Mick Shots: Fright On Friday

we go well in Dallas, Waite Phillips. We won the bye week, right, Gwenda Waite Phillips, So we won the bye week? This wol too? Right? Yeah? Absolutely? And in fact, I think we need to make this a staple. This fight song gets you fire it up for Sunday's game, doesn't it. Yes? I forgot all about it doing my hiatus. So I thought you guys kept up tradition. We did not.

Thanks for listening when you were here. But you know what, don't you think we make an executive decision every Friday, every Friday, regardless of whether they won or lost the previous week, because maybe we should play some fires. You up for a fabulous football Friday and a football weekend, right, either that or right before we make our picks. No, no, no, you're assuming that people make it that fared to catch before they change the channel, man, before they dial out

right off to keep teasing them. And on the little headline that you put you go cowboys anthem or whatever you call that. Yes, and fight song. So fight song, fight on it's fight song Friday, Fight on Friday, Fight on Friday. Like that. I think I'll use that today very cowboys stampede, Cowboys stampede. That's right, it is, that's right. Yeah, but they don't go with Friday. Yeah, so it needs to be fight song, fight fright today just for this week, Yes, right on Friday. I like that. But we are we

gonna be full. They're gonna be punning us to death this weekend, especially doing the Sunday night game. Michael's back. I guess he probably is. Tarko did it one week at least, Yeah, he did. They're gonna just they're gonna just well bombard us with puns doing the game. Al Michael's, Chris Collinsworth and Michelle Tafoya. Okay, there you go. Oh yeah, they'll probably have a net like fighter net or I just mean coming from the booth. Yeah, you know all

these comments, you know it looks like the cowboys. This is horrible. Oh my god, yes, him on that right, it's they're gonna kill us. They're gonna kill us. Sunday night football game on Halloween. I haven't seen anybody in the building today dressed up? Good, Yeah, I brought you dressed up? Who that look like? I turned the jack O lannerd so the face was facing the camera and how did he get spun around? Every single This is a code. This is COVID candy. Is not covids COVID candy,

and I am I am in costa. Come on, yeah, look at you coffee. Come on. Well. As a matter of fact, and talking with coach McCarthy about playing on a Halloween night, he indicated that he has received notice from the folks who run the stadium in Minnesota that there's going to be some Halloween antics going on inside the stadium, like the lights going down and during timeouts

things like that. That. Oh yeah, so so the NFL is allowing that, Well, I don't know, yes, they are, just it was he got a he got a warning that about that and uh, he's just what he is calling for is for fans and attendance to dress up as Cowboys fans. So ever since you or yeah, the year your proper game day attire, right, that just gives them an opportunity to screw this game up and just all chalk it up to oh, it was just Halloween night. Now,

now y'all start screwing with the telecam. You know what you do. You know what you do. You show this team Halloween night nineteen ninety three in Philadelphia, Right, it was late afternoon on end, it was an afternoon It was an afternoon game, but it was a late afternoon game. Yeah, So then went into the night. It was you know, especially East Coast, it was well it was a four four o'clock start, so it was it was seven o'clock. It was a night game by the time. Was for

the Eagles. Well, it was a lot of thought. Bro yes it I saw that he's got the most rushing yards ever in a Halloween games, one of the most memorable games in his career to thirty was it too kind of DeMarco? I'm in hollow, Yeah, but but DeMarco broke the record singles thirty single game rushing records. Was that against Seattle that DeMarco was against Rams the Rams and it was and it was back there Rams the

Rams dude, so they was they sucked? Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll take it and U but that would you that that ranks pretty high on the memorable Emmett moments in Cowboys history. That and the Giants game Giants game when he opened it with a sixty yard well obviously talking about the Giants final regular season game. Okay, I was just why why do we even care? So? I know what I'm on the Emmets in the NBA. We would it would remember, we would remember that Emmet game against

Philadelphia regardless of what was. But that helps. Yeah, that just helps. Uh? You know so since this stamp this is they always say they would, they actually wouldn't. Note best I got somebody sent me a whole list of statistics for Halloween, like most touchdown passes on exactly right, whatever it? So? I want to know if it's since it's Halloween, will Mike bring pumpkins to Minneapolis and not watermelons? Man? Did we just talk about this? I'm loathing this already. Man,

We pumpkins instead of watermelons. Remember they smashed watermelons before the Minnesota's true. Yes, wow, so and they had to bring their own watermelons too, by the way, So you think they were bringing pumpkins on the flight. I don't know, though, he knows. Well, they're going to have the band smashing pumpkins play there we go. Are you doing the game Sunday night, Chris? I will be that. Now I'm saying, you're getting the booth with Hogsworth and my Chris is

going to be the man with the puns. Now a Spags is the one with the receipt in his pocket from all the pumpkins that he bought. That's right. And the sledgehammer home depot. Actually, Mike made reference that today before he started his press conference. He said that was one heck of a sledge hammer we bought. It was very specially said I'd never seen one like that before. All right, So what's gonna make it a happy Halloween for the Cowboys on Halloween night? Ever said in Minneapolis, man,

I'm want to see a stopped every winning game. That's what's gonna be a happy night, stop running game. All right, Let's not bury the lead though, Yes, you go I want all sides of it, yes, okay. So while we were doing our podcast yesterday, Dak Prescott was doing his weekly interview and he basically said, if it was up to me, I would play. But there's more going into this decision, meaning the head coach, the trainer, whoever else gets a hand in deciding if it is worth sending

him out there. Knowing that they still have ten games to play after this one. He feels like he could go out and play. He did. Basically, he upgraded what he did the day before on Thursday, before practice, I told you that today no practice, right they practiced tomorrow. Mike said. He came back a little sore because he did a little bit more work yesterday than he had. It sounds like now Jerry was very optimistic. He said, I'd like to think Dak can go. Will think that

things are looking good right now about Dak. So that was Jerry this morning. During Mike's press conference about the same time, he basically said that they will keep keeping an eye on him, see that he continues to progress and probably come to some sort of conclusion on Saturday, not that they're gonna tell anybody. And I think a lot of that will depend on how they list him

today on the official injury report status. My guess is it's going to be questionable, and then if it goes to they know he's not going to play, they may go doubtful or he's out, But that wouldn't change till about three o'clock on Saturday. And they don't have to do that either if they leave it questionable and then they decide he's not playing. Now, if he doesn't get on the charter, then everybody's gonna know he's not playing

and that'll get out. But you know he could. He could, so you could dress him and say he's the backup, right, yeah, which I think is going to happen with Lale Collins by the way. I think he's going to be active. Uh, and then he'll be the backup swing tackle, maybe the backup left guard. Who knows. So what are the back on deck? What are the chances deck would not be on the flight? Even if they decided that he would

not be playing, Oh, he would still go. He would still staying home, although they probably don't want him standing for three and a half hours on the sideline. There's a bench. Well, yeah, like he's gonna sit down when when when the offense comes out the field, Yeah he'll sit down. Hell yeah he'll He'll need one of the

charter flight attendants to please fasten your seatbelt. Well, first of all, after what we saw last night and what we've seen from some of the greater players in the league, whether your quarterback or whatever, you're gonna take a lot to keep him off the field. It's just the way it's it's almost going to be impossible to keep him off the field. You talk about us being having our lead in the NFC's division, I get that, But when it comes down to it, we're not worried about the

NFC East. We're worried about the NFC and we need to keep pace. We might just stumble up on home field advantage. We might stumble up on not being a wild card team for once in our lives. After what happened last night, we see that. You know, undefeated ain't what it used to be. The more you'll win losing. I've always told you guys that weird stuff will happen. Had you had you had you had a struggling quarterback for the Packers, you know, but they still came up

with a great game player. I got new respect for the coach. Now, yes, Packers because they were of a game player. They were without their three top and was it the offensive coordinator defense? One of the coordinators was out too, Now that was us and they played probably one of their best defensive games of the seat, because I always thought that was their downfalls, the Packers defense, and that Jah he didn't play. He had his cities on. Yeah,

he wasn't dressed though. But to the point, those Rogers carried that team, right yep last night? Right? No, who carried that team the winning game? Carre with that team? Okay, well they were that A. J. Dillon. I didn't know much about her. Lord. They were lowering their shoulder like they were they we just didn't want to That name was Zeke or something. They couldn't stop them once they made first contact. Yeah, so to me, I mean they rallied for him. He didn't carry. They rallied for him

for once. I don't think he had two hundred yards passes stop. A lot of his passes were very ill advised. Passes should have been intercepted. A couple of them should have been intercepted. But he wasn't worried about that. He knew, he knew what he was doing. In regards to the coach, had Uh had had Rogers playing as if he was handing the ball off. All of those passes. They were just long handoffs. He didn't ask much from him, and when they did, he almost screwed up at least a

couple of times. And how about Kyler on the other side, That wasn't one of his better gibbs until the last driveway and he gets them down there. Here's the thing, guys, how do you not rush him up the middle every time? How do you not have that kind of success against Kyler Mary every time? And I know it's easier said than Ton. Okay, we're just gonna last them out the medal. We're gonna contain them in the pocket. We're gonna come

down the field. That sounds easy. Now, this is your best way, best scenario for him, though, And that's what was working for the Packers. That was the that was the game plan. Come on, maybe they do this spack size, give me a break, you know, and they watch it well and say no, no, But he's in deep thought right now. He's going no. But um, they're trying to do what they can to protect him and not run

him like they have in the past. But you know that goes back to their draft when they drafted Rondale Moore some of that stuff where Kyler get out on the edge and stuff, and Rondelle Moore is as fast as Kyler is. Yeah, and so by design they can run some of that jet sweep stuff that even if they don't hand to him, that motion freezes the defense

and clears opportunities out for Kyler. But Kyler he has not when he came here and played last year, he did not have a good passing game and there were several passes he threw up for Grass he just winging it. This guy is really lucky. He should go to Vegas because you know, if you look at the great pass he through last year that ended up the big touchdown, Yeah, he's not even looking. He just wings it right. Well, the first touchdown pass, he just winged that. And after

dB didn't get lost, he hasn't covered. And you know, but you better go that way, like don't look, don't stop and look, you better go that way because that's where he's going. I mean, but you're right here. You give him, you give him credit. For being able to make the throws and the accuracy and all that stuff, but he takes chances. There's a lot of I mean this, it starts to catch up after a while, the league, sports, competition, all of it. Eventually it catches up. And that's what

you like about the good quarterbacks. You can catch up all you want, but I'm gonna switch gears. See. That's what the good quarterbacks have done. That's what Rodgers has done, That's what Brady has done. We know what your weaknesses are, but okay, you know my weeks are. You still can't stop me saying you were right about rushing him up the middle, because now you took away his ability to run. Yes, he was going out the back of the bucket. That's when the quarter as exciting as that is. Yeah, he

looked tired, didn't the whole didn't. They looked tired in the first half. He looked tired in the first half. They hadn't run all those places and they were at home, so they really came out kind of listless as a team. And that's what you mean. We say, you know, the you know, the longer you go and defeated, the closer you are to losing because it's just that is what I'm waiting on for the Cowboys, Right, it happens, It

just happens, no more. My scoff is significant because they're playing a credible appointing upon it and if they don't come out ready to go, they're gonna get lost with a deceptive record. Yeah, they have a deceptive You guys, see the explanation on the last play for the Cardinals, the interception, tell me what happened. So I saw a story and it was quoting a source saying that they checked the play at the line of scrimmage because the play Troy was right. The ball was supposed to go left. Yes,

and he said something to the factor. For some reason, it didn't go left. He probably saw the matchup to the right and he had man and evidently aj Green didn't get the check or he didn't under He was a bit listless all night talking about aj Green. Yeah, yeah, he just you know, he thought that I kept thinking about old contracts. I kept thinking about the whole contracts. Last night. I told my son, I'm oh, my god, surprise, Bill is not texting right now because he looked old.

He didn't look like he belonged on that team. Without a Hopkins on the field, they lost a lot of their offense. But I think he thought he didn't catch the check and he thought the ball was going left and he was just a decoy. Well, you see, earlier in the game, he got cut off badly by the dB. I mean the ball was over his head by twenty yards because he didn't even finish the route. So he was trying to get a sub after the route. They're

waiting on him at the line of scrimmage. They didn't put a sub before him tapping his Yeah he's there, They're like, no, come on back, So he had to run back. I believe he had to stay in the game, but he delayed their their hell up offense, just simply out of you know, there's the kind of things you don't see from someone that's been on the team for

quite some time and with that much experience. And I will I will correct the announcers for saying that, because there was a whole lot of Packer fans in the stands, Oh, this team they travel, well, No, those people left Wisconsin. If you live in Wisconsin, you're gonna travel, right, Let's go every home you have moved your houses now in Arizona. That was like, you know when they said they would say that about the Cowboy fans in Arizona, It's like, no,

the Cowboy fans people move there. Or the fact that when they didn't have a team, Tech put that radio station in Phoenix and he developed a fan base. It was sort of like the cub fan base because of WGN right all over the country. Well, the Cowboys fan base developed in Arizona because they didn't have a team. The Cowboys were one of the closest teams other than if they then it made this round all the way around. I I'm sure it's Idaho. Yeah. And it's like with

hockey here, okay. When the Stars play the Red Wings. Yeah, and it's not like all those fans just flew down from Detroit for that game one of eighty two. They lived there. I've got two neighbors who are from you can They've lived here for thirty years and now they're wearing everyone the Red Wing stuff. Same with the Blackhawks too. There you go, that's right. And the same thing when the Tigers would play the Rangers, it would be all Detroit fans at the stadium at the Ballpoint probably live

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and Blue dancers or drumline to your next event. For appearance and performance details, visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash DCRB so Rhythm and Blue. So they're having a band or a DJ. No, it's it's the guys that are in gals that dance on the on the on the end zone. Okay, so just the music. I thought, the Cowboys, Rhythm and Blue dancers, dancing and drumline. WHOA nice? So if you're gonna have an event, all right, Mickey, where would you like to go next year? Let's go? Um?

Are we doing rants today? Ransom Monday's Ransom Monday Rants? Like is Mike shots. I'm not gonna ran on anything. Nothing's bothering me. Okay, yeah, that's Monday though. Yeah that other than the day I drove in and I saw five people with a dog sitting in their lap while they were driving down Sam Rayburn Expressway. Five people, five different cars. Yes, Why why do people drive with their dog in their car? Well, I mean in their lap because they're dogs won't get off your lap. I've tried that,

but all sorry, I'm guilty. If you're my daughter's a little dog. She won't get out, stay on my lap, and they she winds up butt off over the passages, side man, kissing heads out the window. When you've got you're taking two beagles to the vet, okay by yourself? What do you do? How do you how do you going to get? You put them in a dog cage? Well okay, oh my god, you want that's cruelty. No,

it's not keeps them safe. Okay, I'm sorry. My beagle Romo, he he, he has to get in my lap to go to the I don't want to see it either. So I was bunny. Okay, that's my rant. Okay, Romo's now so now where do you want to By the way, Romo's now fourteen years old. We got Bo and Romo. I wanted to name I wanted to name him TiO and Romo, and I got exed out on t O and so's bow it's b e a U. I was later, yeah,

and Romo. So that's how I know that of their age becau as we got him in Romo's first full season as a starting quarterback in two thousand and seven. At Christmas, so so he's been he's actually I guess we got him in two thousand and six when he first started games, so he's been hit at myth huh,

so he's still going strong, right, right, right right? I want to you want to take a guess why we named our dog Dantley Adrian A d. Because remember he didn't want to show up in eighty nine The Mavericks the Mavericks, so we figured we'd have the only Dantley and then he showed up. Okay, that's pretty good. All right, Now, what did you really want to talk about? What about Cooper Rush? Yeah? What are our thoughts? Okay? And first off, are we do we want to speculate? Are we expecting

Dak to play or not? I've changed my mind three times? Okay, Wednesday, I think I told you guys one hundred or Thursday one. Yes, and then I heard Dak talk and I was like, I don't know about this one. And then today just the way McCarthy kind of parried his answers and said we're going to put this off till Saturday, and then Jerry said what he said. I was thinking, well, when you said Jerry sounded positive, positive, But he also said, it's a long season. We got to take that into account. Um.

Then I was thinking, well, maybe he will play. So they're going to go through tomorrow's practice. It's an our practice. It's a it's a light one, but they still are out there in helmets. And how many snaps as he take it in practice this week? That hasn't been ascertained unless you know, Yeah, I was gonna say you had to get He said he's taken all the walk through snaps, so they wouldn't have wasted those, knowing that UH needs as much as possible. Now I got a feeling Rush

got everything he's needed on Wednesday and Thursday. It'll be interesting to see what happens on Saturday because he's got to be ready, right, He's got to be ready if he plays and gets hurt. Right, So still got to go in um quietly around the Rush household. So now I'm leaning more towards plane, towards plane, plane put towards that plane. And that's based on I'm gonna give you a Tom Landry answer, gut feeling. Okay, I just have a feeling. Okay, I agree. I never thought he wasn't

gonna I think, but I may be totally wrong. Think. I think if he's good enough to do what he did a full go as far as his rehab yesterday, then and I know he wants to play. I think last night had a lot to do with him making up his mind to play, even more so because the Cardinals lost. No, well, because the Cardinals lost, that gives us a chance to keep pace, of course. I mean, you know here we all the way to go, a long way to go. But you know, strategically, this is

a good move for us to make. Also because just the pride thing, uh, competition thing. I mean, everyone, I just played with it. How am I not going to play with mine? You know. They talked about how he shouldn't have been out there playing, except he was just playoff games. So it's a different kind of understand that. I understand that that's a win or lose understand and that has been adamant that if this is a playoff game,

he's utter percent throughout. Yeah, I'm telling you, when it comes down to it, it's a matter of pride as well. Mike had a pretty funny story today about Aaron having a shoulder injury. He said, I think he said it was his first year he started, like two thousand. When two thousand, how, I can't remember the year when when did Roger? So Rogers was there for two years of

five before he actually started. Let's go with it. So whatever, whatever, whatever year it was, he had a shoulder injury, and so they devised a game plan basically for him to throw the pat no passes more than fifteen right, and didn't want him thrown deep. And he said he hadn't thrown deep. It was all kind of short stuff. And he goes, we got into the we got into the middle of the first quarter, he said, I think it was our second possession, and we had the play call.

He remembered what the play call was, and it was basically, if the defense is lined up like this, the play call is basically a go route down the middle right. So it was going to be about a thirty forty yard pass. And he said he absent minded LEAs just saw it, reacted and called it right. I think it was two thousand and eight, and he said, and and Rogers had not thrown the ball that far for the entire week. And he said he just instinctively called it.

Rogers threw it, and it said it loosed it up his shoulder and it was then, he said, he came back to the huddle and he looked at the sideline like, I'm good Mike thumbs up. Yeah, but he wasn't supposed to call to play, he said. So devising a game plan to protect your quarterback sometimes doesn't always work because instinctively we just always go as we especially with the

heat of the moment. Yeah, as the game's going on, he's like, Hey, we gotta go at what we do, Nicky, would you like for me to throw out what doctor David Chow has now? All right, because I can throw out just as good as he can. Because he hadn't seen any X ray, he hadn't seen any armor. I all he is going off of as well and all, A calf injury is pretty injury, pretty serious. I probably

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are special delivery? Is it like a birth? Depends on where you where you live flower California, Yeah, California. Yeah, anniversary fruit basket? Yeah, something you've never done? Um cookies? Summies? Okay, Cooper Rush? Should the Cowboys make the decision to go with Cooper Rush on Sunday Night? How confident are you of a Cowboys victory? Well, everything you hear, you know it sounds good about Cooper Rush. Um Jerry said today,

he's just outstanding and executing our offense. Uh, he said, he gives us the pure ability to maximize our supporting castility, to maximize our supporting cast So they're thinking, if you got all these other guys around him, then he can

execute the offense. I don't know that. You know, he's going to come out and throw for three hundred yards, which is why I'm writing today that this is a big test for this defense to show up so he doesn't have to score or if Dak's less than one hundred percent, maybe and on average thirty four points continually. But they need to step up and play and play better. And by the way, before we get back to Rush, I just remember this one. You know, we keep referencing

that they got eleven games to go. Michael Parsons corrected everybody in his interview yesterday and said fourteen. And I love that man that takes into it. You know what fourteen means? What does that mean? That means you first you said this yesterday, Yes, thank you very much. Have you been talking to that guy? I think that was real fan of minute. It was really funny because they were asking the question and they were in the middle of the question mentioning eleven and he just said fourteen.

I love it. I love it, love it, love it. So anyway, Cooper Rush. So that's what j kenn Can our defense hold down the offense because we're gonna have to keep up with them offensively, that's what we're thinking. Just like we thought last night that Green Bay was gonna have to keep up with Arizona. They did not, right, because defensively they stepped up? Can we step up? As you asked, defensively? All, well, if if the alternative is, can Cooper Rush keep up with the Minnesota offense? And

I and I think if it's defense reasonable? Right? Reasonable? Because in the last nineteen games, I went back and looked only four times if the Cowboys held an opponent to no more than twenty points and twice this right, twice this year? So, uh so you want me to ask the next question? Go ahead? Can they score twenty four? Well? Okay, I'm going big picture now. Okay, So if Cooper Rush, if the if the team needs, is not going to be able to match another team that's highly explosive with

Cooper Rush at quarterback? What happens if we're in this same scenario in January, which gets built to his which gets which gets me till Tuesday, the trade deadline. See how cleverly he did that, Because room, if we have these questions, if we have these questions about our backup quarterback, okay, not being able to keep up with a three and three Minnesota Vikings. Okay, what about the backup quarterback situation?

If said quarterback starting quarterback Dak has a strain calf muscle on January eighth and going into a January sixteenth playoff game, he'll have all the experience from Sunday night. I was gonna say, so what if Sunday night he does well? And we went what if he just that changes on the backup quarterback situation? So this is his chance to show if he does play, this is his he does play and show pay well when or not? Just play and play. Let's say he's middle of the road.

What are you doing on Tuesday? Are you looking for a quarterback? Maybe they do it on purpose just to see if they need to make that. Well, there there's another because it really doesn't matter how the defense plays or how they're going to be totally looking at how Okayla, does that enter this equation at all? That you got the trade deadline on Tuesday and you're going and you

can find out about your backup? I think you're overthinking now. No, I don't think it shouldn't enter into the equation, but I'm ask him, does it it or the equa it at all. If you're on if you're wondering about Dak, well maybe we can sit him, and that it advantages. Now we can find out if we need a quarterback that doesn't you know, that doesn't enter the thought process. He got asked, Mike got asked a convoluted question like that, and he was like, well, he's not gonna say no, no, no, no,

not that question. It was something else and it was something like another one of those if if and if right, and he was like, I think he said something like, I'm so confused. I think he just blew a fuse. Yeah, yeah, that's what happened. Or the one they asked Jerry today about the trade deadline and they were gone, well, just let's say, since we can't do anything with tampering, there was a defensive end out there who uh doesn't like his situation and wants to be traded. Do you think

you might be able to do that? And Jerry goes, well, we can't tamper. And the way you said that, I got no idea in hell who you're talking about. You know what he's talking about. But I was like, who are you talking about? Right? So now? And I can't remember who's ace of ends. I can't want it out. It was, Oh, I can't. I forgot all right, But anyway, I was just gonna say, I do not put it past us to at least consider looking at another backup quarterback.

You know the weird thing about Rush though, every time he got a chance to play in a preseason game, he's played. Well, now it's preseason, I get it. You know, when you watch him in practice, it's like, I don't know, and then he gets in and he and Jerry's right, he just kind of executes. It's not fancy. Um, he's just kind of real. Guys don't take take good tests. He's just really guys don't test Yeah, right, right, so he maybe just just be a guy that doesn't test well.

But when the game comes, it's all just the No. I don't think you want him scrambling around back there trying to create. But if he can be robotic sort of the way Garrett was in the start on Thanksgiving, which by the way, wasn't his first start. Somebody mentioned that was his first start. His first start was in ninety three when Troy had something they had they traded for Kozar or Coozar got released, they brought him in. Garrett played like a quarter and then they put Cozar.

So you're saying that the Thanksgiving you called him robotic in the Thanksgiving game? Uh, Garrett Jarrett Jason. Yeah, he was preparing for his press conferences andn't he funny? All right? Picks to click? Actually his post the game press conference that they was one of his betters when he told listen to Bill, I'm talking to you. His postgame press

conference was basically talk about it. I think I don't think brill Well, they might have been married by then, but he said, the last thing I'm putting told me before I left for the game is if you if you get in trouble, just throw it up long and high to Elvin. That's it. And you know what, that's what happened. What happened, That's what happened, and we got a Thanksgiving win. Yeah? All right? So who against the Packers? By the way, right, who wins? And picks to click?

I got no idea while we're here. I got it. I got it. I'm first in go ahead, I'm first. Any well, okay, we're looking at uh that gonna play. That is gonna play. Okay, so maybe we didn't make two Pixie Judd Philly player not playing, that's gonna play. I'm going with Dak playing my pick to click Cowboys winning thirty five thirty one. It's gonna be a shootout, just like always. I don't know who the how the matchups are going to be in regards to the wide

receivers versus the dbs. I'm looking at Digs being on Palan okay. I'm looking at Brown covering Jefferson. Okay. I'm looking at Digs to get at least one pick. They are not running from him when they asked him, going to challenge him, and he's going to He's going to answer when they asked, Digs, which one should you cover? And he goes, let's pick your poison. M good answer. The way he's he's he's gay. Dig is getting at least one pick. Okay, They're gonna come at him. They're

definitely gonna come at da plays okay. And they will score thirty one points, which is what they scored last year up there, and Minnesota will scored twenty eight, which is what they scored last year up there. A replica, except there will be fans in the stands this time. Oh, that's true, and we are better team if they can deal with the noise. Okay, they can't, because the last time this team played in significant noise was that day in New Orleans. Okay, and you're picked a click who

Michael Parsons Michael pars Yeah, I was thinking. I knew you're gonna pick a linebacker because because they're gonna run the football, and the Cowboys defense has to step up against Delvin Cook, who went for one fifteen last year against him, and the year before I'd forgotten they played him. In twenty nineteen he went for ninety three, but he caught seven passes for eighty remember and a touchdown. Yes, he did so, frustrated the heck out of us, Delvin. Okay,

I'll go Dak plays and they get beat. Oh, you're not gonna go that far. At some point we got to pick him to lose, because they will. I really have thirty to twenty four. Okay, thirty to twenty four Dak plays. Now, if Dak doesn't play, I'm with you on that. Okay, then the five game winning streak probably ends. And my pick the click c d Lamb because he's matched up sort of against Justin Jefferson. Wasn't that the

game last year? He had the big catch. You go that crazy, crazy, big crazy kitch hen he surprised himself on that kids so CD and thirty to twenty four. If Dak plays, and I don't want to think about it, if he doesn't play. If for me, if Dak doesn't play, I'm looking at Zeke Bam. I picked the click. Well, you know what he kind of needs to be anyway, if they can establish the run, that would help keep them Daca field right, yes, because you know Zim's gonna

come up with some fancy blitzer. Oh that's right, Mike Zimmers on the other side, right. And Xavier Woods, by the way, that's right. I didn't look up. I wonder how many tackles he has. He's he's he started play cornerback at one point they might use him as a slot but yeah, but not I could see that Xavier Woods thirty five tackles, one fumble forced? One is that in his interception? Yeah? One interception? Okay, good player. I always liked him. He used to get unnecessary abuse for

because he doesn't intercept passes. But he covered and he and Marinelli told me this. Once he goes, you know what, the best thing he does he goes, he causes the quarterback to go away from the receiver that he's covering, or that where he's supposed to be, where he's supposed to be. He's not like he's not like he's in single man cover, but that he's forcing the quarterback to go away from that option because he's where he's supposed to be. All right, So your plans this weekend? I

hanging out with me. I'm watching Missouri Vanderbilt, all right, Oh guaranteed win? No, no, no, no, he meant for Vanderbilt. Yeah right, yeah, that's right. All those North Texas people, all right, Missouri's gonna kill us, and I give up thirty five points to North Texas. Right, all right? That does it for another week of mix shots, and we will see you again on Monday. Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.