WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Drama Intensifies 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:06.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:14.520 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:16.120 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:16.680 Yes? 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:18.560 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.360 Absolutely? 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.680 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:28.120 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.879 We were on Break with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.760 Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.360 It is Tuesday, September twenty fourth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.720 episode number thirty six. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.400 The Break. We're alive from the SWBC Mortgage studios at 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.360 the Star and today we get you guys ready for 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.600 Cowboys Versus Giants. It's a quick turnaround. And actually, I 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.360 don't know if you guys know this. This is something's 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.200 going to happen this week. It's the first time in 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.680 the history of the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never ever, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.920 in their entire history, played a Thursday night road game 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.440 coming off a Sunday game the week prior. Ever, interesting, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.960 which is something that every most teams at this point 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.800 are doing now that they have Thursday games. The Cowboys 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.640 obviously play Thursday every year. They never they never never 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.720 have had to travel. The only time this has happened 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.240 is in twenty twenty two when they played a Saturday 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.800 night game the week before, so they had five days 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.200 rest instead of four. But they have never in their 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.200 history had four days rest and played a road Thursday 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.520 night game. So we will get to see high score. Yeah, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:37.280 and that's all. 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.399 Give me the giants, you know. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.039 That's also an interesting thing, like. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.679 With all they give giants with all the. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.200 Issues that they've had, like you kind of want to 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.480 turn the page, but at the same time, are your 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.840 body is ready to turn the page with a four 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.880 day And that's the part you don't really know, like 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.080 that travel. I mean, we all will be on the well, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.440 several of us will be on the plane tomorrow, and 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.040 it feels weird literally on a Wednesday, to get on 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.280 a plane heading to another game. But there are other 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.920 teams have to deal with that Cowboys have never had. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:13.280 Interestingly, Interestingly enough, I recently listened to a podcast and 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.160 I hate that I don't remember the name, but this 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:23.919 lady she does a bunch of studies on big time athletes. No, 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.360 but she does a bunch of studies on big time athletes. 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.520 Most of them are in the NBA. These are all names, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.600 you know, but it's around. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.600 Sleep and how crucial sleep is. This is a no brainer. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.040 We always hear this, but it specifically talks about how 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.280 many times a team tends to lose when they travel 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:49.359 to a different time zone, and not even even if 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.800 you try to sleep how you should. I mean, there's 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.680 all kinds of different elements that contribute to that. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:55.200 I don't know. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.320 It was just a very interesting thing that you don't 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.920 really think about it that way, but there are studies 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.919 that shows that typically you underperform when you travel somewhere 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:04.920 else did a. 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.080 Different time didn't you guys travel to Baltimore for a 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.639 Wednesday game one time and during COVID the last time 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.920 the last time Dallas came up a huge But that was. 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.880 That was the game with I think they were supposed 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:21.040 to play on Monday, and it was some Nick was 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.920 telling me about this in the Ravens got COVID. Well, yeah, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.799 it was I think Lamar Jackson or somebody. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.280 Remember, Yes, it was like the pregame Des was going 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.919 to play against and then he got tested by Yeah, 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:33.720 yeah that year. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.760 Did you guys make the trips during COVID? I didn't travel. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.400 I think only Nick was the only person to travel 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.720 during COVID. That was yeah, okay, because they were basically like, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.400 you got you got one seat. Who would you like 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.600 to send? Andy were like, we need a writer, we 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 need a writer. Nick, you want to go, So yeah, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.240 that's that's kind of yeah. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.560 That was the last time that Dallas was really awful 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.840 on the road. The most yards had given up was 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.920 Baltimore in twenty twenty, and I remember the season that 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.640 was like a win. I thought it was a Wednesday 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.560 night game that the Raven It definitely was off. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.240 I couldn't remember it was a Tuesday or Wednesday, but 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.760 it definitely wasn't the normal schedule they had. They had 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.080 moved some things around because of what was happening with COVID. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.480 It was just we know that was a weird year. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.520 But but all going to do a deep blue on 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.719 COVID thing. By the way, the COVID season. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.200 You know what we thought about that, here's the problem, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.480 got no footage. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.039 Let's reenact stuff. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:26.000 We could do that now. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.160 Let's have like Amber has taket swabs and jam them up. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.080 Stadium on Tuesday. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.200 Amber has has won Emmy Awards re enacting things for documentaries, 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.920 so we could probably figure that out, saying but I'm 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.719 just saying like we have no footage. We talked about 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.000 it like we got no footage today. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.560 Nobody ever, you know what, who's going to tell that history? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.880 I know, I wonder who's range because I always thought 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:49.839 there was going to be a thirty for thirty about 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.120 me too. Like, okay, the Lakers bubble team that won, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.400 you know that, the fact that and then the Dallas 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.680 Stars even they had to go. They played in the 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.599 Stanley Cup Final, playing in the bubble Edmonton. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.120 So the same people that produced the Last Dance sent 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.719 a film crew and had people on site for the 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.239 NBA Bubble from start to finish. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.719 So okay, so there you go, and you. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.320 Know, but here's the deal. You got to remember that 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.120 was only four years ago. Bro oh, I know, like 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.880 all those documentaries are coming in the next five to 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.039 ten years when they look back and want to do 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.880 kind of a deep dive on it, you know, when 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.719 when most of us aren't still scarred by by what 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.360 we went through in twenty twenty. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:26.760 It was amazing just what you had to do to 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.640 come in this building. It was crazy how you guys 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.520 were working and stuff like that, and I know we 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.760 were on the road. I'm sorry, I know we're going 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.360 to talk about the Giants here. We were on the 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.080 road in Arizona. And baseball. We were at the Texas Rangers, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.760 you know, at spring training, and literally like sports we 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.440 were watching. I was cooking red beans and rice for everybody. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.280 You know, we had made apartments and stuff, and I 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.880 was cooking dinner. And then we were watching the MAVs 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.960 game and it just ended that night. And then the 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.120 next morning we go and the Brewers were playing the Royals. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.000 They're exchanging lineup cards. Major League Baseball comes in the film, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.360 this is over and the next thing you know, we're 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.120 broadcasting from empty stadium for four straight days and like 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.560 no baseball, no, not even knowing what was about to happen, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.960 you know. And then and then I just moved on 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.080 from from you at Dallas Comedies dot com. And I 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.400 was thinking, I wonder if I get my old gig back. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.520 We were, you know, we were in Pittsburgh. I was 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.799 in Pittsburgh for a meeting and it was a meeting 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.200 with a bunch of other teams around the NFL. We're 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.560 meeting with the app developer, and literally we went to 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.280 a meeting that morning and then we started hearing all 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.359 this news and I called back to Heidi, our HR person. 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:39.279 I'm like, should we come home? And she's like, uh, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.440 you probably can finish up your meeting, but after you 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.400 finish your meeting, try to go ahead and get back. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.080 And literally, the airport was I've never seen it. We 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.400 flew airport was empty and we're trying to get back 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.320 home and it was just it was the eeriest thing 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:51.960 ever we did. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.320 We flew home from we were at Phoenix and we 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.320 flew home and we were on an American Airlines flight 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.480 that was completely empty, and it was it was there 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.320 was I think there were seven of us on this 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.000 week old plane trying to you know, get home and 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.320 all that. But it was a scary time for a 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:07.680 little bit. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.000 We'll be telling our grandkids and kids. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.360 I'll say, I have a different perspective telling my kids 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.120 here thirty years Hopefully. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.520 My kids lived it, So I'll be telling my grandkids 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.560 at some point what happened. But let's jump in. We 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.240 got we got a long time from now, right. Let's 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.400 talk about injuries first. There there are a couple guys 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.280 on the injury report, Marquise Bell, uh did not practice 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.960 with an angle injury. The one that I thought was 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.440 more important and more interesting was Kaylen Carson, his shoulder injury. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.680 Had practice. What do we know about it? 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.400 You got you got to go ahead, go. 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.960 Ah, I have it as a bruise, so maybe you 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.160 have availability. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.040 Yeah, So they'll know more today as far as the 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.800 practice and how much they were able to participate. But 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.480 I was talking about Kaylen Carson and Marquise Bell, who's 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.280 dealing with an ankle injury. Both of those guys will 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.120 know a little bit more today. Bell left the game 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.440 against the Ravens with that ankle injury, and Carson it 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.120 was something that he was nursing after the game. Then 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.240 yesterday he had ice pack on his shoulder during a 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.040 locker room availability. But sounds like we'll know more to 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.920 that effect today. But man, if you do not have 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.920 Kaylan Carson in a game that you're going up against 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.200 an emerging rookie wide receiver from LSU. I saw someone 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.560 tweet out yesterday they said an LSU wide receiver is 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.960 like picking a Kentucky guard in the NBA. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.480 It's like they're just continuously. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:20.480 You know they're gonna be good. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.080 You know they're gonna be good, and we'll. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.480 Be in that Texas Bowl at exactly and every just 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.600 catch out, yeah, catch us in San Antonio. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.160 Check out the twenty twenty six first round pick. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.760 But yeah, but draft day is gonna be fun, right 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.319 draft days. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.280 But if Kayln Carson cannot go, then you're probably. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.760 That was crazy last night. You watched it. We got 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.400 too highlights in the NFL right now and on them 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.120 won a championship. Though you got it, you gotta. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.600 Get That's why we will never will never get another one, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.480 because we sold our soul to get that one in 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:56.360 twenty nineteen. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.760 Not to get too far off topic, but that throw 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.400 that Jane Daniels may in the final couple of minutes 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.080 last night. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.800 I was already making notes for the week we play 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.960 the Commanders, like, oh gosh, this is not gonna be This. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.400 Is gonna be one of these games. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.360 Yeah, it's gonna be one of those games that was not. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.920 Quinn's gone there and actually made that team into a 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.760 much He's remade who they who they were, who we 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.360 thought they were. Now. I don't know how good they'll 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.959 be all season, but they're a different team than they. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.680 Don't they haven't punted in two games. Yeah, it's incredible. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.520 It is wild to see Noah playing every single snap. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:27.880 Yeah. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.400 I was like, I'll we're ready for that part. I 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.160 don't know about all the rest of it, but Monogany, Yeah, well, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.240 we'll deal with that. We'll deal with that, all right. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.880 So let's talk a little bit. I know we had 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.640 kind of got into this conversation yesterday on accountability. There 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.800 were a number of players that have made statements since 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.839 the game yesterday. I'm gonna read a few of them 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.480 and i want to get your opinions on what you 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.160 think of this and what you think it may mean. 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.800 De Las said, we got guys that can do it. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.000 It's just about effing doing it and and obviously dealan 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.960 talking about from the standpoint of being accountable. Dak Press 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.000 Scott says, us as players, we've got to be more 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.280 professional and understand our jobs, understand what we're supposed to 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.200 be and do that time and time again, and keep 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.480 our focus. Michael says, we need guys to play together 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.440 and right now we're just not in unison. We do 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.560 what we're supposed to do and we win. The game. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.880 What do you guys make of these assessments? And I 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.600 know you asked coach McCarthy about this yesterday, there's some 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.599 He responded in a way that that probably was a 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.560 little off, but I thought it was a fair question. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.920 But but I thought that I thought it was a 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.559 fair question because I think all the players that are 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.920 talking about it and saying not just all but your 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.920 top line players are saying there's a certain level of professionalism. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.120 That's the name, that's the word that that dat through 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.000 out there, and they're saying that there's a problem with 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:52.280 how guys are preparing and playing. What do you guys think? 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.120 Yeah, I think when everybody is speaking up to that effect, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.760 I think it's you know, these certain leaders, these certain 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:00.800 team leaders trying to call out certain guys on the 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.440 team that are not taking meeting seriously or not taking 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.200 practices seriously. It was mentioned multiple times after the game 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.480 on Sunday that last Thursday's practice was not good. And 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.400 when you factor that in with the Ceedee Lamb not 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.960 practicing on Wednesday, Trayvon Diggs not practicing on Wednesday, Thursday 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.480 was really their only opportunity to get a full practice 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.160 in and it not be a walkthrough setting. And if 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.160 they can't, if they can't come together and make that 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:25.439 a strong practice, and it's not going to work out 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.920 whenever preparation needs to become application on Sundays. So you know, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.800 how does that get corrected this week in a short week. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.000 That was my question yesterday, is like, hey, yeah, you 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.880 have all these problems that your team leaders are talking about, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.959 Jordan Lewis mentioning details of Michael Parsons mentioning accountability, dack 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.280 with professionalism. How do you take that and you know, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.679 work on that and only three days time and also 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.679 still prepare for the Giants. I didn't get the answer 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:50.959 to my question, but you know, maybe we will get 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.080 that as time goes on. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.280 You know when I first as we were doing the 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.440 postgame show in the Miller Light Club, I Win Karthy 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:05.000 said it first, and you're like thinking, Okay, that that's 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.440 that's you know, that's not coach speak, that's you know, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.720 coach kind of you know, making his thoughts known. And 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.160 then you started hearing the players talk about it. Then 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.240 you knew there was a problem. That was the all 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.640 the things that were said after that game by everybody involved. 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.760 Anything to do with practice or preparation always gets my 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:27.079 attention because it you know, people people always oh, you 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.800 know that famous Allen Iverson. It's it's just it's practice. Well, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.559 practice is important in the NFL, you know how you 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.720 line up, especially, you know when you play against a 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.040 team that stresses you the way the Ravens does. We 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.480 saw that firsthand. You know, you don't have to if 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.600 you're a football fan and you just watch games. You 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.319 know what Lamar Jackson can do as a ball handler. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.760 You know how he puts pressure on you. You know, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.080 we've all seen you know, Henry run the football. You 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.480 know we've seen this. We've seen the Ravens play. That's 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.520 a very good football team. They were in the ABC 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.200 Champion Chip Game last year. If you're not prepping well, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.240 being ready, doing everything you can to get ready for 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.480 these games, they're going to embarrass you. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:09.000 And they did. 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.800 They embarrassed you and then they let you back in 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.280 the game. But that's their history. We've talked about that. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.720 But you you got embarrassed because you know, you looked 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.520 like you weren't ready to play, and I mean not 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.440 ready to play is you know assignments and think it 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.439 took you know, it took them three quarters to get 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.520 the offense going. You know, the defense was kind of 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.800 you know, times was really really bad and other times 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.200 it was Okay. They're capable. This is a very capable team. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.520 But if you're head coach and your in, your in, 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:41.120 your leaders of your team are talking about it, you 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.240 got you got a lot of problems. You got a 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.199 lot of problems, and like I say, I don't know 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.760 if you correct those in four or five days. You know, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.199 that's something they have to look at right now. Pretty strong, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.000 and I'm sure the general managers looking at it, and 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.120 he's had a discussion with the head coach about it. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:56.760 You know, what, what what are we What are we 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.280 talking about here? We're not prepping? Well, what's the deal? 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.040 What all players talking about? Because he's getting asked about it, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.080 you know, he's getting asked about in our station fan 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.000 about things like that. So it's tough. If you're not prepping, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.840 you're not gonna win many games. And they're an example 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:13.560 of that right now. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.840 Yeah, that's a that's a tough one because like you said, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.720 I mean, it all comes down to preparation and what 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.040 happens during the week and these players coming out and 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.040 saying all these comments. I mean, you start thinking, Okay, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.120 then what the heck is going on during practice is 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.760 what are we doing here? And to me, it goes 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.760 back to leadership, It goes back to the coaching. And granted, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.000 this is just my assumption, that's what I can conclude 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.479 or to conclusion, because I'm not there in those practices. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.920 But if I may, Nick, if I may as sorry, 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.800 but okay, I'm just gonna spit it out there what 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.600 I said. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.960 I'm just coming into defense. But how are you gonna 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:01.480 ask somebody if you practice a question when you yourself 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.680 are being in question about practicing and the way you 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.880 practice on the field. And I'm I'm yeah, I said it. Whatever, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.160 But it's the truth, is the fact that it's been 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.280 out there. The last thing you want is your own 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:20.160 players speaking about preparation, the lack of preparation, speaking about 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.440 the way you guys are training. Yeah, they're not calling 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.080 people by name or anything, but that's what it leads 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.960 back to the top. Who's the head of it? And 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.560 again I've been I've given Mike McCarthy a lot of 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.680 praise during his career here with the Cowboys because I 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:42.040 value the way he's trained these players overall during his 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.120 Like we talk about mental health, we talk about giving 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.000 them the rest that they need keeping or trying to 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.720 keep them as healthy as they can be, And I 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.240 value that a lot. And I got to give him 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.680 credit for those things that he's done here, but right 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.880 now in a year that is so crucial for so 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:05.760 many people's career, your own personal liveli So it's it's 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.120 just it's crazy because you can, you can criticize us 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:17.160 for maybe not executing certain things, but but lack of 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.800 preparation should not be one. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:19.640 Lack of. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.960 Being motivated and going out there and putting up a 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.880 fight should not be one. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.960 Uh So it's just it's wild. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.120 It's wild because how do you fix that, Like you said, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.600 in such a short amount of time heading into this week. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.000 Four, I will say this, and I think it was Dak. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:37.800 Correct me if I'm wrong. One of you may have 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.600 heard the quote. I think it was Dak that as 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.680 he was kind of elaborating on what he was saying, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.160 one of the things he pointed out was watching film 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.800 and it's that kind of preparation. So I want to 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.080 be careful that this doesn't turn into a the coaches 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.760 didn't prepare them as much as what it sounds like 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.600 for me, what I'm hear from the players is the 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.320 players aren't doing the extra well their shooting, they aren't 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.920 doing they aren't doing the little things that are the 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.200 difference between winning and losing, whether that be going and 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.040 spending that extra time in the film room, doing those 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.879 extra things on the practice feel that have you ready 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.120 being focused when you go to practice, so that practice 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:13.879 is crisp and clean, and you're doing the things you 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.440 need to do, knowing where you're supposed to be, where 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.280 you're supposed to line up, how you're supposed to perform. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.439 That to me is not about coaching as much as 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.160 it is about professionals being professional, which is how Dack 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.080 put it. It's about being a professional. So I look 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.000 at this and I'm like, there's a lot of guys 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:28.960 in that locker room. It sounds like need to pick 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.680 up a mirror and look at it and say, okay, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.680 am I doing what I need to do and be 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:33.320 a professional. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.959 Just to be clear, I one hundred percent agree with 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:42.520 everything you're saying, because I mean, I can't like it 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.320 has to be up to you some of the things 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.280 that you do outside of while we're doing. 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:47.119 Here your boss now you know. 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:57.240 But yeah, no, But my point is also there's truth 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:02.000 to you being a parent, having that of like, okay, 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.840 what you know, I mean, where's the belt? 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:11.240 Where's there? I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'm against that. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.200 No, no, not. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.200 Once, just kisses for my baby. But no, My point 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.000 is you do need someone to kind of training you 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.840 up and put you back in place where you need 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.920 to be. So I think both things can be true 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.560 at once. But I totally agree it is up to 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.120 you what you do in your own time where you're 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.639 supposed to do your own kind of preparation and work 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:34.800 for yourself. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.080 But it's just that's wild. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.240 Eventually the rubber is gonna have to meet the road, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.800 and whether that be guys applying themselves and them getting 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.399