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We've got a false start to start this one. But we trust that you not only see us, but you also hear us. Now, Bill Jones and Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios and Everson Walls inside the SWBC Mortgage Home Studio. Hello Everson, Hello William, Hello Mickey. How are you doing people? I'm great you guys. Good to be with you. I actually see it. It's Wednesday, and I am in person here at Ford Center at the

Star in Frisco, inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios location. Today on Wednesday, I tape a high school football preview show in the studios here. Right after we get done with mix shots, and so I have permission to enter the building on Wednesday afternoons. That's why I am here in studio. Good. So there you you know the schedule for me for the for at least now, and you could triple up because I think you have to read my script for the Legend show too. Oh that's right, I'd have to

do that too. You got a Legend show coming up. Let's say, guys, I really missed the Spagnola Jack Blatt readings. I'm looking for those to come back. They gotta come back, guys, right, I don't like to read the reading now only spags. That should be all spags all the time. We need to we need to talk with that with Nikki about those to get those backbacks in the reads because they've got some really good sales going on right now. Yeah, and I need some more Jack Blain all about it now?

All right? There is a news happening here at the Star, and there's news happening around the National Football League. That's where we started yesterday. So why don't we start in Nashville again today? Because they are not starting in Nashville. In fact, they've closed down the facility to the first do we call it an outbreak COVID nineteen outbreak in the NFL. It took them took three weeks of the season.

That's a good thing. But and now the word comes down this morning that the Titans game against the Steelers is postponed. They are hoping for the start of next week, right, Nicky. Yes, they talked about postponing to maybe Monday or Tuesday so we could have a Tuesday night game. And yeah, they're they're kind of just waiting to see how the week goes because they want to make sure both teams have enough or especially Tennessee enough time to practice preparing for

the game since they shut down the facility. So they had another they had three originally players test positive. Another one did yesterday, so it's four and five PEP personnel people that are in Tier one and tier two, So that's nine all together right now. And I guess they want to see if they've got a control of this and it's stopped and nobody else is going to continue to test positive before they open up the facility and

get back to work. So yeah, the first one that's happened, and you know, everybody was like, wow, the NFL didn't have They don't have any idea what they're doing. Well, they you got to figure this out. You know, this isn't like baseball where you play two or you know, you push it off and you just played the next day. So there's no such thing as in baseball. They played seven inning double headers. There's no such thing as playing

a three quarter doubleheader. Can't do that in football. In football, so and that's probably hopefully they'll be able to get that game in on Monday or Tuesday and it won't disrupt the schedule because we were we were looking ahead and when they might be able if they had to postpone it until later in the season, and it is workable. I think the Steelers would have had to reschedule a game with the Ravens to make their bye week coincide

with the Titans by a week. The good news on this right now is though the Titans did play at Minnesota on Sunday, there have been no positive test out of the Vikings camp and so the Vikings are ready to get back to work and get prepared for their

game against the Texans on Sunday. Yeah, and the other thing that came out the NFL and the nfl PA sent out a strongly worded memo to the coaches, general managers, and team executives that includes a passage that says it will address a lack of compliance with accountability measures that may include suspensions and or forfeiture of draft picks. Meaning if people on the sideline aren't wearing their masks, there's going to be more than a financial fine for those

players and those teams. So they're really emphasizing for people on the sideline to keep those masks on during on game day, all right, And so in regards to in regards to the initial problem that we're having here, it kind of reminds me of baseball when they first started out.

I think it was a Florida Marlins had so many guys tested positive, and it looked like they were going to have to shed everything down, but they continued, And initially I think I would have pushed the panic button if the Major League Baseball Association didn't what hadn't already shown us kind of a blueprint on how you can work your way through this thing, knowing it's not gonna be pretty, knowing that we're gonna have a Monday or

Tuesday night game. Heck, you might know we might have a Wednesday night game before it's all said and done. I mean, because right now there are no limitations, there's no those, no template to follow. But I do like the fact that the Major League Baseball had these same issues initially and they were able to come out of it. So I think we'll be able to do the same in the NFL. Hopefully. I'm looking forward to I don't want to stop the season. It's already on this way,

you know. Ever since this was almost like a reminder because things have been going so well for those first two and a half three weeks that you would people, probably players tend to relax and say, Okay, well, you know there's there's no threat here. Well, this came to reminder, and Mike McCarthy even talked about it today in his

press conference. He said that, you know, during their team meeting, he said they were reinforcing all the things they've been doing and re emphasizing to everyone that we got to continue on the path we were on, you know, being very diligent about following all the protocols and not let

this thing catch us by surprise. And you know, I just think it was inevitable with guys going home that at some point, you know, I don't know where you contacted it, if you went out and didn't do what you were supposed to do going out, which is another thing they're going to keep an eye on because I can't remember who was it. There was a story about some one team found out a bunch of players did it some sort of charity thing and they were at it without masks on, and so they were going to

investigate that. But he just can't let your guard down just because it seems like everything's reopening well. And the big thing about that is that it's not just you. If you have a wife, if kids, whatever, or go friend or whatever, and you're around other people, and then you can't help but be around your family. You know. The other thing that football has, which is more challenging, obviously with basketball and hockey, they're in a bubble situation.

In baseball, they weren't traveling, but they're playing every day and there's just not much downtime to go out to a restaurant or even to be around your family or you know, you're in a routine where you're primarily playing night games. You're going home, you're going to bed, and you're going to the ballpark. The next day, you're traveling with the team and you're isolated in a hotel and

they're taking all the protocols. The problem football has is that during the week, yeah, you are practicing starting on a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but you're going home after practice. You're off a couple of days or a day and a half during the week, and there's more opportunities for you to be around other people that aren't being tested. You know. I saw in today's paper. I thought it was kind of alarming. After the Stars had been in

that bubble for what nine weeks? Uh, they flew home, uh, and a bunch of fans met them at the airport as they were going through the airport, and I saw that Hohudobin was taking a picture with a couple of fans. None of them had their masks on. And I'm going, Okay, you just quarantined yourself for nine weeks and now you're out in public with two people you don't know, and you're not wearing a mask. It's like, boy, you gotta rethink that he didn't leave it, leave it. That's what

they thought. Happy happen to be over. It's almost likely relief. And the other thing that you have is is really you have one protocol for the sports teams, but then you know, when you go out in public, then your state or your city might have a totally different set of protocols that you have to adhere to. So there's different between what the Cowboys are doing versus what the city of Dallas or the Dallas County or Column County

or the state of Texas. It's different how we approach it as private citizens versus the protocol that they have to deal with throughout the NFL or all the major sports, so that that you're having to jump in and out of that, you know, between one one protocol to another protocol. They just have to be mindful that we have different protocols in the on the team sports for a reason, because you are in a unique situation. When it comes to the state protocol or city protocol, they're all over

the place. So you got to ignore those and realize the task at hand is to be all in on the NFL protocol. You know, and Mickey mentioned this yesterday. The NFL has there's a reason that there are expanded

rosters this year. Reason there's an expanded practice squad this year, it is because they anticipated that there would be situations arise like this, which is why the Tennessee Titans, even with four positive cases, can go ahead and play a football game on Monday or Tuesday whenever they reschedule this for Yeah, and and the other thing that took place, I guess the beginning of this week is Roger Goodell sent out a memo to all the teams, also emphasizing

their protocols of you know, how they bring in players for workouts, and I think he strongly suggested that you might want to back off on that stuff. And one of the reasons why Earl Thomas didn't get a workout in Houston, and it wasn't just they were evidently gonna work out a bunch of players, uh Monday, Tuesday, and they kind of suggested to him that you might be real careful about that. You might put him in a hotel room and make sure you're testing him before you

bring him into the facility for a workout. So all I thought I thought it was something he had done. Now, all the conspiracy theories that Jerry was flying in and had put a halt to the workout because he's gonna sign Earl Thomas. Like they probably got thrown down into the trash container. And I just assumed that he did something controversial, and you know, we're going, yeah, with his background, it was probably a good assumption too well. And so Bill,

that's why I thought it was. I thought it was a whole Capinet thing that they the rules got all mixed up, and hey, I don't want it this way, I don't want it that way. I just assumed that it was his cap that had something to do with that cancelation. I'm glad to hear that it was simply because of a prolocoul spending place. Yeah, And and the initial reports kind of came out that way. And first Thomas's agent said that no, we were informed by the Texans that due to COVID issues, they had to cancel

the practice. And then Bill O'Brien this morning made a point to talk about how how much respect he has for Earl Thomas, and they, yeah, they wanted to bring him in, but it was a sort of a league wide thing that hey, let's they got a notice from the league that these workouts, let's let's put a hiatus

on him for a little bit. Yeah, you know, and even if you if you, you know, bring in a guy without a workout, he still got a test negative three times in four days before he's allowed in the facility. So you know, so you almost have to plan for two weeks in advance. And the reason that the Texans were interested in Earl Thomas is because they had an injury at the safety position on Sunday. So you're right, these personnel people, I mean Will McClay has to sit

there and anticipate. Okay, here we are depth wise, Let's say at the safety position, what if we lose a guy on Sunday, Well, you have to have already brought safeties in to make sure that you had them, you have them ready to go, or you you understand where they are physically okay. And then because even when they come in, they still got to pass three tests before

they can work out with a team. And that's why I think when you see you know, the collections to Jerry and Steven and Mike McCarthy about well can you change this, bring somebody in to help out, and they're like, well, we got to kind of do this from within because they know even if you bring somebody in, it's not for a week before. They're not gonna go out to practice on Wednesday or Thursday. Any good. You got to address it from within. They might be able to clear

protocol by Friday maybe, And so they haven't been. They haven't practiced. You're too heavy days of the week, so they're not going to be able to contribute. I mean just thinking. Just remember when the Cowboys signed Everson Griffin. You know that he didn't clear whatever day they did it, he didn't clear till Saturday. And then I don't think he got into practice either Sunday or Monday the first time. So yeah, it takes a while, so it's not an

instant cure for whatever ails you. And speaking of whatever ails you, Tyrant Smith, at least practice on a limited basis. Okay, that's a little tease. Okay, gonna take a little break. Here, have full day on Tyrn Smith and where the Cowboys are injury wise from Mickey Spagnola in just a moment, Hey, they're Cowboys fans with tight cleaners at home pickup and delivery.

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and Mickey Spagnola with your Wednesday practice report. Yes, and as I was teasing before we went to break a, Tyron Smith did work on a limited basis, but you know it was more than on the side doing resisting card work. He actually had a helmet and shoulder pads on and kind of went through the individual drills went through when they do kind of their skeleton lineup with the offense and the defenses off doing their own deal.

So at least he was out there, and the other guy that I saw was out there and running effortlessly was Ceedee Lamb. So you can put this conspiracy thing to bed that he was hurt at the end of the game and that's why he wasn't in on whatever play everybody's been talking about. So he was out there. And after that, the other guys I think were still in the rehab that are on injured reserve. Those guys were still in rehab. So really they you know, everybody's like, well,

when are they going to get everybody back? Well, the guys on on injury reserve, the only one that was eligible to come off was Lele Collins, and it doesn't look like he's ready. And I still think there's something else wrong other than the hip that's preventing him from rehabbing the hip injury that he had. Jerry alluded to it, and all I know is when they started training camp and he wasn't initially out there, the back problems he

had flared up. The back that he had the end of last year kind of flared up in the offseason, so they were trying to and I don't know if that's why or if there's something else. I understand he was a little bit overweight, so COVID didn't treat him well the way it didn't treat a lot of people

well that gained weight the quarantine at home. So from an injury standpoint, and I believe during the individual drills, if I remember correctly, at least uh uh Anthony Brown and chitabey O Woozier have moved on to doing resisting chord work, so that's a good sign for them. Uh. Chitabey still gotta miss two more games and Anthony Brown one more game before they would be eligible to come back.

And Uh Terrence Steele was out there. So whatever's stomach element he had, looks like he was good enough to be able to practice today. So we'll see when we get the official injury port. But I did notice that from Cleveland standpoint, they've got a bunch of injuries of guys. A bunch of guys didn't practice. Their starting left card guard, Joel h Boutonio, I got it, sort of did not practice and they were they were were worried about that one.

Also Denzel wore their starting corner, uh did not practice along with Adrian Claiborne. Cowboys know enough about him now. He's a backup and he was the backup to Olivier Vernon and he hasn't been practicing, so they've got a little bit of a problem there. Also, Greed Williams was limited in practice and also uh Hunt Kareem Hump did not practice. So they've got some in concerns going into

this game. Also, that is a heck of a running back right there is so what they have not made a decision on what he's going to be, if he's going to be available. Yeah, it's just early. It was an early week. They were it was projecting that he would not practice today. Now that's a heck of a guy there. They've got a great one two punch that we have to deal with. And as bad as I run, well, as good as I run, defense was especially against the Seahawks.

I hope that we can hindue that. Yeah, when they start talking about the players Association, it's something I just had to bring up. With all of the injuries that we're having and they're talking about the forty nine ers are complaining about the different fields that they're playing on, especially in the meadowlands. They were talking about the New York Jets Jersey or New York Giants of field. I just thought that was so ironic that the forty niners

are complaining about a field. You know, I'm pretty sure that's still below sea level out there in San Francisco. I don't know about Santa Clara, but I do know that they have no room to talk about how bad the field can be. We have to wear spikes this long when we went out there for the second time. I don't know if you guys know the story. First game in nineteen eighty one, played against the forty ninety. We got blown out and it wasn't just the field,

but they had a heck of a squad. Obviously ended up winning the Super Bowl that year, but the field itself was just it was weighing on us mentally because we kept falling down. We couldn't get any traction. We went out there for the championship game. We were ready this time, we had we had spikes this long. But now your legs are completely exhausted, just and your calf muscles and everything just from trying to pick up those

spikes on the top of your shoes. And I just thought there was a tragic travesty, not just for our game, but as the Cowboys finally went in to kick the forty nine ers butt after all those years, they did it on one of the worst fields that you can ever play on. So I just thought that was very It was very ironic that you have the nerve, you have the goal to talk about somebody's field when we've

been complaining about you guys ever since the dinosaurs were alive. Yeah, you know, Everson, you got to remember, these guys don't know what took place forty years ago or thirty years ago. So forty my forty, that's basically four Oh my god, I'm freaking old, dude. I just got older. I just felt older. Oh my god, I had to bring up one more thing that I had to bring a one more thing to crack me up. And I know this

is off topic. H The Philadelphia Eagles, you know, they're known for booing the everything Santa Claus Christmas, it doesn't matter, uh, you know. And I thought it was so funny with no fan participation. They actually put it on the tellustrated boo. They actually typed out boo at the stadium in Philly. I thought that was just so classic that if any team needed to boot needed fans needed to boo those fans of being Philadelphia and they're not there. So the

telestrator put boo on the stadium. When Carson wentz, I think, do an interception. So I thought that was very fitting, extremely fitting. COVID will not take away the booze. The fans may not be there, but the booze remain in Philadelphia. I thought that was pretty cool. And by the way, on Candlestick Park, it is now way below sea level because they it's been demolished. It's part of the bay. Now, that's right, all right, Making anything out of Mike McCarthy's

press conference this morning. That struck you, Well, the one thing I mentioned really wasn't well his emphasis, I think on the turnovers that are bothering the Cowboys. You know they have not counting the two fake punts that didn't work, they have six. So they're tied for thirtieth in the league right now for the most giveaways. Uh, there's two teams tied at seventh. I'm going to okay, well, then they they have the most because uh, and tied with seven.

Guess what the Washington Football team and you're New York Football Giants. So the three they're not mine. Three of the four NFC East teams are at the bottom when it comes to takeaways. And the thing I mean turnovers and the thing about their giveaways, all six of them, Uh, with the exception of the end of game one that the interception at the end of the game, the other five have all led to scores totally. I believe thirty

one points. I counted up, so, uh, four touchdowns in a field goal, thirty one points and that doesn't account for the fumble at the one yard line that led to the safety. So that's thirty three points. I look at it wasn't a turnover, but it might as well been recovering at the one yard line, So thirty three points of the Cowboys. It wasn't a safety either. It

wasn't a safety either. Yeah, and so although I still don't think he got out even after he laid on the ground, even though no one touched him, but the whistle blew. So but anyway, his emphasis was, we got to take care of the football. And let me ask you, this is a is a failed fourth down conversion that's not a fake punt you turn the ball over? Is that?

That's three the two fake punts and the fourth and three that Now, I think it depends on the field position on it, okay, because for instance, on the fourth and three in La, Yeah, at the eleven yard line, you don't make that, and you're giving the ball up.

I get you, and so that would be yeah. But if a fourth if you're going forward on fourth down at your own forty where you're losing the field position, if you don't make it, then I think that counts as a turnover, right right, Okay, So the two fake punts count, yes, okay in my opinion, because otherwise you could have punted them and flip the field. And that's sort of the point on this whole Seattle game and why the Cowboys had so many yards of total offense.

Look where they were starting their drives. I mean the Cowboys starting field position for the entire game was the average starting field position was their own eighteen yard line. The Seahawks average starting field position was their own thirty four yard line. And so that's a significant difference right there. I think that even goes back to last year if you think about especially the first part of the year last year, when they weren't getting takeaways and the starting

field position was horrible. They wait, wait, when did they start with takeaway? Well, I mean they finally got one, Like the sixth game of the season is the first. Yeah, last year took a while. Yeah, it was like it was Halloween before they got takeaway I think. But I think last year also we still had we I think our scoring drives had to accumulate to be on the average that the most starting position in the league. I'm pretty sure that belonged to us last year as well.

You know the other thing he said that stood out to me, Uh, he was talking about the communication on defense in particular, uh, and specifically probably in the secondary. And he said communication is always the root of defensive success or defensive failure. UH. And so I think he understands that the defensive of communication has to be better. They can't bust assignments, as we were talking about over these past two days, leaving guys so wide open. Uh,

you know, and Scott and then and they had a bust. Uh. It was the Falcons game, right, the tight end Hurst there wasn't anybody twenty yards of him, So you had another busted coverage. And by the way, Everson, the average starting field position for the Cowboys last year, their own twenty six yard line that ranked twenty ninth in the league. And you know, you get a pretty good head start on leading the league in total offense when you got

more real estate to cover exact starting field exactly. All right, we continue with we are blessed. Go ahead, Everson, go ahead, go ahead. We'll talk about it. Okay, let's tease whatever you're gonna say next. Okay, what is Everson? That's why we have hold on. Don't tease Everson. Whateverson is gonna say coming up next? On mix shots, Don't go anywhere. Hey, they're Cowboys fans with type Cleaners at home pickup and delivery.

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com slash United. All right, very good, And when we last spoke with you on mix Shots, Everson Walls was about to say something he was grownund and he's now going to say whatever it was he was about to say. I'm sorry, it's gonna be pretty anti climactic. I'm just hard to add on to what you guys were talking about. When you start that that deep in your territory, most of the time, that leads to lots of turnovers and lots of unfinished. One thing that we did, we were

blessed to finish those drives. That's why Dak is looking for a new contract. That's why our offense has so many yards built up. We're blessed to have talents that can at least get us out of that hole. The problem is you don't want to make a habit of that because I don't care how good you are. Eventually, defenses are going to catch up with you. Maybe not the Cowboys defense, but all the ones that we're playing

playing against. So what does Mike Nolan, what is his role in this as a defensive coordinator, you know, are we going to continue to play off of the offense. Are we going to continue to let them be the catalysts of the team. Are we going to try and participate in some way to give them an opportunity to win? Are we going to try and get them better field position by being more aggressive defensively? Because that's what Mike

Nolan has to look at. Does he just throw all caution to the win because right now we're playing defense very cautiously. And does he does he become more aggressive? Does he do more rumblitzes, does he, you know, just turn into a title of difference defensive coordinator? Or do we continue to go down this road of ineptness coming from our defense and especially our secondary we talked about yesterday.

We have the worst past defense in the NFL and along with close to the best passing offense in the NFL. It pretty much leads to what we've been accustomed to eight and eight seasons, you know, five hundred seasons not making the playoffs. I'm hoping we make changes quickly enough here to what we don't have to worry about making changes during the lad when it's desperate, desperate times. I want to make those changes right now and see what kind of guys we have that can adhere to those changes,

players and coaches, guests. Who has the worst past de fence in the league, meaning giving up the most pass? Seattle? Seattle, Okay, Cowboys are twenty and they're three zero. All right? The Cleveland Browns come here for a noon kickoff on Sunday, and we're going to talk a lot about the Browns here in the next couple of days. We got five minutes left here and to kick off our Browns scouting report. Let's just do it this way. What is it that

concerns you last week? Bill? What is it that concerned We're going to kind of tease ahead to Thursday and Friday here. What is it that concerns you the most about playing the Cleveland Browns this week? It is a Cleveland Browns team that is looking for its third straight win and is every thirty four and a half points a game the last two weeks, albeit against Cincinnati and the Washington football team. Everson, what is it that concerns

you the most about playing Cleveland this week? The running game? Two great running backs, They're very confident right now. They lost their first game, but in the last two games we came to see what is really going to be their strength. Even Odell Beckham has finally come to the conclusion that we are not going to be that past happy team, you know, throwing the ball all over the place.

They're going to be a controlled ball club or much like we are, but probably won't throw the ball as much because their defense gives them a better chance to win. So that running game being the capitalist of their attack, that's what That's what's going to bother me right there with Everson, because, as coaches will tell you, if you can't stop the run, you don't earn the right to rush the quarterback. And this team is number three in

the National Football League in rushing yards. They're averaging five point two a carry and one ninety per game. And we know that the Cowboys have had trouble previously stopping the run because they get so focused on putting pressure on the quarterback they forget about the importance of stopping the run. So to me, that's the deal. And you know, I don't know, I haven't looked enough at what they

do offensively. But in their weekly release, when they sent out the depth chart, they do list a fullback as part of their eleven man offense. And if that's the case, you know, the Cowboys really haven't played all that much with three linebackers on the field. They've been in nickel

with these three teams. I don't know that you want to line up in nickel against this bunch if they got a fullback out there and you're relying on a safety or corner in the slot to help support the run against these two guys Chub and Hunt and the fullback Andy Janovich. He was in the game for seventeen offensive snaps against Washington and twenty two offensive snaps the

previous week against Cincinnati, So they'll go heavy. And if the fullback in there, I bet the tight ends are in there too, so they want they want to run the ball, and Everson mentioned it. You know, Odell Beckham Junior seems to be okay with not all about me, you know, it's all about the team. And maybe they're taking a little pressure off of Baker Mayfield. He's only thrown the ball eighty five times in two games, so

that's less than thirty thirty a game. While Dak is you know, probably averaging I'm gonna do it off top of my head, probably about fifty a game. It seems like with how much the Cowboys have thrown the ball, so uh, they'll they'll run it at you and that creates more big plays for them. Dack's throwing the ball one hundred and forty three times in three games. That's nearly nearly fifty a game, and uh mayfield the last two. You have to realize exactly sixteen out of twenty three

both games. Well, yeah, so stopping the run definitely is something that the Cowboys have to make a priority of, and it'll be interesting to see how they do it, you know, because they're short on linebackers. You know, it's been Jalen Smith uh and Joe Thomas uh and and at times if they've wanted a third linebacker, it's kind of been Alden Smith standing up on the outside with

the four man run. Now, maybe you go and use more of your three four defense and act like two of your defensive ends are are linebackers along with the two guys in the middle. I don't know, I don't know how they're going to do it, but um, that's probably bring down the safety as well. You'll probably bring the safety down as well and have him feel a hole. And they're very good at that. They're very good at that. Defense boats them well. Uh, he Woods gets in there

pretty good. We got a couple of good heart hid in the safeties. But then here comes to play action pass bags. And when you have that that play action, just like with the Dallas Cowboys, it's gonna be some big holes in there if you're not careful. And when Landry and Beckham catch the ball, regardless of whether you throw to him ten times or just one time, each time that they catch it, they're trying to take it

to the house. And if you have those holes open up in there because of that play action pass, then it's gonna be another track meet that we're looking at. And it's just gonna look a little bit different from Seattle. But the guy's going to the end zone, it still looks the same, all right. Baker said he's okay getting in a shootout with Dak Presscott. He said that, yes

he did. Now he's not he's not, No, he is not, no, he is Have you ever heard of Baker Bayfield not being confident coming in or cocky or worse than that coming in into a any football game that he's played. I think he got a very good point there. Yeah, well, I gotta hand it to him after that first loss, it was it could have been easy to fold. It

really could have been. And I have to hand it to that entire team on how they kind of pulled themselves together and they're bove five hundred for the first time I think since Mayfield's been there, I think since Johnny Manziel was the quarterback in twenty fourteen. Wow, how that turnout? All right? That doesn't For this edition of Mixed Shots, and we will be back with much more live in the inside this WBC Mortgage Studios here at

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