WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Remaining Needs? 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:20.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.840 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:34.280 Star in fris Joan Sat and now your hosts Isaiah 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.000 stand Back Heck, My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.159 It's a Monday morning edition of Talking Cowboys presented by 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:50.320 Geico from the SWDC Mortgage Studios at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.120 Kyle Yeomans, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, My Harrison and 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.320 then Aaron Gonzalez run of things in the back has 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.080 his combs open in my ear throughout the course of 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.720 the show. But we've got some fun things to talk 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.240 about throughout this show as well. We'll be on for 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.480 the next hour up until twelve thirty. And we've got 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.440 Rob Phillipson studio. How about that for the first time 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.840 since the pandemic and I am super excited about that. Rob. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.240 How are we doing today? It's good to see you 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.240 in person without a mask. I know it's kind of crazy. Yeah, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.800 we always is one thing, but actually in studio this 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.520 is this is special. Now we need to get all 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.000 four all four. Everybody, let's get the let's get the 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.319 band back, get the gang back together, or just together 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.080 for the first time, because we've had two shows over 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.959 the course of this crew that have been in person, 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.959 and that was in front of an RV outside. That 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.560 was the only times we've ever been. It was very 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.200 frigid out there, Kyle, it was frigid. And then the 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.199 other show you were like twenty five minutes late too, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.760 because you were running in the Tesla my zero to 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.440 sixty speed. Okay, don't you just me I'm jealous, Guys, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.160 I want to say that right now, Rob I'm jealous 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.040 that you are in studio. Zay has been in studio. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.840 I'm just I mean, at some point, man, you definitely 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.920 a step cousin right now. Heck, you're definitely a step cousin. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.440 How I'm feeling, I am feeling like but listen, talk 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.840 about Hey, look when we talk about getting the band 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.959 back together? By chance, Rob P, did you get a 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.920 chance to check out the Isley Brothers and Earth Wind 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.720 and Fire on versus last night on Instagram? I would 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.320 take that as a note no, no, hang on, hang on, no, no, no, no, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.240 I didn't know what I didn't see the I didn't 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.720 have the volume up, but I sure saw the visual. 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.519 Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. No, man, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.160 you talk about fun last night. I'm just for old school, 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.120 for the old school guys like myself. That Isasley Brothers, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.560 earth Wind and fire Man. It's like those are vintage 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.880 classic groups. They had a versus on Instagrams. It's a 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.040 good night for R and B. You know, look, man, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.720 I'm not a part of the TikTok generation, not either, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.880 speaking of speaking wait a minute, Wait a minute, though, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.520 wait a minute, but got a point to speaking of 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:04.080 TikTok generation ologie Kyle Yeoman's Hey guys, I love you 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.600 like a step nephew, But what are you doing? What 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:16.080 the things you do for love? Yeah? Zaiah, his bad 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.120 card is on a ninety days to speech? Whoas bringing up? 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.400 It's ninety days? Why back for ninety days? You you 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.359 you gotta you gotta see it to believe it. That's 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.880 all I gotta say about it. I RS just hit up, 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.720 just hit up his Instagram story and yeah, your day's 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.760 made basically, yeah, just just it's on the Instagram. It's 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.440 also on the Twitter. There's a couple of different versions. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.040 We get it multiple times. But I'm I'm just I'm 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:47.000 shocked that the confidence level wasn't awarded with this because 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.000 I felt like I got out there and I owned it. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.880 But that's okay, that's okay, I got I got some 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.120 positive feedback, that's true. That's true. That's a good point. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.800 I had some positive feedback from it. But it was fun. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.680 Basically for those of you listen thing who you aren't 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.640 and on the joke and go follow me at Kyle 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.200 Underscore Yeoman's and go look at the video. It was 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.600 a TikTok dance with my girlfriend Laurina, who basically during 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.119 Easter dinner was like, hey, let's go out and let's 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:13.760 go out and do a TikTok dance. So I did, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.280 and I owned it and it was fantastic. She was 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.240 way better than I was, which is understandable. But that's 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.960 what we did doing Eastern Gun. You're lucky. I can't 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.120 see stories on the computer. You gotta check it in 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.760 the break man. We'll pull it up and make sure 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.479 everybody does. But hope everybody had a very safe and 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.599 wonderful Easter weekend and was able to celebrate and or 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.159 relax and just have a good weekend. But well, the 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.520 Cowboys have another weekend on their schedule coming up in 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:45.240 twenty twenty one. Seventeen games approved through the NFL and 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.360 the owners meetings last week. That was something that we 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.360 all kind of knew was on the radar ever since 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.480 really the Collective Bargaining Agreement prior to the twenty twenty season, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.600 that seventeen games was going to be a thing. Well, Rob, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.560 it's now a thing. And the Cowboys are going to 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.440 play the New England Patriots on the road, So nine 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.080 road games, eight home games in twenty twenty one, something 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.080 that I know the Cowboys aren't necessarily excited about, but 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.000 the NFL is pretty excited about it. Oh, it's money, money, money, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.760 money for money, and it is one well it's not 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.520 one less preseason game this year, it will be going 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.440 forward because the Cowboys my understanding, they're still gonna have 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.080 four preseason games because of the Hall of Fame game, 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.080 which is always kind of like the kickoff, and then 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.440 you have the actual exhibition schedule. So I mean, look, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.760 it's not Tom Brady, but it's a lot of football, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.120 and it's it's the Pats on the road, and and 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.000 heck was going down the schedule, the road schedule, it 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.159 is not. It's not friendly for the Cowboys in twenty 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.400 twenty one, even though they've got technically a third place 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.520 scheduled this next coming season. Oh gosh. Yeah, if you 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.640 look at some of the teams that they're gonna they're 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.200 gonna face, it's something that you're gonna have to be 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.120 really really on point about if you're gonna find the 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:05.440 way around that schedule. Is that is that a January 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.640 game in New England? We don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.560 I think they're probably gonna announce the schedule in the 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.600 next month, if not before the draft, and probably after 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.800 last year it was right after my birthday, which is 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.560 the first week in May. That would suck. Just yes, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.679 for those that don't have never played in New England, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.359 that would that would be terrible. Actually back, but what 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.040 were we going to say about the opponents there? No, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.120 I mean, you talk about third place and typically you get, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.480 you know, maybe not the toughest schedule, but that is 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.000 we got a pretty were about our road games are 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:47.360 pretty pretty tough, so stout, Yeah, it is that, but 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.400 you know, when it comes down to the seventeen game 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.480 season when they announced it. I'm just one of those people. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.080 And then just for my own selfish reasons, I'm like, yes, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.200 more football. And you know, you know, the NFL is 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.840 a will or old machine that is going to pay 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.000 attention to supply and demand, and the demand is there 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.560 for more football. They incorporated an extra playoff game last year, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.920 and now we get an extra game this year during 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.240 the regular season. And you know, you've heard a lot 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.720 from the players just with conflicting ideas about that that 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.600 extra game. So I'm really interested in hearing what Isaiah 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.760 has to say about it, because the players don't seem 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.200 to be too happy about it. Yeah. No, I mean 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.480 from the physical standpoint, obviously, I don't know all the 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.240 ins and outs in terms of the back end aspects 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.200 of it, in terms of what's going to happen with 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.400 their health, insurance, you know, post you know, post career 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:38.960 and things of that nature. Those are the things that 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.600 were really make up for it in a sense. But 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.520 your body's your body's done. I mean you're talking about 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.920 I mean, you're talking about you know, sixteen regular season games, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.240 right so, I know fans are out there hype right now, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.200 and now we're talking about seventeen regular season games. So 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.760 you're talking you take seventeen games that matter, right, and 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.240 then you factor in, you know, two preseason games where 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.400 you're starters, right, because everybody says, well all the starters 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.640 don't play, it's about one and a half games where 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.520 the starters playing in preseason, right, So let's call it 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.640 eighteen and a half games. And then, oh, by the way, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.480 if your team is good, you go to the playoffs. Right, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.480 there's thing called the playoffs. I know some you know, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.560 hopefully we we learned a little bit more about that 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:23.080 going forward. But that gives us nineteen nineteen games twenty 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.520 twenty one if you make it all the way. We're 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.720 talking about twenty two games, right, if you start off 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.920 in the first round. Right. So that's a lot of football. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.800 That's a lot of banging. If you're an offensive lineman, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.560 you're playing sixty plus snaps a game, you were hitting 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.280 your head against another player sixty plus times per game, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.200 times twenty two potentially, right, seventeen Guaranteed you're talking about 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.080 you know, stress on tendons and ligaments and knees and 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.840 joints and all that stuff. It wears you out and 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.320 obviously you've gotta most people are gonna say, hey, you 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.920 understand that, you know the demands that come with the game. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.200 Very true. You sign a country, you understand it. That 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.800 doesn't mean that you that you become negligent when it 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.320 comes to the topic. So you know, hopefully there's some 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:07.720 things on the back end that are going to take 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.840 care of these guys for past their career, after their career, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:16.240 because they're gonna need it. It is something to look for. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.000 And you look at all the extra opponents that I 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.480 was trying to find during the during your I guess 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.080 explanation there but Kansas City on the road, Los Angeles, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.040 who of course is an up and coming team, with 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.439 Justin Herbert and company on the road, the Vikings. We 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.280 take the trip up north again, New Orleans of course, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:40.120 your divisional opponents, Tampa Bay and then newdow that's your road. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.199 You got both teams that were in the Super Bowl. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.040 You had the rookie of the year, you have the 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.520 best running back in the league. But right now, which 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.040 is Minnesota, and I guess you could probably throw Derek 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.800 Henrys there in there as well. You got New Orleans who, 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.000 of course they're gonna be on a bit of a 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.160 rebuild without Drew Brees. But yikes, I mean, Rob, I 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.200 don't know if there's a road team that's gonna be 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.720 challenged just as much as this Cowboys team is going 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.240 to be in twenty twenty one. That sounds like a 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.800 first place schedule. Honestly, if you and if you look 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.920 at the home games, I mean, you know, every division 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.840 game every year is a toss up to me. Sure, 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.840 Giants should be better, Eagles could be better, Washington's definitely 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:24.160 a improving team, Arizona, Atlanta, Carolina, Denver Raiders. I mean, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.960 you can't you look at all those teams and say 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.679 that's a winnable game that's also a losable game. So goodness, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.480 on paper, it doesn't look like an easy schedule for 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.360 the Cowboys in twenty twenty one. And yeah, yeah, I 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.680 don't want to draw a road game against Bill Belichick 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.880 no matter who the quarterback is. Camp Newton's still an 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:45.040 effective quarterback too, by the way. So and Isaiah's point, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.720 it's gonna be eighteen at some point, right, They're gonna 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.120 get to eighteen games and they'll drop it down to 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.400 two preseason games. But you know it comes down to money, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.600 and look at players agree to it as what's more 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.440 money for the players. But Isaiah's right. I mean, you 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.599 walk into a locker room in December every year and 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.920 guys are feeling it. Guys are feeling it in mid 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.080 September late September as well. But it's just it's the 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.520 it's the nature of the sport. It's a it's a grind. Man. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.520 What kind of team is going to be more well 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.640 equipped to face a schedule like this? Is it going 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.720 to be those teams that are full of experienced players 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.240 or is it gonna be fresh legs Because I kind 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.000 of lean both ways of being able to pace yourself, 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.040 but also I mean the fresh legs are gonna help 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:33.160 out whenever it comes to playing seventeen games. Go ahead. No, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.400 I was just gonna say that, I think the bye 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.920 week is more important than it's ever been now where 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.959 it's placed, and wanting to know where the NFL is 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.720 going to go with maybe incorporating an extra by week 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.640 and also extra bodies for your roster if they're gonna 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.600 go there at all. We hadn't heard anything about it, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.200 but still those are some of the things that I 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.960 think that the seventeen season, grind is going to give you. 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.640 But look you you you know you ask those questions 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.160 about fresh legs and where we're gonna play, so how 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.880 we're gonna be with their home schedule versus away. We 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.240 got some tough games, obviously, are we built for it 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.920 right now? I don't think that you're in position to 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.520 have any confidence, especially on the defensive side of the ball. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.240 Right The teams that we're gonna come up against are 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.840 gonna be a culmination of teams that can run the 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.319 ball and can definitely pass the ball. When you talk 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.040 about the Kansas City's of the league, and you know 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.360 Herbert is going to present a challenge and the offensive 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.000 player of the year. So we have to right now 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.439 start looking at the way that we're building this team, 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.480 whether it be to you know, for the NFC each 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.520 or to survive a season like this when you look 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.480 at the competition, and man, you could be behind the 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.599 eight ball really quick if you're the Cowboys Azama And 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.000 I was just gonna, I was just gonna add, I 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.680 was just gonna add that that Harold Nash Junior needs 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.360 to be a name that is that has highly talked 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.920 about in this offseason and for those that don't know 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 who that is, he is now the head strength coach 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.480 for the Dallas Cowboys. I had the pleasure of having 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.360 him as an assistant strength coach when I was in 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.520 my time in New England. Um, he knows what the 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.640 heck he's doing. He's a fiery, fiery guy. He's a 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.440 lot of a lot of guy in a small package. Right, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.480 He's a small dude, but he's he's full of energy 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.640 and knowledge, and he's aggressive and he knows how to 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.920 get after it. In terms of the strength program, I 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.160 would say that the best strength and conditioning program. This 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.480 is hard because I was really spoiled in NFL, but 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.520 I was the strength conditioning program that I experienced when 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.480 I was my time in New England was probably second 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.000 to none, and and and coach coach Nash was one 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.680 of the main reasons for that. He knows what the 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.040 heck he's doing. It is more important than it's ever 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.760 been this year for us to have a full offseason, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.080 no virtual, no virtual stuff. We're preparing for virtual, but 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.439 in person seventeen games. It is uber important to get 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.720 these guys not on site, not only for the mental 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.000 aspect and understand what their responsibilities are assignment wise. But 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.800 for the strength conditioning aspect of things, he has his 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 job cut out for him because it is it is 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:08.400 a serious undertaking to understand what guys bodies need throughout 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.360 the season and for the strength coach to work in 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.120 accordance with the head coach to make sure that things 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.840 are still being handled accordingly while taking care of your players. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.960 What is right on I mean, I if I'm dan 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.120 Quinn Man and I know this is still being discussed 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.800 between the players side and the league about whether there's 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.880 going to be some form of in person offseason. If 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.040 I'm dan Quinn, I don't want to see my players 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.960 for the first time in late July. I just for training. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.320 You know, you're trying to get this defense back on track, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.240 and there's I think there's a bonding element to it. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.600 But I think also in terms of installing a new 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.720 scheme and just trying just for the offense too, for 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.760 special teams, they just need to be together a little 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.040 bit this offseason. And and look, I think I think 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.320 you know, we talked about some of the free agents. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.000 A lot of the free agents that didn't work out 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.840 last year. Maybe it would have helped them, you know, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.480 if they had gotten in the program. I mean, look, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.760 don Terry Poe apparently was overweight, was not in shape 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.000 when he came in. Maybe if he was part of 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.440 the offseason program would have been a different story person 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.360 things like that. I don't know what's going to happen. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.400 I know Mike McCarthy said last weeks and Isaiah just 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.920 said it preparing for virtual it would be nice for 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.680 them to at least be around each other a little bit. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.920 And I think they can. I think they can work 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.840 out some here, but but I just mean, like OTA's 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.920 mini camp, I think that's really important. Just having those 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.360 team drills together and having at least a little bit 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.760 of camaraderie and familiarity really with Dan Quinn is something 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.080 that I know the Cowboys would definitely benefit from. And 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.360 Mike McCarthy talked about it himself. Of even these games, 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.600 these preseason games, even they're saying that he's talking about 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.840 stories of in the past and players going out to 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.200 eat and doing different things. Now that's still probably going 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.800 to be pretty suppressed. So that makes these more in 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.680 person meetings even more and more crucial. Whenever you get 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.320 an opportunity to be together. But Isaiah, a lot of 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.200 people might look at this as just, oh, it's one 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.880 more game. That's it. It's just one more game on 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.560 the schedule, because I mean, whenever you look at it 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.800 from the outside, that's exactly what it is. It's just 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.840 an at a game. You get two extra weeks. I 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.160 guess technically you get the back backside by week following 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.640 week eighteen, and then you also have your bye week 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.640 in the middle of the season. But why is one 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.640 more game that much more imperative and that much more 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.240 vital or vital whenever it comes to all of the 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:30.120 hubbub around this seventeenth matchup. Yeah, so let me let 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.520 me give it from a players from players perspective, because 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.240 I know that's the sentiments of a lot of fans 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.680 and watchers from the outside. No disrespect, because people just 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.840 don't understand. So let me help you understand. If I 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.320 ask you to run full speed into another grown man, 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.680 right and with with with no remorse, to give me, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.200 give it all, give it your all with pads on. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:49.600 You have a helmet and pads on, but you have 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.560 to run full speed to hit this person. How many 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:53.960 times do you think it takes for you to get 0:16:54.000 --> 0:17:00.560 hurt once. It takes one. Yeah, it takes one. It 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.679 takes one. So now you're saying from the player who 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.639 from the Special Teams player all the way up to 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.719 the starter, you're saying, now this person. Now you're asking 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.040 these guys to do this at least twenty times for 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.200 the Special Teams, right, call it twenty plays a game, 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.040 twenty plays up to call it eighty five games that 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.320 if you're in the Kansas City Chiefs, eighty five plays 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.840 a game twenty to eighty five more hits when it 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.920 only takes one more hit, right, one more twist, one 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.520 more turn when we're bad cut. I get it from 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.680 a fans perspective, but understanding from a players perspective, And yes, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.359 we signed up for a Yes I get it, I 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.040 get it. I know that's what people are gonna say. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.200 It takes one play. So you're just literally increasing their 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.440 chances of one of your favorite players getting hurt. It's 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.760 all it takes. That's why the Pro Bowls not, you know, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:54.080 the most competitive thing you've ever set, because guys don't 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.960 want to get hurt. And I don't blame him one bit. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.320 And maybe and maybe you know, when we're talking about 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.640 the offseason program. Maybe that's the more Smith's de Marie 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.760 Smith's argument, you know, is that they, you know, injuries 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.080 were apparently down last year, and they the quality play 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.480 was still pretty good and we got a seventeenth game. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.639 So maybe we don't need a full offseason program in person, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.640 But I from the Cowboys perspective, I think they could 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.800 certainly use it. Yeah, they definitely need it. 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