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Speaker 1: scrubs longtime Cowboys are going to joined by two former
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, Safety's Buried Church and Danny McCrae. I am
Speaker 1: here in beautiful Oxnard, California. Had to put on a
Speaker 1: little light like jacket today, just a little shirt and
Speaker 1: hold out here. But it's gonna heat up just a
Speaker 1: little bit, probably get up to sixty eight maybe seventy
Speaker 1: of a high today. I here in southern California. Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: How are we doing back in Texas? Man? As you
Speaker 1: can see, I'm back in Dallas, Texas, and I'm sweating
Speaker 1: a little bit on here. Knew you had the audacity
Speaker 1: to say it's gonna heat up to about seventy I
Speaker 1: can't believe you said that, man, while we all here
Speaker 1: sweating crazy out here. Man, this is ridiculous. Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I'm jealous. Man. For some reason,
Speaker 1: we decided to go to the zoo this weekend. Ed
Speaker 1: eleven am in the morning on Sunday, and goodness Grace,
Speaker 1: we paid for it. We paid for it new It
Speaker 1: was up for about forty five minutes before we found
Speaker 1: out that that that that's not the right move. And
Speaker 1: so it's it is hot. It ll out here. There's
Speaker 1: barely any shade out there. Bro the a the air
Speaker 1: wasn't moving. It was sticky, and the air was stick bro.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this ain't right. My little daughter
Speaker 1: was drinking all the water, killing the drink water like that.
Speaker 1: He would just killing water. I'm like, yeah's time to go.
Speaker 1: They had a little mistress, the little air mistress on Bro.
Speaker 1: The water that was coming out of that was hot.
Speaker 1: All the animals were sleeping. It was in the shade. Man,
Speaker 1: it was too but even the animals tapped out. Even
Speaker 1: the animals tapped out. October. Okay, there there's your there's
Speaker 1: your zoo tip. All right, take your kid to the
Speaker 1: zoo in October. That's a good time to go. Weather's nice,
Speaker 1: animals around and it's enjoyable for you. And you can
Speaker 1: go in the morning time. Uh well, especially while you know,
Speaker 1: because you're your daughter's out in school yet well, everybody
Speaker 1: else is in school, so October nice time, So go
Speaker 1: ahead and plant it around there. So that says your
Speaker 1: pro tip. There's your proparenting tip right there. From should
Speaker 1: I should I should have asked you before I went,
Speaker 1: I should have asked you. Mike McCarthy just spoke, and
Speaker 1: those watching us on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, you saw it.
Speaker 1: Malik Hooker. That's a guy that you all have spoken about.
Speaker 1: You two guys are for safety. So Malik Hooker is
Speaker 1: working out right now, according to Mike McCarthy, and he
Speaker 1: says no roster move has been made yet, so they
Speaker 1: haven't signed him, but they are. They're interested, and look,
Speaker 1: I anticipate Hooker being, you know, a member of this
Speaker 1: team now. He's a former first round pick, had a
Speaker 1: couple of nice years with the Cults, but injuries have
Speaker 1: derailed his career. They want as much competition as they
Speaker 1: can get back there to say spot, there no guaranteed
Speaker 1: spots right now. I think Donovan Wilson's obviously a guy
Speaker 1: that Mike McCarthy likes. You spoke about him very favorably
Speaker 1: in the press conference. But Malie Cooker looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to get an opportunity to show the Cowboys what
Speaker 1: he can do. Church your thoughts, well, look, I think
Speaker 1: it would be a good move. I mean, as far
Speaker 1: as competition is concerned, it would bring another guy in
Speaker 1: there who's technically a whole safety. He doesn't really do
Speaker 1: a lot in the BOSS, but he's a whole safety,
Speaker 1: something that we haven't had here with the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: a long time. So it brings competition for Kaz back there.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy he's been in the league.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran in the league, so he knows the
Speaker 1: ins and houts of playing the position, and when healthy,
Speaker 1: he's a boiler. I mean, we've seen it in his
Speaker 1: rookie year. He had three interceptions right off the bat
Speaker 1: when he was healthy. But that's that's the question with him.
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier when you were talking, he's gone
Speaker 1: through a couple of injuries that have derailed his career
Speaker 1: so far, so bringing him in would be another kind
Speaker 1: of injury prone guy. We already had Kaz coming off
Speaker 1: in Achilles. We got Kat O'Neill coming off in Achilles,
Speaker 1: so we're already kind of fielding a battered and bruised
Speaker 1: defense right now. But I guess as far as competition
Speaker 1: is concerned, I wouldn't mind seeing him come in there
Speaker 1: and duke it out with Kaz for that whole safety responsibility.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I mean, this is another injured
Speaker 1: gay we're technically bringing on world we're thinking about bringing on.
Speaker 1: So I'm not so sure about it. But as far
Speaker 1: as competition is concerned, it should be a good one. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: I feel the same church churches knew it. You know,
Speaker 1: one thing about the Cowboys, We're gonna bring in some
Speaker 1: injured guys, all right, we're gonna draft them, We're gonna
Speaker 1: bring him in the free agency, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to get him fixed up with my man Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna see how it turns out. Same thing
Speaker 1: going with Jaymon Smith and Sean Lee. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you listen to what guys were saying
Speaker 1: about how Britt Brown was able to get back back
Speaker 1: and get jard Win back, then I have some confidence
Speaker 1: in them being able to do the same thing with
Speaker 1: Hooker once he gets his hands on. And as far
Speaker 1: as competition, this is amazing. I mean, competition brings the
Speaker 1: best out of everyone, and it also stops some of
Speaker 1: those players that are already here from getting complacent. Man,
Speaker 1: it pushes them to be the best them that they
Speaker 1: can be throughout this training camp to try to earn
Speaker 1: that position. So to me, it's great. I think this
Speaker 1: is a great start to us, you know, starting that
Speaker 1: top ten defense by forcing the competition on these guys
Speaker 1: and letting not letting anybody get too comfortable. So I
Speaker 1: love it. I can I ask you'll both a question.
Speaker 1: Do y'all think we have room enough to keep both
Speaker 1: as like a death thing or it has to be
Speaker 1: one or the other as far as Kazy and Hooker's
Speaker 1: concerns the hands, that's if so listen, I think that's tough.
Speaker 1: Even though that even though you added, you know, the
Speaker 1: seventeenth game, I still think that's tough. I think you
Speaker 1: need to carve out a certain position for whoever earns
Speaker 1: that spot and let them know that they earned it
Speaker 1: and it's theirs to move throughout the season. So you
Speaker 1: don't have that pressure on that guy thinking he's gonna
Speaker 1: get a spot taken. He's not able to play free,
Speaker 1: free and loose, so I think they let him battle
Speaker 1: it out, figure out who's the best of that position,
Speaker 1: and and and let them go throughout the season as
Speaker 1: a starter at that and let the other guy walk.
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to do it, and
Speaker 1: that's the best way to show that. You know, when
Speaker 1: when you fight to compete for a spot and you
Speaker 1: earn it, that the Cowboys going to reward you. I
Speaker 1: agree with everything you said. You've got preseason games, we've
Speaker 1: got practices, so let's see what happens. The pads come
Speaker 1: on tomorrow and it's time. It's showtime. It is showtime.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that there are no sacred cows
Speaker 1: around here. Want a job, go out here and perform
Speaker 1: j Ron curse. If you're j Ron curse, you gotta
Speaker 1: sit up here and saying, Okay, they're bringing out somebody
Speaker 1: else here from my spot, so I need to sit
Speaker 1: out here and show what I can do. Um this
Speaker 1: defense and actually this football team, in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: last five six years and had too many guys who
Speaker 1: just well, I've got a spot and there's no competition.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry, there's no there's some big championship
Speaker 1: banners being raised around here. People need to go out
Speaker 1: and earn their positions, and I think this has been
Speaker 1: a positive move that Mike McCarthy has made as they've
Speaker 1: gone into this this year, especially with the defense as
Speaker 1: poorly as it performed last year, people need to show
Speaker 1: that they can do something here. Are you giving it
Speaker 1: to Mike McCarthy? Are you given that to day? Huen?
Speaker 1: I think here we go, there we both. I think
Speaker 1: that you know, look, okay, yes, I've I've been tough
Speaker 1: on McCarthy, just just a little bit. That was my
Speaker 1: first question to Jerry Joe Sunday night and our one
Speaker 1: on one interview on on NBC five. I went, I
Speaker 1: went after McCarthy, but it's something that he's talked about.
Speaker 1: And obviously Dan Quinn having spent so much time with
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll and his you know, his whole thing every day.
Speaker 1: This is good And I'm sorry. Is there anybody on
Speaker 1: this defense that we should say, hey, they're a sacred
Speaker 1: cow and they're just fine. I don't think we can
Speaker 1: really truly say that. So you're six and ten for
Speaker 1: a reason, and so you make sure you don't go
Speaker 1: six eleven. You need to make sure that guys are
Speaker 1: out here knowing that they've got jobs to play for it.
Speaker 1: I think they've set themselves up in a very good
Speaker 1: way on all three levels of this defense where there
Speaker 1: is competition. You've got guys who've got to play for
Speaker 1: contracts here. If people are thirsty, you got a bunch
Speaker 1: of thirty and hungry dogs out here. Then I think
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to be a playoff team. I
Speaker 1: think they must be a playoff team, uh, for for
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy to return next year. In my opinion, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. Or what they did with that,
Speaker 1: there's all three levels. I mean, look what they did
Speaker 1: with the interior defensive line. They brought those rookies in
Speaker 1: and they shipped Antwoine Woods out. And then at the
Speaker 1: second level at the linebacker position, you got the first
Speaker 1: round pick in Parsons. You also brought in Cox. And
Speaker 1: in the secondary you got you know, Kelvin Joseph over there,
Speaker 1: you got Anthony Brown, you got Jordan Lewis, I mean,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs out there. I mean it's it's it's loaded
Speaker 1: in a sense where they're gonna have to duke it
Speaker 1: out to get those starting jobs. I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: if those guys can when they when they do get
Speaker 1: the starting job, if they're able to perform as well,
Speaker 1: but right now, the depth they have there for this competition,
Speaker 1: I think you guys are saying that it's going to
Speaker 1: bring the best out of everybody out there, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we feel deep best defense we can going into the season, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, if we're just the middle of the pack,
Speaker 1: if everybody stays healthy and we're just the middle of
Speaker 1: the pack defense, I think we can do big things
Speaker 1: here in Dallas. Listen, listen, you know I gotta give
Speaker 1: my guy shout out anytime I can. All right, there
Speaker 1: is one defensive player that is a quote unquote sacred cow. Nui.
Speaker 1: Would you like to get who that is? Oh? My
Speaker 1: good special, my special team Ace. Nobody can take his spot.
Speaker 1: His spot is guaranteed. He's gonna be out there being
Speaker 1: then envy well hopefully being the MVP of the defense,
Speaker 1: but making some plays out there to change the game.
Speaker 1: So you know we got one guy, all right, you're
Speaker 1: talking about? Good with you? Dang right. I just wanted
Speaker 1: y'all to say his name, all right, say he is
Speaker 1: the guy? All right, He's a sacred cow. His spot
Speaker 1: is locked that he don't have to do anything to
Speaker 1: make the squad. He is ready to go and We
Speaker 1: watch that on film all last season, and I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be better this season. Okay, I'll give you
Speaker 1: the that's fun. That's fun. Let's take our first break
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Speaker 1: Former Dallas Cowboys safety's buried Church Danny mccraige joined us.
Speaker 1: They are back in Texas, but overall the second show.
Speaker 1: As we begin marching towards the first game of the year,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys against Tampa Bay on NBC Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: We also got the Hall of Fame game coming up
Speaker 1: August fifth. So your boys are back here talking Cowboys
Speaker 1: at three Amigo Negros doing our thing. We ads on tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Pads are on tomorrow, Pads popping, pads popping.
Speaker 1: You guys played this league, so tell the folks who
Speaker 1: are watching and listening how different it is from the
Speaker 1: underwear Olympics to when the pads start popping tomorrow in Ox. No, man,
Speaker 1: are you you're gonna give it to me Church, Let
Speaker 1: me tell you the boy. The boys are separated from
Speaker 1: the men when the past come on. All that talk
Speaker 1: that you did. You see guys out there winning the
Speaker 1: weight room Olympics and lifting and doing all this stuff,
Speaker 1: all that comes to fruition. Now when the pass come on,
Speaker 1: we're gonna really get to see if you have it
Speaker 1: in you to make those hits and make those same taples,
Speaker 1: take those same same angles that you had when you
Speaker 1: didn't have pads on, knowing that it's possible that you
Speaker 1: might get ran over, and you got to explode from
Speaker 1: those hips to make that tapple. It's a totally different thing.
Speaker 1: When you rushed against Tyrant Smith with pads on, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a totally different thing. Everything's different, everything's more intense,
Speaker 1: And we're gonna learn a lot about these players with
Speaker 1: these ads on. And I just can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: aybody from Newity. Man, this is this is gonna be exciting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think b Back, you hit it right on the
Speaker 1: head when it when it comes to putting the pads on,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's definitely a different a different vibe out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you got guys when you're in like
Speaker 1: you said, knew the underwear Olympics. You got you know,
Speaker 1: Zeke coming through the hole, and you got this guy
Speaker 1: feeling it when he has on shorts and everything, and
Speaker 1: just to him, but on he's going in there head strong.
Speaker 1: He's about to blow Zeke up. I'll go I would
Speaker 1: have let him up. But when we get the pads
Speaker 1: going on and Zeke gets that forward lead rolling, is
Speaker 1: he going to fill that hole with the same ferocity
Speaker 1: that he had when they were just in short. So
Speaker 1: that that that part of the game is definitely a
Speaker 1: big difference. But but that first day when you get
Speaker 1: those pads on, I mean, it seems like no matter
Speaker 1: if you're you're a rookie or if you're in your eighth, ninth,
Speaker 1: or tenth year, I mean you're you're that first day's
Speaker 1: kind of always that excitement. It's that all man, we
Speaker 1: got pads on, we get to pop a little bit.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get out there. But once you're
Speaker 1: in your veteran years, it's that second third and fourth
Speaker 1: padded practice in the row that you're like, man, that
Speaker 1: take these pads up off me. But that first day
Speaker 1: you're all, he's gonna be excited about it, and you
Speaker 1: get your little inside run, you get to pop a
Speaker 1: little bit here and there. But I will say there's
Speaker 1: always that one guy for each team, that one guy
Speaker 1: that's just that's just a tone setter, that's just like, man, look,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna be brother in law and today we're
Speaker 1: just gonna be tagging off when we get in the hole.
Speaker 1: But there's always that one gay that like just goes od,
Speaker 1: that just just treats every practice like it's a game scenario.
Speaker 1: And for Matt when when I was there, d Mac,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the same for you,
Speaker 1: but it was de Marco Murray like no matter what,
Speaker 1: no matter what was going on, we could be half
Speaker 1: walked through with pads on. This guy's lowering his shoulder
Speaker 1: and lower in the head trying to run through people.
Speaker 1: So that there's always that one tone setter for each
Speaker 1: team that just he just don't matter what he's going
Speaker 1: o d with the pads on. But old like I,
Speaker 1: like Danny said, can't wait to get it cracking. See,
Speaker 1: I promise, I promise. Right when you finished, I was
Speaker 1: about to say, I remember when y'all used to be
Speaker 1: tearing the marco coming through the hole. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: lifting him, about lifting him up his feet and all that.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear nothing about him being
Speaker 1: the tone setter. Y'all was out there and they embarrassed
Speaker 1: that man. So then he started dropping his should on
Speaker 1: everybody that he could, after y'all knocked him on his
Speaker 1: ass a couple of times. So now it's it's always
Speaker 1: some guys, all right in churches, churches. One of those
Speaker 1: guys who knew he was he was a sacred cow,
Speaker 1: all right. So after here we go, after the first
Speaker 1: and second padd in practice, he was like, look already,
Speaker 1: got my spot. I'm good, Get these pads off of me.
Speaker 1: The difference between him and the guys that are out
Speaker 1: there now is they spotted on the line. So they
Speaker 1: need to take take advantage of every opportunity that they
Speaker 1: can to show that they're gonna get out there and
Speaker 1: strike somebody, because it could be they lasting. They might
Speaker 1: not be on the roster room. They don't. Zach Martin
Speaker 1: as well, he was another dude that just was od
Speaker 1: when it came to the pads, you would pull it.
Speaker 1: He would be pulling. Guards were like, all right, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna we're gonna get this little thud up here
Speaker 1: so I can set the edge. Man. There's just number
Speaker 1: of times he just ran through me like it was
Speaker 1: just a train, Like I was just a hay bill
Speaker 1: on a train track or something like. That's another guy
Speaker 1: that od when it came to pass. Man. All right,
Speaker 1: So so now I want the truth that this is
Speaker 1: why people tune into the play as lines right here
Speaker 1: on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Tell me, each of you
Speaker 1: in Church, you go first. Who was somebody who looked
Speaker 1: good in the underwear Olympics, But when the pass came on,
Speaker 1: they worked that guy. They've worked that guy. You're gonna
Speaker 1: put me all blow both of you. You're tight. You're
Speaker 1: both tight. Now I want names. I want names. Go ahead, Church,
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm gonna go ahead, but say this because
Speaker 1: I think y'all would agree with me for the most part.
Speaker 1: But I think the dude that was like, man, who
Speaker 1: is like this dude came out? Man? Who is this
Speaker 1: guy running a rock crazy? He's cutting on the dimes.
Speaker 1: Who is this guy? And I would have to say
Speaker 1: it would be Joseph Randall. He was a running back
Speaker 1: for us, you know, the guy. He was another guy
Speaker 1: he like when when the when the pads were off
Speaker 1: and were just in shorts, he was routing people up,
Speaker 1: cutting people this way and that way. But when the
Speaker 1: pass came, oh, it was just it was just a
Speaker 1: little bit of just a drop off. Not mador but
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a d But since you
Speaker 1: put me on a spot, that's that's who I chose
Speaker 1: as my as my situation. Then running back out of
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, the guy who said when DeMarco Murray left it,
Speaker 1: he left a lot of meat on the bone. That yeah,
Speaker 1: he was talking a lot. He was talking about DeMarco
Speaker 1: won the NFL Offensive Player of the Year award. So
Speaker 1: and when he got his opportunity to beat the number
Speaker 1: one guy, it did didn't last very well. And now
Speaker 1: and they gave and they gave him a plenty of shots,
Speaker 1: all right, he gave plenty of shots. My listen, my
Speaker 1: guys gonna be fourth round pick coming out of I
Speaker 1: forgot what school it was like Independent university or something
Speaker 1: like that. My man, No, not do not listen, not
Speaker 1: because he wouldn't. Yeah, it was a part of your fraternity, wasn't.
Speaker 1: He knew it. Yeah, but but listen, let me do this.
Speaker 1: Not from the standpoint of like he was scared to
Speaker 1: get out there and make the play. It just didn't
Speaker 1: translate to him actually making as many plays. And it
Speaker 1: looked like he would when we were in shorts and shirts,
Speaker 1: like he was out there looking like a straight monster, fast,
Speaker 1: can jump, he was quick, taking the right angles and
Speaker 1: all that when we were in just passing shorts, and
Speaker 1: then you see it when you get out there on
Speaker 1: the field. It was just a little bit different. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it didn't like you have enough weight behind him to
Speaker 1: make some of those tackles, and you know, he kind
Speaker 1: of floated around a little bit. But that's still my guy.
Speaker 1: But my honest opinion is that's that's how I remember.
Speaker 1: That's all right, that's that's true. That's a true assessment
Speaker 1: right there. I definitely give you that. It didn't help
Speaker 1: that he had the number twenty runs at twenty seventy
Speaker 1: had ye did he had the unlucky twenty something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't help that at the situation at all. Know
Speaker 1: your turn well, I mean, I can't assess it the
Speaker 1: way you guys do because you're out there. I'm just
Speaker 1: you guys, you know, so, so I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: out there in a practice, you know, getting routed up anything.
Speaker 1: So you guys are are out there doing it and
Speaker 1: seeing it. So that's why my opinion on this really
Speaker 1: done cow because I don't know, I don't know. Check
Speaker 1: him out Church, That's why I check out winning for
Speaker 1: a reason. Man, knew it. You out there giving us
Speaker 1: all the updates to a note pads on right now,
Speaker 1: you're going to give us the updates to the guys
Speaker 1: and how they look different when the parents come on. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that you've been watching You've
Speaker 1: been covering football for too long to du ducking dogs
Speaker 1: that question, because I know you sitting out with your buddies.
Speaker 1: You you've had these conversations like, man, I showed nothing,
Speaker 1: that guy was gonna be something else, too bad, because okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a guy. I'll give you a guy.
Speaker 1: And this was before your time. Danny Amndola, Danny, Danny
Speaker 1: Amondola came out of Texas Tech and he was just
Speaker 1: lighting it up. And then they had him on hard
Speaker 1: knocks and I mean the guy caught everything first preseason
Speaker 1: game in San Diego, guys fumbling, can't catch anything, had
Speaker 1: at that had a bad camp, and he's what I
Speaker 1: call an all Oxnard guy, you know, and they should
Speaker 1: get in Santa Joe called the all Alamodome guys. Where
Speaker 1: these guys ended up looking good, but when it came
Speaker 1: time the preseason games, they couldn't do anything. And I'm
Speaker 1: honestly very surprised that Danny and Danny Amondola had the
Speaker 1: career he did winning the Super Bowls he did because
Speaker 1: when he was here with the Cowboys, this was a
Speaker 1: guy who looked good in the underwear Olympics, but when
Speaker 1: the lights came on, he was just underwhelming all the way. Listen, true,
Speaker 1: you remember Teddy Williams. He was the same win oh yeah,
Speaker 1: from San Antonio, and Teddy was different. Though Teddy had
Speaker 1: to play, he had to play. He had to play football,
Speaker 1: I think since high school or something. He was really fast.
Speaker 1: Dave camp on him, took a chance on him, Danny
Speaker 1: and Mendola. Actually I got to give him some love
Speaker 1: because he is a Houston, Texas product. His dad coached
Speaker 1: me in high school, and he actually did end up
Speaker 1: having a good career. But I know what you're saying
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys. He staying with the Cowboys and did
Speaker 1: not look like it said that he had with the Patriots. No,
Speaker 1: not at all, not even if with the Rams, he
Speaker 1: had a better step with the Ramps. So he went
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys of the Eagles. Finally got his legs
Speaker 1: underneath them with the Rams, and then the course went
Speaker 1: to the Patriots and helped help when some Super Bowls.
Speaker 1: And then last year he was up there and done
Speaker 1: Detroit and that failed Matt patricia effort that they had
Speaker 1: up there. But that was one of the guys that
Speaker 1: I clearly remembers that he could not get it done.
Speaker 1: And he said, we used to. We had the US
Speaker 1: have the media joke all the time by the All
Speaker 1: Oxnard team and the all All Alamo Don team where
Speaker 1: they looked good there. You put them out there in
Speaker 1: the preseason games when it mattered, and these guys could
Speaker 1: not get a lot of guys couldn't get it, especially
Speaker 1: the kickers, and punished. That was the other thing too.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of specialists through the years look
Speaker 1: good out here. Then when it came, you know, when
Speaker 1: the lights came very swift to you said can you
Speaker 1: do it? When the band is playing? Because Barry's like,
Speaker 1: hey man, these guys look good right here, we're practicing
Speaker 1: the Norman. There's nobody around. All of a sudden we
Speaker 1: fill up the seats and the band is playing, and
Speaker 1: these guys can't get it done. So tomorrow, for me,
Speaker 1: when the Pats come on, I'm gonna be looking at
Speaker 1: the D line. I want to see what Carlos Watkins
Speaker 1: and what Nevin Gallimar are gonna be able to do
Speaker 1: because we could talk all day long about this defense
Speaker 1: being top ten. If they can't stop the run, there's
Speaker 1: a problem. And for me, I'm gonna be looking at that.
Speaker 1: What's Terrell Basham gonna do. I already see some really
Speaker 1: nice things from Randy Gregory, but I need to look
Speaker 1: and see the interior. What are these guys gonna do there?
Speaker 1: Because they have got to stop the run to be good.
Speaker 1: You start to look at the kind of running backs
Speaker 1: and teams they play this year. For me, right out
Speaker 1: the gate, you start with Leonard Frenette and Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: If Leonard Frenette ends up, you know, take care of
Speaker 1: his COVID thing. You've got to You've got to establish
Speaker 1: yourself a lot better than being a thirty first run
Speaker 1: defense in the National Football League. So that's what I
Speaker 1: want to see. Ezekiel Elliott does look good. This offensive
Speaker 1: line seems like it's healthy. So it's an excellent opportunity
Speaker 1: to see exactly what this D line can do when
Speaker 1: these pads start popping to brow and be looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing it. And in all reality, you know, that's
Speaker 1: where you're gonna get your most bang for your buckers
Speaker 1: watching that D line offensive line go at it once
Speaker 1: the pads gets on because you know, as a secondary player,
Speaker 1: even in the second in the linebacking corps, once that
Speaker 1: running back breaks through for the first site, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe eight yards if you're not there, you're kind of
Speaker 1: just tagging him off. Whereas that offense and that defensive
Speaker 1: line they're banging. They're really banging like it's a game.
Speaker 1: They got their one on ones going on, you got
Speaker 1: inside runs. So it'll be a good opportunity to gauge
Speaker 1: the level of town we have on that defensive line
Speaker 1: versus that great offensive line that we have. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm looking forward to the most seeing the
Speaker 1: health of the offensive line. I need to see those
Speaker 1: two tackles be able to get out there, go against
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory, go against taking loans against Nevil got him
Speaker 1: or whoever they're going to get and see if they're
Speaker 1: able to hold up. Because remember LC didn't even do
Speaker 1: training camp last year, so I need to see him
Speaker 1: be able to get out there. And the same thing
Speaker 1: with Tyren Smith. You say it looks like the old
Speaker 1: twenty eleven Tyren Smith. You ain't see that. I want
Speaker 1: to hear. No, I want to hear. I want to
Speaker 1: see the twenty eleven Tyren Smith with pads on him,
Speaker 1: getting them paused on you, not letting you go nowhere.
Speaker 1: I want to see that guy. So NEI, Y'a'll be
Speaker 1: looking forward to you telling me how he looks tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So Tank has been working out on the side, so
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate Tank being involved at all tomorrow when
Speaker 1: the pads hit, and I'm gonna be also very interested
Speaker 1: he bring that up, and we'll ask McCarthy tomorrow and
Speaker 1: his presence, how much work are you going to give
Speaker 1: guys like Collins and Smith because they had they've limited
Speaker 1: ELC a little bit out here and put a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in working that right tackle spot. But I
Speaker 1: sat down with him one on one, and he told
Speaker 1: me he feels good, he's excited, he feels like he
Speaker 1: he felt guilty last year letting the team down, you know,
Speaker 1: by not playing l season. Great shapes out here doing
Speaker 1: interviews with a shirt off like Tyrant. I mean, these guys,
Speaker 1: these guys don't look like you're They don't look like
Speaker 1: the old nineteen nineties offensive lineman and the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: one Super Bowls when these guys are cut. So I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be eager to see exactly how much work
Speaker 1: they give some of these guys who are coming back
Speaker 1: off injuries, and if they limit them at all. But
Speaker 1: I just can't tell you how excited I am to
Speaker 1: see the offensive and deep and lines be able to
Speaker 1: hit each other. I think this is where football is won,
Speaker 1: and it's where the Cowboys, in my opinion, can have
Speaker 1: their biggest improvement as a team. If they could be
Speaker 1: better on both sides of these lines, then they can
Speaker 1: erase six and ten pretty quick. But if they have injuries,
Speaker 1: if they can't get better and they're not able to
Speaker 1: do what they need to do up front. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a problem. And if you're a fantasy football
Speaker 1: player here, I'm telling you right now, Ezekiel Elliott is
Speaker 1: somebody you need to go ahead and seriously think about
Speaker 1: putting on your roster because I expect this young man
Speaker 1: to have a really nice year, especially if the offensive
Speaker 1: linemen are healthy. I think Zeke can have a real
Speaker 1: nice year. I've seen the screen game here. I'm like
Speaker 1: shaking my head. They're wow, okay, where's this been? So
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore has been working on trying to find ways
Speaker 1: to get Zeke the ball. He caught one pass down
Speaker 1: the scene. There was a talk on touchdown said, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this kid that he's not just talking about
Speaker 1: having a good season. We've seen him put the work in.
Speaker 1: We're watching it out here on the field. So these
Speaker 1: pads fly tomorrow, you know, they get a couple of
Speaker 1: holes open here. I'm really eager to see what he
Speaker 1: can do. And at the same time, on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know, is Lake vanderash is Jal Smith. Are they
Speaker 1: ready to come up here and meet him in the hole.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun, man, We're real quick. Neid do
Speaker 1: you do you feel as though do we still have
Speaker 1: do you still believe that this defense can only go
Speaker 1: as far as DeMarcus Lawrence can take it? Or do
Speaker 1: you think we've had enough. We've added enough talent, we
Speaker 1: got enough depth on this defense to where even if
Speaker 1: he doesn't perform to where he has in the past
Speaker 1: getting double digit sacks being all over the field, we
Speaker 1: can still feel a solid defense overall. Okay, And you
Speaker 1: know how I feel. He's trying a twenty million dollars contract.
Speaker 1: You need if you need to bring some results with it.
Speaker 1: And for the past two seasons, DeMarcus Lawrence has not
Speaker 1: played up to the player who got the twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars contracts, but he needs to respond. Randy Gregory looks
Speaker 1: good at here. Randy Gregory feels good, and you guys
Speaker 1: have played this game at a high level. And when
Speaker 1: you're in the right frame of mine and you're feeling good,
Speaker 1: you can do some things. I mean there's sometimes, man,
Speaker 1: they try to run some reverses here and Randy Gregg
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, no. So if Randy Gregory can be
Speaker 1: to be a dominant player and tank, Lawrence can return
Speaker 1: to what he's doing that's a help. I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep saying it's a hammer at home all
Speaker 1: day long. These defensive tackles have to be better. They
Speaker 1: have to be able to stop the run. And if
Speaker 1: they're able to stop the run, and you're two defensive ends,
Speaker 1: do what live up to what we think they can be.
Speaker 1: They'll being improved defense. But you just can't have the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns running three hundred yards on you. You can't
Speaker 1: sit up here and have all these guys setting career
Speaker 1: highs and season highs against you like they were last
Speaker 1: year running the football. It has to start up front.
Speaker 1: For the Dallas guy was defensively and if the if
Speaker 1: the front is working, then the back is going to
Speaker 1: be a lot improved and they're not gonna have as
Speaker 1: much pressure on them. But they've got to fix this.
Speaker 1: They've got to fix a d line. It's not sexy
Speaker 1: to talking about. People want to talk about the fantasy
Speaker 1: football guys, but this defense last year was so bad.
Speaker 1: And I think dan Quinn already just talking to guys.
Speaker 1: Guys are plying in to dan Quinn and I've been
Speaker 1: you know me, I think I should be skeptical and
Speaker 1: I've been you know, last week, I was live to
Speaker 1: last year, so I need to see how it Dan
Speaker 1: quiet improves. Dan Quinn said he's not running that same
Speaker 1: Atlanta defense because look, let's be honest, man, but like
Speaker 1: these Atlanta defenses were these great defenses, like oh, I
Speaker 1: mean there was no legion of boom and all in
Speaker 1: atl So let's see how he uses his pieces. And
Speaker 1: I love the fact that they're gonna bring in a
Speaker 1: guy like Hooker to say, hey, look, we're not exactly
Speaker 1: where we want to be. Let's figure out how we
Speaker 1: get there. Let's bring in another players. So I'm all
Speaker 1: about what I'm seeing so far. Dan Quinn is a
Speaker 1: guy who talks a good game. Right now, he seems
Speaker 1: like a guy that you want to buy in. But
Speaker 1: it's just talk. I gotta see it. So in all
Speaker 1: past our popping them mark, we're get to see a
Speaker 1: little bit of are you are you? Are you getting
Speaker 1: closer to believing that they're getting in that top ti
Speaker 1: an area on defense? No, No, there's no way, no,
Speaker 1: because I haven't I haven't seen that. I have not
Speaker 1: seen the d line work yet, So you know how
Speaker 1: I feel. Danny thirty first against we also until i's fixed,
Speaker 1: until I see some guys and then you know me.
Speaker 1: Last year they ran out down Terry Poe and Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: Let's see if Gallimore who started games last year. Let's
Speaker 1: see if Carlin. Let's see what they do up from
Speaker 1: uh also a Dickey user from from UCLA. He's made
Speaker 1: some nice ways. Let's see how this D line is
Speaker 1: working and how Dan Quinn is able to get that
Speaker 1: role he spent. He spends a lot of time with
Speaker 1: the D line when you watch the practices here, and
Speaker 1: that's that's where he cut his teeth and I love
Speaker 1: to see that. I gotta see improvement right there. And
Speaker 1: until I do, you can't talk about top ten D.
Speaker 1: You can't go first against the run and just say,
Speaker 1: hey man, I think it's gonna be a top ten.
Speaker 1: I gotta see Bill Parcels, you have a great line.
Speaker 1: All I can go by is what I see. Okay,
Speaker 1: tell me this, what do you see in the secondary?
Speaker 1: Since because the secondary is less less dependent on what
Speaker 1: you see once they have pads on, and more of
Speaker 1: what you see when they get in seven on seven
Speaker 1: and when they do past Kelley play extra pass and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. What do you see from the back,
Speaker 1: from the back end of the defense that would either say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: I think we're better or we got a lot of
Speaker 1: growing to do. I love what I've seen from dis.
Speaker 1: I like the way he wants to compete, that he's
Speaker 1: not afraid to get out there to talk and just
Speaker 1: you know, hey, I'm ready. So I like that about him.
Speaker 1: I asked Dan Quinn at the press conference. I said,
Speaker 1: Daniel last year there in Atlanta used the first round
Speaker 1: pick on a corner to kJ Terrell out of the climpse.
Speaker 1: I said, watch you pass on Dicks and have you
Speaker 1: spoken to him about that? Then I asked Digs, I said,
Speaker 1: you know you talk to Dan about him not taking
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I haven't, but I want to, he said,
Speaker 1: I want to ask him about that. He said, watching
Speaker 1: Dick's compete, he's into that. You know, that's one of
Speaker 1: Dan's so he loves the way he competes. And he
Speaker 1: also just said it's one of those things as a coach,
Speaker 1: it's just different when you see a guy out here.
Speaker 1: So he's got to see him, you know, every day
Speaker 1: versus just kind of looking at film and watching workouts,
Speaker 1: and he's a press by what he does, what he
Speaker 1: is doing there. So Diggs is gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: And I know I said it before, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it again. Here's a second contract guy. I think this
Speaker 1: is a second contract guy. And the way he spends
Speaker 1: his offseason working on getting better, working with his brother
Speaker 1: who's an All Pro receiver, Stefan Diggs. With the Bills,
Speaker 1: he talked about he had his hands on fourteen balls
Speaker 1: last year. He's like, man, I only got three picks.
Speaker 1: That's not good enough. I need to be better at it.
Speaker 1: So I love his competitiveness. I think Anthony Brown is
Speaker 1: trying to make people remember the Hey, I'm not chopped
Speaker 1: liver out here. I'm trying to compete for a spot.
Speaker 1: Boss Man Fat's got a little bit of work to do,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. N Sean Right, Let's see what he
Speaker 1: does when the pads come on. He's been impressive so far.
Speaker 1: I like what I see, but let's see what happens
Speaker 1: when the pads come on. And the same thing for
Speaker 1: boss Man Fat, who they took in the second round
Speaker 1: of the quarter position. So once again, with the pads beyond,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be real interescing Malik Turner, number seventeen wide
Speaker 1: receiver the Cowboys from Illinois. He's made some nice plays,
Speaker 1: but let's see how he does when you catch this
Speaker 1: all and there's a lit put on you. Let's see
Speaker 1: how this goes here with the hats are there. So
Speaker 1: so I'm very interested to see how a couple of
Speaker 1: guys look. But I'll say this, overall, Danny, I think
Speaker 1: you should feel good that the defense already looks better.
Speaker 1: They look better, they look like they have a clue
Speaker 1: that they want to do out here last year where
Speaker 1: people were not buying in to Mike Nolan at all,
Speaker 1: and that's a good sign. That's a good sign because
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like our defense is going against
Speaker 1: you know, some whole hum offense over there. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got and if we stay healthy, I think one
Speaker 1: of the top ten offenses out there with all those
Speaker 1: receiving options, tight end, running back. But we got out there.
Speaker 1: So if they're performing well against our offense, now granted,
Speaker 1: like you said, there's no pads on, but if they're
Speaker 1: you know, performing well together and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of busted plays out there, I mean, Danny, you could
Speaker 1: be onto something. I highly doubt it, but you could
Speaker 1: be onto something about this top ten. It's a hard job.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's you're asking for a lot, man,
Speaker 1: you're asking for no listen, let me tell you something, y'all.
Speaker 1: Y'all just sung because y'all, y'all drunk that kool aid
Speaker 1: last year. I didn't drink it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I'm okay. I'm okay because I was right last
Speaker 1: year and I believe I'm gonna be right again this year.
Speaker 1: And y'all just scared to put your toe in because
Speaker 1: you already know you got burned one time. And that's fine.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna take y'all a little time to
Speaker 1: get on board. But I'll hold a seat for y'all
Speaker 1: on his on his bandwagon, real quick, real, real quick. Man.
Speaker 1: I've seen seen some reports out there. How's my boy
Speaker 1: Double G doing out there? He looked like he was
Speaker 1: slanging the rock a little bit and that in that
Speaker 1: video you sent the So has he been doing it
Speaker 1: or is nobody really noticed Double G out there? I
Speaker 1: told him I don't think the backup Dallas Cowboys on
Speaker 1: the roster, But I don't think that's back Wow. That's
Speaker 1: how they the whole. I look at Garrett Gilbert as
Speaker 1: this is back in the day. It's a girl you
Speaker 1: you guys went out on dates, you didn't call your girlfriend.
Speaker 1: You guys had good times, you know that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: because you were always looking for the upgrade. And that's
Speaker 1: how I look at Garrett Gilbert. G gilbs a guy
Speaker 1: that got him out here. Now he's the dude, Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: They are there, you know, that's the guy. They're dating them.
Speaker 1: They feel good, we like you he that that. But
Speaker 1: if somebody else gets out there on the open market
Speaker 1: that McCarthy feels like it's better will mclago going they
Speaker 1: pulled the trigger, then you know a buy double g
Speaker 1: by Cooper Rush. That's how I feel. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like these guys are sitting here like, oh yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the guy. The Nucci's gonna be on the team.
Speaker 1: You know, benj Nuci's gonna be But but but I
Speaker 1: do not feel as though Dack's backup is currently on
Speaker 1: this football team. That answer your question, That answer your question.
Speaker 1: That looks okay, it looks it looks, it looks okay.
Speaker 1: You know, it looks fine. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: that's I think they're gonna be They're gonna be looking,
Speaker 1: They're gonna search the way room. Hopefully, well, hopefully we
Speaker 1: don't have to know. Hopefully we don't have to see
Speaker 1: it back up in there. You know, hopefully, my boy,
Speaker 1: you know, Dak stays healthy throughout the year. But I
Speaker 1: think it could be a solid option, you know, Church,
Speaker 1: don't don't worry. Church, You're gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: time to see double g Okay, you get a lot
Speaker 1: of time during this preseason to see Double gets the reps.
Speaker 1: So don't you worry. You'll know by the end of
Speaker 1: the preseason if he's ready, Yes, he will. He will
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Speaker 1: am in Oxtar, California with the Dallas Cowboys. Here on
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Speaker 1: he will play in the preseason. He wants to play
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Mike McCarthy says, yes, he will. They
Speaker 1: would not give us any timetable about how much, how long,
Speaker 1: or when he would play. I don't anticipate him to
Speaker 1: be out there against the Pittsburgh's Tea was in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game. So Barry church Day would create
Speaker 1: two former Dallas Cowboys safeties. How would you proceed in
Speaker 1: getting your quarterbacks some work coming off that devastating ankle
Speaker 1: injury as you get ready for the season, and you've
Speaker 1: made him the highest paid player in the national football
Speaker 1: church well, I think you get Even though I said,
Speaker 1: you know, minicamp, I don't want anybody near him. I
Speaker 1: don't want people touching them. I think in the preseason
Speaker 1: you gotta get him at least three at least three series.
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's you know, one in the second
Speaker 1: game and then you know two in that third warm
Speaker 1: up game that they always say the starters play the
Speaker 1: first half, you gotta get him at least three series
Speaker 1: just to get him out there. Hackling made it to
Speaker 1: UH to a live rush. You know, guys coming at them,
Speaker 1: hands flying all over the place. I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna veer away, you know from the quarterback like they
Speaker 1: do in practice. You know, they're not even They're gonna
Speaker 1: come at you full fourth. So for me, I think
Speaker 1: you gotta get them ready for that because once the
Speaker 1: regular season jumps around, you don't want him to be
Speaker 1: you know, you know, jittery in game one. You don't
Speaker 1: want them to have the you know, the yips in
Speaker 1: Game one where oh man, this guy was close to
Speaker 1: my ankle. I don't you know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: she should do. Should I just go down? So to me,
Speaker 1: I think you gotta get all of that out in
Speaker 1: the preseason. Um. You know, if you now, if he's
Speaker 1: get out there getting lit up, you know, take him
Speaker 1: out immediately. But I think you gotta get him at
Speaker 1: least three series just to get him acclimated to it.
Speaker 1: Get him back then you know, an emotion of things,
Speaker 1: throwing it to those wide receivers, throwing it to those
Speaker 1: tight ends we got. So we'll see what they do.
Speaker 1: But I say three series. Yeah, I'm with you, Church,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't even spread it out over two games.
Speaker 1: I would give him three series in one game, and
Speaker 1: then those three series. The smartest thing you could do
Speaker 1: is run, run past like quick slant, uh run screen,
Speaker 1: quick slant and run and get him out of there,
Speaker 1: just to get him a feel for some get him
Speaker 1: two or three throws, get your screen game going so
Speaker 1: you don't risk him taking any unnecessary punishment. Save him
Speaker 1: for the season, because we've seen exactly what happens when
Speaker 1: you don't have him for the season. And when Romo
Speaker 1: went down, we were lucky to have that Prescott. This time,
Speaker 1: we don't we, Louis says, the back of quarterback is
Speaker 1: not even on the roster, so I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's worth it to risk it. Get him in there,
Speaker 1: make sure nobody's around him, get the ball of his
Speaker 1: hands quick, get him to the sideline and getting ready
Speaker 1: for Temple. And that's only if that whole offensive line
Speaker 1: is ready and right there. Now, if any of those
Speaker 1: guys for some you know, crazy reason you know, aren't playing,
Speaker 1: or they got injured during camp or something like that,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't risk putting him out there. That The only
Speaker 1: way I'm putting him out there is if he got
Speaker 1: that full healthy offensive line there just because I ain't
Speaker 1: trying to risk something crazy happening. But you know, but they,
Speaker 1: like you said to man, they got to get him
Speaker 1: a couple plays in there during this preseason. So a
Speaker 1: question I'm gonna ask Mike McCarthy later on is, Mike,
Speaker 1: what is your football team? Is it a running team
Speaker 1: or a passing team? Which isn't? And I had a
Speaker 1: little debate with Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News,
Speaker 1: and Calvin's like, hey, man, you pay Dak all this money,
Speaker 1: you go out there, you throw the ball. And I said, man,
Speaker 1: dude's coming off ankles and ankles injury. And I said,
Speaker 1: why not take twenty one who looks good and really
Speaker 1: run the football. You got a seventeen game season here.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be timing up to get Dak going. I
Speaker 1: said it, but man to I want to run the
Speaker 1: football and protect Dak Prescott and also protecting my defense
Speaker 1: by by chewing up the clock. So in your opinion, guys,
Speaker 1: what kind of football teams should the Cowboys be offensively,
Speaker 1: especially these first four games to start the season. But Craig,
Speaker 1: you know me, you know me. Listen, the best Cowboys
Speaker 1: team that I've seen or been around. Were run first
Speaker 1: teams all right. We had the most dominant, nasty offensive line.
Speaker 1: We would move the move the line of scrimmage, boom,
Speaker 1: first down three yards, second down four yards, and everything
Speaker 1: was third and short. So it was easy for Dak
Speaker 1: to make those completions, easy for Romo to make those completions.
Speaker 1: Control the clock and move down the field. I think
Speaker 1: when you get behind the six and your incomplete pass
Speaker 1: on first down, incomplete pass on second down, then you
Speaker 1: run into these issues that we've been seeing over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. So get me. Dominate the offensive line,
Speaker 1: dominate the line of scrimmage, and then work the offense
Speaker 1: off of that. Oh hey, I got some breaking out.
Speaker 1: Let me let me get you. Just got this from
Speaker 1: Joe Trey Handy, outstanding pr man for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Mitch Hyatt is going to injured reserve. Malik Hooker is
Speaker 1: officially signed. He will wear number twenty eight, So number
Speaker 1: twenty eight on your roster. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: Malik Hooker at defensive backfield and Mitch Hyatt is going
Speaker 1: to the tackle. Mitch high is going to the injured reserve.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Well, in a in a spirit
Speaker 1: of competition here we go. I mean, CAZy now now
Speaker 1: it's official. Now it's official. Hooker's gonna be back there,
Speaker 1: and I assume they're going to be battling it out
Speaker 1: with him in Kaz because you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: you know Wilson. I don't think he's always calling them
Speaker 1: earlier unicorns or they don't got to he won't have
Speaker 1: his position taken. But between those two, at that whole safety,
Speaker 1: that should be a great competition between both of them.
Speaker 1: And it's official now, I mean, you gotta put Kazy
Speaker 1: on waiver. Now it's gonna be official to see what
Speaker 1: happens for the rest of his camp. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put Kazy on waivers. I mean, nah,
Speaker 1: it was a bad term. I mean, not in waiver.
Speaker 1: But you gotta put them on on alert. I mean
Speaker 1: put him on alert, not not waiver, whis put him
Speaker 1: on alert. But oh he's on alert right, there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of them on alert. Okay, But I think this
Speaker 1: is the positive. First off, you got Kazy and Hooker
Speaker 1: both coming off Achilles, so we've got to see how
Speaker 1: both of these guys respond. But the opportunity is there
Speaker 1: put it like this, This feels so much better than
Speaker 1: last year what we saw with a click dicks. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got guys, we've got opportunities, and we've got to
Speaker 1: see exactly what people can do. So that's it. That
Speaker 1: to me, this is this is exactly what you want
Speaker 1: with a defense that had so many issues last year. Hey, fellas,
Speaker 1: we just throwing chumm in the water and let's see
Speaker 1: who who who goes and gets him. You know, let's
Speaker 1: let's see let's see who's gonna go ahead, get out there,
Speaker 1: improve and show what they can do. By the way,
Speaker 1: Hooker's got a mask on. He's kind of off to
Speaker 1: the side and so so very little participation in no helmet,
Speaker 1: So I just want to make sure I put that
Speaker 1: out there as well. But Hooker is Hooker's out here, baby,
Speaker 1: he's out here here. And you gotta believe, you know,
Speaker 1: Kzy kind of kind of has the leg up in
Speaker 1: this in this competition at least early on, because you
Speaker 1: know he's been under Quinn, he's been under that system.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he said he's not going to
Speaker 1: bring that a specific Atlanta defense here to Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but he's got to put it in some type of traits,
Speaker 1: some type of principles of his defense back here with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and I gotta believe CAZy knows about those
Speaker 1: as well, So I think he has a up early on.
Speaker 1: We'll see how how Hooker can battle back in this one. Now, Now,
Speaker 1: that was Church, because I want to know he thinks
Speaker 1: he should be a running team or a fasting team. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm with y'all. I'm with y'all a hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: think we should be, you know, a running team. As
Speaker 1: we've seen in the past when our defense has had
Speaker 1: their most success was when you know Ezekiel Elliott or
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray. They were pounding that rock and they were
Speaker 1: they were letting the defense get a big break in
Speaker 1: as far as time is concerned, and we go out there,
Speaker 1: we get a takeaway and get it right back to them,
Speaker 1: so we ate up that time and possession. It helped
Speaker 1: our defense out and I think that's when we get
Speaker 1: the best and our most potential from our offense. But
Speaker 1: if y'all think Jerry Jones paid, it made Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: the highest paid quarterback in the National Football League history.
Speaker 1: To watch him turn around and hand the ball off
Speaker 1: to Ezekiel Elliott. You're crazy. And then we also got
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator who thinks it's Madden out here, who
Speaker 1: loves to throw the ball, even on fourth or one,
Speaker 1: loves with the ball. So if y'all think we're about
Speaker 1: to turn to go around and turn and turn around
Speaker 1: and hand this ball out to Zekiel Elliott, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: It should be a running team, but he's gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing that ball all over the yard. I can assume
Speaker 1: forty to fifty times a game. Listen, it's it's possible, Church,
Speaker 1: I mean, gave you gave him Mark Cooper one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars and let him run slants all day. So
Speaker 1: I'll be you never know he we are going to
Speaker 1: the eighth throw. We're gonna be coming back over here
Speaker 1: like man what. We'll get the dub. We'll get the win,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be tighter than it needed to be.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Zeke's gonna get the touches that
Speaker 1: he thinks he's gonna receive. Church, I want to also
Speaker 1: go back in preference what I said. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: this first four games. Okay, especially had the first month
Speaker 1: of the evening and just talking about the whole season. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: in a seventeen game season. I'm thinking, okay, look, let's
Speaker 1: just just just kind of ease this thing in here
Speaker 1: with Dak that we're keeping him at thirty throws and
Speaker 1: under in a football game, and really trying to utilize
Speaker 1: what you have with Ezekiel Ellie, with Tony Pollar and
Speaker 1: even what you touched on Danny in terms of preseason. Actually, hey,
Speaker 1: how can we get the ball out here quicker? How
Speaker 1: can we figure out a way to help our quarterback
Speaker 1: and keep him as clean as possible. We've already seen
Speaker 1: how guys can't get through sixteen games in this league.
Speaker 1: So many quarterbacks have an issues here. I want to do,
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, coming out here facing a
Speaker 1: team like Tampa Bay. You then next up, you gotta
Speaker 1: come out here back to LA You're gonna face some Chargers,
Speaker 1: You're gonna face some quality defenses out of the game.
Speaker 1: To me, turn this thing around handed to twenty one,
Speaker 1: or utilize the screen game with twenty one and twenty
Speaker 1: and and really just try to keep Dax throws under.
Speaker 1: When you start talking about forty fifty times a game,
Speaker 1: that's more and more opportunities for guys to get back
Speaker 1: here and and hit and hit four. I need for healthy,
Speaker 1: especially towards the end. We talked about how tough the
Speaker 1: Cowboy schedule is at the back end with a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of these NFC East games. That's what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get to. If I'm Mike McCarthy right now, is hey,
Speaker 1: let's pace this thing. It's a long marathon. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of games, and what is it, maybe
Speaker 1: nine games a row after the buys that they're at.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking long term about trying
Speaker 1: to trying to save number four and have him, you know,
Speaker 1: playing at a premium level at the back end of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, let me tell you something. Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: out throwing about forty times a game. We are losing.
Speaker 1: We headed for six to eleven. I'm just telling if
Speaker 1: you have to throw the ball forty times per game
Speaker 1: four to fifteen, we're seeing that game in the game out.
Speaker 1: One our defense is they're not playing the way that
Speaker 1: they should play, and we are having to take too
Speaker 1: many risks to try to get us to win the
Speaker 1: win the football game. So if you see those numbers,
Speaker 1: you can guarantee that we are probably not first an
Speaker 1: NFC East and not in the Super Bowl running. And
Speaker 1: I'm with y'all on that. I'm with y'all. I think
Speaker 1: you know, we need to turn around, hand this ball
Speaker 1: out to Zeke, maybe limit the throws to maybe twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty five to maybe even thirty a game if that.
Speaker 1: But I just don't. I gotta see it. I gotta
Speaker 1: see it to believe it. We've seen it happen last
Speaker 1: year with McCarthy said, Oh yeah, we're gonna be handing
Speaker 1: this thing off to Zeke. This's gonna be a run team.
Speaker 1: And look what we did, even before Dak got hurt,
Speaker 1: we were throwing the ball all over the yard. So
Speaker 1: I got, like Louis says, I gotta see it to
Speaker 1: believe it. Hopefully we go the running route, but we'll see, well,
Speaker 1: we will see it depends on the health of the
Speaker 1: on line. I'll go there, because you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, we weren't we weren't
Speaker 1: healthy enough to be running the ball like like we
Speaker 1: should have. We weren't moving a line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 1: then we also had Zeke out there fumbling, you know,
Speaker 1: almost every time he touched the ball. So hopefully this
Speaker 1: year is different. We have a full, healthy offensive line
Speaker 1: and they're able to move that line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: create some gaps for Zeque, so we can keep handing
Speaker 1: it to him because I think the minute you see
Speaker 1: him get a one yard game or two yard games,
Speaker 1: when they start going straight to the past. Yes. Um,
Speaker 1: you guys, we were kind of touching on this in
Speaker 1: our break a little bit here the Olympics today. I
Speaker 1: haven't had an opportunity to pay a whole lot of
Speaker 1: attention to it because I'm out here, but I did
Speaker 1: get that early morning alert on my phone about someone
Speaker 1: Biles who decided to exit the team competition in Team
Speaker 1: USA ended up getting a silver. Russia won it, and
Speaker 1: it was not an injury for someone Biles. She said,
Speaker 1: quote Physically, I feel good. Emotionally, it varies on the
Speaker 1: time and moments. Coming to the Olympics and being such
Speaker 1: a star isn't an easy feat. Wow, somemone Biles letting
Speaker 1: you know that her mental health has been something that
Speaker 1: she's got to look at. Here. What is your opinion,
Speaker 1: because you guys are former athletes, and you've played with
Speaker 1: guys who were the you know, expected to carry out here.
Speaker 1: What is that like when all of the expectations are
Speaker 1: on you to perform and be a star. The people
Speaker 1: have wanted her to be the star of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one Tokyo Games. Your thoughts church starting, Oh well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I was never at the level
Speaker 1: she was as far as stardom, and so I can
Speaker 1: I can only imagine, you know, the type of pressure
Speaker 1: in the weight that was on her shoulders. I mean
Speaker 1: coming into this, to this Olympics, that's all you heard,
Speaker 1: and it was postponed a year. This was supposed to
Speaker 1: happen last year, and she was supposed to, you know,
Speaker 1: get all this recognition, but then we come around one
Speaker 1: more year and it's just built up even more. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got basically the whole United States, you know, gymnastic
Speaker 1: gymnastics back order, just a gymnastics team and everybody putting
Speaker 1: their their weight on you to perform. And it's got
Speaker 1: to be it's got to be immense. It's got to
Speaker 1: have immense pressure to it. And you added, honest, the Olympics,
Speaker 1: so it's not just the American audience watching this this
Speaker 1: the whole world watching you perform and wanting you to
Speaker 1: be the you know, the the woman, you know, the
Speaker 1: the child is out there in front of everybody, so
Speaker 1: it has to be it has to have immense pressure
Speaker 1: on her. And I can only imagine what her what
Speaker 1: was going through her mind, you know, performing and while
Speaker 1: waiting to get on the on that last stage. So
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. It's gotta be tough. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's a little bit extreme for for for the young
Speaker 1: for the young female athletes like Osaka and and and
Speaker 1: someone viols and in the sense that not they aren't
Speaker 1: expected to just win. They are pretty much expected to
Speaker 1: be perfect every time they step out there, right, So
Speaker 1: if you even I said, I'm watching Simone Biles out there,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, oh, yeah, she took an extra step here,
Speaker 1: extra step there. Oh she's not performing as well, but
Speaker 1: you see her score and her score is still above
Speaker 1: everybody else's. It's just the expectations that we put on
Speaker 1: these on these young ladies, and it's it gets to
Speaker 1: them too, because they want to perform up to the
Speaker 1: high level as well, and when they don't or when
Speaker 1: they make a mistake, I think they feel the way
Speaker 1: to the world coming down on them. So I just
Speaker 1: can't imagine how intense those emotions are and how they
Speaker 1: feel well, you know, going through this process. But I'm
Speaker 1: definitely pray informed and hoping that Smone Biles gets it
Speaker 1: right and she can come back and perform up to
Speaker 1: the ability that she sees herself during this season. Small
Speaker 1: Biles lives out in the Houston, Texas area. I was
Speaker 1: lucky enough to take my family, my three girls and
Speaker 1: my wife, we went to go see her and at
Speaker 1: Dicky's Arena for Warts where they had the USA Gymnastics
Speaker 1: at the National Championships, and I said to my second child,
Speaker 1: and it's just and I just remember these words clearly,
Speaker 1: and I said, it's amazing to watch her performer. All
Speaker 1: these eyes are looking exactly at her, and she's expected
Speaker 1: to win every time, every whether she's winning the being,
Speaker 1: whether she's winning the vault. Before it's that said, that's
Speaker 1: hard that you're expected to be number one each time.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she does it. And now that
Speaker 1: she's gotten to the Olympics and you see that it's
Speaker 1: weighing on her, I understand it one hundred percent. And
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope people out there on social media
Speaker 1: are understanding of this is a woman who's been carrying
Speaker 1: this for a long time and what it is like
Speaker 1: to be in her shoes, to be in Michael phelps shoes,
Speaker 1: where NBC and the world are expecting you to be
Speaker 1: the star, and when you don't get anything less than
Speaker 1: a gold medal, it's considered a disappointment. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: having that type of pressure. It's almost like the Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods when Tiger Woods was golfing and we were watching him.
Speaker 1: Hey man, we're expecting Tiger to win, even though we
Speaker 1: know it's hard to win every week, but we expect that.
Speaker 1: We put that kind of pressure on the athlete, and
Speaker 1: that's that's a challenge here. So hopefully some of them
Speaker 1: can can can get what she needs to feel good
Speaker 1: and and finish these Olympic Games and get a couple
Speaker 1: of gold medals. Yeah. I'll tell you who who who
Speaker 1: should who should be mentor them and who has the
Speaker 1: most advice and experience from those situations of Serena Williams,
Speaker 1: because she went through that and it still is going
Speaker 1: through that well. I still expect Serena Willis to beat
Speaker 1: those I can get that and get that next Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: Every time she walks out there, and she's she's been
Speaker 1: doing it for so long, She's went through her ups
Speaker 1: and bounds, handle it, and I think she has some
Speaker 1: good advice for those two very true. Yeah, I tell you,
Speaker 1: I look at it, guy like Tom Brady, the same
Speaker 1: thing you know to be To be that good that
Speaker 1: long at any sport, it's hard, and I just I
Speaker 1: just can't imagine it. But I think Michael Phelps would
Speaker 1: be if there was someone that some owe bios could
Speaker 1: get on the phone with and talk about having to
Speaker 1: understand what it is to have to in someone's carry
Speaker 1: the games, to have the programming network program all around you. Um,
Speaker 1: that could that could be a phone call that that
Speaker 1: could help. And I remember Michael Phelps talking about his
Speaker 1: own challenges mentally to live up to that and Ray
Speaker 1: Lewis had helped him. So I just hope someone can
Speaker 1: get there to some own biles and and just just
Speaker 1: help her get through this process because she's a tremendous
Speaker 1: athlete and I just I just uh, I just respect
Speaker 1: her greatness so much and just to watch fellas, I
Speaker 1: can't tell you what it is like to watch it
Speaker 1: in person and to see the whole arena, to see
Speaker 1: how everyone was fixated. Because when they're performing every there's
Speaker 1: all you know, there's all sorts of exo. Somebody's on
Speaker 1: the vault, somebody's do on the floor exercise, somebody's on
Speaker 1: the balance being. But wherever Simone was, that was where
Speaker 1: the eyes were. It was almost like we didn't even
Speaker 1: care about the other ladies out there on the floor,
Speaker 1: and and the cheers were for her. I mean, somebody's
Speaker 1: coming off a great you know, balance being. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, whatever, where was Simons where we're watching the vault?
Speaker 1: That's a challenge. That is a challenge, and so I
Speaker 1: wish her well here. All right, we are, we're over
Speaker 1: our time here, a minute over our time. We will
Speaker 1: get back on Thursday and the pads will be popping,
Speaker 1: so it'll be the second pad at practice when they
Speaker 1: get after it on Thursday. So we'll have some more
Speaker 1: things to talk about. As we've died heavily into the
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive line's because I think that's where the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys can improve this football team to go from
Speaker 1: six and ten to a playoff team. All right, three
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