Mick Shots: Groovy Tuesday

the it is the twenty first. I think it's the first day of fall. It was one hundred degrees here yesterday and we had a cold front come through, cold cool fun. That was seventy eight all right. The reason I'm bringing this up we walked in together and we have agreed that the hottest place in America is uh is right outside the atrium entrance here to the Star in Frisco. Most most places in fall, the leaves turn here, they cry, but it's eighty two degrees. But this team

is read a hot Yeah. Victory in Los Angeles just dreamed them on Sunday. That's a convincing victory. Now it's Philly Week as it started. Yet has Philly Week started Eagles Week started or in the Monday night game Monday night game, and so we hold off until slower build up probably, So the Wednesday practice is actually on Thursday, although the team will be here on Wednesday practice yep,

mock game type deal or whatever on Wednesday. And uh so we'll officially start kickoff Eagles Week tomorrow as they need to get healthy. Okay, well that's the place to start. So yeah, Philly, they lost Brandon Graham for the season with an achilles. They lost in Brooks or Guard. He's went on IR and zach Ertz is now in COVID protocol. We'll see what his availability is on Monday, and and uh so he's out right, you never make it back.

I tried it ten days. It's ten days, right, it is. Well, that's why say I haven't That's what I haven't seen anybody make it back in five Well, and not on this That's what Mike McCarthy was saying last week. Now they've just once a guy goes in that they basically figure figure it's going to be ten days before he's back. So even though they can get back sooner than that. All right, So what do you got bet and not see him out there? I bet? And I see that

tight in that it's out there. Yeah, oh he made he made? Yeah, I want to see. I got some questions. You want some questions and answer answers, all right? Questions about him are Cooper's ribs, ribs um. I think they

feel somewhat optimistic about it. But you know, it happened late in the game, right, that last catchy made for we assume although it may have sounded like he had something else going and he just because I thought I thought he got hit in the head, like he got deemed the way he was laying there, right, but ribs will make you lay there. The census is that he didn't get touched. Yeah, that's what a lot of people think.

I didn't see him, So maybe the way he fell, he fell on certain and I think it was already something wrong. And if you ever had that, it's very painful. Muscle. What do they call him that? I can't I kind of muscles? Yeah, you got that, I haven't yeh. No, he's in my athletic career, in my athletic career. I've had it twice, he said, every injury known to man, and one in one intersection. Yeah right, yeah, I did hurt. I bet so we'll see where where that one goes.

It sounded like Carlos Watkins and Dorance Armstrong had ankle sprains. Um was there one more? Maybe it was expecting Gregory back. Yeah, Gregory. They expect him back tomorrow. Yeah, back in the building. Back in the building tomorrow. So now you got to get him back going. And you know, I don't know if you If he's back in the building, that means he's out of COVID protocol and then he can start running, right. Maybe he's been running as Zach Martin. Jack Martin seemed

to be recovered well from his bout with COVID. If you analyze his performance the road greater and great, I think it was. I think it was like, you know, Superman coming to Earth. It seemed like he got together like the sun, you know what, and now it's everybody, m Yeah, that vitamin D. You if you can bear to talk, listen to talk radio. It's like, yeah, now see what happens when they run the ball, and it's like, okay, was Martin there last week hour the Buccaneers playing the

run just analyzes it's not about running it. It's just easy to number one defense the NFL. Yeah, as opposed to the Charges, who obviously we knew they couldn't and they gave up one hundred and twenty six to Washington. Yeah, so that offensive line and then you look at what the defense that they were that we were playing or they were playing. He were gonna run the ball right,

we have to time they were like two man. Yeah, so you gotta run the ball on two man and pretty easy when all their their outside linebackers want to rush the quarterback and the only forces you're gonna have is a safety coming up from half the field. Yeah, and they play them deep thirteen yards I saw one time fifteen yards deep, so that they was they were clearly Tampa's like, we're not We're going to see if

you can pass the ball on us. The Charge is like, we're gonna see if you can run the ball on us, because we can sure see that you can pass the ball on us. So every every week, I guess we're gonna have a different challenge. Like last night, and I think it was Detroit's defense. They had the safeties kind of within ten yards of the line of scrimmage, maybe closer, and right before the snap, one of them just goes

be lying running backwards, right, going back. But he was turned to the side, and I'm going, okay, if they snapped the ball before you get where you want to go, well, what good are you? I mean, he was running full speed. I think they just wanted him deep middle. Well, it didn't lie him up there, it was in the sky. Yeah. I didn't think Rodgers will see him sprinting right, Yeah, you think just can see everything. Aaron Glenn has just

loves the defensive coordinator the Lions. He was just disguising things for Aaron Rodgers. They needed to do a little bit. Well it worked for a while, yeah, for the first half. Yeah, yeah, So I start to give a pick the click on Rodgers. Yeah, I thought he'd have to be plus yeah. Well, yeah, Usually what happens after, especially when you're Aaron Rodgers after a thirty eight to three laws there's a bounce back week.

But usually what happens in this league after you fump a team thirty eight to three, then you go to Carolina and lose, so which of course, which broadcast did you watch? Oh, come on, give me a break, man, I'm not into that. You didn't watch the Mannings. No, I'm not watching a little bit of I'll watched more of it last week than this week. See, I'm already out on it, already got tired. Okay, I didn't the way everybody subscribed explained it the first time, that was

like the greatest thing ever. And then I watched it and was like, oh, it's okay, Yeah, I mean it's Peyton. He's being funny, he's got a great sense of humor. His brother's a great straight man. Yeah. Right, did they have a guest on something for a while for a little bit, then five? And then now we got to look at more quarterback and then unfortunately Patrick Willis because he didn't really engage much. You know what. It's almost like the linebacker from San Francisco. It's almost like they

didn't want to talk defense. It's like with every broadcast anyone has ever done. The broadcasters are great when the game is great. Right when the game is bad, the broadcasters are not. So that's when you need the broadcast that could be good. That's when John Madden, that's why John Madden was great is because it didn't matter what the game. Romo feels a lot of death spots with just words, but well, bugging games. You know, it helps John,

It helps John Madden, it helps Tony Romo. When you're the A game, you're the A broadcast team, go try get on the f troop and see how interesting everything is. And I and and sometimes the Monday night games are the D train these days. These days. You know, I saw I was watching. I guess it was Nebraska Oklahoma? Was that the Fox game? Right? Yeah, Gus Johnson? Yep, that's where Bill gets his broadcast voice. Right, Bill says, this guy is just over the top. I said the

guy say, he's just over the top. Nothing happened. Here's the thing with Gus Johnson. If your team that you're rooting for is the favored team or the higher ranked team, and the other team is starts making a run at you, Okay, you do not like Gus Johnson? Did he bore? Because he is jumping on that D train and because he's looking for the upset. Look, he's looking for the upset. And so if if your team, if your team is the is the favorite, uh, you're not so much the

momose like it's like, you know, second and two. Oh, he throws it down to the flag. That's down. No, that's Testatur, That's that's Joe Tess, who, by the way, intern for me, not for me, but for Channel five with you. When I worked at at Channel five back in the nineties, Joe Testator was an intern. He was good. I just thought the day he was he was over the top as an intern too. And if he was sitting in that chair right now, I would say that, oh, well,

how did he end up in Dallas Fort Worth? He because he went to I don't know if he went to Syracuse, a Yukon or Boston College. Scott Murray, who was a sports director, I don't know. Me. He just wanted to cover the Dallas Cowboys. I'm not sure. Well, no, no wonder interning for Bill and John Radigan, he went a long way. Yeah, look at us that catapult right now and I'm sitting here one. I don't know. Your

ratings might be higher. Speaking of Everson Walls, Everson was a part of our sportscuest at six o'clock on CBS eleven yesterday because the Grambling head coach Brodrick Fobbs as Everson was there to promote the State Fair Classic, which is coming up at the Cotton Bowls Stadium as the Fair gets started on Friday. On Saturday, it's Grambling versus Prairie View, and Brodrick Fobbs, in starting off this press

conference promoting the game, promoted Everson Walls. He said, Everson Walls, we need to get this guy in the Ring of Honor and in the Hall of Fame everywhere he goes. Didn he said, everywhere I go. That's where he started. This is what he said. We get him in the Grambling Hall of That got all the other Okay, want to make sure I have my jacket when I had my Black College Hall of Fame. Very good. Yeah and

so uh. And just like Bill Belichick told Gil Brandt at the Hall of Fame this year that, okay, now we need to get Everson in the hall. Thing looks well, we'll see we're working on. And when I went through the Hall of Fame, I stood next to his picture up on the wall and I said, I know that. Hey, oh you made the white clock. Oh you talk? Yeah,

both of those guys. All right, um, anything on what time do we have We had a couple of minutes before we take our first break in our first Mick Reid of the day, like we're going to do it on time. Yeah, we did had yesterday. We had press conferences from not only the head coach, but all the coordinators as well. So give us give us a little mix shot on what you heard from any one of

the four that stays in your mind. I think because we know we know how overreaction nick Nick Okay, if you're gonna be gust Johnson or Joe testa tour, you got to learn to lay out. Oh I forgot when the production when the when the drop starts. So let's do that. Our producer do it again, Nicky is going to lay out until the conclusion of the drop. Q Mickey.

So as we always know on Overreaction Monday that now the talk is that Micah Parsons is a defensive end, that he needs to play more at defensive end, not linebacker because he rushes the quarterback so well. And so when so when dan Quinn was Cutton boll dan Quinn uh joke about it. I think the key two words was this week, meaning this week he was a defensive end. Uh, and doesn't mean that they're going to give him a steady diet or rushing the quarterback at defensive end. He'd

go back to linebacker most likely. Yeah, I think that stuck out, I think the most. To me, I think that I think they're just trying to make sure that they don't let let the let the Eagles playing for him. Well, there's a deal. Now, they don't know where everybody's got to prepare for us rights. Is going to be a linebacker? Is it going to be defensive end? And once again we know and we know that in this day and age of NFL football, you only have so much time

in practice. Right You're you're regulated, So now you got to spend more time on that than maybe the normal stuff you would depend on. So I'll give you one from each. H ellen Moore was explaining in those last thirty seconds, and he explained explicitly about how the CBS roving camera on the sideline got in the way of the clock he was watching and he couldn't see the time.

And then John Fossil gave the most strange answer to the question about rushing the punter on fourth and what was it twenty and you go for a block, and he went for a block and they ended up getting blocked into. It was a terrible call if you go back and look at it. Their guy grabbed whoever ran into him, was it McQuaid, Oh yeah, Kamara, that's right, grabbed him and they rolled into him. But he said the Cowboy fans wanted the Cowboys to be aggressive in

situations like that, so I was making them happy. I'll take it, Chris Beam. I think Cowboys fans aren't the play it safe type. So I was gonna give them what they wanted, come after their ass on punt rush. So I hope they're happy with it. Came after them. That's kind after the football. Um. And you can sure debate everything, um, but I'm still not so sure that we actually roughed them. That's the only part I agree with. Yeah, So when he said it, I was waiting for the laugh.

Well it never came. He straight faced. Yeah, serious, it's what you want. Take that. Take that. So yeah, I wasn't. Yes, I didn't get who they actually my jersey number because it was a train wreck right there at the block spot. But what I got on film is that they're number forty hook Kamara and pulled them back into the punter. And you know, you can make a great case it was holding or that the punter hit his own blocker, because there's a lot of bodies at that pilot, so

our goals had come after him. And see I thought that initially, but I think even if he wasn't blocked, he still would have hit had momentum. I thought that he took the blocker and I was both sides at first, That's what I thought, what you said, but then I thought he was coming so fast it was no way he was going to avoid the kicker, although if he hadn't got held, he might have blocked it. So you're thinking he would have gotten behind him where you think

he would have blocked it. I think he would have blocked it, but he was in front of him. He wasn't, So you think that the blocker actually changed his momentum towards the kicker. Yeah, and that's kind of what I thought initially. But I saw him coming so fast it looked like the blocker might have actually saved the kicker from getting hurt. Well, maybe you know this goes back to what you said yesterday about all the holes they missed. Yeah, that's a tough one. That's tough. There's I would be

so quick shots on the three. I'd love to see that. I'd love to see this rating for that that team, for this game. Do they put those things out? No, I mean for the oh the officials. Oh yeah, now they do not. No, that's not public knowledge. There is a ratings, but they had to have the voice rating. Well,

I'll tell you what. McCarthy in his press conference yesterday said something about in those last thirty seconds, he said, we didn't want to take any chances because of the game being overly officiated to get a ten yard penalty in that situation, and then we would have had to debate do we get the ten second runoff or do we take a time out? And we only had one left, right, So yeah, he thought the game would And then he said, did I say that correctly? Yeah? Best way to say.

I had my phone going and I got I just called I just called I just called it a kookie. It was kookie. It was a kookie game because everything that could have gone wong and weirled it up happened.

But that is one thing that people that sometimes I don't consider at the time is okay, what if there's a bad play, What if there is a ten yard loss or or something goes wrong and now you're out of field goal range and so, and we talked about it yesterday that that could have been part of the mindset too, and Keller Moore kind of he kind of uh sets up