WEBVTT - Hangin' with the 'Boys: Snap Decisions 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:19.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club flowing out of the backfield, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:25.360 flooding down the sidelines. He's hanging with the Boys, broadcasting 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.760 live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.080 Now your host, Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and Shannon Gross. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:44.559 It is cold in Texas, but it ain't cold on 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.440 the Cowboys front man. Is there anything else that could 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.880 have happened in the last week? Yeah, it was crazy, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.560 wasn't it. Yeah, well, it's about twenty four degrees and 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.200 the wind chill this morning when I walked out was 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.080 in the scene go digits, which is that that doesn't 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.479 happen around here very often. I don't know how people 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.720 up north. We should have just canceled work on the show, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.039 stayed in bed by degrees in Frisco texts, it's what 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:22.280 Frisco man? That is cold? Cold degrees in Frisco, Texas, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.959 and it ain't It ain't cold enough to stop me 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:30.279 from jumping all over Curt. Oh about what about Zeke 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.080 and not paying him? That he's not worth it? Do 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.240 you hate Zeke? No? I'm just asking the question. Hey, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.320 this is a problem. You're gonna be throwing words in 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.840 my mouth. Oka. Zeke is a great player. Okay, he 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.640 may be a Hall of Fame player, but I worry 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.680 about spending that much money for that position. How much 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.920 money do you think we should offer him? Then? Since 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.960 you know you think, oh now you're not ast or 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.560 whatever they offer him is too much? Now? I think 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:05.000 I know you're gonna pay him fourteen? What's girly makes? Fourteen? Thanks? 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.000 Who is that? Who just walked? Who just walked in? 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.799 What's up? This kind over that? Don't like me? Nate 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.200 little Zeke's back. That's a difference here. I like Zeke. 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.520 He's a great player. Do you love Zeke? It depends 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.320 on the price and dollars? How much do you love him? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:26.960 Eight million dollars? Work? Wow? I like you more than that, Zeke? 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.720 I like you fourteen million dollars? You're gonna pay him 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.160 girly money? Girly got what thirteen? What nah? What girl 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.440 do for you? In the playoffs last year? Will you 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.600 hurt his knee? Hurt his got? That's the position? Okay? 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.320 What a quarterback wasn't hurting? What did he do for you? 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.839 And they're gonna pay him. Yeah, he was not hurt. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.640 It was let me say this, man, I think, if 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.960 you're gonna pay Zeke, and and I'm just messing with 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.360 my man. I think, if you're gonna pay Zeke, let 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.840 it be now in his usable years. Yeah, for sure, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.040 this year, next year, in the year. I think a 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.840 three year deal, fourth year would have played with a 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.160 team friend of the option. And that's that's you know. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.840 Now they're gonna wait two years to paying that's a 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.200 bad deal. What you think in three years at what 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.720 fourteen million? Yeah, fourteen million year? Yeah, and make it 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.320 all guarantees. Hey man, it's all guaranteed. Don't don't give 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.200 him a chance to mon grown. Say hey man, year 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.720 fifty meal, all guaranteed. And you know what, Normally I'm 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.079 with you, Kurt, because I know what they did to DeMarco. 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.280 They ran him in the ground, they got rid of him, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.160 and he wasn't the same as he was here. Granted 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.880 he didn't have the line and the team around him. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:45.160 And normally I'm on your side, but I also flashed 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.720 back to the games we haven't had Zeke and how 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:54.640 pedestrian the team looked without him in the backfield and that, well, 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.120 there's a difference. I mean they're obviously. Zeke is a 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.880 he's a once in a I mean, he's a special guy. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.800 But I think you can find other running backs that 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:09.240 you substitute for that can can do the job for 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.480 that role. You know, Okay, I mean it may not 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:18.080 be okay, but you know what, I messed up. I 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.240 shouldn't have brought this up. But the biggest fine, we 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.920 lost it, but now we've found it. Guess who that is? 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.640 Know what? We lost him? This is what makes me laugh. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:39.560 Nobody would have ever thought last year around this time 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.960 they chasing Wind would have ever left right, And then 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:50.280 this year around this time, Hey, you know what's funny. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.000 He walked through the day what day they announced it? 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:59.080 Last week? Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday. And we're sitting there in 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.960 our office. You know, we're mining Nick's office and we 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.400 have that glass front. They should kick Nick out of 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.600 the office, but it's his office. I just rent space. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:12.000 And he walks through. And normally no big deal because 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.919 you see Mike walked through Woody and all that. But 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.440 he had an all blue Cowboys jumpsuit on with the 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.200 Cowboys ball cap and usually once you're gone from the 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.800 team and you're in the media shop. You stopped wearing 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.919 team gear, and he said, hide everybody in our little 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.039 bullpen area. And I was like, Okay, that's weird that 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.559 he's got all cowboys gear on. And then about thirty 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.279 minutes later, we got a heads up from PR Hey, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.640 this is this is this has just happened. And it 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.360 was like and everybody's like, this is a joke, right 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:49.040 is this? April First, get everybody reaction, starting with you, Doug, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.960 what was your reaction when you first heard that. I 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.440 guess I wasn't shocked. I was, but I wasn't because 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.800 I always believed the rumors last year that Jason Garrett 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.279 was trying to convince him to come back. It just 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.480 made too much sense. Not that they didn't have talent 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.960 at tight end, it's just, as we've talked about, the 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.200 tight ends keep getting nicked up and injured, and every 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.440 time he get a guy getting into a groove, he 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:20.520 gets injured. And that's Jason Witten's He's great at everything, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.839 but he's really great at staying healthy. And I know 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.799 he's older than ever, so it's going to be tougher. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.480 But that's the trait that Jason Garrett probably wants as 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.160 a guy he can depend on. Who's gonna stay healthy? 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.880 Sixty eight snaps the game? How many will he play? Hopefully? 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:46.920 Thirty twenty five? Okay, your shot, your shot? My turn, Yes, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.800 sir man. You guys are just gunning for me, aren't you. Yeah, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.360 you're waiting to jump on. Yeah, exactly when I first 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.880 heard the news, Yeah, I've kind of like Douglas. I'm 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.280 not shocked in that. I thought he would eventually wind 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.760 up coaching, so I thought he would be back. Um. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.480 I was surprised that he was coming back as a 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.720 player for sure. Um. The fan in me and the 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.640 um from that standpoint, I'm like this, it's cool. It's 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.800 cool to have Jason Wentton back. It's obviously Hall of famer. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.400 I'm definitely worried that how's this gonna work, How's this 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.880 gonna fit in? How's this gonna change the dynamic of 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.680 the team had moved on? Is this gonna change anything? 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.680 H I'm in the snaps? Sixty eight, I'm in it. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.320 Snaps how many? Yeah? Out of sixty eight on average? 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.000 How I'm in the snaps? Wow? How many should he player? 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.400 How many will he play. I'm asking, it's your show. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.120 I would prefer he probably played twenty to thirty, but 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:47.400 I'm betting he'll play over forty. Your turn call us 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.840 eight eight eight eight two nine seven. We will I want, 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.120 I really want. I'm gonna answer, but I really want 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.560 to hear the fans reaction because I'm with you the 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.520 whole show. Brother. Almost everything I've seen is like, oh 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.040 my god, he's back. He's back. Here's what I worry about. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.000 I love Witt and I think he's a great role model. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:11.360 I'm this team. They what they've done in the last 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.000 several years is they moved on from from guys that 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.920 are getting up there in age and they've they've let 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.280 the young guys play. They developed, and that's what they 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.720 did with the defensive secondary year before last. You know, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.800 DeMarcus Ware got up there in age and it you know, hey, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.840 it's time to go. You still got some gas in 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.960 the tank. But we're going with the you. That's where 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.360 it I think it all started. What worries me is 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.120 that man does not want to come off the field. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.840 That man wants to play. And we saw that, you 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.800 know when he was here two years ago. You sixty 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.720 eight snaps. What you're saying, I'm sixty seven because Jason, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.400 from what I understand, I could be wrong and coach 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.480 you you correct me, fam but I think he appealed 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.440 to Coach Garrett more than anybody to come I'm back. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.959 You know that's the guy that can say, hey this 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:09.400 I many snaps wanted sixty eight. If he want to 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.120 be nice, I think he'll play fifty five. Yeah, And 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.880 I mean he's he's not gonna come off the field. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.600 And are you gonna tell Jason Whitton to how are 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.839 you gonna be How are you gonna put him on 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.479 the sideline? He wants to play. He's gonna play exactly. 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.920 And I mean I don't need to be able to 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.480 leave about of the booth, right, I mean, forget what 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:34.520 everybody thought. ESPN was invested in him. So you left 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:38.160 for a position where you can where you was only 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.400 gonna get better. I think he was only gonna get better. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.439 Uh So I said, hey, coach man, and I give 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.600 you five million dollars. I said, hey, coach, uh yeah, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.959 you want me back? Yeah, I want you back. Well, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.760 but on a limited basis. I'm better than what you 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.040 got out there. Coach m hmm. If you left and 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.840 if you let Swain get out of here, he is 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.840 better than what's out there. Do we know that though 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.400 he's thirty, he's gonna be thirty seven seven a year. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.600 You know what, guys that are developing, let me say here, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:22.080 he took a year off. Uh what Witton does it is? 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.360 I'm not saying it don't take physical ability, but he's 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:30.840 got enough savvy, you know, to be able to survive 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.600 more than survive. So a year off just made his 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.320 eggs fresh. And I would would he lose that freshness 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.520 in the training camp? Nope, because they're not gonna practice 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.320 him that much. They're gonna just get him guests, get 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.839 him an edge on him, and then games is where 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.199 he gonna really perform. What if he has lost the step? 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.520 You think, like you said, you think they're gonna bench him. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.080 You know what if he if he if he's lost 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.240 for the team, then if he lost the step, you 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.160 don't even let him continue, you don't. You know that's 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.439 that's almost borderline and active. If he's lost the step, 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.000 because he's the step, he can't brother, he can't lose 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:14.280 no more. I know you know I agree. And here's 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.840 the deal. Even a Witton that's lost half a step, 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.040 he's still better than I mean, he's probably still in 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.600 the mid range of tight ends that are in the league. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.960 You think, what about Jarwin and Schultz going to develop 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.080 into that? I just I just that's what I hope. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.840 I don't I don't hate the move. I don't love 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.360 the move. I like him. I like him on this 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.440 team because I think he brings something to the team. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.960 I just hope that you don't abandon what you've started 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.719 the last few years and he inhibits the growth of 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.240 these young guys because you saw Jarwin step up, you 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.400 saw Schultz last year start to step up. Have you 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.120 never developed a tight end behind him? Right then? I 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:58.200 had three guys come in second round picks this year. Here, 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.280 this is the most important draft I think for the Cowboys. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.040 And the fact that you don't know what's happening at 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.680 a few positions, you know there in limbo, I mean 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.960 total limbo, and you can't. You got a draft guys 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.800 that can give you some help, you know, young depth 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.760 that can possibly started that second and third pick. So 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.280 we can't mess that up, you know now we in 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.920 what I mean by that is at least make a 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.560 great effort to get the right guy. You know, they 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.839 don't need a tight end there with that pick. No, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.079 I don't think so. But now I wasn't a tight y. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.080 Ain't got no way. You know, probably next week or 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.880 the week got that, I'll start having some d lineman 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.959 that I'm talking about a fat guy. Remember, yeah, I 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.679 ain't going, but I ain't he wasn't going. Yeah, the 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.160 guy this week ran or four to eight forty D lineman, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.120 you know. And then it had another one of the 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:55.640 devons end random four four from Mississippi. He going hot? Yea, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.800 he going hot? Man? How you doing, sir? Let's go 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.199 to the phone. Let's see what everybody thinks about it. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:07.760 It's Mikey and Tuside. What's up, Mikey? Hello, what's hey? 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.880 What's going on? Guys? Hey man? What's up? Oh? Hey man? 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.760 Last time I talked to you, was saving the degrees 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.400 is before winter? Is still saving degrees over here? Man, 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.400 let's all you get the freezing off over there? Man. Well, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.240 thank you for your concerns. Anyway. You know, when I 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.600 heard this new this break, I kind of got annoyed 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.720 about it, dude, because we needed him this year. I 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.640 understand that the ESPN opportunity was like once in a 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.480 lifetime and whatever happened happened over there, but we needed 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.760 him in this year. Then I got to thinking, if 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.000 they'll feel a void and and and us not getting 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.200 somebody from free agency, I wouldn't know what you guys 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.959 talk gift. Let's say, if we would have got Gallas 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.720 Carter take down Dallas Carter, wo's been on our roster, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.040 it does Jason, we didn't have an opportunity now and 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.320 uh hey, I love you guys to show you the 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:02.240 best you think Jason wouldn't gonna play. I think you'll 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.320 do like a thirty twenty five thirty. I don't know. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.680 Do you say some wind? He he cots his spot. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.240 You already done too? Oh uh? His locker back, man, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.280 So he's chasing wind. He already has. He already has 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.360 a cloud here. So we can't be too bullish and say, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.760 well we can't have him back to farm. He's earned it. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.120 But at the same time that kind has annoyed me. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.560 It's like somebody leaving work and coming back and acting 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.360 like he could sit on the front seat again. You 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.440 know what I'm saying. The guys. I love you guys. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.040 It still man, I appreciate it. Picnic on the twenty 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.320 thirds later, Thanks MIKEY appreciate it. I do think they 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.600 didn't give him the same locker from what I understand that. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.360 You know, there's certain leaders that have the Zach Martin 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.000 got his old spot. He said he didn't want it back, 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.720 so he's kind of fun. But that brings up the point. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.680 I almost wonder as much as what happens on the field, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.520 the leadership aspect of it. I mean, you kind of 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.600 had this new crop of lead stepped forward. Does this 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.440 regress there? Now you have this huge presence back in 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.440 the room. Is that gonna shake things up? Or does 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.360 it help or hurt? You know? What do you think? 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.080 I think you'd come back and um and feel the 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.840 room and then and then and then feel where where 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.560 it's needed. And if if it's not, they don't worry 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.760 about it. You know what I'm saying, feel where it's needed. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.560 Is he that type of I mean, he's just so competitive, 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.640 he so wants to win, and you know, bless him 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.760 for it. But does that, you know, does that help 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.040 her hurt? Overall? You know? Is he willing to step 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.360 back if he needs to do. Yeah, I'm gonna tell 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:41.640 you something. These guys see, this is the thing about it. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.720 We're dealing with men. So you you step away, and 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.000 it wont because the injury. You step away because you 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:53.520 chose to. So you came back because you you you're 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.440 good enough to be back. But these guys are And 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.520 I get a perfect example, Kyrier leaving the Celtics getting 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.080 hurt last year, and all of a sudden he's back. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.600 The young guys ain't listening and they falling apart. Don't 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 come back and wreck the locker room. Come back and 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.280 fit where you need to fit, you know, and when 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.000 you know, and make your plays. You know, he don't 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.200 have to worry about the direction of the team now, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.400 you don't have to worry about how everybody feeling or 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.040 not feeling. He just come in and flow with everybody. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.400 And he still can lead his deal. Just fit where 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.280 you fit, you know how every year he would lead 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.480 them the workouts and the unannounced workhouts. He can still 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.120 do that. You just fit where you fit now. Yeah, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.040 you know, you know somebody else stepped up last year 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.200 and ran those workouts. Yea, I would think that, you know, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.400 whether there's Dak or Zeke or whoever young leader there 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:50.160 is now. I hope this huge present overshadow it won't. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.480 It won't. They will respect whining and give him his 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.400 jets due, but it won't be no overboard or on 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.880 the board. Don't don't even worry about that. I mean, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.840 I mean, ideally, you would love to see him do 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.320 what Dirk's kind of done the last year or two, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.480 and maybe even next year's come in Realize, hey, I 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.000 can still contribute. I can still give you twelve points 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.840 a night. I'm gonna do what I can do to 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.440 help the team. But also where I can really benefit 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.960 the team is behind the scenes, coaching these young guys 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.040 up and getting them out. I mean, to me, that 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.479 would be ideal as he comes in and he plays 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.160 twenty to thirty snaps a game, and then he lets 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.040 these younger guys develop. But I mean, hell, what if 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.119 he comes back and he's the old witness. What if 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.800 that year off rejuvenates him and he I think physically 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.400 it will? You think so, because I was gonna ask 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.640 you that if you think, if you help, if he would, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.640 just think if you'd have got hurt last year, say 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.400 pull a hamstring, and he came back this year where 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:54.480 you'd be like, oh, wouldn't he He continued to work 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.720 out to some degree, and now he intensifies. He got 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.440 a whole off seasons, intensify his workout back to what 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.040 it was. He got some some tricks up his fleet 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.160 that he can have the see Nolbum. Like I said about, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.320 I want over and through, like I call him like wow, man, 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:14.080 really remember I call him. I want enthusiastic. But because 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.280 the only thing I care about is Winton comes and 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.280 plays well and we go far in the playoffs. Great, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.840 and then next year, I just don't want to afford 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:32.280 come next year, you don't need this team, cannot afford 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.600 to drop off. It's gotta be ten plus wins. You 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.080 got on the three guys, serious guys in consideration for 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:46.840 contracts this year, But next year you got you got 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:51.560 a mountain of guys that you gotta consider, you know. 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.199 So we gotta get through this year and got and 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.480 gotta have this team chemistry tight, because I don't want 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.119 what's happening to my Celtics now blowing up. Brother, because 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.200 the team chemistry, because the new dude a dude I 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.800 was already on the team got injured. Heywood is fitting 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.520 a good but Kyrie is the leader. He come back 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.720 and the young guy like man we went to We 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.320 was a game away from the from the finals, yeah, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.480 you know, from getting into the finals, and hey, you 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.080 come and haul up the balls and that's gonna be happy. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.800 We'll see how it plays out. I mean, these guys 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.399 make what if they say, hey we made we won 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:32.560 the NFC's last year without you, and but see that 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:37.879 that is up to Jason Garrett coach, Jason Whitton and 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.439 how he wants to fit. Right, I guess how he 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.160 fits and how he wants to fit I hope are 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:50.119 the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it just I'm like 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.240 I said when when it first albums said, my wife 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.440 texts me, hey, Jason Witten back. Yeah, I'm like, man, 0:19:55.840 --> 0:20:00.840 my wife clowning. And then sooner it's I mean, when 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:08.840 five minutes my phone and NFL Jason wom this is real, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.639 let me you know, and it's not April. And if 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.919 if you're a Cowboys fan, it's got to make you 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.800 feel a little bit good. Because he wouldn't come back 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.480 to a team that didn't have a chance to win. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.200 I don't think he would come back if he didn't 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.040 think they had a legit shot to go to or 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.560 win the Super Bowl. And the other question I kind 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.560 of have how much do you think Lenihan being gone 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.760 played into him coming back or leave it? Yeah? I 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.480 mean coincidence or were they using him the right way? 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.000 Does he think he's gotta he can be more productive 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.600 now with Kelly Moore? He just grabbed Kelly Moore if 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.119 he doesn't call the right plays and put him in 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:48.000 a headlock and give him a doogie and say, throwd 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.639 me the damn ball. Yeah. I hadn't thought about the 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.680 Lenihan angle. It seemed like he was a pretty integral 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:55.480 part of the office with Lenihan here, I think he 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.280 asked more about you know, he had this shot at 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.320 ESPN he thought he'd take. But it's gonna be interesting. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:07.440 Let's see, Yeah, headlocks. So maybe maybe all right, let's 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:12.040 go back to the phones. Are good, buddy, reginal from Conway, Arkansas. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:16.280 What's up, Reggie? How are you guys doing today? Man? 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.960 How you doing? I'm doing well? Thank you, thank you. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.480 I want to jump right on this because as soon 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.760 as it happened, I had a certain opinion about it. 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.199 I really wasn't that happy. And what you guys are 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:32.280 talking about. I've been listening and I agree with a 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.520 lot of that, but it all seems kind of circumstantial, 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:37.200 you know, Will he want to not play a lot? 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:38.560 Will he want to play a lot? High? Where the 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.480 guys react to that? I just because of all that 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.320 kind of not knowing, I think it's really a bad idea. Now, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.560 him coming back as a coach. I think that would 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.600 have been great, him coming back as a player. I'm 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:56.240 not really feeling it. I see you point, Yeah, I do, 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.840 because I'm like, Okay, how does he fit? I mean, 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:07.960 veteran guy, been there, done that, you know, But you 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.160 have to just kind of relax and let this play out, 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:16.200 because you know, I just do not need to come 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.199 out the next year. And really I'm concentrating on this 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.560 ship because I'm kind of selfish because I need them 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:29.920 ten plus wins. Yeah, but we do not need to lose. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:35.240 Jeff Swain shots don't hardly play, Blake don't hardly play. 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:37.840 And then next year we come okay, and then we 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:39.639 got to be saying, okay, it's we ain't gonna plays. 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.480 We're not gonna play that. I don't want to start 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:46.960 the Brett fathy. I think that's just more distraction when 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.960 we're on a rise. I think bringing him back it's 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:52.640 just another distraction. It's hard enough being a Dallas cowboy. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.000 There's enough going on around the team already. But to 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.880 bring him back, I think it's just one more thing 0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:01.120 that can throw them off track. We hear you, man, 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.760 with you man, I'm but I'm praying it don't yep. 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:05.920 I don't need no off track. I want to talk 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:12.760 noise ye. I want to call all my friends, all everybody. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.080 I know. That's that love enough I want, but I 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.320 want to I want to talk me some noise. Man. 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:20.560 It's been a long time. One more thing, if I 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:22.480 could just inter check this. I don't think that all 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:25.439