Mick Shots: Fabulous Football Tuesday?

a question more. Yeah, Well you asked the question and I was, well, I was a little florried about the fabulous part. Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls here at the s WBC podcast studio at the Star, hoping Chris can make on this Tuesday, as Bill Jones is trying to join us from AFAR and we'll see if we can get him connected. But in the meantime, we're gonna press forward here.

On this Tuesday, the Cowboys had their basically what they call mock game that they normally have on Friday before a Sunday game, So this is essentially the Friday, although it's a Tuesday before the Thursday. I was not ready for this, man, I'm doing my pick to click right now. I'm just now getting into this. Well, I'm mine's gonna have to come off the top of my head because I just thought of it when I mentioned it to

you when you walked in the studio today. As the Cowboys carry on, we did have a Mike McCarthy conference call today as he is not allowed in the building out with COVID and we'll miss the game. And the Cowboys had one more player test positive this morning, uh Nishan right, the rookie cornerback, so he will miss the game. And as for any other updates, Mike McCarthy said that

Amari Cooper would be in the building now. He did not practice yesterday, said he was still not feeling great, still had a cough, and so he's still on reserve uh COVID and Mike McCarthy said the update on Amari Cooper is if he doesn't practice tomorrow when they have their practice before they head to New Orleans, then he will not play on Thursday. That would be three games,

and that would be the third game. And I always thought it was going to be a close call because his ten days up would have been Monday, But you got to recover from yes, testing positive for COVID, and we take that for granted, don't we right, and we're not. And when you're not vaccinated, you know, most of these guys that had it and you weren't vaccinated. It was a two week deal and two week plus. Yeah, because now, like you said, how does he feel? Forget the fact

that you might be test negative all these times? Okay, clear to come back, but now physically am I ready? I mean fog? Do I have fog in my head? And my coffin like you said, it's it's you know, they want to call it a flu. This is a horrible flu. Yeah, because you can't. You know, you don't. You have no control and over anything. It does sound like we have Bill joining us. Point there he is. Look I can even see it. Hey Bill, Hey, how y'all doing good? How are you? I'm doing just fine.

I'm in COVID protocol. Um, I'm doing fine. That didn't sound fired. Now are you are you in close contact protocol? Still? I'm in close contact protocol? Okay, So that's why I'm not with you today. But I'm good otherwise, you know, And we had the PLEXI glass up for you, just in case, Just in case you did show up, we got the plexic glass. Well, you know, I figure I figure my cohorts at at their age. I probably he's trying to kill us off. He's trying to get rid

of trying to be funny shot. That's okay, Bill. We still love you, man, we still need you. That's the main thing. If we didn't need you, we would not use you. Yeah, we would have just gone on. Yeah exactly. But we need but we can handle. You're doing just fine without me. I don't know why Chris beam even uh beamed you. He beamed fine without me. He beamed you up right as you did. That's right. So you're we were in the I didn't hear the very beginning of the show. And so did we start with the

fight song Friday? There we go? No, but I did call it fabulous football Tuesday. Okay, let's go, Bill, men you baby, there you go, we go. We won't that's bags ruin our day. I'll listen to that, bringing home guys, bringing home good. There we go, Thank you, Christopher. All these these fight songs are coming fast and furious here in the last few weeks, it seems like every other day we've got a Yeah, it's not a victory Monday fight song either, it's a look ahead to the next game.

Our last broadcast before the next game, and this was another Thursday that game It's coming quick. And I heard you at the beginning, Mickey, was that you said that you weren't prepared for your picks to click today? No, not at all. I just realized that this was the last show before the game on Thursday night in New Orleans and the Cowboys, as I was pointing out, have

one more practice left. We were Bill, I don't know when you caught us, but we were talking about Amari Cooper, not sure if he'll be available for the game on Thursday, especially if he's not able to practice on Wednesday when they have their final practice before they head to New Orleans. Then Mike McCarthy said, if he doesn't practice Wednesday, he's not going to be available for the game. So that

could be another person not available for the game. And the count is at nine right now that we know that have tested positive for COVID, and I think eight of those for sure, there's a chance that Assistant strength and Conditioning coach Cedric Smith could be back in time for the game, depending on how he's feeling. So yeah,

a lot of things have to adapt. And if they don't have Amari Cooper, and it's certainly was not a good sign yesterday when Cedric Wilson, I think, who we would consider their fourth wide receiver was unable to practice with an ankle and today will just be a projection, so they would have their fingers crossed tomorrow that Wilson could do something good things. Cedee Lamb has been cleared to return the practice, but I would imagine without a Marie.

And if indeed Wilson did not take part in the game slash walkthrough practice today, that would have meant Noah Brown would have been the next guy up at receiver uh, and then Malik Turner if Wilson can't go. So they're getting thin again at the wide receiver spot. Well they'll have Gallop I'm sorry, They'll have Gallop Lamb uh and then Noah Slash Malik Turner would be the top four guys at the receiver position. So uh still have things

can deal there with? Yes, remember when when there were some that were saying they needed to trade Michael gallop by the trade donline. Yes, thank you for that, thank you, thank you for that. Yeah. Well, if I'm not mistaken, he had over a hundred yards receiving on Sunday, correct, right, right?

I mean, but do you just look at at what what you know, a month ago it looked like, oh, there's a lot of depth at this wide receiver position, and all it takes is COVID outbreak and a concussion and all of a sudden you're down to staring at you know, almost playing backups. Yeah, and and think about this, let's throw this in there. After Lele Collins was out for so long, it's like, well, why don't they trade him? Karen Steele's playing so well, yeah, now what kind of

situation would they be in on the offensive line. And I'll give you one more because you know, after they drafted in the second round Kelvin Joseph, it was like, well, they can trade Anthony Brown. You don't need him. You know, he's a veteran and he's probably going to save some money. Well. No, see, that's why you do not deplete your depth with silly trades. That all you get is something for the future. Now is now, and you just don't do things like that

because you don't have an excess of talent. Well, you got so many gms out there, spags on Twitter, I mean just have to listen to one of them, right, No, absolutely not. So the Cowboys had their their Zoom meetings

today again, so virtual meetings. They caught here and did their mock game run through the basically the Strengthen, the weight room is closed and they don't have any coaches available to run the weight room with Harold Nash, Kendall Smith, and Cedric Smith all out with COVID at this time. So yeah, they've basically telling the players that they need

to take care of their own conditioning. Uh, if you need to go somewhere, or if you have weight stuff at home to get your lift in, if you are due for a lift, and make sure you get your massage in. But yeah, the facility is still basically locked down today. And then one other note, and we can get into this a little bit later in depth, but Tristan Hill, who's been suspended for two games, was appealing

his suspension. I don't know how much luck he's gonna have with it, since there's video out there that shows him making his hand right, And other than saying I'm sorry, I don't know where that appeals gonna go. Maybe he's gonna say he should have dubbed right right, he gave

him time to dub banties. And by the way, John Runyan, who's the vice president of football Operations for the NFL, pointed out that his appeal will be heard by either Derek Brooks or James Trash, of two former players that are in the appeal process appointed and approved by the NFL and the nfl PA at this point. So we'll see if he gets anywhere with the appeal. Maybe he

just gets fined. And by the way, when they said he was going to get fined one hundred thousand dollars, no, he gets suspended without pay, okay, and his weekly salary divided over eighteen weeks is fifty four thousand dollars, so that's one hundred thousand and eight. I gotta say, this guy's playing well, and that's the unfortunate. Extremely active, he's

hustling all over the place. I guess the fresh legs have a lot to do with that, But just seeing him out there, he fits right in with the energy level that our entire defensive line his head all season long. Right and and very active, especially in pass rush he was getting pressure. Uh so uh and well, since you've got all, you've been talking about him. Yeah, I know, I'm talking about him for like two years season, it

seems like. Right and and by the way, so this is the letter he received, by the way, and then we probably have to take a break from John Runyon, who I mentioned, VP of Football Operations. After Las Vegas Raiders Dallas Cowboys game on November twenty fifth, you engaged in conduct that is this offense this office considers unnecessary

roughness and a display of lack of sportsmanship. Specifically, as both teams were shaking hands, you waited more than fifty seconds for your opponent at the fifty yard line when you located You then walked toward him in the opposite direction of your locker room. You both engage in verbal chest the chess confrontation, which you escalated by throwing an open hand punched to his face mask forcibly enough to cause your opponent's helmet to come off. And I would

imagine the helmet wasn't buckled. It was not because I saw it, and it wasn't like it wasn't like cash as Clay hitting Sonny listing right. He didn't. He was just offended and he got hurt. And then the two teams had to be separated. And I saw the big peacemaker from the Cowboys was number seventy. He stood in front of everybody that was starting to come after Hill. So uh, that diffused it. But again, like I said, he's appealing, and if not, then they're down a defensive lineman.

Um and this one has nothing to do with COVID. And Bill's volume looks like it when it lost Mike. All right, well, I'll tell you what. We'll take a break. Now, that's a pretty good time to take a break. We'll get Bill's audio back up tenue with mix shots here in a moment. Hey Cowboys fans, ready to spice up your next watch party, Bring Yokierro guacamole and be the game day hero. Yokierro means I want, and we know you want, great fresh tasting, ready to serve guacomole for

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more information, Abam visit the Star District dot com. Gabam bill. Oh, that gets me in the mood for what I'm going to do right after Mick Shots today. You know what I'm gonna do right after this show. Christmas Shop. No, I don't Christmas shop until Christmas Eve. Ch al right, there you go, Bill, I'll wait to christ That's when I put mine up on Christmas Eve. Yeah, and preferably not on the roof. No. I know, I don't get

on any roofs. No way I get on the sidewalk. Oh, but then you gotta bend down about to get I know it's harder and harder to do that, especially when you have arthritis and won him. But I'm gonna power through it. Okay, Hey, how about Mickey. Get us up to speed on the mood of Mike McCarthy when you heard him in his press conference, you know, other than a few coughs during his I don't know, it was about ten minutes or so, no more than fifteen. Uh, he seemed to be in a decent mood. You know.

One of the things he said that, uh, he said, it's kind of ironic that I had my I had my booster shot scheduled for Friday, so he was gonna get his booster shot. That's not the first person I've heard. They that right before they were about to get And that's what happened to him, so, um, you know, he he stayed engaged with the team. He addressed him at the team meeting. Uh, said he would do it again Thursday morning when they have their team meeting before the game. Uh.

So he's staying engaged. You know, whatever they do on the practice field, he's got his iPad with him and he can, um, you know, watch with what went on and see how things went. Do they have a drone over head or something? What's it going on? Drone? Yeah, I don't know, but I'm guessing he's at the hotel next door and um just has his own if he just had a big telescope, right and we gotta go to Oklahoma to get Yeah, yeah he could, he could.

He can. I'm thinking I'm thinking Mickey and Everson. The technology might be in place where he might be able to even if he's not watching live. He's watching almost right right. I wouldn't be surprised he has it very quickly, the video of what's going on on the practice field. Yeah. Absolutely, So he has stayed engaged. And as we talked yesterday, dan Quinn will take over the game day operation on Thursday,

along with coordinating the defense, making the defensive calls. But the good thing is is that he has done this before from the sideline. Everybody was worried about coming out of the booth and calling the defense from the sideline. But as McCarthy pointed out yesterday afternoon when we finally got to talk with him, that he for two years at Atlanta when he first took over as head coach, he did both. He did the game management from the sideline along with calling the defense before he handed off

some of those responsibilities. And I think we talked about, you know, the other thing that Cowboys had to compensate for as the offensive line, with Joe Philbin and his assistant Jeff blastco testing positive so they won't be at the game. So the likes of Lunda Wells, Ben McAdoo and Chase Haslett have been taken over the offensive line and probably will continue to do so through the rest

of the week and on game day. So for Lunda Wells, it's tight ends and offensive line, and good that they had Ben McAdoo here as a consultant because he has a history in coaching offensive lineman. All right, what about what Jerry had to say this morning? Anything to report on Jerry UM. I guess he was the I'm trying to remember everything that he said. You know, that was a long time ago, eight thirty in the morning, right,

I was listening to it. UM. You know, he was remaining positive, UM, and he wanted to emphasize that, you know, they'll get UM DeMarcus Lawrence back ready for this game. He was able to go through practice on a Monday. They have to activate him off the return injured list, haven't done that yet, but they have three spots available. Uh so uh, they can activate him for one of those spots. If Amari Cooper was ready, they could activate him off reserve COVID, so they would still have one

extra spot on the fifty three. UM Ezekiel Elliott. Whatever they did yesterday went through a full practice. UM, and they keep saying it media. Yeah, because he said that they have to see how they're going to treat him going forward. And I don't mind it. I mean the guy to be better. You don't want him to be healthy. If his ankle or his knee is hurting and is continually hurting and he's not being as effective as he wants to be, then let's make the move Otherwise, everybody

just shut up. I think I think what their their plan is is to kind of continue the way they were, give Tony Pollard more of the of the snaps, but still use Zeke assuming that he can move. And look, if you watch him run, everybody's saying, well, you can see there's a difference. I don't see a difference. This difference I see is I don't see any hole. That's what I see. That he keeps getting hits. Yes, and so that's you know, everybody's going, well, his yards after

after contact have gone down. Yeah, that's because the contacts happening right away. One thing that you know, this spags. As you look at other teams that are able to rush the ball effectively, you maintain contact on the defensive lineman or a linebacker. You just don't see us, especially from the more inexperiences players. They're not maintaining the contact. So the defensive linemen are escaping quickly and they are gang is gang tackling on our running back. So you

just have to maintain contact a little bit longer. But then as we try to do that, then that's when we're getting fourteen penalties, most of them being holding calls. Right so that's the dilemma that you're dealing with on the offensive line in the running game, you know, and I think we have been bill spoiled by this offense. How well it had been playing, you know, early in the season, and then they hit this rough spot. You know, four of the last five games they haven't rushed for

more than eighty two yards. And you know, you watch other teams play, not everybody's lightening it up on offense. As we saw last night again the Monday night game, right, I didn't know if anybody was sport touchdown. I got bored. I got so bored. I can't imagine why you were riveted. Oh man, it was like scratching your fingernails on the blackboard,

you know. And you know, when you look at just how the operations going here, when we are just not accustomed to that, that lack of effectiveness, and when in our running game, and so of course that puts more pressure on our quarterback, puts more pressure on our offensive line. Two pass block, which is something we know they don't inherently want to do. So here we are now approaching aggressive pass rush. Aggressive Blitz calls quarterback under pressure almost

every time he's passing the ball now. Granted he is from what I recall, the number one passer under pressure. I don't know if that's still a case, but he threw it for over three hundred and seventy yards last week, two one hundred yard receivers. And if that's the way we got to go go forward, then we need to be prepared for that. So we need all our wide

receivers back. Yeah. And when it comes to just the overall quarterback rating, DAC right now is a one or four point two, So he is currently fifth in the NFL, behind Kyler Murray, Aaron Rodgers, Kirk Cousin, and Matthew Stafford. So his ratings still pretty high. The other thing that's happened in four of those last five games is he has been sacked eleven times in four of those games. And the hits also and need to be add obviously three of those are losses. Yes, and so there's no

secret of why this offense has slowed down. Offensive line must play better. Let's talk a little bit here and to wrap up this segment and then we'll have our picks to click and picks to win. In the next segment. Let's talk a little bit about Taysom Hill, who supposedly, if he's got through practice today in tomorrow, he'll be starting at quarterback for the Saints coming off an injury. And he has not started a game this year. He started eight games last year. We all know he has

an ability to run if healthy. My question to you, Everson, what does that do for as far as the corners are concerned, how Dan Quinn implements his defense and in terms of man to man coverage, when you have a quarterback who might tuck it and run it right right now, if you have man to man, I would stick to your man to man coverage. As a cornerback, I think the safeties need to be up worried about what Taysom

Hill is going to do. I'm not worried about him passing the ball on us at all, Bill, I mean, if he if they catch anything on us, it's just gonna be something I think gonna be very menial. But when you start talking about their running game, of course, Alvin Kamar is coming back now, if I'm not mistaken, he hadn't practiced in a while, so he's gonna be fresh leg full strength. Now you gotta Taysom Hill fresh legs.

I don't know about full strength, but after what they saw last week with U with the was that Mario Tho they came in for he runs to play, you knew what was going on. We got Van Durition. I think it was Casey. They're taking the fake up for you already stopped him one time. So they're gonna take a look at that Bill and they're gonna be licking their chops at this point, not just on that particular

player quarterback running the ball. We haven't stopped any running back really this year as except for uh Cooks with the Vikings. And right now we are a defense that looks ripe for the picking. Okay, we look like we don't know how to play the run anymore. Uh. They don't have to pass the ball on us, really, I don't think to win it, not in this particular ball game. They think their defense is gonna play well enough to

hold us down. They're gonna pressure the hell out of us, and we're gonna be looking at a smash mouth game with Taysom Hill and Kamara. They're going to be running the ball on this I can see at least thirty rushes from the from the offense. You know, and Bill, here's kind of proof of what Everson's talking about. Last year, Hill started four games and he ended up with two hundred and nine yards rushing in four touchdowns. So again, yes, they want to use him in a running situation. This year,

he has played in seven games. He does have three starts, but it was at wide receiver and running back. So as for a quarterback, he's only had seven completed seven of eight passes for fifty six yards one interception. But in the time he has played in seven games, he's rushed the ball twenty times for one hundred and four

yards and three touchdowns. So that kind of complicates having to make sure that when they're snapping it to him, you don't know if it's a wildcat snap that he's just pulling it down and running, or if he's gonna absolutely throw the football. I would make him throw right. I would have both safeties up. Let's just stop fooling ourselves. He cannot pass the ball on us, and if he does, we deserve everything on the same On the Cowboys, I

would play have both safeties up. Let's just play some football. I'm not worried about any wide receiver from the New Orleans Saints, especially with the quarterback that they're going to be putting in. Otherwise I would play it more conservatively with Simeon and maybe with Jameis Winster. But when you're talking about a quarterback like that, let's try and see how much we're gonna make it. We're gonna do, Bill Belichick, We're gonna make them do something that they don't want

to do. Can you guys name any of the white wideries. Can you name any of the wide receivers for the Saints that start? Well, the only one I knew was Thomas Season. That's right, that's the only one I don't know. I've got him listed in front of me, Mickey, if you'd like, I can read him off for Oh, I meant off the top of your head. Well, I kid, I could read it off the top of my head because it's in my notebook. At the top of your head. I tell you all about Marcus Galloway and Drake Juan Smith,

kenny Still's play for that team. The former Oklahoma suitor. One guy to keep him to keep an eye on, though, is that little Deonte Harris. On punt returns and on jet sweeps. I mean you, uh, he's got that uh Tyreek Hill type speed and so he could be a

guy that could be a playmaker for them. All right, you know what, Yeah, continue, I was gonna gonna say, since you brought up Harris, uh, you know, after Kamara, he's next on the team with twenty seven catches, average is fifteen point eight to catch and two touchdowns as a wide receiver. So yeah, he's a guy you got to work look out for. And then they been also use in time Montgomery kind of running back slash wide receiver a little bit more. Here are these last few games.

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he's twenty pretty hard. I'm seeing you all over the place here lately, three sixty five days a year, right three hundred and sixty five days a year. Right, hey, And by the way, before we go forward, the Saints uh their Monday injury port. They had a couple starters that did not practice. Tarin Armstead, they're starting left tackle, did not practice with a knee. Marcus Davenport, when of their better rushing defensive ends, was out with a shoulder.

Kaden Ellis, starting linebacker at the strong side, did not practice with a hamstring. And Bill's gonna before I get to that. They're starting right tackle Ryan Ramscheck was limited in practice and not practicing with an ankle. Was their backup defensive end, Tana passan Yon. Is that how you say it? Sounds good? I didn't say with a lot of competence, mister t Okay good. So we'll see what their injury report looks like after today. That we should

get in about forty five minutes. All right, So picks to click. Time for our regular weekly pre game picks to click this time Cowboys and Saints and Mickey, you are headed out early in the morning, right, you're making the drive. I haven't heard anything different yet. I was hoping with a bunch of people that can't get on the charter that I might make the cut, but if not, I'm gonna drive out in the morning. Okay, all right, So Everson, what do you think picks to click? I'll

tell you what. Man, Looking at this game, Bill, I see us going back to the University of Florida Tim Tebow style, right, that's the way the Saints are going to approach us with Taysom Hill. Matter of fact, he can't even throw as well as Tebow as far as I'm concerned. Now, I don't know what the Cowboys think, and I don't know what they're gonna prove out to be. But I'm looking at Dak Prescott being my player to click easy pick. This time. I didn't have much time

to think about it. That's the only reason I just went with Dak. I'm looking at over three hundred yards. I mean, come on, we say we could pick him every week. So yeah, it's a short week, man, So I'm gonna go with Dak over three hundred yards passing a couple of touchdowns. I see the Cowboys going winning twenty four to sixteen, and that is a tough defensive battle for the Cowboys offense. We usually put up more numbers than that. I think we're averaging over thirty points.

I don't think we're gonna get thirty points this time, but I think our defense is finally gonna show up, especially based on the style that we're gonna be facing from the New Orleans Saints with Taysom Hill well very good, Everson, and I was looking at this four game Saints losing street twenty seven, twenty five to Atlanta, twenty three, twenty one to Tennessee, forty to twenty nine against Philly, and

Buffalo beat him thirty one to six. So opponents have been averaging thirty points a game against that Saints defense. That should be their calling Car. But I am gonna go twenty three twenty Cowboys. I want to see this defense offense get going. And my pick to click is going to be the receiving end of Dak Prescott's pick to click across the aisle from me here, Michael Gallop will take over this game for the Cowboys. He's looking good.

What was your pick last week? Mickey? Remember we went into the last week's game on Thursday and the Raiders had a three game losing streak and they had given up forty one thirty two twenty something points. I think give enough about thirty backs. Last week was twenty four to seventeen. That was his pick last week, twenty four to seventeen, and he had digs. I believe yes as his player, because I figured day that I picked. I picked a blowout last week. Yep, forty four to four fourteen.

I was fourteen. I think it was fourteen. It was, it was, it was, it was. I was playing off the forty three to three game and uh and determined that they had the Cowboys were gonna get forty four points somehow. But I went ahead and made it forty four to fourteen. All right, I've come back down to earth this week, and Cowboys going into a New Orleans team who has which has lost one one more game in a row than the Raiders had lost. Last week. They're coming off a thirty one to six loss to Buffalo,

and yet they are bouncing back. This week, the New Orleans Saints bounce back and the Cowboys win sixteen to thirteen, and they're not bouncing Oh so wait, who's the who's the player? Who's the player? Oh? And my player, My player is DeMarcus Lawrence. Marcus Lawrence comes comes back and his ability to play the run as well as get to the quarterback is going to be a key in

this game. Veteran guy coming back keeping that quarterback contained. Now, we'll see how many snaps Lawrence has, but based on the number of snaps he has, which will be limited, I think because it is his first game back, I think he's going to make an impact on this game and helping keep Taysom Hill and the running game in check for the Saints. And that's probably I like it because number one, we got fresh leg Theory there right, he's ready to go. He hadn't place until since the

season opener. And number two, both of their guys h tackles are dealing with injuries. As I read on their injury report, we'll see what goes on going forward. Uh. And they they are, you know there with that. They've had injury problems too. A matter of fact, one of their starting guards is out for the season, Andrews Pete. Uh, he's out. They have a starting safety, Gardner Johnson, who is out there without Will Lutz Um there punter or place kicker I forget which really he's one of the

two kickers. Sorry, he's the kicker. Yeah, And they've had to get They've gone through a couple really, no Michael Thomas and no Jamis Winston, so they've had their share of to take advantage of that, well, they need to so. Uh And by the way, Brian Ainger, how about last week Brian Angery booming fifty seven yard average on his punts last week? Yeah, and absolutely, and and you know, had they won, he should have been the player of the game on him turning over the field did a

heck of a job. If the defense had played better and if uh, they would have picked off some of those Derek Carr passes, which is why I chose trey Von Diggs as my pick to click, because I figured with all those deep throws they would get something out of it. Oh and by the way, Jerry very politely during his interview today on one oh five three the Fan,

uh talked about the officiating in that game. He did, he did, and and somebody said, you know, they don't get penalized for bad calls, and he goes, oh, no, they do because the league keeps scorer when they start picking crews for playoff games and the Super Bowl. If you get docked too many times, you don't qualify for those games money. And his other point was, I got

a question, go ahead, I said. His other point was that, you know, yeah, we want to see offense, but we don't need to see all these penalties call to slow down the game. And as he pointed out again and I think Bill did earlier, that was the most watch NFL game since the Super Bowl last year and probably will be the most until the next Super Bowl. Uh. And it was a flagfest and the flow of the game, Um, as I said in my column, needed draino because it

wasn't flowing very well at all. Uh. And so he was talking about, you know that these interference calls, the holding, um, you know, I don't. I think he stopped short of pointing out that, uh, you know, of the four interference calls on on Anthony Brown, UM, one of them should have been holding. You know, it happened far up the field before there was any interference calls. So, uh, yeah, he was not happy. He very politely said he wasn't happy, not in those words, but pointed out that, uh, it

just sort of disrupted the good for the game. Basically what he's saying to call every single thing. Uh that if you want to call holding all those times on the offense and our offensive linemen you can call at every every game, all right? Uh, Micky, do you know when we're back Friday? We think Friday, all right? Yes, depend on my travel and ever since travel. My travel is definite. Mickey's travel is up in the air, So I know I won't be here, but i'd be ready

to call me if I have to. And well, and I've got a coaches show that I'm taking at some point on Friday. It'll be interesting to see you if it's with Mike McCarthy or Dan quinn. That needs to be seen and it remains to be seen if we're talking about a Cowboys win on Thursday night in New Orleans. Mackey, you got anything else to share about any appearances in

New Orleans? Yes, as long as I make it with Star Sports tours around five thirty six o'clock, we will do a reception there for the people on their tours. And you know my theory about the more you lose, the closer yard of winning. And I pointed out to day to someone that the Saints have lost four straight and they've immediately told me, yeah, but the Cowboys have lost two strength you. So someone's due for victory three

out of four? Yeah right? All right, Well that does it for this edition of Mix Shots, and we will hopefully see you on Friday after a Cowboys win in New Orleans. Enjoy the game and we will see you later. Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.