Mick Shots: Trade Watch

Star in Frisco. Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, and we have upgraded the Everson Walls position as Jess Navarrez is here for today and tomorrow for special editions of Mick Shots. Welcome Jess, Thank you, Thank you guys so much. It's so exciting to be able to join the show and hopefully bring a little bit different perspective. I wouldn't say I'm upgrade to ever since, but hey, I'm definitely different.

At least you're here. Yes, it In fact, that's where I was going first, because I asked just when she uh when I got here five minutes ago. I asked how long as she's been here? And she had gotten here early, and I was thinking, what a sharp contrast to our Pro Bowl cornerback. Oh no, by the way, yesterday. That's okay, No, no, yesterday, it's all in fun. Yeah, yesterday. You know we had the regular crew in here and

on all the shows on Monday. We got the email last week and for some reason our interception King didn't wasn't here yesterday, Mickey, Mickey, what's wrong with your headsets? The same thing they were turned on? Oh ye help the show before us messed him up, always the guy before it is. All I did was put him on. You're ready to start mix shots with a mix shot? Mickey, Uh, what do you mean, Noel, sounds like you're ready to fire off at somebody about your headset that maybe we

need a mix shot. Was a good time. It was a good hour ago. When I was driving here and it was a little bit late and everybody was going twenty miles an hour. I was driving slow over here. I did feel that it's like hold on, hold hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, Mick, there's three lanes. Dick can't hear you because there's something over with his head said that his head said, I produced the same thing that happened. Need to now go, Mick said again.

They put on the bluetooth. Who did whoever? Was before us. Oh so I want to hear about the traffic problem? Solved it, I just cut people off. Oh okay, oh man, all right, all right. Producer Supreme is now entered the studio to fix Mickey's bluetooth, said probably there we go Jame's headset. Now, now we're ready for the show. Mickey welcome, Mickey welcome, No, welcome, Justice up with every day. It's all right, No, it's all good. I've grown up watching y'all.

And and my dad's a big I was telling Nicky before you when you were stepping out that my dad is fan girling over the fact that I'm on this show, real fan girling completely. So now where are you from? Originally LUs Chris is New Mexico. I moved here about where Dad is. That's where dad is. Dad's hanging out right now and probably watching Hello Dad, Hello Dad. So when you opened the phone lines tomorrow, he's got a call. Yeah, that's great. See and he was loved. At least we'll

have one caller. That's like. That's like when we first started working together, Mickey and me, which was I mean, they started up the Cowboys, started up the Cowboys channel, which was just on Comcast Cable at the time. It was prior to the NFL network two thousand and three or two thousand and four, two thousand and four, okay, and we had programming all day long, and I'm pretty sure we only had two viewers, and that would be my mom and dad in Irvings. I know exactly what

you're talking about. There was my mom and dad were the only ones watching us. Well, I'll let me tell you, better not make any mistakes because last Saturday at the Star Sports Tour reception, I had a lot of people talking about they don't miss this podcast. Oh really, So better be straight and narrow these folks because they're listening. Okay,

very good. Okay. We've had some breaking news here within the last half hour in the National Football League as a trade was made a tight end and then and Mickey's looking quizzically because you've been talking to assistant coaches. You've been very busy. T J. Hawkinson from the lion Ends to the Vikings have a second chance to prove they can cover them. That's right, because that adn't cover them the first time. There's four catches. I love the

optimism there. A couple of weeks away three weeks away a little less than three the Cowboys will travel to Minnesota. Got Green Bay first after this bye week. Lions got in return a second and a third round draft pick twenty twenty three, second twenty twenty four third. Lions also sending the Vikings a fourth round pick and a conditional fourth,

so some moving and shaking is going on. Jerry Jones was on the fan this morning, and how would you term his attitude towards the deadline at three o'clock this afternoon, sitting heavily on the fence, or they are on the railroad track, Yes, the railroad which was the quote, towards the end of it. And by the way, on the Hawkins and Trade this Producers Supreme just texted me Herb Smith.

The Vikings tight ends expect to be sidelined eight to ten weeks with a high ankle spring, so there was the need for the what six and one Vikings to pick up Hopkinson. Jerry talked about being on the side of the railroad track and as the train goes by leading to three o'clock this afternoon, he'll be in position to grab the caboose. Right, did you understand the analogy? I kind of did Yeah, did you? I believe so, Meaning basically, he doesn't want to be the one chasing somebody.

He wants someone to come to him and say, would you like this guy? Because it goes back to what Bob Ackles taught me long time ago about signing guys that are holding out for contracts. And I said, well, when's the last time you talked to so and so? He goes, it's been a month. I go, why don't you call him? He goes, because every time I pick up the phone, I'm spending money. They got to call me.

And so that's the same thing with these trades. You want them to come to you, so you're not elevating like, oh, I'm desperate, I gotta have this, and then they hold you hostage. And that's what the Lions did with the Vikings right there. And the Vikings they had a need and so they came calling that. I assume that's the way, especially within the division. Yeah, and so it'll be interesting to see if anything happens before three o'clock this afternoon.

We're all anxiously awaiting. Yes we are. I mean I pulled back the curtain a little bit more. I was scheduled to tape the Coaches Show at eleven am this morning, and we got well, and I'm not saying that anything is happening, I think that, but justin case, just in case, they wanted to make sure they didn't have to come into the studio, Bill we have, we need the head coach. Yeah,

so it'll be interesting, all right. So if they'll just pose this off, well, unless you've got some other news you want to go to first, either Mickey or Jess with anything that you not right, that was really okay, that's top of mind for everybody right now. Okay, as we are now less than three hours away. So if you are going to upgrade at a position, what position

is an upgradable position? Well, I would say, uh, in lieu of basically losing Jordan Lewis for the remainder of the season with the Lisz franc fracture, that cornerback would be something that I'd be interested in looking at, seeing that the defense has played so well uh this year. Uh. And and this is nothing against Duran Bland, but one

injury away think about it. Yeah, I mean, even even as it stands right now, you're playing a rookie fifth round draft pick at what is essentially a starting cornerback and hardest one to play. Maybe, and your other option is a I mean, if you look at the pecking order here, second year, second round draft pick last year or a third round uh, second year player from last year, Kelvin Joseph or n Sean Wright. So to your point, you lose another cornerback and now you're playing one of

those guys at an outside corner. And I'm not sure Calvin Joseph is ready. And you know Nashan Wright has been inactive until this past game, right, that was his first one this year. So yeah, if you find a somewhat veteran guy with some experience to bring in, and I don't know if he would beat out Durron Bland because I think Bland has played well he's anything but

Bland very good. Yeah, yeah, I can see and you know, not giving up an arm in a leg either by the way, or a foot not a foot, definitely not a foot, right, I mean you can make the case. And in fact, we pose this question last week, Jess and this show's how smart we were. We all talked about the wide receiver position. Yeah, and Mickey just talked about it kids ever since, and I prompted him monitor it wasn't like Mickey's idea that they needed a great

wide receiver. It was ours and so, but we didn't discuss defensive tackle. And then they turn around a couple of days later the trade they make was for Jonathan Hankins, and then we're like, oh, yeah, that was a good one. Why didn't we think of that? Now, I'm glad you brought up the wide receiver corps because that's another conversation that has been happening a lot, is to strengthen the wide receiver corps with the amount of young players that

are in it right now. And you've seen. I mean, the best analogy is you have Jason Peters, who's really mentored Tyler Smith and to be coming somebody who you really don't talk about a lot, which is a good thing, right especially with how the odds we're looking for him early on post Tyron Smith injury. So with that analogy, anytime you can get a veteran player in there, I think it's important. I think you know James Washington, obviously we don't know the time span of his return yet.

It's it's still a little cloudy a little foggy, hopefully soon, but you don't know how quickly that can come. So if you can get a bit of an instant relief with the veteran player at the wide receiver corps, especially after the game Dak had on Sunday against the Bears and how heavily he's starting to rely on the pass game,

I don't think it hurts at all. If you can get somebody for a cheap price, you can get somebody you know, not an arm, a leg or a foot, and you can get someone that can make an immediate impact. I mean, look what Marie Cooper did for this offense when that happened. So look at what he did for the offense last night. I know, I know what you end up with, matting salts of the wound by bringing him up. Am I not? I did see his numbers.

He did throw an interception too, Yes he did, which that's why you don't trust wide receivers to throw the ball because nobody was open right forced it. Did you see did you see the maning cast on the interception? Didn't? I didn't see it live. I saw it tweeted out and they had Boomer a Siason on and so it was three quarterbacks, and so Boomer was talking talking about Marvin Harrison or somebody, um when as the play was unfolding, and you see Peyton that their triple boxes on the

left side. And so you see as the plays unfolding, you see Peyton at the top of the screen. You're going, oh, oh my god, like that. And then Boomer kept talking and then Eli had his you know, look that he always has what he threw it, what he threw it, interception especially, But but but Peyton was funny. Peyton was funny because he said, uh, he said, that's why you don't have wide receivers throw passes. He didn't really go through his he read the coverage and he threw its

first option was there with that catch? That's right. Oh yeah, I'm looking at his stats right now. One hundred and thirty one yards, five touches on the ball, one touchdown, and he had an average of twenty six point two yards with his receiving. I mean, well, that's the thing that that is the thing I think that this offense is lacking the guy like a Mari Coop. We saw with a Mari here, Yeah, you can go seventy five yards in one play on a pass play and they

James Washington. James Washington might be that guy, but we don't know. To your point though, there, I think that there is a greater need at cornerback than wide receiver because of the Jordan Lewis injury. Yeah, I think when you look at the depth Washington's get both Washington. Washington is coming back right and probably they'll start his practice when they get back. So he's probably not ready for the Green Bay game. But maybe for Minnesota. What do

we know about this Noah Brown injury? Uh? Foot right? Uh? Yeah? Is this something that can linger? And that's the other thing which can convince me that, okay, well, maybe there is more of a need of a wide receiver. If you look back, he was also dealing with another injury, and I want to say it was foot. Don't quote me on that. I want to say it was foot previously in the season as well. So I don't know, And I think Noah Brown is somebody who again stopped

to the conversation for needing a wide receiver. But with this injury, if it's something that's going to linger, that's that's worrisome. You can anticipate injuries are going to happen, I mean, yeah, and so you try to cover yourself

as much as you can at each position. You know, we were just getting a chance to talk to the offensive assistance first when we were talking to Robert Prince, the Cowboy's wide receiver coach, and he was he was somewhat complimentary of Jalen Tolbert, saying that, you know, he did what he was supposed to do. He ran the routes and and this was his way of saying it. He goes, you know, when you're in meetings, you're running lines like you're running how the route supposed to be run.

And he said he did a good job of getting off the lines and running the routes. And he said there was several times he was open, but as Dak was going through his reads, he didn't get to him to that point where he threw the ball elsewhere. But he said, had they thrown him the ball or give him a target, that he would have been open, and

they were pretty happy with what he did. McCarthy talked a lot about his need to improve blocking as a you know, when they do kind of those bunch formations and somebody's got to do the blocking and then you know, he said, but again, I'll guarantee you they didn't ask him the block at South Alabama, right. Uh. You know, he's their lead receiver, so that was kind of new, plus the fact trying to integrate him into special teams too.

And I also wish we would have seen more of Jalen Tilbert up to this point because something that I noticed in the locker room is James Washington is the guy that's mentoring him right now. So I think if you saw a little bit more of Jalen Tilbert, you would get a little bit more of a scope to what James Washington is planning to do upon his return.

I'd be also interested to see if the Cowboys are going to do more of a ramp up phase with James Washington like they did with Jason Peters, or if they're just kind of gonna throw him in like they did Michael galliper Se. But it's going to be a very interesting couple of weeks. There will be a rap ramp up phase. Yeah, yeah, for sure, he has to practice two weeks before he they'll send him out there. So but again we're talking a guy that has speed and Robert Prince reminded us that he was a Blitna

cough winner out of Oklahoma State, I believe. And so he said he's got deep speed, it doesn't look like it's and how he's built right. No, but that was Mason Rudolph. He threw deep and James Washington behind the

secondary every single time. It seemed like. Uh. Now, having said that, he had four years of opportunity, you know, four years with the Steelers and didn't do a whole lot there, and he was available for basically a veteran minimum salary in free agency this offseason, came home to Texas and uh and so hopefully he'll get this opportunity here in the next month or so and make the

most of it. And so guarantee you and I know we got to take a break here that what they did in the running game, this pass game is going to open up some deep passes for these receivers. Yeah, because they're going to say, you know what, if we don't stop Tony Pollard at the line of scrimmage, we're

in trouble. So, you know, playing that cozy, too deep coverage zone, you may get more single coverage on the corner and maybe one single safety high coverage, knowing that we better not let him run for two two hundred yards like the Cowboys did against the Bears and Noah Brown, it is a foot right now. It was a neck injury back a month or so ago. All right, we continue with more mix shots in just a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award for

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on here. Yeah. So, I am one of the co hosts of the Girls Talk Boys Talk podcast that's at four o'clock every day. It's an all girls podcasts. We have a very good array of women that come in, very knowledgeable, very smart. Jane Slater started it and then it's on Mondays. Christie Scales joins us Ayisha Morrison. Of course Hayley Sutton's on there. So we have a very

good cycle of women that come in on Tuesdays. We also talk to different women from around the building to tell us what they do, and so it's very empowering but also very football savvy and very football smarts. So very proud to be part of that and see the success that it's had so far. Love it, love it, love it. Keeping an eye on NFL networking and Twitter, because I too, I have to my head to see it. That's right, you don't have your Twitter up? Well I

could do that, Yeah, that would. Are you on Twitter? Much? Do you? Where do you get your news? Have it? Where do you get your news? Um? It kind of depends. I have the push notifications on my phone, but Twitter is I think, just the easiest way to see everything. So I get my push notifications on from Twitter and all the sources around the leaks, so it's basically where I get my check it every once in a while. Remember the old days, Mickey, when you had to go

check the wire? Oh man, sorry, Twitter used to have and it's not really the new wire, Mickey, it's about twenty ten, about twelve years ago. It became the news now, I know what you mean. Being we got we gotta put it in Mickey's terms. A lot of people on there helping me out of it. But for those of us who have worked in TV newsrooms and you know,

back in the day prior to Twitter, we act. I mean we literally there was a machine that had the associated press wire stories with paper and everything that we had to go check for stories and stuff. And then it became a computer thing, okay, and when even when I started at CBS eleven two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, I mean, I would get notifications basically on my computer that way. It's crazy because I'm and I was one of the first ones to get on Twitter.

I loved it, and from a news standpoint as much as anything, because I talked to people who aren't in the aren't journalists whatever, like daughter's son in laws and stuff, and they're on occasionally whatever. My daughter is big in social media, but she'll get it from Instagram and whatever,

you know, and whatever she's interested in. It makes sense that Mickey doesn't really check Twitter, because I was telling him the story yesterday that not this year but last year, went to training camp, bumped into him and I was fangirling a little bit, telling Mickey, Oh, it's so nice to meet you, you know, and took a picture with him tweeted it, and then I didn't hear anything. Mickey left me on red. But then we were talking about

it yesterday. It probably got pushed down and I did all all of the positive notifications that because with all my followers, you know, you do have a great following, Mickey, I do. You do very loyal. But let me tell you a story about that. Both of them are very loyal. Hey, it's probably over seventy thousand. It's good check. That's right. We could check you on that, Mickey, Yeah, it's fact check.

You um, so your ahead. Back in the day, the ap wire machine basically saved my college education with the breaking story. At about ten o'clock at night, and if you remember, the machine would ding and the one was a bigger one. It had doubled dinging, and then when the thing just kept dinging, it was really important. And we went running over to the machine and me and this guy were both in the same boat with the selective service draft, and we had a dateline Washington, DC.

President Richard Nixon has ended the selective service draft. Otherwise, guess who was going to Vietnam. Wow? And you should have seen the celebration in that newsroom that was dead empty besides me taking basketball scores and this other guy watching the police and fire scroll. And you think the Cowboys were happy in their draft room when they drafted Michael Parsons, it was nothing compared to that draft news

I was. My lottery number was fifty two. Wow. Wow, the only lottery you kind of won, right because you had a high number, yeah or low, whatever you want to call it, but wow, my two years were up. So anyway, we are monitoring. If anything happens, we'll get it to you here first. Nothing so far as we are now approaching two and a half hours away from the trade deadline, let's do this before we hit the break. And London Wells was really good about bringing it up.

But Mike Zimmer's son, Adam Zimmer, passed away yesterday and it's just heartwrenching. I knew Adam since he was ten years old when Zim came here in ninety four to be the Cowboys defensive assistant on his way to be in the cornerback or the defensive back coach to the defensive coordinator. Uh and uh thirty eight years old, and it's just he was a UM analytic assistant at Cincinnati.

I believe that most recently, most recently uh and he had been with Mike uh in Minnesota as a coordinator right in title you know, you know Ziom was running that defense. But this is the second time that poor family has had to go through that. His mom, Mike's wife passed away when they had moved to Cincinnati unexpectedly, and now this, and it's like, geez, how much more

can one family go through? Um And I knew Zim him since seventy eight seventy nine when he was the graduate assistant coach at the University of Missouri when I was covering Missouri football and we first met then and both ended up here and so yeah, it's just and so London Wells said, before I answer any questions, I want to pay homage to the zimm family that I got to know Adam at the East West Shrine game

when he was there coaching and Adam was coaching. So and I don't know if George Edwards is talking with the media today, but he would be one guy on the Cowboys staff who is very close with the Zimmer family, having together been on that staff and probably mentored Adam a lot, you know, being a defensive coordinator himself there and then alongside Adam uh and just just heartbreaking news. And his Adam's sister, Corey, who went to high school

with my daughter. She posted on Instagram about it this morning and she had worked here briefly in the teaving department too, and it's just awful and so anyway, our thoughts and prayers are with the Zimmer family on this tragic day for them, and we'll continue with more mix shots here 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.

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here within the last forty five minutes. And you said, Skip, Pete had a related little story about Zeke. Yeah, maybe, And he pointed out that Zeke basically came to him on Friday and said I can go, and they were like, yeah, well, we'll just wait till after the bye. And then he told the story about Marry and Barbara doing the same thing back in the day when Barbara was the lead running back and had a toe injury, and Barbara came to him at the end of the week and said, Coach, look,

I can go. And he started getting on his tippy toes and showing his toes were fine. And he got in the game and took two snaps and came to the sideline and said, coach, I can't goad he goes. I looked at him and I said, see, you lied to me, he goes. I got a guy that could have played, and he's over there in his warm up suit and I can't put him in the game. So yeah, so they were going to be very careful with this one.

But you know, he he suffered on that hit to the knee, a hyper extended knee, and you know, I think they're hopeful that maybe with a brace, that he would be ready to go sooner than later. So that's somewhat good news. And you know he doesn't have to really, you know, play in a game or take a hit for two what two weeks now, right? One? Two next week and maybe be ready for Green Bay, So we'll see.

I think it was so important to see the capacity that Tony Pollard can take on too and know that maybe a few more touches, even if it's five more touches per game, how impactful he can be and take that weight off of Zeke in the meantime if he's not fully healed, you know, Green Bay or whenever he returns. So I think Tony Pollard's performance was outstanding and I think the only people that were doubting him were the

outside noise. I don't think the locker room doubted him for one second for what he was able to do. And so Tony Pollard deserves all the flowers this week. What an incredible game for him. Yeah, you know what, I think the outside noise were as big as fans. It's like, okay, we don't need to see. Just give it to Well and Malik Davis. I mean, the opportunity that he got. And you know it's a numbers wise,

it's not great whatever, but you can see it. We saw it in the preseason and you know, you as we have discovered, especially with a seventeen game season now and where this team wants to go. At six and two, were the chances of you know, making maybe even a postseason run. I mean, you're gonna need all hands on deck as you go along here. And you know they've had three running backs on the roster and Donald got hurt and put on I R. But there's room for Davis,

you know, and they he did a nice job. When they threw him the ball, it looked like he had scored the touchdown, and then replay showed he kind of had his side his foot on the out of bounds, but you know, he caught a couple passes and uh, he's got a little something, you know. They he didn't get drafted, but they had a rotation going at Florida. It was and the guy that he was playing with in at Florida is pretty good running back himself, Damien Paris,

who is doing very well with the text. They had like a three man rotation going. We got a trade. Oh, there is a trade here. Breaking news here. I'm making sure that it has a blue check mark. But the Bears are trading for Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool. Wow. So they just they just traded away um Robert Quinn Smith. Yeah, and now they're they're adding a player. So I wonder if they used any of those draft choices that they got to trade. I haven't seen that details yet, but

Claypool goes from the Steelers to the Bears. I'd love draft day. I mean, I'd love trade day. I love draft it looked like a kid in a candy shop right now with your iPad's right. I love it. But he did want to point out two though, real quick about Malik Davis was the ball security that he had. I think that was so key and so important during this game, especially for a younger guy. That's one thing that he could not afford to do. You don't drop

the football, you won't get this opportunity. He had one job and he's stuck to it. So I was really happy to see that. So, yeah, flowers to Malik Davis this week as well. Yeah, and you know, and you know Pollard has shown that. You know, the funny thing was is even though he was the starter, he got no more carries than he's ever had in the single game. Fourteen was his single game high, and he got fourteen carries.

And I think there's something too not overusing him, because then teams get used to the speed, and I think the change up between he and Zeke is awfully important with you're used to Zeke running at one speed and you're used to this guy hitting the hole at another speed, and I think it catches defenses by surprise. Yes, second round draft pick the Bears are giving the Steelers for Chase Claypool. So are you are you happy that the Cowboys face the Bears Sunday and not this coming Sunday?

Not that Chase Claypool is all world. But they didn't have much in the wide receiver room in Chicago. I don't know they had problems with Mooney. The Mooney's a good player, you know, wekay, but you would have Claypool. They would have Claypool alongside Mooney. Mooney five catches seventy yards long of thirty six? Was the thirty six one? The one that Digs got lost on may have been I think so, because he was playing off and the guy started running in and Diggs, Yeah, I think it

was yeah, rolled back out. It was wide open, yep. Yeah yeah, Mooney think you cracked me up. You don't think no one's trading for Mooney? Right? Not that the exactly right? Then? That's my point. I would rather I'd rather play the Bears without Chase my Pool. Yeah. They were rather one dimensional. Now, they were pretty good at that one dimension at over two hundred yards rushing, So they gave up a second for him? Is that a second? Yes?

Oh wow, that's quite a bit. It is definitely is so well if you valued second round draft picks, we've had our full share of second round draft picks. We haven't panned out well, that's true. But Trayvon Diggs was pretty good. It was John Lee was too. Oh the general m yeah, oh yeah, big Lean. Yeah, yeah, that's that's my speaking to my heart here. I was the president of the Sean Lee fan club. We could have just kept him healthy. There we go. Yeah, I definitely

think Sean Lee is such a staple to Cowboys. Darren Woodson was pretty good. Would Johnston wow me to continue one year left on his contract? Makes sense? Yeah? I think in terms of you know, Sunday's game, you look at even we didn't even talk about the tight end group. If you want to talk about about an important group within this offense, those young tight ends. Jake Ferguson Payton Hender show Wow, talk about coming out of the gates

to prove a point. And I think Dalton Schultz stepping up this week too was just so key and so valuable. So I'm excited to see what that tight end group is going to do is the year progresses and as they gel a little bit more with Dak Prescott and the pocket. Oh my goodness, that's that's scary. That is scary to be able to have the option for those tight end screens. I'm excited. I like them a lot. Yeah.

I mean, going back to training camp, Ferguson and Hender Shutting and that was a position of real concern for the Cowboys in the offseas. I'm a depth standpoint, right, yes, yeah, yeah, and from a future standpoint too, because of Dalton Schultz going into the last year of his contract, and I mean, we'll see how it plays out now going forward into twenty twenty three, but I think they feel a lot better. And I just love the makeup of that tight end room too. Just Frick and frack Y. Yeah. I think

they were dressed as Tweedledee and Tweedledumb for Halloween. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, definitely great to see there. I think they're the Cowboys. Second drive, you really saw the strength of that tight end cores. I think, going back to my notes, you had a man pass after pass. Let's see it was you had passes to I'm in the wrong game. Um, let's see here it is you had passed a hander shot passed to Schultz, passed a hander shot, passed to Schultz, and then finally Michael Gallops.

So you had drive after drive after drive of tight end action and then hello, Michael Gallup, nice to see you again. Into So I think when you can use your tight ends as wide receivers, all right, I'm just curious about how the how it all came about on the touchdown celebration, just how much they planned it. How much they they obviously planned, yeah, but I mean was this something like after practice where they decided, Okay, we need something and they're beautiful. They've had it planned for

two weeks apparently, because if you watch sounds of the sidelines. Yeah, they talked about it last week when Hendershot got his touchdown, they were going to do it, but it was his first one, so it's kind of like my first one. I would just like to know if they practiced it, I mean, after after practice, I mean, did they decide because you have to decide which is the one that's

going to get roped and it doesn't really works. This one of the goalposts, I don't know that's one you practice in the apartment of I don't know that or Schultz's house, because Schultz is the one that got roped, right, that's right, yeah you do. You don't want everybody seeing that. But I think they're really good under pressure, and they just they just threw it out there. Schultz is the one that has to be the one getting rope. A rookie cannot be you know, it doesn't work. He's got

to do it. It works if the veteran is the one that the rookie. It would have been better if he was like one of them, got on all fours like you were riding a horse and jumped off and then roped him. There you go. You can give him some ideas. Now we're getting into you can give him some choreographer of the official Dallas Cowboys choreographer rodeo cover coverage guy touched he learned something from walk Garrison. Yeah all right, mickey, what else is on your legal pad there?

I just was going to say that London Wells said that they are progressing because of their hard work, but they still have a ways to go. And somebody said, well, what do they need to improve on? And he said their consistency. So and I would imagine some of that has to do with the consistent blocking of that tight end room. If you're going to run two tight ends, those guys have to do a really good job of

maintaining their blocks, especially if the balls bouncing outside. Well, especially if you have Tony Pollard, who we know is not great with the pass pro hopefully getting a little bit better. But yeah, it's definitely important to have the blocking strength with your tight end group. And Okay, I ask Mickey what else is on his legal pad? Just to show the difference here? What else is on your laptop? I have all the postgame notes? All right, let's see.

I have postgame notes. I have girls talk boys talk notes, and I all so have I'm waiting to register for Taylor Swift tickets all going at once. So do you have a jest shot you would like to deliver at the end of this show? I mean here on mix shots, I mean it can be anything, a nugget, it can be anything you'd like to throw out there, something I didn't get to throw out today. Kudos to Dak Prescott for officially shaking the narrative that he's rusty and we

never have to hear that again. So I'm very excited to see Dak Prescott back and building up. I think you were ready to proclaim him fully healthy. Yeah, I think so. I don't think we have to hear rust in Dak Prescott. Now the reason why we don't pay

attention to perceptions, right there, you go, there you go. Oh, and this one from Robert Prince talking about Vane Turpin said, we do have a package for him as a wide receiver, and he felt very confident that if they called his number that he would be there and ready to go. Maybe we can look forward to that sounds like a country and Western, so be ready to go. You got him in the mood for some country Western and that you know nothing about country western. You mean you got

your grew up in Texas boots. I have boots. Yes, I have to warn them in a long time. Everyone should wear their boots tomorrow. I think that's that's all right. Well, you'd be going solo the bear of boots in his life, right, not in my life? Oh no, Mike, we got to change that. I spent four years working in lubbook, so so you had to wear boots. You got to wear boots when you live in the lubbook. That job requirement, that's right. There. You have Copenhagen in your back pocket too.

Oh man, you had to wear them boots so you can walk right out of Lubbock. Right, that's right? All right? That does it for a splendid edition of mix Shots thanks to the appearance of Jess Navarrez on this show today, and we'll do it again tomorrow. You want to, Jess, I'm excited with phone calls. Yea, with phone calls. All right, we're gonna hear from Los Cruces, New Mexico to A. You're gonna hear from Dad, Dad Navarres, and Mom navarre is calling in. All right, Dad, very good of it.

So the rest of you you, if you want to call in, you better start early because you're gonna be in line, all right, and we're gonna talk about this big trade that the Cowboys are gonna make here in a couple of hours, two hours and thirteen minutes. That's exactly right. Chet at you tomorrow on another edition of mix Shots. Role Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.