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Victory Friday as well. Senior Pros Senior the Senior Bowl its Senior Pros Senior as opposed to the College Senior College Boy. I didn't know they were so closely aligned. Yes, here it is Cowboys going for four in a row, just a few miles away from the birthplace of one Jerry Jones. That's right, who And it was nearly eighty years ago that Jerry Jones was born just miles away from Sofi Stadi, nearly nearly eighty yearly eighty years Next

Thursday is the Thursday, that's right right, counting down? We count down to Jerry Well, I think a good countdown. He needs two wins, he needs two birthday presents. The next two weeks. He needs an early birthday present on Sunday and a late birthday present in Philadelphia. The follower, So, did I hear this? Right? His birthday in Switzer's the same or they're like a week abo Switzer just turned eighty five? Okay, yeah, yeah, like October fifth something like that.

Did you hear that yesterday? Maybe? Wait? Wait, Barry's older than Jerry. He was coach. He was coaching them at Arkansas. Wow, I did not know that. So they they had Switzer on yesterday on the ticket? Yeah, did you hear it? I hear I heard you hear what happened? Yeah? Jerry called? They punked him? Oh no, Gordon did Jerry's voice fake? Jerry called fake? Jerry right, he was going, he was going along with it, and then he goes, Jerry's that your ass was? It was? It was? It was? It was?

Gordon right? That is so Switzer. The boys got me my old u Berkener alarm being in skin. They got me one day with with punk call. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't remember what happened. We were talking about a bunch of crap and I don't even know who I thought he was. And then finally you just kind of catch on. Okay, that's going off the whales, you know, And of course they were my alumni. Been in Scan

from from Bergner. Speaking of Switzer at the course, it's either Texas OU weekend or OU Texas weekend, however you want to praise it. So Berry headed down here, may already be here for it, which rhinds me when you the word that you use their mickey or that Barry used, reminds me of an old story where gerald Ford that switzerd talks about. Gerald Ford learned what it was like coming down the ramp at the Cotton Bowl at an

Ou Texas game in nineteen seventy six. He was in town for the coin flip and his Berry, Switzer, Daryl Royal, and gerald Ford headed down the ramp to go flip the coin, and Switzer tells the story. At OU. Fan leans over the ray leg and says, he says, hey, who are those two a holes? Switzer? That's all you need to know about the ramp. That's right, it's also Switcher, So here we are. It's a fabulous by the way,

I do that. You think they would do that in a big ten game Michigan and Ohio State or something like that. In Yeah, he's Michigan. Yeah, Michigan man. Yeah, that's one the one to how many, Yeah, the compensations he's had. Yeah, that's a good one. He actually played correctly. Yeah. So this is annually my favorite football weekend of the year because of the game. And even when we're gonna take our lumps, which is going to happen on Saturday,

here's a reason to tune in. The number one pick in the draft is going to be playing quarterback for the text not this year's number one, but an eventual number one pick in the draft is going to be playing quarterback for the Texas Longhorn. Maybe that would be different game. Well, no, the difference in the game, it doesn't matter whether he's playing or not. But we'll see Quit being so negative. But have you seen our team play the last couple of weeks. Yeappointed, But it's in

great hands with Brent Vnibles, I'll say that. But anyway, so that's a reason to tune in at eleven am tomorrow. This is, by the way, the only Big Twelve game involving unranked teams. Every other all four of the other Big Twelve games have ranked teams playing each other against each other and the game of the day. Much to your chagrined Mickey Spagnol, Kansas is unbeaten Kansas hosting unbeaten TCU in college game days in Lawrence, Kansas fort for

the first time since two thousand and seven. Really I believe, I'm okay, what is going on in Kansas? Man? They are doing something. You know what. They got a bunch of transfer portal guys from big schools and they're which is how Sonny Dikes did it at this in Brianity. So what's the guy's name, Laypole light Phole exactly sure how you pronounced last name, but he Lands is the first name. He's done. He's done one heck of a job. Ye got some players. Do mind me of a key

to Leeds Kansas squad. That's right back in the day they were you know they well we talked about it, uh maybe at the beginning of this week where they went to the Orange Bowl fifteen years ago whatever when they when the Big Twelve screwed Missouri over sent Kansas, Missouri, Missouri beat Kansas. Okay, then Missouri went to the Big Twelve championship game in lost Oklahoma Kansas. That was their only loss of the year for Kansas. Kansas got to go to the Orange Bowl. And where'd you guys go?

We went to the SEC You went to your doom. You went to doom. No, we went where they were going to pay some money and you go and then you got doomed. Yeah, that's a great fight. Yeah, after they went to the conference championship game. Hey, did you watch any Thursday night football last night? I basically finished, almost finished my Friday column last night watching that game. Okay, I bet you did, because the watch to watch you

had no distractions? Whatsoe? So did they figure out when's the last time there was an overtime game with no touchdowns? I'm not sure. I'm not sure you know. Twelve to night. No, I'm asking at one point, at one point in the game, there was no touchdown. It was the first time this year that there were no touchdowns scored in the first half of a game. I remember them saying that, so, um, twelve to nine, twelve to nine, And it was that the game, the score makes it sound more exciting than

the game actually was. We just talked yesterday about one of the greatest games in Cowboys history was a five no nothing right playoff win over the Lions. And by the way, Everson, you may remember this, that was two weeks after the Cowboys beat Cleveland six to two in a game which was another great guy. And then we were talking about the Doomsday defense. You don't necessarily have to score a lot of points to have a great football game, as evidenced by that. But but this game,

this was not about defensive excellence. It was about just offensive mishaps, ineptitude and ineptitude. Thank you. That's a good word that wood Smith. I like that. And you know, it was just so hard to watch. I mean, it's like I was on the phone talking with someone and I forgot that a game was actually looking at me. You know, that's just how bad it was. It wasn't even enough to be a distraction. The game went into overtime and the Denver fans were streaming out of the stadium.

They didn't even stay for I don't blame them, because that's the last thing I wanted was for um guys who they play with different play Seattle, for Seattle to come down and kick that field Indiana the coast. I was thinking, Wilson for the coast to come down to kick that. Yeah, I did not want that when they started driving down, Like, man, this game is not going into overtime. What's sitting there going They're on mountain time. They don't have to get home for the news, the

news at ten o'clock. I'll tell you what do you think They're sort of starting to rethink that trade for Russell Wilson. Well, you know you can trade for Russell, but get him some help, because I can see why Russell came there. You're looking at what Cooper Rush is doing right now, and really even Aaron Rodgers, you're going to allow you you're playing to your defense, like Nate always talking, You're playing to your defense, right. Russell came there thinking we got a heck of a defense here.

Really could be one of the best defenses in the in the at least in the conference. And they can they can help me ride along until we get our offensive scheme to togeather in the meantime defense you hold it down, and they did. He came there. Yeah, but offensively they still have so much well injuries obviously the running backs going down. I think a couple offensive lineman went down, and now You're sitting there with a horrible offense and the defense is that kind of what's that

side eye? The defense is given the offensive side eye, like what the hell you guys wide receiver kJ Hamdler is giving the Russell Wilson the side I heard about that about that, well he was was that number one. He was wide open on the road was wide open. Now having said that, go ahead, everything I saw Russell was forced to go to the left. My man was coming from there and we don't we don't know what the reeds were. I mean, but he was looking left

the whole time. Well, he had no choice because everything was was was convoluted on the on the right side. He couldn't He couldn't have made that though if he wanted to. First of all, he's only five ten, right something like that. Whatever those lines, there was a guy up in his first two guys that were really coming, and so he couldn't even see the guy. And then when he threw it, I think he couldn't even see where. It was too late then like maybe run the ball.

Well it was too late then the ball Okay, all right, which gets back to how about and we're not going to dissect the whole game of the time. But how about the decision by Nathani'll hack it. It's fourth and one. Your offense has been awful all day, if not all season, especially in Indianapolis offense has also been awful all day, if not all season. Okay, you're down three, You've got two timeouts left, with over two minutes left in the game,

and maybe three you've left. Okay, I think maybe whatever it was, Okay, you got the two timeouts and a two minute one, yes, okay, yes, all right, so you basically have three timeouts. You got two minute one, two timeouts. Okay, go ahead, kick the field goal, make it a tie game, and then kick off. Rely on your defense to get a three and out, and you use your timeouts and didn't try to kick a field goal to win the game. You're in the Mile High City where you can kick

field goals from sixty yards. Right, started the way the Colts did to tie it up, right, But why didn't a thing you'll hack it not do that? It goes back to the first game of the year in Seattle. That's when he decided to kick a sixty yard field goal that was no good and not put the football in the hands of his three hundred million dollars quarterback.

Now the most time he made this decision, because, by golly, I'm putting it in the hands of quarter You wanted it, you got And my what I exclaimed when I saw that play, that's the best play you've got, exactly with Russell Wilson. Yeah, and that's the problem. You're gonna use your Superman, but you're using it you you don't use him in the proper manner. That's a whole different thing now. And now he's got a offensive assistant upstairs. That's right

with veteran advice. Well that came from the first game of the week. Yeah, that's right, right, and the second week there's also I can't I wouldn't watching the second week, but against Houston, the similar content. And that's when they all goes back to what Parcels would say, whatever works was the right decision. That sure it didn't work, you gotta make it whatever you call I believe it's what he's trying to say. How good does the Tyler Smith

draft pick looking for the Cowboys right now? Yeah? Baby? And how much criticism did the Cowboys get making that draft? A whole lot especially from this guy over here. No, come on, man, because you were the one that said they took a guard and I said, no, Smith, that's but they didn't take a guard tack who was gonna

play guard first? And then Tyring got hurt? All right, if you don't take Tyler Smith at twenty three or whatever it was in the first round, okay, the Cowboys pick, okay, all right, the next offensive tackle you probably would take would be the guy that was out there for Indianapolis by Raymond. Raymond. Oh, that's what everybody wanted him. He

was he was the third round pick. Yeah. Actually there's a guy Seattle took, Abraham Lucas in the third round, who was playing great at right tackle for Seattle early this season. Tyler smiths playing left exactly you left, and Seattle took a left tackle with their first round pick. Right top ten, so cross so, but that that is what the Cowboys were looking at on their draftboard once

Trevor Penning went now Orleans at nineteen or whatever. And now they're looking at their draft war going okay, and they had Tyler Smith rated higher than than were they took him, right, okay, And now you see, rightly, so the way he's playing through the first four games of his career. And but if they didn't take that guy, that's what you were left with. What Indianapolis was playing out there at left tackle, who ended up getting their

quarterback sack six times. He was under siege the whole game, the whole game, and they were missing their center. Ryan Kelly was out too, Richard, which, by the way, remember I told you about last Thursday night's game and I wasn't sure who was all on their their panel the post game, and I said, one guy was totally out of control, yea, Richard Sherman. Yeah, he was totally out of control last night. He was screaming. You know why he was screaming. I know, because he remembered the super bow.

Well got oh yeah, that could be a point. But my point is this. He was criticized heavily for being uh suspiciously quiet through the whole to concussion thing. No, well they well, they were saying that he should have said this was his moment you're talking last week, last last week, this was his moment to say more. And he was highly criticized by a couple of sportswriters. And I think he was trying to really make up for

that thank you over last week. He overdid it. I probably when I couldn't hear him, but I saw him talking a lot. He's trying to he's trying to compensate. He's over compensation. I mean, he was ready to come out come through my TV screen. Yeah, And at one point Fitzpatrick had to go over there and whisper in his ear and I think he was telling him, you need to settle down. That's that's I'm just telling you.

That's an over compensation for not saying enough about toa and the things that went on with him last week. So and we gotta breaks, so we don't have time to really well, we'll do this when we come back, all right, Cooper Rush one of the best things that he has done. What is the best thing that Cooper Rush has done since taking over as the starting quarterback? When we come besides win games? Yeah, when we come back here on mix shots. The Medal of Honor is

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to go for I will lack of turnovers? Oh that was mine? Because you're smart lack of turnovers. Okay, actually, okay, let's make it. Let's make it he had a turnover. Let's make it the top two things that he has done. Because I will agree with you on the turnovers. Yeah, I guess the term that would be low hanging fruit if we can all figure that one out. I don't having a second answer for you, but I will say that it overcomes our inability on third downs, you know,

not not having those turnovers. This isn't my suggestion is in concert with his offensive line that is avoiding the sack. Interesting. Yeah, you look at last night's game Matt Ryan six sacks fifty one yards and the hidden yardage that comes with that. And Stafford last week or Monday night against the Rams, I've got sacks seven times. That was not a productive game. They didn't score a touchdown in that game. Let's see, Matt Ryan did not score a touchdown in last night's

game getting sacked six times. We saw it with Burrow the first couple of weeks of the season where he got sacked six and seven times. Have we been have we been let off the hook? Because I don't recall and maybe it's just because our offensive line is so good at this point. I don't recall him being inundated while he's in the in the pottom so I don't see many are they laying back playing zone on Cooper West?

Because I don't see many blitzes at all. You haven't seen many all out blitzes where he's just under the rest like that. I think it might be a game plan too that's helping him out. You know the fact that they are. I mean, even against Washington, what was it, how many yards of carry? The Cowboys get three yards of carry but they barely yeah, but they still twenty s yes, yes, or twenty sixth. It is the a similar offensive scheme and play calling that what the Cowboys

had when Dac was a rookie in twenty sixteen. I think I don't think they feel any pressure to have him live up to his contract, but I think that they rely so much on his ability to pass us out of trouble that it's just in. I love how you said that it's just in calling Moore's DNA. First of all, it's hard to get that out of him

right now. I think he's fighting with himself at every game, with every game plan because he wants to do a certain thing, but it's contrary to our success because right now we are better off with a more conservative game plan, which is not his style, especially with the defense that he has. Okay, it's hard for him to play to that. You know what, McCarthy had a pretty good comment towards the end of his press conference today. He was talking about that you got to have big plays, and he said,

we treat big plays as big fundamentals. He goes, when you go into game, I got six fundamentals that you have to hit and one of them is big plays. And when he calls when he mentioned big plays, he mentioned that it was like chunk plays on offense, sacks, turnovers, things like that, that all goes into big plays. And he said, you want to have thirty a game, and he said this last game, we had thirty one, right, Yeah, And you know he's talking about whatever the whole thing is.

But he said, that's what this NFL has come down to, because they got into about what's going on with the lack of scoring in the league. And you know, he was talking about the trends that defenses now are playing more scheme on first and second down. Before it was oh, you go into nickel on third down back in the day. Right right now, it's like they're they're concentrating on first and second down, which is making third down more difficult. Um And and he said, they're they're just scheming more

to be more aggressive on on those downs. And you got a lot of young quarterbacks now playing sooner than maybe guys did in the day, right they're not ready. And then and we've talked about it all week, I think, or last week about just the problems teams are having on the offensive line, the offensive linemen. You know, just that is the main problem with every team, right offensive line. How many offensive linemen? A battle of attrition between offensive

linemen in the league. That's cocy And I think those guys are the ones that are hindered by the rules we have now in the off season because offensive line have to they've got to be physical, right training camp, you gotta have pads on, and you know your limits did on how much those guys can practice the way they need to practice right, um And you can have contact or any sort of you know contact in the

off season um in OTAs or mini camps. And you know, those are the guys that I think lose it because the defense it's not as in concert as the offensive linemen have to be right, you got to pass off, you got to have two double teams and things like that. Well it's hard to do that when you're just walking through right, and I think that's hampered them along with the fact of how they played college football. You know, when when you see these these top offensive linemen, it's like, Okay,

but did you run block? Because you're gonna run block in the NFL. Yeah, And you're not always quarterbacks, you know, rarely under center, and so yeah, I think all that's I don't know if it's caught up with the league or just a passing trend, but last night was just an indication this year you will you will not see this again. Next year. Laws, rules will be made. I

got this. There will be some rule changes that will stop all of this, because they don't want a guy like me sitting back talking about how boring a Thursday night game was. What I found this stat that last year Stafford through a touchdown pass in every game on

the way to the Super Bowl. He's got zero touchdown passes in back to back games now for the first time since weeks fifteen and sixteen of twenty sixteen twenty sixteen, he's only got four passing touchdowns in four games, which I'm sure is one reason why Mike McCarthy was taken back about being a five and a half boring underdog. He was thinking five minutes. Oh no, that's too too much for us, guys. No, no, you're on the other

end of the day. Yeah, right, let's probably crossed his mind. Okay, yeah, we've got a backup quarterback. But have you seen all the backup offensive linemen that are out there for the Rams? That's right, which will make a Super Bowl winning quarterback? The most recent Super Bowl winning quarterback throw six picks and only throw four touchdown passes the first four games. Yeah, touchdowns.

So there's a lot going on right now. That's, you know, kind of catching up with these rules of protecting players but not allowing them to improve. Well, the rules that need to come up with are rules that protect offensive linemen from getting hurt. Well, that's true too, because if you look at the Rams, there's a good chance they'll have their two starting tackles in three third string guards and centers in this game. We'll see if Edwards makes it.

David Edwards are starting left guard. Miss last game. He has a concussion right and so we'll see whether he is back for this game. They're starting center. At the beginning of the season, Brian Allen started against Buffalo. He suffered a knee injury and hasn't returned coming could be out for the season. I agree, okay, so and their third round draft pick this year, who is projected to be their starting right guard. He was in a battle

with Coleman Shelton in the preseason. On August twentieth, he suffered an ACL injury. He's out for the year and Shelton and then Shelton in this last game left with an ankle injury and he's going to be out the next six weeks I think anyway, So they've got and then they lost Andrew Whitworth off of their Super Bowl team. So Joseph Nope Boom has been starting at left tackle. Bobby Evans from Allen, Texas has been has moved from tack backup tackle into one of the guard positions and

actually got seven. He had his first start in their last game Monday night at San Francisco at left guard, and so I mean, that's what you're looking at. Also, I went back and got their starting lineup from the Super Bowl. They are missing seven of their eleven offensive starters from last year. Not I mean not just injury, right, just guys Whitworth, Austin Corbett, there's one of their starting guards last Year's signed with Carolan in the off season.

Whitworth retired. Van Jefferson is hurt, he's he's I think he's still on I don't know if he's on injured reserve. Beckham Beckham is not there and that's huge, right, And that's why cups getting all the all the targets. Why is that? And they even changed basically changed starting tight ends from the from the Super Bowl team. Two things? First of all, is Beckham still out there? I mean, I'm sorry, I know he was injured. I think it's

probably his own choice. He's I would think, and if I were him, I would do it this way because the money's not going to be that much different if he signs now or signs a month from now. See who's the contenders are. I mean the Rams, they're sitting there two and two right now. And I mean you signed with the Rams, now, Well, what if their season goes down, I mean down. Yeah, and he wants to obviously, he wants to be on a team that's got a chance to win at all. But he's really only seven

months removed, and that's the thing else. Yeah, and he gets he gets healthier and healthier as we go along here, and there's no yeah, a team is going to pay the same amount of money I think for him in November as they would now if he will get So he's like and see the other hard part about that, recovering from an ACL surgery and like you said, seven months, yeah, because I'm sure, Well the super Bowl was the middle of February, probably behind by time he had the surgery

was close to March. Right, And here's the other part. He's not on a team, so he's got to go rehab on his own point, right, he should be right now, he should be really rehabbing. I mean, think about what Britt Brown did for Michael Gallup, right, and he's here. Yes, now he's got to rehab hire somebody issue. But yes, he had to take it, take it week to week yea, and yeah, wait for injury stand But they're not the same team, you know, And I don't know if who

I heard say this. So we refer to the Rams as defending champs, and somebody pointing out this ain't boxing. You know, when you're a defending chap in boxing, you're the same guy, right, This is not the same team, basically, right, You're not the same team one year to the next. For instance, right now, the Rams have a need, okay for a wide receiver, rightly, all right? If Buffalo loses a receiver, if Kansas City loses a receiver, if Philly, if Dallas loses a receiver, play it out. Wait to

see what your options are. Yeah, for for Odell and so. So my second thing is there going to be a cause and effect from this offensive lineman shortage? I mean, are we gonna be looking at changing offenses? Well, no, just that'd be a market for offensive lineman all of a sudden, And guys will say, oh, I'm gonna go ain't gonna happen? Come on, man, you know you share.

I don't know if I was, if I'm if I'm a father, I got a little thick kid over here, like, hey, man, keep beating kids, got jackson, buddy, We're gonna look at work. What I think what's gonna be. There's there, and they're they're already doing this on practice squads. I mean they're practice squads are littered with offensive linemen and they're trying to develop them and to where they can be functional and competent. You know, there's a number of offensive linemen

who are late round draft picks or undrafted guys. Cowboys starting one right, Yeah, Yeah, that so that's it's just you have to you have to continue to mine the field for offensive linemen. Uh. Because so it's not so

much the money, it's the depth. You got to have the available Yeah, because the injuries are going to happen, as we found out with Tyrant, and you need five of them, so that means you got them back up, you need ten and and and see that's the other thing is they've short they've shortened, you know on game day. So there are some teams that go to game day

with seven offensive lineman active. Okay, maybe you have to look at it that Okay, well that's why they made the rule about eight to bring two off the practice fun So maybe that's where you just go ahead and let everybody be active on game day and then that you can afford to have more offensive linemen on your position. But right of such importance, you know there's another unheralded position that we need to address when we come back here on mix shots in a bowling. We paid how

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they signed two deep snappers to the practice squad. One is going to get the job, and from what we saw yesterday and maybe just talking to them, I would think the veteran Matt Overton will get the jobs. Thirty seven years old, he's snapped in the league for what we talked about yesterday, seven teams all last year with the Chargers, so it's it sounds like he is going

to be the guy. Interesting story about you know, we never think of this, you know how we kind of kidded about the Kicker caravan when everybody shows up, Well, they do the same thing he said with the deep snappers. He goes, those four guys that came here, he goes, I knew two of them, you know, and it's like we end up meeting at the airport, right, and we share a car. Yeah, right right, and probably go out to dinner the night before or whatever. He said, So, yeah,

we know these guys and he goes. But you just kind of stay in shape and keep working. Then at some point somebody's gonna need you and sou and I never thought of this, but one of the most important thing for picking the deep snapper is who can block on punts, because I think the punt block is different film field. Yeah, because you it's a slower operation. To kick is so fast, right, and the guy doesn't really have time to come over you because you can't line

up over the over the deep snapper. But for a punt, they can angle in and they have more time and you might have actually have to make a tackle, right you just might Yeah. Yeah, So that's that's one of the things you have to Yeah, you do have to. And you're not just running down eually had to retire, Yeah, right, like am I gonna run? Kelly? He was pretty good.

All right, Well, look, okay, I got so I need to know help on my my team defensive name for the cowbu Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, you asked me. This was I was charged by Spagnola, So I came up with the first one, because you know, we are just so good at just shutting down everything that the team does us, and so I look at you know, what's the best. I don't know the adjective for that. So the first one I came up with was assassins again.

Assassins okay, okay, kind of kind of immature, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I figured that will follow on death is yeah does organ So now the second one, the second one is when our defense gets going. I mean they are just so overwhelming to the offense. They can't breathe. Okay, they can't find any way out, there's no way up, with no way down. The effects of a tsunami. That the tsunami defense. That's all I've come up with, and both of them up no very very youth very youthful, immature names.

But it's kind of hard to beat doomsday, you know what I mean. I can't be Doomsday three. You can't. Yeah, no, I'm not gonna say that. I can't keep I can't even come up with something that would match Doomsday. I was hoping my my producer Supreme would come up come pull something off his butt, but I don't hear anything. So I got man, it's tsunami, you know what. Wilkinson continue yorking on it. I will continue that. Yeah, well we'll talk this up to lesson learn otherwise one one

one just dawned on me. But you can't use the I mean DQ raiders. But you can't use raiders was a nickname for a team, right, So why he rejected DQ, dude? And why we with the DQ? What's going on to that? Qu No, no, no, no, you can't put a person to it, right, No, no, you can't put the person to well, whatsn't what was the You can't even use mica. You can't. No, no, no, no, you can't. One player? It was it? World War One? Who were the want

contrill raider? What was it? We gotta do picks to click? Okay, like the War of eighteen twelve? That what are you going? Way back? Bro? They're still on horses, all right, we need to pick. Well, these guys play like they're on horses. Okay, let me start off here my pick to click I have. It's gonna be a tough game, I do, uh. I think we're gonna be It's gonna be very close. I think we're gonna win. I think we're gonna win twenty three to twenty and it's homecoming time. So I see

Fowler as my pick to click. A considered him two sacks. Two sacks for Fowler. He was bringing it last week and the week before that. You know, he's making his uh participation towards ratio towards plays plays made pretty hot. It is hot because he only gets like twenty snaps a game. So you've been paying attention to Pro Football Focus? Huh why do they rate that? Okay? Yeah, see I could have my own focus. Yeah, I hope you than Yeah, are you going to are going? Go ahead? All right?

My pick to click is a guy who had a kickoff return for a touchdown and a return for a touchdown in that same same stadium in Augustan Turpin the end zone. It will be Turpin time in La once again on Sunday afternoon as the Cowboys are victorious twenty four to sixteen. So you have you got like the Rams game plan. You know they're gonna kick to him twenty four to sixteen. Wow, what a score that torpedo Torpeter her pet Okay like that? Yeah? Now you where

were you when I needed that? For the defense. Now you want to try? Yeah, okay, okay, my guy, And this is going to be somewhat off the wall, but I think where the Rams are vulnerable on offense is up the middle, and I think we're gonna see some blitzing. So let me have Layton vander ish Okay to make a difference. You get a sack and stop the run. Okay, we importantly I'm writing this stuff down because I'm kicking y'all's asses. Did you you go with a personal name,

personal score? Where'd you go? I went with Layton vander lvs all you need to know l and the score because we're nobody's underdog. Uh Cowboys twenty four four, Rams twenty one twenty one. Okay, you got two three point wins and I got an eight point win, which sets up the showdown in Philly next week. We gotta we gotta, which means interruption here there there could be. My pick to click is make sure we know who the left

guard is. This is well, the left guard is Connor McGovern. Okay, and jay Ron Curse I think will get a full dose because he's been listed as full all week, coming back after he sprained his knee and that will add to what this defense can do. Okay, especially in those bunch formations that the Rams like to run. All right, got all that down? Got it? I got it? Uh. Nate also has a pick to win. Okay, well, I always shocking, I always got This is the according to date,

this is the first regular season game. I think we just got done to the preseason played games in one coming out of the preseason. So this is the first regular season game. And Nate's got Cowboys by one point. There you go. Last time they were no like, no, they were three and one before they were three and one in preseason and eighty nine. That's what everyone remembers say. Had I had a fumble return for I was sending two yards and a touchdown in that game? Did you go?

It was not? And off the field arm in arm with Zimmy. Yeah, he came and hugged me. Yeah he liked me. Then. That was fun? Was it the last preseason the one against Houston? No, no, sorry san Diego because the one before that before that, because San Diego was a walk off field goal. God, I can't leave that. I remember a name. We had to go to New Orleans and yeah, all the laughter died in sorrow. We didn't get our picks right that week, that year, that

entire year. Right, all right, that does it for another week of mixed shots and we will shout at you again tomorrow, I mean on Monday, kick off Eagles Week here on Mi Shot Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.