WEBVTT - Hangin' with the 'Boys: Sunday Night is Approaching 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:18.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Blowing out of the backfield, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:24.000 flowing down the sidelines. He's hanging with the Boys, broadcasting 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.400 live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:36.680 Now your host, Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and Shannon Gross Thursday. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.360 What do I say? Shannon will speak? What do you say? 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.400 But what they say? Shannon Shannon hosting hosting. Okay, Yeah, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.720 I'm like, I'm trying to figure that out. Host. Yeah, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.199 I know you demand you're man. You're the talent. I'm 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.879 the host. Yeah, you're the man. Curtsistat's guy. I need 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.080 you to bring it today. I'm gonna bring it. Made 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.920 you to bring it because we're a man. Damn. Kurt 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.800 kirteld me cut my hair and did show up for work. Man, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.520 we got stiffed. At least we cut our hair. Doug, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.000 whoa you went a Doug like that? You wouldn't have 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.920 him the other day? No, I didn't negotiations with my 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.520 wife right now? Fair enough? Hey man, my wife was 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.680 out of town. She come home. She like really because 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.920 she don't like she like a little bit of hair. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.640 I had too much and I went to nothing. She like, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.800 can we just get a little bit of hair? What 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.640 did you say? Like, Babe, this all from my boy, Kurt, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.080 I said, I'm a roll like this for like until 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.120 it grow back. I'm debating on whether I'm I'm molt it. Girls. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.000 Stuff mine started to grow back. I see you nubbing up. Yeah, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.080 so still weird. I don't realize that I did this 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.720 unless I walked by a window or a mirror, and 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.680 then I'm like, good God, that's drastic. Lea tell you 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.480 what you I hope don't happen. Please, don't forget and 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.280 bump your head on the edge of the car door 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.960 or something that is a terrible feeling, or you down 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.120 to pick up something and hit the edge of the table. Man, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:09.239 you're gonna think you're gonna thank Lee Rand I'm telling you, brother, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.959 to keep that in mind. Yeah, we get better, Kurt, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.520 We love you, man. Get back tomorrow. Today after the show, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.760 we're going to go interview the Human Law. Yes, we're 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.560 gonna find out what he thinks about Nate's nickname for him, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.400 Human Law. See what happens, and Mickey's gonna join the 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.720 show in a little bit. I got a question for you. Okay, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.040 let me let me pull this uh, let me pull 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.360 this tweet up here one of the uh the Giants 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:38.320 UM players. Yeah, yeah, pretty Mullins. It was Collins pretty 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:43.679 much uh called out without calling out the wide receiving 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.799 corps and the and the the quarterback. He actually called 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.600 the quarterback out. Yeah. Because this offense, our offense versus 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.799 their defense, you are in the right direction. So Landing 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.080 Collins quote, we really just have to focus on stopping Zeke. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.520 We need to make sure we're playing our gap assignments 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.720 and make sure we take air out of their running game. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.720 Put the ball into Dak's hands, and I think we 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.960 have a better shot at winning. So he's calling Dak 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.560 out for sure, and then indirectly calling out the wide 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.760 receiving corps. When you played? Is there such thing as 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.120 bulletin board material? Does that get you fired up if 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.560 you're a receiver? Is it? Just like it does? And 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:23.280 I'm gonna tell you where bulleting bulletin board material is good. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.639 When you're when you're equally, when you when you kind 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.600 of equal and who you are and what you do 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.880 you know? Uh, like I thought it was good when 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:38.160 Jalen you know, joking it got out the Beckham last week. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.720 You know that they these are two of the top guys, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.440 you know, and then you can you can look, you 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.840 can the show is great. You know Beckham called eleven 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.040 for one to eleven or you know the show is great. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.560 You know, it has a possibility to be great. But 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.600 it's too early in the season. We don't know who 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.840 the giants are. They all one. We don't know who 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.520 the cowboys are. They all and one. I mean, I'm here, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.280 it's obvious that, uh, we weren't successful last week. So 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.960 I mean, you just but when you played, you would 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.520 hear stuff like that just every nine. Now we heard 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.680 that when we were when we were bad, when we 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.000 got good, nobody was talking to now when you when 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.240 you were good. You know, like I said, you know, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.280 like what my man did last week the corner for 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.000 Jacksonville did with Odell, but jay La rowns. But that's 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.720 good on good bro and they and they kind of friends, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.000 so nothing nothing comes of it. But when you were 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.480 not very good, which we're not right now, and they're 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.800 not so Colin and Landon kind of don't getting wrong. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:54.920 He's all pro safety and uh and ze Zeke's are stood. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:05:01.680 But we'll see. Man, Mickey, we're talking today Cowboys offense 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.520 versus Giants defense. Yes, we are all right, I can 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.160 I can chime in. Is this offense? First off? Give 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.680 us your take on the game, because I hadn't talked 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.760 to you much this week. Well defensively, yeah, welcome back 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.960 to work. By the way, let's wait, let's talk about 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:22.680 the foot. Is everything good? Ain't strap slash stafftoe? Right? 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.880 I could put some of that sav on there, and uh, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.320 yeah it was a foot infection. Yeah that you got 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.599 a training camp, right. I believe that's when it started. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.880 Although I thought I had sprayed my foot and that's 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.720 why it was swelling up. And then things one thing 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.880 led to another and I go, no, this is not 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:46.279 a swollen foot. There. I hate a laugh because when 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.040 Mick thinking this a spray and the doc say, hey, man, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.360 let's stop and go back over what happened here. And 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.520 it comes to find out that Mick was out on 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.520 the beach barefoot, got a little and sore, and he 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.400 got worse and worse. Well, you're always barefoot on the beach, right, yeah, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.640 And then he got into into the ocean and he 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.960 I guess I should have stayed in the hot tub 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.880 with Channing, right. Yeah, I hadn't been to that ocean. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.440 I haven't been in the ocean since we've been going 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.560 to camp Man. I don't know. I wasn't really in it. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.480 I was walking on the beach. But the doc said that, 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.680 you know, if he had a little bit of athletes foot, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.640 there's never yeh know what got in there? Right? Wow? 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.920 So yeah, I'm certainly glad to be back in a 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.960 week in the hospital. Oh gosh, man, he called me? 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.360 Did I call you? You called me? I think you 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.360 probably called it. Yeah. I called him and he said 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.560 and then he called me back. I said, what's up, Mick? 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.840 What's up? Man? You know, because we getting ready to 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.120 do a show, Like, what's up, Mick? You know, I'm excited. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.280 I mean, you know, it's I'm in the hospital, laid 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.200 up and I'm like, oh, man, well what's wrong? He said, 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.560 you ever had stripped throat? I said, yeah, that's what 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:06.680 I got, strapped toe. Wow. I never knew that that 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.960 type of back carry went anywhere else the throat, but 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.560 that's what they identified here. I am here. You are 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:20.560 not enough to you know be probable. Yeah, what do 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.000 you think about the game? I'm imagining you weren't happy 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.360 with the results. I um it was. I think when 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:28.960 I wrote about it that called it one of the 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.840 worst season openers I think i'd seen since well, the 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.520 season opener in two thousand and one. One. Great when 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.960 they get beat by Tampa Bay ten to six and 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.640 Quincy Carter's first start, and then it kind of took 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.440 me back to eighty nine when they got beat twenty 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.680 eight to nothing by New Orleans. From from an offensive standpoint, 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.000 I've never seen a team so cole cocked in mine 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.040 clire life. Then that team, because they came out of 0:07:56.120 --> 0:08:00.280 was uh training camp three and one one. Remember you 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.800 won the last game and everybody went running off the 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.520 field with their arms and they beat Yeah, and went 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.560 down to New Orleans. They went to New Orleans and 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.840 it was twenty eighth to nothing and they barely got 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.240 one hundred and fifty yards. And that was eighty nine. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.840 That's when the Saints weren't that great, right, they were 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.360 getting good, were getting good. They had a lineback of court, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.120 and think and think about this in the twenty nine 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.320 years with Tom Landry as the head coach. They had 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.240 been shut out just one time. Wow, as bad as 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.240 they were at the beginning, they got shut out once 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.280 and then Jimmy and Jerry show up at the first game, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.880 got shut out. Oh when you think the Boo Birds 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.160 weren't out, Oh, people were just hollling. Was the Houston 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.960 Texans inaugural game a season opener? That was a season opener, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.839 But at least they scored I think nine points in that. Yeah, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.600 but they were an expansion franchise lost too. But you know, Mick, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.400 this is what you know. When I looked at the game, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.560 I'm like, Wow, not so great. But I went back 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.040 and looked at the film two or three times. So 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.000 I wanted to make sure before I got on the 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:09.839 air and try to represent the Cowboys. Here was and 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.000 like I told you, you know, and I was talking 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.920 to a dude at the table and they asked them 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.480 about the coaches. Already this had nothing. This had basically 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.360 had nothing to do I know in the first half 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.480 with the coaches. This had a lot to do with 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.120 our offense and a lack of execution and what was 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.320 going on. Yeah, it wasn't because you had pitiful players 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.520 or pitiful coaching. It was lack of execution in that 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.120 judgment and it just kind of snowball then and they 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.079 didn't get going until the second half. And you know, 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.640 I was trying to be funny when I wrote my column. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.280 I said, oh, this looks like a team that hadn't 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.880 played football in three weeks. Oh, by the way, they 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.720 hadn't played football three weeks. It was just it just amazing. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.200 And I told myself, you know, I'm like this from 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.520 top to bottom. Since you gotta put the coaches in 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.880 because they parted the since I said, from top to bottom, 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.599 from the head coach to the kicker. This was a 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:12.480 bad game led by a quarterback. He just had a 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.520 bad game. I mean people can said, well he had 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.480 six sacks. Okay, he got sack sack six times, but 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.920 if you look at some of the passes lack of 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.040 passes that it's just it just was not a good 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.600 game for him. And you're gonna have bad games, and yeah, 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.840 but usually it's I think the difference is usually every 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.240 season you're gonna have bad games that season, but usually 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.280 you get off to a decent start and then your 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.520 bad games come within the season. With this being the 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.920 first game, I think everybody's freaking everything gets magnified. Um. 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.079 And and just like Nate said, you know, it's like, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.920 oh yeah, he got sacked six times, but he missed 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.800 a couple throws. Well, do you think those six sacks 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.640 don't lead to some problems in the I want a 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:02.760 new I want a new stat too. Ft R was 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.440 that forced to run because no one accounts for having 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.880 to run out of the pocket right right the pass 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.079 he missed the jarwin he was running. I mean, he 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.920 was running out of the pocket because of what lack 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:22.559 of protection. But the thing is, and what I noticed 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:27.120 about our quarterback I think is his hesitation you know 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.520 when and what I'm gonna say, gonna kind of answer 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.360 it for usselves. When things are going great, he just 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:39.240 moves around and throws the ball. Uh. I don't know 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.160 what caused that, especially early in the game, just to 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:48.679 miss tholes. You know, I don't. I don't understand it. Uh. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.800 And I've told Shannon and I'd tell anybody, the game 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:58.839 is the last place you weren't about, Uh, technique, that's it. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.440 If you were about technique in the game, you're never 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.640 gonna get off, You're never gonna do your job. If 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.520 I got to worry about because my left hand, you know, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.520 that was the thing I had to work on, punching, punching, punching. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:14.200 When the game started, I just played instead. Yeah, if 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.760 you weren't about is I'm lined up rights, I'm throwing 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.439 off my proper foot. Is well, how are you gonna 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.199 throw off your proper foot? If you got a four 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.560 hundred pounds of land at your foot, you gotta get 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.400 your foot out of the way. It's gonna get broken. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.600 You still gotta throw the ball. So it's just that's 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:35.120 just life. And uh, you can't. And I thought, you know, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.959 I like creativity just as much as the next man, 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.720 But I'm talking about it in the first half. You can't. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.239 If you go through each series, it ain't no creativity 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:50.600 because you will go from first and eight to second 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:56.880 and eight to third and twenty? What's created? What? What 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.880 can I create? What can I create? And I actual 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.679 remember to do that. Say bay, okay, it's third and twenty, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:10.720 run me a play, create me something. It ain't non 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.319 creating that, bro, It's either you got the athletes because 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.800 I watched other games and I saw a cup the 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:22.480 signs way Blake borders through one of Wow, Blake got 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.679 a third down fifteen, third and twenty. I see in 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.000 other games where that happened. But these are well established 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.199 guys with quote unquote superstar wide receivers. We don't have 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.719 that here, not yet. We may can get it, but 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.880 not yet. Third and twenty six, second and seventeen, second 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.640 and seventeen and third and eleven. That's what they faced 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.280 their first four possessions, and then the fifth possession was 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.679 the past that he short hop Jarwin. And now that 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.720 you started asking questions to see what happened, it was like, yeah, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.520 he's got to throw the ball. But Jarwin kind of 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.960 settled in and and then I think he took off, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.400 and so Dak was thrown to a spot and Jarwin 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.679 took off. I think maybe Jarwin thought he was going 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.839 to run with it, which was the other thing. He 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.319 was on the run. It wasn't like he was sitting 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.719 in the pocket, you know, all right, let me throw it. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.200 He was on the run because he got pressured. So 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.760 he just this was not a good game. And as 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.080 Nate said, you know, what are you calling on third 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.200 and twenty six? You know, And and it's not just 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.960 the down and distance, it's where the ball was too 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.080 because the majority of those they were inside their own 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.920 twenty yard line. And when you're in that situation, you're 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.080 sitting there going okay, let me just get a little 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.000 bit and punt and lived to you know, play another 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.120 series and not turn the ball over. It was just 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.240 it was just terrible execution that first half. Say something, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:56.640 This game here is huge. Yeah, this game is huge, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:02.160 you know, just from a uh conference standpoint, just for 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:09.000 confidence for everybody that's concerned. It's just it's a confident builder. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.760 Regardless of how they come out of this. They got 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.120 to come out of there with with some success in 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.880 their passing games, some success in their run game. You 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.680 got to have that because you have enough young guys 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.880 that things can go the other way for them and 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.000 you don't. And this is where you know, uh, you 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.600 may say, wow, man, maybe this is where Witt and 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.960 dudes can stand up on the table and say something 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.800 that's positive. If things don't go right this week, you know, uh, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:44.600 but the Giants uh are not that much better. But 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.400 they did play the Jacksonville Jaguars who got a top 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.320 five defense. And I don't know yet, but I gotta 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.400 fit in Caroline's who have one of those defenses took Nick. Yeah, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.360 I think both teams ran into something that they didn't 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.600 need to see really good defenses, right. Yeah. And you 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.840 know when you mentioned the O and one going oh 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.840 and two, Well, the Giants are in the same boat. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.000 Oh yeah, you know, so they're thinking the same thing. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.360 You know, are you panicking yet? Are you talking this 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.920 first game up to Hey, they're a little rusty, they 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.120 have bad execution. The game kind of dictated them playing 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.320 an ugly game. I'm gonna I'm gonna trust what I 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.760 saw in training camp. I'm gonna trust what I saw 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.560 in preseason and say that was one of those games. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.760 Now let's go forward and see what this is. I 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.760 think after one game it's a little uh, you know, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.400 extreme to just kind of throw in the towel and think, okay, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.160 that's what they are. I think there's more to it. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.720 I think the defense will give them opportunities. You know, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.640 in my column before the season started, I said, you know, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.920 this is great. It's a young team, and but don't 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.800 be afraid of watching them grow before your very eyes, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.200 because they're not going to start the season off at 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:03.320 five and oh and see that's that. That's why I 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:09.520 keep saying not yet. They gotta grow and I'm jumping 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.119 and I'm all and I'm jumping the gun, but I'm 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.160 gonna jump. I jumped the gun on the same thing. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.800 That's why I want Michael Gallup to start. That's why 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.719 I want him to do eighty snaps a game if necessary, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:28.920 because I saw this kid his strength in the one 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.960 early time he was in the game, his strength of 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.320 how he just you know, that corner thought he was 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.400 gonna just jam him up, and he still went into 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.480 his route and we got that holding on the man. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.880 That's to me, that's that That says a lot because 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.400 and I'm not knocking nobody, but normally when we used 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.240 to get jammed up, we was jammed up and was 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.320 nothing called because we basically stopped that route. This guy 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.119 didn't stop his route. Man. He had another one. I 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.960 think it was in the fourth quarter when they were 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.800 trying to drive, yeah, and he did a crossing route 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.560 and Dak was people got pushed in the dock, but 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.760 the pass was behind him. If it was right on target, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.160 he might still be running. And I agree with Nate 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.440 and I said it on her show this morning. He 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.359 needs to start give him all the snaps, yes and 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.359 get because he's got something. If you go back and 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:25.240 watch some of the catches he makes, how he just 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.400 snatches the ball and goes. He did one in practice 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.800 today when he was doing a crossing route and it 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.840 was effortlessly snatch the ball and go. I think he's 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.080 really good. And you know they were talking about was 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.800 it Monday, Yeah, it was Monday about the given Givens plays. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.320 These are what we can rely on. I think you 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.200 can rely on him on a little slant across theddle. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.639 Why would so if both of you are saying that, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.560 both of you see the potential and he snaps, why 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.359 what would their hesitation be that he's a rookie. They 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.520 don't trust trust, trust right. Nate knows it right and 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.960 it happens to it. I know has no, he didn't 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.200 do anything wrong. Right to give him the opportunity to 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.920 get him out there. Like I told my son, I saw, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.720 I'm gonna give you a little bit, you know, I said, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.399 You're gonna my first son, King Tray. He had a 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.880 he had a car in the tenth grade. Cause from 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.480 the age seventh, eighth, and ninth, this kid here was 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.239 just trustworthy. You tell him to do something. I used 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.000 to leave him as an eight year old over at 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.960 the ranch and say, man, stay over here with miss Maryland. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.320 Don't go nowhere, don't do nothing. And if you walk 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.040 over to the training room, go straight to the training 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.760 room and come back. Never worried about Oh I saw 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.440 you saw walking over to the training room. And he 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:54.480 went to the training room, got himself and came back. King, King, 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.359 don't you tell you what? You just come on with me? 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.119 King wind up getting the car from dad, his junior 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.480 year in college, this past Christmas, this sophomore year in college. 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.800 It's about giving them a little and letting them see 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.960 what they do with it. Now, the question of half 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.080 for Mickey and the question of half for you? Where where? 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.560 What did he do wrong in training camp? What did 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.800 he do wrong in the preseason games? I think he 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.960 other than easily he outplayed the rest of the wide receivers. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:35.520 You when you have a talent, and and like Mick say, 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.800 and you're trying to grow. I'm growing with his kid. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.960 I'm growing with his kid. And and last year I 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:51.080 was wrong on Charlson because that's why I keep saying, 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.399 but they are they are the coaches. I don't know 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.000 what they're seeing and what they're feeling, but I do 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.320 know this. Once they started playing Charles and the back 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.639 half of the last season, it spilled over into this season. 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.440 He's gotten stronger. That's what Leonardlett told me, said, he 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.480 need to get stronger. And I'm just telling you he 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.120 needed to get strong And I'm like, I don't care, 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.160 you know, because that's my old team, man, I don't 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.639 care playing. And as he got stronger in the season, 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.560 they started playing anymore. And now you see he Man, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.040 I think you're gonna have a decent yeah game. Yeah, 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:26.359 And so now here we go with this kid. But 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.800 I think he's a little bit head of Charleston. I 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.320 think this kid is a little bit head of charging 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.080 it at this point, you know. And I'm not saying, 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.480 you know, people like with the third and fourth game. Man, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:43.160 I just want him get every rep with that because 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.760 we have to start building something here and if this 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.879 season is not as good as we want it to be, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.600 I want to be able to say without a doubt, 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.800 hey man, we we got something. Well. Connor Williams as 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:03.239 a rookie starter, what what did this gallops progress as 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:07.320 a rookie at his position compared to Connors at his 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:17.600 they didn't have anything behind Connors. And Connors played on 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.480 a big boy schedule at Texas and he played well 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:28.159 against top flight uh things. They may be holding a 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:30.399 living against Gallup because he didn't you know, he went 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.840 to Colorado statism correct, yes, and they may have felt 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.760 like he didn't play the big boy ball that that 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.760 my man played inside and like Mick said, we he 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:46.119 was virtudi only option. But if you go back and 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:51.960 you look at the game, once this kid figure out that, 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.240 don't put your head in there that you're gonna have 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.840 to trust in your strength and trusting your technique, and 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:01.120 you will be all right. Because he has good feet, 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:03.880 he has good hips, he's got some toughness to him. 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:07.760 Don't don't let people snatch you around. That's where he 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:09.479 may have to learn how to get rigid. It's at 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:11.840 times you have to be lumber and at times you 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.399 gotta be rigid. And the same move is beaten him, 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.920 you know, to set up snatch, set up snatch or 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:21.320 either they try to bullet or you gotta let him 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.920 bully you, let you know, get in your stands, do 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.879 what you have to do. And if they bully you, 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.359 then you try to regather, but don't sit there and 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.680 try to from the start. So I'm gonna just get 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.320 on it because if you miss start lung. Yeah, if 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.119