Mick Shots: On To New England

Hall of Famer Everson Walls with you. Bill. We're going to put that in the universe. Happen to start printing out right, that's right. Get the campaign, yeah, Team Walls, Team Walls. It's worked for others as well. Started here, that's right, thanks to Treyvon. Trayvon has got right on the radar here all right. So there's much to talk about as the Cowboys turn their attention towards the New

England Patriots and elsewhere around the National Football League. And Everson we walked in the door about the same time, which was about one minute ago. Really glad to see that too, by the way, And and about the professionalism in here is at the all time low. He's watching the game? Is that banks watching the games? I was

dropping dimes. I'm snitching, damn it, I was. I was gonna compliment him on his professionalism because I walk in the door with you a minute ago, and he's got all this stuff laid out, laid out here and not ready again. Now what he did, He's pushed it out of the way to his right so he could put the computer to his left. That's where he did. I am multitasks. That's why he was here early. Because what kind of time did the game start? One seven? Okay, right,

so he's been here for twenty five. The guys were in here. Okay, there is a show before, that's true. You know good about that, right? I came down between half in us. Okay. How's the game going right now? Zero? Zero? Okay? So what's going? Well? We're changing it up next week? Huh? Is it next week? We changing together just on Monday? Monday? No, And then we're oh yeah, it's case. It's a byeway. We're doing the mash up on Tuesday and wedness the

change that's changing up the show. And then but on Monday we're on early nine were still travel right lits for other shows. So Monday we are on at nine thirty am and nine am on Monday, that's my nap day. And then Tuesday and Wednesday Everson got recruited to the Players Lounge. All right, we're Nate, all right, very good, and make sure you get a word in edge right. I'll be laughing the whole time. Sorry, I'll be cracking off the entire time. But first things first. Yes, this

is Patriots Week and it is first things first. What's on your mind? With all your stuff laid out in front of you, what would you like to start with today? Mickey? Well, I think that it came up in Kellen Moore's press conference yesterday about his thoughts about facing Bill Belichick. And you know, we know Belichick can come up with some inventive defensive formations and game plans when he takes on a big offense. Do you know anyone who's ever played

for Bill Belichick? I do you think we can find some insight by what he might be doing? Hey, Chris, go find somebody, and and and Kellen Moore was really good about how he handled it. He basically he said, yeah, this is a great opportunity, you know, and uh, you know every week this is a good opportunity against different offensive coordinators. And I go, yeah, but this is Belichick. He yes, I understand it. He's the best coach in NFL history. So we'll have to be really good and

preparing for this game. You know, what's what's interesting about this week? And I don't I think it doesn't matter what the Patriots record is now they're sitting there at two and three. You know, there's certain weeks where you go, oh, this could be a trap game. I mean, that doesn't even enter the consciousness of a person this week when you're going up against the Patriots and what game exactly?

The trap game means you're not prepared right exactly, and and so the Patriots could be oh and five right now, and but you circle this game on the calendar because of the don't let it low you to sleep. That's the trap game when you love to sleep about there? What is the benign look? Right? And but I think even for the coaches the players coming into it, you know, it's like it's like, okay, you don't have to get their attention right that you're you're playing the Patriots and

they know where they're going. And we thought the big test for this offense was going to be Carolina, Right, Well not so much. Right, This is the litmus test. Right now, you go on the road against a team that's two and three Belichick coaching. Can you go up there and win for the first time since nineteen eighty seven? Excuse me, and and deal with whatever the elements are,

whatever the environment is, the weather, whatever. Can you just go up there and get this win going into the bye right, don't get ahead of yourself, like start looking at that by like it's vacation time, right, And I think this this is the litmus test of an offense that is now. Uh, I forgot to look it up. Well, you're looking that up. You have to go further back, no further back than two weeks ago to understand how difficult it is to go in there and get a win.

Right when, Now, obviously the Patriots had circled Tampa Bay coming to town, I mean everybody had. But when when Tom Brady and the Buccaneers, playing at the level that they're playing at, even if they don't have Gronk, are going in there and winning by two points, you know, can barely get out of there with And so you're going up there with the number one offense meeting most yards per game, number two rushing offense. Uh. And then the only team that's rushing for more yards than you

is Cleveland, not Tennessee. Uh No, because they got the double barrel backs. Now yes, so again uh and you are second in average points per game and only point two. There are only two points two points behind Buffalo. Buffalo is one seventy two. The Cowboys have scored one seventy. So this is an offense that has been rolling. Now can it go on the road and roll against Belichick in New England? And I think that's what we're gonna

hear all weeks. And when you look at what two years ago we went into New England and the weather was horrible, right, No, nobody had as baddest to be. Yeah. I think Penguins wouldn't have liked it. Was both Dak and Brady's worst games probably in their careers. Yeah, because Dak out you think about it, Dack through for more yards than than Brady, and they were both really not impressive at all. One time you were going up against the defense like the Patriots, and so looking at this game.

You've got, uh, not just Keller Moore having to deal with it. We noticed and we spoke of how Dak Prescott's able to come up to the line. And now he's that quarterback, he's that guy that that we look at. Now he's that Van Rodgers, he that that Brady. He knows his offense back and forth. There's not many things you can do to fool him, catch him off guard. Uh. Pressure, still pressure, You're still all of them, still human. They're

still gonna sometimes make some mistakes. But this will be a time to see if Dak Prescott and the Cowboys can improve from two years ago. And that was a thirteen to nine game two years ago, and it was it was. It was an ugly game. We failed in almost every effort offensively, and we want rolling as high

as we are right now. Okay, when the beginning of last year is when Dak and the Cowboys offense was really shown that they can just really run up numbers and scores even at the behest of their own problems, that they were having their own mistakes. But when you look at the opportunity to show, Okay, this is the improvement we've made from two years ago. Okay, Dad can show his maturity. Keller Moore can say, Okay, I'm stepping out of the shadows. Now I can handle anybody. I

can handle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now I can have the New England Patries. It's a great opportunity just on the personal level for these guys to make some moves. I mean, there was, like I said, there was only one touchdown left I mean scored in that game, and it was. It ended up being set up by Matthew Slater, one of the best special teams player in the league.

He blocked a punt right they get the ball at the twenty I believe it was, and he ended up throwing a twelve yard touchdown pass That was the only touchdown. Cowboys had more yards total yards, more yards passing, but they could not score a touchdown. Could the red zone? Just like the red zone was a major problem two years ago, it was a major problem last year. Yeah. So again, would you like to review how the Cowboys have fired against Bill Belichick's Patriots over the last twenty years? Well,

I probably can do it off the top of my head. Okay, since Belichick got to the Patriots in ninety two thousand, two thousand. Well, they haven't beat him since they They played him in two thousand and three at New England, a twelve nothing loss. So that was Parcels versus Belichick. Well, unfortunately it was Parcels with Quincy Carter versus Belichick. It

was a playoff team the Cowboys had. Yes, I know which was which will go down as the greatest coaching job in the history of the Dallas Cowboys that season that he got that team with Quincy car and uh and Barbara was after that, No, it was it was it was Hambrick Hambrick squad. No, No, Barbara was a couple of years later, several hours later. Five anyway, okay, so and then oh seven was in Dallas and it was a forty eight twenty seven and a New England win.

That's where I remember. That's the first time I saw Brady in person. What year was that? Seven o seven? So that was only one of one of three losses that year. A t No. What I remember. What I remember picture. What I remember about break in that game is I've thinking seeing him on the sidelines and thinking, this guy never sweats. Yeah, yeah, he always looks like he's very dual commercial. Uh huh, yeah, it's the moose

that his wife gives him. Twenty eleven. So four years later, playing at New England, it was a twenty to sixteen New England win. Twenty fifteen at at and T Stadium, thirty to six New England. Of course, that was a year where the Cowboys lost the starting quarterback and benched the backup for a guy to come off the bench. Castle show never done. Now New England had Castle at

one point. They did okay, yeah, well he didn't do it. Okay, but they didn't I say, okay, they didn't make the playoffs, but they did go ten and six, and then most recently it was twenty nineteen. The one thing, you know, one of the things that I like about the seventeen game schedule is now it just so happens that the Cowboys got matched up against the Patriots. Otherwise it would be two more years. You know, the rotation. Normally, when you're playing a team from the other conferences, you only

play him every fourth year. Well, now we're playing the Pith moves up. This moves up the calculations. Yeah, just I mean, it just so happened that because of where they finished in the standings. Uh, the seventeenth game happens to be the Cowboys and the Patriots. But and so when we say it's been since nineteen eighty seven since the Cowboys have won at New England, which was an overtime game twenty three to seventeen, well he wasn't. But

also the Cowboys haven't played the Patriots that often. No, I understand that course of that time. But look what happened from the beginning though, when they started playing them in nineteen seventy one. The Cowboys one every year, the seventh straight? Was it? Six seven in a row from seventy one through ninety six over a twenty five year period, seventh straight and then they have lost and they've lost one to three six in a row since then. Right,

So kind of a weird series. This series goes in streets. It gave me my two interceptions on Monday Night football. I love New England. I had a great time there every time I go. So was that the eighty one game? Oh yeah, that rookie year. How many interceptions did you have that year? Eleven? I think it was thirteen thirteen? And concluded you forgot right if seven gets eleven. We're going to Heaven super Bowl Heaven. That's right, that's right, that's that's my that's my slogan. By the way, yes

it is. I gave you credit for it the other day on the radio. Thanks seven gets to see. I like the Parsons aspect of it of eleven seven and eleven seven, come seven, come eleven. Okay? And then well, since I thought of it, I'll stick with what I said. We can amend it if you need to, Bill, Yeah, all right, he will, he will, SAgs rust me. It's like, look what I came up. It is an exciting week, though, Oh it is. It's specially you know what the other

part of it. You know what who the Stars are playing? We got a National Hockey League team here in town. You know who the Stars are playing on Saturday night? The Bruins. They're playing the Bruins. You know where they're playing in Boston? Are they really? Yes? Huh? You know the Red Sox just qualified for the ALCS. They're already playing,

aren't they. Well know they want they won their division series and yeah, they're awaiting the winner of this Astros White Sox series, and so they're going to be playing in the ALCS that they would be hosting it way on Monday. So on Saturday night, White Sox did something, just something happening. Run Frank Thomas, by the good guys. Gavin Sheets. You know a lot about Gavin Sheets. Gavin Sheets, Yes, not related to Gavin Lux who almost hit a home

run for the Dodgers. Lay, I thought that was gone. He did too, Yes, he did. He was astounded that it got caught under the wind. Got it. There's no wind that there was. They win, They don't win until they those flags were standing. You see that. You didn't see the game at the Cotton Bowl the other day, we had an eighty five yard punt in a seventy eight yard punt. I saw, I saw the eighty five yard Well, you have to talk to them about the WW that's fires out there, so we don't have to

do it with true. Yeah, that's that's good karma right there, because the ball hit the top of the wall, went over. That's luck. That's good Carmen as opposed to bouncing off the wall and then off a player for a ground rule double. And you know when you land the center field there right now is laying on his back what's going on? I think he hit the wall pretty home like Lorenzo Kane? Right? Was that Kane the other night? Yeah, he hasn't moved yet. Oh are you happy about that? No,

I'm not happy. I'm just saying center fielder can't wipe the smirk off his face. Astro center field, Yes, okay, not Caesar Sedenio. Um, all right, we continue back to man. These kids don't know what the toy can did right field? All right? We continue with more mix shots in just a moment. Honey, big news scary? Are you okay? Oh? I'm not Gary anymore. I'm Jackie Flash. What see? I want the latest smartphone. But the best deals are only for new customers. So to get a new customer deal,

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Never mind, never mind, Well you figured it out. Okay, Oh you're going to say something else? Yea, what is? What is? What is the app? Chris? We gotta rant? Let me see the copy. We gotta download the official app of the Dallas Cowboys to get access to in market game broadcast, mobile tickets, daily podcast like mix shots, live pregame and postgame shows, game updates, and more. Download in the app or Google play stores. So what app store? There is an app store? Do you have a No,

he does not have a Apple phone. He don't have an Apple phone. Right, it comes back. That's why the text messages are green. When they come back from Mickey, you're not supposed to read them. You've got to be alerted that they're not coming from an Apple product. You know, you can tell he's got an Android device because the bubbles are green instead of blue. Well, what does that mean? Download in the app there's app store. It's it's like, it doesn't say app it says Mickey. It says Google

download in the app or Google play stores. So on an Apple device, you have an app store. Well, why didn't they say download in the app store or Google play I'm video in all of this. I need to I can tell you need to reread it. Download in the app or Google play store. So the app play store or the Google play storm. There's an app play store, that an app store. There's a Google play store. Well then why didn't say app store and Google play right down? App store? I will next time? Oh my god, what

are we doing? This is the two bills, Chris. This is just like the Belichick and plus sales doc. This is the two bills, right, I got it all on video. Miles Austin said it best when he went like this, Yeah, okay, So to get this thing back on track, please, if you're Bill Belichick, yes, what are you doing to stop the Cowboys? Give me some sort of defensive plan? I can tell you. Okay, well you could talk to Mickey there. Very good. Damn all right. I felt like I was

back in nineteen ninety all over again. Wow, good stuff. Now, what Belicheck does when he tries to get ready for especially someone that he's aware of or someone that has a lot of respect for, which would be the Cowboys offense Kelly Moore and Dad Prescott, He's going to assign every position player to work on what affects him the most. Okay, He's going to give them a task. Okay, you look at the movement. All you do is look at the movement and what comes from all the movement that we have.

Find a pattern to what's going on. You look at the past patterns themselves, maybe other running the running game itself. See what kind of blocking schemes that they use versus what we do now versus what everyone else do, but what we do. Sometimes he'll have you look at the different schemes against different teams, and he might change his scheme. So you're talking to us as if we're as if you're players. Players. Yes, and that's why I was good

for me. I came from Landry system. I mean we had a computer papers, so I was used to studying in that manner. But Belichick had everyone looking at film.

Of course, nowadays it's a whole lot easy. They can just take the our paths and they could assigned a certain tasks such as first intent, and they've got a scouting department that have those plays all and all you have to do is look at the patterns themselves, and you have to present that as you come when you come back to practice, usually on that Wednesday, I have

to present that to the entire class. Well. So that's how he did it with the Giants, and now a head coach, if he gave you that assignment, then what are you looking at. I'm looking at the wide receivers. That's all I would be looking at. As a cornerback, I'm looking at the wide receivers. Now, if he asked me to look at as a safety, I have a. Then I'd be looking at more passing downs like second and long, because that's when I was back in the back,

I'll be looking second and long and third downs. But if I'm at the on the back position, all I'm looking at is what my wide receivers patterns look like, what they're splits would look like, what kind of runs, what kind of patterns they run when they're splitters type us when it's wide combos, rubbed routes. You gotta look at all of that stuff so you can tell you can almost predict some of the routes by the splits. You can detect a pattern the pattern. That's all you're

looking for is just to detect a pattern. Because here's the thing about Belichick, and if any good coach to me, you want to take away what we do best, that's just it. Okay, hold on, hold on before you before you give away Cowboys secrets. All right, just keep this in mind. Okay, when when Bill Belichick puts his team together, he's not only looking at their athletic ability. One of the reasons Bill Belichick says Everson went up to Gil Brandt at the Hall of Fame ceremony and said, Everson

Walls belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It's because when he coached Everson Walls, he saw how smart Everson Walls is. Okay, told me so, Mickey. When he sees that Everson Walls is a regular on mix Shots this week, what what is Bill Belichick gonna do to prepare writing down notes? Exactly? He is listening now. He is listening right now. Okay. The Patriots are not practicing today. This is his day to get caught up on Cowboys podcast.

He's gonna look. He looks at the menu of Cowboys Podcast and he sees Everson Walls is on this show called mix Shots. He said, I don't know who the hell this Mick is, but I do know who Everson Walls is. And I'm gonna lease now, Mickey, you just set up Everson to tell Bill Belichick how he needs to defend the Cowboys. Okay, bi man, So as you answer this question from Mickey, keep in mind the Belichick's list. Hey man, it doesn't matter if he's listening or not.

Because here's the thing. Any coach and Belichick has showed me this. He wants to make you just do something different. Okay, And if you do something different, then you're just not as comfortable. That doesn't mean that you can't adapt. We have a squad here that can adapt to almost anything, especially offensively. So that's why I'm not really worried about it. But when it comes down to it, he thinks that he's got an upper hand on you if he shuts

down what you're strong at. That's why he wants to see the patterns because if he can, if he can attack those patterns of of plays, then that's when he's gonna counter attack that. That was one of the things that Kellen Moore pointed out yesterday about coming up with game plans, and then he goes and then great game plan, right, but you better be ready to adjust, right. You got to have a plan B and see and and even dan Quinnon and I wish I didn't write it down,

but he said this to effect. He said he was taught talking to uh like a former upper level military guy, and the guys said the guy basically said, uh something to the fact the greatest plan of attack changes at first contact. So in other words, it's like Mike Tyson said, you can have a great game when I hit you in the mouth. Yeah, right, change, right. That's exactly so with all three we are. And that's the beauty of the team that Belichick puts together a year in and

year out. What the Patriots do year in and year out, it's their acquisition of players where they have hybrid players and he can adjust his defense week to week. Some weeks he's primarily in a four to three. Other weeks he's a three four. It's a hybrid and so you really and so he can adjust and he's got smart players who can carry out the game plan from week to week. Here here's what I saw, and I see it to this day, especially defensively, He's gonna have some studs,

just some straight up studs. This is gonna be that. You always had your lts. You always had your Pepper Johnson. You always had your Linda Marshalls. Now you had your gil Moores, you had your linebacker, the d all those guys that but you all, he always saw like a Rodney Harrison. You know that he's not that athletic, you know, he just I just needed to be where he needs to be. And I know he's gonna I can count on him to be where he's supposed to build. You know,

Everson Walls. You know, he's got a knack force for this and that. Not that athletic, but I can put him in a particular spot to what he can do, what he does best, and so he's always got the studs along with those. Devin mccordy, who is it was a first round draft pick who's now in his twelfth

year in the league. And I was about the running back from here, uh Burke Edwards burkheads now and yes, yes, So these are the kind of players that he just loves to have that well, I don't feel like explaining myself over and over again. This guy's gonna get it the first time. Those are the ones that he brings in. He brings as many of those as possible, so support to support those great athletes that might not have the

experience that they need. Here's a great example, and now Kyle Vanoy is a good athlete, but here's a great example of how he prepares for the draft, and even though he doesn't draft a player, when that player becomes available, he pounces on him, especially with more experience. And like with Kyle Vanoy, he was drafted by the Lions in twenty fourteen, and I don't remember the circumstances, but just

a couple of years later he gets released by the Lions. Well, the Patriots snapped him up in a heartbeat, and he became a central figure on a couple of Super Bowl teams for them. He goes away last year because the Patriots lost Brady last year and they had several players who opted out, and so they did not have the same type team last year. And of course they went

seven and nine last year and Danoy went away to Miami. Well, they decided, the Patriots decided to go ahead and put a team together this year, and so they reacquired Kyle van Noy and he's back on this team now this year. And it's the compass one for the coach that the players know what you know what. And Quinn had another good line I don't think I've heard before. So he says, you you end up practicing all week, you come up with this plan, You come up with different plays that

you want to run defensively. Right, And he goes in, you get the Saturday and we're going through the different play calls and he says, one player says, uh, coach, can we redo that? And he goes no, never mind it's out because if we're on Saturday and we got to replay that call, somebody doesn't understand what's going on. So I'm not everybody has to be on the y. Yeah.

I thought that that's what I thought. That was really enlightenment. Yeah, And I think that's also one of the reasons the Patriots miss on a lot of draft picks too, because you have to it's a mental thing as much as a physical thing is. And if if they get players in there and then they discover after they've been through an offseason with them that they're not getting it, well, they'll just go ahead and cut their losses and move on to somebody else, a veteran player and pick up.

And you know that's why they let Chandler Jones walk. You look at at Chandler Jones, great player, but he was going to cost way too much money. And so for everything that Arizona paid Chandler Jones as a free agent, you know, each year, over a five year period, the Patriots are acquiring five different free agents for the same amount of money they would have been paying paying one player.

And you know, the with his management had on then, and think about the other guy and it was kind of controversial when they let Jimmy Jamie con One's gone. Now he's bounced a team to team to teams back and he's back right, yeah, for like the third time, so probably what they were gonna pay him. Yeah, and he went an got some signing bonus, but he didn't. But no one wanted to keep him after that. It

was almost like Belichick knew something. You know, here's what you're worth, and I'm not what you What do you do? Sunday against Houston his first game back with the Patriots, Jamie Collins, I didn't see he got a sack. You know how many defensive plays he was in on? How many three? Wow? He was in on three one last three three snaps and he got a sack. And that's why I brought him back. That won the game. They made it simple for him. There's the quarterback, just go

get him, don't worry about anything. So I mean, the bottom line, by the way, is they do have the fifth ranked defense. Uh, they're fifth overall fifty game against the pass and fifteenth against the run. And that's with a rookie quarterback. You know how tough it is to play defense. After all, the interceptions that your rookie quarterback is to win and put its Offensively, they're only ranked twenty sixth and you know what they are and third

down efficiency or I'm sorry, red zone efficiency. I could look it up, but if thirty first in the league in the red zone, that's very unlicked with a rookie quarterback. That's explained. And that's been one of the Cowboys defensive problems by the way, the red zone. They haven't stopped people quite enough, although they did stop on the girly

on right right, which turned that game around. And they thought that when they acquired these two tight ends in the offseason Hunter Henry and John who Smith, that that might help him in the red zone. And it's still early yet, we shall see. But when we got a

rookie quarterback, that's it's tough. And we pointed this out, I believe yesterday when everybody's like, oh, they're trying to get Dr Bill Cox in the game more right, And I think I don't know if it was me or one of us said, well, yeah, he was probably second team goal line and he got moved up to first team because somebody was missing right. Well, Quinn said they asked him, so, were you trying to get him more involved?

He goes, well, he was on the second team goal line and because of people that were missing, he got moved up to first team. He was very politically careful there,

so yeah, he basically took Jelen Smith's place. All right, how about when we come back here on mix shots we talk about that linebacker rotation a little bit, because those snaps in the game are rather interesting, following what the news of the last week, in fact, one week ago today when the Cowboys released Jitaln Smith back with more mix shots in a moment at Smoothie King, we are blinding goodness to fuel your greatness. Every blind is crafted to help you achieve your health and fitness goals.

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I know when it is? Okay, Okay, eight o'clock Central time on Friday on CMT, okay, MT All right, all right, talking linebackers, Yes, so what do you find interesting about the snap counts from the linebackers. Michael Parsons had sixty three snaps on defense out of sixty eight. Out of sixty eight, Kean O'Neil had thirty four, Layton vander Esh

had thirty one, Jabril Cox had four. Right now, jay Ron Curse, your safety who will play down in the box and a nickel situation once again, and Jayron Curse leading away with sixty eight snaps on defense one hundred percent. Never came off the field defensively, so what they made tackle seven. So what they're doing with Curse is they're playing them almost like playing Neil a little bit. So

Neil and Parsons are on the nickel. When they were going base, it was Micah, vander ash and Curse, but Curse was lining up kind of on the line of scrimmage a lot in the slot or on the tight end. So instead of a pure strong side linebacker, they were

using basically what they called their big nickel. And then a lot of times when it was definite passing situation, there was only one linebacker on the field, but on a depth chart, they would probably list him as the sam linebacker even though yeah, yeah, in that base defense, but they probably just listed as an extra safety in FEUs considered the one linebacker. Yes, he was in the

middle on the dime. Yeah, so sometimes dime they would take out a defensive lineman sometimes, but this time they're taking out both linebackers. So the way you divvy up those linebacker snaps amongst Neil and Layton, Layton in the base got thirty one, I mean essentially thirty one snaps and Keanu in the nickel with the thirty four snaps and Parsons on the field virtually the whole time, and then depending on what they decide to do on goal line, and they had a couple of goal line situations. But

that's how it's got on the field. So think about it then, how many snaps was if Jalen was still on the team. How many snaps was Jaalen going to get in that game? I mean, and where are the snaps coming from? Well, they might have had him out there on the goal line. So there's your four Jabril Cox snaps. I was going to and then maybe some maybe on big nickel could it would have been spelling somebody, But as it was, Neil and vander esh were only

getting thirty one and thirty four snaps right themselves. Well, and see here was the curious question yesterday to Quinn's when somebody asked, well, uh, Micah Parsons only rushed this many times? Well, I wonder who was ever counting that up? And I don't trust that all the time, right, because he was rushing as a middle linebacker. They had him and Randy Gregory standing on the line of scrimmage in some of those pass rush situations, and so they didn't

know if he was dropping or rushing. And a couple of times he went up the middle on a delayed rush and they and they what they did is they allowed the defensive lineman whoever was on that outside to cave in, and then he was following around to see if they missed in a signment. I think he was

reading the back itself. I think when the when the running back blocks, then he's like he's going and I'm gone, yeah, I just pay attention to the unless he sees he makes sure he doesn't chip, yeah, and then he takes off fields the gap. So what they were trying to do is create free lanes for him, and what the offense is doing dictates what he's doing on a play. It's not like that. Okay, we're you're blitching for sure

on this play. It matters what the offense is doing, and he makes adjustments, right, And Quinn was very complimentary of him having studied and learning the different things they're asking him to do as a rookie. Where you saw doing the game, who was that made the comments saying that you know, it's putting too much mentally on his case, and he says, don't worry about me. I'll be okay.

It was the Twitter war you brought up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So so when you looked at it, I told you, guys, because now I finally found my paper from a pick to click I had left in the car. I picked the grick. So I always had Parsons versus Barkley, remember That's what I had. So sure enough when he heard himself. First of all, they started off I think he made the first tackle of the game on Barkley, and then

they split him out. They split Barkley out wide and they tried to isolate him on a one on one situation. I mean, we talked about that before the game, and so that was a good thing. Parsons, of course, uh didn't cover him that well, but that's when Barkley went down because he stepped on Jordan Lewis's foot. But No Parsons was was just like that was my pick. The click too, by the way, was Parsons just coming up with this? And I also have digs with question marks

down here. So once again I'm going back over my pick the clicks. I'm trying to salvage sometimes my reputation. But No Parsons had a great game. And our linebackers themselves, when you look at it, they are our when the pressure gets up on the offense. When when when offense we've scored and we put the opposing offense in a particular situation where they have to come back and score quickly because they know they can't keep up. It's like Quinn has a clock in his head and he's like, Okay,

this is the time to dial it up. And that's when he starts putting in our host of hybrid linebackers in any package that he can think of. And that's when you start seeing Parsons lined up all over the place. You see Randy Gregory I still see as a linebacker. You still you have Randy Greb You're making his moves on the outside, and they were running so many stunts and fake stunts. The offensive line just couldn't keep up.

So to echo what you just said, that first possession, Barkley up the middle, Parsons O DIGGI Zoo with the tackles. Second play was in Jones scrambled. The tackle was made by Curse. He's already on the field right next play Barkley left guard Vander esh makes the tackle. Who had a good game, by the way. Yes, Then there was an incomplete pass. They went deep to John Ross and then on third down he threw incomplete to Tony and the guy covering him at that time Michael Persons. Now,

next possession three, Barkley incomplete on a quick slant. That was when he got hurt right and then partook guarding him. He had to line up outside like a cornerback. Booker up the middle for one yard. It was Hooker and then on third down incomplete to Golladay. Digs and Parsons on the play. So they had to adjust to what the Cowboys were doing, right because of what how he was playing as linebackers and Curse, who was kind of

the wild card. One of these times we're going to have an offensive coordinator like Kellen Moore that we're gonna have to deal with. I think that's going to be kind of weird. I don't know if there's anybody out there, you guys know OC's better than I would. But when you look at what Callamore did in the game, he came by the first quarter with five wide receivers, yeah, five wife receivers, and he handed off to the CD lamb. So if you're if you're the Patriots, how do you

prepare for that? I saw him again. They came up with McGovern was at tight end and that's when, uh, but it shows that there was they shifted wrong and it was in legal formation right. McGovern ended up with nine offensive snaps. He put him in a tight end and and and it was it was like it was on the field a lot. He was like the second tight end yeah, yeah, not the third, the second he was the second and then fullback. Hm. That was crazy. So there, yeah, there. So when I talked, I talked

about the creative. If we come up against someone with that kind of creativity, I'm not sure how Quinn would handle that. Someone with the Josh McDaniels this week. Is he that good? Well, well, not only is he that good, does he have the talent right to make you to make you feel them? So they'll they'll face Kansas City. So they've been pretty good offensively Vegas and New Orleans, and I'm not worried about how good they are offensive and how creative they are right offensively, that's what I'm

looking at. And then the team, it has a lot to do with their uh, the experience at the quarterback position too. Of course they can do and so and that's that's what That's why I'm not worried about. That's where New England's hand up. Yeah, with this with with Mac Jones this week and then uh, but it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. We're gonna come up against an offense that's gonna make us look as goofy as we've been making other defenses look. And I'd like to see how

we handle that situation. This game here a role game situation that you cannot predict. It's going to be tough to predict right how we react, especially going up against the Belichick style of a team. Bet he's got some idea that he's got some ideas on offer too, right to help out. He's got the offense. He's Tom Landry. He could do offense, defense, special teams. He knows all about every facet of the game. You just don't catch those guys around like that anymore. Go ahead and tell

it real quick, my Belichick story. The first time I ever talked to him when I didn't know, I probably wasn't supposed to talk to him. I think it was okay. It was with the Giants. With the Giants, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're probably about the same ye, right. Uh. And I was in the locker room, which was an interesting day because the first time I was around the New York media. And so they had their in New York h and

they had their little session with Parcels. Right. So he sits on this big kind of one of those long tables, right, and he's at the head of course, right, and and these guys they're they're all like asking the same question, right, And somebody asked a question and Parcel's like, now, why would you ask something like that? Right, just intimidates the hell out of the guy. Right. And I'm sitting there going, oh,

this is good. Right. So I didn't know better. I went into the locker room when we were allowed to be in there, and everybody was looking for Taylor, right, and he comes in late, and like you know, the King, and everybody's around Lawrence, and so I was just standing there and Belichick comes walking by, and I asked him something about the defense and how well they were playing, because I think that, if I remember right, it was the game that both teams were tied for first six

and two six and two, right, and you go up to New York, and then Danny got hurt, and so I started asking him questions and I didn't know that no one talked to him, and he answered my question right. I got two questions in and Parcels kind of looking at me, and he goes, you're not from around here, no, sir, I said, uh, you know, and told him where I was from, and I'm here doing stories and goes, oh, are you waiting for now? And I said, I said,

shouldn't you be leaving now? I said Phil Simms? And he goes, oh, so you think Sims a pretty good quarterback? Hunt You might be smarter than these other guys around And he said it loud enough. The best he is the best, the best. He is the best. I'm sorry. And after that day, it's like, I like this guy, and that's what I like about it, because he's thick skinned. Yeah, you know, you as a player, you can come up and he wouldn't admonish you for being comfortable around him.

Right back in the day, that was a weird thing. And so I love, like I said, I love being he's setting in the steamboom with us and try to lose weight. I told you about that one, and you know, and he can. From my memory rights that must have looked I can't, you can't, so you must. You're you're with me now, you know, And that was their breakout. You're right, because he was under fire because he hadn't really done much. I guess eighty five was not a bad season we had. I think in eighty six is

when we had the maybe it was eighty seven. We had the silver Anniversary Cowboy team. I made that team, and I remember standing on the podium. I was still in my uniform and I heard from the players as I went up there in ninety they said, when Pausal saw us doing that, it was at halftime. We were winning the game. The Cowboys were winning the game. At halftime,

we're holding this. He goes looking at this. Guys they're having home coming on us, and they said, let's gets the We didn't do anything in the second half that celebrating home coming on this guy, like, oh man, that was a mistake. I love it. Oh when we're out of time, Yeah, Sean Clark has got us. Ow it got us? All right, Well, we'll have more stories from

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