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one week away. What is it twenty nine hours that day, right, twenty nine four more hours or five more hours until that partick of the time? Right? A week in five hours? There you go, a week week in five hours. Yeah, because it is two o'clock Central time right now, and so whatever something like that, the pregame hype will be well, the pregame hype is already starting on this edition of Mix Shots. As the Cowboys are back on the practice this spring, the head coach and the head coach said,

it's extremely exciting meeting today. This is the kickoff to the regular season meeting. Today's practice kicks off the regular season. There you go, and do we ever have a lot to get to on this edition of Mix Shots. This has been a couple of days since we've been here, and at the close of the show on Tuesday, the cuts came down, and since then the roster maneuvering has taken place, and like several other teams in the league, the Cowboys have decided to go without any kickers. Right,

we're changing the game. So there's a little humor to that line by Bill. I saw I saw something pop up my phone on Google and it was a story about Dan Campbell the Detroit Lions that he decided to, uh, basically do what the Cowboys did with their punter and their deep snapper. They waived them. They didn't have to go through waivers, but they needed to move guys from the fifty three onto ir that's a short term return, So they cut the kickers because they're not going to

be signed by anybody else veteran guys. They don't have to go through waivers exactly. It's just the way the Cowboys did with Brian Anger and Jake McQuaid. Okay, so somebody on that website that which is at what's the website fan Sided. Fan Sided wrote a story that Dan Campbell doesn't like kickers and he's going to be going for two after touchdowns and going forward on fourth down because he doesn't have any kickers on the roster. Fan

Sighted overhyped. It's every movement now, dude, you the same thing I did. I thought it was a tongue in cheek story. I still haven't figured out is this a satire. I don't know. I have no idea. I'm HEARDing the story. Um, believe me, Randy Bullock and Zane Gonzalez have to be shocked.

They were both cut. Nothing makes your football team tougher than going for two every time because kicking is weak, nest And that sounds like something Dan Campbell would say, right, So it gives it some legitimates, right because you know Campbell, right, We're not We're going for it, gonna be fighting, knees, were gonna be Yeah, we're gonna be this kind of team. I'm not falling for this making this is a satire. Well, okay,

all right, I think that story is a satire. I think the guy that wrote it, I think he believes his hype. And I think that guy that wrote, he believes his hype. Well maybe it maybe it is comedy. I don't know, but I refuse to believe it's nothing but comedy. Well there was no comedy around here today, by golly hey. But let me let me get back,

let me get to something. Guys. I'm on my family what's app and they were talking about the ESPN game high school game between IMG My former teammate Pepper Johnson happens to be the head coach and he played against the team Sycamore. What is happening? Man? Can somebody tell me what happened? I've listened to the story, I've read the story, and I still don't get it. That was a satire football yes, it was. Come on, man, how did they sneak this? Bye? I don't understand. I don't know.

It was a bogus high school football team made up of whoever they could play or get on the JUCO dropouts. I heard some of the guys were like twenty thirty years old? Is that true? I don't know how old they were. But they got their butt kicked like and they still lost. And they had a game scheduled for this weekend with Duncanville. So how do you pull that off? I think you know, it's a it's a new school, it's a basically online classes for high school price and

it's not sanctioned by the state of Ohio. Okay, I'm thinking they probably It probably started with good intentions and then they got a deal to play on ESPN and then didn't have enough players or whatever, and so they had an added player. I have no idea, Bishops Bishops Sycamore, right, yeah, and and what was sounds holy, doesn't it? So yeah, right there, you're going to get in the door, right. Whatever happens after that, you know, it's up to you.

So they heard they signed cam Newton too, so that was another But apparently, and I didn't watch the game, but apparently as the game went on, the announcers started realizing that the teleent level, the talent level wasn't what was advertised, and then they started goggling and searching and they couldn't find these players on how does this dot happen before the game is even scheduled? HOWESPA get dupe?

This is what I'm talking that, that's the amazing, amazing, But it was twice because they had Duncan scheduled and they caught onto it. It's like televised though, Yeah, I believe so. Well, wasn't this one televised? That one was? So that's why I just can't believe that in your normal preparation for the game, that you wouldn't discover this. Uh, the head coach has an active warrant for him. Come on, man, nastual warf is the rest? Isn't this world? This is

an amazing world. Isn't it? The sports world too? It's so colorful nowadays. I love it. All Right, Okay, that's Mickey's minute. Okay, Wow, that was that was off. That was off the wall. Yeah, crazy though definitely worth it. Okay, So so where do we start. Well, let's start with

the roster adjustments that did take place today. Uh So the guys, three of the guys the Cowboys had on the COVID nineteen list, Um Cede Lamb, Demante Kz, Carlos Watkins have come off COVID and they practiced so to make room uh for those guys, they had to move and they ended up moving a half dozen guy guys from uh the fifty three man roster to the COVID list, I mean to the ir off and they went to IR.

So let me make sure I get it right here. Uh. So the guys they moved were Neville Gallimore, Josh Ball, Molik Turner, uh, Sean McEwan, Kelvin Joseph and Francis Bernard. All those guys. Six guys they moved to IR designated to returns. So it's called DTR DTR designated to and so they have to miss three weeks and three and they were all dealing with injuries, so at least three

and you keep them there long. The most six is that no, these these they can be on as long as they need to be on the need It's a it's they change the rules with COVID because you can have an unlimited number of people that go on the U the injured reserve during the season. During the season, it's just different than those who are placed on injured reserve prior to right. For instance, Hunter and I wander the So so they these guys, and some of them

are getting close. I saw Josh Ball working on the ball, working on the cord, so he's getting a little closer. Uh. Malite Turner was running uh and uh one other guy, oh Gallimore was starting to get on the field and do some good rehap type stuff. So these guys are out at least the Tampa Bay game, the Charger game, and the Eagle game, right, and then if they're healthy enough, you can start making moves. So anyway, those those they made those moves. They had the three guys come off

and then they they claimed on waivers. Will Greer the quarterback was that Carolina. Uh, they claimed Corey Clement the running back got cut by the Giants, and you know, I thought they'd get Devant Freeman. Yeah, but you know what, I don't think your teams special teams was the deciding factor because this guy was all special teams. He would play UH. And so was there one other move they made? They put two more guys on the practice squad. Um, I saw this guy work out. Brelan speaks defensive van

and Ian Bunting a tight end. They put them on the practice squad. So I think they have one more spot on the practice squad, or they do because aler Cone is not count against the practice squad number. There. I know what the other thing was, and they brought Uh and they resigned Uh resigned McQuaid. So they've got one more move Micky's not convinced about it. You gotta

be perfect, right, uh. And then and then they think Connor Williams will be off COVID by time they practice on Sunday, so that'll uh, I have to make room for him. So anyway, so that that's the that one. And then they got to bring back Brian Anger put the punter who didn't need to practice today clearly, And

I'm wondering. They did a long interview with a Zoom Kamara out there, and I was just wondering, do you think he was on the fifty three just as a place setter, you know, just to have a warm body there. And then well, well, you know what, he's bigger than I thought when I saw him play. He plays short. I didn't realize he was like six five maybe is he really? He does not look six five? No, let me see what do they got him listed at six

four six? Now sixty three? They well, this one says sixty three, you may have six four and he's two fifty. He doesn't that yeah. Also, and he said they wanted him another fifteen pounds. So but it's a nice story. It's a great hard knocks deal. You know. He talked about. But maybe it's more than that. But maybe it is. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he's I just thought, you know, with the amount of defensive ends they have on this roster, they only had three defensive tackles and one of them

was on Covid. Well, now Carlos Watkins is back at some point, they'll get Neville Gallimore back. And then they had Bohannah and they put Justin Hamilton on the practice squad, so they were kind of short on defense. It could be just the emphasis that Quinn might be putting on the edge rushers. Well, they can move some of them inside. Okay, Brett Urban could play in what's in what's Basham status? I did not see him out there, but he's on

the fifty three. Yeah, he was not placed on IR now speculation that he might be one of the most placed on so he may be the place center in case Basham isn't ready to go. And they had Gholston out there, he took him off the top list. Um so, but Camaro would would fit more the Basham. Yes, yes, so maybe till Basham gets back or whatever or is ready to go, right and he is at the combine. He was measured sixty three and one quarter inch tall

and two hundred and forty two pounds. Camaro was he's growing. He ran a four to five nine eight well at training camp. Well, okay in comparison, but he's a special team Jamaka's well, what was his numbers coming out? He was around I want to say two fifty he was he was too six four, two fifty one and Randy Gregory was like two thirty five, right, So we can't compare him. That's a special case. Yeah, No, Vandy can work. Yeah, yeah. And how's he doing? By the way, I can't wait

till this thing starts. I just think he's going to explode this year. People are going to be surprised about his speed. And he's like Gumby. You know, he could come around that corner and he couldn't towards his body and he doesn't fall, you know. You know how Taco Charlton tried to do that and he would always lose his feet and slide out. Gregory's got something on the

side of his feet to keep him up right. I just think he's if he if he has a good year, I will not be surprised, which, by the way, Kansas City cut Taco too for a while back a week or so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't even land with anyone. I have not seen him being about anyone. Yeah, what does that say about Taco Charld You know who else got cut after they brought him back, Everson Griffin. That

was my design with Minnesota. That was one of those where you cut, you cut him, nobody's gonna pick him up and they maybe someone guarantee his first maybe, No, he's already been signed. Oh he got back, he'll signed back. So it was just a one day to get someone to I R because no one I thought he's already flamed out. No, No, Zimmer is going to give him every opportunity and he's there at home. Well that's that's

the thing. The main problem. Well, I don't know, we weren't out there to know exactly what was going on with him, but the system clearly we did not fit Griffin here. No one took the words right out. You can't just any of those guys from last year. Okay, what they're gonna do this year, let's not do right. And so he's back home with Minnesota and the same system,

and so we'll see how he does this year. Okay, so I think you know, my first line to my column yesterday was nothing the Cowboys did made me go, oh, my right, most surprises, right, and not even the fact that they picked up Will Greer. You know, I think it's a it's a it's an inexpense. It didn't cost him anything to get him. Right, he's one hundred and forty thousand dollars less than keeping guilt Gary Gilbert. But I think they know what Gilbert is, you know, I

think this is kind of a research project. Well know, they knowing about Greer too, because he was Doug nus Meyer's quarterback at his first year at Florida in twenty fifteen, and that's when nuss Meyer became the offensive coordinator there. And if you go back and look at what Will Grier did there, he did very well. The first month of the season there six games, in fact, in a game against Old Miss, throw for four touchdown passes, no picks, and I mean he had good numbers overall in those

six games, had only three picks, nine touchdown passes. And then he was suspended four peeds and so he tested positive and it was it was something that was in and over the counter that that he can't just put all of those in one category. Try the mistakes that have made and sometimes exceptions that will get you in trouble. Yeah, and you're probably eighteen nineteen years old and you're trying. He was a rehirt freshman. He was a tight shirt freshman,

means he's a sense of urgency. He was trying to get to he needs to get right away physic and he played well for right So he was there. And so that was early October, and the NCAA rules at that time it was it was a year long suspension, and so he was suspended the last six games of that season and then the first six games of the next year. In the meantime, I don't remember who the

quarterback was that took over at Florida. He decided, because there was already he was going to be suspended the first six games of the next year, so he was having no chance of winning the starting job there, he decided to transfer to West Virginia and sat out his year for transfer, had to sit out a year for transferring. So now we're to twenty seventeen, and then there was an issue about Okay, because he served the last half of that suspension, Did that count of the whole year?

Did that count because he couldn't play anyway? It was his transfer year, and anyway, he payed, played well for West for two years at West Virginia, and so well that he was a third round draft pick in college. He was amazing, and I heard the Cowboys had a very good evaluation on him. So I said, third round

was that? And they go, yeah, third round, and so okay, So think about it, over the course of the last however many years you want to put it, how many quarterbacks have been in this building who have been higher than a fourth round draft pick. I got one in Andy Dalton. He was a second round pick last year, right, so go back in his And then Quincy Carter was a second round draft pick twenty years ago. And so now you got Vinnie and Drew Bledsoe that came in here.

But there aren't very many quarterbacks who have been in this building who were greater than a fourth round draft pick, including the starting quarterback right right now. And that's something Romo and Romo being an undrafted free agent as a rookie. So the previous high before and I don't know the number in the fourth but have been um the guy from A and M. They draft Stephen mcgeean. He was early fourth round. He was higher than Prescott. Yeah, who's

won thirty five? So this guy was a third round now here. And so you know, the familiarity that helped Greer get here is what cost him in Carolina because he got drafted in twenty nineteen. In twenty twenty, they changed staff, right, Matt Rule took over and he chose p J. Walker, who I saw play at Globe Life Park in the XFL against whoever Dallas? What were they renegade? How can you forget? Yeah? And and and he was. He took over the game with with with his ability

to run and throw. And so guess what he played for Matt Rule in college? PJ. Walker Temple was the Temple quarterback and was really good there. So you know that the Cowboys scouting department probably fired had their eye on that Carolina quarterbacking situation throughout training because everything I read it was a dead heat for the backup job behind Sam Darnold. And of course he went with the guy he was familiar with, p J. Walker, and they cut Will Greer. Now guer uh, black haired kid right.

I remember he was very good. He was just very good West Virginia. He was West Virginia. He was like newcomer of the years. He had a lot of hard a lot of comebacks, and all of that he did very well. Now, he couldn't be good first team quarterback though, because he was in the same conference as Oklahoma. That was sea. Yeah, And I should have known that as soon as say, but here's here's my thing. What are

his true dimensions? Because when you started looking at quarterbacks, you gotta be able to take the heat, first of all. And I thought that was kind of Denuci's problem. He was the quintessential college quarterback. Ain't to make it in the pros. This is just my opinion. Uh didn't quite have the arm, didn't quite have the technique. And we found out a few more things about him. What is Will Greers physical? Was one of the physical numbers on its only six one No, no, no, no. He looked petite.

He looked petite on the field. He is at the combine which you go buy the combine numbers. Okay, six two and a half. Well, this is the roster that came out here today and they got him listed at six one. Okay, so they probably West Virginia, so they probably borrowed that from the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, I'm guessing that's from the west. That's from West Virginia. But the combine number is a sex serious mess. And you wouldn't know about the combine. No, no, you're talking about and

the other thing about the combine. It's a consistent measurement, okay in uh six two and a half, two seventeen is what he measured at them. I tell you what I saw watch him throw. He's got a live arm, had a good as well. Yeah, good preseason, and I will say this, he was says, almost as close, probably as close as you can get to a fourth round pick. He was the one hund in the dram So anyway, they everybody's like, well, why would you do that instead of Cam Newton? And it's like, and then why would

you keep Ben Denucci on the practice quiet? Well, I'm thinking just looking around, what's happened to quarterbacks in this league, in this COVID area. You better have as many arms on your team as possible because you never know and legs if one one catches it test positive and the other one's a close contact and hasn't been vaccinated. Then you lose two guys. I got another thing for you. Who are the second and third games on the schedule,

the Chargers and the Eagles? Right? Herbert can move? Yeah, and so now you got a guy in the practice squad could simulate the quarterbacks. You're guy, I was gonna say, he reminds me of Herbert. That's who Will Greer reminds me he plays. No. I remember we were talking about Ducci as being a scout team Okay, I go, yeah, No, But but I was gonna say, I was wanting to think of the Chargers quarterback. That's who Will gree reminded me of. Maybe Will Greer is that scout team quarterback now,

and he could be. And he went to summer school today because uh nuss Meyer took him over the side and they had one on one and Kellen Moore took over the quarterback. Okay, so they pulled him out. And they are extremely similar in how they play. Yeah, and here's another one I needed to bring up. So I saw where Phil Simms has his doubts about how healthy Presscott is right because he sees him throwing on hard

knocks and hard Knocks. His not showed and I bet this is by design anything that Dack's doing right, And so he's saying, yeah, the things I saw on Hard Knocks, he'd not throw any velocity. He wasn't letting it out. Yeah, yeah he was. We saw it. He was and chucking it. And so the last thing, if you think about it, the last this last episode Tuesday, they showed him throw one kind of deep pass, but they didn't show how

far it was. And then the other one that he threw about forty yards to Dalton Schultz right on the money. He threw on the run. They showed him scrambling. They saw him throw the ball, it was in the air and then it went to something else. It never showed where it came down, right, so that you're here to tell the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that it fell so far short of the mark right, by God, don't worry about decks. He passes, by God. The guy, No, no, you know

under through. It's evident to me just watched him out there. You can't that more than ten thou guys. If Tampa Bay is stupid enough to believe what they see, CC is not that. No, No, he is not so he's a head coach. It's like Phil, come on, jeez, I couldn't believe we ran that on last night on or at six o'clock yesterday on our sportscast. It was part of It was a sound bite. It was a sound bite. Yeah, and it was part of CBS. The CBS talent had their media day yesterday and so we heard from Romo

and uh and Phil Simms was in that group. I just burned my bridges with CBS. I mean, but here's the thing. If you know, if you're one of those detractors, you know, and you see that Dak has gone through what he's going through, you're going to wish for him to have some type of controversy. It could be week six, week ten, it could be towards the end of the season. Well I knew it. Yeah yeah, I mean, come on, man, you can't win with that. That's like Stephen Ay Smith saying, well,

the Cowboys they're not gonna do anything we have. We don't go to the super Bowl, then it's gonna be a disaster anyway for this season. According to him, if we don't go all the way, then there's always going to be a failure in his eyes, and he could always say I told you so. That has nothing to do with the team or the person, and it has to do with those detractors. That's it. Okay, I got

all this stuff off my chest too. And the point that Phil Simms was making was he felt like that an ankle injury, coming off an ankle injury can affect other parts of your body, and it did him. Yeah. Yeah, he had a foot injury. And then he woke up the next day and after throwing, and he had a sore arm and he blamed it on his foot because he wasn't planning. And when he was Achilles about Sims, it didn't say it, just said foot. Yeah, it was

killing us against Buffalo. What do you recall about his velocity? His velocity was okay, I picked my after injury. It was okay, I'm like, you know, I have to give me a pressure point. You know, it's pretty good. So how far into the season was that? That was week eleven against the Buffalo Bills, And there was the best thing ever had That was nine, That was ninety. That was the best thing happened to us. That was you know how it is when you when you here here's

the other point on that. Who was his backup Hostell? And where did he go to college? West Virginia, Virginia? Go ahead, No, it was just that he wasn't moving. He wasn't moving before. He was never a mobile quarter Yeah. So the problem you had with that was they were starting to figure us out. Yeah, we couldn't throw, we couldn't run, we couldn't do anything. Here comes Hosteller. He's all over the place. So now we can do bootlegs and things of that nature to what the defense got

all discombibulated. And of course with our defense, all we had to do was having more and more chances, which is what we were made to do. And so that was the best thing happened to it. He saw the difference between that Super Bowl that first they had to get us up. I think like a field goal. There's something that came down to missfield goal. There's something I can't remember, and imber blacking out a bid, right, a

championship season with a backup quarterback from West Virginia. Now, Cowboys start this season at the same site or the same city, and you gotta you gotta go with oj Anderson, you gotta go with Oja Anderson. We had a backup running back as well, not just a backup quarterback, but a backup running back because Widney Hampton went down and then the next year Hostetler showed what he could do over sixteen games. We don't need the West Virginia quarterback

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You can't tell the players without a program, right, you gotta have the numbers. Okay, Mickey, do you have those numbers? Because do you have the numbers? We get some number changes. Let me first start off with this. Ever soon, of course you wore number twenty four, if you had a preference to change from twenty four to a single digit number or a number in the teams, like the new rules allow you to do. Right now, what number would you have gone with? Number nine? Number nine, That's my

number in college. Loved it, they called me to this day. They called me just just a little nine. They didn't have number rules in college. Nah, no, never, never, he still known. Yeah, I still don't know. No that we were. We were nine. My strong safety was number six, and so yeah, we liked those those single numbers baseball numbers. Now there are some rules I guess on offensive lineman. I mean, you can't have an offensive lineman running, but d lineman that can do what Oregon takes advantage of

this big big as this dog on table. He had number six. Got love all it looks weird, It looks weird. I love defensive linement. That shows they're bad. So if you had number twenty seven, what would you take if I had number twenty seven. I used to have twenty seven in training camp. Oh yeah, when I first got there, there was my moment ron fellows doing well, fellow, I don't know what the hell this number was, but I had twenty seven. He was twenty seven. They gave it

to me initially. Yeah, I don't even know that bode well for the free agent coming in when when the veterans already got that numb, well, let's be well. Eventually the free agent ended up jumping right over and he was guy, from where did you go to school? What if my fellows go to school? University him? So that was when the rookies were there. Yes, the rookies wasn't much of a veteran. Yeah, they would have been very first or second year. Who was a fellows? Fellows coming

with me? Run together? Okay? And and he made a position change because at Missouri was a wide tried I remember that, yeah, but he came here as a defensive back and put okay, so the punt return so he could run, he couldn't run, okay. Mickey's point. Number seven now, who had been twenty seven is Treyvon did okay. Uh Jabril Cox goes from forty eight to fourteen. That's strange linebacker wearing number fourty. I don't like the number seven. I just don't it doesn't. I don't know, it's not.

It's harder, yeah to me. Yeah, now that's what he wore to Alabama. Okay, same the same reason you have for number nine. Nashan Wright went from forty to twenty five. I like that. I like that better. I didn't like forty at all. Now what he looks like a guy barely made the team. Jay Ron Curse went from thirty two to twenty seven. I like that. I like twenty seven on him. A Zermkamara, I think he was forty three,

Yes he was. He's fifty four. Now he's gonna be right, he's gonna look bigger now, yeah, yeah, right, that's about all the death for him. And you know, let's be real, you're just throwing these numbers. I know nobody's throwing out number twelve. You know who's gonna number twelve? Yeah? Why would you just throw out that? Might be? That might be why he's a place setter right now? That was your clue throwing out these Hall of Fame numbers all time cowboys they gave they might as well have giving

him seventy four. H oh stop. They gave Corey Clement forty three, okay, and then there's one more. Where's it? Oh, Dicky Zowa seventy five, he's now ninety seven. I like that. You know he wasn't big on seventy's taking he's taking up what was that? Was it? And who had ninety seven seven? Okay, Rondel Carter who got picked up by Arizona. Oh, he's gone yes, yes, yes, And I see why. Yeah, because he kicked buttins Arizona. That's how it goes. That

how it go uh huh um. I do like a defensive lineman all being in the same rainy nineties because and one of the reasons is sometimes it's hard on the fly to detect who's who. You know, if you've got similar numbers, you know you've got ninety seven, ninety nine, ninety two. They all kind of look alike, you know, the best defensive lineman in the wide receiver number. But Buchanan, he's number eighty six. I'll try. There's a big for a big man number. That's why I think, you know,

with Bohannah eight that's a good number. Hue fills it out, he should be ninety nine. Justin Hamilton, you can't filling it out too. And he signed the practice squad. Now, yeah, so that one wasn't available unless you wanted to pay something for man. But the strangest, and I agree with you, it's gonna take some getting used to. There's gonna be a lot of cornerbacks in the league now wearing single digits. That's gonna take some getting used to because we're just

frustrated wide receivers, that's all we are. But the one that I have a problem with is Jabril Cox. Number fourteen. That doesn't. That doesn't. That's probably the number E Warrior. Well, it seems very coolog number nineteen at ls LSU's nineteen alcology. It looks kind about north North Dakota state. Was that North Dakota state? Often to do it? Did not look at his number, blew that one. He came in with half information. Yeah, so all right, there's your numbers. Okay. No,

I loved I love my single number of Graham. He was forty two. Jabril Cox was forty two. That's a better number than fourteen for him if it was available. Forty eight wasn't bad, It really wasn't. I just don't know Joe Thomas, right, yep. I saw he got released too. I wonder if he got resigned. I have not I have not seen whether he got Joe Dude, I was the only one I liked him last year. Nobody wanted to play him. Didn't you You notice Damien Wilson playing

for Jacksonville? Yeah, yeah, sure, he's starting starts at linebacker. Yeah, after two going to back to back Super Bowls in Kansas. The guy's ring now it's just for them, right, Thomas may be sitting out the first week. Okay, he may be one of those sitting out the first week. Not guarantee the song, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So. Well, I'm gonna give you a little injury report for so. I think I mentioned Malik Turner was doing some rehab. Lale Collins

did not get back into practice. They're hoping by Sunday. They're being cautious, he said. Jim Mauer decided that they need to keep him out. Yeah. How concerning is this? Yeah, it's a little bit. Although Mike, Mike, Mike thought that, you know, he would be there Sunday, and I saw him doing rehab. So he was running, but it was a stinger. So you hate to hear those things. Uh. Donovan Wilson was on the chords. Um, they ls hope to get him back growing. Um. So he was moving

pretty well on the chords. Uh, let's see who else. And you're not able to watch the entire practice anymore. You just first and they had Goldston dress. Yeah, but he would. I can tell if you're not out there with your pads, you're probably not running back in and and put him put him on c J. Goodwe was doing. He's been out for a couple of weeks. Uh, and he was dressed, had pads on, and was practicing with the uh special teams. So that kind of gives you an idea of where uh some of the guys are.

And when we went out at eleven thirty, it was ninety two degrees with a feel like of one oh six. This is crazy, man. I thought the humidity was supposed to get to sixty one percent this afternoon. You know. I have a shade that I was putting together outside. You quit. Yeah. My wife's like, hey, how about this ship, Like, how about it? We're welcome to it. Yeah, I'm not going out there morning that We're gonna start on that project. After Halloween. I got the walls up. I just take

a knock about the connection dollars um. All right, I did a little zoom with a reporter from Tampa today. Remember Casey Phillips. Yes, Casey Phillips interned here with the Cowboys. She's from here and she's now a reporter for the Tampa Bay Bud from the show. Yeah it's still show. Yeah, she's gone, she's a Tampa No, she's been gone. She's been all over. That's good. Where well she before that, she was with the Rams, the Rams and then the

Washington Wizards. Yes, but anyway, so we did a little preview of next week's game, and uh, she's got a Super Bowl ring by the way, perfect time they are. She's media department right right, and she mced the ring ceremony and everything the world. So anyway, especially coming off a preseason in which things are going very well for Tampa Bay. Their last preseason game, Brady was eleven out of fourteen. Lavante David had nine tackles in one quarter

against the Texans. They are in regular season form. So that's going to be one of the big storylines this coming week is how ready the Bucks are and how we don't know anything about the Cowboys. That's what we were talking about the last show. I'm worried. I'm not worried about what we're going to do offensively, you know, I'm really not. Even though they have a good defense, I think we can hold up against the defense better

than they. I'm more worried about how we handle raiding and how we handle the running game, how we handle the consistently and the different opportunities. That's the thing about good defense. You give your offense many opportunities. Brady was feasting on that last year. His defense gave him many opportunities to come back and redo any mistakes he made.

And that's what you gotta worry about, you know. They asked Osa Dicky Zoo about facing Brady uh and I think somebody pointed out, you know that he's almost been in the league as long as you've been alive, And he said, yeah, it's crazy. He's playing He's playing football before I knew what it was. Um. But he went on to say, you know, the key to dealing with

him is that get him off his spot. He said, because they have stats that when you know the quarterbacks off your spot, the passer rating goes down, and and and that he you know, and then he's not that mobile. So kess somebody asks him, Oh, what do you think tom Brady's gonna think, because you said he's not mobile, and he said, I feel like he's the kind of guy not going to know what I'm saying. He could,

He's not going to worry about what I say. Right, I'm just saying trying to hold down a spot, and it's a spot though he is. That's very good coaching. But everybody knows that. I wasn't not the only ones who know that, and yet no one's been able to knock him off his spot. So the key is obviously the timing situation. There's also the intellect and the experience you have to overcome as well, because he's going to be tight with the receivers. They're gonna know what's going

on at every time. They're gonna know how to adjust everything he does. So that pressure has to be constant, has got to keep him off balance. So should I point out whatever I write before the game that last time they faced Tom Brady, they held him to one touchdown and the only reason he got that touchdown is they blocked a punt and recovered it about the Cowboys twenty yard line. Yeah, but you gotta also point out the situation. Have you think it was raining? Yeah, I'm

not gonna. I want to give you that fact. I like that. I like how you bury talking about burying the league. Yeah, I like that. But when it comes down to it, it's gonna be a totally different Brady. And I think he's got more talent on this offensive to no doubt, no doubt then that team. Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. But you know, if you remember, I remember the cow two years ago, it was a MARII Cooper when this this theory was going on. He doesn't play, he was soft.

He doesn't play well on the road. Well, two of the road games that year. One he played one series against the Jets when he shouldn't have played it all because he was injured. And then two he didn't catch any passes in that game. No, it was pouring down rain and nobody was catching it. I'm not mistake. He had a little injury that I don't if he was hurt or it was aggravated. We aggravated and went into

we were hurt. When we had to walk outside it was raining sideways because the wind was blowing about twenty five miles an hour, not only was it raining, the wind was blowing and it was cold, and there were neither. As a matter of fact, Dak had if I remember, the Cowboys had better offensive numbers than New England. The difference in the game was the block punt and the fact that everyone kept pointing out that Dak had for

superiod talent on his team. So therefore, yeah, if you're gonna match what Brady does, then of course you're gonna lose because you've got more talent. Did you look it up? Which one that I thought you were looking up? The game we were talking about. Oh no, no, that's committed a memory. Everything got that one. I was trying to remember. The score was thirteen. Sounds good. Yeah, it's committed a memory. Yeah, that's right. I was actually looking up the difference in

age Tom Brady and Michael Parsons. So Brady's forty forty four forty he just turned forty four, Parsons is twenty twenty two. Yep, even born he was. Parsons would have been eleven months old when Brady was drafted in April of two thousand. So there's your difference in age there. Yeah, and he was pretty savvy when he answered the question talking about how good he was. M Parsons is pretty slick. Yeah, yeah, he didn't. He didn't give much away because they keep

talking to him. And that was one of the questions that didn't make the pregame show. Uh they cut it off when I did it ahead of time before the Arizona game. Yeah, and I was. I asked him about Parsons. I said, how's he doing? You know, he's a rookie, and you got I'm doing so many different things and he goes, well, now do you want me to give away secrets than what we're doing. So everyone's trying to ask Parsons how much comedy and he said because he

never and he never answered it. He just said, yeah, you know, it's it's a lot of work, but I love it. He goes, you know, they recognize the uh, the abilities I have, and they're not putting any limitations on me. He's from state, it's not like he's from some crazy but he was only there a couple of years. He learned quick. He learned something. All right. We continue with more mixed shots, and I can't wait to hear mixed shot of the day where we come back. I'm

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will be next Tuesday, is that right? That's right? Okay? Yeah, Tuesday, Tuesday, because Monday's labor day. Yeah, it's not a holiday. It's a workday to work day for you. It's a it's a holiday for others. For the Cowboys, it's it's uh yes, this is that's right. Okay. So the Cowboys work week with a Thursday game. Today is basically game day. Yeah, it's game day. So this they played a game today, that was their practice. Today was game day, and then

tomorrow they're practicing, which is a Monday. They're off Saturday, which is too Tuesday. They're okay, now, the Wednesday practice is on Sunday, So Sunday is the officially that'll be work, a padded practice, and then Tuesday will be a Thursday and month Monday practice won't they won't be doing much at all. Oh yeah, no they don't. They don't have a game to come off of. Oh oh no. Meaning normally what they do is they come in like we used to do, right, they do like run meetings, but

they don't have a game. Tuesday's pred that though. Yeah, I know it's particularly but yeah, but today's the game is what I'm saying, right, But they are practiced tomorrow, they're off Saturday, they're back to work. It's like a Wednesday on Sunday. Monday will be like a Thursday. Then Fridays like a Tuesday or Tuesdays Friday, and then they're traveling on Wednesday to Tampa's Saturday. Yeah, and then the Thursday Sunday. So basically we're not we're not getting back

together until for the game. It'll be so you got a lot of studying that you need to do. That's going to be a Tuesday, but we need to play it as a Friday, right, And I will and I'm not really confused. When are we coming there? For real? We have a show on Wednesday, I believe we do. We have against nine thirty. We have a show on Wednesday morning. Wednesday morning, that might be the next time. We're yeahst time, We're not doing Monday because it's like

it's Tuesday. I think the other shows were right, the only one that got that right. That's right, it's about that right here? What about my research I'm going to do over the weekend. I can't be here. We have more time. You can't be here at I cannot be here. I'm traveling. They're going not gonna leave till oh you're gonna I'm traveling separate. Yeah, yeah, some times your flight it's probably I might be able to call in. Yeah, at hey, can I get another drink? So man, I'm

excited about this weekend though. There's a lot of great college football that Central Central Michigan, by the way, three o'clock, three o'clock on Saturday, playing in Cooper Rushes Gay School. That's Cooper Rushes, Cooper. Yeah, I tried on easton East Eastern, Missiaston, Okay, this is Central Central mission. He's not from Texas. So Bill has no idea. What's what's grambling at? What are they opened up? Man? Weekend to the Hall of Fame game.

That's right right. I will be in Canton, Ohio, trapped by the way because there's nothing to do in Canton except football stuff, and you can't get out. We'll just go to the Hall of Fame. I'm gonna do that. I might as well, so I will be part of the entertainment all the HBC. You make sure you go see your picture in the HBC. Yeah, that's old school man.

Come on. As Bill Belichick told Gil Brandt, we need to make room for the Everson buston the pro Foot need to move that from the HBCU Hall of Fame over to the NFL Hall of Fame because they got a picture in there. But all of the guys are gonna be there, Doug Shock, James Harrison, than Doug Williams, Greg Lloyd from from Panthers, and I think he's with the Steelers at one point. A lot of great guys that are there and and really represented. It's gonna stands.

I actually won't be able to make the game. I'm leaving before the game. All the things that go up before that you're gonna be part Oh yeah, no doubt you. I've already done the interviews. I cracked on Doug Williams and his hair. You know, I'm like, I thought we went to the Earl Acas Sanders a school of hair. Should have a house of hair. Yeah yeah, But now he's just trying to look younger, that's all. And so

Oklahoma's got Tulane. That was a game that was originally scheduled for New Orleans and they moved it to Norman eleven am on Saturday. Is the Greenway still? That's what I was asking about the pross. They are They are at home. That's about the pro game. Packers instead of playing Packers playing on the boat. Packers play at home because Saints they're going to play in Jacksonville. Yeah, say so, why not just go to Green Bay because the Saints don't want to play want to play the game at

on the road. Which what happened to him after Katrina. If you had to play the Giants and they played at MetLife, and you know, they would have much preferred to play at at and T Stadium since they're already here Bucas, Yes, oh yeah that And so they couldn't because they're setting up for the contract contract Mickey's favorite group. The contract had him a three day lead up to the to the to the concerts, so they most three day have a lot of pap for this thing. You

know they're gonna be Uh. The Saints are practicing at TCU starting Monday, so they should just play at tc saw your report last night. You have to play in an NFL sanctioned stadium. That's a pretty good stadium there at TCU, I know, but in a NFL Yeah, I guess there are some changes you have to make. As far as yeahs Offspring, I can't remember is still assistant Yeah, yeah, yeah, he says what he's a he's a student assistant student. It's on the staff at TCC. I thought you meant

on the Saints. I was gonna say, that's a dramatic rise we expected, um man, but there's some great man. I'll tell you what. If that game was at at and T, I think I would have gone, or at least said in the press box Packers Saints. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. I want to see what Jamie's

going to do. Well, Okay, so you go to Jacksonville, Okay here now there's there's there are more people interested in Jacksonville Jaguar football now with Trevor Lawrence ran Meyer, and they should be what kind of crowd will they give a larger crowd that they won't have a larger crowd for Saints and Packers, but they'll probably have a good showing there. Yeah. But but usually on games like that where there's not a season ticket base, your corporations

have bought tickets and stuff and just walk up. If you're not getting walk up, yeah twenty five you think you know? And I'm waiting for somebody to say, yeah, but the Saints fans travel well, well they can't get you know what, they might be ready to go. Well, I know the people in Green Bay want to get out of Wisconsin, and well, I mean that's all the time. Sadly, sadly, some of those people in New Orleans are probably already

halfway Jackson Yeah, that's right, just I was. I saw a story the other night about people that displaced and came here because it was the closest place they could find open rooms in the hotel. I'm trying to get my relatives to come. They're like they're going to ride it out, and some lady just said, you know, we our money just got exhausted, and I don't know what we're gonna do because we can't pay any more hotel fees. Well, bad Bruod just scheduled to get some power, probably this weekend.

So I talked to my cousin this morning. So it was good that LSU's playing at us LA Saturday night. And they had to leave too. They've been practicing in Houston. Houston. They tried, it's not just the power, we got to clean the place up. Yeah, right, I heard they tried to come here and they called the like thirty minutes too late, after Peyton had already got ahold of the cowboys and so, and then they couldn't fly to Houston. They had to bus and it took them ten hours. Wow.

So they were in the traffic. They were in the traffic, got caught all the people leaving. Dude, you could walk by the bus. Yeah, you just walk to Houston. Yeah, they were in like this long caravan, but they couldn't fly because they couldn't get a flight out of Baton Rouge. And the Saints got out just in time, by the way, and I saw somebody. Somebody had to put found the need to put in the story that they were staying here at a hotel and that Gail Benson, the owners

picking up the tap hotel and food. Well, what you're gonna make the players pay for their room? They said, graciously, yes, yes, yes, gracious, it's like a road game, yeah, graciously. Okay, what was he going to do when the cowboys get the tampas Jerry Jerry Jones on Wednesdays? Graciously paying for their right

and they're gonna feed them too. Now, had they pointed that out, that they also flew out family members to get out of there and they had paid that, Yeah, that's that's when that's where they should have used it. Not for the players. Come on, it's like they got to move here graciously picking up the So, Mickey, do you have a parting shot? I think that was it. You have my parting shot at the guy that was driving like thirty miles an hour and forty five miles

about today. It's her ruck and I couldn't get around him, and I finally got in the right lane to get by him, and he's holding his hand holding his food of phone in his right hand and he's talking with his left hand, and I was going, who's driving the damn Thing's he's talking? Talking? He's talking with his hands. Got the hands of here, That's how I go. It's like, oh gosh, I saw more people with a phone in their hand this morning coming in than I think I

ever have. Well, could be because they're trying to get in touch with the relatives down and Louisia. Yeah, but then you stop the car and talk, go hands free. And you know when they do have this uh you know, bluetooth stuff in cars, mines on speaker pretty much all the time. I don't pick my phone though I'm talking. You can't drive, so yeah, right, yeah, yeah, you can't rather bike. Well that's true too. Let me tell you. I am the most aware bike rider there is. Every

time I grab my bike, I think of you. Every time I hear a noise, I'm looking and so today, right, there's always something some dog come after me. Oh god, well, here's I had to I had to like put it in. I had to go right pedal because it was a big dog, and so I'm pedaling real fast and finally I tired him out right. But there was a car coming the other way, and I could see the people laughing at right, look at this guy trying to outrun the dog. Look at this guy. You know, I pretty

good shot there. I know by the car rack today a bike rack today from my car because I was thinking to you, because you got been riding through the neighborhood, I'm gonna stop doing that. I'm just gonna take it to a trail. I take it to a path, and do it the proper way. So I'm trying to stay out of the neighborhood as much as we think it's safe. You know, I have the time, I could run over somebody if they came out of nowhere right now. You're you're a jogger, right and yeah when you do you

jog on roads? Yes? Okay? So when you about a two lane road? Do you ever jog on a two lane road? I'm always on the sidewalk, okay, yeah, yeah. And if I'm in the road, I'm going against tres. You have to go against traff. That's a pet peeve of mine's traffic that it's also a pet peeve. I can't jog anymore because of my knee, but I would always when I'm jogging, even on a two lane road if there's no cars coming, o'tkay, I'm fine, but I

would go ahead and get on the grass. Okay. It's just you just never know what they eat, don't know whether a guy's gonna be on the phone or whatever not paying attention, and you know, and I give them all the road, i'd be taking it at all. Right, Yeah, when I hear you coming, you can so. Now when i'll pass someone that's going to get you know, get over on. Yeah. All right. So right that was our parting shots till next week, okay, and so now Wednesday

it's game weight. It'll be game eve on Wednesday. Yes, so all right, we will talk at you again here on mix shots on Wednesday morning. Have a great Labor Day weekend. Everybody go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.