Talkin' Shots: Six-Game Recap

I want to hear about it. I don't know even know where it started, but it started it I started. It always starts the snow you started. It's like the bush Whackers from the WWF WWE from like thirty years ago. It just becomes our sign off and sign on. I love it. I love it. I'd love to see Mickey do it. Show him how it's done. No chance, show him how it's done. It's like to swim them back in nineteen sixty seven. Come on, Mick, I want to do Dax thing. What's that? What was that? That's that's

how it warms up? Oh you here you go. God, I donate a pitcheck to see that. Let's get up to do it. There, Mickey, we can do it. I'm not gonna do it. We can do it. So Isaiah started that. Yeah, Isaiah starts all the fun stuff. You know what. Okay, I'm glad that you brought up Isaiah stand Back because I just I came in here a little late because I was just doing a telestrators segment with Isaiah stand Back and I want to make this

point right off the top. Isaiah Standback is one of the rising stars in broadcasting his work on the telestrator each we of course we did a preseason game, the first preseason game this year in Arizona, and listening on the podcast and everything, but when you when you sit there and do a telestrator segment with him, it really comes to light exactly how much he knows about the game and how he can communicate in the spirit that he has and so forth. I mean, he is a

rising star in this provom. Well, my guess is nobody in this room played quarterback before Ben Right, He's a former quarterback's the thing, and he was a wide receiver here for a couple of years. But he's been with the Patriots with Tom Brady. He's been on a Giants team that won the Super Bowl. He's been, He's been around. He's been in some programs that have that know what they're doing. Has he been here? Was he here with Tony Romo? Or was that before Romo? It was with Romo? Yeah, yep,

that's right, yep. And played quarterback University of Washington, irs Man Seattle as well. Yes, he did. He needed to have showed up earlier if here and took over for Quincy Carter, right, I tried, if he would have just come along three or four years soon enough. Well, Romo was here at that point too, so he would have been competing with Romo. But anyway, Romo wasn't Romo yet at that point. Yeah. But and he played a little

receiver in college, but mainly at quarterback at Washington. But what Cowboys and NFL teams saw in him was that athleticism. What I see in him is his aptitude and his communication skills. You better slow down, he take your spot. Broadcasting networks out there need to be on the ball for him. All right, Let's get to the news of the day, Mickey. What is the news of the day?

I guess it was the news of yesterday. Right. Um. Evidently Demante Kaz didn't listen to Mike McCarthy's lecture on Monday about everybody making sure they take care of themselves, take care of your teammates, and spend time with your family and friends. And I don't think staying out to three am on Tuesday morning was part of that lecture. So he gets pulled over and charged with a DWI. So he didn't listen. And as we know, when coaches have a bye week, their biggest fear is the phone call.

They're gonna get that phone call when they put their head on the pillow and it's like, oh, I don't want to hear that phone ring. But it did, I guess, and uh yeah, so got himself in a little bit of trouble. I don't know how much that affects him with the team here because those things usually take a long time to process. But we'll see what goes on.

And that's one of the questions that fans have is as far as in the in the system in the NFL, and nobody knows if if he was already entered or yeah, yeah, like if it was a previous It's all private information until you get to a point where you're in suspension mode. So yeah, and that's with the personal conduct policy in the league. I don't have a great sense of, like you know, a callie or a system of what punishment

might be for something like this. I don't. I don't know, because the league is in the past, is kind of they'll pick and choose, or or it is like you said, or it's private and you don't really know everything that may have or have not happened in the past, you know. But that's something to keep an eye on over the next few weeks. I guess. I don't know if it

would be something immediate, but we'll have to see. And what I worry about is obviously we dominated the news cycle anyway from the winning streak, but this isn't good news. I mean winning the winning the bye week is what this has all been about, and making sure guys are doing the right thing, and that's not a step in the right direction on the first day. Yeah, coach has always feared unstructured time, you know, the unstructured time between the last mini camp in the summer and the start

of training camp. They always worry about that, and they always worry about the bye week and That is one reason why when Bill Parcels was here, and this was before the news CBA, when it was mandated that they had to have four days off in a row and two of them had to be on the weekend. Before that, Bill would give them like Tuesday and Wednesday off schedule practice, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday would be to be determined, right, And he knew he was giving them off, but he

didn't want them to know. So if they were going to leave on Friday, you're not you're not making to the last minute, and you're paying a thousand dollars for a plane fight but to go somewhere. But hasn't the CBA provided more restrictions on how much you can put the players on the field during the week. I mean, Mike's giving him the whole week off. Yeah, I said, they have to have four consecutive days. It's four consecutive days, and it has to include the weekend, okay or Monday okay,

So it could be Friday through Monday or Thursday through Sunday. Right, And he basically gave him and and I understand why he did it. I mean, they had him here on Monday some of the guys will come in and work out and get some conditioning in. But this is ten weeks in a row if you count the four preseason games, and I know all the starters didn't play in the four preseason games, but it was still still stretch, extra week of training going all the way back to July

twenty second. It was at h they reported the training camp. So it's been a long stretch and I think he is very cognizant of giving guys breaks to make sure they're not worn out. You got another game this year, so yeah, I don't have any problems with what he did. But again, you know Bill's Bill's whole deal was don't go back to the old stomping grounds, like go back to the old school for homecoming, right, and there is no time for homecomings, And there was something, there was

some sense to his message. And the Cowboys aren't the only team doing this. There are several teams around the league that are giving them the whole week off. And as you point out, when you look at you, now you're adding another game to seventeen game and if you've got designs on the postseason, and this team appears to be in that position, I mean, we're taught. I did

the math on it. I think the next game against Minnesota, if you were to map out the entire season where you go to from training camp to the super Bowl, that would be the halfway point of the journey is

basically on Halloween. If you just number of days, and so from a game number of games standpoint, you're looking at four preseason games in this case for this team, and then that would be the seventh, eighth week of the season, seventh game game, and then going forward you got ten more regular season games, and then at least three more postseason games. I mean that get and so

that's why. And man, we taped the Mike McCarthy show last night and he was talking about how he compartmentalizes the season and and that's why he likes the way this season breaks down. Where he's got this break right now, he can get him away for a full week and

still come back. The other thing that's beautiful about this bye week is the fact the Vikings are also on a buy this week, and so even for the coaching staff, normally h on a bye week, the coaching staff would get together and go ahead and scout on Sunday the game that of their next opponent they don't have to, but they won't have one. Yeah, that's right, and I

think Mike Mike talked about it breaking it up. So this was six weeks and then the after clue buy in five games is six more weeks, right, and then six more weeks because they get the mini buy after the two straight Thursday games the first of December, and so it works out great as far as that goes. Now you just got to have some personal responsibility and be ready for the three consecutive of away games the

first of December. Now, guys, how do you how do you like view Obviously football players look at the season and quarters, but now that you have an extra game to look at it that way. But so far as far as your assessment of this team is if you looked at it a quarter of the way, how do you, guys assess this team so far doing what they should have done? Well? I said that beforehand they need if if they're going to get to the playoffs, they need to make hay the first six games of the season,

and they've done that. That's right. And five and one is basically you know you'd love to go six and oh, but five and one was about the most you could expect, you know, and just the way this team is playing. And the other part of it is the guys they have in reserve. I mean, we got the trade deadline coming up here in a couple of weeks, and it's like with the guys that are about to come off injured reserve, they're going to be acquiring players at the

trade deadline, their own players at the trade deadline. That's fours, at least four starters. A starting wide receiver Michael Gallop okay, two starting defensive lineman at least to enter the season Neville Gallimore and the Tank Lawrence Tank. That's three. Kelvin Joseph's the second round draft pick at corner, who I'm just saying provides depth at a key position. And a guy that would have been starting with Lawrence out Dorin's Armstrong.

We forget about him because they didn't put him on IR. He's still on the roster, so he's coming back. Tristan hill On pup who now after now after six weeks, they're not practicing this week as eligible to start. He's

almost like the forgotten guy he really is. And and another forgotten guy that was going to compete I think for the backup swing tackle was Josh Ball the four around draft really and he never got an opportunity because, what was it, a week or so into trening camp, two weeks he suffered the injury and you know he's been rehabbing ever since. So not to mention your third tight end, who I mean, Sean mccough probably was going

to be the third tight end. He might help be ready this yeah, this next game, because he's been working out pretty significantly out there. So so, yeah, the reinforcements are coming in over the hill, and a lot of and a lot of changes this roster are going to be made. Yeah, you gotta figure it out, right, Well, you gotta make room for him. Okay, we had one yesterday. Of course, le Collins is back on the fifty three and Nickston guy, Yeah, yeah, you go starting right tackle.

By the way, it's like Pro Bowl caliber player and so and so. Right now, they're across their fingers that Ralston doesn't get claimed and he can go on the practice squad like Brandon Knight right right, got claimed. Yeah, because they had to make they decided to make rooms.

So yeah, and that just shows you that there's just a lack of quality offensive alignement out there that somebody would just scoop up Brandon Night because they will see he started I don't know what, maybe ten games last year something like that at left tackle by the way. So yeah, there's a lack of quality offensive alignment out there, you know. In the case of Kelvin Joseph, now we'll see where he is, not only physically but just as far as making the transition into the NFL and so forth.

But I would think it as they set things up going into this season, the idea of being that he would compete in training camp, preseason with Anthony Brown. He got Anthony Brown as a starter, and if he developed the way they wanted him developed by mid season, he would be in a position to be a starter on this team. And so now we don't know where he

is because of the injury and so forth. But I think to your point, Rob on Kelvin Joseph, he's a guy that was in the plans who would be getting snaps on defense for sure, as you expected as a second round draft pick by mid season. Yeah, and that's a position we've talked about on our show where you can't ever have enough depth. I mean, you need at least three, really four corners that you feel good about, inspecially where they're playing defense. Yeah. Absolutely, And look it

just happened on Sunday. Maurice Kennedy, who really hasn't played much yet this season but they like him, gets a concussion. Things can happen and all of a sudden, I mean we talk about it. I mean you mentioned to me this morning questions about oh, they have too much wide receiver depth on the fan, and I get that conversation. It was on our website mailbag. But like depth is great and a good problem until you don't have depth anymore.

You just mentioned there's seventeen games this season. A lot can happen, Guys can get hurt, and you're gonna feel lucky that you do have And if they were playing this week with Kennedy in concussion protocol and the Sean Wright would be the next guy the fourth corner instead of the fifth corner, and that was something you would have thought Kelvin Joseph would have served. Now he got off to a slow start, so he I don't think was ever going to compete for a starting job, but

as a depth person. You know, I'm go back to your talking, right, Joseph. Yeah, and uh, you know, and go back to Kevin Smith's first year. You know, he didn't start till the tenth gaming and it took a while because they trusted I Colt and then they finally got him in there. That was his sophomore season, second half of his rookie year. He's a sophomore, right, yeah, exactly. And then he took over and then and then chest it up with Jerry Rice in the NFC title game.

And you talk about when going back to Anthony Brown, oh v Kelvin, Joseph, just think about where you were with Anthony Brown at the beginning of the season. He was almost like the odd man out. He's really turned it around, even for me. I think on our show, I've criticized Anthony Brown and talked about his lack of production from years past. But man, he's never healthy. Yeah, think about it, and I don't think healthy. Yeah, and

a lot of these guys aren't. But I'm saying as far as you when you're looking at their statistics and saying, Okay, this is a guy that you realize. Next two, treyvon Digs is going to compete and you don't think there's a one A and one B. I think everyone was thinking that, oh man, this is the odd guy out. We're gonna get Kelvin Josephine. And he never Kelvin joseph even in training camp, could take over what Anthony Brown

was doing. And I believe it was Al Harris that even complimented Brown on just the progression that he's making within this system. So I'm really happy about that. And I love the fact that we do have depth. And yeah, I don't know if too much depth is a bad thing because we've gone through those lean years where we had none at all. Ye and all he had to do on Anthony Brown is follow the money. I mean, they didn't resign him to a three year deal out of just okay, we got some money here, let's sign

this guy. They had confidence in him. He just needed to stay healthy now and he finally has and now he has confidence in himself. Yes, I think I think part of that is the success Trey Von is having with these picks. I think it's gets contagious on this team that the whole mindset and you know what, there's just a confidence thing. I thought on the seventy five yard touchdown pass that he just got his butt whipped.

I went back and looked at it, and if it wasn't for crazy Kaz coming in like a madman, I think he would have gone and picked the ball off. He keep pulled up. It was kind of like a flyball. Yes, and you're not sure who's who's taking it because he's getting ready. Yeah. Yeah, he needed to call for it. It was a weird somebody should Yeah, And then Kaz pulled up and did a drive by instead of going and making the tack. If he would have made that tackle,

he'd have got fifteen yards. That's it's better than seventy five right now. And again when we talked about it on our show, about that whole sequence that play from right there, you talk about Diggs getting it the pick six and then the next play if he had gotten that interception, boy, I mean your your typewriter would have explode. Not typewright, I'm joking with you, Mickey, but you'd have had plenty to write about if he undercut that coun

to cut it. But you gotta see over the top case had the legitimate opportunity and maybe just understanding the defense like Digs does. He probably thought, man, there's no way he's not gonna get this pick, and probably was

really shocked that mac Jones even threw the ball. Yeah, seemed to work out pretty well that they would that you would have headed score and give the offensive ball and didn't give him a chance to go down and kick a field going force overtime and winning it overtime, just the way they planned right, right, just the way they planned it. If if he gets stopped for a fifteen yard game, then they might go down and score a touchdown and don't have time to get the ball back.

That was just a weird play altogether. I could not believe just the emotional swing from the pick six to you think you got the game one and then oh, twenty seconds later, here we go again. I mean, it made it reached a point where they had the game in the bag. I mean, if the Cowboys don't convert third and twenty five games. But that's that's this offense they are every trying. I was trying to say where I wrote my notes that gun mix shots. We're going

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that's a great mix shot. But you mickey, when it comes to red zone offense inside the twenty they ranked twenty fifth because they've only scored touchdowns on their twenty five red zone possessions fifty six percent of the time. Look at this fifty six percent of me. Well, because

I just wrote this down myself. All right, Look, so how do you figure that they can go up and down the field ninety eight yards ninety nine yards, but they get inside the red zone and they can't go twenty yards or they can't go one yard because the official won't rule a touchdown. That's right. See, that's the thing. Percentage points is that worth on It might have got

them to sixty percent. That's something they got to figure out. No, they do, and it's you have to This is a boring answer, probably, but you have to look at it like case by case every time they're down in there, because they've had situations like Bill said, where if they just put a chip in the football, that's probably two touchdowns right there. Uh, Dalton Schultz drops one in the

end zone. Okay, that's three touchdowns that they've had some opportunities. Um, but yeah, I mean they're they're too talented not to be better than they are. I forget who's number one, but it's like ninety percent maybe Green Bay, New Orleans, New Orleans, Okay, ninety two point nine percent. There's no reason they can't be that good. Do you have their numbers? They've scored touchdowns in the red zone thirteen out of fourteen possessions, but they've only had fourteen. That's that's what

I'm saying. The Cowboys have had how many possessions? Twenty five? And let me see who's had more Tampa Bay Arizona books right now? And the Chargers twenty six? How's Brady doing? And Buffalo twenty nine? How's Brady doing? Tampa Bay? Tampa Bay is twelfth sixty four point three percent one of the numbers. How many out of how many? Well, well, ask me all these at once. When I look at your shot, sixteen out of twenty six, sixteen out of twenty six, and the Cowboys are what fourteen out of

twenty five? So if the Cowboys were got credit for that one quarterback, they'd be at sixty percent fifteen out of twenty five. And it's still not good. And you're twelfth and normally the what when you look at numbers like that, you say, well, okay, that you gotta be able to run the football. Well, they're number two rushing team. And is that kelling Moore criticism I hear no. I think they don't execute very well down the very early

I mentioned those other three. Well, not according to Kellen Moore, because he said we got to be much better in the red zone. There was a bad fumble exchange, Dak lost one a couple of games ago Um the almost one in the end zone. Yeah, the pick that bounced off somebody's hands, deflected. There's some weird stuff that's happened down there. So I think it's a little it's a little skewed, but I do think. Look, when you're five and one, you gotta you gotta nitpick. You gotta find

things that say we're not perfect. Yeah, are the scoring offense Cowboys? Well I have to look that up. What's the first It's the twilight zone, by the way, because the weird things keep happening, right, Yeah, I think yeah, I think they're number one. They're number one. I gotta ask. I gotta ask this in comparison to last year. And I don't know what those actual numbers were. I'm sure they were much worse last year than they are. Right, Jones has the media guy. I do had the media guy.

You want to look at it. I actually we did a mailbag on this last week. Let me see if I can pull it up. But I mean that ahead ask your question. That was I mean, I'm just saying that last year, last year, thirtieth last year, So I think there's that's some progression there were you proving, Come on, Mick, Yeah, thirtieth in red zone. Thank you for asking about Tampa. We put all their perspective right. What are the champs

doing with half the offense missing last year? I mean, that's I don't even think you can compare it to last year. They didn't have it in the teams, but that was the biggest That was the biggest knock on Kella Moore was what he was, what he did in the red zone. I think I think you're right. I think it even goes back to twenty nineteen. And okay, so last year I had him at twenty nine. They

were at fifty percent. Last year scoring touchdowns inside the twenty twenty nineteen they were fifteenth at fifty seven point four percent, so kind of right around where they are. But they just they are too talented not to be So what are they gonna do to improve it? Don't throw, don't turn the ball over? How many turn how many turnovers? Do you think? Well, dad of fumble? There's a pick? Uh? Yeah,

Sunday right right? Two two goal line sneaks that they didn't get right, didn't that they end up scoring on the first previous one, I can't remember. I don't think they did, but yeah, end up kicking a field goal maybe, so a couple turnovers, a couple couple weird six field goals in there too. Oddly enough, they're better at home in the red zone, Yeah they're not. Maybe they know how to navigate those twenty yards in at and t Well, I'm just letting you know. There's there's there's sixty nine

percent at home, forty one percent on the road. Aha, home cooking going on road, road splits. Oh my god. So they need more Connor McGovern on the goal line and maybe maybe uh catching a touchdown pass. Just don't be kicking field goal everything that kid's dream. That's right. Actually, you know what you know would be the good stat is how many times they've gotten in there and then committed a penalty, because I think that's happened quite a bit as a matter of fact, penalties. Yeah, and that

was that was the other thing. What they just it ORed everyone's mind, you know what. And I went back and looked at that play he's hired for the lead in the league. That was the weirdest, weirdest holding penalty I think I've ever seen, because he's got two guys come and buy him on each side, and they pushed him and his arms came out like this. Right. He

didn't hold anybody because they got to dak right. Uh. And and just knowing him and his nature for him to mouth off at the officials, you know, he must have thought he got screwed. I couldn't see from we were on the field at that point or near near the field. Did he throw the flag? Did he pick up the umpire the umpire through the flag. No, I

saw him go pick up the flag. Okay. I think he said something, and I think he said after the game, he Chris, was he in your interview or yes he was, and he said something like I told him you suck or something like that. I told me it's not bad. Come on, the best thing to say doing But you don't have to have a rabbit ears. The funny thing is, is the guy who's flag like an umpire throwing out. Yes, he threw it from so high it was like like with like a vengeance, like where's the umpire? At least

ten yards behind the line of scrimmage. The flag landed at the line of scrimmage. No, Mick, he was in the he was in the mix because he was spotting the ball at the time. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The flag ended up where they spotted the ball, but that's where he was. It went straight up in the air. Oh okay, I thought he threw it through it. Same umpire that was overlooking deck in the end zone on the quarterbacks. Not the brightest guy. I can't get a

flag for that. So no, that guy was that. That guy made the call on on the sideline. He came running in like he knew everything. Oh yeah, but then he waited to unpile before he decided where the ball was going to be. And then he tells the head coach, I couldn't see the ball, And if I was the head coach, I would have said, well, absolutely, you couldn't see it because it was in the end zone. I saw the free shrink where so over the top video

and Dax's lay in the end zone. He says he couldn't see the ball in someone but unless the ball is stuck up, yes, yes, that's all he was looking at exactly. That's the only thing that was out of the end zone. I couldn't see the ball, but I'm gonna spot at six inches short. I was wondering how long it would take for you to get pissed off about the officiation. Oh I had my hat in here on Monday. Oh yeah, yeah, And I'm now going back to see because I tweeted out the you tweeted the

picture from the overhead. Yeah, so offensively when you get in the red zone, I mean, I believe that we've been utilizing the tight ends. They throw a lot when they get down into the red zone, and I think the change that everyone wants to see is Zeke just push it up in there. And even in that gold line stands. They ran ze twice and got nothing, you know,

and then you go with Dak twice. So whatever it is, especially in the gold in the in the end zone and the red zone, excuse me, we gotta figure that that portion of it out, because it again some of those ghosts of Christmas Pass came back to us when he seemed like when Kellen gets down there kind of panics and doesn't know what to actually go to. Well, I don't know. They ram Zeke in there pretty good, and he didn't make it the first time, right, No,

he didn't. Twice twice right outside and inside. Yeah, that's right, all right, we can they just need to send them towards the pieline cam right, Okay, no, let me just ask you, actually, each each of you, what would you like to talk about in our last segment here? This is last segment of the week for us here. That's it inside the STV ABC podcast studio. All right, okay, all right, I want to make you want an answer now. I want okay, I want to mix. Gotta mix shot.

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at the end? Hey? You don't think they wrote hey in there? You know? Do you think they wrote twenty bucks to twenty dollars? Was more personalized it there at the end? Sole touch on. That's the end. It's a little signature. Nikki's good work for the week. For the week, Oh I gotta clean something up, you guys asked me, where was I in No. Four? And ourselves in Puerto Rico? Why I got left Puerto Rico and No. Two? I got married in No. Four? My wife reminded me, so

let me you know she's listening. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, Well, Nikki, you just keep checking his facts. So when's your anniversary? June nineteenth, twenty twenty four. Okay, you got that, You're good. I love it. Two thousand and four, two thousand and four, two thousand anniversary. Yes, June team, that's nice. Good you plan it that way or just I did? I did? Was it on a Saturday that year? It was all right, that's easy to spot on the calendar. Okay, when we're

gonna get worried, I will ever forget it. Teeth is on a Saturday. So there it is. There we go in Dallas, in Dallas, in Dallas. All right, all right, so I said, cleaned it up. I'm sorry, guysn't mean take a surprised it took you. That was debatings my head shot right there. Okay, I like, what does everybody know what day they get married on? Day of the week? I got married on Saturday? Saturday? Yeah, okay, Saturday, yeah yeah,

Saturday typicallycually not a Monday. All you guys are at my wedding, So there are more Friday There are more Friday weddings now now that people use venues and sometimes the venue you want is taken on Saturday. I know that from personal experience with about the one of my daughters that I paid thousands and thousands of dollars good things on a Friday. What about the actual number on the day he got that? Still like like okay, yeah, yeah, already want us to go around the table and tell

everyone a r ever three dates? You know what your mix shot? You know how I picked mine? Now what are we doing here? Come on? How'd you pick yours out? Mike? I'm curious. I didn't want to have to cover another ring games Saturday. I tell you what. There's a rule in our family. You're not getting married during football seats. No, not football season, spring games. Oh wow wow? All right, So what's your mix shot? My mix shot is hit

the music, Chris. I want you guys to basically tell me for unexpected performances by Cowboy players in six games, the top four Yes, well that's going to take and if you have five, you come up with five. Okay, So number one on the list is trey Von has seven picks in six games. He's among the top four. Okay, Osa Dicky Zuwa love hey, I love it. I don't know if I put that on here, but I curse Curse, Curse, Curse was number one on my list. I thought he

was the way you phrased it, the way you phrased it. Sorry, just the number Terence Steele steals in there. What number? I had him third? Okay? So your number one was curse, with three was Steel and I just put Digs down as as four. So we where we putting Zeke start to the season. I expected it from him, Okay. I don't know about you guys, but I did, and I expected Dad, you expected it starting win. I mean when

did you with Zeke? I mean from the very beginning, like from January first of last whenever you knew that Zeke was going to perform. Okay, how about June first, okay, because I'll give it. I'll give it the first week at training camp. First week at training camp, I saw him and I said, shut him down. I mean, just have him ready for the season. He's ready to go. So off the top of my head. My expectans were dak zeke Um basically the wide receivers, the top three,

Gregory and Parsons. You expected Parsons to be this good? Oh, heavily us. I wanted to draft. I know you did. Thank you. I know you must have heard me say oh. I don't know if I heard you, but unless you were saying it in March, I was saying it, Okay, well good. So your list again is curse, unexpected, the unexpected, one more, the surprises, Yeah, one more? You had curse Tony Pollard. No, and you're Cedric Wilson. Okay, Cedric Wilson, Okay, but you know what he's done this when he's been

given opportunity, but not this value. I got one good, we get a top five, you go first. Noah Brown, all right, I got I love. I'm gonna throw a name out there. He got double digit catches. I'm gonna throw a name out there because during the game on Sunday, I got a text from one of our producers at CBS eleven, Chris Bullock, who said, is Dalton Schultz the biggest surprise on this team? And my answer was no, he did this last year. Last I said he did it last year. Now I will say this, he's taking

it to another level this year. And he but he is benefiting from all the other weapons because he's the guy that's open a lot of times, but you still have to make the catch right, and he's doing I mean, I'm not taking anything away from him when I say his breakout year was last year. He was the surprise last year because of what he was able to but touchdown catches this year, yeah, you know, No, I think he's been good, but I think we saw it coming.

And I told him, no, the biggest surprises curse because I had to and I don't remember what the answer to this is, but I had to go back quite a way to find somebody a cowboy tight end with sixty catches in a season not named Witten. And I don't remember what I found. Oh, but I found something. It might have been may Nova check. Have. It might have been Nova check or Cosby because you can you can well you'd have to go year by year on Nova check, right. I don't know how the number one

answer can't be Trayvon Dicks. And that's not talking about his talent, like just this is this is, this is unheard of. I didn't rank them. I just wrote down the group. Yeah, okay, okay, and and and it's the number of it. We knew that he was right, you knew he could be a special player. It's a different like just like when you the way you phrased it, what's the surprising number, the surprising number seven? Pick? Yeah, six Right, it's uh, it's almost turning into like Roy Hobbs,

the natural type stuff. There is something like special forces at work here. I mean, it's it's crazy what he's doing right now, absolutely, even on tip balls. Right. Yeah. The reason it's crazy is because we have guys seen it. Guy. Yeah, well guys, well we saw it, and we didn't see it in this number of games to start the season. I mean we saw it with Everson Walls his rookie year in nineteen eighty. That's what That's what I was about to say. He that was a different era. There

were more interceptions. I mean, all you got to do is go back and look at the quarterback numbers back. Yeah. Yeah. But the thing about Traymon is I don't think he thinks it's crazy because one he told us this last interception he had it scouted he saw that route, he knew it was coming and made a play on it. That's film study. And he also told me a training camp and he kind of had a look on it like he was pissed off at himself that I got my hands on this number of balls last year and

I didn't come up with them. Basically for him, it's just like I just needed to catch him. If he was going to be pissed off last year, it should have been a number of times he got clock looking at the quarterback and got beat. Well. Part of that because he paid a price for starting as a rookie. I thought Mick Novicheck did it in ninety two and ninety five, Okay, thank you. He had to go back thirty some year, almost thirty years. He had sixty eight

catches in ninety two. But daal And is turning himself into a legit weapon on yes, And I don't think that anyone before, and we've talked about this at length. You know, when he was in the battle with Jarwin and Jarwin took the reins and was you know, team favorite got the contract. But now you're you're really at the crossroads now with him, because he's in the contract year. You can't let that go. Can The biggest I don't think so. The biggest talk in the offseason is Michael

Gallup has an expiring contract. Well, now it's Dalton Schultz. Randy Gregory is making an early season case to be in the Pro Bowl based on the way he's playing. We'll see. But yeah, that's three unrestricted free agents to be where you're like, how do they pay everybody? Four sacks every six games? That's not bad. And just to further that point, just when Bill Belichick double team Schultz in the red zone, that's just the testament to the

respect that teams would have starting to half for him. Yeah, back on Dig's numbers. So now in his career, he's played eighteen games. He had three picks last year. Seven show he's got ten picks his first eighteen games of his career. Everson his rookie year, had eleven in the regular season sixteen games, and then in two postseason games he had two interceptions. So he had thirteen interceptions the

first eighteen games of his career, including this postseason. Well, if you look, if you look at how he finished the year last year, he had a pick in game fifteen, so he's so in the last eight games, he's got eight picks. Pretty amazing, pretty amazing, and other play the only other player to do that as Rod Woodson to have as many as he's had up until this point. Oh, you mean in your career? Yeah, I think that might be mini games. Yeah, through this many games. Wow. So

I mean that's great company, that's great company. Yeah. Yeah. It took gosh, took Everson sixteen games to get eleven, Mick, I wonder what he had the year before that too, you know, with the sixteen and I mean the next year. I didn't mean the year before I met the next year, because remember he had seven in the right nine games he did I've got I know you were ready to jump out. I would no, I was going to rod Woods and now I gotta go look up Everson. So,

did y'all have any shots? You want to throw it out of time? Aren't we? Well? Now we can, we can. I'm gonna try to answer Mickey's question on Everson Walls if y'all will just lamp for a second. So no, So, then, so he had basically had eighteen picks in twenty four games. Yeah, he had Everson in eighty two, had seven picks at eleven picks and eighty one in twenty five games. He had eighteen interceptions, throwing the two playoffs games. Yeah, throwing

the two playoff games. But he always reminds us in the game with the catch, he had two picks in that game. No one remembers that. I think he had a fumble recovery too. Yes, he did two and two in one game. But I just wanted to tell Mickey for my mix shot. Then I'm booking my trip to Sofi for the super Bowl. You know what, there's gonna be a super Bowl. There is gonna be a super Bowl, and we're gonna be there, Mickey, all right, we're gonna be there together. You'll be there. I love it. I've

been playing that role on mix shots, have you. Yeah, I'm gonna play there. I did last year too, even when they were no, no, you don't have them check you out? Should we give them our little saying from Everson? What is it? If seven gets eleven, we're going to heaven? Seven gets Oh that God? Dad? All right, you got very quickly. We're talking about things. We talked about red zone, things that they can improve on. Defensively, we all know

that's been really good. Defensively, run defense has been good. They've only given up five hundred and seventeen yards on the ground, haven't been tested a lot. Cowboys have rushed one hundred and ninety four times, opponents have only gone one hundred and twenty one. And he carries against them, and the Patriots ran right at them and had some success doing it. Next game, Dalvin Cook Minnesota, great test. And that's something you know. Dan Quinn spoke about the

run defense. He's pretty happy with it, but that's something they have to keep growing at as the season goes on. Was the biggest problem on defense last year? I love it? Well, mackey, Mickey, okay, you got one more thing. Okay, the biggest problem they've got is past defense. Because as good as the Cowboys have thrown the ball this year, the opponents have twenty two more yards passing than the Cowboys do. That's got

a change, it does, all right. And now, Mickey, do you have a parting word for us as we go into our body this weekend. Make sure you behave yourself. Don't be going crazy watching Oklahoma and you know, and going out partying afterwards. You know, stay with your family and friends, all right, and go to bed before midnight or at least before two. That won't be a problem, okay, all right, have a great for a weekend, and we

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