WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Over Or Under? 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:20.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.560 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:28.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.240 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:40.559 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.960 It was. It is Wednesday, June tenth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.840 episode number thirteen. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.000 We're alive from the virtual s WBC Mortgage studios in 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.160 each of our homes around the Metroplex. And today we 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.560 got a special guest joining us. Nick out here with us, 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:05.120 but we got Isaiah stand Back currently of another podcast 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.759 talking Cowboys that I'm sure you guys have hopefully been 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.160 checking out. But Isaiah, great to have you on. We 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.679 appreciate you joining us. We also got my normal crew here, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.479 Amber Garcia, David Hellman. We got a lot to talk 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.440 about today, and this is gonna be our final show 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.000 of the off season this year. We're gonna take a 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.240 little hiatus as we do every off season, in the 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.360 month of June and heading into July, and then we'll 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.280 kick things back up late July when we get into 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.960 training camp. How's everybody doing today? Doing good, Bro, I'm 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.520 goodat Derek, good to see you. You too, Man, you 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.440 too so out the last first time I've seen you 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.000 actually got to see you last week in person, which 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.280 was different. Dave and I both are at a protest 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.200 in downtown, so I got an opportunity to spend a 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.080 little time with Dave. And of course we were, you know, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.560 trying to keep your distance as we should right now, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.280 but it was still a good, good opportunity to see you. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.040 I've gotten really good at like the elbow hello, you know, like, hey, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:06.360 how's it going? Yeah, yeah, I think we all have 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.120 at this point. Let's let's jump right in. Um it's 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.840 it's I'll start with with a topic that seems to 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.520 be something that's kind of kind of fun. I guess 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.840 at this point, as long as we've all been quarantined, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.200 it's it's great news when we start hearing that that 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.880 football is showing signs of life. And what we heard 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.079 as of last Friday is that coaches are now being 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.079 allowed back at the building. So the coaches are now 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.160 back at the Star Coach McCarthy is in this in 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.240 the building, and the question I have for you guys 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.000 is how much do you think that their inability to 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.440 be in the building all this time has affected their 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.640 ability to not only get off to a good start 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.440 as far as understanding and knowing the environment, but also 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.000 just growing chemistry between the coaching staff. It's it's very different, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.200 and you've got to glass between you and you're talking 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.200 via WebEx, you're talking on phone, as opposed to being 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.720 able to have contact with one another at least, even 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.079 if it's at a distance, being able to see people's 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.200 faces as you're talking to me to them. How much 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.239 do you think that's affecting this coaching staff, which is 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.480 a brand new coaching staff. Let's start with you guys. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.320 I think it's probably going to afect these guys a 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.160 little bit over But these guys are professionals. I mean, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.519 this is probably one of the more experienced coaching staffs 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.360 around the league, how I have to say, And you know, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.160 these guys would be perfectly fine, especially with what coach 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.240 McCarthy has done over the last year. Right, He's been 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.840 working with primarily a majority of these guys already, so 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.320 they're very familiar with themselves, with each with each other, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.080 and it's pretty much just a surrounding sting at this point, right. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.679 I think more so than anything, it's going to be 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.840 affect in terms of getting in front of these guys 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.320 face to face, being able to coach them, you know, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.240 man to man, instead of just having to worry about 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:45.760 this virtual walls. As you just mentioned Amber, Well, like 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.360 he said, I mean, the good thing about this coaching 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.200 staff is that they are experienced. You know that these 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.720 are guys that have many, many years of experience and 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.760 now your usual cowboys staff of new hires that are 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.680 basically brand new in the job. So that's good now. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.160 As far as being in person, yes, obviously that's going 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.200 to help anytime you're trying to communicate with somebody, but 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.080 it's it's still interesting because I know there's a certain 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.840 amount of people that are only allowed back in the building. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.640 You still have to keep your distance, so there's still 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.000 a lot of things that a lot of protocol that 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.039 are taking place, so you still not really getting that 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.640 full long contact and having a bunch of people together 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:32.240 in one same room. So still I think that they're 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.839 still gonna be doing a lot of virtual things. I 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.960 still don't know how all these protests and everything that's 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.280 going on in the country is going to affect the 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.760 whole virus and spreading it back up again, and how 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.120 that's going to play a role into everything that we 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.080 continue doing in the country and in the NFL. And 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.680 just is that gonna mess up Phase one? I don't know. Well, 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:59.000 only TWN will tell. But the good thing is experienced here, Dave. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.200 I'm actually I'm totally with Isaiah, like, there's a bunch 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.680 of stuff to be worried about. You know, they don't 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.760 have a lot of, you know, time with their players, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.000 they don't have any time on grass. They don't one 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.000 hundred percent know what they're working with. I mean, at 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.599 this point in a regular year, these coaches would have 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.520 had you know, ten, eleven, twelve practices. They don't have that. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.919 But your question the coaching staff itself, I'm not worried 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.760 about that at all. And that's that's a benefit of 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.520 what Mike McCarthy did, right. I Mean, he he basically 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.360 hired a bunch of guys, He's worked with a lot. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.039 He knows Joe Philbin really well, he knows Mike Nolan 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.320 really well, Jim tom Sula, they go way back. Al 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.760 Harris played for him, the defensive backs coach. There's a 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.400 lot of you know, familiarity on this coaching staff. And 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.000 on top of that, we can all attest these guys 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.840 were in the building constantly from the day they got 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.159 hired until the day everything shut down. You know, before 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.240 they even had places to live in Dallas, they were 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.880 living in the hotel and spending eight, ten, twelve hours 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.040 at the Star every day or at least two months. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.760 So I'm not remotely worried about that. I'm just worried about, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.839 you know, how that pertains to their work with the 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:12.640 players who they obviously have not seen. Okay, so let's 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.000 move into something that maybe will cause a little bit 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.479 more trepidation. Training camp now has been or the NFL 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.279 reportedly has told teams that they will be required to 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.040 have their training camps at their home facilities, which means 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.640 for the first time in a very very long time. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.359 I can't recall a time since I've been with the 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.080 Cowboys in twenty years that we haven't had at least 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.520 part of training camp in another location. So my question 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.279 for you guys is how much does the idea of 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.880 them being in Frisco and not picking up the team, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.120 moving them to California where they're isolated from their families, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.160 their friends, their normal new teams and can only think 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.680 football and only do football twenty four seven. How much 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.159 do you think that affects the team chemistry, especially coming 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.000 off a situation where as you said, Dave, they have 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.040 not been on grass, they've not been working out in 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.200 the off season as they normally do. How much do 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.000 you think that affects him in Dave, I'll start with you. 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.840 I can think of I can go both ways, honestly, 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.800 because I mean being at your facility. I don't buy 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.840 it because going on the road for training camp is 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.360 it's an old it's outdated. At this point, the Cowboys 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.080 are one of ten teams in the NFL that travels 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.360 for training camp. The vast majority of teams in the 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.960 league stay at their facility, and you know if they 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.400 if they sequester in a hotel, they do it for 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.640 like half of camp if that. And it doesn't seem 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.640 to bother anybody. Having said that, cramming everything that you 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.120 need to do for a training camp into the facility 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.480 sounds difficult. Obviously, you know, you only have one outdoor 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.200 field and it's only going to be tenable to practice 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.880 on it early in the morning or late in the evening, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.760 Like you can't go out there at two o'clock in 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.880 the afternoon in Dallas the way that you can in Oxnard, California. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.040 On top of that, the Star it's great, like it 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.040 is phenomenal, it's well built, it's state of the art, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.960 but it's not really meant for ninety players. That locker 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.880 room gets crowded during training camp, like they have overflow 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.200 locker rooms for the rookies. They got guys doubling up 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.160 on each other, and that's with no social distancing guidelines, 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.040 like it is cramped during training camp at the Star 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.880 when everything's normal. So now you're factoring in six feet 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.040 in distance and you gotta go a certain way down 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.640 the hallway to be safe, and that just it sounds 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:37.040 like a logistical nightmare to me, Isaiah, as a guy 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.679 that's a former player who's had some experience with this 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.040 and knowing the benefits probably of both sides of staying 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.480 at your facility because you've played with other teams and 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.839 then also traveling, do you think there are advantages one 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.520 way or the other, staying at home or going on 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.080 the road for training camp. Yeah. I think the primary 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.280 reason why most coaches who you know, who are at 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.200 least the team coaches there are still deciding to go 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.840 off site with your with your team teams you'd like 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.560 to do so, it is because they like to make 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.560 them uncomfortable. Training camp is supposed to be uncomfortable. Training 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.440 camp is supposed to be the part, the part that 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.200 you dislike most. Right, Most guys retire because they don't 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.240 want to go back to training camp, right. So, I 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:14.960 mean that's that's what the coaches like. They want to 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.400 make you uncomfortable. They want to put you in that 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.160 situation where you're having to worry about all those things. Right, 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.160 I can't see my family, I can't go do what 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.440 I want to do. I can't just hop in my 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.520 car and head, you know, head to grab something to eat. Like. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.880 They want that environment because they want you to focus 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.360 on ball, right for those four to six weeks whatever 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.959 it is now, right, they want you focus on ball. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.200 And you know, I don't think it's as big as 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.240 a deal as as most people are prayer probably presenting 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.240 right now. I was when I was with the Cowboys. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.679 I went to San Antonio, I went to Oxnard, Right, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.240 I went to both of those places, So I'm familiar 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.560 with how that works. But it's not that big of 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.120 a deal. Right at the end of the day, I 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:48.880 think it's more of a benefit to be on site 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.880 at your facility, especially with this new regime. Right, you 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.880 got to hold new coaching staff, right, you got to 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.640 you had a handful of new players right there. They're 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.240 coming in. You need as much familiarity as possible in 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.280 terms of guys they're in their off time, right, my availability, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.480 my ability to be able to call my massage therapists, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.559 to be able to go to get some extra treatment, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.400 and you know, with my person to my choice, aside 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.000 from the amazing training staff that the Cowboys have, you know, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.240 those things matter, right, and those things are gonna help, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.680 especially as I started talking about like soft tissue injuries 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.760 that are going to present themselves in the first part 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.760 of training camp. Those things are gonna happen. So having 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.480 access to your people is important. In terms of families, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.040 families were always at training camp, right, you don't have 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.800 much time to be spending with your time with your family. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.800 You know, there's FaceTime. There's all these other ways in 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.800 which you can talk to your FAMI, but those are 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.440 those are some long days now, I mean those are 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.200 like five thirty am to like eleven pm days, so 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.200 you're not missing much. You're not missing much. So it's 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.080 awesome that they're on site. I was hoping that they 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.120 that they were going to choose to do so. Anyways, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.480 I'm glad that the league mandated it. But they have 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.600 literally the best facility probably in the whole league, So 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:56.560 I'm glad they're here. Amber. Well, Derek, I see that 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.480 you did not listen to our show last week when 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:01.600 you were out. You did not go back and play 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.440 and listen to it because we talked about it. But 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.120 you know what, now that that they made that we started, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.160 as I remember I told you before we started this, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:15.360 is that like this is ample great support to your 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:19.640 own show. Derek. No, But now that I was thinking 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.360 about it, you know what, like good thing is that 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.560 Decays don't have Jason Garrett back because Mike McCarthy he's 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:31.360 not used to hold on, hold on, hold on. I'm sorry, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.959 I'm sorry. Mike McCarthy is just not used to having 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.040 the luxury of going to ox Star California. So it's 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.640 not something that he's like now having to come back 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.839 and say, Man, how am I gonna do this? This 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.240 is bringing you to him anyways, So I don't think 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.280 it should be too bad for them honesty, aside from 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.120 the heat and all that. But when we're at training 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.240 camp a body Knock Star, you know, they still have 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.680 the team divided separately onto two fields. It's gonna suck 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.400 for us because back then we can just easily just 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.240 decide why we look at but now we'll get how 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.000 to be moving around depending on who we're wanting to look, 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.760 whether go outside or come back inside. So that's gonna 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.760 be tricky for us as far as the media and 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.199 wanting to cover everything that is happening on the field 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.800 during training camp. But in general, I honestly don't think 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:29.960 it's gonna be as as bad as I originally thought. Okay, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.959 let's as you actually mentioned a little something about soft 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.280 tissue injuries and I want to real quick get some 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.679 opinions on that. I mean, what makes you think that 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.360 that's going to be something that people can expect maybe 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.280 to see more and how concerned are you about that? Yeah? 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.959 So I mean as a professional athlete, You're going to 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.840 do everything possible to prepare to the best of your ability. Right, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.240 So guys are training like crazy. They have their trainers, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.920 they have their programs that they're going through. They're doing 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.480 the offseason training program. That's awesome, However, it's not real ball, right. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.360 So the first time that these guys touched the field, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.480 they're going they're going to be literally up against another 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.800 person pressing against them. Two hundred fifty pound man, three 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.160 hundred pound man, they're gonna be pressing against these guys, right. 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.440 So when you start doing that, when you start hitting 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.600 different angles, your your body is not used to that. 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.560 They hasn't done it in a while, So you're going 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.640 to be subject to those injuries. You're gonna be subject 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.559 to those those those initial flavor ups until your body 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.959 is used to that tension, to your bodies used to 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.160 that kind of resistance. Um, it's just it's just a 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.320 part of the game. It's just unfortunately these guys don't 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.120 have the time to really come back from those things 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.760 right now, because if any soft tissue injury that there is, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.880 or any injuries in general that we have, is going 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.719 to be detrimental to us. Because there's just not enough 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.880 time to get back in terms for the season. Dave, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.240 I'll concerned to you that. I mean, yes, that's it's 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:50.559 obviously very concerning. Again, absolutely agreed, Like you can't underestimate 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.600 how how much these guys lose by not having a 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.160 traditional offseason program. And it's funny because that was the 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.280 way it was for you know, the first thirty forty 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.760 years of NFL history. I mean, you know, back in 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.640 the sixties, seventies, eighties, these guys didn't have these intens 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.280 offseason programs. But that's how these guys have been conditioned 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.160 all the way up from you know, junior high and 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.360 high school ball. So I think it is something they're 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.240 gonna have to watch out for. Although you know NFL 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.640 teams already do this where they kind of ease guys 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.880 in with non contact stuff. I would imagine we're going 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.600 to see more of that. Not to go down a wormhole, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.160 but like what concerns me more is how you do 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:41.120 this and maintain COVID protocols. You know, whether it's getting 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.000 guys tested, making sure they're not exposing themselves to people 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.320 that could have symptoms, you know, whether that's people in 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.280 their own family or the people that they encounter on 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.520 a regular basis. I mean, our fans going to be 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.560 allowed to be part of this. You're gonna have players 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.920 like signing autographs with people that they don't know where 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.200 they've been. That's the stuff that gets back, you know, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.560 that makes me question how all of this is going 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.520 to work. Is especially you know, we talked about Oxnard. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.760 It's kind of easy to self contain. But if these 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.200 guys are going home to their you know, kids who 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.480 have been at school, or you know, their wives and 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.320 girlfriends have been out doing what running errands all day? Like, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.520 who knows that. I'm just very curious about how you 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:28.080 mitigate the risks of spreading the virus. Yeah, I think 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.200 I think most most people need to know that when 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:31.960 you go to camp, right, So when you go off site, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.000 you're in a hotel, right, or you're in some kind 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.320 of dorm, right. And even when you're on site, even 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.520 when you're doing camp in your own city at your facilities, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.120 you're still in in a hotel, right, They're still locking 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.400 you up. And I think even with this COVID stuff, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.440 usually you go like four weeks and then at the 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.160 last two or three weeks of camp, you get to 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.200 go home early. I don't see these guys going home early, right, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.320 I see these guys being locked up in a hotel 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.760 all day or not all that they're gonna be at 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.920 practice all day. Then they'll probably just transition straight into 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.680 the omni or whatever else is close at the facility, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.560 and they will not be allowed to go home. Their 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.440 families will be able to kind of practice every so often, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.920 I'm sure, but that's gonna be it, man, basically use 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.920 this virtual virtual visiting. Yeah, I mean, it'll be very 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.840 interesting to see how the Cowboys and really every team 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.200 adapts to this new reality, which is, you know, they 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.640 do have to be aware of their players, and you 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.320 know they're they're probably all kinds of scenarios that are 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.760 being you know, talked about as far as who's going 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.640 to get access to players, and how do they keep 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.160 the players isolated as much as possible, and how do 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.600 they keep the players from from doing having too much 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.680 contact with one another because obviously you're going to have 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.960 the football contact, but um, you know it goes to 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.440 also I assume you know, you get it's it's it's 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.240 kind of like what I was saying about Friday when 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.840 I saw you, Dave, Like, my first inclination was to 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.560 come over and give you a big hug or adap 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.600 you up or something. And it's just not the same, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.720 right And and so you get all these guys, ninety guys, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.520 and a lot of them know each other and know 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.240 each other really, really well, and you put them in 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:58.880 a room together and haven't seen each other in a 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.600 while in person, there's gonna be a natural inclination that 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.360 as time goes on, they're gonna feel more and more 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.080 comfortable and they're going to forget about the fact they 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.359 have to be socially distanced. And so that that's going 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.199 to be one of the challenges this whole thing is 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.119 making sure that someone is aware and making sure the 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.320 players continuously aware that they have to be socially distanced 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.760 and don't get so comfortable where you break down all 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.040 those things that that are the things that you're supposed 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.520 to do. We're gonna check out whatever. I was just 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.760 gonna say that these locker rooms aren't dirty to begin with, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.200 So imagine I mean imagine now when there's a virus 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.119 virus going around and then just using different things like 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.960 in the restroom when they go shower. I guess there're 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.480 gonna be someone that just comes wife's everything down after 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.919 each years or what's gonna happen. There are a lot 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.200 of a lot of bottles and things like that. I've 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.640 just kind of get passed around a lot. So it's 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.119 definitely gonna be interesting to see how they handle the 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:01.000 whole situation. Yeah, I'm pretty sure bet that the NFL 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.720 will have protocols that they stipulate across every team that 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.520 teams will have to do certain things in order to 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.320 be able to ensure that they're being as a creating 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.000 an environment that's as safe for the employees including the 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.960 players as possible. And so yeah, I think they're they're 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.439 you know, there's gonna whatever you pay in your in 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.840 your cleaning bill, it's about to go up because they're 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:22.600 going to be more and more people that are going 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.280 to have to be involved in making sure if things 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.000 are sterilized as they're being used to ensure that that 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.440 employees and players are are kept in a safe environment. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.399 We're gonna go take our first break when we come back. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:35.920 I have a little game for you guys. They're gonna 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:37.879 do a little over and under. We're gonna have some 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.640 players and some offensive skill players. 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