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he just took all the sentimentality out of it. Does I waken up on Sunday morning watch the Cowboys and you'd sing it? I know, I knew it. I knew it. You knew that, you knew the tune. Of course you knew the words too, of course I did. Oh man, didn't you go Cowboys go? That's all you knew? Did you have a loudspeaker outside and just wake up the name song? It's Cowboy time? Take me? It was at in Hamilton Park. Hamilton Park, Okay, So what was a

typical Cowboys Sunday like in Hamilton Park? Well, first you had to get him, go to church. Got a noon game? Yeah, noon game. You gotta go to church. Okay, Yeah, and you hope to preach us fast. Hope. He's church was close. Yes, I could walk to it a six houses down. All right, so you get home by noon. No, you wouldn't. Okay on twelve thirty, mate, it's a Baptist preacher. Man duck out. Yeah, but I had. My mom was there. She was the announcement.

My dad was a deacon. And everybody's neighborhood knows you. So if you sneak out, miss Jefferson, she would come, grab you by your ears, bring you back in. So come on, man, you have to stay. So you get home by the secretary probably around Yeah, okay, and what happened. I'm down, I'm sitting down. I'm not going anywhere. See, in our neighborhood and we get by the time halftime hit, we had the front yard where all the neighborhood kids would come. And by halftime of the Cowboy game on Sunday,

we're playing football in the front yard. Well, we don't go to the the front yard. We walk up to the school and just we had a big field up there, big field there. You go yeah, all right, so in tackle football, right of course. Of course, sometimes we wouldn't even go to the to the field. We're just do it right there in the street. Tackle football in the street.

That's right, that's real, that is real. I'm trying to remember. See, our church wasn't close, so we would want to sneak out after communion like that church is over now, we don't need the end part, right, And that didn't work so well because we you know, you never we weren't driving so and you're getting home to a Bears game anyway, So years I was getting home to a Packer, or if it wasn't the Bear, if the Bears game were on,

then I got the Packers. I pick up a radio station in Milwaukee, okay, and have both going at the same time, and I think that's radio. My mother's figured something's wrong with this kid. Okay, did you have a Cowboy's antenna? We had a Cowboys antenna. My dad had a Cowboy antenna on top of our house and it was held up by guide wires that were hooked to the fence. We had a we had it wasn't really a tornado, but it was a twister that gave through

one year and it blew our fences. Our Cowboy antenna was all over earth, and so we would have we would have people coming back like weeks later, Sad, I think this is party part cowboy an. So you didn't you didn't drive the tyler to be able to get far enough away and rent a hotel room. What a hotel room watching the game? No, No, where does that come from? Because you couldn't because the reason you had

a cowboy antenda where the game was blacked out. The home game was blacked out, and so you had a cowboy antenda to pick up the Tyler station or a Sherman station or something. Maybe maybe that's why we went to play football something that's right. Yeah, maybe that's what I couldn't watch. Yeah, I've had many people tell me that when they grew up, the parents and they would

drive the Tyler to watch the game. Well, and then sometimes the reception was snowy on that cowboy antenna, you know, and so I'd be listening on the radio and trying

to watch it. And to this day the five nothing playoff win over the Detroit Okay, to this day, I remember Verne Lunkist call on that on radio, saying after mel Renfrow intercepted the past to seal the victory, to beat the Lions five nothing, burn Lunk was said, listen to this loud house crowd roar, and so was one of my memories ninety seventy I think what was it. I think it was the nineteen seventies, nineteen seventy Okay, yeah, so anyway, you know he can't and that was back

in the I can you can't. I didn't know who the Cowboys were, you know, and Packers and Bears and Lions. Oh the Packers doing with the Cowboys were Okay, I've got to even try. I've got We're gonna jump into Cowboy. I got one more story to tell. Okay, you're talking about families going to Tyler and listening or watching a Cowboys game whatever, which is a great idea back then. Okay, this is embarrassing, but I'm gonna tell it anyway. My family,

of course, they were all Ou fans. Okay, when Barry Switzer got the job as the head coach of the of Ou okay, nineteen seventy three. Of course, OU was on probation, and so the games weren't televised and they played USC late on a SAT on a Saturday night at the coliseum in La We as a family drove, no, you didn't, drove to Durant, Oklahoma and sat in the parking lot because at night game you can't pick up the radio station and the day think you'd think it'd be,

it'd be the opposite. But whatever station carried it, the signal went down at nightfall whatever. So we drove to Durant, Oklahoma and sat in the parking lot because as the closest town that could get a radio station, okay, signal whatever. We sat as a family in the parking lot of a Gibson's store listening to the o U USC game in nineteen seventy three seven seven time station wagon. It was yeah, yeah, how many how many people? Actually that was? That was after the station one. We actually had a

Cadillac at one point. Now they can afford to go to Duran, Oklahoma, and it was an old Cadillac nine seventy three. It was a nineteen sixty six Cadillac. This brings it right back to the Cowboys. That was once owned by Clint Murkison. Wow, and he had taken all I guess he had cataracts or something. He had taken all the chrome off the Cadillac and so it was a very unique vehicle and off the cadile so that with the glare when the sun hit it would not

blinding whatever. So anyway, well, we had a fancy Chevy bell Lair for like fifteen years, I think, until the thing just fell The same year spast we were come driving up Shore Road in Hamilton Park. Sometimes I didn't think we'd make it. It just makes it when it makes that sound going up the hill, that's bad. I was just telling somebody the story about when it snowed, my dad could walk to work and he didn't have

to get there until nine o'clock. So when we had to actually walked to work in the snow, junior by both ways, everybody knew when everybody knew when it snowed that come over to our house, shovel the driveway, and you get a free ride tonight to school. Right, So we would pile in that car and the horn didn't work, so if somebody got in the way, you know those stupid those stupid horns you put on your bic Yeah, yeah, yeah, my dad would stick it out, and I'd be so embarrassed.

Everybody else is laughing him. It's like, damn sound it seems. I'm sure it's grown, you know, grown looking man. He's yeah, squeezing what kind of horn we had on ours? The horn played boomer sooner? Not really? All right? We got serious? All right? And are they gonna play any games this weekend? In the NFL last thing I read that there was some discussion going on about the Saturday games to see if they were going to postpone them to try to

get these teams and enough guys to play. Um, you know when the Giants, you know, we were talking about how many guys they had we're gonna be missing, and then I didn't realize, Um, they had a couple more. I think yesterday JR. Reid after the show of course, Natrelle Natrelle Jamison. But they also had two guys quarantined in Arizona when they had gone out on the West coast to practice. They play whatever their last two games were.

They played on the road at the Dolphins, and then they went straight they went in and practiced in Arizona before playing at the Charge, and those two guys got left behind in quarantine wesh offensive guard Martin. Yeah, West Martin and their quarterback coach shup Lynsky, they got left behind. Didn't let them back on the chiel and understand that, Hey Mack, Yes, Jay Glazier's reporting that the Cleveland Browns Vegas Raiders game has moved to Monday at four pm,

five pm Eastern time. So there you go. There you go to Monday. We hope, we hope, Yeah, you hope. I wonder if there's another one they were going to move, But yeah, that's so, I see it this time. Just ten minutes ago, Jay Glazier tweeted, Raiders players were just told their game has been moved to Monday, four o'clock Central time. So now they can leave the airport? Can they were supposed to play that was a Saturday game. Yeah, Raiders Brown were at the airport waiting to see if

they should catch the flight. Is that what Chris was saying earlier? That's why they had to go ahead? And yeah, the decision is made. Now they can go home, all right. He Prior to that, Glazier reported on Twitter that he had said that Raiders players don't want to move to Monday. Well, they didn't win that. So they're they're moving to Monday, and Eagles and Seahawks don't want to push to Tuesday.

But that's where it's headed. A whole lot of side pushes going back and forth, he said, so that you know, these postponements, they don't have a lot of days to work with, but they can push it back a few days and still manage to get the complete season in the Because so so they play Monday, if they get it in Monday, then they can come back and play on Sunday obviously. So it's like the locker rooms are like an incubator for this thing. It seems like it

seems like the entire facility. Yeah, yeah, this is crazy. I don't know what to I mean, we started postponing too much, Oh my goodness. I mean, just think about the people that made these plans. They've been having these plans for months and months and now one day off. You know, I was getting ready Since then, I'm sure it's gonna get even tighter on the charter. How many people are allowed. And I was thinking, I'm gonna go that Philadelphia game could mean something, right, I'm just gonna

book a flight and go. I don't know about that. You never know when they're gonna play the game, right, they said. The Seahawks and against the Rams were also being considered. By the way kayum is today. Remember that old movie sci fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still? Yeah, that was that was That was when the Pelicans played right. So when the NBA shut everything down, that's when everybody knew that it was real. That was the last time

we had something like that. So the Washington Washington as of last night had twenty one players in COVID protocol and and they added, uh, both quarterbacks are now in and so they signed Garrett Gilbert off the Patriots practice squad. And they also well, as Mike McCarthy we taped the Mike McCarthy Show this morning, and as Mike mentioned, um, the one thing about well, obviously he has a lot of respect for Garrett Gilbert, he saying Garrett is one

quarterback who could handle it. The other part of it is he was with them in Carolina and so he has a little familiar with it with the offense. They also signed h Kyle Schermer to the practice squad. Oh no, they signed they can sign. He was from the practice He was already he would be more likely he would be the one to start against philadelph And they signed Jordan Tamu to the practice Okay, another quarterback, yeah, right, so they it's like two more quarterbacks coming. So they've

got three there now they've got Shermer Gilbert and Tom Who. Yeah, okay, with both quarterbacks out now heinekey And but when you got twenty one, Cleveland had to do the same thing. They signed Kyle Letta off of Jacksonville's practice squad d and Clinton. They also signed Nick Mullins. I think Nick Mullins was already there. Oh, okay, so he's gonna be the starter. Yeah, they signed him to the fifty three. Yeah, this is crazy, unbelievable. Um, well, there's good news for

the Cowboys. As of right now, it looks like there are no people after the show. I'm sure after the show Cedric will Silson was cleared, so he's off reserve COVID. Wow, they didn't have anybody else totally. In the other direction, it's amazing you can play the game and not catch it. If you can play against the team that has like twenty something playing well and positive and don't catch and that's what they've said all along in this doctors have

said going into last football season. I remember there was a huge debate going into the college football season last year, and you know, it was safe to be playing, and um, the doctors, most doctors that I had listened to back then, they said, you're fine on the football field. The problem like for colleges is or their dorms or you know, if they're places were yeah. Yeah. So so that was the biggest thing that was yeah, or you're just and you're in confined area. Well, even talking to one you

think about it. From this standpoint, the CDC, as far as schools are concerned, the CDC regulations on it throughout last school year were you were considered a close contact if someone had a positive test, if you were in a classroom within six feet of a fellow student for at least fifteen minutes. And so it's not like passing in the hallway. It's more when you are in a meeting. And that's what the NFL is staying with right now, where it's over a sustained period of time that you

were around someone. And that's why I think the last year of the yoke, the yoke, the joke was and I think I wrote this maybe one time that the Cowboy defenders had in no jeopardy of catching this because they were never never six feet to anybody with the football. Not this year said we are different. So I got a question for you, Mack so and Bill. Actually, so they're thinking about moving the Washington football team and fill it to Tuesday. The next Washington's next opponent is US, right,

would they would they consider moving that game to a Monday. No, No, They're gonna have to play on a short week, because that's what they're all the road, you know, so that the good I know it's a short I know it's Baltimore did yeah, Baltimore, just like last year with with Baltimore where they shifted them around and as soon as they can they have well I guess the norms Tuesday

against Baltimore. Yeah, that's right. And uh and then we turned around and played on Sunday, right, yeah, And so I mean I think that they would go off the same schedule as what you see on a Sunday Thursday game. You know, it's been proven that teams can play with three days in between, and that's probably the lead. I'm obviously clearly, that would be the least amount of time that you and if I remember correctly, last year when they moved that game to Tuesday, Cowboys had to play

Sunday and Baltimore had to buy. So the Cowboys got punished for what Baltimore did. Well, the whole league is getting punished. Really. Yeah, that's and that's the way they're going to look at it, no matter what individual team has to go through. What that's what the game's Cowboys won last year the game, Yeah, they did another quarterback.

The most significant thing though that came out of the memo that was sent to the league teams yesterday is the return to play protocols, which give a vaccinated player the ability to come back, and that's probably why Cedric Wilson is able to come back as soon as he has from it. A vaccinated player can test positive asymptomatic test positive on one day and as long as he

tests negative the next day, he can return to work. Right. So, as opposed to the previous protocols was that you had to have two negative tests over twenty four hour time period. So the Giants role call for COVID reserve Darius Tony, Aaron Robinson, Dori Jackson, Cam Brown, John ross O'shan zoom innes H Jr. Nutrelle Jamison, and West Martin along with the assistant coach and so Xavier McKinney is not listed on that he was he was out of practice because

he was a close contact unvaccinated. Okay, close contact unvaccinated, so is he So he's in jeopardy of not getting back in time. And they have breaking news from Jason lockinfora that Chris Beam has just passed along to me. The Eagles and Washington football team moved to seven pm on Tuesday six. That would be six o'clock Dallas time on Tuesday, or at least we're getting out of this information while we're on the end. Yeah, which where are they at? The game's at at Phillip Philly. Okay, so

Washington's got to travel, go home and then travel. But they can take the train to Philadelphia. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, training for all and there's only there's how many players on a roster, well you got it. He's had fifty three minus twenty one. They only have thirty two players traveling anyway, So I'm joking. So they can get they could get on the owner. You know what you get call ups for COVID. Yeah, that's right, the whole practice squads.

Everybody's gonna make some money. And you uh, difference between making like six twenty how many can you sign off of their team's practice squads? Now, but the rules on the practice squad, if you sign someone off another team's practice squad, you got to keep them for three weeks, right, so you would have a yeah inability to yeah acquire players. That way, you can bring your own up, not not somebody else's. And that's why they expanded the practice squad

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A fanatics experience. All right, is there other news that you have for us, Mickey, Well, since we need to know what the Cowboys procedure was. Today they had their team meeting virtually. Mike McCarthy said that the team would show up at eleven o'clock, they would go through what they normally do on Friday, their mock games, so it's a walkthrough, and then the players would return home and

they would finish the meetings virtually. Once again, asked for an injury update, and I think we talked a little bit about it yesterday. They listed after the show was over, but I told you he was going to do something. Tony Pollard was limited. Mike McCarthy said that he was able to take all the assigned reps that he had coming up and seemed to get through it, but he wouldn't know for sure until he saw him at eleven o'clock and we were talking to him at ten thirty.

Who else, DeMarcus Lawrence limited. They said he tweaked his foot in practice, so he didn't finish the whole thing, but it was more precautionary. Obviously, Tyrann Smith is out for the game. We knew that and fully practicing. Ezekiel Elliott, Kelvin Joseph had an illness not COVID related. You can still get sick with something else in this country. So

he didn't practice, but they expected him back. Sean McEwan, the tight end missed last week with the neck injury, is back and I think from an injury stamp point that probably does it. So Joseph has a new CD out. That guy's always got something, doesn't he. I told you when he came out, look forward to him more he hits. So and evidently they've got to stay in this virtual mode mood mood too, right through the weekend and then

Monday they'll see what's coming up next. So and when they go on the road, they're in full COVID protocol. At the hotel, no visitors, no going out to dinner, got to stay in the hotel. So and it includes the travel party. Also everybody else in the tier one, tier two on the charter flight got to stay at the hotel. The other thing, as it relates to the new protocols that the NFL has notified teams about, is they also have a more precise way of tracking the

viral load in players. That is enabling them to get players back quicker quicker according to their medical advice. And it's too complicated for me to say exactly to stand or relay, but there's a certain level thirty five or higher that you have to reach on the test where it's deemed that you aren't contagious anymore. And so uh, and this is something that the league. The league is quick to say that they are not relaxing their rules.

They are just able to be more precise in their gauge of where the where the players are who test positive. That's what you call a pivot, which is what they play. And that's why they made the when they made the rules, uh, to begin with, they said that we reserve the right to pivot. So that's what they've done. And then the other his other concern going up to the Metal Lands was the wind. They're supposed to supposed to be a pretty windy day, twenty miles an hour, gusting more than that,

basically be outside. He was talking, he was talking about that. His number one he thinks the number one whether event that affects the game is the wind. He said. You can deal with the rain, you can kind of deal with snow, but when you get the wind, especially at Giants stadium, as Everson knows when they used to open up that door. That yeah, absolutely, uh And you know what, uh,

Simins I mentioned the meadowlands and the giants. Uh. I was working on my column for today on Michael parsons Um comparing his rookie year to Lawrence Taylor's rookie year. I guess I didn't realize that Lawrence Taylor's rookie year was Everson Walls rookie. Yes, I I didn't realize that was his Before you continue, nineteen eighty one was considered the best defensive class in the history of the draft. Kenny Easily, he was one of the best players wasn't drafted.

That's right, Michael Down's and yo. So I wrote this down somewhere, and I don't think I have it with me because it was something else I was working on. But so, Lawrence Taylor was set, I think, uh to George wad Rogers, the running back South Carolina, Kenny Easley was like fourth, I think so for the Heisman. Yeah, Hugh Green was in that draft, and there was another defensive player, Ronnie Lott was eighth. Yeah. Uh So Mike

Singletary lasted till the second round. Because he wasn't big enough, and Howie Long was in the third round, so he yeah, and he gets the MVP right in nineteen eighty one Defensive MVP, Defensive MVP, Rookie of the Year, um and and then and I didn't realize this. Also in eighty six, when he was the NFL's Most Valuable Player, he was only the second and still is only the second defensive player to win that award, the first nineteen seventy one Alan page Alm. How about that. Wow, it's good stuff.

Good stuff there comes up that stuff. So did you when you gave your report about the Giants, did you have their injury report from today? I do? Okay, so no, no, not today. I got today yesterday because they did update it and I ran out of time. Okay, I've got today's and out. Are we already knew? A Dory Jackson was out by Aaron Robinson. Another cornerback is has been ruled out. He's on COVID. Also um Stehton Parker, Reggie Raglan.

They were two defensive players that didn't practice yesterday. The here's what they've got listed, Okay, questionable. Our defensive lineman Austin Johnson with a foot and he's he plays regularly wide receiver Sterling Shepherd calf And this is significant defensive lineman Leonard Williams, who has a triceps injury. They had feared he got hurt last week, right, they had feared that he might be lost for the season. He's listed

as questionable for the game Sunday, So there's sagging. Well, he's a guy, he's a guy that doesn't a long time. So those are that's the latest as far as significant players. I saw a quote in the Bergen Record one of their defensive coaches. I don't know, I don't think it was the court. It might have been the defensive back, the secondary coach. They said, well, who's going to be playing, you know, in the secondary and he goes, it will

be somebody with a blue helmet on. That was his answer. Thanks, So, And you know, Mike was asked that question, is it hard to prepare for a team when you don't know exactly the personnel you're you're playing against? And uh, you know, he says, we're We've got guys looking for information, the updates, kind of kind of counting on you guys to figure that out for us. You can't be anything significant. Yeah, right right, I mean I'm not saying it there that Sally,

but i mean, well they get your injury report today. Yeah, I mean, you just go out there and play. You can't be worried about all of this. What kind of you worry about yourself? You worry about yourself if you're going to study anybody, you study the other coach, and he was talking about December football and how it was important to technique and execution. That's what that's what we've

been saying. Because everybody gets to this point in the season and you're backing off on practice, especially this year, right the last two years, and with all the rules, um so, yeah, the execution becomes vitally important to get themselves out of this little bit of a downturn in the offense. And then just don't make mistakes in the

red zone. And that's where you start right there. Don't make mistakes period right now trying If you start going with turnovers, you just can't give them any type of spark. And and basically, in this day and age, a sack it ends up centered seven or ten yards, right, or a drop pass it's like a turnover because you're you're killing that possession. Yeah, because it's so hard to come back, you know, you get into third and fifteen and they

don't have that play on that call sheet. Well, we're blessed that we have a defense, right if it can remain consistent. Now we have everyone back, and I hope that's I hope by having everyone back in the timing of it all with the Washington performance that we had, I'm hoping that is a sign that this is this is going to be out MO for the rest of the year, and we're going to be consistent with that.

Because we have all our players back, you don't have to fill in for anyone and those that do come back, this is gonna make us stronger. Did you see the Chiefs Chargers game last night? I was just gonna bring that's going to do. Yeah. I love the interview Travis Kelsey did with Michael Irvin after the game. I missed that. And Uh, he was talking about fans or media or whoever dissing one five Patrick Mahomess saying that he was

in a slump and uh. And he's basically said, and I think he's out of this slump when quote unquote slump or whatever, and Uh, but it's you know, Kansas City went through a lull in NUR season Offensive League and they're back getting on a roll again. They had some lulls in that game. You know what, if you see, if you look at that game, you had some moments there that you had to scratch your head with with with Mahomes himself, what kind of throw was that? You

know what I mean? Not just one throw? I saw about four throws that I go, Okay, that looks very dak like. You know what I'm saying, Not that this he's typical of being inconsistent, but where it comes out of nowhere. You know, you know he's better than that. And Mahomes did that about four times. How about the one? How about the one that he tried to throw it so quick? It wasn't one, It wasn't on hand and his feet his feet? Was that it was a fourth down? Was it a pass? Yes? It was a pass? Or

a fumble? No? No, no it was Did he lose control of Troy made a big deal about him not having the hands off the races on the basis that was on the end of the football. Had it, No, No, he had it. He had style. Next time was it completed? No, it went five yards and was it recovered forward? No one hit him? No one hit him. You can you can fumble without being hit. That was no fumber. He had the ball in his hand. No, he just grabbed it ugly. That's a grip. He didn't have the proper grip.

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Was at the Washington Philadelphia Okay, Washington, Philadelphia's four o'clock Tuesday, Seahawks Rams at six o'clock Tuesday, six o'clock Central or their Central time. Yeah, I've been one something to do on the Tuesday too. Yeah, this is great. Plus there's no one. Plus the voice is over so can't even watch that. Yeah, I'm loving this because if there's bowl games going on, those are really bad bowl games. They really played this time of the year. So yeah, hey, wait,

what's that who they playing? Army? Oh? How's your run defense? It's that option? Terrible they'll get You can have a good run defense and still not with the heck you're doing against an option? Uh, you don't have them in the right place. Yes, it is Brad Shamonai. Yes, what you're doing the game? No, we're going what what about mix shots? What's that? What's what about MiG what? Oh it's a night game. Okay, all right, nick shots will

get done on Tuesday. All right, Uh, kind of time for our picks, I think, Yeah, we got five minutes left here. Time flies. We were talking about Cowboy in tens and stuff. Um, all right, so Everson, you're on the clock. All right, I'm on the clock. Pick the click. Of course, I have Cowboys winning. I think we're gonna win big. Uh. God. Every time I say this, we have a problem. But I'm gonna trust them this time, especially with our defense. I'm not depending on my offense.

I'm looking at thirty one to ten. Oh that's close. Close, Yeah, I got that I'm with is bad and considering the defense is gonna be bawling. And this guy, he's been just very consistent all year long, along with pauses, jay ViOn Curse. I'm looking at him to have ten plus tackles this game and that's not out the ordinary for him. But Nicol but one forced fumble, no interception with a

forced fumble, all right. So I had already written down somewhere just to prove it to you guys, but I don't know where I did it, thirty four or here it is. I changed my mind because I had thirty four seventeen, and after I did my fan update, I decided thirty four ten boys, And I was torn between Ceedee Lamb because I don't think they're going to have enough defensive backs to cover the slot. They never have. And then I was thinking, but wouldn't this be cool?

With all this talk about lt and Parsons, that Parsons goes up there and balls out with the name of Lawrence looking down on him. So I think I'm gonna go with Parsons, who said, do you think you might be able to maybe meet Taylor at the game? He said, I'd take a picture, all right, So I'm going with Michael Parsons. Okay, Mike Glennon starting at quarterback for the Giants in this game. His career record as a starter is six wins and twenty three loss and still in

the league. So you're still going with the Giants. Ever, Sin, what teams did you play for in the National Football League? Uh? In this order? Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, and Cleveland Browns. All right, the Cowboys are playing the New York Giants. And how many interceptions does Trayvon Diggs have currently? He has nine picks, one behind Melvin Floe and then two behind who Everson Walls? In this game on Sunday, Trayvon Diggs gets two picks. But my name is not in

the rafts anywhere to equal Everson Walls. The former Cowboy and former Giants eleven picks in a season. They will all remember me at one moment, I like that. Okay, So how about how I was able to weave this into my column that'll go up here in a couple of hours, pointing out that what Micah Parsons is doing has brought up what Lawrence Taylor did and we were reminded of how good he was. And I said, sort of like what Trayvon Diggs is bringing up Everson Walls

Day for the Hall of Fame voters. Well, when you think about it, it's it's the span of years, right, something is people last that long? Must have been pretty damn good, you know if I him for Lawrence Taylor to do something like he did back then and we really forgot about it. Yeah, we knew he was great, but to get Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. So his rookie year was forty years ago, right, Both guys their birthdays, Lawrence Taylor's forty years older than

Michael Parsons. Laws Saylor's May twenty six, not the same day that same year. Okay, forty years are you going to go off? Right? Yeah? How do I know that Michael Parsons birthdays May twenty But I can tell you that Lawrence Taylor's birthdays April twenty eighth. How about that? How do you know that? I looked it up? You know how I know Michael Parsons is May twenty six. That's yours, that's mine? Nice? Nice, Hey, you gotta get me a school. I know I do. Yeah. I think

he didn't care juthing. But it took so long to get to a word. Smith. So what was your number? Thirty one to know? What was your number? Okay for the Cowboys and Nose twenty four, twenty eight? What was he eight with the Giants and Browns? Twenty eight with the Giants and Browns. Okay, So final score? I was gonna say twenty four to seven, but I'm gonna go twenty eight to seven. The Cowboys win eight because Trayvon's number seven and ever that's cool, that's very No. No,

I'm gonna change it. What's twenty four plus twenty eight? That's what I thought he was? Two? Fifty two seven? Fifty two to seven is the final? Connor Williams, Trayvon did there? You go fifty two to fifty two to seven and Connor Williams will start at fullback or left guard. I put my money on left guard, and I put my money on what you've seen in Connor McGovern starting at fullback, starting at fullback, so the first play. No I didn't say that, Yeah you did. Oh yeah you did.

I meant he'll start first, start first time he comes into the Yeah, starting off at fullback. Yes, okay, alright, alright, got all the information documented right here, guys, So jumbo package there you go. Might need some more blockers out there, right, let's go get them. Yeah, but more blockers that can block. Yeah, we don't need just more blockers. They need to know how to block. No more big guys, right, and then Terrence Steele needs the step up and you are going

the game. I am not. You're not going. You don't get the free medium pepsi that the Giant fans. Yes, yeah, all fans get a free medium medium medium. So clear about medium unless large is really who goes medium. Well that's why they got all those medium cups because nobody gets me get that. You're back in the day, they would have just given you a free can. Right now. We can't trust people with a can in their hands, especially all right, So that would and will the Cowboys

benches be there, Mike. Mike from Reserve the Right, Washington. No, I don't think the giants pulled tricks like that. That only happens in Washington. They do, but they superstition. Maybe they couldn't. They hadn't know what it No, you know, last week the Cowboys the week before Seattle, the benches didn't warm. It didn't work, and so they warned the

cowboys that, you know, you might think about this. So they found that cold they sound and found some company in Ohio and they put the logos all over the bench. McCarthy didn't know about it, right, And somebody somebody said here, look, Eddie goes, Oh, how did I miss that? He's concentrated, right, I like that. Yeah, But they were warm, and so somebody said, well, maybe Washington bring their benches here. It's like, well, bring them, it's not that cold. It's like seventy two degrees.

And in the forties I think on some okay, the forties where no, no, I'm talking in New York, New York. But Washington, come in here. It's going now. That's what they said in Washington, bring their their benches here. It's like, yeah, go ahead, they won't work. They're too cheap to do it. They wouldn't even turn the hot water on for the Cowboys in the seventies in the locker room. Well, hopefully the game will be played at noon on Sunday, And

Trayvon Diggs was your pick to click? Because yeah, yes, yeah, two picks, two picks to pass time. Everson the former Cowboy and Giant and beat every other cornerback who has ever played since nineteen eighty one? How about that? That is amazing? And did the quarterbacks get better? Has his play? That's right? There you go. That's the King said, all right. And if he breaks it, Hamilton Parkle, come, that's right,

that's right. Okay, it doesn't. For this edition of Mike Shots, we will shout at you again on Monday at one thirty, Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.