Mick Shots: Old & Older Days

and time for another edition of mix Shots. As we get you ready for the Cowboys and the Niners. My dogs are old Everson and Mickey, but they're not old enough to remember the good old days of this rivalry. But maybe a new rivalry can get started on Sunday at noon at at and T Stadium. How you guys doing, don't even don't even bring up old San Francisco Cowboy games. I have been getting phone calls. Hey, Everson, can we talk to you about the Cowboys San Francisco rivalry? Or No,

I know what you want to talk about. You don't want to talk about the rivalry as soon as I say one word and it starts with a C. Hey, let's talk about that. Okay, So this is why you really call me? Right all right? Let you know I'm not even returning their call. You guys want to talk about it. I'm all in because I respect you guys. These guys, I don't know. They didn't call me when the Cowboys played Buffalo. You know what I mean. I beat I beat Buffalo in the Super Bowl. I got

no call. Then you know, I didn't get a call when the Rance and Buffalo, the Giants of Buffalo played this year, if they played even last year, come on, don't don't. Don't try to fool the old man like me. They won't happen. He played the Niners in the I want to know. So the rivalry, what was there more than one game against San Francisco that stood out during that time? Well? Uh, eventually that game did. But of course, uh what was that brody? And uh was a stock

back a decade earlier? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was a setting and it was an amazing game the Cowboys proposed to themselves. I think they went super Bowl that year, big win in the Bay. Uh, But like you said, that was that wasn't a rival back then Rocking Cowboys were just kind of a rival. But that's what it and it basically that's kind of when it started. It basically costs Dick Nolan his job because he was the head coach of the forty nine ers back there in

the early seventies. Sure, wow, so here we are. Here we are later Mike Nolan and Dick Mike Nolan the former head coach of the forty nine ers, uh, and goes up against the Niners here on Sunday. But let's just be real now, it became a rivalry, uh after the catch game, and of course in the nineties. Uh, you know, yeah, in the nineties, but in the eighties there was in the night wasn't really a rivalry other

than one game, you know. But that's the only way that he could veil his it's true purpose for that phone call. Okay, that's funny and I and I didn't even mean to bring it up ever since I was kind of thinking of the nineties rivalry when I was talking about bo and Romo here and then I stepped at it. But that's cool. I like talking about it because you know, we always I always tell people if it wasn't for myself getting so tired of being dumped on about that game. I had to keep reminding people.

I had to remind people that I had the three turnovers in that game and probably could have gotten MVP if we don't lose the ball game. And uh, for some reason, you know what was Boomer Boomer right? Boomer's Boomer's name Chris Chris Burman. Chris Berman at that time was a I guess a local Bay area reporter. And we all know that ESPN had just started up around three to four years prior to that, because I remember I was in college when it first started. I'm like, man,

this is great. And so he happened to be a forty nine Ers fan, and he was on the field for that game, and he was just as excited as he was a player. So all on ESPN. Of course, he becomes part of ESPN and all, oh my god, anytime he got a chance, he bring it up. Oh my god, Joe dwy you guys are amazing, you know, And I always took a fence because here was my thought process. You've got a rookie from Grambling State University

who was not drafted. You've got a too great to me great story the organizations, and I thought the narrative would be, you know, mister naive. I thought the narrative would be, man, they were coming at this rookie, and the rookie stood up. But when it was all said and done, it was a great battle, and forty nine ers came out. My name was never mentioned except for in regards to that picture in the end zone, and I took the fence to that. I said, had a

great game. Chris Burman doesn't want to same thing about it because he was so on the forty nine ers job. Oh my god, it was ridiculous. So so let me let me, let me tell you circumstances. I was gonna say, let me tell you a little story about how big a fan Chris Berman was of the forty nine ers. When I was covering the Super Bowl, uh in Miami when they beat was Cincinnati, right, eighty eight maybe eighty seven?

What was eighty eight, I think right? And so the auxiliary press box, right, the auxiliary press box was basically in the stands. That's where my seat was. And he and his esp Chris Burman and his ESPN colleagues were about oh, about three or four rows behind me and off to the other section right, he was sitting in the stands outward, and I was covering the game right outwardly cheering for the forty nine ers. And I was like, seriously, and and and it goes back to what I said

the other day. You you call yourself a journalist and you're out here cheering for the forty nine ers. So that's how big a homer he was. Oh, he was big time homer. I have never really talked to him after that, because if I would have, I would have, you know, articulately, would you given him theticularly? I would have given him the business articulately. And uh So, like

I said, we never talked. I have a feeling he wasn't necessarily a cowboy fan also until of course Jerry comes along and you've got you know, these gregarious uh

personalities with with Dionne and Mike and those guys. I don't I don't think he before that in the eighties and seventies, I doubt he was a cowboy fan at all because he took way too much joy in that win, and he lost all of his journalistic awareness, you know, because like I said, as far as I was concerned, I don't know anyone that had three turnovers, not many that had actually three turnovers defensively in the championship game,

And that has never been mentioned. And I think that, you know, I was a victim of a perfect imperfect storm, so to speak. So that's why people listen. That's why people listen to Mick shots. You kind of get that perspective that no one else gets. Gotta get it in, baby, gotta get it in. Mike. Yes, I'm gonna give you a little more perspective on this rivalry that Everson is very familiar with. Now, you didn't when did you get to the Metroplex? When did you get to Dallas? Who

met Mickey middle of the eighties? Mickey middle of the eighty fourth season of the eighties. And so so you remember the Cowboys playing the Niners back in the early seventies when the Cowboys started first going to Super Bowls. But Everson and I being the same age, we remember it intimately growing up in Dallas, And it was actually in ninety the Boys played the Niners three straight years

in the playoffs. I mean, just like they did in the nineties when they had the conference championship matchups against the Niners. They did it in the seventies two and in nineteen seventy, which was the first year the Cowboys went to the Super Bowl and lost to Baltimore. They beat San Francisco out in San Francisco in the Conference

Championship game fourteen. That's right, that's right. The next year, the Cowboys played the Niners at Texas Stadium in nineteen seventy one and beat them fourteen to three and on

their way to winning the Super Bowl over the Dolphins. Okay, and then the game that Everson is alluding to was December twenty third, nineteen seventy two, when Roger Staubuck and the Cowboys trailed the Niners twenty eight to sixteen with two minutes left in the game, and Stabuck throws a touchdown pass to make it twenty eight twenty three, and then Tony Fritch with behind the leg on side kick that was recovered by the Cowboys behind the back or

whatever you however you want to call it on sidekick touchdown pass to win it. That Saint Larry Cole, the classic rolling rolling around on a sideline. That's exactly right. Cowboys won that game thirty to twenty eight, and they that was the first round of the playoffs. They actually lost to the conference championship game that year. Um so. And by the way, the other was that was that Candlestick Park? Was that stealing? I bet? I bet? The

first time was keys Are Stadium was keys Are. Yeah, the first one was keys Are I believe, I have to look it up. And then they moved into Candlestick after that. And here's the thing, and they had astro turf from what I would call because uh Bubba Cole was rolling around on astro turf. Family that there you go. That's right, all right. So the thing that I remember about the thirty to twenty eight win over San Francisco

more than anything. And I'll even say here fifty nearly fifty years later, forty eight years later, it might be my favorite day of watching football ever. I remember growing up at Irving. It was a cold, bitterly cold day, two days before Christmas, and the first game of the day, the Oakland Raiders played the Pittsburgh Steelers, and basically on the final play of the day of the game, ball

batted up in the air. Frank O'harris grabs it. It was the immaculate reception as the Steelers beat the Raiders. That was the first game of the doubleheader. Second game of the doubleheader was the Cowboys against the Niners, and you had that scenario in the last two minutes where the Cowboys came back to win. You don't get much better than that watching football. And I'll tell you what. Now, let's jump to nineteen eighty two, right before our game,

if I would call that, was when Kellen Winslow. Oh wow? Was that the time that Kellen Winslow fell was dehydrated and they had to carry him off the field after he rescued. Was was was that the same weekend? I gotta I'll be looking it up here. But I remember I remember watching that game on TV. I remember the immaculate reception watching it on TV, but I do not

remember see. I would have been on on Christmas break from college that year in seventy two, and I remember watching the game and I was in our in our little uh uh I guess it was the TV room, whatever you want to call it, and I'm watching it on TV. My mother's cooking, and I started screaming, Hey, you gotta come and see this. You're not gonna believe it to the immaculate reception. I remember that, and I'm sure I watched the next game, but I have no

recollection of watching it on TV. That's so funny you mentioned that about your mom cooking. Uh. And in regards to Bill, of course, my number one football afternoon was December twenty eighth, nineteen seventy five, the Hail Mary. Of course, that was my sixth that was my sixteenth birthday, and so yeah, yeah, so here comes the Purple People leaders and they had been handing it to us. I don't know how many times before that game we could not

beat the Vikings because of Carl Alan Page Marshall. They were just an amazing squad, Chuck Form and those guys and the And when we finally beat them on my birthday, I go running. I was I was only boy, I only the only boy in the house, the youngest. So I'm the only one watching football in the house. And I'm running around the house trying to find someone to celebrate with. And my mom, my mom is in there

making my birthday cake and she's gotten fired. And I go, Mom, you who believe that the Cowboys just be the banking and I'm running on she go, that's good baby, And that was it making my cake. And it was so anti climactic for me because this is my birthday. I had no one to share that with. And so still it was one of the that was my greatest afternoon

of football. We finally beat the Purple people eaters in nineteen seventy five, December twenty eight, that's try And okay, I've looked up now of January tenth, nineteen eighty two, the day that lives a in for me forever, someon walls and for me like that. Yeah. And uh. Then in fact, the early game that day was Cincinnati against San Diego, um the twenty seven It was a twenty seven seven final score of the Bengals won the game.

But that wasn't talking about that wasn't the game that was a classic then, because the one that was a classic, if I'm not mistaken, the San Diego won the game them in two. Yeah, they won that game and and and that's why it was such a So was this the so which was the the incredibly cold game in since wasn't it Cincinnati and San Diego? That was that was the one that was the same weekend as the catch game. Okay, so that would this would have been the game that that was. I don't remember, and I

was trying to see on Pro Football Reference. They don't have the conditions, uh, the weather conditions. What happened. Here's what happened, Bill, Here's what happened the week prior to that. The Charges won that game in such a dramatic fashion the week prior to that, because they go from Miami. What he's dehydrated and everyone is just just drained, and then they go directly to the coldest game in NFL history.

So that was the the comparison. There. You go from from being depleted to the seven days later you're playing in minus fifty eighth degree weather. So that was that was the dichotomy that the Chargers had to deal with him. That's how I remembered that game, and and and I found the weather conditions, the official weather conditions that day in Cincinnati. It was minus nine degrees and the wind was at twenty four miles an hour a windshield of

minus thirty two. And so that was the That was the first game of the doubleheader on the day of the catch in January tenth, nineteen eighty two. And by the way, that would would not be that would that may be my worst day of watching football. Yeah, me too, Bill, Yeah, that would be. That would be Kellen Winslow by the way, from the University of Missouri. By the way, just throw I taught interesting. Yeah, don't just don't throw in junior? How about that? But I didn't say anybody. Yeah, I

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as the condition of those cornerbacks. So at this morning's press conference, but I wonder what was going on at practice today Every sudden, I wonder if there's anybody who might be able to fill us in on what was seen at practice today, someone that a bird's eye view. As a matter of fact, maybe Mickey knows. And I would have liked to say the Cowboys have a secondary problem, but it's not a secondary problem. It's a primary problem.

Because journalist, how about that wordsmith? So the good news is is that uh, Trayvon Diggs, Chitubey Awoozier did participate in practice. We'll see how just how much they did. Uh. Anthony Brown Uh, and these guys were all limited yesterday. Uh did practice? Uh? So did uh Donovan Wilson. We'll see if he did enough when the practice report comes out. But Xavier Woods was on the resistance chords and he

didn't look like he was going to practice. So they really need Donovan Wilson to be ready to go because Thompson would be a backup. And if if Wilson can't go, I think the next guy up would be Reggie Robinson, and he hadn't played a down a football yet other than special teams in the National Football League. They also didn't have Deontay Burton out he was out with a shoulder yesterday and today. Rashard Robinson, who started last week

at corner with a knee, he didn't practice. And remember Saveon Smith has been trying to practice through with a cast on his hand that he broke a bone on in the game and came back and played. So yeah, that's secondary. They're gonna need these guys like Digs and Wilson and de Bay to be able to come in and play in this game. Otherwise, I don't know who else they would put it. Safety, the Parker guy that the safety. He's still on injured reserve. So yeah, it's

a little problematic back there. So they better hope Donovan Wilson's ready to go. Okay. Ever since we talked about the COVID effect on injuries yesterday and stuff. For the life of me, though, I cannot remember back in your day this many injuries amongst uh, let's just take the cornerback position. I just can't remember teams going through this many cornerbacks in a season. What's what's what do you think is going on? I don't know, but you kind of take we took it for granted back in the day.

I can't remember one game Dennis Diamond was hurt. I don't recall ever. I think I finally missed UH plays in the second half of a Minnesota game back in nineteen eighty six or seven. I think I had to sit out the second half with a growing problem. Other than that, our secondary was always intact. Michael Downs hurt his thive first game of his career against at that time, the Washington Redskins. He was out for one game. But otherwise,

oh man, this is this is unusual. Charlie Waters. If you recall miss an entire year and he was in the booth after just totally messing up his knee and he was never the same after that. He came back in eighty one and participated and was my godsend and ended up retiring after that. You know, I was talking about to SPADs about this, uh yesterday, and SPADs got a little aggressive. But I talked to my Sam about it, and I still think that the whole thing is valid.

I don't I'm not all about a bunch of training camps and a bunch of offseason work and all of that, but I am about fine tuning, and you have to have a timing or intertinct in your head, which is what off season is for. My son's a chef, and

we were laughing about it. He was saying, you know, if I had been in the kitchen for a while and I'm throwing around all these knives, you know, you gotta be careful if it's your first day back in and you hadn't been doing it for a while, so that could lead to injuries, either to yourself or to your fellow chef mate. So those kinds of things are pretty much universal. They just haven't had the concerted concentration

on your technique, on your body itself. You can lift weights all you want, you can run sprints all you want, but you have to get into football mold before you start playing football, and it takes a little bit more than just a meager offseason that we had, of course because of the pandemic. And by the way, there's one other injury that probably should be noted. Ezekiel Elliot did not practice yesterday because of the bruise on his calf.

He was on the Resistance chords today and Mike McCarthy said if he did anything, it would be working on the side on his rehab. So that'll be two days in a row that Zeke didn't practice. They don't really practice on Friday. It's more of a walkthrough, so he may not do anything all week and then they'll get the game time and see if he's able to go. And if he's not able to go, then everybody's gonna get their wish and they're gonna see Tony Pollard carry

the ball twenty times. Yeah, I cannot wait for this. This does happen, SPADs, I wouldn't be looking forward to it. It's tough when you're, you know, coming in and playing the entire game. Jack. It's always good to relieve some It's always good to relieve someone who has set a particular tone for the game and you came in, come in as a change of pace. Now they're gonna be prepared for you for the entire game and most likely will make adjustments before that game is over, from beginning

to end. So yeah, let's I don't look forward to it. I'm hoping that Zeke will come through as he always does. I hope he runs well as he has been doing all year long. I might add I think I want him to play because I want him to continue to get his confidence and instincts back, because it's clear that Zeke is not too comfortable running behind the makeshift line that he's dealing with, and he's kind of feeling the

pressure a little bit. Yeah, and the way I pointed it out on that is Okay, let me see Pollard get the dirty yards. Like we see the flashy yards to the outside when there's a hole there, What about when there's no hole? Is he running up the middle and pushing the pile instead of losing a yard, he's gonna get three or four. That part we haven't seen from him yet. Well, we see from Zeke all the time. Well, just look at the last three games Tony Pollard, the

last three and this is nothing against Tony Pollard. I think he's good potential, But the last three games. I mean, if we're gonna get on Zeke for not getting a hundred yard games whatever. The last three games for Pollard, he had four carries for twelve yards against Washington. He had eight carries for twenty two against Baltimore and it was seven for ten yards until the last play of

the game. It was garbage time. That really was garbage time where he gave it to him for a twelve yard run that got him up to eight for twenty two. And then in Cincinnati he was eleven carries for thirty nine yards total. That up the last three games, he's got twenty three carries for seventy three yards. It's just over three yards to carry. So I mean, but people don't look at stuff. We look out if we go without if we go without Zeke, I think we go

without Zeke's bags. We're going to have to be way more diverse, and how we use our running back in this game, we have to pass it to a more more deceptive plays, more screen passes. I wouldn't be I wouldn't I wouldn't make a habit of running him up the middle. And unless you have those sure fire quick hit plays that well, you can utilize his speed and quickness. See. I want to go one more deep. I want to see rick o'doondle. Here you go. Yeah, you know what. I want to go one more deep. I want to

see saw Alanolua. I knew it. I knew he just wanted to say his name. I knew. Well you you will see a fullback in this game, by the way, and I'll allow you build to pronounce the guy's name. But Kyle, well, he's a four time Pro Bowler on the other side, and in fact, he's been scoring touchdowns for the Niners here lately with their situation at running back. And that's Kyle Uschek, and the last four years he's

made the Pro Bowl. Now, part of that is there's not a lot of teams with fullbacks, and so that fullback spot there's not a lot of competition for the Pro Bowl fullback spot. But seriously, to his credit, I mean he's he is as as good as they come at that position and play and as more than just a fullback. Obviously, he can carry the ball, you can catch it, and he's you know, he doesn't have the height that you would have that you normally see in a tight end, but as a U, he does some

tight end type stuff which they've needed. Uh, and I'm talking about blocking U. They've needed it with Kittle out, you know, and so the second tight ends had to move up and become more of a receiving guy. Uh. Kittle is back practicing, but he is not expected to be back for this game now. Most right, he mostert it according to uh the Niners Kyle Shanahan. Uh, it looks like he he felt like he would be good

to go by the end of the week. So well, he didn't practice, yester, he didn't practice yesterday, right right, right, So we'll see. Yeah, McCarthy. McCarthy talked all about McCarthy talked all about the fullback and how he's so versatile they can use him in three different ways. You know, he blocks Obviously he handed the ball, as Bill said, they throw the ball to him. So we'll see how the Cowboys adjust when they come out with a basically running personnel. A question. I have a question. I have

a question, and Spags you are always around. I mean to answer it before you ask it. They'll stay in there, Nickel. Yes, come on, man, come on, man, come on, Spags, come on man, you have influence. You are an influencer. You you have boy, are you? You're pretty good? By the way you knew exactly what I was gonna ask. We could play Jeopardy, right, can we Can we even get a suggestion? And do they have a suggestion box there? That's a good question. Yeah, well I think if we yeah,

we can't get to it. And I think if we asked it, I think before we asked it in a conference call, we would get Well, we can't be giving away a game plan for you. You know. Yeah, they've just been doing it every week and it hadn't worked. I mean, come on, man, you hadn't stopped and run yet. Any other team makes adjustments and the question has to be posed to either the head coach or the DC for I mean, I don't know where the story is true that he's out of here after this. I don't

think it's almost as if it's a done deal. I think people are playing the odds on that one. They put that in the headlines as if I conclusion, yeah, without any any pure evidence, right or at least expressed evidence. Let's put it that way. I'm here, all right, it's break time. We're gonna restore our communication with everybody involved, and we will continue with more mix shots. In just a moment, we're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping

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love it. I love it. That's the first time we are live by the way we are live, ladies and gentlemen. And I think last week, last week I combined Dalton with Bengals, and I think I called them the Dogils or something like that. The dingles, the dingles, the dingles. All I did look up the we were talking about the cold temperatures on that day that will go down in infamy, or has always gone down in infamy forever.

Sin Wals Tuary tenth, nineteen eighty two. The game in Cincinnati was minus nine degrees and the wind chill was minus thirty two the ice ball. The game time temperature was thirteen below zero, so we've got the record on that. However, the wind chill was less than thirty two. Was twenty twenty seven I think at game time. But if you if you talk to anybody who played in that game,

the windshill was was minus fifty eight. So so there. Yeah, how how accurate were those readings back really in nineteen sixty seven? Yeah, I don't know how that works. I don't know what they had the same, you know, instruments or whatever. Yeah, I don't. I don't think Harold Taft had the same, which, by which, by the way, go ahead could have been around I was gonna say, by

the way too. So about right at two weeks after that game, on January tenth, nineteen eighty two, if my memory serves me, right one, Bear Bryant passed away and I had covered his what turned out to be his

last game. UH Alabama played No Alabama played uh met They played Illinois in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, and it was freezing cold, and I remember after the game there was nowhere for him to do uh an indoor press conference, so they had him standing on a box outside and I mean it was cold, and I looked at him and I'm going, God, Lee, he doesn't look good at all. He just was kind of ashen color,

and I thought maybe it was because it was cold. Well, two weeks later, so it would have been January twenty fifth, I believe, is when he passed away. And I was working in Jackson, Mississippi then and ended up getting sent to Tuscaloosa to basically cover the memorial and the funeral of Bear Bryant. Yeah, so I've got a I've got a certificate. I got a certificate from the Liberty Bowl that I was at that game and covered it. How about that? Yeah, you gotta you gotta keep that spag.

You know, he and he and Eddie Robinson were really close, and I don't know if they were, they became close just because of, you know, the dynamics of each of their careers. Of course, one is a Power five school coach and the others of HBCU great and UH coach. Robinson had to eventually pass up Bear Bryant. I think he passed up Bear Bryant year at the Cotton Bowl.

If I'm not mistaken that that's that's uh. I'm sure you're looking up William, I know you will, but I think he did pass up Bear Bryant here at the against Pravview, Yes, sir, the Southwest Caroline's classic and uh, you know Coach Robinson was the same way, uh, Spags. You know, once they are taken away from what they love, their livelihood, not just what they love, because they both had wives that loved them and took care of them

until the day they died. But when you take away your livelihood in that manner at that age, you know, it's not just the weather, right, Spags. It wasn't just how cold it was outside. I think that I think it was just a depletion. Knew this was the end. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah yeah. And the same with Coach Robinson. It's you know, these guys give all their lives, not just to the school, but to the kids. And uh, you know, when you when you feel like there's no uh, you're not your

usefulness has gone. Uh at that age, I think they just kind of give up. And that's that was sad, But once again, it was a an opportunity to really, uh just celebrate both of those amazing coaches. Along those lines, another legend Joe Paterno. Uh yeah, similar. He passed away very soon after his last year with Penn State. Uh and and Mickey by the way, uh Bear Bryant. His last bowl game was the Liberty Bowl, and the year

before was the Cotton Bowl. And in fact that was the first, uh my first year working at a Lubbock TV station, we came and covered the Cotton Bowl. And so I was at and got an opportunity to be at a Bear Bryant press conference. I think I had the courage to ask a question. I don't know. Uh. Well, so that would have been a year before he died. So let me tell you. So, you know, it was like god Tuesday or Wednesday of the week they were going to play Old Miss, and Tuscaloosa was only like

a three hour drive from Jackson. So we would go to that press conference, right, and he's in one of these big lecture halls. So he's on a stage, the seats go up like you're in a theater, and he would answer all these nice easy questions from the local people, right. And so I decided that I did the same thing. I said, Okay, I got enough nerve, I got to ask this question. So I asked the question, he didn't like it, and all of a sudden he started answering

in the deepest mumbled Southern drawl you ever heard. And I don't think I understood a word he said, but he answered it. I think right, But he didn't want to answer. That's the way Southern's answered questions that they don't want to answer. All of a sudden, you get real thick, you know what I mean. It's like a foreigner when they really don't want to answer a question. All of a sudden, that accent kind of works this way in there, and you're like, wait a minute, what

just happened to the guy I was talking to? So, yeah, it's funny Bill, you bring up Joe Paul as well. He and Coach Robinson. If I'm not mistaken, they are one and two respectively in uh win in the wing column as far as college games are concern Am I correct? I think he probably probably are right a minute, for a minute, Coach Robinson had it, and then then when Joe Paul passed on, they added the other two that they had tried to take away from him, and boom

jumped him right back up to the top. So you got the one two, right there, Edie, Joe Paul and Eddie. Hey, here's one other forty nine ers. Note that we probably should draw you back into actual Cowboys at forty nine ers, right, sounds like Shanahan's gonna stick with Nick Mullins. Nick Mullins as the quarterback, and so I kind of looked up his staff. You know, his quarterback rating eighty five seven. That's not all that great. He's got ten touchdown passes

in ten interceptions. That ain't the way the ratio is supposed to break, right, It's supposed to be two touchdowns to every one interception. And San Francisco, by the way, in their last seven games, well, I think I mentioned yesterday they've had at least two turnovers a game in those seven They've had eighteen turnovers in the last seven game and they're now for the season a minus seven. So the Cowboys are only three behind him at minus ten.

They're gaining. Wow, how about that? So that secondary becomes even more important. We might get some picks, you never know, never know. I think that made me one of my predictions for tomorrow is at the Cowboys will even things up in the turnover ratio with a forty nine ers. I have a good feeling about this. In fact, you know, I said that I was look up on those. We talked about tiebreakers, and I did the math on it, and sure enough, Mickey, here's what the Cowboys need to

make the playoffs. They need to win three in Washington

needs to lose three. Yeah, you didn't like how the Common games were looking for a tiebreaker, right, that's it the problem for the Cowboys if they now, if they just had the conference record ahead of the common opponents on the tiebreaker breakdown, then the Cowboys would be in business where the Washington would only have to win two other last three and the Cowboys would have a shot in a three way tie with the giants in Washington, but not with common opponents because it Cowboys, they ain't

looking good in that common opponent. Yeah, glory, I kind of figured out that in Washington. And which, by the way, the Cowboys when I said they're the plus minus is a minus ten. Now they've actually moved up. They're now in a four way tie for twenty ninth. M Oh, yeah, saying we're finishing on a good timing. The timing, the timing is perfect, now, that's right, we will start. We're building up to a crescendo there, right, We're trying to just build it on up, moving on up, and so

to the east side. Um um, so the east side. So this week, this week, Cowboys beat the Niners, and we're just gonna take this one week at a time. Okay, Cowboys beat the Niners and Seattle beats Washington. Okay, that's my I'll give you that early prediction, and then next week we'll be concerned with Cowboys taking on Philadelphia and Washington has Carolina next week. Now that's a little that one. Well,

but at least I could Are they in Carolina? You would ask me that I got that written down somewhere, but I'm sure where. But you know what, if they if they beat if they beat the Niners, and I'm eligible to pick them to beat Philadelphia, here you go. Or maybe I should just keep picking them the lose, right because they've played better when I've picked them to lose, not necessarily. All right, Well, that does it for a Thursday edition of mix Shots. And uh, we've got a

big Friday ahead. Our picks to click. I've already given you a preview of mine. We'll see you again tomorrow here on mix Shots Go Dallas Cowboys, There you go. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.