WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Call For Help 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.720 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:15.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.040 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:30.120 Star in friscol Say, and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:36.880 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's well beat 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.720 me up. You are now rocking with the best. This 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.839 is Talking Cowboys on a Tuesday. And I have my 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:49.720 usual suspect with me, mister Isaiah Standback, former Cowboys wide 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.519 receiver and Super Bowl champ. And man, we've made a 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.760 trade for one big play, first play, your first round pick. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.920 There's some guys that have gone now to this guy's 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.840 but you know what, I feel like he's been itching 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:03.960 his whole career to get down here and yeah for 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.880 this show, for this show. Yeah, and he's finally with us. Okay, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.960 we got we got Nicholas even what's up? Man? And 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.080 you're the first time we goes down a show together. Yeah, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.319 it is okay, good because I would hate for you 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.760 to say, like, no, it's the sixth time, this is 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.720 our first time. I thought We've had a lot of 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.800 sports arguments. Yeah, first time I ever met this guy. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:25.960 I didn't even know him. It was like at a 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.280 Christmas party. He was I heard your shoulder the day. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.720 I don't think you know what you're talking about respectfully, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.800 and I was like or something like that. I was like, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.880 respect that. Hey, you're used to it. I am. That's 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.160 what I just tweeted out though I hit the transfer 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.520 a portal for one day? Is that what it is? Like? 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.240 I like kept it. You know what I should have said? 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.800 I should I was named an alternate because that's kind 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.240 of the theme of what's happening here this week. You 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.360 are an alternate? Yeah, and I didn't pass like Dak. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.520 I took it so m Yeah. But my man, he's 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.200 coming out with the five guns blaze. I just don't understand. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.240 I think from what I heard. I know we're supposed 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.000 to talk about maybe Pro Bowl on the list, maybe not. Yeah, 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.880 we have a few things on the list. Just that 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.240 Dak said that, like he you know, I guess he 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.440 wants to rest or. That's what's been implied that he 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.080 wants to rest I've covered the Pro Bowl a couple 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.320 of times. It's not boot camp. I mean, like, it's 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.200 not like it'd be Okay, I don't understand what's happening. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:22.760 I guess I don't know what his body feels like 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.120 or whatever. But man, I'm taking that that third Pro 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.680 Bowl appearance if it's offered to be, I don't know, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.399 but it's not. I said, what about you, what say 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.959 you on turning down the Pro Bowl the quarterback position. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.000 I'm taking it. It's pretty just chill, It's super chill. Now, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.240 there's always a risk. I mean, that's the angle that 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.600 he's taking. I totally understand that there's always a risk 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.520 to injury even when you're in chill mode. Okay, there's 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.040 a reason why cast don't go back and play pick 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.639 up basketball after they'd done, after he get done playing sports. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.880 But you know, for the most part, two year, two year, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.040 and to your point, and I was able to go 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.040 attend the Pro Bowl when when Terrell man a TiO 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.840 made it my first year here in two thousand and seven, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:02:59.760 he took the whole receiver group and it was awesome. 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.400 Makes perience, man, just team bonding, you know, being able to, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.720 you know, to celebrate those on your squad that had 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.200 high achievements because everybody has a part in that um. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.079 But you know, I don't know the reasoning for him 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.920 stepping away and not wanting to participate, but every man 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.639 has the right to make their own decisions. Well, fellas, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.560 I was gonna ask y'all how y'all feeling today, but 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.040 everybody's fired up. Nick brought the energy. I mean, he 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.560 came out blazing saying he's gonna transfer portal. But before 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.760 I get in trouble with the powers that beat upstairs. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.720 Talking Cowboys is presented by Tito's, the official chip and 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.359 dip and the official chip of America's team. So I 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:39.360 gotta make sure I do not You know, I'm laughing 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.080 because is it to see it? All right? What I say? 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:53.560 I don't know? No, No, okay, we got a new sponsor. Cool, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.640 hey man, that's a little bit old Cliff coming out 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:01.640 that Tostitos. Excuse me, all right, So guys, over the weekend, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.240 obviously we've had a lot going on with the AFC 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:11.320 and NFC championship. However, at eight forty today an announcement 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:12.960 was made and I want to get you guys as 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:18.360 thoughts on one. Tom Brady walking away from football after 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.880 twenty two seasons, which is unheard of, and Isaiah I'll 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.440 start with you, because you played with the man. What 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.920 were your what was your reaction? Proud of him? Proud 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.120 of him? I mean he has set the mark that 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.520 maybe unattainable by most, by most standards, I mean, this 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.240 dude is a he's a professional man. I mean he's 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.320 a great person. He's a great teammate. I haven't seen 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.840 anybody work harder mentally at the game of football. I 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.320 obviously when I was released here in two thousand and 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.200 nine at their camp, the last last preseason game, my 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.239 next stop. Two days later, I was sitting New England, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.240 sitting in the meeting room with Tom Brady right in 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.839 the quarterback room. So it was myself, Brady, Brian Hoyer, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.919 and Billy O'Brien, and I was thrown into that, you know, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.440 and I had to learn what it meant at that level, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.159 right at his level, to be a professional. And deceed 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.960 to watch his approach to the game, to watch his 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.479 approach to fitness and training and practice and walkthroughs, and 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.359 just to attendimness and his focus. It was amazing to 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.600 be a part of it and experience it. So I'm 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.200 super duper proud of him and his career and I 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.600 hate that somebody leaked it, you know, last week that 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.960 I can't believe that, But you know, that's not going 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.560 to take away any portion of what he's been able 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.560 to accomplish in his career. About I think he's you know, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.719 he's obviously the most accomplished player I think in NFL history. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.360 And I don't even know if you can say arguably 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.600 the best quarterback, you know. I mean, I've always been 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.520 a guy that that thought for one game, you know, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.960 Peyton Manning, I take him, But I mean, I don't 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.440 know how you can can argue that, really. Um, but 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.080 we'll say this about Tom Brady and it's absolutely one 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.400 thousand percent not a dig at him. I think what 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.600 he did is he took the turn bus driver and 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.000 threw it out the window. Because to me, Tom Brady 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.440 has been a bus driver quarterback and that is not 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.640 a bad thing. It was considered a bad thing at 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.000 one time, but now it's like this is he's doing 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.400 exactly what you've got to do, and there's nothing wrong 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.160 with being a bus driver. Sometimes you got to go 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.440 twenty through a school zone. Sometimes you gotta go ninety, 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.400 you know what I mean. Sometimes you're driving with a bomb, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.720 and they're like speed you know the movie. I mean, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.400 you gotta drive this thing. Sometimes you take it off 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.920 into the ditch. Do whatever you gotta do, but control 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.320 it at all times, at all speeds. Take a four 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.640 yard pass, take at sixty. He is I think the 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.080 best at it all time. And he's never got greedy. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.560 You get greedy. He was like, whatever's here is there. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.680 And that's the one thing I do think Dak could 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.200 could learn the best is don't be so greedy. You're in, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.480 you got a contract, You're gonna be the starter. Just 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.920 take what's there and let's keep rolling. And so much 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.600 of my comments, I know, heck might I get into 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.680 it all the time. So much of my comments when 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.760 it comes from a quarterback position, doesn't just come from 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.080 my personal experience of playing a position, but also sitting 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.320 in that meeting room with TB twelve for that year 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.680 and really understanding the conceptually how to help a team 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.280 win ball games. So so much of my comments come 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.599 from this man right here in terms of taking what 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.600 the defense gives you take the little dumb you know, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.400 and how many times does he throw out to his 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.200 running back? You know, that's a death checkdown all the time. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:15.880 Why did he always make sure that he had a 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.400 good scap back because that's it was valuable to him. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.240 He understood that they're gonna have to be coverage down 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.400 the field. So to your point, Nick, I do I 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.400 wholeheartedly agree that Dad can take a big chunk out 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.200 of the tom Brady's book and not only just make 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.520 his career at lasts a lot longer, but help this 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.920 organization be in a position to win some Super Bowls. Like, man, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.760 I'm not gonna hold any punches on this one. Man. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.160 I for a good part of his career, I have 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.000 not liked Tom Brady as a player, and he's had 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.840 me in a submission hold his whole career. It's just 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.480 being successful in beating you down. And my favorite Tom 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.080 Brady moment has to be in the Super Bowl versus 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.520 Atlanta when he's down twenty one three, he's down twenty 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.640 eight three, and he's sitting there on the bench and 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.920 they're panning right on him, and it's like the depth 0:07:57.960 --> 0:07:59.840 of a dynasty right in front of you. It's like 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.080 it's finally over. He's just gonna walk off into the sunset. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.640 And that joker got up and he brought this team 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.360 back and won a Super Bowl, And to me, that 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.000 was that was my moment where I said, I kiss 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.520 can't do this anymore. It's his greatness. I'm watching something 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.200 great and what he did last year, which is just 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.000 he just echoed. He just went on even further with 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.400 how great. That happens to me with a lot of athletes, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.920 like you're younger in their career, whether maybe they're on 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.440 the team you don't like, but when they keep going 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.760 and keep going and they get, you know, an older guy, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.120 and then there's a there's a young guy you know 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.600 now that comes along that's kind of pushing them. That 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.720 happened to me with Brett Farve. That happened to me 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.400 with Kobe Bryant, you know, like the older that they 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.319 get and you're like, I don't really know if I'm 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.640 pulling for them and their team, but like you gotta 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.200 respect what they've done for so long. Absolutely, I mean 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.080 it happens, you know, and he's in that category for me, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.000 like how can you hate this guy? You can't? And 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.680 speaking of man, that's a that's a good transition for 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.160 the AFC Championship, talking about a young gun going up 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.200 against a guy that has done it a few times 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.000 so far. Now, what did you guys think that showdown 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.640 between Mahomes and Burrow in the championship till the two halves. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.040 I feel like the Cowboys nation knows a lot about 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.440 that through a couple of our games this year. But 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.240 I think Mahomes the first half balled out. That first half, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:19.840 they took care of business. They were to Kanca City 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.520 that everybody expected. The second half, I don't know what 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.800 was going on. I mean, the coverage was good, they 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.880 had he had all the time in the world pocket wise, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:28.480 and then he was just running around like on a 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.240 Tasmanian double, making bad decisions and it was like, what 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 the heck is going on? I honestly feel as if 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.520 they got comfortable. I honestly feel like four straight trips 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.760 to the a FC Championship game, yeah whatever, you know, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.880 whatever happens happens versus a team that was super duper hungry, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.839 hasn't been there since Jesus was born, and they're like, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.000 we're not missing this opportunity. I think that was the 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.480 difference in the game, and obviously you see the heads 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.560 hanging low. You know they missed opportunity. And then tying 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.239 us into a question of tying us into the Cowboys 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:58.800 that first half when you watch Andy Reid not kick 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.000 a field goal at the end of the first half, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.160 and I don't know if it was arrogance, yea, I 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.480 don't know if it's arrogance or if it's analytics or 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.240 if they all go in together at this point, does 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.640 it remind you of some of the struggles that we've had, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.680 you know, coaching wise, clock management wise. Did that kind 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.760 of take you back deja vu? I think so. I mean, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.840 I'm not a big like guy, a big on clock 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:25.040 management against McCarthy that much. And I have I said 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.040 this I think last week and I'll explain it again 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.079 later on. But but for that particular one, I just thought, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.720 you know, there's there should have been two plays and 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.840 you know, he threw Mahomes messed it up. I mean, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.960 he threw it to a guy and he thought maybe 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.760 he would he would break the tackle and didn't get in. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.680 But I mean that was that was where the game 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.600 was lost. At the end of the first half, end 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.680 of the game or in a regulation, they had the 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.320 ball first and goal on the one first goal in 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.439 the five they got three points out of it. That's 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.040 the game. I mean, I think if you score a 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.560 touchdown there, especially a touchdown, was it twenty one to ten, Yeah, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.120 it's twenty eight. And then I coming back from that, yeah. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.360 And my whole thing was even in the first half, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.520 I thought when they didn't kick the field goal, I said, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.480 they're gonna lose this game simply because that's your ball 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.600 game right there. As you just mentioned, if you're if 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.200 you just play a little bit of defense in the 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.680 second half, they tie you up, you win the game 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.840 on the field goal. You don't even need to And 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.559 that's again the end of the first half and then 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.400 the end of the second half with the miscues, and 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.680 I just thought that that was really something to see 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.160 those coaching mistakes and again tying it back into the 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.000 Dallas Cowboys. But man, we gotta go over to the 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.800 NFC because Isaiah Stanback has been la Rams from the 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.480 beginning and just basically saying that this is a team 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.520 of destiny. Was what were your impressions of the game 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.920 versus to forty nine US, They showed out, I mean, 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.560 everybody who needed to step up, all the acquisitions that 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.880 they made to ensure that they had this opportunity showed 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.920 up this That's what I was saying. They were not 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.280 going to miss this opportunity. Von Miller, even though he 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:51.959 didn't show up in the stat line, he affected the 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.560 dog On game in a major way. Aaron Donald, you 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.840 saw him and be soft spoken, right, He's a Amari 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.120 Cooper of defensive linement, right, He's very soft spoken. He 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.040 pulled that team together. It's like, hey, figured this crap out, right, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.720 and he went out there and led by example. He 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.680 was dominant, causing all all kinds of issues, big games 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.520 right there in the middle from you, he killed it 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.600 as well. And then you go on to the back half, right, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.440 then you got Ramsey and then offensively Odell Beckham, even 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.760 Audio Matthew Stafford making good decisions. All these guys took 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.480 care of business right, and they took the forty nine 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.360 ers out of their game. They took them out of 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.000 their game. They were no longer able to play the 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.640 bully ball that we've heard about this entire you know, 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.040 a playoff run where you shocked by the forty nine 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.319 ers and the way that they came out, I mean, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.600 they had a lead and it seems like they just 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.800 could not hold on to For a second there it 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.160 looked as though like the game was over, but we 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.640 were your impressions. I thought, those are two great teams 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.160 that know each other well. I thought it was going 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.080 to be a good game. It's kind of the flip 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.560 of the game we saw in week eighteen when I 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.600 was pulling for the wrong team, I was thinking that 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:56.480 was that was good one. You know. Nah, in hindsight, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.520 I wish you that didn't happen, But um, you know, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.400 I said it best. I mean those guys that came in, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.320 I mean, they all did their thing, and I'll feel 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.000 another one in because I don't think he was this year. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.800 It might have been the year before, but it kind 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.559 of seemed like it started with that trend with Whitworth, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.960 the tackle who you know looks like Santa Claus. But 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.240 were like, he's still balling, he's still playing, you know, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.960 and that guy is outstanding. And I just think I 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.120 hope that the teams and the Cowboys to look at 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.720 that and go, you know what, this win now approach? 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.800 I mean not not go ahead, yeah you get because 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.440 you're geting ahead of my man pulled back a little 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.920 bit because that was my next question after watching what 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.920 they did. After watching the championship weekend, how far or 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.520 did you look at you were you looking at your 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:45.040 television like we're nowhere close to that or we're right there. Uh. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.880 As far as being in those championship games, well, I 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.120 can't say that because I've never been there. I've never 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.840 been to a championship. I don't even know what that's like. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.080 But I think this team is close. They are close. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.800 They were close to the teams that beat them. They 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.840 is not good enough to beat them, So I don't know. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.520 I mean, I think I think that this team it's 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.199 called mean that they were close to the Chiefs relatively 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.000 with playing with you know, kind of shorthanded there. I mean, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.080 but I'm not gonna sit here and say like, oh, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.120 this is good. I mean, they were way better than 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.200 the teams in their division and the teams that were mediocre, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.640 but they weren't ready to take that next level. And 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.600 it's gonna be tough to do that with losing some 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.480 of the players. They're gonna lose, but you know, coaches 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.840 should be back. You know, you know the band I've 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.360 been on here. It frustrates me, and I get it. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.040 As a general manager of an organization. You have to 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.640 prepare your team for the future, right, you have to 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.800 secure the future of the organization. But the future doesn't 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.440 mean a dog on thing if you don't take care 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.240 of them now. Sometimes now predicates, you know, has a 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.640 has a big effect over what's gonna happen down the line. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.960 So if you're not balling out and winning ball games, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.320 going to the playoffs, winning championships, and who really wants 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.240 to come play for you? Yeah, so people come the 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.240 people go to different organizations for two money championships. That's it. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:03.920 I don't give a dog on what anybody else says. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.520 I'm going to get paid or I'm going to win 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.080 a championship, And sometimes I would give on the money 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:09.880 to get a championship. We see that, and we saw 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.040 that in Tampa, right, We've seen it over and over again. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.480 Guys want to go play with TV so well, Dallas 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.520 Cowboys have had a number of opportunities to go and 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.880 secure the bag in terms of getting a dominant player 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.640 that could really push them over the edge, and they've 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.360 pulled back numerous times, numerous times, not just once, not 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.040 with the Honey Badger and everybody. I can go down 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.800 the line of all these guys that could have had 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.280 a big effect on this roster now, right, just as 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.560 just throw the money out there, kick the can down 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.080 the road with the other stuff like we always like 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.760 the Cowboys always do and secure the bag. They didn't 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.400 do so, right, So they even with that, even with 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.040 that statement, they still had a stacked roster. They still 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.960 had one of the most talented rosters in the league 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.840 top three. I would have to say next to KC 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.440 in LA, I would I would stand behind that all 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.440 day long. But play calling, players, not making plays, all 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.160 those things came out to the same result that they've 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.520 had in the past. Has to change. Do you put 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.480 a trigger on something major going for it? I don't know. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.240 But to next point, you got to make sure that 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.560 you have the foundational pieces in place going into next year. Now, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.280 I'm not ready to do what the Rams did. I'm 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.680 not ready to know to not pick I mean before 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.080 the next Olympics here, I mean like that they're not 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:19.160 they don't like three years the fourth round man um. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.920 But I just feel like I've always thought this, you're 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.240 in the third round, you're in the fourth round. Teams 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.960 want picks, and you you look at a guy I'm 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:30.360 not even gonna throw a name out there, but I'm 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.840 just saying, you find a player in his last year, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.080 second to last year in his contract, they'll trade them, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.080 They'll dump them, you know, Like that's what I would do. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.160 I would try to get a player like that instead 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.840 of I mean, so, okay, so I don't get another 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.440 O DIGGI Zoo or Chauncy Golston or whatever, Jabril Cox 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.520 third or fourth round, but I get a guy that's 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.680 now the money's a little different, but if you can 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.240 handle it on your on your salary cap. I mean, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.360 that's what the Rams did. And they didn't just trade 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.840 first round picks. I mean they figured out ways to 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.280 get these guys. But speak historically from the Dallas Cowboys, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.359 and they've made those kinds of trades before, with a 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.480 Joey Galloway or trading for Roy Williams, or trading up 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.240 to get Roy Williams, are even trading for Maury Cooper. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.040 Those haven't necessarily paid dividends for them. So do you 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.080 think they're gunshot to do that now or do you 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.080 think that's just they just hadn't found the right combination 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.920 or guy that's going to fit their system. I think 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.080 all three of those are a little different. I really do. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.040 And I say that Joey got hurt, and then the 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.679 quarterback got hurt, and then that was and then he 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.320 was catching passes from Quincy and Anthony Wright and all 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.840 the stirner but Roy, you know, And I think that's 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.320 a good example. You were here when Roy got traded, right, See, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.520 that was interesting because I don't think he did anything 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.720 that first year. It took him a little bit. I 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.560 gotta give the Rams credit not just bringing the guys in, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.920 but their coaching staff of figuring out ways to get 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.040 them to play at that level. Because Roy Williams when 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.359 he got here was not ready to be the star 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.600 that's of the first round pick. I think he needed 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.520 an off season and all that. And that's what's kind 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.359 of tough with receivers Von Miller. I mean, go go 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.000 rest the passer. I mean, I don't know how much 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.080 there is for him to see a part of them. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.240 The whole thing is it's a different psychology. The Rams 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.040 don't give a dog on about years down the road, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.200 because that's that's it's down the road. Obviously, it's down 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.639 the road. Right, What what what can I control? I 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.480 can control today and hopefully tomorrow. Right, that's all I 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.399 have control over. But I'm gonna take care of today. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.160 So we remember when they brought in Odell Beckham, who 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.159 who were their receivers? Cupping Woods, right, yeah, Cups Woods, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.200 Van Jefferson Right, then Woods got hurt, right, So they 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.760 had Van Jefferson Cup and then they had and they 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.200 had Odell. But they were intending on having a four 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.720 hitded monster a receiver plus Higbee right there. They didn't 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.280