WEBVTT - Hangin' With The 'Boys: Jonathan Cooper Stops By 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.400 Before listening, ask a doctor if your heart is healthy 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.800 enough for Dallas Cowboys football. He's Hanging with the Boys, 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.200 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:18.320 in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:24.599 Shannon Gross. Who we Boys? We got football tonight? Yes, 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.479 we do. The NFL season kicks off. We get to 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.319 watch it counts tonight is for real? Yes, you know 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.080 what else counts? We got a special guest in the studio. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.280 We're gonna get right to it. We don't didn't recognize 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.360 a special guest. Can you tell them who he eels? 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.440 He is none other than Jonathan Cooper. How are you 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.920 doing today, Jonathan Coop? Bumping up? Man? Coop? What you 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:50.000 go by? You go by Coop? What's your nicknames? Uh? Coop? Jonathan? 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.479 When I was younger, John John, try to try to 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.040 stay away. Let it go. You know you podcast in 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.360 the world seeing John John. Well, we try not to 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.600 ask too many football questions on the show. So we're 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:05.920 gonna ask a couple, get them out of the way, 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.479 and then we just really want to get to know 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.280 who you are, what you're all about, what you like 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.880 to do, outside of football things like that. Nate's the 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.840 football guy, all right, and I probably I probably won't 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.000 even go deep into it, but I will ask you 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.000 this right here, and I will make a statement. In 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:24.520 your pads you look much bigger and it ain't the black, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.360 I promise you because I'm looking at Wow, how much 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.080 do you way? If you don't mind me asking? Waiting today? 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:31.880 At three or four? Three or four? You didn't get 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.640 fined this? Oh no, no, okay, man, that's a lean 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.679 mean man. I couldn't walk through the way scale when 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.200 I was thirty dollars. Do you know? We just get 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.000 five dollars a pound of to a certain amount. Then 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.440 it went web up there. I spent a lot of money. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.360 What's the most you ever paid? Five? Man? Probably six 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.880 seven hundred dollars? Wow? Yeah wait, yeah that was brother. 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.400 I walked in camp about three seventy five. You know 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.559 what I'm saying. So, but uh, we're gonna talk about 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.800 this quickly. Get past it. You came in camp. First 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.520 of all, this guy was first round pick. Tell us 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.560 about that first. I'm gonna let you do that. Tell 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.960 us how you started out? Yeah, where'd you grow up? 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.360 Where'd you go to high school. Don't go that something. OK, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.120 how you got into this league, man, We're from it, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.639 and how you got into it? Attended the University of 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.720 North Carolina, red shirted, stayed all four and a half years. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.000 UH had the potential to leave early with our coaching 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.079 staff switching over, but promised my parents I get my degree. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.520 U twitched to a spread, no huddle, got down to 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.000 about two eighty, and I feel like it was pro 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.280 style the first few years. Got down to two eighty. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.040 Showed I can move, I can still pull and move people, 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.160 but got out of space. UM. Fortunately got drafted in 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.600 the first round, seventh pick. UM go to the Arizona 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.440 Cardinals and it was a decently slow start for me, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.720 but as a preseason's progressed. I playing some of my 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.520 best ball. H third preseason game, make it through about 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.320 the first half. The coach wasn't pleased with the offensive performance, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.200 so he tells the starters to go back in and 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.880 that's when I break my leg. Break my leg the 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.480 third preseason game. UM it keeps me out my entire 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.400 rookie season and then from there. UH, it's been sort 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.000 of an injury riddle deal. And UH, this within the 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.480 past year, bounced around to a couple of teams, went 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.200 to New England. I was starting there touring my playing 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.920 a fashion and then I end up at Cleveland and 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:42.440 then now right now, and so what I'm trying to 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.120 get to now he was in he's in a he's 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.080 in a battle right now for for the for the 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.400 left guard spot. We can't reveal that to you do 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.040 the fact that you know Jason Garret got up football 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.120 season football, But man, glad to have you here, and 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.200 I wanted people to just know that little factor. What 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.080 I wanted to really talk about, Kurt was this guy 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.720 was one of the most highest rated guys coming out 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.840 of Carolina for he opens running in an open space, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.400 getting on block to maintain it, and it kind of 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.040 slowed them down over the past few years due to 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.720 the injuries. Now, how do you feel, man, I see 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.640 sometime when you get into the second level, you get 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.039 the real quick then sometimes seems like you struggle it. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.160 But do you do you still feel the effects of 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.920 the lingering of some of the injuries that you had. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.400 I don't think that's the case. I think it's a 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.200 matter of just continuing to progress in the working to 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.800 understand just just finish the play, finish the block. You know, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.560 sometimes it's not about not having the mentality to finish, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.960 it's about positioning yourself so you can finish. If you're 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.320 glancing off with somebody or not on the right angle, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.400 you can't finish them no matter how hard you try. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.320 And you can push themself on whatever, but you're not 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.320 gonna finish them. So I feel like that's one of 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.760 the benefits here is getting that coaching and critiquing. One 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.520 of the big things that coach Pollock always says to me, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.400 the footwork matters, The details matter. Is not street ball right, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.000 and you know some people get offended, but I realized 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.120 that I'm seeing improvement and that's the biggest thing, just 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.080 to be able to do make it look the same. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.200 And you know, when there's so much going on the 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.240 other side of the ball, just if you're doing the 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.440 same thing, you can handle whatever they're throwing at you. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.239 So that's my big thing, just really working on continue 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.480 to get in those positions so I can finish, Okay, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.040 battling that guard. Lena got it, So, yes, center, is 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.120 that is that something new for you or you've done 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.640 it before in the past. I've done it briefly in 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.960 the past, right right. Uh did it one summer, I 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.520 believe twenty ten at UNC and I did pretty good 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.000 at it. But first game against LSU, first time I 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:53.080 ever playing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a load and I 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.359 don't know at that point if I was mentally ready 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.359 for it. So there are a couple of plays. I 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.400 put my left hand down on the ball so early. Um, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.840 so they took me out for a little while, then 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.279 put me back in in the last quarter and I 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.080 played some great ball. But for the rest of the 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.400 season I was left guard, you know. So, I mean 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.680 they're on professional teams. I've done some snapping, but no, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.640 not too much of it. Man, hey man, thank you 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:27.720 for having you great you're talking about coach Pollock and 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.040 some of the techniques and getting all that. You've been 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.479 in some different offensive line rooms, different teams. Have you 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.880 had it's different here? Have you had to learn new techniques? 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.200 How's it been like for you coming into this room. Uh, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.720 you know a lot of people have their own techniques, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.520 and um, I've just found that this in this system, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.440 if you do what your coach, the other guys around you, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.000 they're gonna be doing what their coach, and you will 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.279 see the benefit of it. Um even something as small 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.279 as not rushing to get off a block on the 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.839 first level, if you fit it right, like you know, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.120 I'm thinking, you got to you gotta blow him up 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.160 off the ball, and then you gotta get to your 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:08.440 linebacker where it's here. It's patiently getting there violently, but patiently, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.240 and then together you'll move him off the ball. You 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.120 don't need the necessary initial blow and then you can 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.200 be patient, let the linebacker the side and then come 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.840 off on it. So I mean, just some some little things. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.680 That sounds hard to be patient an offensive line. How 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.920 are you patient on offensive line? It's just a matter 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.600 of standing your fit on the blocks and the moment 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.360 that you have to trigger and get off to the 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.600 second level. It's right now. You want to be right 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.239 now and have the proper technique done them. See because 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.000 what he's saying in high school, and I use the 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.000 running back position in high school, a running back beat. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.400 He's so much better than everybody. So he he know 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.160 the hole is on off the right tackles, but he 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.040 don't care if he don't see it right away. He 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.160 can go anywhere and stretch it. In college, you have 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.360 to kind of lean towars the hole a little bit more. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.160 In the pros, you better be going towards the hole 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.240 because they thinking you're coming back. You jerked back all 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.080 of a sudden. You may cause them and going to 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.680 a spastic hole and all of a sudden, like, man, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.040 why do you need why you didn't give us an opportunity? 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.120 Now you made that linebacker. Now they don't have a 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.480 decision on the linebacker. You made it for him. They 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.080 want to make a decision on that linebacker. They can 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.680 give you a good, proper lane. Best running backs going 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 to do that and help them look good. I feel 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:26.920 left out of that conversation. Lineman't go up, that's right, Yeah, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.640 I mean, so where'd you grow up? Man? I grew 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.560 up on the East Coast. Woman to North Carolina. Wow, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.719 that's nice. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, gonna go back 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.280 there after football, Lord knows where I'll be. My goal 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.400 is to have a beach house out there on rights 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.839 for a beach hurricane standby. I think they're all right. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.960 I think they had a little scared maybe a few 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.200 months ago, but I think they're good to go. That's 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:54.000 Michael Jordan's hometown, right it is. That's another guy that 0:08:54.040 --> 0:09:01.719 he looked around. Is that guys general Patting? Man? That 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.760 ain't that? Ain't God? What do you do? Man? You? 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.880 When I see you around, You're always smiling, You're always laughing. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.440 You seem like you have just a cool demeanor. What 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.040 do you like to do outside of football? What are 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.400 your hobbies? You know, spend time with friends, family. I'm 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.280 a I'm a big talker, so I don't I don't 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.640 spend too much time alone. If I am, I'm calling, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.000 calling my brothers, calling my sisters, calling my best friends, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.960 or you know, play some video games. I'm not. I'm not. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.160 I'm not a good sports video gamer. It takes it 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.600 takes too much of the cerebral going on. I'm just 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.319 like on the tail. So I do like the shoot 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.520 shooter games and stuff like, that's your favorite shooter game? Oh? 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.520 Probably call a dude. Okay, you play with any of 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.599 the other guys on the team, I'm not yet know. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.160 There's a couple of gamers on the team, David Irving, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.559 but he played some weird stuff. I believe it. Yeah, 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:53.760 you say you don't like to be alone, so that 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.440 means I know you got some sweethearts somewhere something oddly enough, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:09.480 I do eight favorite questions? Do I do now have 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.040 a girlfriend? She's a very sweet young lady. Okay, I 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.959 mean brothers and sisters. Yeah, I'm the youngest of five. Wow, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.480 sweet man, I'm the biggest one. Uh my brother who's 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.200 right above me. He's a tall and skin He's been 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.679 the ladies man his whole life. And you know, so 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.880 he was my hero and he loved sports and I 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.480 already says he's my number one fan. Everything I know 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.199 just about well early on stuff he taught me. And 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.280 I feel like at times, you know, he loves the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.920 game so much that after a game, he'll come to me. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.280 I'm not, well, how did I do? Because I know 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.840 he's gonna tell me anyway. I call him coach Cooper. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.400 I'm like, how did I do? And he's like, let 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.000 me start, But you did good? But mind you, he's 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.720 a wide receiver. But could you could have played Lord? 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.400 You could have been more physical here. And I saw 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:03.719 this one play and I'm like, okay, Coaching, I gotta ask, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.840 though you're a tar heel at heart. Your brother went 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.840 to NC State, right? I did I do have a brother? Yeah? 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.840 How did that. How does that work? Um, I mean 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.200 that's rivalries there, Oh it is. It is one of 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.520 my best friends from high school. We're still keep in 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.560 close contact. He went to NC State, so it's a 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.000 love hate thing. We both spent a lot of time 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.280 at each of the other university and had a good time. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:29.160 But I mean, no, I can't stand what was that 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.840 like playing foot I mean you're in the heart of 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.880 basketball country there? What was that like playing out of 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.600 school where basketball is king? I tell you what it was. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.000 It was kind of tough sometimes those seasons when you 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.800 start off four or no and then you have like 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.400 a for half full or three quarter full stadium, that 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.040 was pretty disheartening. Or you got a noon game so 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.760 people haven't shown up yet. So it was tough. And 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.480 when I had the opportunity to leave a transfer, I 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.160 was like, hmm, I wonder what would be like to 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.719 go to one of these football schools and experienced that. Well, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.280 I tell you what, Sunday night at seven thirty, that 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.200 stadium is not gonna be half full, is gonna be rocking, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.360 It's gonna be awesome. We know you're gonna be there. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.679 I know you gotta get grow grab lunch, get some 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.560 lifts in and stuff. We will get you out of here. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.360 But man, we really appreciate you coming on the stream. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.360 John think hope. Hopefully we can do it again this season. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.480 So we're gonna take a quick break, get Jonathan out 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.040 of here. When we come back, we're gonna talk some 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.040 New York Giants and some football. We the entertainment loving 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.959 people demand the best unlimited wireless planned ever from ATNT. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.440 What else do you want? Are you in a corner? 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.160 Maybe only AT and T offers you unlimited data with 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.160 HBO included and never pay over. 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I 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.080 think you ought to just wear your underwear up here 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.800 one day, take the script away from and you just 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.960 just kind of march around the room and describe it, 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.200 describe the way it makes you feel, and yeah, pull 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.840 them up outside on the outside of no gripping, no cupping, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.600 silky smooth up and throw me out of the room. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.920 Nah No, I just be like, wow, here we go 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.520 that kind of show. Huh, here we go? I'll leave 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.240 you and Shannon in here by yourselves. Well tomorrow, I 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.760 want to get your opinions on what we think this 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.400 team is gonna look like record wise. Today, I kind 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.200 of want to. I want to go over a few 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.760 individual guys and talk through what each one of you 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.960 think success this year looks like for them based off 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.720 of kind of what they've done in the past, kind 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.840 of what tools they have around them now, and and 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.360 what we think going forward. And then we'll talk about 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.400 what do we think that success looks like for this team. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.240 And then I want to get into um some coach 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.280 Garrett talk and see if what your opinions are on 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.080 you know, is there a scenario where he's on winds 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.480 up on the hot seat this year? Or does he 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.840 get a free pass all year? He can hit him 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.640 in the face with a shovel and he keeps coming back. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:13.560 Thanks coach Ay, But uh, can I'm just quick analysis? Quick? 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.919 Uh not analysimook quick update on the injury report for 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.520 the Cowboys and the Giants. Can we haven't sent it 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.840 out today? Yeah, everybody practiced for the Cowboys yesterday except 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.920 except Hitch Hitchens, right, yeah, everybody you know? So yeah, 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.679 everybody but Jordan Lewis was limited. Yeah, he was limited, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.000 but I'm not speaking anything for him Noway, sir, the 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.400 only one's out from the Giants for Beckham and Keenan Robinson, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.000 the linebacker. Yeah, it'll be interested to see if, hopefully 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:44.440 it'll come on the TV. It came on the TV 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.560 yesterday while we were on the air, um to see 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.560 if Beckham practices. He did not practice yesterday. So I 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.600 haven't heard any word. Have you seen anything, Curt If 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.680 he's I thought so, let me I don't think he did. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.800 Let me double check. Okay, well you looked at you 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.000 look that up. Let's get into a couple of individual 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.480 players on the on the cowboy side, Beckham did not participate. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.120 Oh that changes things a little bit. He just makes 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.679 you worry a little bit. He'll he'll a gamer. I 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.680 think he'll show up. He'll be out there. Yeah, the 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.000 big dolls bark Man, Big dolls bar he popping at 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.960 the end of the chain right now. I'm serious. You 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.200 said something yesterday about a contract, you know what. I'm 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.360 hoping that play a big part. And really I'm really 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.680 hoping it plays a big part, but not not in 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.119 a positive light. As if it plays in a positive light, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.520 we could be a little bit of drama to look 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.800 forward to. No practice on Thursday, so I guess that'll 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.040 be a game time decision that'll drive some fantasy football 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:42.720 owners a little nuts. So let's get into individual players. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:47.800 Let's start with with with the man Dak incredible year 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:54.800 last year. UM thirty six hundred yards, twenty three touchdowns, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.119 four interceptions, two against the Giants, two against the Giants. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:03.399 Fifty percent of his interceptions were against the one or 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:09.679 four point nine quarterback rating. I'm not expecting him to 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.880 have that great of a year that that to me 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.720 is one of the weirdest, craziest, most awesome things to 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.960 witness from a rookie quarterback ever. And I don't see 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.840 how he can match those numbers. You've got, you have 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.639 even more tape out on him, you have. You know, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.400 they're they're gonna loosen up the offense a little bit, 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.040 I believe around him, and it's gonna create, you know, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.240 opportunities for bigger plays, But I think it's also going 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.360 to create opportunities for for more mistakes. I don't think 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.800 he's gonna have a bad year by any means, But 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.520 what success for him. Is anything less than what he 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:50.359 did last year a failure? Or or does he have 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.240 to be better than last year for a second year 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.480 to be successful. We don't think, Kurt. I almost think 0:19:54.480 --> 0:20:00.680 he has to win. As long as he's winning. Amen, Amen, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.879 thank you, Kurt, thank you. That's gonna be his Nate's 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.920 over here throwing the holy water on Kurt. That's gonna 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.880 be how he's judged. I think so. Not stats losses. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:20.520 You know, as long as he's not throwing every two 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.199 touchdowns the interception, now you don't you don't need that. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:29.960 You don't need thirty five touchdowns sixteen interceptions. I mean, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.880 you don't play too many raggedy games, but thirty five 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:39.560 touchdowns ten or less? You don't want to win despite 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.359 of him. Yeah, as long as he's solid, consistent. He 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.439 hates to turn and use the term bus driver. But 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.320 as long as he's not making a bunch of mistakes, 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.400 I mean not and wins and he's had a good year. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.399 And how many games does he have to win for 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.240 this follow up sophomore season to be considered a success? 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.600 Does you have to win thirteen games? No games? No? No, 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:07.120 the league, the league, the league, automatically makes it where 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.320 it's gonna be difficult the next year until you proving 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.119 that you're you're elite. He's just proving that he's good. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:21.080 Tom Brady's elite, Peyton Manning is elite. Uh. The guy 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.960 at uh the Saints even though they don't have enough 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.320 defense that he's elite. It's a difference now. Philip Rivers 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:32.000 to me, is elite. You know. They they do numbers 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:35.800 regardless of who's on their team. He this kid is 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:41.320 just good right now. Being interesting to see the situation 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.080