WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Finding Success? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.360 The following he's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:25.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club, blowing out of the backfield. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:30.760 Next flooding down the sidelines, He's hanging with the Boys, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.120 presented by Wing Stuff where Flavor gets its wings. Now 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:46.560 your hosts Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, Jesse Holly, and Shannon Gross. Monday, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:52.559 Welcome to the s WBC Mortgage Living Room, Live in Prisco, Texas. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:58.160 Shannon Gross joined by my buddies, Kurt Daniels, Nate Newton, 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.240 Jesse Holly. How you do with fellows? How are we 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.600 well on Monday? How you doing? How you doing all right? 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.160 All right? What's up? What's up? What's up? Doing great? 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.440 Doing great? Um? Just trying to figure out what we're 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.160 going to talk about. Things are starting to get repetitive. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.440 It's like every week we talk about dak because there's 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.200 no contract on. We talk about Aldon Smith, we talk 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.720 about is this team going to be ready to play football? 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.039 So what, Kurt, where do you want to start? Should 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.240 we go completely off topic or should we hit one 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.360 of these things We've been talking about for the last 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.320 seems like three or four weeks. I don't know. How 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.119 you feel like you're kind of you're right, it's repetitive. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.920 But McCarthy did just talk this week or last week. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.080 He did an interview with the media and I don't know, 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.800 kind of reaffirming what Jesse was talking about in the 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.000 show a week before about how I don't know, it's 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.400 kind of an exciting feeling of what he's bringing. I mean, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:02.160 he's he's I think he's sort of amenity is a 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.200 little behind. Um, just because he hadn't even had a 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.440 full meeting yet with his team. I think he said 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:12.320 his WebEx wouldn't a comedy ninety players, so um, he's 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.200 having to do it kind of piecemeal. But he seems 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.840 to like the progress that's being made. He's trying to, uh, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:22.120 you know, maximize his time, trying to plan ahead and 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.120 stay adaptable. I hope it works out. I mean, you 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.040 guys worried about this at all? I mean, is it? 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:32.079 I guess everybody's in the same boat. His guys with 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.919 that has that as smart as Einstein, and then the 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:45.000 guys that are dominant bricks. He will wait, did it start? 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:51.400 You're gonna find a hear go be too happy? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.600 I'm just being in the locker room. And Jesse, you 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.920 can attest it is being in the locker room guys 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.519 who dress and always look sharp, and they don't. It 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:11.359 ain't always sharp. No, But to Kurt, to kurtch point, 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.240 you know, and that this isn't in the Cowboys locker room, right, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.680 that's in all thirty two NFL teams locker room. You 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.280 have the rights, and you have the not so brights, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.040 and you have those who pick it up easy and 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.600 those who don't pick it up so easy. Um again 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.320 that the hardest part about this entire transition is unlike, 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.200 for example, a team like New Orleans or a team 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.560 like Kansas City or a team like Seattle, who who 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.520 didn't have a whole overhaul, right, and a lot of 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.560 their core guys are guys who have been under the 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.440 same system, in the same system, under the same coaches 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.920 for a large majority of their career. So when you're 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.720 talking about trying to get a leg up or you know, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.040 get back into some sort of mold, whenever this thing, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:00.720 you know, opens back up up really soon, for a 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:06.080 lot of these teams, you know, those guys, the learning curve, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.720 the learning period won't be as drastic as you say, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.920 for a team like this, who has a whole new 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.600 overhaul offensively, defensively, special teams. So you know, you kind 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.400 of want to get in and want to get these 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.920 guys goment so that you're able to speed up that process. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.320 So you know, as a coach, how could because the 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.160 thing is is that you want to be able to 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.560 fairly evaluate your talent based on the things that you've 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.200 seen them do under your tutelage and in your system. Right, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:38.159 So it's so hard to evaluate a guy. And as 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.760 we get closer and closer and closer to training camp, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.360 coaches use that ota. The mini camps, the rookie mini camps, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.600 all those are evaluation periods and you get a chance 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.920 to put your eyes on gods and you can say 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.120 to yourself, we like him, we don't like him. He's 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.080 going to be a good asset. He might not be 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.440 a good asset. We want this guy to be around, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.479 but we gotta work harder than him. And this so 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.360 being not being able to have these guys around and 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.479 seeing them literally put in the white of your eyes 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.480 on these guys each and every day, it makes it 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.000 a lot harder when they come to the evaluation process. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.320 Now you might have to almost rush things when you 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.120 get in the training camp because you're saying, I don't 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.080 have time to fully evaluate this guy, and I don't 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.760 have time to fully see this guy immersed into my system, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.600 because they're gonna be a lot of nervous guys. When 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.560 you get into a new offense and you get into 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.400 a new system, they're gonna be a lot of guys 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.160 who just don't know it, don't understand it, and are 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.320 gonna be a little bit apprehensive in their approach to 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.760 You know, a coach always tell you, I want you 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.080 to know this so you can play at your fastest. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.080 When you know to steal a Jason Garrett turn. When 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.680 you know that you know that you know that you 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.200 know you play at you play at a speed much 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.800 greater than those who are thinking they know or trying 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.400 to figure out as they go. So that's the biggest 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.440 thing about this process is is how can I fully 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.880 evalue guys that I have not actually seen, not only 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:07.520 physically but mentally, and how they fit in my scheming, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.680 in my system. Then you gotta be you gotta be 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.760 careful when to see when when when they do start 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.760 training who's in this type of shape, who's not in 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.120 this type of shape? Because who is ready to go 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.599 doing training camp? Who is not ready to go? It 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.919 is so many factors playing into these guys with a 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.800 new coaching staff. I mean from top to bottom, like Jennie, 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.240 from special teams up to the offense cluding your defense. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.160 Now now you this this thing is gonna be funny. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.680 Uh and you're you're gonna want to kind of beat 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.360 up personally if they will let us in. I let 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.839 us building. You want to see this for yourself how 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.320 this thing builds up week by week once they get back. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.200 I'm gonna try to be in every little thing I 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.160 can be in because I don't want to get in 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.280 no second hand. I want to see for myself how 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.600 these guys fit in. Because we're all excited about the 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.240 new coaching staff. But what's gonna be the biggest deal 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.279 is not so much offensive, but what Mike Nolan gonna 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.520 bring defensive, what coach Fossill go bring to the special 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.320 team for veteran players to be a part of it. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.800 And they're gonna spend a lot of training camp getting 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.480 guys in shape. I'm sorry, but I promise you I 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.200 promise you. I promise you. Guys, there are a large 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.960 majority of guys who won't be in shape. There are 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.720 a lot, like we see the video clips come out 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.880 every once in a while, a lot of these cats 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.960 ain't working out hard. A lot of these cats don't 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.800 have themselves in the shape that they're gonna need to 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.520 be in heading into training camp. So as another factor 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.040 is is how do we training will this thing? Because 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.040 you want guys to go full speed, but you talk 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.840 about you know, we've had soft tissue issues here in 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:52.560 cowboy Land before. You're gonna see a lot of soft groins, hamstrings, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.840 calves of that type of nature. Because you're gonna go 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.560 from doing absolutely nothing or very little to now ramping 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.720 it up to one hundred miles an hour when you 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.000 have another guy in front of you, and that competition 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.720 breeds for you to go an extra You know your 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.440 your your RPMs get ramped up a lot. So do 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.200 you know they're gonna spend a lot of this time 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.120 getting the condition? Do you think that now this will 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.280 never happen? But do you think in a perfect world 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.120 they would training camp would be longer or are they 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.280 gonna have to spend more time with the conditioning part 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.080 before they can really get in the meat and potatoes. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.160 I mean, I mean, the thing is is that if 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.200 you push training camp to be longer, that mean you 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.120 have to push the season back something so that that 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.840 that throws off everything. I think they're gonna still try 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.840 to get Maybe they you know, maybe they move it 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.880 up a little bit. You know, it normally starts in 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.560 you know, kind of that mid July ish time. Maybe 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.400 they may move it up to early July to give 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.840 you another week or so into it. I don't I 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.520 don't know how the players will react to that. Some 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.400 maybe open to that and welcome to that. But again, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.160 a lot of the onus comes to your big you 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.480 know it should be and it's not because we are 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:09.120 creatures of habit as athletes. While we our entire lives. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.000 As far as athletes, we are able to function at 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.559 a high level. But it's always been instructional. Someone has 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.720 always been there to hey, you got to be here 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.120 at six am. A strength coach is there, a training 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.000 a trainer is there? A nutritionist is there? Someone feeds you, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.800 someone lifts you, someone you know, everything is we come 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.360 in and we're able to do it at a level 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.480 higher than other people, but there's always been a set 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.160 of structure and someone there to implement it, you know, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.600 for happening. A lot of these guys don't know how 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.480 to function on their own. A lot of these guys 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.920 don't know what it is to really have to turn 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.040 over that, you know, turn into that new person where 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.240 you're the only one that's accountable for you. It's different 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.520 when you just kind of you know, you can come 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.480 and do your job as far as a player, but 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.920 getting yourself in shape, you know, running their routes and 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.720 I know that everyone has a different sort of trainer 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.480 and stuff like that, but are these guys and there 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.200 are some I'm not saying, oh, there are some that 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.480 are putting in the proper work because they you know, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.839 whether it's contract year or you know, guys are trying 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.480 to just kind of back better. But there are a lot, 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.080 especially when we're talking about the younger guys who are 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.000 just learning what it means to be a professional. There 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.720 are a lot of those guys who are like, yeah, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.679 I work out on Monday and Tuesday real hard, but 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.320 you won't I want nothing again until Saturday. So that's 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.480 taking you know, taking a step forward and then two 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.439 steps back when it comes to condition and in stript 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.960 training and all that kind of stuff. And again when 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.839 you get to massing those bodies together, those three hundred 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.520 pound guys, those two hundred fifty pound guys, and now 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.400 you know your little thirty minute workout doesn't compare to 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.360 when you run over five to ten miles in routes 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.640 all day. Your legs are heavy, and that's when those 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.640 tough tissue issues come up, come about with the hamstrings 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.920 and the calves and the groins and all the other stuff. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.160 And now you'll be seeing a lot of guys now 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.640 meeting days off and he's going to be out for 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.280 a couple of days. That that kills you in the 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.880 sense of you had nothing prior to this to get 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.360 these guys the knowledge that they need for the offense, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.040 defense and or special teams. And now and I'm just 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.000 using this name, I'm not saying him. I'm just using 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:12.000 this name. But if Amari's now his quad is hurting, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.319 so now he has to sit out a week and 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.400 a half a training camp, I can't evaluate him. I 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.760 can't see what this offense and these plays look like 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.640 that we want to run with Amari that we put 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.240 in for Amari and all this other stuff. He's on 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.560 the sideline because he has a hamstring or a quad injury, 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.960 you know what I'm saying. So that's a lot of 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.480 that going to factor into what we do in these 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.079 next coming you know, next couple of weeks, a month. Yeah, 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.600 And when you heard what New Orleans coach Coach Payton said, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.360 he said because he has a core guys that know 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.040 what's expected, They know who they are and what they're about, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.520 and they have goals set in stone that they're all 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.240 trying to achieve. Those fifty to sixty guys core guys. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.280 When you got a guy with new coach and new 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.679 players and new systems, I'm with you one hundred percent, Jess. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.079 These guys are gonna be scrammling. And the ones that 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.200 are on the bubble golfer bids you coming out of 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.800 shape are not ready to go because they're gonna they're 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.240 gonna blow passion. Man, They're gonna blow passion. And I 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.079 would be in panic mode if just Nate person is 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.800 coming from where I came from, I would be kind 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.440 of panic mode. So I won't be my fattest of 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.600 my fattest like I know him to be Donna training Camp. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.959 I agree with Jesse Kirk like these guys, a lot 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.120 of them are gonna come in out of shape, because 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.679 I mean, Jesse proves it to us every Monday. If 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.760 you don't have someone sitting there making him get on 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.920 the call, he's not gonna show him off. And if 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.000 he shows Chris Bean's shout out to Chris Bean from 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.720 making sure I'm always on time. And even if he 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.200 shows up, if somebody's not there to put his camera 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.960 the white way, he's gonna show up with his camera sideways. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.400 Shout out to shout out of Chris Bean forgetting my 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.079 camera going the right way. Thank you Chris Bean. We 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.520 need listen, get into a Chris Beam in your life. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.720 If you get to a Chris Beam in your life, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.000 you will be okay. So signed the Chris Being and 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.160 make sure I'm one time signed the Chris Being to 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:16.080 make sure my camera is facing the lay. I've I've 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:19.320 been one to ask you guys this because I think 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.800 we're we're going to see some really bad football the 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.800 first several weeks of the season. Because I think with 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.520 what you guys said, I don't think training camp is 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.960 gonna be your normal training camp because they're gonna be 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.760 worried about getting these guys who shape. I don't. I 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.840 think they're probably gonna have to sacrifice some stuff in camp. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.280 Maybe you know, a little bit of time with tackling drills. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.000 Maybe it takes you an extra few days to get 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.000 everybody into shape to pass conditioning tests where they don't 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.520 get the reps they normally would. I think football will 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.120 will get back to the quality football that we're used 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.200 to seeing, but I think it may take a few 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.720 extra weeks. I mean, you see it now, whenever the 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.480 guys don't get the reps in preseason games, the tackling 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.480 is bad. You know, you have miscommunications on routes. What 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.920 do you guys think, as far as you know, when 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.360 the season does start the first few weeks, are we 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.760 gonna see some some bad football? I think we're gonna 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.000 see it. I think we're gonna see training camp. As 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.040 far as preseason games done differently, I think you're going 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.320 to see more of the veteran guys playing in more 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.480 of the games, more longer extended periods of time. You know, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.800 we always we always gear up for that third preseason 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.440 game the veteran game. I think you're gonna start seeing 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.120 those veteran guys because they didn't have any off season work, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.280 they didn't have an opportunity to get together and come together. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.360 I think that they're gonna use those games now again 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.160 working themselves back in shape, working themselves back in the rhythm. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.640 I think you're going to see a lot more guys, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.440 your your Drew Breeses and Michael Thomas's and Tyreek Hills 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.800 and of the world's Tom Brady's, of the world's playing 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.560 you know, in preseason game number one for two and 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.600 a half, quarters, in preseason game number two, four half, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.200 in preseason game number three four, you know, three quarters, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.880 and maybe even in preseason game number four for a 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.960 quarter or two. Just trying to get those guys back 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.720 in some sort of game like rhythm. And you know, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.080 there's only one way to get in football shape. Okay, guys, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.320 there's there's only one way. I don't care what you're doing. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.920 You know you can. It helps you if you contising 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.120 yourself in the off season. There's only one way to 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.200 get in football shape, and that's to actually play football. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.880 That is the only way. So to get guys and 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.040 in football shape. I just don't mean lung capacity, being 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.840 able to breathe. I mean just getting your body in 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.480 that to be able to take that trauma. When you 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.000 haven't literally hit anybody in months, your body begins to 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.680 heal itself and go back to the natural form. You 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.120 gotta get your shoulders. If you're a linebacker ready to 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.520 take on a block again, you know, get those your 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.080 arms being beat up in bruis, if you're a guard 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.680 or tackle from being punched and hit all day. You know, receivers, 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.240 your legs have to build that callous back up from 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.720 running all day long. So getting yourself in ball condition 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.160 can only happen if you're playing football. So I wouldn't 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.480 be surprised if we start seeing those pieces in games 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.480 use a lot differently this year than we have in 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.320 the past. What the thing about it is Cowboys got 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.160 the advantage due to the fact that they got in 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.840 the Hall of Fame game, right A. So they got 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.760 an extra week to put some things in place and 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.240 to do some things. And I don't know how they're 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.920 gonna play the players in the in the preseason, but 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.720 it would be to the Cowboys advantage, you know, to 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:32.760 make sure that guys use those extra preseason games, especially 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.440 these guys that you have on the bubble. We don't 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:40.400 want to come into this season, you know hearing that, Hey, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.880 well we're still trying to get guys right. You got 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.360 an extra week. You gotta have guys right, because the 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.560 way we start this season is going to dictate a 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.720 lot of how we finished this season. We can't do 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.680 what we did last year, start this great run, then 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:01.120 all of a sudden lose two or three games two 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.560 teams that are playoff ready and playoff bound. That's not happening. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.320 If you get behind this year, you're not catching up. Yeah, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.720 I see to lead at that's a good kind of 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.920 like that. That extra preseason game, the Hall of Fame 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.080 game has kind of looked at is a bad thing 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.040 because it messes our schedule. It adds an extra game 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.600 that you have potential for injuries and things like that. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.800 Really it's you know, the last preseason game. No one's 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.439 really making the team or not making the team that 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.080 that game anyway, because they pretty much have their minds 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.520 made up. So it's a great point. That's this is 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.760 actually an advantage I think this year because you get 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.439 an extra look at these guys and get them an 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.680 extra game to get them in shape. Right. I first 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.879 thought that everything would just maybe be simplified. They wouldn't, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.080 you know, get into as much expansion of the playbook 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.280 or whatever. But they do have Callen Moore coming back, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.040 and they say that, you know, the terminology of a 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:56.959 new coach is maybe the biggest thing is he has 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.520 different ways of doing things. But with more there, maybe 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.760 things won't change that much and maybe they can expand 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.600 it more than than we might think. Well, I'm not 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.880 worried about offensively, I'm not everything that I'm talking about. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:14.080 The special teams and and uh and the defensive coordinator 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.760 he's gonna try to bring it his three four concepts 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.080 because if we stay the same on defense, really you 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.120 got to put to put something. You got to put 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:32.280 some new that the special teams got. We got to start. 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:38.560 I started point on special teams, I return average twenty twenty. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.200 On the twenty two yard line, you can't start there. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.000 We give up the thirty five. And on the game 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.720 the twenty that's eight or nine ten yards a field 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.720 position right there before we even start the game. Panna 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:56.200 has to be one hundred percent better field goal guy 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.919 should we mention that? So, yeah, that's what that's the 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.119 big differences, not so much offensory is what got to 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.960 happen special teams in defensive Let's take a quick break, fellas. 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.560 I've got a question for you guys. I think everyone. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.960 Kirk's got a really cool poll some questions, and he's 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.800 got about ten questions for us he's going to bring 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.280 up later on in the show. One of the questions 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.679 is how many games with the Cowboys win in twenty 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.760 twenty and seventy three of the people that were polled 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.560 said ten to eleven. With McCarthy coming in not being 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.480 able to meet with the team, I think everyone expects 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.000 this team to be better than it was last year. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.639 I think the majority people think it should be a 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.679 lot better. Should we tap the brakes on the expectation 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.720 this first year? Just because McCarthy is getting a late 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.160 start and he's not able to get eyeballs on this team, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.280 He's not going to be able to evaluate these guys 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.080 and may not really know what kind of team he 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.480 has until close to if not into the season. 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