WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: 1-on-1 With Woodson 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.840 Are you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.319 for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.560 so much for that. It's time for the break on 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:21.200 Dallas Cowboys dot Com were on the break. What's up? Everybody? 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.720 Welcome to Cowboys Break one on one. This is something 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.440 that we've been doing here this offseason. We're not doing 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.280 full shows, but we're trying to still do an element 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.279 of our shows and getting different guests in here. I've 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.319 seen a lot of different guests we're running around these 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.840 other shows have done a great job, but I got 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.240 to go. I'm sorry. They say it all the time, 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.720 but this truly is the goat. And all you have 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.400 to do is go to my office. If we ever 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.040 get to go there again, go to my office and 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.960 see this big picture I've got of Darren Woodson Woody. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.120 What is up? Man? Thanks for joining me. Man, I'm 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:01.720 doing great. Can't wait for football season starting it? Uh? Look, man, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:07.720 it's look. This sucks. I'm gonna last PAP and I'm 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.440 a guiding it for the longest. You know me, I 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.920 travel all the time. I'm either doing engagements or I'm 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.560 doing business or whatnot. And I'm on the road and 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.840 I have bitched and complained about being on the road. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.759 I'm doing too much, and then COVID hits, I haven't 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.120 done anything. I'm at home. Now I'm away. I'm a 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.840 bitching because I want to get back out and get 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.120 back on the road. Let's just let's just get this 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.400 out of the way right now. Okay. Darren asked us 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.960 before this thing started if if there could be some 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.840 cussing going on. So it's gonna be that kind of 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.399 party here, all right, As Mike Singletary said one time, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.440 it's gonna be that kind of party. Just giving you 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.560 some free warning there. We'll see what our beat buttons 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.520 are working. But I don't really know. So, um, first 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.960 of all, where are you? I mean, I'm home home, Okay, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.440 I'm home. You know. I have my offices up at 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:02.400 the Star. Yeah, my two I think. But but on 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.320 Monday Wednesday, it's Monday's Wednesdays, I go up to the Stars. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.880 Those are the days from off. So we go a 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.800 group A Monday Wednesday, Group B goes Tuesday Thursday. So 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:18.200 today being Tuesday, I'm at home. Okay. All right, So 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.240 you kind of alluded to it here before we get 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.240 into all this. You know, football talk. You said you're 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.800 excited about football, but you you let me just ask 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.079 you this, Barry Sanders in the open field and you've 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.240 got to make this tackle. You want to deal with 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:38.280 that or coronavirus clug. I've had to deal with both 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.600 because I had I ended up being uh tested positive 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.920 for COVID about in May mid May. Long story that 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.280 goes behind that, but you know, I was a guy, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.880 and if you know my wife, Tiffany, she's a hypochondriac. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:58.480 And we sheltered our selves in this house and didn't move, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.560 didn't go anywhere. We you know, not so much quarantine, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:09.720 but a whole lot of presents outside of himself but 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:18.120 as well, so we were being extremely care wife end 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.400 up going to Houston for a business and came back 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.920 and we ended up getting COVID to hoold the entire house, himself, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.880 a wife, a nineteen year old, and a four year old. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.639 So I've had to deal with it, kick my kick 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.040 my butt for about three or four days, and then 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.080 you know what it felt like. It in day two 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.040 it felt like at my age, at fifty one years old, 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.960 at my age that I played a game at full game. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:52.440 It got ninety ratts and the physical partner and waking 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.240 up the next morning. That's what it felt like. I 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.360 could barely move man for in day two because if 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.560 my body was just so sore. And in day three, man, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.320 I just I was fine. Day four, I was working out. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.160 It just it hit me pretty hard for a few days. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.120 But now I was the only one that got hit 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.200 that hard. My wife had no symptoms. Zero didn't even 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.600 cough or sneeze, he didn't have any effects. My little 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.760 my three year old or my whole year only had 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.560 a fever. Nineteen year old had a fever and he 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.159 got up the next day. On was no big deal. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.360 I was the one that took it on chin for 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.520 a couple of days. So you compared it to a game. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.880 Was it a game that you won or you lost? 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.640 Because you know, on Monday morning you feel much differently 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.960 if you'd won that game or not. Was this a loss, dude, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.280 this was a double I got up with the belt on, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.680 man I got on day day three, put the belt on. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.400 He had me down, He had me on the ropes. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.000 Now he had me in the hard bar. For a second. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.400 I found a way to squeeze out of that thing. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.039 But you know, you asked the question earlier. You know 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.039 which one would I rather see Barry Sanders in the 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:01.719 open field or COVID dude, Barry any day? Wow, Barry 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:06.600 any day man? Because just for that one day, man, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.640 that was I was. I was getting pound and round 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.880 and pound that day. That's some good perspective right there, 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.919 because obviously there's not many safeties or defensive players that 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.880 played in the nineties that would be like, come on, Barry, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.920 what you got so especially as a safety because you know, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.400 there's not anyone really behind you, so like it it's 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.440 you and that's something that you dealt with your whole career. So, uh, well, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.320 I'm glad, I'm I'm glad you're doing well. I'm glad 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.360 that everybody you know in the in the I assume 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:45.120 everyone in your family's fine, perfect, so that that's great. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.880 What m you said that this sucks, you know, that's 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.560 the first thing that you said, just you know, in general, 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.080 you guys have had it and you've dealt with it, 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.280 but still it's just changed all of our lives right now. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.160 Is that kind of what when you're talking about like 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.200 this sucks having every other day wear a mask and 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.560 just everything. Yeah, exactly, and and just being around people, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.000 you know what I mean, seeing you, seeing Chris, seeing 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.440 the guys up at the at the facility, you know 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.800 office right there at the facility. You know, you just 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.000 you just want to get back to that normal seat. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.360 I'd love to see my kid, my son, my four 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.839 year old, go back to school. That would be awesome 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.200 to the house, just the fact of having some normalcy. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.800 You know, my neighborhood. We walk through the stores as families. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.480 We have two or three families that will walk to 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.279 the store or go to the coffee shop, you have dinner, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.360 and you know, I just think, you know, that part 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.279 of being in Dallas, and that part of just being 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.039 around folks, that's the part that that I just don't like. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.200 I just I want to get back to that normal seat. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.640 And I know it's hey, listen, COVID has affected a 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.520 lot of different and a lot of people differently. Um 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.039 and to those who have really been affected, my heart 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.960 goes out to you because I've had some friends who've 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.400 lost their lives to COVID and it's nothing, it's nothing 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.560 to play around with. But at the same time, I just, uh, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.679 you know, wish everybody the best, but you know, I'd 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.560 love to get back to that normalcy as well. Well. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.560 And let me as I transition into football, let me 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.760 just preface by saying, you know, we understand everybody understands 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.560 that football takes a major backseat to everything else that's happening. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.600 So but still we like to talk about football. We 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.080 hope to kind of get that back. So I am 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.640 going to shift gears to that um and also talking 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.200 about the coronavirus. I mean, it's been such a big 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.280 deal as far as the NFL and the players Association 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.680 trying to figure out what to do here. Now you're 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.760 seeing some players opt out, a couple of players on 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:42.520 the Cowboys roster opting out, and you know, the players 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.440 are making sure that they you know, getting tested every day, 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.880 and so what are your thoughts on that as far 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.720 as you know players risking, is it a risk reward situation? 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.760 Do you think that that they should say, hey, we're 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.480 not getting out there unless unless this thing is one 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.920 hundred percent safe, or you know, do you you agree 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.080 with some of the players that are saying, now I'm 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.880 you know, I'm not I'm not doing I got a 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:13.920 family to protect. So I think players have options. They absolutely, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.280 and that their health that they're putting their trouble one. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.440 Then they have option to say, no, I don't want 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.080 to do this. I want to put myself, my family. 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.720 I don't want to put anyone at risks. Uh, and 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.720 I'm gonna miss that mess the season. I can only 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.600 put myself in this situation. And you know, we've never 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.800 experienced anything like this. So what we did experience was 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.720 nine to eleven and that was traumatic to the country 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.400 and it was emotional. Um and I guess we missed 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.720 a I guess we missed a week of a game 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.880 or whatnot, But it was that was a traumatic part 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.120 of what I went through that this is totally different 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.160 because this has affected everyone in every vertical around the country, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.800 around the world, and it's a process in which you, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.280 you know, even individually, to look at yourself and say, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.160 am I willing to take on the risks of walking 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:10.040 into a room of fifty three players and someone getting 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.520 COVID and now we're all exposed to it, and then 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.000 I'm taking that back to the house my wife, maybe 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.520 my mom lives with me, who maybe of a sixty 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.199 years old and above. I mean, there's so many risks 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.920 that are inherent in being around a lot of players. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.320 I mean, you have to be willing to take that risk. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:33.400 If it was me, I would probably look, I've always 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.080 been a guy that loved the game and I wanted 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:36.720 to keep it back. I want to keep it natural 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.640 and keep the normal I want to get back to 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.000 the normalcy or whatnot. I think I would to be 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.360 a guy that would play I honestly do. I think 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.560 I would have got that would have walked in, try 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:50.160 to understand all the repercussions and you know how we're 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.240 going to go about testing and making sure the locker 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.000 room is safe, because safety is first in this situation, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.000 and I would want to know all there is to 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.640 know about that walking into that locker room and then exposure. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.760 I want to know, you know, listen, it is you 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.920 can't live in an I'd like the NBA is they're 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.880 living in a bubble. You know. In the NFL, there's 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.840 so many moving parts. It's not just the players, it's 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:22.120 the training staff, it's the equipment staff, it's the PR department. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.920 You have, so I mean, you have a huge group 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.640 of people, and then when you go play a game, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.920 you have to trans transfer all that on a plane. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.559 To a hotel and all that. So there's there's it's 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.640 gonna be hard for the NFL to manage this. And 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.320 I can understand why players or some players are opting out. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:39.920 They want to take care of their help, they'll take 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.760 care of the family. But then a guy like me, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.960 I probably wouldn't play. Yeah, you know, you're right. It's 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:50.240 it's such a weird time because you know, just an 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.320 NFL huddle, it's something that that we're not allowed to 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.480 do right now. So distancing that's a major part of 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.800 the game, you know. So it's gonna be really interesting 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.280 that to see just this how this whole thing plays out. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.920 And let's let's assume that it does. Let's assume that that, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.040 you know, we're gonna get this thing started and the 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.439 Cowboys are gonna get them to play. And you know, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.440 there's been a lot of talk about the safety position, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.680 you know, I that's something you know really yeah, well 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.920 you know a little bit, you know, I mean, the 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.400 Cowboys haven't really addressed it since Roy Williams like and 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.000 with a high pick and uh and you were playing 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.040 with him back then. So you know, there's been a 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.640 lot of talk about them trading for players and it 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.959 just didn't work out. Obviously with Jamal Adams, he was 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.720 traded recently to Seattles. Uh what do you think about that? 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.959 Two first round picks and a third round pick? Wow? 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:47.400 That man? I love Jamal Adams, Carrolton, boy man, love 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:52.200 the kid out. He's top three safety in the league. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:57.839 And you know, but yeah, but he was a guy 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.840 that I was just hoping the I was bring off, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.880 you know, specifically because the kid has so much passion 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.760 for the game. I mean, he loves to play the game. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.240 Is he the best cover guy in the league now? 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.320 To say the position now? Probably not, But he finds 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.800 a way to get around the football. He finds a 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.160 way to be passionate on the field and then be 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.959 the leader in the locker room of loud at times 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.240 and noxious at time. People probably don't like him, but 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.559 he has that I don't give a damn attitude. What 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.400 you want the Charles Hayley type of mentality, what you 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.600 want on your team. So do I think he would 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:39.760 have really lifted this defense to another level? Absolutely? But 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.480 two first round picks and then it was a third 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:49.080 and then a player was it? Uh? Yeah, yeah, Google, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:54.360 that is a lot to give away. I could not 0:12:54.480 --> 0:13:00.360 see the Cowboys given that away. Uh and basically, you know, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.960 putting the risk, you know, first round picks that could 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.680 probably that could really impact your team. You know, listen, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.640 I know everybody says, well, he's a proven commodity. You 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.320 know what you're getting at the same position. But not right, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.240 not two first round picks. I'm picking late twenties. Yeah, okay, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.240 there you go. But I'm no, I'm not doing that. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.480 And you know that that happens a lot because people 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.000 will say, well, you know, no way the Cowboys should 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.760 have done that. It's just like seeing different people that 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.000 buy a car. Well, there's no way I would I 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.120 would spend money for that car. Well, because you can't 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.280 afford it. Seattle, you know, it's still rich. But Seattle 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.480 is picking late. They do have a quarterback under contract. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.040 They have proven to be in the playoffs every year 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.480 here for the last few years. They kind of know 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.000 what they are. They may be a player or two away. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.840 I don't think the Cowboys can say that, so, you know, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.000 and I don't think Seattle. Yeah, but I wonder what 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.280 you think? What is Russell Wilson? I mean, what do 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:57.480 you think Russell Russell Wilsons. They're thinking, Okay, my off 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.960 line hasn't protected me because I walked in the lead. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.240 I haven't had a left tackle, uh a round guard. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.840 I've been running around, trampling around, trying to save my life. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.360 But you're gonna give up two first or a safety, 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:18.080 which ID He's probably looking at this like, uh little 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.760 little hit scratcher on his part. Thing. You know, look, 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.400 he needs he needs a protection, and you just gave 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.640 up two high picks for one guy. Now, look, this 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:32.960 is what I will say. If you're Seattle, you you 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.400 make this, make this decision base on the fact. Believe 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:42.479 that he pushed sprints. He gives you the legitimate chances defensively. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.320 To Ell, it's that much more to give you a 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.560 shot to be in the super Bowl, because I don't 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.080 see any other way you could make that decision. You 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:56.000 just think, Okay, well we're gonna they're already a playoff team. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.440 They're already a playoff team. We know su us again, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:06.320 does Adams making a Super Bowl contender? And that to 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.040 me is I know he does not make He doesn't 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.880 lift the defensive that much. No, no, no disrespect to 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:17.280 the position because you mastered it does any safety, there's 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.320 a there's a safetan, there's a safety, there's position. You know, 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:26.200 are they effective enough to to make that much of 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:32.640 a difference. No, And I think now I wouldn't even 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.880 say wide receivers put you in that category. I would 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:45.040 say a quarterback for sure, a tackle maybe, I would say, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.720 you know, hey, you know, I just feel out the 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:54.160 game is geared to so much that safety does it not? 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.320 Doesn't make that big on a play to play situation 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.240 where he can tran transform the game, and and and 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.640 being imp player and uh, you know, give you point. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:09.040 The same time, I still think that it's offensive the 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.440 way the game is played. Now, all right, well, I'm 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.800 gonna I agree with you on that. Now, the Cowboys 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.520 have signed hat Clinton Dix, they got in Xaviel Woods 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.720 at the safety position. Their secondary is gonna a little 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.560 bit unproven there. So I'm gonna ask you this. Do 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.760 you think that this team, if you're looking at what 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.120 the Cowboys have, are they in a position where they 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.480 are gonna have to outscore some teams? They got a 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.600 lot of receivers they're gonna have, That's how they're gonna 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:40.000 have to win games. Yes, Yes, is that I still 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.320 think I think they short some things offensive. Let me 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.600 on the defensive line. I'm also curious to see even 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.440 some of these veteran players that are coming in that 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.560 they brought in, like Gerald McCoy. I love to see 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.720 what Gerald McCoy looks like here coming up, I mean 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:57.160 i'd be I'm very interested in Larry Pope, Ontario Pope. 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.240 I see what he looks like. You know, at this age, 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.200 you know he's moved around here and there and how 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.560 he fits in there. But you're gonna sit there. I'm 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.320 gonna look at the top football team. I know what 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.440 I have at the quarterback position, at the running back 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.680 and still one of the top off the line in 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.200 the league. I think they can get better up front. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:21.360 And then now you bring in a wide receiving corps one, two, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.760 and three that can match up with anybody. Look, you 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.159 gotta put some points on the board. You got weapons 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.840 galore on the office side of the ball, and it's 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.959 up the back and that offense to put those points up? 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.800 What are you doing? Oh, look at you. I was 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.280 a little so I needed a shirt on. Yeah that 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.640 looks good. You know I can't I look a little 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.920 link in that picture man, that makes one of us, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.560 uh not me, but no. I was actually I didn't 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.119 get to go to the office and I was looking 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.040 at stuff and I was like, oh, this shirt, What 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:04.760 am I gonna do with that? I was like, if 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.240 I ever get Woody to come on this WebEx, I'm 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.560 gonna you know, I actually have a glass too. They 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.400 made these ring of honored glasses or whatever, So yeah, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.080 I'll drink that a little bit. Now. I just wanted 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:22.280 to show some love there a little bit. So I 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.679 gotta ask you something. Nick. You're there every goal. Okay, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.359 you're there every day. You cover this team weekend and 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.440 week out. Now I'm gonna give you the top three 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.280 wide receivers. And it's on the Cowboys team. And everyone's 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.440 already anointing them ass, you know, the best wide receiving cors. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:46.200 I've heard this time and time again, Michael Gallo, Amari Cooper, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:51.440 Cede Lamb. Are you anointing them as the best wide 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:56.119 receiving corps in the NFL? I'm not. I'm not. We 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.680 actually did a poll on our own staff ranking all 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.560 the positions on the team. I didn't put them number one. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.840 They got ranked that way because the other writers did 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.240 I think I see two Pro bowlers. I had two 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.800 Pro Bowls combined. I mean with both A Maria Cooper. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.480 I think Gallant on his way up and Ceedee Lamb 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.800 could be out outstanding. Um, but I'm not. I'm not 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.119 there yet for for the top three, just because you 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.080 know it, yes, one to three sounds great. You know, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.840 it's just like in basketball, who's your top three players? 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.240 That's great? But if Lebron's my number one, I'm feeling 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.159 good about it. So I don't know. I think some 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.440 of the other teams that have a clear cut number 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:42.119 one receiver, um, this would be, are a little bit better. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.280 I'm not. I'm not there yet. Ceedee Lamb, I think 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.399 he could be outstanding, but I want to see how 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.320 it all plays. That's exactly where I am right now. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.760 I'm waiting to see the transition, because look, Ceedee Lamb 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.040 was phenomenal. At Ou used to love the wife. I 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.800 used to tune into use game even his freshman year, 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.320 coming in as a true freshman and playing about this 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:11.040 kid is ridiculously good at that level. I just you know, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.800 we see it every year. A college football player that's 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.960 elite at a position and he makes that transition and 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.199 he's no longer the same person. And I'm curious to 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.399 see what he looks like. I want to see. I 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.199 want to go to practice to see what he looks like. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:31.440 Because if he has made that transition, who boy, whole boy, 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.760 Because now you have a guy that can really work 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.160 the middle of the field and it's not just about 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:42.200 to catch his catchability yet. If that carries over, that's 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:46.680 a different weapon, totally different. Yeah, you're you're right about that. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.159 What some of these highlights we've seen where he's just 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.560 catching the bubble screens and then we've been through people. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.080 We haven't seen a player on this roster that can 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.879 do that kind of stuff, right, So you're right about that. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.159 And I think Gallup, I mean to me, Gallup has 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.360 a chance to really be the Alvin Harper of Like 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:06.600 you can't double everyone, you just can't fell safety. So 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:08.880 go win, you you know your battle. I think Blake 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.199 Jarwin's gonna get a lot of open looks, you know 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.879 down the scene. You just can't cover everybody. Oh man, 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.360 that's first up. As I've heard you mentioned Jarwin's name 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.879 a ton over the last year. I think you've I 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.639 think you've been pro jarrowin there for a while. I 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:29.400 don't know. You got me, you got me wrong, because no, no, 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.040 I listen and I tell you anybody don't don't do it. 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.159 I'm just telling you, hey, just like I'm loyal to 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.760 my guys twenty eight, I'm loyal to eighty two as well. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.440 I was I was. I'm pro Witten all the way. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.719 All I've said about Jarwin is we just don't don't know. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.439 And part of it was because Whitten was in the 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.400 way and Whitton never got off the field. I get it. 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.960 So Jarwin's gonna get a chance to really do some things. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.720 But um, you know, and I think athletically, I think 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:02.720 he's he's really good. I just I wonder about, hey, 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:04.960 can he be that blocker that you need? Is he 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.040 gonna be as consistent? But with this offense, he is 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.440 going to get opportunities to do some good things. So yeah, 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.760 because I think the one thing you're going to see 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.280 with jar one, especially what the other three wide receiver, 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.760 is the middle of the field will get stretched. Yeah, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.399 it's going to get You're gonna have to do some 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:24.760 work defensively. One of the hardest things to do is 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:28.480 you have a wide receiver such as Amari Cooper. You're 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:32.240 always worried to concern about him. So it takes a corner, 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.520