Mick Shots: End of the Line?

Bill Jones along with Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage studios here at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. And we've got Everson Walls. He is hard at work jotting notes down as we speak. It's all that he search that he has done the last twenty four hours. Hello Everson, how you're doing It's our guy. Hey, I'm doing well. I just want to let you guys know

I have an adjustment to my second account. It was it was a Sports Illustrated Jenks yesterday as Everson yesterday said that his pick to click was DeMarcus Lawrence, that he'll have two sacks of Justin Herbert. Well, I there all te right, you can write it down. Write it down,

so he's gonna make an adjustment on that prediction. And it's again it continues a trend that started back class Friday, when it was after we signed off from Mixed Shots that we learned about the Lyall Collins five games suspension. Of course, Michael Gallup was ruled out for about three to five weeks at that point too, And then Monday, I think it was when the Randy Gregory covid occurred, and and then of course yesterday it's DeMarcus Lawrence and Mickey.

You can start us off with an update on what you know as as DeMarcus with the fractured foot had to undergo surgery. So I laugh when I hear fractured foot. Is it like the whole foot just kind of cracks

in half? By the way, before you get into it, we should also point out that Mickey kind of tipped this off at the end of yesterday's show because DeMarcus Lawrence was scheduled to meet with the media after practice yesterday, which coincided basically with the end of the show, and you peered outside and you saw that DeMarcus was not It's like you know, when you've been doing this long enough, sometimes you're in tennis, just kind of go up. When Lawrence.

When Lawrence because because the injury occurred after the open open session for the media. Actually they were in some sort of drill. Mike McCarthy said. They were doing one on one pass rush and he came around, turned the corner and fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. And guess what, Everson Mickey has experience with a fractured fifth metatarsal in his foot. Imagine that I did it twenty years ago. Wealths No oh, I thought there was when Spags got hit by a car. No, no, no, ago.

This was twenty years ago playing tennis. Um. But anyway, I'll get to that in a second. You're definitely not tougher than if you were playing ten right, So he ends he ends up fracturing the fifth metatarsal h in his right foot. So that's the bone on the outside that goes up into your little two. And in twenty fourteen, end of training camp, he fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. So this is two for this one.

When he left practice on the injury port, he left as limited foot and by mourning it was surgery fifth metatarsal. And what they do is they put a little screw in there to help facilitate a faster healing of that very small bone. But it's a very When when you hear somebody breaks a bone in their foot, it's usually the fifth metatarsal. For some reason, you never break any of the others. It seems like unless somebody stomps on you.

So yeah, for him, you know, I remember when when we got back to the Star and I mean at the ranch, and I remember sitting there talking to him about that fifth metatarsal and he was in a boot, and I don't know, I can't remember if they I think they did surgery back then. So he ended up And remember the IR rules were different, so I believe he missed eight games um and then came back time at that point and that was the minimum right at that point. Uh So here's the deal and and here's

my experience. So when I fractured mine, um, doctor Fowler uh was uh was the one who x rayed, which is real funny and this is not funny, but you're gonna laugh. The x ray tech, the x ray technician. I'm sitting I'm sitting in the room, right and the guy comes in, puts the X ray up on the screen and he's looking at it, and all of a sudden, he goes, oh, yeah, there it is right there. It was like celebrating he found where the fracture was. I

was like, no, this is not a celebration, right. So doctor Fowler, who's one of the cowboys, doctor Fowler, I will assistant. Yeah, no, he didn't do it. His assistant. But doctor Fowler's one of the cow boys, assistant to doctors. And he comes in and kind of explains it. You know, we're gonna put you in a boot, and he goes, Now, if your livelihood depended on your foot, we would do surgery, put a screw in there, and you probably could get back and play four weeks, maybe six. But since you're

not an athlete, then you're out for two months. Oh, since clearly you're not an athlete. Just looking at you, and I think he meant a professional, good look at you. I think he meant a professional. He took a good look at you when you first walked into the office. This guy he's a lost cause that's what he said. So I'm thinking, since they did the surgery on Lawrence. The soon as he could get back, is that first game after the buy that would be I think the

you know, the best that could happen. So that would be what five five games, plus the byeway, plus the bye week, plus the week to get ready for the next game. So that's almost sound familiar. Sounds yeah, So sounds just like sounds just like Collins suspension. So now here are the Cowboys going into a game where they gonna need some pressure on Justin Herbert, the best quarterback that Gil Brand has ever seen, and they're without probably

their two starting defense events Randy Gregory. Still in every time we play somebody, they are the best we've ever seen. Now, you said this guy is better than Tom Brady. Now so here we go every week is gonna be somebody's the best that I just quoted your buddy, Gil, that's all. And he was only a junior in college at that time too, by the way. Yeah, and well, hey, you know, Gil Brand, that's a good call, now, Gil, Gil, I talked trash about Gil, but that is a great call.

And he's always had a great eye for talent and he wasn't not wrong, And it was the best prospect he has seen, probably best quarterback prospect that he wasn't. He wasn't quarterback of all time, he wasn't comparing him to Roger Stabok or Bart Star Joe Montana. Okay, So what moves have been made in order to accommodate this injury? Actually none yet? Okay, DeMarcus Lawrence is still on the

what is a fifty two man roster um? And now you've got combination of Dorance Armstrong, uh Terrell, basham Um, Braley, Bradley and I and se Chauncy Goldston as your kind of other four backup defensive ends along with by the way, I guess I shouldn't forget him or Kamara is in that boat too, and who knows he may be active this week because they're gonna probably need all hands on deck to try to figure out some combination and some

way to get pressure on the posing quarterback. Do you think they are perusing practice squads around them, especially since this is a multiple week and up to two month injury. Do you think that the obviously the scouting department is up to speed on who what edge rushers are on practice squads around the league. There is one who was in camp with the Cowboys, Rondelle Carter, who's on the Arizona practice squad right now, right, And then also they

have a couple defensive ends on the practice squad. Brelan speaks, I believe. And there's one more that's escaping my mind because I remember looking in they had two defensive Oh Austin, Austin, I can't say it. Follow you, follow you who is in the training camp and played in preseason games, right, so speaks, I thinks has some I was not a pronunciation major. I was a written print major. We didn't have to talk. Right then I found out you're a man.

That's right, absolutely, so well you do well. Here's one thing, and Mike McCarthy was asked about different people potentially used as a defensive end. Now it's not a full time defensive end. But in the portion of practice we were able to watch, Michael Parsons in the individual drills was not working with the linebackers. He was working with the defensive line, which he has done throughout preseason as well.

He has spent time working with the defensive and a lot of that and a lot of that is and a lot of that is you know, when he's play. If they're in base defense and he's a four three outside and strong side linebacker, you know they can rush him off the edge, so he has to kind of

sharpen up his pass rush skills. You know. Somebody say, well, they could start him, and I said, if you're playing a four to three and Michael Parsons, you're strong side or weak side defensive end, and you're putting them there to rush the quarterback, he ain't gonna get a chance to rush the quarterback because they're gonna run right at his scrawny little butt. That was Mickey, Who's who said that.

I'm not putting a two hundred and forty six pound guy with his hand on the ground against the three hundred and thirty pound offensive tackle. What do you think they're gonna do. We're gonna run right at you. You didn't have to describe it that way. Well, okay, I was gonna say skinny. He's scrawny at two. Yeah. Yeah,

that's the first time anyone's ever called Michael Parsons scrawny. Okay, that's like putting those little skinny safety he's on the line of screaming last year, right, It's not as bad as maybe Jordan Lewis, though, I mean, I don't think really Spags, I don't think it's really out of the realm of possibilities that uh Michael can go in and stifle running play coming his way. He's quick enough, he's

mean enough, he should enough, agile enough. I mean, you could have said that about uh God who was the DeMarcus, the other DeMarcus we had where he was small and scrawn in d where he was small and scrawny and did good for long, though not for long. I'll take this for I'll take this the one game right now, for one game. I'll take the scrawny Michael Parsons up

against any any offensive linement that the Charges have. And when you look at the Armstrong and all these guys, I'm hoping that we can have this culture like Baltimore Ravens sake. Baltimore Ravens have always done with a lot of injuries, dealt with injuries, all kind of personnel changes when it came to COVID things that nature, and they've always been very good, at least a little competent with the next man up philosophy. With the Cowboys, we have

enough depth on this team. I think it's time for that culture to emerge for us to what I mean, next, man up. We don't worry about yes, d laws out. I mean, come on, d laws out. I know that's rough, but look, we got Durance and we've got Parsons. That's why we brought these guys in here. Let's see what ghosting can do. Then we draft this guy. Yeah, let's see what our draft picks can do. Put these hungry

guys in there, man, and let them work. I mean, Quinn's defense is made to where you can throw a lot of stuff at people, and you can cover up a lot of drawny two hundred guys and see how it works out well. And here's the other thing somebody asked about Jalen. I don't know about Jalen lining up on the outside, but his best pass rush is in the gaps up the middle. To me, that's where he is.

He was the best. And I think they've got some linebackers that they can use in that situation, all right, And with Parsons, he has experience rushing the passer, going back to high school schools. Yes, this is like deja vu all over again for Michael Parsons. You probably have heard the story that he told about his freshman year in high school. He was a backup, and you know he's a freshman. You know they're not. You don't typically have freshman who will who will start on the varsity

football team. Well, they had an injury on their defensive line, and so the coach puts Michael Parsons in there to replace him, even though he was a scrawny linebacker. And what does he do. He came up with the game winning of forest fumble. I think it was a striped sack. I can't remember the exact story, but I do know this. He went on his freshman year in high school to have eighteen and a half sacks rushing the passer. The coach had no idea he could do that at the time. Okay,

as a freshman in high school. So you're looking for another Dak Prescott deal here and so here it is. It's deja vu all over again, where Okay, the former Pro Bowl defensive end goes down for the Cowboys and and I'm not and I agree with you. You don't. You don't play Michael Parsons. You know at defensive end full time, you can play linebacker. But in pass rush situations, right line him up at at the edge and let him get after it. See, and here's the good thing

about that. If they want him to do that, then if they still want to play their nickel, then you got Kean O'Neil and Layton vander h exactly. Vander Esh has played in that spot and his rooking yet he was very he was very good at it. So, uh, that's where your depth comes in. And then with Dorin's armstrong by the way, you know, it's one thing to be all Oxnard, Now it's time to be you know, all home sodium. Yeah. Absolutely, and let's see him step up.

We've been hearing about the Durance Dorans, so now it's his time. I'm excited about Drance. But it's just like Nate knew and always said, same thing, make you laugh, make your cry. Getting back to the scarwny Parsons. When you have a three hundred and fifty pound guy pulling around, he's got to keep up with that scarwny two hundred and forty pound linebackers. Right, quickness can sometimes overwhelm strength.

So you got the big guy coming around there, will he be adsile enough to be able to handle the ferociousness and the aggressiveness of Michael Parsons that remains to be seen. All right, we're just getting started on this edition of mix Shots. Do you have your reads? I do not? Okay, Micky's got right? Oh good, that's what you were working on. All right? Ever since got three reads? When we come back on mix Shots in just a moment, big news, Gary, are you okay? Oh? I'm not Gary anymore.

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will be open. A great place to watch the game on the multiple screens out there or when the Cowboys come back home for the home opener a week from Monday against the Philadelphia Eagles and the greatest quarterback Gil Brandt has seen that went to Alabama and then transferred to Oklahoma. Jalen hurts. Oh, and by the way, I'm bringing them all sex. I'm bringing my personalized sex, which I forgot. Uh, I forgot one injury leon let Oh, yeah, we need an update on Leon Lettow it was what happened.

It was a quad tendon tear, and he's out for Sunday's game, not going. They didn't he didn't say if he who's who's gonna step in? Who's stepping in? Who? Who? Well? Aiden Dirty is the other assistant defensive line coat, so if Quinn's upstairs, then um Aiden's got more responsibility on the ground. But yeah, he got hurt, he said. He guys ever had major surgery while he played. I think he had a knee once at least. Uh So he has a torn quad and he somehow got caught up

in the sled. You know, he would stand on the sled. I think when uh they were doing those pass rush drills or whatever, and I don't know what went wrong, but uh it looked bad when he was laying on the on the cart that when they brought him in. So yeah, no, no, no Leon uh oh he and and by the way, he had surgery also. Uh so Mike announced he's not traveling to LA And then there was no Donovan Wilson at practice either. Yeah, what's the story with Donovan got a sore groin that it looks like, yeah,

I remembered the end of training camp. So uh so it looks like Malie Cooker is ready to go. So let's look at since last Thursday. So it's a week it's been at the bar, all right, So what's happened since last Thursday? All right? Michael Gallup got hurt in the game? I all right, Now, Donovan Wilson, I guess you could say you got hurt in the game, but he's not on IR. He's just not practicing, right, Okay, So that was an aggravated injury coming out of the game.

And then what aggravated everybody the next day was Lyle Collins being suspended for five games. That's aggravated not only him and his agent also. And then Zach Martin comes back on Monday. But Randy Gregor, and so did Brandon Knight got activated on Monday, and but Randy Gregory goes on the COVID list. That's three starters, okay, um at three or four? Four? Now four starters. We're going to Michael Gallup, right, yeah, gall Right, Gallup, Gallup, Wilson, Gregory,

and Collins. And now we've got DeMarcus Lawrence. So there's five, five starters that started against Tampa Bay that are not going to be here this week. And Darren Thompson was kind of a starter on special teams and he's on practice squad ir. So it hasn't been a good week. No, No, it's a matter of fact. It's one of those deals where I suggested the other day, I said, when Mike McCarthy lays his head on the pillow at night, he's got to be beaten his head on the pillow, going

why me? Last year the offensive line, now this year the defensive line. So when you look at things, you know, there's a reason that this team has so many linebackers. There's are versatile guys, you know, And there's been a lot of talk about snap counts from the Tampa Bay game and the fact that Parsons had around fifty snaps. Kean Uneil as well, and Layton Vanderish and Jalen Smith we're in the range of fifteen snaps in that game. Jabril Cox is another guy that has shown some potential.

But it gives this team some flexibility going forward as they weather the storm of these injuries. Don't you think, yes, I think they've got some guys that can. You know, obviously you're gonna play Layton vander as significantly more snaps in this game. I bet Jalen and they even though the injuries have not occurred per se at the linebacker position. That's the thing with this defense and with defenses across

the league now, these are more hybrid defenses. It's typically even though they may say it's a four to three or another team may say they run a three four, there's there's so many Especially when you're gonna throw the ball fifty times, you know, the Chargers through at forty seven times the other day against Washington. You're in your nickel a whole lot, you know, with a four man front and so and there's different ways that you can

use these linebackers. And it'll be interesting to see how I was gonna say San Diego La Chargers attack the Cowboys defense. You know, will they go three wide or will they stay in a more traditional offense forcing the Cowboys into more of a base. But even some of their defensive ends, you know, you could look at them as stand up outside linebackers too, like who's ready to play? And Camara? You know, because you know Camara now, now he's kind of small, right thin, he's tall. Uh, he's

a past Russian. Yeah, So they're gonna have to lean on these guys, you know, and and and and here's the deal. You know, score some points, you know, don't don't depend on your offense to hold somebody to seventeen or twenty points. You know, you may have to score thirty to win that. But that's the that the mo of this defense, those spags, It's always going to be that until we change the culture. We're always gonna play off of our offense because it's gonna be so powerful.

It's usually gonna have all the use of all the play clock pretty much every game, so you're gonna depend on that. So our defense is usually gonna go out there, hopefully in the position, not like in Tampa, but hopefully in the position of playing against an offense that had to react to our offensive success. I'm hoping that's to me, that's gonna be our best case scenario. You start talking

about the Chargers, you know the Washington football team. They have big guys up front, So you can imagine Herbi going up there thinking about pass running the ball. How many times do you think he audibled from a running play to a passing play because you look at that front seven and you're thinking this is not gonna work, the same way the Cowboys had to do when Dak had to change out. Also, the Cowboys did the same same thing with Brady. We allowed we we showed him

a look. He audible. I think they say the audible maybe twenty times from a pass I'm sorry, from a running play to a passing play. And I think that's gonna be the same thing in this game. We're going to force them to throw the ball because we're gonna be doing all kinds of goofy stuff up front. Probably no one will have their hands on the ground, and that that can give a quarterback pause and cause him to audible a lot doing a ball game. Yeah, And

speaking of the Chargers defense. The Redskins did run for one hundred and twenty six yards. So you know, Zeke Pollard maybe even Clement out of the backfield. Um, you know, he's a pretty good pass catcher too. Probably he might be the fastest one of the bunch. Now, I don't know if he's faster than Pollard, but um, you know he's he's he's got some elusiveness to him. I've got a question, place Bags, I've got a question for you. Do you think that Todd Bows came into the game saying,

We're not going to let Zeke control this game. We're going to see if Dak Prescott is as ready as he claims to be. So do you think they deliberately forced him to call off run plays and audible to passing plays just to see what he was at? I absolutely agree with you. Absolutely they did because they majority of the time they were playing a five man front, and I mean five on the defensive line, so that spreads out if you want to get to the edge.

The edge just got wider. And I think that I think he made that bet and he almost lost it because I'm sure he was you know what, I'm sure he was using the hard knockses his scouting report on Dak Prescott right that in Phil Simms. I can't. I just can't get over that one. And they were both wrong. Yeah, well, because Phil was using his scouting report off what he saw and hard knocks, you know. And I think the Cowboys purposely made sure that they didn't over expose what

Dak was doing in practice. We all saw it, we were there. They didn't They had to go by word of mouth unless they had somebody in one of those condos over there and knock Nart overlooking the practice field, I don't think the Chargers have the ability or the personnel to really stack the line against our running game, even with the injuries that we have. If Zach Marden's coming back, and we think he is, he's going to

be in great shape. I think We're going to try and feast off of their defensive line, and I'm hoping that Dak doesn't have to I think I'm hoping that our passing game itself doesn't have to be so prominent in this game. I'm hoping we can feed off that running game and control the clock on these guys and keep keep old. Justin Gil's boy Out of the game. What it is interesting looking at the Chargers defense and maybe you want to dive into the Chargers coming back here? Okay,

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he put. He put pressure on himself just so that he can come through in the end. That's right. Look how good I am? All right? We've this is our final segment here. We got eleven minutes to break down the Chargers a little bit. We're let's start with the injury report. We focus so much on the Cowboys injury report. What about the Chargers. Well, this injury report from yesterday shows that they had six guys that did not practice.

Now some of these guys could maybe they needed a day or so to make sure they got to Sunday, but they're one of their big injuries. Brian Bulaga, they're starting. I think he's the right tackle. Yes, he is thirty two years old, twelfth season, and he's got a groin and a back, and I believe he left the game last week with a back injury, so that's growing and the back, Yeah, it is an old injury, right, that's right, So that's that's pretty that's a pretty significant one for them.

So maybe one of these backup cowboy defense events can feast on a backup tackle that ever, since that's pretty bunch at old Man's couple of injuries, yeah, we know, we know that. And then I believe these other guys are starters. Kyler fral outside line, another former Packer just like Bulaga, a knee, Chris Harris Junior starting corner with a shoulder, Derwin James their star safety with a toe. Uh So, yeah, they've got some guys that you would

recognize that are suffering from some injuries. So that'll be interesting to keep an eye on there. Okay, so would you like to look at their offense or their defense? Here, let's look at their defense. Okay, how about we start with Derwin James because you mentioned him just now. That guy is a freak, came out of Florida State athletically. He has been in injury prone though in his career

the last couple of years. He had a great rookie season all rookie team, had three picks and three force fumbles, three and a half sacks his rookie year, and it looked like he was going to be a perennial pro bowler. And then he missed. Guess what injury he had his second year. It was late in the preseason. He had a stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal, fifth metatarsal, and he missed three months with the shoes. If the shoes,

they need to change the shoes now. Now, as we know, as we as Mickey has already cited early in the show, not all fifth metatarsals are made alike. Mickey's is much unlike DeMarcus Lawrence's. And we hope that DeMarcus Lawrence much unlike DeMarcus Lawrence period. And we hope that DeMarcus Lawrence's fifth metatarsal is different than Derwin james fifth metas arsal because James missed three months of the season when he

had the fifth metatarsal stress fracture that required surgery. He also missed all of last season with a torn meniscus. But he is back and now you say he's on the injury report with a toe injury. He is another guy in their secondary to look out for, though, is a Sante Samuel and of course ever sen you're very familiar with his dad, four time Pro bowler, Sante Samuel Senior.

And Samuel is a second round draft pick and he played well last week against Washington and a lot of people really liked him in that second tier of cornerbacks who came out. He's not he doesn't have the same size as the first round guys that we talked about, Sir Tann as well as j. C. Horn, but he was a playmaker at Florida State. Well, he might have to get into the game if Chris Harris is he's the other starting corner and you never know. He's like

I said, he's out with our list. Miss practice yesterday with a shoulder and Michael Davis is their other corner now. Samuel played forty seven snaps, so he was their third corner and he played forty seven snaps against Washington last week. Also one of their other starting safety, Nasir Adderlee. Yes, he's on here too, by the way, with a groin. And you know who he's related to, Herb. That's right. He is Herb, the late Badderly's third cousin. Wow. How's this, hey, Everson,

how's this for the Packer connection? With this Chargers team, They've got Herb Adderly's third cousin, Nasir Adderly O. They're starting free safety, and their offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi. He's Vince Lombardi's grandson. Wow, come on man. Yes, it's too much. Yeah, it's too much. This is this is set up for the foss and whip their asses. This is good all right now. By the way, it's going to be payback

for the Ice Bowl. That's what this is. So they're they're one of their starting inside linebackers and helped me. If you're from I'm wrong, but Kenneth Murray yes, Oklahola Homa, yeah, number nine, who played peewee football with Ceedee Lamb in the Houston areas Fort Ben Elkins High School ever since. Oh wow, this is getting too freaking guys. No, I didn't I miss no high school. Yeah, high school for you, Elkins high School, even if it wasn't around here. Yeah, yeah,

a place I never heard of. Ye, that's a Houston area. And then of course up front the guy that leaps off the screen. And so they've got stars at all three levels of their defense, right if you start with Derwin James on the back end, Kenneth Murray linebacker, and then up front Joey Bosa, which brings us to the problem tackle for the Cowboys before we moved to that, we have to look at as we talk about these dbs.

They have these cornerback, young cornerbacks coming in. Let's be real, we're talking about what we fear on the opposing team. They've got to be looking at Cooper. They've got to be looking at CD lambing, going, bro, we got to work cut out for us. They've got to be looking at this passing game, whether it's it's uh Shoults or whoever they is playing tight end Jarving. They've got to be thinking, guys, how are we going to hold these guys down so that we can hold the points down.

I mean, we always talk about the problems that we're having. Matchup wise, they are going to have some serious problems with these young dbs injured safeties as well. They're gonna have some problems with that, and the Cowboys are gonna look forward to eating them alive. Mickey, I was looking, I was, I was looking at one of their I was going to ask you, so, Bill, who's their other edge Russia. Well, they got the starter at defensive ends Jerry Tillery, Jerry Yeah, nin name o Chenna oh Sue, yeah,

just stop, just stop. Four and a half sacks last year. Tillery is also a first round DRAP. He was late first round. So one of the guys, Na McCarthy pointed out on their defense also was Linville Joseph, the defensive lineman, you know, and we're talking about Tampa Bay and what they had in their interior on their defensive line. Linville Joseph. He's a former two time pro bowler. He also won a Super Bowl ring with the Giants. It's going back a decade now, nearly. But when you look at Linville

Joseph and now he's in his early thirties. He was a second round pick of the Giants eleven years ago, and then he was with the Vikings before landing with the Chargers. But if you look at his measurables back at the combine, thirty nine bench reps, okay, and let's see he his vertical thirty one and a half and an eight six broad jump on scouting terminology, if you total the bench, the vertical and the broad jump and add those together and get above seventy, those explosive explosion

traits are through the roof. His is up near eighty with the thirty nine bench reps and a thirty one and a half. This is Lymbell Joseph. And we're talking a man who's three hundred and thirty pounds who has those kind of measurables. So I assume he's the nose tackle. Well, he moves. He moves pretty At least eleven years ago, he moved pretty well for a three hundred and thirty pound man. But Justin Jones is their other inside starter defensive line. He's three hundred ten pounds. So Everson, did

you ever play on a three four defense Giants? Yes, you did with the Giants, So how do you think teams tried to attack you when you had kind of those undersized outside linebackers. Well, see, that's the thing. The Giants never had undersized outside that they just didn't have it. You had Carl Banks and Lawrence Taylor, right, and then you inside. Of course you had Less was a great player,

but he was lightweight. When they brought in Steve Dioce, who was they were they were attacking the bubble with Pepper Johnson, and you know, after weekend with Pepper and Dice, they might check in, you know that their weight might be two forty or two fifty listed, but by the time the weekend's done, they had been drinking and eating two sixty. So I mean, there's no guard that's gonna be able to stop them from bursting that bubble when

they attacked those guards, so nothing was inside. You had the big guys up front, as far as the d lynman at outside, you have Banks and the lt and so yeah, I don't know what the hell y'all talking about it. And then and then you missed Terry Carson, right. Terry Carson was gone. He got to the Giants and he was six two, two hundred and thirty seven pounds inside for the Giants back then. All right, I want to get before that that was that was under That

was other size as well. By the way, there you go. There you go, not back then though, you though. Well, I'm saying he was about two fifty game time. Okay, yeah, yeah, that the number was the undersize. That was when he came into the league. He was two thirty seven by the time he all right, Um, This from Terrell Basham today, Okay, when asked about the prospects of facing Chargers right tackle Brian Bulaga, who, as we mentioned, is dealing with groin

and back injuries. Here's the quote from Basham. I played against Bolaga last year and I had fun with it. I just remember hitting the quarterback a lot that day. I told you when we first heard this guy do his first interview, I said, we need this guy to be good because we need to do interviews with him. Well, you're getting your wish well, you know. And one of the things that he was really good at it hard knocks, was imitating DeMarcus Lawrence. So if he can do his voice,

can he do his pass rush? That's good? He was further, ever, Sin, do you like it? Do you like guys who talk a good game like that, Yeah, I do, because it really keeps it keeps you, you know, distracted from from how serious everything is. He kind of lightens things up. And if they're having a good game, then you really feed off of them. So let's hope he goes out there talking trash and has a good game. You have to fire up the entire huddle, I the entire defense.

If you're gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk, right, walk the walk? All right? I think that doesn't for this edition. We've talked to talk for the last forty five minutes. Bicky, Well, it sounds like we should be able to see Jimmy here in a couple of weeks because they're gonna get their rings at the Eagles game, oh home opener. All right, so all three guys as a matter of fact, So it'd be good too. So Jimmy goes into the Ring of Honor that night. Ohs,

he gets his Hall of Fame ring. I know about the one thing at a time. Jerry said he didn't want to spoil this. Yeah, one thing at a time. Yeah, hall of Fame first being ring. That makes sense, ye, all right? That does it for this edition of Mick Shots and we will talk at you again tomorrow and Mickey will walk the walk on a Friday, leading you up to game day on Sunday the Chargers. As this has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club