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and Nicky Spagnola. And it is high noon on the East Coast eleven am here at the Star in Fresco, and it's time for another edition of Mick Shots starring Mickey Spagnola with Bill Jones and Everson Walls inside the s WBC podcast studio on a Kyrie comes to Dallas edition of So what was what was the reference to the time on the East Coast? Because I normally say

it's high noon? Yes, okay, he's a cowboy bag, So now it's high since we're on at eleven am instead of high noon, we're on our no game season schedules. Is listening, Oh, absolutely right, they're listening beyond the East coast. They haven't got a chance to listen to us in a full week, that's right. And man, it's someone is listening to us. Where it is not high noon. It's not one pm, two pm. It's more like four or five o'clock in the afternoon, that popular or seven, Yeah,

we're that popular. Yeah six seven. Yeah, it's not not that we're that popular. It's the star back year. That's nothing to do. It's us. It's Mickey's name, that's what you know. I told Jerry Jones Junior. I think it was the second year I was with the team, and um, we had the and that's when the websites were just getting going in the league, and we had the most traffic of any team in the league, right for a five and eleven season. And I told Junior, I said,

it's what you get when you hire Mickey Stack. Nothing to do with the start. And they've believed it now for twenty one years and he's still sucking for a long time. And I finished that would telling Aboudy just what just think what the traffic would be if you got a winning season. Found that out? Well, well, well where we start, Josh. There's a lot that goes on in a week, right, and so where do you want to start? We'll go with what's your fields? Go with

Brian's Saturday's news. The breaking news on Saturday afternoon, as the Cowboys announced that Brian Schottenheimer is the offensive coordinator. We start there on this edition of Mixtions. To me,

no surprise. I thought that was the natural progression of, you know, what they were possibly going to do, since he'd been here a year, since he had been an offensive coordinator for twelve years and taking care of some pretty good quarterbacks oh, by the way, during his career, and just the I mean, the reason he was probably here in the first place was the connection with Marty Schottenheimer, where Mike's first you know, NFL job was with Kansas City,

and I'm sure he knew him from back then. I think Brian would have been about twenty years old when Mike got there, twenty one something like that. So yeah, I just, you know, and if if if I thought God was talking to book, you know, and after he'd been here a year as a consultant, and what you were looking for an offensive coordinator with somebody basically to assist McCarthy with the offense, since if he's going to call the plays, he's probably gonna have a pretty good

big hand in coordinating the offense. That you just needed somebody to help out more or less with the day to day stuff, practice, schedules, scripting, so that's that's the dynamic everything, And that's the way usually it happens when you have the head coach running calling the plays. I mean, you don't have somebody all week long, come up with the scouting report, come up with the game plan, and

then say, okay, coach here call the plays. Well, because the media of course jumped on it right away, Jerry talked about how it's all in Mike's hands period, right, and that was you know, there was an absolution there, this is the way it's going to be. And then all of a sudden the Shottenheimer news comes out. He goes right, Jerry leading us down the wrong path again. Right, So, no, I don't think you're saying that dynamics are still. I

don't think nothing's changed. It's just that they needed somebody in that position. And it's more than just an administrative position too, by the way. Um with you know you're got you're gonna have a guy that take care of that stuff. And he's worked with quarterbacks before, right, Uh, some pretty good ones too, oh by the way along the way. Um so yeah, I just thought that was the natural progression instead of bringing somebody in outside that um you know, was in you know, kind of foreign

to what's been going on here. So that didn't surprise me one bit. Sounds like you're ready to tell us what quarterbacks he has worked with in the past. Well, I see that that was going to be your job, Bill, No, I've got him. I just want to. I mean, he's mentioned it a couple of times. He's worked with some pretty good quarterbacks. Oh, by the way, I think aimed

Andrew Luck as a young Andrew Luck in Annapolis. Russell Wilson actually well, and with Luck, he was a quarterbacks coach in twenty sixteen and seventeen with the Colts ahead Mickey right, I'll fill in the biks um Man over here. And then three years with Seattle and they set a single season record for points scored, and he was the offensive coordinate order there and Russell Wilson was it was the older version or the younger version, younger the former

version of Russell Wilson. Yeah. Absolutely. And then Chad Pennington with the Jets, and he was offensive coordinator there for six seasons two thousand and six through two thousand eleven, exciting offense. So he's been the coordinator twelve twelve years in the NFL another year at Georgia. I didn't look up the quarterback at Georgia in two thousand and fifteen. He was with the Rams as the offensive prior to that through fourteen, and Bradford would have still been there. Yeah,

absolutely that twenty fifteen. Yeah, not not back where Vicky was just starting, not two thousand, not back in the five and eleven days, that's right. So yeah, so he's he's done the job, and he's been here as a consultant um offense and defense by the way, um and been around. So it's like, yeah, I'm just here. You got to you got a bigger office now. So yeah,

I just thought that's what they would do. But we don't blame him for anything that happens because McCarthy used to play caller, right Yeah, we're blaming McCarthy now before we're blaming Kellen Moore for the offense. Right now, we blame McCarthy because he's a play caller. Well, that's what will have happened. That's that's what outside. That's aim is

going to be. Yeah, this season because no matter, no matter that you led the league in offense the year before, set offense for the Cowboys and then all of a sudden, you got stupid. Come on, it's crazy, it is. I was just going to mention the fact that, you know, there only a few tweaks that need to be made in this offense if you're going to really look at it honestly without you know, all the bs is going on out there, Oh cowboys have all this that this

guy's not elite. Give me a break, bro. I start looking at the numbers and the games themselves. Of course, you know the the interceptions this year. Uh. As far as our turnovers, that was that was different. You know, we we that's that's never been our pattern. And so to me, I look at it as an aberration for this year. But you keep going back further and further and further. Yes, the playoff games we were disappointing, but

throughout the season, domination didn't take the Chargers long. Domination swoop him up right right, we were talking about Kellen Moore, buddy.

If you guys aren't staying keeping score with us, uh yeah, And I guarantee you he knew that that Charger job was available and that they wanted him, and that was part of probably the mutual decision to leave you know what and and and this occurred to me too, And he might have thought, like, even though he was running the offense and I'd call in the plays, he was he's always been under the jurisdiction of an offensive coordinator head coach, and it's like, how about if I do

this myself with a head coach that's a defensive coordinat maybe somebody will take me more seriously for a head coaching job. Yeah, unlike what happens in Kansas City. Every but he's like, well, Eric Bienemy, why doesn't anybody hire him, Well, because they think that Andy Reid and he probably is running that offense when when when when hits the role, Yeah right, he probably is. Yeah, And the same thing

that happened in Tampa Bay. So maybe that occurred to him after he's had these interviews for head coaching jobs that he didn't get all but Tampa there was no offensive minded head coach there. Well there was, well two years ago, but not this past year. Yeah. Right, but but but that's what he worked on and right, so uh yeah, so maybe that kind of went into his decision too. But yeah, you're right about the blame game. It's just it's unbelievable. You know, this guy's to blame,

that guy's to blame, Zeke's to blame. Um, it's why I don't like the off season. Yeah, this is gonna be an ugly one. So what tweaks need to happen for this offense? To me, I look at certain moments, and I've said this to yes, your right higher time. There were certain games to where we did not show

up and that showed our inconsistency. You can't go from Minnesota, you know, and then down the line you go to the Titness and then after that then you go to Washington, you know, But then then after that you go to Tampa, you know, and after that after this. So to me, it's it's the inconsistency that you have to deal with. As far as production, this offense is always ready for production. That has never been a problem except in those inconsistent games.

So to me, it's about those moments where okay, guys, this is one of those trap games. Let's not fall into it. We've done that consistently. We've done that consistently. So to me, that's still about a moment. The game itself is about a moment. This is what we conquered this moment even though you know usually we don't. So that's where you look at the difference of a Jimmy Johnson team. They don't fall into that. They didn't fall into that trap. That's why he had his little games

and what he did with the players. I guess they need that, you know, they need that type of shocks into that system, because without it, then you have the Washington you have the Titans, and then you have San Francisco. Sometimes it's matchups. You just have a bad matchup with a team in the age, have a bad match up with San Francisco. San Francisco had defense right exactly. I mean that game was that was not a game to where, okay, guys,

the game plan is gonna win it for us. No, but the moment, it's the moment that because think about it, we went over it, right. They had opportunity to score fourteen more points in that game, and they didn't. They didn't convert. They didn't convert when they needed to convert. Exactly what if this had happened, What if San Francisco had lost its all quarterbacks? What if what if Purdy had got hurt in the on the sixth play of the Dallas game, would have things played out differently, would

have could have won twelve to ten. Should would have. I think the defense probably would have played us better, but better than they played Philadelphia. But I think we would have won the game. It's it's those those look In the San Francisco game, the Cowboys were a wide receiver short. In my opinion that it finally kind of showed up when Michael Gallup has no catches uh t Y Hilton had one catch uh Noah Brown had two maybe everything else was Cede Lamb and then you lost

Pollard although as I looked up he had eight. He had eight touches for thirty three yards. It wasn't like he was mister Pro Bowl. But when you left, the threat is there. The threat is there, and if you look at the constant uh dosage of him, then he could have broken one. He could have moved chains well and been the moment that we needed it. Didn't do it for the first half. So um But yeah, I just thought they were a wide receiver short, and they kind of covered that up all year long until they

always find your blimo in the playoffs. The same thing happened when I got upset with Cedric Wilson. You see that. We were talking about Cedric all year long, and I'm not just picking on him, but it's an example of how that position was short. You still needed someone that could make a play. At that time of the season. He was making plays, doing everything, throwing the ball, catching the ball, reverse all of that. Then all of a sudden,

the game that you need them. You know, you could see the shortcoming, so to speak, and that in the playoffs that magnifying glasses really really right. So let me take you a step further. You would think it'd be a no brainer if, okay, the other team loses their third quarterback of the season Party and now you've you're going with a guy who was on the Denver practice squad four weeks earlier, and you're in a playoff game whatever, And yeah, and I said, well, of course Philadelphia won

that game. And I'm sitting there thinking Dallas versus San Francisco in that scenario. What happened in that game? San Francisco wasn't doing that much on offense even with Party, and the Cowboys turned it over a couple of times in the first half, fell behind, and the forty nine Ers put one drive together, one ninety one yard drive together in the third quarter of that game to get ahead, and then they could play from from ahead, which was

different than their game against Philadelphia. So you compare Dallas and this team that's representing the NFC in the Super Bowl this week, Philadelphia. What's the difference between the Dallas and Philadelphia team this year? Defense pretty comparable, right, as part sacking the quarterback one two in the league sacking the quarterback. And what's the difference within the offenses Philadelphia

versus Dallas this year? Well, because then Philadelphia was able to get ahead of San Francisco and then play from ahead in that game and they and they shouldn't move because there's fourth in three and they complete the pass down the field where the guys he didn't catch didn't

and it ends up being a touchdown. Right, But even after that away, it's seven seven maybe at halftime with whoever is well and then the other thing, well, the other thing that happened was at the end of the first half of that game, Josh Johnson, Yeah, shotguns snatched, So there it is. So that is seven seven at halftime, Yeah, which is the equivalent of what the Cowboy would have been because it was nice. Yeah at halftime six Yeah, and what are you looking at? Yeah, moments right, that's

moments exactly. That's just it. But but here's what Philadelphia was able to do. They were able to run the football against San Francisco and the Cowboys. They were why the Cowboys were not able to run the football Francisco. So my answer to that, you didn't ask me, But my answer what your ass bags was, uh, first, turnovers and the offensive line. That's what I was gonna say, turnovers in the offensive line because we couldn't run it

on them. But once again, if our defense keeps balling and we keep talking about polot, it doesn't matter what you do in the first half, it's what you do when we need you. We could have worn them down with more weapons, you know, by using polot, we could have tired them out. We could have you know, created deception and then when the time is right, because that's what offense coordinators do. They set you up, set you up,

set you up. As long as the defense keeps you in position, then I'm gonna spring this play on you when it's time. So we could have had that play. You don't know, you could have had a player that had that moment of you know, making that play when we needed it. So, like you said, if the weapons are there, then we still had a chance, especially as long as our defense was keeping us in it. So that's why the turnovers were extremely important. Those two turnovers

really hurt this. I mean, I'll give you another momentum and I believe it was and we talked about it last week. They blitzed the safety, We talked about the safety off the off the edge and he came free and everybody was like, well, what's Tyler Smith doing and it's like, no, he blocked the guy on the inside, the running back. It was Malite Davis on that play, and he almost screwed up the entire well he did because Dak was dropping back and there was no play

action and he almost ran into him. So I'm thinking, Okay, you weren't supposed to be there, you were supposed to be outside. But that was the moment and then they you know, it ruins a drive, and especially in a game that ended up nineteen to twelve, that moment was important. So yeah, that's why this whole thing, and you know it comes up right right away. Well, what's the difference. You know, how far behind are the Cowboys from Philadelphia? Well,

I really don't know. I would have loved to seeing the third matchup. Yeah right, Well the Cowboys beat them, would have you know they had a backup quarterback. Well they beat the Cowboys would a backup quarterback, and they didn't score forty points like the Cowboys. So I would have loved to see that third match. All right, we're just getting started. Yes, don a Super Bowl week edition of mix Shots, and we're back with much more in a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest

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quarterbacks that he's had NFL stops. He didn mention he was at the University of Georgia's the offensive coordinator in twoy fifteen. And producer Supreme Chris Beam has come up with the name of the Georgia quarterback in twenty fifteen. And I don't think unless you're a Georgia Bulldog fan, you would have come up with the name Grayson Lambert. Maybe that's why he was only there one year. He was there, transferred from any quarterback from Virginia. Yeah, that's right,

and he was. He was a transfer from Virginia who wound up at Georgia in twenty fifteen and sixteen, and he then became a draft pick of the Texas Rangers baseball. Wow, so there you go. Now you know the rest of the story. So quarterbacks that go play baseball? Yes? Did you want any of the Pro Bowl? I did? Yesterday? You did? I did? Did you guys watch? I was gonna afraid you guys, we're gonna talk about not talking about that stuff. I watched. I watched a play three

two three hours. You watched it for three hours. It was a beautiful day Dallas, Fort Worth. Yes, I walked outside every once in a while. Yeah, Mickey, we were. We were ice in for like three days last week and then on the weekend we've got this beautiful weather. I mean, it couldn't have been any better on Saturday and Sunday here. So what did you do and you're sitting there? Did you do outside? You're sitting there for three hours on a beautiful Sunday afternoon watching flag football?

Come on, man, you know they did more hitting? Right? Did you say that? Did you on Twitter? Give me a brain? I watched the highlights on Twitter. But it wasn't just flag football. They had kicking, they had deep snapping, they had did your back? Okay, how did you spend your Saturday or your no, no, your Friday night? Friday night? Did you watch the NHL All Stars Skills competition? Taped it? Have you? Have you watched it? Not yet? Okay, but

but you are gonna watch. And I taped. I taped the NFL, I mean the NHL All Star Game too. I started Saturday afternoon, some of the three on three. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, I was sad. I ran Saturday. I ran Saturday from what from bad Hill? I can't believe you guys didn't watch it. The flag football thing was actually pretty good, you know now. I would say if there was an alternative to flag football, to Pro Bowl and what we've seen in the past, this would be if I'm gonna

watch it, it'd be flag football. I watched my little nephews play flag football all the time, right, and that's kind of what it's like. So I gotta tell everybody that Ceedee Lamb had two touchdowns in an extra point and the play of the day though, and then tray Von Diggs interception and who did he pick off? Yeah, yeah,

you buried the lead there. Well all right, yeah, not only not only did it, not only did he pick him off, he outran him too, by the way, he made it to the end zone and you look close. Did they review it? No, they should have reviewed a lot of things because when when Diggs had the touchdown, he was out of bounds. Okay, he stepped out of bounds. They didn't have replay in in flag football. Plus they had flag football referees that were really intimidated by even

if it was professional fla really oh yeah. They had some little guy about my size was the head referee, right, and it's like I smicked out of bones. That guy is a referee in the pack twelve. Well and I got hold. They said he was a flag football all right, well, good, he needs some help. I thought you were going to bring up and then and that's my next one, hang on. And then they figured out how to use Cavante Turpin

in the game now as a wide receiver as a blitzer. Really, yes, how did you get How did you get through all those huge offensive linemen there were ghost they couldn't block, the center couldn't block, and so The only thing you could do is accidentally run your running back towards where they're blitzing and just say oops, I was going out for a pass. I wasn't blocking, but they needed to see they had to throw the ball within four seconds.

And so with with Turpin's speed off the line of scrimmage, you know he was he was causing problems for the for the AFC. I've got to say he impressed me in the in the last in the playoff game against the forty nine ers. Yeah, but they didn't have any kicking so there was no return. Now. But he's the real deal, for real though, he's the real deal. This guy can. He can. He can make you sit up and watch. So you didn't watch the quarterback target throwing

on Thursday night? No, guys, how was it you did? Producers Supreme? What were your impressions? It was pretty good? It was not bad. Yeah, it wasn't bad. It was like you know, the last the last throw each of them have is remember how in training camp they tried to throw the ball fifty yards and drop it in the garbage can in the bucket. Well, that was one

of the targets you had to do. Was watching that. Yeah, my son was more more impressed with the offensive lineman throwing water balloons at each Yes, yes, to see who who had soft hands catch? Right? So do you think the I mean it looked like Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday was filled. Yes, I mean it was a full house. But you think those fans really enjoyed that. Yeah, I don't know how much. I think you only had to pay twenty p see the TV ratings guarantee of

the TV ratings are decent. But here's what they got fixed though. So it's a fifty yard field, right, and they played it basically from one goal line to the fifty. The TV shots were all behind the play, but it wasn't wide enough to see what the wide receivers were. And because the cameras were behind the play, you couldn't tell who was who was playing defense, like who was in the game unless you knew the numbers of everybody that was playing, like I could see when Trayvon Diggs

was out at cornerback. But other than that, it was hard to distinguish and everything was behind and it's like they couldn't get a side angle because I'm sure the TV booth at Allegiant Field was at the fifty yard right. That wasn't gonna get it right, and so they didn't want to do it as an angle. And I'm going, okay, they got to work on this. They also need to work on the announcers. It actually did look look more

exciting than Yeah, I feel like a mix. But you know what, but and and even you know flag football, you gotta know how to twist yourself so they don't grab your flag, right, And I remember when we played flag football, they well, no, I think it was that media thing. Guys started wrapping the flag, no, around the belt right so it wouldn't come out so easily. Yeah, yeah, but it was good. I thought it was. You know, it would be a great flag football player, Lamar Jackson.

I could see him as being a great flag football player period. He would probably know, you know, because I've seen the young kids do it. They drop down, they run lowy, you know what I mean that they I don't know how or you twist guys get down and give down. But you know what it's like. I mean, it's like the high school seven on seven things. And of course, yes that's what it is. Sure, my nephew does it. My nephew does this stuff. No, he's he's pretty damn good. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I thought it

was it was worth watching. And she said, um, you watch a lot of flag football, youth football whatever. I mean, that's the thing now. And they're gonna start giving out scholarships. I know it's coming. It's gonna become a UIO sport, even for girls. No that somebody was in California, one one state starting high school flag football for for for kids of talent. They are so talented in that flag football stuff and they really can learn, you know, the

new system that's that's around now. Everything's past happy now. But really kids learn how to run house. They learned how to you know, route combinations and things of that nature, how to set up a defense. It really is good as far as the beginning stages of knowing how to running offenses. And then they came up with some clever plays of throwing throwing the ball out to the running back to buy time and then the running back could throw it back to the quarterback and then throw it

down found so that got away from the fourth seconds okay, second, okay, yeah, nice. Yeah, So you're telling me. I should have watched back. I'm sure you've got it taped somewhere and just go watch. They seemed they hustled more. No, they did football. Well, there was a lot of stake here, and I mean the winning team, the players, the players on the winning team, you got eighty four thousand dollars and the losing team

got forty two. So there was forty thousand dollars on the TV, and there was arguing going on, and it was great to hear paid any bonus. Yeah, and it was good to hear Peyton and Eli calling the plays in or they called time out and they get in the huddle and the Eli, okay, what do you want. Let's go three one, three to one side, one to the other and run this and that. So it was kind of so there's there need to be a league

of football league League league. It'd probably would be more exciting than the XFL and the USFL trying to find enough offensive lineman to play football. That's the thing about what the offensive lineman do now with plow bow, I mean, besides the boy did the white thing. I mean, okay, so you got figure out stuff for them. It's nothing to do with the big guys. You talk about the trickle up effect and what we're seeing in the NFL. We started seeing this twenty years ago in Texas high

school football. Okay, the spread offenses and all that stuff, the great Sam Earld and in US high school Todd Dodge. All right, So that's what they've been doing in Texas high school football, doing seven on seven in the off season. So why not we've done in NFL Europe, we've done all. We got the you know, the XFL, USFL whatever and so FA football seven. Yeah, that's the off season developmental program for real. So what is seven? NFL seven on se seven on seven? And Harry Jones is up there,

he is he has taken notes. Now this would be this will be the pickleball of the NF. Right when they when they do that in the off season, is it flag or touch for high school when they do the seven on seven? I think it's flag flag. It is fun. Yeah, okay, yeah, even even high school seniors of high school player. I mean they literally for the people not in the area. I mean they literally they play tournaments, uh throughout March into June and then middle

of the summer. They've got the state tournament, right, and these are legitimate offensive players that they go up. So it's a skill position players on your local high school teams, that's what they do in the off season. But once again, the big guys are the ones that don't get them right. No, they're left out. They're left out. But the quarterbacks get the world. They can't get hit, so that that helps out. No,

it's a great learning tool, it really is. For any player that wants to play wide receiver, wants to play offensive I mean even defensive back as well. It's a great tool for you. You can figure out pass pattern schemes and things of that nature. Man, I'd love people, I'd love to play that. But you know, when it's not it's no pads in high school football, players don't really look at it as real football, right right, this

is where it is. Well, the only thing they need when they do it next year is replay help them official. It was that bad, something pretty weird stuff with that. And here I was yesterday thinking what did you do? I want to know to work, But here I was though thinking all day this is the most miserable sports Sunday of the year because because there was no football and there was the first time in six months that

we had a Sunday without any football. Now we've got football next Sunday, the Super Bowl, and then the next Sunday we got the XFL kicks off here the Ardington rennegades their play, and then after that you've got Darryl Johnston's USFL is going to take you all the way to the fourth of July and then it's football season again. It's all it's like this was this Yesterday was the worst sports Sunday of the year. There was there's no football. There was enough NBA in college and women's Yeah, all

them Mavericks tried to save the day with the trade. Yeah, absolutely, all right, we continue with more mix shots. Do we need to make our picks for the super Bowl? It seems slow early for that, But we don't have a show before Super Bowl Sunday. Now there's the what's the what's the opposite of anti climactic premature? All about that? Where shine? 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.

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great draft and they will play it. He needs that recording and playing the car with one of the lines I already am so um. What made me think of it was the one line in Stampede where the Cowboys are the class of the Senior the Senior Bowl Senior when and for weeks I thought he was they were talking about the Senior Bowl. Actually, the highlight of the Senior Bowl was Jerry and Stephen talking more than anything

that tried every year every year one. I had Babe Laffenberg on my show last night, and I've said that Jerry said, uh, if you know, he would like to draft a quarterback every year, and Babe's like, well, what's stopping him? He makes the picks. So okay, So you heard Jerry get the Senior Bowl. So I'm gonna point a couple of things out real quick. Um. I don't know if you guys probably didn't read my column on Friday. You have a column, Yeah, thank you. So I kept

hearing all this stuff about Dak press. Yeah. And by the way, did anybody stay up late enough to listen to Bill last night? After the Grammys? I switched man. I said, it's a time for Bill, right, and the Grammys are still going those are can't And then Bill here comes Bill. I couldn't stay up to do it. Yeah. Anyway, So it's Friday, and I kept hearing all this stuff about Dak this and Dak dat, and you know, they

need another quarterback. And so I'm coming out of the shower at the health club and some guy sees me and he goes, hey, mister football guy, just like football guy. And I was like, can I just keep walking right? And he did it loud and so everybody could hear it. And he goes, uh, so when are they going to get rid of Dak? And he said the wrong thing at the wrong time, And because I was just thinking it might be video out here there somewhere. Yeah, something's

gone viral, Mickey. I was just thinking of what I was going to write and how these people are right right here. And then he asked me right here who he is? And I just looked up and I said, that's a really stupid question. He deserved that. How big was he? Uh? He was you could take him old enough that yeah, yeah he was bigger, but he was older. You could have gotten him. You could have danced around him, right,

How old was he? And some other some other guy goes, yeah, why can't they get rid of him he can't win and get past the first round of the playoffs, and I was like, okay, I'm gone. I just your locker room is pretty this is but it was typical of the fans, right, So I was just gonna point out time, Um, Dak Prescott has a thirty one million dollars base salary this year, fully guaranteed. So you get rid of him,

that's thirty one million dollars in dead money. He's got a forty nine point one million dollars cap hit, which they will probably try to restructure the base salary to lower it like they did the last two years. But if you got rid of him, his dead money this year is eighty nine million. So once you sign somebody to a four year, one hundred and forty sixty million dollars deal, they're years. You're not getting rid of anybody. So if you could, you gotta go with somebody of quality.

I mean, he's gotta be. You go from Dad, and they say he's not elite, but you go from Dad, it's not many above. I was gonna say, my other question for the guy goes, Okay, what's your alternative? Yeah, who you got? I mean Rodgers is supposed to be doing something. I mean, if you bring in somebody like Rodgers, I mean, that would be something you think about. And they have fifty million in dead money if he leaves. So, by the way, I'm trying to figure out who just

get rid of him and do what? Who's next? Yeah, you know I had to wait after the bow. I mean, who are you gonna get? So I had to use my Bill Parcel's line. It's like, yeah, you can't just go down to Texico and buy one, right, Texico. That's so New Jersey. They're like, they have Texico New Jersey. No they don't. I don't know, but I've been up there. There no text, well not anymore. I figured he made that tex Yeah. Yeah, but Texico used to be I mean we had it in Chicago, Okay, yeah, I don't

think it's in New York New Jersey area. Oh I bet there was. That'd be like Sinclair too, anyway, Okay, it'd be a sponsor for our show. I buy dress um all right. So and also, so now the easy low hanging fruit is well, you got to get rid of Zeke and you got to get rid of Tyrant Smith. Right, But there's financial ramifications to do in those things on the salary cap so you can't just say, okay, you know he's got too big of a base salary, but what's left? So take Zeke. Everybody wanted to get rid

of Zeke. All right, he's got a ten point nine million dollars base salary, but let him go, and you have eleven point eight million in dead money. Now you can spread it over two years, five this year, six next year, but it never goes away, right, So my thinking on Zeke is they're going to do something like they did with DeMarcus Lauren. Remember this past year, he had that big base salary, and what they did was

they said, okay, what if we do this. We're gonna divide that base salary basically in three and we'll give you three years guaranteed to make nineteen million. And that's what he did. So and it lowered lowered his cap hit for this year and spread it out over three years in base salary. But you weren't giving him more bonus money. So Tyran, I mean you could do something like that if he was ameniable to it. Or I mean Zeke, I'm sorry, I said, Tyrant, and he said

he wanted to stay. So now you see whoa how badly does he want to stay? Right? And you can do that. And when you get rid of him, though, he's got sighting bonus, option bonus and restructure bonus left to you have to account for now he does his base salaries no longer guaranteed. Last year was his last base salary that was guaranteed. But there's way to do that. Then. My next question for him is when everybody wants to get rid of him, All right, who you got that's

gonna have twelve rushing touchdowns? By the way, he had twelve rushing touchdowns. Everybody wants to point out three point eight average, right, oh, in these last game, Well, they didn't run the ball in the last couple of games. If you look at Washington, what they did. Nothing showed up. The offensive line was beat up. And the other thing no one considers is how many of those twelve touchdowns

were five yards or less. That'll kill your average, right, because you if you're at the two and you score, it's great. To me, that's pretty obvious, right. I don't know why everybody keeps bitching about that. You can only get two yards for that carry. But but you you've got the value of the score, right, and you know, let's face it, when we were down there, yeah, we gave it to Polo a few times and anytimes exactly

because he got thrown around like a wag doll. Yeah, and so yeah, you know that you know the value of what he does. I'm not worried about average as far as running average, because we know that the touchdowns they bring that down. What I'm looking at is who's remaining. Okay, you have Pollock coming back and I don't know, guys about this this surgery. Does that mean Polo just because he's having surgery, he's gonna automatically come back better than ever?

You know? I mean I thought we were talking about two different instances on the same leg, right, So that just doesn't seem that doesn't give me much confidence in how Pollard is coming back. He may come back and be amazing as ever the surgery, because he is a free and we still haven't sided him. Yeah, So Davis, you want to use that ten million dollars on Pollard as a franchise player, and you got mo league Davis, right,

who is a something really good player. I think he's a really good player, But you know, of course, experience matters, right now. Yeah, So okay, if Zeke goes well, you have left. Are you gonna use a first round pick on a running back? Well? I was asking, That's why I was headed a second third. Is somebody out there? Oh, you could probably make a trade for a veteran, Right, you can make a trade for a veteran, a good running back, vechean, because a lot of a lot of

good running backs out there. Would you like to hear the distance of the Ezekiel Elliott touchdown runs? I was just gonna look it up. But since you've got it, Okay, he had twelve touchdown runs, right, I think he had one for fourteen? Yes? Yeah, Here here are the yardage on them. One yard, fourteen yards, one yard, one yard, one yard, one yard, six yards, four yards, two yards, ten yards, one yard, one yard. So he had seven one yard touchdown runs and one two yard touchdown. I

wonder how many were on second and third down? You know, we really need that. Yeah, we gotta have this, especially on third day, thirty fourth down. So those are eight carries for nine yards. Yeah, all right, you talk, and I'm going to do the math on his yards per carry? Yea, So give me, give me eight carries for four yards, give me, you know, and what does that do to

my yards per carry? But yeah, one yard carries they're gonna hurt you, right, and then still a three point eight and then you would have yeah, he still had, he would he would be to four right? Wow? And how many one yard carries did he get for a first down? Or maybe a fourth a third and one or a fourth and one? Yeah, So don't minimize those things. But what happens is everybody wants to make the argument very easy, Like you just have this box and you put a bow in it, and you don't look inside

the box to see why this all happen. So you gotta be careful. Yeah, hey, what did you get? We did this whole thing. Just imagine what his yards per carry will be if you take out the touchdown runs to one yard? All right? His yards per carry without the touchdown runs of one yard, one or two yards was three point eight right, well, is three point eight eight, three point eight eight? See three point three point eight eight difference? You went, You went all the way up

from three point eight to three point ninete, We got it. Analytics, baby, well what if you what if those carries were four or five yards? Okay, how are you going to make him four or five? That that yard? So we're gonna I wait, say it, I wanted to take eight carries. We're gonna give him, give him his the average. You give him his average. Yeah, okay, wait a second, hold on, you'll get it to least three nine four, all right. That's we're not gonna make four. We're not making four.

We're not making four. We're making chicken salad at him right there, buddy. All right, So we're taking those eight carries, and we're gonna add We've already got one yard on him. We're gonna add three yards to him, so that's twenty We're gonna give him twenty five more yard rushing, all right. So that'll get him, that'll get him to get him, that'll get the yard nine hundred and one yards divided by the same amount of carry, which is a two

hundred nine yard. And now to get him to three point nine there were not Imagine what if they were went for five yards instead of or what if he broke one for fourteen? What if he had one nine yard touchdown run? What would that do to it. That's right. That would kill him. That would kill him. He would not put it in context. He would not he would not play the next guy. All right, we just put

it in context for you. And also so Tyro and Smith and they're gonna have to figure this one out because if Tyler Smith's your guy at left tackle and Terence smill Steel comes back at right tackle, then what happens Like if he comes back, where's Jason Peters fitting in? He's unrestricted friend, I know, but Jerry said he's said he wants him back. Well he can come back as a backgup if he wants. No, but that's it. No, and I like that be And yeah, there's a new

at that age with a hip injury. Got an offensive line coach that was coaching. When do you remember Mike Slarrd Did he want you to play special teams? I always play special teams? No, you did die? How did you not know this? I play special teams all the time. When I was on kickoff team and I was on the part return all the time. You have to go down and make tackles. No punt return. But you said kickoff, Yeah I was on kick off. Yes, I was a safety guy, the safety guys. I'm the safety guy. Okay,

I'm the safety guy. Yeah, come on, they ever get to here? Man? I was good, Okay, I take a look at my videos. Boy, I was I was stopped. I stopped a couple of tests down because he was the special team's coach and the assistant offensive line. Yeah. I knew he was the assistant offensive line, but he was a special team teams. Did he replace Alan Lowry as special team He did? He did? He he did? Because I think Lowry got um he went to Tennessee,

didn't he? Do you think that it was Houston? Maybe? Yeah? Yeah? Look him up now, the Oilers pride of Irving High School who taught me how to get into three point stance Irving MCA when I was nine years old, Alan Lowry. How successful was his opportunity to do that? He actually Lowry was still with the Cowboys. Well he was under Jimmy. He was still with the Cowboys. Yeah, they kept him. Yeah, and so he didn't so we got maybe he maybe Solari was assistant special teams. Oh I thought you said

he was special teams coach and an assistant. So he was Lowry's assistant and he was the assistant offensive line. Yeah, right, so there you go. So Lowry was here uh nine years from eighty two to nineteen. You know, you've got your adding on coaches. You have an assistant special teams coach, right, you never really had that. Yeah, he's just one one one special teams because they had an assistant at the time. They tried to put some emphasis on that, you know.

The other the other thing I'm wondering with the moves they made on the coaching staff, if they just didn't downsize like twenty nine. Yeah, we were looking at about looking at the photo. Yeah, how many coaches they have there a whole room. You have assistance to the assistant and maybe you're you know, maybe Schottenheimer he's the offensive quarter maybe he's the quarterback coach too, you know who knows. Um. Okay, so we're still looking at filling Okay, quarterbacks coach, what

are you thinking? That's what I'm saying. I don't know. I mean, you bring in somebody young Scott Tolzine on staff as an offensive assistant. It seems like he might be a candidate right to be quarterbacks. Just get rid of the offensive assistant thing. I mean just like or you bring in someone at entry level defensive line, they needed to bring in nobody else. That's well, but you're training.

But the reason that you had told let's say Tolzine becomes a quarterbacks coach, then he for the last three years he's been training to for that opportunity. And so that's where you have, you know, quality control guys that they're training. You can probably bring in somebody position coaches.

You're probably bringing somebody in the house. Yeah, right, because think about it, they had basically three defensive line coach dirty leon and you know if if if you look at it, the defensive coordinator was kind of taking care of the defensive line two right, So you had like three guys, Um, what is he was he always officially he wasn't in lineman or was it linebackers? Who's that? Quinn? No history history was defensive line. But I bet he can. His history is DNA and I bet he can do

uh linebackers. Yeah, I thought this history was linebackers. Yeah, while at some point maybe he did. And then they and so if he took care of linebackers as the DC, you know, they get rid of George Edwards, Scott mcc curly was the assistant I think he had linebacker coach, but Edwards was taken care of the linebackers. So they had doubled up on a lot of the staffs and

along with all the analytical guys. Um and by the way, Quinn has always been specialized in defensive defensive going all the way back to nineteen nine William Mary got you. So we'll see what they what happens there. But uh, until running backs. Did you just say running backs coach? I did, And that's one that they got to fill. Yeah, um, but maybe and then maybe the other thing is that they were looking to get younger m I don't know, um, but um, they would have to bring somebody in I

think for that. So yeah, it's not like I mean, even you know, with the I was gonna say, well they got younger at the offensive line. I don't think they did. Philbin was about to say age as Solari, Rightlari's probably maybe older. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they do. And Solari has a history with McCarthy as well. Yeah, so that they were

one year together at Green Bay. Um, so yeah, it'll be interesting seeing how they how this but you know what, there's there's probably coaches on staffs where the head coach is gone. Are we down to did somebody get hired? Who just got hired? Arizona hire down to three candidates? Three candidates? All right, so their staff's probably on hold right now that you can kind of pick and choose. Oh, I know what I was thinking. The defensive coordinat at

Denver ended up taking another job. Peyton I think interviewed him. Um, so yeah, it'll be interesting seeing what happens with the rest of the staff as they as they go along. Okay, we've got our final two minutes to talk super Bowl that's happening this week. Tell me who's playing for Kansas City? Are like, are there wide receivers liking to be in this game? Do we know because they were a quarterback? They're bone? It doesn't matter who's that obviously, he'll just shove.

He makes a difference to me. And especially when he when he lost Hill, he really took it upon himself physically to do more. You know, I've seen him make some plays at the end of the game, even the Houston Texans over time. He was bawling in that one with his legs. You know, I'm I'm impressed with with my homes, but I still think. I guess because I'm NFC East, I think the Eagles are gonna win. Do you recall who you picked at the beginning of the season or did you make a pick at the beginning

of the seasons? Yeah, I don't remember. I picked the Kansas City Chiefs at the beginning of the season. I didn't remember that until this past week after I picked Cincinnati to win the AFC Championship Game over Kansas City. Then someone pointed out to me, you picked Kansas City to win it. Okay, I was covering myself both ways. So I'm gonna pick Kansas City to win the Super Bowl. I think I picked Cincinnati. I don't remember who I

picked in the NFC. I don't I don't trust my homes leg I think that that Eagles defense, Eagles defense is gonna They're gonna be after You don't want to be hobbled going up against that defense. That's exactly right. M hmm. Maybe I picked Green Bay. So your pick to click is pick the click. You're picking the Eagles to win and Graham to have a great game, Okay,

and you gotta score so we can forview it. You can, but I'm gonna go with probably uh thirty to twenty three thirty three three, And you're going with Brandon Graham. He is he always seems to make a difference always. I will take Kansas City Patrick Mahomes thirty eight one twenty seven, and I'm going and you and you have a pick to click you Patrick Mahomes. Okay, I didn't know you could pick a quarterback one every week. Uh. And I am going with Kansas City and and oh

it's gonna be an excited. What did I say? Twenty three? Forgot to fill up my tank and so gonna have to just go off my brain here thirty five thirty What do you have? Thirty one twenty seven. I'll go thirty five thirty one. Kansas City wins thirty five thirty one. I like this Pacheco yes man with the checko five thirty one the bad Death's Bed score. Oh, that's what I picked the Cowboys to beat. Sam. All right, I'm gonna go. Let's do. Let's do. Oh, I'm gonna change

my score thirty seven thirty four. There you go, Harrison, Butker gets the field goal to win it, But Isaiah Pacheco is my pick to click? All right? Okay, potcheck off for you? Huh all right? And and who was yours? Us back my homes homes? Oh please yeah, oh please. It's gonna be the difference in the game. Do you want to get one from a producer? Supreme producer Supreme super Bowl super Bowl pick? Yeah, yeah, I'm ready for lunch.

See we'll go, uh forty two thirty five. Who's gonna win? Philadelphia? Philadelphia? And who's your pick to click? I'm gonna go with A J. Brown. Okay, it's a good one. So all right, So let's close here. What time did you do? What time did you finish? What was the game? Chris thirty? What two five? What time did you finish last night? About eleven fifty two. I was going to give you twelve hours ago. I was gonna give you to eleven thirty and then I said, no, that's it, No, yeah,

I think I lost. I listened to the first part and that was it. Yeah, I've heard enough of this crap. All right. That does it for this edition of mix Shots, And we will be back next Monday after the super Bowl, after the Dallas Texans win the Super Bowl on Sunday. Have a great week. Everybody go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.