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Speaker 1: right in the room. Yeah, No, we love it. It's

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Speaker 1: this is a family show. Anthony Brown is our guest

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00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: this evening on the Cowboys Hour. Miller Like Cowboys Hour,

429
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Speaker 1: bron to the Miller Like Cowboys Hour, supported by Albertson's

430
00:31:37,880 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: and Omni Hotels and Resorts. I was trying desperately to

431
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: fix and rest up and rehabilitate a rib injury so

432
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: he can get back around the field with his buddies

433
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: whenever it is they play. We believe now that it

434
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,719
Speaker 1: is going to be a Tuesday, Danny. Don't look at

435
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: me like that. Danny just looked at me like I've

436
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: told you a hundred times when the game is, it's

437
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: probably going to be changed. And he moved four times today.

438
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: It's now Tuesday at seven. Yes, clear your schedule. I've

439
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: already put it in my schedule. But I've changed that

440
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: three times. So this is clearly a family show. And

441
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: one of the things I just learned is that Danny's

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00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,479
Speaker 1: father is a loyal listener to this program. Sure, well, yes,

443
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: since you started being a Yes, I didn't mean he

444
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: was loyal to the show or to me or anything,

445
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: but you but a proud dad and I get that.

446
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: And it's today's birthday, today's birth let's give him a

447
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: shout out. What's his name, Brian, Brian Surrect? Yes? And

448
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: do we know how old Brian is today? No, don't

449
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: make me say it. Well, write it down and show

450
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: it to me and I'll say it. This is a

451
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: lot of math. I'm scared to show you this because

452
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: I think I might be wrong. Well, then we blame

453
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: it on me and say that I just said it

454
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: in its fifties. Can we just say that? Sure, we

455
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: can say whatever you want. And the other thing that

456
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: we found out is that as a proud dad would

457
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: and Anthony Brown understands this, that Brian loves to hear

458
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: his daughter's voice on everything, including the Mahendra spots. And

459
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: so are are you getting him a Mahendra tractor for

460
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: his I am not unless they're listening and they're going

461
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: to change it. That would be a great birthday gift,

462
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. Yes? I would love that. I don't think

463
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: he has much use for that where we live at

464
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: the moment, at the moment, but it would still be

465
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: a pretty nice could work that out. I think that's

466
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: a deal to be worked out. Yes, birthday Dad, this

467
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: is your gift. Yeah, the shout out, Yes Brian, Happy birthday,

468
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: Anthony tell Danny's dad, happy birthday, Happy birthday, Brian, go outstanding.

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00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,439
Speaker 1: Now how about that? How about that assistance that you've

470
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: got going on over there in the Brown household? Please?

471
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 1: I got under control now, my wife she just came

472
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: and God, no it wasn't. He wasn't under control. I

473
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,959
Speaker 1: would look like that. We we loved hearing him. What's

474
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: his name? How old is he? The name is Major.

475
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: He's on one. He just turned one. In me, that's

476
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: my youngest. I have two two boys. I have a

477
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: four year old he's Anthony Brown Junior, and I have

478
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: a one year old Major. And as soon as you

479
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:47,760
Speaker 1: said major and he just turned one, Danny's face just went, oh,

480
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: so cute. What a cute age. Yeah. What's he into?

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00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: What's Major into everything? What is he not into? He's

482
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: into everything whatever. Every time I get up, he's following

483
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: me everywhere I go. He's trying to get an all

484
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: the cabinets, trying to open all the doors. He's in everything.

485
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: Now have you baby prooved to place? Oh? Of course

486
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: for sure. I mean I don't mean is it baby proofed?

487
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean you personally have you opened up? I have

488
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: to go through everything myself and make sure everything is

489
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: secure and locked up. And uh and and how about

490
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: Anthony Junior? What's he into? Spider Man? He loves Spider Man.

491
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: Anything Spider Man. He's with it. Can't say I blame him.

492
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: Did you were you able to do any kind of

493
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: a Halloween? I wasn't because we were on the road

494
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: that week. I believe we played Philly that week, but

495
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: they went to a Halloween party that that night. Was

496
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: he was? He Spider Man, he was? He was. He

497
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: loves Spider Man everything. I got a new Spider Man game.

498
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: He plays that all the time. A video game? Yeah,

499
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: do you play video games? Maybe I used to, not

500
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: as much as I used to. I feel like I'm

501
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: getting back into it now because my son, he's getting

502
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: older and he wants to play video games now, so

503
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 1: I'm getting back into it. But I'm not as big

504
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: on video games as I used to be when I

505
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: was younger. Brad's looking at me. I think he wants

506
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: me to tell you the story. I'm sure the fans

507
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: who have listened since I've joined the show last couple

508
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: of weeks are well aware of this. Antoine Woods basically

509
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: challenged me a couple of weeks ago, saying that I

510
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: would be terrible at Call of Duty because I don't

511
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: play video games and I'm a pretty competitive person. And

512
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: so thankfully my brother in law, Scott has two controllers,

513
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: and so I've gone over and I've played Call of

514
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: Duty before and I was not that bad. How many

515
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: times have you played? He's talking to me. Oh no,

516
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: I was talking to Danny just that once, but I

517
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Okay, did you did you play Call

518
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: of Out of how many? I don't know, more than

519
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: twenty more than twenty six? Abe, did you play Call

520
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: of Duty? Now, I'm not a bit call of Duty?

521
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: I was more of a Matt Matt. And uh, what

522
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: sports do you? Madden Football or other sports that you like? Um?

523
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: NBA two K? And oh you said that I was

524
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: talking over your NBA two K? Which one are you

525
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: better at? Man? Of course? Yeah? Is that weird to

526
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: play Madden? Like if you're picking players and teams and

527
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: you either play with or against these guys. But like

528
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: I said, I haven't I haven't played the game in

529
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: a while, so um, but when I were, when I

530
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: was playing, it wasn't weird because it's a video game.

531
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about or I actually know this guy

532
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 1: and I'm just trying to play the game. I feel

533
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: like I would think about that, like, oh, well, this

534
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: guy's my friend, like I need to have him on

535
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: my team. Well, uh, were you were you ever yourself? Yeah?

536
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Of course definitely. I can't wait to see myself on

537
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: the video game. And was that weird? It wasn't weird.

538
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: It was just like I couldn't believe it. Really, I've

539
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: heard and I think by the way, I believe Antoine

540
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: was one of these people who did not like the

541
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: way he was depicted. Yeah. I don't like the way

542
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: I look either, but I mean it is what it is,

543
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: what they do to you. I just don't like the

544
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: way my face looked on there. I don't like none,

545
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: none of it. Did you have you talked to the people?

546
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: I haven't. It ain't that big of a deal to me. Okay, good.

547
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: So do you watch other sports you just like to

548
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: play too? Like? Are you big basketball guy? I love

549
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: I love football, baseball, and basketball. So I played baseball

550
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: and football, but I didn't play basketball. But I watched basketball.

551
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: But I did play baseball and football. I notice my

552
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: top two sports. But you like hockey too, right, Yeah?

553
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: I watched hockey too a little bit. I actually went

554
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: went to a Stars game fe Um when it was

555
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: in the playoffs a few years back when it was

556
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: allowed to go to the games. But I can't wait

557
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: till we are but to go to the games again.

558
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: I'll definitely be at another Stars game. Yeah, you swapped

559
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: jerseys with Jason spots all right when he was still

560
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: down star Yep, I still got the jersey. Now, I'm good.

561
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: Did you watch hockey when you were in you went

562
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: to high school in Tampa, right, and did you watch

563
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: hockey then? Now? I just got into hockey kind of

564
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: when I got here. I wasn't. I'm not a big

565
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: hockey fan, but I would do watch it though. Do

566
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: you watch it on television too, because that's a hard

567
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: television sport. Yeah, I love it. It's just kind of

568
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: like football. A lot of collisions and I love you know,

569
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: when they're fighting and everything. It's just some excited That's

570
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: the only sport that they let you fight, So I

571
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: definitely love that. You wish the roads were different than football, Yeah,

572
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: I mean they let you fight in football, but we

573
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: got too many pads on too many helmets. It's pointless

574
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: really now, you know that when you say they let

575
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 1: you fight, nobody realized what I say. They don't let

576
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: you fight, but people still fight all the time every play,

577
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: really every play. That was kind of what I was

578
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 1: getting at because I don't know how you and maybe

579
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: you can help us with this. I don't know how

580
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: you play the position you play because I don't know

581
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: WHA's passion deference and what's not pass interference or illegal

582
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: contact or what are people talking about? The difficulty trying

583
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: to figure out what to catch? But how do you know?

584
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: What do you say to yourself about what it's okay

585
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: to do and not okay to do when you're covering

586
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: a game. I mean either day, it's pretty complicated, but

587
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: you know you you would know if you if you

588
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: really pass an inference a guy or if you was

589
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: holding a guy. It's the ones that's in the middle

590
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: in between his tiki taki like certain rests, certain rests

591
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: call it, certain rests don't call it. So you just

592
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: got to understand what ref you got ref in the

593
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: game that day, and you got to just go about

594
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: it like that. How frustrating is out that you have

595
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: to kind of know who's officiating the game to know

596
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 1: what you can and can't get away with. I mean,

597
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: that's what comes with our position. You know, everybody got

598
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: to deal with something that their position, and that's what

599
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,439
Speaker 1: we got to deal with an ours, and that's something

600
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: we should we have to actually pick up on and

601
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: get better at going forward. Do you talk about or

602
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: study the tendencies of the officials calling the game that

603
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: week in advance to know this guy's gonna call this,

604
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna let that go. Yeah, Coach McCartney, he

605
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: goes over all the officials before every game and he

606
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: let us know disofficial. You know he'll he'll let you

607
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: play a little bit um disofficial. He has the most

608
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: hold down holding calls, most all side calls, most passing

609
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: deference calls. So he lets us know every game. And

610
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: you feel like that's been helpful in your preparation so

611
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: far this year. Yeah, I give you. It gives you

612
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: like a heads up and you know you could get

613
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: your mindset and get it right for the game. Be like, Okay,

614
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's going to look for this

615
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: in the game, so let me be conscious about that.

616
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: And it definitely helps. And has there ever been a

617
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: case where you, for whatever reason, either you got beat

618
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: or you came over late to help and somebody else

619
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: got beat, but you knew that I better follow this guy,

620
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: I better like tackle him, I better pull on his

621
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 1: jersey because otherwise there's there's a fixing the score. Touchdown

622
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: you saying with the refs, No, I mean, do you

623
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: ever say to yourself, I'm just gonna I got the guys.

624
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: He's he's gone if I don't grab him. Oh, I mean,

625
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: it haven't came up this year, but I mean if

626
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: if that situation came up, then yeah, I do what

627
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: I have to do for the team. There you go.

628
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes taking a penalty is the right thing to do

629
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: for the team. Keep that in mind. If he's if

630
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: he's gone, and you gotta are to take a penny

631
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: in the touchdown anything. There you go, Brian sharec you

632
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: keep that in mind when you're on your tractor out there.

633
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to take a penalty for the team.

634
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final break and be right back

635
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: with Anthony Brown. The Miller Like Cowboys Hour is brought

636
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: to you in part by Omni Hotels and Resorts. This fall.

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Speaker 1: Do more than just stay apart, stay a part of

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Speaker 1: It's not his birthday, No, it is his birthday. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: well then that's all we're saying. Anthony Brown, Cowboys Cornerback,

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00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: is our very special guest this evening and delighted to

647
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: have Anthony with us as well as all of you

648
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: who are joining us wherever you're joining us. And I'm

649
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 1: told there are a couple of different ways you may

650
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Speaker 1: be seeing us now on the Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

651
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 1: So Hi, Hi, everybody, Happy Thanksgiving. Hope it was good

652
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: and we believe that we will have a show next Monday.

653
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: Since the Cowboys are now not playing the Baltimore Ravens

654
00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:00,919
Speaker 1: on Monday, They're playing the Baltimore Ravens on Tuesday at

655
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 1: seven o five pm Central Time. Class for Brad, I

656
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: got it right, Yes, So A B. You were talking

657
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: before about being allowed if you're not on IR, you

658
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: are allowed on the sideline for a home game. What

659
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: about on the road? Are you guys able to travel

660
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: if you're if you're injured, but not on I R.

661
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, Brad, I don't know all the rules

662
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: this year. I really don't know Okay, I won't hold

663
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold you to anything anyway. That's good. Um. So, um,

664
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 1: you grew up in Tampa. I know you and I

665
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 1: have had this conversation before, but a lot of people, uh,

666
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: the audience changes. You grew up in Tampa and went

667
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: to Purdue. That's probably not not a bunch of your

668
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: high school buddies were going to Purdue, were they? No?

669
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: It was actually it was Actually I had another guy

670
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: from Tampa at Purdue when I got there, though. Did

671
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: you know him? I knew him? Um, how did that happen?

672
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 1: How did you? I just I'm sorry, I paused, but

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00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: our fabulous technical director Tech nicols Pain has just texted

674
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: me that my headphones are on backwards. How what's backwards?

675
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: One year and you hear the sound? How'd you get

676
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: from Tampa to Purdue? And don't say you flu? I

677
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: don't know. They came and got me, man, they came

678
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: and found me, and it all out the way it did.

679
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: They were They were actually the first team. They gave

680
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: me an offer and after my junior season, and I

681
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: actually committed after my visit. I verbally committed after my

682
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: visit and after my senior year, I didn't really take

683
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: no other visit to any other schools and really listen

684
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: to what other schools had to say. Really, I just

685
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: stuck with my first commitment, and that's really how I

686
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: ended up at Purdue. It wasn't no crazy story anything.

687
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if when you were drafted you have a

688
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: any story or something like that. We were talking to

689
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert. He was saying he was watching golf in

690
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: the other room when you were drafted in twenty sixteen,

691
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,680
Speaker 1: Did you have anything that was unusual or funny looking

692
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:18,720
Speaker 1: back on it, Yeah, on my draft there, I actually

693
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: stopped watching the draft and I was at the airport

694
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 1: when I before I got the call. And it was

695
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: crazy because I was dropping someone off. I was dropping

696
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: my wife off. She wasn't my wife at the time,

697
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,280
Speaker 1: she was my girl at the time. I was dropping

698
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: her off at the airport and as I'm dropping her off,

699
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 1: I get a call and it's a Dallas number. And

700
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: as soon as I answered the phone, it's Jerry Jones,

701
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 1: and I just I wasn't shocked. I was like, wow,

702
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Like I thought I wasn't getting drafted

703
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: and I am getting drafted. In the sixth round and

704
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, I'm on the phone Jerry Jones, and I'm

705
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 1: a cowboy just like that. So that was really my story. Now,

706
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: you and I have talked before about and a lot

707
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: of guys, if they don't get drafted, were either they're

708
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: a hold them they were gonna go, or were they

709
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: hoped they were gonna go. And it gets the Saturday,

710
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: and some guys would rather not be drafted so they

711
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:11,240
Speaker 1: can decide to go wherever they want, and some guys

712
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: get a little chip on their shoulder about it. And

713
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: now do I not recall correctly that you you had

714
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: a little chip on your shoulder about being taken out

715
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: before the sixth round? For sure, I mean it could

716
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: have a fourth round. I still have a chip on

717
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: my shoulder. And I just felt like, you know, I

718
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: was even coming out of high school. I was a

719
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: little bit overlooked coming out, and I always had that

720
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: mentality and I always had that mindset. So when I

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Speaker 1: even when I went in the sixth round, I wasn't

722
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying because I went in sixth round my

723
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: agent told me I was going before because he really

724
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: didn't give me a specific round. It's something to look

725
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: to go in. It was just let's see what happened,

726
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 1: and it happened in the sixth round, and I'm glad

727
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: it happened the way it did and everything turned out fine.

728
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: So when you got home from the airport, did you

729
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: go turn on the TV? Again? I didn't. Actually I

730
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 1: did and get to see it on TV, but I

731
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: don't care because I experienced it firsthand on the phone

732
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 1: with Jerry, so I was happy with that. So there

733
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 1: was no when you when he was on the phone

734
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: with you, did you have any thoughts of, well, wait

735
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: a minute, I'd rather have had it not been drafted

736
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: and gone wherever I wanted to go. Or were you

737
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: just happy? I wasn't. I wasn't feeling like that. I was.

738
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: I was happy with game drafted. I definitely was happy

739
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,320
Speaker 1: to be drafted. And was your wife Was she already

740
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: on the plane or were you able to tell her

741
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: before she got on the plane to get to leave.

742
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: I was able to tell her right before. She was

743
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: just um cross terminal um to go over, you know,

744
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 1: when you got to go over to the other side.

745
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: She was just crossing over, And I told her right

746
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: before I left, And it was crazy did you think

747
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 1: about did you think about not getting on the plane? Now?

748
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: She had to go because she was an army at

749
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: the time, so I had to go back. Yeah, she

750
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: had to go back to work. Yeah, well you don't

751
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: mess around with that boss, right right? Where was she

752
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: going back to Ukleean? She wasn't Kaleen at the time,

753
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: so she wasn't far from me. Hey, well there you

754
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: And I'm sure she was very excited she was able

755
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: to hear the news rather than wait till her flight ended. Exactly.

756
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 1: I'm telling everything where it happened so fast and everything

757
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: it worked out nice. It's almost kind of nice that

758
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't you know that the huge spectacle is fun

759
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: and watching it all on TV and happened, but was

760
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: it almost just kind of nice that it was organic

761
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: and it was really just you at the airport. It

762
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: wasn't a big to do. It was okay, like this

763
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: is this is pretty cool and it's it's pretty personal.

764
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: I was just happy it happened, period, that's all. I

765
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: was just happy to happen. And the only thing I

766
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: wish could I wish my mom was was next and

767
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: she because she's a dot haard Cowboy fan, she's been

768
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: on all her life, and I wanted her the experience

769
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: that moment too, So that's the only thing I would change.

770
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:54,839
Speaker 1: But I'm just happy it happened. Would she also a Floridian? Yes?

771
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: So how did she get to be a Cowboy fan?

772
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. She just been one ever since I

773
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: was once. He's been a Cowboy fan since I've been born.

774
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: So I've always been watching the Cowboys as a little kid,

775
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: and she's always been one. How special is that? I

776
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: feel There's a lot of players where, even if their

777
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: families are not from Dallas, they grew up watching the

778
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys because of parents and Grant Right, they say America's

779
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,239
Speaker 1: team for a reason. A lot of them say that

780
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 1: how special was that to get drafted and to still

781
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: be you just signed a new contract all with the Cowboys, Right,

782
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,720
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Everything just happened the way it happens,

783
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: And I can't explain the feeling I get. It's just

784
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 1: I'm just blessing. I'm thankful for everything. Now, I want

785
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 1: to go back and ask you something about a topic

786
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: we were talking about the three of us here at

787
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show. As as Danny mentioned. There

788
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: are a lot of people on radio stations and in

789
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 1: the Twitter verse right now talking about who the Cowboys

790
00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: might draft and should should injured players play the rest

791
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,919
Speaker 1: of the way so that maybe if you don't play

792
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: all your best players, you wind up getting a better draft.

793
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: Trust a B. I've always found it very comical let

794
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: people talk about players caring about that, because if you're

795
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: a veteran player, what we're talking about is they're bringing

796
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: in someone maybe to take your job. Is that Is

797
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,479
Speaker 1: that something that you hear people talk about and say,

798
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: don't even come near me with any of that talk. No,

799
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,719
Speaker 1: I'm not hearing anybody talking about nothing on the outside.

800
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,320
Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to hear it. I'm staying to

801
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: myself and worrying about me and trying to get better

802
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 1: on my end. I'm not hearing none of that outside noise.

803
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 1: And how do you keep that out the stairways. I'm

804
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: not on social media. I don't even I don't even

805
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: get on Twitter, so you know, Twitter is crazy, and Instagram,

806
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: you know, I just stay don't even read the comments,

807
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: don't look at any of that stuff, and you just,

808
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, try to stay away from that negative energy

809
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: that people put out there and you want to just

810
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: stay positive. So I just try to stay positive much

811
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: as tend to my family and do my job. It's

812
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: very wise, man, We got right here. Well, then, are

813
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: you on TikTok? Definitely not. I just had to ask.

814
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: I'm only on Instagram. I have a Twitter, but I don't.

815
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: I tweet every now and then, but not really. Instagram

816
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: probably be the best way to get in contact with me.

817
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm not on social media. We'll

818
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: go You want to go ahead and tell everybody your

819
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: Instagram handle so they can follow you Instagram handles as

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00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: b underscore I X and Twitter handle. I don't even

821
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: know my Twitter handle. That's crazy for we don't even

822
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: worry about it. Believe me, I'm on their way too

823
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: much and I'm not on there a lot. But it's

824
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: there's nothing good that comes from There's nothing good that

825
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: comes from Twitter. So, um, this week, Monday and Tuesday,

826
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 1: you're locked out of the building. Are you meeting virtually? Yes,

827
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: virtual meetings both days? You had today and tomorrow? Yep,

828
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: today and tomorrow virtual meetings. And how I'm supposed to

829
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: be back in the building on Wednesday. But now that

830
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: we just gotta push you back again. I'm not sure

831
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: if that's going to change anything amount the Ravens. We've

832
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: talked about. The whole reason all this is the schedule

833
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,279
Speaker 1: is changing is the COVID outbreak with Baltimore. They've put

834
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: I think at this point, like twenty players on the

835
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen reserve list. How hard is that when you

836
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: guys don't know who you're going to be preparing to

837
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 1: play against. I mean, twenty players is crazy. Just to

838
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: think about twenty players, like that's almost half the team,

839
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: Like that's a lot of people. So, you know, I

840
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: really don't know. This would be our first game we

841
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: have them to prepare for guys who we don't know

842
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: who would be playing. And I figured we'll just go

843
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: on with the same mindset. Let's just focus on us

844
00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: and do what we do. We don't matter who who

845
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: lines up against us. We just gotta do what we

846
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 1: gotta do. Anthony Brown our guest tonight for Danny Siak.

847
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm Brad Sham. Thanks for joining us everybody on the

848
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