WEBVTT - Hangin' With The 'Boys: Anthony Hitchens 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.600 Before listening, ask a doctor if your heart is healthy 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:10.000 enough for Dallas Cowboys football. He's hanging with the Boys, 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.400 broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.480 in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:26.240 Shannon Gross Thursday, and man, have we got a show 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.639 for you? We got some good stuff, but we got 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.559 we're getting to the best stuff first. Yes, because we 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:36.280 have live in studio. Not only do we have Nate Newton, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.760 Kurt Daniels, and Shannon Gross, but we also have Anthony Hitchins. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.479 What's up Anthony? Wow, appreciate you off for having me. 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.720 Oh yeah, man, absolutely. So what we'll do is we're 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.960 gonna limit it to two football questions. I'm gonna let 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.959 Kurt and Nate ask those, and then we just want 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.520 to get to know you. Is Hitch the person Hitch Hitch? 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.600 But it's fourth year now? Yeah? Fourth year? Yeah? I 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.320 remember three years ago, four years ago with Hitch came 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.880 in the game against Sunday Ago. Charges. Man, he came 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.880 in the game late and uh, let's making plays. I 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.200 mean they wasn't like they are now for losses and 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.400 minimal game. He was kind of hitting five yards six 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.520 but he was hitting and I pull leon Let to 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.839 the side. I say, this kid in here, lady the game, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.160 trying to bring everything he got on limited knowledge. I 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.840 said he would keep him. Leon Let just looked at 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.240 him like, I say, y'all promise you man. Gratulations brother, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.360 Oh yeah, I appreciate it as elations. It's been a 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.280 long journey, but you know, it was just always worth it, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.199 as you Yeah, but yeah, it's it's been a journey 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.480 and it's you know, it's fun and I'm still young, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.360 so I still keep playing. Was it toughest first couple 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.560 of years ahead? You playing everywhere along that all three spots? 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.040 Does that help? Or you're like, man, just put me 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.520 one space, one spot, let me roll. Yeah, at first 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.280 it was tough. I look back on it now and 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.080 it helped me a lot. But when you're a rookie 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.000 coming in playing Sam, Mike and Will, that's tough. But 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.600 we don't look back. Look back at it now. I'm like, Okay, 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.400 now I know everyone's job. I could play faster, so uh, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.440 at the moment, it was a little tough, but I 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:17.119 got through it, you know. Uh. Coach Flews, a linebacker coach. Um, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.359 he helped me through it, and you know, I'm I'm 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.919 a better football player. Yeah. I always I wondered when 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.200 you were drafted, you you're kind of be kind of 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.840 eased into Sean Lee was you know, he was a 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.600 starter all that, and then like first practice, boom, Shan 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.880 Lee's injured. We're kind of like, oh boy, here we go. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.560 Or yeah, that's that's exactly how it was. They told, uh, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.160 you know, they had a label on me a special 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.800 team guy. Even though I ignore all that. You know, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.080 I just come in to work. I try to you know, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.000 uh not blind knock all that stuff off and just 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.720 you know, just play football. But uh, you know, and 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.919 their plans. They wanted me to be a backup and 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.239 a special team guy, and unfortunately Sean Lee went down, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.240 and uh it started a little earlier than they expected. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.079 Here we off. Four years later, we opened up training 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.960 camp and then if you know, they go through soft days, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.880 then they opened up the pad. You stopped like four 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.040 straight runs in the backfield. I say, this is this 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.200 hitch year. And then you got that injury. Man, How 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.040 did you feel? Man? Yeah? That was crazy? Uh? Um, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.360 you know I had had the best camp and my 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.600 four years, I was flying around having fun and uh, 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.080 unfortunately I got I got hurt. But uh, you know, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.200 everything happens for a reason. Yeah, you know I was hurt. 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.520 I was in the books. Um, you know, staying here 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.680 with the team. So I still feel part of the team. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.520 But you know, I'm just trying to pick up where 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.480 I left off. And I think I'm doing and doing 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.640 just that. So um, as long as I just keep improving, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.960 I think I'll be all right. So who are your 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.800 buddies on the team. Who do you hang out with 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:55.520 outside of football? Uh? Outside of football? Damien Wilson, Um, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.040 Keith Smith's a girl, good buddy. He you know, he 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:04.640 wasn't linebacker at once, still accepting. Yeah yeah, uh justin 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.160 Justin her new linebacker we just got. He's a he's 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.600 a real nice guy. We hung out. Uh, you know, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.280 try to take him under my wing. Uh, you know, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.240 he was just moved to you know, this facility and 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.719 this team and stuff like that. So, uh, he's another 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.520 guy hang out, But I don't. I don't have much time. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.240 I'm married. I have two dogs. Uh. Oh what kind 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.680 of dogs? You got? English mass stuff and a lab? 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.000 Oh so you got a big dog. Yeah, he's about 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.479 one eighty five. Wow. So somebody else had a mass 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.240 Syron Crawford. Yeah it looked just like his dog, does 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:36.919 it really? I got the male virgin, he had a 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.760 he got a female. Plans for the baby making with 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:47.160 the dogs? No A. So so how long you've been married? Man? 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.719 What's your what should love the bride name and share 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.040 it with us? Man? Yeah, I've been married a year 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.000 and a half now, h July second congratulations in sixteen? Yeah, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.720 thank you. Um. Her name's Ashley Marie Hitchens. I've um. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.160 I knew her since I was about eleven or ten years. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.480 Oh wow, yeah, me and her, Me and her younger 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.120 brother played sports all growing up. Actually, my my dad 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.280 was her younger brother coach and little league baseball, So 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.200 I knew. I asked you all my life. I knew 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.760 her family all my life. Uh, you had your eye 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.200 on your friend's older sister. That's why I did. I did, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.359 and I told him that when um he wasn't okay 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.920 with it at first. You know, as we got older, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.680 he understood. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was it was 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.040 almost marrying someone I knew all my life. So it 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.039 was it was a lot easier. It's very cool. So 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.680 tell us about your your childhood. Where when'd you start 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.240 playing football? Where'd you go to? I thought we were 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.000 gonna talk. No, just no, you already got your football question. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.000 I just say you're talking more football. So, oh, where 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.640 you start playing football? Like? What towns you grow up in? 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.240 High school and then college? And how'd you get here? Yeah, 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.479 I'm from a little town Lorene, Ohio, about west of Cleveland, 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.000 about thirty and it's UM started I was about eight 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.560 years old, you know, started off receiver, then got moved 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.840 it tight end, then quarterback and running back. But uh yeah, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.640 and don't let him sell you short. Here he owns 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.359 his high school record for rushing yard what he just 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.240 kind of skipped over that. Then he took his team 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.680 to the state championship his junior year as a running back. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.880 I got can run. Yeah, I was a running back. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.760 UM had a good offensive line. Though. You know those 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.039 guys are some some big guys. Yeah, so I'm sure 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.640 they're listening or will listen my buddies. So yeah, that 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.960 was the good days. I got to Iowa by UM. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.640 The defensive coordinator from Iowa's Phil Parker. He's from my 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.160 hometown and in Ohio, so it was a connection there. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.120 Uh ended up signing there, playing my four years there 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:56.520 and now uh flu so our linebacker coaches him, and okay, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.880 let me back up, so y'all can understand. So it's 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.040 it's a it's a long train. So my defensive coordinator 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.880 at Iowa it's from my hometown. But he also coached 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.160 with my linebacker coach, coach Fleus Toledo for a while. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.320 So when I was in Iowa, you know, when it 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.400 was time to get drafted, you know, they called him 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.560 and asked him about me and all this. So it 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.760 was easier chance to listen for me to come here 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.320 knowing someone new, Phil Parker, which was from my hometown. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.560 That's kind of cool. Every everywhere along the way you've 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.960 had somebody that knew you from a place before and 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.920 kind of brought you along to where you're at. Now. Yeah, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.440 that's really cool. Wow. Man, Now go ahead on and 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:44.920 says you know everything about it? Okay, Well, you know, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.520 I gotta ask. It always gets brought up. I mean, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.280 you you made such a tough decision when you were 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.680 twelve years old, decided was it simply you wanted to 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.040 go to a different high school. You felt he had 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.080 a better opportunity to this different high school. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:01.080 I was eleven years old and the neighborhood I was 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.920 living in and the school district I just didn't want 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.440 to go to. And nicely, my family and my adopted 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.600 family now you know, took me in and moved me 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.280 to uh a more you know, typical high school. Though 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.400 high school was in the high school. I put it 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.000 like that. Uh So, they took me in. Um, you know, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.640 they treated me like their own from day one, and 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.480 I mean they added a bedroom for me so and honestly, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.840 at the time, they really didn't know me besides the 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.839 kid that wanted to you know, wanted to go to 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.040 the life. Yeah, and I was good friends with the 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.719 There's one son they had at the time that was 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.480 good friends with um. He was a quarterback of the team, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.160 just high school team. Um. So yeah, they took me 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.560 in and you know, they never looked back since. And 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.240 you know that's why I'm so appreciative of what everything 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.000 I got. Now, Yeah, it's an amazing story because I 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.880 guess explain the story. I mean, you just went off 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.960 from like I'm like, you got people listening, so explain 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.960 the story. No, well maybe I don't know. Maybe Anthony 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.839 should explain a little boy okay, but okay, I'll give 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.280 you from what you understand what I understand. When when 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.679 you're eleven twelve years old, you decided you had your 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.160 good friend of yours, he basically made the decision to 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.480 move in with his family, um in order to go 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.280 to a better high school, better neighborhood. I guess at all, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.040 but it was a great situation with your mom understood. 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.320 Both families got alonger. I think your mom and his 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.840 and your adoptive father knew each other and yeah, we're 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.320 friends sort of or went to high school school. Yeah, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.560 it was a you kind of had the best of 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.520 both worlds maybe where you had this opportunity to live 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:38.960 with this family and go to the school. Yet your 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.880 mom was very understanding. You're still very close to your mom, Nick. Yeah, Yeah, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.120 it was very understanding, and I think that had been 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.120 harder if it wasn't understanding. And still to this day 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.360 there you know, they both come up to the first 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.520 game every year, you know. So it's it's good I 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.600 have now I have two moms. You know a lot 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.120 of people have one. Something, don't have none, unfortunately, but 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.400 I could say I have two. You know, So everything 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.400 happens for a reason, like I always saying, you know, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.240 I'm just so blessed to be here. So football like 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.920 literally changed your life. Yes, that's awesome, man, I didn't 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:13.920 know that story. Yeah, hitch Man, you know, I don't 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.000 say yeah, I know y'all see me staring at y'all. Lot. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.840 I don't say a lot, man, But you you are 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.120 bigger than I think. Man, how big are you? I'm 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.719 two thirty. See last year and years before I was 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.760 little lighter. I was two twenty to twenty four. But 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.360 me and Sean this offseason and throughout the camp, you know, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.040 he told me like really like a lot of people 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.840 lay back on weights during the season, you know, and 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.040 challenge like, just don't do that, you know, I mean, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.200 that's what you're supposed to do. Lay back you can 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.440 you know, try to maximize the weight room, you know, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.679 as much as you're doing on the field. And I'm 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.960 just like, all right, you know, I'm gonna try this. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.800 You know, the first couple of weeks is hard. You know, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.080 you're like, oh, I'm tired, or you're not as strong 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.880 as you want to because you're running a lot. So 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.760 you gotta just find different ways in the rape room 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.680 to continue getting stronger. And I've been doing that since 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.679 this off season. The first place is showing up and 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.080 uh my weight and then my quickness on the field. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.000 So big, big shout out to Sean Lee, a guy 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.480 that's been doing it for a while. So I wasn't 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.400 gonna tell him. No, what is your favorite meal? You 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.400 could have one meal, your last meal? What would it be? Uh? 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.840 Would My mom makes chicken ch allots twice baked potatoes. Okay, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.680 I'm over that. What you think about the food? Here's 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.280 the training table. It was very good. Yeah, I got 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.000 a lot to pick from. Um, they got barbecue today. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.840 I'm not a barbecue guy. What wait? What not a 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.640 barbecue guy? How could you not be a barbecum? Ohio? 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.760 You know they don't. My wife cook barbecue revs. I 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.360 just she I told her, just don't put this sauce 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.040 on mine. I thought I can't be friends with you. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.200 But this man is intelligent. You agree? Oh yeah, okay? 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.720 Well quick going acro the street eating eating. Sometimes I 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.600 just gotta get out of here. I just gotta get 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.600 out of here. I get some air. You know, you 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.640 know your home, but be sneaking up on leaving if 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.120 you're doing film study, right, he follows, he shot aw. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.040 I told a story yesterday that I was giving a 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.480 tour to somebody after hours and like everybody's gone out 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.000 of the building and I walked up by where the 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.480 big auditorium is and I walked by and I saw 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.160 this light on and sawid projector. I was like, somebody 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:17.720 left this on. I walked in and Shawn's and then 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.000 by himself in the dark, just watching film. Yeah, like 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.200 five o'clock on a Friday. I was like, WHOA. People 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.520 don't understand, Like all the media people asked me, like, 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.120 uh so, what by Sean Good? And I told him, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.679 like he said, he likes to watch film and he 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.959 comes early to watch film, and they just like blows 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:37.040 that off, like no, literally, he's here till seven pm, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.959 uh Wednesdays and Thursdays. Yeah, and like you saying, on 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.280 Friday at five, So he's putting in the work and 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.120 uh and then and it shows up and and I 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.040 try my best to like get somewhere even close to that. 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.200 You know, it's hard to do your life in football, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.120 and he does it so you know, it's a good 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.600 guy to look after. How does that work with your 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.440 the scheme out there because we always here and I 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.160 don't know any better, but the defense is set up 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.920 to kind of free Sean up to make tackles and 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.000 all that. But how does that work with you? I mean, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.400 I'm surely that's not it's at all not for him. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.320 I mean, you're Nate's been talking about how well the 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.800 defensive line is playing, tying guys up, which is freeing 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.640 you up too, I assume to make these plays. Is 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.560 that kind of how it's set up? Yeah, the line 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.240 play good, the linebackers play good, you know, and that's 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.360 that's how it goes. And Sean Lee, he just has 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.719 a nose for the ball, you know, and the more 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.040 snaps you play, the more opportunities you have to make, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.240 you know, tackles and stuff like that. So, uh, He's 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.160 just that's just how it works, you know. I don't, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.640 you know, as much credit as he gets, it didn't 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.400 seem like the defense really took off till you got 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.439 back in there and you're both in there together and 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.559 having both those guys you Sean David Irving back, I mean, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.720 do you guys feel like you've kind of stepped up 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.600 at another level. Now, yeah, I think so. We gotta 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.920 everyone's playing as long as everyone keep being better, and 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.240 that's all. That's all we can ask for. And we 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.240 just don't want to take no steps backwards. We got 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.000 a good thing going for this past couple of weeks 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:12.680 and we just gotta keep building. We don't we don't 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.000 want to go backwards. All right, man, We know you 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.480 gotta go. You gotta eat, you gotta lift, do whatever 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.200 you gotta do. We really appreciate you stopping by letting 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.760 us get to know you a little bit. Hopefully we 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.520 can get you back on before the season. Good luck 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.000 in Atlanta this weekend. 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Barraclaw so strong at the balls. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.560 So we went out and we did our little We 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.560 should have bet something well, yeah, but we didn't. So 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.720 we went out and did our little thing. I thought 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.880 there was no way in hell Douglas reset what you did. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.760 So yesterday we somehow we got on the topic of 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.240 I didn't think there was any way in hell Douglas 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:01.040 could throw a ball forty yards in the air. And 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.399 he just, oh, yeah, no problem, I could do that 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.280 with ease and accurate and whatever. So we talked about 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.040 it a lot on the show, and we decided we'd 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.920 go prove it out here before the show, and we 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.159 had some lunch and Douglas and Nate met me and 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.800 Kurt out on the field and we videoed it, and 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.920 sure enough, Douglas can throw the damn ball forty yards 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.040 in the air. Congrapulations Douglas, and we get that put 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.440 on the website by somehow, some way that Douglas completed it. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.160 Hit it right on the line. Yeah, I don't think 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.720 it'll break the internet with that news. We'll put it 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.480 on the Hanging with the boys. Hurt shot a video. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.040 I shot a video. I'll try to stitch them together 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.880 somehow and we'll put it up. The first one, I think, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.359 the first one I know, was short. NA hit I 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.440 kind of hit you take away your glory, man. I 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.680 thought it was short at first two, but I hit, yeah, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.000 hit right on the line man. The second and third 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.000 ones definitely definitely went over forty. And don't play tennis 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.000 with Shannon if he couldn't see it hit the line 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.680 four yards up. Douglas, she already got your glory for 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:07.679 this show. Sit back there and Mike off. Congratulations, Douglas, 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:09.720 Thank you. I thought there was no way in hell 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.520 that was happening, but it did. You You did do 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.000 official NFL. Yeah, football, you've done good. You done. Give 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:16.920 me a give me a few days to knock the 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.760 rust off and I will throw it straight to you. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.800 We ain't got time for that, all right. What do 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.359 you guys think about hitch Man? Nice guy. I've been 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.480 watching him since he was a rookie. Yeah, I've been 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.600 watching him literally, you know, I've been sitting back. I 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:37.040 watched a few guys just to see how he developed 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.800 and where they come from. And uh, each year he 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.840 got better. But this pass training camp, I'm telling you, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.119 he would he would open up practice man, just in 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.200 the backfield, and I'm like, wow, you know to the 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.200 point where a couple of times Zeke was like had 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.960 to stop on the time because he was on ing 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.640 already on him. Yeah, and so then when he had 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.679 that knee deal, oh my god, that put a lot 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.040 of prayer show Jalen. I mean, I know Jalen probably 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.920 you know, saying hey, you know what, I love the snaps, 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.520 but more effective, you know. Yeah, with him, with him 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.359 being start up. I was talking to him on the 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.440 way over here and asked him how the knee was doing, 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.000 and he was like, you know, he's like it's great. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.879