Mick Shots: Moving Forward

royal blue. It's kind of Kansas City boy. And Everson Walls joins us. Hello, Everson, Hello Bill. How are you doing, sir? Doing very well? Thank you? And ever since we missed you yesterday? What did I What did I miss while I was gone? We had a few things to talk about yesterday. We've got more of the same and then some to talk about today. To set the scene here, Mickey just came from the practice field where he was listening to some of the interviews post practice interviews that

are going on right now. Marie, Marie Cooper, Okay, we need a wireless a wireless Mike. Yeah, put it down on the little stand and listen to what Dak has to say here and wherever whenever he shows us. So Dak's about to talk to the media, he was supposed to. This is his day. I don't know what time, if he comes right away or if he showers first, so he's usually the last guy. Okay, all right, So we what have you heard so far from anybody as anyone had any play? What does the coach say? What's coach

McCarthy talking about? Did he explain himself? Did he talk about the untimeliness of this relie? What was it? Or it might or it might have been very timely by the way, might have been. Yeah, ye, bring us up to speak, Micky, what can you well? And we should point out that's what has happened, as many of you probably know by now, what has happened since we last convened yesterday, is that Jalen Smith apparently has found a new NFL home very quickly, right, Mickey, Yes, he has.

Looks like he's agreed to a one year deal with the Green Bay Packers, and I would imagine from my financial standpoint, it doesn't have to be for all that much, since the Cowboys have to honor his seven point two million dollars base salary. So I would imagine the veteran minimum since it happened so fast that it didn't have to be much of a negotiation, right, especially the veteran minimum for now just what thirteen games? You don't have to pay for the whole season too, by the way.

So yeah, so that took place, and uh, you know, Mike McCarthy today did not want to talk anything more about it. Um, you know, and I'm sure they were just like, yeah, whatever, you know, good, good for him, he was able to find a job or whatever. Uh so he was pretty mum on that. Yesterday, Everson said, I mean Everson, he said that there were multiple factors on why they allowed decided to release Jalen Smith, and

he didn't want to get into the factors. So that left it fair game for us to fill in the factors the best we thought we could. Let's go, let's let's go, let's let's just throw stuff up in the air and let's see what sticks. How about it. Let's go, let's start right. Well, we we did it yesterday and um and you should have been listening, by the way, Uh, he was in transit all. You know that they called there's a thing called recordings by the way, right, yes so,

and I don't think called Cowboys dot Com. Yes media, click on media and right there you go. But I think that you know, the the you know, quick review of it was number one. I think play on the

field number two. They wanted to restructure his contract, especially next year where he had a injury guarantee for nine point two million against injury, meaning if he got injured at any point this year, they would be and it carried over and he wasn't good to go by the fifth day of the league year, he was guaranteed that base salary, and I think that's what they wanted to restructure and not take that chance. And I think he denied.

And you know, one thing I think we've learned when it comes down to dollars and cents with the Joneses, Um, that's a pretty big deal. Uh. And then I think the other thing they looked at is, you know, with Kean O'Neill coming back, uh, and probably Michael Parsons playing more linebacker, you know, the way he was playing and how they were using him. He was going to be linebacker four behind Layton Vanderish so and in some people's mind,

they might have wind up being linebacker. Linebacker five behind you Brille Cox too right, and and and then the other six behind Louke Gifford, and then the other thing. The other thing ever said that, I think they were looking at and Mike kept saying, big picture. Well, the big picture is they've got about a half dozen guys that will be returning or they want to return this fifty three man roster. Uh. And there was going to

be some roster shaving to make room for those guys. Uh. So you know, if you're not you know, playing or starting in Europe, not doing much special teams, you might be the one to eventually go anyway. So I think they just made the decision after a personnel meeting on Tuesday, that, you know what, it was time to move on. You know, when you look at all the breadcrumbs that were left by the organization, Cowboys organization, I think we kind of saw this coming, but maybe not in this timely fashion.

The draft itself, we drafted how many linebackers guys. I mean that should have let all the starting linebackers those that are here know, hey, we have some young talent here that is not only good but they are multi talented. You've got you know, we talked about having these uh

hybrid type of players. You see a Jabril Cox. For some reason, that's the first person I thought about when they when I heard they let go of Jalen and so along with some of the video that was sent to me by some secret spy, that just really exhibited just how incompetence at times that Jayden Smith was and they were. It was glaring in competence. It wasn't just make a mistake here and there amongst making great plays.

You saw more mistakes than you saw plays made. And that's not a thing that you want from a player that you have already paid this super contract. And I have to say, guys, did we sign him to too much too soon? I know, spags, you're going to talk about what the market dictates, and and you know what, someone else could have swooped him up. And they saw him on the uptick as opposed that we've seen him. We're seeing him now on the downtick. You're gonna say

that that's what the market bared. But even when they signed him, I was very surprised that it was for so much and so soon. Well, he had the one good year, and I think they said, okay, it would be behoove us to sign him early and probably for a lesser amount than if they waited another year or two when he really uh you know, continued on that track.

Unfortunately that didn't happen. And the other thing that, as we pointed out yesterday, you know, everybody talks about his base salary this year, what they don't have to pay next year, but they forget to point out that there's going to be six point eight million dollars in dead money going into the cap that the Cowboys have to account to for next year. And then the other thing, and Everson, you probably can give us a kind of a you know, a different view on this than we

might have. You know, I heard the talk today about how surprised all the players were and how this was going to affect the locker room, and you know, what's going to happen in practice without the team one of the team leaders there. And my point was is, I don't think it's going to affect it one bit. And if anybody watched a part of practice that we watched yesterday, I mean today there was no one out there morning. Okay, they were having a very spirited uh practice high energy uh.

And so no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, I'm not saying I'm not saying that. I'm just saying I think from a players standpoint, I gotta worry about myself, right, I gotta make sure that I go out there and practice well. And next guy up's got to go out and say, Okay, I got an opportunity. You can't sit there and go, oh, what are they doing? My good buddy, Jalen's gone. I just don't think that happens in this transient business that is the NFL, is

especially now right in free agency. So I don't know. If you got a lot of young guys out there that pretty much understand that where this opportunity leads them, they might look at this as Okay, guys, this is just the process. This is not a warning shot to players who aren't playing well. This is the team committing to going forward with the best they can go forward with. I mean, I don't know how broken up the locker

room can be. You and I Spags have always joked about Eugene Lockhart and I always trying to give him some props on making all the tackles that he made, and you know, Jalen was always the perfect example of that. You can make those tackles, but with their ten and fifteen yards down the field after you've chased them down because you hit the wrong gap. You know, your hustle is admirable, but you get you get a minus on that play because he still got away from you. He

still came through your hole. So that happened a lot with Jalen, and it continued throughout this season. We're still giving up a lot of points. Were still decent against the run, but we could be even better when you take a look at some of the glaring mistakes that Jayleen. I'm not putting it all on Jalen, trust me, I'm not doing that. But what they have not seen is not just having seen an improvement from him. They've seen a decline from not just his his play, but it

seems like his athletic ability. Yeah no, and I think you're right. And you know, the guys were asked about it yesterday, and you know, everybody kind of you know,

said the right thing. And but I thought, I thought what Layton vander esh talked about more so than his ability or lack of ability or Layton came down on people kind of making fun of him on social media on the fact that yeah, it was about time they got rid of him da And I just want you to listen to what Leyton had to say about, you know, guys getting cut, guys losing their jobs, and he turned it more into hey, this is what happens to people

in our league. What bugs me most about it is when people that are on the outside fans whatever it may be, they want to say, oh, like, someone deserves this or someone deserves that everything. They don't realize that this is literally like our livelihoods. We literally could get up and traded the next morning, like the next day, we could be in fifty different freaking states. So people need to realize that. People needn't realize that what they're

saying is literally just like nonsense. And I think that's a big problem in the world today. And then you cut that out because I mean, we're literally talking about like, we don't go talking about someone else's job, so why are they talking about our jobs. It's super frustrating, it's annoying. I think it's classless. I got a lot of strong words for it, because I know a lot of guys are on the league. Deal with it. We got families.

We might be in one area. You got dudes that have been playing for a team for eight years, they get traded. They got family, they got kids that have been there for that long. And think about that before you say something like, oh, this guy deserves this, but this guy deserves that. We don't go saying oh, we aren't in your business, like how much you guys are getting paid, or or what's your boss saying? Or this than that, and about anybody else's jobs. We aren't doing that.

This is our lovelihood, this is our job. We get traded tomorrow, we get cut tomorrow. Yeah, so people need to realize what they're saying on social media because I think it's ridiculous. So there you go kind of a different point of view on this stuff. Yeah, I like that because of course, you know, I've gone through it, and hey, you can look at a lot of different occupations. I mean even you guys man when you're talking about the media. Hell, Bill, how many jobs have you had?

About twenty five and not all by his own choice? Right back to my points, So you know I've gone through with myself facts you've been from the hot water. You know you've heard You've heard how people talk about Mickey. I mean the people he works with over those radio stations, what they say about Mickey. Yeah, so, I mean, and I do like the angle that vandersch. I'm gonna mean to call it an angle, but uh, he's white. You know,

stuff happens, man, We are aware of that. And I think what he's saying is, Okay, stuff does happens, but have a little bit more empathy. I think that's what he's saying. And let's let me say this, guys. I know I sound like an old food but you just cannot let social media determine your outlook on anything, man,

if it's coming from a negative standpoint. I see athletes now reading social media, reading these comments from people they have never met, the people that don't even know them, and it affects them and it deals with their mental capacity in some way in a negative way. We kind of had that going spags before you got there. I always tell people this whole internet thing and and people in the locker room thing going crazy and media just being a little underhanded. That started to me in the

nineteen eighties with Gary Myers. Uh, it was Jim dent U Skip Skip Bayliss. The locker room became under siege with with with spies and snitches and things of that nature. Uh. Jim then hiding around the corner of the locker room trying to peek in on on players conversations, private converence, sation, Jerry or and all of a sudden, this this whole thing, Oh man, Jack, I mean what about the guy hernandez on It was on Channel thirty three. It was just

it was it became this. You remember, you remember that I got crazy. So now here we are, you know, the Jerry and these guys come up, Jimmy comes up. Everything just so blown out. Everything becomes a circus now. And we were still that was our internet thing, that was our social media stuff going on at that time. We were still somehow able to block that stuff out because, first of all, you can't give credence to someone who

doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. And so Vandersh needs to understand that what you hear out there is nothing but white noise, you know, don't don't Yes, yes people, yes, people are glad. They want to say glad that he's gone. They're saying that they didn't think he was that good and they left to their opinions, and that is great, but you can't let that determine what your outlook all is on America's self or your

all your Cowboys sports fans. These are guys that probably not even sports fans, and probably guys they're not probably not even American, they probably don't even live here, probably sometimes got this all this going on. Yeah, so you don't know what's going on. I hate that that hurts him like that because he's that's that's his buddy, that's his friend. He knows Jayla's has family, and I really eympathize with what he's saying and I applaud him for that.

But man, that's just life in the NFL. And and don't all that other stuff that's going on, all that media stuff that's going on, not media stuff, but all the Internet stuff and the comments and all that. Stay away from that. Man, don't even read that crap because it has no value to what the Dallas Cowboys are doing and to Jayla's life itself. So let me give you one example before we have to hit a break

care of what happens even in the newspaper business. So nineteen ninety one, you guys remember when the Dallas Times Herald went out of business and we found out the morning of the Cowboys game at Texas Stadium against the Saints, and it was basically, this is our last edition. We're going out of business. We've been bought out by the Dallas Time Morning News. And so basically we did our jobs. After the game, we hung out in the locker room a little longer than normal just because we didn't know

what was next in our lives. Right, what's going to happen? No place to go, no place to go, and so we waited till we waited till Jimmy came out of the coaches locker room, right and we didn't know if he knew, but he did know. They told him what happened, and so he looked at us and he gives us this kind of cheapest grin and he goes, well, whatever, now you know what coaches feel like when they get fired. And he's got some nerves. I know, look and I

fire the kicker because he has Jimmie's eyes. Come on, man. That was his way, that was his way of making some common sense out of it like, Okay, it happens in other businesses. You lose your job. You know, it's like thanks to you you, We'll see it always has such a soft heart. Yes, yes, all right we can Yeah, he's such a soft guy. All right. We continue with more mix shots in a moment. At Smoothie King, we

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join today. All right, clearing up one more thing on Jalen here as far as it being a quote unquote money move, and because what we talked about earlier about fifth day of the new year next year, which would be in March, his contract would become guaranteed for next year. His salary for next year was nine nine point two million, all right, the cap charge that the Cowboys oh next year on the cap is six point eight million for

the dead money. For the dead money, and so basically you're looking at a difference of two point four million dollars right there. So you don't have him and you're paying your cap charge six point eight million, whereas and so I look at it that way, that that this was this was they have better players to play right now, it's a it's a it's how was he playing more than a than a money move because you're basically it's two point four million dollars difference is all it is.

And I and I think from their standpoint, chances were the way he was playing now that probably wasn't going to make the team. Right So, but you know, and and and and had he had some sort of surgery, like a risk surgery like he had this past year, he couldn't pass a physical on the fifth day, then you're on the hook for nine point two million instead of the six point eight million. And that's where a trust factor comes in. Also, by the way, you got

to cover yourself. So it's a two point four million dollars difference exactly. And so when you look at where they're trying to go right now, it's two stags. You're they don't see themselves getting better defensively with him going forward. You know, right right he was hurting them as a defense, which you know when they're trying to make moves. And now the pressure is on, they see how good they are. Uh, you know, the tough decisions have to be made. I'm

sure that's kind of how it came down. But before you got to move on to that, and once again I missed a lot of yesterday. Oh so what was coach's explanation? What did he even talk about the timeliness of it? I mean, I never did hear you, guy. It was more that through four games where you see this defense is right now after four games, this was the time to do it, and what and what our and what our system was and it was more of

a big picture move than that. Dad takes into account how the other players are playing, you know, and as Mickey said off the top, you're getting Keiana Neil back. You want vander esh to play. You know, vander Esch had forty snaps last week. Jalen had twenty eight snaps. I mean, and here's the other part of it. Even here's a guy Jalen who's been a starter, I mean even all of last year. He was playing every snap on defense. Last year, he's never coming off the field.

And now even with this game against the Giants, if you're making decisions on who's going to play based on how they've how they're playing, and how they've earned their snap. He wasn't gonna play any with the guys that were coming back this way with Kean O'Neil knight, with Parsons now able to take on the phone play at linebacker

sixty eight snaps last week. Um and and so then you have sort of an awkwardness in your locker room that, Okay, here's a guy who's been a starter, been a captain, you know, and he's now he's not playing at all, especially when he's not contributing on special teams. Even he can be the best trooper in the world, best team guy in the world, but there's still a certain awkwardness with that in the locker room. No, no, absolutely, you

have to know. Yeah, you have to know that with his lack of you can see that those snaps were dwindling. I like you guys were saying and leading into the attitude that you talked about spags on the field. Maybe they were like they've been waiting, you know, it's been an awkwardness in the waiting because they could see his snaps dwindling. They could you know, it's like the uncomfortable thing and the big elephant in the room. Hey, Jalen's numbers are going down. He's not playing well. They can

see it on the film itself. His scores were probably going down. And once it was finally done, they're like, yeah, we could kind of see that coming. And really they ridicule it was just yeah, try and they really they gave him every opportunity four games where, you know, and with Neil out a couple of games, you know, to see what you can do in the film, don't life. So we move on and let me give you a little update on the injuries the Cowboys were dealing with. Yesterday,

they had what three guys that did not practice. We knew about Donovan Wilson not being ready to go. Ezekiel Elliott was given the day. He had a little bit of a sore knee. He said it got significantly better from Monday to Wednesday, but they gave him a day and today he was actually out there in pads. I'm gonna guess they're gonna list him as limited, but he did. He did a significant amount during the individual drills and they said if all that went well, he would get

into some team. And Amari Cooper was given a day yesterday his hamstring and basically he was talking today and he was out there in pads, and I would imagine maybe limited. He didn't do every snap in team, but I bet he did enough. And then Dorin's Armstrong is still out, did not practice. Trayvon Diggs wasn't even on the injury reports, so whatever that back tightness was must have loosened up in two days, so he's good to go.

Kelvin Joseph working on the cord, so that was good to see, as was Cooper and Zeke during the special teams h portion of practice. So from an injury stampoint, it looks like they're doing pretty good. And it's hard to tell with the Giants. You guys, they had six guys that didn't practice yesterday, but it was a walkthrough practice, so that was basically an estimation of what might or

might not happen. But four of those guys were considered starters Jabrill Peppers, Sterling Shepherd, Darius Slayton, and actually Andrew Thomas and Leonard Williams, so five. So anyway, and what I've read about Andrew Thomas, he's coming around. You know, he was a fourth pick in the draft last year. He was coming around at the end of last year

blend of last year, and they're really pretty happy. And if we want to spend a little time on the Giants, I think the guy that's really come around is Daniel Jones. He obviously played his best game, probably of his career against the Saints. And what he did. He completed twenty eight of forty passes for four hundred and two yards. That was a career high. He averaged ten yards an attempt in a quarterback rating of one oh eight point five.

So uh, that was probably his best game. And then because he had a good game, that may meant Jason Garrett had a good game as an offensive coordinator, right, mister conservative. They were worried that Jason wasn't what flamboyant enough would his play calls, uh, and so uh they were kind of down on him. But I see in that game that, uh, he must have called a screen pass to se Quon Barkley that went for fifty four year. It was actually it was like like a wheel route,

wheel side streaking down the sideline. Because they was he was getting credit for a screen that he threw. I assumed it was that and then there was the fifty two yard or to John Ross I believe. Uh, so they had some very big plays in that game. Uh and uh when you looked at uh Barkley, he had one hundred and twenty six yards from scrimmage against the Saints. They totally four hundred and eighty five. They're most since twenty seventeen for the Giants. So it looks like they're improving.

And I think the point is, don't let one in three record cloud your opinion of where the Giants are right now. Yeah, they're they're they're improving at one in three, They're they're one in three with a bullet. Isn't that how they say? That's that's a good one they I mean, they could easily be two and two if a guy doesn't jump off sides on a field goal attempt by Washington a few weeks ago. And then you can also take into account the Atlantic game. They lost on the

last second field goal in that game too. They had a lead in blew it in that game. Um and in fact, I think a Dorry Jackson dropped an interception, a potential interception that would have sealed the deal in that game too. Yeah. Then then the wide receiver missed a touchdown. I think it out to touchdown game as well. Yeah, that was another one too. And they you know that they've improved their wide receiver corps from what they had last year. Uh. You know last year they had Sterling

Shepherd and Darius Slayton. They they're both hurt last week. We'll see if they'll be able to play this week or not. But they they signed Kenny Golladay in the off season. They drafted Kadarius Tony in the first round and he had his first game against the Saints where he actually had had some really good production. He had six catches for seventy eight yards. Uh. And Isaiah Stanback did a little segment for the Coaches Show that we just did on the telestrator segment with him. He showed

some of the creativity that Jason Garrett is showing about that. Uh. It was a little comeback route on ah. That was a very quarterback friendly pass to Kadarius Tony and a lot of yards after catch that he illustrates on there. And I'll tell you what, when I saw the Giants take Tony, I said, oh boy, that's a great pick because I watched enough of him at Florida, and boy, that guy's no joke. I mean you got to watch

out for him. And keep in mind what they did on that was if you remember, on Draft Day, the Cowboys, of course, traded with the Eagles, traded down two spots, Eagles moved up, took Davante Smith. Giants were picking next, and since Davante Smith was off the board, they traded back with Chicago. Chicago took Justin Fields and the Giants by trading back, picked up another first and they picked

up Kadarius Tony. And so they probably had their eyes on Davante Smith and had Tony ranked right behind him. Probably he reminds me a little bit of Deebo Samuel and maybe a little bit of Seedee Lamb. The their ability to run with the football, get it, and that combination is not good. But he's smaller, he's smaller than that big and he's smaller. This is this is a

Jordan this is a Jordan Lewis assignment. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and and and maybe a safety over the top two by the way, So yeah, they'll have their hands to put somebody with the bricks in his pocket on that dude. I don't know if Jordan has bricks in his pocket, you're somebody like what you're talking about, Well, whether you need to get go a little bit bigger. Let's let's put you jay Ron on it. Let's put no, no, no, he's a smaller guy. And yeah this because Mickey mentioned CD.

Yeah he's not that big. Yeah, he's not that big, but he's he's a he's a good shifty slot guy with some moves and and what he was talking about, what Mickey's talking about his yards after the catch, the ability that CD has to run after the catch so much. Yeah, time Deebo, Samuel and Samuel too. This guy, this guy can scoot, let me tell you so. Yeah, you gotta watch out for him. And keep in mind remember last year when Garrett came in here and he showed a

little creativity down on the goal line. I believe it was tight end Evan Ingraham on a little tight end end a round to score a touchdown the first touchdown of the game. I think, and uh, well, you know what, that's funny you bring that up because the sarcastic remark I saw in one of the New York area newspaper was, yeah, he's getting a little bit more creative than Evan Ingram on a tight end to run. But I remember thinking of times you can't win, right. I remember thinking that.

When it happened, I'm like, oh, you can tell Garrett. Garrett has fired up about this return home. He wants to he hears all this love giving the Kellen Moore on his creative play calling and oh, man has got to be burning him up. Guys, that's funny that you brought that up. Bill. I'm sure like like jee stall Is said that just chaps my ass. Saying that with

that deep drawl of his. Uh you know brand yes, Chaps, And you know what the other thing um when we were talking about and not to go back to Jalen, but one of the other things I think we were pointing out without saying, you don't need a progress stopper. If he's not going forward, you don't want to stop somebody else. And I think the natural reaction from everybody was Okay, now we're going to see Jabril Cox. Well

McCarthy was asked about it. Yeah, And McCarthy was asked about it yesterday and he didn't give that a huge endorsement, like, oh yeah, now he's going to get a whole bunch of snaps. He basically said, well, yeah, he's getting better. Uh, And you know, it's there's a lot of competition to get on that forty eight man game day roster, and right now he's he's doing a better job on special teams. And he kind of left it at that, so there was no suggestion that suddenly Jabril Cox is going to

spring forward and be a starting linebacker. They like Layton Vanderish and I can't emphasize that enough. I like Layton Vanderish. Even when this season started. I said, you know, we don't know yet what Parsons is going to do, but this guy's the best linebacker on the team. And I think they finally coming around to that opinion of him.

That's the irony of what Layton is talking about. And he hurts because his friend is no longer on the team, But it's actually going to benefit Layton because now he's going to have more snaps. And you know, and the other thing is from a salary cap standpoint for next year, you know, they would like to resign him if they could afford him. They would like to resign Michael Gallup if they can Reford him. They would like to resign Randy Gregory if they can afford him. So you need

to start looking, as they said, big picture. It's not all about the cap now, it's about planning for the future too. And if you weren't going to keep him around, then there was no sense keeping him around in chance in the injury happening that would guarantee the contract next year. All right, time to take a another brook fin when you talk about no go ahead? Okay, sorry, all right? And Everson has something very very important, very import that he's about to say next here on shot big news. Gary,

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Very well done, once again, Mickey Spagnola. Okay, we have just about five minutes left here, and how about an update on the Lyle Collins situation. As I quit law school afterwar one a month because it gave you tired head, should be tired head. I cannot follow this and so Bicky, would you please? I'm reading as much as I can, and it sounds pretty confusing that you know they've had

an appeal going on. After the appeal was overturned by the NFL and ended up what was gonna be a two game suspension, they gave him a five game suspension, and now they're appealing to try to get him back as soon as possible, meaning to try to get back for those final two games. So I heard people saying, well, what's why go through the trouble. You already served three game suspension. You're probably even if they overturn it, you're

not playing this week. So that's like a four game suspension, and then you only got one game left after that, and then there's the buy you might not play until the next week. Well, here's the bottom line on this thing. Not only is he suspended, he is suspended without So there's a monetary figure in there that if I can get two more games of payback, Uh, then uh you know, I'll take that in a five file suit against the NFL, which I don't does anybody ever win that? Uh? Then

maybe I get all five games. And that's what they're after. So it's not so much Oh, they're helping out the cowboys. They're helping out the bottom line. Uh, And that's what this is all about right now. So it's in a court case now in Colin County. And the last thing I read the judge that was going to hear this was the judge that UM overturned the decision of the NFL on Ezekiel Elliott in twenty seventeen. I believe it

was yes, it was amos yes. And then that case ended up in some sort of appeals court in New Orleans and that and that court ruled in favor of the NFL, so his six game suspension withstood. So anyway, that's what's going on right now in the legal ease world. And I understand why Bill left the law for future. I wasn't in the law profession yet, literally literally, Everson. I made it through one month of law school without

ever getting called on in class, but I do. I knew it was gonna happen sooner rather than later, and so I better get out while they getting is good. And so I went to Lubbock, Texas and became a sportscaster, making making in twelve thousand dollars a year. Instead, after I retired, uh, I had an opportunity to be a you know, a money manager and get into all those stocks and all that kind of stuff sounded so sexy. You know, I'm back in the nineties, mid nineties, and

I had all kind of opportunities. They gave me a tutor and everything. I know numbers. You know, I'm a numbers guy. I think I took this Series six exam, it's what they call it. I flunked it twice, Bill, I funked it twice. Right, this is not for me. This is not for me. Oh, it was such a disappointment. That's one of the things I said, You know what, I think I dodged a bullet there, because I would

have been way over my head. It happens. I had a college roommate that flunked an accounting class twice, and he was taking it a third time, right, and it was the same professor, And before the final exam the professor, the professor called him in and said, look, can you just get a D. I'll give you a D and you can pass, okay, And I think he passed with the D the third time. Man, Sometimes numbers don't make sense to people. We all and we know our limitations.

Speaking of numbers done, do you know how much what what is lyles per game? That's what I didn't write down. But he's he's I think he's probably lost. Oh boy, it's got to be close to one hundred thousand, right, it's more. It's gotta be more than that. Two well, okay, I called up his called up his now his way salary. Okay, I mean, because I guess he redid his contract or it was part of his contract. He's at basically a veteran minimum amount one point one million. Yeah, but he's

probably already paid part of that, right, Okay. So basically, I mean at one point one million, that's like sixty two thousand dollars a game. So for five games, it's like three hundred and ten thousand dollars total, sixty four and four. So I mean you divide about eighteen weeks, now, don't you? Yeah, eighteen, I did seventeen, so you're right, yeah, so times four times five five weeks weeks? What did you get? It's three hundred ten thousand. Yeah. I was

gonna say two weeks. Okay, so you're you're in the ballpark, all right, Okay, yeah, so and two more. Now you're getting into four hundred thousand, right, Well, I mean no, it was sixty per per week. It was sixty thousand or so. Oh okay, based on the one point one million dollars salary whatever. Yeah, I mean it's significant. He's lost that much already. Yeah, and you would two more

weeks to go. No, No, that total was for a five Oh you get five okay, all right, So anyway, it's so it was about one hundred and eighty thousand. It is what a or close to one hundred and ninety thousand he's missed out on right now, right, So it's still so funny. He's a guy with that kind of talent and he's kind of making like obviously the minimum wage. So now, but he already got this signing making big money. No, he already made the big money.

He made the big money. That the way the contract for salary cap purposes, the contract is where he's got his bonus money and now the week to week he makes this. See, sometimes it's very profitable to restructure because you get your money ahead of time. Right, Like the when did he restructure last year? Maybe? Okay, I don't think it was this year, was okay, So it wasn't it was last year or it wasn't with this looming that Okay, we can maybe we can offset some of

this loomings been Yeah, well it's been looming since last year. Yeah, so there you go. That was added added incentive. You go ahead and restructure. Yeah, I mean, I'd like the rest of us that have to work for our money and then get paid. It's not like you need any incentive they're offering. I mean you've already you're getting the money. You're just getting it up front now, and so, uh, you don't need any more incentive than that. Yeah, I'll

I'll go ahead and take that money up front. Yeah, absolutely, all right, we're out of time on this sorrow. We're going to discuss maybe a little bit more on Dak returning to the scene the injury. Hey with the New York Giants in town? Who the team he got hurt against? And it's gonna be one year almost to the day. Three sixty five is tomorrow, right, three Sunday, No Saturday, because Sunday or Monday. Sunday would be a year and a day right now at Monday would be the anniversary. No,

it would be on the on the eleventh. But if you're counting days, right, sixty four days, three sixty five Okay, we'll figure that out by tomorrow at one thirty, last Sunday counted for our next edition. And Everson, we will see you tomorrow as well. And we missed you yesterday with your signature sign off as we come back tomorrow for another edition of mix Shots. Go Cowboys. Oh We're waiting for it. This has been a duction of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club