Cussin the Cowboys

A look at Mazi Smith's performance, and an update on Micah Parsons' contract

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dallas cowboy All right, it's always fun to cuss the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
We do this every single day at five o'clock. And
whatever the biggest stories are in Dallas cowboy Land, we'll
get to him here. And I saw this today when
I was prepping for the show, and it is some
quotes from Mazzie Smith. Now, Mazzie Smith is in his
third year. He was the number one pick for the
Dallas Cowboys, the first round pick a couple of years ago,

(00:40):
and he's a big defensive tackle and he's just underwhelmed
at every turn. He just hasn't really had a big impact.
And you're never going to hit on all your draft picks,
but you think you have a better chance of hitting
on your first, second, third round picks because those are
earlier guys. You should be better at scouting those guys,
selecting those guys. Cowboys don't always do that. Not every

(01:02):
team always does that. I get it. But lately the
Cowboys have had some struggles with their first round picks,
and the poster child for that right now is Mazzie Smith,
who their biggest weakness on their team arguably is defensive tackle.
They used a first round asset on that a couple
of years ago. It's not working, he's not helping. And

(01:23):
he came into camp this year having lost a ton
of weight and they're like, wait, what, why did that happen?
I thought you were going to be our big, giant,
run stopping defensive tackle. He came in even thinner. And
so after the Cowboys' first preseason game, Mazzie Smith spoke
to the media and in this game, in all the

(01:44):
snaps he played, he did nothing. He had not one statistic.
He absolutely had no impact on the game at all.
Mozzie Smith had this quote, I have to just keep
getting better. The first preseason game, I wasn't happy with
it at all. To be honest, I didn't do anything.
I just need to keep learning the scheme and keep

(02:05):
getting off the ball. I just didn't do anything, you know,
like you gotta do something. I'm a first round pick,
there's expectations and all that. This is my third year. Well, man,
I think that ship has sailed. You know.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's not that uncommon for a guy to have a
first year that's off, but then two years that are off,
and then the next preseason you're still not doing anything.
It ain't gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Pop for you man. Yeah, and I've you know, we
don't cover the team like we used to cover the
team where we're at camp and really digging in and
talking to people within the organization. But in listening to
some of our friends who do that, there is some
chatter that he doesn't even need to make the roster.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah. So the last I had heard that too, Ben,
the last you know roster list that you know, we
all like John Mishoda and rights for the Athletic he
had him on there. But I was curious about that,
And it could just be the simple fact that that's
the same thing that's going on with the cornerbacks right now.
There's guys that are gonna make the team at cornerback

(03:12):
that shouldn't make the team because there's just not enough guys.
And it could be that when you go out there
and people have to make cuts and things like that,
you find a guy and replace him. Like when he
showed it to his roster thing, he said, the fifth
cornerback is currently not on the team, but for now,
we'll just list this guy. And that may be the case.
With mazis mythic defensive tackle. He might make the team

(03:33):
because he's standing there and they're just looking to replace
him as soon as they possibly can.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So it's exactly right. So the big talk is still
Michaeh Parsons he doesn't have his contract. The other day,
at Jerry's Big World premiere of his documentary America's Team,
The Gambler and his Cowboys, Michael Irvin was given Jerry
Jones grief about not signing Mikey yet, like on camera,

(03:59):
which was awkward fun. And my son, as he was
going to school today, he goes, Dad, what do you
think the Cowboys are gonna sign Micah? And I was like, well,
does something happen is there? He's no, it's just still
chatter that's out there. And I told you yesterday. Dave
Hellman thinks the premiere of that Gambler thing on Netflix,
what might be a perfect time for Jerry to jump

(04:19):
back in the headlines. If that premiere is, you know, Tuesday,
August nineteenth, maybe Mike's deal gets done earlier that day
or the day before.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Could be. Yeah, that's interesting timing with I'm trying to
remember when c d got signed. I remember Dak because
Dak was like the day before the season started, and
I'm sure Jerry's gonna like, all right, what's best for
the news cycle. It's a little bit different this year
because the Cowboys don't start the year on a Sunday.
A lot of guys try to have hype on Sunday morning,

(04:49):
you know, when there's like even some of those guys
like Schefter will sit on a story and drop it
on that Sunday morning. But this is different with the
Cowboys because they're playing by themselves on that third day night,
September the fourth. Also, you've got to get him signed,
and I don't know that they'll just sign him in
he'll play, Like at some point there's a deadline where
if he doesn't sign by this time, he's not playing

(05:10):
Week one. Uh well, I think that'll come down though,
to Ben if he just keeps missing practice. Yeah, that's
what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So if you he's not gonna practice until he's signed,
so at some point you need to get him signed
so he can practice so he can be ready to
play week one. Right, are you gonna miss one? You're
gonna have to go one or two games without him.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, And that's part of the stalemate, right, And Jerry
keeps referencing the back, but I think I think I saw,
you know, they're wrapping up Oxnard. They're gonna be back
here in a day or two. I did see that
he finally wasn't at practice for the first time. I
think that was two days ago, because he's just standing
over there on the sidelines. We're in that Toboggan uh So, yeah,
we'll see, but I mean he'll be here and and honestly,

(05:53):
Micah doesn't have leverage because he can be franchised.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
All right, Like, is he gonna not? Is he gonna
go through two years of this? What a mess?

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, it's a mess, all right. Coming up next, just
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