Mick Shots: No Bullying Around

It's the road to recovery. It's not exactly as soon as I toss it to Mickey here, I'm gonna hit my cough button and we'll be able to improve it even more. But it's Bill Jones, it's Everson Walls. Inside the studio, into the satellite center we go and it's the playoff satellite Sentlly Off and Mickey Spagnola. I'm gonna hit my cough but Mickey, you talk. I can hear you. I can hear you loud and well. So we're doing really well so far. You're just next door. Sometimes I

should say this afternoon. Yes, I think I'm better when I'm in a hotel room in Vegas than than you are. My WiFi is better here yeah, that's crazy. Nicky's got his playoffs. It looks like, oh, is that what it is? Yeah? Yeah, unready if you want to talk there, Bill, Sorry, yeah, yeah sorry. Nicky's got his playoff vest On. It appears now he looks. I am ready. What's Pinocchio's father? That's what That's what it looks like. All right. There was

an alarming site. I think an encouraging site, but it might be alarming to son some that when I walked into the Star today I saw football players on an outdoor practice field. Ooh, that's a miracle night and with and with pads on. All right, that was the first question Everson had for me. And that's a great place to start. Yes, it is. So the padded practices, the amount of padded practices they can have. Does it start over again once the postseason starts? Maybe you get one

a week. I think that's what I'm thinking. You come on with spags. You gotta do better than that. Man. I could have said that that BA, even even if you're not sure, Mickey, Yeah, you're supposed you're supposed to say yes, they get one more each week. If I'm not mistaken, Yeah I did. I didn't mean that they could get multiple. I guess what I meant to say is you get one a week as long as you continue to play. Now you go there, you go, all right,

you just made it sound like you were uncertain. Okay, so do it during the season they're doing the season, they get how many total doing the season? Thirteen? Yeah, I believe it was thirteen over the course of the season. But you couldn't save them up to the last month, so then you use them up at a certain period of time. So on average, Uh, it's not even one per per week. Thirt You have eighteen weeks in a season and you get a man that that. But my

NFL Players Association, they are really doing that job. Yeah, leave man back in the day. They would probably make us practice two days for the rest of the week, rest of the season, every day. Well, maybe that's why I maybe that's why I read today that an average number of points per game have gone down this year. Interesting? Interesting, Well what practice? Well, it doesn't mean the offense has the advantage. Shouldn't they have the advantage? Or should the

defense have the advantage? I mean, should be should be more scores, more more points? You know, that's interesting that that they're early in the season, it seemed like we had higher scoring games than pat previous seasons. But you're saying that at the end of the season. Scoring went down this season for the entirety of the season, Yeah, like one point did one point? So defensively we finally caught up. Yeah, there you go. Defense, we might be done,

but we're not stupid. So it's an average of one point per game. It went down scoring in the league. That's because as the season went along, defenses started figuring out these offenses. It wasn't just in Dallas that that happened. It happened across the league, right Mickey, You know though, I yeah, and I read where possibly the number last lear was higher because there were no fans in the stands, or it was easier on offenses on the road. Interesting,

very good spats, I think. So then so then you're thinking that if you go NBA, so then the bronze championship start. The real argument here, so being being in the being in the bubble that was that was a astick championship. I think it had more to do with the fact that players didn't have an off season and much of a training camp, and it was more seven on seven. Interesting, that's my theory on there you go.

What are you all right? Mickey? As for as for the rest of As for the rest of practice, yes, the Cowboys did the same thing today as they did yesterday. They started off outside, did their individual work, the position work, and then they went indoors for the rest of practice. So taking eyeballs off the practice, I would imagine. Uh. And the entire roster was at practice. Uh so Uh. Jay Ryan Kers returned. We'll find out how much he did.

It sounded like in Mike's press conference that they were going to kind of regulate his snaps and see how he was doing. Nashan Wright returned to practice. He missed yesterday for personal reasons, evidently the birth of his child. So he's back in. Yeah. And then they had guys that were limited. But they were limited I think more so just out of precautions. One of those Tyrant Smith. But Mike said he has no doubt that he'll be

ready to go. And oh, I know it was Wunda Wells, the tight ends coach, was out in COVID protocol from yesterday's practice. So we'll see just when he can get back in, depending on I mean, when he got it right, he's got to do the five days, and they didn't practice Monday, they didn't practice Tuesday, So depending on when he first tested, he could be back in time for the game. Excellent, all right. You know we talked about this. You know, Bill wasn't part of this private conversation that

you and I had yesterday's Spags. He wasn't worthy. But we talked about how important it is for the players to stay on the roster, and I know we kind of touched on it in previous podcast. But with the playoffs as important obviously as they are, cowboys have a chance to do something they really haven't done in a long time with the kind of talent that they have. With COVID going around, I mean, just the way it's

going around and causing people to miss days. Even though you might be vaccinated and boosted and all of that, you still may have to sit out some days and you might actually miss a playoff game. So the question is what the heck do we do with our families. What do I do if I have kids at home, they go to school, and if they bring it home and they might infect me and I miss a game.

An important playoff game. Is this a time for especially some of the starters on the team, the ones that I really get a lot of playing time, do they isolate from their own families? I think that that's a very good idea. Short of you know those machines they sell at the store, you can shrink wrap stuff and

then freeze it like food. Short of shrinking. Yes, get into the hotel and it sounds like, you know, just kind of what we're hearing, uh that you know some of the players are utilizing that, but i'd have them all in there. Yeah in line, man. That's that's something that you know, we talk about the bubble with the NBA and and and how well that worked out for them to finished the season with very few people sneaking out. I think they had uh Lemon pepper Lou Williams, you

heard that little term. And you heard that term. Lou Williams. You know, he's a six Man of the Year. He decides to try to sneak out during the first days of the bubble. Yeah, and he goes to uh this popular script join in Atlanta. Yeah, and they and he doesn't sneak out. He takes pictures with everyone on social media so and he was talking about how good the lemon pepper wings. Okay, so they stuck all them sometimes, those limon pepper wings. Yes, the lemon pepper lewis what

they called him. That's his name. So we don't want the lemon pepper LUs about here, spags. We want some guys that are committed to staying you know, isolated and could have a big chance to play, or like the guy in the guy in training camp last year that when or in twenty twenty when they were secluded in training camp tried to dress up his girlfriend as a player and sneaker in the camp that was that was

in Seattle? Wasn't Seattle? I think? Yeah, uh, all right, One thing I do wonder and we'll never know the answer to this because it's all behind the scenes. But you know, the um uh the NFL has it's been now for about a month's time. They changed the testing protocols and so forth where in line with the CDC and and made it a five day time period instead of ten days and so forth, and for vaccinated or unvaccinated players. The random testing element of it um which

it was prevalent throughout the regular season as well. I wonder how much of the random testing is going on in the postseason or if players are basically just being tested now if they have SIMP Well, I thought the last time, last thing I read the random testing that was going on with the vaccinated players. Maybe the unvaccinated are they still getting tested? Am I Okay, we have

maybe on the unvaccinated. Yeah, but but a guy like Amari Cooper, since he UH tested positive is not for a ninety day period, he's not subject to that even though he's he's may to be known that he's unvaccinated.

But maybe for the vat for the unvaccinated. But the large, large, large percentage of players are vaccinated, and they were random testing vaccinated players in the regular season, I wonder if that's continued in the postseason, just because there's so much at stake in the postseason, why wouldn't they randomly do unvaccinated test unvaccinaed well if unvaccinated or having to do it on a on a daily basis, unless they've tested positible.

I think that's what makes me say Anyway, I just wonder if if it's little random testing is to the same level as it was in the regular season, just because there's so much at stake in the postseason. Well, they just better be glad they're not playing the Super Bowl in Australia. That's a good So is it time for a big shot? Yeah? Whatever you want. That seems like a real good jump off right there. I got things to say about the Djokovic. No, it's not it's

no right, no vac Oh my god. All right, Um, Internet is undefeated, jay Ron Curse is back right, nicky, Yes, And I think that's yes, And that's uh. I think that's very significant, especially uh playing this team and how the Cowboys have played their defense. A guy that, uh can you know, help out against the run. But take on a tight end like Kittle and I'll tell you what,

Killer is gonna be a tough handle regardless. I mean Jay Roun, he's a good man to man, but Kittler is an extremely exceptional route runner for a tight end. He's got quick feed, he's out, he's got wide receiver's feet. You know, when I played cornerback back in the day, there's no way a tight end was gonna beat me. I remember Garden Keith Jackson back to Bloomer wore him out. So that that's what happened when a cornerback covers a

tight end? These days a little bit more difficult. As much as they were extremely talented tight ends back in the day, you would have problems as a cornerback with some of these tight ends. Uh. And even Jay run is a capable safety, he's gonna have his issues. But uh, I think with guys like jay n I'd like to ask you, how do vaccinated players feel after they've gotten COVID? Uh? Especially seemed like this lighter COVID. Michael Parsons answered that question.

Didn't he micking? He did? And if I remember correctly, what he said was, at this point, he feels fine, right, right, And he said it, and it's different for different people, whether I mean, I mean I'm amongst vaccinated people, It's going to be different for different people, but I mean he basically described it as a as a as a common cold, the symptoms that he had, right, and he feels like he actually feels like he's refreshed now and feels like he's coming off a bye week like and

when he came off a bye week in the regular season, he did pretty well, didn't he make it look pretty good to me? He was rejuvenated. So then if you have we could get into I was gonna ask if you have you have fresh legs versus whatever. The leftover is the carryover from getting this mild strain. Well, and like I say, I think it's different for it. I can tell you myself, this was before everyone could get vaccinated.

I had COVID back in last February and um and I felt a fatigue or a muscle fatigue for over a three week period then. And there have been there have been professional athletes who have said that same thing. I remember last seastin no, no, I'm talking to the original strain. And I remember Miles Garrett. He got it during the season last year twenty twenty, and he talked about how he couldn't get his breath the rest of the season. Remember, tell them with the Boston Celtics the

same thing. But I have not heard with the with the omicron uh that you know, it's been milder symptoms for everybody. I've not heard any players talk about how how they're really dealing with it over the cab, the leftover effect of it. So so you're saying we got a fresh leg Michael Parton Parson Mica seems to think he's he's you know, one rare and guess so, yeah, you get it, you get it, you get the guys right and you get too, you get two days, risk get you get some damn. But he didn't get the

NFL rookie sack record. Damn. Yes, good thing. There was no incentives tied to it, right, all right? Did you uh did you catch before you hit that break? Did you catch what Parson's response was when uh he was asked about San Francisco kind of bullish uh running attack? Yes, and he was a Let's let's talk about that when we come back. Let's let's talk about that when we come back here. Okay, yeah, all right, because I want

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like we've got to white on the Yeah. No, Actually, I just came from my foundations called Etho's Education. We mentor kids and in uh this Frisco school district. So I just came from mentor some kids um at one of the Frisco high schools and just decide to wear my gramling thing, you know, in case they wanted kind of go to school. Well, hey, g right there there you go. I did a little recruiting, did a little recruiting. All right, very good. Um you like the new coach

I do? Yeah, I mean, come on, you got Hugh Jackson. I mean that's to me, that's major. I'm just glad these guys are coming back helping these young kids. And you know, talking about mentoring, you know the impression of a former NFL head coach that that you can make it an HBCU. I mean we know what but uh prime is doing in at Jackson State. But man, Hugh Jackson, can you know he's not he doesn't have the glamor name but you know his mission there, uh could be

so important. You know for the HBCU kids. You know what we need. We need a network TV contract. That's what we need. That's exactly what we need. And I promise you somebody like Dion coming in. You also have Eddie George there. You have Eddie Robinson Junior in no relation to Eddie Robinson himself, but he's at Alabama A and M, which I'm sorry Alabama State which was his album model. And all these pros going back showing these young kids how to do it. And they're not passing

up the HBCUs to go polifive or whatever. They're starting at the ground boost level. Great stuff. I'm talking week league game or more more than that. You know, We're promise you. People are talking about that. That's right, that's what needs to happen. All right. Last segment, we were talking about the padded practice rule and yes, in the postseason. Chris Beam has handed me a copy of the official

NFL Practice Rules. Section one. Clubs participating in the postseason may hold one padded practice per week on a day of the clubs choosing commencing with the week following the club's last regular season game. During the regular season, clubs get fourteen practice padded practices over the course of the eighteen week season. Eleven of those fourteen have to be used the first eleven weeks of the season. Okay, So that means you only have three padded practices over the

course of the last seven weeks of the season. And then the other thing that's interesting, Mickey, the prohibited drills. This is throughout the season, whether it's training camp or whenever. Prohibited drills include bull in the ring, King of the Circle, drills are the Oklahoma drill, offensive line versus defensive line, in line run blocking and board drills, and half line pods and three spot drills. Each is to find an article twenty three sections, so it's in there in the rules.

No Oklahoma drills, you know what though, So how nice of them. So when we said Bill that they only got thirteen, we forgot there was an extra game this year, so that meant they got fourteen padded practice. Could you imagine how much energy I would have had after practice if that's the schedule. I'm getting so much trouble, you know, I just really would look at those Dalla caps. Back

in the day, the Raiders too. Wow, man, you look at it, especially if you're a really night the Giants Ltmagic letting LT run around in New York after having the kind of practices that we have right now, you know, he never would have made it to the end of his career, never would have made never been in the whole thing, you know what though, and he hardly made it to practice on anyway. There are some teams that do these drills during games though. That would be you know,

like the Olcloma drill. What what's the Olclomo drill? It consists of you said, two backs, right, yeah, and once likes like a two on one blocking scheme and you have to fight off a blocker to get to the running back whatever player. Mickey, that's kind of the run scheme that Kyle Shanahan has with the Bullies from the Bay San Francisco for you know, they'll take that George Kittle they're tied end that you're you know, you think

about him being a receiving tight end. Mike McCarthy talked about the fact that he's an all around player and you'll see him go in motion and he's a lead blocker along with Kyle Juice tech who is their Pro Bowl, multiple time Pro Bowl fullback, that they create two on one, three on one blocking schemes against linebackers like Micah Parsons, who Mickey is not about to be bullied around by anybody, isn't.

He's He's absolutely amazing how he comes up with this stuff at the spur of the moment and yesterday's media session, uh, he was asked, somewhat tongue in cheek, uh, if you could bull a lion, right, because because they're there, they talk about being a bullyball offense. And by the way we talked, we talked about him being a lionbacker like a month ago, right, somebody somebody stole it in the paper the other day and it's like, yeah, he's a lionbacker.

It's like, hey, you're late to the scene. But anyway, so anyway, his response to if you can bully a lion, uh goes like this, No, you can't. It's actually funny you say that. I was having fun with the guys and I was telling them, I'm from Harrisburg, where the bullies get bullied. You know what I'm saying. There's a bully in every gym, there's a bully everywhere you go, but at one point it's going to take someone to

stand up and you fight. And I've never backed down from a challenge, so I would say, never say you could bully a lion. And ever, how about instead of what the bullies from the bay, what about bombs from the bay. That sounds a little bit better. We need to send them out of here as bombs. They need to leave it, come in, bullies, leave his bumbs? How about that? All right? Bulletin board material from coming here,

I'm talking to. All they gotta do is show that down big play up there and it's like as tall as this building. Hey, what's the over run? What's the over under on that play? And showed in the broadcast on Sunday? You know, I don't, I don't know. I think it's kind of played out for this generation, so to speak. That's why it needs to be shown again. Yeah, that's sav producer will say that. Yeah, yeah, somebody some old dude bills age Jim Nan is my age? Jim, like, hey,

can we que that up? Romo probably was like what are you talking? You know? You know, And here's my question. My question on that is, does anybody have any film on the entire play, all they show is the last half, and therefore Everson Everson's trying to play catch up underneath like he was supposed to cover the tight end right, and it's like, where's the rest of the play to the whole thing? Hey, But one thing I know about that play, they they are very successful they running that

play and not the part they went to Duwight. But you know what San Francisco was doing even back then, the same jet sweet type of motion. Uh. It was made to where Freddie Solomon goes in motion to the left and then as he gets behind the center, he turns around his sprints towards the pylon and Dennis Thurman, you know that dude's him. He and Charlie Waters two of the smartest players I've ever played with. Dennis Thurman knew exactly what was coming and he jumped that route.

So that's what made Joe have to come off of that and improvise. But yeah, they were They were going for Freddie Solomon at the pylon. And that's the same thing that San Francisco does to this day. See it all the time, because what you do is you you want to catch the dB hesitating as he pivots to

come back the other way. By that time, it should be too late because Solomon is sprinting off of that pivot turn to the pylon and hopefully that once they snapped the ball, all of the receivers and the other defenders will will block him off and create a little traffic for him. But now Nate was like, we call him Nate Thermo, Nate. Ron Springs always called him Nate because basketball player. Well, funny story, yeah, yeah, funny story.

This is not Ron's fault. This is Mike dick fault. Okay, Mike Ditka kept calling him Nate Thurman because Mike Dicka was a Nate Thurman fan, and that's spelled the Thurman spelled differently. Oh yeah, m O n d I'm thinking, yeah Therman h m an, So yeah, that's that's Mike Dicka. So Nate, Yeah, Nate had him. Nate had him in

the corner. And then the rest is sister, Oh, now you know the rest Basically when you cut Yeah, basically when you cut off the play, Montana said, Okay, I'm throwing this ball away right right, and then you got that's why they all chase him like he would come. He's like, oh okay, but I can't wait to see

how Parsons is utilized in this defense this week. What do y'all think with this run game that the Niners have and with his ability also to come off the edge or come up the middle of the rush the passer or will you name it about, how do you think Quinn's gonna use him? I think speed. It's gonna be speed on speed. I mean, that's one thing that we we count on with Parsons and this defense. He is the peer to me of the speed that we possess on this defensive squad. And so that's how we're

going to try and match it. We're gonna try and the jet sweeps are all fast. It's all based on speed. The piler comes after they get the ball in the hand. The speed is the confusion and the pre snap movement, and you have so you have to think fast as well. Let's play fast. Let me ask you this. I start with you, Mickey, and then Everson follow up. How tough is this Dallas defense? Because the forty nine ers, they

pride themselves, they're calling them there's a bullyball offense. So how tough is THEA and we've seen the Cowboys defense be able to pressure the quarterback. But we've also seen times where teams have been able to run the ball. But this is push comes to shove. This is playoff time. This is where everything's on the line right here. Just how tough is this Dallas defense. Well, we're gonna start with Neville gallim Or in the middle now, and I

don't think anybody's gonna bully that guy. Uh, he's pretty tough. I think Watkins in the middle is pretty tough too. I don't need to go on and on about DeMarcus Lawrence because one of his qualities playing defensive end is the fact that he likes to play the run and he will chase a run down from the backside and

he will set an edge. So if you take those guys right away, and then consider the speed of Randy Gregory on the other side, and then take into account Parsons in the middle along with Layton vander esh, I think that front is pretty tough. And again, if they just don't miss plays and allow San Francisco to hit those big plays, this is a pretty tough defense. I think they they they get undersold because of the takeaways. I think it's it's an under cell because of the

interceptions you see and maybe the sacks. But these guys can be pretty tough as long as they carry out their assignments, because when they get a busted assignment, that's what creates that big play. Not because they're physically getting beat, they're mentally getting beat. So they've got to be on their game. And one other thing, when we were talking about the injuries, there's a long list of guys that were limited yesterday for San Francisco, and then a bunch

of guys didn't play because they were resting. But Trent Williams, their starting tackle, was still out with an elbow injury. He missed this last game, so that'll be an interesting one to watch today if indeed he gets back into practice. We know that, you know, Garoppolo's thumbs not going to get any better. The spraining ligament, he was limited, but that was to be expected. Did But the enter injury

I saw was Elijah Mitchell. They're running back. He missed with a knee uh, So we'll see where that one goes. And then their punter, uh, Mitch wiz Nowski uh is still in concussion protocol, he was limited and last week Robbie Gould, their place kicker, had to do the punning also, So we got to keep an eye on those injuries for them today. When you talk about toughness on this defense in that secondary for the Cowboys, Uh, Donovan Wilson

could be big in this game. When you look back at the Niners against the Rams, they had one series in the third quarter of that game, and they were trailing in the game at the time, they ran the ball ten straight times. And and well, I mean and the way Jimmy g was was was throwing at the time, they had to they had to let him settle down because he was getting them in trouble. Yeah, and Uh, Jordan Fuller, the Rams safety who's now on injured reserve,

he or his ankle in the game. He was having to come up and make a lot of plays stopping the run there. And so I can see Donovan Wilson in that role for Dallas playing a big factor in stopping the run game. Well, the problem, the problem you're going to have, Bill, is the youth, right, That's what it is. I mean, are we ready for playoff football? You know, we have the energy, we have the want to in the motivation, But are we going to be Will we have the instincts for this game? Will we

understand what they're trying to do to us? Will we make the proper adjustments if we get down? Will we ever be able to get back on track? What kind of adjustments will be made at halftime? You know you're talking about in this game football? In playoffs, football becomes more of a thinking man's game as much as a

physical game. Te And that's where I'm wondering on Parsons, because Parsons has that air about him that his teammates can feed off of the right and he's also no dumb seen it in games where he's made adjustments during a play and been able to make a play. But do have the Niners seen some things in his game where they will try to take advantage of his aggression? And oh they will, Now they there's no doubt they will.

That's what the misdirection is for. They hope that you use that speed all going the wrong way and then that we were going to be wide open on the other side. That has happened to us this year. All right, when you take a break, You know what, guys, you know what the other thing yet the other thing on that which is amazing and everything can talk to this. You're a linebacker or safety and you take one step the wrong way, you're toast. It's only one step, right,

but boy, you've better read it. And here's another reason why they've been so good running the football, because this kind of just dawned on me today and I said, let me look this up. Four of their starting five offensive linemen four between four of them, they only missed two starts, and both were Trent Williams. The beginning of the year and the end of the year. The all four of those guys played at least fourteen or fifteen, if not seventeen games, And the only offensive lineman that

they missed was McGlinchey, the starting tackle. He tore a peck halfway through the season and he missed the I think he went through eight games and then they placed him on IR. So four of the five guys on that offensive linemen only missed two games. I was looking at the Cowboys, and if we consider that Connor Williams missed his games because of coaching decision, the Cowboys had eighteen miss starts on their offensive line. Yeah, and you look at the Niners and their offensive line is one

of the strengths of their team. And starting with that, if Trent william is healthy. If healthy, he just maybe still the best left tackle in the game. I mean, Tyrant has been has battled some injury issues, and there's been a long stretch where Tyrant has been widely considered the best left tackle. But it's Trent Williams and Tyring Smith or right there at the head of the class as far as left tackles go. And they've got its center.

The Niners have thirty six thirty seven year old Alex Mack playing center, and he started every game for him this year. I mean, he basically came out of retirement himself. I don't know if he officially had retired, but he was close to it at his age, and he's playing very well. The right guard, Daniel Brunschool, if you'll look at him against the Rams last week, he was man handling Greg Gaines their nose tackle. I mean, it was impressive.

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field and excellence on the field. Help Dak earn a twenty five thousand dollars donation to his Faith Fight Finished Foundation by voting on Twitter tweet hashtag wp m o Y challenge, followed by Prescott through January seventeenth, Vote Dak and by the way, guys are Man of the Podcast Year is Chris Beam, who I very ashamedly missed his birthday yesterday. Wish Chris a happy birthday, right Why? I could just see the judgment in his eyes every time

he looked at me, like, you know what's going on? Hey, it's my birthday. Worship know this because I think his sister's birthdays and today there's something there's something weird about that. Yes, I was just getting ready to apologize. I should know it because his birthday and my sister's birthday are on the same day. And how about this, I think we've said this before. His brother's birthday, Uh, and my birthday

are on the same day. Yesterday. There were a lot of birthdays and my family as well, So yeah, you just would you give belated birthday shout out. No, I gave mine out to them. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't have to look at me the way Chris all right, well, happy birthday, Chris being all right, So I didn't what's to day today? January thirty, January twelfth, okay, all right, So January twelfth, I'll try to remember that next year. Okay, I probably, I'm guarantee you I won't, all right, So

Cowboys Niners, Cowboys Niners on CBS on Sunday afternoon. I believe this is the first time CBS has carried a Cowboys playoff game since nineteen the nineteen ninety three season, the Cowboys forty nine Ers Conference championship game in January of ninety four. Because Fox took over. Fox got into the NFL broadcasting business whatever in nineteen ninety four, and they started. They took over NFC games then, and so the game on CBS, so Jim Nance and Tony Romo

on the call. The last time it was on CBS, it was Pat Summer all in John Madden, which would have been the conference championship game that was played at Texas Stadium in January of ninety four. Little trivia there for you isn't this something how you don't have to be accurate on podcasts. You can say, yeah, I believe, believe that's right. Before I say that on CBS tonight, I'll do some more checking, right all right, I do

know this. We don't have to believe leave this. We know this, Mickey, that Will McClay is signed on for He got a contract extension announced by the club. He is not going anywhere with all these GM openings around the league, you know what. And I think he's pretty happy here and the Cowboys continue to make him happy here, right because he seems to get a new contract all

the time. But he is a hand worth keeping. I've worked close to him, was around him during the Desperado days for Arena Ball when he was the defensive coordinator for Joe Avazzano and then he took over as the head coach there. And he knows his football And the best thing I think about him is he knows people, and he has a way of dealing with folks to not only listen to them, but that get them to listen to him too. He's a good guy to be around.

I got some stuff right here, spags. It says since two thousand and fourteen, the Cowboys have drafted nine players who went to went on to earn Pro Bowl honors, Zack Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence, Byron Jones, Zeke Jalen Smith, Dak Prescott, Laden vanderst Trayvon Diggs, Michael Parsons. And they want to kind of contribute his these free agency signs as well, Javon Curse, Demante Kazy, Malik Hooker, Sprinkle, Kean O'Neil, Carlos Watkins,

to Roll Bashman, and Brent Urban. So he's getting a lot of credit for helping keep this team afloat and even when we stumble, he helps us turn it around. And still the most amazing stat from those Pro Bowl players you mentioned is what that Byron Jones made the Pro Bowl without an intern. That can't last long, That just can't last long. He is true, He was truly the exception. So think think about this, you guys. He got criticized, uh, not because of his coverage, but because

he didn't get any interceptions. And now Diggs gets criticized because all he gets his interceptions and he can't cover, right, right, He told me too many big players, Yeah, been there down knts bags trust me. All right? Well you know how you don't You know how you escape criticism? You win playoff games? You win, you win playoff games, you and multiple playoff games, you win a super Bowl, and now you're not criticized. Well unless you really, Manny, Yeah,

that's covering from you. That's you, all right, Mickey, you have a partying mix shot. Where was that it? I'll give you one. I had a note, hold on, hold on, there you go, pussy. I think we thought the Cowboys did a nice job this year, finishing with forty one sacks, which was an improvement. Well, the San Francisco Bullies finished fifth in the NFL with forty eight sacks. Went one and a half of them came from Nick Bosa and armstain. We know who to attack then, ye. Nick Bosa had

fifteen and a half of those. So so that means we're gonna have to run right at him, make him play the run. We are coming at him exactly, all right. Said that this morning on my I said that this morning on my fan report. It was like, basically, this is how you neutralize these pass rushers. Run right at him and make them play the run because they want, and if you think about it, go ahead. That's what they did to his brother in that game against Sandy

against the Chargers. Remember they ran right at to the point where in the second half they took him out and only brought him in on third down passing situations. I gotta safe bags. We think a lot like I might actually need to start with new articles. Mate, you Mick Shots. Mickey's a writer, all right. Well that does it for this edition of Mick Shots. Go online and see what Mickey has written lately. Yes you too, Dallas Cowboys dot Com, we will shout out jagain tomorrow. Go Cowboys.

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