can do it? That's up to him. That's going to be up to him.

So the other thing is is the decision they make with Parsons, because if Parsons is a.

Yeah iPad, he's still got too he's too distracted now, his phone's not.

Fas No, I'm just want to him to talk.

What you want to say?

Well, the question was what was the question again.

Was the how would you rank it? Where would you start by position?

I would And you're talking in terms of who you're drafting right depth. Yes, I'm not looking for depth. I'm looking for a player.

The question was what.

I would draft the and whether it's offense defense, the best player available at any position that you can use right away, and they're on defense. You can use a player at every single position. I can make the case for every single position on defense that you could use a player who can come in and start immediately.

My answer to that question edge rusher, Yes, who's your edge rushers? Yeah, because if Parsons a linebacker, Sam Williams as.

Your only and DeMarcus Lawrence and Marcus Lawrence is thirty through however many.

Years last year?

Yeah, and defensive tackle, we know what the issue is. And defensive tacklef no linebacker and even the linebacker you've got in here now with Kendricks is thirty two years old. You got at cornerback, okay, you haven't. You got Gilmore who's still out there in free agency, and so you've brought back Jordan Lewis. So you've got Bland and you got Diggs, and you've got a starting spot on you kind of have. Yeah, I mean, what is gonna look

My answer to that question when it was posed to me in a recent radio interview. They wanted to know the biggest needs, and I said, if I got a dart bar and I put every position up there, with the exception of probably quarterback, I throw a dart and whatever I hit probably need it. Maybe not tight end, all right, I think they're good at tight end safety, I probably okay, But the rest of them, whatever that dart hits, I need it. Think about it.

I'm bringing in a dart board for the next show.

Make one up for us.

I will.

Position.

I have a dart board at home.

We could just break positions negative.

So you're talking, you know you're you're gonna throw a dart at the position, not at the player we're drafting. Well, I'm just dark boarders. Let's see. Okay, we'll draft that point position.

You're putting up positions.

Yeah, whatever, okayed, we need We're going to make that argument they need that the best one.

Offensive line, defensive.

Line, wide receiver. I mean, you go around the horn. There's a need everywhere.

I'm going defense. And that's why I say linebacker.

And I didn't think of picking a particular person, but I would go linebacker.

Jamming is that mine?

All right? We're jamming with more mix just a moment here that was me.

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We take We take you for granted, Savannah, that was very good.

Thank you.

Compare with Mickey used to doing It's just like wow.

Or when the second to do it? Everson Wall.

That have made on the show.

That's right, all right, So we just went through defense as of today, what a potential starting defense would look like. Let's switch over to offense. This is obviously hypothetical for what we have right now. Starting quarterback Dak Prescott. You're running back Reco'doudle, your fullback Hunter Loupkey, wide receivers Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks. Your tight end Jake Ferguson. You have your left tackle Matt Well let's go awesome Richard's or Josh Ball or or you have your You have

Bill oh, yeah, their needs are everywhere. Yeah. The interesting thing on tackle, what did Jerry say to the assembled media yesterday last night?

I don't know if.

Something Tyler Tyler Smith.

Yeah, he mentioned his name, and that's where I would go. He's my left tackle. He was in tackle in college.

If you're playing the Arlington Rennegades this weekend, he is starting at left tackle, and I'll figure out. TJ. Bass is starting at left guard right, and Brock Kaffman starting at center right. So as the team is currently assembled, that's the lineup until further notice.

As I told right, as I always tell Everson, I'll figure out.

Guard.

Tackle's got to be taken care of.

Jerry said about Tyler Smith, he said, certainly he has potential. I want to say, great player at left tackle.

So I mean that's that's the most spot, and it's the cheapest way to do it because he's still on his rookie contract, right, and then I can bring in a veteran guard at the last moment to just give me insurance against TJ. Bass. They got to be right, though, and they got to be right at center if they think Brock k Hoffman is good enough to do it. Now, when he's plaid there. I thought he played well for underdrafting.

And miss Bags is out he's talking to somebody out there, pissed him off.

If that was the case, they would not have Eric Kendricks or Rico Daldells signed, correct? Did you hear that? If that were the case, if they had made that same offer or match that same offer, however you want to phrase it to Tyron Smith because of where Tyron would count against the cap as far as the Cowboys is concern, they would not have Kendricks or Errico downald.

Because Spags is obviously talking to the people out there. What if you were to sign a particular player to a big.

Contract, would that leave you any more wiggle room? Would that opened up more wiggle room.

Down the road in regards to being creative meaning one of their own.

Yes, like CD Lamb, Yes, you signed CD Lamb to extension, and I guarantee he doesn't count almost eighteen million against the cap, which is one year, fifty year option of seventeen point nine million.

All right, So how about this?

And that one's the easiest one to do, although I say that knowing that his agents were sitting there going, let's see what happens in free agency? What the wide receiver market becomes right, especially for him. Yeah, so yeah, not given no hometown discount. Well, okay, so he's got to at least be guaranteed eighteen million, if not more, right, then you'll pro rate it. Give them a base salary of minimum, and you probably can get it down to five or six million against the cap.

Because Savannah was was tracking all of the.

Criticism that you were getting last week, Oh.

Yeah, I forget about that. I forgot to check.

That was a second.

Blown up on a and that was one of the scenarios that was thrown out there that they were saying that Mickey was trying to avoid. So I thought i'd give you a chance to answer that now. Having said that, anytime you're talking about strengthening up a team, whatever you want to do, you have to improve in the trenches. To me, if we need any help anywhere, a priority should be the front seven defensively and the front five offensive.

Sounds like Nate and Frisco. You just have to have it, which might.

Have a subpart running back and a great offensive line, and what.

You have is a great running game. That's it.

You can have average DBS with a great front seven. The new York Giants did it back in nineteen eighty six. Their cornerbacks were okay, and they won the Super Bowl with that. That's just one example, an easy example. You can win with average DBS and a great front seven. So to me, that's always the priority. Yeah, you can cover. The problem is not covering the first three seconds. Yeah, it's the second three seconds you got to worry about.

Where you should always start trying to build your.

Team sort of like on offense. Right, that's right, because if you can block up front, then your skill player I can run through that.

I can run through that hole, even you with your.

Bad So the average per year salary for CD Anticipate will be what.

On his new contract, what did I'm trying to remember what the market was for I mean I think it was around twenty million.

All right, just right now? Yeah, Tyreek Hill is average per year is thirty million dollars. DeVante Adams is twenty eight million, Cooper Cup is twenty six point seven. AJ Brown is twenty five million, Stefan Diggs twenty four million, DK Metcalf twenty four debo twenty two or twenty three point eight.

So it's going to be somewhere between twenty five and thirty a year, right.

And we'll see what Justin Jefferson commands. That'll be the one.

And that's what they're waiting on.

Yeah.

Right, So everybody says.

It's going to be going to do it, well, it's going to be more than thirty.

It takes two to tangle, right.

Tyreek is at thirty. It's not going down.

And he had more receptions than Tyreek Hill.

Oh yeah, very similar numbers to Tyreek Hill, very similar.

No doubt, no doubt.

And it's not just catches in yards but touchdowns two because his twelve they say it ranked third, well first and second was thirteen, so he was one short of tied for the league.

So the point here, okay, is you've got three players going forward here, the quarterback, a wide receiver, and the pass rusher who are all going to command salaries that are in the top three to five in the league. Correct, Okay, Now you got to put a team around him and so which explains they're inactivity in free agency right now. And I would point to this is not to defend what they're doing, it's just where they are with the star players that they want to keep on this roster.

I'm glad you bought the Rams because we were talking about the Cowboys being in trouble now because they went all in. We talked about last year, last year going all in the Rams did when they want the Super they went all in and then they tanked after that.

Really, but they still have three players, and they had to get rid of those players. To your point, that's rid of those players after the Super Bowl run. But you kept the three the nucleus. You kept Stafford, you kept Cup and you kept Donald at top rung salaries. And now you've got to figure out how to put

Yeah, so they paid the price after all in, and we are too. They went fourteen and nineteen over the next two years, four and whatever, and then ten and seven last year.

So we don't have that kind of patience here.

And and we don't we don't have.

We the patients by winning a Super Bowl.

Yeah, but you got to win, right, because if you don't win, that's when we are paid the price.

That's what we are.

Paying the because they were all in, right, and next year after what Bill says about about uh, these next three contracts, already next year, if the whatever I saw the projection for the cap was going to be, they've got almost forty million dollars in dead money with restructure bonuses that are going to start come and do. So put that against what you're going to have to pay those three guys, and yeah, So the penalty for going all in and not winning.

This is it.

This is it?

Yeah, because you're.

Kind of somewhat paralyzed on how much you can do. And you know that's what everybody says, well, go all in. Well they did, you know, they they signed the guys, They brought guys in, They traded draft picks this year for guys. Last year went twelve and five, had ten Pro bowlers, four all pros, won the division for the second time in three years, and they got beat.

We are exactly one month away.

From the draft today, exactly.

I can't wait to dig into my big green notebook. Finally I got baseball out of the wet, pasted opening there's no I can't.

Wait for the iPad to come back.

Well, that's gonna be a while.

You have stuff saved on it, you lost it if you say.

You got it, yeah, because I've got it. So I've got it on my iPhone too, So you're not. You're not. You have an eye cloud and.

I don't save anything on my.

Phone, no, except just to pull back the curtain. If you've got Mickey on a group text, the letters come back green. That tells you all you need to know about Mickey and his android habits.

Yeah, learns something new here, right ever since?

No, no, I'm with you. You're an iPad guy, an iPhone guy. Right, Yeah, so it comes back.

Blue, okay, right, I didn't know that.

You can always tell when a guy when someone's got an android. Okay, it comes back green. It ruins the whole tech the group text.

It's so much quicker when it's blue.

Yeah, it comes back black and white.

And I know a lot of people they aren't surprised that Vicky comes back green on the text.

Right, But I didn't lose my phone or your iPad, good point.

Yours didn't die like my iPad did. All right, Well that was productive conversation there. What are we going to do on the next episode of mix Shots? Since we got things figured.

Let's let's start all over. Dart board, let's start all over since we have time.

Well, Savannah's bringing the dartboard next week.

Jerry'll say something else this week. Maybe we'll get a resolution on.

The kickoff running the game. Chris, come on, let's go. Let's go one more show.

You just start over?

Come on, do you.

Want to end with a mix shot or anything? You got anything on your mind? And do you want to I got off one one little mix shot.

I got my two things off that I needed to do.

He answered the critics.

Okay, well, going once, going twice? All right, he's gone, all right, and we will have happy Easter, everybody happy and happy Opening Day and whole springs eternal happy March madness. It's the games that we played here in town at the AAC Friday and Sunday. We got a busy sports week ahead. Uh no, don't think about it. I might go maybe what should cost? I have loot st sut where they playing? They're not in Dallas. The teams in Dallas are Houston, Duke, Marquette, and n C States.

We're coming here with their two hundred eighty pounds center in C State.

Yeah, yeah, you see that guy? Oh yeah, he reminds me of Oliver Miller Burns, Yeah, DJ Burns.

Did you see the girl from Iowa State?

Yeah, she scored forty. Stood man, oh my, they lost, but she scored forty great.

Foot work and everything reminds me of here. And they they're not just you know, you look at them. They can't move.

It was a second move. Yeah.

Yeah.

My wife does not like that n C State center because she's a Texas teate grad.

The reason I want to talk about bully.

Ball, you know what, as a matter of fact, it's I know in C State is not in the Big Twelve, but the Big twelve Pro Day is taking place. Pro Days are taking place this week this weekend right here at the Star in Frisco, And I'm thinking, oh, DJ Burns to come over here and work out for NFL scouts on his off day. Let's say they win on or if they even if they lose on Friday, he needs to come over here and come to a little combine workout for NFL.

St got great feet.

What position would you play him at?

Guard. Okay, well, two pounds enough might have to play.

Put him on the.

Defensive three techniques, all right, yeah, you can say.

You know what, if Gil Brant were still with us, he'd be all over that Jill Brant would bring bringing him over to the Pro Day.

I like his nature too, because I never see him smile during the game until it was over and celebrating. He's got this look on his face and his and he's got the ability to be bigger because do you see the shots of his dad in the.

You can always tell.

Fifty.

That's the key. When you were like a college recruiter. You want to see what the parents look like.

You get an idea absolutely what the potential.

And by the way, don't don't miss Caitlin Clark tonight. Oh yeah, Iowa.

Who are they playing?

Doesn't matter?

That was gonna be my hands.

Well the lady Sooners are playing tonight too, playing Indiana. So there you go. Okay, all right, that does it for mix Shines. We cover all sports here and we will see you again next Monday after the Cowboys sign all those free agents this week, Go Cowboys.

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