Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Flowing out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: Next flowing down the sideline, He's hanging with the Boys,
Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Now your host, Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and
Speaker 1: Shannon Gross. Kurt, we miss you, baby, Hurt. Let's stop, Kurt,
Speaker 1: but you're not, so the show must go on. What's up? Nate?
Speaker 1: Ain't no hot man? You know me and this cat man.
Speaker 1: I love you to death. Man, Shannon Gross, I love
Speaker 1: you to death. But now I ain't no. But hey,
Speaker 1: I I'm saying, Okay, we're gonna have a special guest
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let him introduce that. But I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the guests coming at two thirty, and I'm
Speaker 1: sitting over that just man. He said, come on, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta show to do. I'm like, we're waiting on
Speaker 1: the guests. He won't be here the three fifteen. He
Speaker 1: ain't telling me this, So I get over here, panicking, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't we get me? Why did we get brought us?
Speaker 1: We need an injury update. We need to know who
Speaker 1: miss practice yesterday, he says, if the breaks Nate, we
Speaker 1: didn't have practice. So for you, for those of you
Speaker 1: that listen to this show, if you haven't figured out
Speaker 1: by now, we don't prepare at all for this show. Now,
Speaker 1: we don't. What you see is what you get. It's
Speaker 1: basically we show up and it's exactly what we wanted
Speaker 1: this show to be. Is just really just like two dudes,
Speaker 1: usually with Kurt's here at three, just hanging out talking
Speaker 1: about football, just talking about what you would talk, how
Speaker 1: you would talk with your friends. Honestly, this is how
Speaker 1: we talk when the cameras aren't on, when we're not
Speaker 1: on the air. We go to lunch, we go to
Speaker 1: dinner together, and we just sit around and talk. We
Speaker 1: talk about what's going on on the field, we talk
Speaker 1: about what's happening off the field, what they used to
Speaker 1: do when he played. Yeah, basically we wanted this show
Speaker 1: to be that way. So we we don't really prepare
Speaker 1: for this thing because we just wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: be like now, sometimes we'll go, hey, let's have Nick on,
Speaker 1: let's have brought us on talking about the injuries. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about you know, we want to talk about dbs
Speaker 1: when we talk about receivers, but most of the time
Speaker 1: it's just like about before we come on, it's like,
Speaker 1: what do you want to talk about? I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's just go with it. So so we were going
Speaker 1: with it, and it was like, we gotta get somebody
Speaker 1: on to talk about injuries. I was like, ahead of
Speaker 1: day off, I hope abody got hurt day Hey, look
Speaker 1: at the number is nine seven two four nine seven
Speaker 1: forty four zero zero. Yeah, nine seven two four nine
Speaker 1: seven forty four zero zero. We'll be taking calls because
Speaker 1: last year we didn't. We was new, we wanted to
Speaker 1: get to know each other. But this year here, you know,
Speaker 1: we figured that between Broadest, Mickey and somebody guests. You know,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of information. You know, go to
Speaker 1: Dallas Dallas Cowboys dot com. Yep, we got writers, we
Speaker 1: got Shannon has a new Webb site. You want to
Speaker 1: tell them about your new page you got up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we if you I'm sure most of you've noticed,
Speaker 1: uh we revamped uh Dallas Cowboys dot com. All the
Speaker 1: all the NFL teams are now on the same platform,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of uniform. If you go to one
Speaker 1: one team site, it kind of translates to the other
Speaker 1: team sites. They're still working through some bugs. There's no
Speaker 1: way to download. I know a lot of people voiced
Speaker 1: concerned of I'm not able to download just the audio anymore.
Speaker 1: You have to go to iTunes or or tune in
Speaker 1: radio to uh the tune in app to do that.
Speaker 1: So we're working through some things. But for the most part, man,
Speaker 1: it looks a lot better, it functions a lot better.
Speaker 1: It's uh, there's no search functionality, so we're working on that.
Speaker 1: So a little a couple of little bumps, some bruises
Speaker 1: along the way, but we're working through it, and I
Speaker 1: think for the most part, it's a it's a better
Speaker 1: looking site. It's a lot cleaner. So what what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is Jones's goal? Uh, Derek Eagles and out boss
Speaker 1: what we know? What our goal is? You know, all
Speaker 1: of us, shann On, myself, Night and Kurt when he's here.
Speaker 1: Is we trying to give you all the information, the
Speaker 1: correct information about the Dallas Cowboys and the other thirty
Speaker 1: one members, and then you can make logical conclusions of
Speaker 1: reasons or deductions or however you want to do. Whatever
Speaker 1: your keyword to get your mind going. You know, you
Speaker 1: can make you can make a logical Yeah. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I was talking to Derek about this the
Speaker 1: other day, because before I came to work for the team,
Speaker 1: or before I was over on the media side, you
Speaker 1: always think, you know, usually you go to national media
Speaker 1: for your news. You go to like your ESPNS, your
Speaker 1: you know, your networks and things like that, the NFL network.
Speaker 1: And one thing that I've realized working here for the
Speaker 1: team is that's great. And they have their they have
Speaker 1: their contacts in the organization and their people and stuff.
Speaker 1: But there's nobody that's closer to this team than this
Speaker 1: staffy Mickey has conversations with the man himself, Jerry, all
Speaker 1: the time. Jerry tells him, Steven tells him stuff that
Speaker 1: they don't tell other people brought us, you know, breaks
Speaker 1: down on the film that you know, he's able to
Speaker 1: watch the film that the coach is watching the scouts.
Speaker 1: There's nobody that knows this team like this staff. You
Speaker 1: know what's amazing is I started watching a film that
Speaker 1: brought us maybe three or four years ago, as they
Speaker 1: down as mister Robert Blackwell downloads it because they download
Speaker 1: on the national base, for the other thirty one, for
Speaker 1: the other thirty one teams, and for the commissioner because
Speaker 1: after every practice, so they have a group of people
Speaker 1: that views every practice and make sure they stay within
Speaker 1: the rules. Broadest has this maybe no less than an hour.
Speaker 1: The most I've seen it take was an hour. But
Speaker 1: as things come off the field seven on seven, one
Speaker 1: on one, pass rush, one on one, DBS versus receivers,
Speaker 1: it goes straight to Broadest, and all he gotta do
Speaker 1: is just wait there, man. He and he and he stops,
Speaker 1: and he begins to break down, like maybe forty minutes
Speaker 1: out of practice. He come, turns computer, just get to work.
Speaker 1: You know, we used to watch it with him, but
Speaker 1: it's so intense now for him to get his UH
Speaker 1: notes and news out to you people. So he moved
Speaker 1: us to the next day at ten o'clock because he
Speaker 1: wanted to be able to get all that information out
Speaker 1: firsthand to our listeners and to you know, our viewers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and people don't realize that, like out of all thirty
Speaker 1: two NFL teams, it's US and maybe one maybe two
Speaker 1: other teams that cover that are their organizations let them
Speaker 1: cover them like a legit news outline. Yes, we're able
Speaker 1: to have opinions on the team. We're able to have
Speaker 1: opinions on the coaching decisions. We're able to have an
Speaker 1: opinion on what ownership does. A lot of other teams,
Speaker 1: in fact, most all of the teams, especially in other leagues,
Speaker 1: they they're more of a you know, kind of a
Speaker 1: mouthpiece for the organization. They won't they won't openly they're
Speaker 1: not able to openly criticize or give opinions and things
Speaker 1: like that. And from the beginning when when Derek started
Speaker 1: kind of the internet and the web department along with
Speaker 1: with Jerry, je was junior. They wanted to compete with
Speaker 1: your ESPNS and your Dallas Morning news is and they
Speaker 1: were like, Hey, if we're gonna get in this market,
Speaker 1: we gotta be we gotta be objective. We can't be subjective.
Speaker 1: So they the family's been great as far as hey
Speaker 1: report the news. We're gonna compete with these guys. Report
Speaker 1: the news like it is and and a lot of
Speaker 1: times we'll have a story. You know that that because
Speaker 1: we are the organization, just because we're not first with it,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean we didn't have it. Yeah, if you see
Speaker 1: it on the national news odds are we've had it,
Speaker 1: We've known about it. We just had to whitehead the
Speaker 1: Lucky Whiteheads decision. And Mick knew it right. And when
Speaker 1: I first heard the rumors that Hey was gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: release Lucky, Mickey like he literally sat out and told
Speaker 1: me like, hey, this is the this is the situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And but until it happened, that's the drawbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: having all the infantile information I have having a person.
Speaker 1: It's to the point now, well a lot of times
Speaker 1: I won't even ask Mickey about what's happening. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: I saw you talking to Stephen Jones. What's happening. I
Speaker 1: stopped doing that because that's a conflict of venture. That
Speaker 1: means I can't come to you as viewers and get
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like, Hey, that dude, they
Speaker 1: ain't no good I dude won't be here right, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, so it's a it's a tricky thing, but
Speaker 1: they do allow us. I have said things like you
Speaker 1: have never heard like what happened to Chad's mareen last
Speaker 1: year at Atlanta? Those six acts, most organizations guys of
Speaker 1: our status and where we sit in the organization. But
Speaker 1: I never said, Man, I'm disappointing in the coach and staff, right,
Speaker 1: they that kid should have been out of after the
Speaker 1: third sac and in the second hit. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of these Oh well you know, and that's what
Speaker 1: should have happened, right, And that was one of the
Speaker 1: few times I was disappointed in Jason Garrett as a
Speaker 1: player and now our head coach, you know. But I
Speaker 1: was able to say that and know that well, it
Speaker 1: was a bad scene and it was true as long
Speaker 1: as you report the truth right, and you're not trying
Speaker 1: to say, oh, Jason carrab he's a dumb you know. Nah,
Speaker 1: that ain't how you present it. You present it. You
Speaker 1: just you said, and you said in a fashion that
Speaker 1: it's very respectful to everybody. And that what allows us
Speaker 1: to continue to do ade y'all, to give y'all firsthand information. Yep,
Speaker 1: you're you're allowed to have an opinion, yes, and report
Speaker 1: it like you see it. So yeah, So I for
Speaker 1: you know, working working where I do, now, I realize,
Speaker 1: like if you want, if you want the good stuff,
Speaker 1: like this is the staff that knows, not the national
Speaker 1: people they get it too, but like this, these people
Speaker 1: get it first, and they know what's going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, not some guy that's in the studio that
Speaker 1: only comes out to training camp for two or three
Speaker 1: days and then maybe comes to the Star once a year,
Speaker 1: a talking ahead. It's it's it's these guys. We had
Speaker 1: a guy come out a couple of days ago and
Speaker 1: I'm not not gonna call his name. You want to
Speaker 1: come out from one of the big brands, and it
Speaker 1: dead stuff that was tweeted and and what allegedly mister
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones said, which was all wrong because they edited
Speaker 1: it wrong and they had they retracted it and came
Speaker 1: back with the with the right you know version. But
Speaker 1: this guy, I love him to death. He came out
Speaker 1: and he and they were like, oh, your boys here,
Speaker 1: your boys here, and all these talking about was dead
Speaker 1: in the tweets. That's your national Your national is only
Speaker 1: gonna bring you, uh the glamor uh. And that wasn't glamorous,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was breaking news. It was something
Speaker 1: to get you through the boredom of training camp. But
Speaker 1: we give you Cole Beasley and Cheetah Bay one on ones,
Speaker 1: you know, we give you a Brian Price and how
Speaker 1: for the first time ever I've seen him. He beat
Speaker 1: our center twice, our center in this short history of
Speaker 1: four or five years, I've never been beat twice and
Speaker 1: in a pass rushdry never And what that does for
Speaker 1: Price as as getting his you know, motor going man,
Speaker 1: now he knows. But the next two places came out
Speaker 1: got trashed. But but it's just amazing that if you're
Speaker 1: a cowboy fan, this is where it's that. You know.
Speaker 1: You start with broughd us in the morning and brought
Speaker 1: uson Mickey. They're giving you all updates everything, and then
Speaker 1: you have Derek Eagleton in his group. Uh and Nick
Speaker 1: they bring in what they have to bring it that
Speaker 1: got the shows, right, is it? Derek and Nick still together? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, and uh the missus Taylor's no longer with us,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, she's moved on. I think she's
Speaker 1: your second in command. She does a lot for him
Speaker 1: and help him with the new website and connecting all
Speaker 1: thirty two teams. So then you're at the spot. I
Speaker 1: mean you're at the spot and maybe we'll get into
Speaker 1: some football here in a minute. Quit uh quit two
Speaker 1: now on horn. We need to get we need to
Speaker 1: get Price on the show. Yeah, really man, because that
Speaker 1: show and I'm asking, how do you feel to be
Speaker 1: the first guy to ever beat our center? Even as
Speaker 1: a rookie. He didn't get beat twice in a row.
Speaker 1: You know, it may have been a fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: tile or great because you either win out right, are
Speaker 1: you as a good great battle and you you can
Speaker 1: whoever you are, whoever picking it can go either way.
Speaker 1: But he got him twice. We speaking of having people
Speaker 1: on the show, Jeff heath is gonna stop by, hopefully,
Speaker 1: he said he would on his way out to practice,
Speaker 1: which will probably be close to the end of the show.
Speaker 1: I would imagine around thirty minutes from now he'll he'll
Speaker 1: stop by. So got that to look forward to. What
Speaker 1: uh have you seen anything from him before he gets
Speaker 1: on the show? Have you seen Jeff heath Man? I
Speaker 1: have seen him, and I'm gonna I'm gonna pose the
Speaker 1: question him. He has been up in that line. That's
Speaker 1: something I need to talk to broad Us about. He
Speaker 1: has been up in the line as the eighth defender
Speaker 1: playing up in the box. Yeah, in the box? I
Speaker 1: mean I didn't. I didn't. I don't remember seeing him
Speaker 1: a lot in the box. Last year was it Jones
Speaker 1: or is it something new that we're doing where especially
Speaker 1: against team Blitz, he up in the box. And then
Speaker 1: when we have a team inside run, he's up in
Speaker 1: the box. So and he's reacting real well, he's amidst
Speaker 1: all of this, Earl Thomas, and we need another safety.
Speaker 1: And this is the amazing thing is this kid ain't flinched.
Speaker 1: And I guess coming from special teams working your way
Speaker 1: into what into your position, you've done nothing to tell
Speaker 1: to show the coaches that this guy can't do the job.
Speaker 1: Last year, towards the end of the season, you know
Speaker 1: that he started rotating the secondary. Everybody moved around, and
Speaker 1: guys came out the field. Even our first round picking,
Speaker 1: Jones loved him to death, but even he came out
Speaker 1: the field. But the one constant was Jeff Heaton. He
Speaker 1: stayed on the field. Yep. I think he led the
Speaker 1: team with two picks a three picks last year and
Speaker 1: the year before. He made this dude make plays. He
Speaker 1: make plays. And I'm gonna say this, Let's say we
Speaker 1: do get a guy like like Earl Thomas or some
Speaker 1: other guy. You know, I'm not I'm not into the
Speaker 1: fantasy league football. What else because I believe in dinnim
Speaker 1: with what you have in camp. But he still may
Speaker 1: not be the guy to come off the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he still may not be the safety that Okay, now
Speaker 1: that now that this guy is here, we don't need
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath. He still may not be that guy, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's what I try to tell people that you know,
Speaker 1: we're a great what if organization, But one thing Coach
Speaker 1: Garrett has tried to instill in his players. We basically
Speaker 1: have scoured every situation up until this point. And you
Speaker 1: are the ninety plus guys that we're take in the camp.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna that's how we're gonna plan our practices.
Speaker 1: It's the scouts of y'all, Will McClay u and missus
Speaker 1: Steven Jones to go out and scour right now, every
Speaker 1: coach position, coach, head coach Stephen's a coordinator of its coordinator.
Speaker 1: If they're thinking of something else, they're doing a disservice
Speaker 1: to this team and a disservice to their players. It's
Speaker 1: all as forward to this field every day. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: do you start. That's a good, good thing you brought
Speaker 1: a good question you brought up, or a good point.
Speaker 1: But now that the way they do cuts, they cut
Speaker 1: everybody at once, right before that final preseason game. Know,
Speaker 1: it ain't no cons to that, that's all pro. I
Speaker 1: love that, Yeah, I love that. When do they when
Speaker 1: do so? When no one those guys are going to
Speaker 1: hit the street, right, you know that every team's cutting,
Speaker 1: you know, forty thirty forty guys September first, and you
Speaker 1: get to go, you know you're doing The scouts are
Speaker 1: all they've been working up to that point. That's their year,
Speaker 1: that's their right. Yeah, So at what point do you
Speaker 1: shift your focus a little bit too? All Right? Now
Speaker 1: we gotta go clean up these free agents and get
Speaker 1: the ones that we want. They already the scouts right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we know Will McClay. Because injuries, you gotta play apart
Speaker 1: for injuries. You always got to play apart for injuries.
Speaker 1: You always got to play a part to a guy
Speaker 1: that you would have drafted, a guy that you would
Speaker 1: have signed. Is he better than that guy that's at
Speaker 1: fifty three, fifty two or fifty one? And he's there
Speaker 1: because the scouts got it written. Now, okay, this is
Speaker 1: who we really like, but we wind up with this guy.
Speaker 1: Is that guy there at the same position. WHOA, this
Speaker 1: guy's free. This is who we really like. So they
Speaker 1: may bring him in as that fifty third guy, or
Speaker 1: they may say, man, this practice squad, we're gonna steal him.
Speaker 1: You know. Now we may have to find a spot
Speaker 1: to put him on our on our roster. You know,
Speaker 1: he may not be active on game, but we gotta
Speaker 1: find a place to put him on our roster. When
Speaker 1: you when you scoop like that, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: sign him up to a contract. Yeah, so, uh, when
Speaker 1: they when when they hit, when they hit on the
Speaker 1: step summer first, when everybody cut down the three, you know,
Speaker 1: and then they got a week to get that practice
Speaker 1: squad out of that. But people are gonna be juggling.
Speaker 1: That's when the scout's gonna be coming into Jason. Hey.
Speaker 1: You know when you know it gonna set means, hey, Jayson,
Speaker 1: this is what we got? What do we need? What
Speaker 1: our injury situation? Where are we laughing at? And that's
Speaker 1: what they're just zero in and they starting to do
Speaker 1: that now like okay, out what this guy doing? What
Speaker 1: this guy? So when preseason, when everybody's able to look
Speaker 1: at each other's film, preseason, you gotta this scout looking
Speaker 1: at these guys. This scout looking at this guy. You
Speaker 1: got your pro personnel, which is Chris. I think is
Speaker 1: he over college? He over college? He's over college and
Speaker 1: setting up the uh this deal. So we'll ask them
Speaker 1: when he comes. Yeah. We were talking to one of
Speaker 1: the scouts, one of the college guys the other day,
Speaker 1: and he was saying that that each college scout takes
Speaker 1: two pro teams during this period to help out because
Speaker 1: there's just so many players they're looking at. They'll grab
Speaker 1: two pro teams and start scouting them. They do hit
Speaker 1: the market, they've they've got a little bit. They got
Speaker 1: a little bit and see it in all all comes
Speaker 1: down to two things, where you lacking at and the injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, because if the injuries, that can decimate you
Speaker 1: quicker than anything you know, and and and and then
Speaker 1: if you think that, oh man, you know, we we
Speaker 1: thought it was good at linebacker with out three guys,
Speaker 1: but we need one more off we needed to play
Speaker 1: special teams. We need a linebacker. They may be specific
Speaker 1: in what they wanted, how they look at it, so
Speaker 1: they'll go out and then scour that, you know. Or
Speaker 1: if the wide receivers not panning out, and they thought like, wow,
Speaker 1: we really thought this guy was gonna be okay, this guy,
Speaker 1: but he then is as smart as we thought he
Speaker 1: was a lot, a lot. Then you know you're lacking there.
Speaker 1: So you is it a veteran out there that we
Speaker 1: can bring in. It can make a difference. So if
Speaker 1: a lack that you didn't foresee or injury can can
Speaker 1: can can make you go out there and scour it
Speaker 1: real hard. On September. First, what's going on out? A question?
Speaker 1: Personal question? What's going on with the green shirt today?
Speaker 1: Yesterday you had like a lime sharp ruce greens. Today
Speaker 1: you got like a baby shirt. Oh my god, you're
Speaker 1: gonna deep on me. Let me tell you what happened
Speaker 1: with my lime green shirt? That's a bike riding shirt.
Speaker 1: Could have got pockets in the back. Okay, I can
Speaker 1: get that so when I don't get hit. So yeah, people,
Speaker 1: when I did, you know, I said I'm going to
Speaker 1: ride my bike. I said, I'm because I like leisure
Speaker 1: to the ride, So I was gonna ride out, ride
Speaker 1: out to the beach. So I'm I'm looking for a
Speaker 1: battery for my little speed almich or so I can
Speaker 1: know how far it is out there, right, So I
Speaker 1: get over halfway there and then the guy found may
Speaker 1: just go to CBS Pharmacy at Ace Hardware and get
Speaker 1: your little round battery. That's all you need, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't need a whole deal. So I went and
Speaker 1: found a little Ace Hardware and that gets to Ocean
Speaker 1: Drive the furthest part on silver Stream Beach out an
Speaker 1: ox N. And that it took me two hours to
Speaker 1: get there. I'm feeling good, got my water. You know
Speaker 1: this ether than couple to take a picture of me. Right.
Speaker 1: So at four fourteen my time, I get a call
Speaker 1: from the guy from ESPN. Huh Nate, where are you
Speaker 1: in the build? I said, noah, Man, I had silver
Speaker 1: Stream Beach. You know, I ain't know what silver Stream beach.
Speaker 1: To the end of the couple who's gonna take my picture?
Speaker 1: Was telling me? He said, man, sure when she was
Speaker 1: back at the hotel, because we need somebody to do
Speaker 1: the radio and like thirty five to forty minutes, and
Speaker 1: I thought about it. I said, man, I said, just
Speaker 1: give me an opportunity to do. I said, give me
Speaker 1: an hour, I'll beat there. I'll be there. So I
Speaker 1: looked and it was four to twelve and I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I am riding fast, running lights, going across curbs, and
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be on the air. He remember they
Speaker 1: calling at fourteen. We're supposed to be on the add
Speaker 1: four fifty five. And I'm like, I'm not gonna look
Speaker 1: at it. So you know, you tend to want to
Speaker 1: look at your way look at I'm I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: look at you. Just ride them, jumping over curves, from
Speaker 1: going around corners called oh, get your out of the street.
Speaker 1: And so I finally gets up here gein yard where whatever,
Speaker 1: the old vineyard or whatever, and I finally look at
Speaker 1: it and it's it's four forty nine. So I get
Speaker 1: to my room, get to get my little tablet, everything,
Speaker 1: run over there and get me some water. Run over there.
Speaker 1: It's four fifty three. I made it like seven miles.
Speaker 1: Were you dead? Brother? I slept like a log last
Speaker 1: night and I'm still still. And that's why I had
Speaker 1: on an ugly green shirt. And then now you said
Speaker 1: this shirt there even ugly. Yeah. Yeah, But the things
Speaker 1: you do, you know, for you, you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm I have two teams that you know, the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, which you know I work with you closely
Speaker 1: here on this show, hanging with the Cowboys, but Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com. We'll all be in San Francisco working
Speaker 1: at as a team come next Thursday, and and then
Speaker 1: ESPN is my other partner, you know. And uh, And
Speaker 1: I hate to let people down, you know. I hate
Speaker 1: for them to have to go to national broadcast because
Speaker 1: somebody had an emergency that they couldn't come on that night.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, I don't want I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I want to keep all our local shows intact, right,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what we're trying to tell you earlier.
Speaker 1: The local is where you get the real stories. But
Speaker 1: now the drawback to the local and drawback to what
Speaker 1: we do is are we all compassionate to the players?
Speaker 1: That's a drawback. You know. We can't just come out
Speaker 1: and that stude ain't no good. You know that I
Speaker 1: need to cut him. You know, we can't. We're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do that, you know, just be mean. You know,
Speaker 1: now you could, But the problem with that is you
Speaker 1: got now these dudes, yeah, and now you got to
Speaker 1: ask them to come right, and you're asking them to
Speaker 1: come on your show, and do you favor so yeah,
Speaker 1: there's more of a human element to it. Sir. If
Speaker 1: you're in the studio and you're talking head, you're never
Speaker 1: gonna see this guy. You can talk all the trash
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, you get to know these guys as people.
Speaker 1: You realize, Hey, there's a way. It's just like in
Speaker 1: your job. There's a way to give constructive criticism without
Speaker 1: saying that guy sorry or worthless. And I ain't never
Speaker 1: understood constructive criticism, but I guess it is. I guess
Speaker 1: it's a thing. Yeah, Hey, what Nate, let's take a
Speaker 1: quick break, and we brought up the off day yesterday.
Speaker 1: I want to know. One, I know you rode your
Speaker 1: bike yesterday, but they didn't take up the whole day.
Speaker 1: One what you did yesterday and two what you did. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not important. It shows not about me. How you
Speaker 1: used to spend off days when you play or did
Speaker 1: y'all even get off days back? Yeah, we got them
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I knew it. You knew it. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been on the tour? And I've never walked when anybody.
Speaker 1: I've seen people come through it. I was snatching them
Speaker 1: out of the crowd. I know I've been there. When
Speaker 1: you've done that. Yeah, you should actually take a tour
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Speaker 1: an inside look into the place where the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: training work. You can get your tickets now at the
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Speaker 1: You get to go down and see the weight room,
Speaker 1: get to see where we eat lunch. You get to
Speaker 1: walk by the podcast studio. Sometimes we're shows are on
Speaker 1: the air. When you walk through, you get to see
Speaker 1: the TV studio, Jerry's Hall of Fame, buss the rings,
Speaker 1: the trophies. It's a cool deal, man. If y'all anybody
Speaker 1: out there comes into town to go to a game.
Speaker 1: Make sure you budget some time to go out to
Speaker 1: the Star and see where we're working, you know. And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you not to bring your wife,
Speaker 1: but it's a lot of shops and eitheries out there.
Speaker 1: So you bring your wallets. Yeah, bring your checkbook. Joking, man,
Speaker 1: you write checks anymore? Na, Na? Not all cash and
Speaker 1: credit card? Okay, yeah, but when I'm traveling, I like
Speaker 1: credit card. It's smart. Where do you go? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So what you're doing off day? Yesterday? So we had
Speaker 1: a day off, the players had a day off. Did
Speaker 1: you hang out and you rode your bike? What'd you
Speaker 1: do when you got up? Yes? And we did eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock show. We did this show, and then I just
Speaker 1: kind of chilled out. Man. I went back to your
Speaker 1: room and rested, you know, because I got up at
Speaker 1: five thirty and worked out about five o'clock. I get
Speaker 1: up at four o'clock and get out by five. I'm oble,
Speaker 1: you know, working get up so early. Man, just gotta
Speaker 1: work out and see then I tweet out a few
Speaker 1: positive words and stuff like that. You know, I read
Speaker 1: my bob, But so it takes a little minute. You
Speaker 1: know there's two there's two Twitter accounts out there with
Speaker 1: your name on it. Which was the right one? Uh
Speaker 1: do you know? Uh sixty sixty one Nate Newton six
Speaker 1: at sixty one Nate Newton. That's that's the right one.
Speaker 1: Then the other one it was my old doctor, doctor
Speaker 1: Kim in the Bear attric. And then I had a
Speaker 1: little Facebook paying Hey man, I don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: just I got a you know, and uh wow, ain't
Speaker 1: that something? I don't even know it? See, they all
Speaker 1: linked to each other. So I put one thing in
Speaker 1: one of ith. Yeah, it jumps over to them something.
Speaker 1: Glad of that? I got you? So what So get up,
Speaker 1: work out? Did our show? Rode the bike out too
Speaker 1: far and then had to haul it back to get
Speaker 1: on another show. Right what you do? Last night? Man
Speaker 1: went to the dining hall. Now we had yesterday, we
Speaker 1: had wait lunch brunch. I had brunch with Nate Newton yesterday.
Speaker 1: This this dude, it was going to Sila like all
Speaker 1: the people in the TV department what what what what
Speaker 1: we call our division? Uh? Media? Internet media, Internet media,
Speaker 1: I call the TV Internet media. These guys we're walking up,
Speaker 1: you know, he's walking up with me. We discussing the
Speaker 1: show and we want to have his guests, and he says, uh,
Speaker 1: he sees hellman, he said, Hennel thirty going to Sizzler,
Speaker 1: you know, like this is a big deal like Sizzler.
Speaker 1: So we go up there to get brunch and they
Speaker 1: had some grub. Yeah, you would not have believe. Now.
Speaker 1: I got an omelet and omelet and I don't know
Speaker 1: what else I got, but it was in hash Browns. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But this dude got o hash Browns and then he
Speaker 1: went back and got so Yeah. So they had an
Speaker 1: omelet bar. So I got two scrambled eggs. Right, eggs
Speaker 1: were just right fluffy. I didn't get it on. I
Speaker 1: just got eggs fluffy. And I'm a sucker like the
Speaker 1: way Nate likes French fries. That's the way I am.
Speaker 1: With hash Browns. Yeah. Yeah, I got hash browns. And
Speaker 1: then they had this jambalayah shrimp sausage and chicken. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got a little bit of that because he got some. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then they what else they have up there? Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you went back another time. I
Speaker 1: mean they had crab cake c oh my god. They
Speaker 1: just they went oval board it was good. It was good,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you still wanting the sizzl Well no, no, no,
Speaker 1: They's like, save you money, save you money, just eat here.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, it's like a yearly deal.
Speaker 1: And I always miss out when they go to Sizzler
Speaker 1: and they always talk about it. I kind of want
Speaker 1: to go for the camaraderie. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: I just walked up there with you. I walked up
Speaker 1: there and looked at all of us like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: staying here. Yeah, I'm staying here. Wow, y'all need to
Speaker 1: come out and uh yeah, come out to chance, to
Speaker 1: come out to campus. It's a good scene, it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. And I ain't telling you to come out
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get some autographs. I'm not telling you that,
Speaker 1: but just come out and visit us. And yeah, you
Speaker 1: found you found the schedule. Uh the schedule, I know.
Speaker 1: The visit ox Hard website has the full schedule, has
Speaker 1: our days off, has the practice schedule when you should
Speaker 1: come out, And really it's not it's it's there's people
Speaker 1: out here, but it's not super crowded, so you're not
Speaker 1: fighting for space. Um the players. Usually you know, there's
Speaker 1: no guarantee, but the players usually go over and sign
Speaker 1: some autographs after practice if they're not too tired. Um,
Speaker 1: And if you've never been around this kind of scene,
Speaker 1: it's a it's I mean to us, it's practice. But
Speaker 1: if you've never been around it, or you've never been
Speaker 1: around a pro team, it's it's really a really cool
Speaker 1: deal to come check out. So what'd you do last night?
Speaker 1: Do anything fun? Nah? Man? If you're getting up at
Speaker 1: four in the morning, what time are you going to bed?
Speaker 1: I've been in bed fround about nine nine. Third of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I just fall asleep. I don't know what
Speaker 1: time I fall asleep, but I wake up. The first
Speaker 1: time I wake up, it'd be about two thirty, and
Speaker 1: then I relaxed and go back to sleeping. Next time
Speaker 1: I wake up is right around four, and I'm so
Speaker 1: we'll be through. Back in the day, y'all didn't get
Speaker 1: off days as often as they do now. Right, what
Speaker 1: we did when Coach Johnson got here, we was gonna
Speaker 1: go a minimum of ten days straight of two days.
Speaker 1: So when we first got here, you know, everybody pumped up.
Speaker 1: You know, we get here thout well not thousand oaks.
Speaker 1: We was in Saint Aedd's in Austin, so we everybody
Speaker 1: drive up whatever you know, A few guys will fly up,
Speaker 1: get picked up at the airport, and that day, before
Speaker 1: you know, we all excited. But reality hits. It hits
Speaker 1: around by dinner time when we all get together, had
Speaker 1: that first meeting and they go to telling us what
Speaker 1: we already know. They dreaded inside run. So we open
Speaker 1: camp up as we stretch and do one on one drills.
Speaker 1: The first drill we do as a team is inside run.
Speaker 1: That's where our offensive line and tight ends their defensive line,
Speaker 1: outside linebackers and safeties, and our running backs minus Emmett Smith.
Speaker 1: We will go like twelve plays wide open. When they're
Speaker 1: getting used to it. One no three day break in
Speaker 1: the gate, right out of the gate inside. I mean, man,
Speaker 1: and your hands are not rough yet. You've been all
Speaker 1: off season even though you had many camps. Your hands
Speaker 1: and stuff at all tender. You're trying to tape them up. Man,
Speaker 1: you got nails ripped, you got fingers and stuff bust
Speaker 1: over me. And then it's like the first day. You
Speaker 1: just walk in and you hate to do it, but
Speaker 1: you either get the alcoholic pads or you just get
Speaker 1: some type of an acceptic and just oh because you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't do it, your hand's gonna get it,
Speaker 1: you know. Oh yeah, so you oh my god, man.
Speaker 1: And for the first two days, man, it's like it's
Speaker 1: and by the fourth day, your body just numb. Your
Speaker 1: body just numb. And you know because now because that
Speaker 1: first day you may have just one practice, but the
Speaker 1: second day is back to back. You know, that morning
Speaker 1: you get about, you're on the field by nine, you know,
Speaker 1: you're all by eleven thirty, you're eating, You're going back
Speaker 1: to the room. It's crazy, you can't go. You got
Speaker 1: press at three thirty four o'clock. You back out there,
Speaker 1: and you know, we didn't have inside run in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: They call it something else, but we're back killing and
Speaker 1: slaughter in each other. It was like cannibals, man, and
Speaker 1: uh so twice a day, y'all and then this this
Speaker 1: is what will hurt you. Right, you got friends on
Speaker 1: other teams, right, So Dan Danny Stubbs came from the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. You know, he would call us, you know,
Speaker 1: he would call some of his boys back in the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, like Stills. What the forty nine is
Speaker 1: doing y'all just talking about boy man such and such,
Speaker 1: such and such. Uh, they didn't have one no pads today,
Speaker 1: You'd be like, what, Yeah, they didn't practice in pass today.
Speaker 1: You know, this morning they came out, you know, they
Speaker 1: practicing past maybe like fifteen plays. Then they took them
Speaker 1: off in this afternoon they have one no path and Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Jimmy just but but did that make it out better? Yes? Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: for what he wanted to do, physical was second nature
Speaker 1: to us. We may be moving slow, but we were physical. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and and it's just like if we put hands
Speaker 1: on you, you just gonna say wow. If we grabbed,
Speaker 1: if we hit you, you was gonna say wow. Even
Speaker 1: if we lost the game that team normally lost to
Speaker 1: the next week. We man, we we we we thump you.
Speaker 1: Now we lay on you, bro, you know. And so
Speaker 1: and that's what Jason is trying to get here. But
Speaker 1: every team has to follow the basic same rules. That's
Speaker 1: what I like about today's You know, you don't get advantage.
Speaker 1: You don't get to have five or six extra practices
Speaker 1: you unless you have a new coach. You know, you
Speaker 1: get an extra miny camp or something. But you you.
Speaker 1: Everybody's on the same pay, same rules. Saying now, I
Speaker 1: wish they would hear a little bit more doing training
Speaker 1: camp to get these young guys and get the veterans
Speaker 1: in better shapes. If we can start with all the
Speaker 1: hamstrain pulls or either shortened that five week period. That's
Speaker 1: too long for guys that are coming out here and
Speaker 1: be extra run and explode all over the field. But
Speaker 1: you know, what we did was not as hard is
Speaker 1: what they did in the sixties. Out of the seventies.
Speaker 1: In the seventies, these have six weeks, six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: The rookies would be here a whole month before the
Speaker 1: veterans came. Wow, and can you imagine that's when they
Speaker 1: had almost two hundred players. Two hundred players, man, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine being out here a whole month longer, much
Speaker 1: less if I'm out there grinding every day getting fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars a week. Jeez. So what did you do? What
Speaker 1: was the typical off day for you back back during
Speaker 1: training camp when you were playing. I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: holding no kids, ain't looking drink, Yeah, relaxed, he's getting
Speaker 1: the hot drink, you know, because he This was our
Speaker 1: off day, we'll have practice. Get out of practice at
Speaker 1: about five thirty. Here, y'all got the night off. Being
Speaker 1: by two, you wouldn't even know you were getting the
Speaker 1: night off. You got the night off being by two.
Speaker 1: So by the time we finished showering up, cleaning up
Speaker 1: at seven thirty, so everybody's sprinting off the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, so you get to you you know, some
Speaker 1: guys like to go out and eat together, some guys
Speaker 1: you know, you know, but and wives. Even if you
Speaker 1: did have your wife here, it wasn't no place to
Speaker 1: put her. Yeah, it wasn't no hotels. I mean you
Speaker 1: had to go down the street and and and and
Speaker 1: the way they had meeting set up, I mean, your
Speaker 1: wife would just basically she better be able to entertain
Speaker 1: her stuff and the kids because it won't be no time,
Speaker 1: no free time. Oh man, you have meetings in between.
Speaker 1: They stopped that eventually having meetings in between practice. But
Speaker 1: after practice, you know, you you you you get through
Speaker 1: a practice, you eat around between six and whatever, then
Speaker 1: you go straight to meetings. And they won no capital
Speaker 1: no meetings. You know, if you had a bad day
Speaker 1: and the coach felt like he didn't needed to talk
Speaker 1: three hours you was gonna be in that meeting. Man,
Speaker 1: you come trouting back to the room. Bout ten, lady,
Speaker 1: I mean, what you got for your wife and your kids?
Speaker 1: Ain't got nothing sleep? Sleep? Something wrong with daddy? Mommy
Speaker 1: er since he shot out, he'd been sleeps daddy. All right,
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's take a quick break. Oh never mind,
Speaker 1: let's not take a break. Not taking a special guest
Speaker 1: approaching Yeah, table here, Jeff heat's walking up, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna let him sit here in the middle. That's up. Man. Wow, man,
Speaker 1: how you doing, Jeff? How tall are you? Jeff? I
Speaker 1: mean just hollow that out? Brother. Uh, hey, you're still
Speaker 1: that on. Appreciate you coming on, man, Yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. Bet you bet No, we know you're heading
Speaker 1: out to practice, so we'll get you out of here
Speaker 1: on times, Yes we will. How is it the first
Speaker 1: uh first few days out here? Man? Feels good? Man,
Speaker 1: It feels good to get back out here. Um, put
Speaker 1: the pads on, get our football legs back underneath us. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, first couple of days of full pads every
Speaker 1: year feels a little sloppy. You're still trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: work out the kings. But now I think, um, next
Speaker 1: couple of days here we should settle in and uh
Speaker 1: start getting a lot better. Yeah. Yeah, quickly walk us through,
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath from your early stages, whether you want to go,
Speaker 1: started college, high school, start where you feel comfortable, and
Speaker 1: get up to today. Okay, uh shoes. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: just start with my rookie year. Um. I mean, man,
Speaker 1: I came out or came from a small school at
Speaker 1: a small D two school, came here my rookie year
Speaker 1: and not really knowing what to expect. M learned a
Speaker 1: lot on the fly, you know, learned a lot through experience.
Speaker 1: I would say mostly on field experience good and bad.
Speaker 1: And I think really my mentality for my entire career,
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, whether it's a good experience
Speaker 1: or bad experience, treat him the same way, learn from them,
Speaker 1: and you know, figure out how how that can helped
Speaker 1: my game in the long run. And then uh really yeah,
Speaker 1: as the years gone, I'm just got more and more comfortable.
Speaker 1: And D two school, yep, D two talk too? Who
Speaker 1: D two who? Uh Saginaw Valley State, Michigan, the Gleatt Conference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you always was a dB. You played other positions,
Speaker 1: but I played uh well in college. I was a
Speaker 1: dB only high school. I did a little bit of everything. Uh, dB, receiver, kicker, partner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we saw you kicking skills, man, you were a pretty
Speaker 1: solid YEP. I was a soccer player. Uh. Soccer is
Speaker 1: actually my first sport. I started playing soccer and I
Speaker 1: was about four years old. I played soccer really all
Speaker 1: the way up until my senior in high school. Um,
Speaker 1: and then you know, time camera, I had to side
Speaker 1: whether to play soccer in college or football in college.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, football was always my true love.
Speaker 1: But uh, soccer, but you better. Uh. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: I was better. I was just um I was. I
Speaker 1: was more recruited for I think I was. You know,
Speaker 1: the team I was playing on, we would travel all
Speaker 1: over the place. We would go all these showcase tournaments.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I was really out there, um
Speaker 1: in terms of soccer. But I've always loved football. You know,
Speaker 1: Dad played, Grandpa played. Dad coaches, so um pretty much,
Speaker 1: I just said, you know, if I could get any
Speaker 1: opportunity to play football in college, I was gonna take it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who recruited you for soccer? Uh? You know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of uh so, a lot of the Michigan schools,
Speaker 1: Oakland University, University of Michigan, UM, some of the team
Speaker 1: University University of Chicago, a lot of Midwest teams, East
Speaker 1: Coast teams. But you know, really before my senior year,
Speaker 1: I had already decided, you know, football was gonna be
Speaker 1: my sport. I was done with soccer, so, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: who knows what would have happened. Man, Luckily, I think
Speaker 1: I made the right choice. People ask me all the time,
Speaker 1: like who's the most athletic guy on the team, and
Speaker 1: I was like, believe it or not. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Jeff Heath in the conversation just because
Speaker 1: like soccer football. Hell, you got out there, you kicked
Speaker 1: a pro in a pro How was that we hadn't
Speaker 1: talked to you since then? Was that crazy? I was insane? Man, Um,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun, you know, I was
Speaker 1: actually Uh, I think it was good that I didn't
Speaker 1: have much time to kind of think about it, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of I was told right before and I
Speaker 1: was a little nervous at first, and then um, you know,
Speaker 1: I pretty much just told myself like I'm not the kicker.
Speaker 1: No one expects me to get, no one expect me
Speaker 1: to make it, So I'm just gonna go have fun
Speaker 1: with it. And uh, um, you know, luckily, I think
Speaker 1: we were up a lot in the game at that point,
Speaker 1: so that made it probably a little bit easier. But
Speaker 1: it's just had a lot of fun, you know, all
Speaker 1: the all my teammates, coaches. It was just h it
Speaker 1: was really fun to What was a cooler moment for you,
Speaker 1: kicking in a pro game or the Oakland game where
Speaker 1: you saved the touchdown and had to hear Cavan call
Speaker 1: you the goat the rest of the night. You know
Speaker 1: what I think? Uh, I think the Oakland game, Um
Speaker 1: was cooler for me only because, uh the implications of
Speaker 1: that game. You know, we needed to win to keep
Speaker 1: our season alive, and um, you know that a game
Speaker 1: like that, you do you know that's for guys like wet,
Speaker 1: guys like Sean, you know, guys who have invested so
Speaker 1: much into the Cowboys for so long and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, just wins. The guy who really comes to
Speaker 1: mind when I think about that game, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about how excited he was after the game, and you
Speaker 1: know he's in his fifteenth season, and uh, if we
Speaker 1: lose that game, we're done. Um, so you know we win,
Speaker 1: h we had the ability to you know, try to
Speaker 1: win out and make the playoffs. UM, that was just
Speaker 1: a really cool moment for really everybody. Hey man, you
Speaker 1: you you you came up the hard way specialty tipping
Speaker 1: about that. How you felt man, each graduation man, each
Speaker 1: each move man talked through that. Well, yeah, I knew.
Speaker 1: Uh so you know, coming in I was I was
Speaker 1: not naive. You know, I was an undrafted player. I
Speaker 1: knew that. Um, if I had any chance of making
Speaker 1: the team, not only was I gonna need some breaks,
Speaker 1: I was gonna need a little bit of luck. I
Speaker 1: was gonna a lot of things had to go my way.
Speaker 1: But you know I had to control what I could control,
Speaker 1: and that was, um when I was on the field
Speaker 1: and all the kicking game stuff, just you know, playing
Speaker 1: my butt off and trying to stand out as much
Speaker 1: as I could then and uh, you know that was
Speaker 1: kind of my world for well, actually, you know, my
Speaker 1: rookie year actually had to UM. I ended up playing
Speaker 1: a lot of safety that year. He had some injuries.
Speaker 1: But you know, the next couple of years, my world
Speaker 1: was really uh special teams, trying to be the best player.
Speaker 1: I could, you know, a little spot duty at safety
Speaker 1: certain you know, dying packages and stuff like that. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think really my mentality is, uh, whether
Speaker 1: it's on kickoff team, punt team, or at safety, at dying,
Speaker 1: whatever I'm doing, I just try to you know, do
Speaker 1: my job, and uh, if the opportunity sent itself to
Speaker 1: make a play, I just try to capitalize. Just a
Speaker 1: question I have to ask you, man, because I've been
Speaker 1: I watched team blitz and I'll watch inside a team
Speaker 1: run and and and I didn't notice last year. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's just bad on my part, But you're end
Speaker 1: the I see you in the line a little more.
Speaker 1: Is that Is that me missing something? Or is that
Speaker 1: true that you're up on the line a little bit? Think? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: so far in camp this year, I've been up a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Um, you know, just with the personnel
Speaker 1: we have. Xavier is really good in the back end.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, in our system, safety is we
Speaker 1: have to be interchangeable because we'll both be up there,
Speaker 1: we'll both be back. But I think I've grown a
Speaker 1: little more comfortable playing closer to the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: and reacting will brother, Yeah, I feel I feel good there.
Speaker 1: Try to keep you big lining off. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'll be able to hold up taking you guys on
Speaker 1: all time. So um yeah, I just try to, you know,
Speaker 1: use my speed and stuff like that to my advantage
Speaker 1: when I'm in the box. Now, Chris Rashad, is I've
Speaker 1: got that right, sir? Okay, We're not gonna even try
Speaker 1: to say what is he to the compared to other coaches?
Speaker 1: Know what has he meant for you guys up until
Speaker 1: this point? He's been great so far. Man. He Uh,
Speaker 1: obviously he brings a ton of knowledge. He's coached some
Speaker 1: really good players, some really good defenses. So he brings
Speaker 1: tons of knowledge, tons of energy, attitude, really everything that
Speaker 1: I think a young secondary and especially a young secondary especially, Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's the type of guy we need. And uh,
Speaker 1: we have all the pieces, man, we have the we
Speaker 1: have the coaches, we have the we have the guys,
Speaker 1: we have the personnel. So now it's up to us,
Speaker 1: up to the barn and I, you know, leaders of
Speaker 1: the room, to kind of we need to set the standard.
Speaker 1: We need to keep the standard very high. And um,
Speaker 1: you know tension to detail all that, all those little
Speaker 1: things is what's gonna hopefully um take us to that
Speaker 1: next step that we all want to be at. Now
Speaker 1: before we got two questions that you are guinea pea,
Speaker 1: it's not bad. We can either ask you who's the
Speaker 1: love of your life? Or what's your last gas chamber meal?
Speaker 1: Explain with the last shaky what would be your last meal? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I like, yeah, I feel like yeah, whatever one
Speaker 1: you think you can, because you are guinea peaks. Both
Speaker 1: love my life? He's ask my wife? Right, my family?
Speaker 1: My last gas chambermil um shoot, probably a steak, steak
Speaker 1: and potatoes, but grilled grilled by me? Right? Okay? Yea,
Speaker 1: how do you agree with your steak? You do anything specially?
Speaker 1: So I do you know, if I have if I
Speaker 1: have some time, I'll fire up the egg. I'll do
Speaker 1: you know, reverse your method? Much about that? And then
Speaker 1: uh so you got an egg? Huh yeah, I got
Speaker 1: to kick everything on it, you know. I actually I
Speaker 1: have a gas girl, and I have the egg. And
Speaker 1: if I have some time and if uh you know,
Speaker 1: if it's only like me and my wife, I use
Speaker 1: the egg. But if I'm like burgers or something, with
Speaker 1: for all the guys. Uh, eggs a little takes too long,
Speaker 1: so I'll just use the gas girl for that. But
Speaker 1: I think everything tastes better on the egg, and I
Speaker 1: prefer to use egg. Yeah yeah, okay, So what do
Speaker 1: you like? What are you into now? Like off the field?
Speaker 1: You travel an in the off season? Hunt fish? What
Speaker 1: do you what do you do like traveling? Um? So,
Speaker 1: I actually just my wife and I bought a spot
Speaker 1: in Colorado. Whoa the mountains yep, so we uh we
Speaker 1: love guy. She's got jeep guy, truck guy. I'm a
Speaker 1: chuck guy, a chuck and I have I like man.
Speaker 1: I like cars too, Okay, I like going fast. Okay,
Speaker 1: have a Yeah, I have a little toy. But toy
Speaker 1: it's a Nissan gt R. Okay, wow, yeah, it's pretty fun.
Speaker 1: I took that actually Byron and I. Uh he's got
Speaker 1: a little BMW and three. We took it to a
Speaker 1: track in the off season. Took it to the track.
Speaker 1: You know, um did that So that was fun. But man, really,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty late back. Like relaxing, traveling, seeing
Speaker 1: some cool spots and uh, you know, seeing family, seeing
Speaker 1: friends and just hanging out. What's the coolest place you've
Speaker 1: been to so far? Um, so I went u last offseason,
Speaker 1: I went on a trip to Costa Rica. Yeah, Costa Rica.
Speaker 1: That was really cool. It's man, it's beautiful. We stayed um,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't we didn't do the resort route.
Speaker 1: We stayed at like this private little house is kind
Speaker 1: of way back in the mountains, way up the you
Speaker 1: know trail. Yeah, we have the trail. So we're out
Speaker 1: there all alone. Um, a bunch of cool stuff to do, man,
Speaker 1: beat I mean, if you're a beach guy, you got that.
Speaker 1: You got to you got the jungle, you can do
Speaker 1: that all these hikes. So that was a great time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we need to know the time because it's three
Speaker 1: twenty two. Okay, time you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 1: I gotta be out there at three thirty five. Okay,
Speaker 1: so keep you seven now, since you and Byrne went
Speaker 1: racing on the track, who's the true faster gout in
Speaker 1: the field? True faster go on the field? I mean,
Speaker 1: ain't time about king about flat out straight speed. So
Speaker 1: depends on what we're running. If we run anything, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, if we run anything from one hundred yards
Speaker 1: or less, I think I got him. Okay, if we
Speaker 1: get a little further, like if we were on the track,
Speaker 1: we were out four hundred, I think Byron might get me.
Speaker 1: He's got more a little more endurance type spe r.
Speaker 1: But uh, I mean we test, we test our twenties,
Speaker 1: so I mean the number really man when we go
Speaker 1: because I compete with Byron and just about every all
Speaker 1: the offseason we work out together and we're competing, and
Speaker 1: we really we go back and forth most of the time.
Speaker 1: So he'll win one, I win one. We're pretty pretty even.
Speaker 1: Who's the fastest guy on the team right now, because
Speaker 1: there's been on Austin is Yeah, he's got I mean
Speaker 1: his speed is like, it's just you guys shouldn't run
Speaker 1: that fast. You guys shouldn't be able to run that fat,
Speaker 1: especially with pads on and the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. That's crazy. I hate you, man, that's a
Speaker 1: guy give you just don't wake up. You know you
Speaker 1: either wake up and you had that UK. We can't
Speaker 1: teach that, you can't. Yeah, So you talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: back to a little bit back to football, about the
Speaker 1: young guys on the team. You're like an old man
Speaker 1: on this team that like overnight, you went from you're
Speaker 1: like the old guy, know, just in the dB room especially.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, but uh, I mean that's kind of how
Speaker 1: the NFL works. Yeah. Um, you know you always go
Speaker 1: through transition periods where you're either going from young to
Speaker 1: more veteran players or tons of vets to really young team.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously last year we drafted shoot with
Speaker 1: four rookies. Yeah, we draft the four rookie dB. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, we lost a lot of guys who had
Speaker 1: played a lot of football and great leaders on the team.
Speaker 1: But you know, whenever guys like that leave, it just
Speaker 1: opens the door for you know, guys like myself, Byron
Speaker 1: and then a lot of these young guys to you know,
Speaker 1: step out of their comer zone a little bit and um,
Speaker 1: you know, take on that leadership role. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: see a young guy like I'm sure you see every
Speaker 1: training camp tons of guys like you just doing whatever
Speaker 1: they can to get on the team and get their
Speaker 1: foot in the door and just work. Do you ever
Speaker 1: grab those guys and say, hey man, let me do
Speaker 1: a little more of this, a little less than the
Speaker 1: absolutely man And I really appreciate those guys, because uh,
Speaker 1: you know, something that I've tried to really focus on
Speaker 1: is I can't forget how what got me to this point.
Speaker 1: You know, I've I've gotten to this point through through
Speaker 1: hard work and um, you know, taking advantage opportunities. And
Speaker 1: I see guys out here that are in the same
Speaker 1: shoes that I was in, uh you know, six years ago,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I'll pull those guys side and
Speaker 1: you know, let him know. Hey. Man. You know, like
Speaker 1: especially when we get into the games, Like, man, you
Speaker 1: can't always control whether the ball comes to you. You
Speaker 1: can't control like your stats necessarily, but you definitely can
Speaker 1: control how you look on film. That's a lot of it. Man.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta do something to stand out, whether
Speaker 1: it's you gotta be around the ball, whatever, whatever asset
Speaker 1: you have that makes you good football player, that's what
Speaker 1: you need to put on display. So, uh, did anybody
Speaker 1: grab you when you were coming up? Was there that
Speaker 1: one guy that was always supporting you and had you
Speaker 1: and was kind of in your year? Yeah? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: actually Bury Church he was that guy for me. And
Speaker 1: he wasn't I forget what year he was when I
Speaker 1: was a rookie, but Um, he wasn't that much older
Speaker 1: than me. You know, I think that he might have
Speaker 1: been going into his fourth year, I think, and uh,
Speaker 1: but he you know, he was also undrafted, did the
Speaker 1: special teams his rookie year, and he really he really
Speaker 1: helped me out. And then you know, I would say
Speaker 1: the number one guy who helped me out the most
Speaker 1: was coach Pisacha. But let me and I was thinking
Speaker 1: he was gonna make a move and you wouldn't he
Speaker 1: went to old. Yeah, I was like he made just
Speaker 1: this week, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: he loved this guy. I love you man. I'm under contracts,
Speaker 1: but I mean he was. He was huge for me,
Speaker 1: not only obviously I needed to play well for him,
Speaker 1: but that was it went way further than that. You know,
Speaker 1: it was kind of, Um, I think he's got he's
Speaker 1: got a really good feel for like how guys are
Speaker 1: feeling throughout the ups and downs a training camp. And
Speaker 1: you know, if I was, if he sensed that I
Speaker 1: was a little down or like having a tough day,
Speaker 1: get going, he would always you know, pull me aside,
Speaker 1: give me a little kicking the butt, and get me going.
Speaker 1: So I owe a lot to him. Man, and he
Speaker 1: you know, I keep in touch with him. Still. He's
Speaker 1: a great He's gonna be a great mentor for me.
Speaker 1: Let me take them one day. My phone wrong about
Speaker 1: two weeks outter he left my phone wrong. Oh what Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for treating me fairly. I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for you know, for stopping and
Speaker 1: talk to me. I mean, and most of the time
Speaker 1: he's stopping you. Yeah, but yeah, man, I was so honored. Man. Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: thank you and I wish you the best. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: that type of guy is man, he's about man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why. I mean, he's got If you ask any
Speaker 1: any guy who's played for him, played against him, anyone
Speaker 1: who knows him really will probably give you the same answer.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, you know. So that's wow. Man. Well may
Speaker 1: we see your your teammates starting to file out, so
Speaker 1: we know you got to go to practice. We appreciate
Speaker 1: you stopping by man. Best of luck man. Yeah, Man,
Speaker 1: you look hard, bro. Yeah, I appreciate Yeah, you look
Speaker 1: hard man. You take that anyway you want not Wow.
Speaker 1: So man, we're looking forward to a great year. More question,
Speaker 1: you're crazy sucks like Shannon Uh, you know, I have some,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. I can't pull that off. These are
Speaker 1: these are a little over the top today. If I
Speaker 1: do that, I gotta cover them with Genie, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta wrap him up, all right. We appreciate it, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to a great season and we'll be I
Speaker 1: guess we're back again tomorrow, same time, two thirty to
Speaker 1: three thirty. We try to get another guy on tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so check us out. Nate Janning hang with the boys.