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Rams at SOFI Stadium on Sunday night. Welcome to Mick Shots, Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls, and it's about time we played some football. We are on the eve of the start of the National Football League season, as the Texas are traveling to Kansas City today to take on the Super Bowl champion Chiefs on Thursday night. It is here, guys. Hopefully they're traveling safely too. By the way, I can't believe. I can't believe that the season is even starting. You guys know I was the

pessimist of the group. I must be. I'm amazed that the NFL has actually gotten the schedule going and we'll about to watch some football. I'm as happy as Bill. I'm as happy as Bill Jones now. And the Cowboys actually got there first official regular season practice in today this morning and they just finished up. So they went about oh an hour and forty five minutes today outdoors on top of it on that new field, and we

are anxiously anticipating the first injury reports of the sea. Yeah, right, absolutely. I wonder when the official ones will come out, but I could at least tell you who was there and who wasn't. Uh. Chitubey A Woozier uh and Xavier Woods were participating in practice, along with Luke Gifford, by the way, and he'd been out for a couple of weeks. Uh,

so those three guys were in there. Uh, Brandon Knight got back in practice the offensive tackle uh and Brandon Carr was out there, so uh he must have been in pretty darn good shape because they had him in a helmet and uh he was going through the drills and actually going through uh some of the well the

skeleton team stuff that the defense was doing. And he was at safety by the way, so uh so he is he is not on He's on the practice squad still technically, but you know he's a guy if they decide that they need him on Sunday, they can promote him to the to the roster on game day. But yeah, I checked on those salary sites and his dollery is the maximum of a veteran can get on the practice squad,

which is twelve thousand dollars a week. So I would imagine if they at some point promote him to the fifty three, he'll get at least at least the veteran minimum, which I believe this year for a guy that has ten years in the league is minimum base is one point three million. So but yeah, he was out there. So the only people that I didn't see practicing that was on the fifty three man roster was Jordan Lewis.

He was still working on the resistant chords. And everybody can take a deep breath because Amari Cooper was out there participating in the portion of practice that everybody was

able to watch. Now, one thing they also came out yesterday the first well I don't know how official it is, but it is a depth shark I got released yesterday and there was much uh consternation in the local media about that depth chart because there were only ten starters listed on as Mickey Mike McCarthy still at work, right, you're not gonna know what we're doing with that other spot. But I think if I if I counted him right,

they did have five. They did have five. Don't despair there, um Yeah, and you know, and it's it's probably going to be another wide receiver. But they didn't want to say they're going three wide and they didn't want to. Yeah,

they didn't want to. They didn't want to tell the Rams what formation they coming out in, what first all they were using on the first and not have a fullback out there, so I try they didn't have They only had one tied end on the depth chart, they only first team, they only had two wide receivers, no fullback, and so they're not gonna tip their hand and what

formation they're coming out in. And I noticed on Twitter the other concern was is they had, uh they only have two linebackers out there because they listed Alden Smith as a linebacker. Uh so uh, it's like, look, I like that. I like I like the fact that they threw it out there that Okay, their speculation we might be in a three four defense, Okay, chew on this row. Yeah, exactly. So, uh no, no secrets getting out of here at the Star at this point and a lot of deceptions. Tell you, guys,

I'm loving this. I'm loving this bill past sales, throwback mode that we're in, you know, with all the gamesmanship that we're dealing with, I love it. Man. They're using and unfortunate situation which caused a lot of concern for a lot of people. But you know, only a good coach is going to use it to your advantage so that we can have as many advantages that we can have during this ballgame. This is this is a throwback

type situation. You know. Ever since I was thinking about this when I when I heard some complaining in the media, and I said, you know what, at some point, you're gonna wish Jason Garrett was back here. He was much more open about injuries, he was much more open about where guys were gonna play, and mccarthury ain't given away nothing. And you know, when we first met him back in January, it was it was a really informative meeting that he had with the people that covered the team on a

daily basis. And somebody asked me about it, and you know how it went and I said, yeah, it was really good. He's a nice straight shooter. And he goes, yeah, well, don't get used to it, because I heard from the guys that cover the team in Green Bay he doesn't give up anything once the season starts, and I think

we're starting and seeing that was my question. I was wondering if anyone had talked to the guys that covered the team, yeah, doing the off season and when all this was going on, is this something that you yeah, absolutely yeah, And he's uh, and he's pretty good when he and I don't know if it's the technology that it's kind of messing up with the press conferences. But at the end, if he gets a question when it's almost done, and I don't think he likes it, it's like, okay, yeah,

I can't you hear that? Well, we gotta go to my wife all the time. Man, I didn't know that you like Bill Parcels. He would just start telling a story and the story would be so good you forgot

what the question was. That's what check out the end of today's press conference and Mickey's alluding to right there because he got he got the last question, which was something about protocol on the sidelines or something, and then he decided in his own mind that was going to be the last question, but before it signed off, Okay, he said, Rich said that was the last question, so unlike Jason have to point out that's an endor and he would walk off. Speaking of his press conference, I

thought it was a good press conference today. I thought I thought he was revealing on kind of what he told the team in their meeting today and the emphasis on not losing games, making mistakes that sort of thing, and just the in general the mindset of what the expectations are here in Dallas. He said it from day one when he got the job, that he embraces the high expectations super Bowl expectations that they should have here

in Dallas and uh and he talked on him. Yeah, well, I thought that was that was probably the best part of the press conference because I think the question he got was do you worry about the expectations of the Cowboys because they're always high? And he basically said, no, that's what the expectations should be. I'm not coming in here, he said, I'm not one of these guys that under what was it sells and over promotes overproducers yeah, he goes, I expect us to produce and I don't come in

here in men's words. So you know, he basically pointed out, Yeah, my expectation is to come here and win every game and so and he goes, And that's what every team in the league's probably thinking. So yeah, I thought that was a really good part of the press conference today and maybe as revealing as he's been since this week began.

You know, when you think about coaches, new coaches coming in and you hear those press conferences, you know, sometimes you just hear it just sounds like they're just saying words because that coach may not be proven. This coach has proven. Coach McCarthy has been there before. He's won with some of the better players in history, one of the better quarterbacks, probably go down to one of the better quarterbacks in history. But what you have to understand

is he knows what the formula is to win. You know, when you're talk talk about going all the way to the Super Bowl, Guys, you've been a part of this fadge bill. You've been a part of it. We've seen it with the Cowboys. I was there with the Giants. It takes a special group and a lot of luck as well to go to a super Bowl. This team has what they need to go. All they need is the leadership itself. And I like what he said during

the press conference. We cannot beat ourselves. You guys heard me talk about it this past week about how we need all three fasts of the game. But what we also don't need or a bunch of penalties that are going to take us out of position and put us in situations and all of a sudden, that kind of

becomes the culture. Like last year with the Cowboys, there were many games, big games where we're trying to make a comeback after putting ourselves in a tough position, and all of a sudden, untimely penalty stops us on a big play, stops us on a touchdown. You can ask Reddy Cop we handle Cop about that one in regards to how many touchdowns will call back just on his yardsties. We got right happy about that. I'm not gonna feel

too sorry for him. But at the same time, for as far as the team is concerned, those touchdowns could have meant a lot and made a big difference in the Cowboys season. Weren't If it weren't for those penalties. Sort of like you hope the Stars learned last night with the amount of penalties they took in that hockey game. You just don't want that to be a culture, uh

in regards to losing games and how Yeah. And I like the fact also Bill and Everson that he brought it when he was asked about the Rams in last year's game. He said, hey, we broke it down. We showed him basically why you scored forty four points. Uh, And he goes, you know, and we and that's the way you got to be able to play. And I had forgotten that they scored forty four points against that Rams team. It was towards the end of the season. And you know that he said, well, yeah, it could

create motivation, but for the uh, for the Rams. But you know, nothing they can do about that now, you know. You know. You look at it though, and with the changes that have occurred on that Rams team in this offseason, not only in personnel on the playing field, but also in their coaching staff even more so than usual, I don't think that you can take much out of what

happened late in the season last year. Though that was a big a big loss from the Rams perspective because it basically knocked him out of a chance of getting back into playoffs last year. Uh, you know, it's interesting, you know Wade Phillips, and we'll get more into it in the next couple of days into the game planning. It goes into into this one. But you know, Wade Phillips is no longer the defensive coordinator. Brandon Staley is the defensive coordinator, thirty nine years old in his first

year as a DC. And McCarthy in this in the in the Packers staff. Members of this staff who were with the Packers have some familiarity because he comes from the Vic Fangio school. He was an assistant under Fangio with the Chicago Bears for a couple of years, then last year with the Broncos. And so when when Mike McCarthy talks about the differences in that the three four defense that Phillips runs has compared to Fangio, I think

that's what he was talking. And he also pointed out that from a personnel standpoint that you know, they've got two assistant coaches that were with the Rams last year, Skiff Pete, John fossil So they got a little insider information on personnel. Now, you don't know how they're going to use some of these guys, but you can pick their brains and say, Okay, what does this guy do? What are his tendencies? Uh, And that's some pretty good intel going into the first game, even though you don't

have any tape on this team. I think that helps out from a player to players standpoint. Those guys know and I've said Staley's thirty nine years old, He's only thirty seven and first time as a DC in this league, so we'll callin plays for the first time. That's an

interesting element here in this first game. And then McCarthy also talking about Sean McVay, the respect that he has for McVay, the success that he has had at such a young age, early in his career as a head coach, and they've gone up against each other a few times. McVay now going into his fourth year as the Rams head coach. Jared Goff's had a couple of big games

against those Packer teams, three hundred yard passing games. So I think that McCarthy, although I don't know that he was asked about golf per se today, I think he has a lot of respect for golf and what the Rams on the Cowboys defense is probably thanking God that those two running backs that ran over him in the playoff game are no longer there. I was like govermenting that about the personnels bads, because boy, they lost some

good ones. They really did. Those are to me, when you talk about two of the three very integral parts of their team, you go to the free safety part of it as well. In the secondary they just lost I believe his name is Eric Whittle, a great free safety for the Rams. This guy's uh, you know, he's not there anymore, and they've gonna have to fill that sitch that position in very well. That's a key position,

especially when you're going up against the top offense. And last year, yeah, they also had one of their starting linebackers get hurt and they had to put him on injured reserve. I think it was Travian Howard was slated to start, so they won't have him either to TEU. So yeah, well but again, you know, as we keep saying, we'll see, because we haven't seen a lot yet. No one isn't anything yet. And Jalen Ramsey is a very

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drive in. So uh during during the day or maybe at night. Uh, we'd sneaked the Brave Ones underneath the fence. During the day, we'd dig a hole so we can go crawl underneath the fence, and we'd said the Brave Ones in and they would go and turn the speakers up on the ones where there was no cars. Right, so we could sit on the curb across the street and watch the movies. Uh. And if I remember correctly, Um, it was Planet of the Apes and those everyone I was going to say when the Planet of the Apes

first came out it was X rated, I think. And so we we sat on the corner and watched the Planet of the Apes. Now it might have taken two days because depending on which way the wind was blowing, we could hear or we couldn't hear. And then the real Brave Ones we sent him to the concession standing get his popcorn. Well, there was nothing like the gym. Everybody knows about the Gem and I drive in theater.

I know, Bill, you remember that. You got to remember the Gem and I drive in theaters right off a central expressway. Remember, right, awesome Hamilton Park. We could we could we could sit on we could also set on our porches. They had three screens. Uh, spags, so you could sit on your porch and you could see a screen or two, especially from Cherrell's house. She was right there across the street. And we were so bold we didn't because I guess we lived right there. We didn't

really care about sneaking in. We would just bummer USh the gate and we would climb the fences. You know, we had the fences like uh, like what the yeah, that's what we had. Yeah, had the Cold Good medal. And that's how I learned how to climb fences so well, because you had to. You had to be good if they caught you. When you got caught at the top of the fence, usually someone was gonna kick you back out. But once you've made it to that concession stands fags,

then you were all its over. It was over your end there him. But those are the best times of Gem and I drive in theater, had a great time. One more funny one more funny thing is we'd see the neighbors because they charged you per person, right, So what the neighbors would do is they'd have a couple that would drive in, but the other couple that would be in the back seat, they put them in the trunk so they could sneak it and not pay for

the other two admissions. I don't say that we did that, but I'll say I had some friends who did that. We had Gem and I drive in at Gem and I it was a dollar a call old just a dollar. And so however many people you could put in the car, Devil's great. But of course they didn't know about the ones in the trunk. So yes, bag that was Universal and Mickey. At the one eighty three drive in and irving just down the highway from Texas Stadium, we weren't

worried about turning up the speakers. We just sit outside and watch the movies from outside, if you know what I mean. We didn't need any sound. And by the way, I mean one more note on drive in theaters. Everson, do you remember when Texas Stadium had drive in movie theaters? I'd working light there. That's right, This is a throwback at the Star now, all right, time fum to come back, time fum to come back. That's right. That's that's one of the one good thing that has come out of

the pandemic. One all right, Jalen Ramsey is smiling ear to ear one hundred and five million dollars something like twenty one and a half million a year, And that's almost as much as Everson made in his entire career in the All right, oh boy, I thought I was so proud of my contract. I had an annuity. Was whoo, you're having annuity? Nowadays, no one needs annuity. Just give me all my money. Now I don't have my own annuity. Now,

it's got to be an amazing thing. Uh. We saw how Deshaun Watson reacted to his contract and how emotional that was for him. Uh, that's just the way he was as a person. That's just his his uh, you know, temperament. But when you look at Jalen Ramsey, I don't know if you guys would call his last year in Jacksonville. I think it was he pulled up in a he pulled up in the bricks truck with music and dancing girls. If i'm if, I might add with video music and

all of that. So the difference between those two is just, you know, it covers the spectrum. But he's a guy that that will clearly live up to his contract. Uh. He is never I can't remember him having any offseason to where he had a you know, gave up an unusual amount of plays. This is a guy that has been deserving his money for a long time. You know, as a defensive back and as a as a form of player, you want to you pull for guys who get that money, but you also want to see them

live up to it. And I think he's a guy that's going to live up to it, despite the fact he only had one interception last year. Everson, Yeah, but he shut down. He shut down a whole lot of wide receivers. You you find me one wide receiver that talks trash about Jalen Ramsey, and I'll give him a lot of credit because he must have gotten something done because Jalen shuts him down. He shuts him down, and he only needs forty seven more interception than in his

career to match everything loss. He'll get there. He'll take a while, but he'll get there, all right. Speaking of contracts, a couple of as far as what the Cowboys are concerned, let's start with Randy Gregory gets a contract extension yesterday. Yeah, he did, Bill and it was basically a one year deal. And you know what they and and when you look at it, you know what they did, he's gonna he would have been on He's still on his old contract.

So next year, providing everything works out this year, he would be a restricted free agent, and you know, the restricted free agent tender for a guy like him was going to be at least two points some million second round, right, So what they did is they basically advanced him two hundred thousand for this year. And because he hadn't been getting paid, Remember, they tried to sign him to an extension while he was suspended, and the NFL said, nah,

he can't do that. So basically, next year he's gonna make what he would have normally made as a restricted free agent at your original draft choice. So it helps him out because you know, he's getting paid week to week and I'm sure he paid dearly to go through the rehab that he had to go through to be able to you know, recover and get reinstated. So basically kind of did him a favor and gave him some

money ahead of time. And the Zach Martin restructure, what is the Cowboys gained eight million dollars to the salary cap this year and everybody's like, oh, whoa, what are they going to use it for it. Well, that eight million gives him about twenty million under the cap meeting. That's what they have left. And normally they like to keep ten to twelve in reserve for things that come up, like you got to pay a guy goes on injured reserve,

you got to replace him. There's another salary. I can't imagine they're going to keep Brandon car on a practice squad salary of twelve thousand dollars a week, which is what he's on right now, because when he moves to the fifty three, he's got a he's got at least make the minimum, and so you know, and the minimum for a guy that's got ten years in like he does, it's it's about a million and a half a year. So there's more expenditure there, so you gotta have a cushion.

And then the other thing, you guys, what you can do is if you end up under the cap and you don't use it all, then you can use it next year. And they may need it next year just because of what happens with the pandemic and not making

as much money off the turnstiles. You know, the Cowboys will get some allowing fans in, but like this weekend and Rams ain't making anything because got a brand new seventy two thousand seat stadium and they're not letting fans in and that's something you share with the visiting team and there's no share there. So the revenue is going to go down next year, the cat might go down. We got to see how it plays out, and you know what, and then what would you would you think?

So it only the pro ration, So they take that that money they saved giving him the money up front, and they pro rated over the length of the contract, so it really only adds to the contract another one point eight million a year because he had a pretty lengthy contract already. I think what I was my question was, Uh, let's say we went into another situation where we bring in a guy like Cooper the way we did a

few years ago. Would that money be enough? You know, would it make a difference in bringing someone else in that the Cowboys might feel that they needed that was out there on the market, depending depending on ever since, on how much the guy's base salary is, because that's all if you trade for a guy, you don't trade

for the pro ration on the siding bonus. You just trade for the base salaries, so you know, you know had they I'll just give you an example, since everybody talking about Earl Thomas, you know, his base salary for this year was a guaranteed ten million dollars, so if you traded for him, he would you would hit ten million immediately on your salary cap. So you got to be careful. Those things go into decisions to make trades

or not make trades. And if I remember correctly, when they traded for Amari Cooper, he was still on his first year salary, I mean his first contract, his rookie contracts, so the base salary wasn't prohibitive to say, you know what, I can't give you all I gave you because I gotta pay that contract. You've got to give me some draft choice relief, so that all goes into it. And for the team that does the trading, you know, the rest of his pro rated signing bonus all escalates into

the salary cap immediately. So depending on how much you had left, you got to take that on on your salary cap. So to make a trade, you better have some money left under the cap and no one more thing on contracts. A lot of talk about Deshaun Watson signing his contract and comparing it with Dak and Mickey, that truly is apples and oranges, considering the fact that

Watson had two years left on his contract. The numbers are out now on Watson's contract, and I think you alluded to this or mentioned it yesterday, but just to inhas reemphasize it. The numbers that I'm looking at. Rather than a four year, one hundred and fifty six million dollar extension, it really is a four year, one hundred

eleven point eight nine million dollar contract. Because the Texans in twenty twenty four, after four years can get out of that contact with just a five point four million dollar dead cap hit in twenty twenty four, and so the average that is around what twenty eight million dollars rather than the forty million dollars. Yeah, absolutely, you know, and no one, no one, And I don't know why. It's not that hard to look that stuff up, right, but everybody wants to put out there what the agent

wants out there, four years, one hundred and sixty million. Well, no, he's still got two years on his original contract, so it's a six year deal, and you take what they owed him for the next two years and base salary added to the one fifty six and you don't get more than one eighty and six years at one eighties thirty million, So I don't know that that just blows what the Cowboys were offering Dak right out of the out of the water. It's basically he got a nice contract.

And the key thing for those guys that Dak and his people didn't value is he just got guaranteed that money. And he got a twenty seven million dollars signing bonus in the bank today, which Dad could have had fifty million in the bank today, but that wasn't enough. And so you know, to me, and I've always said this, and I hadn't changed my mind. Not knowing if you were going to play this year or not not knowing

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you for taking more time off the clock. I like that fad. That's a good slick way to do it. Man says we're at a loss of time. Think we're at a loss of time. Job. One thing that was brought up in uh Mike McCarthy's press conference are the sideline protocols and only eight in the box at this new stadium in Lackey, Bill. There's a lot of protocols that they've got to adhere to. UH. Number one, after you get past the players on your traveling squad, UH,

you're only allowed seventy more people to travel. And that includes an entire coaching staff that numbers like twenty five to thirty and anybody else you bring along. Also, there's a limit to how many people can be in the bench area that aren't coaches or aren't medical people. You got to count all these folks and they've they've only got so many. And you've got to be in tier one or tier two to be in that area, which means which means you got to be you're you're one

of the people that are being tested daily daily. UH. And if and if anybody's gonna go with you that hasn't been tested daily, you better start this week early and start getting tested, uh, if you're gonna be on the field. So field access is going to be really restricted. Along with the size of the booth. They're only going to allow so many in there, so they're not packed in there like sardines. Uh. And and they got to try to social distance. So there's a lot of protocols

that the coaches the players have to adhere to. UH not to mention the testing that will go on before they get on the plane, and then after they get to the hotel, uh, they're not allowed to leave, and they're not allowed to have their buffet dinner or as a team dinner. Everything's got to be individual either contactless delivery or room service to your room, or if you're gonna use the restaurant in the hotel for the guys to eat at, the restaurant has to close down to

the public. So there's a lot of restrictions for teams traveling, and I would imagine the teams tomorrow are are going to be the first ones they have to go through all this. So if the players got to order a room service, how much perdem are they getting? Are you ever tried to order room service in La there? Per diem will more than cover it. We used to get We used to get one like twenty one padium and then we would all gambler the way on the plane,

on the way to wear we were going. So the twenty one dollars didn't really mean much at all, all right, So get ready the Patriots play the Dolphins, and of course, a former Patriots assistant coach, Brian Flores, the head coach of the Dolphins. I guarantee you there's gonna be sideline gate coming out of the Patriots game this weekend. Bill Belichick's gonna have too many people and on the sideline, they're gonna do some counting. I'll guarantee you. They probably

only give out so many passes. So if you if you have too many on the sideline, is it a sideline violation? Can you get penalized during the game? What's what's the enforcement people on the field. It's kind of like hockey, right, when you make a bad game, they would probably they would probably get fined. They would probably get fined afterwards, maybe right. I mean, I don't know if they would penalize them there. I think they would

probably find them after the game. There'll be a lot of video searching to see who kept up with all the priorities and things of that nature. I want to ask about the you know, like when they once they come off the field doing timeout SPADs. I see it in NBA where they try to keep a little social distancing, but the only dealing with about five to seven people at a time. You know, now you're looking at at least eleven guys that are going to be huddled up.

Let's say they have a timeout. Something important is going on. They're not trying to social distance with eleven guys in football, uniflies, are they? I mean I don't think so. I mean you mean, like if there's a time out and you bring out the whole offense to the sideline to talk, Yeah, I haven't. I have seen anything on that, but they have suggested heavily if you're on the sideline to you know, wear a mask. They're not gonna mandate it, but they're

heavily suggesting. And Mike McCarthy talked about that the other day about you know, him getting used to coaching with the mask on from the sideline. So, uh, you know, if I'm in a like Kellen Moore, you know you gotta call plays boy, you better practice enunciating with a mask on, if that's what you've got to do talking to the court back right, you can't understand, you can't understand anybody. Yeah, everything is muffled. It's well, there's no

cry to worry about. Say, they don't have to worry about the noise, but I'm sure they'll have some type of pipe music coming in well. And so when you look at that, I think that would be a that's a major concern to me. And it's not just doing timeouts bags. It's like when the defense comes off the field, we gotta get together and talk about it, you know. And so once we're doing that, you're not just dealing

with eleven guys. You're dealing with more because you got substitutions that'll come in on third down, so you have to deal with those that personnel. You have to deal with the guys that are backing up, and you might be shuttling in different players different positions. That kind of thing seems a little dangerous because these players, they're not in a bubble the way the NBA was. They didn't bring in their families until playoff time. But but here

you've got players going back home after the games. Absolutely. But you know, if you look at the NBA when they when they have a timeout, they huddle up there. You know, they've got guys that sit the extras are sitting in their seats, but the coaches in the middle of a huddle with five or six guys, and I would imagine, you know, I just think with the amount of testing, because these guys have to have to test on Friday, they have to test on Saturday before they

get on the plane, and then Sunday. From what I've read, you've got to do a temperature check before you leave the hotel, and then you got to do a temperature check before you enter the stadium. Now I understand you can probably pass the temperature check, can still be infected, but I think with that amount of precautions, uh, you know, once you get on the field, that you should be okay, and that's what they're hoping for. So yeah, okay, okay.

So then in a situation like the Cowboys are in this week where they're traveling to LA, how many of the and not knowing for sure who's passing all those tests leading up to the time the charter leaves. Okay, how many on the practice squad are going to travel

with the team in case they have a breakout? Yeah? Absolutely, And I would imagine, you know, you're not going to take an extra sixteen guys because that'll count against your total, but you'll probably take some of those guys and at least take the four that you protected that no one could sign that you say, okay, these guys are important

to what's going on. But you know, like even before that, you remember when Kellen Moore was traveling, he was on injured reserve and the Cowboys were bringing him along to be an extra set of eyes on the sideline. You can bring some of those guys, and you can bring you know, and you'll bring the guys and I would imagine everybody's gonna have eight offensive linemen so they could at least expand the game day roster to fifty five before you have to cut back to forty eight. So

you'll have some extra guys. And the the testing on Saturday is a point of contact testing where you find out the results immediately. You don't have to wait twenty four hours. But so so there will be some practice squad guys that have their bags, I would think so and ready to go depending on those Saturday morning tests and Bakers Jerry, if they have to, they're flying standby. So if if they don't, if if the regular a guy on the fifty three or fifty five doesn't pass

the test, then you get on the charter. Otherwise you got you gotta get on Jeremy. You have to get on Jerry's private plane if you're gonna come late. My questions bags is we used to have to If I'm not mistaken, didn't we have to fly on the plane with you guys? Media on this plane? No media? So what what? So? How do you what do you guys?

Do you guys? I think from from what I've been told from the guys at the newspapers, they're probably at least traveling to the first game because everybody's worried about the social injustice protests and if the TV doesn't show it, then you'll never see what took place. So I think they want their guys there. But after that, I don't know how much they're going to travel. I mean, if you look at what's going on with the hockey UH

and the NBA. The NBA only let so many media people into the bubble, uh, the NHL not very many. And I think the local newspapers here did not send anybody to Edmonton to cover the stars. They're doing it off a TV and the virtual interviews, so and you know what, and even if you drop into the game, you're going to listen to the interviews. In the press box because they're not going to let you in the locker room. The only people being yeah, you can't even

get down on that level. And there's no and I can tell you the TV stations, none of the TV stations are sending there's no hanging out on the field beforehand, uh during warmups either that's all been restricted, right and the other thing and we gotta we gotta go. But for local TV stations, there's no access down on the field. They're up in the stands shooting at a low level what they and they're in a stationary spot and usually they would roam the sidelines and not anymore, not not

during this. All right, how does it for mick shots? We're gonna break down those matchups? Everson is all prepared for this tomorrow Cowboys versus Rams, Mick shots again one thirty tomorrow afternoon. See you next time. Thanks guys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.