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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola And this time for the media party,
Speaker 1: postgame press conference and Mike McCarthy slash Dak Prescott pregame
Speaker 1: a press conference or pregame show. Here as we get
Speaker 1: you a set for press conferences coming up shortly from
Speaker 1: McCarthy and Dak Prescott. We got the coordinators later this afternoon.
Speaker 1: But we're burying the lead there. The lead story is
Speaker 1: what did Mickey do at the media party last night?
Speaker 1: I had a good time, you know, no boo in
Speaker 1: Malibu and see you there. I was not there. Some
Speaker 1: of us had to work last night. You mean, I
Speaker 1: know some people can still work stations. Were there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but come on, we got there. I think Dale apparently
Speaker 1: did his live show from outside. He did outside of
Speaker 1: the parking lot. I think because when I saw him leave,
Speaker 1: I said, and he's talking about Dale Hanson Channel eight,
Speaker 1: and uh, I thought that was it. He was going.
Speaker 1: And then because he was coming back this morning and
Speaker 1: then I saw him show up again. I go, I
Speaker 1: thought you had to do your show. He goes. We
Speaker 1: did out in the parking lot. Things that technology has
Speaker 1: changed over the years. He had certain priorities as he
Speaker 1: came to his last training camps. That party was number
Speaker 1: one on his priority lell and he got a go
Speaker 1: and away heard from the owner. I heard that that
Speaker 1: was I went viral on social media last night as
Speaker 1: soon as I had a bow on it and opened
Speaker 1: it up, and it was a box of socks and
Speaker 1: jocks and they looked dirty too, but well, and Jerry
Speaker 1: had his personal that that he was gonna put on
Speaker 1: a head. But that's right. It was pretty funny. So
Speaker 1: does everybody kind of behave themselves kind of anybody jump
Speaker 1: in the ocean or anything like that. Everybody made it
Speaker 1: back safely. Of course, there's a team bus that takes
Speaker 1: everybody back. They had a bus for us if you
Speaker 1: chose to write it, and we wrote it and got
Speaker 1: back and everything went fine. Yeah, it was good. Jerry
Speaker 1: was in rare Form and Steven and Charlotte and Jerry Junior.
Speaker 1: So I don't I didn't see any celebs. The only
Speaker 1: I heard there was a Sean Penn sighting at NOBU.
Speaker 1: But that was basically it for me. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so is that what all we need to know about that?
Speaker 1: I think the highlight was the present. Yeah, but Jerry
Speaker 1: was good. Jerry was It's like Vegas though, everything that
Speaker 1: happens at the media party, stay there taking notes and
Speaker 1: come back and report on it. Okay, right, all right,
Speaker 1: it's a party, but it is something that Jerry and
Speaker 1: Stephen for that matter, love every year, right they Jerry,
Speaker 1: I mean he missed it last year, right, so this
Speaker 1: was making up for lost time. And I think he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he seemed to really really enjoy it, and he stopped
Speaker 1: when he got there. He stopped everything down and had
Speaker 1: a toast and you know, welcomed everybody and so yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good. So, uh, you were here when tech
Speaker 1: Shram was running the show. Yes, what how would you
Speaker 1: compare the relations with the media that Texts had compared
Speaker 1: with Jerry? You know, I think he took some notes
Speaker 1: and learned from Jerry to learn from text kind of
Speaker 1: from text and yeah, and I mean texts. Text would
Speaker 1: go out every night almost and Mickey was right, there
Speaker 1: was a well I was only here during his time
Speaker 1: for one week of training camp each year um and
Speaker 1: then took over when Jerry took over, But yeah, he would.
Speaker 1: There was a place and outside a Thousand Oaks on
Speaker 1: the other side of the one oh one. It was
Speaker 1: in Westlake and was called the Iron Horse, and that
Speaker 1: was kind of the meeting place after everything was said
Speaker 1: and done at night, got your work done, and you
Speaker 1: could about find texts there most nights, holding court, debating
Speaker 1: with the media. It was great. It was the it
Speaker 1: was the great, great theory sessions we used to have
Speaker 1: with And then what I also remember in Thousand Oaks
Speaker 1: is that techs would be up on the tower and
Speaker 1: the difference between texts being up on the tower and
Speaker 1: Jerry being in the owner's tower here is Lee Martin
Speaker 1: Productions would also be there. There were Blue White Scrimmage,
Speaker 1: not just the Blue White Scrimmage, but there was one
Speaker 1: year that Lee Martin and they did daily television report
Speaker 1: that might have been before my time. That was it
Speaker 1: was It was on what was then what Okay, Fox
Speaker 1: Sports it's Fox Sports Southwest is now Bally Sports Southwest.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, it was Home Sports Entertainment. Prior to that,
Speaker 1: it was like Prime something and it was back in
Speaker 1: the early days. All right, bring us up to speed
Speaker 1: on this team. This is a rejuvenation day. It's not
Speaker 1: an off day for the players. In fact, the as
Speaker 1: I walked in, the injured crew was out there and
Speaker 1: suited up, doing rehab, doing stuff. Yeah, and they had
Speaker 1: their what they call mock game. Might cause it mock game,
Speaker 1: it's basically the walkthrough. So they did have a walk
Speaker 1: through this morning for about an hour and a half,
Speaker 1: I guess. And then they're gonna have meetings and as
Speaker 1: you said, probably gonna have to cut this short. We
Speaker 1: had it planned. They were supposed to do the press
Speaker 1: conference twelve fifteen, twelve thirty, but it sounds like it's
Speaker 1: going to be closer to twelve o'clock. Yeah, two o'clock
Speaker 1: Dallas time. And then and then Dak's supposed to also
Speaker 1: speak from the podium today. So yeah, it's not a
Speaker 1: day off. They just don't have the full padded practice
Speaker 1: the way they have in the past two days. All Right,
Speaker 1: this is our first chance to get your thoughts after
Speaker 1: watching the team in the pads this last couple of days.
Speaker 1: Of course, they've had three straight days of practice as
Speaker 1: the last two and pads. Last time we did one
Speaker 1: of these mix shots was on Monday. So what's your
Speaker 1: overriding impression what you've seen right now? How competitive everything
Speaker 1: seems to be. I think there's a lot of competition
Speaker 1: going on between the two units offense and defense. Got
Speaker 1: pretty pretty pretty heated there for a while. I thought that,
Speaker 1: you know, defensively, we've talked about all the open competition
Speaker 1: and all the different spots, and I think that's going on.
Speaker 1: And then offensively now with Dack out for what they
Speaker 1: said a few days, Mike McCarthy said a few days,
Speaker 1: and his definition of a few days is two to
Speaker 1: three days, but it could be longer than that. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing. And he's out there on the
Speaker 1: practice field, he's just not throwing with his right arm anyway.
Speaker 1: Occasionally you will see his But if you if you
Speaker 1: look at the schedule ahead, all right, you got two
Speaker 1: practice is Saturday and Sunday, a day off on Monday,
Speaker 1: a practice on Tuesday, which is their only practice next
Speaker 1: week leading up to Canton travel on traveling on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then they're back here the following h Saturday when
Speaker 1: the Rams will be here to practice with them and
Speaker 1: in my opinion, there's no reason here over the next
Speaker 1: three practices, Steven tested it buys you basically a week
Speaker 1: and then we'll see where he is when the RAMS
Speaker 1: come here. Now I can't remember if there's a practice
Speaker 1: on Sunday after the RAMS or if there's another day
Speaker 1: off and then they have I think, yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I would think after the RAMS, I think that's probably
Speaker 1: as as long as everything clears up. So it's a
Speaker 1: muscle strain in your upper arm here shoulder, and you
Speaker 1: know he's able to run, so it can't be too painful.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you wouldn't be jogging and running around running routes
Speaker 1: for the quarterbacks when they're doing their individual drills and
Speaker 1: throwing the ball underhand with his left arm. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that was encouraging. And then he did conditioning
Speaker 1: work too, so he was on the chords. So yeah.
Speaker 1: We had our photographer CBS eleven Bill Ellis was positioned
Speaker 1: in such a way that on one of Dack's runs
Speaker 1: to the end zone, you could hear him say that
Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot of this scrambling today.
Speaker 1: That was early in practice yesterday, and he was able to,
Speaker 1: you know, take snaps and you know, hand off and
Speaker 1: do stuff like that, so it can't be that painful.
Speaker 1: So you know, he termed it bill as it was tight.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know what his definition of
Speaker 1: tight is, but I think the MRI I termed it
Speaker 1: as a strange mus muscle. And he said it happened.
Speaker 1: It started showing up on Tuesday, and then Wednesday he decided, okay,
Speaker 1: probably need to shut it down and be careful. So
Speaker 1: and to what Mike McCarthy said in the press conference yesterday,
Speaker 1: I guess it was yesterday. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: times you'll see quarterbacks a week nd five practices in
Speaker 1: where they might have some arm fatigue whatever this sounds like,
Speaker 1: because there was an MRI that shows a strain would
Speaker 1: be a small tear right in the muscle, that it
Speaker 1: may be a little bit more than that. But the
Speaker 1: thing is just the most work he's had since the injury.
Speaker 1: Right it was a ball pitcher where you'll go a
Speaker 1: few days into it and you know, they just set
Speaker 1: it back for a couple of days and then go
Speaker 1: back at it. And so there's no there's no cause
Speaker 1: for alarm right now. But and it's early enough it's
Speaker 1: still July. To proceed with caution. And in the meantime, Micky,
Speaker 1: you get a good look at the situation behind that
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Yeah, you get an opportunity. And the other
Speaker 1: thing was going to point out before I get to
Speaker 1: the backups taken over, it's five weeks before they have
Speaker 1: to get into game week for the season openers. So
Speaker 1: they're now just under six weeks before the season opener
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, so less than a week away from
Speaker 1: the first preseason game next Thursday in Kenton. That's right.
Speaker 1: Are you going to be in Kenton? I will not
Speaker 1: be in Kenton. Yeah, well maybe we're We're up in
Speaker 1: the air right now, we are we're making the trip
Speaker 1: or not. But yeah, it gave you know, they were
Speaker 1: rotating snaps with the quarterbacks, and it was hard to say, well,
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert's number two, Denucci's three rushes four or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then yesterday basically Garrett Gilbert's number two, I think
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said it. And then the way they practiced,
Speaker 1: he took all Dak snaps, so he was the he
Speaker 1: was the first one up, and then Denucci and rush
Speaker 1: Um kind of traded going next. So yeah, it gives
Speaker 1: gives gil I mean, think about it. When Gilbert got
Speaker 1: here last year, Bill, you know, he was here what
Speaker 1: two weeks, and then all of a sudden he gets
Speaker 1: thrust into a starting job and he had never started
Speaker 1: a game, uh in the NFL. I think he only
Speaker 1: had thrown a hand full of passes over the years
Speaker 1: he had been in the NFL on the practice squad
Speaker 1: or Barry does the third quarterback or the second they
Speaker 1: didn't get to play. So his ability to get time
Speaker 1: in practice with the first team is invaluable at this point.
Speaker 1: If indeed he wins the backup job, so is the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback on this roster. I would not bet your
Speaker 1: money on it because I think that while they're competing
Speaker 1: against each other, they're also competing against what might show
Speaker 1: up on the waiver wire. And I think that's probably
Speaker 1: been the master plan along. Now. If someone emerges and
Speaker 1: they look like that they can be the guy and
Speaker 1: they can save money, right, great, Yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 1: But at some point the end of August, I guarantee
Speaker 1: you some team releases a quarterback that has more experience.
Speaker 1: It probably has his connection to one of these coaches,
Speaker 1: one of these numerous coaches on this stage, because you
Speaker 1: know they talk about Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy taking
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Will you have Doug Nussmeyer who's been
Speaker 1: around and even Scott Tolzine who's kind of the assistant
Speaker 1: how do you how do you put it? He's the
Speaker 1: helper guy, helper guy hit the quarterback room. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he's been around too. So they've got a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks here to kind of help out. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think with all the new quarterbacks that got drafted
Speaker 1: in the in the first round, I would imagine there's
Speaker 1: going to be some veteran quarterback that's let go and
Speaker 1: we'll have more starting experience than all combined. As as
Speaker 1: much as people like the little bit that they saw
Speaker 1: from Gary Gilbert and against the Steelers last year, as
Speaker 1: far as taking care of the ball and putting the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in a position to win a game against what
Speaker 1: was then an unbeaten team last year, the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is he does not have much experience, even
Speaker 1: at the age of thirty, to be counted on that
Speaker 1: this is a guy that can win multiple games for
Speaker 1: you in a regular and as we know, backup quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have to rely on their experience because they don't get
Speaker 1: once the season starts, they don't get many snaps. So
Speaker 1: the fact that Gilbert's going to get these snaps in preseason,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get snaps in practice, which he didn't have
Speaker 1: any of that last year. He just kind of showed
Speaker 1: up and it was, you know, he was baptized right away.
Speaker 1: Just go in and play. So yeah, that'll help out,
Speaker 1: and it'll help do Nucci out too, because he didn't
Speaker 1: get any of that, and he was a seventh round
Speaker 1: pick and as a rookie you need reps in the
Speaker 1: offseason and he didn't get any. Hey, can I give
Speaker 1: a shout out to loyal listeners of all the podcast
Speaker 1: here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. These are two guys
Speaker 1: I met in the hotel lobby, Yeah, way over here.
Speaker 1: They're from Dallas. They've been here since Tuesday at practice,
Speaker 1: their first time at training camp, and they're headed back today.
Speaker 1: Mike Garner and Mark Dunne. Mike Garner the pride of
Speaker 1: Dallas Carter High School and Mark done out of Dallas
Speaker 1: Pinkston High School from way back in the day. And
Speaker 1: so I shout out to them. I heard I saw
Speaker 1: where your reporting skills came in to play yesterday you
Speaker 1: found the Ralston's. That's right. Well, it wasn't that hard
Speaker 1: because there was a lady with a Ralston jersey yard
Speaker 1: and he figured, yeah, and what Bicky is getting at
Speaker 1: this is a player that is not getting any attention
Speaker 1: at camp. Nick Ralston out of Argyll High School and
Speaker 1: he went to Arizona State and then transferred to Louisiana
Speaker 1: Lafayette and he's a fullback on the roster number forty six.
Speaker 1: And so I saw mom with the forty six jersey
Speaker 1: and what I presume was dad turned out it was.
Speaker 1: And so I said, okay, we're doing an interview right here,
Speaker 1: and now I got to go track down Nick to
Speaker 1: do an interview with him. And there was also Brad
Speaker 1: sham Ran into Kevin Sweeney. Oh really yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: practice the UH strike team quarterback and then they kept him,
Speaker 1: got a start and kind of didn't do all that well,
Speaker 1: and but quarterback fresh texts, yeah, I think it was.
Speaker 1: And tech Shram was just enamored with him, right to
Speaker 1: the point where he got Landry to start him in
Speaker 1: a game, right in a real game, not the the
Speaker 1: UH was at here. Yeah, he was out here yesterday. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Michael Irvin showed up at the party lesson
Speaker 1: I've heard that, yes, yeah, and then that raised the
Speaker 1: level of excitement at the party just having Michael there.
Speaker 1: So but you know what, Mike did talk about the
Speaker 1: fullback position yesterday when he was talking about and he
Speaker 1: was the one that said, you know, teams are kind
Speaker 1: of going more back to two tight or two running
Speaker 1: back sets. Uh, And he said, not only can you
Speaker 1: know we benefit from that if indeed he's good enough
Speaker 1: to make the team, but it also gives the defense
Speaker 1: a chance to uh go up against two running back sets.
Speaker 1: May be close to a press conference Mike McCarthy press
Speaker 1: conference tentatively set for high noon California time, well two
Speaker 1: o'clock Dallas. I see, Uh, the tendon ninus in the
Speaker 1: elbow didn't stop Tyran Smith from walking around. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: but you know, somebody asked me about it, and I said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got that knee brace on his arm that he's
Speaker 1: had for the last couple of years on his lee.
Speaker 1: That's just amazing the thing he has. But anyway, back
Speaker 1: to the fullback thing, who knows, you know, And I
Speaker 1: saw I saw somebody interpet that as, Oh, they're gonna
Speaker 1: run Pollard and Zeke at the same time he was
Speaker 1: talking about a fullback. Mcke mentioned that, you know what
Speaker 1: this means, We got a Mike McCarthy press conference coming
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