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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of A Cowboy Life, the Podcast,

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Speaker 1: presented by Smoothie King. Blending goodness to fuel your greatness.

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Speaker 1: I'm Brady Tinker. A brief prologue to today's story. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been privileged to cover the Dallas Cowboys for my

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Speaker 1: TV shows DFW Sports Beat and my radio show Off

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Speaker 1: of the Helmets, and now for A Cowboy Life, the

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Speaker 1: storytelling podcast for nearly twenty two years. It's been a

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Speaker 1: great job for me, and the most enjoyable part of

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Speaker 1: each season is getting to know the players. And there

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Speaker 1: are sometimes as many as seventy five or eighty guys

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Speaker 1: who wear a Cowboy uniform during a season, so now

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Speaker 1: I don't get to know them all, but the ones

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Speaker 1: I do get to know, I usually connect with sort

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Speaker 1: of about them in the instinct they seem interesting to

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Speaker 1: me and I gravitate their way. The most fun stretch

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys seasons that I've covered to this point

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Speaker 1: started in two thousand and three, when things around the

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Speaker 1: organization were beginning to shift. Bill Parcels was coming in

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Speaker 1: and so was an nobody named Romo at quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: there was a sense that a new era was coming

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Speaker 1: The draft class of two thousand and five was a

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Speaker 1: top ten all time Cowboys group, and they were full

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Speaker 1: of energy and personality, and covering the Cowboys was beginning

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Speaker 1: to be fun again. Several of the rookie class had

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Speaker 1: wonderful personalities and some charisma, and nearly all of them

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Speaker 1: made the team and made an impact. Among that group

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Speaker 1: was a tall, athletic New Yorker who grew up in

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, all to end up a college football player

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Speaker 1: at the University of Virginia. His name is Chris Canty.

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Speaker 1: He had a passion for the game, for the city

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Speaker 1: of Dallas, and for life in general, and he in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, the Cowboys were really good. Here's

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Speaker 1: a story from Chris Canty's a Cowboy Life. It's called

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Speaker 1: the most talented team I ever played on. I tell

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Speaker 1: people this all the time, and folks don't believe me.

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Speaker 1: That year in Dallas was more fun than a year

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Speaker 1: we won the Super Bowl in New York. In case

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Speaker 1: you do happen to remember two thousand and seven at

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Speaker 1: all off the top of your head, then you know

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys had a nice mix of young athletes and

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Speaker 1: veteran influence. They won thirteen games that year and earned

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Speaker 1: a top seat in the playoffs. So why did Chris

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Speaker 1: say that people don't believe him when he says it's

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Speaker 1: the most fun he ever had in his career. Well,

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Speaker 1: because Chris ended up in a Giant's uniform in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine and won a Super Bowl in Arizona

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Speaker 1: two years later over Tom Brady's unbeatable Patriots, and he

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Speaker 1: had a hell of a year, That's why. But you

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Speaker 1: come into the NFL with a group of men all

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Speaker 1: and all feeling like they have the world by the tail,

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Speaker 1: especially if they're Dallas Cowboys the top. It all off

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Speaker 1: for Chris. His new coach was Bill Parcels, a noted

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Speaker 1: winner in this league, and everywhere he looked were young,

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Speaker 1: the time about winning. It had to be there to

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Speaker 1: You had veteran guys, but it was a young uy

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Speaker 1: like that was a young team, you know, you had

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Speaker 1: was just kind of like we were so good, so young,

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Speaker 1: we didn't know any better. It was really a coming

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Speaker 1: of age type of season in a lot of way

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Speaker 1: on and off the field. For us. It's rare than

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Speaker 1: an NFL team will choose eight guys in a draft

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Speaker 1: and have seven of them become regulars as rookies. But

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Speaker 1: that's what happened with the class of O five for

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Chris, here's the thing. I knew that

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Speaker 1: I was probably going to get drafted by the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: you know, a month month and a half before the

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Speaker 1: draft kicked off. I just didn't know where. I didn't

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Speaker 1: the tallest tree and that was him. The bottle crashed

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Speaker 1: there were several more surgeries to stabilize his vision. A

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Speaker 1: special helmet was developed to protect that eye from any

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Speaker 1: ran with Ala Virginia. Al Virginia is al Grow, the

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Speaker 1: longtime coach of the Virginia Cavaliers football team. Bill Parcels

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Speaker 1: had a great handle on Chris Canty, the person as

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Speaker 1: well as the football player. Chris falling to the fourth round,

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Speaker 1: while unlucky for him, was very lucky for the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Al Grow was running the same defense at Virginia that

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Speaker 1: Parcels taught him with the Giants eleven years earlier, and

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Speaker 1: in some ways Chris Canty falling to the fourth round

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Speaker 1: Now they took Marrying at the beginning of the fourth round.

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Speaker 1: defensive band Virginia. I get a phone call I'm Jerry

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Speaker 1: Is expected to hear from Chris Canty. They'd spent time

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Speaker 1: Jay Ratliffe was my roommate. It's easy to understand why

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Speaker 1: Chris didn't know about Jay Ratler. You see, Jay was

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Speaker 1: He didn't care anymore about who the Cowboys chose later

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Speaker 1: I was like, what's up, man, I'm Chris. He was

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, his first year of eligibility. Also

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Speaker 1: KB that Chris mentioned he is Kevin Burnett, an All

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Speaker 1: at nearly every linebacker position, and what I remember most

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Speaker 1: a hard nosed kid who scored forty seven touchdowns with

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys in his six years. His hit or get

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Speaker 1: hit style set a tone for this team on both

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Speaker 1: last name that I'll remind you about. Chosen in round

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Speaker 1: He was one of the toughest men to ever play

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Speaker 1: Jay is a scary guy, and I mean he played

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Speaker 1: was against it for the possible ripple effect in the

431
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Speaker 1: locker round, the hiring of Wade Phillips, who was affable

432
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: and kind and everyone's buddy, but maybe a young team

433
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 1: still needed that hammer that's always looking for a nail.

434
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 1: That was Bill Parcels. I think that Bill there was

435
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 1: a method to the madness, you know, and you don't

436
00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: appreciate it until you're on the other side of it,

437
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, Guys like Keyshaw when they were there, they

438
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,200
Speaker 1: tried to explain it to us. Keyshawn that Chris is

439
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: talking about his former wide receiver, Great Keyshawn Johnson, whom

440
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels brought in when he came to Dallas. Keyshawn

441
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: Johnson was a former number one overall pick drafted by

442
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Speaker 1: the Jets, and their head coach that drafted him was

443
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Speaker 1: Bill Parcels. Keyshawn was a big Bill guy. For others

444
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: who used to play for Parcels throughout their years were

445
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: also brought in when he came to Dallas. They were

446
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,880
Speaker 1: there to sell the locker room on his methods, which,

447
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: as we have heard and passed stories here on a

448
00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,159
Speaker 1: cowboy life could be different. Oh hell, let's just say it.

449
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes his methods were strange, weird, or brutal. What he

450
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: was trying to do was forced us to bond together

451
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: as a team. And then eventually he was hoping that

452
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 1: you stood up to him because he knew if you

453
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: would stand up to him, you'll stand up to any

454
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: kind of adversity that you're facing the game. You know,

455
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,959
Speaker 1: you're not going to back down from a tallenge from

456
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: somebody in the game, you know. But if you didn't

457
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: do that, then how can he trust you that you

458
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: were going to be tough enough, that you were going

459
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: to fight enough when the game was on the line.

460
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: So it was kind of one of those things where

461
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: it's like he was on you. He was on you.

462
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: He would needle you, he would he would scream at you,

463
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: he would yell at you. But he was also trying

464
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 1: to build you up that way. He was like to

465
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Speaker 1: tear you down to build you up. That would Bill, Yes,

466
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: it was, and I only know some of the things

467
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: that he did, but I'll give you a few examples.

468
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 1: When things are going well for the team, he would

469
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: put mousetraps above everyone's locker. You could see them, complete

470
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: with cheese, and he would tell his team, don't eat

471
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,720
Speaker 1: that cheese. The cheese during the good times would be

472
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 1: handed out by us media. Guys, when times are good,

473
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: we tend to gush on the players. Thus, don't eat

474
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: their cheese. Other times, he would tell us in the

475
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: leering press things about players or circumstances, because he wanted

476
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: us to go tell the players what he'd said to

477
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: embarrass them a little bit or wake them up, and

478
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: he had us to it so he didn't have to

479
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: for a while. At least his methods were working. Guys

480
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: were responding, at least most of them were. But not

481
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: every young athlete is ready for the hammer tear you

482
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Speaker 1: down to build you up. But Chris he could handle it.

483
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: You know why, It's not a bad thing because you're

484
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: never as soon as you think you are. You're never.

485
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Speaker 1: He's good at you know. Tom Caffer used to always

486
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,439
Speaker 1: say this, and I love he used to staying up

487
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: in front of us. He said, fella, domial mirror, I'm

488
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: only telling you what I see. It's your decision to just,

489
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, to figure out what kind of team we're

490
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: gonna beat. It's up to you. I can't control it.

491
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: Can just tell you what I see. And that's what

492
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: Bill was. And you know, Brady, here's the thing about it.

493
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: Any player that's worth his soul wants to be coached hard.

494
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: Guys want to be coached just like children want different

495
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: even though when they're going through it they hate it.

496
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 1: That lets them know that the coach actually gives the

497
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: damn about what they're doing, because gives the damn about

498
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: them realizing their potential and being as successful in this

499
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: business as you possibly care. To me, I remember running

500
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: into Bill one day at the Cowboys golf course and

501
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit, and I asked him what

502
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 1: was the hardest part about coaching, and he said that

503
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: only about half of the players on NFL teams really

504
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: wanted to play. I looked at him funny, and he said,

505
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: they all want to play on Sunday, but Monday film

506
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: sessions and getting called out, weightlifting every day, monitoring their eating,

507
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: hitting hard in practice, learning the game plan backwards and forwards,

508
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: taking hard coaching even when your feelings were getting hurt

509
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. And by the way, he said,

510
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: that stuff is what wins games. That stuff only about

511
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: half of them really wanted. And it often is so

512
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: disappointing to me as a coach because I see guys

513
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: who could be players in this league for a long time,

514
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: some could make Pro Bowls, and they just don't want

515
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: to do the work I only had two years. Would

516
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: Bill Parcells is my favorite coach all the time. He's

517
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: a favorite coach I've ever had because he showed me

518
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: that he gave a dam like there was so much

519
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: attention to it, watching every single rep and talking to

520
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: me about things that I was doing in the game,

521
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: good and bad, like I appreciated it. It's hard to

522
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: have a full appreciation for it until you're removed from

523
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: and I think that's you know, when certain guys were

524
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: in it, certain certain personalities, it didn't necessarily his approach,

525
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: his delivery didn't necessarily go over as well. The young

526
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: team that Parcels was sculpting was coming around his first

527
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: year in Dallas. With Quincy Carter at quarterback. The team

528
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: won an unlikely ten games and made the playoffs, and

529
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: Bill cried at that press conference and said, you can't

530
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: call them losers anymore. It meant something to him. The

531
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: next year, Wency Carter got cut because he had his

532
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: own personal demons that he just couldn't overcome, and the

533
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: Cowboys played quarterback roulette. But there was something brewing in

534
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: the background with that kid Romo, and then Canty and

535
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: where and Spears came in the O five draft class

536
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: and things were really moving. Oh six brought the playoffs

537
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: again with Romo now at the helm, but a fumbled

538
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: snap when the team was just about to win the

539
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: game seemed to just kill Bill Parcels. Bill has started

540
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: us out on something and we didn't get a chance

541
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: to see it through with him. With a lot of us,

542
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: we're coming out of this college environment and we're playing

543
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: prominent roles as first year guys in the NFL, so

544
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: we still had a little bit of that college mentality

545
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: where it was like, Okay, this is my coach and

546
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: this is gonna be it. Like he's gonna be my

547
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: coach and that's never gonna change. But in the NFL,

548
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: you know, he staid for not long. So after that

549
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: disappointed loss in the playoffs in two thousand and six,

550
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: up in Seattle, were like, all right, cool, we know

551
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: what the playoffs is like. We're gonna run this back.

552
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna ball out, We're gonna get back to this

553
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: point and we're gonna be that much better because we

554
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: know what this is all about, we know how the

555
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: game changes, we know how we got to get better.

556
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: And then to not have Bill leading us back to

557
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 1: that that was tough. I vividly remember that press conference

558
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: when I knew Parcels had felt that loss in Seattle

559
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: so deeply that he wouldn't go on Kevin Vernette. Was

560
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: I surprise Bill left. No, I knew Bill was kind

561
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: of on his way out. To the standpoint, the game

562
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: just wasn't the same. Bill Parcels put so much into

563
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: his coaching that as he got older, it almost became

564
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: dangerous for him. You could see his health deteriorating right

565
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: in kind of our eyes on a daily basis. And

566
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: to be fair, he was also absolutely wearing everyone out

567
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys front office. He was tough to be around,

568
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: but the players, as you can hear, loved him. Here's

569
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: Tony Romo want to Bill to come back. At that time,

570
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: I go into his office with Jason and I said, coach,

571
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: you have to stay. He's like, now, guys, you're gonna

572
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: be fine. It's gonna be great. Enjoy coaching, and he had, Dad,

573
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: I feel bad that I let you down, but I

574
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: can promise you I'm going to be a different player

575
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: going forward. Trust me, you want to stick around. I

576
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: think he thought he got the best out of our team.

577
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: Maybe he could. He's like, it's gonna be so hard

578
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: to get our team back to that level, but I'm done.

579
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: Just it's time. Two thousand and seven, Yeah, we were

580
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, number one seed in the NFC. But

581
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: if Bill Parcels is our coach, there's no telling how

582
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: that season might have ended, because I have no doubt

583
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: you had a cup or team physically, mentally, and emotionally.

584
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: Not to say anything bad about Wade, because Wade is

585
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: a good play coach, but Bill Parcels on another level.

586
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips was a great defensive mind. He was a

587
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 1: pretty good head coach too. His record was eighty two

588
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: and sixty four in regular season games, but he had

589
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 1: never won a playoff game as a head coach in

590
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo with the Bills or in Denver with the Broncos.

591
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: When the Cowboys took on the Giants as a top

592
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: seed in the two thousand and seven playoffs, Bill Parcels

593
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: he was proven. He'd won eleven postseason games, including two

594
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. In every way, Bill Parcels and Wade Phillips

595
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: were different, and the players felt it. Wade's genius was

596
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: in his abilitious scheme on the defensive side of football. Right, Yeah,

597
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: that was Wade genius. But here's the saying. This is

598
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: a misconception that a lot of people have. If you're

599
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: a coach in the NFL, you got good schemes, that's

600
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: not what's gonna separate you from the rest of the competition.

601
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: It's about getting grown men to do what they don't

602
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: want to do so they can become what they want

603
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: to become. And different coaches have different ways of being

604
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: able to sell guys on that, but that's what it

605
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: becomes about. How can you sell the group of men

606
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: that you have on doing what it takes to become

607
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Speaker 1: a champion. How can you get them to sacrifice individual

608
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: glory for the betterment of the team. Wade's players loved them,

609
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: especially the defensive players, because he made them better and

610
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: he got them to Pro Bowls, but it was visible

611
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Speaker 1: to everyone as that successful two thousand season progressed that

612
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613
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614
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615
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616
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Speaker 1: size up a cowboy by three simple factors. Decrease in

648
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Speaker 1: his hat, the bend of his brim and his unbending

649
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Speaker 1: attitude a man, Stetson didn't just protect him from what

650
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: life throw at him. It projected a rugged, unstoppable spirit.

651
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652
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Speaker 1: Stetson dot com slash Cowboys. We expected to be good

656
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: that year. After that lost in Seattle, we really felt like,

657
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: as a group it was time for us to take off,

658
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember Bill telling me my rookie year.

659
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: He said, I usually only give a guy three years

660
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,479
Speaker 1: to show me what he got. By year three, yet

661
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: show me anything. No, I'm going to move in a

662
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: different direction. So for me personally, he was like, all right,

663
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: this is year three. Even though Bill's not here what

664
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: he believes, I'm sure a lot of other people around

665
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 1: the NFL beliague if I'm gonna maximize his career, if

666
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some longevity playing football, that I got

667
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: to make some pay this year. And I think a

668
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: lot of guys in my draft class felt that same way.

669
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: It was a breakout year for all of them. Indeed,

670
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: it was that two thousand and seventeen under Wade Phillips

671
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: sent thirteen players of the Pro Bowl, a massive number,

672
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: and five of them were all Pro. There were gaudy

673
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: statistics all over the Cowboys roster when the regular season ended,

674
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 1: plus there were thirteen wins. They were good from the beginning,

675
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: well almost to the end. It didn't surprise me that

676
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: we started off the way that we did. We got

677
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: third a flight to humble Pie when the Patriots rolled

678
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: in there, but that's one of the greatest football teams

679
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: that was ever assembled. We knew we were going to

680
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: be good. You see, this group felt like they had

681
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: an unfinished business after losing on a bad break to

682
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: Seattle in the playoffs in OH six. So even if

683
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: Bill Parcels wouldn't stick around to see if they were good,

684
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: the players knew they were. And the regular season lost

685
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: to the Patriots and week number six after starting five,

686
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: and oh, it didn't kill their spirit. It galvanized it.

687
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: People were counting at the potential Super Bowl preview, but

688
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: we were like, we're gonna see these guys again. So

689
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: we weren't gonna linger on that. We were just like,

690
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: let's just roll everybody else, take care of our business

691
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: and make sure that we improve in the areas that

692
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: we need to. We're gonna see these guys again. So

693
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: five and zero and then five and one with a

694
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: loss to Brady Moss and the Patriots, but no heads

695
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: were down. And I know that because they won their

696
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: next seven games and went to twelve and one, and

697
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: there was an especially big game during that run. The

698
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: Green Bay game was a big game. We kicked their

699
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: teeth in it. That was an ass kicking top to bottom.

700
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, we not read far about that game.

701
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: That was actually my first time praying against Aaron Rodgers.

702
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: I was like, this is gonna be pretty good. When

703
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: they hand the reins off to him, that was probably

704
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 1: the last time we felt good about our form top

705
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: to bottom. So great news on kicking good Packer team

706
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: all over the field, but not good news in that

707
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: it was your last complete game before the playoffs because

708
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs were still five weeks away. We beat Green

709
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: Bade the way that we beat them, I was just like, Yeah,

710
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: we're going to the super Bowl. Is going to come

711
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: down to us in the patients see that statement is

712
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: what I felt in the locker room twelve and wanting

713
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: you just beat a good team and everyone's sort of

714
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: like we're good, which also had me worried about a letdown.

715
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: This is where Parcels really would have helped with his

716
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: tricks and jabs and ways to keep the team focused

717
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: and on edge and not comfortable and entitled. We lost

718
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: to Philly was kind of like, all right, it sucks,

719
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: but we know we're going to be the number one seed.

720
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: So it was just a matter of as getting everything

721
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: toomed up and getting ready for the postseason. There was

722
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: that thing again, we lost and it sucks, but it'll

723
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: be okay. And then they squeaked by a bad Carolina

724
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: team in week fifteen, then rested everyone in week sixteen

725
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: and got blasted, so from twelve and one to losing

726
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: two of their last three and then a buy week,

727
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: and that wasn't good either, because the Giants, they'd never

728
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: stopped playing their playoffs, seemingly started in week twelve just

729
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs, and New York just kept

730
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: getting better and playing, and they had momentum, especially on

731
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: that brutally good defense. Losing in the playoffs, especially to

732
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: a team like the New York Giants, Like we couldn't

733
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: even fathom that, Like that wasn't even on our radar.

734
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: We weren't playing great ball. Yeah who we were? Yeah,

735
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: we had talked about it, but we weren't doing it.

736
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: I remember, I could feel it. But in some ways

737
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: it seemed unlucky, Like clinching early was really unlucky. Getting

738
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: your biggest win in week thirteen when there were four

739
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: weeks left was too soon. And then there were nagging

740
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: injuries as well. Kevin Burnett, what happened in the season.

741
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: We just couldn't correct our problems fast enough. We were

742
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: a good football team that had holes. They had some

743
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: holes that needed to be figured out before the playoffs

744
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: and when the play half game versus the Giants came around, well,

745
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips had made some changes, and he changed some things,

746
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: but not things that needed to be changed. It seemed

747
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: like taking Julius Jones out of the starting lineup at

748
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: running back, well, why as he started this game we

749
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: had a good thing going. It was Julius Jone that

750
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: was kind of tender rising him and then Marian would

751
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 1: close the game and Marion's physical running style was perfect

752
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: for being a closer, but we kind of did it

753
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: backwards that we opened the door for the Giant. You know,

754
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: it's one of those cliches in football. You throw the

755
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: score and you run the win, and when you have

756
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: a lead, especially against a team like the Giants, second half,

757
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: we should have been focused on trying to take the

758
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: air out of the football. Without getting too detailed about

759
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: what happened at running back during the year, Marion Barber

760
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,280
Speaker 1: was the closer. He averaged twelve and a half carries

761
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: a game in the regular season and scored twelve tds

762
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: and played mostly in the second half. Julius Jones average

763
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: nine carries a game and about seventy five percent of

764
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: those runs were in the first half. And now it

765
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: had all changed. Marion Barber had a nice first half

766
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: versus the Giants, over one hundred yards in the first half,

767
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 1: but on twenty two carries, and he was dead on

768
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: his feet in the second half against the fired up,

769
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: really good Giants defense that smelled blood. T O was

770
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: hobbled and Terry Glenn was gutting through an injury that

771
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: he'd had for weeks. Julius Jones got three carries total.

772
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: The second half was a defensive struggle. The Giants won

773
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: seven to three, and just like that, just that quickly,

774
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: the air was completely gone out of Texas Stadium and

775
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: a great season was over. Here's the thing. We were

776
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: in the locker room at half time. We're like, all right,

777
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: fourteen fourteen, let's stop dicking around. Let's play off. We

778
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: hadn't played our best football. We're gonna turn it on

779
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 1: in the second half. But the problem with that mentality

780
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: is it's not a light switch. You can't just turn

781
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: it on and off. In the regular season, it felt

782
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: like they could. They won games late all the time,

783
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: but the playoffs are a whole different animal. And that

784
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: animal that they faced in the New York Giants was

785
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: hungry and relishing the fight. And the New York Giants

786
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: had been in playoff mode for the last five or

787
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: six of the week to the season, and we weren't.

788
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: So they had a level of desperation, a level of

789
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: urgency that we just didn't have. And that's why when

790
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: we came out from halftime, you could tell the way

791
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: that the game was unfolding, the complexion of it. It

792
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be our day. You absolutely could feel

793
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: that the Giants were starting to have fun. They were smiling,

794
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: they were wreaking havoc. The Cowboys were on their heels.

795
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: They looked desperate and like they could feel that momentum

796
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: was going the wrong way, but they couldn't do anything

797
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: about it. And there was a huge play in this game,

798
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. It almost turned out, but it didn't. Y'all

799
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: probably remember a third down midfield or so that was

800
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: to keep a drive going, Romo flipped his hips and

801
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 1: got away. He went to left and a huge defensive

802
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: lineman was in front of him and he threw underneath

803
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 1: his armpit. It was a strike to Pat Creighton and

804
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,479
Speaker 1: he might have gone all the way to the end zone,

805
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: but he dropped the pass. Romo said after the game

806
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: that the ball had come from such a weird place

807
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: that he knew it would be tough for Pat to sea,

808
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: and that was it. It was huge because we knew

809
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: at that moment we lost, but we knew it when

810
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: we didn't get that big conversion that we probably weren't

811
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. And after so many times of

812
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: being on the right side of those types of players

813
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: all year long, to be on the wrong side of it.

814
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: That was tough. These seasons are so long. They are

815
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: a journey, a winding road, and there's plenty of luck involved,

816
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: timing of injuries, timing of big plays that you make.

817
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: Drop passes in week five, they don't feel huge. In

818
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: the division round of the playoffs, they punch you in

819
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: the gut because you're having trouble breathing already. It was devastation.

820
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: It was so real, like he was like, we're not done.

821
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: We got a game this week, don't we It's like, nah,

822
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: the season's over you Yeah. And then you got t

823
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: O cling in the press room about the criticism on

824
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: Tony Romo and how that's unfair. You guys can point

825
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: the finger at him, you can talk about the vacation,

826
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: and if you do that, it's really unfair. It's really unfair.

827
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: It's my team, it's my quarterback. Terall Owens knew it

828
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: was a team effort that the passing game had failed.

829
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: He had four catches on ten balls thrown his way

830
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: one TD early in the game, Terry Glenn was hobbling.

831
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: He was basically a decoy. The two of them only

832
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: caught six of the fifteen balls thrown their way. The

833
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: Giants took away within in the second half, and they

834
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: terrorized Romo because the running game was gassed after the

835
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: first half. We all knew there was blamed to go around.

836
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: It was rough man like that was. That was one

837
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: of them, Like you knew it when it happened. You

838
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: know a lot of times people say, well, when you're

839
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: a young player, you don't take advantage opportunities to win

840
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: a championship. You don't really worry about it, or it

841
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: doesn't get you. That's not true. In that moment, we

842
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: all knew we cost ourselves a chance to win a title.

843
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: That giant team ten times, we're gonna beat him at

844
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: least seven. The weight of thirteen years without a championship

845
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: for Dallas was on that team, and it got heavier

846
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 1: as the season wound down. Everybody in that locker room

847
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: knew they were really good and they were supposed to win,

848
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: but they also knew the world was expecting them to win.

849
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: It is the crazy things. A lot of those guys

850
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 1: I called teammates later on in my career, and even

851
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: they couldn't figure out how that happened. They told me

852
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: they couldn't figure it out. Right, You guys were the

853
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: better team. They knew you were the better team. They

854
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: knew you had the more talented tficy. That's the thing, right,

855
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: We were the more talented team, but they were more

856
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 1: av team. They had that cohesion, those intangibles that you

857
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: need to win at the highest levels in this game.

858
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: They had it. We didn't. So as a fan you

859
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: begin to wonder why, why if you could feel those

860
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: intangibles going missing, that cohesion going a way, why didn't

861
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: somebody do something. Well, I'll tell you this. When you're

862
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: entering the playoffs, there are now thirty weeks behind you.

863
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: Who you are as a team is mostly decided by now,

864
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: and in those moments you need your heroes to bail

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Speaker 1: you out. Hero showed up on the giant side of

866
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: the ball. Chris didn't really realize all this until well

867
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Speaker 1: he was a giant a couple of years later, and

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Speaker 1: you could really define that once you got there and

869
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: met them. Oh yeah, when you're a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely strange, isn't it, But understandable. You think about what happened.

871
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Speaker 1: But when you get into the enemy camp and they

872
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 1: tell you what happened and what they were thinking about

873
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: themselves and about you, it all becomes clear why you

874
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: didn't win. And then Chris was a Giant in two

875
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: and twelve, and he and his team knew exactly how

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00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: to handle adversity deep into that season and all the

877
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: way through the playoffs. We lost four straight games that season,

878
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Speaker 1: and we all banded together and we went on a

879
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: hell of a run one I think we won six

880
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: straight games, had to win two to get in. Won

881
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: a division, destroyed Atlanta, destroyed Green Bay when Aaron Rodgers

882
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: was shifteen in one, went out to San Francisco and

883
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: beat their ass in overtime, and then we won the

884
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl against the Patriots. Nobody thought we were gonna win. Well,

885
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: that's the damn truth. The Patriots were once again a

886
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: top seed at thirteen and three, and they win super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: They know how. The Giants went nine and seven and

888
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: squeaked their way into a wildcard game again, only they

889
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: actually came in hot because they had been playing for

890
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Speaker 1: their lives again. There was a local news out left

891
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Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Bruce Beck NBC, and

892
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: he got a sound bite for me. He asked me,

893
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Speaker 1: what could you what can we expect on Super Bowl Sunday?

894
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: And I told him. I said the fans back home

895
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: can expect a tough, hard fought game and tell them

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Speaker 1: they need to get ready for a parade on Tuesday.

897
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: I mean, I essentially guaranteed a super Bowl win. That's

898
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: how confident we were because we had that, that lightning

899
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: in a bottle that everybody talks about. We had that,

900
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: and when you're a part of it, it's it's hard

901
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: to explain it, but you know when you're in it.

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Speaker 1: And I felt that it was different than any other

903
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: feeling I'd had, any scheme I'd ever been on. You know.

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Speaker 1: I told Chris that I remember being so happy for

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Speaker 1: him that he'd won a super Bowl, and he cut

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00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: me off mid sentence and he said, this, Brady, I'll

907
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: always look back when seven and it'll always hurt. It'll

908
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: always hurt. Oh it's I wish I had a chance

909
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: to do it with the guys that I came in with,

910
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: because that was our goal, and we committed to that

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00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: for the four years that we were all together. A

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00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: cowboy to the end. Chris Canty played eleven years in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and he won a super Bowl, but he

914
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: was only a cowboy for his first four years. But

915
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: you can hear it in his voice. Once a cowboy,

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Speaker 1: especially with that special rookie group he was drafted with.

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Speaker 1: Always a Cowboy. Thanks to Kevin Burnett and Tony Romo

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Speaker 1: for chiming in, and especially to Chris Canty. Thanks Chris

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Speaker 1: for telling us about your cowboy life.