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and Nicky Spagnola and here we are. It's a fabulous Friday edition of Mick Shots Bill Jones along with Everson Walls and inside the s WBC Mortgage studios at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco on the Friday before the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers are at at and T Stadium. There he is Mickey Spagnola. Hello, gentlemen, how are you? I'm doing great? How are you guys? And very well? Not very well? Get my homework? You did your homework? Yeah, I didn't do my homework, especially at kid. I did

my homework. Yeah, And now that you mentioned it, I forgot to do my homework and I'm going to do it right now. And y'a was talking this first segment. I'll do my homework. So here we are, and don't get this roo ate your homework. I don't know that

that was on the air out there. Chris Beam, our producer, We may have just told us in our ears behind the scenes, but he said that romo ate it, meaning my dog romo ate my homework, and that was that was in all likelihood exactly what happened, all right, Mickey, Yes, Um, Mike McCarthy had his usual Friday morning press conference, and we saw the injury report after yesterday's work out Dan, which the most extensive workout of the week, and sounds like Zeke didn't do as much as they had hoped

it he would do. And yesterday's work out, yeah, I thought that was somewhat alarming the fact that he didn't do as much, and they said that they would kind of recheck them on Saturday. So yeah, that's just what the Cowboys need, right that, you know, just uh lose another Pro Bowl starting player going into the game against UM as you said, the undefeated seven and oh Pittsburgh Steelers. So yeah, you know, I figured that they were just trying to get them to Sunday, and maybe that's what

they're doing. Jerry sounded a little bit more optimistic. But you know, when Kellen Moore did his conference called this morning and he was asked about it, and you know what, uh he uh he said that you know that will be something that uh, well, we'll just have to see uh And he said, uh, uh, you know, we don't

know where it's at yet. But he invoked the name of Rico Dottle, And I'm guessing most people don't even know that he that rookie undrafted free agent is on the fifty three man roster and has actually been active on game day, uh basically just playing special teams. Hadn't had an offensive snap yet. But when I heard that, I was like, I don't know, maybe we need to be a little bit more concerned and keep an eye on Zeke uh during warmups for Sunday's game. So yeah,

that's a little bit troubling. Um, probably can you enlighten me on Enrico? Can you enlighten the fans on Enrico? Who is Rico? He was the running back if I remember correctly, from South Carolina A right, yeah, and kind of a shifty guy. Maybe not quite as big as the other guys, but line in the way that he plays, he's shifting in the way that he plays. Yes, yeah, okay, lou allright, just checking. Not like he's a member of the mafia or anything, right, leave it to ever, right,

So I'm just checking. So yeah, you know he got in. He actually he has three offensive snaps, Mickeyaton for those who stuck around for the I didn't see that when I look for those who stuck around for the end of that Monday night game against Arizona. He had three carries in that game for thirteen yards. No way Preco Dottle, Yeah didn't. Okay, did he pronounce it Doddle? Oh? I had. That's the way to go. I don't know. I'm going with I've been going with Rico Doubtle. We have to

fags every once in a while. See, this is this is the problem with not having preseason games. Okay, we would all know who Rico Doubtle or Rico Dowdle is if we had had preseason games this year, because he would have been the leading ball carrier for the Cowboys in the preseason. And that's how damn Instead we have to depend on Spagnola with unreliable information. Yes, all right, I missed three snaps okay, garbage time against the Arizona Cardinals. We would we would have known all about him and

the other running back from TCU. Right that basically, well, we knew about the running back from TCU Jeddy Henderson. We make sure in Big twelve country here, and we know about the dimension saw alana Lua, right, and he's still fullback, That's right, he's still on the practice lay. If they need a full back too, well, I mean you know what, he's not just a fullback. That guy can play running back in fact, in fact the second half of this season. If you know what, I wouldn't

mind seeing a little shawo Alana Lua on this team. Uh, you know. Uh, And if Zeke can't go, I wouldn't mind seeing shaw alana Luah on Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, uh, because I think that they need to run the football at these Pittsburgh Steelers and and U. And I also thought that I was thinking about it yesterday. How do you how do you, as a head coach motivate the Cowboys to the point where they think that they can actually win this game over the Pittsburgh Steelers? All right?

What would be the best way to motivate them? And one of the things I thought of. One of Zeke's greatest games in his NFL career was four years ago at Pittsburgh. I think you know. And that's with the game where he had the eighty three yard touchdown reception and he broke it open at the end of the game and they had two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. He told he had two hundred nine yards and three touchdowns.

And what I would do on Saturday night at the team meeting, I'm showing Zeke against the Pittsburgh Steelers from four years ago, just to plant in this team's mind see it can be done. And that was at Pittsburgh. Now the problem with that now, if Zeke's not gonna play in the game, then it defeats its own purpose that the players are looking at that video going bit. That'd be great if we only had Zeke in this game. But I have to say, guys, when you're talking about

Tony Pollock, very accompassed. I'm sure both of you agree with me on this. How accomplished Tony Pollard is the only thing I would say about him, because God, he's so amazing. He hits the holes quicker than than Zeke does. He has his own unique style, which I love, but

I think they go better together. I think the contrast between Zeke starting off with Zeke coming with the power you know, coming coming with the aggression and then we change over to Tony Pollard and when he comes to the game, the difference in the speed is noticeable, and I think it takes some defenses off guard. So I think Tony Pollard's best when he compliments Zeke Elliott. I'm curious to see how well he plays without the accompaniment of Zeke Ellitt in this ball game. Yeah, because the

change of pace I think really helps him out. Yeah, and I don't know. I don't know if he's capable of taking twenty twenty five snap seither. We haven't seen that. So uh, they think just how effective he'll be. Just need to get to work on that hamstring, which, by the way, um, I believe it was Kellen Moore pointed it out, Uh that Zeke tweaked the hamstring chasing down McLeod on that fumble return for a touchdown. So Mike

McCarthy pointed it out. McCarthy, Yeah, McCarthy said, yeah. And so for all the people out there they think Zeke loafs. All I know is when I went back and looked at that play, Zeke was on the ground where the fumble was initially recovered. Uh, and by time he got up, McLeod had the ball and had a ten to twelve yard head start on him, and by time they got to the end zone, Zeke was only three yards behind.

Now I know, he almost leon ledded it right and kind of held the ball up at about the five yard line and took a foot off the gas pedal, But Zeke was gaining on him. For those folks that think that he's not motivated, that he doesn't try, go back and look at the game. He was the guy that was gaining on McLeod the entire time. For what was it was it sixty yards fifty three yard return? Sixty three yards sixty three? Yeah, so but that's where

he evidently tweaked the hamstring. Well. And the other part of that, Mickey, is there's so many times on plays like that that during the course of the week, especially once the coaches film gets available on NFL dot Com, people will go back and they'll rag on players for loafing once they can see the all twenty two. And so I was going to point out that same thing about Zeke. Let's give him some credit because he didn't have because he was not going to win that race.

He was not going to catch McLeod going to the end zone, but you could see yet in his mind that if he could catch him, he was going to try to knock that ball out like don Beebe or like Trayvon Diggs. Yes, you know it. I like sometimes that frustration, you know, can bring on a sense of urgency, and not just for that one play. I mean, you would look for those type of players could make you so upset to where you say, you know what, this is the last straw. And that was in that particular game.

That was Zeke's attitude. But you want that attitude to go towards the rest of the season as well, for any individual, whether it's Zeke or not. You know, the other thing on that play, you know, it was Vinny Curry who we thought had possession and was down by contact and the ball was stripped out. You know, keep in mind that was a fourth down play, and it's it's such a scrum you can't really tell exactly what

is happening in the pile up there. It's conceivable that Vinny Curry himself tossed the ball out in order to give his teammate a chance to run for a touchdown with it because it was towards the other end of the field and there was an opportunity there for a scoop and score, which is exactly what happened on the plot. Now, that's a good point. So has the NFL comeback and made a statement or have we uh demanded any type

of statement from them in regards to that play. Oh, I think that the Cowboys for sure have gotten you know, they wrote it up and they I'm sure they got an explanation from the league. It's my understanding that the officials did not know, didn't even realize what was going on on it that that is not a good answer. But Bill's right, that's exactly what they didn't understand. What they didn't understand what was going on from the snap of the football when it was in the neutrals. Yeah,

the off sides. The officials didn't see the off sides much less what was going on in that pile there. They were all retreating downfield by lack of success that they give us these crappy three teams, I mean, what is happening? Man? They have no idea that we're like, oh, I'm sorry, we missed it. That's it. That's all you got you know what? You know what I did that? I did that to an umpire. Uh when I was managing a girls fast pitch softball team. They were junior high.

Can you imagine umpire. The umpire was was half you know what I mean? Half you know what? Is right? And I finally went out and I yelled at him. I said, hey, just because these are girls, don't sit here and think this game's not important. You do your job. He didn't take kindly to it. Ever, Ever, Everson, I just had this, this mental picture of Mickey Spagnola at a eight and under girls fast softball game at any he's got, he's got. He looks like Bill, he looks

like Billy Martin in the dugout. He's got his camp on, he's got, he's in full UNI for him. And he goes out and argues with the umpire and throws his hat, turns his head around backwards, kicks dirt on home play. Nicky at the eighth and under fast pitch Softball should have it. He was he was ever, he was the only he was the only coach in the league with a clipboard was clipboard down and maybe the only one

that knew what he was doing too. Oh, that reminds me I did by the way I did ahead the way I did, by the way get ejected from one game too. I was gonna say that was coming. The injection had to be coming. And you're not the only one spect I got kicked out of a game for being a just a spectator. So yeah, been there, done that, pal. I'm with you, man, Just do your shot, do your job. Hey.

There was one time and I coached my girls in eight and under, ten and under youth basketball, and I remember there's several years later, I was working for CBS eleven. I was at Terrell Owens charity basketball game over at ar Old Turner High School and they had officials and everything at it. And one of the female officials comes up to be and she looks at me and she says, you're that coach from South Lake, aren't you? She remembered,

She remembered me from eight and under girls basketball. Getting on the officials, I said, no, I don't know. We are a rep. Bill had a rep. Oh. Bill, Well, when I coached my son's basketball team, I would never get kicked out of the game. I would always sacrifice my players to go do some dirty work and get kicked out of the game. That's how I sent a message. So it's a little different from you know what you

guys are him. Were you ever as mad as what Mike McCarthy appeared to be on the sideline after Dalton Schultz was called for a hold in Philadelphia on Sunday night. Not as mad because you couldn't see my face changing colors the way you saw McCarthy's face, Well, you couldn't see his face spent with a mask gun, you couldn't see all of his face. But he was as mad as as he's probably ever been, and he was justified

because that was that was bogus. I believe that was around the holding call Schultz, if I'm not mistaken, It took it took away a first down run by Ben Denucci. It was a significant, horrible bubble call. Yeah, houbbal call

call right and pubble call. I feel like he probably saw it on the jumbo tron in the stadium and uh, and so that's how he because it's on the other side of the field from McCarthy, and so he gave him an earful and then something all right, looked like that mask got hot looked like that mask got real hot. That's exactly right where I'll tell you that's okay. How can the Cowboys beat the Steelers on Sunday? And who

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We still don't know who the president is, although we've got to think we've got a pretty good idea. We don't know who the starting quarterback for the Cowboys is gonna be at three twenty five on s Day afternoon. Do we have a fairly good idea who it might be? Mickey Spagnola? What do you think? I think? Uh? Mike McCarthy continues to answer the question when he's asked about the two quarterbacks, and the first one he mentioned still is is Garrett Gilbert. So I'm sticking with that, That's

what we're going with. I just think that you know, he at least has started games, meaning he started games in the AF and I know it was the AF, but that wasn't very long ago, right, and he actually started what eight games playing in that league, so to me, and he's been here a little bit longer, and I just don't I just don't know, I mean, And even Kellen Moore mentioned it because he was asked about how do you divide up the snaps and he goes, well,

you really can't do that. And I was listening to Cooper Rush and Rush even mentioned that he had taken he gets snaps and he said to Night, I've also run the scout team. So that to me, I don't know if that's a tipping point or not. But I don't think that he's gonna say Obviously, he doesn't talk again until after the game McCarthy, So I don't think he wants to give them, you know, an ability for a scouting report on who the quarterback is. But if

I was going to guess that, that would be my guess. Well, I wonder if you ask Gary Gilbert if he's taken any snaps with the scout team, he might say that he's taking team too. Yeah right, yeah, So you want to give him as many snaps as possible throughout the week. So the ones he's not with the first team, you put him with the scout team for now. Well, but

but but think about it. They also have to have a backup quarterback ready, right, So it's not just getting one guy ready, You got to get the other guy ready too, unless you're gonna keep all three quarterbacks active on game days. Uh yeah, it's uh well, considering the fact that Pittsburgh has sacked people so many times thirty, Yeah, you better have a backup ready. H I think somebody needs to be prepared just in case something goes down. But to be prepared too, Hey, think should be prepared.

No doubt a ballot might need all three. Hey, if it takes that much to beat these guys, I'm fine with it. But I did my little I did my little research on the Steelers, and I'm still pissed off from nineteen seventy eight. Man, I'm still mad and when I was back at Graamville. So I'm getting kind of fired up as to get closer. But I'm with you SPACs. Uh. Probably Gilbert uh, simply because he's you know, I'm more

mature human being. I mean he's older, basically. I guess that would be better, as you said, some experience on a professional level regardless, and he did a very good job in that role in the AAF. I believe it's what you said the league he was in, right, But let's it's just like the president man, you know, Cooper Rush. He's finding the lawsuit in the state of Pennsylvania. So now we gotta wait until next week before we find out who's going to be the starters. So it depends

on what the judge says first. Then we'll find out who's going to be the starter. All right, all right, so how about what was your guests? It's it's Gilbert. I've said all week that I thought Garrett Gilberts guy, and a lot of it I think has to do with the fact that that Gilbert has been here for a longer period of time. I mean, I take the guy that's been here three weeks over the guy that's

been here for three days. And so I mean, we saw what happened last week when the guy with three days of practice got into the game, and so I'll go with I'll go with the guy with three weeks um. And you know, since we're more than that, I was gonna say, since I go ahead, since we're on the quarterbacks right. Thanks to my good buddy David Smoke, I saw this note Dak Prescott in his what four plus games through for one eight hundred and fifty six yards.

Derek Carr, Ryan Tannehill, Ben Roethlisberger, Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, Kirk Cousins, David Jones, and Justin Herbert have not thrown for more yards yet than Dak Prescott. So if you wonder how important Dak Prescott was to this whole thing, just think about that and get this. Philip Rivers is only thrown now four more yards than Dak. Carson Wentz twenty seven and the Drew Brees only forty two more yards.

And what Dak did in four plus games, So that tells you what he was doing up until the point where he dislocated and had the fractured ankle. Crazy. All right, I'll let you know that Dak was headed towards a year. I guess it fortunately or unfortunately like no other because he was forced to throw that many times. He was forced to be put in that position. And you know, they kept talking about the garbage numbers and all of that. Garbage numbers are not numbers when you are putting your

team back in the ball game. I mean, it wasn't like they were down by four touchdowns and he never got them even close. No, these were productive yards that were very instrumental in those comebacks. A couple of times he had go ahead touchdowns late in the fourth quarter only to lose that momentum again because the defense couldn't hold on. So garbage numbers, that is b s. Those numbers were sorely needed and really show just what kind

of talent he had just played the entire season. Guys, I had the entire season, that would have been out of this. It would have been out of sight. But every I agree wholeheartedly with you, Everson. They're not garbage numbers at all. But if the Cowboys had gotten ahead by two or three touchdowns in those games in the first half instead of behind by two or three touchdowns, Dak wouldn't have had the numbers that they have, and Zeke would have at least a couple one hundred yard

rushing games. By now, I mean that you've been glad to take that is exactly exactly, and we'd be sitting here in the with the Cowboys playing the Can you imagine if Dak were healthy and the Cowboys are playing the Steelers at three twenty five on Sunday afternoon. There's a reason that CBS picked this game for a November late afternoon national doubleheader start time because when you look at the offensive weapons that dak as obviously with his top three receivers, and then you look on the other

side with Roethlisberger. I was doing a little interview last night with a media member from Pittsburgh, and the people in Pittsburgh think that the Steelers had the best wide receivers one through four on their team in the entire league. They believe, they believe that with Juju Smith Schuster and Chase Claypool and Deontae Johnson and James Washington, that one through four they've got the best wide receiver corps in

the league. And I stopped him. I said, well, one through three, I'm not sure about four, but one through three I'll put Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, and CD Lamb up against the Steelers. Not anybody take nothing away from Claypool and Smith Schuster. Yeah yeah, and he and having throwed eighteen hundred yards yet already. So with all those weapons, you know, you would expect for him to have all this output. So those numbers don't back up what you're

what those Pittsburgh people are saying. They don't back him up at all. Dac used every one of his receivers and even his tight end to the utmost. Yeah, and without his starting tight end, Jarwin Right. So when you look at last week's game for the Steelers against the Ravens, obviously Lamar Jackson is a different animal as far as his ability to run the football, and he ran at sixteen times for sixty five yards in that game. But

the Steelers run defense last week. JK. Dobbins, the rookie out of Ohio State, had fifteen carries for one hundred and thirteen yards in that game and Gus Edwards had six sixteen carries for eighty four yards. So they're running backs had one hundred and ninety seven yards rushing on

thirty one carries in that game last week. For Baltimore against his Pittsburgh defense, you have to think, even if Zeke is not available, that whoever starts at quarterback for the Cowboys cannot be throwing the football forty times in this game like Danucci did a week ago. No, absolutely not. And if you watched that game, those guys weren't making great moves. There was holes big enough to put a semi through. Now I got called out for pointing that out.

By the way, somebody said, well, have you've seen the other games, And I said, all I know is I saw that one and they didn't and they couldn't stop the run. I mean they and you know you would have thought, oh, well, Lamar Jackson, he must have run for one hundred yards, you know, Okay, he gave him that, he gave him that dimension. But those other guys ran for nearly two hundred yards against what was supposed, by

the way, Baltimore fifth defense in the league. And by the way, Baltimore lost its left tackle who they just signed to this huge contract twenty one apps into that game, Ronnie Stanley right, who was lost to an injury early on in that game. So loves coaching one o one. When you're going up against a team and you're you know, you're outmanned, of course you have to start off with the run. They're gonna stack that line against us. But it's really all we have at this point, you know,

in regards to a strategy. You know, we can't just come out and just throwing everything at them and seeing what's gonna happen. We're gonna have to establish a facet of the game that we're gonna have to hang our head on for that entire game and of course probably for the entire season. This is the way we're looking at approaching it every week as far as the game

plan is concerned. I didn't see how many punchs Chris Jones had a week ago, but I would say that we want a hundred nice wander to have a lot of punchs in this game. Or maybe not. I say that because well, I say that because I'm not. I'm saying you don't want turnovers. Okay, yes, you don't want to lose the football via turnovers, and I think that

you have to go in with a mindset. And I think that's where the game got lost last week a little bit because of the fumbles by the quarterback in particular, which were the only two giveaways the Cowboys had in that game. I think from an offensive strategy standpoint, you

got to look at this. The only way that you're going to win this game is your defense has got to play and get takeaways like they did last week, and you have to be able to be mindful of the fact that a field goal is halfway to where you need to be where because with you don't have Dacket quarterback, you don't have Andy Dalton at quarterback, you don't have a quarterback who's made an NFL start before starting for you, and the expectations of them being able

to lead touchdown drives just isn't there. And so your MVP might be Greg Zerline and hundred nice wander in this game and keep it close and then maybe you get lucky in the end. That's a good point, Bell, because all you gotta do is you have to have the third facet of the game. We need our special teams more than ever. Defenses is still reeling, offenses reeling. We need our special teams more than ever right now to step up. They don't need to be just window dressing.

They need to be instrumental in our game plan. So you talk about punts, Yeah, we want we'd rather have punts, more punts than turnovers. But we'd also rather have more field goals, you know. So if we can just lead to the field goals and punts and as far as I could say, more field goals than punts, then we're in a ball game. And like you said, we're getting half of what our goal is. We don't get the seven, but we still get the three. So that's what I'm

looking forward to, minus the turnovers. Special teams has to up up. They have to be part of this game. Player. They had three punts three punts uh last week. Uh, and they should have had four, right, they took the safety that would have been a punt, so they would have punted four times, so you know, and they turned the ball over twice, so there's six possessions right there. And if you count the fourth down, they they turned

it over on the fourth down possession on that fumble. Right. Yeah, Oh that was the same thing, the fumble and the fourth down, right, the touchdown. Yeah, so yeah, no, you're exactly right. And you know what and and and just you know, if you're gonna throw the ball and you got time, just throw it deep. You know, it might be a punt, okay, So what you gotta come out here swinging. Can't be nibbling around. Just just come I mean we might get interference, who knows. Just gonna just

get what you can cannot. You cannot play the loose bags, that's all you're saying. But I am exactly but if I'm at cannot play to lose. But if I'm at the Pittsburgh forty and I'm facing fourth in one, I'm punting it. I'm plunting them down into a hole. I'm not going for it and giving them a short field. I think I think you have to approach it differently than what you do with a veteran quarterback in there, unless you got some have the veteran quarterback, you know

you still want to make him make plays. He had been that good this year. The offense hadn't been outstanding this year. So I'm like you, Bill, we plut them down deep. Let's make them show us that they're not weak in a particular area. Prove it to us that you're better than number twenty five as far as the offense is concerned. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, you gotta prove it to us because we're gonna have to bring everything

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in twenty thirteen, I believe it was. It was a high scoring game Pittsburgh won, but Aaron Rodgers did not play. It was a backup quarterback Matt Flynn who started for the Packers in that game. And the second time that he faced his hometown team, the Steelers was in twenty seventeen. Once again it was with a backup quarterback Brett Hunley, another high scoring, close game, but Pittsburgh won it. And so here he is a third time since the Super

Bowl backup quarterback. Yeah, since the Super Bowls, one in three all time as the head coach against his hometown Steelers, and every one of the three losses came down to the last play of the game. The games were all that close, and he lost on a walk off field goal, a walk off touchdown, and they had an opportunity, I believe, on the third in the other game to throw a touch down into the end zone to tie the game.

To send it in overtime and it was incomplete. So they all three with Green Bay had been close calls. They lost them all except for the one that counted the boasts, the one that matters exactly right. And that guy in Pittsburgh I was talking to last night, he said, if only for Rochard menden Hall, he wouldn't have won that one. Rochard menden Hall in that Super Bowl, So Pittsburgh and I said, well, and I told him, well, if only for Jackie Smith, the Cowboys would have beat

the Steelers day. We got a bunch of onlies. If it wasn't for the pass interference called on Benny Barnes. Yeah, I got a bunch of them guys, come on and if he and then he said, if not for Neil O'Donnell, the Steelers would have had the Cowboys and ninety five. Yeah, and if not for Jackie Smith dropping the ball in the end zone right or Roger not thrown, Yeah, we got pass. Please come on, may Hey. So speaking of speaking of okay, I did my research built, Yeah, let's

do it. Now, let's do it. In my research, I did Okay. We were talking about the Hall of Famers from the amazing matchups in the seventies, the two Super Bowls that the Cowboys and the Steelers had. I think it was back to back Super Bowls if I'm not mistaken. Of course, the Steelers wanted them both to many Cowboys fans. This mate on that particular Steelers team I'm looking at, I think I saw eight Hall of famers. Count them

up with me. Joe Green, Lynn Swan, John Starworth, Jack Lambert, Terry Bradshaw, Donnie Shell, the newest edition, Mike Webster, the late Mike Webster, and Mail Blunt. Those are the eighth that I have for the Steelers in the seventies. Now we start talking about Cowboy Hall of Famers from the seventies, I'm gonna clarify some things right now. We're looking at Raphael Right, Roger Starback, just from the seventies, Bob Hayes, Bob Lily, Tony Dorset, Mel rentfro Cliff Harris, Randy White,

Lance Allworth. Also don't forget herb Adderleade. Now the classification in this game is not all of those Cowboy Hall of Famers participated in the two Super Bowl games. Okay, So when you want to take you want to take out those ones that didn't play in that those two matchups. Bob Hayes did not play. If I'm not mistaken, I'm checking my stuff. I know Bill's gonna be on it. Bob Lily did not play, right, Mel Rentfro did not make it to those those matchups. Neither did Lance all

Worth or Herb Adderlead. They did not participate in those two Super Bowl games. And if I'm not mistaken, Rayfield right only participated in one of them. I could be wrong about that, Bill. So that's what you're looking at, just a decade full of Cowboys Steeler greatness. Of course, the Steelers ended up winning those two Super Bowls. Unfortunately, like I said, they're grambling. I didn't even come out of my room when the game was over. They wanted to.

I think they wanted to burn my room down because nobody liked the Cowboys but me on Grammar's campus. So that was my research. It was very entertaining, and it brought back some really bad memories of those two ball games, including the Benny Barnes passion offense called against I believe that was Lynn Swan. Just huge plays all the way around. Cowboys getting have been getting screwed by referees and big games for decades. You know, you can also you could

have included both head coaches, right, I could have. I did not include them, but yes, I could have Chuck Old, Tom Landry. And so it was a seventy five season, in the seventy eight season that the Cowboys played the Steelers in the Super Bowl, and uh, ray Field, right, was a Cowboy through seventy nine, so he Rayfield would have been on the team. Okay, both seventy five and seventy eight. Also, U, I'm just looking through some of the rest of it. Mal Mail was not mal Cliff

Mail was not there. But Cliff har I was there in seventy five. Yeah, go ahead, there Cliff was. Cliff was there for both of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, exactly. Yeah. So very interestingly did not make it. They were. They were there for the h the Dolphins, and the Coats and the Colt the Coats also Colts, Yeah, the first two. So we we were we were very good at acquiring

top notch talent at the end of their career. We almost did a Bill Belichick in Dallas because you're talking Lance all with her Badley bringing in these amazing guys, Greg Mike did get at the end of their careers. Now, I don't know what's Forrest gregg On. He wasn't on any of the sud No, he wasn't on those teams you're talking about, but he was one that they brought in at the end of his career. Got all right, we gotta we got a minute or so to make some picks here. So what do you think in Everson

as far as pick to click the score? No, I'm going with my player first. Uh, considering special teams being so important here, I'm gonna have to go with Greg the leg as my pick to click. It's gonna be a very important Uh. I love the way kicked last week, except for that one Shank looked like, uh spack no on on that on that with his nine iron. Uh my backup. I always have to have a backup. This running game is gonna be in rdon and I'm looking

for badass to come through for us. Guys, I'm looking for Billy Badass to come through for us this that would be be honest, and I'm looking for him to have a good game. I think this kid's got a lot of heart. The score that I'm looking at who it's gonna be tough. You know, I picked the Cowboys, so I'm always going first case scenario. I'm looking at the Cowboys winning twenty to seventeen. Twenty to seventeen best case scenario. If they're gonna win, that's why score it

needs to be yea. But right, hey, this is the same guy that said the Cowboys couldn't score thirty plus points without Taylon Smith. We proved him wrong in Atlanta, So spags get out of here. Man. All right, all right, I'm going on, Mickey, I'll save you for last. I'm going hundred nice nice wander as might pick to click and uh and I'm sorry to say that I think that the Steelers are gonna win this game. Mickey. Yeah, we could tell by the way you were having it hard. Yeah,

all right. My pick to click is gonna be the rubber band man, Randy Gregory. He's gonna get to Roethlisberger, who's only been sacked ten times, but they have not faced Randy Gregory, so he's my guy. He's gonna get four snaps in this game. And I said I wouldn't pick the Cowboys until they won, so they haven't won. H Pittsburgh twenty you said you wouldn't pick the Cowboys bandwagon mentality. You said you said you wouldn't pick the Cowboys until they won twice. Yeah, twice, that's right, twice.

And I haven't won once yet, so I got I'm still with it. Twenty six sixteen Pittsburgh. Wow, that's a competitive game, twenty six sixteen, and that means the line's gotta kick a bunch of field goals, by the way to field goal three field goals from from zerline. All right, we'll see how well we do. And the game is on CBS with Jim Nanson Tony Romo on the call. All right, that does it for mix shots for another week, and we will see you again on a bye week

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