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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: Star in fris j Elliot flowing to the live s's

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Speaker 1: got pictures back today? And now your hosts Isaiah Stanback,

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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's It's another

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Speaker 1: edition of Talking Cowboys this twenty twenty one offseason impresented

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Speaker 1: and in person because one of us is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just virtual again. Hey hey, Isaiah, you're looking great down there.

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Speaker 1: You're looking nice and sunny and you look fantastic. Look

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Speaker 1: at that freshly shaved I mean, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Where are you at? Man? It's just a little family vacation,

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Speaker 1: you know, just taking the family out. They just got

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Speaker 1: out of school. You know, we got the season coming up,

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Speaker 1: to get back to it. I'm impressed. If I were

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Speaker 1: doing that, I would not be doing the show today.

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Speaker 1: That's dedication. Yeah, I would. I would see you guys

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Speaker 1: next Monday. That's dedication right there. You know what he

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Speaker 1: like Bain said, we're here for the people. Why why

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Speaker 1: would that the reference? Why why did we have to

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Speaker 1: go straight to people and we're here for them? We gotta,

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Speaker 1: you know, we gotta have one a show at least. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fair maybe villain reference, but hey, yeah, no, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate your We appreciate your dedication. And how about that

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Speaker 1: for the listeners at home, you get to steer still

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Speaker 1: here Isaiah stand Back, even though he's a little just,

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Speaker 1: we still have him in our hearts here we're talking Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: But outside of isaiahs stand back, we've got Rob Phillips,

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Speaker 1: heck My Horiston, I'm Kyle Yeoman's driving the bus here

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Speaker 1: for the next hour. As OTAs begin today here from

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Speaker 1: the Star and Firstco. Now, we don't necessarily get a

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Speaker 1: chance to watch any of these OTAs at least today,

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Speaker 1: because media availability is tomorrow and it's raining outside here

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Speaker 1: team anyways, so OTAs on the horizon, we're gonna kind

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Speaker 1: of preview exactly. Hey, there's a good live looking outside.

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Speaker 1: Great job Chris Beam and Scott Purcella watching. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: the Toastito's Championship plaza as it is rainy and stormy,

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Speaker 1: nasty outside, but inside we get to talk about OTAs.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna preview it coming up here in just a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. But first I wanted to ask you

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Speaker 1: guys a question. I was asked this the other day

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Speaker 1: question to me. Katon Gates came up with the question,

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Speaker 1: and ultimately it's who has the most pressure? And we

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Speaker 1: talked about offense and defense last week, right and we

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Speaker 1: talked about how there's different types of pressure on both

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Speaker 1: of those sides of the football. But who has the

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Speaker 1: most pressure from a coordinator standpoint, Dan Quinn or Kellen Moore?

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore entering his third year, dan Quinn of course

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Speaker 1: in his first year as the defensive coordinator, different types

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Speaker 1: of pressure certainly, But Rob, if you had to put

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Speaker 1: of the two, who has more pressure to succeed heading

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Speaker 1: into well, this upcoming offseason, this upcoming training camp, than

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Speaker 1: preseason than the season. Who would you put it on

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Speaker 1: dan Quinn? Easy? Easy, dan Quinn, And not that he's

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Speaker 1: last year. We're bringing you in because this has to

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Speaker 1: next level. So and he's here, by the way, because

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Speaker 1: he's got a great track record, great resume, but he's

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to change his game, doesn't have to introduce

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Speaker 1: And there are things that they've got to improve on offensively,

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Speaker 1: no question about that. But dan Quinn starting from scratch

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Speaker 1: That's what didn't happen last year. So he's got to

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Speaker 1: But doesn't mean that Kellen Moore doesn't have a little

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let Isaiah answer first, and then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell Heck my wife, that's a coward answer or Isaiah,

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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't. Unfortunately, I can't see my boys

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Speaker 1: heck said on the Captain Obvious. But for for three reasons,

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Speaker 1: dan Quinn number one is coming in and he's expected

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Speaker 1: a historically bad defense. Not only does the historically bad

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Speaker 1: They're expecting that that same type of energy, that same

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Speaker 1: Is it dan Quinn specifically? What did you say? I say,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like Kyle trying to tell tell her to

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Speaker 1: tell the people that you're playing it safe. Sir, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I was saying. I mean, to choose a side.

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Speaker 1: I want you to be one certain. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's heat on both of them. What are you talking about.

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Speaker 1: You go six and ten, you don't have the success

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Speaker 1: they get all of the heat on them because they're

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Speaker 1: historically bad. But because of the quarterback carousel and your

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Speaker 1: One person doesn't miss heat over another one. Kyle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so don't start no sh you won't be no I

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Speaker 1: this morning. That's fair, Okay. So yes, Basically, the reason

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Speaker 1: Isaiah said, he's got that mentality of having to come in.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if the legion of boom is

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Speaker 1: the expectation. That's surely the goal. We would love for

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Speaker 1: the reason why. And I wanted you to kind of

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Speaker 1: I guess twenty eighth is what it ultimately was. Defensively

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Speaker 1: I'm as as they said, and white man can jump.

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Speaker 1: scoring touchdowns at like fifty percent. But who has more

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Speaker 1: We've got mail back Monday coming up here in a

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys do sign a wide receiver. There's been a

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Speaker 1: But Johnny Dixon wide receiver who was with the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: That was the wrong Jay, wrong Jay. We can't really

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Speaker 1: talk about it. But Johnny Dixon five eleven receivers, two

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all I know. Okay, Well, played at

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Speaker 1: Spent time with the Cardinals and the Browns this spring

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Speaker 1: Not yeah, not the jay anybody's hoping for. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: so that's fun. There's Johnny Dixon on his way though. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this mail bag Monday question. And of

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Speaker 1: course you can go read the answers from Rob and

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Speaker 1: the group on Dallas Cowboys dot com and see the

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Speaker 1: entire mailbag article. But Bradley and I what you've been

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Speaker 1: That's that's a I'm sorry, that's a good reference to

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Speaker 1: When you hear in your bag, that's what you think? Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got it. I can hear Jimmy. That was awesome,

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Speaker 1: don't even know where to go from here. Is there

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Speaker 1: a chance we may see Bradley and I anywhere but

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Speaker 1: the bench this upcoming season. Seems like he was in

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Speaker 1: high regard when he was drafted, but he never got

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Speaker 1: any playing time. That was from Larry's shoemaker from which

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Speaker 1: tall falls, Texas greatest place on God's Green Earth, Rob,

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Speaker 1: you answered this question, so I'll let you start this off.

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Speaker 1: Bradley and I now in a crowded room of edge rushers,

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Speaker 1: where do you see him falling at? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough. I mean I think if you

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Speaker 1: just look at his measurables and we talked, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've talked more about arm length than the last two

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Speaker 1: weeks with football players and I ever have in my life.

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Speaker 1: And that was like the big knock on him coming

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Speaker 1: out like that in his forty time, or why he

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Speaker 1: So if you just look at his measurables, you think, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's not a dan Quinn type of guy, but

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Speaker 1: he's got a great motor, he's got good technique. He

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Speaker 1: was very productive in college I'm surprised, guys, he didn't

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Speaker 1: play last year. I don't really understand that, especially when

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Speaker 1: things were going down the tubes in November, um and

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Speaker 1: even December. So, but he's got competition. They signed Terrell

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Speaker 1: draft Chauncey Golston. You know that's a dan Quinn type

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Speaker 1: of pick. So, uh, you know he's not he's not

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Speaker 1: with the current regime. The drafted him, and that's always tough.

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Speaker 1: But I tried to make it seem like a night

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Speaker 1: I was starting that. Yeah, are you serious? Yeah? John Owning,

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Speaker 1: uh Dallas More News. He does great works. That's what

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Speaker 1: he wrote about him when he got drafted. He did right,

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Speaker 1: little t rec I think I m him afterwards too. Well,

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Speaker 1: that is that's hard. But I will say this, you know,

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Speaker 1: as far as the competition in that room, I think

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Speaker 1: you know, there are no dan Quinn guys it Can

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Speaker 1: you make plays? Can you get to the ball. That's

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Speaker 1: all he cares about. And look, I feel like as

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Speaker 1: far as the measurables are concerned, all of these guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna get a fair shot to plead their case

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Speaker 1: for what they can do during season. A lot of

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Speaker 1: it's gonna come down also two special teams. How many

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Speaker 1: of these guys can get those special teams? Rep? If

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Speaker 1: you can't, then that's gonna keep you from making the

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Speaker 1: fifty three and actually getting on the field. So look,

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Speaker 1: I don't look, there's a there's so much to be

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Speaker 1: made of the measurables and who's a dan Quinn guy

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Speaker 1: and who isn't I don't believe in that. The same

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Speaker 1: thing with Francis Bernard in him being a shorter guy

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Speaker 1: in the linebacker room, will he make an impact as

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Speaker 1: well with the linebacker room being as crowded as it is.

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Speaker 1: I think because his ability to get on the field

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Speaker 1: and special teams, it makes him a viable option as well.

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Speaker 1: That's fair, That's fair. Hi, Sam. There is a such

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Speaker 1: thing as being a dan Quinn or any other coach guy.

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Speaker 1: I'll throw that out there, but it really in terms

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Speaker 1: of dan Quinn and me understanding who he is as

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Speaker 1: a coach and as a person. You could become his

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Speaker 1: guy if you come in, give one hundred percent effort

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Speaker 1: and do exactly what your coach to do. It's real simple.

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Speaker 1: Can you be somebody that he depends on, and can't

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Speaker 1: he be somebody? Can you be somebody that he depends

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Speaker 1: on to go one hundred percent every time every time

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Speaker 1: you touch the field. Whether that's one play or whether

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Speaker 1: that's a seventy plays a game, doesn't matter. He wants

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Speaker 1: you to be dependable, and that's what he's looking for,

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Speaker 1: high energy, dependable guys. But it's gonna be very difficult

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Speaker 1: for Barely and I to make this team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just call it is. It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: I think all the guys in that position that set

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Speaker 1: for the high end guys, the d Laws and of

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Speaker 1: this world, they're all gonna be rotational players. I think

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Speaker 1: this deep, this defensive line is gonna be a carouse sale.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be guys going in and out

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Speaker 1: one play. You see a guy you know might be

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Speaker 1: in for one play, might be in for two plays.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's gonna be too many guys they're

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Speaker 1: out there for three plays, three straight downs, or you know,

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Speaker 1: one series reason it comes back in another series to

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Speaker 1: be the starter out there. So um, you know, to

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Speaker 1: Heckman's point, special teams when you're a guy like him.

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Speaker 1: What can you contribute on in that in that third

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Speaker 1: of the game. So you guys got to think about it.

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Speaker 1: There's there's offense, there's defense, and there's special teams. But

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Speaker 1: special teams you got kickoff, kickoff, return, punt, punt return,

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Speaker 1: So you have six different areas that you can affect

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Speaker 1: when we're talking about special teams, people out there need

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Speaker 1: to understand there's a there's in a in a big way.

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Speaker 1: You can really earn your spot on his team. Don't

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Speaker 1: strong every time and uh and to and to y'all's point,

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Speaker 1: he's become kind of a favorite, I think at John

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Speaker 1: Fossil on special teams. Yeah, so I think he's got

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Sorry, sorry to break it to you,

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Speaker 1: kay right now. And I think that's one of the

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Speaker 1: last year. One more thing on that though, because I'm

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Speaker 1: and not to say that you can't become a dan

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Speaker 1: Quinn guy, but I'm curious, like a like a Jordan Lewis.

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Speaker 1: You know, all we've been talking about is big, long,

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Speaker 1: rangy corners. That's what dan Quinn wants. That's what Chris

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Speaker 1: Rochard wanted when he was here. So is that how's

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Speaker 1: that going to affect a Jordan Lewis Because he's a

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Speaker 1: he's a competitive, edgy type player. That's what they need

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Speaker 1: on defense and talk about culture, but he doesn't fit

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Speaker 1: that mold. So like it's it's kind of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: What's what's his role gonna be? I think he's gonna play,

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Speaker 1: but but he doesn't fit the measurable side of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you talked about the competitiveness, the edginess, and

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Speaker 1: I think that's what this team to need. When you

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Speaker 1: building culture. I think you have to build it with

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Speaker 1: guys like that. That's why your draft class is comprised

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Speaker 1: of guys that have that competitive edginess to them. And

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Speaker 1: we know Jordan Lewis is that. So you sign a

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Speaker 1: guy like him to, you know, renegotiate, he gets a

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Speaker 1: I don't see him as a carryover sort of a

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Speaker 1: don't think Jordan Lewis sees himself as a slot corner.

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Speaker 1: I think he sees himself as one of the top dogs,

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Speaker 1: a guy that can play on the outside as well.

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00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's why OTAs is so important,

637
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: just to allow these guys to compete and give their

638
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: case for where they're going to be in the fall.

639
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 1: And going back to Bradley and I I'm looking at

640
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,719
Speaker 1: some of his draft stuff. I mean, he had shorter

641
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: arms than the defensive tackle class that the Cowboys brought

642
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: in last year and this year, and he's an addresser,

643
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: so I mean it's not necessarily t Rex arms, but

644
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: thirty two in an eighth is what he was measured

645
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: at at the combine last year, and I mean that's

646
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: shorter than every defensive lineman pretty much on the roster

647
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: right now. I mean as as a guy that has

648
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: looked at maybe we'll go for it. Isaiah I was

649
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna say, I mean, I know a lot's made up

650
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: the arm length, and that's always great to have if

651
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: you have it. But at the end of the day,

652
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: deepensive ends you're looking for explosiveness. You're either looking for

653
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: extreme size in power or you're just looking for explosiveness, right,

654
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: So if you if you lack both, that's when you're

655
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: in a kind of a pickle. Right. So we obviously

656
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: know that Bradley and I is not the largest man

657
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: in the world, I mean in terms for his position.

658
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: So that's that's against him right now. You have to

659
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: look at the explosiveness. Well, we've seen him on film

660
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: get off the ball, but when we classify him as explosive,

661
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: So those are the things that he needed to work

662
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: on over this past season and hopefully this offseason they

663
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: put him in a better position to compete. Because if

664
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: you don't have the side and you're just you're just

665
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: a guy. And I mean and he can't be in

666
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: in in that category. He can't be and he maybe

667
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: will be one of those super benefited players from having

668
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: a full off season. Finally, because last year, you think

669
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: about the rookie class didn't have that offseason. We can

670
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,720
Speaker 1: kind of harp on that as much as we want.

671
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: At some point it becomes a little bit of an excuse.

672
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: But for a guy like Bradley and I who needed

673
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: the reps, who needed to show exactly what he had

674
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: because of his explosiveness and the lack of measurables, He's

675
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: a guy I think could benefit from things like OTAs

676
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: and and things like that this upcoming season. If he's

677
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: not gonna make the roster, I think it'll be one

678
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 1: of those final cuts. He's gonna play through the whole preseason.

679
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: He'll be there for quite some time. I think there's

680
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: a chance he does. But man, bringing in guys like

681
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: Chauncey Golston and Toorell Basham and of course Door, it's

682
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: Armstrong already being there, Randy Gregory and his emergence, it's

683
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: gonna make things really tough. I mean, that was already

684
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: what I just named. Five guys outside of Bradley and

685
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: I and then yeah, I mean you've got You've got

686
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: six guys there as edge rushers, and usually you only

687
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: what carry six or seven. So he's on that borderline

688
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: of making a team. Want him to make the team

689
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: because I want to see what he's got. But that's

690
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: something else to look for here this offseason. So we

691
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: also didn't get to hit on this last week because

692
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: we were so wrapped up in no rookie mining camp

693
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,240
Speaker 1: in the excitement finally seeing a little bit of football.

694
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: But the NFL schedule is released, and for those who

695
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: listen to our show exclusively, we haven't actually got to

696
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: talk about the schedule. We didn't a whole lot. We

697
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: have the official dates now of the preseason games. It

698
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: starts off with Pittsburgh in Canton, Ohio, a makeup, as

699
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: I should say, of the Hall of Fame game that

700
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: was August fifth. It was scheduled for August sixth of

701
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but now we will play it on August

702
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 1: fifth this year. That's gonna be a fun one. Heck,

703
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 1: Steelers Cowboys to kick off the twenty twenty one season,

704
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: hopefully in front of stand fans in the stands up

705
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: in Canton, man if it's anything like the NBA. The

706
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: NBA is rocking right now with fans in the stands,

707
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: So I can't wait. I was watching yesterday the Nicks

708
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: in the guard Gee yeah, man, I mean they were

709
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: rocking in You see the difference that having fans in

710
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: the stands mate for the overall vibe and output in

711
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: a basketball game. So I'm excited to see stands back

712
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: in the in the fans in the stands again. But

713
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: you know, this team is actually getting ready. These guys

714
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: are getting ready for a season, right. I mean, what

715
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: you do with the Bradley and Knives and guys like that,

716
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 1: what are you doing against TV twelve on Thursday night?

717
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: That's that's what you gotta get ready for. And so

718
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: much of this is going to surround finding your playmakers,

719
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: getting your guys Tampa Bay, the Chargers, the Eagles, the Panthers,

720
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: the Giants. I mean, this is what you're building your

721
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: team for, and it starts right now. So whether guys

722
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: like Bradley or n I are finally make the fifty

723
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: three and contribute, it's going to be because they are

724
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: making plays in the preseason, and there's there is a

725
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: look at our top five games if you're watching this podcast,

726
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 1: but we'll run it down Tampa Bay Thursday Night Football

727
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: to kick off the season week two. I think that's

728
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: a sneaky, sneaky game, and we're gonna have a lot

729
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: of conversations about that Chargers game week two because because

730
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: of Week one being as volatile as it is on

731
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football against the defending champions, I think that

732
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: Week two game against the Chargers is going to be

733
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: a pivot point coming up here in the next couple

734
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: of months of talk. How do you feel about that

735
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: first game when you saw it? What did you say?

736
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: I know what Isaiah said, but what did you guys

737
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: say when you saw that? The first thing I said was, oh, oh,

738
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: ratings are They're not a problem with the Cowboys after all.

739
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: You remember that whole thing, and in December like, oh

740
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: they got flex. Nobody wants to watch the Cowboys anymore.

741
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: Please please give me Dak Prescott back on the field,

742
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: and they want to watch them. Um. Yeah, But do

743
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: I feel great about that? The first team in what

744
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: the salary cap era to return all twenty two starters

745
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: on a Super Bowl team. That's that's not great, Bob.

746
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: I don't I don't love that. I don't love that,

747
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: but but you know, I thought Mickey made a good point.

748
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're Mike McCarthy, you do love it

749
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: because you're pointing towards the champs Week one, prime time.

750
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: Gotta be ready, guys. So I think in that regard

751
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: it's good. But that I'm with you on the week too,

752
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: being sneaky because by all means they can, they can

753
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 1: beat Tampa Bay. But if you were to drop that

754
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: game and you're staring O and two in the face

755
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: going cross country the other way again, I just go

756
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: back to twenty eleven when the Cowboys were oh and

757
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: one going to San Francisco, and they knew what it

758
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: means if you dropped Oen two. That's why Romo played

759
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: with a punctured lung, It's why Witten's ribs were busted up,

760
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: and they found a way to win that game. So

761
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: that's there's a lot of weird stuff on this schedule. Yeah, yeah,

762
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: it definitely is. And if if you lose Week one,

763
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: you're expected to lose Week one, right, you're playing up

764
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: against the defending from a national standpoint, let's not I'm

765
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: not I don't put on a helmet, so I can

766
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: say whatever I want. I don't put on a star.

767
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: I don't put on a helmet, and thank goodness, so

768
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: I'm a national standpoint. You're expected to lose week one.

769
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: Week two, you're expected to turn around and win that game.

770
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: But that's not necessarily an easy win by any means

771
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert, with an upstarting Chargers team Week two,

772
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: like Rob said, on the road on the West Coast,

773
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: that's a different type of game Week two. And if

774
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: you drop the O and two, my goodness, I think

775
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: you're in a little bit of trouble, even though you

776
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: do return home for three games right after that. And

777
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: I will stand on that because the Cowboys could win

778
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: that game. Sure they could win Week one. That would

779
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: be outstanding. We would party in here if the Cowboys

780
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: come out with a Week one win. Isaiah stand back,

781
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: say something, stacks Mouth. I'm trying to look at me.

782
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: The Cowboys will lose Week one. I'm predicting it right now.

783
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. It's the defending chap. I'm not

784
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: going out on a limb here. It's fine. I am

785
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: not gonna make fast statement right now. But what I

786
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: will make the statement I will make is the reason

787
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: why the Week one matchup is good for the Cowboys

788
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: is the same reason good boys, and that's the amount

789
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: of time that you have to prepare for your opponent.

790
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: You have the most time to prepare for your Week

791
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: one opponent. That's just facts. Even when you take in

792
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: the bye weeks, right, you have three four weeks to

793
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: prepare for your first for your first game, and your

794
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: coaches even started prepared before that. So but for that reason,

795
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, those guys would be prepared for that, for

796
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: that for that defense. They know they have all the

797
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 1: last year's film to look at because all those guys

798
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: are coming back. But for those same reasons, TV twelve

799
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: has that same amount of time to prepare for your

800
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: guys for your defense. You know, fans out there and

801
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: you know, obviously Quinn Quinn has some film that they

802
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 1: can go back and watch. But the personnel and how

803
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: he plans on utilizing it, you know, gives the Cowboys

804
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of an edge, gives him a little

805
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: bit of an advantage over TV twelve because for the

806
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: first half they're gonna be trying to figure us out

807
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: versus we're gonna already know what they're doing right for

808
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: the most part. They always have their tweaks, but for

809
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: the most part, they're going to settle into who they

810
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: are versus versus the Cowboys. They don't know what the

811
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: heck we're bringing, at least in all three fasces of

812
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 1: the game. So I'll say that week two matchup dangerous,

813
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: Week three matchup dangerous. Uh, that first three weeks is strong. Yeah,

814
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna put it out there, that first three

815
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: weeks is strong. And I know people people are gonna say, oh,

816
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is easy. Rivalry games aren't easy. Rivalry games. Rivalry

817
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: games against you know, Jalen a confident Jalen hurts, and

818
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: and everybody else that there that they're adding over there

819
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: is dangerous. So these first yeah, in prime time. So this,

820
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 1: this first three weeks is a it's a doozy. Look.

821
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: I gotta say this. You know, when when the schedule

822
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: dropped in Cowboy fans automatically conceded the first game. It

823
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: absolutely makes me sick. No, it does. It makes me sick,

824
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: and the reason makes you sick. No, that's that's my boy.

825
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: I love them to death. If people think we don't

826
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: like each other, but I actually of him. But I

827
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: think that, Yeah, here's the thing. So here's here's what

828
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: I feel for Cowboy fans that are just dropping the

829
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: first game to Tampa Bay. Look, the the number one

830
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: basketball team in the nation is in New York and

831
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: they are called the Hollom Globe Trotters, right, the Hollom

832
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: Globe Trotters. Everywhere they go, they win their games, right,

833
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: But they bring a team to play against with them,

834
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: and it's called the Washington Generals. And right now what

835
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: you're calling the Dallas Cowboys is the Washington Generals. That

836
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: we're just gonna go out there and wash them, raise

837
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: the banner and lose into me. That's Nutlesten Gutlass whoa, hey, yeah,

838
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: just like that speech. Hey, I'm with you. I honestly

839
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: think I think the Cowboys are healthy Cowboys. Let me

840
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: let me, let me let me leave healthy Cowboys. Team

841
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: matches are against Tampa Bay. They j had it right.

842
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: J G had it right? Is it is? It is?

843
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean they've got I mean we're talking about when

844
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: you talk about teams, Yeah, you have a when you

845
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: have a healthy Dallas Cowboys, which we should be week one,

846
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 1: hopefully barring injuries in the preseason or camp. A healthy

847
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys team matches up very well against Tampa, especially

848
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Speaker 1: under these circumstances in terms of them not knowing what

849
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. Now, it's all depending on what Dan

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Speaker 1: Quinn shows in the preseason and all that jazz. He's

851
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Speaker 1: a he's a he's a veteran coach, so he knows

852
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: what not to show. But how they plan to utilize

853
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: their guys Tampa basics gonna have to try to figure

854
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Speaker 1: it out. Figure that out for the first half of

855
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: the game, right, So it's gonna be how who can

856
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Speaker 1: withstand the ups and downs, the ebbs and flows of

857
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: the game the longest, and obviously we know TV twelve

858
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: is capable, but it's it's a lot. It's gonna be emotional.

859
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be emotional game, especially with DA coming back,

860
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay raising a banner, is gonna be a lot.

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Speaker 1: Who is the most stout team when it comes to

862
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: emotions and being able to play through the ebbs and flows.

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Speaker 1: I do like the point that Rob made and Isaiah

864
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 1: added on to it as well, But talking about how

865
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy through this entire offseason and Mike Keck might

866
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: even said a little bit earlier, you're not playing for Pittsburgh, Arizona, Houston, Jacksonville.

867
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Speaker 1: You're playing for Tampa Bay. And every time you step

868
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Speaker 1: out on that practice field, Mike McCarthy's gonna remind them that, hey,

869
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Speaker 1: the champs are waiting for you, the defending champs who

870
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Speaker 1: have the target on their back. The Cowboys are usually

871
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Speaker 1: the team franchise wide that has had their target on

872
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Speaker 1: their back, but now they get to be the hunter.

873
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Speaker 1: And I like that a lot, and I think that's

874
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Speaker 1: a great mindset to have this team ready to roll

875
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: going into week one, rather than trying to find a

876
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Speaker 1: rhythm in week six, seven, or eight in the middle

877
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Speaker 1: of what is a tough stretch of schedule into the season.

878
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: Real quick, just I mentioned some weird stuff on the schedule.

879
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Speaker 1: It's the first time since twenty twelve they start a

880
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Speaker 1: season with two straight road games, only the third time

881
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Speaker 1: since twenty twelve they'll start and finish the season on

882
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Speaker 1: the road. Which and then you go into December January,

883
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: it's four of six away from AT and T Stadium.

884
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: You got three straight road games in there. You also

885
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: have three straight home games. It's just there's a lot

886
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: of weird stuff on paper that you're like, man, this

887
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: is this is kind of challenging. But it just comes

888
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: down to like, if they're better this year and they're healthy,

889
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: they're better on defense, they're just a better football team.

890
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: None of that stuff matters because you you know, you

891
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: we talk Tampa Bay. Any of these games, they're good

892
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: enough to compete with anybody healthy. I believe that on paper.

893
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: That's I agree with you. The most. The most cifling

894
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: thing that I see on this schedule is where our

895
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: buy weeks, where where our away games are at. Yeah,

896
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: that is the thing that really stands out the most

897
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: of me. It's not just the opponents that we're facing.

898
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: It's where you're facing these opponents at. You have to

899
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Speaker 1: play at Tampa, you have to play in in La,

900
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Speaker 1: you gotta play in New England, you gotta play in Minnesota,

901
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. These are not easy plays. And then

902
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903
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Speaker 1: I mean, these are the most when you think about

904
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Speaker 1: the most the most difficult places to play in the NFL,

905
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Speaker 1: these are the teams that you talk about, These are

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Speaker 1: the cities that you talk about. So these guys in

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908
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Speaker 1: obviously we have a long way to go, but just atmosphere,

909
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: in environment alone, those are some of the most difficult

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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys, presented by Geico from inside to start

962
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Speaker 1: in first go Rob Phillips, heck my Harrison, Isaiah standback?

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Speaker 1: Who is remote today? Sir? Yeah, my goodness, I'm Kyle

964
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Speaker 1: Yeoman's in OTAs start today, Rob, What are the week

965
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: What do the weeks ahead look like for the Cowboys

966
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: Because they're on the field today, it would be inside

967
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: inside the Ford Center, but I mean a lot of practice,

968
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: a lot of lead in here in the next couple

969
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: of weeks. Yeah, So they've got six OTAs scheduled over

970
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 1: the next three weeks, including what three this week or

971
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: maybe is it too? That's two this week too, this

972
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: week too, next week to the week after, followed by

973
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: the mandatory mini camp with everybody June eighth through the tenth.

974
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Speaker 1: And you know, coaches can have up to ten OTAs

975
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 1: on their schedule. They've only got six, and I think

976
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: they still have the option to add more, but I

977
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: think it probably comes down to the fact of it's

978
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 1: a longer camp coming up, longer preseason, and this is

979
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: a way hopefully they get all their work in Isaiah

980
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: and then give them a nice break till We don't

981
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: know the exact dates for training camp, but usually if

982
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: it's if you subtract two weeks from that August fifth

983
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: opener in Canton, they're going to camp pretty early. So

984
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: that's why they've only got six. A little different by

985
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy either. So Isaiah, just from a player's standpoint,

986
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: how much of a difference would that make taking four

987
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: practices out of the equation. I mean, it may not

988
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: end up being four full practices. It could end up

989
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: being just three or two that they don't end up

990
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Speaker 1: using because, like Rob said, they can still add on

991
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Speaker 1: some more OTAs. But how much of a difference does

992
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: that make, especially when the preseason is on the horizon.

993
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: It's huge. It's huge, at least from the player's standpoint.

994
00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: Can you start talking about adding that Hall of Fame

995
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: preseason game in there that adds onto your schedule. Imagine

996
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: if you're on the roster. Maybe imagine if you're like

997
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: one of the on the edge guys right called, you know,

998
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Speaker 1: like somebody like myself some of the years I was

999
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: playing on the edge guy, and all of a sudden,

1000
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: they throw an extra game on your on your preseason schedule.

1001
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 1: So now you're playing not only your seventeen regular season games,

1002
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: but you're playing all those preseason games. Oh and then

1003
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: you factor in another five weeks of camp or whatever

1004
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: it is. It's a lot, man. Any opportunity to coaches

1005
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: have to minimize your ability to get injured. I think

1006
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: it's a smart move on in behalf of the coaches.

1007
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: They obviously have to get their work in, they have

1008
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: to get their installed in, they need to get their continuity.

1009
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: All these things need to take place. However, whenever you

1010
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: can ease the players minds in terms of their physical

1011
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: well being and their mental well being, I think it's

1012
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: a plus for not only the individual, but also the team. Yeah,

1013
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: you started to see the mentality change with head coaches

1014
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: and organizations just not grinding their guys in the off season.

1015
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: I think you talked about how offseason OTAs used to

1016
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: be much different. You and Isaiah were having a conversation

1017
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: about that. These used to be full paths and guys

1018
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: going at it and rookie camp too, and you practices

1019
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: in the heat for rookie camp and guys thrown up

1020
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah. Animal, So I mean, so, like Isaiah says,

1021
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Speaker 1: that's some guy that's gonna play all twenty two of

1022
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: these games preseason and regular season and god hoping you know,

1023
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 1: playoff run as well. But you know, that's a lot

1024
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: of football games to be played. And I know that

1025
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: we're all football teams were getting into the analytics of it,

1026
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: to keep guys healthy. And I just think that's just

1027
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Speaker 1: another part of it from this organization, just to say, look,

1028
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Speaker 1: I know we can have ten, let's pull back and

1029
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: just have six. What are some of the goals rob

1030
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: of this team throughout OTAs to try and find footing

1031
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: into what will be a longer training camp besides health

1032
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: and you guys just hit on that. You just don't

1033
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: want to get anybody hurt. Shaun Lee Tearings ACL in

1034
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen and was the first mini camp or OTA.

1035
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: Just stay healthy. That's why you're gonna see guys coming

1036
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: off of major injuries probably be scaled back. I mean,

1037
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how much Dak does um and

1038
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: other guys too, Blake Jarwin the tackles, Lyle and Tying,

1039
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: guys like that. But aside from just you know, making

1040
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: sure guys stay healthy and ready for training camp, just

1041
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: the installation part of it, you know, just having you know,

1042
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: getting a lot of the install done so by the

1043
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: time you get a training camp, it's basically in and

1044
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 1: you're just fine tuning things and and there are some

1045
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: competitive parts of the of the OTAs, but that's not

1046
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: as important as when you get to camp and the

1047
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 1: pads come on. Isaiah, No, I mean I think Rogers

1048
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: hit on it. I mean it's more so than anything

1049
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: OTAs and coaches. The first of all, the coaches. Coaches

1050
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: are coaches, right. They want to coach. They want to

1051
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: be on the field. They don't want to be in

1052
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: a classroom. They want to see their guys, right. They's

1053
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,479
Speaker 1: imagine you have all these I think we've talked about

1054
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: in the past. You have all this, all these toys

1055
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Speaker 1: that you got for Christmas, and all of a sudden,

1056
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: you just want to you just want to put them

1057
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 1: on the table and start playing around with them, right,

1058
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: And that's what these coaches want to do. They want

1059
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: to put their guys together that you know, you know

1060
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: coach Quinn all to talk about him. Trust me, he's

1061
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: one of the most energetic guys on his whole in

1062
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 1: his whole entire organization aside from Fossil, Right. He wants

1063
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: to get out there and run around with his guys.

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00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: He wants to put his guys in position for them

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00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 1: to be successful. Okay, this is what our idea as

1066
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: a whole defense thinks about where you can play. But hey,

1067
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 1: what if I take you and I put you out here,

1068
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: or I'll put you down here on the line of scrimmage.

1069
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 1: Rather what does that look like? Right? And Hey, they

1070
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: just want to go out here and just mess around

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00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: with different schemes so that when they get to camp,

1072
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: it's no longer experimentation, right, They're simply just plugging and

1073
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: playing where they know that you can handle. And everything

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00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: that Isaiah said is are things that you couldn't do

1075
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: in a virtual setting, right, You could do that in

1076
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: a virtual setting, and so as an evaluator you want

1077
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: to be hands on. And so having this opportunity to

1078
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: have an ota, to be able to plug and play

1079
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: and put guys in different sets in your scheme to

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00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: see how they operate is definitely what Quinn wants to do.

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00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: I'm sure what Kellen Moore wants to do, knowing that

1082
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: he'll have a full season with CD and DAK and

1083
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: also with Jarwin who went down the first the first

1084
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: game of the season. But you're right, the health is

1085
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 1: it's all about that, and if they can have learned

1086
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: anything from implementation from the virtual part, I think that

1087
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,959
Speaker 1: would make it easier for them to send guys home

1088
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: with certain things get homework out so you can see,

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00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: you know, how much of these guys are actually retaining

1090
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: what they're learning in a classroom setting. And so you know,

1091
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: this is just a new this a new NFL man

1092
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: where things are virtual and teams are having to just

1093
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: kind of dance around the idea of not having to

1094
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: put your hands on guys even you know, look, COVID

1095
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: still is here, so with it. You know, I think

1096
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: those are some of the precautions that they're having to

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00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: way through. Gosh, that makes me so excited thinking about

1098
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: the different combinations that these coaches will get to work

1099
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: around with. Yeah, that they didn't last year. That, I mean,

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00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,280
Speaker 1: that just gets me. That makes me so much happier

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00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: to have these things in person as opposed to being virtual.

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00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 1: And plus, I mean, we've already seen like you you

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00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: said about playing the toys, or I guess Isaiah said

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00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: about playing with your toys and want of kind makes

1105
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: a match and put it all together. We saw the

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00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 1: opening of the first President that was rookie mini camp,

1107
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: and that was seeing the rookies out on the field

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00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: and hey, where could this guy go? Where is Michael

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00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: Parson's going to play in this defense? Where is oh,

1110
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: Diggi Zoola going to play on the defensive line. There's

1111
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: so many different ways that you could play around with it,

1112
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: and then guess what you get to adam in with

1113
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:20,319
Speaker 1: the veterans. Yeah, and that's something that they didn't get

1114
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 1: to do last year, which I think is going to

1115
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: benefit dan Quinn. It's going to benefit this entire defense

1116
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: and especially on the offensive side of the football, just

1117
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 1: getting those guys back. So that brings me back to

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00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: this question. Rob. You mentioned the offensive tackles and how

1119
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: intrigued you are to see what their workload's gonna be like,

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00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: do you have any kind of expectation as to what

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00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: kind of work they'll see. I just know from history

1122
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: and the way they have plans for guys who had

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00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: season ending injuries the year before. Isaiah knows this well.

1124
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,680
Speaker 1: I mean they the staff points to training camp. I mean,

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00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 1: they're just I'm very curious, you know. I know. Mike

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00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: McCarthy was asked specifically about Dak recently and he said,

1127
00:56:57,719 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: you know, he'll do most things. What is most things?

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00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: I mean, is he going to take a bunch of

1129
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: team raps or is he just kind of kind of

1130
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: continue his rehab plan and maybe do some individual stuff

1131
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: and get out there a little bit and get ready

1132
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: for oxen art. If we're going to dox and artificially

1133
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: and worry about that, that's kind of what I would

1134
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: anticipate for guys that we just talked about. Is not

1135
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: a full go type thing. Let's wait till we get

1136
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: to late July. Whatever it is. Yeah, No, I don't

1137
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: want any mishaps of boo boos with that ankle. So

1138
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: you know, sit over there on the on the golf

1139
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: cart if you can, you know, and you know they

1140
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: won't do that. But still, I mean for all of

1141
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 1: these guys, it's just pivotal, and especially at Tyrn Smith,

1142
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean limiting him with the neck and making sure

1143
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: that he gets back lay l with the hip. That's important.

1144
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw how those guys being down, how

1145
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: it affects us. But as far as my expectation for

1146
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: the guys in OTAs, I just want to see this

1147
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: linebacker group. I want to see how these guys operate together.

1148
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: Obviously we won't see anything. Maybe we'll see something with

1149
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: scheme and how they're used. Who's gonna be the mike

1150
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: and who's going to be at the will because I

1151
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: think it's very ironic how this whole thing with Michael

1152
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: Parsons has been flipped to be a Micah versus Jalen

1153
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: instead of Micah and Jalen, you know, how they both

1154
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: can be used together in concert to make this defense

1155
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: better jal Or Jerry mentioned he said compatible, compatible with

1156
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: the rookie camp when he was asked that very question.

1157
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,440
Speaker 1: So in Jerry's mind, they could be playing together because

1158
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: Parsons Swiss Army Knights kind of thing. You know, Yeah,

1159
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, is zah. Yeah, I think you

1160
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: guys already hit on it, you know, in terms of

1161
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: the guys getting through this thing healthy. In terms of

1162
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: expectations of guys that are coming off of season ending injuries,

1163
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't foresee them doing many team drills, And so

1164
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: when you hear them kind of be broad in their statements,

1165
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: are referring to others do most things well most things,

1166
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: and OTA's happen to be, you know, on with just

1167
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: your offensive team, just special teams doing you know, doing

1168
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: the coverage drills, or defense doing things by themselves. Very

1169
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 1: very very seldom do you come together, I mean go

1170
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: against each other competitively. And when they do those things.

1171
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: You will not see that in there. When they do

1172
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: those things, what they're getting hands on and getting a

1173
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: little bit down and dirty, you will not see Lyle.

1174
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: You will not see any of those guys out there.

1175
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: So trust to believe that these this training staff is

1176
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,720
Speaker 1: gonna do everything possible to get these guys at training camp.

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00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: It's inevitable whenever injuries do occur. You can't prevent everything,

1178
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: but you control what you can control. In terms of

1179
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: what I'm excited to see, I'm excited to see, you know,

1180
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see these young guys come in and

1181
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: get plugged in. You know what's Dan Quinn gonna do?

1182
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 1: How was you know, Kelly more gonna facilitate this offense

1183
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 1: with all his resources that he has at his hands

1184
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: now his disposal, And what is coach Fossil gonna do?

1185
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: You know where these guys gonna get in and fit

1186
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 1: in that on the specialties because that's such an important

1187
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: portion of this game. So many people throw it to

1188
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: the wayside. But you have two high energy coaches now

1189
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 1: and Fossil and Quinn that are gonna feed off each other.

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00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: How's it all gonna piece up together? So I'm excited man.

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00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: Health is the number one priority, versatility from the coaching

1192
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,040
Speaker 1: staffs to kind of put put your players in the

1193
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: right position to be successful. That's kind of the theme

1194
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: going into OTAs, which do begin today at the Star

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01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,440
Speaker 1: in Frisco. But that's gonna do it for us here

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Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. So glad you've been with us here

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01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: over the last hour. Hope you learned something. Hope you

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Speaker 1: had a little bit of fun with us along the way.

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Speaker 1: For Isaiah Stanback, who is living his best life right now.

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Speaker 1: For Scott Purcell, Chris Beam in the back, for Rob Phillips, ECKM. Harrison,

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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long. We'll see you next

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Speaker 1: Monday here on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production

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