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Speaker 1: Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, August thirteenth, twenty twenty. It

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Speaker 1: is season sixteen, in episode number fourteen. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We are very happy to be

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Speaker 1: back with you guys, starting up the sixtieth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I'm here live at the Start. Nick,

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Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about today. First of all,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to my crew. It's good to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody doing today. I'm wonderful, I'm happy, happy to

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Speaker 1: see you guys. Let's go. So last night, it gets

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Speaker 1: really interesting. I made all the show notes for today

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Speaker 1: out and agree to terms with a pass rusher that's

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Speaker 1: Think about this. This guy is a has been in

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Speaker 1: started the Cowboys made this deal. Let's start with you, Nick.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's like what else from one day? You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was what That's what he said. He

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Speaker 1: said it a dozen times, I think it in his

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Speaker 1: in those answers, And so what does that really mean?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure, but but it sounds like

431
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Speaker 1: he's going to be more you know, lenient towards things

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Speaker 1: that you know, that that might have happened a couple

433
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Speaker 1: of years ago, three years ago. You know, he said

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Speaker 1: that was then and this is now, and I thought

435
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 1: that was the probably the most important part of all that.

436
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 1: So whatever you know, he had said and his stance was,

437
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Speaker 1: you know, I think now that he's going to be

438
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Speaker 1: more understanding of that. But without talking to the team

439
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: and players and having those conversations yet, he left it

440
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 1: kind of vague still, but it does sound like, you know,

441
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: he said he's gonna be graceful in things that pop

442
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Speaker 1: up and trying to understand what players feel like and

443
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 1: you know, get their perspective back and forth, and hoping

444
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: that the fans can understand that as well. So, Dave,

445
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Speaker 1: I want to start off by addressing the person that's

446
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: listening or watching this, who's I guarantee you you're sitting

447
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: there saying nobody cares about this talk about football, nobody cares.

448
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: It's not true, because my email inbox is absolutely full

449
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 1: of people that have something to say about this. People

450
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: care a lot, even still, even after the summer that

451
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: we've had, even though this is three years old. At

452
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: this point, people feel some type of way on both

453
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,159
Speaker 1: sides of this issue. And my main reaction is, I

454
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Speaker 1: hope the Cowboys don't make the mistake of thinking that

455
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: nobody really cares, because and you know, I thought what

456
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: Jerry said was very smart. He walked the line very well.

457
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott did the same thing. Mike McCarthy did it

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Speaker 1: a week ago. Where the thing that concerns me is

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Speaker 1: it's nice to say that you're gonna have these conversations,

460
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Speaker 1: you're gonna have grace, you're gonna think of the right

461
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: way to do it. And they've got the benefit of time.

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00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: They've got a month until the season starts. But when

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Speaker 1: the season starts and the national anthem plays, people are watching,

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Speaker 1: paying attention. They care. There are people that don't want

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Speaker 1: you to kneel. There are people that want you to kneel.

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Speaker 1: People want you to come up with some sort of

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Speaker 1: different way to say something whatever, But people are going

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Speaker 1: to be paying attention, So I hope they're smart enough

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00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,159
Speaker 1: to actually follow through with this, because if they don't,

470
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Speaker 1: if this is all just lip service, they're going to

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Speaker 1: be in for a rough time when the season starts

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Speaker 1: and things actually start happening, whether that's fans, the President

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Speaker 1: of the United States is going to have something to

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Speaker 1: say about this at some point. So I really really

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Speaker 1: hope that they follow through on this and have some

476
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Speaker 1: honest to god conversations or they're gonna be in for

477
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Speaker 1: a rough time when the season starts. Amber. Yeah, I

478
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Speaker 1: agree with everything that they've said, and I am one

479
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Speaker 1: of those people that when we didn't hear anything out

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Speaker 1: in public, you know, to the media, of Jerry Jones

481
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Speaker 1: kind of speaking about the issue, I was one of

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Speaker 1: those people that it bothered me, and I'll be honest,

483
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: it did bother me because you you you want or

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Speaker 1: you expect that the people that you're surrounded with are

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Speaker 1: people that kind of believe or have your same beliefs,

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Speaker 1: and I was just waiting for it. So when I

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Speaker 1: heard his answer, it was if I liked his answer,

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Speaker 1: I liked the way I mean, he wasn't super clear

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Speaker 1: about it. But if one thing that Jerry Jones has

490
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Speaker 1: is that he's a very smart guy. He knows how

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Speaker 1: to handle different situations. He knows how to find that

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Speaker 1: medium line of what can I do to please both sides,

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Speaker 1: you know, And we saw that a couple of years ago,

494
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Speaker 1: what they did and how they handled the situation back then,

495
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Speaker 1: and I thought it was a very clever way. I

496
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Speaker 1: know that there are very very mixed opinions on this issue,

497
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Speaker 1: but I do believe that the Cowboys, and from what

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Speaker 1: I know of Jerry Jones, he will do his best

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Speaker 1: to have those conversations, even though he said he hasn't

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Speaker 1: had them yet with these players, but I do believe

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna be having those conversations and that eventually

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Speaker 1: they'll figure out a way to be able to stand

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Speaker 1: for what they believe and to support, you know, the

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Speaker 1: players at the end of the day. And what he

505
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Speaker 1: said was basically he wants to support his players and

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Speaker 1: what they feel. You know, you this is the time

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Speaker 1: to listen, sit back and listen, let other voices be heard.

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Speaker 1: So if anything, Jerry Jones is a it's an expert

509
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Speaker 1: at finding that right balance in between to kind of

510
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: try to please everyone. Yeah, this is a this is

511
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 1: a really interesting topic, and I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: that that yesterday really cleared up anything from the standpoint

513
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: of giving any definitives, because Jerry wasn't definitive on exactly

514
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: how he's going to handle this. Uh, he did say

515
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: obviously he's going to have the conversations, and I think

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we will see his days. Say,

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00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: we will see on that first weekend of games when

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Speaker 1: the national anthem is played and you see players across

519
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: the league, you know, kneeling. We will see how teams

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00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: respond to that. We'll see how the NFL responds to that,

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00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: We'll see how Jerry responds to that, and then based

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Speaker 1: upon that, then I think we will all be able

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Speaker 1: to have a much clearer idea of where we think

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Speaker 1: things stand and be able to give a clearer idea

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Speaker 1: on what we think that means. Let's go ahead, move on, Mike.

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Speaker 1: But Nick, Well, I was just saying, you know what,

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Speaker 1: how don't we already seeing this a little bit with

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Speaker 1: the other leagues. I mean, like when you said we'll

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Speaker 1: see how people will respond, I mean, is it are

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Speaker 1: people gonna respond like, you know, publicly, like you know,

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Speaker 1: I hate that the NBA teams are doing that. I mean,

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00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of public backlash at that. Well, no,

533
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: you know how it goes. We know exactly who would

534
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: out there, who would and there there's certainly some criticism

535
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,479
Speaker 1: that's happening. But but to be honest with you, I

536
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 1: do think and this is my personal belief and sometimes

537
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: you kind of have to be careful because you know,

538
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: my sphere of people may be very different than your

539
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: sphere of people or anyone else's sphere of people, right,

540
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: And but in my sphere, like I haven't heard any

541
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: negativity other than some national negativity. That's more you know,

542
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: political based, right, um And certainly from the standpoint of

543
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: of of looking at ratings, doesn't seem like the NBA

544
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: is hurting from from all the different um acts that

545
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: they've had over the last month that have have brought

546
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: attention to you know, social injustice. So I don't I

547
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: don't know that there is there's a ton of it

548
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: out there, but there certainly is, and I think that's

549
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: the nature of our country and by the way, that's

550
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: the way our country is supposed to work. We're not

551
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: supposed to all think the same things, and we should

552
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: have a right to be able to get out there

553
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: and speak our minds and be able to talk about

554
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 1: the things that are important to us and why it

555
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: matters to us. So I don't care with the idea

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00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: that there are multiple views on this, and I expect

557
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: that if that happens with the NFL, there will be

558
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: multiple multiple views on that as well. Let's quit and

559
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: move forward to Mike McCarthy and his comment that he made.

560
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: He said, basically, they're trying to create this Oxnard like

561
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: environment here at the Star, and I do think the

562
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: Star is really uniquely situated for a situation like this. Obviously,

563
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: you've got the Omni Hotel right here on site. You've

564
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: got indoor facility, you got outdoor facility, you've got really

565
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: great accommodations that have a lot of space for the

566
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: team to kind of space out and do the things

567
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: that they need to do. That all being said, with

568
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: what they've kind of established here in the way of

569
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: a bubble, and Nick, you've been really close to this

570
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: because you have a little more access than some of

571
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Speaker 1: them the rest of our team, because you've kind of

572
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: been a part of the kind of the teering system.

573
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: But that all being said, um, what do you think

574
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Speaker 1: of kind of what they've been able to create here

575
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: specifically now with the virtual bubble. I guess that the

576
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: players are creating with the Omni and not necessarily going

577
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: home every night, but staying at the Omni. You know,

578
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: how close is that to what they would have been

579
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: able to do in a situation like an ox Star.

580
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: I think you know, they're they're doing the best that

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00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: they can obviously, and uh yeah, I mean other than

582
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: when practice starts, you know, Friday or tomorrow and you

583
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: go out there and you'll feel that it's not ox Star.

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00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: I mean we know that. But everything else, Yeah, I

585
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: think I think they are doing that. You know, there's

586
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: there's a hotel, it's right there, you can walk over

587
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: and do it. I mean, aside from you know, getting

588
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: a giant Q tip up your nose every day and

589
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: that there's not going to be a lot of you know,

590
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: changes masks and distancing and all that. But but yeah,

591
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: you're right, they have tried to establish this the best

592
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: that they can. Now, again, it's optional for players to

593
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: say at the Omnium, and it's not like an oka

594
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: where it's like we need you at practice, it's optional.

595
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: This is this is different. Everybody's got unique situations at

596
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: home and all that. So, but it does sound like

597
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: there's there's quite a few players that being one of them,

598
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: that are that are going to be up here at

599
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: the Omni. Yeah, Dak said yesterday that he would guess

600
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: anywhere around ninety percent of the players are going to

601
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: be staying here at the Omni, which is a great

602
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: thing for them. And I'll take it to that. Next

603
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: to the next question, Dak actually said that he thinks

604
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: the healthiest team wins this season. With that being said, Dave,

605
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: I would like to hear from you, like, do you

606
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: think that there is a h what is the likelihood

607
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: that you think the Cowboys continue with the bubble going

608
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: into the season knowing that there is a belief at

609
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: the healthiest team ultimately has the best shot to win

610
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: this year, win it all this year. Yeah, I mean,

611
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: I know, you know, you can't make guys do it,

612
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: but that's a hell of a compelling case to keep

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00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: it going, because I mean, when when Dak said that,

614
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: and and I really thought about it, it's about as

615
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: excited as I've been this entire offseason that football might

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00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: actually happen, at at least for the Cowboys, because if

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00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the players are bubbled and they're all

618
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: doing what they're supposed to do, I mean, we've seen

619
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: it's working beautifully for the NBA MLS man Like they

620
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: finished their season already, you know, no positive tests going

621
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: all the way back to July. It works. If you

622
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: can control the environment that well, it works. And so

623
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys entire roster is accounted for and they're

624
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: all at the hotel, you know, we've all been there.

625
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: You can walk literally from the lobby of the hotel

626
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: to the Ford Center without ever going outside. So it

627
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: makes me really excited that the Cowboys can keep this

628
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: thing under control and get through training camp. And like

629
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, it's a big ask to expect

630
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: somebody to live in a hotel from September until New

631
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: Year's but if it allows you to keep your team healthy,

632
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: it sounds awfully compelling to me. Like I mean, you know,

633
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know how you make people

634
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: do that, but if it gives you a chance of

635
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: staying healthy and finishing the season, it's definitely something I

636
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: think they should look into. Yeah, it's it's really interesting

637
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: because I've always wondered as the NFL is putting out

638
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: its protocols, I always wondered why they didn't essentially create

639
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: team bubbles. I know they couldn't. There are too many

640
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: players in the NFL to take all the NFL teams

641
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: and put them in one bubble like the NBA did

642
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Speaker 1: in Orlando, Right, there's way too many people that are involved.

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Speaker 1: It just I don't think that would be practical. But

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Speaker 1: I did think, you know, why wouldn't every team create

645
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Speaker 1: their own individual team bubble at their facility or wherever

646
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Speaker 1: they choose to do it. Practice there, meet there, do

647
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Speaker 1: all the stuff that they do there, and then pick

648
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: up your bubble and take it to whatever city you

649
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: have to play. And if you have sterile planes and

650
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: sterile buses and you take them to a hotel that

651
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: hasn't been that's been thoroughly cleaned, and you keep it

652
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Speaker 1: kind of locked down to just the players while they're there,

653
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: there's a way to do this to where you essentially

654
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: have one pristine bubble meeting up with another pristine bubble,

655
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Speaker 1: and the chance of someone being infected becomes much smaller. Now,

656
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: of course, that always means that you got fifty three,

657
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: at least fifty three guys not including the staff and

658
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: the coaches and all that that have to be away

659
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Speaker 1: from their families for whatever portion of the season you're

660
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Speaker 1: talking about. But if you want to do it in

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Speaker 1: a way that gives you the best chance, I think

662
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Speaker 1: that really gives you the best chance. So I love

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're talking about this their own player

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Speaker 1: created bubble, and I think if the Cowboys can do

665
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: that and do that well, I think it does help them.

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you this question, Naimber. I was wondering about

667
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Speaker 1: this from the standpoint of the quarterbacks because of the

668
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Speaker 1: fact that you know, you look at Dak's statement that

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Speaker 1: the healthiest team wins. I'll take it one step further.

670
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: The healthiest quarterback team wins. And that's no different than

671
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: most years. You lose your quarterback during the season, the

672
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: likelihood that you're going to be successful diminishes significantly. It

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Speaker 1: makes me wonder, in a year like this, where the

674
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Speaker 1: Cowboys have actually invested in a legitimate backup quarterback in

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, should the Cowboys consider employing a method where

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00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: maybe they treat them like the president and the vice president.

677
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: Where you keep them apart at all times, right, You

678
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: don't let them actually come in contact with one another,

679
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Speaker 1: so that if one gets gets the virus the other one,

680
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: the likelihood the other one getting it from him is very,

681
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Speaker 1: very small. And you always protect yourself with a quarterback,

682
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Speaker 1: a capable quarterback. And then they give a moment, what

683
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Speaker 1: do you think about that? Right? Well, real quick, going

684
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Speaker 1: back to Dank's statement where he said that yesterday, it

685
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Speaker 1: just automatically made me think of like a survival show.

686
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I started seeing players drop out because

687
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Speaker 1: of COVID from different teams, and I'm like, Okay, the

688
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys are still in. They got players healthy, They're still going.

689
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Speaker 1: Another thing that led me to think, I'm like, you

690
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Speaker 1: know what, Frisco. There's not much to do in Frisco

691
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Speaker 1: as far as like a nightlife there. There are no

692
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Speaker 1: strip clubs around in Frisco, so players can go out

693
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Speaker 1: and go do that. So how do you know, I

694
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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know, but Frisco is just a

695
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Speaker 1: nice little you know a lot of nice restaurants, very chill,

696
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Speaker 1: nice nice places. Nothing. Yeah, nothing to crays GK. Actually

697
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: even mentioned yesterday about not being you know, in a

698
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Speaker 1: city like Dallas where players would have the possibility of

699
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Speaker 1: going out to different places, and another thing I wanted

700
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Speaker 1: to add to the whole scenario. I did get a

701
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702
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Speaker 1: was just talking to me about the advantage of being

703
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Speaker 1: in the OMNI that after they get done through the day,

704
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Speaker 1: they can go back to the hotel and still be

705
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Speaker 1: able to keep learning with each other's like like get

706
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Speaker 1: together in small groups even of two or whatever, and

707
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Speaker 1: just keep learning the playbook, keep learning and going over things,

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Speaker 1: studying and everything. So I think it's a great perfect

709
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Speaker 1: environment that the Cowboys have with their whole facility. But

710
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: going back to the whole quarterback thing, you know, and

711
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Speaker 1: I had not thought about it that way at all

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Speaker 1: until you mentioned that. I'm like, huh, that that would

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714
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Speaker 1: at all. But then you go into the whole thing

715
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: of that can happen with anybody else too. What happens

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Speaker 1: if again, and that was talked about during the press conference.

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Speaker 1: What if Mike McCarthy gets it, What if a coach

718
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Speaker 1: that's necessary gets it, or you just cannot fully control

719
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Speaker 1: who's gonna get it. But if they do have the chance,

720
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: and if some if one of them is somehow listening

721
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Speaker 1: to this show and heard your what you just set

722
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: up out the quarterbacks, I mean, I think it. I

723
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: don't think it's a horrible idea to kind of keep

724
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Speaker 1: those two separated from each other and just to be

725
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: extra extra careful with everything because we know, we've seen it.

726
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: We've seen the Cowboys have issues, plenty of issues when

727
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: a quarterback goes down. So why not try it out

728
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: and see prepare yourself. So now that I have your

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00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: voter confidence, I'm gonna text Jerry as soon as the

730
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: show's over. I'm gonna tell them you might want to

731
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Speaker 1: keep it quarterback separate and let's see if we can

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Speaker 1: make that work. All Right, we gonna take out five break,

733
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Speaker 1: we'll come back. We gotta talk a little bit about Dak.

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Speaker 1: He had a press conference yesterday as well. There was

735
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Speaker 1: some interesting things that he talked about, particularly around his

736
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Speaker 1: we are going to be able to resume Training Camp

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Speaker 1: during practice. So that will be really really exciting as well.

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Speaker 1: Let's get into Dak Prescott, and I want to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the things he talked

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Speaker 1: about yesterday, but I want to start the conversation first

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Speaker 1: just getting your overall opinions of Dak, because I walked

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Speaker 1: away from that press conference. It's not that I'm not

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00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: impressed with him normally, but you watch him in a

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Speaker 1: press conference like that, and the way he commanded the

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Speaker 1: and just I just walked away from it so impressed

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Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott. What were your initial thoughts just kind

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Speaker 1: of watching him up there and some of the things

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Speaker 1: you about what he said. Let's start with you, Nick, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think when it's probably third and twelve and four

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Speaker 1: start talking all at once, and he does a pretty

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Speaker 1: good job of being like one at a time, because

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Speaker 1: that's what happened the entire press conference was everybody going

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Speaker 1: at once there, So he did a good job of

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Speaker 1: feeling Now he's probably had a lot of practice, especially

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Speaker 1: when Dez was here to do that. I thought, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job. He really did.

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Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job of of you know,

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Speaker 1: handling everything. I will say this, you get somebody, you know,

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Speaker 1: four months off to not talk about anything, they're they're

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Speaker 1: probably he going to be pretty you know, ready for it.

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Speaker 1: But he does a good job. But he's always been

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Speaker 1: great in those press conferences, and yesterday was no exception.

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Speaker 1: Camper I thought that in all his answers, I felt

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Speaker 1: him so genuine, you know, sometimes when we listened to

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Speaker 1: him throughout the season in the locker room, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's always been a great speaker and can speak in

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Speaker 1: more like Dak, of genuine and Dak in there and

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Speaker 1: getting a good feel of what were some of his

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll have to figure out what happens in

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Speaker 1: the future next year with the whole contract issue and

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Speaker 1: what happens with the economics of the NFL, But just overall,

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Speaker 1: listening to both sides, Stephen Jerry, Mike McCarthy and then

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Speaker 1: Dak it seems like they seem good to go like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like there's any hard feelings or anything,

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Speaker 1: or at least they're not showing that. So you always

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Speaker 1: be able to have everyone get along. So I think

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Speaker 1: kind of somewhat on the same page. They might not

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Speaker 1: be on the same page just yet, but on the

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Speaker 1: same book at least day. I think everybody knows at

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Speaker 1: this point that I'm a dack Homer, but I don't care. Man.

855
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: I felt like to that whole time, but that's my quarterback.

856
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: That's how I felt. It was. Yeah, it was freaking awesome.

857
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy stepped from eloquently talking about police

858
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: reform and you know, trying to get people pardoned on

859
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: death row, to talking about taking accountability and staying safe

860
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 1: during COVID, talking about his contract, talking about the coaching staff,

861
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: the way the communication has improved with Mike McCarthy and

862
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. I mean, he's always been an impressive speaker,

863
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,799
Speaker 1: but it was it was extra impressive given the circumstances,

864
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: and I mean, yeah, Nick's totally right. He did it

865
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: on a cluster f of a conference call too. It

866
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: wasn't like a normal thing at his locker where he

867
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: can look people in the eye. He's doing all of

868
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: this remotely without even being able to tell who's talking

869
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: to him. I just I think Dak's the man everybody knows.

870
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: That's what I think, And yesterday just gave I mean,

871
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could be a Cowboy fan

872
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: and you don't have to love his play if you

873
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: don't want to. But I don't know how you could

874
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: be a Cowboy fan and not be happy that he

875
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: represents your franchise. He's just He's awesome, Yeah, Jerry. One

876
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: of the things that was interesting to me was both

877
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: and this is not surprising Jerry being optimistic, but it was.

878
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: It was interesting to me to hear both Jerry and

879
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: Dak the optimistic that a deal would get done next year.

880
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: One of the things that stood out to me was

881
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: Dak saying that he believes that the nature of some

882
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: of the conversations at the last minute before the deadline

883
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:08,399
Speaker 1: hit between Stephen Jones and his agent Todd France makes

884
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: him believe that maybe they even have a better understanding

885
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: of each other that will work in their favor of

886
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: being able to get a long term deal done. All

887
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: that being said, it sounds right like, right now everybody

888
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: feels optimistic that something will get done by the way

889
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: we've been hearing that for the last couple of years,

890
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: we'll see it. This is what I don't This is

891
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: what I don't understand because when I heard that, I mean,

892
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: if you had those conversations the day off and you're like, okay,

893
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: now I get you, you get me, then why didn't

894
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: he get done that day? I don't get it. It

895
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: does sound to me like and this is this is

896
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: one of those challenges of you know, everybody always talks

897
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys having the philosophy that deals, that that

898
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: deadlines make deals. But one of the issues with deadlines

899
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: making deals is sometimes everybody's waiting too close to the

900
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: deadline so that when you actually start to talk, you

901
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: actually literally run out of time in trying to finalize

902
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: a deal. Right You've sorry, yeah, but this is the

903
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: Packers game where you just sit there at the whole

904
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: game and don't do anything until the fourth quarter, and

905
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: then you start throwing the ball around, and everybody's like, well, man,

906
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: why didn't they do this earlier? They're like, well, maybe

907
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: if they did, they would have won the game. I mean,

908
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of the same thing. I think. Dave's

909
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: clapping and she's right, and I mean, if you've made

910
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: progress in the last hour, why didn't you start maybe

911
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: two weeks earlier, maybe a month or there, maybe two

912
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: years or you know, I mean, I'm sure there's more

913
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: two it than that. And Jared makes a good point

914
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: about you know, COVID had affected a lot of these

915
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of those guys that did not

916
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 1: get deals. Other than the chiefs, I think with franchise players,

917
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: think Henry maybe maybe two oh yeah, Henry got right.

918
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 1: But you know, I just think that you know, it

919
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: just it just does. It's unsettling to hear, man, we

920
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: made good progress at the end when you've had two years, right,

921
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: If I mean, if the Cowboys are confident that a

922
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,439
Speaker 1: deal is going to get done, then what on earth

923
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: are they doing? Like that's really that's what it comes

924
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: down to, because the only read, the only way it

925
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: makes sense to not have a deal done is if

926
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: you're comfortable moving on because guess what I mean. You

927
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: don't want to give up the negotiation and pay him

928
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: too much. You've already done that. It has already happened.

929
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: The tag is going to go up to thirty eight

930
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens with the salary cap. You are

931
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 1: already committing to paying him thirty eight million a year

932
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: because you have to tag him if you don't get

933
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: a deal done. So the price tag is now thirty

934
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 1: eight million dollars. It's gone up already without him playing

935
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: another down. It's gone up. So if they're confident that

936
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: they're going to resign him, then I don't understand the strategy.

937
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: They should have just I mean, sorry, you have to

938
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: lose the negotiation, but they should have just done it.

939
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense otherwise, Well, Jerry did mention that,

940
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: you know, the complications of doing a deal like this

941
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: in the midst of a pandemic makes it a little

942
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,799
Speaker 1: bit tougher and give you some different dynamics that you

943
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: really don't know. Right. For example, let's assume for a second,

944
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: and these are all assumptions, but let's assume for a

945
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: second that something happens where the NFL can't play the

946
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: whole season this year. Well, that means it affects revenues,

947
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: which means that going into next year, revenues are down,

948
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: and then you work with maybe a much smaller salary cap,

949
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: and that can be affected by the amount of money

950
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: that then you would have to pay. Maybe there are

951
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: other things that are unforeseen right now that will be

952
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: that will be things that are that that affect how

953
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: you do the business of football based upon the fact

954
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: that we're in the in these tough situations financially as

955
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: a country because of COVID. So maybe that's a part

956
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: of it. Who knows, I'm just saying I think there

957
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 1: may be more. It may be a little more complex

958
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: than just simply the number of years and the total

959
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: amount of money. I don't know. Does that lower sorry,

960
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: does that lower what Doc is wanting to get as

961
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: a total amount of money or do you just go like, okay,

962
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: well whatever, I'll just see what other teams can actually

963
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: pay me this much. I mean, I get it that

964
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: it affects revenues and all of that, but at the

965
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: end of the day, how does that affect from a

966
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: player's perspective and what they're trying to get from you? Know,

967
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 1: whatever team and salary, Well, the salary cap still is

968
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: a function of how much you're going to get paid,

969
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: and I would suspect that, let's us again, these are assumptions,

970
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: but but if revenue is down significantly, then that's going

971
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: to affect the overall salary cap, and the players and

972
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: owners may have to go back and rethink how they're

973
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: they're doing contracts and that sort of thing in order

974
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: to I mean, you saw it this offseason. You saw

975
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: how it played out where before the players showed up,

976
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: there was a whole deal that had to be worked

977
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: out between the players union and the and the and

978
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: the NFL owners to be able to figure out how

979
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: they operate under these circumstances. So all I'm saying is

980
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot that's unknown because of COVID. We've seen

981
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 1: a lot of businesses in this country be very adversely

982
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: affected by COVID. So, um, I don't I don't know

983
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: that the NFL will be affected or will be more affected.

984
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: What I do know is that it's an unknown right now,

985
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: and that could post some challenges when you're talking about

986
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: a deal as large as something like this, and certainly

987
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: for the extended period of time like this, I would

988
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: have an easier time believing that if you know, Miles

989
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: Garrett hadn't signed a gigantic extension over the summer and

990
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, I don't even want to bring up Pat

991
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: Mahomes because it's such a different contract. But you know,

992
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: but I mean, yeah, well for sure, but you know,

993
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: ten years, but the Titans signed Derrick Henry to a

994
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: huge four year deal. Garrett gets a five year deal

995
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: like and I know Dax deal would be worth it

996
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: just you just said though, but Davey just said though

997
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 1: we talked about it at the open up this segment.

998
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: There's only a couple of those guys that were that

999
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,399
Speaker 1: were that were franchise guys that got long term deal.

1000
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: So I don't think this is just the cowboys who

1001
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: were worried about how does this how does this look

1002
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: in a new COVID world? Absolutely not. But the Cleveland

1003
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: Browns were comfortable giving Miles Garrett like one hundred and

1004
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: forty million dollars and it's it's not what DAK would get,

1005
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: but it's not chump change either, right on top. And

1006
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: but those are exceptions. I know, I know there's a

1007
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: lot of unknowns, but in the long run, in the

1008
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: four or five six year long run, the NFL is

1009
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,720
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. Like when they can get around

1010
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: to playing games, the ratings are gonna be nuts, Like

1011
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: there might not even be college football this year. The

1012
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: NFL is gonna do numbers, and they're gonna be fine

1013
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: in the long run. So I don't know all the

1014
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: ins and outs, but I just I think they could

1015
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: have made it work if they really wanted to. And

1016
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: maybe they could have. I mean, everything we're hearing suggests

1017
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: that if they would have started talking maybe day before that,

1018
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 1: and maybe they would have had a deal. Right, So

1019
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 1: you're you're probably right, And to be quite honest with you,

1020
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: I think that it gives me more optimism to believe

1021
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys get a long term deal done because

1022
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: of the fact that it sounds like they were. They

1023
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: were actual making headway in the last couple hours, minutes

1024
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: whatever before the deadline expired, and they'll pick that up

1025
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: hopefully this offseason, and hopefully nothing happens this season that

1026
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: totally changes the dynamics. And what I mean by that

1027
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: is Dak plays extremely well or Dak plays extremely poorly,

1028
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: then you got a whole different set of circumstances and

1029
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: now we're back at ground zero versus him just being

1030
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: on the steady incline, which he's been on most of

1031
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: his career. All right, real quick, before we end the show,

1032
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: I did want to real quickly with practices starting tomorrow.

1033
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: I wanted to go through the whole roster with you

1034
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: guys and just see, you know, what is if you

1035
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: had one thing that you're most excited about watching heading

1036
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: into camp, what is that one thing. It could be

1037
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: a player, it could be a position group, it can

1038
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: be a camp battle. Give me one thing that you're

1039
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: most excited about watching heading into practices tomorrow. Let's start

1040
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: with you Amber. I mean it has to be Dak

1041
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: and the receivers. I want to see Cezee Lamb in

1042
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: action and the connection between him and Dad. They've been

1043
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: practicing together during the off season here and there, and

1044
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: we've seen a few little clips of that, but I

1045
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,839
Speaker 1: want to see it in real life and see how

1046
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: that all looks like. That's always very exciting and I

1047
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: think those are probably one of the easiest things to

1048
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: watch during a training camp practice, aside from the defensive

1049
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: line and the old line and you know, linemen going

1050
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: at it against each other one on one of those

1051
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: are always pretty fun as well, but mainly the wide

1052
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: receiver and see how Dak connects with them. Dave, I

1053
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: think anybody that's listening to this show can probably tell

1054
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: you what to expect about most of the roster, except

1055
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: the cornerbacks. It's you know, it's not the juiciest thing,

1056
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: but it's it's the position we know the least about.

1057
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: Who's gonna who's gonna be the top trio? Treyvon Diggs

1058
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: is he good enough to get in there? Jordan Lewis

1059
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: is the new coaching staff gonna give him a shot?

1060
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: Nobody really knows what to expect, and I can't wait

1061
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: to see how it shakes out. Nick, both both of

1062
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: those answers. Because really every practice that you ever attend,

1063
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: and we've attended just about every one of them, um

1064
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, you know in the last in what ten, fifteen,

1065
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: Tony or whatever, which we always say, cornerbacks and receivers.

1066
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: That's the only thing you could really judge in a

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00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: practice other than did the quarterback get the ball there?

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00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: Did he get open? And did the guy you know

1069
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: catch it? And what he covered? So to have cdee

1070
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: Lamb and Trayvon Diggs, those two that were just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I think those are the ones that you know, not

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Speaker 1: only is it easy for us to to, you know,

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Speaker 1: evaluate that, it'll be easy for us to see from

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00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: wherever we are going into watch practice from. Let me

1075
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:52,399
Speaker 1: give you guys one more quick note, one more quick

1076
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: question before we end the show. Think about Mike McCarthy

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00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: and he's had an opportunity now to address the media

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00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: a couple times, a few times. We've had an opportunity

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00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: to see some of the things he's trying to do

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00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 1: with this team. We've seen his staff that he's assembled. Um,

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00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: what do you think right now? Um? And I'm going

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00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: to kind of put you in a position where i

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00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,479
Speaker 1: want you to make a comparison. What do you think

1084
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: is the greatest thing that he brings this team that

1085
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 1: may not have been here with Jason Garrett, big shiny

1086
00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: europhy about a shiny trophy in a big rain that

1087
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: he that he's won at the stadium, about to say,

1088
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: remember that time that I won the championship. I mean,

1089
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: Garrett can say it too, but he was the backup quarterback,

1090
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: you know, or the third stream quarterback. But I'm just

1091
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: saying the experience of winning and uh and you know,

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00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: having developed a quarterback that arguably is one of the

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00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,279
Speaker 1: best of all time. Um. You know, I just think

1094
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: that that he's he's got that experience so um and

1095
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,360
Speaker 1: he brings that to the table of a team. You

1096
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: know that that was close to winning last year a

1097
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 1: lot of games. He just needed to learn how to win.

1098
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: And now they're bringing a coach that has won. Allright, Amber,

1099
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: just something fresh, something completely new. I mean, I don't

1100
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: hate Jason or anything, but we knew what Jason was

1101
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: gonna be wearing. We knew what his first word would be,

1102
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: We knew what he was gonna do, so we knew

1103
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: every single move. It was. I don't know McCarthy. I

1104
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: don't know McCarthy what he's gonna do, so I cannot

1105
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: be predicting his first moves. In comparison to Garrett, I

1106
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: could predict basically everything he was gonna do. Day. This

1107
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: is gonna sound like a shot, and I swear I

1108
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: don't mean it too, but I would say expertise probably.

1109
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: I mean, when Jason Garrett got this job, he had

1110
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: never been a head coach. Mike McCarthy has been a

1111
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: head coach in this league for a long time. He's

1112
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: been to four NFC title games in the Super Bowl somewhere.

1113
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett never made it as a coach. Jason Garrett,

1114
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: he elevated a lot of young coaches. Sometimes it worked out,

1115
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: Mark Colombo, Kelly Moore, sometimes it didn't. And that's not

1116
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 1: the case with this coaching staff. Damn near every coach

1117
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: on this staff has years and years and years of experience,

1118
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: whether you want to talk about Jim tom Sula, Joe Philbin,

1119
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan, like, most of these guys have been there

1120
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: and done that at every level of the NFL. So

1121
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of expertise that I don't know

1122
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 1: necessarily was there, especially in the last few years of

1123
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 1: the Jason Garrett era. You know, I think that I

1124
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,920
Speaker 1: think that coaching staff was in over excuse me, in

1125
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: over its head a lot of times. And I don't

1126
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: think that'll be the case with these guys. Yeah. I

1127
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: thought it was very interesting that Dak yesterday, when ask

1128
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: a similar the question, talked about the authenticity of Mike

1129
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: McCarthy and how he presents himself to the team, And

1130
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting because I mean, and

1131
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: that's probably been one of the biggest knocks publicly on

1132
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett when he was here was that, you know,

1133
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: fans certainly saw him as a robot and didn't see

1134
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: him as as real, didn't see him as authentic and uh.

1135
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: And so it was interesting to hear Dax say that's

1136
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: one of the things that stood up to him about

1137
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. And so we'll see how it all turns out.

1138
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Speaker 1: We've seen those of us that have been around here

1139
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: for a long time, We've seen a lot of different

1140
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: coaches come through the door, and you know, you just

1141
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: never know. You never know how they're gonna resonate with

1142
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: the team, and you never know a long term the

1143
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: amount of success that they'll be able to generate. But

1144
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: let's let's be clear too, when you listen to McCarthy,

1145
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like billing partls press conferences. You know,

1146
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, there's coach speak involved. There's a reason

1147
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: why they're guarded. Jason Garret would talk for ten minutes

1148
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: and not getting you an answer. Guess what. McCarthy does

1149
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, when they was asked about

1150
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: Cheeto moving to safety, I mean that answer was just

1151
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: like he was side stepping and dancing around it. That's

1152
00:59:52,120 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: what coaches do, you know, and they don't want to

1153
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: give up more than they should right now. And so

1154
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's more interesting and Dave than I

1155
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: have been able to be in a couple of spots

1156
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:09,040
Speaker 1: already with McCarthy, and he's really cool. Um, But when

1157
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: he's when he's on the mic there, I don't know

1158
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: if there's a huge difference there, which is fine. I

1159
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: mean at the end, like football coaches are gonna be

1160
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: football coaches, just like you said, but Mike McCarthy at

1161
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: least kind of acts like a person. Um. It's just

1162
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: it's not so ridiculously robotic as it used to be,

1163
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,440
Speaker 1: which yeah, I mean, the answers are basically the same,

1164
01:00:31,480 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: but it's it's a little more refreshing to feel like

1165
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: you're talking to a human being. He doesn't do this now, Dave.

1166
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Speaker 1: Are you saying that if you run into McCarthy at

1167
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 1: the airport going to the Senior Bowl it won't be

1168
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: really really awkward. Well, that depends on if I mean,

1169
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: did he just get fired, because it would probably be

1170
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: awkward in that situation. That's gonna be awkward. I guarantee

1171
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: you that might have been one of that most awkward situations.

1172
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: Dave Tar Dave walking over to talk to Jason Garrett

1173
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: and his blue I was shirt but it didn't have

1174
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: a star at this time, and it was weird. I

1175
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: guarantee you, if we run into Mike McCarthy in the

1176
01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: airport bar, he probably won't say, how are we doing? Guys?

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01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 1: I feel confident. I feel confident about that. All Right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's it. We appreciate you guys joining us. We're back

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Speaker 1: next Wednesday eleven am for another episode of The Break

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Speaker 1: till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hillman, Abergarcia. I am

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagles and this has been The Break Lit on

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01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:35,560
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