Mick Shots: It's Vikings Week

It is officially underway since both opponents for this week's game, both the Cowboys and the Vikings, have all of their games played leading up to this game after Monday Night Football last night, and Cowboys we now know facing a red hot Minnesota Viking team that has won three straight games, including nineteen to thirteen over the Chicago Bears last night. Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola inside the

SWBC Mortgage studios at Forge Center at the Star in Fresco. Mickey, before you say anything, Everson, what are you wearing a g that can't be a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt? It is not Green Bay, It is not who did I say? It is not even Garland High School, which you know. I've sat here Spagnola for god weeks and I hear Bill Jones tell all these high school stories about at least underachieving quarterbacks. Give me a story about a Garland

High school quarterback, William Jones. Come on, man, I don't know that I can give you a Garland unless Bobby Boyd play. First of all, Bobby boy Bobby Boyd and my uncle, his name was Joe Boyd Walls. They're both in the Garland Hall of Fame right now. And if you let the story go as legends told, my uncle beat Bobby Boyd so bad in the hundred yard dash that he turned around and started running back. Was at

the end when he crossed the finish line. Now, as I continue with this, I'm I gave you all kinds of hints. Nineteen seventy seven, who was the quarterback for Garland High School? Well, I know who the star basketball player was for Garland High School in nineteen seventy seven. That would be one Ricky Pierce, who went on, there you go, good job, you digress. You're digressing. Don't get

you're digressing Garland. Where did hercan can't believe it. I'm sitting right here and you don't know where did Hercules? Hercules Walls, my second cousin, one of the best high school quarterbacks that Garland has ever had. He had a fullback by the name of Philip Walls, who was his brother, and they went through. I believe they made it through to the regionals with a veer quarterback no more than five feet seven inches tall. He was one of the

fastest guys to come out of Garland in history. He was almost he was this close to making the Look at that, my man Chris got it all, baby, He was this close. He was this close to making it to the Olympic, to the Olympics in the two hundred meter dash. He was passed up after finish line. Was less than ten years ago. Call Lewis, Leo Barell and some other blur passed him up right before he finished

the finish line. I'm so proud of my cousin Herkey Walls, who by the way right now is a pastor in Orlando, Florida, doing very well. Check him out on Facebook, kay once in a while. So all right, y'all have to check you out Turkey Waters. The next time you come up with some white dude that played quarterback in Texas and you you know somebody, boy, Bobby Boyd is one of the greatest ever come out of Garland played at University of Oklahoma and in the NFL. Of course, that's what

they say in the suburbs. But in the hood, in the hood, everybody knows Joe boy Walls and he was way better than Bobby Boyd. No, I won't say way bad. Now, both of them work ever since. I think we can make it through an entire mix shots without Mickey saying a word. I'm going there. I'm going there. Shut up, Mickey, I'm going there. We're gonna get there. Okay, So what's

the G four? Then, if it's not for gy on the docky Walls, we got, we got, We got ten minutes to go in this segment, I think I can fill a buster and keeps bags out of the entire I've had about enough of this, okay, So then who's the greatest quarterback in Grambling school history? Oh? Come on, come on, Doug Williams. Baby, I was there, Doug Williams. I was there. I got toasted many times in practice. So that's a testament to his great right. There you go.

So we've established it is Grambling. It's not. It is Grambling, thank you very much, sir. It couldn't. That's Grambling State now not Grambling College. For all those old heads that keep thinking Eddie Robinson still alive, He's he's gone, gone the glory. But a great man, Eddie Robins. Yes, sir, Yes, sir, he was. I could tell I could tell you a training camp story about Eddie Robinson, but I guess we had eventually need Mickey to speak. Hello, Mickey, No, we

don't know, we don't. No, we don't be like a commercial and see how fire we can go without mentioning the show. Okay, I'm out of breath now, Okay, I'm good. I just wanted to know, did Bobby boy dunk on you? Is that why you remember him? Bobby? Bobby Boyd goes back to the fifties, right, Okay? Heck of an athlete, heck of an athlete for real? Yeah, that's right, all right, Mickey, Ricky, you tell us boy, that was a humdigger of a football game last night, wasn't it. I wasn't sure either

Vikings did what they had to do. Yeah, I didn't think either team wanted to win the game. Goodness great, So what do you think of the Cowboys? What do you think of the Cowboys? Chances? Then, against this Minnesota Viking team that's won three straight games. Now, well they've they've won three straight. They've beaten Green Bay, Detroit and Chicago without a legitimate running back on the field, by the way, and boy Nick Foles, what's happened to him?

Or is the Bears offensive line man bad? That was terrible? They're that bad? They are that bad? Wow, you think the Cowboys have problems. I think most teams have proxy different offensive lines, and yet they're still in the hunt. And then, lets you know, you got to win any way you can spags, No, I don't care what. That's why all three fascets are important. You can go into a game thinking you got the best running game in Vikings history, but sometimes it just doesn't work out and

you have to find another way to win. That's where coaches come in. That's where teammates come in. What's that's where the other fastest of the game come in. Been saying it all year long, we need all three. You

can't just depend on one fast of the game. Well, maybe the Cowboys can kind of take the blueprint of what the Bears did to stop Delvin Cook held him to ninety six yards, and that's quite an accomplishment that when you look at what they're doing, and even with those ninety six yards and having not played as many games as Derrick Henry, he still leads the league with nine hundred and fifty four yards rushing in the nine

games or the eight games that he's played. So yeah, the key on that it was ninety six yards on thirty carry right exactly and three they did, which is they've been a half yards to carry less than what he's average. They made sure their defensive front didn't let him get to the next level. They were stuffing him at the line of scrimmage. Next time somebody asked me who the Cowboys had trade for. I think that Hicks guy's pretty darn good. Huh. Ninety six playing in the

middle of that defense. My gosh, And they're missing in Chicago's missing one of their top guys up front who opted out Goldman. It was a first round pick a few years ago, and so yeah, they were doing a note, they were doing a number up front and lile their

linebackers to engage. So maybe the Cowboys and we're gonna find out, right, if the Cowboys improved play against the run these last couple games can carry over into now having to face the team that's averaging one hundred and fifty three point six yards a game rushing when the Cowboys give up one hundred. I believe the Cowboys had one hundred and fifty seven a game. They've been given up rushing, but it's improved these last two games. So the key to slowing down the Vikings obviously you better

stop Delvin Cook. And oh, by the way, don't go to sleep on Jefferson, the wide receiver from LSU. My goodness, gracious, he put on a performance. He ended up with eight catches for one hundred and thirty five yards. Pretty good, dude, there, I gotta ask you, Spags, I haven't really started my research on the Vikings. Is it their offensive line that is so good? Is that what allows Delvi and Cook to be so successful, because as you say, every time I see him, he doesn't get touched until he's on

the second level. Now, that's when Cook shows what he can do, because once he gets in the second level, then he's already slicing and dicing and the secondary can't handle him. But because the steam is already built up, who is the cabalist on that line. Is it the coach? Is it the offensive line? Coach? Is that the system what allows them to be so consistent and persistent because Jefferson had his plays, But you're talking about rather somebody

thirty times. Like Bill said, that means that you are committed to what you do well, because we know Kirk Cousins is not who you're going to hang your hat on. Yeah, and I think the I think their offensive line is pretty good. But I think I noticed about the Bears is everybody stayed in their gap. Nobody start chasing the football. Everybody was manning their gap and moving with the flow

and not coming out to allow any cutbacks. The other thing with him, you got to be careful of h and it's one of the things Mike McCarthy talked about yesterday was you know there their outside run game when they throw that pitch to him and let him get in space, because if you leave space for him, you're going to be in trouble. And the other thing you better watch out for is when they throw the screen pass or not even a screen pass, a little dump off to him. You get that guy in space and man,

he's scouting. So I think Mike McCarthy said yesterday that he would liked all his guys to watch the game that was their homework assignment, and if they watched that, they better buckled their chin straps down, because even though he only gained ninety six yards, it's the only third time this season he's been he's run for less than a hundred yards, so he's been pretty consistent. I'll tell

you another something about their offensive line. And you know, a couple of years ago, of course, Tony Sperrano was their offensive line coach, and rest his soul, he passed away right before the season began a couple of years ago, and I think they were hurting a little bit after, not only obviously emotionally going into that season, but I also think that they missed him a lot as far as him his coaching ability on that offense line. And now I think what they've done on their offensive line

is evidence. This past week, I mean, they released Pat elf Line, who came into his career in twenty seventeen with Sperano as his offensive line coach, and he was really really strong to begin with. They he came off injured reserve and they just flat waived him this week and there are ten teams that put in claims on him, but that says a lot about what they have on their offensive line. And I don't know what was going on. There may have been something going on behind the scenes

with elf line. I'm not sure from an attitude standpoint, because there wasn't a spot for him to play on that offensive line because guys were playing so well. But they've invested in their offensive line. They've got a first round draft pick at center and Greg Garrett Bradberry. They signed Riley Reef and who was a former first round pick of the Lions in free agency in the last couple of years. They got Brian O'Neill at right tackle,

who's a round pick. And they've got another second round pick, Ezra Able in a rookie this year plan at a guard position. And so yeah, and I think if you look across the league, you saw it with the Steelers a week ago. The Steelers don't have any injuries on their offensive line, and I mean on their team. They don't have any injuries outside of their inside linebacker on defense. And the healthy teams, the healthy offensive lines are the ones that are getting it done. And that's what's happening

with the Vikings here the last few weeks. They've kind of figured things out in the run game, and as you heard Mike McCarthy yesterday on his press conference, he talks about that outside zone blocking scheme that the Vikings have and it's very similar to what Cleveland does. So the Cowboys defensively will have their work cut out for

him against the Vikings this week. So you mean they don't have any undrafted rookie starting at right tackle and a second year undrafted tackle having been starting at left tackle. Goodness great, that's exactly right. Not to mention the center that p this hamstring in warm ups, you know what, And that might have I'm pretty sure they didn't have. That might have been the third biggest loss they had other than the two starting tackles. Not having him back

in there, I think hurt against Pittsburgh. Beannist was playing pretty darn well and they can't get him back soon enough. By the way, So how's how's Zeke doing? Because I'm still looking forward to that thunder enlightening combo for the game. I enjoyed how we played, I mean, even with the center out, even with our backups and and free agents and undrafted and all of this. I thought we really exposed Pittsburgh in regards to how they played the run.

I mean, you're talking about the best team in the league right now, and we're gashing them, you know, not just with the starter, but with the backup. We talk about everybody wants Paula to give more time, but I looked at these numbers. They want that bad. I think it's the average was pretty good, especially considering that he came into the game a little bit limping a little

bit and Pilot was able to take over. I think we're I think as far as the rushing game is concerned, I think that might be the strength of this team, our rushing, our running game as opposed to rushed defense. Well the other part of that, ever, son, is the

play callers got to use that run game. I mean, one of the reasons that Garrett Gilbert, I think one of the reasons that he had success a week ago running that offense was there was more balance between the run game in the past game by necessity because you've got a quarterback who doesn't have much experience. But if Dalton's the guy going forward, I think that they need to have that same kind of approach with Dalton as

a quarterback. I mean, I don't think you can expect Dalton without the practice time with this offense that Dak has had, not only this year in the offseason on his own, but also in past years with Maury Cooper the last couple of years in Michael Bluff as well. I don't think you can expect Dalton to run the same offense that Dak was running, obviously, and so I think you need to take advantage of the fact that

that you've got a couple of good running backs. Uh. And and also I think you see also with offensive lines, even with veteran offensive lines, a lot of times it takes a month into the season before they start clicking. Well, now, whoever you have upfront, at least you've had him for a little bit now, where especially in the run game,

things can can work out a little bit more. But Mickey has a great point about beyondsh I mean, we love, we all love Joe Looney, but beat has really showed what he can do in the in the month or so that he was starting, and I think he's got a very bright future. But in Looney in his career, outside of the one year where he filled in for Frederick and in the first month. But he plays a tremendous role on this team. It's a spot starter and a great team guy. Uh, and a great guy to

have on your team. But uh, you want to go with and especially the last half of this year, you want Beotist to get as many reps as he can. Yeah. And it also helps the running game when you get off to a nineteen to nine lead, right, and you don't have to throw the ball like thirteen to nothing to start the game. That's right. You don't have to throw the ball fifty four times that Dalton through against Arizona. Yeah,

that that wasn't in the game plan. Uh. And and I know we got to hear what we got to hit the break here. But this one last thing, and I got to ask this question, and I was wondering, you know, And it's always a stat thing. Some stat person comes up with this stuff that that Zeke's not really good, uh for yards after his first hit, And I'm going, what are you talking about? Most of his yards have come after first contact because he's plowing right.

Even in the Pittsburgh game, there was a lot of runs that should have been zero in one yard it turned into three five yards, right kind of his game. And I can't believe somebody came up with a stat that he wasn't very good after first contact, and it's like, okay, I want to see this first contact is usually it

is usually in the backfield. This first contact is usually in the offensive backfield, which right after he gets the ball, which, by the way, is why I believe why McCarthy didn't go for it on fourth and inches against the Steelers. If you looked at his three previous carries prior to that eight yard run that got him in position to have the fourth and inches, he got a grand total

I think of one yard on three carries. Yeah, so he was stymied in the backfield on those and did all he could to get back to the line of scrimmage. All right, we're just getting started, Mickey. You got a lot from Jerry Jones. There's a radio show this morning on the fan. We'll get to that when we continue on Mick Shots in just a moment. Hey, they're Cowboys fans with type cleaners at home pickup and delivery. Cleaning your clothes has never been more convenient. Simply sign up

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for a peaceful transition. Oh my god, you're not You're not gonna walk there? Well, you could walk there from the SWBC mortgage studio. Absolutely will walk east to there, all right. Jerry Jones was on the fan oddly enough on a Tuesday morning about Oh yeah, he's on the fan every Tuesday morning. So Bill, we got kind of confirmation or what Mike McCarthy pointed out at his conference call yesterday that Andy Dalton was indeed cleared to practice, so he was. He was good to go and looks

good probably going forward. Mike liked the way he practiced. Uh. Chitterbee Woozier was also in practice, and Mike's when asked if do you think he'll be able to start, and he said, well, I hope so. Uh so, Uh, that was good news. Tyrone Crawford did not practice. He was still in the COVID nineteen protocol. Uh, so we'll see what happens with him. My understanding is it was a contact deal, so it isn't like he tested positive. So maybe in another day or two when they get back

to practice on Wednesday. Uh, he would be able to go. So that's uh, so he would probably he would be need three negatives before spread out over five day period or so five or six probably the way way it works. So and I think that came down on Wednesday, Wednesday or last week. I think, yes, Thursday, and so we said Thursday, right, so Thursday Fridays. You know, they've been testing all along. And as Mike pointed out, because they did not practice, uh in the scheduled practice on Wednesday,

they just moved that to yesterday. So they did yesterday what they would have done that one practice during the bye week. So uh, that was uh somewhat good news. And I thought, you know, since we were talking about the Cowboys and you know where they're at two and seven going into these last games. Um, he had a he had an interesting comment when he was asked, why do you think you know you are where you're at? Why do you think the Cowboys are are two and seven?

I think Chris has a SoundBite from him I thought was pretty good from Jerry Jones. So when I looked back and why we won two football games and a close owner of certainly one of them, I think we've got it down. I don't think we were short on how we approached and how we got on the field

defensively and offensively. We uh not because of what we were trying to do so much offensively, We just those early mistakes, those turnovers, was fumbled, those things like that that even when we had back, even when we were really we were absent at all times for the most part, having our tackles, but still we were moving the ball and looked pretty good to move the ball, but we

turned that ball over. And you know, the other thing that he went on to point out, he talked about one of the things they tried to do in the offseason was shore up that defensive front, shore it up with guys in the middle, and he kind of pointed out that it was unfortunate that they had made these plans on how they were going to run their defense, changing it up, and then the players that they were going to change up with either got hurt or didn't

perform to the level they thought. And it was it was it was like it was like a combustible thing that these guys didn't point it didn't pan out. And you know he's talking, uh, you know, don Terry Poe, He's probably talking Everson Griffin and then Gerald McCoy gets hurt, so they never got a chance to see that. And now you're in this transition from how you were playing defensive technique to what you want them to do now,

and and it just didn't work. And it was good to hear him kind of point that out that you know, of all years to try to change up what you were doing defensively, this wasn't the year because he compared it to the offense, right, They kind of kept the offense the same with dak In there, Kellen Moore, Colin plays. They didn't make radical changes, but defensively they were and they just didn't adapt very very well. Now we'll we'll see if these last two games that they played are

any indication of improvement they've made. But and this will be a pretty good test with the running game that Minnesota has, and they can throw the ball a little bit with Kirk Cousins. You know, that was only the second time all year that the Vikings scored less than twenty three points in a game. They were averaging twenty six points a game at this point, so they've been putting points up. That nineteen to thirteen game wasn't indicative

of what they've been doing offensively. That's very true. That's very true, spacts, because as you look at the game last night, you know you can only run the ball thirty times and not gain a hundred yards from your start running back and still win unless your defense came to play, and they came to play, because let's just be real, it's all about causing effect. Chicago's offense just isn't that good. They haven't been that good all year long.

So it's a perfect storm for them. And to the fact that they were able to win their third game because they took advantage of the circumstances around them. And that's what the Cowboys have to do. You have to realize where your opportunities are going to come from. You have to realize what's coming your way. We know that this running game, they might run it even more than thirty times this time around because they're gonna be stubborn

in their game plan because they know it's successful. So if you're gonna be stubborn in your game plan, you gotta stay the course and you can't make mistakes to put that game plan in jeopardy. Minnestolia was able to do that last night because they didn't put their game plan in jeopardy. Their defense allowed them to stay the course with that running game. They're not going to try and win a game with Kirk Cousins unless the Cowboys secondary comes in here and just falls flat on their

faces and allows them to otherwise. I want to see that continued trend in regards to how well our defense is playing. You know, the other thing that they do on offense, and it just jumps off the charts at you when you look at their stats, is their yards per attempt. In the passing game. Kirk Cousins is averaging eight point eight yards per attempt and that's number one in the league. As a team, they're number one in

the league and yards per attempt. And then you look at the guy that you mentioned Mickey earlier, the rookie out of LSU, Justin Jefferson, is averaging eighteen yards or reception. And so they've got they run, run, run, and then they've got the big playability and uh so, uh so the secondary is going to be tested. Yeah, And the key thing last night for the Bears was they stopped the run without having to by still playing their two safeties deep. They didn't bring up another safety to help

out against the run. So that's something. Yeah, we'll see if the Cowboys are capable of doing that. Because if you noticed, Minnesota uses a fullback, right, So do you do you go, jam, you go and play some base defense? Is you know, Sean Lee ready to be the third linebacker and you play a four to three, a true four three instead of trying to stop everybody that either playing two tight ends or they play a fullback, and you're still in your nickel defense with some skinny dB

up there close to the line of scrimmage. Nothing against skinny dB, that's okay, man, I love skinny dbs. Man I don't. I don't love him. I don't love him for taking on fullbacks. But yeah, I mean, well, so this is gonna be a lot like the Cleveland game in regards to the chess match that's gonna be played exactly, you know, because as far as personnel is concerned, we're gonna have to be able to stop them with three linebackers in the game. Can we do that? Have we

shown to be able to do that? Uh? That's where Kirk Cousins has the advantage. He takes advantage of personnel. We're gonna force you to play the run. And then, as Bill said, we're coming with the play action and we're gonna go deep for it because you don't have your nickel out there. But we've got these nifty wide receivers out there. And boy, don't let me get on this. Uh. I think his name, first name is Kyle. Is it Kyle Rudolph? Yes? Is he playing? Is he gonna play

this week? He played last night one of them. Yeah, Well, hey, I'm hoping something happened because this guy, he is one of the more athletic tight ends I've ever seen. He makes a habit of making one handed touchdowns and not to mention the fact that he can block as well. So as we started talking about Jefferson the one that's gonna keep those chains moving, it's gonna be Kyle Rudolph in the in the passing game, in the passing and Rudolph And I'm looking at snap counts Rudolf and four

catches last night for sixty three yards. So, uh, they certainly rely on him. And that's another part of the Cowboys defense that's had problem is covering tight ends. By the way, guys that pass catchers, they can get down the field. And he didn't do anything fancy. A lot of the stuff I saw him doing, I thought it was it was it was the you know Jason Witten look alike, right, go down five ten yards, turn around in open space and catch the ball and the chains move,

so they gotta be careful. You gotta watch him. You have to watch him in the red zone. That's why he's dangerous. So we get down last year, Yes, we saw it last year and like I said, more than once this guy caught the one hand to touchdown. He seems to make a habit of it. So obviously very skilled player. And let's just be reals facts. When it comes to good tight ends. I haven't seen one good tight end be stopped in any NFL game this year, not the good tight ends, and that's something that we

have to be aware of. Good tight ends are a premium when you have a good running game and you look at I'm looking at their snap counts from last night, and Maky you mentioned the fullback CJ. Hamm had thirty five snaps in last night's game against Chicago, and the two tight ends then seventy three snaps overall, so he was in on half the snaps on offense, which is very rare in the NFL. I mean, even teams that employee fullbacks usually really they're only getting eight to ten

snaps a game. The fullback is yeah, you're usually special teams guys converted defensive ends or linebackers who they've turned into fullbacks, or a three hundred pound fullback who converted defensive tackle that's playing fullbacks. This guy is more than that. And U and so the seventy three snaps the two tight ends. Rudolph had fifty seven and Herb Smith or rather Tyler Conklin had forty six snaps last time. Yeah yeah, so old school zoo, old school coming to town, the

old schools. You gotta be ready, you better be may Lock Clark used to say you better buckley your stuff up, and he didn't say stuff. You better buckle your stuff up and get ready to play. This is gonna be This is gonna be a big week for Sean Lee because with the two tight ends with the fullback, and Cowboys will being base personnel more than they have been all season, maybe in their skiing well, right, we continue

more from Jerry go ahead, Mick, no go. I was gonna say you better hope so and not put out a defensive end trying to play a strong side linebacker. Let's not do that again. Let's not do that again. Please? All right? We continue with more mix shots and more from Jerry Jones. When we come back our opinion, We're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping our waves and taste buds. It's new Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda. Let's take a listen, Doctor Peppett and Cream SODA's heat, a

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Cowboys fan memberships start at just twenty bucks. To join Dallas Cowboys United presented by Globe Life, visit Dallas Cowboys dot com Slash United to join today. All right, very nicely done, Mickey Spagnola. We got the last eight minutes or so of mix shots here, and we've got more from Jerry Jones as Mickey is there inside his own little bubble at the SWBC Mortgage studios at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, you know, and before we get to another point on Jerry, he was also asked

about kind of assessment at that almost halfway point. I know, it's nine games. Some of the players that he's been really happy with, and he started right on the defensive front. He talked about Dorince Armstrong, Alden Smith, DeMarcus Lawrence. Felt like those guys have played pretty well up front. And then he mentioned the draft choices and he mentioned four of the first five draft choices, Lambs, Digs, Gallimore, Badish.

Those guys, he said, have really stood out to him, and he said he they were doing what he thought they could do when they drafted him. So he was pretty happy with the draft class. The other thing going on around here, we've been kind of given it lift service talking about how the Cowboys had gone into intensive intensified COVID nineteen protocol and just what that means. Well, we've finally found out a few things. One of the things that it means is, uh, you know, they've been

having their team meetings in the Ford Center. Uh. They've got big screens that are set up on the edge of the field and the players kind of disperse in the stands and spread out. Well, now they're spreading out even further for the team meetings, and also when they have the individual position meetings, they've been doing those in the Ford Center instead of crammed up in the little meeting rooms at the Star that they have for the

individual positions. Uh, those meetings take place in the corridors up up in the Ford Center, and they've spaced those out even more. So they're very fortunate they've had the facility uh to kind of space out. Jerry talked about how they've uh limited now even further uh staff uh, coaching personnel that are around the players. Uh. They didn't want a bunch of other people around the players as much.

And the one thing, UH that we have found out now is they've created a bubble at the OMNI UH for the coaching staff and any other staff that are around the players. Uh. They're staying now at the OMNI. They're not going home. Jerry mentioned how they had to be careful with contact tracing when the players go home. Well, the other thing was staff going home too, So they've eliminated that now and they're uh, they're they're in the

bubble at the OMNI next door. And I thought it was very interesting what he had to say when he was talking about UH strict protocol and talking and he was asked about what about himself? What are the things that he does to keep himself safe? And I thought this was very interesting what Jerry had to say this morning on the fan. No, I've changed completely, I really have. And I was early. I've been all over the map,

but boy, I'm double masks. I'm literally thinking that everybody I'm around has COVID and I'm thinking I don't want to get it, so I'm distance. I'm masks. I don't go to anything, but everybody had to test it and UH, and I'm the main thing is through all of the other other things, so IG all of that, but I and why is because I really do feel that we're right around the corner. As you know, I'm in an age bracket that is one of the would be one

of the vulnerable, and so it would be ashamed. I'm just entering it for me on a personal basis here, it would be a shame to go as far as we've got in vaccine sitting right here on almost on the shelf, and I'll be the first in line to have a vaccine. I wonder if we can get in enlightened right behind them. Yeah, I want to be right there with her. But I thought he had, you know, with the CDC. Yeah, it was a good perspective. I'm

gonna say. With the CDC protocols increasing, they're being more careful. Sometimes six feet is not enough that talking ten feet, especially you're talking indoors. So it's good to see that they're adapting to the new protocols. I mean, you know, it's good that they have all the tests available there, which is amazing. That's the luxury that you have with an organization like this. But man, just to even get it,

he's a scary thing. I've been looking at some of the shows that really try and explain to you just how horrible this disease is or this virus is. And boy, I'm like Jerry at his age, he has to be extremely careful. That would be a big blow of course to his family, no doubt about it, but even to Cowboy Nation it would be something that that you know, we just really don't want to go through right now.

So I'm glad he understands his responsibility in this thing because of his just his status as an owner of the Dallas Cowboys, plus how active he is. I mean, he's got so many, so much going on, and he's around so many people that and I think that's a great attitude to have for all of us. Is we've got you have to basically look at it that that person that is six feet away from you has COVID and you're staying away. I mean, and that's the day.

I think that's the dangerous thing about the masks. I'm saying, the masker great, they're fine, you know everything. Sometimes though, it gives people a false sense of security and they don't do the social distancing because they have the mask on. No it's mask plus the social distancing. You have to keep people more than arms length two arms lengths away

from you, you know. And I thought his perspective, and I had never thought I had even thought about it this way when he mentioned the vaccine, and you're getting so close to, you know, maybe be able to get it, to not do anything to like, oh, I was that close to getting a vaccine, And I took some chances and let my guard gown, right, So I was good to get good to hear from him. But just understand that this team is doing all that you know, and

you can't. You're never one hundred percent safe, right, You never know what's going to happen. All you can do is be as careful as you can, uh, don't take chances, don't let your guard down. And it sounded like Jerry was absolutely doing that. And I told you guys the story. It was about a month or so ago when we ran into each other. He was going up on the elevator, and boy, he had his mask on. I can vouch for that. I'm sure he's been talking to missus Jones.

She's been wagging her finger at him, like you'd better be careful, young man, yeah, absolutely, all right, So mickey, final minute here, team back on the practice field tomorrow, we get resuming a regular work week. Yes, finally, And as you know, Mike McCarthy's not going to give away any secrets, So who the starting quarterback is going to be, who the backup is going to be, as you would expect, he said, well, we'll be working through that as we

go through practice this week. So he wasn't. He wasn't saying that, you know, And you know, Bill, you pointed it out about Andy Dalton hadn't done anything and two and a half weeks, right, so it's almost like, okay, let's see what he's got and then you know, you liked what three and a half now? Yeah, three and a half now, and and you like what Gilbert did, but let's see what going forward, what it all looks like with uh, with Cooper Rush also, so uh, yeah,

he wasn't. He wasn't given that away, just like after the reports. Don't forget oh yeah, Ben to Nucci, Yeah, please sorry, because he technically is the third quarterback on the fifty three man roster, right because Cooper Rush. No, we don't, we never forget, that's right. And as I was going to say, and think about think about New Orleans now. You know, it's almost like, you know, they were ready to retire Drew Brees with all the injuries

he has. And when someone asked, uh, Sean Payton about it, it was like, yeah, I'll let you know by the end of the week. Uh, where we're at with our injuries. So, uh, these coaches day don't want to say and he said, and we'll have an injury port that's official and then you can find out. So not giving anybody a heads up on any of this stuff, hey, but just remember tell them, tell them the good news Bill. The Cowboys are still in it. No, they're not just in it.

Say they're not just in it. They might be. They are in the driver's seat in the NFSIDS. What tomorrow, we got some numbers for you, all right, More from the driver's seats coming up tomorrow on Mixed Shots See Your Little Cowboys Baby. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.