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at noon. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. The Cowboys victoria's on Saturday, and all of us were victorious on Sunday, Christmas Day. Right, that's right, everybody had a successful Christmas. Okay, very good, and now it's a short week. Cowboys locker room was open an hour ago. Mickey Spagnola has emerged from there. We're getting ready for the Tennessee Titans now on Thursday night. Right, man, he smells like

a locker room. Go ahead to Tennessee. Right, We got no time to dowdle around, right, we got to get moved. Come on, man, we can't have some fun and talk about you know what just happened. No, we're gonna talk about talk about him for a long time, all right. Any any news from the locker room, any breaking news from the locker room? Um, because you just got back from there. You know what, I printed out my snap counts and they didn't print out. Well, is there anyone

in particular you need to know about? Well, yeah, I'll let you know. I've got it called up. Right now as we're starting the show, I'm writing down the snap counts. I got the page with the two guys at the bottom right, which are the kicker in the out. Okay, well, if you got it, I've got so to kick off. So to kick off this edition of mix Shots, Mickey will read off the snap counts for Saturday's game. Absolutely because there are a couple will get to Uh. Sam

Williams is cleared to practice. Okay, that was my first question. I wanted to know whether or not you saw him in the locker also cleared to live, by the way, Um, how about this, guess when he bought his new car Friday, I know, Wednesday night, Wednesday night, he didn't even have it twenty four hours before. So the exit occurred on Thursday, Thursday, two o'clock to day afternoon, maybe something like that. Right, because it was a he had just left the facility.

I assume he was headed home to get with his family that came in for Christmas, and his brand new probably had stickers still on it. Right, he did twenty twenty two zero six corvette. Yeah, demolished wheel Love corvettes, just demolished. And I saw the footage of it. He was he understood. He said, my first thoughts were thank God, it could have been worse. And immediately he thought about my son and his mother, and that how fragile life is that it could have been over. Somebody said you

have your seatbell out. He goes, oh, yeah, because if I didn't, I'm not here. And he was talking about getting out of the car. He said he had to push a button to get out of the car, and the ladies car was smoking, and they went over to her car, and he said, there was a bunch of people there. They had their phones out and and he goes, we couldn't get the door open. We had to wait till, you know, the emergency veagles got there. And they said, well, who'd you call first? And he goes, my hands were

so cold, I couldn't dial on my phone. They put me in the in the squad car or whatever, and he was able to dial and he dialed here and Brian Wansley and cable to let him know would happened. But yeah, he said, he's very He said, I'm not called and I'm paraphrasing right, he goes, you never know when that's gonna happen. I called every family member I could think of and just let him know that I was okay and how much I loved him. That's crazy, man,

he was. I didn't know it was. You know, yeah, you hear reports that he was involved in a car accident and it was it came out that he was taken in the driver of the other vehicle. They were taken to the hospital for observation or with minor injuries. Well, he's got scars all over his head and I was thinking, oh, he must have hit his head on this or that, and somebody pointed out, Um, that it looked like bruises from your air bag exploding in your face. And I

didn't realize it was hot the air. I never had an air bag explode on me. Um. Yeah, he was kind of bruised up, but other than that, he was good, and he said when he woke up Saturday, he was He said, I was good to go. I can play, And they told him, now, just take the day off. So he said, I spent the day yelling at my television. Hey tell him, welcome to the club. Yeah, he said, the day yelling at the television. And I forgot the term he used. He said, the CD Lamb turned me up.

So he was he was big on CD's performance. Yeah. So, uh, that was probably the biggest thing that came out of the locker room that he's he's he's fine and good to go, and the fact that he's talking to the media and everything. Yeah, at first they didn't. He said he didn't want to talk about it on camera, and then towards the end, you know, we kind of made small talk with him. Then he stood up and said, okay, let's do let's do it. Okay, so good, all right, yes,

very good. Also saw Terrence Steele. He's already had his surgery. He big old crutches, big old knee brace. But you know he's on his way. When you're a big old man, you got big old crutches and big old knee braces. All right, Um, what a game on and what an entertaining game on Christmas Eve. And now as we do turn our attention towards Tennessee, it's very interesting going forward coming out of that game. Cowboys, injury wise, came out of it well, right, Nicky, Yes, the Eagles did not.

They lost Lane Johnson. I didn't check Lane Johnson apparently as a torn tendon and his abdomen and it's probably out for the next couple of weeks. They hope to get him back for the playoffs. Okay. And Avonte Maddox he's got a significant toe injury according to reports, and so he's out and he was playing lights out the early part of that game, right, A cornerback for ye corner for them. So yeah, they did, but I didn't see. I mean, we didn't get an injury report after the game,

right Cowboys? So yeah, I think everybody actually got through it and good to go. The other thing just mentioned this, and we wanted to get into a lot of the Eagles. Tennessee's got nothing to play for on Thursday. I mean, when you look at the standings in the AFC, South Tennessee plays Jacksonville in the season finale. Jacksonville would beat Tennessee a couple of weeks ago, and so it doesn't matter whether Tennessee wins or loses this game because Tennessee

lost to Houston. They're they're going to be within one game of each other no matter what the results are this week. So Tennessee will probably rest players this week. Derrick Henry, I mean, they're their important game is next week against Jacksonville. Doesn't matter what they do against the Cowboys. They have to win the Jacksonville game to make the playoffs, win their division, and they should use this as a nice practice game. Though. If they lose, they're a game behind.

Pull up the standings here. I just wanted to say, because they're tied the game seven and eight right now, right, and but but Jacksonville beat them, right, and so if even if they lose in Jacksonville wins this week, okay, Jacksonville would have a one game well, hadn't makes sense? No, No, Tennessee's ahead of the Jacksonville in the standings said they were both seven and eight. Let me see, let me look it up here. I think I'm pretty sure on that.

Maybe it's if they were even if if Tennessee beats Jacksonville. They must have a better division record or something to give them the tiebreaker at this point. Yeah, I'm looking that up. You talk of it, but I'm both seven and seven. What my point was though, even if they lose in Jacksonville wins and they're a game behind, if they beat them, then then then they're they've split. They've split, and so whatever the division record, they must have a

better division for Jacksonville. Yeah, I mean, if if they win that last game against them, they're they're in well both teams. Yeah, it's gonna be a winner take all. Yeah, last game point being, Tennessee's got nothing to play for. Now, tell me what you'll thought about the Cowboys and the Eagles ever since you go first. I thought it was a very unnecessarily exciting game. I mean I did enjoy you know, how we were resilient in almost every phase

of the game. But when I look at the our defense, I'm I keep going back to nineteen eighty one, I keep going back to last year, to where you know, not being able to stop our offensive teams, not being able to stop them from moving moving the chains. It always catches up with you if you show that pattern. I don't care if you change it sometime early on before the playoffs start. If you're not careful, those same bad habits reared their ugly heads when it comes down

to those drives where you needed in the playoffs. Right now, this team looks great, it's exciting, but I still don't see defensively the toughness that you need, the consistency that we need from our pass rush and our past defense. Now I haven't said that I love the turnovers. That's great. Minshoe's interceptions. Those weren't bad passes. Those were great interceptions.

Let's just be real about that. Those were held of interceptions by jay Ron Curse catching it with one hand while covering the wide receiver and of course with Bland just him taking that ball away from him. That's one of the gutsiest moves I've seen the defensive back make here in the long long time. Of course, you got guys making plays, making interceptions, but for him to not give up on that play when it was could have been just a completion and in the clutch like it was.

Those were some clutch turnovers. But I hate to have to depend on that defensively for us to win the game. You're asking a lot from your offense, a whole lot from your offense, and it's just unfair. Well, that's who this team is now, you know, right, the offense got to score thirty something or forty to be able to you got a backup quarterback. And I know Minshoe has started and he's played in the league. But until they

had ten Leagles had ten possessions. The only times the Cowboys stopped them from scoring were the takeaways and the first time in the entire game on downs on the last drive. They had not stopped them on downs until that drive. And um, and it wasn't like offensively we had things under control, No, No, we needed those drives. Yes. And so here's here's two things I said to myself during the game that I thought were indicative of the

whole thing. The first one was after the interception for a touchdown the big I said to myself, this effing team, right, dude, I think that's the worst you've ever talked about. Let's I don't think he's ever said that on this Let's do you think he really said it like that? Well, we know what you said, but the fact that you made reference to it, that's really saying a lot, and I was like, do you have to like just create this mountain that you have to do. Once we did that,

we want them right. And then on third and thirty, I said, and I said this out loud, I said, how would you like to be the offensive coordinator with this play call? Right? And as I found out, it was pretty simple. It was s t y. Hilton said, we had a go on both outsides, and I said, so to me, I was thinking, it was like the playground. You run as fast as you can to the red kettle. I'm gonna throw it as far as I can, and you turn around and jump and catch it. Right. It

just like we're out on the street. And by god, if that didn't happen, because there's no third and thirty play call on that playsheet, right, you got to make that up. And it's like, and you don't plan for that, especially since two plays before both failed, right, you lost yardage. You don't want to depend on that, right, that's what you just don't want to depend on that kind of greatness to pull yourself out of it. Now. Having said that, this just lets you know we could have been doing

this all year long. I mean most teams that you see play now, they take us a deep shot at least three times a game. Right on this one, you were forced to. We've only done two the entire season. And that was a thirty three year old man running down the field and Dak had to throw the ball. I'm thinking since it was a fifty three yard completion, he had to be seven ten yards deep, right, I mean he threw the ball almost sixty some seventy yards

on the dime. Unbelievable. And I thought that just changed the entire momentum of the game. And as Ty told us here a little while ago, he said, you know what, he goes, if I didn't get my legs tandled up, he goes, I'm scoring because the safety ain't bringing me down. He goes, but I got my legs tangled. And he thought that when he took off and he knew he was even with Sleigh, he said, I got He goes because he said, he said, I got another gear. He

ain't seen it. He's just the best. And how about this, So with family in town, my brother in law paid played baseball at FIU. So he decided I need to put my sweatshirt on. So he puts his FIU sweatshirt on, and t Y Hilton stars, right. I told t Y Hilton the story and he goes, that's crazy, that's crazy. That's pretty cool. So I mean, do you think that from here on we're gonna get more consideration for deep passes?

I mean, well, I don't know, but all I know is that's eight straight games scoring twenty five points or more. That's pretty strong, it is. And you know, I know the Eagles didn't have their quarterback, but they had their defense, right except for when Maddox got hurt. H And they were pretty good defensively all year. And you put that many points on them. They can say what they want about the backup quarterback. The way we scored on their defense, right,

that's indicative of how good we are offensively. Right now, Well, the way that game was playing out the first three quarters, making you pointed out they're scoring virtually every possession. I mean, how much better could Jalen Hurts have done? Right? Yeah, it's not. Well when you look at it, j has a one game that's better passing yrds than I think you got three eighties something. Now. Yeah, this is the difference though, is And the thing that Jalen Hurts has done.

And I mean you pointed out great how Cowboys couldn't stop them. Well they they were able to get those turnovers in the fourth quarter and get the stop at the end of the game and they count. Yeah. When Hurts is the quarterback for them, and one of the great things that he's done this seat he's thrown five picks, but his ability to run the football giving them a I can't running back. They've been able to control games and they haven't turned the ball over as on the season.

They're like tops in the league in giveaways, and they gave the ball away four times in this game. That has a total reflection on the game is different. They have control of the games when he's been in there. No, but he's also with five picks on the season, He's he's been prone to throw a pick here and there too, So there's no saying that he couldn't have done the same thing because those weren't bad throws made. Yeah, they were good defensive plays that both Um Curse made and Bland. Yeah.

So all right, we're just getting started on this edition of Big Shots. As Mickey counts up all the snap counts, that's right. I got him now, right from Saturday's game, and we've got much more when we continue in just a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award for valor and combat. More than forty million visuals have served in the armed forces since the Civil War. Fewer than four thousand have received the Medal of Honor.

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I'll guarantee you were in the thirties, weren't you. I had thirty to twenty six because remember, right, yes, your gas. Yeah, he filled up his tank and it was the cold weather. It was governing it sent the cold weather. Did not know that the cold weather was coming in. And so you know, because it it fell on Thursday morning, okay, which was our last show, right, and it fell down. I mean their temperature was all right, plumbing, it was down already to twenty six degrees on its way to

six degrees. I said, I'm gonna top off my tank, and so I'm just gonna put thirty thirty bucks in ever sit. And so it came out to thirty twenty six. And so that was my score, thirty to twenty six. Very well, it missed it by only ten points, mickey, Okay, forty to thirty four, right, yeah, okay, So what was your scores? Another scores? What the craft think mine was? Twenty eight twenty four. Okay, so we were close. So I'm closer t eighteen you were twenty seven eighteen. Yeah,

I didn't think. Ok it was like the halftime and my player was a d Law. No, your player with Sam Williams. No, you gave me another shot. You gave me another shot. He said, you go give me grace, and you did because you gave Yeah, you made your pick. Yeah, because it actually occurred Thursday after that. So I said, it's it's a Christmas season. I'm in a giving mood. You can go ahead and get a mulligan. And so you went with d Law. All right, Mickey, do you

remember who you pay? Sam Williams got a mulligan too, Yes, he did. My brother, Um, I picked that Prescott. No, I think that you may have. I think Chris has it. Chris has it because he sent it to me. I think, oh he did. Yeah, Okay, I'm looking I'm looking right. I don't know. You know who would you pick? But I don't even remember who did. I picked Pollard. I picked Tony Pollard. Here you're out, so I'm the only one that could win. Okay, so you win? Okay, Macky

wins all right. What else is on your legal pad? Um A couple things. So we saw how they started off the game at cornerback with Darn Bland playing left corner, m mackenzie Alexander playing in the slot, and then suddenly they made a change. They put nashun right out at corner when they had to go nickel and move Bland back inside and checked out. This is what I was

looking for for the snap counts. Duran Bland played ninety four percent of the snaps, sixty seven of seventy one and Nashan Wright and I got to go back and look this up. This might be the most snaps he's played in a significant game with the game still on the line. He played thirty eight snaps fifty four percent, and Alexander played fourteen. So I'm wondering if this is indicative of what they do going forward, because I thought

Nashan Wright played pretty well. Yeah, and his high number of snaps this season has been nineteen against Jacksonville and that's and I'll guarantee you that's probably this is probably for his career. I was just talking to him and he goes, well, man, you know, he goes, I understood my role but you had to be ready for your opportunity and if you and I don't. For some reason, I left my play by play behind, but I think I can find it on here. On the on Philadelphia's

last drive, he made the tackle. So on the second it was the second and five play, maybe because I wrote down right, so he must have made the tackle. It was a six yard gain, I think, and he kept the guy. That was the first play of the drive. Was it six yards to Zach Pascal. There was another one though it was later because I wrote down right, and he stopped the guy from making He stopped the guy from getting out of bounds. And he said, I realized when I was talking to him today that I

had to keep him from going forward. I forced him to go out backwards. And he said, after and he goes, go back and look at it. And for those of you that are watching this, he said, after I did that, I was winding my arm. Yes, that was that was I believe on the first play, okay, and he said, I was winded. Well. The other thing, he just helping the referee out right. The other thing I knew I had I told him. I knew I had to keep

him from going forward. So pretty good play on his That shows that he understands the rule on it too, because because he was right on the sideline. I mean, if the official could have borne that call right, you know, I was surprised that he did wind it well. The other thing he took a look at last week last week with the Jacksonville the Jacksonville game where jay Ron was trying to keep the guy from going he scrambled

out of bound. That was forward, I mean, so that's something I'm sure that was a teaching point right in the meeting room. Sure after that game. The other thing Right did on the second and ten play at the nineteen yard line, Davante Smith in the back of the ngeine. Now he was going to be hard pressed to get his feet down anyway, but he knew the rule there and he forced him out of out the back of the end zone. So I'll be interested to see what

they do going. And you know, the thing on Nashan Wright is when the Cowboys drafted them, they got you know a lot of the so called draft experts said, oh, they took him two rounds too high. Whatever, they knew when they drafted him that he might take some time, you know, um and making the transition into the NFL. But if you look at US college tape at Oregon State and you look at how he's played, I mean, he's got some feistiness to him. You know, he's got

some playmaking ability to collect. Yeah, intellect Ye, there you go, and um and he had eight tackles and and he's got that physique they're looking for, you know, Yeah, what is he say? Six six four? Yeah, that is that's pretty cool. Right. We hadn't had a quarterback around here, that's all. I don't think ever we have had a six four quarnerback. Uh. Well, they moved that guy to safety. It was mccamwu in that same draft. But that other than that, that's that's unique around here. And that was

his biggest opportunity. That was his biggest opportunity. Uh and two pass defense he at one tackle far loss. That's that's major contribution. Right. And he said when we were talking about it, you know, waiting for his turn and everything, he goes, I'm not new to the situation. He goes, there's millions and thousands of people dying to be in my shoes. And I thought that was a pretty good you know, like, Okay, I understand my role, but I got to be ready when the opportunity he was active.

He was active the entire game. Okay, let me ask you this. You asked if we ever had a six four cornerback on back, now, what would be what height sixty years ago would have been the equivalent height to a six four cornerback now when you just six to six one? Cornell Green was six three. So there was there's your quote unquote six four quarterbacks that the Cowboys a safety like he moved to safety. I got all pro at both positions. Yeah, that is something that's unique

as well. Now, speaking of corners with Bland, the last time they had a rookie corner with five picks ever, well, yeah, of course, now I think I saw something different last last Yeah. We gotta go back too far from me, actually,

he said Bland. It says Bland's five interceptions are tied for fourth all time among Cowboy rookies and rank second among NFL rookies, behind Seattle's Tarique Woolen with six pro bowler four last times high school runs four two something and he's about and Al Tall is heat six four And now these last time a rookie had five Micky said his name? What did I say? Who you said? Somebody named Tarik Woolling. That's what it sounded like, a bowling out of his minds back. Why, I don't know

who he is? Sorry, Sorry, we thought you were a reporter. I don't report on thirty two teams. Go ahead, give me the list. When when did he do it? Tark? Yeah? This year? Okay, he's doing the rookie this year he made the Pro Bowl. Yeah, granted, like a four two nine at the combine. You need to look inside my big green notebook for him. Copy that stuff for the last was two thousand and two, smart guys. Okay, rookie in two thousand and two, that's right before I know

what school he went to? Him? Oklahoma. I was gonna say how it was taking Roy Williams is one, but he was in safety. Yeah, that's right. And the other so Derek Ross that same year, same school, same year. I don't know, No Derek Ross went to I thought he went to I don't know a m I remember one, remember, I remember they had one kid around here. I don't remember his number, but he had gotten a few interceptions. He was really feeling himself, and he's like, yeah, man,

I've been balling. He's telling the reporters. He's like, man, what's the record? Friend, deceptions Ross went to the Ohio State University. Boom, guy, I'm talking about who was the guy that went to uh A and M what's the college and Emerald? It's actually in Kenyan, Canada. That would be Dwayne Thomas in two thousand and two. Smart. Hey man, we got so much information here. Ye, who is who he was? The knucklehead that there was a rookie and didn't show up for the first day of training camp

and he didn't call. It was West Texas State University and now and now it's West Texas A and M. Yeah, okay, West Texas. But now I just remember the guy because he was well it was, it is where it was? Who else is on that list? I want you to tell me who it was. I have no idea. Okay, you ask just those two they were the last two. No, but who else was on the list? I'm trying to get to ever you said that, I only have that

these these two guys the last time. Oh okay, I don't have Who's Can we say who has the most as a rookie. Well, we probably would be very comfortable pointing that out. I guess. And how many was that? Um? Twenty one? A lot? It's eleven, there's a lot eleven and two in the postseason at a lot of them. That's what give me. Give me the media guide. Nicky's gonna look up something in the media guide, and we're gonna have the results of whatever he looks up. Coming

up next. You're on mix shots. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey, Oh oh, look at that. That's not the end, no way. Now it's time for the encore. You know what, You're right? Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough. Pepsi zero sugar. That's what I like. Nobody protects you from mayhem,

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look like Lean to Me. Okay, we continue on with mix Shots Christmas Hangover final ten minutes of the show. Here Mickey has the much anticipated answer to his own trivia question about the Cowboys dB from West Texas am Amarillo And it was in the two thousand season and the answer is Kareem Laddimore Larimore, Kareem Laramore. I wonder I didn't get it right. I was looking up Laddimore Kareem Laramore out of West Texas A and M well,

I'm glad we got that off. That's right, Yeah, that's right, all right, now that we got that cleaned up what's going to what's important, and what is important is how the Cowboys are back to work after Christmas holiday of one day and Mike McCarthy has his press conference at three o'clock this afternoon. That's right, okay. And so for this offense that needs to keep functioning in a high level, what does two targets to t Y Hilton do for

opposing defenses? Knowing that he had a PI on the first one, he should have had a PI on the second one, and he was He had an answer for that. He said, I didn't realize. I didn't realize I was being held until I went back and looked at it. He goes, when when when, uh, you know, growing up as whatever a wide receiver, I'm just supposed to make contested catches. That's it he's been doing. And see it's not just his speed. This guy is shifty in the slot, which I don't want to take CD out the slot

because CD is bawling out of control. But he is able to do to perform the intermediate routes as well as the deep route. He is, to me, the closest we're going to get to a Mary Cooper in regards to being precise in everything that he does. So that was the other one I was going to look up. Oh and by the way, I'd like to give the Twitter people some some mister t First, says Wright made the tackle on third and two that prevented the first down and held them to a field goal earlier in

the game. Yes, okay, that's right he did. So, yeah, these are these are clutch plays made by a clutch player. So, so Hilton was on a pitch count and I think McCarthy they asked him and he said, I don't know, it was like twenty or thirty. He had twelve snaps. That's it. So I'm imagining those two plays. The cornerbacks, their hair is going to be standing up on edge. Now those some good cornerbacks that were beating. Yeah, that's a good second. I think both times. Yes, and Slay said,

now the safety was supposed to get over the top. Yeah, I would have said it too, well held up now, I've been there. I think nobody believes me. Come on, no, when he that's why, Well, I don't know if that was a too mad, but he looked like he was trying to stay even with him, and I don't know that that to me, they just looked like a perfect path. But you did see the safety come over late. Yeah, Now on the big Now, I didn't know if he came from the middle of the field or did he

come from half to field. I didn't see the pre game pre snap lineup, and so if you if you see the pre snap alignment, then you know what defense they're playing. I don't think he was single high. I think he had that to feel. If he's got to have to feel, he's got to be over there. But he was too late. Yeah, he was too late, and and hey, I don't mind beating our safeties as well. But it wasn't like the safety said okay, I mean the corner said I'm playing underneath because I got I

got help. He was running as fast he was. He was mad that the safety didn't come over. That was his post game uh comments. So then he said, my safety has got to be there. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't said it too, So would you you have said that in the postgame come if it ain't true, I wouldn't say that. I'm not gonna feel my safety under the bus. I can't. I have mike downs through mike downs. And he didn't throw Vince alp under the bus in Arizona until until I got I gotta tell the truth. I'm

not gonna lie, you know what I mean. The truth is the truth. So you can't. You can't throw yourself on the sow to where you're lying, right, I mean, that's just not being honest. So anyway, twelve snaps can he can he get twenty four next gen I like, I like the ramp up. Okay, next gens. Stats had him at nineteen point three miles an hour on that on that play. Oh he can do better, he said. Somebody asked him, what what what was your top? He goes, I think it was like twenty two points, so I

could see it. I could see it, I could sleeve and he can stop on the dime. See, it's not just about running if I'm not going here, But if you're running, I understand it's all cuter generated or whatever. But if you're running right alongside Darius, say, who's to say that the nineteen miles an hour was Darius Slay's time? And see why I was on the other side. If you gotta get rid of That's what he tells the police. That was the other black drug. How do you know?

It was me? But to me, you will talk about snap couns the most impressive. I don't know about impressive, but unusual or scary for your defense. The snap count for the punters non existent. There was one. There was one punt in the game, right it was that. It come on, that's crazy, yeah, one point. I mean we're gonna play some defense here, I know, I mean we're gonna play some defame. But you know who you know who played defense? Anthony Byr had his best game and

I know we've kind of him a little bit. Fifty five snaps and he was was he tied for the lead or second for the lead and tackles and interception and he had a very important fumble recovery he did so um that was that was an impression of performance by him. M yeah, well they get you know, when you have so many plays, well they're successful on the other side of the ball, you gotta have somebody that's

got to hold it down. And then we started we started talking about having poise, you know, and I think that's what the defense did show. They didn't just collapse completely, right even though we were giving up, they were they were moving the chains over and over again. We still had the poise to make the turnovers. And that reminds me so much of eighty one. You can say what you want about it. We gave up too many big plays. Yeah,

the chains were moving too often. And again no sacks, no sex And as a matter of fact, I think that's not like eighty one. We had sacks right. Yeah. And the other part was I don't think they had a quarterback hit. How does that happen? But again they got zeroed out. But that last possession, when it got to the nineteen, the pressure was coming right. It didn't hit him, but it came to the point he said,

I got to get rid of the foot. Pressure was also there for the running back when he fumbled the ball right, because first parts had scared the heck out of him. He didn't know where he came from. Him. He made an inside move very abrupt. As soon as he got the ball, He's like, oh, there he is. He tried to move this way. There's Watkins. And then if I'm not mistaken, there was another d linemen. They

came in the law. Yeah, the law came around and you got I don't know if I couldn't tell if someone knocked it out of his hands, but I do know he was startled enough to where he was not conscious. I think what he was doing. I remember correctly they gave Carlos Watkins he he had a forced fumble, so but it was very slight, but it was enough to wear it when you have running back to have fumbles. I remember we were working with we were talking about Zeke at one point he would get hit first and

that would stun you. So now you don't know what you don't really have a concert where the ball is. Then it's the second hit that causes the damage. Right, well, but the first hit survive and this one it was a it was a mental hit because when when Parsons came inside, he immediately had to make a move he was not ready to make and then he was trapped as when he was trapped in there, and that's when Watkins slapped at it. Is that what happened last night

to the Arizona or on the kitch out? It was Eric Scissor SAMs right, I thought he hit him in the face phase. I think I thought so too. I mean they could have ran out the game, h Mickey, as we close out mix shots. How about we mentioned the passing of Sam Blair. Sam Blair was the first professional football beat writer uh in North Texas, going back go over sixty years ago, and I actually had just learned of his passing yesterday. I don't normally look at

the obituary page, but I did. Well. Here it is yesterday in the Dallas Morning News and he actually passed away peacefully on December eleventh, two weeks ago at the age of ninety. Wow. Woodrow Wilson High School, University of Texas. Just reading from his obituary here, the nicest guy, yeah, you know whatever, forty one year career at the Dallas Morning News. He was the lead sports columnist to the Dallas Morning News and sports editor and for forty one

years I talked to him all the time. He was a contributor to the Cowboys Weekly and even I probably even when it became the Star magazine. And look, he was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame, the North Texas Legends from the Press Club of Dallas, and UT's Daily Texan Hall of Fame. So I mean, he's been around, and you know what, when somebody's was gonna. I knew somebody's gonna ask me, what do you remember

about Sam? Nicest guy you ever met, Even even when US newspapers were warring, he was always just talking to him a real jet because he was having that guy yeah, digging for anything, right. It was just basically just a conversation and we had when we did our documentary on UM I want to say it was called black and White maybe on what the race situation was in Dallas in the early sixties and what the players had to

deal with. Some of them had, you know, admitting they were playing with a black player for the first time in their lives because they went to Southern universities. As Sam was really good at remembering things, and it was a really fun We went to his house and it was a really fun interview with him. He was so gracious,

really nice guy. Also authored nine books, including books on Roger Staubach, Bob Lily, Earl Campbell, Grant Taff, and Lee Trevino, which tells you a lot about his relationship with so many different types of different sports and a trust worthiness that he had with those athletes and forty one years that's what I'm pretty sure that he has my quotes and a lot of his books because we talked. Oh yeah, and it was just good to talk to. Like you said,

nobody was. It wasn't about you know, trying to got you questions or anything like that. Well I remember even doing our legend shows, and I can't remember specifically the players, but players from the sixties they used to talk about relationship with the members of the media, and they would socialize with Sam Blair, you know, after games and stuff. It just shows new difference. Yeah, trust that was that was no one trying to leak anything. Yeah, whatever you

told him, it stayed in his staff. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, ninety years old, yea wow, yep, so condolences to the Blair family and a lot of in fact, as a kid growing up, and you may feel the same way, Everson. I just would open up my Dallas Morning News and there was the Sam Blair column, you know, the times Harold had Blackie shared and then me went to the morning News later, but then Sam was the lead sports columnists.

A little difference between black that's right, that's right. How about this um And this was an interesting note in his oh bit It said, well, covering the Cowboys game, in DC a colleague. Colleague introduced him to the White House correspondent Karen Clintfelter. They married in nineteen seventy, so he met his wife covering a Cowboys game. Wow, how about that? There you go? All right? That does it for this edition of Mixed Shots, And we will shout

at you again tomorrow. And we'll need to get Everson's picks to click as well. Okay, we're gonna have to get everyone gets tried. But Everson is on the road tomorrow, you mean ahead of time. That's right, all right, So we'll talk at you again noon tomorrow here on Mick Shots and no mulligans this time. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.