Mick Shots: Manic Monday

SWBC podcast a studio. Hello, gentlemen, how are you on this fine Monday. I'm doing fine. Bill. I'm not mailing the end like you. You're just kind of mailing at the end today. Huh. That's okay. You know we all had to come into work. How about that's bad. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. It feels like it's been a year since we talked. Yeah, yeah, it's been We've had

a little holiday weekend. There's a lot that has transpired in the world of sports, but off the top, we should talk about what's transpiring with your Dallas Cowboys and Mickey. That is one of the reasons I'm doing this show from Home today is the news of the day here there at the Star in Frisco, talking about here with Mike McCarthy testing positive for COVID and having to stay away from the team and will not coach the team this week nor on Thursday. And I understand you might

have done an interview with him on Friday. I'll try we take the Coaches Show on Friday, which hereed on Saturday night on CBS eleven, and still plug it since we since that was three days ago and the coach tested positive this morning, we thought it would be best if I did this show virtually. In fact, I went down to get a rapid test and they advised me, you know what, even if it came back negative today, that there's a five to six day period after an

exposure before it would show up as positive. So we just we made the executive decision not to put to either you, Mickey or you Everson at risk, and I would just do it virtually today, which is basically what the team is doing, and that's why they're having the virtual meetings this week, is to try to not have as many exposures. They can still work out outdoors on

the field, though, Yeah, they're working out right now. They're out there practicing now, and you're right, they're doing all their meetings virtually and really the only thing they're doing in person is the practice, which again it's going on now, and it's it's not just Mike McCarthy. We found out last week that Joe Filben had tested positive, the offensive

line coach, so he missed the game on Thanksgiving. Now his offensive line assistant, Jeff Blasco is out, So the two offensive line coaches are out, so is offensive assistant Scott Tolzene. And the newest player to go on the COVID reserve lifts is Terrence Steele, who I guess we can call the starting right tackle since he started this last game at right tackle. And also the entire strength and conditioning staff got wiped out. We knew last week

about Cedric Smith. Now Kendall Smith the assistant and Harold Nash, the strength and conditioning coordinator. All through guys are on the COVID list. Uh two of them likely missed the game. Cedric Smith might be back in time to be able to make the trip to New Orleans. So yes, the Cowboys have had a breakout here. Um outbreak outbreak breakout. Well, Bill broke out, Bill, you broke out, Yeah, everybody broke out. Yeah. Uh. And so that's gonna affect them going forward for the game.

You won't have your two offensive line coaches, your head coach, uh, and two of your three strengthened conditioning coaches there along with Terrence Steele at this point, right because they're all testing daily. Uh. And who knows what happens between now and you gotta know it's gonna be more, you know, I mean, just like in Green Bay you knew it was gonna be more by the time the game started.

I think it's and be more. And by the way, Bill, I gotta tell you that was an anonymous call made to make sure that you went and got tested it. It didn't come from my wife. Okay. If somebody as a rumor that it was from her, it was not from her. So you know that that anonymous call, just ignore that, okay. And and speaking of a COVID update, Uh, the Cowboys didn't activate Amari Cooper off the COVID list yet, so uh didn't look like he was going to be

able to practice. Otherwise they would have announced that he had been taken off the COVID list. Why do you think that is? Uh? You know, when Mike McCarthy answered the question, it was like, we have to check on his conditioning, so I think they wanted to make sure he was physically able to do everything after missing his ten days. I think we're up today. Yeah, it's funny. We we worry about the disease itself. We will worry about the virus itself and what it does to the team.

But when you think of the individual, and you know, because we got people here that can speak directly on that, it's not just like you just come back and you're ready to go. You know what I mean, I'm done. You know, it drank some tea and I'm good. I mean it may haven't lasting effect on his conditioning and not just his conditioning, but just his health overall. Yeah,

so we'll see where that one goes. Also, you know, the strange thing was you guys that and I don't know if his test hadn't come back yet the results are hadn't taken it yet, but Mike McCarthy had moved his Friday segment on one oh five three the Fan till Monday, so he did his segment this morning at six thirty, and somebody asked they I think the first question they asked him not you know, how are you

doing after the weekend. He goes, I'm doing well. Uh And I don't know if he had gotten his results back yet, because at some point in the interview he said, personally, I've moved into the hotel the last couple of days, so meaning to try to stay safe because yeah, isolate that he moved into uh yeah, into the hotel. Uh And and he basically said, you know, there was no new uh no new positive tests because the other test

that I told you about happened yesterday. So but that was six thirty in the morning, so he probably got his test like like us, right after the show, right after his press conference. Then the results probably came yeah, yeah exactly, so uh, I mean, he probably go ahead. I was just gonna say. The other thing, uh, you know that they he mentioned was he was talking about, you know, where they are, that they got to keep their eye on the ball, have to keep your eye

on the target. After losing three of their next four and basically not worrying about the big picture, he said, we're about winning the eighth game. And that's kind of the way you look at it. And they he got to ask something else about that, and he said, you just got to we just got more moving parts because of COVID. So I'm thinking he didn't know that he was going to test positive when he said something like that. So yeah, Well, the other thing that's good about that, Mackey.

The other thing that's good about that if he obviously then he didn't have any symptoms this morning at six thirty, right, And so so that's that's the really good thing that perhaps with him. It just came back as a positive test and without any symptoms, and hopefully he'll be able to stay symptom free. And you know the I think as a vaccinated person he then would have to have two negative tests within a twenty four hour time period. But he has been ruled out to coach Thursday night

because it's just too close to game time. And so if it was a Sunday game, and it is, yeah, and I guess the I mean he could have with two negative tests. Yeah, And we thought this was a negative test over twenty four We thought this was a bad thing because they didn't get the ten days after Thanksgiving. They had to play the next Thursday. But because they're

playing the next Thursday, then they got ten days. So a bunch of this, you would hope if everybody's good will clear up before they have to play the next game at Washington. I think that's right. Um, yep, it's at Washington, So that's kind of a blessing. Yeah. And even just myself just having gone down to a clinic just to get my test and the nurse they're basically told me that there's no reason I should It could

come back negative today. Since my exposure was on Friday, you're supposed to allow five to six days before it could be it could come back positive. So it could I could come back with a negative test today and still test positive on Wednesday or Thursday, five or six

days after my exposure with coach. And so that's what the Cowboys as a team, and any NFL team that has any of these cases they're dealing with, and why the Cowboys went with virtual with their with their meetings this week, is to limit the exposure in those confined areas where you're doing what you can as far as wearing masks and social distancing, but you are indoors in meeting areas where you don't have the same kind of ventilation as you do out on the practice field, and

that's where the spread can occur. And so and which is why we're doing what we're doing on this show right now, making sure since I was around the coach on Friday, that we're not doing anything. We're trying to trying to be as safe as we can right now. And that's what the team is doing right now. And to your point, Mickey, it may not be until after this game in New Orleans where everyone is away from everybody for a three day three maybe even a four

day weekend, they probably will give them off. They could give them five days off and come back to work Wednesday of next week before the Washington game. Keep it on virtual before then, just to clear it out of the building and make sure everybody is helping going forward. I wonder what they do after practice, go home and take a shower? I mean, do you go home? You go Is everyone going to a hotel or get them

in a hotel? And I think the things go back to last year, right, yeah, But when you look at this, is it it will save some people, help some people going forward. In regards to the virtual meetings and things of that nature. But it's not going to help those that have may have already been exposed. So, like you said, Bill, it will, it will. It will keep us out of trouble and in future circumstances. But for so it may

be too late for some others. And I have a feeling that we're gonna we're gonna find out that it is too late for some people, and they may kind of hope it's not any key people, key players. Yeah, and that's why they're they're doing what they can to to stay away from each other during their meetings and so forth. But and that's also why they are testing every single day to make sure that if there are exposures,

they're dealing with it as quickly as they can. And they were gonna have to test every day anyway with the new NFL protocols that started the day after Thanksgiving, so that's what they were worried about. Um, you know, people being exposed to family and friends over the holidays. So uh, that will continue. I think it might even step up a little bit because this whole scared of the new variant, even though we're gonna think it's here yet.

You gotta know what's coming. So anything that affects that the country is going to affect the NFL, So things may get a little even more stringent around here. So there's your COVID updates out on the practice field. Yes they are, but they're out on the practice field now right, And so what is the schedule the rest of the day as far as the virtual meetings with the media and when do we find out for sure who's going

to be the head the interim head coach of this team. Yeah, we don't have anything scheduled with any member of the coaching staff or the organization. I guess Jerry will do his update on one oh five three the Fan at eight thirty tomorrow morning. But we're supposed to get virtual call in interviews with player after practice, similar to what they did yesterday. I think it was Zack Martin, Ezekiel Elliott,

and Michael Parsons. So there should be at least three more guys that will be a WebEx interview taking place. I think it said like one forty today. But that's all that we have scheduled from um you know, uh, there there is gonna be a pool report coming out soon from practice. A couple of guys from our Dallas

Cowboys dot Com staff. We're allowed to go to practice and uh they're gonna write a report on what they've seen so far today, or at least the person they got to watch, uh stretch as we normally do position drills, individual drills, and then they were dismissed. What about the alright, so coaching positions, Bill, you have some coaches that like to be up in the booth. You have some coaches like to be down on the field. That's how they

do the best work. And to me, I'm looking at dan Quinn, you know, being the guy that takes over, and it may not be so, but if I'm if I was gonna guess it'd be dan Quinn taking over because he has had a head coaching experience, of course, but I don't know what dan is a position during the game? Is he? And see, if you're a defensive coordinator, you want to be you kind of want to be where you are, you know, you don't want to change anything.

But if if dan Quinn is considered the intim at this point, would he have to move come down to the field or could he be a head coach up in the booth so here's what they're doing on the offensive line. To replace the two guys that are the offensive line coaches, they have a couple of guys that have some offensive line experience. First Ben McAdoo, who is the consultant. He was originally when he started coaching, an offensive line coach, then became a coordinator, then became the

head coach with the Giants. So he uh and Mike talked about this on Sunday saying that he would be uh involved with the with the offensive line along with quality control coach Chase Haslett. He's had a little bit of experience with offensive line and also the tight ends coach London Wells. For four five years as an assistant with the Giants, he worked with the offensive He wasn't the offensive line coach, he was the offensive line assistant, and so he was expected also to work with the

offensive line. So that's how they're kind of taking care of that. And you know, one of the things that teams have done when they've been in this situation, and all I can say is most recently with the Raiders, a lot of times the special teams coach, because he coaches everybody ends up being kind of the guy in charge now, I don't know if he has to be the guy that decides on fourth and two? Are we going for it? Are we punting? But you're right what

you said, Dan. I think dan quinn and McAdoo are the only guys on the staff that have been the head coaches at some point in their Fossil has been an interim before. I'm pretty sure that's right. He was an interim. Yeah, you're right when they did that, so that could be. And then if they want dan Quinn to be down on the field, the other guy that has experienced as a defensive coordinator is George Edwards, so

you know they could. And remember what they did in training camp when dan Quinn was out, Joe Witt took his place as the defensive coordinator, actually called the plays during the game, um so and then Doug nust Meyer. Remember they kind of rotated that one game Kellen Moore didn't call the plays, nush Meyer did and McCarthy had said, um and I can't remember it was Saturday or Sunday. That you know, they've gone through this last year like on who would take over in case something happened to him.

So there was a previous plan in place. It's funny, I didn't know about the special teams how prevalent that was. I'm not sure if the Cardinals did that though. When what they did when Kingsbury right, but you know, remember who was on this side. I do not Rich Bisaccia took over the Raiders, but now he had been the cowboy, always assistant head coach when he was here before he went to the Raiders, So that was kind of the natural transition. And I've seen that happen before, believe it

than not. Grambling they fired their coach and they had to play the Bayou Classic this weekend. They won the game, but the replacement was that the reflection of the move. No, it was a special teams coach. Special team stepped in. Yeah, he happened to be a form of jaguar, Southern jaguar, but the special teams coach stepped in. And I've never really yeah, looked at it from that standpoint to you

guys said something. And what the Cardinals did was in Kingsbury's place when he missed the game earlier this season with COVID defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who obviously it was a former head coach with the Broncos and assistant head coach Special Teams coordinator Jeff Rogers split the head coaching responsibilities with other assistants filling duties. So I don't know on the sideline who it was that was who made the call on fourth and two. Yeah, as I recall it,

they worked out pretty well. Yeah, they won the game. They won the game. I'll try that's right. So all right, we're just getting started on this edition of mix Shots, so much to get you up to speed on with what's going on with this team as they get set for a game just a few days away on Thursday night in New Orleans. Mix Shots continues at the moment. Hey Cowboys fans, ready to spice up your next watch party,

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With Senna there on Friday, and Saturday. Here's the breaking news from the Star in Frisco, Mickey and Everson As Dak Prescott is talking to the media reports on Twitter. Just within the last couple of minutes. Dak says that coach McCarthy notified the players of his positive COVID tests at the end of their virtual team meeting today. Prescott says the message was just continue on. Obviously we'll miss coach,

but his health is first and foremost important. So that makes me wonder if McCarthy himself got notification the positive tests during the team meeting and then notify the team at the end of the virtual team meeting today, because if you would have done that from the start, right, if you do it seems like anyway, right, Yeah, you don't want to bury the lead. Yeah, well, good, good update there, Bill, Thank you. William. All right, I've got another more breaking news just just in from the New

Orleans Saints camp. They're going to have a new quarterback on Thursday night against the Dallas Cowboys. Taysom Hill is the starting quarterback for the Saints against the Cowboys, not Trevor Simeon. You know, Taysom Hill is. I think he's really the fan favorite, uh to play quarterback for the for the New Orleans Saints. I think that might get him a little more fired up. And that's the last thing we need in the Superdome is the fans to

gain more emotion fired up about this thing. Macky, do you have any reaction to that breaking news out of New Orleans? Yeah, I'd rather send me him be their head coach, I mean, their quarterback. Excuse me, I think he'd rather be their head coach too. Yeah, that too, you could, you know, but when you look at that, when you look at this last game, it didn't matter. What was whether the Raiders were sufficient in sufficient. We

seemed to fall right into it. You know, as we get to how we did doing this game, I thought that our team speed would be uh, you know, it would be good for us. It turned out that, yeah, we couldn't keep up. You know, we knew they were going deep. We knew they had to Sean Jackson. We knew what he was gonna do. He was gonna be the replacement for Rugs, and that was unfortunate what happened with him. But we knew that he was gonna be that guy that was gonna go deep. He's gonna be

going deep across the field. And when you look at how our secondary played, it was awful. And when I say awful, I get it. Nineteen eighty one we made. We gave up a bunch of plays, but we made a bunch of plays. So if you're gonna give up one hundred and thirty plus yards to Rent Fro, if you're gonna give up, god, I don't know how many yards to Deshaun Jackson, you might as well get some picks.

See that, thank yous back. You might as well get some picks while you're at it, you know, to me, we looked like we took a bad step backwards defensively, our secondary I locked out front seven except for how we played against the run, But our secondary, we just seemed to be clueless, as if we didn't know that the Raiders go deep. They've been going deep ever since, oh my god, ever since Tom Flord bland Ug. I mean,

come on, these are just a quarterbacks, Warren Wells. I mean, we got too many of them that we can think of that it is all about speed. And I thought, and when we did, I picked the click that the speed would be to our benefit and it was not well. They made their bet on getting to Derek Carry many times, overloaded the front to go after him, and they didn't get to him enough. I know they got three sacks, that's great, but there was too many times on them

deep passes. I mean, the first one to Sean Jackson, he started on the right side of the formation, ended up on the left sideline, yes, left sideline side, outside the numbers, and that's what I thought the ball and then he ran the rest of the worst right. So that means you had the time of day in the pocket and far too many times that's what happened. And if you're gonna play single safety high, you better get

to him right, you better get to the quarterback. And they just didn't affect him nearer enough, which allowed those deep passes and your guys have have to cover all day long back there, and it jured didn't work. And see everybody forgets he threw for three hundred and seventy three yards three seventy three and they ended up with five hundred and nine yards. Yes, they did five hundred

nine yards total offense. And now wait for this, they added another one hundred and sixty six and that's one hundred and seventy five yards five six hundred and seventy five. I can't even say it. It's so much. Hey Bill, Hey Bill, this is the thing. This is the thing, Bill, we had. We played the Raiders game, that's their game, a bunch of penalties because we had what eleven they know each team had fourteen fourteen. That is the kind of game that the raidersn't want to play matter. That's

how they thrive when they played during the season. They lull you in to playing their type of game. One hundred and sixty six yards and penalties was a franchise single game record that you don't want, Hey Bill. And Connor Williams is like, Okay, what's up? Who's I'm not out there, you can't blame me. So and since we're going down this rabbit hole, I brought my white hat with me, but I left it in the call because I figured the COVID thing would override everything else we

talked about. But the hat was ready to go. I'd never seen more tikie tack files in my entire existence, not football life existence, right that. My comment in my column on Friday was twenty eight penalty. They made six flags over Texas. Look, cuny, that's funny, gracious, and to go and decide the game in overtime on an underthrown ball.

Once again, they need to do something about that underthrowne call where the receiver comes back and jumps over the DB's back and his hands are up, Yes, his hands. He didn't touch him. The contact was made by the receiver and you let that decide the game. Here's my other research. Last year Hockey's crew finished third most in penalties, and this year right now going into Sunday, they were

number one in penalties and penalty yards. Well, you gotta strive for the best, man, I mean you can't, yeah right, yeah, yeah, So they they had a history of throwing flags. McCarthy said it after the game, talked about, you know, you prepare for different crews, what they emphasize, what they don't, and we knew that this was going to be that type of game with this crew. That's so funny. All the times I played, I always knew about a couple of UM referees. One of them we call them big Al.

Big Al was always behind me. He was always throwing flags on me. We had this little thing going. But as far as the entire crew was concerned. I don't think I've ever heard coaches prepare for certain crews before.

That's just funny how things have gotten so complicated. Oh, they they've they've they've analyzed it to the point where here's what they call most here's what they call oh yeah, oh wow, yeah, it's like and and one of the interferences on Anthony Brown should have been a hold because the flag it occurred way up the field, right, so they let the flight. I would call that, where was

the flag passing the flights? And then it happened at the spot at the spot not where they threw the flag for the five yard And they've done this so many times. It's like they let the play pan out and then here comes the flag. It's like, maybe I will throw the flag. Last week too, they did lee.

It's just and the other thing I wrote after the game, And look, I understand there were penalties, right, but there were a couple of tikie tack ones, But the last one I believe it was five twenty four left and over time I would have been thrown out of the game. If I was the head coach, they would have taken me off on a stretch. Well, he was trying. I thought it was trying he was doing. I would have been fine, probably suspended. The game would not have started

right away after that call. You know, mclauck is not going to do that, now, you man. I know that hardheaded me. But at some point you gotta make a stand. You can't put up with that. Well he did. I certainly saw him well, going at the referee, go ahead, Bill, Yes, and and a little Bertie told me that, okay, on

that last play, that last call you're talking about. You know the official who made that call, he was the same official who Tripp who tripped over the pylon, right, I thought pick off return by Tony Pollard there, he may not have been in position to make that call.

And he'd been in position to make that call. There was if you were watching me right now, there was like this much space between Anthony Brown and the receiver with that call was made, and you had to be in a position to be able to see the space that was in between Anthony Brown and that receiver. So, by the way, Mickey, you know that Sean Ockley's father

is rather famous and retired referee. I would think that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and I would think that this is a referee was had full knowledge that this might be the most watched game, most watched regular season game in National Football League history in

the last thirty one years, which it was. They had more viewers than any NFL regular season game according to CBS, than any regular season games since nineteen So thinking about that, there might have been more shots of Sean Hockey than

there was of Dak Prescott in the game. It really you think, so I try he got twenty eight No wait, no, wait, thirty one because I think three of them got declined right, and there was and there would have been more yards if it wasn't for the offsetting penalties on the two guys they threw out, which Kelvin Joseph did nothing. He they got tangled up, uh and the guy threw him to the ground there almost threw him to the wall. And they didn't see anything because they couldn't. There were

too many people going on. And you can't make that decision without going to New York for that, right, you know. And that's looking at it way too fast. Oh well, okay, I've said my case here on shots, all right, you really needed to wear your cap today. I know I should have. Maybe people were asking me on Twitter, is Mickey gonna aware his referees on Monday. Well, it's out in the car either. We wasn't committed, Bill, Okay, all right,

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news from the starring Frisco as we speak. CD Lamb talking to the media and he has confirmed Mickey Smagnola and Everson Walls that he will play Thursday night at the DO Orleans Saints and he didn't clear a protocol until after last Thursday's game, which we already knew going through the protocol, it was tough. I feel a lot better now, says CD Lamb. Mickey, Well, now if they can just get Amari Cooper off of reserve COVID. That didn't happen today, so I'm assuming he didn't practice, uh,

and you know, hopefully they don't have anymore. But they get their top three wide receivers out there, maybe Dak Prescott can put the team on his back. Okay, you know I gotta say you had something. I do one more, one more thing on the penalties. So I think we're heading into week thirteen after Cowboys have played eleven games. They lead the league right now with ninety one penalties. Second, second, no surprise, the Raiders has come in with eighty nine

and third after they've played twelve games. Carolina has eighty eight. Cleveland's played twelve games, they have eighty five. The Chargers in Philly are tied with eighty. And how about this when it comes to holding penalties offensive holding penalties, the Cowboys have nineteen, only the Vikings have more than with twenty, Carolina nineteen, the Raiders with eighteen, and guests who leads the league with unnecessary roughing calls? You're Dallas Cowboys with

nine A bunch of bullies. That's crazy, man. We've never been in that position. No, I know they haven't got close enough to the quarterback to rough them. But even with the penalties leading the league we have, I don't think the Cowboys have ever led the League of penalties before in the history three of the NFL. Well, as they say in these parts, they're fixing two. Oh, I'll tell you all right. We have an NFC East team in action tonight as the Washington football team is playing

host of the Seattle Seahawks tonight. As I checked the standings, the Cowboys starting tonight at seven and four, the Cowboys getting good news yesterday as the Eagles lost to the Giants Eagles five and seven. The football team is four and six going into tonight's game against Seattle, while the

Giants are at four and seven. Well, and having said that, when you look at the standings, only one team has more than two or I should say, less than two losses than the Cowboys, Arizona at nine and two, Green Bay nine and three, Tampa Bay eight and three, and now the Rams and the Cowboys check in at seven and four. So again, if you just right the ship and get out of this losing three games in the

last four, you're still in pretty good shape. And after watching games over the weekend yesterday, including the Eagles the Eagles, look, did did anybody watch Jalen Hurt's play yesterday? By the way, Oh my lord, that they're not gonna win with him consistently throwing the ball like that. They scored seven points against the Giants. Oh and by the way, the Giants changing offensive coordinators made a huge difference. They checked in

with thirteen points. I think the game was three nothing in the third quarter if I remember correctly, And Jason and sorry, he's probably toasting somebody somewhere like see, I told you, But I gotta say, I mean, you know, you know what I mean. I'm I've always been a uh Jalen Hurt defender in some ways because I just think he's way talented than what he's playing. And then you look at this team itself. They've always had the ability for somehow to just keep winning. Ugly, they still

had several chances to win that dog on game. Oh my god, why receivers of just dropping passes all over the place. Despite the interceptions. Yeah, they got three three interceptions, man, that was ridiculous. But then you still come back, Okay, forget about the three picks. Let's go ahead and try to win this game, all right, We put this in your hands. He actually did a good job in the fourth quarter and keeping them alive. They one ball went

right through Greg Ward's hands. That was a perfect pass. He laid out missed it, and you saw the other two just ridiculous miss especially the last one. Come on, man, that's fourth down. I mean he laid it out there, almost like a three pointer like Curry. He left it out there when they say leave it, he left it out there the form and the guy jumps up. He hit the fucking one yard line and you just drop it.

Nobody even touched you. I mean, so you gotta watch out for teams like that because once they realize how much they suck, they might get better. You gotta be careful, guys. I'm telling you you gotta be careful, and I'll tell you what. I might get blistered for this, but I think the luckiest quarterback out there in the league right now, some guy in Baltimore. Now, man, are you committing? You kidding me? Come on, and the announcers at the game,

we're acting like, oh, it's Lamar time. Yeah. He threw the ball up for grabs and it came down. Talk about two held barries at the end, and that can't get any love. You know, he just can't get it, and he doesn't put the team on his back. No, No, three hundred seventy plus jaws is just not enough, not good enough, garbage jaws. They call them crazy. All right. I had way too much time to watch games this weekend, and I haven't even got started on college yet. Bill, Oh,

and I could go on and on about college. And by the way, there may be some breaking news on that front. Yeah, I just want to know why it's got it now as I'm just I'm just very happy with what's happening with my alma mater right now. I'll just put it that way. Is that sarcasm? No? I think here, Yeah, I think he's kind of happening. Okay, well let me know, because it's not something happen. Let

me just say this. Let me just say this. If the suitors hire Brent Venables as their head coach, the Clemson defensive coordinator all as well, and sooner land once again, it only was twenty four hour A little rest it there, but we shall see. Okay, maybe, Mickey. By the way, I notice you mean Oklahoma looking at the transfer portal. Yeah, as I'm looking at the transfer portal, you're losing a lot of players at Missouri today. Hopefully, hopefully, are the

ones that they want to lose. That's like me what I was like. I was like, Uh, some of those players for OU that came in the transfer portal, I call it now the transfer portal potty. Um, they were making those some of the bad plays against Oklumba State the other night. I'm just hoping that Lincoln Riley takes some of those players to USC them. So there's a probably feel the same way about some of your Missouri players.

Some of them need to go in the trans What site can I go to to find that transfer portal? There's a there's a Twitter account that transfer for a portal. Just search transfer portal. You'll see all those Missouri players in the portal. Spencer Ratler's in there as well today. All Right, that does it for Mick Shots. So much more to talk about tomorrow on the next edition of mix Shots at one thirty. Whether virtually or in person,

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