1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: BC Mortgage Jelly Cowboys Mortgage Jells broadcast from the Jellas 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: Cowboys headquarters from Dallasco in Frisco at the Star in Frisco. 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Brought to you by Giko fifteen minutes could save you 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: fifteen percent or more on car insurance and by s 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage. Customized solutions to help you meet your personal 6 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: and business goals. Visit SWBC dot com. No your host 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: Shannon Gross come to the first installment of twenty twenty 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: of The Happy Hour, live from the Star in Frisco. 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: At least half the crew is live from the Star 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: in Frisco. I'm joined on site at the Star by 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: my one of my co hosts, Nick Eatman, my former 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: office mate that it's it's been a while since we've 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: been face to face. Man. Wow, this glass between you. Yeah, 14 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: this plexiglass divider here, I feel really safe and secure 15 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: across from you. We're joined on the show tonight by r. J. 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: Choppy of one oh five three the Fan and also 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: our special special guest for the next hour, Drew Pearson. 18 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, fellas man, thanks for having thank you. Welcome. 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: All right, let's get this, hear me. We can hear you, 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: Drew Man. So let I'll tell you what. There's so 21 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: many different ways we can start this show. Let's just 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: let's get right to it. Drew. I am super fired up. 23 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: I'm excited. It's long overdue. Nick and I were just 24 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: talking about this before we came on the air. Your 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 1: bid for the for the Hall of Fame is right 26 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: there in front of you. How do you feel about it? 27 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: Are you? Are you kind of reserved a little bit 28 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: and just waiting till it happens? Are you excited? What 29 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: have they told you? What is going on with that? 30 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: I would say all of the above. I'm serious, man. 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: But first let me say it's kind of easy to 32 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: get me on the show today because when Emily from 33 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: the Cowboys called and asked me to do it, first 34 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: thing she mentioned was Happy Hour, and I said, I'll 35 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: do it. Okay, anything what Happy Hour I want to 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: be part of? Okay? But anyway, I had all kinds 37 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: of I have all kinds of feelings about it. I'm 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: trying to be cool and keep my feet, playing it 39 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: firmly on the ground and not get too excited. I'm 40 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: not in officially yet. You need eighty percent of that 41 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: vote So if you ask me what are my chances 42 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: at this point, I would say eighty percent. So I'm 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: gonna see what happens with that. Yeah all right, Jay, 44 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about this. I've actually 45 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: never been in a fight. But if if you don't 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 1: get eighty percent, Drew, I think I'm gonna try to 47 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,959 Speaker 1: fight someone in that committee. I'm serious. Like what else 48 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: I think. I don't think you'll be by yourself? Yeah, yeah, 49 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: I think you have an army of people, fans, family 50 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: and friends helping you out. That's not sure. I got 51 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: your back rest for sure. I'm not much of a fighter. 52 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know where to start. But you don't. 53 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: You don't me. You're from Jersey, You're good. Hey, I 54 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 1: got it. We hey talk. We talk all the way 55 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 1: out of stuff, right, that's right. We talk our way out. Yeah. 56 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: We know that. We know that because we've seen the 57 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: draft a few years ago. We know, Drew, you're willing 58 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: to talk about some stuff. Almost got in a fight 59 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: up there at Philly. That was awesome. Yeah yeah, I 60 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: had to uh have a full security to get out 61 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: of there. I about. They stayed with me all night. 62 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: They start night in my room or anything. But they 63 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: were outside the Boddy elevator. If I went down I 64 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: needed to call them or anything like that. They were concerned, 65 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: and of course, you know, they're from Philly, so they 66 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: know what to do when when you're agitating Philadelphia fans. 67 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: That's for sure. I was gonna share this story. I 68 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: was working at the Start the other day, just sitting there, 69 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: and I got a phone call on my desk and 70 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: the guy said, hey, I have a couple of things 71 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: that I really need to talk about. I have no 72 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: idea who this is, and I no idea what he's 73 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: going to talk about. And he goes, we have to 74 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: figure out how to get Drew Pearson in the whole fame. 75 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, okay, Like I don't know who 76 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: this is. I don't know what we can do, but 77 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: I think I think we're in good shape. I think 78 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But he had this whole thing 79 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: laid out, and I'm like, I don't know if you 80 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: think I'm David Baker or not. I don't know who 81 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: you think you're calling here, but I'm with you on that. Yeah. Well, 82 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: you know, I've been getting tall kinds of support it's amazing. 83 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: You know, you go January and you're so disappointed that, wait, 84 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: the way that thing turned out, and then you didn't 85 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: even have to wait a whole year. You know, God 86 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: is good and he made me wait eight months and said, hey, Drew, 87 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,919 Speaker 1: this is your time and hopefully this will be my time. 88 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: But the ironic thing is back in January with the 89 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: Centennial class, I was a finalist there. That was the 90 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: first time being a final and so you know, I 91 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: was pretty pumped up. So I had everybody here. I 92 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: wanted to celebrate, you know, with everybody family, friends, and 93 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: had all the media here. I worked for every station 94 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: in the Metroplex since I've been in Dallas, so I 95 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: had one person one station would ask can they come, 96 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: and then say yeah, and then the next one would say, 97 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: how do you say no? So they all were here. 98 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: But anyway, you go through that emotion because it didn't 99 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: happen for you, and everybody in the world saw how 100 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: that hurt me. And then you know, all the feedback 101 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: and the support I got was just tremendous and that 102 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: helped me through that. But then you go eight months later, 103 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: You're not even expecting the phone call. Okay, you didn't 104 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: even know they were voting that particular day for the 105 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: senior nominee and was out doing some yardwork, came in 106 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: and chilling by the pool, and the next you know, 107 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: the phone rings with three three zero area code and 108 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: I knew that was Canton, Ohio. And guys, I've been 109 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: to Canton, Ohio a few times, including uh last year 110 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: when Gil Brandt was inducted into the NFL PO Football 111 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And trust me, I met no girls 112 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: and can'ton Ohio, So I know, couldn't. I couldn't have 113 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: been no girls. I think there's only football players. And uh, 114 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: oh man, what kind of yardwork were you doing? What 115 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: kind of yardwork? Oh? I was just pulling some weeds 116 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: out of the front yard. And uh. You know, people 117 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,479 Speaker 1: drive by and they don't realize this is Drew Pearson 118 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: out here doing yardwork. But uh, if they did, I 119 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: wish they would stop buying help me out here. You 120 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: go an open invite to Drew Pearson's house. Anytime you 121 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: see him out in the yard, just stop and hang out. 122 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: So that's not just the cliche. You know, you were 123 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,799 Speaker 1: one of those receivers that would do all the dirty 124 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: work get your hands dirty. Yeah that that really happens 125 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: even now, Yeah, it really happens. And you know, we 126 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: didn't make the money like these guys are getting. We 127 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: didn't get fifty four million for two years and forty 128 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: two million guaranteed like in Houston. Just sighed Arizona. Yeah, Arizona. 129 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. He's in Arizona now. So you know, 130 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm like saying, no, we didn't make that kind of money. 131 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: So we got to do a lot of things are 132 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: on our own. We can't we can't be hiring people. 133 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: We don't have it like that. Oh well, we've got 134 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: a new coaching staff in town. We've got some new players. 135 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: The core of this team is basically intact, but you 136 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: you got a lot of new moving parts. R J 137 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: kick us off. What what area or areas do you 138 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: think the Cowboys need to improve the most this season 139 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: to make a playoff run this year? Honestly? I you know, 140 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: special teams is a problem. Last year, the kicking game 141 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: was a problem. We all know that. I still have 142 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: dumbfounded as to how they went eight and eight. Like, 143 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: I'm still blown away that that team won eight and 144 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: eight last year. I'm almost thinking like they could just 145 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: roll out the same team, get league average defense, and 146 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: find a way to get the ten six Like they 147 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: were just so many things had to go wrong. They 148 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: had to decide to not keep throwing with Dak when 149 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: they're you know, marching down the field against Minnesota. They 150 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: had to miss a fourth to one against the Jets. 151 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: They had to you know, settle for a field goal 152 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: against New England. They missed you know, a handful of 153 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: kicks that would have potentially won them games or put 154 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: them in a position where they could have won games. Late. Dude, 155 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: I still I go back to last season. I still 156 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: don't know what happened. I still don't know how they 157 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: won eight and eight. I'm literally sitting here, like, if 158 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: their special teams improves the league average and their defense 159 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: stays about the same, theaters a ten win team. Am 160 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,440 Speaker 1: I crazy? I don't think you're crazy, Drew. You're you're 161 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: super tuned into this team. You do a lot of 162 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 1: stuff for us, you know, for Dallas Cowboys dot Com 163 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: and on our broadcast. What do you think do they 164 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: need to improve or do they just need to play better? Well? 165 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: I think they need to do both. If they played 166 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 1: better than they will improve, you know. But I think 167 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: the big thing with this team is now with the 168 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: Karthy in there, they have a new voice to be 169 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: accountable to. You know, I don't think they're they're the 170 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: mistakes that they were making. They never felt they had 171 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: to be accountable to anybody because you know, I mean, 172 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: I don't think that that type of discipline was within 173 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 1: that football team. That I don't know's for sure. I'm 174 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: not in that locker room, but from what I see 175 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: from the outside, from my view, you know, and when 176 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: you see the same mistakes happening on the field, then 177 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: no one's being accountable for those mistakes. You know. The 178 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: Cowboys dropped thirty six passes last season. Thirty six passes. Wow, 179 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: you know, how do you drop that? In many pass 180 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: I've never dropped thirty six passes in my life, including practice. Okay, 181 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: So if they make a mistake, hopefully they'll be correct 182 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 1: at this time and that'll make them better as they 183 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: go along. But I think the real change for this 184 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: defense in the wild Card, with all the acquisitions they 185 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: made in the off season, the changes they made in 186 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: the off seas, the real defense will be Mike Nolan 187 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: as the defensive coordinator. We needed to make a change 188 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: on that defensive side. We needed more of attacking type 189 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: defense instead of a lay back and try to catch 190 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: and bend, don't break type of defense. And so hopefully 191 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: now with this new defense, sometimes we'll be in a 192 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: three four or four to three with this new defense 193 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: and attacking with the personnel we have and the things 194 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: we did in the offseason with bringing in Smith and 195 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: Griffin and Poe and guys like that, and bringing those 196 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: guys in to show up the defensive line. Now you 197 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,359 Speaker 1: got to have that type of defense where you're attacking 198 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: the offense and trying to get to that quarterback. And 199 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: then when you do that, that's when you're going to 200 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: start having the turnovers. That's when you'll see interceptions and 201 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: things like that from our defensive secondary, which you know, 202 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: you play that bend, don't break type defense. You know, 203 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 1: back in the day, I used to relish those kinds 204 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: of defenses. We used to get those kind of defenses 205 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: really in a two minute situation. You know, they call 206 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: it to prevent defense, and all it did was prevent 207 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: you from winning. And so you get that kind of 208 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: soft defense. As a receiver, you know, you relish that. 209 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: But if you're getting bumped around and the coverages are 210 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: being mixed up, the quarterback doesn't have all the time 211 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: in the world to throw the football. That's when you 212 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: start having the turnovers and get those interceptions. So, to 213 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: make a long story short, I think the real change 214 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: with this team and the improvement will be on the 215 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: defensive side, and a lot has to do with Mike 216 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: Nolan being a defensive coordinator. Nick anything jump out at 217 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: you that they need to improve on or yeah, I 218 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,679 Speaker 1: mean I think both r J and Drew said it 219 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: said it best. I mean, it's it's a little bit 220 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: of everything you know an offense. They've done that that 221 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: They've added a playmaker that fell in their lap in 222 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: the draft, and I think he will really help and 223 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 1: ceedee lamb. I think the scheme part on defense is critical. 224 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: We heard all the time about how this defense was 225 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: really easy for players to learn. Well, if it's easy 226 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: for a player to learn, I bet you it's easy 227 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: for an offensive coordinator to figure it out as well. 228 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: And so I think that that that's gonna be a 229 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: big change there. And I'm not one that's gonna sit 230 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: and bash Jason Garrett. I think Jason Garrett was a 231 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: pretty good coach, but pretty good is not good enough 232 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. It never has been, and so 233 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: it was time to move on. You can't just keep 234 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: saying trust the process, process, process, because the process wasn't working. 235 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: You know, eighty eight is great on a uniform, eight 236 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,719 Speaker 1: and eight is not good for a record, Okay, So 237 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: so that you know, we h it was time for 238 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: a change. It was time for a new voice. And 239 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: you know, and that's something Drew you don't know anything about. Really, 240 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: I guess from a head coaching standpoint, you never had 241 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: a new voice. It never needed to. I'm sure there 242 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: was different coaches and that that came and went. But 243 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: it is kind of different to have a new voice 244 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: as a head coach. Yeah, it really is, and somebody 245 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: that they respect. And you know, McCarthy comes in with 246 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: the track record of success in this game, so you 247 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: know he brings a level of success with him, and 248 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: because of that, you know the guys will start certainly 249 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: listen to what he has to say. And I think 250 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: the guys would be excited about this. You know that 251 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 1: a new voice. You're right, I'd never had to experience that, 252 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: and thank goodness, because you know, coach Landry was all everything, 253 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: and it would have been different if we weren't playing 254 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: for him, if their change had been made sometime within 255 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: my career. But they needed a change, and this change 256 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: is good for the Dallas Cowboys. And actually we're really 257 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: lucky that McCarthy was available and we were able to 258 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: get him. You know, he was a hot commodity on 259 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: the coaching circuit there as far as who was available, 260 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,679 Speaker 1: So we're lucky to have him. And I think that 261 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: his just the demeanor, his size and things like that, 262 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: it would just get a different respect from the players 263 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: and they need that. They need that. We're tired of 264 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: eight and a How many years under Garrett did we 265 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: go eight and eight four times? I think that's right. Yes, yeah, 266 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: so we need and you're right, guys, we're better than 267 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: eight and eight with the personnel we have, we should 268 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: be better than eight and eight. With disappointing season last 269 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: year to go eight and eight. Well, speaking of all 270 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: these eight and eights, we are joined by the great 271 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: eighty eight Drew Pearson, and we are gonna talk next 272 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: after this break about the new eighty eight Ceedee Lamb 273 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: and what we expect out of him? What's fair to 274 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: expect out of him? And there's gonna be a lot 275 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: of balls flying around this team this year. Are there 276 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: enough balls to go around? For all the offensive firepower 277 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: you have on this team? We're gonna get up in 278 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: that and more when we come back. You're listening to 279 00:14:38,680 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: The Happy Hour on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network Mortgage 280 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Happy Hour. Check just our broadcasting live from 281 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star in Frisco. Welcome 282 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: back to the Happy Hour live from the Star in Frisco. 283 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: Shannon Gross, Nick Eatman, R J. Chop and special guests 284 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,959 Speaker 1: Number eighty eight Drew Pearson And speaking of eighty eights, 285 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: there's a new eighty eight in town, and this eighty 286 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: eight numbers becoming a special thing here in Dallas. Drew, 287 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: when you when you heard that they drafted Ceedee Lamb 288 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma, what were your initial thoughts? And then 289 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: when the eighty eight number started being thrown around and 290 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: you realize he was going to be wearing that, what'd 291 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: you think about that? Yeah? I was excited about it. 292 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: I was really surprised that he fell to the Cowboys. 293 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: At the position and the draft, and you know when 294 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: you're drafting in that first round. You know, Gil Brandt 295 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,640 Speaker 1: always had the philosophy when when he was drafting back 296 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: in the day, he didn't draft for need. He always 297 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: draft the best player available when their time came up 298 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: to pick, and I think that's what the Cowboys did 299 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,239 Speaker 1: in this situation. They took the best player available. And 300 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: they're lucky that he was available because there's no question 301 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: he's a top ten pick, and if you get all 302 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 1: them quarterbacks and everybody else out of they be a 303 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: top five pick. But anyway, I think that he's what 304 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: the Cowboys need. They got a great receiver corps without him. 305 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: Gallup and Cooper certainly bring something to the table. Gallop 306 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: excuse me, Cooper got that new contract, so we're going 307 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: to expect a little more out of him than what 308 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: he did last season. Had eight touchdowns. Hopefully maybe this 309 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: season he can improve on that and get himself in 310 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 1: the end zone a little more. But I think a 311 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: big reason that he might improve in Gallup as well 312 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: is because the CD Lamb and the attention that he's 313 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: going to get because he's that type of receiver you know, 314 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: you throw him the bubble screen and he picks up 315 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: a couple of blocks and he's gone, Okay. He's that 316 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,439 Speaker 1: kind of receiver that can get the ball where the 317 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: action kind of starts once he catches the football, because 318 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: he you know, at Oklahoma he averaged twenty one yards 319 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: a catch, you know, something like that. So that's amazing 320 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: on sixties on catches. But so anyway, he's a game 321 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: breaking type receiver. I'm glad they're annointing him the number 322 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: eighty eight because I think he's worthy of carrying that 323 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: on and continuing the legacy. And so I'm excited about 324 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,639 Speaker 1: seeing what he can do. And maybe you'll even do 325 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: something on special teams. I don't know if they'll put 326 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: him out there punt returns or kick returns. I know 327 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: when I was a rookie, I returned kickoffs end punts, 328 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: and that's how I made the traveling squad every week 329 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: running those kickoffs and punts and even going down on 330 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: kickoff coverage. And that was a sight to see. And 331 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: you guys, when the opponents found out I was the 332 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: end man on the kickoff coverage team, that wedge came 333 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: at me each and every time. Coach Edrew used to say, 334 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: stick your head in there, bust that wedge up. I say, coach, 335 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: I hear you, but I gotta live to play another day. Anyway, 336 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: I think CD Lamb will be a great addition to 337 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: the offense. And you know that past form was five 338 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: thousand yards with the thirty six drops last season, So 339 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: the passing game will improved, the running game will improved. 340 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 1: Everything's intact from last season. Just picking up the new 341 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: offense and the new strategies that they're going to implement 342 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 1: and take it from there. But I think they can 343 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: average twenty eight to thirty points a game on with 344 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 1: this offense. RJ. You know from from your show that 345 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: this is the most excited our fan base has been, 346 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: probably since they drafted deaz with with a draft pick. 347 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,879 Speaker 1: What what are your what do you think fair expectations 348 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: are for CD, first his first game this weekend and 349 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: then overall for the season. What do you think is 350 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: a fair bar to set for him this year? You know, 351 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: I think the Yeah, I think the fairy bar, Sorry, Joe. 352 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,639 Speaker 1: I think the fair bar for him would be like 353 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: anything beyond Randall Cobb, right, I mean, he had eight 354 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: hundred fifty yards and that's that's a lot like that's 355 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: for a third, especially for a guy who's they got 356 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: three receivers that they're they're they're dishing the ball out to. 357 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: You know, I think anything clips and that. I mean, 358 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: let's let's forget like he's a rookie, right, and rookie 359 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: receivers don't always come into the league and just dominate 360 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 1: day one. I know, an Kuon Bolden had like two 361 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: hundred yards receiving in his first week, but that's like 362 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: that's not the norm, is it. You know, so you know, 363 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to set the bar too high and 364 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: then be disappointed. I mean, I think if you get 365 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,400 Speaker 1: him up to about nine hundred yards receiving, that means 366 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 1: the other two guys are probably in the thousands. That 367 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: that's looking like a really, really, really strong start to 368 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: a career for somebody. Well, you know, RJ. The reason 369 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: ant Quan Bolden had such a great first game it 370 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: is because he was a former quarterback. You know, those 371 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: wide receivers that play quarterback in college, they tend to 372 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: just come right in and do well, you know what 373 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: I mean, Drew right, you got there right, Ye're very 374 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: We're very so I remember this. I was I was 375 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: really I was a little kid, and like the nineteen 376 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: eighty two season NFC Championship game and the Cowboys lost 377 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: to the Redskins, very tough loss, and the game was 378 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: supposed to be over, but then there was a couple 379 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: of seconds on the clock or something. The team had 380 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: already gone on in Drew, I think you actually went 381 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: and took a snap right at the end of that game. 382 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: I certainly did. I certainly did. And the trivia quartstion 383 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: is what high school produced. Two h quarterbacks and that 384 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: chap in that playoff game at RFK, that's the one 385 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 1: you're talking about, right, Yes, yeah, and uh, I took 386 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: the snap. But the other quarterback was Joe Thivan. We 387 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: played together at South River High School. But when I 388 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: took that snap across the line, I came to the 389 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, Danny White was late getting in the huddle. 390 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: I said, I got this, Danny, and I looked over 391 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: across the line scrimmage. I said, oh, maybe Danny should 392 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: do this, because Big Dave Butts was looking at me 393 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: and he said, Drew, don't you go nowhere? I said, 394 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: don't worry, missed the Butts. So I took I took 395 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: that snap and I did, I did took a knee 396 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: and the end of the game and we lost unfortunately. 397 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: So yeah, but yeah, but I threw three touchdown passes 398 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: in the NFL. Nobody talks about that very very you know, 399 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: actually that's in my that's in my last segment. You 400 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: just you just blew that for me, Drew, I was 401 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: actually gonna talk about that's wait, let's let's wait. That's 402 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: a good teak. That's a team we're gonna have stick 403 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: around for the last segment because we're gonna have fun 404 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: with Drew Pearson in that segment, so we'll include that 405 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: in there. So this has been a hot topic, you know, 406 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: with all the offensive firepower with McCarthy coming in and 407 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 1: his history working with Aaron Rodgers and being a quarterbacks guy. 408 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: You know, the talk of a three one thousand yard receivers. 409 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: Then what do you do? Where does Blake Jarwin fit in? 410 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: Where does Zeke fit into the passing game? Tony Pollard? 411 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: Are there enough balls to go around? And it is? 412 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: This just gonna be a team where each week the 413 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: defense is gonna have to pick their poison and just say, okay, 414 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: we can we can only stop one of these guys 415 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: and the rest of them, we're gonna have to take 416 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: our chances. How do y'all feel about the offense? Well, 417 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: I'll jump in real quick. I don't like the talk 418 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: of three one thousand yard receivers. It sounds good, sounds fun, 419 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: but if that happens, I don't think that's good for 420 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: this team. I really don't. I believe that that less 421 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: is more for Dak. If he has less passing yards 422 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: and Zeke has more rushing yards, they're gonna be winning 423 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: more games in the fourth quarter, running out the clock 424 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: and they won't have to throw the ball and throw 425 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: themselves back into games still be very productive. That's fine 426 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: to have some of the firepower, but I think that 427 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: from as far as those stats goes, that's not really 428 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: what you want to have five thousand yard passers. I 429 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: think you'd like to be closer to four thousand and 430 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: the running game be a little bit higher. That's just 431 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: my take. Well, that's a good take. That's a good take. 432 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, for for cop I mean for CD 433 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: uh that r J said Cobbs numbers would be a 434 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: nice ceiling for him. If he could get eight hundred yards, 435 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: I would like to see more touchdowns than cops scored 436 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: scop cops scored three, I think Cobb and so I'd 437 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: like to see that improved out of us uh CD LAMB. 438 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But I think with this offense, 439 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: you got a lot of weapons, and what you do 440 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,479 Speaker 1: is you keep the defense off balance. And you know, 441 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,960 Speaker 1: there's no number one receiver. You know, back in the 442 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: day Tony Hill and I and Billy Jody, we didn't 443 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: think about no number one receiver. Who's number one, who's 444 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: number two? We didn't think about that. Whoever gets the 445 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: football is number one. You know, whoever's getting the ball 446 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: thrown to him is number one in that situation. So 447 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,639 Speaker 1: you've got to make that play. So if we just 448 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: spread that ball around and incorporate that running game and 449 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: let that be the league, that will open up everything else. 450 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: If that have to stack that box with extra players 451 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: and bringing a defensive safety down into the box to 452 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: stop the running game, then you know that's going to 453 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 1: open things up in this secondary, in the passing game. 454 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: So it needs to be a balanced offense. And you 455 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: know it's tempting, it's tempting to want to just throw 456 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 1: that football, and I think you're right. If they go 457 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: over five thousand yards, it might not be in the 458 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: best interest of the Dallas Cowboys offense this season. All right, 459 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: Gonna take our second break. When we come back, We've 460 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 1: got Drew Pearson with us R. J. Choppy from one 461 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: oh five three the Fan, Nick Eatman, I'm Shannon Gross. 462 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little Cowboys versus Rams. In case 463 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: you didn't know, there's a NFL football game this weekend 464 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: featuring the Dallas Cowboys out in LA. We're gonna talk 465 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: sixty years of Cowboys football and Drew, I want to 466 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: know what it was like the first game of every 467 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: season that you played, What was the mindset and what 468 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: was that like, training the entire offseason and then starting 469 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: a new year. Let's get into all that and so 470 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: much more whenever we come back. You're listening to the 471 00:27:37,400 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: Happy Hour on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. Back back 472 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: to the s WBC Mortgage Dallas Cowboys Happy Hour. Check 473 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: just our broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 474 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:56,239 Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. Welcome back, Nick. Did you know 475 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: that at s WBC, customized solutions for individuals and businesses 476 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: are just one click away. No, I thought it was two, 477 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: but one, it's one. Okay, it's one. Visit SWBC dot 478 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: com to learn more and start your next adventure. And 479 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: we are going to start the adventure of the third 480 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: segment here. And I want to ask our good buddy 481 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: r J of one oh five three the fan, who 482 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: has more to prove this weekend, Jared Golf or Dak Prescott. Well, 483 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: Jared Goff's gotten paid already, so I'm gonna go with 484 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I revolved my life around the almighty dollars, 485 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: I mean, and let's be fair, I mean, Jared's also 486 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: been to a Super Bowl, So I don't know. I mean, 487 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: I understand long term, a lot of people are kind 488 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: of souring on Jared, but we've seen first round, oh, 489 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: you know, number one overall picks like Sam Bradford get 490 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: a chance of the chance and the chance. So I 491 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: don't know what I mean guy's got. He's got one 492 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: of the highest contracts of the league. I would probably 493 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: say Dak, but honestly, I don't think really either one 494 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: of them have a whole ton. You know, they've they've 495 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: they've proved that their top twelve quarterbacks in the league 496 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: fifteen or whatever you whatever you want to consider, I 497 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: think Zach's top six or ever you want to consider. Golf. 498 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've proven that they're you know, 499 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: quality franchise type starting quarterbacks. Okay, the Rams were nine 500 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: and seven last year, missed the playoffs thirteen three obviously 501 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: the year before with the Super Bowl appearance. Which team 502 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: do you think, Nick, we're going to see this weekend 503 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,479 Speaker 1: when the Cowboys travel out to La Uh, you know, 504 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: I doubt we'll see the team the Cowboys just rolled 505 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: over there in December. I bet they're going to be 506 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,959 Speaker 1: better than that. You know. The interesting thing about that 507 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: nine and seven is that if the if the rules 508 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: were changed like they are now with the NFL uh 509 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: seven NFL playoff teams, the Rams would have made it. 510 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: They're over the Cowboys in that last spot. But but yeah, 511 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,160 Speaker 1: I think that they're going to be better and and 512 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna you know, they got a 513 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,920 Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator. Uh, they don't have Todd Gurley anymore. 514 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: They got about seven running backs over there. They're you know, 515 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: trying to figure that out, but you know, it's probably 516 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: just like it is here. You know, you don't know 517 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: what to expect with no preseason games and kind of 518 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: some new coaching, not not a new head coach, but 519 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: some new coaches there. I'm sure they're gonna have some 520 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: new wrinkles. We're joined on the program by Drew Pearson. Drew, 521 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: you know a thing or two about going up against 522 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: some good defensive backs. Jalen Ramsey. The news came out 523 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: this week he is now the highest paid defensive back 524 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: of all time. How do you game plan for a 525 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: guy like that? If you're a receiver, if I I'd 526 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: go at him? You know, all right, a lot of 527 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 1: teams when they see the best cornerback, the shut down 528 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: guy on that side of the field, shutting down the 529 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: whole side of the field or whatever, or even following 530 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 1: the number one receiver all around the field, you know, 531 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta take advantage of that. You gotta 532 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: go at him, you know, and he's I know, you 533 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: gotta respect him. But but the best thing way to 534 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: attack these quality cornerbacks is to go at them. And 535 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: I think we can do that get him back on 536 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: his heels instead of having him on having us on 537 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: our heels. So if we attack him and go at him. 538 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: I think we'll give him a chance to prove that 539 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: he's worthy of that money. True, right, this is kind 540 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: of off topic here. I'm kind of messing up Shandon's 541 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: the flow. But I just curious who was the best 542 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: cornerback you ever faced, mister mel Blunt, Sir Mell Blunt, 543 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: all right, when I say that, yes I did, Yes 544 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: it is. I hope you. I'm glad you picked that 545 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,719 Speaker 1: up because that's how much I respect him. He was 546 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: by far the best, and a lot of it had 547 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: to do with number one, his size. He was six 548 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,359 Speaker 1: four two oh five. He ran a four or five 549 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: forty six four cornerback ran he ran a four or 550 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: five forty. And then he was in that Pittsburgh defense, 551 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: and they played the right defense to fit his style 552 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: of play. You know, back in my first five years 553 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 1: in the league, you know there is the receiver couldn't 554 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 1: get bumped all over the field. The defensive back could 555 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: cut you out the line of scrimmage. He can bump 556 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 1: you all the way downfield as long as the ball 557 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: wasn't in the air. In nineteen seventy nine, they changed 558 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: the rule with the five yard bump, and to this day. 559 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: They call it the Mel Blunt rule, and it's simply 560 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: because you couldn't get off the line of scrimmage. If 561 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,799 Speaker 1: you did get off the line of scrimmage, you had 562 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: to go outside because he was not going to let 563 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,799 Speaker 1: you go inside. If I caught any pass against the 564 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: Steelers in all the games I played against them, including 565 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: two Super Bowls, was the passes I caught were either 566 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: on first or second down. Very seldom I caught anything 567 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: on third down because of the type of defense they played, 568 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: where Tony Hill and I would take those two guys 569 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: out because if this Mel dogging you at the line 570 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: of scrimmage, then the safety's picking up deep. So that's 571 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: two guys and if you do that on the other side, 572 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 1: we called out a forty one forty six defense back 573 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: in the day, and so what we did Tony Hill 574 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 1: and I on third down, we just cleared it out 575 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: for underneath where Preston Pearson, Billy, Joe dupri and whomever 576 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,479 Speaker 1: else could catch passes underneath. And Butch Johnson as well 577 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,280 Speaker 1: Drew who was the who was the uh, the best 578 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: player you played with, not just against, but on the 579 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,959 Speaker 1: same team. Wow. Wow, that that's that's pretty hard to 580 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: to say, you know, because you know I expand, I expand. 581 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 1: It spanned a couple of hours. You know, when I 582 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: came in, Bob Lilly was still there, Leroy Jordan was 583 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: still there, you know, guys like that. Calvin Hill was 584 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 1: still there, you know. So, man, those guys were great players, 585 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: even though they were at the end of their careers. 586 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: And you watch the way they approached the game and 587 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: the way they did things, and you say, wow, you 588 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: better get in line and do it the same way. 589 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: But then after those guys retired, and you know, probably 590 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,360 Speaker 1: Starbark and Randy White would get a lot of votes 591 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: for the best player I played with because every Monday 592 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: after a Sunday game, we get in that meeting room 593 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,080 Speaker 1: and Coach Landry would sing praises about Randy White, and 594 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,359 Speaker 1: we would get tired to hearing it until we saw 595 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: the film and what he was doing out there on 596 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: the field, and then we said wow when we started 597 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: then singing Randy Wie's praises, so he might be the best. 598 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 1: What about Tony Dorsett and the things he did for 599 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,040 Speaker 1: our offense. So we had a lot of good players 600 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: that and I can't really pick one to be the best. 601 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: David Moore picked that all time Cowboy team from the 602 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: Landry era, and I think that's a pretty good indication 603 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: of the type of players we had on the team 604 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: back in the day with coach Landry Well. David Moore 605 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,040 Speaker 1: was on our panel, Drew. We did a fourteen person 606 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: panel just the other day top sixty players in Cowboys history, 607 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 1: and Roger was number one, Bob Lily was two. Door 608 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,239 Speaker 1: you just mentioned Dorset was nine, So you know, I 609 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,359 Speaker 1: bet you don't have no problems with with Roger and 610 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 1: Bob Lily, like you just said, being one time. There 611 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: were some people they're younger people. There were some people 612 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: that were that thought Emmett Smith, you know, surprised that 613 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,160 Speaker 1: he's number three, But that's the Dallas Cowboys. That's that's 614 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, you're gonna have there were 615 00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: some hall of famers in the in the teens. There 616 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 1: there's not many franchises that have Hall of Famers and 617 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: you know the top fifteen to twenty of their franchise. Yeah, 618 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 1: you're right, and uh you know that lists they compiled. 619 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 1: I know it had to be a difficult task, a 620 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,839 Speaker 1: difficult thing to do. Yeah, become any great. Yeah, I'm 621 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,840 Speaker 1: the one. Great, I'm the one getting the emails. I 622 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: was the one that kind of put it all together. Yeah, Drew. 623 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:30,880 Speaker 1: So if you have if you have a beef with 624 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 1: being at fifteen, you should air your grievance now because 625 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,200 Speaker 1: Nick's the one that compiled the panel, that put that 626 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: list together. So let them have it. If you're not 627 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: okay with me, I'm okay with I'm okay with fifteen 628 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: because everybody ahead of me is a Hall of Famer 629 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,760 Speaker 1: or soon to be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, okay. 630 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,280 Speaker 1: The only two dad aren't Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware 631 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: and Jason Witten, and you know both of those guys 632 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,720 Speaker 1: eventually be Hall of Famers. So I'm I'm I'm okay 633 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 1: with fifteen. Okay. You know, yeah, as long as they 634 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,000 Speaker 1: put an h o F after minut they can make 635 00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: me a hundred. I don't care a well, I don't know, 636 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 1: We'll see rjuh back to the I think all of 637 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,239 Speaker 1: us are just so ready for football. We're chomping at 638 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: the bit to see football in general, but you know, 639 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 1: especially Cowboy fans with you know, a new coaching staff 640 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,840 Speaker 1: coming in, some new energy around this team. RJA on Sunday. 641 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: What's one aspect of the game that you just cannot 642 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: wait to sit down and consume and watch and you're 643 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 1: just fired up to sit down and and check it out, honestly, 644 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,239 Speaker 1: So it has nothing to do with the actual play 645 00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:47,760 Speaker 1: of the field. I want to see what the games 646 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 1: like without the fans. Cool, like that's it like this, 647 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: because this it's such a let down. I feel bad 648 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,719 Speaker 1: because you know, this stadium is supposed to be so 649 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 1: awesome in LA and I feel bad that, you know, 650 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,759 Speaker 1: like the Rams are not going to be able to 651 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,920 Speaker 1: get the full value in the maximization of like what 652 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,439 Speaker 1: it feels like to play in that stadium in front 653 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: of people for the first time. It's a benefit to 654 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: us and I'm grateful for that, but you know, I 655 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: do feel bad for the RAM players. I'm really interested 656 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,160 Speaker 1: to see the game without the fans and with the 657 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,279 Speaker 1: piped in crowd noise. And I know we've seen it 658 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,320 Speaker 1: in the NBA, but the NBA is like in a 659 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: Bingo hall, right, It's a weird. It's it's just like 660 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: they're not in a stadium stadium. And then major League 661 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,759 Speaker 1: Baseball they've got those those cardboard cutout fans. I just 662 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,840 Speaker 1: want to see what the NFL does, so that that, 663 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,719 Speaker 1: to me is the is the most intriguing aspect that 664 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,960 Speaker 1: I'm looking for outside of the game for the for 665 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,759 Speaker 1: the first weekend, Nick Well, I mean yeah, I think 666 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,759 Speaker 1: I think RJ makes a good point. There's so much 667 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,160 Speaker 1: talk about what things look like, what things, how things 668 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: are gonna go before the kickoff. You know, That's why 669 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,000 Speaker 1: I think tomorrow Night's game is going to be one 670 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,200 Speaker 1: of the most highly watched games ever. Not just because 671 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 1: you got my homes I mean, he's he's an NFL star, 672 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: but also just like what about with with no fans? 673 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 1: Are the players gonna kneel? And what's going on? You 674 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of questions before they actually 675 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,880 Speaker 1: kick things off, so there's so many things to to 676 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,200 Speaker 1: look at. I don't know if we answered your question right, 677 00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: but I mean that that's what's so weird about this 678 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: is that you know that you know I always say this. 679 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 1: You know in training camp, you're supposed to ask, well, 680 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,720 Speaker 1: who's gonna play left guard, who's gonna be the punt returner, 681 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,680 Speaker 1: who's gonna Now our questions are are they gonna play games? 682 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,120 Speaker 1: Are they gonna practice tomorrow, you know, like just you know, 683 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,439 Speaker 1: are they gonna wear masks and all these weird things 684 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,520 Speaker 1: that we never had in our lives before. So I 685 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: think that's what, you know, we're gonna be thinking about. Yeah, Drew, 686 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,240 Speaker 1: what's the question? What one thing on the game Sunday 687 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,080 Speaker 1: that you can't wait? Um? What aspect of the game 688 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 1: or like you know r J and Nick said, it's 689 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 1: actually maybe not even the game itself, it's just the 690 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 1: things outside of the game because it's such a different year. 691 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,640 Speaker 1: But is there anything that you're really excited to see 692 00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,520 Speaker 1: because it's been so long since we've had football. Yeah, 693 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: I just want to see how how the players were 694 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: act with no fans in the stands. You know, with 695 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,479 Speaker 1: all due respect to fans, you know, I didn't play 696 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: the game to hear crowd noise. That didn't motivate me. Yeah, 697 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: they kept me up or got me going, but you 698 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: know when the fans cheered after catching a pass over 699 00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:18,480 Speaker 1: the middle on third and twelve, you get it for 700 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,359 Speaker 1: thirteen yards and the crowd's going wild. I don't look 701 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: at the crowd. I just hear the crowd, you know. 702 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,760 Speaker 1: So if they could continue to pipe that crowd noise 703 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: in like they've been doing. Really, they really do it 704 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: great in baseball and in basketball. Here I'm watching the 705 00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,120 Speaker 1: game with Boston and Toronto. They've done a good job 706 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,359 Speaker 1: of timing the crowd noise to put in, and that's 707 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,319 Speaker 1: all the players really need. So that's what I'm gonna see, 708 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,680 Speaker 1: if the players can play under these circumstances and play 709 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,160 Speaker 1: the game of NFL football like it's supposed to be played. 710 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: Good stuff. We're gonna take our final break and when 711 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: we come back, I want to get you guys. I 712 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: want to get your expectations for the team this season, 713 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,720 Speaker 1: and we're gonna play rotating host. I'm gonna let you, guys, 714 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,040 Speaker 1: asked Drew Pearson your questions. Let's do that. It makes 715 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,319 Speaker 1: my job easier and makes me just chill the last 716 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: segment and not have to do very much. You are 717 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 1: listening to the Happy Hour on the Dallas Cowboys or 718 00:43:12,200 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 1: Radio network s Back to the s WBC Mortgage Dallas 719 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:22,440 Speaker 1: Cowboys Happy Out broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters 720 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:28,360 Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco. Welcome back. SWBC Mortgage Customized 721 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,760 Speaker 1: solutions to help you meet your personal and business Goals 722 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 1: visit SWBC dot com. Shannon Gross joined by Nick Eatman, 723 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,520 Speaker 1: r J Choppy, and very special guest Drew Pearson. Final 724 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,319 Speaker 1: segment of the show. I'll kick it off. We're gonna 725 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,680 Speaker 1: play rotating hosts, but I'll kick this one off and 726 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,279 Speaker 1: then we'll go to you, RJ. And then we'll go 727 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: to you Nick. Sixty years of Cowboys Football. We talked 728 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,400 Speaker 1: about the list earlier. The reason why Nick, you guys 729 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:57,279 Speaker 1: put that panel together and do the list is because 730 00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,279 Speaker 1: it's we're celebrating sixty years of Cowboys football this year. 731 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:06,120 Speaker 1: And then Drew, you had a great career. You're known 732 00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,880 Speaker 1: for several great catches in team history, the Hail Mary, 733 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,719 Speaker 1: the game winner against Atlanta in the playoffs. But do 734 00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 1: you have a favorite catch or one of those your 735 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,560 Speaker 1: favorite catcher? There is there a different catch that sticks 736 00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,200 Speaker 1: out to you that is your favorite. Well, back when 737 00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,040 Speaker 1: I played, the favorite was always the next one, you know, 738 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,319 Speaker 1: just trying to make another play. You know, if the 739 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,440 Speaker 1: quarterbacks thrown to me, he's not throwing anybody. That's not 740 00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,480 Speaker 1: a bad pass as long as he throws into me, 741 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,799 Speaker 1: you know. So that's that's the thing. But you know, 742 00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: people ask me that question quite a bit, and they 743 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,719 Speaker 1: always think it's going to be I'm going to refer 744 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,239 Speaker 1: to the Hail Mary, and there's no question that's the 745 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,440 Speaker 1: most popular catch I ever made. But the ones that 746 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,719 Speaker 1: stick out more than anything are the ones I caught 747 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,880 Speaker 1: on third and long situations where Roger called that sixteen pass, 748 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,280 Speaker 1: and that was for me to go down fifteen twenty 749 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,440 Speaker 1: yards and break into the middle of the d defense 750 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,880 Speaker 1: and catch that ball over the middle. Says third and twelve. 751 00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: You catch it over the middle for thirteen yards in 752 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,600 Speaker 1: the first down and you move the chains. Those were 753 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,720 Speaker 1: the things that stick out to me more than anything, 754 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,799 Speaker 1: like the game winning catches and things like that, last 755 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: minute catches and things like that. So now it was 756 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,960 Speaker 1: the first you know, I averaged sixteen yards a catch 757 00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,640 Speaker 1: on four hundred and eighty nine catches, so every catch 758 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,800 Speaker 1: on me was, you know, good for a first down, 759 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:29,920 Speaker 1: and Tony Hill and I we prided ourselves on that. 760 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:34,239 Speaker 1: You know, Tony Hill finished his career with sixteen point 761 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,840 Speaker 1: eight yards a catch, almost seventeen yards to catch, so 762 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,239 Speaker 1: we were getting down field. But those were the big 763 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,200 Speaker 1: catches for me. Any catcher I can make on a 764 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 1: third down where the defense. No, you're the guy. You know, 765 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,000 Speaker 1: they know Rogers coming to you. Now, even when I 766 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,800 Speaker 1: made those catches at the end of the game, the 767 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,000 Speaker 1: defenses knew they were coming to me. But you still 768 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 1: worked those defenses and quarterbacks have still have confidence to 769 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,799 Speaker 1: go to you. So everybody know you're going over that 770 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,319 Speaker 1: middle to make that catch. And so after you make 771 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,919 Speaker 1: that catch and get that first down, you don't walk 772 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,560 Speaker 1: back to the huddle regularly. You walk back with a 773 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:12,880 Speaker 1: strut man. You know that you take that football, you 774 00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,799 Speaker 1: stick it in that guy's face and you say, what 775 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:20,480 Speaker 1: flavor is it? Today? The most underrated catch, and I 776 00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,440 Speaker 1: think in Cowboy's history is when you're just talking about 777 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,920 Speaker 1: where right before the hell Mary you caught one on 778 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,120 Speaker 1: the sideline on third down, I think you got kicked 779 00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,439 Speaker 1: by somebody on the sideline too. Like that hell Mary 780 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:36,239 Speaker 1: doesn't happen without that catch. Absolutely. It was actually fourth down, 781 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:40,000 Speaker 1: fourth down in sixteen in a playoff game against the 782 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,440 Speaker 1: mighty mighty Minnesota defense where they had no rookies on 783 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,480 Speaker 1: that defense. They were all veteran players, double digits years 784 00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,279 Speaker 1: in the league type players on that defense. And you know, 785 00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,040 Speaker 1: fourth and sixteen, you're not going to hit that play. 786 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,719 Speaker 1: The percentages are not in your favor. But Roger told 787 00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,360 Speaker 1: me to run a post corner and hit me on 788 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,840 Speaker 1: the sideline for twenty two yards in the first down, 789 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,720 Speaker 1: and we get back to the huddle on the fifty 790 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,560 Speaker 1: yard line with about thirty two seconds left. Roger said, 791 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,920 Speaker 1: drew what he had got, I said, Roger, I got 792 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,080 Speaker 1: no breath. I just ran in that play over there 793 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:19,320 Speaker 1: something else. So he ran a swing past the press 794 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,080 Speaker 1: and he dropped it. And what that did was stop 795 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,200 Speaker 1: the clock and that gave us some time to get 796 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,640 Speaker 1: in the huddle. Called the hell Mary play. Roger said, 797 00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,279 Speaker 1: this time run to turn in take off on Nate right, 798 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,399 Speaker 1: and we were able to hit that what we wanted 799 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,879 Speaker 1: to do in that situation. We had about twenty eight 800 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,279 Speaker 1: seconds left in the game. We just wanted to take 801 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,000 Speaker 1: some shots in the end zone. And you know, we 802 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:43,719 Speaker 1: never figured or thought that maybe that first shot would 803 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,919 Speaker 1: do it for us, but it did do it via 804 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:51,000 Speaker 1: the hell Mary Also r J, Yeah, you're up? Did 805 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,359 Speaker 1: you okay? So they asked about your favorite catch? Did 806 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,799 Speaker 1: you have a least favorite catch? I assume this is 807 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,080 Speaker 1: one that was over the middle and you just got 808 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:02,960 Speaker 1: cold cut. Well, yeah, I guess on Thanksgiving Day in 809 00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,359 Speaker 1: the second quarter. On that same day in seventy four, 810 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,440 Speaker 1: Clinton Longley came in and hit me that past to 811 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,720 Speaker 1: win the game. I got knocked out by Kenny Houston 812 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:18,200 Speaker 1: on a crack back crackback block and laying on the turf, 813 00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,240 Speaker 1: and that was big deal then. But catching the pass 814 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,799 Speaker 1: from Atlanta Falcons coming over the middle, and I'm downfield 815 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,640 Speaker 1: and there's a guy named Tommy Novis not God rest 816 00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,880 Speaker 1: his soul from the University of Texas, Tommy Nobs And 817 00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying, what the heck is he doing down here? 818 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,520 Speaker 1: Fifteen yards down field? And he co coughed me over 819 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:43,280 Speaker 1: the middle. This is my rookie year. And that little 820 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:45,360 Speaker 1: hole on the side of the helmet, that ear hole, 821 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,640 Speaker 1: it was in the front of the helmet, and I thought, 822 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,360 Speaker 1: the hole. I'm looking at it, that little hole, and 823 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,799 Speaker 1: I thought the whole world around me was blacked out. 824 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,279 Speaker 1: I said, oh mad, he hit me that hard. I 825 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,680 Speaker 1: couldn't even see, you know. So anyway, that was one 826 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:03,919 Speaker 1: of the these favorite catches, but uh, not too many 827 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,000 Speaker 1: of those. They all they all were precious. All every 828 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,400 Speaker 1: catch I made, every catch we made, we prided ourselves, Me, 829 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,480 Speaker 1: Tony Hill, Butch Johnson, Billy Joe Duprie. We prided ourselves 830 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,879 Speaker 1: and making the catch and not dropping the football like 831 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,520 Speaker 1: they's thirty six drops. We don't do that. I'll I'll 832 00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,120 Speaker 1: go real quick here. We're running out of the time. 833 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,080 Speaker 1: We talked about catches, of course, and passes. One of 834 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,319 Speaker 1: my favorite plays for you is a block. I don't 835 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,759 Speaker 1: think Dorset goes ninety nine if you're not down there 836 00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,920 Speaker 1: doing what you're supposed to do and blocking and keeping 837 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,799 Speaker 1: that play alive. Uh is Tony ever Did he ever 838 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:41,200 Speaker 1: acknowledge that and and talk to you about that? Oh? Absolutely, yeah. 839 00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,399 Speaker 1: He gives me credit for that, help him spring him 840 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,920 Speaker 1: around that final block so he can run into the 841 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,640 Speaker 1: end zone. But you know that that's a block of 842 00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,239 Speaker 1: the technique that the coaches teach you on the outside. 843 00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,440 Speaker 1: We call it a rooster block. You know, you're not 844 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: trying to kill anybody, You're just trying to get in 845 00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,319 Speaker 1: front of somebody. And the big thing about that play 846 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,400 Speaker 1: people said, I didn't have any speed, but I'm ahead 847 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,120 Speaker 1: of Doorset running down field. You know, Tony Dorset's pretty 848 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,560 Speaker 1: fast himself. So what Tony was doing he was watching 849 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:13,960 Speaker 1: me and when he saw me make that move to 850 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,319 Speaker 1: throw myself because you you block block and then your 851 00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,719 Speaker 1: throat and you've got to time it. And so when 852 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:25,000 Speaker 1: Tony saw me throw my body to get that last block, 853 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,400 Speaker 1: he went around me and went into the end zone untouched. 854 00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,600 Speaker 1: But blocking was a big part for us receivers, especially 855 00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,000 Speaker 1: when you had a running back like Tony Dorset, because 856 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,479 Speaker 1: you never knew when he was going to break out 857 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,200 Speaker 1: of there, so you did not want to be the 858 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,800 Speaker 1: one missing your block downfield to keep him from scoring. 859 00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,239 Speaker 1: Drew Before we get out of here and we'll throw 860 00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,120 Speaker 1: it around to the to the group, we'll let you 861 00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:51,879 Speaker 1: go first. What are your expectations of this team this year? 862 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:54,839 Speaker 1: I like what I see with the team. You know, 863 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,799 Speaker 1: it's hard to say what's gonna what it's gonna be 864 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,800 Speaker 1: like with no preseason games and all that kind of stuff. 865 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,560 Speaker 1: But if you look at the Cowboys schedule the first 866 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,319 Speaker 1: six games or so, I don't think they play a 867 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,080 Speaker 1: playoff team till you know, November against phillips a team 868 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,920 Speaker 1: that was in the playoff till November against Philadelphia. So 869 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,680 Speaker 1: if they get off to a good start to this 870 00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:19,120 Speaker 1: season and then able to maintain it. Like last year 871 00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,000 Speaker 1: they got off to a good start, they weren't able 872 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,600 Speaker 1: to maintain it. But hopefully this year they get off 873 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,920 Speaker 1: to a good start and maybe able to maintain it 874 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 1: and then continue to get better as the season goes. 875 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:34,080 Speaker 1: So I look at how many games they play, sixteen, 876 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,560 Speaker 1: I look at a twelve wins season, Well, how far 877 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:46,120 Speaker 1: the playoffs are they going? They're going all the way? Yewboy, 878 00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,799 Speaker 1: year man, I can know how we do. We know 879 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,799 Speaker 1: how we doing pandemics. You know, we overcome them Hot 880 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,200 Speaker 1: show with Nate Newton and he's got us going sixteen 881 00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:57,839 Speaker 1: and know every year and win it every year. So 882 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,600 Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with that logic. Nick, what's your expectation 883 00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,560 Speaker 1: this year? You know, they don't have to be a 884 00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,239 Speaker 1: lot better than they were. I mean last year they 885 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:08,440 Speaker 1: blew out the teams that they won, they had some 886 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:12,000 Speaker 1: close losses, they got new coaching, they got some better players, 887 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,200 Speaker 1: I think, better talent. They only need to be just 888 00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:15,920 Speaker 1: a little bit better than last year to get a 889 00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,959 Speaker 1: few more wins. So for I can see ten and six, 890 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,880 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go with eleven and five. Actually, I 891 00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,399 Speaker 1: think I think this is a much better football team. 892 00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,560 Speaker 1: They'll be better. Coach, I'll go eleven and five in RJ, 893 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,640 Speaker 1: what's your expectation, I think ten and six. I think 894 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:32,960 Speaker 1: it's I think it's you know, this team is talented 895 00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,680 Speaker 1: enough to win ten games, they're flawed enough to lose six. 896 00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,759 Speaker 1: I mean every team's flawed in the NFL, right, uh So, Yeah, 897 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,799 Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a ten win football team. 898 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,480 Speaker 1: And Nick, understand if you and RJ don't want to 899 00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,000 Speaker 1: participate because you might want to save your score for 900 00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,959 Speaker 1: later in the week because you have other shows. But Drew, 901 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,440 Speaker 1: do you have a prediction for the game this weekend? 902 00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,320 Speaker 1: A score prediction for Cowboys versus Rams. Yeah, all of 903 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,080 Speaker 1: a sudden, thirty four to ten just came in my head. Hey, 904 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,920 Speaker 1: thirty four ten, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm 905 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,760 Speaker 1: gonna go with that. Thirty four to ten Cowboy opening 906 00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,080 Speaker 1: Day victory, thirty four to ten Cowboys, Nick, you want 907 00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,160 Speaker 1: to play along. I just see Jalen Ramsey and that 908 00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,440 Speaker 1: money he just got there going right at him. I mean, 909 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,920 Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, you get you get those two guys contained 910 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,479 Speaker 1: and blocked. I think I think you know it'll it'll 911 00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,480 Speaker 1: be interesting to see, you know. You gotta you know, 912 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:23,359 Speaker 1: I would say take the crowd out of the game, 913 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:24,719 Speaker 1: but I mean you can't do that. I mean, it's 914 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,480 Speaker 1: it's gonna be weird. It's just it's weird, dynamic. Like 915 00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,960 Speaker 1: r J said, RJ about five seconds, what you got. 916 00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:33,759 Speaker 1: I think it's a high scoring game. I think it's 917 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,160 Speaker 1: a high scoring game this week, so I'll throw a 918 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,040 Speaker 1: score out therefore, I'll say thirty four, thirty one, thirty four, 919 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:43,400 Speaker 1: thirty one, thirty four to ten. Nick's not participating. I 920 00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:46,319 Speaker 1: like it. I like it, Fellas. This has been awesome. RJ. 921 00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,399 Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, Nick, thanks for joining us. Drew, 922 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,040 Speaker 1: it was a pleasure. Whether you're getting ready to have 923 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,960 Speaker 1: been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 924 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,719 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Football Club.