Mick Shots: Playing Catch Up

finally we get to hear our fight songwoy. Yes, finally it's been since before the San Francisco game. We finally get to hear it agains. That means the Cowboys have won the offseason already. No, it a fight song for the draft. There you go, All right, haven't won the off season just yet. But here I am Bill Jones, and here he is Mickey Spagnola, And where is he Everson Walls. What a place to get stuck in Vegas? Yeah, I don't know about that. We get a text overnight

and you were probably fast asleep. I was. I was still. We get a text from Everson that his flight has been canceled and so he couldn't make it back in time to day. I should have tried to pull that you did last week. I got a text overnight Sunday night last way, Oh forgot. I'm gonna tell you I'm going out of town on vacation. And it's a it's the beard did to Mickey Spagnola. He hasn't shaved in at least a week. At least it might be a little bit more, because there's no sense shaving when you're

on your way to go skiing ski slopes. Yeah, it was great. And you know what, you still have some of the snow left in your beard. Y right, that's the problem with the beard. It's got too many colors, right. And the other problem is, for some reason, everything else is salt and pepper, and the mustache comes black. It looks really weird. So I would imagine by next time you see me, this will be gone. So you have to color your mustache white. Usually you gotta sprinkle some

salted there. It looks like some alternate movie star type thing, if you know what I mean. Right, all right, So it was great, yep um, And I wanted to get this out of the way, right, away and say something about how far women's basketball has come. Number one, there was nineteen thousand people at the AAC for the championship game. Number two. I thought, since LSU made it to the finals, I said, you know what, I'll just go. I'll walk up buy a ticket. Right that one wasn't going to happen.

And then I started looking online and that wasn't going to happen. I said, well, we'll get a scalp ticket because at some point, you know, when the teams lose, they leave and try to sell their tickets. So these guys are coming up, you know you need a ticket? Yeah, how much five hundred dollars to go to a women's championship basketball game? And then there's a guy out there trying to convince these people that he can get them in.

It's going to be standing room only for the first half, and then he will get you a seat the second half, okay, And I'm sitting there going okay, So how much is that gonna cost? Well, that was going to be about three or four hundred dollars and you wouldn't have a seat. And so he was talking to these young ladies, so they also had a line how about this, get a line by the box office, because at the last minute, tickets come available. Now tell me how those tickets come available.

I don't know how do they It sounds like a nefarious thing that all of a sudden tickets start showing up right at tip off, right, Yeah, And so this guy's telling these girls, and I go, there's no standing room in this place. And I think there might, concourse, there might be one spot behind, you know where the little fences are, that one section in the lower level at the top. But there's no place to stand to watch unless you're going to stand in the in the

concourse or in the entrance way into the stadium. Right. Finally the police showed up and chase these guys off. Right. They were getting desperate, but they weren't desperate enough to lower their price, right, And it's like, okay, buddy, go eat it. Right. Wow, but this is women's basketball now. I remember when it wasn't even I covered games, when wasn't even an NCAA UH sanctioned sport, right ai A w Yes. In fact, Kim Mukie her first national championship

that she won as a player at LA Tech. It was still the whatever it stands for AIAW and then one of the other teams it was always good. Was in Texas? Was it? Stephen F. Austin was good? Stephen F. Austin and the Texas Yeah, the Flying Queens. And I'm saying, now we've come a long way just to get in when nineteen thousand were there. And then we see a young lady score forty points in consecutive playoff games. Unbelievable player. She should have been the Chuck Holly of the tournament. Yeah,

that was she was incredible. Yeah. Yeah, she has Steph and we're talking about Caitlin Clark from Iowa. She has Steph Curry range on her shot, you know. And I've watched her for several games now, even going back to the regional tournament, and she reminds me she's like the quarterback of the team. Her passes are incredible. She is a basketball savant and she but she reminds me the game has slowed down so much for her. She looks

like Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady running that offense. And she doesn't break a sweat and she just has a calmness about her. And now she will turn it over. There are eight or nine turnovers that she has in the game because of the special passes that she is making and her teammates just aren't ready for it. But spectacular player. And she's got another year at IOWA. Two

two more things and then we'll get onto football. The one three she hit in the semifinal game, her foot was on the edge of the center court logo go yeah. I was like it says final four and her foot was almost on the arm, not uncommon for her. And you talk about how far the women's game has come, I mean, how about the LSU team yesterday and the shots they were making. He scored a hund two points

the championship game. I was sitting there going, when the thing was getting tight, I'm going, they're gonna have to score one hundred points to win. Because I finally gave up and I came back home and you know, watching it on my phone while I was driving, and you were really into this. I wanted to. I want to. I set aside a couple of hours yesterday afternoon that I'm not taking any phone calls. I'm watching this, yes and it was compelling. And now you needed to wear

your officiating cap in here today. Well, that was my next point. Worst they ruined the game. Nineteen thousand people went to the game to see Caitlin Clark and Angela Les angel angel Leise, I said, Angela, and they got in ful trouble immediately. What are you doing in the post for Iowa two Yes, and I read a story. No, don't get don't get me wrong on any of this, but I always think when you get to the championship game,

you get the best officials. There was a story in Sunday's paper about how this is the first time in the women's championship game that all three officials were going to be female. I think they need to rethink it. This is basketball. They were calling the game like there was a bunch of girls out there playing. These girls are good, they're aggressive, they're physical. All these touch files

and then the technical file. When she just threw the ball, you know what she needingly, you know what she did on that. I talk about her being a basketball savant. No, there's no there's no official in the vicinity of where she was. She was about to huddle up with her team before a free throw, and she tosses the ball behind her to the spot where the official. Good the official is gonna be lined up for the free throw

right exactly, and they called it. It It wasn't a loss of disrespect and not the fact that it's a technical. It was her fourth yeah, and until yeah, the technical carries with it a personal foul, and they gave her a fourth vowel. And as an official, you have to have even if and they've given her a warning before delay a game warning a few minutes earlier. And so that's why in her statement, that's why she rang her

up with a technical. But you have to have more awareness of that, I mean, understand what you're calling in the entirety of the game. You have to have a more awareness. I mean that those two girls had the impact. You're the people you came to watch. Had two fouls before the quarter was over. The first quarter? What are you doing? Yeah, it's just because in the first half of the game, Angel Reeks is sitting on the bench for the majority of the first half and they were

all like battle. I mean, it was both ways. It was. It was incompetent. I don't know how. I don't know how those head coaches didn't get a technical. Fill bulkesher deserved. She tried hard, there was there was one play that would the video ad viral. It shows the official in front of the LSU bench having to push Morki Molki makes contact with her with ranting and she has to push her away to make the call on the court or whatever to do her job. But that doesn't get

a technical. What a scene, What a scene. People were all over that place. And by the way, if you want to see how far I think this relates, not just to women's basketball but sports in general, how far things have come in thirty years. Yes, like Caitlin Clark that the last time a player scored over forty points in a championship in the final four with Cheryl swoops Texas Tech, and that was thirty years ago in nineteen

ninety three. And there's a video on YouTube. You can go back and watch the entirety of that game if you wish, but you know, all you have to do is watch about thirty seconds of it and you see the players on the court. Compare that to what we have today and the strength and conditioning programs, the skills training that all of these athletes are getting in all sports at all levels is just unbelievable. The athletes that are on the court or on a football field now

compared to what they were thirty years ago. And the girl that should have gotten the MVP was Alexis Morris. Not only did she save today, scoring like somebody can hit twelve to fifteen foot jump shots yea, which is the mid range jumper. No one does it anymore. And the fact that she held Caitlin Clark to thirty Now that may not sound like a great deal, but she held her to thirty points and got two files on her for pushing off with her help. But anyway, it was.

It was a neat day. I wish I could have got in, but I had, I tried, I couldn't make at five hundred dollars. It was like, I can't do that. I can't wait to see what the TV ratings are on it. And meanwhile, meanwhile, you got a men's game tonight that um or a men's final four that had so many long shots most long shots made it in history, as far as no top three seeds that made it

to the final four. I just heard on the radio the call for San Diego State when the guy made the basket, Yeah, he goes, he's something like they won. They won. They won, And tell you what, FAU is not going to the championship game San Diego State is what a great great four days for State of Texas. Yep, two games here and or three year and three in Houston. Pretty cool, Pretty cool? All right, we gotta probably get to the Cowboys. You don't eating go to the Taylors

of concert. I did not, but it sounds like I should have. All right, So what in the world did you put on your legal pad on your sl This is like all leftover stuff I tried to keep up. I mean not not too much happened last week, right, Yeah, Cowboys resigned Jonathan Hankins one year deal the veteran exception. They lost Carlos Watkins to Arizona on a one year deal, So that tells me the Cowboys didn't try real hard to But yeah, and the one year deal on Hankins,

I mean it's one point three. And then as far as the salary cap, it's the veteran basically, it's a cap one point it's a nine million, yeah, an exception. Yeah.

So and that's the market out there, right. You're seeing really over the course of a two week period here, since the first wave of free agency when the big money was being spent these veteran players, because the market is so flooded, they have had to accept one year deals, yeah, across the board and just hoping that they play well enough that they make good one year deals, hoping that you get in that upper echelon right when you hit free agency again next year, and then I get a

two year deal, right right, But I mean think about it what Jay Ryan Curse did, right, and he parlayed his one year deal to a two year deal. But now he, you know, goes into his last year of his contract, and you're just hoping that somebody will um, you know, bite on you later. I mean the same thing with Ronald Jones when they signed him, right, it was a one one year and he's been in the league, what four or five years. M Dante Filler probably thought, Okay,

I did enough to get a multi year deal. Oh he's resigned for one year. Those six sacks, so and then the Cowboys nibbled with Chumahdoga and enrico'dondell who was on IR So that was you know, kind of inedible, inevitable. So yeah, um, but I think from the Cowboys standpoint getting Dante Foller back, that was six sacks on the team that ended up what third in the league in sacks.

The beauty of it is with the one year signings is it has no impact whatsoever on what you do in the draft, right and uh, no, it impacks it because now you don't have to reach. No, that's true, That's what I mean. Yeah, it allows you to be true to your board and true to whatever position. The Cowboys can go any number of positions. Uh and I'm

talking every round of the draft. And what is it's really shown you even going back to the COVID year where you had and with the new rules as far as being able to have extra players on a practice squad and so forth, you can find quality players who are veterans on the street who can impact your team more right now than maybe even a fourth round draft pick in or a third round draft pick. Take Jalen Tilbert last year, a guy who needed time to develop,

and we'll see where he goes this year. But you can be true to drafting quote unquote best player available in the draft because you can find players. There are players to be had all over the place. And you covered yourself at almost every position you needed to cover yourself. You know, if you get to the twenty six pick in the first round and he needed a wide receiver, well why not because the trades you made those guys are in short term deals. Right. You need a cornerback, Okay,

if that's that's what's there. You need a running back, Okay, no problem there, you can do that. Um, you know, and so yeah, they they don't have to reach. You don't have to reach for a linebacker. I don't have to reach for a safety. I mean really, the only thing that they didn't end up with a quality veteran would have been tight end. But again, you had two young guys on the move, right, So but you're kind of covered there, so you don't have to you don't.

I always go back to this. In nineteen ninety four, it was the first year of basically the salary cap in free agency, and the assistant coaches were just harping and harping, we need a defensive end, we need a defensive end, and there really wasn't any defensive ends there. And they take a shot at the defensive end Carver and he was in a first round pick, but they said, we got a need and I think, you know, they should have learned their lesson when you do something like that.

Boys have done that more recently too. Yeah, so you gotta watch yourself. Yeah, same thing, right, But at least he was was he a set first round? He was first round? Right, Yeah, you just but they've covered themselves so they should not have to go in the draft and say we absolutely need this. And that was the beauty of this offseason that everybody right from the start, Oh, you know, nobody's doing any work. Everybody's on spring break at the Star and slowly but surely day two, three

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start of free agency and the NFL Draft. Okay, so the draft now twenty four days away and free agency started three weeks ago today when the negotiating period open. Zeke has been out there for two over two weeks

now and hasn't found a new NFL home yet. My question to you about Tony Pollard, what is the ideal situation with Pollard with the Cowboys as far as how he has used this season in my opinion, and and and along with that, what is the best type back assuming Bijan Robinson is not there at twenty six when the Cowboys draft, what is the best type back to

pair with Tony Pollard Somebody like Bijean and Robinson. I can't imagine for the first time in his career meeting at Memphis and here that he's going to be a guy they're going to lean on for twenty five touches a game for seventeen weeks. I think his role is probably not that much different than last year. The touches. He was getting the big plays, but are you going to rely on him for the seven touchdowns? Ezekiel Elliott scored from the one yard line because they didn't ask

him to do that. They asked Zeke, right, So I think his role should remain the same. And sometimes when you end up getting like in baseball, you get more at bats, you're a two hundred and fifty at bats second baseman and you hit two eighty and then all of a sudden they want to give you four hundred and fifty at bats and you hit two twenty. So to me, his role should be the same. And the running back they're looking for they covered themselves somewhat, would

Ron Jones. But in the draft, if one's available, like a Bijon Robinson that can play like he does and can carry a heavier load, than I think they should grab one. Somebody that can run the ball, tough, can get to the outside, can catch the ball, and then you rely on Pollard for your big splash flace place.

What do you think that found it very interesting what Stephen Jones said at the owner's meetings last week when asked about Zeke, and he said a lot of the things you would expect him to say about not offering him and not disrespecting him with the low ball offer or whatever, but basically leaving the door open that Zeke

could possibly return to the Cowboys. Somebody would have and I know they did, but in case they didn't read my co alum on Zeke before Stevens said that, I pointed out number one, they didn't want to dishonor him with a low ball offer. They just didn't think that was the right thing to do to maybe bring that ten point nine to I don't know, what do you think they would have offered maybe a base salary of

three four million something like that. Well that's the market out there, basically right for the top running backs out there, really, and they thought that would have been disrespectful. So let him go and see what he can do. But I was told that you get through the draft and if he's still out there, you know there, don't discount him coming back. And that's basically what Steven Jones said at

the owner's meeting. And I wouldn't dismiss that one bit because I think he was second or third in the league on third and short picking up first downs, and if you look at what he did with the seven of his twelve touchdowns from the one yard line. Who's going to get those twelve touchdowns for you? By the way, Well, very similarly, Jamal Williams for Detroit he had I think

eighteen touchdowns this past year for the Lions. He got signed by the Saints and it was announced as a three year, twelve million dollar deal, eight million dollars guaranteed, So in that same range of three to four million dollars years for a player about the same age too as Zeke. So I certainly wouldn't dismiss that, and it'll be interesting to see now they just gave away I understand twenty one gave who the Cowboys did gave away his number? Oh yeah, right, yeah, I thought you were

talking months twenty one. No, Gilmore had Gilly one. Yeah, but he did tweet out he would like fifteen. So yeah, I think that's available, isn't it. Greer Will Greer at fifteen? Yeah, I think that's right. That's correct. Um, so yeah. But to the point of my initial question, what type back would you pair with Tony Pollard if you don't have an elite first round Bijean Robinson available to you in the draft, but there's backs like that they're in the

second third round. Yeah, right, that you wouldn't mind handing the ball to the other part of it is, even from a salary standpoint, is as it stands, now, what's the salary cap hit not having Zeke on the team. It's still um for this five point eight million this year, six point one million next year. So you're still paying for him your account without without about actually giving him money.

That's right, right, So what is next? Another two million dollar hit this year where you're actually getting a player for that money? Yes, absolutely. And the other thing, don't just miss his presence in that locker room too, which has been building over these last two years. Right, you need somebody like that, a little bit goofy, but still guys,

respect what he has done, what he can do. I mean, all you got to do is listen to what the quarterback said, right, And I know they're friends and all that, but aside and he's a team guy. Yes, he'll do anything you ask. He's not a me me guy. Right now. People will say, well as contract, hey are he's trying to get in that second contract he was getting as

much money and it was smart of him. Did get as much money as he could well, But now he's at a different point in his career, right, And do you want to leave Dallas and the marketing aspect of playing for the Cowboys versus another team. That's another factor that should weigh into it from his perspective. I think here's my list of some Cowboys. Tony Dorset did he finish his career with the Cowboys? Oh? Got traded? Right? Emmitt Smith? Did he finish his career with the Cowboys? No?

He got cut? Um? Tony Romo got cut. Danny White, They didn't pick up his option when he thought it was his option. Right after Jimmy got here. Troy Aikman, did he get cut? They didn't pick up his option? Right? They basically let Aikman go. Raphael Wright got released. Evanserton Walls. This is why he's not here. He got cut? Did text Tom and Gill leave on their own? Not so much? Right? DeMarcus where he got cut? Bob Hayes he ended up? I want to say he got cut and he went

to San Diego. Maybe so I believe that that I remember that. Uh, Jimmy basically got cut, right? Um. Larry Allen got released, so, um, you know, it's like it happens Flozelle, you know, Nate, he didn't get resigned and played one year Francisco, San Francisco. I just found my game in my note he had thirty he had four games. Uh he played, Um and nobody remembers. Hayes got released at thirty four. Yeah, so it's happened to some of

the great players in Cowboy history. So this is not something like, oh, you know, but this is what happens. So um yeah, but I want a back sort of like Zeke. Uh. And you know, I don't know if Ronald Jones can can carry that load, but look at the his uh his carries. Look how many carries he had. Zeke, Yes, he ended up with two hundred and thirty one carries. And I don't want to hear about the three point eight. Had too many one yard runs into the end zone.

We talked about that, right, he factored it in. But he also had a bunch of one yard ones on third down. That really makes Zeke is an old school running back, right, I mean I looked up. I don't have it in front of me right now, but seventh year in the league, Emmett Smith averaged three point seven yards to carry right, and then he was able to play at a very high level for seven more years

in the league. Now he was rare, he was out right. Yeah, but still you need somebody like that, So yeah, don't don't discount the fact that he could be back here. All right, need to take another break and we wrap up mixed shots in just a moment. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a Pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey, Oh look at that. That's not the end, no way. Now it's time for the encore. You know what, You're right?

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com for more back back to mixed shots. For one night only, music legends Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks will perform at AT and T Stadium on Saturday, April eighth. That's twenty twenty three, by the way, so that means it's this Saturday. Is that correct? Correct? Tickets are now on sale at SeatGeek dot com, the official ticketing provider of AT and T Stadium. And I'm proud to say that I've seen both of those in concert. What year

Billy Joel early? Because I think I might have nineteen seventy something, Yeah, I might have been still in college. And I've seen in sixty something kids. Yeah right, you had the seventies, right, And Stevie Stevie Knicks um performing on her own and with Fleetwood mac he there you go. Yeah, I saw her at a concert in Memphis. So what about this week? Will you? Will you do what you did? Women's got to go and look for a walk for

a SkELL ticket. Oh man? All right? What the Cowboys have done so far in free agency, We've talked about where they sit here twenty four days away from the draft, that Dallas Day here on Friday. What an advantage that is for this team to be able when you've got the talent that is produced in a DFW plus the colleges here to be able to bring those people in for Dallas Day at a big advantage for this team.

Who caught your eye brought in? Well, there's there's a number that, um that I've caught my eye in the area that may not have been here in the building on Dallas Day, but might be paying a visit at some point, like one of their national visits that they

have available. Well, yeah, national visits, and and you've got some local guys who would qualify for other teams as being legit, you know, first or second day draft picks that you know, you go back to two nineteen and we had you know, CBS eleven has the Landry Award ceremony every year and the final I went back and looked at the finalist in two nineteen coming out of high school. Here you had Jackson Smith and Jigba from Rockwall who is a first round prospect from Ohio State.

He had Marvin Mems from Lone Star High School here in Frisco, who played at Oklahoma, who's probably he's probably maybe second round, second or third round draft pick, who lit it up at the combine. One of the top linebackers in this draft Drew Sanders from Denton, Ryan who went to Alabama and then transferred to Arkansas. Those three, those three were three of the five finalists for the

Landry Award that year. The fourth was Chandler Morris, who's going to be the starting quarterback at TCU this year. It was the starting quarterback at the beginning of last year before Max Duggan. He got hurt. Max Duggan became a Heisman finally give it back. So anyway, it's it's just an example of the type you know, prospects that come out of DFW. So there's there's three local guys right there that should be on the Cowboys radar, A couple of wide receivers in a linebacker, I like the

wide receiver at Ohio State, Yes, Jackson Smith and Jigba. Yeah. He just needed to stay healthy, right and he wasn't healthy this past year. But he's the Cowboys should feel fortunate if he's still available at twenty six. I think he's going much earlier than that. I mean, don't you think he I've read where somebody was writing about him and they, you know, the analysis was, he's just a slot receiver. I thought he played out so he can

do whatever, he can do anything, right. Yeah. Now the thing is he has played a lot in the slot and he's got the athletic ability to but he's not a smallish, you know, slot receiver. Yeah, but yeah he what was his best year was the second year? Yeah, go watch the Rose Bowl? Yes, absolutely, single handedly it's the Rose Bowl was his CD lamb uh ou Texas game. Right, you know when when c D came out, all you had to do is go watch the Texas game. Well

with Jackson, go watch the Rose Bowl. Um um anyway, that's that's um. Oh. The other thing I was going to mention the TCU um you know, and and the local colleges qualify as guys that they can bring in for Dallas day. Quentin Johnston the wide receiver from TCU, big wide receiver, Calvin Johnson like uh as a first round prospect too, and um boy like his size. Yeah, yeah, he's hard to cover. That's one of those Just throw it up to Alvin, right, yeah, there you throw it

up to that guy. Yeah, absolutely, um. Yeah. And so you know, wide receiver, we talked about it, running back, we talked about it, tight end. SMUs got a wide receiver, Rushie Rice at a Richland high school here, who is a really good prospect. So you named the position. I'll tell you why they need it. You know, even quarterback down the line, why not fifty sixth round if somebody catches your eye, Jerry has said, could be Duggan Duggan, Duggan Sr. Dugan Duggan. Jerry has said, uh, fairly recently

that you know. It may have been when Brock Purty was doing his thing with San Francisco. You know it's, uh, maybe we should draft a quarterback every year, oh, change something like that. Since they went all the well, they never needed a quarterback and they were always relying on veteran guys to be the backup. Right until you run out of veteran guys to be your backup, then you go, well,

let's take that prescot. The other part of it is, you know, there was a time where quarterbacks weren't getting hurt, right, but this past year there's a number of teams I've been half the teams in the league at some point had to go to a backup quarterback this year and win a longer season. And you know, and here's the other thing. Even on the down the line quarterbacks they started in college. You know, quarterbacks aren't sitting behind somebody

and saying, okay, I'll wait my turn. They'll go find someplace to play. And I think these guys are much more prepared now for to play in the NFL than it was ten fifteen years. Kind of getting back to where we started. How far when wetball has come, how far has quarterback? Think about these quarterbacks and how much football they play. There is now an offseason program around the country which is called seven on seven where they

have a football in their hands doing something. I'm glad you're around seven on seven because I had seven to eleven on my mind. Yeah, they get to play seven. But no, even in high school right there, they're just more prepared now if you stay in college long enough, right you know these you know two one and done, they're not one and done in football, one one and done starting any Yeah, yeah, you got Richardson from Florida,

you got to play? That one scares me. I mean, he's got all the athletic ability in the world, right, but he hasn't played that much football. Do you think that helped Troy Aikman as much football as he played in his college career. There's no doubt Tony Romo how much football he played and then sat for three years before he got a chance. It's it's huge, even Dak. I mean he played, yeah, I mean was it for three full years? Three full years as a starter? Ye?

Anthony Richardson or Florida was a starter this year, started twelve games. Prior to that, he had one start in his college career. See that scares me. That's scary. And a fifty four completion percentage this year too, because these quarterbacks that come out too soon that haven't played a lot, haven't seen a lot, and now you're going to make that transition in the NFL. Okay, all right, let me

ask you. There's another thing that was coming out of the owner's meetings last week as far as the Cowboys offensive tackles. Yes, and Terrence Steele obviously coming off the ACL injury now tyring his contract redone. What do you make of what Jerry said about the situation at the tackle percent. So I think his point was that they would look at Steele as a potential swing tackle can play each side. I don't know that he's ready for the left side because if he had a shortcoming, I

think it was pass blocking, right. But what nobody pointed out after all that, like, oh, they're gonna do this and this. What if Steele is ready to play? He's my right tackle. What if I don't have somebody that I can sink my teeth into at left guard? So what about Tyron going back to left tackle and Tyler Smith moving the left guard? What's wrong with that? Here's the deal. I mean, that was the plan until Tyrn

got hurt. The decision doesn't have to be made, yes, until September exactly, and Terren Steele is going to be in rehab from his ACL injury throughout the offseason basically, okay, because that was a December injury, so he probably didn't have the surgery to mid to late Yeah, so his

nine months are included September. That's right. And so when Jerry is answering the question right now, and you can also keep in mind where Terren Steele is with his contract, He's going into his last year or whatever, and where Tyrn is in his career and you want to respect Tyrant. Okay, so it And when they go out for OTAs in May, how are they lining up? Okay, who's going out with the first team. Well, Tyler Smith is going to be

at left tackle. Tyrn, depending on how much he does, is you can line him up at right tackle, just at the end, like at the end of last year, because you may Terrence Steele may not be ready to go Game one in September exactly, and so you have to go into the offseason. Those are your two tackles.

It's a different deal than if everybody's healthy and then you've sort things out and you see where you are injury wise and who you've added to the team and so forth once you get into training camp and so forth. But you don't have to The easy thing to say right now is this is what we've got. We've got Tyler Smith here, We've got Tyrn Smith there, and Terren Steele is your swing guy right and we'll use a doga as the left. You pencil him in there and see what he can do a guard and see what

you get in the draft. Remember, he was so good he only got to sign a one year deal, and no one wanted him to be a starter. You would think, right, no one was sinking their teeth into this guy. Now he may becauses idoga Yeah yeah, right, yeah, one year deal, So he's going to have to win that job. They're not going to hand it to him. I think McCarthy said that's kind of how they would probably line up

that the he'll compete for that starting job. I don't know that he's got any competition there, although well he has in his career. He's appeared in twenty six games with thirteen starts, so he's been a part time starter in his career. Doga has in this past year or

two games. Once started Atlanta. Previous year with the Jets, five games, no starts, and then in twenty twenty, which was his second year in the league with the Jets, he had eleven games and four starts and eight starts his rookie year as a third round draft pick in twenty nineteen. And you got to find out what FARNIAX got right, Um? And and even if he's not starting, is he the guy that's the guard, center guy, swing guy? Um?

You got to sort that one out. Now, everybody, you know, when they don't see a star at left tackle, I mean left guard, it is like, oh, we gotta draft a guard in the first round. We're not going to draft a guarden. I'm not going to stick with that. I don't want to guard in the first round. Just like they didn't draft a guard at the first run. I was drafted a tackle that could play guard. All right,

we're out of time. Oh no, already make sure Okay, yep, we're out of time on this edition of mix Shots. And we'll see if Everson gets out of Vegas and makes it home next week. I'm the next edition the Mix Shots, No Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club mm HM