Mick Shots: Let Playoffs Begin

Oh no, Hey, we've had a false start already because it's there you go, There, you go. I gotta go back more than fifty years ago to the start of this Cowboys Niners playoff rivalry. Take it all the way back to nineteen seventy when the Cowboys started a three year playoff run over the San Francisco forty nine ers. And this was the fight Song, stampeding all the way to the Super Bowl two of those years, in stampeding to a Hall of Fame career for Roger Staubach as well.

How do you like that for an intro? Mickey? That was awfully well for not having planned it. Out. We had not planned it out. No, we had not, and so but I had planned on this show. We got so much to get to because we're previewing the three thirty kickoff and I cannot wait for this matchup the

Cowboys in the forty nine ers. So we're doing that, and we need to go back and give a history lesson on the rivalry going back over a half century and how it launched the careers of some And for some reason, Everson is not here to discuss part of that playoff rivalry. I think he's trying to find a parking place outside. He should be here shortly, I think. But we also need to get up to speed on just exactly who's going to be taking the football field

for the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. Of course, this is a virtual Friday as far as the media is concerned. His course, it's been a virtual virtual week for weeks here leading up to it. But for the team as well as far as any knowledge of any injury reports concerning the team going into the weekend, it's pretty much the status quo from what we've got yesterday. Who's going to be on the report today, don't you think, Mickey yeah,

I think so. I think that the one person that did not participate in practice for the Cowboys that we would know Kean O'Neill. Uh. Mike McCarthy said today that while he was yesterday, he did not practice, and since they don't practice today, he basically pointed out that he would be a last minute decision on Saturday. He's got the deal going with his chest in his elbow and so there, Mike said, they would take it right to

the last limit before they make that decision. So but other than that, it's everybody else was a full go except for limited by Israel Mcamu, and it looks like that he may end up going on injured reserve to make room when they bring uh jay Ron curse off COVID. So so from a Cowboys standpoint, Bill, this is about as healthy they've been, yep. And uh in the forty nine ers, they sound like they're as healthy as they have been. And look who has arrived here in the

s WBC podcast studio. You know Everson. If you were to go back some thirty years or so, and it was two days before the Giants were playing the San Francisco forty nine Ers, what would Bill Parcels reaction be if you walked into a meeting. When you walk into this preetio, hey be time forget Bill Parcells land. Bill would be cool. You know Bill so Parcels would have wouldn't have any problem with it. He would he would cursey out and then we move on. Tim would hold

the grudge. Man. No, I know why you're late coming in here. Why am I late? Because I got the last parking myself. Let me go. No, I was waiting on somebody to move lest when they moved, I parked right next to Bill. I knew. I looked around. I looked around. I said, every since not a here. And I told him when I walked in here, I said, everything's gonna be late. The first first the person I look for you, I take Barry Churches last spot. I think he took Barry's last spot this time Barry Church.

He comes in from the from the previous podcasts, and you know, I wait on him to come out. He's always looking nice and spiffy and young. So I try to dress young with him. So that means I gotta go deep into my closet. See these podcasts work out perfect. They're forty five minutes in length, and it's one hour team, it's to park in one hour. It's a one hour limit. One of these days we're gonna walk outside and our vehicles are gonna be told as we went over an hour.

Hopefully you didn't go in the handicap spot, because last night I saw the lady writing down somebody's lights night they were in there. Michael Irvin, Michael Irving. You know what, how long how long have the cowboys been here at the Star? Uh? I can't remember what year it was, and however long it's been that that satellite marketing team out there where you gotta walk up the hill, and I used to park there, and then I saw Everson

Parker right up at the front door. I said, you know what, I'm gonna start parking on my front door d the first time, like nobody stopping me. Okay, I'm gonna park. Yeah. So I out of my car and

yeah yeah, And so I just followed Everson's lead. All right, got lots to get to here, and um, as I said off the top, Everson, we're gonna dive into this matchup, but we're also gonna take a trip down memory lane and the significance of this Cowboys forty nine er playoffs series through the years, and I no one to dwell on forty years ago. I want to dwell on fifty years ago and thirty years ago, just so you know, unless you like I just doctor, do you want to dog?

On San Francisco interview, Man, we had fun though. They said, I don't want to hear about Roger Craig's fumble. I don't want to hear about Matt Barr's field goal because they were just they were born in eighty two. The guys, I was talking, that's why we need to talk about it, because people don't aren't familiar with it. Why and so I don't want to hear about all of that. So I like their introduction. They gave me love before they tore me down it. We actually had a lot of

fun on the interview. The guys were they were great guys, and uh no, it was all good. It was all good. So I've been talking about it. They woke me up with that. They woke me up with it, and we had a really nice, fun conversation about it, about my relationship with the White Clark before he passed on, and I think That's the main thing. Much as we can talk about the play all we want, you know this, this young man has uh, he's gone now. And with the als thing that that's going around, we know that

it's connected to CTE. And you know, you look at somebody like the white Clark, you wouldn't think that he would necessarily suffer from something like that because he was a wide receiver and yes they do get hit, but you think more of linebackers, lineman, fullbacks, running backs, people like that. And uh, the shape that he was in before he passed on, it was it was quick and it was it was it was powerful, it was it

was quick, it came on fast. So as much as we love to talk about not just to play, but the rivalry, what stems from that is a young man is gone, uh you know and and really just gone too soon. You know. Um. In your relationship with him, I know you were out there when it was a cowboy game where they honored Dwight Clark and you you went out and righted by his family. Okay, yes, So when after long after the catch, okay, when did you

establish a relationship with him? Well, first moment was when he told me about how much money he got paid for the code that commercial We're going way Back. They had a barber strissand was singing the way we were and the catch play was in slow motion and when they look at an amazing commercial, like, man, this is a very cool commercial, it's too bad on the bad end of this. So he comes up to me and

Charelle at the time was my girlfriend. My mom was with me, and we went to an event where we all were league leaders in our categories, receptions for him, interceptions for me. And he comes up to me. He had been He was librated. Is that a good word? He was librated, a little libraated, I guess is the word, and comes up to me and tells me all about how much he got paid. And that was the first part of our relationship, because I went on to go

ahead and get my attorney and got paid. And that particular super Bowl that was part of mine package for suing Kodak was to watch Doug Williams win his Super Bowl. All right, So just think about the connection there. If it's not for the white Claude, I'm not sitting there watching Doug Williams just break a cultural record of the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl. Wow. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, very cool. All right, Mickey, what do we need to know to kick things off here

about this game? What's top of mind for you? Well, it looks like from San Francisco standpoint that Trent Williams went from did not practice to limited and redware. He said he'll will be ready to go. So that's huge for San Francisco to get their starting left tackle back on the field, specially knowing that he's going to have to go up against the Cowboys pass rushers. You know,

they had a couple other guys were limited. Elijah Mitchell, the running back, went from did not practice to limited, so it looks like he's moving in the right direction to be able to play in the game. So yeah, it looks like both teams going to be somewhat healthy. Even Garoppolo went from limited to full even though he still has the sprain ligament in his thumb. So from an injury standpoint, that's where we're at. And then today the Cowboys had three players named to the first team

All Pro Team. By the way, that's right, no surprise. Michael Parsons, Trayvon Diggs and Zach Martin. You mean Trayvon the guy with that's giving up all these plays and all these yards. And you know who doesn't deserve to be getting the praise of these getting that Treyvon Diggs's amazing how he made it in it's a miracle, that's right.

And on the forty nine ers side, Trent Williams first teams, first time in his career, first team All Pro at left tackle, and uh, it's a let's say, I'm trying to say, if there's any other forty nine ers on the list here, I would debo Yeah, yeah, yes, Tebo, Deebo, Samuel and Trent Williams on offense. What I'm really surprised, you know, Nick Bosa, you look at what you now. Dak is the comeback player of the year. There's absolutely no doubt about it. Dak is the comeback player of

the year. But the candidacy that Nick Bosa has put up this year coming back from his torn aco last year. He just played in two games last year for San Francisco and he's got fifteen and a half sacks and twenty one tackles for lost, thirty two quarterback hits. I mean, and he didn't make first team All Pro. The edge rushers are t J. Watt and Miles Garrett. I mean that's that's a pretty good competition really, you know for edge rusher, uh micah h. Here's your defense. T J. Watton,

Miles Garrett. The edge rushers interior defensive tackles are Aaron Donald and Cam Heyward. Linebackers Michael Parsons, Darius Leonard, Devandre Campbell, corners Trayvon Diggs, Jalen Ramsey, and safety's ke Kevin Bayard and Jordan Poyer. They need to switch that because in this day and age, people aren't running a four three. I mean there's not three linebackers on the field, traditional linebackers on the field ever in a game. They need

to switch this to where they need. Yeah, it needs to be a four two five or the edge rushers. You take into account at three to four edge rusher or a four three and you've got two traditional linebackers and you've got an extra cornerback on the field. That's what the way they do it on offense because the offense you go one quarterback, you got one running back, he got three fun They've been doing that forever. Yeah, they've been. They haven't changed it, not once. And then

they haven't changed it on defense. And you know you got to get out of the three linebacker set, yes, and they and they've and they've done that with the Pro Bowl right that's right side linebackers and and and edwards rushers. So the Pro Bowls kind of got it right right offense, Aaron Rodgers, here's your quarterback, Jonathan Taylor running back. The receivers or Cooper Cup, DeVante Adams, and Deebo Samuel tied in is Mark Andrews over Jason Kelsey.

Wait a minute, whide receiver Jefferson didn't make it from Minnesota. No, and Chase either. Wow? Yeah, so they were next in line. Jefferson were four and five on the list in the voting, so Cup, Adams, and Samuel were the top three vote getters and then Jefferson and Chase were after that. You and I love Debo, but I think I would have it's because Travis Keils he's such a hybrid. I would kind of dismiss him in that regard only, and I would have had to put Jefferson in over Coop. I know,

not debot who over Debo? I mean, look at the numbers, man. I mean, Debo's got numbers as far as a hybrid is concerned, because he carries the ball and he does so many different things. As far as being voted into a particular position, that's always been something of a negative because you do more than one thing. But Jefferson was, man, this guy was going off all year long. He didn't just wait until the end of the season. I wouldn't say just waiting the end the season like Chase did.

Chase got off all season. But Jefferson was on everyone beside He and Cooper Cup. They were the guys that everyone was talking about as far as receivers a cup all right, Jefferson, Okay, Jefferson, he has on the season eighty eight catches, fourteen hundred yards and seven touchdowns. Okay, And what did you do? Debo's got that right exactly. Debo has all right. He had eighty eight catches, fourteen

hundred yards, seven touchdowns. Debo's got seventy seven catches fourteen hundred five yards and six touchdowns receiving running the football fifty nine carries three hundred and sixty five yards and eight touchdowns running, So he's got fourteen touchdowns total, and Jefferson's not as a receiver, well, but yes he does. He set the record for most rushing touchdowns buyer receiver. He's your slot okay, so they kept up with the modern age and he's your slot receiver. Okay, So you

got him out in number. But if you're just looking at stats anyway, all right, Uh, I'm probably that young man though he did great. And by the way, the offensive lineman and besides besides Trent Williams is Joel Botonio at left guard, Jason Kelsey at center, Zach Martin at right guard, in Tristan Warps at right tackle, go ahead, and mackey and by the way, by the way, they also came out with the six finalists for the PEPSI Rookie of the Year award, and Micah Parsons is one

of the six guys. Uh, that's going to be in the finals and it'll be revealed, I guess during that Super Bowl week. And that's not defensive Rookie of the Year, that is overall offense and defense. It's overall NFL Rookie of the Year. So that is interesting. Everson. If you want to look at you know, we've you know Mike has been a shoe in for Defensive Rookie of the Year, but let's throw Jamar Chase into that discussion. That's tough. Any who else is on that list? Who? Who are

the other ones? Yeah, I was gonna say Mica is the only defensive player on that list. By the way, and these are voted by the fans, right, it's online. No, he's got the finalists. The finalists are Jamaar Chase, Nag Harris, mac Jones, Kyle Pitts, and Jalen Waddle. That is a great squad, right, there was great names, great names right there. That's impressive. You know we talked about the Comeback Player of the Year award. Yeah, they're trying to give Dak

a little pushback on this. Everybody's looking at Burrows. They think, you know, his comeback this year was pretty good, especially the way he went out last year. I mean it wasn't an unusual injury, but an injury nonetheless season ending. Uh acl. I think he got a cl and him cl didn't he on his injury, Burrows did. Yeah, it was both of them. So they're trying to make a

case for him big time. A matter of fact, there have been some publications where, well maybe one publication, I don't know how legitimate it is, they've already chosen Burrows over Dak The definitely shouldn't comeback player of the year. You have to come back from you're coming back from an injury, but but you're also coming coming back from already being established in your career. That's the way I

look at it. Interesting that could already been established in his career and had that injury and then comes back from it and Brows equals it was his rookie season. He hadn't really established him say how he was the top overall pick, but he hadn't established himself to the level that that had in the NFL. So that that would be my case for I'm with you, I know

you are. The other case was, uh, he's been hit more than any quarterback this year, and considering the injury that he was coming back from the courage that he showed and would not take anything away from him. But this is this is the this is these are the bricks that up stacking up on his side. Ye, So just just fy, that's good, that's good to know that. It's good to know. All right, Micky, what else do we need to know? Um so, oh, I know what

the one I was looking for. U Amari Cooper got fined for his COVID nineteen violation fourteen thousand, six hundred and fifty dollars unvaccinated it I think it finally just came out. YEA an unvaccinated player attending the MAVs game and also on the sideline for the Cotton Bowl. That's right, Alabama and Cincinnati game. He's on the sideline. What he was on the sideline, so it didn't matter whether he had a mask on or not. It doesn't matter whether he had a mask on or not. He can't go anywhere.

If you're unvaccinated and you go to a game game, you have to be in a luxury suite and you got to have a mask on with no more than ten other people in the suite. That's the only way unvaccinated players are allowed to be out in public. And it doesn't matter that you've already tested positive and you're in that ninety day window. And that's what I'm thinking.

Because of that ninety day window, I don't know. I'm And here's the other thing that that here's the other thing that reminded me of So he had COVID right right, and he missed he missed the Kansas City game and the Vegas game, yep. And what happened in those two games he lost Cowboys loss. Yeah. And also let's also remember that Cede Lamb missed the second half of the Kansas City game with a concussion and missed the Vegas game.

So when everybody talks about this inconsistent Cowboy offense, well, let's see what they were dealing with two, right, because because in that Vegas in the Vegas game, but by the way, they ended up scoring thirty three points, they were out their top two wide receivers. Yeah, you preach each other choiet hiss bacts. Yeah, that's one thing they never talk about is the shortcomings that we've had to deal with, But they always talk about the inconsistencies that

we deal with because of those shortcomings. We never have an excuse for that, because, well, they got all the talent in the team on all the talent in the world on that team. Well, last time I look, the loss Angeless Rams have a heck of a lot of talent at their wide receiver position as well, And I don't hear anybody giving Matt Matt Stafford excuses for his

play this year. Yeah, and it just goes back to talking about what Mike McCarthy's been talking about these last couple of weeks, when everybody just wants to look at statistics, right and see what the numbers are, And he said, sometimes you got to go inside the numbers and understand why they are the way they are. All Right, we were up against a break. We're past a break. We're

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the network specific restrictions and acceptance may apply. Back back to Mick Shots Cowboys Nation, it's playoff time. Get ready to white out at at and St Stadium just the way I'm whiting out here on Friday, and you're gonna cheer on the Cowboys to victory on Sunday, January sixteenth, when they take on the San Francisco forty nine ers at three thirty pm. For playoff updates, visit Dallas Cowboys dot com Slash twenty twenty one playoffs. I thought you blackout, kids,

thoughts you blacked out over there? Ma, Chris, No no, no, no, I was in. I was in the midst of checking out ticket prices this game. Noh, are you okay? And go ahead, go ahead, making and if you would like to know, you know those standing room tickets at the on the decks on the yes, popular tickets, one hundred and sixty seven dollars. That's not bad, that's not bad enough. But you remember, you gotta run, you gotta run in though, right at the time they opened the door to get

the best tickets. That's right. Now, Then that's crazy. Remember there's a lot of sooners out there. Remember that, that's right, could be already in the right in the building. That's right. So it's like a land rush pretty much. That's what it is. Yeah, that's cowboys. Cowboys are open. It's not a gold rush San Francisco fans that are coming in the door. So mickey about how about this hang on, hang on upper level, back of the end zone ticket

will cost you three hundred and fifty dollars. And this is on the secondary market, and the prices climbed to five hundred dollars. And if you've got a lot of money, you could sit in the lower level seats for twenty four hundred dollars. So do you think there's gonna be a bunch of San Francisco fans in the stands. Uh, yeah, you know what they've spent on their houses out there. We're spending a nine hours here now, twenty four is

dropping a bucket. Um Just Jerry, Jerry earlier in the week had mentioned that he'd love to see a hundred thousand fans there. What's what's he saying now? I think he was still hoping for it and he understands though, and he was kind of I can't remember it was him or Mike McCarthy when they were asked today about you know, a sea of red in the stadium against the white, black, white backdrop. I'll get it out. He basically.

They basically said, Hey, if the Cowboys give the fans something to cheer about, they'll drown out any San Francisco fans that are here. That's true. I mean, this is not gonna be it. This is not gonna be so far. That's what I don't want to hear. Now, we've had our so far issues in regards to the visiting team comes in and they're making a lot of noise. But the only reason they make a lot of noises because

we're not playing well on the field. Once we started playing well on the field, then the crowd gets behind the team. I do wish, however, that the Cowboys were more of the crowd that like the Saints game. That Saints game boy, never forget it. The energy in that stadium was like no game I have ever played in or been to my entire life. They elevated that Cowboys team to beat those Saints, and not just beat them, but they took it to them from the from the

kickoff to the end of the game. They were in that game all the way. That's when. That's when they had me so excited. I saw another Jalen Smith in that game that I've never seen before and never seen since. He played the best game I've ever seen him play along with that Cowboys defense. So I wish as Cowboy fans, we came out energized, not just waiting for the Cowboys to energize them as players. Okay, as far as this matchup with the forty nine ers, I had an opportunity yesterday.

By the way, Have I mentioned this week that the game is on CBS? Yeah? I think you did. Every weekday, Thursday, Tuesday, and Monday. Three thirty Sunday on CBS with Jim Nance, Tony Romo, and Tracy Wolfson on the call. I had an opportunity. I had about a twenty minute chat with Tony Romo yesterday. We did a little zoom with him talking about the game, and it's very interesting. You can go to my Twitter CBS eleven Bill Jones and check it out the entire interview. But among the things that

he talked about, Number one, UM, Kellen Moore's gone. Okay, He asked him, so, how important is this playoff run to Kellen Moore as far as his future? And he says, it doesn't matter what the Cowboys do. He thinks he's getting a head coaching job regardless of how they do in the NFL. So he knows something. He thinks that Kellen Moore is gone regardless of what happens. Um would he throw if as a quarterback, as a competitor, would

he throw at Trayvon Dicks? What do you think? He said, Yes, he would, of course he would, but he would he And just like what you've talked about, I believe Everson double moves is such a key whatever. He has got great respect for Trayvon and Um, it's just interesting to hear him. He went into great detail on how the forty nine ers might attack Trayvon Dick and uh, and so you can check that out. Um, he's usually on

point with one of them. One of the one of the things, Yes, Mickey, don't tease us, Well, don't tease us. What did he say? Well, it was more, it was more, you know, you double moves. He's such an instinctive players double moves. Don't tell him no, but double once you once you establish the double moves, and even if you don't complete it whatever, now you can later in the game attack him because he's got to be mindful of there could be a double move. And so that's basically

how he would set him up. Okay, Uh, one of the ar as greedy as guys like myself and Digs are. Yeah, you better run it every time. You got to show we're very stubborn, that very stubble. That's right. But he does say that's one of the intriguing things about this matchup. He thinks that, uh, we're gonna to be able to tell early on. Um, you know, obviously the obvious key is stopping their running game and we'll be able to tell very early. Uh, if they're outside zone run plays

are working or not. And if they are, if they're getting the yardage early, it's not a good sign for the Cowboys. Well, they were. They weren't getting yards early in the Rams game, but then the second half they saw what they could do. They were just then Yeah, and uh, a seventeen nothing lead wasn't big enough for

them for the Rams in that game. But the interesting thing Mickey Uh, as far as the Cowboys are concerned, um I asked him what had he seen, uh first six games, seven games of the year for the Cowboys compared to the last half of the season. He had. He went on and on praising Dak and how much Dak is like a coach on the field and just as understanding it. He says, he thinks what defenses have done is it's the post snap adjustments that they've made that Dak has um and he didn't say struggled with.

But that's that's that's been effective, that's right, and that's any where Dak has had to make an adjustment for any quar Yeah, it's it's what teams would show something pre snap. And Dak is so good at reading a defense pre snap and uh, it's the post snap stuff that was throwing him a little bit. But he he said, as much as he praises Kellen Moore, he says what he believes, if the Cowboys can establish their run game again, that they can win the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's true.

You gotta have to win a game, you have to have it. What do you thinks? Back? And then, how how do you establish a running game? Yeah, especially the offensive line? Right? All right, have you checked out we've been talking about this. Have you checked out this Saffrance in front four, in front six? Oh, yes, they're pretty stout. Yeah, it's gonna be very hard, right, And and Mike McCarthy basically pointed it out when he was asked about his offensive line, and he said, you know, we feel good

about them. He understands it's a huge challenge. But he also said, we understand the game starts up front. And he basically said the game and he's basically talking about both offensive lines. He said, it will start with the offensive line and it will end with the offensive line. How those two lines play will determine who wins this game.

There's no doubt about it. No, you know, and this go ahead me ever, So I was just gonna say, I don't know if Williams coming back will help them or hurt them, because once again, they were pretty consistent without him in that second half. So if I'm if I'm the Cowboys D line, I'm putting pressure wherever Williams is playing, I'm gonna make sure and hold my pressure in on his position because I have to see if

he's ready or not. I mean San Francisco fans when they talk about Williams coming back, they talk about it as if he's the second coming, Like now that he's back, then we're gonna be okay, we've been fine without him, We're gonna be great with him. So I can't wait to see what what what he's coming back with. I think we should test him right away. You heard the first team all I did I did? They need to check out, they need to check out which elbow it is.

I think they can figure that out. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it'll be it'll be the bulky one. So okay, along those lines, and we gotta go to a breaker real quick after. But along those lines, Randy Gregory versus Trent Williams, who wins that whether it's whether it's whether it's whether it's rushing the passer or defending the run. For Randy Gregory's perspective, who wins the battle Randy Gregory versus Trent Williams And how important is that to this game? Wow?

We back, we're doing it now. Ah, man, I don't know Gregory's chances, and I think they will move him around. Yeah. I was gonna say, I don't want to be predictable. I don't want him just going up against Williams all the time. I think we should have multi looks, multiple looks, just like everyone's giving multiple looks to us. So that's my answer on that one. Okay, all right, we got picks to click, picks, we got picks to win. It's

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wpmoy challenge, followed by Prescott through January seventeenth. He man's getting close. Vote dec I think you're you're getting a little claustrophobic in there by yourself because your readings are suffering at the further, the longer the weekend. We needed to get you out of the satellite center. I didn't have any distraction. That's why you need to be distracted. You had you do better under pressure. I get it,

I get it. Okay. This rivalry with the forty nine Ers and the playoffs goes back to nineteen seventy NFC Championship game. Cowboys won seventeen to ten in or out to Super Bowl five the loss to the Baltimore Colts, and that was a sixteen thirteen final. Nineteen seventy one Cowboys beat the forty nine bill What what give me? Some insight to that game. Well, not that if we get bogged down in that game, have enough time a time to go into all of them. Okay, three minutes

left in the show. Yeah, Yet this was just this was just a brainload to our picks. Nicky, We're not going in depth there, Okay. Nineteen seventy one NFC Championship Game, fourteen to three, and then beat Miami in the Super Bowl, and then nineteen seventy two Roger Staubach got hurt. This season,

Craig Morton was back as the starting quarterback. He started the game against the forty nine Ers in the Divisional playoff game, and but with two minutes left, the Cowboys trailed twenty eight to sixteen and Roger Staubach had come off the bench. He leads the Cowboys to two touchdowns in the last two minutes of that game, sandwiched around a Tony Fritch behind the back onside kick, and the

Cowboys won thirty to twenty eight. Then lost the letting the next week to Washington in the NFC Championship Game. Fast forward nineteen eighty one, we won't talk about one, and then in the nineties. In the nineties, nineteen ninety two championship getting Conference game, my favorite Cowboy game of all time. I was out there covering it all week in San Francisco. That was the thirty to twenty how

about Them Cowboys game? And then the following year, which was the last time CBS did a Cowboys playoff game was you can put it in three inch headlines in the Cowboys one. And then the next year it was a twenty one nothing deficit. But the game that many consider to be perhaps Troy Aikman's finest game as a quarterback to come back against the Niners and then Barry get called for penalty on the sideline and San Francisco won the Super Bowl. All right, now, picks to click

and picks to win, Mickey, take it away? Take it away? Is he there? You forgot the interference call? It didn't get called. Well, that was the Switzer. It was past interference and Switzer was arguing about it on the sideline. And so what people people talk about the Switzer costing them the game because he got the penalty. But anyway, anyway, so you want me to pick the game, Yeah, that's what we call pick the click. You guys were doing this way before I got here, so you should know

about this stuff. Cowboys win this game twenty seven, twenty three. Yeah, this is gonna be a close one. Spags you right about that, brother, And my pick, my pick, the Clicks gonna be the guy you can't bully the lionbacker Michael Parsons. M So you're going with a defensive guy. Huh? You got any statue you want to throw at us? Ye? Like, yeah, yes, fumble recovery, for fumble, anything, give us a narrative. Two sacks, two sacks and forced fumble. All right, two sacks and

the sable whoa, alrighty, alright, Okay. I am looking at this is this is gonna be. We're gonna we're gonna jump out on them guys. I think offense is gonna be really strong. I think Dak's gonna have a good game. But I'm looking at the score. Probably gonna be we're gonna score thirty points. We're gonna score thirty points. We're gonna get back to that. I think it's gonna be thirty thirty to twenty four. I think the Niners are gonna try and come back on us. But I'm looking

at Dak from my pick to click. He's gonna have two touchdowns. I'm looking at probably quarterback rating one twenty. That's specific. I am all right, very good. I love that. Yes, I like that score. Thirty to twenty four. Okay, Mickey's twenty seven, twenty three. Um, I am going with a pick to click. How about the tight ends in this matchup? George Kittle for who made the Pro Bowl. Dalton Schultz did not make the Pro Bowl. But Schultz actually has

more catches and more touchdowns than Kittle this season. My pick to click is Dalton Schultz for the Cowboys, and in fact, my final score is thirty to twenty eight. Wait, I got it? What thirty? Oh yeah? Something to say. You know what's gonna happen With fifty one seconds left in this game. Dak Prescott is gonna be flushed out to the right under He's gonna throw to the back of the end zone, and Dalton Schultz is gonna rise above a quarterback. Do they have a number twenty four

on their team? Now? Gonna rise above Emmanuel Moseley to catch the game winning touchdown pass to make it thirty to twenty eight. The Cowboys win. I like forty years later I like that, but I don't see shows going up like that. Okay, going up like that. CD. Let's just see CD going up right, my pick to click to lamb. That's it, alright, CD, LAMB, it's going up top and he's gonna have the game winner. Alright, right, Yeah, it's exciting, beautiful Friday after NICKI predicted score in nineteen

seventy two. No, it was one. It was the final score. And uh yeah it was in nineteen seventy two. That's right, it was in nineteen seventy two. You're on to me, Mickey. Yeah, I figured you were going twenty eight twenty seven. I

could have which was the eighty two final score. God, this game is so cool, just kind of watching that old school stuff, all right, every we know Everson's going to spend the rest of the afternoon watching the NFL network the replay of the nineteen eighty one NFC Championship game. I'm glad he enjoys watching it, because the rest of us don't, I know, watching to a point. Yeah, this is a good point right here. Okay, what do y'all have scheduled for the weekend? I have work, Spags, you're

gonna be there tomorrow. I will be there tomorrow, all right, I'll see Star Sports Tours. I also have another autograph session in Louisville. And I also I'm doing some politics tomorrow. I'm gonna be part of a campaign tomorrow. My cousin is running for sheriff. Oh really, uh huh, So I'll be there signing some eight by ten sheriff of what. Uh he's here for some county. I don't know. I gotta take a look at it. You're gonna be his deputy. Yeah, whatever,

tax man, we're gonna get him in. We're gonna get him in. So, yeah, we're gonna we were able to vote for him, No, I'm not. I can't vote for him. He's in Dallas County. It's Dallas County. Okay, yeah, all right, okay, very good. I'll be there with bells. Things you can do with bellat boxes. I heard, I heard. Yeah, let's keep that on the DL's bag. All right. So that does it for another week of mix shots. And here's another prediction. We are going to have a full week

of mix shots next week. We're leading into a divisional playoff matchup at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Bay, we owe them. That's right, exactly right, Just like Dak predicted at the end of the at the beginning of the season, I'll see you later. I'll see you later, that's right. I'll see you down the road. That's exactly right, right. So take that job, Brady, all right, and we'll talk

at you again on Monday. Shots Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.