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- 0:36Speaker 4: the week, Friday, August seventh.
- 0:39Speaker 2: Kind of.
- 0:39Speaker 4: I think I heard Chris Beam over here say Groundhog's Day.
- 0:43Speaker 4: It does feel like you never really know what day
- 0:46Speaker 4: it is, what time, who's practicing whatever. You worked on
- 0:49Speaker 4: a Saturday and a Sunday and you're off days or
- 0:51Speaker 4: Fridays and Wednesdays. Sometimes you never know. You just know
- 0:54Speaker 4: this that it's gonna be weather, it's gonna be exactly
- 0:56Speaker 4: the same every single day. You don't know who's practicing.
- 1:00Speaker 4: But the big deal for this, for this show, and
- 1:03Speaker 4: we'll talk about, you know how they're looking the injuries,
- 1:07Speaker 4: all that stuff. A little bit of injuries popped up
- 1:10Speaker 4: Thursday and they're padded practice. Jayshawn Barham left practice early.
- 1:14Speaker 4: I'm sure by now you guys have heard all the
- 1:17Speaker 4: news on that you as soon as he goes to
- 1:19Speaker 4: the tent, I'm sure there's tweets and then he walks
- 1:21Speaker 4: off the field and there's more updates and all that stuff.
- 1:24Speaker 4: But the good news is it doesn't sound like it's
- 1:26Speaker 4: going to be that serious for him. Soreness more than anything,
- 1:31Speaker 4: not a major setback at all. So that's good for him,
- 1:35Speaker 4: good for this team in this defense, because he has
- 1:37Speaker 4: really been competing for a starting job. I mean, I
- 1:40Speaker 4: think that that is the that is the expectation that
- 1:44Speaker 4: he will be able to not only compete, but he
- 1:46Speaker 4: should be pushing a d winners for that job there
- 1:50Speaker 4: in the middle, and alongside to Marvin Overshown, who's looked
- 1:53Speaker 4: really good as well, and he's had a little bit
- 1:55Speaker 4: of soreness there with his I think it was a
- 1:58Speaker 4: knee soreness. Good to go. You know, this is the
- 2:02Speaker 4: time where those type of injuries, you know, we look
- 2:05Speaker 4: at it and we say, oh, he's not practicinger, this
- 2:07Speaker 4: guy was held out. This is the time where you
- 2:09Speaker 4: do that. You know, you don't really push through with
- 2:12Speaker 4: these kind of injury setbacks just because there's really no
- 2:15Speaker 4: reason to. It's you know, it's design for the way
- 2:19Speaker 4: that the the CBA has has allowed this these practices
- 2:23Speaker 4: to go, is that you know, there there are a
- 2:25Speaker 4: lot more breaks than we've seen in the past, and
- 2:28Speaker 4: in more rest and recovery days. And that's a good
- 2:30Speaker 4: thing because obviously the goal is to get these guys
- 2:33Speaker 4: ready to play and play that first game against the
- 2:35Speaker 4: Giants and hopefully sixteen more and more after that. So
- 2:39Speaker 4: all right, let's get to We got a couple of
- 2:41Speaker 4: phone callers already on the line. We started us off with,
- 2:44Speaker 4: I'm I'm a Napa, California. I'm may what's up?
- 2:49Speaker 2: A good money?
- 2:50Speaker 5: Nick going?
- 2:51Speaker 4: It's going great? How are you?
- 2:53Speaker 6: I'm great, man, I'm great, A gatt always happy to
- 2:56Speaker 6: get in and man, I didn't think I was gonna
- 2:59Speaker 6: leave things up, but that's cool. I'll try to be quick.
- 3:04Speaker 6: A couple of things I wanted to know.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Is is Bell still still working in and if the
- 3:13Speaker 5: safety spot when when when Downs is playing the nickel
- 3:17Speaker 5: and then is is jailing Thompson just automatically going to
- 3:21Speaker 5: come back in and then just fill that spot and
- 3:23Speaker 5: Bell will go down. And then also just how the
- 3:27Speaker 5: DB's looking overall. I feel like, you know that that
- 3:31Speaker 5: has probably like the most kind of man. He's gonna
- 3:34Speaker 5: kind of play and he's gonna, you know, sailing on
- 3:37Speaker 5: what spots as far as you know when they go
- 3:39Speaker 5: to Nickel and all that stuff. And then one last
- 3:42Speaker 5: thing is I don't know what the show schedule is
- 3:45Speaker 5: for next week or if he even be able to
- 3:48Speaker 5: get in, but what do you know how the the
- 3:51Speaker 5: scrimmage with the Rams will go?
- 3:53Speaker 7: Like do they do?
- 3:54Speaker 6: They do?
- 3:54Speaker 7: Is is shoddy kind of running practice? Now similar to
- 3:58Speaker 7: the ways of the the scrimmage will go as far
- 4:01Speaker 7: as like they'll do one on ones with like like
- 4:05Speaker 7: individual positions and then they'll go to full team and
- 4:09Speaker 7: then go back to one on ones and then more
- 4:11Speaker 7: full team or is it just kind of like full
- 4:14Speaker 7: team the whole time with defense and then defense?
- 4:19Speaker 4: All right, all right, I mean thanks for the for
- 4:21Speaker 4: the calls, appreciate that. Let's go the safety position. I mean,
- 4:26Speaker 4: it's there's just so many guys in the mix right now.
- 4:29Speaker 4: Marquise Bell you mentioned him, Yes, he's definitely a part
- 4:31Speaker 4: of things, and they're getting some extra work down with
- 4:33Speaker 4: Jalen Thompson. That's out that that they didn't sign Thompson
- 4:36Speaker 4: for the contract they did for him to come back
- 4:39Speaker 4: and really compete in battle with a lot of these guys.
- 4:41Speaker 4: He's he's here I remember his his coach, Ryan Smith
- 4:44Speaker 4: was coached Smith the Cardinals, so he you know, they
- 4:47Speaker 4: they know what they're getting and that's why they they
- 4:49Speaker 4: signed them. He's a part of this thing, and but
- 4:52Speaker 4: right now with him being banged up, it is getting
- 4:55Speaker 4: some some good opportunities for some of these other guys
- 4:59Speaker 4: to to get in there, Julius Wood being one of them.
- 5:02Speaker 4: Elijah Clark had suffered an injury. He will work hisself
- 5:06Speaker 4: back into practice. But you know, Caleb Downs, I think
- 5:11Speaker 4: one of the reasons there's many, but one of the
- 5:13Speaker 4: reasons they drafted him and so excited about him is
- 5:16Speaker 4: because he's such a versatile player that's going to allow
- 5:20Speaker 4: them to do different things. He could help, you know,
- 5:24Speaker 4: Kobe Durant in the slot, and he can help those
- 5:26Speaker 4: guys they're on bland. If he's in the slot, he
- 5:28Speaker 4: can be a slot type of guy. He also can
- 5:31Speaker 4: be a guy that's just one high safety. He can
- 5:33Speaker 4: do a lot of things, and I think it's kind
- 5:35Speaker 4: of like having a really dynamic tight end who can
- 5:41Speaker 4: block because when the offense then they don't have to
- 5:45Speaker 4: change their personnel. They can still do multiple things with
- 5:49Speaker 4: the guys they have on the field. That's why tight
- 5:51Speaker 4: ends can be so dangerous because they're mismatches all the time,
- 5:55Speaker 4: but they also can block and stay and you could
- 5:56Speaker 4: run if you want to. Safety with Downs is kind
- 5:59Speaker 4: of the same way. You don't have to just you know,
- 6:02Speaker 4: substitute all the time because the team went three wide,
- 6:05Speaker 4: because you've got a guy that can stay on the
- 6:07Speaker 4: field and base. He also can play as a as
- 6:10Speaker 4: your third corner if you will. So Calee Downs is
- 6:14Speaker 4: just so versatile in his own way. I he's not
- 6:16Speaker 4: really competing with some of those other guys, but like
- 6:20Speaker 4: you said, you know with Bell, Bell is a part
- 6:23Speaker 4: of it. He's a versatile player. He'll factor into this.
- 6:26Speaker 4: They've got a lot of options at safety and that's
- 6:27Speaker 4: really a good thing. As for the practice with the rams,
- 6:30Speaker 4: you know, that's you know, Sean McVay, Brian Schottenheimer will
- 6:33Speaker 4: kind of work that up. Everybody kind of does their
- 6:35Speaker 4: own things there and I believe that you know, it'll
- 6:40Speaker 4: it's typically what it is is the the they have
- 6:43Speaker 4: individual practices, I mean, I'm sorry, individual drills. Some some
- 6:49Speaker 4: of it will just be on their own and then
- 6:51Speaker 4: they'll do some one on ones and then that they'll
- 6:53Speaker 4: they'll mix in, uh with the team, and that's kind
- 6:55Speaker 4: of how they finish it off. And it's it's about
- 6:57Speaker 4: as good of work as these starters are going to
- 6:59Speaker 4: get for the entire preseason until they play that first game.
- 7:03Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is probably the best opportunity
- 7:05Speaker 4: for Dak and this offense. And they'll get it again
- 7:08Speaker 4: with the Saints. But you know, the Rams are one
- 7:11Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl favorites. Uh, They've they've obviously in
- 7:14Speaker 4: that all in approach, and so they should be as
- 7:17Speaker 4: good of a challenge as you'll have with anyone. Really.
- 7:21Speaker 4: All Right, let's go to Albert and Tucson is our
- 7:23Speaker 4: next caller. Albert, what's up, dude?
- 7:25Speaker 8: Nick my man?
- 7:26Speaker 9: Good morning, sir.
- 7:27Speaker 8: How are you.
- 7:27Speaker 4: I'm doing great? How are you doing?
- 7:29Speaker 2: All right?
- 7:30Speaker 9: I'm doing I'm doing good. I'm doing good twice in
- 7:33Speaker 9: one week. I gotta I got a goal to make.
- 7:36Speaker 9: I'm gonna try to make the first team. Okay, storyline,
- 7:39Speaker 9: So I'm telling I'm putting in out there right now.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Put it out there. All right, Well, that's that's good. Right,
- 7:45Speaker 4: You know what guys did I'll say this, Albert, it's
- 7:47Speaker 4: not just about the amount of calls. It's not just
- 7:50Speaker 4: the calls. It's more than that. So people that that
- 7:52Speaker 4: can't call all the time, don't feel like it's just
- 7:55Speaker 4: the chart and the number. That's just part of it.
- 7:57Speaker 4: It's also what you bring, the questions you ask, yeah, dude,
- 8:00Speaker 4: all that good stuff. So so there's more to it
- 8:03Speaker 4: than that. So anyways, you've always been there, You've been
- 8:05Speaker 4: on the team a couple of years, so you know
- 8:07Speaker 4: how it works.
- 8:09Speaker 9: Yes, sir, Yes, they're definitely, And shout out to everybody,
- 8:12Speaker 9: and even shout out to the ones that don't get in.
- 8:14Speaker 9: You know, doesn't mean you guys give up. You know,
- 8:18Speaker 9: look at sometimes it takes me twenty two to twenty
- 8:21Speaker 9: six times, you know to get in. But you know, hey,
- 8:24Speaker 9: that's that's what we're here for, all right, and you know,
- 8:28Speaker 9: and you got it here for us. So that's the
- 8:30Speaker 9: main thing. I guess I got a two part question.
- 8:34Speaker 9: There's a lot of hype right now. Cowboys are in
- 8:36Speaker 9: the news. You know, new defense, the coordinator, a lot
- 8:40Speaker 9: of new defensive players.
- 8:42Speaker 2: You know.
- 8:42Speaker 9: The hype is is a lot of people are saying, hey,
- 8:46Speaker 9: watch out with the Cowboys, Watch out with the Cowboys.
- 8:50Speaker 9: And I get it. But you know from what you
- 8:56Speaker 9: see one, you know, you got the you can you
- 9:00Speaker 9: see all the practices, well not all the practices, but
- 9:02Speaker 9: you're there. One do you is it? Is it better
- 9:09Speaker 9: to be cautious, uh, to to to believe the hype?
- 9:12Speaker 9: Or do you believe the hype is real? And should
- 9:16Speaker 9: we jump on that hype train? Anyway? That's all I got.
- 9:19Speaker 9: Thank you very much and shout out to all you guys.
- 9:22Speaker 4: All right, you know, uh, that's that's a good question
- 9:27Speaker 4: about I mean, I understand the question about that about
- 9:32Speaker 4: you know, is is this real? I you know because
- 9:34Speaker 4: a lot of people kind of they they want to say,
- 9:37Speaker 4: why don't talk about my team, you know, just let
- 9:40Speaker 4: us fly under the radar and that kind of stuff.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Well that ain't happening with the Cowboys. It's never going
- 9:44Speaker 4: to happen. As soon as you start to see, man,
- 9:47Speaker 4: this team might be pretty good or they could do
- 9:49Speaker 4: this or that. Then that people are talking about the Cowboys.
- 9:52Speaker 4: It's what fuels the all the TV shows, the talk radios,
- 9:55Speaker 4: the shows you see on ESPN and all that. I
- 9:58Speaker 4: mean talking about the cowboy Boys. It's it's the lover hate.
- 10:02Speaker 4: I mean, people love it. If if they're Cowboy fans,
- 10:05Speaker 4: and then they're you know, they get nauseous by it.
- 10:08Speaker 4: If they're not. That's just that's what it is. That's
- 10:10Speaker 4: why the Cowboys are so are so popular. Do you
- 10:15Speaker 4: believe it? Do you want to believe it? It doesn't
- 10:18Speaker 4: really matter, And honestly doesn't really matter if you believe
- 10:21Speaker 4: it or not. We're gonna We're gonna be here, gonna play.
- 10:23Speaker 4: We're gonna find out before too long. I think that
- 10:26Speaker 4: that from what I see. I watch them in practice
- 10:30Speaker 4: here and you look at the depth and you know,
- 10:34Speaker 4: I hate to say it, but I mean, you know,
- 10:36Speaker 4: injuries are coming. They're they happen, they happen around the league,
- 10:40Speaker 4: they're happening some here, but you just have to know
- 10:43Speaker 4: that it happens. It happens with everybody. How do you
- 10:47Speaker 4: how do you handle it? Are you built for it?
- 10:49Speaker 4: And and this team seems like the depth is a
- 10:53Speaker 4: lot better. It also seems like that there's some there's
- 10:56Speaker 4: some real star power at key positions. There's an attitude
- 11:02Speaker 4: here from the coaches, a level of confidence, but that
- 11:06Speaker 4: can go away in the first quarter of your first game.
- 11:09Speaker 4: I mean, I guarantee you I remember the Giants talking
- 11:12Speaker 4: about this in two thousand and was it twenty three?
- 11:15Speaker 4: Is that our first year of doing this. I remember
- 11:18Speaker 4: the Giants talking about this year is different and the
- 11:21Speaker 4: swag that they've got and the confidence, and they're gonna
- 11:25Speaker 4: show it on the opening night against the Cowboys, and
- 11:27Speaker 4: they lost forty to nothing. So you know, it's it's
- 11:30Speaker 4: there until it isn't. So all this talk, I mean,
- 11:34Speaker 4: it sounds good. Do I believe the Cowboys are better
- 11:38Speaker 4: on defense? Yeah?
- 11:38Speaker 8: I do.
- 11:39Speaker 4: And do I believe the offense is actually better on offense? Yeah?
- 11:43Speaker 4: I do. So are the coaches? Are they gonna be
- 11:46Speaker 4: in line? Are they gonna be ready to go? I
- 11:48Speaker 4: think so. So add it all up, and I think
- 11:51Speaker 4: you've got a good football team. But like with anything,
- 11:53Speaker 4: you not gonna know until they until they line it up.
- 11:56Speaker 4: All right, Let's go to Chris and Saratoga Springs, New York. Chris,
- 11:59Speaker 4: what's up?
- 12:01Speaker 2: What's going on? Nick?
- 12:02Speaker 10: How are you, buddy?
- 12:02Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you doing. We're good.
- 12:05Speaker 10: Just here on the beach and Coco Beach, Florida with
- 12:08Speaker 10: the family. Yeah, hanging out, storm coming through right now,
- 12:11Speaker 10: big time.
- 12:12Speaker 4: Hanging out with Robbie is Robbie. Yeah.
- 12:16Speaker 10: I think that's Coco Beach, isn't it.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know what you have, you have your
- 12:20Speaker 4: storyline shirt out.
- 12:23Speaker 10: No, I had it in the airport and somebody somebody
- 12:25Speaker 10: thought when I was getting on the plane, they're like,
- 12:27Speaker 10: you know, go Cowboys.
- 12:28Speaker 2: It was it was pretty funny.
- 12:29Speaker 4: That's cool, that's awesome.
- 12:31Speaker 10: Yep, Caleb downs he's a Swiss Army knife.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 12:35Speaker 10: On defense, I mean he can play multiple positions. He's
- 12:37Speaker 10: going to be fantastic. My question to you is, I
- 12:41Speaker 10: don't know if he picked up on this, but the
- 12:42Speaker 10: other day they were talking to Shoddy and they were
- 12:45Speaker 10: asking about my boys Illinois and they were talking about
- 12:48Speaker 10: a play where we were supposed to go to CD
- 12:50Speaker 10: and then the matchup he had the better matchup on
- 12:53Speaker 10: deron Bland. Is that him saying that he's one of
- 12:57Speaker 10: our weaker out of the three corners if he have
- 13:00Speaker 10: to match up he wanted with all the corners we.
- 13:01Speaker 4: Have, Yeah, I mean maybe, yeah, I mean it's got
- 13:06Speaker 4: to be somebody, right, But I don't think that's not
- 13:10Speaker 4: necessarily you know, a big problem. But but yeah, I
- 13:14Speaker 4: mean I heard that too, and I thought that was
- 13:16Speaker 4: interesting when he sent them the matchup we were looking for.
- 13:19Speaker 4: But that's what happens when your offensive coordinator, your your coach,
- 13:24Speaker 4: your head coach is like your play caller, you know
- 13:26Speaker 4: what I mean. So he's he's yeah, he's trying to
- 13:28Speaker 4: do well with his offense and all that, and they're
- 13:29Speaker 4: looking at mismatches. But you know what, like that's also
- 13:32Speaker 4: his problem too, and so he's got to deal with
- 13:35Speaker 4: that that also. But now I don't think it's that bad.
- 13:38Speaker 4: I did hear the same thing. I thought that was
- 13:40Speaker 4: a little a little different, but not too bad.
- 13:42Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely, I definitely think the last thing real quick,
- 13:46Speaker 10: I definitely think the hype is real this year, barn
- 13:48Speaker 10: any major injuries on the main players, which you were
- 13:51Speaker 10: just talking about. I really think I like what we're
- 13:54Speaker 10: doing this year, and I think this is the best
- 13:56Speaker 10: I felt and probably I don't know seven years as
- 14:01Speaker 10: far as how we're going to be. I think I
- 14:03Speaker 10: really do think the hype is real and I'm looking
- 14:05Speaker 10: forward to the season. I'll be at the opener against
- 14:07Speaker 10: the Giants. Something to night football. I'm ready to go,
- 14:10Speaker 10: and I appreciate everything you guys do and Chris Bean
- 14:13Speaker 10: the hardest working guy we know for what you do.
- 14:16Speaker 4: Mister bean, no doubt. Yeah, thanks for saying that. Thanks
- 14:21Speaker 4: for the call. You know, it is a it's a
- 14:23Speaker 4: day off from practice. It's a little quieter, it's still
- 14:27Speaker 4: a Friday. We still have podcasts, we still have stuff.
- 14:30Speaker 4: And you can imagine how Chris responds to people. I've
- 14:33Speaker 4: already seen it once this morning, like what are you
- 14:35Speaker 4: guys gonna do today? Like like we're going to the
- 14:37Speaker 4: beach or something. He's like a podcast four of them.
- 14:40Speaker 4: What I mean, it's true. I mean we got we
- 14:44Speaker 4: got some work now hopefully maybe in the afternoon that
- 14:47Speaker 4: can kind of you know, do do something else or
- 14:50Speaker 4: or you know, take advantage of things because back tomorrow
- 14:52Speaker 4: is some uh you know, we'll have a two hour
- 14:55Speaker 4: practice here be live stream. You can watch it, h
- 14:58Speaker 4: some of that and we'll have have a full coverage
- 15:01Speaker 4: on that so that that that'll be fun to watch.
- 15:03Speaker 4: It's not a scrimmage. We're told not to say the
- 15:05Speaker 4: word scrimmage because it's not that, but it's a it's
- 15:08Speaker 4: blue white practice what they call it. But it'll be it'll,
- 15:12Speaker 4: you know, it be something that we can we can
- 15:13Speaker 4: at least look at it and give you guys an
- 15:15Speaker 4: opportunity to to kind of see what we've been seeing.
- 15:18Speaker 4: But you know, as far as the hype goes and
- 15:22Speaker 4: all that, I mean, we can keep talking about it
- 15:23Speaker 4: all day, but you know, it's it's it's okay. I mean,
- 15:26Speaker 4: I think I just a lot of it is you
- 15:28Speaker 4: speak it to existence, right, you just want to just
- 15:31Speaker 4: you want this to be the year, just like every year.
- 15:33Speaker 4: And I don't I don't know it's like, you know,
- 15:36Speaker 4: to say, well, this is our year. I don't. I
- 15:38Speaker 4: don't know if the Cowboys have ever said that they
- 15:40Speaker 4: get that mantra like like they say it all the time.
- 15:43Speaker 4: I don't think the fans, you know, they want that
- 15:45Speaker 4: they want it to be this year. But I know
- 15:48Speaker 4: this that you know, when your quarterback goes out and
- 15:50Speaker 4: says he's feeling better than he's ever felt, he's throwing
- 15:53Speaker 4: the ball better, he just you know, he seems as
- 15:55Speaker 4: confident as he's ever been. And that's obviously where it starts.
- 15:58Speaker 4: He's got so many weapons. They're two just dynamic receivers,
- 16:03Speaker 4: and then but more than that, an offensive line that
- 16:06Speaker 4: I think is really going to have his back, and
- 16:10Speaker 4: you know he's he they can just run the football.
- 16:12Speaker 4: If they can really be road graders up front and
- 16:15Speaker 4: run the ball when they want to run the ball,
- 16:18Speaker 4: that will make the play action so dangerous. And they
- 16:21Speaker 4: they'll move up and down the field. But to me,
- 16:23Speaker 4: it really starts if they I think Bbie's a big
- 16:26Speaker 4: big factor in this in this offense. If he can
- 16:28Speaker 4: be the guy that that's that's aggressive and pushing people
- 16:32Speaker 4: around with those two tilers on his left and right,
- 16:35Speaker 4: if those three in the middle can give you that
- 16:37Speaker 4: interior push, especially in the red zone, I think this
- 16:41Speaker 4: offense can can really carry the team, like carry the
- 16:45Speaker 4: team to to the next level. The defense will be
- 16:48Speaker 4: good enough to hang in there and hang in there
- 16:51Speaker 4: with games and stuff like that. All right, let's go
- 16:55Speaker 4: our next collar. I didn't even see it. Roh, Robbie
- 16:59Speaker 4: and Cocoa, all right, what's everything awesome?
- 17:03Speaker 2: Right?
- 17:03Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 17:04Speaker 2: Right after Chris when he's visiting, I'll try to hook
- 17:06Speaker 2: up with it him.
- 17:08Speaker 4: You got to find him out there.
- 17:10Speaker 2: I know, I got my cow, I got my storyline shirt.
- 17:12Speaker 4: I know you do. Yeah. How are you doing, Robie?
- 17:15Speaker 2: I'm good? How about yourself? You're joining California?
- 17:18Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been great.
- 17:19Speaker 2: You guys working too. Hard. I know Chris is he is.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not working too hard. No, I don't think so.
- 17:27Speaker 4: We're working hard, but I don't know if it would
- 17:29Speaker 4: be in the too hard category.
- 17:31Speaker 2: Well that's good, that's good. So I got a couple
- 17:33Speaker 2: of things, man. First, it's been a lot of times
- 17:36Speaker 2: as I've called because you know, sometimes crazy. Well, I
- 17:38Speaker 2: get kids, man, the kids are more important than anything else,
- 17:41Speaker 2: you know, my feelings. I mean, I love my cowboys
- 17:43Speaker 2: and my kids love my cowboys.
- 17:44Speaker 4: That's good. But then that means you're doing it right, Yeah.
- 17:47Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, sir. Firstly, are you guys drinking the
- 17:52Speaker 2: clude like I am? It just seems damn different. Yeah, yeah,
- 17:57Speaker 2: I mean it's just everything here in Clayton Adams talk,
- 18:00Speaker 2: here in Christian Parker, here in Shady here are the players.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Everybody's on the you know, we don't have any more
- 18:08Speaker 2: Tank larks Is, you know, boohoo and on in the
- 18:11Speaker 2: locker going oh we could be better, And it's just
- 18:15Speaker 2: everybody seems bought in and going in the same direction, right,
- 18:19Speaker 2: And I think there's somebody said about that. Yeah, And
- 18:23Speaker 2: I think we've had coaches before, you know, if ourselves
- 18:26Speaker 2: did it and Jason Garrett did it where the players
- 18:29Speaker 2: kind of towed the party line and said said the
- 18:32Speaker 2: things were coaches saying, but this year just sounds like
- 18:35Speaker 2: they believe it instead of just saying it. Does that
- 18:37Speaker 2: make sense?
- 18:38Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I do believe that. I do believe
- 18:43Speaker 4: it's different. Believe it's different. But you know, it's like
- 18:48Speaker 4: I said before, it doesn't really matter until it doesn't
- 18:52Speaker 4: really matter until we get to the games and all
- 18:54Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. You know of what's going to happen,
- 18:58Speaker 4: you know, because you can you can say you drink
- 19:01Speaker 4: the kool aid and all that kind of stuff. Like
- 19:02Speaker 4: they've got to go out and execute here and practice
- 19:04Speaker 4: and they got to stay healthy enough to to make
- 19:07Speaker 4: this thing happen.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Wall in the AT and D Stadium.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Yeah, did you have another question?
- 19:17Speaker 2: I did? I keep hearing all about about Caleb Downs
- 19:21Speaker 2: and barm what's going on with our other first round pick,
- 19:26Speaker 2: Carl Lawrence. Everybody talks about there too, But.
- 19:30Speaker 4: He hasn't look up he had I mean, he hasn't.
- 19:33Speaker 4: He hasn't flashed, you know, those those kind of plays
- 19:36Speaker 4: just yet. He hasn't done that. And and you know,
- 19:40Speaker 4: to be to be honest, I mean, uh, you know
- 19:42Speaker 4: Caleb Downs, I mean, he's he's looked good. I mean
- 19:45Speaker 4: there's been some times you know, he's uh, you know,
- 19:48Speaker 4: he's he's got to be careful when he gets in there,
- 19:50Speaker 4: try to do some run support. I know that he's
- 19:52Speaker 4: not gonna win every battle. So you know, he's he's learning.
- 19:56Speaker 4: They're all learning. I mean the same with bar him.
- 19:57Speaker 4: He's got an injury, he set back. He's kind of
- 19:59Speaker 4: learning the difference between being injured, being hurt, being sore.
- 20:02Speaker 4: So those three things that they're all learning in their
- 20:05Speaker 4: own way. Malachi Lawrence I said this on the radio
- 20:07Speaker 4: this morning when I asked he was drafted because he's
- 20:10Speaker 4: an absolute freak of nature that's not going to go anywhere.
- 20:13Speaker 4: That's not gonna change. He's going to continue to learn
- 20:15Speaker 4: how to play football at the NFL level. And when
- 20:18Speaker 4: that happens, when he stops thinking and he just goes
- 20:20Speaker 4: out and reacting, he's going to be really good. Right now,
- 20:24Speaker 4: you know, in the first week or two of practice
- 20:25Speaker 4: in the NFL training camp, he hasn't really shown that
- 20:29Speaker 4: just yet. I don't think anyone's too worried though they
- 20:31Speaker 4: know they didn't draft him from what he's going to
- 20:33Speaker 4: do right this second. They drafted him of what they
- 20:36Speaker 4: think he's going to be, So all right, thanks for
- 20:40Speaker 4: the call, Robbie, appreciate it. Maybe run into Chris out
- 20:43Speaker 4: there on Cocoa Beach. Let's take our first break here
- 20:46Speaker 4: on Cowboys storyline. We will be right back after this.
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- 22:14Speaker 4: com slash NFL. All right, A lot of stuff going here,
- 22:18Speaker 4: trying to air drop things you gotta all right, all
- 22:22Speaker 4: kinds of people here doing stuff. You know, we do
- 22:24Speaker 4: work in here on a Friday night. It's it's kind
- 22:26Speaker 4: of quiet, but our team's out here doing stuff.
- 22:28Speaker 12: I know.
- 22:28Speaker 4: Beam is all right, Let's keep it going. Did I
- 22:30Speaker 4: see it? We got a first time call over, a
- 22:32Speaker 4: new caller here, Derek and Minnesota. Yeah, he's called before,
- 22:36Speaker 4: Derek and Minnesota. What's that man?
- 22:38Speaker 13: Not too much? How are you doing?
- 22:39Speaker 4: I'm doing great? What's on your mind today?
- 22:42Speaker 12: Well, I'll see, I got a few things written down here.
- 22:45Speaker 12: I wanted to make sure I have everything I wanted
- 22:46Speaker 12: to say.
- 22:48Speaker 13: Uh, we got I'm bullish I'm bullish.
- 22:51Speaker 12: Okay, our offense, I mean it was great last year,
- 22:54Speaker 12: but it's gonna be even more dangerous this year. I mean,
- 22:57Speaker 12: we have five competent running backsines Bai Jamonte Blue is
- 23:03Speaker 12: like looking incredible, like he's learning the playbook, like he's
- 23:06Speaker 12: like got his you know, poop in a group from
- 23:08Speaker 12: last year, and Israel about a conda is a hyphronounce it.
- 23:13Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm just going off of your last statement.
- 23:16Speaker 4: What what did you say? What did you say that
- 23:20Speaker 4: that Jaydon Blue has?
- 23:24Speaker 12: I mean, it sounds like he improved alf of from
- 23:26Speaker 12: last year and he kind of got his poop in
- 23:27Speaker 12: a group.
- 23:28Speaker 4: Okay, that's a new one. I haven't heard that one. Yeah,
- 23:33Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know. I don't know exactly what
- 23:35Speaker 4: you're saying, but it sounds funny enough. That's good.
- 23:37Speaker 13: He's he got he got he got his craft together.
- 23:41Speaker 12: He's I mean, he improved, he improved from last year.
- 23:44Speaker 12: He actually learned to playbook and I've never.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Heard that term before. Okay, he's got his poop in
- 23:51Speaker 4: a in a group together, is what he's What you're
- 23:56Speaker 4: trying to say? All right, I like it. I will
- 23:59Speaker 4: see I mean he looks pretty good out here. I
- 24:01Speaker 4: mean for sure, uh uh oh man, I can't pronounce
- 24:06Speaker 4: that guy's name, av Acanda.
- 24:09Speaker 10: I heard, I heard it.
- 24:10Speaker 12: I heard it multiple times. I was just listen to
- 24:13Speaker 12: a con listening to talking cowboys, and I think that's
- 24:17Speaker 12: that's how you said it. I'm like, okay, lastly pronouncement.
- 24:20Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, he from what I.
- 24:21Speaker 4: Hear, like, he's pretty good, really.
- 24:23Speaker 13: Well, he looks works really well.
- 24:25Speaker 12: And of course he got you know, film MafA, and
- 24:27Speaker 12: he he's going to continue improving.
- 24:28Speaker 2: And Malik Davis.
- 24:29Speaker 12: I mean that's that's that's five running backs and I
- 24:31Speaker 12: think that was a big concern from last year. If
- 24:33Speaker 12: you know, we only had Javont and if you guys
- 24:36Speaker 12: that were okay like this year, like they're all looking good,
- 24:39Speaker 12: that's really going to help out Dak with the with
- 24:42Speaker 12: the play action, I mean guiding. From what I hear,
- 24:45Speaker 12: he is continuing to improve. I mean that left tackle
- 24:48Speaker 12: spot is chiller. I mean, you really need like a
- 24:52Speaker 12: lockdown that you know Dak's blind side. I mean, as
- 24:56Speaker 12: long as he stays healthy. I mean I think I
- 24:58Speaker 12: I got nothing to worry about, you know, with that
- 24:59Speaker 12: offense line.
- 25:00Speaker 13: But that's just the key. I mean, it seems like.
- 25:03Speaker 12: Guy might be a little bit might be a little
- 25:05Speaker 12: bit of a.
- 25:06Speaker 4: Low bearing player, right right, right ahead, keep going there, and.
- 25:13Speaker 12: Then not to mention the fact that I mean, we
- 25:15Speaker 12: have we actually have like a competent defense for you know,
- 25:18Speaker 12: for our offense to practice again, So like that's just
- 25:20Speaker 12: going to make them even better.
- 25:21Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, the defense is giving them more challenges than
- 25:27Speaker 4: than they've had probably in the past. So iron sharpens
- 25:31Speaker 4: irons where they keep saying, and I think it's you know,
- 25:34Speaker 4: I think I think it's close to that.
- 25:38Speaker 12: Let's see a couple more things already touched on Malchai
- 25:42Speaker 12: Lawrence from their previous call. That's really unfortunate. I was
- 25:45Speaker 12: hoping you would. I mean, he's a rookie. I'm not
- 25:47Speaker 12: that worried about it.
- 25:48Speaker 4: Yeah, nobody's worried. Nobody's worried about Malca. He'll be fine,
- 25:53Speaker 4: he'll be fine.
- 25:54Speaker 12: Really happy to hear about, really happy happy to hear
- 25:56Speaker 12: about about about a barm although I'm hopefully his injury
- 26:01Speaker 12: isn't too bad.
- 26:02Speaker 4: No, he's good, he'll be fine again. Any any kind
- 26:06Speaker 4: of stepback will keep you out of practice, and you
- 26:08Speaker 4: will not come back from. I mean, this is not
- 26:10Speaker 4: one where they got to rush it back, saying with
- 26:12Speaker 4: the preseason game. You know, a guy gets banged up
- 26:14Speaker 4: on something, you're done. There's no reason to keep pushing things.
- 26:17Speaker 4: Especially a growin injury is not one that you want
- 26:20Speaker 4: to to really try to fight through at this time
- 26:22Speaker 4: of year. But but he'll be I think he'll be fine.
- 26:25Speaker 4: I think Malecki Lawrence will be fine. We just haven't
- 26:27Speaker 4: seen him really pop yet with some of those really
- 26:31Speaker 4: you know, freakish athletic plays. So all right, Derek, I
- 26:35Speaker 4: appreciate the call. Think you got a lot of good
- 26:38Speaker 4: stuff there. We're gonna keep it rolling though. Thanks. Thanks again.
- 26:42Speaker 4: You don't call a lot, but when you do, you
- 26:44Speaker 4: got a lot of good points there, So I appreciate that.
- 26:46Speaker 4: All right, do we have another caller?
- 26:48Speaker 2: We do?
- 26:49Speaker 4: Stay in Minnesota, stay right there, Pass the phone over
- 26:52Speaker 4: to Lester. Lester, what's up dude?
- 26:55Speaker 13: Her?
- 26:55Speaker 2: What's up? Nick?
- 26:56Speaker 4: How are you doing? I make it sound like Minnesota
- 26:58Speaker 4: is like a small state. Oh two people, same state.
- 27:01Speaker 4: I must be right there.
- 27:04Speaker 14: Yeah, he just crashed us on over.
- 27:06Speaker 4: Yeah, well I love it. I mean, I keep going.
- 27:12Speaker 14: I was just curious to know what's going on with Overshown.
- 27:15Speaker 14: I know he was out of practice for a day
- 27:18Speaker 14: or two or something. Well, well, what's happening? What Haim
- 27:23Speaker 14: is he? I'm concerned is he gonna.
- 27:26Speaker 8: Play or what?
- 27:27Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, like I just said, I mean, if
- 27:30Speaker 4: you've got any kind of soreness, any kind of reason
- 27:32Speaker 4: to kind of to to you know, be held held
- 27:35Speaker 4: out for a day or two, they they'll do that.
- 27:38Speaker 4: I mean, they don't want these guys with lingering injuries that,
- 27:41Speaker 4: you know, especially if you've got a little bit of
- 27:43Speaker 4: an injury history to you. So, you know, if you've
- 27:46Speaker 4: got something that pops up, be honest about it, tell
- 27:49Speaker 4: the trainer, see how we can you know, fix it.
- 27:51Speaker 4: What's the best way to go about fixing it? You know?
- 27:56Speaker 8: Is it?
- 27:56Speaker 4: Do you need rest? Do you need you know what
- 28:00Speaker 4: it is. And I think that he's he's done that
- 28:02Speaker 4: and it's fine. He's come back. He's missed a little
- 28:04Speaker 4: bit here and there. But again, this is not that
- 28:06Speaker 4: problematic at this time. And when he's been out there,
- 28:10Speaker 4: he's been really good. So I think it's all all
- 28:13Speaker 4: signs are good right now for Overshown.
- 28:16Speaker 14: Okay, Okay, I just you know, like I was saying
- 28:20Speaker 14: the other day about.
- 28:21Speaker 4: The coach shot our coach.
- 28:24Speaker 14: You know, I don't we don't know what the defense
- 28:27Speaker 14: is gonna be this year. But I looked up the
- 28:30Speaker 14: attributes of Winters and compare him to Overshown. So I think, again,
- 28:36Speaker 14: we don't want any injuries. But if Overshown is going
- 28:39Speaker 14: to be an integral part of the defense, I think
- 28:42Speaker 14: the backup plan would be winners because they're very, very
- 28:45Speaker 14: similar to attributes. So but hopefully Overshown is good this year.
- 28:50Speaker 14: He could play at least fifteen games. Yeah, but that's
- 28:53Speaker 14: all I got, man, go Cowboys.
- 28:56Speaker 4: All right, Lester appreciate that. Yeah, I mean again, there's
- 29:01Speaker 4: no real concern with Overshowing. But but you said it best.
- 29:04Speaker 4: I mean, you know, he's he needs to play and
- 29:06Speaker 4: he needs to get out there. He's he's one of
- 29:08Speaker 4: your guys that's in a contract year, and you know,
- 29:11Speaker 4: for for him, I think the question mark is it's
- 29:14Speaker 4: not you know, is he is he uh tough enough?
- 29:19Speaker 4: Smart enough? I mean he's got everything you would want
- 29:23Speaker 4: from a leadership standpoint, from you know, just for knowing
- 29:26Speaker 4: where he's supposed to be. I think he if he
- 29:29Speaker 4: was the middle of your defense for six to seven
- 29:32Speaker 4: eight years, it would be it would be really good.
- 29:36Speaker 4: I think your defense would be outstanding. He's just got
- 29:39Speaker 4: to be that guy. He's got to be on the field,
- 29:41Speaker 4: he's got to got to be healthy. It's a very
- 29:44Speaker 4: demanding position. I mean the guy. I mean, guy's going
- 29:47Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame here in a week this week,
- 29:51Speaker 4: this weekend. Luke Keigley. I mean he didn't play a
- 29:54Speaker 4: lot like a lot of years. I mean, he was
- 29:58Speaker 4: really really good when he was there, but you know,
- 30:00Speaker 4: those careers are tough. Patrick willis the same thing. Sean Lee.
- 30:04Speaker 4: I mean, Shann Lee's a Hall of Famer if he plays,
- 30:06Speaker 4: if he could play at the level he played for
- 30:09Speaker 4: the majority of his career, I definitely think he is
- 30:14Speaker 4: a Ring of Honor guy. He might even be better
- 30:17Speaker 4: than that. It's just tough to be on the field
- 30:20Speaker 4: and stay on the field. So that's the key. And
- 30:23Speaker 4: then what do you do. Do you re sign that player?
- 30:26Speaker 4: You resign him? You just don't know, you know. So
- 30:29Speaker 4: this is one of those I mean we always talk
- 30:31Speaker 4: about Pickens has a lot to prove this year, but
- 30:33Speaker 4: Overshown does as well for different reasons. But still something
- 30:39Speaker 4: to prove is something to prove? All right? We had
- 30:42Speaker 4: so this, we've had six callers, two callers here from
- 30:46Speaker 4: the West Coast, two callers in a row from that
- 30:48Speaker 4: are in Cocoa Beach at the time, two callers from Minnesota.
- 30:53Speaker 4: So this next caller, Jose from Houston. I can't imagine.
- 30:56Speaker 4: I would imagine after that we're gonna stay in Texas.
- 30:58Speaker 4: But we'll see Jose in Houston. And Chris says, what's up,
- 31:02Speaker 4: what's going on?
- 31:03Speaker 2: What's up? Nick? Are you doing?
- 31:04Speaker 12: Bro?
- 31:04Speaker 4: I'm doing great? How hot is it down there in Houston?
- 31:08Speaker 2: Man?
- 31:08Speaker 15: It is a scorcher, bro, But you know we're used
- 31:11Speaker 15: there in Texas?
- 31:12Speaker 10: So uh, all right, yeah dude.
- 31:14Speaker 16: So my my question is, Man, I hear we're talking
- 31:16Speaker 16: about the good vibes going on this year feels different
- 31:19Speaker 16: and all that stuff. I mean, even Jerry is talking
- 31:22Speaker 16: about putting tint on the windows going on here going
- 31:26Speaker 16: on there?
- 31:27Speaker 8: Right, Yes, Bro?
- 31:28Speaker 16: I mean you know, you know, you know the boss
- 31:29Speaker 16: man is the boss man, right, So my question is,
- 31:32Speaker 16: you know, is Shoddy changing the culture around there?
- 31:35Speaker 2: Like I see guys.
- 31:36Speaker 16: You're buying in and all that stuff.
- 31:38Speaker 15: I mean, seems like we might have found something that
- 31:41Speaker 15: I mean this is he was thirty years in the league,
- 31:43Speaker 15: never got a head coaching position. So are the guys
- 31:47Speaker 15: ready to go to for Shody, I'm just saying it
- 31:50Speaker 15: is the locker room behind him.
- 31:52Speaker 4: Yeah, my question. That's a great question. And I and
- 31:56Speaker 4: thanks for the call, Jose And I think I have
- 32:00Speaker 4: and I think you're right. I said this yesterday watching
- 32:03Speaker 4: just a little bit of a walk through last night,
- 32:06Speaker 4: and just it does it did make me think of
- 32:10Speaker 4: the quote he said when he was higher that he's
- 32:13Speaker 4: trying to build one of the greatest cultures in all
- 32:16Speaker 4: of sports. It's pretty high expectations, right. It's better than
- 32:20Speaker 4: just saying I just I'm trying to change the culture.
- 32:22Speaker 4: We'll change it to what we'll change it to having
- 32:24Speaker 4: the best culture in the history of any professional sports team.
- 32:29Speaker 4: That's tough to do. You'll never be able to just say, oh,
- 32:32Speaker 4: you know, it's not like a trophy that you get.
- 32:34Speaker 4: It's all perception. But the perception right now for this
- 32:38Speaker 4: team is that, yes, they are buying in. They're buying
- 32:41Speaker 4: into what he's doing and the coaches that they brought in.
- 32:45Speaker 4: You know, we have a story that just went up
- 32:47Speaker 4: on the website from Christian Parker to today. He detailed
- 32:51Speaker 4: every defensive coach that he brought in to build this
- 32:55Speaker 4: staff with him, and why why, what did he like
- 32:58Speaker 4: about him? What role does he does he you know,
- 33:01Speaker 4: have for them, and just kind of the purpose for
- 33:04Speaker 4: these coaches. You really got to he kind of peeled
- 33:07Speaker 4: the curtain back a little bit of what they're thinking
- 33:09Speaker 4: and what you know, he's thinking about the guys that
- 33:12Speaker 4: he built around him, you know, and so yeah, I
- 33:14Speaker 4: think they are buying into that. They're buying into what
- 33:17Speaker 4: shot he's doing. You know. Last year, you know, the
- 33:21Speaker 4: Jones family basically was like, all right, coach, you're the
- 33:25Speaker 4: head coach. You build your offense how you want to
- 33:28Speaker 4: build it. And he did. He went got all these
- 33:30Speaker 4: people from all over the place, put them together and
- 33:33Speaker 4: they were really good last year. At the same time,
- 33:36Speaker 4: what did they say, Uh wait, Jilese, are you still there?
- 33:40Speaker 4: He still no, He's gone, okay, sorry, I just want
- 33:42Speaker 4: to make sure thanks for the call. I was just
- 33:43Speaker 4: kind of going on a rant. But you know, at
- 33:47Speaker 4: the same time, they said, well we got the defense
- 33:50Speaker 4: of ebra Flus is ever flues, he'll be great and
- 33:52Speaker 4: we'll just bring him over and it's good. And that
- 33:54Speaker 4: didn't work out obviously. So what they did on offense,
- 33:58Speaker 4: they basically did on defense too. They let all right,
- 34:01Speaker 4: you know we're getting it, Christian Parker, a young coach,
- 34:03Speaker 4: you build it. So it worked on offense. You know,
- 34:06Speaker 4: these guys didn't have a lot of continuity together, but
- 34:10Speaker 4: you couldn't have you know, you couldn't tell that so
- 34:13Speaker 4: here on the defensive side. That's kind of what they're hoping.
- 34:15Speaker 4: But all in all, you know, the type of player
- 34:19Speaker 4: you're bringing into the guy that wants to work hard,
- 34:21Speaker 4: the guy that that's that that's that wants to get better,
- 34:24Speaker 4: that pushes himself. You know, they didn't just go get
- 34:27Speaker 4: Quinn Williams because they thought he was a good player
- 34:30Speaker 4: to to, you know, just to bring in there in
- 34:32Speaker 4: the middle. They liked what he what he brought to
- 34:35Speaker 4: the table and all that, and and you know it's
- 34:38Speaker 4: not hey also Diggy Zoo a fit that mold one
- 34:43Speaker 4: thousand percent. It really was more player type with him.
- 34:46Speaker 4: That that one was a tough one to to to
- 34:49Speaker 4: move on from, probably because you know he is he's
- 34:52Speaker 4: everything that you do want in your leaders and your players.
- 34:55Speaker 4: But as far as the scheme they were trying to build,
- 34:58Speaker 4: he didn't necessarily fit, but from player mentality, that is
- 35:01Speaker 4: something the Cowboys are really really trying to focus on.
- 35:04Speaker 4: And you could tell by the guys that they're bringing
- 35:06Speaker 4: in the guys that they're drafted. This rookie class. These
- 35:09Speaker 4: guys were just coming here ready to work. I mean,
- 35:11Speaker 4: Caleb down is just like, where's the film room right
- 35:13Speaker 4: off the bat, like, We're let's get started. You know.
- 35:15Speaker 4: They they're they're fun, they smile every now and again,
- 35:18Speaker 4: but they're here to work and and that that's a
- 35:20Speaker 4: that's a real good thing. All right, let's go to
- 35:22Speaker 4: another caller, Robin Vegas. What's up. Hey, I'm good. How
- 35:29Speaker 4: are you doing.
- 35:31Speaker 13: I'm doing good. Got to watch that game? What a
- 35:33Speaker 13: great game that was last night?
- 35:36Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah. We were at a team dinner. I
- 35:39Speaker 4: just saw the end. Of course, Beam had it on
- 35:42Speaker 4: his phone and he was showing how the game ended.
- 35:44Speaker 4: I didn't see anything else really about it, but uh yeah,
- 35:48Speaker 4: football is back, man.
- 35:49Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 35:50Speaker 13: It was good from start to finish.
- 35:51Speaker 17: I mean, the quarterbacks played really good, which helps because
- 35:55Speaker 17: you know these preseason games, it's the quarterbacks are dead,
- 35:58Speaker 17: It's it's.
- 35:59Speaker 13: Dreadful, right right.
- 36:01Speaker 4: Yeah, So.
- 36:03Speaker 17: Well, I hear everybody talking about you know, culture and
- 36:07Speaker 17: they and to me, the only thing that changes culture
- 36:10Speaker 17: is winning. I mean that's it. Uh, you know the
- 36:14Speaker 17: Cowboys in the nineties. Uh, Jimmy changed the culture, but
- 36:18Speaker 17: it was all about winning, right, I mean, let's face it.
- 36:21Speaker 17: Off the field, the culture was horrible, thank god, there
- 36:25Speaker 17: was no Internet, no iPhones, you know. But on the field,
- 36:30Speaker 17: where as a fan, you know, as a fan, I
- 36:35Speaker 17: don't look at these players as role models.
- 36:37Speaker 13: I think I said this before. I want them to
- 36:39Speaker 13: be good guys. I don't need them to take care
- 36:42Speaker 13: of my kids.
- 36:42Speaker 17: I don't need them, you know, just don't get yourself arrested,
- 36:47Speaker 17: be a decent guy, and show up on Sunday. You know,
- 36:51Speaker 17: I think the Cowboys, you know, let's face it, Jerry
- 36:54Speaker 17: was desperate when he brought the team, and Jimmy was
- 36:57Speaker 17: bringing in guys that could play and he could handle
- 36:59Speaker 17: the personalities. And then then they they try to turn
- 37:05Speaker 17: a new leaf, and you know, that's why they didn't
- 37:07Speaker 17: want to draft Randy Morris, and the team kind of went.
- 37:11Speaker 13: Downhill, right, because they were.
- 37:14Speaker 17: Willing to bring in risky guys, you know, as you know,
- 37:18Speaker 17: Jerry was saying, well, to me, you need those you know,
- 37:22Speaker 17: this is football that you know, this is a gladiator sport.
- 37:24Speaker 17: You need guys on the edge. We've seen the best
- 37:27Speaker 17: players around the league and on this team they live
- 37:31Speaker 17: on the edge, right And I mean, you know you
- 37:34Speaker 17: want that, you know, Shody, I don't know what what
- 37:37Speaker 17: shoty is. You know, part of me looks at him
- 37:39Speaker 17: as nobody wanted this guy and he was never going
- 37:42Speaker 17: to get a head coaching job. And to be honest,
- 37:45Speaker 17: I look at thirty one other teams and I kind
- 37:46Speaker 17: of say, you know, thirty one other teams didn't see it.
- 37:50Speaker 13: I don't think we should have seen it. Now I'm
- 37:53Speaker 13: hoping the best, and I think if.
- 37:55Speaker 17: He doesn't make the playoffs this year, I would definitely
- 37:57Speaker 17: move on because what gonna.
- 38:00Speaker 13: You know, by the time you get somebody in GOK
- 38:03Speaker 13: has gone. Everybody you know is gone. It's to me,
- 38:05Speaker 13: it's win now mode and Ceedee Lamb said it, you
- 38:09Speaker 13: know the other day, like why not? Why can't we
- 38:11Speaker 13: win it out? And I believe that. I think, you know,
- 38:16Speaker 13: if the offense could do what it did last year,
- 38:19Speaker 13: you know, and be better, be better.
- 38:21Speaker 17: Especially in the red zone because I don't think it
- 38:23Speaker 17: was a great offense. I thought it was a good
- 38:25Speaker 17: offense and the defense, let's say it can't be worse.
- 38:29Speaker 17: It would be impossible if god forbid, everybody got hurt.
- 38:32Speaker 17: I don't even know if it'd be worse. So if
- 38:35Speaker 17: I just get the defense to meet me halfway somewhere
- 38:40Speaker 17: in the middle, I think this team could compete for
- 38:44Speaker 17: a championship, you know, barring injury.
- 38:48Speaker 4: So are you talking about here like an NFC East championship?
- 38:52Speaker 4: Are you talking about more than that?
- 38:54Speaker 13: No?
- 38:54Speaker 17: No, I definitely think they could win the NFC East.
- 38:57Speaker 17: I think Philadelphia is on the the you know, going down.
- 39:03Speaker 17: I think we're going up the Giants. I don't I
- 39:05Speaker 17: don't know about the Giants Washington.
- 39:08Speaker 13: I don't know.
- 39:10Speaker 17: If their quarterback plays good and stays healthy. Yes, they
- 39:12Speaker 17: could be they could be a problem. They got a
- 39:14Speaker 17: lot of talent over there.
- 39:17Speaker 13: But I think that the vision is is definitely up
- 39:21Speaker 13: up for grabs.
- 39:22Speaker 17: And I think once you get into the playoffs, you
- 39:25Speaker 17: know anything, anything can happen. But I don't see why
- 39:29Speaker 17: this team can't can't compete. To me, you know, you
- 39:33Speaker 17: can't win seven or eight games and miss the playoffs
- 39:36Speaker 17: again that you can't have that. Uh, you got to
- 39:40Speaker 17: make the playoffs and.
- 39:41Speaker 13: You got to do something. And I think they they can.
- 39:44Speaker 17: And like I said, I'm not just satisfied to watch
- 39:48Speaker 17: the game.
- 39:49Speaker 13: To me, it's all about winning and that's all it's about.
- 39:52Speaker 17: It's not about stats. You know, we quarterback, it's a quarterback. Yes,
- 39:57Speaker 17: quarterback is a stat driven h wing driven player. That's
- 40:03Speaker 17: they're judged on rings, running backs, wide receivers of stats.
- 40:08Speaker 17: I don't care about stats as I get older, Just
- 40:10Speaker 17: give me something.
- 40:11Speaker 13: Give me. If I would have told you thirty something years,
- 40:15Speaker 13: you'd laugh.
- 40:16Speaker 4: But I know I wouldn't because I've been here for
- 40:19Speaker 4: twenty eight of them. So it's not that funny.
- 40:22Speaker 13: So let's go.
- 40:23Speaker 17: Let's let's you know, let's get into the let's get
- 40:26Speaker 17: the season roll, let's get something.
- 40:29Speaker 2: All right.
- 40:30Speaker 4: Well, you're over here talking about preseason football, so you
- 40:33Speaker 4: must be ready to roll. But yeah, I don't agree.
- 40:36Speaker 4: I mean, I don't disagree with that. I don't know
- 40:37Speaker 4: about Shody has to win to keep his job next year.
- 40:40Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know about that. Like, it's all
- 40:42Speaker 4: about how the game goes and how the season goes
- 40:45Speaker 4: and what's the reasons why if you don't make the playoffs?
- 40:47Speaker 4: What are the reasons why for that? But you know,
- 40:50Speaker 4: this looks like a playoff team. We'll see. I mean,
- 40:52Speaker 4: you know they're not worried about that. They're worried about
- 40:55Speaker 4: getting through this off day here, getting through this scrimmage
- 40:58Speaker 4: tomorrow and then building and building from there with the
- 41:01Speaker 4: preseasons and stuff like that. But yeah, this is the
- 41:05Speaker 4: theme that everyone's been saying. It does feel different, looks different,
- 41:07Speaker 4: sounds different, but we'll find out if it really is different. Well,
- 41:11Speaker 4: let's go to break real quick on Cowboys Storyline'll be
- 41:14Speaker 4: right back after.
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- 42:37Speaker 4: a couple more minutes. Here, let's see what we got.
- 42:40Speaker 4: Let's go. Let's go back to the phone nine. Here
- 42:43Speaker 4: Aaron and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Aaron, what's up man?
- 42:47Speaker 2: Hey?
- 42:47Speaker 8: How you doing? Nick? How you doing man?
- 42:48Speaker 4: I'm good? What's up with you?
- 42:51Speaker 2: Oh? Not much?
- 42:51Speaker 8: How much as lunch break in the middle of the workday,
- 42:53Speaker 8: thought i'd call in today. Hey, yeah, excited with everything
- 42:58Speaker 8: I've seen in the off season, man, a lot more
- 43:00Speaker 8: a lot of excitement heading into the season. But with
- 43:04Speaker 8: the scrimmage coming up against the Rams this year, you know,
- 43:07Speaker 8: the last couple of years, it seems like they've they've
- 43:08Speaker 8: out physical to us during these scrimmages. Based on what
- 43:11Speaker 8: you've seen this year with the defense and stuff and
- 43:14Speaker 8: the offense, how do you think we're going to stack
- 43:15Speaker 8: up against that?
- 43:17Speaker 4: Well? I think that I think I think they're going
- 43:20Speaker 4: to stack up against I mean, I think both sides
- 43:22Speaker 4: of the ball has gotten better. That's one thing that
- 43:25Speaker 4: we talked about as well. The offense is the offense.
- 43:27Speaker 4: The defense is going to be the you know, defense
- 43:29Speaker 4: is going to get better. I do believe both sides
- 43:31Speaker 4: of the ball has done a really good job of
- 43:33Speaker 4: getting better. And so that's why you go out here
- 43:37Speaker 4: and practice, because the defense is going to be appreciably better,
- 43:40Speaker 4: and it looks like they have, but they're pushing the
- 43:42Speaker 4: offense and really, to me, at the end of the day,
- 43:44Speaker 4: the offense still wins, you know, So the offense is
- 43:46Speaker 4: getting better and better too, So you want, you know,
- 43:49Speaker 4: if you had a seven and a three last year,
- 43:52Speaker 4: if I'm being nice with the defense calling it a
- 43:54Speaker 4: three out of ten, but if you had, you know,
- 43:56Speaker 4: let's say the offense was a seven or eight. I
- 43:58Speaker 4: think what you want to do is get at nine
- 44:00Speaker 4: to you know, six, seven, and I think the defense
- 44:04Speaker 4: has made that kind of jump at the offense is
- 44:06Speaker 4: also improving too.
- 44:08Speaker 8: Yeah, awesome, man, Well, I hope so. And uh, I
- 44:11Speaker 8: know Nate talks a lot about he kind of makes
- 44:13Speaker 8: his judgments on how we stack up, especially against the Rams,
- 44:16Speaker 8: So I'm gonna be interested to see what his take is,
- 44:18Speaker 8: you know, after the scrimmage has happened. But uh, excited
- 44:21Speaker 8: for the season. Man, Hey have a great day. And
- 44:24Speaker 8: hey we're calling against all right, man.
- 44:25Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Have a good lunch break. About that.
- 44:28Speaker 4: The guy just calls on your lunch break and gotta
- 44:31Speaker 4: gotta get into the storyline. Do we have another caller?
- 44:33Speaker 4: One more Mike in l a slash England? What's up? Mike?
- 44:41Speaker 13: Now?
- 44:41Speaker 18: Still in that I'm putting off the inevitable here at
- 44:45Speaker 18: Mike dmis But yeah, yeah.
- 44:47Speaker 4: Yeah, Drove Aport, I'm gonna stick around. I'm not ready
- 44:51Speaker 4: to go back.
- 44:54Speaker 18: Now, I'm going back Sunday. I'm getting then a hof
- 44:58Speaker 18: Madison in that eye on Sunday. If you want to join,
- 45:00Speaker 18: so i'll go back after that.
- 45:03Speaker 4: I am. I am good on that. I'll okay, yeah,
- 45:08Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Mike, If you want me to
- 45:09Speaker 4: help you half marathon, listen, listen, I'll I'll handle the
- 45:14Speaker 4: point one. Okay, you get the thirteen, you do the thirteen,
- 45:19Speaker 4: I'll do the point one. Do I still get the sticker?
- 45:21Speaker 4: Like I can still put that in? But yeah, I'll
- 45:24Speaker 4: do the point one. Okay, that will be a challenge.
- 45:27Speaker 2: All right, great, good luck.
- 45:31Speaker 18: You look very You look very lean when I saw you.
- 45:33Speaker 18: I think you'd probably do better than that.
- 45:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I've cut back to seven drinks a day. You know,
- 45:39Speaker 4: I was at twelve twelve drinks a night and now
- 45:41Speaker 4: I went back. Okay, changes everything progress well.
- 45:45Speaker 18: After drinking with Sergeantcy in the last few days, I'm
- 45:48Speaker 18: on a bit of a detox myself, as I have
- 45:50Speaker 18: to keep up with that guy.
- 45:52Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck in anything, in anything, yeah, good luck
- 45:56Speaker 4: with them. So what you got? You got your think?
- 46:00Speaker 12: Yeah?
- 46:01Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, brilliant to meet you guys.
- 46:03Speaker 19: Thank you so much for sorting out what you sorted out,
- 46:06Speaker 19: and you know, I've had the best time, And yeah,
- 46:10Speaker 19: I'll have to start negotiations with my wife.
- 46:13Speaker 18: For next time. A couple of things.
- 46:18Speaker 19: I switched on and I heard Rob bringing the sunshine
- 46:20Speaker 19: and thought I would come in and follow that. I've
- 46:26Speaker 19: ever criticized Rob. That he's put more time into supporting
- 46:29Speaker 19: this team than I ever will, and he brings a passion.
- 46:33Speaker 19: But for me, for my own perspective, if you can't
- 46:36Speaker 19: be excited at the moment, and we know it could
- 46:38Speaker 19: all go wrong, we know it could be I went,
- 46:40Speaker 19: we know the reality, But if you can't be excited
- 46:42Speaker 19: at the moment, that's the point.
- 46:45Speaker 18: But a couple of specific things, Demo, it does seem
- 46:50Speaker 18: the talk then confirmed it. The talk seems to be
- 46:53Speaker 18: ramping towards him being the green dot. And I'm sure
- 46:58Speaker 18: as a personality he's probably absolutely perfect. I'm just concerned
- 47:04Speaker 18: that the priority for Demo has got to be to
- 47:07Speaker 18: have a healthy season, and we've never seen that. And
- 47:10Speaker 18: he's going into what it's officially year.
- 47:12Speaker 19: Four, although the first one was a wipeout, and how
- 47:15Speaker 19: many games as he played ten and he's great. But
- 47:20Speaker 19: before the other day, you know, he got his soreness,
- 47:23Speaker 19: and I know that's normal, but the anxiety is slightly
- 47:26Speaker 19: heightened when it's demo. So I'm sure they know what
- 47:29Speaker 19: they're doing, but just a little bit concerned that in
- 47:33Speaker 19: too many eggs in his basket. The other thing I
- 47:37Speaker 19: wanted to bring was just about the ox and had
- 47:40Speaker 19: experience itself, which is absolutely fantastic. I want to shout
- 47:45Speaker 19: out the offensive line because when practice ends, those guys
- 47:51Speaker 19: I noticed dak as.
- 47:53Speaker 18: Well, and also Ryan Filnoy. I noticed that they stay,
- 47:56Speaker 18: and they stay and they say and they get to
- 47:58Speaker 18: as many as the fans, many of the kids as possible.
- 48:02Speaker 18: And you've got guys there that are aggressively sounding the
- 48:05Speaker 18: who's there, saying, right, we've got to get in there.
- 48:07Speaker 18: I've got to get in there. And I understand there's
- 48:09Speaker 18: a schedule, but I just think those kids, some of
- 48:12Speaker 18: those kids that are only there for one day, and
- 48:16Speaker 18: I'd just like to see.
- 48:18Speaker 2: A little bit more priority for those.
- 48:21Speaker 18: People have got to get to things, but a bit
- 48:22Speaker 18: more priority for the players to get to the kids.
- 48:25Speaker 18: I'm not worried about old guys like me, but those kids,
- 48:29Speaker 18: they'll talk about it when they're sixty that time that
- 48:32Speaker 18: seed Lamb came and find.
- 48:34Speaker 2: My jersey or whatever.
- 48:35Speaker 18: So so yeah, but the guys that I saw really
- 48:39Speaker 18: giving it. It's really cool when players have made it
- 48:42Speaker 18: and they remember that they were that kid the one time.
- 48:46Speaker 18: And Tyler Smith.
- 48:47Speaker 19: In particular, he's a superstar, but he's he's humble and
- 48:50Speaker 19: he's got the time.
- 48:51Speaker 2: So good on him. A thank you very much. Nick.
- 48:54Speaker 18: I'm going to go and for this more and sleek soon.
- 48:57Speaker 4: All right, be safe in your travels back. Yeah, overstrown
- 49:02Speaker 4: just remember though, you know, like he's coming off the
- 49:05Speaker 4: you know, injury that he had last year, and he's
- 49:07Speaker 4: had some injuries and so if he's got any kind
- 49:09Speaker 4: of soreners or whatever, this is the time that you say, okay,
- 49:12Speaker 4: let's you're you're good. So but everyone worries about like, oh,
- 49:16Speaker 4: he missed another practice. What's going on? Well what would
- 49:18Speaker 4: the alternative be? You know what? No, just stay in there,
- 49:21Speaker 4: just fight through it. Here, fight through it on August
- 49:23Speaker 4: the seventh, like just just keep keep going like no,
- 49:26Speaker 4: I mean, this is what you're supposed to do. So
- 49:28Speaker 4: you got to be smart about it. Uh. The fact
- 49:31Speaker 4: that every single thing is reported is what gets people
- 49:35Speaker 4: kind of worried, you know, here and there, But I
- 49:37Speaker 4: mean it's really no different than it's it's ever been
- 49:39Speaker 4: as far as just managing these injuries and getting them
- 49:42Speaker 4: ready to play when they really need to be out there.
- 49:45Speaker 4: As for the autographs, I don't disagree on that. I
- 49:47Speaker 4: wish that they did. I'll be honest with you. I
- 49:49Speaker 4: wish they had they did they they had better. I
- 49:51Speaker 4: wish that the overall we structured it better where they
- 49:57Speaker 4: could get more autographs. And I've seen it. I've seen
- 49:59Speaker 4: there are ways to do it. I wish we did
- 50:01Speaker 4: it a little bit more, because you're right, these young kids,
- 50:04Speaker 4: they they go get back, they get CD they get
- 50:07Speaker 4: these any player they get these autographs for it. You know,
- 50:11Speaker 4: this is what you want to do. This is how
- 50:12Speaker 4: you keep carrying on the tradition without winning a Super Bowl?
- 50:16Speaker 4: How do you do it? How do you get this
- 50:17Speaker 4: fandom just to keep going. It's experiences like that. I
- 50:20Speaker 4: do think we could do better from that. It's a challenge.
- 50:24Speaker 4: It's there's a reason why it doesn't happen as much,
- 50:27Speaker 4: and some of it's on the players, but I do
- 50:29Speaker 4: think there are some there's some ways that you know,
- 50:32Speaker 4: they need to get these these guys to be a
- 50:35Speaker 4: little bit more fan interactive because uh, like you said this,
- 50:39Speaker 4: it's memories for a lifetime, and that's what you're trying
- 50:41Speaker 4: to do, and you're really trying to grow the brand
- 50:43Speaker 4: and fan engagement. There's no better place than not here
- 50:46Speaker 4: to do that. But you know, we'll see that hopefully
- 50:49Speaker 4: that's something that they'll continue to work on. But the
- 50:53Speaker 4: biggest thing is to do that is to go win
- 50:55Speaker 4: football games. And that's what you guys talked about that.
- 50:57Speaker 4: You know, does it feel different, does it look different?
- 50:59Speaker 4: We'll see, but you know what we're about to find
- 51:01Speaker 4: out here before too long. All right, this is our
- 51:04Speaker 4: last show of the weekend. We'll be back different schedule
- 51:08Speaker 4: next week. Stay tuned on the on the website because
- 51:10Speaker 4: we got Tuesday is the Rams practice, and we'll see
- 51:12Speaker 4: about Wednesday Thursday, we'll we'll probably have at least one
- 51:15Speaker 4: show next week maybe too, but stay tuned to the
- 51:18Speaker 4: to the website for that schedule For Chrispy, I'm Nick Eatman.
- 51:21Speaker 4: We will see you next time. On Cowboys Storyline.
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