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Speaker 1: The following He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot
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Speaker 1: Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is
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Speaker 1: these Cowboys Storylines with Nick Eatman.
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Speaker 2: What's up everyone, I am Nick Eatman and this is
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Speaker 2: another edition of Cowboys Storyline, episode number three. We're so
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Speaker 2: excited to finally get here, to have the pads come on.
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Speaker 2: You know, depends on who you ask. Is this the
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Speaker 2: first day of practice? I mean I think it's the
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Speaker 2: first day. Was the first time we actually got to
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Speaker 2: go out there and see them throw the ball around.
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Speaker 2: But you ask others. Some people even got here today,
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Speaker 2: Nate Newton just because Isaiah Stanbak, just because they want
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Speaker 2: to see it with the pads go on. Because this
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Speaker 2: is football, or at least the closest thing to it,
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Speaker 2: and I don't disagree with that. So today, Monday morning's
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Speaker 2: practice out here at Augnard got to see the pads
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Speaker 2: come on. It was very physical. Let me let me
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Speaker 2: rephrase that. Who's physical wasn't very physical? I mean there
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Speaker 2: wasn't guys getting You know, it's not the movie the
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Speaker 2: program you know where they they're out there doing Oklahoma
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Speaker 2: drill and it's not that you know, they still you're
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Speaker 2: trying to be cautious with things, but still pretty pretty chippy.
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Speaker 2: Had almost had a couple of fights there. Got to
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Speaker 2: really see the offensive line defensive line, those guys mix
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Speaker 2: it up. Maybe it was a little too physical. We
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Speaker 2: did have another injury in the middle of practice. Not
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Speaker 2: sure how serious it is.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: Sam Williams left practice so with a it looks like
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Speaker 2: a shoulder injury. The word right now is that it
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Speaker 2: doesn't seem to be that serious. Doesn't mean he's going
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Speaker 2: to be back to practice tomorrow, because you know this
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Speaker 2: is the time to always be be overly cautious. So
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Speaker 2: I I do think that that he's going to be fine.
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Speaker 2: And it's at a position too, where there is a
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Speaker 2: lot of depth, because I did see Dante Fowler making
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Speaker 2: a lot of plays and then the guy on the
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Speaker 2: other side, eleven. He's pretty good. I mean, he's he's
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Speaker 2: really good. Micah Parsons today was just as good as
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Speaker 2: we've seen before. There's a lot of times where Dak
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Speaker 2: is running around and moving in the pocket and stepping
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Speaker 2: up and making throws and Mike is just sitting there
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Speaker 2: like I sacked you three seconds ago, Like it would
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Speaker 2: have been a sack. I'm trying to be a team player.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying not to hurt the franchise quarterback. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter who the left tackle is either tiring, I've seen,
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Speaker 2: well let's go. He goes to the other side, steal edoga,
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Speaker 2: which idoga gives up a little bit more than some
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Speaker 2: of the others. I still think he's a guard. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: What do I know. I don't coach all line, but
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Speaker 2: mikeah Parsons is good, so they ye have it. I'm
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Speaker 2: breaking news here on It's what we do on Cowboy storyline. No,
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Speaker 2: but I he was good. Let's talk about some others,
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Speaker 2: the receivers. When Dak was throwing the getting it out there,
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Speaker 2: I think this was a day for the little guys.
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Speaker 2: I think this is this is short stack day. Cavante
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Speaker 2: Turpin was making some catches out there, Brandon Cooks continues
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Speaker 2: to make plays down the field over the middle. Whatever.
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Speaker 2: He's not that short as Ash Turpid and obviously induced.
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Speaker 2: But you know he's not not gonna play in the
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Speaker 2: NBA or anything like that. I mean he might he
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Speaker 2: probably could, but Deuce Fawn again, they're not hitting the
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Speaker 2: backs to get it. But you can tell you can
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Speaker 2: tell the difference between the guys that hit the hole
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Speaker 2: and get through it quickly. They can't find him. I
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Speaker 2: mean seriously, sometimes being his size can help him, and
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Speaker 2: I think getting through the line, he's gonna have some
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Speaker 2: moments now when if he does get hit, he's probably
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Speaker 2: gonna lose some battles there. But he's got more toughest
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Speaker 2: obviously than you think. I mean, you know, when I
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Speaker 2: look at Dues and we're playing on having him on
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Speaker 2: on the show. Were hoping to get him on today,
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Speaker 2: it didn't work out. Maybe later in the week, we
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Speaker 2: are gonna get Jake Ferguson. Really excited about that. Certainly
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Speaker 2: not a consolation prize that the plan was to get Deuced,
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Speaker 2: But but we're gonna get Jake Ferguson and he's gonna
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Speaker 2: be great. We're gonna have some fun with that. But
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Speaker 2: going back to Deuce, he had a couple of plays
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Speaker 2: that they really really intriguing. I you know, somebody said
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Speaker 2: we were on the sideline and somebody said they just
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Speaker 2: can't keep two short guys, right, You're talking about Turpin
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Speaker 2: and Deuce, And I'm like, look at the Dolphins roster.
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Speaker 2: I mean, don't they have about five guys that are,
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Speaker 2: you know, under six foot and and I looked at
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Speaker 2: the schedule and the Celtics aren't on it, so I mean,
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Speaker 2: we're not worried about playing those kind of the guys.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can have little guys out there, so
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Speaker 2: if they can be playmakers, that's who you need. That's
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Speaker 2: why you didn't win against San Francisco other than the
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Speaker 2: kicker couldn't make anything is you didn't have playmakers. Once
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Speaker 2: Pollard got hurt, it was just CD. They knew it
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Speaker 2: was just CD and he couldn't do anything about it.
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Speaker 2: You gotta have some playmakers, so it doesn't matter how
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Speaker 2: tall they are, short, they are whatever. You need those
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Speaker 2: guys to do that. Another receiver that made some plays,
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brooks, really really good. We'll talk about him later
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Speaker 2: on some of the questions, but Jalen Brooks had had
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Speaker 2: a really good day. I thought Dak did a good
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Speaker 2: job moving around laterally making some throws down the field.
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Speaker 2: I guess he had an interception. I'm sure it's all
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Speaker 2: over social media. He had an interception to Malee Cooker.
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Speaker 2: He made some other really nice plays as well. So
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Speaker 2: excited about kind of what we saw there the Pats
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Speaker 2: came on and they also did kicking today. Not bad,
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Speaker 2: not bad. Again, I say it a thousand times. I mean,
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Speaker 2: nothing's gonna get settled out here. But but I thought
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Speaker 2: Brandon Aubrey did a nice job. I think he made
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Speaker 2: six of seven I think of his kicks, and Vistuyno
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Speaker 2: was five of seven. They had the Mojo moment, you
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Speaker 2: know where they make a big deal. They stopped the
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Speaker 2: music and and you know it's called the Mojo moment,
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Speaker 2: all the teams watching, and they had six kicks, each
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Speaker 2: of them had three. They moved it back. I was
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Speaker 2: on the wrong side of the field. I'm guessing about
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Speaker 2: thirty five forty forty five, five yards something like that.
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Speaker 2: Nothing too short, nothing too far, and they made them all.
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Speaker 2: So that was good. That was good. So again, this
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Speaker 2: is a good opportunity for these guys to get some
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Speaker 2: kicks and then you'll see how it translates over into
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Speaker 2: the preseason games as well. And don't rule out the
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Speaker 2: kickoff part of this as well. Kicking off could be
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Speaker 2: a tiebreaker to any kicker. You can't have it, you know. Now,
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Speaker 2: of course, things can change a little bit with the
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Speaker 2: rule well fair catch but you need to blast it
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Speaker 2: out of the end zone. And so sometimes we'd always
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Speaker 2: talk about field goals extra points, but the tiebreakers could
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Speaker 2: be how a guy kicks off as well. All right,
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Speaker 2: we're just getting kicked off here on the first segment
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Speaker 2: of Cowboys storyline. When we come back, we're gonna get
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Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson over here and get a mic and get
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Speaker 2: a chair for him. Jake Ferguson over here, see what
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Speaker 1: To Cowboys storylines.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Cowboys Line. This is our second segment,
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Speaker 2: and this is the first time we've had a chance
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Speaker 2: to talk to an offensive player. Here, Jake Ferguson, second year,
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Speaker 2: tied in. What's up everybody in the whole.
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Speaker 8: Of the crowd here, all this crowd. Oh yeah, you're still.
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Speaker 2: Huffing and puffing in from practice. First day in pads.
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Speaker 2: It seems like it's a little bit different than it
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Speaker 2: was earlier the last week.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean it's real football, you know what
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Speaker 7: I mean. Football does start till the pads come on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they certainly came on today, as we've
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Speaker 2: talked about and just what was talk a little bit
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Speaker 2: more about that about the atmosphere, about the intensity, because
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Speaker 2: it seemed like it was pretty close to maybe a fight.
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Speaker 2: But but that's what football is.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean starts in the trenches. I mean, I
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Speaker 7: know everybody on both sides of the ball front seven.
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Speaker 7: We're ready to get I mean, ready to get in
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Speaker 7: the pads. No one likes blocking when it's just a
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Speaker 7: T shirt that doesn't really show football, that doesn't show
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Speaker 7: the trenches like they like they are in games. And
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Speaker 7: I think today just kind of the energy that you
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Speaker 7: saw today was just hey, we're back at it, you
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Speaker 7: know what I mean, It's time to go where we're
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Speaker 7: playing football game.
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Speaker 2: You said something at an interview yesterday. I think you
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Speaker 2: said the big biscuits. Nobody wants to block like the
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Speaker 2: big Biscuits, like us, like Big ten. You're talking about
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Speaker 2: Big ten tight ends and all that. Expand on that
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Speaker 2: a little bit more that you guys think because the
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Speaker 2: conference you're coming from it's a little bit different than
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Speaker 2: the rest.
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Speaker 8: Thank you. Yeah, yeah, I mean I got that.
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Speaker 7: Someone gave me that nickname recently, a big Biscuit, so
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Speaker 7: I was like, I gonna roll with it, and then
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Speaker 7: it just took me to Big ten.
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Speaker 8: All the tight ends coming out everybody in the room.
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Speaker 2: So are you the big biscuit? Are you blocking the
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Speaker 2: big guys up front?
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Speaker 7: I think everybody in the front seven is considered a
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Speaker 7: big biscuit, but the big like Yeah, like big Hank,
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Speaker 7: He's he's a big biscuit, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: I have seen I've seen some plays. It seems like
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Speaker 2: a little bit different than last year, where the tight
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Speaker 2: ends and the tackles are on the move and trap blocking,
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Speaker 2: and which means sometimes you're gonna be hitting guys. You're
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Speaker 2: gonna be hitting those tackles.
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Speaker 7: You're gonna be hitting those Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
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Speaker 7: Dub came in this year and was like, Hey, we're
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Speaker 7: in the trenches. We're gonna be blocking the big fellows
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Speaker 7: this year. And I mean, at that point, it's a mindset.
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Speaker 7: Everybody in this room can do it. It's just kind
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Speaker 7: of getting over that hump where throw your nose in
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Speaker 7: there and get after it.
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Speaker 2: Well, speaking of that, have you been told of the
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Speaker 2: Jason Witten wham the nose story? Jason will basically, I'll
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Speaker 2: give you the short version. Jason Garrett was talking about
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Speaker 2: how the tight end cuts in and it's just supposed
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Speaker 2: to just you know, seal off the deep nose tackle
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Speaker 2: and and but he didn't ask Whitten to do it
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Speaker 2: in practice, and so he got upset about it, like
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Speaker 2: why can't wham the nose? And you know, here's your
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Speaker 2: all pro tight end. You're like, well, you don't need
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Speaker 2: he wouldn't stop. He was like finally like fine, go ahead,
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Speaker 2: you know, do it. So that's to me the example
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Speaker 2: of the mindset of like complete tight end. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: make catches down the field, but I also want to
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Speaker 2: mix it.
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Speaker 8: Up for sure. I mean, yeah, it starts in the trenches.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Luke Scoonmaker is out with with the foot injury,
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Speaker 2: and so then again, even if he wasn't, who knows
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Speaker 2: what the tid end situation looks like. The starters and
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Speaker 2: all that. How do you guys prepare for that each day?
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Speaker 5: Is it?
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Speaker 6: Are you?
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Speaker 2: Are you focused on the starters, the ones, the twos
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Speaker 2: and threes?
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Speaker 8: No, I mean, honestly, not at all. It's really and
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Speaker 8: I think L.
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Speaker 7: Dub kind of sums it up really well that we
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Speaker 7: have one of the best groups we've had top to
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Speaker 7: bottom and everybody can play, and it's it's about when
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Speaker 7: your numbers called, when you're in, when you get that rep,
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Speaker 7: you got to I mean, you got to show everything
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Speaker 7: you got.
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Speaker 8: You got to win that rep.
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Speaker 7: It's all about winning rep and winning reps and that
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Speaker 7: wins this games.
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Speaker 2: L dub being lunda wells tight ends coach, and he's
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Speaker 2: easily one of our favorites too. Just he just seems
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Speaker 2: like he just keeps it real.
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Speaker 8: He's really honout.
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Speaker 2: I know you guys love playing for him. Do you
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Speaker 2: I have to ask, do you have I should know this.
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Speaker 2: Do you have brothers? I do?
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Speaker 8: I have an older brother.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how old?
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Speaker 8: Four years old?
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Speaker 2: Four years so competition wise, you were probably always trying
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Speaker 2: to catch up to him and do all that when
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Speaker 2: you were younger.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean yeah, all the time.
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Speaker 7: We would we play football in the basement, tackle football,
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Speaker 7: and he was obviously way taller, being four years older
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Speaker 7: than me, so he'd be like, all right, I'll play
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Speaker 7: on my knees and he'd still throw my head through
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Speaker 7: the wall. I mean wow, never never won those games.
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Speaker 7: But then yeah, I'm about five inches taller than I'm
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Speaker 7: now you passed him.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 2: The reason why I ask you that is the tight
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Speaker 2: end room seems really really close. You guys are competing
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Speaker 2: against each other. You want Peyton Hendershot to make plays,
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Speaker 2: but you also want to be better than him at
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Speaker 2: the same time. Is it seems like a brother type mentality?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you could definitely say that.
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Speaker 7: Uh, we always picture the tight ends as a brotherhood.
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Speaker 7: I mean very rarely do you find a tight end
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Speaker 7: that just isn't a good dude. And so, I mean
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Speaker 7: competing against each other makes each other better. But also
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Speaker 7: at the same time, you got to support your group
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Speaker 7: because at the end of the day, we're gonna be
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Speaker 7: on the field together.
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Speaker 2: What did you learn last year from Dalton Schultz as
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Speaker 2: a veteran and then obviously you know understand the business
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Speaker 2: side of things as well. What did you learn from him?
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Speaker 2: And when when he left, did you say, all right,
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Speaker 2: this is a great opportunity for all of us to come.
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Speaker 2: There's more snaps, there's more reps.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think Dalton was truly a VET
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Speaker 7: and I mean he showed it everywhere, whether it was
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Speaker 7: the weight room, mobility, stretch, recovery, or even on the field.
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Speaker 7: Here was the definition of Hey, this is what you
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Speaker 7: want to come in and watch this guy go to
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Speaker 7: work at everything that he's doing.
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Speaker 8: You can see it through his work.
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Speaker 7: And I mean he had a lot of product and
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Speaker 7: then now this year it's hey, we need to replicate
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Speaker 7: that same product or better.
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Speaker 2: I think I got this show has a lot of
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Speaker 2: fan questions. There was one from aspiring journalist. Was the
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Speaker 2: name of it? The name of the Twitter handle, which
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Speaker 2: is which is great? What have you done differently this
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Speaker 2: year this offseason? What are the things that you have
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Speaker 2: done to kind of take your game to another level
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Speaker 2: here in the year two.
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Speaker 7: I think a lot of it has just been studying
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Speaker 7: our scheme as an offense and getting comfortable to the
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Speaker 7: point where Dek makes that call in the huddle.
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Speaker 8: I turn, I get set up, and I don't have
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Speaker 8: any questions. I don't have any sort of hesitation. So
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Speaker 8: it's it's just hey, here I am, here's my role,
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Speaker 8: here's my job.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to go execute it the best of my ability.
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Speaker 7: And then I think just getting my body right. I
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Speaker 7: I gave up a lot of stuff. I had a
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Speaker 7: lot of growing up to do. I think, not only
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Speaker 7: not only physically, but mentally as well.
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Speaker 2: And would you give up like food, like chips.
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Speaker 7: Gave up chips coming from Wisconsin, being a drinker, had
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Speaker 7: to give up with a little bit of beer.
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Speaker 2: A little bit they just get yeah, okay, that's.
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Speaker 8: In my bod. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: But I mean just the little things and then taking
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Speaker 7: care of my body got big into walks. Last night,
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Speaker 7: I was out here, did a couple of laps and
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Speaker 7: just I mean, not only is it good physically to
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Speaker 7: just get your body moving and not lay around, but
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Speaker 7: I mean.
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Speaker 8: For the mental part of the things too.
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Speaker 2: So you went on that trip with the offense with
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Speaker 2: Dak and them, right, so you just drink water?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? I did.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I'm going to ask you about DAK in
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Speaker 2: the offense, the weapons you guys have added there, obviously
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Speaker 2: with with Brandon Cooks, who seems like he is taking
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Speaker 2: some other younger receivers under his wing. But how good
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Speaker 2: do you think this offense has a chance to be?
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Speaker 7: I think it has. I mean, our destiny is in
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Speaker 7: our hands, and I think we're the ones who are
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Speaker 7: going to decide how good we are as an offense,
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Speaker 7: as a group position groups. I mean, I think there's
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Speaker 7: a great connection this year, not just inside position groups,
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Speaker 7: but as offense as a whole, and I think that's
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Speaker 7: that's ultimately going to take us to the next level.
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Speaker 8: But it is on our hands.
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Speaker 2: Awesome real quick, and I'm almost done here. So if
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Speaker 2: you met somebody, just met some guy for the first
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Speaker 2: time and he was really funny and telling a bunch
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Speaker 2: of jokes. The next couple of times you meet him,
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Speaker 2: you probably expect him to, you know, be even funnier.
16:37
Speaker 2: Right Going with this is so you guys were very
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Speaker 2: creative when your touchdown celebrations as rookies. Yeah, the bar
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Speaker 2: has been set, Like now you got to take it
16:48
Speaker 2: to a So is where does that come come up from?
16:51
Speaker 2: I mean, is it here in a training camp? Is
16:55
Speaker 2: it just like spur of the moment? Is it the
16:56
Speaker 2: night before?
16:57
Speaker 8: A lot of it's spur of the moment. Now I'm
17:01
Speaker 8: not talking like, hey, this.
17:02
Speaker 7: Drive if we score the game before, yeah, or the
17:05
Speaker 7: a couple of days before or so, or the week before.
17:09
Speaker 7: I've definitely got a couple on my mind right now,
17:11
Speaker 7: that would be pretty good.
17:12
Speaker 8: Uh.
17:13
Speaker 7: A lot of the trouble is seen, like sometimes I
17:17
Speaker 7: want all eleven guys to do it right.
17:19
Speaker 8: The hard part is getting.
17:20
Speaker 7: Tiring to want to buy into it because it might
17:23
Speaker 7: be a little goofy.
17:24
Speaker 8: But yeah, we'll see what happens.
17:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's funny. And also you guys have to
17:28
Speaker 2: as the tight ends. You kind of like need to
17:30
Speaker 2: be out there like in the formation as well, like
17:32
Speaker 2: everybody there So I've always wondered that how many touchdown
17:36
Speaker 2: celebrations like the night before in a hotel where they
17:39
Speaker 2: move the bed around and we're gonna do this in
17:40
Speaker 2: this and they never come out because they didn't score.
17:44
Speaker 8: You know, we had you got some of those.
17:45
Speaker 7: We had four probably last year that were just instant classics,
17:49
Speaker 7: but then didn't just never popped up.
17:51
Speaker 8: Yeah, I might come up this year. We'll see, I hope.
17:54
Speaker 2: So we'll be looking looking for that. That means you
17:56
Speaker 2: guys are finding the end zone, which means the offenses
17:58
Speaker 2: is doing its thing, and we know that going to
18:00
Speaker 2: be a big part of that second year tight end.
18:02
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18:04
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18:08
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Speaker 1: To Cowboys Storylines.
20:18
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Cowboys Storyline. We got one more segment here.
20:22
Speaker 2: We appreciate Jake Ferguson join us. He's always a lot
20:25
Speaker 2: of fun. You know, those guys are fun when you
20:28
Speaker 2: just see like like we talked about with the celebrations
20:31
Speaker 2: and all that, but still it's more than that. I mean,
20:33
Speaker 2: you can tell how serious he is about his craft
20:35
Speaker 2: and how wanting to be better and that opportunity that's
20:38
Speaker 2: there and and and honestly, he's the guy that I think,
20:41
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, he's gonna be the guy.
20:43
Speaker 2: I think that that that plays the most because I
20:45
Speaker 2: think he's he's the most complete of the tight ends,
20:48
Speaker 2: and I just don't see anyone right now kind of
20:53
Speaker 2: un unseating him to be the guy. So let's get
20:56
Speaker 2: to the questions. And and I have to admit I
20:59
Speaker 2: didn't have my paper ready when I just got it.
21:03
Speaker 2: I didn't have it ready when I was interviewing him.
21:06
Speaker 2: So I got a question from Carolyn Williams wanted me
21:09
Speaker 2: to ask you, Jake, not including Hendershot, which tied and
21:12
Speaker 2: has seen the largest growth. I think he would have said,
21:16
Speaker 2: I really don't know, Honestly, I'm not sure who he
21:18
Speaker 2: would have said. Maybe one of those rookies, John Stevens,
21:21
Speaker 2: Noah fant those guys. But you know, I know Linda
21:25
Speaker 2: Wells is a really good coach, and so you know
21:27
Speaker 2: they'll they'll he'll get these guys ready to go, just
21:29
Speaker 2: like he did with Ferguson and Hindershot. Another question, I
21:33
Speaker 2: tried to get the question from the aspiring journalist that
21:36
Speaker 2: had two, which is smart. That's how you're gonna be
21:38
Speaker 2: a good journalist because you already know how to do
21:40
Speaker 2: the double question in there. It's nice. He asked. The
21:44
Speaker 2: question to me was which player are you most interested
21:46
Speaker 2: seeing if they will be flexed? Leyton, vander Rosh or Overshown. Well,
21:53
Speaker 2: Overshown's actually right over here, So I'm gonna say Overshrown
21:56
Speaker 2: because he's like here and his family's here and all that. No,
21:59
Speaker 2: but both of them are going to be the position
22:02
Speaker 2: flex that they are going to give. What I think
22:05
Speaker 2: Overshown brings to this defense can take them to another
22:09
Speaker 2: level because of his versatility, his willingness to play a
22:12
Speaker 2: lot of positions, very very smart coming into the door. Like,
22:15
Speaker 2: there's so many good things about him that it's going
22:19
Speaker 2: to help the guys around them. So I think it's
22:22
Speaker 2: not an either or it's a both situation there. All right,
22:26
Speaker 2: let's get down the line here. Jose Rodriguez have the
22:28
Speaker 2: tight ends among themselves discussed who they think will be
22:31
Speaker 2: tight in one, two, three, four and so on. We
22:33
Speaker 2: sort of talked about that to Jake. I don't think
22:36
Speaker 2: they're in that mode of worrying about that to themselves maybe,
22:40
Speaker 2: but right now they don't really talk about all right,
22:43
Speaker 2: Nathan Ross, he's a long time guy, he's been out here,
22:47
Speaker 2: he lives out here in California. He's been out to
22:49
Speaker 2: Aux Star. He was out this year as well. So
22:51
Speaker 2: what's up to Nathan Ross? He said, Nick, is this
22:53
Speaker 2: is really our best option when it comes to the
22:55
Speaker 2: field goal kicker, isn't they're better out there on the market. Yes,
23:00
Speaker 2: there are better kickers out there right now, more expensive too,
23:04
Speaker 2: but they are better kickers. But that's not what they're
23:06
Speaker 2: looking for right now. What they want to see is
23:09
Speaker 2: if Brandon Aubrey, Tristavis guy. You know, they want to
23:12
Speaker 2: see if these guys can be the kicker. And I
23:14
Speaker 2: don't know if you can see it out here. It's
23:16
Speaker 2: a tough place to kick. We talked about it last
23:18
Speaker 2: week and I think you're going to see it in games.
23:22
Speaker 2: There's always gonna be a veteran kicker that's available, and
23:24
Speaker 2: so you just have to go there. If it's time
23:26
Speaker 2: to go there, that's what you do. But I don't
23:28
Speaker 2: think they're ready to do that right now. Why should
23:31
Speaker 2: they be. They want to see if these guys can
23:32
Speaker 2: can make it happen. So we'll see, all right. Joe Simpson,
23:37
Speaker 2: he said, Hey, Nick, longtime listener here After Jerry's comments
23:40
Speaker 2: about Zach Martin, where's your level of concern about whether
23:42
Speaker 2: he will start the season with the team. We talked
23:45
Speaker 2: about Zach in the first segment and then Jerry's comments,
23:48
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty alarming. But the concern about whether he
23:51
Speaker 2: will start with the season, you mean the regular season. No,
23:54
Speaker 2: he's gonna play. I mean fifty thousand dollars frides they
23:58
Speaker 2: add up. But start missing game checks. You know your
24:01
Speaker 2: salary is divided by one to eighteenth. I mean that
24:04
Speaker 2: is your salary. You start missing that, that's what it's.
24:07
Speaker 2: That's what's a real holdout. Mickey Spegnel used to say
24:09
Speaker 2: this all the time, and I believe him. Mickey says
24:12
Speaker 2: he's first. I remember he was the first one to
24:14
Speaker 2: tell me. It's not a real holdout unless you miss
24:16
Speaker 2: a game check. So that's what I I don't see
24:19
Speaker 2: that happening. I don't see that happened with z So,
24:21
Speaker 2: as I said last week, he might be concerned the team,
24:25
Speaker 2: the offensive line, the chemistry, but as a fan, you
24:28
Speaker 2: shouldn't be concerned. He'll get here, as Jerry says, when
24:30
Speaker 2: he gets here, all right, DJ from lawyer up three,
24:35
Speaker 2: he's a lawyer out here in California. He says, Dalvin
24:37
Speaker 2: Cook not an option because of his price tag or
24:40
Speaker 2: the scheme. I'm not sure it's either one. Honestly. I mean,
24:45
Speaker 2: can they go could they go sign him? Yeah? They
24:47
Speaker 2: could sign Dalvin Cook they needed to right now. They
24:49
Speaker 2: could bring him in scheme wise, what I mean, big
24:54
Speaker 2: running back that catch the ball out of the backfield,
24:56
Speaker 2: like yeah, that you can fit a scheme around him.
25:00
Speaker 2: Think it's a it's it's injury, durability, age, progress stopper,
25:06
Speaker 2: all of that. And it's not just the Cowboys, it's
25:08
Speaker 2: all the other teams. So you know, same with kicker.
25:12
Speaker 2: If a team decides they need later on to get
25:15
Speaker 2: the guy, they'll go that route. I wouldn't imagine it
25:18
Speaker 2: happens here though. Mike Gray, another Old Time listener from
25:23
Speaker 2: a Popka, Florida, He said, I have not heard much
25:25
Speaker 2: about Damon Clark. Do you think he will make a
25:27
Speaker 2: big leap this season in year two? I do. I
25:32
Speaker 2: think the linebacker position, I think the guys that that
25:35
Speaker 2: we that we've talked about before just now with Overshown
25:38
Speaker 2: and Layton, I think Clark has a chance to really
25:41
Speaker 2: make that that next leap. We didn't think he was
25:42
Speaker 2: gonna play last year and and he not only did
25:45
Speaker 2: he play, but he played and he played pretty well,
25:47
Speaker 2: especially for a rookie that coming off an injury like that.
25:50
Speaker 2: So I think he will do Uh, he'll be just fine.
25:53
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a guy that's gonna help
25:56
Speaker 2: love his attitude, business like approach all the way for
25:58
Speaker 2: Damone Clark. All right, Matt Sports Matt twelve. He says,
26:02
Speaker 2: I know it's still early, but a roster surprise that
26:05
Speaker 2: can happen that wouldn't completely shock you. I just think
26:11
Speaker 2: the defensive tackle position is going going to be It's
26:15
Speaker 2: gonna shake out in a way where you're gonna see
26:17
Speaker 2: some good players that are released. They're gonna have to
26:20
Speaker 2: cut draft picks. I don't know who, but I just
26:24
Speaker 2: there's not room for Quintin Bohanna and Neville Gallimore and
26:29
Speaker 2: Chauncey Golston and all of them. I'm not saying they're
26:33
Speaker 2: neither one of those is gonna get cut, but I
26:34
Speaker 2: don't see how they all make the team. Those are
26:36
Speaker 2: the guys that are three, four and five on the
26:37
Speaker 2: on the list. So I just that's the position. I
26:42
Speaker 2: think something weird is going to happen there, all right,
26:46
Speaker 2: Brian Woodward. Do you believe this defense can be the
26:49
Speaker 2: number one defense in the league this year? If so,
26:51
Speaker 2: what unit needs to play the best to achieve that? Linebackers?
26:56
Speaker 2: I think I think it's the linebackers, because I do
26:58
Speaker 2: think that the defensive line and the edges they're gonna
27:01
Speaker 2: be great. I think the corners, I think to say,
27:02
Speaker 2: I think I think they're gonna be good all the way.
27:04
Speaker 2: The linebackers probably got the spot. That really is uh
27:08
Speaker 2: something that that that makes you kind of scratch your
27:10
Speaker 2: head a little bit. So that's the position yetta look
27:12
Speaker 2: at all right?
27:13
Speaker 8: Eric?
27:13
Speaker 2: Two rs? Eric with two rs, I like it. This
27:17
Speaker 2: is a good question. Is Jalen Tolbert really standing out
27:20
Speaker 2: or is it a matter of expectations relative to last year?
27:24
Speaker 2: That that that is something that we always have to
27:27
Speaker 2: factor in always because when you when you think is
27:30
Speaker 2: this guy gonna line up?
27:31
Speaker 8: Okay?
27:32
Speaker 2: Is this guy gonna gonna actually make the catches? So yeah,
27:36
Speaker 2: I mean that that's that was the bar It was
27:37
Speaker 2: so low last year. Then now is he making play? Yes,
27:40
Speaker 2: but he is making plays. Even on top of that,
27:43
Speaker 2: I think he does look really good right now? All right,
27:48
Speaker 2: what are the standard this is from Mayo to be
27:50
Speaker 2: our last one. Who are the standouts of camp so far?
27:54
Speaker 2: Is there a player on this team that isn't being
27:56
Speaker 2: talked about you feel will make a significant impact this year.
28:00
Speaker 2: Remember they just put the pads on today, so it's
28:03
Speaker 2: hard to kind of figure that out until today. No
28:06
Speaker 2: offensive lineman or even linebacker running back really gotta gets
28:10
Speaker 2: a good shot to to kind of figure that out.
28:12
Speaker 2: We've been looking at receivers, tight ends, guys that actually,
28:15
Speaker 2: you know, catch the ball and things like that. So
28:18
Speaker 2: but I will say today some of these young receivers
28:21
Speaker 2: kind of have started to take that next level. And
28:23
Speaker 2: Jalen Brooks and he's a guy that really has done
28:27
Speaker 2: some some nice things. I think he caught more passes
28:29
Speaker 2: today then he had he did his entire career at
28:33
Speaker 2: South Carolina. Mean really that's that wasn't what he did.
28:36
Speaker 2: He was a special teams guy, So he was somebody
28:39
Speaker 2: that that has done a lot. I say, we're gonna
28:41
Speaker 2: take take more. I got a couple more questions here.
28:45
Speaker 2: This one was from j T. Conrodn't really about football.
28:48
Speaker 2: He says, I heard you say you watched the Crawford
28:51
Speaker 2: Spence fight. You weren't surprised with the outcome. Do you
28:55
Speaker 2: guys get that much time off to watch things like that?
28:58
Speaker 2: Would you watch the fight to get Hey, we're working, man, Okay,
29:01
Speaker 2: we work. I remember this is West Coast. Okay, we're here,
29:05
Speaker 2: we're working. But no, my man William Borkins actually got
29:09
Speaker 2: the fight. He got it programmed in, signed in. You know,
29:12
Speaker 2: we watched it on a projector's screen and all that.
29:14
Speaker 2: He was cool. But yes, I have seen Crawford fight
29:17
Speaker 2: and I just I thought he was bigger. I thought
29:20
Speaker 2: he was gonna be bigger all along. It definitely showed.
29:22
Speaker 2: Would I watch that fight again if it's on? Maybe,
29:25
Speaker 2: But I mean I'm not going out of my way
29:27
Speaker 2: because I mean I think we've seen what happens there,
29:30
Speaker 2: So that's I don't know. I don't know, and maybe
29:34
Speaker 2: they fight a different weight class, who knows. I mean,
29:36
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys didn't know you were gonna come
29:37
Speaker 2: here for some boxing analysis as well. But yeah, to answer, hey, JT,
29:42
Speaker 2: we were working, dude, we work, But yeah, it's not yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:46
Speaker 2: We had a player that was also there as well.
29:49
Speaker 2: He might have been able to it was Isaac Galler
29:51
Speaker 2: Cohen I've seen him kind of swing a little bit.
29:53
Speaker 2: He might have been able to. I bet he's boxed
29:55
Speaker 2: a few in his day. All right, great stuff, Appreciate
29:59
Speaker 2: all the questions.
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30:00
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30:02
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30:06
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30:08
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30:10
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30:13
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30:15
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30:17
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