Mick Shots: TVs, QBs & Moves

his tie on and he's ready for broadcast duty. I thought they just had a week off when they came back for a day. They come back for one day of work and then they get another day off. Why can't we get this game? We need a union, that's right, that's right. That's a pretty good deal for yeah. But we are here to power through this and the game week officially starts tomorrow is the Cowboys take on the Minnesota Vikings and making you have your Viking purple audit

do yep. I made a point today. I'm taping the Mike McCarthy Show this evening. I always have to think, Okay, who are they playing this week? I like wearing a purple tie with my gray jacket that I'm wearing this week, and I had to make a conscious decision that Nope, go with the blue. It didn't even cross my mind. I just go in my closet and go, Okay, what do I want to do today? All right? All right? So yes, is this a big day? A big day? Is this a big day in let's say, Dallas Fort

Worth or Texas Sports? Texas Sports? Is this a big day? October twenty? It's not in history? But today the answers yes, yes. Chris Beams says, yes, okay, why is it a big day? Help me? What's happening in Houston? It's the World Series? MAC Game one of the World Series. What's happening? And what's happening at the American Airlines Center tonight? Basketball? That's rights home opener against the Houston Rockets. Oh, I see

where you were going. You were talking history. So later on this episode of mix Shots, yeah, I want to ask the question and we can discuss why is the NFL so much more popular than these other sports? To the point that Mickey, you just proved my point right there. You didn't even realize where It didn't come to your mind when I said, this is a big day that the World on World Series is the great state of Texas.

I know you knew, but it didn't if it, okay, if the super Bowl was being played in Texas today, you would know that. I mean, it would be the first that you would say, of course, a ticket for it. If the Cowboys home opener is today, all right, yes, yeah, when you play eighty two games. We'll get into this. We'll get into this a little bit later, but this will be a testament to the popularity of the NFL. Now I knew. I knew the Stars had their homeowner

on Friday, though you hadn't asked me that. All right, Was it a big Monday night football game last night? Oh my lord? What did we talk about yesterday? The value of quarterbacks? Yes, right, yes? And how important there? And that's why. But you weren't watching the Mannings and Brady. No, the value of quarterbacks. Oh that was brutal. You know what, here's my test on any how popular a TV show is or a sporting event. I was off yesterday, so I wasn't at the TV station. So I was home watching.

I would have loved to sit in my living room and go ahead and watch the Money Night game, even flip over to Tom Brady on with the Mannings on the Manning Cast, whatever. But my wife had control of the remote, so we're watching the Voice instead. So but if okay, good, point is my point is we only have one TV in the house. No, no, I've got I could have. It's a rare weeknight where I'm home. So I felt a obligation of sorts to go ahead and stay in the living room and watch TV with

the wife. Okay, I'm not going to retreat to the patio or I've got a TV or the bedroom or the men you know upstairs. Whatever. Okay, so I gave in, Okay, we're watching the Voice. So I was just on my iPad watching the game when she's watching the Voice. But point, my point is. My point is that if if it was the New Orleans Saints with Drew Brees at quarterback versus the Seattle Seahawks with Russell Wilson at quarterback, she

would have watched that over the Voice. But if it's Geno Smith for Seattle against Jamis Winston for New Orleans. She's got no interest whatsoever. Do you not think that at some point in that game, Sean Payton is thinking to himself, for fifteen years, I had Drew Breese and now I got this. And Pete Carroll's sitting on the sideline looking at his quarterback next to him, Russell Wilson on the sideline, going oh my god, how did I

get into this section? And I did not hear Pete Carroll after the game, but I heard what he apparently said after the game that he probably he would wouldn't have been in Seattle as long as he's been in Seattle if he did not have that quarterback who is on the sidelines leading the way the last however long I mean, we talked about how important the quarterbacks were yesterday yep. We talked about the top teams in the league, in the NFC, in the conference and who the quarterbacks?

Would you like to run them? Those again? Starting with the unbeaten Arizona Cardinals, kyler By the Rams have one loss. They Matthew Stafford, the Packers have one loss. Aaron Rodgers now Boys have one loss. Jack Prescott, Who am I missing? Tom Brady? Tom Brady in the Bucks. Yeah, and then they played that last night. Now I understand it was raining, right, what is it called a bomb cyclone or something? Okay, I think I think Peyton Sean called it a bomb typhoon.

I don't think he had it right. All I know it was rated pretty hard most of the time, right, the wind was blowing. But still the easy passes they missed, you know, and the one that ends up being the what was it an eighty four year our touchdown pass? Right Geno Smith to Metcalf, He pushed the dB down, just pushed him to the ground. And and and the guys, those guys that do Monday night football, by the way, they are so critical of everything, everything that goes on.

They or something. It's unbelievable. It gets annoying, especially the play by play guy. Just tell me what's going on. I don't need to hear your opinion. That's why you got the other two guys. But they never mentioned the fact that Metcalf just shoved Lattimore to the ground. How did the officials miss it? Well, Lattimore is for the ride, honestly, because he grabbed onto him from the jump. Then they should have called interference one way or another right, and

and but that that was it. That was the play of the game, and that was was that the first series? It was, wasn't it on? I hesitate to be critical casters, Well, I can do it, but that is something on the Monday night broadcast. They've they've struggled so much to come up with a team for the Monday night broadcast. And that's where Witton got thrown a disservice. And I've worked Joe Tessa tour was intern with me Channel five back in the early night. Well, you needed to teach them

a few more or less. But but I think it's more though that they're they've been coached or taught, or they feel an obligation to be more than than the game. And it's and they're opinionated and so forth. That what they need, though is to go back and go listen to Monday night football when Monday night football was the thing. Right, We're going back to the seventies and the eighties with Dandy, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, he was never

like that. Okay, go back and listen to Summer All with Madden Summer All was as was understated as you can possibly be and Madden was the show. Okay, Nance with Romo, I'll yet Nance. Let's Romo be Romo okay, and so anyway, yeah off that soapar anyway, Yeah, that was That game was brutal, That's all I got to say. Well, and so I missed the Brady with the mannings. Okaye that I tuned in and the second half after she went to bed and uh, so I caught the last

quarter of the Manning cast. They had Breeze on at the end. They had Sue Bird, who's a star for the Seattle w NBA team on prior to that. Um and um. It was not even when Breeze was on at the end, it was it was not apparently what I'm hearing it. The Brady part of the Manning cast was like, apparently it was pretty good. I've got a solution for you. Okay, your on your scene TVC Yes. Yes. So we treated ourselves at Christmas to buy a bigger TV.

So we moved the other TV and I thought I could just carry it into the bedroom, right it was it was too heavy for one person, so I just kind of put it on the floor off to the side in the no and it's still there. It moved. It moved on Saturday because we were hosting a somewhat of a little neighborhood party. Right, so from December twenty twenty whatever, Yeah, where nobody could come in your house

to Saturday. That TV's been there, right, And I've got a one of those little plug in tennis to get the local channels, and I can connect my laptop to it to get the other channels. You can. Well, I can sit there and watch if I wanted to the game, and she could have watched the voice if she wanted to at the same time. Uh. And all I heard for for eight months was gosh, looks like trash. My wife would put up with it, right, there's no way.

And so a buddy of mine built a new house and in his living room he had one of those entertainment things against the wall and he put slots for two TVs. Wow, one for him one that's great, Right, you don't have to go to another room. Hey, I've threatened to do that. And if you want to listen, no, right, you can just put our headphones on and plug it. Here's here's what I've done. We've got patio. This is eight years ago we added on to our patio whatever.

So I got a TV out of the back porch and if I sit, I can watch a game on the patio and pretend that I am engaged with whatever is happening and I'm sharing, right, So anyway, Baby Loffenberg gun on me once after I first put that in. It was like I put it in. It was January, NFL playoff time, and so I was on the back point. She was watching whatever she's watching the living room. I had all winter gear on and I'm watching NFL playoff games on my back porch and Baby Loffenberg still kidded

me about that. I'm gonna have to move it back in there tonight and watch the World Series at the same All right, do you want to get your Brady story in? Now? That's what I was leading to with the Manning cast, and Brady revealed about the six hundredth touchdown. Oh, I'm the fan that had the balls and he was nice enough to give it back. Right, Well, it's turned out, okay, you don't have that ball, right, But you know, in twenty years is that going to be a big deal?

But the big deal is today, right, because he ended up getting what two signed jerseys? I believe, Okay, the team had already committed to giving him two this fan

Byron Kennedy or yes, yeah Byron Kennedy. The team had already committed to giving him two signed jerseys and assigned the helmet from Brady, assigned Mike Evans jersey, as well as the wide receivers game cleats, plus a one thousand dollars credit to the Buccaneers store and season tickets for the remainder of this year in all of next year. And then was that enough? No, that was not enough. Gets sixty thousand dollars worth of bitcoin? Wow, I'm not

sure what that is? Can I down? That's what Brady revealed that last night with the mannings, right, So can I take that bit going down to the store and I'll give me change? Got me? I need to go down to the Mavericks home opener and find out from Mark Cuban what do you do with that? What do you do with it? But I think he made out. He made out like a bandit. He certainly did. That's right,

And so did Jerry talk about that this morning? He did, Okay, he talked about things that he valued and he said that football would have been like your firstborn, your baby. That's that's how important it would have been. And he told the story that when he was sixteen years old, he had the family, had a friend who was a big deal with the Blackhawks in Chicago, and he got him to go into the clubhouse of the Chicago cub and he said he went up to Ernie Banks with

a baseball and got an autograph. And he said he still has it to this day. Really that he uh, he kept it and it was it meant so much to him because of Ernie Banks, right, and knew of them, obviously, Ernie grew up here in Dallas. Uh and uh, he said.

He finally, at some point later in life ran into Ernie Banks and Ernie said, well, very glad to meet you, and he goes, well, I met you long time ago, and Ernie goes, really, I would have remembered that, he goes, No, I was sixteen years old and you signed my baseball. And this is long after Ernie retired kind of moved back to finally move back to Dallas towards the end of his life. But yeah, he's that was his answer to it, was, I had I've heard I've always thought

I heard, like all Jerry's story, there's always another one. Yeah, that was a good one too. By the way, Ernie Banks Baseball signed. So do you have a White Sox players, I've got a sign anything. I've got a faded, very faded, and only I know what's on there. Pete Ward autograph used to play third base for the White Shocks, and I think he was at some sort of promotion for our Little League association and he came and signed. And

in one year I got Bob Fellers. Wow. Yeah, I was gonna yeah, right, No, I've got I've got I've got a a coaster from the shoelas Joe Jackson's uh Museum in Greenville, South Carolina. I didn't know there was one there. My sister and brother in law went through and they got me a momento. So were you a big autograph seeker? No? I scared. I was scared to get turned down, so I didn't want to. I never understood it as a kid, I never understood it. However, the one time. There were a couple of times I

remember getting autographs. One of them was at an exhibition baseball game in Arlington. My dad had said go down there and get whoever's auto. I don't even remember who it was, Okay, But the time that I really remember was we were at Market Hall in Dallas and Bob Lily was there making an appearance, and we my dad and I. We walked by Bob Lily as he was leaving, basically, and my dad. He walked by us, and my dad

caught up with him and I got his autograph. And that's the only autograph that I really remember getting as a kid was Bob Lily's. And so and that was and so that was a happen. We talked with Bob Lily a little bit, you know, and so that was It was just an impromptu thing, you know. And so I have no idea what I did with that autograph.

But anyway, here's how goofy I was. So in nineteen eighty three, they were having the fiftieth anniversary Major League Baseball All Star Game and they to commemorate it, they went to where it was first held, in Komiski Park in Chicago, and I got to go in there and cover the festivities right and and the game. So they had the old timers deal the day before, so I go in the locker room the clubhouse, and my childhood idol was in there, Louis Appersio, right, Little Louis right,

I could identify what Right learned to bunt. I was fast back in the day, I said, I was fast, okay, just like him. I could steal bases, bunt and get the first base. And everybody was sitting there interviewing him, and I just kind of stood and watched, and I marveled at joke. I said, I can't go ask him questions. That's my idol, right, Louis Apparichio, who is by the way, still alive, yes, eighty seven years old from Venezuela. I was looking to see if they've got his height in here.

I bet he was no more than five nine five eight. I can find it some other place. That's funny that he would lead the league and stolen bases or be there at the top. Hmm, heck of a short stop and list it. It's five nine, five nine sixty on Baseball Reference. All right, when we come back here, bring me up to speed on. I do have some football notes what we need to know as the Cowboys get

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it was last night. I don't know. De Marcus Lawrence Halloween party. Staffed the house, invited the guys over, and there are some pictures floating around. And Dak was there and so he was moving around. Apparently he wasn't on crutches or apparently not. Nope, what on that little scooter that he used to have, Not that I'm aware of. So, as we mentioned yesterday, it looked like they were gonna do something something out on the field. Yes, looks like

they did kind of a mini camp practice. Yeah. And so they actually returned to work yesterday. They did their cross self scout across the hall. Across the hall, Yes, And it was interesting to hear Zach Martin talk about it on you Know and how he goes and talks to the defensive coaches to kind of they analyze what

the offense is doing. I don't know how they analyzed him since he's played so well if Pro Football Focus is accurate, right, But yeah, So, and we talked about Dak poking his head out the door and you know, basically not wanting to do the interview because he screams out. He goes, if I came up there with you today, you wouldn't have anything to write about the rest of

the week. Well, I think when Jerry Jones did his interview uh today on the fan, he said that based on you know what we saw yesterday, he was very encouraged. Uh he said, I feel very good about where Dak is. So uh. You know, he pointed out that he seems far less concerned about the calf strain than he was about the shoulder muscle strain in training camp. Uh. He said it's must the calf is much less sensitive, is how he put it. So. Um, so we'll see. My

guess is tomorrow Dak will do kind of the early stuff. Uh, he'll do the indoor uh kind of quarterback school that they call whatever drills they do amongst themselves. Uh. And then probably be limited in practice. My guess is they won't ask him to do a lot, if any, in the team drills at least tomorrow, and then see where he's at on Thursday. But it seems like from what he Jerry had to say, what Stephen said on Monday,

you know, it seems like all systems go at this point. Okay, And you can check out wherever on Twitter, just search and you can find a picture of that celebrating celebrating Halloween. Yes, so there you go. Was he dancing or anything? I don't know, there's just a picture. And then after our show, by the way, which always happens, right, Cowboys announced that Lele Collins was officially on the fifty three man roster.

I think they did that move on Friday. They release Nick Ralston, the rookie fullback, and then sign him back to the practice crowd. So Lele Collins will be officially practicing this week with the team for the first time after serving his five game suspension. Michael Gallop, they started his ir return clock. He would have three weeks to practice before they have to make an official move there,

so he should be in practice. Dorance Armstrong, I hear is going to be returning to practice, and they also started the practice for Francis Bernard who was on IR and Tristan Hill, who had been on pup since the start of training camp. So those guys all should be practicing this week, and then I think as the week goes, we'll see if in all you know or whoever might

play in the game on Sunday night. Leale Collins, it depends, right, he's played one game in the Cowboys last what twenty two So do you send him right out there with one padded practice after six weeks or do you say, well, let's practice a week and then see where you go next week. I think there's some consternation out there, most of it, I think. I don't think it's fan driven. I think it's talk radio driven. That oh, what's the difference. Well, that's a good point. Sometimes I think the fan is

smarter than talk radio. That the Cowboys are are upset with him, and you know, because they won't say he's immediately going to start this Sunday that they they're they're thinking that, well, I don't know, maybe we'll trade him, or maybe we're still mad at him for the five game suspension, which none of it made sense to me whatsoever. When you had a Pro Bowl quality right tackle, you're not gonna mess with him. He's gonna be here. There's

no way you're trading him. Why because because because Terrence Steele is taking over the right tackle. But even if I know, even if I know, Okay, let's for a second, say Terrence Steele is playing at a Pro Bowl level. If you are five and one and lead your division by three and a half games at the end of October, why would you trade any assets away? Right? Because when you got eleven games left in the season, plus the presumable the line is a week from today, you're adding

assets trading them away, exactly. And that's the way jerf have we not seen year to year how fleeting this is to have opportunities like this. And that's what Jerry pointed out last week. He said, we don't need to trade. We got guys coming back. Those are our trades, right, they're coming back to the roster. You're certainly not trading away guys that you value. And he said, we're going to have a hard enough trouble fitting these guys back on the roster, right, Let alone bring it in somebody

from outside. So yeah, I was very amused at that. And I'm also amused that the Michael Gallup talk about Yell, you know he's going to be a free agent. You got Cedric Wilson. Well, guess what, Cedric Wilson going to be a free agent next year too. So don't try to get fancy. Don't start looking ahead when you're in the moment right now. Stay in the moment. You got

an opportunity here. Why would you do anything to your roster to diminish the talent right and the depth that you need going forward because you don't know, but what what might happen. This isn't baseball, it's not the NBA trade deadlines. Yeah, it's a different game. People point would point out, well they got rid of Jalen Smith. Well, well there was a reason for that, and I'm not

talking the money reason. They're right they Jalen Smith wasn't valued as far as his play on the field in my opinion, and I didn't hear his and maybe I wasn't paying attention enough to the Packer game this past Sunday, but I don't remember hearing his name, and the week before in his first game back playing for the Packers. He played seventeen snaps and he zeroed out. He didn't have one participation. And it's not to knock him. That's just where where he is shown to be in his

career at this point, right exactly. And um, yeah, this, I mean there's talk about, there has been in the past, talk about, well you got so much wide receiver and gallops in his contract year and what could you get for him? I mean, why would you want to trade Michael Gallup? Plus you look at their situation now without Gallup h and one wide receiver gets hurt, right, then what right? What if it's ceedee lamb? You feel good about Cooper, Cedric Wilson and Noah Brown going out there? Right?

Probably not? So yeah, just be sensible and think about today. Don't worry about a year of tomorrow's. So anyway, so all those guys should be back in practice and we'll see how much they're able to do. But but for for Gallup, Tristan Hill, and Francis Bernard, they all have three week window. So we're looking at at Minnesota home against Denver, home against Atlanta, right, and then at Kansas City.

So there's something that those guys, the three weeks, those are three So would they by three weeks would get let's say, in the case of Gallup, he would have to be activated before the Atlanta game or do they give him the Monday after for the following week? Think you get three full full weeks? Yeah? So, and then

Kills a different story because he was on pup. So those guys, if I remember correctly, you got three weeks once they start practicing, and then you have two more weeks to decide if you want to put them on the fifty three or leave him on PUP for the

rest of the year. All right, So the next question on let's say, on Gallop, come the three week window opens for practice for him, Let's say three weeks from now, they determine that he's not ready or he had a setback in practice, he's he then is still on ir is can you have can can he come back? I

think not? I think once for the season. Once you start the three three week window, then then you got to make a decision, and and then you're if you don't activate him within the three weeks, he's done for the years. So in their mind, they wouldn't start him back to practice if they didn't think within a three week window that he'd be back and ready to go. Henny, who knows he might be back this week, right because

they might have done this last week. We don't know where he is, right, you know, But because there was no reason right to start that window in case he did have a setback, right, like they started the windows two games ago for Kelvin Joseph and Sean McEwan. And so those guys are getting close to they have to make a decision on them, right, they were on injured reserve.

But again, you're getting all these guys back, but you're gonna have to start cutting people, right, And if you look at the roster, there's not a bunch of you know, stuff at the end of the roster that you're going, yeah, I really don't need that. They're just here for developmental purposes. I mean, start looking at it. Whore you cutting? I counted last night that in their release that has the snaps, they've played sixty guys already and there's only six games.

So now if you're going to bring some of these guys back, um, so they have played sixty guys. There's a sixteen man practice squad now some of those practice squad guys are included in the sixties right now, I probably and you know what, I didn't count the practice squad guys. So if I remember correctly, when Dan Quinn

talked about it, you said we played sixty three guys. Okay, so so those are the prec but I think on the on the list of snaps, they list the practice squad guys like you could have played some of those games, so I think it's sixty. But yeah, and then there's

been some comings and goings on the practice squads. So basically started training, you got a ninety man roster in training camp, and so roughly seventy six guys have had jobs right Okay, at least yes, um this season out of the and they understand that some of them weren't necessarily back and forth, right But yeah, and this day and age, and with these rules as far as I are, which I love, which I think they should have done a long time ago myself, and made more economic sense too,

when you're investing so much money in these players that if they're able to come back within three weeks, then bring them back, you know. And you know, and the thing that the thing that governs. That is a salary cab where you can't stash guys, right. But the other thing is they may sit there and go, well, okay. And the only two guys that we didn't mention, Lawrence and Neville Gallim, were probably a couple of weeks away. But what we didn't mention was they can sit there

and go okay. Maybe these guys are ready to play. But if we bring them back, whom I cutting? You know, say say it's Gallum, You're gonna cut seem for Hoko because if you do, then he's got to go through waivers and somebody might look up and go, oh, I had a fifth round grade on that guy too. I think I'm going to add him to my team, and

you don't get him on the practice squad. So maybe some of the decision is, well, let's wait a week because somebody might get exactly they got to go to IR and now I've got an open spot, and it creates a spot organically instead of saying, you know, or or when um Tristan Hill comes back, you're gonna have to cut somebody if you're gonna put him on the fifty three and they don't have enough defensive tackles as

it is. So I mean, what are you doing, is Bradley, there's a whole bunch of teams out there with sub five hundred records who would just love to take a flyer on him right and put him at and we can stash him at the end of our roster or play him Jacksonville or that. You know, Houston's got all these veteran players, They're gonna be getting rid of something a lot of those guys, even if they don't trade

them that and bringing young guys. Why would you Why would you play veteran guys when you're as bad as the Texans are right now, you can be you can be really bad not playing those guys. So you work on your future and think about it. When Gallimore comes back, somebody's got to go, Lawrence comes guarantee those defensive ends got to go. Guarantee a team like the Texans, they are just gonna be vultures for people managing that. And

you should be right right exactly, absolutely, Yeah. So there's in fact, I think if you let go a guy, you expose the guy to waivers, you can just basically almost be assured he's gonna be picked up when you have a roster like the Cowboys have right now, and and and they've almost used. I mean, the only guy I'm going to say this off the top of my head, I bet the only guy that hasn't played that's on the fifty three is Will Greer and Cooper. Did Cooper Rush get a snap or two? No? He did not.

I don't think I can look that up real quick. I shouldn't have said it. He did. He go in in Philadelphia the game Philadelphia. Yeah, so Will Greer is probably the only person on the fifty three that has not played the snap and Cooper Rush had three snaps against Philadelphia. Right, all right? We continue with more mix shots in just a moment. At Smoothie King, we are blending goodness to fuel your greatness. Every blend is crafted to help you achieve your health and fitness goals. Smootie

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at them. Of course they had to buy Also this past week, highly unusual both teams coming up about that make it equitable. And let's see they played. Their last game was at Carolina, which they won in overtime. They have two straight wins to get to three and three on the season. Have you looked at who their losses are against? They lost the season opener at Cincinnati. How are the Bengals doing this year? Pretty good? They lost

to them by three points twenty seven, twenty four. Their second game, they lost at the Arizona Cardinals by one point thirty four thirty three. Pretty good team. Then they beat Seattle thirty to seventeen, and the fourth week they lost at home against Cleveland fourteen to seven. So would it surprise you if they up and beat the Cowboys and Sunday Night? Now last two games they beat Detroit. This is this is the counter. Those are three pretty

good teams. They lost too. They beat a winless Detroit team by two points, nineteen to seventeen two weeks ago. On the October tenth, back, Carolina handed them what was then their third straight loss in overtime thirty four twenty eight. Okay, So I take it back now having said that, Okay, in this league, I mean the Vikings are coming off a bye. They got two straight wins. I don't care

who they're against. They are capable and their home right, and they'll have a roof over their heads, right, and Mike Zimmer pretty good defensive coordinator. Right, and McCarthy and Zimmer have matched up a time or two over the last half decade, so and they should have some insight into that Minnesota defense with George Edwards now on this side, the former coordinator Cousins on the season has two interceptions and thirteen touchdown passes, and you know he likes to

air it out. And Adam Feeling and Justin Jefferson had an ankle issue prior to their last game, but he played and had eight catches for eighty yards. He's fine. Yeah, So it was just and then they got Dalvin cookback and Cook has two one hundred yard games, but his backup Andrew or Alexander Madison also has two one hundred yard games. So they they what they have done and we'll dive deeper into it as a week goes on.

They've shored up that offensive line a little bit and they got their first round draft at Christian Derris saw back last game he made his first start at left tackle, and so so this is going to be another test for this Cowboy defense. It's exactly yeah, And that's the kind of the Achilles heel right now of this team is how well can this defense play and can they keep up the takeaways at the rate that they've been getting.

And by the way, the Vikings are not turning the ball over on offense, They've only given it up five times so far. So this is going to be and it's a night game on television. Oh's they're gonna televising. They're gonna televise this one. And it's the Sunday Night crew, not the Monday Night crew. Okay. And so I'm just thinking, okay, we started with the World Series Game one, so one in two or Tuesday and Wednesday an off day Thursday, so it'll be assuming it's not a sweep, Game five

of the World Series in Atlanta on Sunday night. So which which is going to have better ratings? Is it the Cowboy Vikings Sunday Night Football or Game five? So they're doing two three two? Now? Uh yeah? Okay, yeah, because it used to be to one one. That's not a good idea, No, like that one. No, no, they changed it for travel purpose purposes for the media. Well, the NBA did that, I know baseball did the same thing.

I believe they did. Okay, right, all right, last back this that goes back to when the Celtics are playing on the Lakers every year in the NBA Finals, coast to coast. It would go to seven games and they would have to fly for Boston to LA and back for games five, six, and seven. Yeah, that was before the It wasn't very smart. The media outlets started having financial difficulties. That was what caused the financial difficulties. It's

probably right, all the money we spent traveling to cover things. Right, So we are in agreement that that the NFL is the most popular sport. That's what we have decided here. I think we need to argue about that because it's in Texas, right, the World Series three times in five years? Is that right? Right? Yep? Because it was here last

year at so so think about it. It's been ten years now since our local baseball team was in the World Series, Okay, And it's been ten years now since our local NBA team has been in the NBA Finals and won it. And it's been twenty five years since our local football team has done it. But this is about to change, right, This is the twenty sixth year, right, Yes, the worms turning. But our hockey team, your hockey team, they were there two years ago, right. Unfortunately nobody can

see it in person. In person, yeah, Tampa Bay in the way. I got so tired of seeing the signs up when we went to Tampa for the game. Yeah, and all over town it was like two times I am defending Stanley Cup Champions, Cup Champions. All right, Well, that does it for this edition of mix Shots, and we will see you again tomorrow when Everson Walls will be shouting go Cowboys at the end of mix Shots,

See you tomorrow, very good one. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.