Mick Shots: Happy New Year

I just want to know, did you buy that sweater? No, they give them to us every year, shandom make sure we have them and make sure you wear it too. I see, yeah, well we wear them man like. Yeah, I keep my tax so I can turn it in up to that's what. And Everson, you have the bed man? You look look good the build. I like the build. Yeah, I'm glad. I'm good. You ignore Mick he said, you have on a hoodie? Yeah, I got on my fifty one fifty. This is George Lopez and this boy as

they kind of uh do this little thing here. My cousin kind of deals with him a little bit. He's called the People's Choice, so they just mailed this to me. It's brand new. I took off my tag though, Nate. Yeah, I'm keep in mind that a nineteen sixty five helmet behind you that you gotta wait wait, is that a void behind you that you have behind you? Some mess? My wife. I think it's a picture the moon. I'm like, wow,

I think the ugliest thing in the man. I said, Babe, this ram going to show the world that you are not interior decorator. So so it looks like I've got my NFL shirt out. I'm the only one that bought the shirt we're wearing today. By the way, yes you are, Mick. All right, Well, good to have you guys with me today. Like I said, Bill had his duties with CBS eleven, so he couldn't be with us for this final show

of the year. As thank god, we're turning the calendar to twenty twenty one tomorrow with the Cowboys still in this NFC East race with one game to go, and as we've been talking about, uh, the the Cowboys have to win. They got to beat the Giants, and they need Philadelphia to beat the Redskins. And the Cowboys were busy today not beat the Washington football team. You can't get me to go along with you today on my own show. Well, I was the first time I've done

that in ages. May. He only does that when you're around Okay, I think you're nervous, man. He does it right every time. That's the first time he's ever said that. No, Actually, I get too comfortable when I'm around Nate, right, I just kind of let my hair out. Yeah, he brings out the worst today. I think maybe sometimes Nathan Ie fags. We are the We are the optimists. We are the most optimistic Cowboy fans as as as former players. I don't know about if Nate's changed his style, but minus

still the same. I never pick against the Cowboys, no matter how bleak the situation. So thank you we have that in common. Guess we don't have to spend that last segment then making picks because I know what your gates are doing. Yeah, yeah, just just to pick the click,

not about who's gonna win, just to click. Hey, let me let me give everybody a little bit of a practice update from today, since it was pouring down rain and the Cowboys did practice indoors, which means the media was not allowed to watch, so myself and Rob Phillips were the pool reporters keeping an eye on the portion of practice that we were able to see. And I can tell you that Ezekiel Elliott, who practiced fully yesterday and was off the injury list, opened up the first

portion of practice working on the resistant chords. But he looks like he's ready to go, so that's a good sign. Mike McCarthy seemed very confident that he would be good to go. Also, a Xavier Woods and Chitabey Awoozier both limited yesterday. They look good to me. If I was a betting man, I'd say they're eighty ninety percent ready to go. On Sunday. They were moving well in the drills we got to watch. I would imagine yesterday they were limited because they just didn't want to overdo it

in practice, but they looked good to go. Not practicing still. Darren Thompson in concussion protocol. I don't think he makes it back in time for the game. Uh Nora will Layton Vanderish with a high ankle sprain. I would imagine he's a week or two away from even thinking about playing again. And Donovan Wilson, who we reported yesterday on this show that he was not at practice. He wasn't there because of an illness, and he's not there again today. So you hope that whatever he has clears up in

time for the game. And Rashad Robinson, who's been having I believe it was a knee problem. I don't. He's not there, he's not going to practice, yes, Nate, you said don You said Donovan Wilson. Yeah, Wilson, Yeah, he was ill, Yes, and he was ill again today. Go to work, Nick, if one guy we need on the defenses him, Okay, so find out before the show over with please Donovan Wilson you perk may use. That felt like a German show but almost a Yeah. Now, Donovan

had the growing problem yesterday. We talked about growing yesterday. Rights facts. Yeah, but they listened. They listened, and they listed it as an illness because the groin was what bothered him why he missed the pre the two games ago. But they had listened with an illness. So to me, that's encouraging because whatever you have, you can take something maybe and you just rest now and get back out there.

So uh, for Ninja standpoint, you know they were indoors And here's one thing, and I bet you guys will like this. Uh, they opened up the garage doors on the I think it's the east end of the Ford Center, so they would get some cold air in there for practice, maybe to simulate working at the Middle Lands on Sunday just a little bit. Well, now what they have to do then is to actually kick a field goal while those doors. Yeah, right, and worked, didn't That how it

worked in Jersey? That's that's what I always heard. I was there. I didn't know protocol, but I know that even with the Cowboys, and when I left the Giants, they talked about opening up the breezeway and therefore the kicks will go a ride. So that's something that we

need to practice. But I wanted to ask Nate what you like about Donovan Wilson man talk to his energy, his ability to come up and hit people, you know, like I know ever since when y'all played great Ball as corners, you you and went fellows, when y'all were playing nicest corners, y'all knew y'all Satans was lights out with Michael Downs And I think and see, for the life of me, and I keep trying to and I'm hoping. I know, this kid maybe not a premial starter in

our league, but I hope he is that glue. That's okay. At least we got to thumper back the striking. I gotta when you come across that middle. Now, he's got to be a little bit smarter with you know, with some of his shots, to keep his head up, put his shoulder in a little bit more. But we this is what we've been missing, a kid that will help us get turnovers. This this kid's a striker man and he and he to me, he's valuable. Now to somebody else, he may be just another guy, but to me, he's

a valuable guy because he brings energy. He I mean he, I mean, I love that man. When the last time we had a guy excited that's doing something, not excited, that's just running around excited and doing you see, that's the different thing. That's a huge difference. He knows what he's doing back there. He's approach to the ball is precise. I don't want somebody back there who's got great intentions. Yeah right, but he goes out there and he misses.

Everything comes up at the wrong angle. You know, we're turning the fifteen yard en route to a sixty yard touchdown. See there's the kind of thing stop cut this guy. You know. My thoughts on Donovan Wilson as he couldn't be the second coming of drive by right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I know what I liked about him, not just his attack attacking style Nate. I liked the way he got that football the other day. He cut the wide

receiver off to make that play. If he doesn't cut in there at the right time, that tight end has a chance to catch that ball. That was a very timely interception for us, and to me, it's kind of shows the other kids and the other safeties especially, this is how you attack a ball. Next thing, you though, Anthony Brown's got two and all of a sudden we're a prolific secondary. So that's what I'm talking about. The team that is so nice about this. You know, I've

had people say, well, it ain't against the top flight quarterback. Okay, I grant you all of that, but whether it was top flight or not top flight four games ago, when nobody getting interception, that's right there. There was no fight. You have to start somewhere. Yeah, you have to start somewhere and That's why I give these cowboys a fighting

chance to be successful, because they're they're enthusiastic about it. Uh. It's amazing how we're not even talking about the defensive coordinator, because that's all we could talk about for the first up until four weeks ago. Now it's about the football players. Now, the coaches are getting the chance to see, Okay, he's a starter, he's not a starter. If I can get him twenty five plays, if we can bring it, they know when this off season comes, they would know their

team ever since Mickey. They would know their team, you know, and this is gonna be and this is gonna be significant. It's gonna be significant since we're talking about the defense because the Giants have been struggling over the last month scoring points. Uh you know, last games they haven't scored any more than nineteen points. And during their three game losing streak they've scored seven, six, and thirteen. So they've struggled.

So this defense, yeah, they need to step up and make sure that all of a sudden they don't have some renaissance and start scoring points. This defense has to play that well to give this team a chance to go up there and win a game that not only that they need to win, they should win, no matter sitting there at six and nine, whatever the record is, that's a team that they should beat if indeed they want to earn a spot in these playoffs. And you know,

go ahead, and they go ahead. Ask you a question to mek A question I got into a little difficulties with my last gentleman on our show. Do you look at this team as just an average team? On some of the Dallas Cowboys are a good team. I think they're a good team team because now they're beating the average teams and I think they're just a good team. And they're not a great team by no needs, But I think they're a good team because the holes are

not as big. To me, they're still defensive holes that need to be filled, but they're not as as massive as I first stopped up until four weeks ago. What are your thoughts ever since? Mickey? I want to just get some different opinions. Go ahead, Okay, Well I will, okay, because you know what, you know what the thing I want to say, go ahead, Here's I wanted to say. Fact, when you don't when you don't talk about your defensive coordinator.

That's when you know you're bawling, right, Natan. Yeah, when you when you keep When Mike Nolan's name is not mentioned for the last four weeks or so, that means something good is going down and we're not looking for a scapegoat. Okay, And as far as I'm concerned about this team, this team is a good team. And the reason it's a good team now is because the defense

came to the table right. Offensively, we all has had some type of production, but we always need the defense to answer for us, to be that that support for us offensively. And if you're talking about an entire team, Nate, this is what I tell Spags and the guys all the time. You gotta be good and all fastest of the game, that special teams as well, And I think we have a very good special teams with Ceedee Lamb back there. I'm looking for this guy to break one

real soon. I'm talking about to the house because the special teams is right for making for continuing to make big plays for us. So I think when you're looking at all fastests, like you said, just a good team, not a great team yet. But I'll take that good team when that entire units together. They're all thinking together, and no matter who fails or who doesn't make or play, somebody's gonna cover your butt. That's the kind that's a

team right there. See. And I think that what happens is, I know everybody wants to diminish what they've done in this three game winning streak because of who they've beaten. You can only beat who they tell you to play, right, and they beat teams that were kind of their own ill, which they should have done what a good team would do. But I also wanted to point out that since the Cowboys beat Cincinnati, they ended up beating Pittsburgh and Houston.

Since the Cowboys beat San Francisco, they beat Arizona. Now the Eagles will see what happens this week. But during their losing streak here, I believe they've lost six of the last seven. Their one win was against the Saints. So these teams have kind of showed that they can win some games. But you beat them and that's all that counts. And you scored thirty points in each one

of these games and came away with ten takeaways. Those are the things you should be doing against the team that you don't think is very good or everybody else doesn't think it's very good. So I'm sort of with this, you know. And Andy Dalton said it last week after the game, you know, say they get into the playoffs and everybody's gonna go like, oh, they're seven and nine, They're in the playoffs. Whatever you did before doesn't matter. It only matters now going forward. And thank god it's

a new year. Maybe something's changing that once we get past today, that twenty twenty one will be much kinder, uh than twenty twenty has been, uh, not only to the Cowboys but basically to the all of us. Right, yes, right, hey, hey did you have did you see how new quarterback? Did you see how new quarterback? From from from the Grease production Andy Dalton and Dalton? Did you see it? Is?

I was like, hey, funds, let it go, Funds And really, all the all the all the all the jel in the world wouldn't even when I had here, wouldn't let my hair stand up? He has he him with Jimmy Johnson locker room because he was ready for that interview. You know what. You know, from a style standpoint, Dalton might have him, right, might have Jimmy yeah, yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy was perfect too, man. And see himmy walls got

into that fistisope welcome? No non till he came out of the until he came out of the shower trying to find out what I said to the media. That's that's the Jimmy hairstyle. That was all messed up. He still had soap in his hair. All right, you guys were gonna hit a break here. And since we're turning back the clock, I got a story for you coming up next to her on Mick shots. Hey, they're Cowboys fans with Ty Cleaners at home pickup and delivery, Cleaning

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Live FX video board during games. And we continue here with Mick shots, Everson Walls, Nate Newton, myself, Mickey Spagnola, and I promised you a story, and I want to take you guys back thirty years ago today and I want to say that Nate Newton and I were celebrating New Year's Eve in the exact same place, Cowboys Cafe, December nineteen ninety and it was the final game of the NFL season, the Saints and the Rams, and we were watching the that game because the by the way

seven and nine Cowboys had an opportunity to go into the playoffs if the Rams beat the Saints that night in New Orleans. And the Cowboys players, a bunch of them, probably a dozen or so, all met at Cowboys Cafe to watch the game that night, And I want to set the scene for you because that was before they expanded the cafe, and there was over a hundred people

in there. Along with ABC, which was televising the Monday night game at that time, sent a TV crew there to be able to interview these guys and get their reaction during the game. So here's what happened. And Nate,

you'll remember this better than probably myself. But the Cowboys started the season off three and seven, very similar to this year, and went on a four game winning streak to get to seven and seven, and because they had beaten the Saints early in December, all they had to do was win one of the last two games, either beat Philadelphia or beat uh Atlanta, and they were going

to the playoffs at eight and eight. Well, first quarter of the Philadelphia game, Troy separates his shoulder that incomes Babe Laufenberg and unfortunately, the offense didn't function too well, so the Cowboys lose. The offense didn't function well. The

offense did well, that's nice, Babe. Babes numbers worked great, So they lose that game, but still they had a chance to go to Atlanta, and had they beaten the Falcons in the final game of the season and finished eight and eight, they're going to the playoffs as the third wild card team. Well, it's raining in Atlanta, right, Nate. The field is muddy, torn up, Uh County Stadium. The Peach Bowl was the day before, and they tore up

that grass field. Uh. Babe ends up getting intercepted three times, won by some and took one back to the house. Cowboys got beat twenty six to three. They had a kickoff return for a touchdown, and poor Babe got the ever living daylights beat out of him. They blitzed and blitzed and blitzed, right. And here was a line from my story that day. I said they they pounded Babe Laffenburg harder than you would round steak. That was kind of stupid, right, He was getting hit every time he

dropped back the pass. Oh, it was unbelieved. Oh my god. So you remember that game right there? Yeah, because Babe was so bad. So I think I fell on him a couple. Then you got a half a sac game. Oh man, It's like baby game so many time. One time Babe was giving me a hand up, like bro, I know how bad it was. As a matter of fact, there was a quote after the game, Date was apologizing. He he was like, oh my gosh, I thought we were gonna get that guy killed. Was Atlantis. They were like,

didn't know, They're just blitz. They had Dione out there, man. Yeah, and that took care of that side of the field. We wasn't gonna throw the ball over there at all. But things Babes was. Babe was under such siege at the time to Babe was throwing it anywhere. But he I'm not holding on to this ball, y'all what you wanted to So so anyway, did did the Falcons make the playoffs? No playoffs? They only won five games? For games, yeah, that was their fifth. But they had Prime out the man.

They had Prime out there on one corner. I don't think. I don't know who the other corner was. Man. They they they was braying it man. So anyway for the Ba Babe man. So anyway, the Cowboys still had an opportunity because they had the tiebreaker over the Saints and they just needed the Rams to win the game. So we're sitting there watching this game. The Saints get off to a seventeen to three lead, but the Rams come back and tie it up with a minute seventeen to go.

Seventeen seventeen, and the guy the Cowboys traded away early in the season, Steve Walsh, leads the Saints back down the field into field goal position. Now, get this here, here's how close they were to getting in at seven and nine, which would have been the first team to go from one win to the playoffs. The next season, Martin Anderson's lining up for a twenty nine yard field goal less than ten seconds to go to tie the game, to win the game, right, to win the game. The

field goal gets blocked. Cowboys Cafe goes crazy, right, Well, there's a flag on the field off sides. That cookily, that's all about it. That's so I'm the retail everybody all the time. We get the pandemic referee cruise all the time. Yeah, so I'm the re kick from twenty four yards out with two seconds left, Martin Anderson drills it. Saints win twenty seventeen, and and that was New Year's Eve at Cowboys Cafe. I think I had a quote in my story from Lockhart and Eugene Lockhart saying that

was the hardest game I ever watched in my life. Yeah, he probably didn't see it. All the beers time it was free he owned, I think at that time was bad. Mine in my own cafe, he getting all the free stuff. Yeah, so let me say this right here. So anyway, I just wanted to point out the difference between seven and

nine then and what people look at. If the Cowboys go seven and nine this year, I tell it, you're here, that's why, and I remember it and I try to express that you're never out of this thing if your division is that bad, which ours ours was at that time too. Uh, here's two guys were bad. We weren't bad. No, you guys were bad. Okay, I'm just I'm sorry we were thirteen and three. What you want me to say, Nate, I'm sorry. I'm gonna saying y'all. Y'all were not bad,

but you're the reason we won three super Bowls. Ever, so we got rid of you. Okay, since you throw it dark now, but you said we were bad, I'm sorry, vision but we were bad, Dallas Cowboy, because you guys inspired me, because I went to that Super Bowl that year and saw you guys playing Tampa and that inspired me to build a less fat of human coming into next season. Well, here's what I've always said about you guys. I remember when we came back in nineteen ninety of

the Giants, and it was the first game. Everybody made a big deal about us coming back back home. Me and d I C and all of that. It was no big deal to us, except that we knew it was gonna be hot as heck in that stadium. But we ended up, Uh, we ended up. Not only were we playing well that season, but when we played you guys, I'm all happy about kicking y'all's button, like, yeah, way to go, guys. I'm in the locker room like it

was all about me and I was. I went to LT and I said, hey boy, wait, way to come in here and take care of some business. And he had this. He looked tired. You know. First I was hot out there, but he looked more tired than usual. And his words were, hey man, those guys are gonna really be good. I never forget him saying that. And from being on you guys started making moves and so it kind of put things into perspective. He wasn't celebrating. Yeah.

In fact, I think he by the guy's butt handed to him a little bit at that game by Martin Tulnat because I really wasn't celebrating much at all, and he made that proclamation, he said, Man, these guys are gonna be really good. So yeah, LT saw it coming. I didn't, Oh, Okim, Well okay, uh. I tell you Dre here that to win in this league is so hard. I know eversonnoyed for Everson to come in and this young part of his career to have all that success.

Then when I come to the Cowboys a curse and we saw a lose it, I'm like, wow, I found out how hard it was to win in it. And that's why I'm saying to these Cowboys coach McCarthy has did a massive job of controlling this damage. It's like a tornado hit this team, and he's been controlling the damage. And he neither said nothing bad or good about his defense or his coordinator. And now he's got him through this.

So he has an opportunity, whether we like it or not as fans, he has an opportunity to go to mister Jones say don't get rid of a coordinator, and mister Jones gonna listen to him, where as before six weeks ago and then want nobody listened, nobody cared. So that's damage control. Man. It's like a tornado hit this team, and that's damage control. So will he go to mister Jones and say, pay off that offensive coordinator. Don't let him leave. He has grown tremendously. Y'all know how I

felt when Jason was here. I was like, get rid of this kid, dude, not let this kid ruin Jason. I do not want nothing to do with this kid. In the first ten games, I did not want anything to do with this kid. This kid has grown. He understands how to set tempo with this offense, and he's done it with a good, solid quarterback in Dalton. He's done it with a good tight end and three outstanding receivers and a running back that was struggling. He has done it. Now. Whether they not let him go or not,

that's not up to me. But what I was feeling for this kid is not the same, you know, because I promise you Everson and Mick you know how I felt. Mick offer, I like, get rid of this dude. But now he has grown, and once again we have matured somebody so he can go some else and be successful. And then we have then we have to groom someone else and have these things all over again. Yeah, and now six years from now we're here. We are man ever some old ain't no teeth, and I here and

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Join now at Dallas Cowboys dot com Slash United, and we are on our final segment of the final show of this twenty twenty year here on Mick Shots, Nate Newton joining Everson Walls and myself here in the SWBC Mortgage studio as it's pouring down rain here in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Matter of fact, it woke me up early this morning, and I don't think it's quit raining. Since you guys realize what would have happened if it was like ten degrees colder. Yeah, we'd be in New Jersey.

It'd be like it right, that's right. What would have happened? You'd have been outside shoveling snow off your driveway. Huh it have been ten ten degrees cou'd have just not got out of my bed looking at chat Yeah whatever, Yeah, I mean about hibernating the bar Is Haberna. Hey, I wanted to point out one other little stat here going into this game, since we were talking about offense and we're talking about Kellen Moore, I noticed this Giant's defense

has been very susceptible to the run. In five of the last six games. Philadelphia went for one fifty six against him Seattle one eleven, Arizona one fifty nine, Cleveland one oh six, and Baltimore in this last game two hundred and forty nine yards rushing. So you think they can go up there and maybe run the football no matter what the weather is or what the temperature is. Yeah, I mean that's gonna be the safest about to go. I think when you look at this Cowboys team, we

can beat you in any ways. But I'm very surprised about the Giants defense. I think one point, you know, before they started having these wolds with the Russian game, they were like a citious defense. They beat Pittsburgh. If I'm not in the state, who did they beat Pittsburgh.

What they upset Spats. I got a couple of really nice wins to where all of a sudden they brought along with the Cowboys success and Washington some credibility to the NFC East, especially on the defensive side of the ball, all of a sudden, like you said, the Wolds started as far as the running game was concerned, and now they haven't. They haven't really shown that in the victory's standpoint. They beat Sea Seattle, that's the one you were thinking

about at Seattle. They want at Seattle and won big win. Yeah, go ahead and Nate. It seems like when you stopped getting turnovers, you would think the passing game for the other team would get better. But when you stopped creating turnovers, it seemed like the running game get better for other teams. And now the same with us who aren't getting no turnovers. And I guess you get turnovers and get your team short. Feels it makes other offensive coordinated panic. He go to

putting the ball. So but when you ain't getting no turnovers, they're like, okay, we'll run whatever we want to run. Let's run this ball and go play action pass the sprintouts and that's what that's They're in the same position we were four weeks ago. They're in that position, no turnovers, can't score points, go face his short fields, and that's not a very good thing. Don't you think that's what

happened to Philadelphia. Don't you think that's what happened to Philadelphia When they started turning the ball over, he quit trying to run and just throw through through. You know what happened to Philadelphia because this is a sore spot with me. The day of the draft when they got Jalen Hurts that it was the wrong thing to do. And that's what happened to Philadelphia, And they ain't been right since you paid this kid one hundred million dollars.

You keep all the receivers who hate him, and then you get rid of the coach that was good for him and Frank Wright, and all of a sudden you go out and draft Jalen Hurts and you say, what's wrong with Philadelphia? A It's like who likes Jr? Who likes wins? And that's what wrong with Philadelphia? I promise you well, when they drafted him, did they draft him to play quarterback or did they just like his ability

to play all positions. Who that Jayden slot receiver, they could have thrown it to him and then the trick play major. They wanted to be more diverse. I thought they were trying to enhance customs ability to be productive. I mean he had just come off the MVP year or something like that. I just quarterbacks mindsets. You can be Aaron Rodgers, who've won a Super Bowl, and you go out and draft somebody not to help his team. But Aaron saying, ain't nothing more than what y'all have

been doing. I've been tolding the team for the last eight years. I'll just be even better this year. And so when DeVante alass planning he's unstoppable. Okay, but this kid went says, never ever took him to the Promised Land. He's never finished when he started. And you give him one hundred million dollars assuring that he would finish, he would start. Whatever he started, he would finish. He got hurt and came back and barely beat the Cowboys a year ago, and all of a sudden, you thought that

was gonna launch him. And they say, guess what, we ain't giving you no break. Hey, Jayalen, come home from Oklahoma, we will ruin it even further for you. So, having said that, do you guys have any confidence in Philadelphia beating Washington? The reason I don't, it's because Jalen Hurts will put the ball on the ground and the strength of the Washington football team. They got two defensive ends

that ain't joking. They got two tackles on the inside that's smoking, and they got linebackers that would clean your clock. And they got opportunistic dvs that ain't great. But what else the paul gonna fall to me? Because these guys up front gonna make it happen. That's why I'm not giving them a chance. Jalen. They're not gonna let this kid run all over them. They're not, so he gonna have to throw it all over them, and that would be the key. If he throw it over them, they'll

win the game. Well, Nate, I'm looking for I'm looking for the little general to live up to his promise. Jim Schwartz promised me and I'm all Cowboys fans. He is not gonna let these guys have a hat game in his stadium. So there will be no champion, there will be no NFC East Division champion hats worn in Philadelphia this weekend. That is not gonna happen, because Jim said it ain't gonna happen. Now you talk about Washington's pluses,

I talked about what's not going well with Watson. The first of all, the quarterback position is in serious dis array. I don't know if Alex Smith is going to play or not. I don't know how healthy he's gonna be. Hold it a story, hold it right there. Ever since so today, yes, actually took part in drills. Yesterday, he did not practice, but he was seen in their walkthrough part of practice, taking first team reps. So, but they didn't have pads on our helmets at that time. So

we'll see where it goes. And one other thing they're missing. Antonio Gibson, they're running back, hasn't practiced all week. And Terry McLaurin, the wide receiver, has been working with the trainers. But go ahead, no that there you go. No running game, passing game except for Alex Smith's courage, really has nothing to show at this time. I think McLaurin is still playing good ball, but he hadn't been playing that well since Alex Smith has been out because he hadn't been

able to be targeted effectively. What I'm looking at is defensively, it's gonna be a struggle for both offensive is gonna be a struggle for both teams against both teams. Defense. Looking for Philadelphia to be inspired enough that their hate for the Cowboys won't be as strong as their hate for the Red for the Washington football team. I promise you this right here, every local druggists would be at that stadium offered their services to the quarterback other Washington

football I can get you through this game. Try this, watch and this in DC so he can find it. They'll find it in DC. They'll find it. They'll rub that calf down right, Yes, sir, with every aunt met you ever thought of. We only got a few minutes left.

I was gonna ask you guys this, when you look at this cowboy his team, and you know, we know all the problems they had, you know, up until this three game winning streak, give me one thing, one person maybe that developed that you're saying, okay, twenty twenty one, and you can't say Donovan Wilson because you're already pointed that out. Twenty twenty one, we got something we can work with here. Everson, well, he didn't start off the season as a starter, and I really loved the starter

that was in his place. I thought Jolin was a blake. Joan was a heck of a tight end, and Chultz had his problems early on blocking and even catching the ball. But I look for him to really use this year to explode into next year. He can give us a great one two punch at the tight end spot, and he when it's all said and done, even on his worst day, he blocks. He blocks better than Blake Jarlin. So to me, I think he will improve in that position and he would be an all around tight end

for the Dallas Cowboys. Any body of the defense you got nick defensively, yeah, I would. I would just go with take Dix. I would just go with it. I'm sorry, Uh, Trevon did, Yeah, Treyvon did. I would go we'll call him what we want, Yeah, yeah, t t Dis. I would say t Dix is going to be a very good defensive back, but he's gonna still take a few

more lumps offensively. I want to say take my hat off to coach Filming because he has always had these guys ready and prepared to play, and now that our offensive coordinate his working hand in hand with him and calling the right plays in the right time and the rights situations. I want to say, Coach Filman, great job. Great job. I mean you you had the leash to

work with. Besides, since we got rid of all that wasted on defense, you've had the leash to work with, and you've made the most out of for my offensive prison and on my defensive side. I don't care what you say to me. That striker called Donovan Wilson. I love your baby, I love coming. I know Nick to want me to bring that bring your name up, Donovan Wilson. That's my guy, all right, and missed the energy and I'm gonna take. I'm gonna take. And it's not a new guy, but it's a it's an old guy who's

a new person. And I think Randy Gregory is showing that he could be a stud in this league. He seems he and I always say this, he seems to have turned his life around. And I think what he did in this last game is very representative of what he can be now that he's got his sea legs

under him. I think we all forget he missed those first six games, missed basically the seventh the seventh game, played very little as the season was going along, and then all of a sudden, the more snaps he got, you can see how destructive he can be against an offense, especially if you don't have a big time left tackle to to be able to deal with him. And I just like, I don't know if you guys been able

to listen how he's handled his interviews. He's speaking, He's just speaking so uh with a clear man yes, and and and and just aggressive, not aggressively, but just meaningful, right, no wasted words. And I'm thinking, gosh, this guy might have it together. And if he's together, they may get the guy they thought they were drafting and took a chance on in twenty fifteen. So to me, Randy Gregory

going forward, uh, certainly would be a bright spot. I guess we don't have to spend a lot of time picking the games, right you guys, you know you want to give me a score, you know. Yeah? By the way, Anthony B. Anthony Brown's getting another pick. Anthony Brown's getting another pick this weekend, by the way, going three for three, right, third, third, one in the third game, and since I was let out of jail, Nate, because I swore off picking the

Cowboys until they won two straight. So they won two straight and I picked him win last week. I'm going for four now, four straight Cowboys, something like twenty six nineteen, something like that. No, thirty, don't don't mess up the street. Rather be over thirty. That's the only way we win. They got rid of my book, Lumbo, and I ain't got none fun you you Lumbo man, because he stood up to the head coach and they went down. I've got kids. Don't talk to me that way, all right,

we guys go man. Thanks a lot, Nate, Thanks for jumping in, Nate, I appreciate it. Everson. Uh, we'll talk to you on Monday, and I think it probably should be a victory Monday, and then we'll see what happens with them. Washington's and Philadelphia. Hope everybody has a safe New Year's Eve, and by God, let's turn the clock over to twenty twenty one. Her Ever Sin and old Cowboys. Chris, thanks a lot for all your help this season. Mickey Spagnola, Bill Jones will be back with us on Monday, and

everybody have a happy new year. See you guys from Mick Shots, see you right. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.