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This is hanging with the Boys, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.240 and I'm with the gang Gang for the last time 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.840 today because we're going back to our regular podcast. But 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.280 Kurt Daniels, Danny Serek and Jesse Holly here end up 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.480 building And guys, if you had an opportunity yesterday to 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:22.600 tune in to the press conference press conference yesterday, there 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:29.760 were three little initials that were blurted by our fearless leader, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:37.760 Michael Romeo India. Who will be taken on Monday when 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.200 the team gets back into town. I don't know if 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.399 he's he's obviously I think he's going to Arizona. We 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.760 don't know that, but guys, I need to know. And 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.360 I'll start with you, Kurt, What did that give you 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.320 warm and fuzzies? When Dak Prescott said that he was 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.440 getting another MRI on that shoulder, Well, when I first 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.200 heard of, the immediate reaction is, oh, you know, what's 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.680 going on. But the more I read about it and 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.520 kind of heard about it, it it sounds like it's just 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.440 they're just checking to see how things are going and 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.880 they want to see if it has improved. It's just 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.839 an update. He's throwing some in practice. It doesn't look 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.120 like hard, but he's throwing some, which is a good sign. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.639 So I think what I'm telling myself, I'm trying to 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.280 stay positive. I don't want to get the toms out here. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.800 I'm thinking that this is just part of the progress 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.960 and to see where he's at right now, so hopefully 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.080 it's going the way it's should look. The team wouldn't 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.880 have him do those smaller, lighter throws he was throwing 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.680 to Amari Cooper who's coming off his injury now, so 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.040 they wouldn't have him do even those throws. If they 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.320 were truly concerned that he had moved backwards in terms 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.680 of his progress or was feeling worse. So that makes 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.040 me feel a little more at ease of maybe this 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.480 is just more let's make sure before we have him 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.080 going full speed in practice, before we make a decision 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.320 if he's going to play in that third preseason game, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.160 let's get the MRI again, make sure he's good to go, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.120 and that the rest and the cautionary protocols they've been 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.240 taking have done their job firing the hole. I feel 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:10.800 you're you know, my only concern was why wait till Monday? 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:16.519 They're not an MRI machine in the last week, So 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:22.000 that's why I start looking kind of what was why Monday? Well, 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.480 why really want to get him back here where our 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.080 maybe our facilities are different something I don't know. I 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.399 don't know, like Mrs MRI is correct, I mean, I don't. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.399 I mean, last time I check, Jim Morrow will be here, 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.160 Jim Murrow will be there, Brick will be there, Greg 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.240 will be Like I don't, I don't know the difference 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.720 between getting it done right in and there and having 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.360 a do they want a few extra days to maybe 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.440 like maybe they had a goal of like, you know, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.600 fourteen days whatever till we check the next MRI. I 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:56.280 do you think it's something like that? That's the question 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:57.960 that we all. I mean, this is this is the 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:03.360 question that we're asked. And my thing is always, I 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.240 don't go get MRI's cat scans, CT scans or whatever 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.360 scan you want to go get unless there's something wrong. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.200 Now I'm not pushing the button and I'm not saying 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.080 that something is wrong, and they can be doing a checkup. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:23.640 But that just goes to show that again we were 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.320 misled because we were told it was fatigue, and then 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:32.119 we hear that there's experts being consulted, other sports team 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.800 physicians are being consulted, and went from a few days 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.880 to wear like almost two weeks. He did a light 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.920 throwing and we'll get more into the hard knocks thing 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.800 of things. But when you heard him in hard knocks 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.560 and when it was kind of like, well, where did 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.720 it kind of come from? Right, and it was it 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:54.880 was like the follow through, And so what he didn't 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.760 practice was a bunch of light throws. There was nothing 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.599 that had any zip behind it. It wasn't like he 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.360 was throwing hard passes. So maybe you get to a 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.240 point where I'm able to kind of loft some up 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.520 and but what happens when you got to throw some 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.080 zip behind it? Now, if they've done that off camera, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.040 we haven't heard any reports about it, But that's that's 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.440 just my biggest thing is when you start adding MRIs 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:23.760 and multiple MRIs to situations, it's it's it's cause for concern. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.800 I don't I don't care who spends it on how 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.560 they spin it. There is cause for concern in the shoulder. Yeah, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.520 I'm a little surprised that they're I mean, I'll be 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.520 surprised if he plays in the third preseason game and I, um, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.480 they were talking about they want to get him out there, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.440 and I don't know, like before they said, oh this 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.680 is just a fatigue injury and oh yeah, he'll play 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.440 in the third preseason gain. I kind of wish they'd 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.440 just be quite, you know, not not get our hopes up, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.720 keep it, you know, be honest about it in some way. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.280 You talk about the drama, you know, that's what we 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.320 major in is the drama is making sure that everyone 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.159 is on the edge to their seats and all of 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.839 Cowboy Nation, all of the sports community, football, NFL everybody's 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:06.600 on the edge of the seat trying to figure out 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.360 what's going on with Dak's shoulder. But at this point 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.760 we can and I played around with it about the 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.159 anxiety of what it feels like to know going into 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.680 a season that you may not have your number one quarterback. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.560 But we're getting into that point where he hasn't thrown 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.599 with the ones in what thirteen days? We're at the 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.640 thirteenth day of this. So if we continue this trend 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.360 of him not throwing, the team is back here on 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:37.880 Saturday practice this Monday, another preseason game approaching. He may 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.600 not play in that game? Are we not? Are we 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.000 sure that Dak is going to be ready for at 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.600 the beginning of the season. It doesn't concern me about 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.760 the fact that he's had thirteen fourteen days without throwing 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.719 to his ones, because, first of all, the ones, you know, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.440 we're talking to Mary Cooper and Michael Gallup, Seedee lamb, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.159 even if you want to go down you know, Noah 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.960 brown Sadric Wilson, the tight ends. These are the ones 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.880 he's had all last year, with the exception of really 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.360 sed years before that. And also given it wasn't a 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.440 official way of doing things by any means. But in 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.880 the offseason, Dak had all of these guys out to 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.080 his house every day practicing and throwing out on the field. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.720 So doesn't concern me as much that he's gone maybe 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.800 two weeks without throwing to his ones, because these are 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.360 people he has that chemistry with already. But let me 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.200 ask you this, Danny with the injury from last year, 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.960 knowing that he has the ankle, knowing that he won't 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.680 he wouldn't have if he doesn't play in the preseason game, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.800 does that worry you? I mean, even with the familiarity, 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:43.160 is there arrust component to this that we're not looking 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.560 at Because he's a quarterback you would like for your quarterback. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.720 The reason why you give him those reps in preseason 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.680 it's to get him in rhythm. Do you worry about that? 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.920 I don't necessarily think I worry as much from the 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.559 ankle standpoint. I think I think he's ready. I think 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.840 it doesn't really seem like a lot of the reason 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.480 they were I mean, of course you want to be 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.920 cautious getting back into things, but it doesn't seem like 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.320 they had any concern going into the season. We're like, oh, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.000 I don't know he's really going to be ready on 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.880 that ankle. That doesn't seem to have been a concern 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.160 by any means. I'm just wondering, like, when is he 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.680 going to get hit? It's that mental aspect that he's 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.200 talked about of you need to get hit once realize 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.040 you can get up or maybe do a run right like, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.880 because that's how he hurt his ankle. I think once 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.040 you get those mentally and you realize I can still 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.960 do this, then you're fine. I don't I don't necessarily 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.160 worry about rust of like coming off the injury per 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.920 se physically. The part that's concerning to me is if 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.319 you said, you know what, he's not going to play 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.200 any preseason games, Okay, cool, Then that tells me that 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.559 he's going to get all of the practice reps right, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.360 all of the ones practice rep and he can kind 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.920 of keep that rhythm and that kind of the mojo 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.880 and everything. But now when you're taking away preseason games 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.880 and you haven't practiced throwing the ball in a live 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.319 setting as far as practice wise in two weeks, and 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.839 I'm sure they're not going to start Monday and just 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.320 throw him back into the fire. Well, he's firing, you know, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.599 forty fifty passes and the practice again, so now you 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.280 limit that practice as well, So you're not getting games 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:11.840 and you're limited to what you can do at practice 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.560 while he while he's there. Mentally, there is a rust 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.559 component when it comes to this, especially for a quarterback 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:26.240 who isn't the most accurate passer that we have to 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.400 begin to begin with it, Like he doesn't come with well, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.679 one of his qualities isn't when you talk about Dak 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.240 Prescott is oh my god, he's super accurate with the football. Right, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.320 Like there you have to go down the list of 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 things before you get to the accuracy part. When describing 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:46.319 Dak Prescott the quarterback, Well, when you're taking away these 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:50.120 reps and you you you're you're not playing in preseason 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.840 games and you're not practicing weekend and week out, and 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:59.640 then the season comes, well, those count. Those count. And 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.080 we all know that when you go back and you 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.199 watch a sixty five seventy play game from an offensive standpoint, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.800 and we've heard coach speaks said all the time, there 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.280 are three or four or five players within that game 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.679 that was kind of the determining factor of that game 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.240 could have been a third down ball, could have been 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.560 thrown behind, could have been a little bit too high, 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.520 could have been a step you know, a step late, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.000 you know, tick late on releasing the ball. Whatever those 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.040 things may be. Those are rush factors for any quarterback. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.160 And that goes from your Peyton Manning's to your Tom 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.559 Brady's to your Aaron Rodgers. Those type of things you 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.360 need to work through, and a lot of those guys use, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.920 if not the preseason games, every single rep in practice 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.720 to get those things worked on. And so now when 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.400 you're taking those away and you're tripping those away from him, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.880 and again I don't want to sound redundant to an 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:57.720 already not specifically accurate passer, that to me is it's 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.880 a cost. It's a cost for concern from me. That's 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.800 it's not just his ability too. I agree he's got 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:04.560 the mental part of it's going to be the tougher part. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.280 But like we talked about before, it's the cadence of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.320 the whole offense and you know, getting rhythm with the 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.720 line and all that kind of stuff. And we had 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.240 talked about before that this defense may not be in 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.680 full sync until five or six games into the season, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.200 which means your offense better be in sync game one 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.240 if you're going to pull out some wins and this 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.760 is that going to be a problem. Yeah, sorry, quick question, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.120 just general question. Now, going off of that, I want 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.840 to hear what you two think of, like in terms 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.600 of the rust and Dak right and getting those reps, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.079 Like how much of that rust is not just on 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.600 him but also working with this offensive line he didn't 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.160 have last year, Like, it's how much of getting through 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.920 that rust if you want the offense to be so 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.400 great early on, like it's cohesive. Yeah, I would think that, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.640 like you had talked about it. I think like even 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.120 if Dak weren't hurt, right, we would still be expecting 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.800 rust because of the offensive line coming off injuries. No, Right, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.880 but you get you get a chance to work that 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.360 in practice, right, You see what I'm saying. So when 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.640 you take him off the practice field for a significant 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.800 amount of time, he's not able to do those things. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.920 So the relationship with the receiver, it's the whole. It's everybody. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.400 It's it's everybody. It's it even gets down to Danny 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.160 and Kurt and heck, but it gets down to even 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:26.600 Kellen Moore. Because offensive and defensive play callumn is rhythm. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.800 It's like a shooter when they get in that pocket 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.760 and that it's just flowing. And then that's how guys 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.960 get into the game, right And so for Kellen, I 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.000 need to be in my quarterback to start seeing some 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.280 things in practice are saying, oh, I like this play, 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.160 you know, check check, check, And I need to get 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.520 into a rhythm and then a sync with my quarterback. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.160 And even though they have the relationship, I need us 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.880 to get out there and work. I needed to get 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.440 out there and for Doc to go, hey, listen on 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.360 this one right here. I love to play. Hey, let's 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.560 make this eighteen yards, you know, let's make this eighteen 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.640 yards or hey, look, I know you had Zeke do this. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.880 Hey let's try this route. Because that's the back and 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:08.160 forth conversation that goes on between veteran quarterback and offensive 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.839 coordinator that they can have these discussions and then you 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.480 can go back into the meeting room and sit down 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.200 and go all right, we love these plays. Is there 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.559 anything that you want to switch, tinker with chance, whatever 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.040 it may be. But you don't have that when Dak 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.360 is sitting over on the sideline and you're not having 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.320 him in the practice because he needs to be in 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.840 the driver's seat. I need to. I can stand over 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.600 there and see it happen. But when I'm standing looking 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.240 down the battle of the gun, now I can kind 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.080 of see in the feel how I want things to 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.480 work around me. Now, that's the one I love. The 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.920 analogy about the shooters in the NBA and basketball guys 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.760 like Kobe Bryant, they arrived to the stadium five hours 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.559 before the game to get in rhythm. Dak in contrast 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.760 to that, has been held out of OTAs. He's been 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.280 held out of team going into camp right when the 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.920 pads are put on. He can't participate in live actions. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.120 So to simulate that, I mean, I know the man 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.440 has a football field at his house, so I know 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.760 he's been throwing. But like you said, when you start 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.600 saying names like Tom Brady, when you start talking about 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.600 the upper echelo, the guys that have done it at 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.280 a high level in this league for a long time 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.000 and how they participated in preseason, we can't take him 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.800 out of that because he hadn't reached that level yet. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.280 And so when you think, for me, it was last 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.920 year versus the Cleveland Browns, when you saw Dak actually 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.320 unveil his arm strength on a throw in the red 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.200 zone to Amari Cooper in between two defenders. Now, that 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.240 showed to me that he's been working working on that 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.560 he did it. Here's the play right here, and his 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.680 ability as a progression as a quarterback. He looks at 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.560 his first read, which is something that he staring down 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.480 receivers in his first couple of years may have been 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.680 the problem. But that right there. Can I just tell 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.800 you from a football guy from the receiver position, that 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.360 didn't happen on Cleveland Brown Day. That happened in training camp. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.600 Go back, go back and watch the great Troy Atman 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.840 and Michael Irvin. Right this this it's a post ride. 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.560 It's one, two, three, four or five boom right his 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.800 steps when Dad's back when when when when Amari Cooper 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.920 goes in motion and Dad's sees the defense shifts, he 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.320 knows exactly where the ball is going. He knows watch 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.240 him as soon as he hits that back foot one two, three, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.640 the ball is gone and that window goes quick. He 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.800 knows where he's going with the football. Amari knows where 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.240 he's going with the football, and that type of energy 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:44.080 that type of of of of knowing, of precision of 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:49.240 everything that's from practice. Now, that very pass, if you're 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.800 rusty and it's short, that's gone to the house picked off, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.840 you might be Amari might be going down to Bayless, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.920 Scott and White for an MRI on his it might 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.160 be picked off. Right, there's some beat that throw right 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.600 there is a throw that you can't make with rust. 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.960 But that shows you when you're in that rhythm, when 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.040 you know what's going on, when you have that rush 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.680 knocked off, when that when you're in sync, right, that's 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.640 when that type of plays happened, when that window and 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.240 close it, I mean, because it happens quick. And I 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.960 always think about Michael Irvin and Troy Aikman when you 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.720 look at that bang eight post that that was one 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.200 of the players where Mike had to know esp they 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.960 had to Troy when that backfoot hit that ball was 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.720 coming out on a rope. Mike knew it, Troy knew it, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.720 and he knew how many steps he had before that 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.680 safety got there. He knew how to catch the ball, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.760 he knew everything. But that comes from the stuff that 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.600 you do in practice. And when you hold him out 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.280 and he's not getting it Forget the preseason games, right, fine? 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.720 No preseason games. Yeah, you always hear about this great 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.680 quick like Roger Star. He he didn't know, he didn't 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:58.880 see Drew there, He just knew Drew would be there. Right, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:05.800 you need that practice, not a game about practice. Let's 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.880 be optimist tech. Let's say the MRI Monday. Okay, he's great, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.920 good to go Tuesday. He is full go from here 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.000 on out. Not playing in the last two preseason games. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.000 But if he gets those last few weeks of practice, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.160 do you feel that's enough to shake off the rust 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.720 and make up for these two weeks through and a 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.359 half weeks he'll miss. Heck no, because we opened the 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.280 season on Thursday night in Tampa, and Tampa has an 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.000 ax to grind with the NFL and you know it, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.800 really we are. We're coming into town like the pig 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.560 with the apple in his mouth, you know, because it's 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.439 the world champions. They want to set the NFL on notice. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.560 They won the Super Bowl, not because of Tom Brady, 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.080 but because of that defense. If you did not know, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.720 you will find out on Thursday. And I don't want 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.919 to see Dak in his first live action in that 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.720 I would like to get some reps before that. He's 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.040 not ready for this third preseason game. Would you put 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.840 him out there with the starters for some work in 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.280 the fourth one, which is traditionally give up game or whatever. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.879 If you tell me that he is all go, there's 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:13.720 no restrictions for him at practice. I'm actually okay for 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:19.359 him not playing any of the preseason games. I can't believe. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.879 I'm a preseason guy. I think preseason is necessary. But 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.360 you just made the whole thesis based off of what 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.840 you you just say. My thesis was, if you're not 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.480 going to play in preseason games, I need you to 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.760 be able to go and do everything in practice. Take 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.160 all the reps you have to take, every single rep 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.040 like that has to happen if you're If you're not 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.320 going to play in preseason, there can't be any restrictions 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.240 on you at practice. With Danny was saying getting the hit, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.880 that getting the real pressure, and you know they're coming 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.119 after they're not holding up. My thing is is most 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.400 quarterbacks don't take a live hit until the game anyway, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.800 right tom One of a lot of time you hit 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.240 I'm brady in practice if you want to, oh no, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:09.159 you hit you know none of those guys go to 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.800 preseasons and get hit. None of those guys do. So 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.760 the hitting part, to me, I am so confident in 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:21.320 that's mental ability. And simply because he's been through a lot. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.920 And the quote that he made it gives me chills 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.600 when I when I hear him say it, when he 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:31.320 says that adversity opened the door for opportunity, that that 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.240 is so profound to me because when you are faced 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.080 with that type of situation, whether it's be moms, the depression, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.280 or brother and all that kind of suff and you're 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.520 able to bounce back from that. Oh, if you hit 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:46.919 me on the football field, it's not really gonna rattle me. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.960 Like I've overcome a lot. I've overcome my mom losing 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.480 my mom. I've overcome you know, the stuff that happened 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.879 to me in the draft before the draft. I've overcome 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.679 uh being the number or four guy when I first 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.239 got to Dallas behind Jamil Showers and worked my way up. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.320 I've I've overcome the contract stuff hanging over my head 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.080 for three or four seasons trying to get paid. I've 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:18.240 overcome a pandemic, depression, my brother taking his life. I've 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.600 overcome a lot of stuff mentally, that's that's mental toughness. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.240 So to go out there and have to take a 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.480 hit to me just and I could be wrong, but 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.439 that's a little that the man has already showed you. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.919 He ain't mentally fragile. He ain't no sucking when it 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.040 comes to the mental toughness. So having to get hit 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.000 for me with him, I'm thinking, that's that's small that's 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.439 small change. The thing that's not small change is just 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.920 the physical mechanics of you going out there and doing 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.280 what you're supposed to do at the position. If you're 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.280 supposed to be throwing the football, and this will be 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.800 a past happy offense. I don't care what Bike McCarthy 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:55.600 talks about. I want to make a balance. I want 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.600 to make this no no, no, no no. You got 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.359 weapons glory. You're gonna let that thing fly. That ball 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.760 is gonna be passed around a lot to a lot 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.880 of different cats. Well, I need the guy. I need 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:10.120 my time cruise, I need my top Gun. I need him. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.720 I need him to be on his game because if 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.280 he ain't, then we got a problem. Well you got 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.760 a guy with a big old contract and then you 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.000 talk about top Gun they're gonna be a lot of 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:24.720 people gunning for him, and not only gunning for him 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.159 on the field, but gunning for him in the media, because, 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:30.919 as we all know, the world is not at a 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.960 shortage for haters for the Cowboys. And speaking of haters, 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:36.880 we're gonna take a break right now, but we're gonna 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:38.680 come back and we're gonna talk a little bit about 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.560 the hate that coach Mike has been getting me from 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:46.040