Speaker 1: He's the Dallascowboys dot Com Draft Show, your war room
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Speaker 1: your host, Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 2: Today is January thirtieth, twenty twenty five, and we are
Speaker 2: eighty four days away from the NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Welcome into the Draft Show presented by Miller LT alongside
Speaker 2: Tommy Yarish and Nick Harris and Kyle Yeomans. One more
Speaker 2: day here from L Reese's Senior Bowl and radio row,
Speaker 2: which means we get some exclusive guests along the way.
Speaker 2: And now we've got Jack Kaiser, Notre Dame linebacker, joining us. Jack,
Speaker 2: we were just talking off air for a moment. The
Speaker 2: run to the National Championship feels like it was yesterday
Speaker 2: because it was basically yesterday, a longer season along the way.
Speaker 2: Tell us what the quick turnaround has been like for
Speaker 2: you and a lot of these other NFL draft prospects
Speaker 2: to play such a long season and then turn it
Speaker 2: around get in the draft mode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's you know, for my case,
Speaker 3: it's been awesome, right. I was healthy coming out of
Speaker 3: the season, and so the last month and a half
Speaker 3: it feels like every ten days I've been playing in
Speaker 3: a big time game. Well, after the National Championship, this
Speaker 3: is kind of another ten day window to play in
Speaker 3: another big game. Body feels great. Mentally, I'm sharp. I'm
Speaker 3: still in football mode, right. I didn't become a track
Speaker 3: star for a month and a half, and so I'm
Speaker 3: just excited to be here.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: Now, you talked about the quick turnaround and some of
Speaker 2: the I guess the routine that you continued into.
Speaker 4: I mean, how tough is it to extend that a.
Speaker 2: Little bit further because you've played a significant amount of
Speaker 2: college football leading up to this.
Speaker 4: The twelve team playoff threw another wrench into it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean if you ever told me at the beginning
Speaker 3: of the year, Hey, you got a chance to play
Speaker 3: in sixteen games, and you get a chance to go
Speaker 3: to the Senior Bowl and compete with the best of
Speaker 3: the best, And like, I don't think I would hesitate
Speaker 3: and signing up for that, right, Like that's what you
Speaker 3: want to do as a competitor, Like that's the best
Speaker 3: thing you can play in National Championship and Senior Bowl
Speaker 3: like that sounds like the best year of football ever
Speaker 3: and so very fortunate to be able to do that,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 6: I think so much.
Speaker 7: A big part of that you guys has run this
Speaker 7: year was the defense and yourself and Leonard Moore and
Speaker 7: guys around you exave your Watson the secondary and your
Speaker 7: defensive coordinator too. Al Golden just got hired by the
Speaker 7: Cincinnati Bengals. Saw him that practiced yesterday. What did he
Speaker 7: do well schematically that you feel like is going to
Speaker 7: be able to take your game and translate it to
Speaker 7: the NFL level.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean if you look at coach Golden's defense in
Speaker 3: the scheme that we were running, like we had answers
Speaker 3: for everything. We our playbook was so deep, but at
Speaker 3: the same time, like guys knew it inside and out.
Speaker 3: Guys were able to play fast with clarity and violence
Speaker 3: and so just having answers being a poll from from
Speaker 3: the bank that we had and then you know, also
Speaker 3: to have the guys to be able to execute, right.
Speaker 3: We played a lot of man coverage this year. You
Speaker 3: can't do that if you don't have the guys to cover,
Speaker 3: and that frees up, you know, and it allows you
Speaker 3: to get create of up front the front seven a lot,
Speaker 3: and so just very fortunate and learned a lot of
Speaker 3: ball under him and super excited for his future, but
Speaker 3: very appreciative of where he's done for me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of rich history at Notre Dame.
Speaker 9: Nobody in the history of the program has played more
Speaker 9: games than you, though, Jack seventy games the experience. Did
Speaker 9: you expect to play seventy games whenever you arrived on campus?
Speaker 9: What was it five years ago?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: I mean I cheated. I like to say I cheated.
Speaker 3: I got the COVID year and was able to use that.
Speaker 3: So hopefully that never gets broken because that means we're
Speaker 3: in another pandemic. But true, No, it was super special
Speaker 3: to be there and to have my whole career there
Speaker 3: and see the people come and go and and just
Speaker 3: there's so many amazing people at Notre Dame and the
Speaker 3: history and the tradition and know that now you're a
Speaker 3: part of that, like your name's in that.
Speaker 5: It's pretty special.
Speaker 9: And then talking again about the sixteen games from this
Speaker 9: past season, I mean NFL seventeen game schedule now, so
Speaker 9: it's basically kind of jumping into a routine. Do you
Speaker 9: feel like you'd be better adjusted for the NFL schedule
Speaker 9: as a result.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, I proved I'm I can
Speaker 3: be there for the long haul, right. I can go
Speaker 3: from July thirtieth all the way until you know, mid
Speaker 3: January and playing football.
Speaker 5: In this case February. And that's an NFL season, it
Speaker 5: really is.
Speaker 3: And so I feel like I proved I can be
Speaker 3: a pro you know, take care of the body, you know,
Speaker 3: be available every single week, like that's hard to do.
Speaker 3: And so I think that certainly gives me edge of
Speaker 3: you know, I've done this before. It's not my first time.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not gonna be mentally exhausted out of
Speaker 3: the bat.
Speaker 2: Now the Cowboys have certainly dipped into the pool of
Speaker 2: Notre Dame linebackers in the past. Maris Leah Foul of
Speaker 2: course on our team. Now, he had a great rookie season.
Speaker 2: I mean, what was your connection with him like during
Speaker 2: his time up in South End and playing alongside Big
Speaker 2: number thirty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Maris and I were in the same class, and
Speaker 3: so it was really cool just to kind of go
Speaker 3: up together and get better and develop with one another.
Speaker 3: And then to see him, you know, have such a
Speaker 3: great year this year, and and to talk to him
Speaker 3: every so often. And now he's back in South Bend
Speaker 3: and got to see him the facility, and so it
Speaker 3: was just really cool to see him do so well.
Speaker 5: Excited for him, and he's only gonna get better. He's
Speaker 5: the type of the guy that's never gonna stop working.
Speaker 2: Now, We've got a lot of film buffs that watch
Speaker 2: this show, and a lot of them are Cowboys fans specifically,
Speaker 2: so they know what Marius Leval brings to the table.
Speaker 4: How does your game differ than what he did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean when you look at Maris like he's
Speaker 3: a big He's a big guy, lengthy, he's explosive, very
Speaker 3: dynamic player, right, he's going to get the ball out
Speaker 3: like he's a playmaker.
Speaker 5: I have that like in my own way.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, like I feel like we're
Speaker 3: my game. You know where I had the advantages, like
Speaker 3: my preparation and my pre snap reads and just seeing
Speaker 3: things on the field, seeing receiver split, seeing formations, you
Speaker 3: know what's the tendencies here down distance, like kind of
Speaker 3: processing all that put it together and then being ready
Speaker 3: to recognize it and play fast when the ball snaps.
Speaker 4: How tough is that to.
Speaker 2: Do in an event like this where there's so many
Speaker 2: different guys from so many different systems, and then it's
Speaker 2: a new system on the other sideline that you're trying
Speaker 2: to kind of figure out both in practice and then
Speaker 2: another one coming up on Saturday in the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's different, but at the same time,
Speaker 3: you know football tendencies or football tendencies, and they.
Speaker 5: Still show up here.
Speaker 3: You know, a receiver who cuts play outside foot up,
Speaker 3: he's gonna crack like that's this kind of stuff that
Speaker 3: you see in football, and you see it here, and
Speaker 3: so it allows you still play fast. And then we're
Speaker 3: watching film every night, like you know, you pick it
Speaker 3: up as the week goes. Oh, this is what they're
Speaker 3: doing this week though, this is how they're you know, adjusting,
Speaker 3: this is what the offensive scheme is. And so you
Speaker 3: learn and and then you know by the d of
Speaker 3: the week you're playing really fast and recognizing that stuff.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 7: A big part of this week too, is not just
Speaker 7: the stuff on the field, but what you do off
Speaker 7: the field, meeting with NFL teams. How have those meetings
Speaker 7: gone thus far and what if some of the feedback
Speaker 7: that you've gotten from whether it be front offices, scouts,
Speaker 7: coaching staffs, whatever it may be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean meetings have gone great.
Speaker 3: Just been able to you know, sit down, share my
Speaker 3: story who I am, and then obviously talk about football
Speaker 3: and talk about the season we had. And I'm very fortunate,
Speaker 3: you know, with Maris coming out last year and jad
Speaker 3: Bird Train coming out last year, you know, they kind
Speaker 3: of lead the groundwork where like, you know, these teams
Speaker 3: know what a linebacker, a Notre Dame linebacker you know,
Speaker 3: can do, and what system we come from and what
Speaker 3: we've been exposed to, and so a lot of those
Speaker 3: questions like they kind of already have answered them for me,
Speaker 3: and so that's been awesome. But just you know, just
Speaker 3: trying to sit down, show them who Jack Kaiser is
Speaker 3: and what Jack Kaiser has in store and what my
Speaker 3: strengths are.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we were talking a little bit before we got
Speaker 9: on the are You're from a small town in Indiana
Speaker 9: about eight hundred people.
Speaker 8: Just talk about your upbringing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Indiana kid, grew up in a small town,
Speaker 3: grew up on a farm. Family in total has about
Speaker 3: a thousand acres of corn, soybeans, grew up you know,
Speaker 3: out in the fields driving tractors, and then we had
Speaker 3: some animals in the summer and pigs, goats, you know, chickens,
Speaker 3: like everything you can think of. I was the youngest
Speaker 3: of four and so I always got the short end
Speaker 3: the stick in terms of jobs. You know, Hey, you
Speaker 3: go up in the hay mound or you like, you know,
Speaker 3: throw me up on the roof and I.
Speaker 5: Have to clean the gutters stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it just you know, learned how to work
Speaker 3: hard at a really young age and certainly bring that
Speaker 3: in my everyday life.
Speaker 9: And of course in football, Notre Dame fan the whole
Speaker 9: way I got you.
Speaker 3: But uh, being you know, being farm you know, farm cut,
Speaker 3: everybody roots for Purdue.
Speaker 5: That's that school makes sense.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, like their names, No Dame
Speaker 3: exactly right, and so you know when they were on
Speaker 3: national TV, you're rooting for him for sure.
Speaker 4: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: How much how exciting is this time period for your family? Uh,
Speaker 2: the family of four you like you talked about and
Speaker 2: how close knit you guys were to watch you take
Speaker 2: this rise, not only to the National Championship and now
Speaker 2: to the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been the whole journey through Notre Dame in
Speaker 3: high school just has been really special, but especially this
Speaker 3: year in kind of ride we went on and be
Speaker 3: able to share that with my siblings, my parents, My
Speaker 3: parents be able to go to every game and my
Speaker 3: siblings to be able to get to the home playoff
Speaker 3: game or you.
Speaker 5: Know, to the Sugar Bowl or Orange Bowl.
Speaker 3: And then finally to cap it off and have everybody
Speaker 3: has a national championship.
Speaker 5: It was super special.
Speaker 3: And then to know that, you know, they get to
Speaker 3: watch me on TV this week on the NFL network.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, that's pretty special, and know that they get
Speaker 5: a share in that experience. For sure.
Speaker 4: It's an exciting time.
Speaker 2: Jack, Will you take We appreciate you taking some time
Speaker 2: sitting down with us.
Speaker 4: Good luck the rest of the way.
Speaker 2: We're certainly fans of your work already, a lot of
Speaker 2: people watching the show certainly like what you've done so far.
Speaker 4: Got a bright future ahead of you.
Speaker 5: Appreciate thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Jack Kaiser, Notre Dame linebacker joining us here on the
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Speaker 2: Good to know uc LA linebacker joining us here. We
Speaker 2: just talked with Jack Kaiser a moment ago, and the
Speaker 2: linebacker position is so vertatile now in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Tell us what you feel like your strengths are and
Speaker 4: what you're bringing to the pro level.
Speaker 20: A great question, r You said, I think versatility is
Speaker 20: named to the game. Being able to do multiple things
Speaker 20: in the scheme, whether it's playing off the ball linebacker
Speaker 20: or on the ball a third down pass rushing, or
Speaker 20: just you know, playing the run game all the ball, on.
Speaker 21: The ball, striking, playing physical.
Speaker 20: So I think having all those assets with physicality and
Speaker 20: violence explosiveness just makes a great player.
Speaker 2: And you could see that in your practices, you can
Speaker 2: see that in your film as well.
Speaker 4: How's the week been so far for you?
Speaker 2: Getting to interact with some of the best players at
Speaker 2: each of their positions.
Speaker 21: Man, it's been great. It's been a blessing.
Speaker 20: It's a great opportunity, uh, just to compete with the
Speaker 20: best and to really try to make a name for yourself.
Speaker 20: I think I've had two okay practices. Some I say
Speaker 20: it's been really good, but I still know I can
Speaker 20: get more.
Speaker 8: It's been really good in my opinion.
Speaker 6: Second back, she said.
Speaker 20: It no voices going right now because I've been so
Speaker 20: on the jeddak and excited and yelling and just having fun.
Speaker 20: But it's been awesome, man, you know, had great conversations
Speaker 20: with great people and networking and just making opportunities.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 20: And the people playing here, I said yesterday future all
Speaker 20: of famers. So it's been a blessing.
Speaker 6: Kyle kind of mentioned it a second ago.
Speaker 7: But you with your versatility, that's something that pops out
Speaker 7: on film and it's popped out in practice, whether it
Speaker 7: beyond the ball, off the ball. Where do you feel
Speaker 7: like you're at your best and in terms of where
Speaker 7: you're playing and what kind of situation you're playing it.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I'm meant to be on the ball all it means.
Speaker 20: I'm know, I played my first three years in college,
Speaker 20: in my first three games my senior year, but you know,
Speaker 20: the transition was a natural one and this one that
Speaker 20: should happened a long time ago. But I'm just want
Speaker 20: to play well at the end of the day. But
Speaker 20: I believe I'm most efficient and effective on the ball.
Speaker 7: And so what about that transition, Like you mentioned playing
Speaker 7: middle linebacker for the first three years, in the three
Speaker 7: games this year, you know, with that smaller sample size
Speaker 7: of real game action in college, how do you feel
Speaker 7: like you've grown already and how do you feel like
Speaker 7: that's going to translate to the professional level.
Speaker 21: Absolutely?
Speaker 20: Yeah, So I think, you know, the first thing I
Speaker 20: really had to get down was just a pass rushing
Speaker 20: or I got to learn over the few weeks that
Speaker 20: I first transitioned. I mean, it actually is an ORI's
Speaker 20: a craft. The one note always help you in that area.
Speaker 20: There's just motor and effort, but to some extent comes
Speaker 20: being a mastermind and playing chestnut checkers. So I think
Speaker 20: for me, just continue to improve my past rushing, continue
Speaker 20: to improve my technique, and they just gets you the polishing.
Speaker 9: Every year there's probably about three or four guys that
Speaker 9: come here and they really stamp their stock and have
Speaker 9: a great week. I'd put you in that category right now.
Speaker 9: As far as what you've been able to do in
Speaker 9: one on ones and pass our situations. How much prep
Speaker 9: has gone into the this game, specifically over the course
Speaker 9: of the last month.
Speaker 8: What does that look like for you.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm trying to Dallas, Texas right now at ex
Speaker 20: oson great coach coach Brandon Tucker's give me great advice
Speaker 20: and also shout out to my coach at UCLA, coach
Speaker 20: mcloy Coach t They've really helped me a lot to
Speaker 20: be prepared, yes, for this moment, but just overall everything
Speaker 20: coming in front of him.
Speaker 8: Shout out to Big Tuck last year.
Speaker 9: Last year Lyle to Lots obviously had went through this
Speaker 9: exact same process. Was there anything you were able to
Speaker 9: kind of peel back from him and kind of see
Speaker 9: what that process is like before jumping into it a
Speaker 9: little bit.
Speaker 20: Didn't get to speak on too much, but me and
Speaker 20: lotcho actually in the same area that fun I played
Speaker 20: in my high school my sophomore year.
Speaker 21: He was dominant, tied in not even tied end.
Speaker 20: But yeah, I mean I got to watch all the
Speaker 20: film a lot too and get advice.
Speaker 21: From a coach who coached him about this process.
Speaker 2: Another guy that at least just of course we know
Speaker 2: very closely that played off ball quite a bit in college,
Speaker 2: figured out a little bit of the pass rush, was
Speaker 2: able to take that to the NFL level.
Speaker 4: Goes by the name of Mike the partsons.
Speaker 2: How much have you watched him and what he does
Speaker 2: well at the NFL level and maybe some of the
Speaker 2: other guys that you've modeled your game after.
Speaker 20: Yeah, Michael, he's a He's a great player, explosive, dominant,
Speaker 20: But he was actually probably the first player I started
Speaker 20: to watch. Wow, when I transition to it was him
Speaker 20: a lot to Actually I watched a lot to practice
Speaker 20: film because I had access to it, and I watched
Speaker 20: on the game film on Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: What did you see that stuck out and what do
Speaker 2: you feel like you kind of mirror from his game?
Speaker 20: I think Michael can rush from any plays on the
Speaker 20: field where it's on the guard, on the center of
Speaker 20: the tackle.
Speaker 21: Yesterday I rest on the guard.
Speaker 20: So just trying to, you know, find the best matchups
Speaker 20: and just be be more athletic than man in front
Speaker 20: of his twitch. He's explosive, he he knows what he
Speaker 20: wants to do, he has a plan. He's just aggressive.
Speaker 7: But you know, this year with U c l A
Speaker 7: Moving to the Big ten, I still don't know if
Speaker 7: that sounds right to you, because it still doesn't sound
Speaker 7: It's gonna take some time to get used to that.
Speaker 7: But the conference as a whole is known for how
Speaker 7: strong it is the line of scrimmage on both sides.
Speaker 7: And not to say the Pac twelve wasn't that in
Speaker 7: your time there, but what did you realize about some
Speaker 7: of the newer teams that you played in, some of
Speaker 7: the newer faces that you had to see on the
Speaker 7: other side there?
Speaker 20: Man, I I truly believe football is football. What you
Speaker 20: put in is what you get out. Everybody's human. So
Speaker 20: the conference change, it wasn't really like a oh my
Speaker 20: gosh moment, at least to me. You know, I don't
Speaker 20: see that out of arrogance but just confidence. But I think,
Speaker 20: like I said, everybody's hearing. Man, Like what you put
Speaker 20: in the light room is what you get out. If
Speaker 20: I'm working the man next to me, I'm gonna give results.
Speaker 20: You know what I'm saying. So it was a great
Speaker 20: transition in my opinion. I think it helps you CLA
Speaker 20: because it shows we can compete. Just about our season,
Speaker 20: I think we really should have won three games that
Speaker 20: we lost, But I thought we competed. I thought we
Speaker 20: showed that we can fight. And I don't know cause
Speaker 20: Foster's gonna change the program up there.
Speaker 9: I want to dive a little bit more into being
Speaker 9: able to rush the passer from any one on the line,
Speaker 9: whether it be at zero tech or at wide nine.
Speaker 8: What would you say?
Speaker 9: You know, some guys obviously are better fit from pass
Speaker 9: rushing in the interior because they're shorter, they're better in
Speaker 9: those kind of you know, a close confines. And then
Speaker 9: the white nine it's getting the bind, it's finding the
Speaker 9: explosion around the edge. Where would you say, why are
Speaker 9: you good at zero technic and why are you good
Speaker 9: at white nine if you were to be lined up
Speaker 9: in those two different situations on a pass rush down.
Speaker 20: Yeah, so it's situation that would be in a you know,
Speaker 20: third down, third third and long thirty seven plus.
Speaker 21: But I like the center. I like the center. The guard.
Speaker 20: They're they're they're they're not the most probably the most
Speaker 20: unethle the guys in the field.
Speaker 9: Respect we have a former center on the show back
Speaker 9: at home well to be sure and tell them that
Speaker 9: shut out to Brian's it's.
Speaker 20: Just like you can beat the most speed, but then
Speaker 20: if you're a powerful god, which I believe I am,
Speaker 20: I can sneak in power on you and still bully you.
Speaker 21: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 20: So it just gives you the best way, and it's
Speaker 20: it's the shortest measure to the quarterback.
Speaker 21: This is faster than coming from it, so I can
Speaker 21: get there now.
Speaker 9: As far as being out if you're lined up out
Speaker 9: of white nine, trying to create that bind and obviously
Speaker 9: having the experience at off ball having to get used
Speaker 9: to that, what would you say you put in as
Speaker 9: far as flexibility, dexterity during the week and training the
Speaker 9: body to be able to do things like that, because
Speaker 9: it's an awkward movement, like if you're not used to it,
Speaker 9: it takes some time to kind of get around and
Speaker 9: figure out what that edge that edge rush looks like.
Speaker 21: Very true.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean I think for myself, like I said
Speaker 20: with Coach mcloy and coach ted up working that bend,
Speaker 20: working the hoop bend, working you know, singing the hips
Speaker 20: and staying low to the ground and instide toe facing
Speaker 20: where you're going. So just working a lot of extra
Speaker 20: reps and just continue to pu polish my game.
Speaker 8: So a very technical process all the way to show.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 20: So I mean a lot of that out thing was natural.
Speaker 20: But now to you know, go from good because I
Speaker 20: think on natural is good. Let you go from good
Speaker 20: to great. Gotta work on the tekenee.
Speaker 2: I will say one thing just over this conversation, your
Speaker 2: energy is infectious and so I can see that on
Speaker 2: the field. I can see that through your work and
Speaker 2: your tape all the way through. Uh, We're excited about
Speaker 2: getting to cover you over these next couple of months
Speaker 2: through the NFL draft. But what would it mean for
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Speaker 20: You bless them? Man, I've been saying for the week.
Speaker 20: You know, we're right, end up whatever thirty two teams
Speaker 20: is a blessing. But Dallas specifically kind of funny because
Speaker 20: I'm actually like seven minutes lear from the story, right now.
Speaker 20: Oh okay, Yeah, I'm living in playing though, so down
Speaker 20: the street. It wouldn't be much of a move, but
Speaker 20: it'd be awesome, honestly, great history around the program.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 20: One of my former coaches, King Norton Junior. Yeah, great
Speaker 20: legend South Coast Norton. Uh, he played there, obviously won
Speaker 20: a super Bowl with them.
Speaker 21: It'd be awesome.
Speaker 4: It'd be incredible, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Well, good luck the rest of the week here in
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Speaker 4: We'll be keeping a close eye on you.
Speaker 21: Awesome pleasure.
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Speaker 2: And with all the orange that we've seen around here
Speaker 2: for the Reese's Senior Ball, it's only fitting we talked
Speaker 2: to a Clemson Tiger wearing some orange as well. We've
Speaker 2: got Jake bringing bringing stool joining us to tie end
Speaker 2: from Clemson.
Speaker 4: Jake, it's been a great week so far for you.
Speaker 2: What's been the key to having the success that you've
Speaker 2: shown on the field at Hancock Whitney.
Speaker 24: Yeah, Uh, you know, I think, like you said, it
Speaker 24: has been a great week. You know, I think for me,
Speaker 24: it's got a you know, stay consistent. Uh, you know,
Speaker 24: I think it's been it's been a great week so far.
Speaker 24: But I think just continue to go out there and
Speaker 24: show what I can do, continue to you know, show
Speaker 24: who I am off the field, and just can kind
Speaker 24: of continue to build off the opportunity that's.
Speaker 5: Coming my way.
Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about the trenches on this show
Speaker 2: throughout the week, and uh, the pass catchers certainly have
Speaker 2: shined pretty bright along the way. But that's tough to
Speaker 2: do in a week like this when you're catching passes
Speaker 2: from new quarterbacks, you're running routes in new systems, you're
Speaker 2: trying to do some new things. What's been the biggest
Speaker 2: challenge for you throughout the week of practice so far.
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, like you said, it is a challenging week.
Speaker 24: It's a busy week. But I think, you know, it's
Speaker 24: been a lot of fun. This is the best, the
Speaker 24: best in the draft class. Like they talk about just
Speaker 24: being able to compete with these guys has been a
Speaker 24: lot of fun for me. It's it's been a cool opportunity.
Speaker 24: I'm thankful to be able to be down here also
Speaker 24: meet with a lot of teams and be able to
Speaker 24: just showcase a type of player I am, type of
Speaker 24: team at I am, uh, dominic character I am. So
Speaker 24: I think it's just been, you know, a lot of
Speaker 24: great opportunity and I'm thankful to you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you mentioned it briefly there, but meeting with the
Speaker 7: teams is a big part of this week as well.
Speaker 7: One of those meetings been like and when coaches or
Speaker 7: scouts or front office staff are giving you maybe some
Speaker 7: constructive criticism on what they've seen on film from he
Speaker 7: or during practice this week, what's some of that been
Speaker 7: and how how are they telling you that you can
Speaker 7: get better?
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, I think I just got to learn
Speaker 24: how transition into being a pro. You know, I think
Speaker 24: college football it's a lot different. So just being able
Speaker 24: to transition into being a pro carry myself like that,
Speaker 24: you know, uh, twenty four to seven on and off
Speaker 24: the field. I think, you know, it's been a lot
Speaker 24: of great information that they've given me. But just being
Speaker 24: able to, you know, take the coach and take the
Speaker 24: criticism sometimes. Something I learned at Clemson was just you
Speaker 24: don't want to listen to the message, but listen to
Speaker 24: the or listen to the don't listened to the tone.
Speaker 5: We listen to the message.
Speaker 24: And just being able to, you know, gather all the
Speaker 24: coaching I can try and get as as much better
Speaker 24: as I can, as quickly.
Speaker 5: As I can.
Speaker 7: And Deblo Swinney's produced so much NFL talent in his
Speaker 7: time at Clemson, You'll be the latest example of that.
Speaker 7: With his history and seeing guys jump from his program
Speaker 7: to the next level. What is his mentorship been like
Speaker 7: and what are some of the things that he's taught
Speaker 7: to you that's helped prepare you for that process?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, Coach Tweny's great.
Speaker 24: You know, I think the way he runs his program,
Speaker 24: the culture that he's created, was a lot of things
Speaker 24: that attracted me to be able to commit through out
Speaker 24: of high school. But I think just you know, the
Speaker 24: man of faith that he is, the way he you know,
Speaker 24: loves his players, the way he cares about his players.
Speaker 24: You know, I think I'm an example of that. You know,
Speaker 24: he says he's more worried about the thirty year old
Speaker 24: version of yourself, more so than what you can do
Speaker 24: as a college football player. So, you know, I think
Speaker 24: he he cares about us genuinely. He wants us to
Speaker 24: be great husband's, great fathers, you know, something I aspired
Speaker 24: to be one day. So I think, you know, just
Speaker 24: growing as a man, growing in my faith. You know,
Speaker 24: I think those are the coolest things that you know,
Speaker 24: as other beneficiaries are going to.
Speaker 8: Clemson, dive into some sicko stuff here.
Speaker 9: The tight end position is the most unique one in
Speaker 9: the game, just because you find yourself doing just about
Speaker 9: everything offensively except throw the ball. You're gonna pass protec,
Speaker 9: You're gonna run, block, you're gonna catch the ball. Sometimes
Speaker 9: you might even carry the ball. From your perspective, I
Speaker 9: think a lot of people know you're receiving next because
Speaker 9: you got the length and you're able to do that downfield,
Speaker 9: You're able to do that in short quarters. As far
Speaker 9: as your overall game and things that don't show up
Speaker 9: in the stat sheet, what would you say stands out?
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, I think I'll bring a lot of
Speaker 24: versatility to an offense. You know, I think I can
Speaker 24: create mismatches outside. I can also compete and make a
Speaker 24: difference in the run game. But I think something that's
Speaker 24: different about me, you know, I think just a type
Speaker 24: of teammate I am.
Speaker 4: H you know, I'm a competitor.
Speaker 24: I'm gonna compete every single day, but I also want
Speaker 24: to build guys up, you know, build confidence in them. Ultimately,
Speaker 24: we're all in the same team, you know, striving for
Speaker 24: the same common goal.
Speaker 9: Or does a competitive competitiveness come from siblings growing up
Speaker 9: or parents they're playing video games with with friends?
Speaker 8: What's what's that come from?
Speaker 6: I would say it's a mix of all all those.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 24: I got an older brother, so I you know, I
Speaker 24: definitely learned that at a young age. I'm just having
Speaker 24: to you know, compete, you know always, you know, just having.
Speaker 5: Fun with him. And I like to talk about the
Speaker 5: video games. Uh.
Speaker 24: You know, I love playing the game with my friends.
Speaker 24: You know, I'm really close to my roommates and teammates
Speaker 24: back home. So just you know, anytime we hop on
Speaker 24: there playing Ncuble, a Madden, you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 24: You know, I always want to win. Uh, So you know,
Speaker 24: it doesn't really matter what we're doing. I just want
Speaker 24: to win, and I kind of carry that same mindset
Speaker 24: onto the field, and you know, I just that's that's
Speaker 24: how I carry myself as a man, just throughout everything. So,
Speaker 24: you know, it's been like I said this week, it's
Speaker 24: been a great experience.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 24: I think I'm just most thankful for the competition and
Speaker 24: you know, the type of guys that get to do
Speaker 24: next two.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of fans that watch the show
Speaker 2: and want a lot of listeners that love watching.
Speaker 4: Film and they've seen what you can do from a
Speaker 4: receiving ability.
Speaker 2: Uh, what's your mindset when you're blocking, when you are
Speaker 2: trying to pass protect, or you are trying to run
Speaker 2: block or trying to lead the way? What's your mentality
Speaker 2: that you've taken throughout your career.
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, I think it just comes down to
Speaker 24: being physical, having a willing mindset. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 24: think I do have that. You know, I think I'm
Speaker 24: a willing blocker. You know, I want to do it.
Speaker 24: I think the most rewarding feeling as a tight end,
Speaker 24: especially in the run game, is just when you and
Speaker 24: all five offensive linemen are all on the same page.
Speaker 5: And then the running back gets an explosive play.
Speaker 24: Sometimes a tight end position is kind of an unselfish position.
Speaker 5: You gotta kind of you know, do some of the
Speaker 5: dirty work.
Speaker 24: But I think the reward for another player and ultimately
Speaker 24: fun points on the board is you know, very rewarding.
Speaker 7: And to kind of build off of that with if
Speaker 7: you if you were to have our fans go back
Speaker 7: and watch film, there's plenty of games for you to
Speaker 7: watch as a receiver where you've played well as a
Speaker 7: ball catcher. But if you had to give them a
Speaker 7: game where you feel like you dominated as an inline
Speaker 7: run blocker or in line pass blocker, what do you
Speaker 7: can you think back to a game where you feel
Speaker 7: like you did that really well.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I would say go watch South Carolina tape them
Speaker 24: this last year. You know, I think we have them.
Speaker 8: Up front, that's a good front.
Speaker 24: Yeah, yeah, they had they had a really good defense.
Speaker 24: But I think you know, we had a good game
Speaker 24: playing going into that game. You know, shout out to
Speaker 24: those guys on South Carolina team. You know they had
Speaker 24: they have played a good game. You know, they got
Speaker 24: the better of us, not the negative against them, But
Speaker 24: you know, I think we did a good job getting
Speaker 24: our job done.
Speaker 5: And we you know, we played well.
Speaker 9: I believe you told me yesterday that you met with
Speaker 9: the Cowboys this week. Correct, Yeah, do you remember anything
Speaker 9: from that meeting? I know you've had a lot of meetings.
Speaker 9: Do you remember anything one from that one specifically?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 24: Yeah, you know it was it was a really good
Speaker 24: you know, just opportunity to be able to sit down
Speaker 24: with them and kind of just showcase type of man
Speaker 24: I am, you know, show them how I carry myself
Speaker 24: off the field. I'm more so than just a football player,
Speaker 24: you know, So just being able to, you know, let
Speaker 24: them get to know me, to get to know me,
Speaker 24: get to know my personality, and get to know the
Speaker 24: type of teammate, type of leader I am. So I
Speaker 24: think just being able to, you know, in a short
Speaker 24: time span, you know, be able to let them know
Speaker 24: that the real me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Do you know much about Jake Ferguson or have you
Speaker 9: modeled anything in your game after him?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 24: You know, I think he's a great tight end, you know,
Speaker 24: I think he makes a difference for you guys in Dallas.
Speaker 5: But I think the coolest thing.
Speaker 24: Is just for me have an opportunity to be able
Speaker 24: to go compete with these type of guys, you know,
Speaker 24: I think, uh, these are the best players in the
Speaker 24: world at this position. So as being able to be
Speaker 24: a part of that, you know, going into the NFL
Speaker 24: as a young guy, you know, I want to be
Speaker 24: able to just learn learn from guys that have done
Speaker 24: it at a high level. You know, they got anything
Speaker 24: I can learn from their game, kind of met it
Speaker 24: into my own way and kind of putting in my
Speaker 24: own tool box.
Speaker 9: Yea, And I think Andrew Booth is the only Clemson
Speaker 9: Tiger in the locker room, so I.
Speaker 8: Need to add an extra another one. The dude, for sure,
Speaker 8: he's funny. Man, he's funny.
Speaker 4: Jake.
Speaker 2: You you mentioned, uh, the well rounded side of your game,
Speaker 2: and and you're you're going up against some of the
Speaker 2: guys that are also well rounded during this week of
Speaker 2: the Senior Bowl, but throughout your entire collegiate career, including
Speaker 2: the practices so far, who stands out as a guy
Speaker 2: that you've matched up against that that stands off the
Speaker 2: page for you?
Speaker 24: Yeah? I think, you know, there's been a lot of
Speaker 24: a lot of great talent here. You know, I think
Speaker 24: a couple of my favorite dues I've enjoyed watching Walter Nolan. Uh,
Speaker 24: you know, I think He's done a really good job,
Speaker 24: and I think Dion's also, you know, done a good job.
Speaker 24: And then on the offensive side, uh, you know, jack
Speaker 24: beshis had a really good week, so just being and
Speaker 24: then Jackson Dart I think has done a good job
Speaker 24: as well. So I'm just trying to, you know, continue
Speaker 24: to build relationships with those guys. You know, you know,
Speaker 24: we're going through the same process together, so just you know,
Speaker 24: talk to them about kind of what they're going through,
Speaker 24: kind of what what's what I'm going and just have
Speaker 24: each other out the best we can.
Speaker 2: Man, it's a fun tight end class, it's a fun
Speaker 2: Senior Bowl group, and you're just right there in the
Speaker 2: middle of it, and you make it fun for us
Speaker 2: to cover on a daily basis. So we appreciate you
Speaker 2: taking some time and talking with us about the future.
Speaker 4: We're excited about your future. Good luck for the rest
Speaker 4: of the week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you guys for having me.
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Speaker 1: This is the Dallascowboys dot Com Draft Show.
Speaker 2: We've talked all week to some of the stars of
Speaker 2: the Raese's Senior Bowl here on Radio Row in Mobile, Alabamas.
Speaker 2: I'll welcome you back into the Draft Show alongside Tommy Yarish,
Speaker 2: Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeomans. We're now joined by, at
Speaker 2: least on social media, the star of the Reese's Senior
Speaker 2: Bowl so far through the first two practices, Tes Johnson
Speaker 2: from Oregon Wide receiver.
Speaker 4: Tes, It's been an incredible week.
Speaker 2: For you the social media, the eclipse are surfacing, they're
Speaker 2: blowing up of you having some success in the one
Speaker 2: on one periods.
Speaker 4: What's this whole scenario, this whole event been like for
Speaker 4: you so far.
Speaker 25: Well, first off, I'm back home in the first time
Speaker 25: in two years, so it looked a little different. I
Speaker 25: hopped out the plan, but it means a lot because
Speaker 25: coming down here is just one of those things, like
Speaker 25: you want to showcase why you wanted the best in
Speaker 25: the country. You got the best of the best here
Speaker 25: from dB D line quarterbacks, so you want to be
Speaker 25: able to have that that factor about you, like how
Speaker 25: can you separate yourself from these guys out here? So
Speaker 25: I definitely took it with pride and wanted to come
Speaker 25: out here and just showcase while I'm here.
Speaker 2: You took that both figuratively and literally of how to
Speaker 2: separate yourself from the other individuals out there, because you
Speaker 2: built plenty of separation throughout.
Speaker 4: What's led to the success.
Speaker 2: On the field of it was a film work preparation
Speaker 2: going into it.
Speaker 4: The workouts are what led you to having this success
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 25: I'm definitely saying my preparation through the entire day, Like
Speaker 25: how am I prepared for today or throughout this whole week?
Speaker 25: How can I separate myself with every guy here? Like,
Speaker 25: for example, I'm waking up at five o'clock before everybody here.
Speaker 25: It wakes up like I'm one of those guys that's
Speaker 25: gonna be going over my playbook and being able to
Speaker 25: know the plays before I get out there.
Speaker 5: Why is the quarterback doing this? Why am I doing
Speaker 5: this right here?
Speaker 25: And I tell you with pride, like I want to
Speaker 25: be able to separate myself from a lot of people
Speaker 25: because like it's an eater'll be eating game out here.
Speaker 5: So and the type of receiver I am, you have
Speaker 5: to be, And.
Speaker 25: Like I said, I'd take it with pride, and I'd
Speaker 25: never take anything for granted.
Speaker 7: When I'm here, you've been eating a lot. I would say,
Speaker 7: so far to these first three practices. But when you
Speaker 7: watch your film at Oregon and especially here in practices
Speaker 7: just at the line of scrimmage, you win so fast
Speaker 7: with your footwork and just getting out of the breaks quick.
Speaker 7: What is it about your skill set that you feel
Speaker 7: so strongly about in terms of what you can do
Speaker 7: early on in those first couple of steps to make
Speaker 7: a defensive back either flip their hips or make them
Speaker 7: decide on one way that you're going so you can
Speaker 7: win the route early.
Speaker 5: It's a chest game between me and a dB.
Speaker 25: So I know a lot of things far as like
Speaker 25: why dB is doing certain stuff. Thankful to my coach
Speaker 25: at Orgon Junior Adams, Cooper cup Tank Dale and Tyler
Speaker 25: Lockett so and t J was Mazada because I trained
Speaker 25: with him at uh La right now, So when I
Speaker 25: walk up to a line, I see what DV is doing.
Speaker 5: He's he's a lot like on his toes a lot.
Speaker 25: I know he's gonna try to get hands on press,
Speaker 25: but if he's on his heel, he don't want to
Speaker 25: get be deep at all and if he's just flat footed,
Speaker 25: his hips is lock. He can't turn the other way.
Speaker 25: No way impossible, you can get there. But I know
Speaker 25: those things before I even get to the line of screamage,
Speaker 25: and I know what I'm doing and I know how
Speaker 25: to win. And it's one of those things that I've
Speaker 25: always been able to do.
Speaker 5: I was always shifty, but before.
Speaker 25: I got the Organ, I was just running ask people
Speaker 25: on the ball in my hand. That's when I'd be
Speaker 25: able to be a playmaker. But it definitely changed when
Speaker 25: I got to Organ and being able to know coverages,
Speaker 25: no dbs and know how they finna play and.
Speaker 5: A lot of people played a big role in that
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 9: For me, talk about this game being eating eat or
Speaker 9: be eaten, the game of life can very much be
Speaker 9: the same exact way. Growing up in Penson, Alabama, I'm
Speaker 9: familiar with their story, but to people who are maybe
Speaker 9: not familiar with your story growing up, what was that
Speaker 9: like for you and then being taken in by the
Speaker 9: family of bo Nicks and everything like that associated with it.
Speaker 25: When I was a sophomore in high school, like obviously
Speaker 25: I was a bad kid, and I'm pretty sure a
Speaker 25: lot of people was hard hitted when they was a kid,
Speaker 25: but now I was a little bit of stream. I'm
Speaker 25: definitely leaving my bio femine to go with the Nixes.
Speaker 25: It was definitely a big change because I was scared
Speaker 25: to death. I didn't know it was like how it
Speaker 25: was going to be. But they took me in with
Speaker 25: open arms like they didn't know a kid from a
Speaker 25: Canna paint, and they welcomed me into the house, and
Speaker 25: I was like, Okay, this can be good for me.
Speaker 25: And throughout that whole time, I'm watching both from a distance,
Speaker 25: like all right, this is how he talked to coaches,
Speaker 25: this is how he prepared for a practice, and this
Speaker 25: is why he do this on a game day.
Speaker 5: And I took it like, okay, I have to do that.
Speaker 25: I never told him that because like I didn't want
Speaker 25: him to be like pressured at the time, where like
Speaker 25: look at me in a different type of way. But
Speaker 25: pretty sure like now that I came out with and
Speaker 25: and said that, he's gonna definitely hear it.
Speaker 5: He's he's one of those guys.
Speaker 25: I tried to model my game out there, even though
Speaker 25: I was a receiver, Like he used to go out
Speaker 25: there at six o'clock at night, met him and dad
Speaker 25: and just go catch. But I didn't want to. I'm like, bro,
Speaker 25: it's six o'clock a night. We got school in the morning.
Speaker 25: Like my hands is hurting. I didn't used to catch like.
Speaker 25: I didn't used to catch the ball very good. I
Speaker 25: used to just drop a lot of pass but I
Speaker 25: progressively got better. My first game junior year receiver, I
Speaker 25: played against Whover High School George Pickens, and that's when
Speaker 25: I literally saw.
Speaker 5: A guy like he goes up and grab a ball.
Speaker 5: I'm like, oooh.
Speaker 25: That's when I knew George Picks was really like one
Speaker 25: of those guys that you don't want to mess with
Speaker 25: as far as guard.
Speaker 5: But I did have a pretty.
Speaker 25: Good game, and I was like, Okay, I can play
Speaker 25: this game, but now I got some more stuff to
Speaker 25: work on. And I knew that at a young age. Yeah,
Speaker 25: it was just one of those things. They took me
Speaker 25: in and wanted me to be a part of their
Speaker 25: family and they just did it out of love.
Speaker 9: So yeah, and then even coming out of high school,
Speaker 9: people were still doubting that you had to go the
Speaker 9: G five route going to Troy and proving yourself there
Speaker 9: going into that opportunity. How much of that did you
Speaker 9: want to make of it to end up at a
Speaker 9: program like Oregon and succeeds.
Speaker 25: I didn't know I was going to Oregon at all,
Speaker 25: Like out of high school. When they didn't offer me,
Speaker 25: I was like, Okay, my dream is not going to
Speaker 25: be what I always thought.
Speaker 8: So Oregon was your dream? Yeah, okay, got you.
Speaker 25: Sad Like Orgon was my dream school to go to
Speaker 25: no matter what. I was not going to Alabama. I
Speaker 25: wanted to go to Arguron with Bowe and play with them, but.
Speaker 5: It took a different route. So when I got.
Speaker 25: The Troy, Kobe happened play that year, We got that
Speaker 25: year back played three years at the that and I
Speaker 25: was like, Okay, I'm really good right now, Like my
Speaker 25: skill is a little different from the guys at Troy
Speaker 25: right now.
Speaker 5: Even the coaches knew.
Speaker 25: They was like, hey, hey, you're you're one of those
Speaker 25: guys that you can take a chance on yourself. Even
Speaker 25: the fans and towards the end of the season and
Speaker 25: my dad started talking about it, I was scared to
Speaker 25: have to hop back in because of my I thought
Speaker 25: there's gonna be another narrative like hey, you your side difference,
Speaker 25: Like I thought I was going to like Houston or
Speaker 25: like Louisville Memphis, because I texted him like, hey, you
Speaker 25: think we're gonna take me him jokingly saying nah, probably not.
Speaker 5: The whole time he was recruiting.
Speaker 25: Me, Like at heart, I was like, man, really all right,
Speaker 25: So now I'm gonna go to Memphis and show where
Speaker 25: I belong in any school because I remember I was
Speaker 25: in Nashville, Tennessee, and Tennessee told me literally over the phone,
Speaker 25: said hey, you too smart to playing SEC. That was
Speaker 25: a chip just laying on my shoulder and I wanted
Speaker 25: to play them first round of the playoffs so bad.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to play.
Speaker 25: Him, but it's one of those things. When I entered
Speaker 25: the portal and when Coach Adams called me because I
Speaker 25: never got a Cali area code call my phone ever
Speaker 25: and both coming home from Birmingham with his wife Izzy,
Speaker 25: and I answered the phone.
Speaker 5: He was like, hey, this Coach Adams from Organ.
Speaker 25: I'm looking like like my mom's sitting in this area
Speaker 25: right here, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, oh, this is Orgon Coach called me like.
Speaker 25: Right now, and before I know, I put it back
Speaker 25: to Money and said, hey, coach, I'm committed.
Speaker 8: Like, hey, what's up, I'm committing.
Speaker 25: I'm like, you don't have to say anything else. And
Speaker 25: that's when the video come out when Bo saying he's
Speaker 25: coming back. I was like, okay, yeah something sleep. But
Speaker 25: definitely I was like, oh yeah, we finished off the
Speaker 25: world because nobody really know that we were brothers, Like
Speaker 25: we're legitimately brothers, and nobody knew that, and we got
Speaker 25: to organ. A lot of people was like, that's your
Speaker 25: brother for real. I'm like, yeah, that's my brother, because
Speaker 25: I think it was one practice. Nobody's FINNSA say nothing
Speaker 25: to both far as like talking back to him, why
Speaker 25: you for this? But brothers, we argue, you know you
Speaker 25: can do this right here. I be there, just just
Speaker 25: throw it like you know what I'm saying. And everybody
Speaker 25: was looking at me like you can say that to him.
Speaker 8: It's like this new guy's talking crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is my brother. It's not like he's
Speaker 5: not God, but this is my brother.
Speaker 25: Like it's one of those things that I know how
Speaker 25: to get the best of the boat and he definitely
Speaker 25: know how to get the best of me because we're
Speaker 25: both competitive, so It's one of those things like when
Speaker 25: it happened, I was like, there's no way I'm up
Speaker 25: here playing with my brother like now Organ, because it
Speaker 25: was definitely a gym come true for me. And they
Speaker 25: started coming out like this kid is really like a
Speaker 25: true Organ fan, and they started getting to proof and
Speaker 25: stuff like that, and I'm like, yeah, there's no lie
Speaker 25: in none of these stories.
Speaker 5: It's definitely I'm a douhole Organ fan.
Speaker 4: That's one of the coolest draft stories I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: And of course you now have the chance to go
Speaker 2: to the NFL and have success just like Bo did.
Speaker 2: I mean, what was it like watching him succeed in
Speaker 2: Denver and really take the world by storm. You talked
Speaker 2: about the doubters from your own element. He had some
Speaker 2: doubters too, and he signed a lot of them.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming.
Speaker 25: I was like, Okay, this is how he's gonna be
Speaker 25: in the first like game. I knew it was like
Speaker 25: I know bol like I knew like the back of
Speaker 25: my house was like, Okay, it might start off a
Speaker 25: little slow this season, and watch how they doubt him
Speaker 25: and he gonna come back and just be like they
Speaker 25: go like, oh, Wow, this kid is really good and
Speaker 25: show enough. It happened because I was at the first
Speaker 25: game in Seattle when he played them, and it was different.
Speaker 5: It looked it looked like when he was playing.
Speaker 25: At Arburn because of the colors to me, and it
Speaker 25: was just different because it was an NFL team. You
Speaker 25: didn't really know what you was finna get. You didn't
Speaker 25: really know what was going on. So when he got
Speaker 25: to playing and start knowing the offense, start getting like
Speaker 25: really really deep into it because I know bo, like
Speaker 25: he gonna be up there all night getting it done,
Speaker 25: and whoever was around him gonna get better because that's
Speaker 25: who is. He makes your team better and show enough
Speaker 25: towards the end of the season like he's he's one
Speaker 25: of those guys like Rookie of the Year type of thing.
Speaker 5: So yeah, for sure, I definitely knew it was coming.
Speaker 25: I never had one doubt in my mind about it
Speaker 25: because I always used to joke about him like we
Speaker 25: like when we played Kansas City. He didn't text me though,
Speaker 25: because you know, I can't see the fans. He didn't
Speaker 25: text me at all. He was like I think I
Speaker 25: wanted to text him, like hey, like go out there
Speaker 25: and ball.
Speaker 5: He didn't text you back. He knew it. He like,
Speaker 5: you can't see the fan.
Speaker 25: Don't even And yeah, so because when I was at
Speaker 25: the Seahawks game, my girlfriend actually worked for the Seahawks
Speaker 25: and she had an internship that just ended. She does
Speaker 25: sports entertainment there. And obviously I didn't get a ticket
Speaker 25: from both.
Speaker 5: I got to take from her. So it's one of those.
Speaker 25: Things like you gotta be there if you're gonna be
Speaker 25: at the game for me, And obviously I was cheering
Speaker 25: for both, but I was on the Seahawks just sitting
Speaker 25: there cheering for both, like and it was. I was
Speaker 25: so taken because the Seahawks fans knew, like that was
Speaker 25: my brother.
Speaker 4: Had a man up there.
Speaker 5: This was his brother right here. I'm man. They done
Speaker 5: figured it out.
Speaker 2: Ted Johnson wide receiver from Morgan joining us before we
Speaker 2: let you go.
Speaker 4: Of course, this is the Dallas Cowboys Draft show.
Speaker 2: And you talked about your connection with Oregon, your connection
Speaker 2: with bo and Denver, Seattle.
Speaker 4: I mean you've got a connection with Dallas too.
Speaker 2: You've got some friends and family that that are Cowboys fans.
Speaker 25: The oldest brother is a Cowboy fan, Diehard cowboy fan
Speaker 25: every time.
Speaker 5: Playing with Man.
Speaker 25: He played the Cowboys like he been since I can remember.
Speaker 25: He's been doing the Cowboys and uh, he's one of
Speaker 25: those guys. Is like, Bro, the Cowboys winning super Bowl,
Speaker 25: no matter what happens, they are winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: Like it's my type of guy. I'm like, bro.
Speaker 25: Like I used to tell him like, hey, bro, like
Speaker 25: sometimes you just gotta be realistic, like sometimes, and he.
Speaker 5: Was like, don't worry, they gonna draft you. I was like, hey, look.
Speaker 25: I was like, hold on, don't don't you say that
Speaker 25: and they could happen right now. I don't know what
Speaker 25: are you talking about. And he was like, well, I
Speaker 25: think he's gonna happen, and I know it is going
Speaker 25: to happen.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, okay, here we go.
Speaker 25: Like if I go to these Cowboys, he gonna be
Speaker 25: at every single game.
Speaker 8: You're gonna have to get tickets for him every game
Speaker 8: for you may as well move him in.
Speaker 25: And he's definitely one of those like he's gonna be
Speaker 25: in there. Jersey Old had on like Cowboys down to
Speaker 25: the socks. I'm like, okay, if I go to the Cowboys, Bro,
Speaker 25: I pumis.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get you side there you go, so I
Speaker 5: define take care of him.
Speaker 2: To the Cowboys, what would it mean for you to
Speaker 2: be a part of the lineage such a rich history
Speaker 2: at the wide receiver position in the franchise of course
Speaker 2: most recently Ceede Lamb and what he's done.
Speaker 4: What would it mean for you to be drafted by Dallas?
Speaker 25: Ceedee Lamb is one of those guys that you watched
Speaker 25: because he's he's special with the ball in his hands too,
Speaker 25: and you got what's the return name?
Speaker 5: Turping?
Speaker 25: Okay, Turpin was one of those guys that I watched
Speaker 25: it because you can take a kick return pack and
Speaker 25: I'm like, hey, that guy's really good. And then you
Speaker 25: got back there. That's the that's been there for a
Speaker 25: while and really do good a lot because I think
Speaker 25: a lot of people hate on him and he's a
Speaker 25: really good quarterback to me because he does what he
Speaker 25: does and sometimes like a lot of quarterbacks don't have success.
Speaker 5: It's it's an up and down game, like you.
Speaker 25: Know, but the Cowboys are really really great franchise and
Speaker 25: just down to earth, and I know they hate the
Speaker 25: forty nine ers like it's one of those things like
Speaker 25: if I play for the Cowboys. I'm gonna hate the
Speaker 25: forty nine we love, but yeah, I love a Cowboys. See,
Speaker 25: Lamba is one of those things that guys I watch
Speaker 25: and if I play along side of him, I know
Speaker 25: there's gonna be a duo that's untouching that match for sure.
Speaker 4: Well, Tez, we appreciate you taking some time. We know
Speaker 4: you kept you a.
Speaker 2: Little long, but we love hearing your story, love watching
Speaker 2: you on the field, and we can't wait to watch
Speaker 2: it throughout the rest of the draft process. Along the way,
Speaker 2: we got a lot of fans back at home that
Speaker 2: are excited to watch you wherever you end up through
Speaker 2: the thirty two teams in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no problem, no problem, no problem.
Speaker 2: Tesz Johnson, Oregon wide receiver joining us. You'll catch him
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Speaker 2: the week.
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Speaker 1: The Dallascowboys dot Com Draft Show.
Speaker 2: Welcome back into the Draft Show, presented by Millerlite, the
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Speaker 2: Tommy Nick.
Speaker 4: That was probably my favorite day.
Speaker 2: Of interviews, absolutely, the Tess Johnson interview at the end,
Speaker 2: great job on that. Nick just kind of outlining his
Speaker 2: story in the Boonicks connection the background there. But all
Speaker 2: four of those guys were tremendous, And I hope fans
Speaker 2: at home really appreciate the stories behind the players that
Speaker 2: we are scouting, because yes, we understand it's investigator and educates.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of film that goes into this show.
Speaker 2: We can tell you more than anybody. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, these are also guys that are trying to
Speaker 2: get to know these uh players as a as a
Speaker 2: person and as somebody behind and off the football field
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: And I thought we got the chance to do that
Speaker 4: throughout the week.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was contemplating telling him that I was like
Speaker 9: one of the o g BO Nicks haters.
Speaker 4: But did you hear me sneak that question? And yeah,
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 8: I totally for you.
Speaker 2: I was going to get to it, but he he
Speaker 2: was kind I was waiting for you to like lean forward.
Speaker 5: I looked at him.
Speaker 9: He was he was talking a lot, which was great,
Speaker 9: and it's obviously phenomenal for the show and he got
Speaker 9: to tell the story. But if if I had a
Speaker 9: moment in there, I want to take it some accounability.
Speaker 9: I would have been like, look, man, I will tell
Speaker 9: you that I was one of B's original haters, but
Speaker 9: I have since come to the to the light and
Speaker 9: uh yeah, of rooting for both.
Speaker 4: No, it was a great interview.
Speaker 2: And I mean even Jack, you had, uh, you had
Speaker 2: Jake from from Clemson, you had Jack from Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: and then oh two baby, he was awesome too. That
Speaker 2: energy was incredible along the way. But uh, one thing
Speaker 2: we do have to hit before of course previewing the
Speaker 2: final uh moments of the Senior Bowl going into Saturday.
Speaker 4: But the Cowboys have extended.
Speaker 2: Will McClay since we last recorded a show from out
Speaker 2: here and we got the chance to talk to Will yesterday,
Speaker 2: talked to.
Speaker 4: Steven as well.
Speaker 2: This is big news for draft fans out there, keeping
Speaker 2: that same continuity. We've heard that that word a lot
Speaker 2: this offseason, but this is a good level of continuity
Speaker 2: to have Will mcqui Will McLay around for the next
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Stephen Jones told us yesterday that the Cowboys with the
Speaker 7: hire of their new head coach and Brian Schottenheimer, and
Speaker 7: with retaining Will McLay and bringing Maddie Reflues back, that
Speaker 7: they're looking for a mix of continuity and a mix
Speaker 7: of change, right, And Will McLay is a step in
Speaker 7: the continuity direction, and it's a step that they needed
Speaker 7: to take because of the amount of success that he's
Speaker 7: had in his tenure with the Cowboys. I know, you
Speaker 7: can look at the last two drafts and you know,
Speaker 7: maybe say, hey, I don't think those those worked as
Speaker 7: well as maybe Cowboys fans thought they would. But at
Speaker 7: the same time, you also have to look at his
Speaker 7: entire track record, his entire history.
Speaker 6: These guys can't get everybody right. Nobody can.
Speaker 7: That's just unreasonable to ask off process. But they have
Speaker 7: hit on a very high clip and I think you
Speaker 7: have to give him credit for that, and I think
Speaker 7: Will McClay is one of the best in the game
Speaker 7: in doing that, and I think the Cowboys recognized that too.
Speaker 7: So Nick did a good job yesterday, Agaven the five
Speaker 7: year deal scooped in terms of it's a five year
Speaker 7: extensions that's through the twenty thirty draft, correct, Yeah, So
Speaker 7: you've got him for through the twenty thirty draft, and
Speaker 7: I think that, you know, you've got some young pieces
Speaker 7: to build around, and he's brought those guys in.
Speaker 6: He's got a chance to do it again here.
Speaker 7: We talked with him earlier in the week and he
Speaker 7: said that this draft class is full of depth guys
Speaker 7: and guys that you can maybe insert into a two
Speaker 7: deep end. When you look at how the Cowboys fared
Speaker 7: this season with so many injuries, that comes claringly important.
Speaker 7: So I think this is a great move from Dallas
Speaker 7: and Will very clearly. I mean, he literally said I
Speaker 7: wanted to be here. I wanted to be here, and
Speaker 7: now he is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 9: The quote that stood out to me was it's the
Speaker 9: same quote there, Tommy. He said, I wanted to be
Speaker 9: here with the crew and what we've built. I have
Speaker 9: always say to that when I got here, my main
Speaker 9: goal was to be a part of something that gave
Speaker 9: us an opportunity to win another Super Bowl. I've got
Speaker 9: to continue to do that and I got to do
Speaker 9: my job better. Getting the opportunity to do that with
Speaker 9: these people is extremely important to me. And I think,
Speaker 9: you know, Will McLay obviously, I think he's one of
Speaker 9: the most underrated front office personnel in the entire NFL,
Speaker 9: only because he's been in this role for so long
Speaker 9: here with the Cowboys. But you know, this is the
Speaker 9: place he wants to be, and I think he made
Speaker 9: that pretty evident, not only by signing this five year extension,
Speaker 9: but in the interview that he gave us yesterday.
Speaker 8: You know, he could go be a GM somewhere, and.
Speaker 9: He has had teams interested him, interested in him in
Speaker 9: the past to potentially even interview for a GM spot,
Speaker 9: and he hasn't even taken any interviews. You know, Dallas
Speaker 9: is where he's been since I believe two thousand. This
Speaker 9: is a this is a spot that has been comfortable
Speaker 9: to him. He went to Rice at Texas is a
Speaker 9: big part of you know, what he does. From a
Speaker 9: scouting perspective as well, this is a It's a huge
Speaker 9: win for the front office. It's a huge win for
Speaker 9: the Cowboys to go ahead and lock him up for
Speaker 9: the long term. The college scouting has clearly taken a
Speaker 9: big step forward with him leading since twenty fourteen. I mean,
Speaker 9: you look at all the Pro Bowlers and all that
Speaker 9: he's had, whether it be Zach Martin or Tyler Smith
Speaker 9: or Micah Parsons, their cdee Lamb in the first round,
Speaker 9: or it could be Day three, Day two, guys like
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott, Deron Bland, Jake Ferguson. I mean, he is,
Speaker 9: him and his scouting department have done a phenomenal job. Granted,
Speaker 9: I think you're right, Tommy, these last two drafts have
Speaker 9: not been up to the standard, but it's something that
Speaker 9: with Will McClay and his department, you know the good
Speaker 9: ones are gonna come well.
Speaker 2: And that goes back to what Tommy was saying and
Speaker 2: what Steven Jones quote was yesterday. If the continuity and change,
Speaker 2: there are good things that this team has done, no
Speaker 2: doubt about it. I mean the fifteen Pro bowlers under McCarthy,
Speaker 2: excuse me, mcclay's tutelage, and then what Mike McCarthy did
Speaker 2: to win the twelve games over the three years in
Speaker 2: Dallas showed that they can't have success with some of
Speaker 2: the place holders that they have on this team and
Speaker 2: in this roster.
Speaker 4: However, there's other things that need to change. This was
Speaker 4: not an area like that. This was not an area
Speaker 4: that needed to change.
Speaker 2: Something that needs to change is running the football better,
Speaker 2: playing defensive line, or having that front seven better. And
Speaker 2: they've had some different hires through out the last couple
Speaker 2: of days that have gotten there too. But I think
Speaker 2: for this audience and the Draft show, nothing was more
Speaker 2: priority first than signing Will McClay long term. And now
Speaker 2: the guessing game is almost over. We've talked about this
Speaker 2: on the Draft Show throughout where what is the next plan?
Speaker 2: What is the next thing up? And where are you
Speaker 2: going to go? Because you didn't know who your head
Speaker 2: coach was, you didn't know what the future was around
Speaker 2: Will McClay. Now you know both of those answers, and
Speaker 2: we can start kind of honing in on what is important,
Speaker 2: especially in an event in a week like this, where
Speaker 2: it's the prospects, it's trying to get the best guys.
Speaker 4: And that's what I asked Will yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was like, we talked about alignment quite a bit
Speaker 2: from the front office down to the very small parts
Speaker 2: of this organization, and he said, I think we're in
Speaker 2: alignment now. And I asked him, what's the next domino?
Speaker 2: Then you had the coach, Now you're signed, what's the
Speaker 2: next domino?
Speaker 4: He said, let's get some.
Speaker 2: Good football players in here, yep, And let's have some
Speaker 2: let's go win some games.
Speaker 4: And I feel like that's now.
Speaker 2: The focus, which that's why, aside from locking him up
Speaker 2: long term, that's why this was a smart move to
Speaker 2: get it done early, get it done before before there's
Speaker 2: any guessing game going into the combine, going into interview
Speaker 2: times or whatever he was going to end.
Speaker 4: Up seeing in terms of his interest.
Speaker 2: Will mclay's going to be here for a while and
Speaker 2: now you can focus on getting the prospects to come
Speaker 2: and help Brian Schottenheimer have some success.
Speaker 7: No, absolutely, And I think it was interesting yesterday too
Speaker 7: when we talked to Steven Jones that he kind of
Speaker 7: gave us a little bit of insight in terms of
Speaker 7: a little bit what they may be looking for to
Speaker 7: start with the offensive coordinator position.
Speaker 6: It's a process that's ongoing. They're working on it as
Speaker 6: we speak.
Speaker 7: You can expect that to probably get wrapped up here
Speaker 7: soon since they want to build this staff quickly.
Speaker 6: But he was mentioning that he's they kind of looking
Speaker 6: for a guy who checks the run game box.
Speaker 7: So whether that be a former offensive line coach, filmer,
Speaker 7: running backs coach. I know we've got a coaching tracker
Speaker 7: that Patrick Walker is working on on Dallas Cowboys dot Com,
Speaker 7: so you can read that to be up with the latest.
Speaker 7: But I think that's really important, and that's crucial because
Speaker 7: you look at some of the offensive linemen here and
Speaker 7: the running backs here that we've talked to, and it
Speaker 7: certainly can make sense why somebody like that would fit
Speaker 7: into Dallas's scheme. And he said, we want to be
Speaker 7: able to run the ball. We want to be able
Speaker 7: to run the ball. Dallas did not run the ball
Speaker 7: well at points last season, so it makes sense that
Speaker 7: they want to do that in the run game going
Speaker 7: to set up the pass. Brian Schottenheimer said that he
Speaker 7: wants play action to be part of his scheme as
Speaker 7: a head coach and as a play caller. So all
Speaker 7: of that starts with running the football, and right now
Speaker 7: Dallas needs help upfront and in the running game at
Speaker 7: the running back position.
Speaker 6: I feel like to be able to do that effectively.
Speaker 2: So does that mean asking gent at twelve is confirmed
Speaker 2: we're talking about here or if.
Speaker 8: He gets there.
Speaker 9: If he gets there, that's going to be a really
Speaker 9: tough prospect for not only this new head coach, but this.
Speaker 8: Front off is to pass on.
Speaker 5: I got it.
Speaker 9: We've talked about this running back class, and obviously you
Speaker 9: can get a Really I was talking with someone here
Speaker 9: in Mobile a couple of nights ago, and we were
Speaker 9: having the running back conversation. Right it's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 9: Gent's value potentially decrease in the first round because of
Speaker 9: the running back class, and team's feeling like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 9: Gent's phenomenal, clear RB one when we can go get
Speaker 9: a guy on day two or day three and be
Speaker 9: very comfortable with that. And that guy told me he
Speaker 9: was like, yeah, but how many dudes are in the class.
Speaker 8: He's like, there's probably only two. And I don't know
Speaker 8: who he thought the second one was.
Speaker 9: And he's like, if you feel like you can get
Speaker 9: one of those dudes, go get one of the dudes,
Speaker 9: especially if you know first time head coach, you know,
Speaker 9: bringing in, you know, an offensive playmaker, offensive difference maker.
Speaker 9: That would certainly be gen Z. I think it's a
Speaker 9: I think it's a fascinating conversation.
Speaker 2: It really is, and it's going to continue on further
Speaker 2: as we go along. And the thing about Ashton Gent too,
Speaker 2: is when you spend that twelfth if the Cowboys had
Speaker 2: already solidified everything else around them. I think it would
Speaker 2: be a no brainer done, but there's so many other
Speaker 2: positions that are going to be there. I still think
Speaker 2: best player available is very much in play, and we
Speaker 2: haven't even gotten to at least some resemblance of free
Speaker 2: agency that we're going to see if there is any
Speaker 2: action in free agency or not, we'll still that's still
Speaker 2: yet to be seen. However, right now I think best
Speaker 2: player available, which very well could be Ashton Gent at
Speaker 2: that point in time, whenever he falls to the board.
Speaker 2: All Right, the Senior Bowl is on Saturday. We've got
Speaker 2: the Shrine Bowl coming up tonight at and T Stadium.
Speaker 2: Anything that you guys are looking for going into a
Speaker 2: busy week now that we've had the practices in the books,
Speaker 2: moving into what is going to be a couple of
Speaker 2: big games along the way, Well.
Speaker 7: No, I think it's always important to see these guys
Speaker 7: in game environments now, right, Like practices and all that
Speaker 7: is one thing, but now you get to see him
Speaker 7: play in the game, and that's where you get to
Speaker 7: see the competitive nature and all those kinds of things
Speaker 7: like that. So we were at the Shrine Bowl for
Speaker 7: a couple of days, and there are some standouts there, Kyle,
Speaker 7: A lot of the tension goes to the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 6: But I thought there was some good players.
Speaker 7: I thought Isaiah na Or, the wide receiver from Nebraska,
Speaker 7: had a really good second practice. Isa Pole, guy who's
Speaker 7: not really talked about too much, but a tackle out
Speaker 7: of Washington State. I thought he played really well. In
Speaker 7: a local Dallas area guy R J. Mickens from Clemson.
Speaker 7: He was fun to talk to and fun to see around.
Speaker 7: And then Todd Brooks running back from Texas Tech. One
Speaker 7: of the most productive guys in this class considering what
Speaker 7: he did all four years in Lubbocky basically shattered every
Speaker 7: rushing record they had out there. So a lot a
Speaker 7: lot of guys to watch tonight, and you know, is
Speaker 7: fun watching him in practice and now we get to
Speaker 7: see him in game action.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 8: Yeah, excited for the Shrine Bowl.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna head out of here and get on a
Speaker 9: flight so I can get back in time to catch
Speaker 9: that at ATMT Stadium tonight. But yeah, I think with these
Speaker 9: game environments, like you said, Tommy, obviously the game environments
Speaker 9: are where you can draw a lot of stock from,
Speaker 9: but just building consistency.
Speaker 8: You know, a lot of these guys.
Speaker 9: You know, it's it's tough on the first one or
Speaker 9: two days of practice because you're playing with all new teammates,
Speaker 9: especially like in the receiving game, like the rhythm with
Speaker 9: quarterbacks is always going to take a little bit of
Speaker 9: time to figure out. But now that we're getting to
Speaker 9: Thursday and then to the game on Saturday, you start
Speaker 9: to see what consistency looks like and guys that can
Speaker 9: adapt really quick, and that's what you need the NFL.
Speaker 9: You need to adapt as soon as you hit the field,
Speaker 9: whether that be in rookie minni caamp or training camp.
Speaker 9: I mean, you can look at the Cowboys case last
Speaker 9: year and all the rookies that eventually had to play.
Speaker 9: You talk about Amer's LEFL. He adapted super fast in
Speaker 9: a role that I don't think we would have anticipated
Speaker 9: this time last year. I think we were probably talking
Speaker 9: about Maris as a phis or six round pick at
Speaker 9: this point last year. So you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 9: definitely a lot that you can take from these kinds
Speaker 9: of environments, and surely the thirty two scouting departments are
Speaker 9: looking at it.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: back at the Star in Frisco once again. Special thanks
Speaker 2: to Chris Beam for Scott Purcell for setting all this
Speaker 2: up being back in studio, Jasmine Marshall, Paul Bestidas, back there,
Speaker 2: everybody that's a part of this, because there's been a
Speaker 2: whole cast of crew that's helped put all this together
Speaker 2: and what has been a new thing we've tried here
Speaker 2: this year, and I think it's gone very well.
Speaker 5: They orderly.
Speaker 4: I think I did too.
Speaker 2: We'll probably do some of this more so in the
Speaker 2: future as well, but we had a ton of people
Speaker 2: that had their hands on this one all the way
Speaker 2: through it. Tommy Yurish, Nick Harris Here at the Senior Bowl.
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