WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Most Talented Team Since... 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.159 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:15.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:26.280 training live from Dallas Cowboys training Camp in Hawksnard, California. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:32.479 Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:39.080 all present and accounted for on a Thursday here in Oxnard, California. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.760 One week down, two weeks to go, Cowboys Camp two 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:47.800 thousand nineteen. Unbelievable. We're already through a week here. The 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.839 team arrived here last Thursday. They will be departing in 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.720 two weeks for Hawaii. Are you ready to go already? Well, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.320 I'm actually just here for four more days. I'm two 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.440 thirds of the way through my stint here. Well that's 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.240 too bad, because you're gonna miss this weather. I am. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.760 And we got the Marine Layer this morning. And the 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.920 Cowboys return to the practice field today after the players 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.720 had a day off on Wednesday. It's an afternoon practice. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.600 If you're in the area, come on out with a 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.160 three thirty start time on practice this afternoon, five thirties 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.800 Central time, and so much to get to as we 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.000 get started here on another edition of Talking Cowboys. This 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.520 is the first of four straight days of practice out here. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:34.360 It will culminate on Sunday evening Dallas time, six o'clock 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.560 Dallas time. We'll be airing the Dallas Cowboys Annual Blue 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.759 White Scrimmage on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort Worth 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.600 and right here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. So this 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.360 is the lead up to that. Everyone enjoy your off 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.720 day yesterday, even though we did we were here for 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.040 another edition of Talking Cowboys yesterday morning. I figured out 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:58.840 that without practice, without press conference, without interviews, after practice, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:04.080 we say five hours of work, of of just doing 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.160 stuffing stuff to gather stuff to do our work right. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.920 For me, it was a good day to get caught 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.320 up on things I needed to get caught up with 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.040 as far as work goes. You get your San Francisco, 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:17.880 what are you getting? Well, No, I'm just it's just 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:24.400 getting narrowed in on players, rookies on this roster exactly 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:29.280 getting ready for not only the scrimmage on UM Sunday, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.880 but also you know, the preseason games. We got all 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.280 four preseason games this year, so we never really seemed 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.440 to take the day off. You know, we're pretty much 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.760 in that tent at least for a couple hours. And 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.000 then because what they do is the Cowboys used that 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.240 time usually to work out guys. They will workout guys 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.960 on you maybe make a couple of roster moves, and 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.440 they made one yesterday. They did you want to get 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:58.000 to that roster move yesterday? Well, the roster move is 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.119 I'm working the four guys out, and so they bring 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.960 it in a couple one yeah, yeah. And then they 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.680 decided to sign Justin Phillips, who was with the team 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.920 right after the draft. It was let go earlier in 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.280 the off season back now, a rookie out of Oklahoma 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:18.480 State and Parland, Texas. And they released Larry Allen Junior yesterday. Yeah, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.680 you know what, And this is I'll say about Larry 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.240 Allen Junior. Don't feel sorry for the young man because 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.480 he's got a degree from Harvard. He's better off than 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.079 a lot of us right now, and I think he's 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:29.560 going to go on and do great things. I will 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.359 say this about Larry Allen and I we were talking 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.000 about it kind of going a little pre show here 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.480 that Larry Allen came into camp and actually looked better 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.640 than he did in the OTAs and main camps. The 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.160 five weeks that he had to be at the facility 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.839 and lift and work on nutrition stuff like that. Let's 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.119 be honest. You know, IVY League, Harvard and all that. Yeah, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.800 they've had some players that have played in this league, 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.200 but the strength programs not the same, you know. And 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.800 he came in. I think he took advantage that he 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.200 looked okay out here. I was worried about him getting 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.280 run over. You know, he looked under sized, He looked 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.640 over Matt and all that during the OTAs, but came 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.640 out here and I think for the most part though, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.120 kind of did himself proud. You know. Mickey said he 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:08.760 saw him on the way out of the place, and 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.440 you know, he's probably disappointed that it ended this quickly 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.600 for him. But I kind of saw him as if 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.920 he made the practice squad, it was going to be 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.559 it was going to be him just really blowing people away. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.000 I thought that was really the best level that I 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.200 could see him attaining at the time. And I promise 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.400 you that was not easy for Jerry Jones to do. No, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.080 because the relationship he has with that family, Yes, his dad, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.960 and I'm sure they would have liked to take him 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.680 all the way through preseason and see what he could 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.279 do to try to make the team, make the practice squad. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.920 But it's about getting the ninety got right, ninety guys 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.640 on the field, the best ninety you can get. And 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:46.880 that's the decision they made. But you, like you said 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.640 in the offseason, Brian Larry Allen Junior has already won. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.120 He's won this. He's won. He's one, He's got a 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.599 degree in biomedical engineering. He is going to go do 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.400 great things in this world. Yep, Absolutely, what's biomedical jury? 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.520 What do you do with bio medical engineer? Do many 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.679 more things than what you would do out of practice squad. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.880 And yeah, yeah, he'll make more. He's gonna make more 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.440 in a day than he'll make on a week and 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.520 a practice squad. And you know what, and you know 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.840 what happened. They their their hand got forced because they 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.120 got short on linebackers. So the next question, right, they 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.600 needed to make a move. I think they were down 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:27.640 to linebackers. Yes, well also too, and and also yeah, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.880 and Andrew dwal is one of the college free agents 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.920 out of Michigan State, right, just getting Covington back, right, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.760 So see, and it's funny you say that you know 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.720 a hard cut for Jerry Jones and the relationship he has. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.680 I don't know if necessarily Jerry Jones would visit with 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.880 a down the line player. I think that that Will 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.760 or somebody would probably say, okay, hey, thank you very much. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.679 Move on the fact that the owner general manager says 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.800 goodbye to you and thank you and shake your hand. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.400 Jerry Jones meets with players, don't get me wrong about this, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.920 but he also but I don't know if he would 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.960 meet with a guy that you know, it's like, okay, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.000 we gotta make a roster move, Okay, get Jerry in 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.120 here to say goodbye. Usually Jerry's like, you know, he 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.120 lets Will or somebody else handle that. And but the 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.400 fact he took the time because of the relationship with 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.920 the family, probably be seeing dad this weekend and can't 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.320 know how absolutely go. Yeah, I mean, and he's and 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.280 and they've known him. I mean he grew up on 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.680 the sideline in the locker room at some of these games. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.760 I mean when they were winning Super Bowls. By the way, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.560 we've got football tonight. Sure, Hall of Fame game is tonight. Yeah, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.440 didn't he looking at me quizzically Denver in Atlanta? I 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:40.599 was thinking The game was right on a Thursday night. Yeah, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:42.560 and of course Gil Brandt goes into the Hall of 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.160 Fame this weekend. Jerry Jones, the presenter. Gil was going 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.320 from here to Canton. Yeah, so he was out here 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.359 on Monday. It was a great honor. I got invited 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.839 to his ceremony. I really, Yeah, he was nice enough. 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.120 It's so weird. You get a call from Canton, Ohio 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.360 on your phone and you're like, what's so, that's how 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.400 it works. Yeah, Well I got a call. Yeah, they 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.720 invite you and I and I had to. I called 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.800 Guil had to. I didn't recognize Yeah, there you go. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.960 Well I had to. I mean, he was nice enough 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.520 to invite me into his induction ceremony, and I had 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.920 to decline because of the work we're doing and stuff 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.200 like that. But what a what a great honor that 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.840 a man who really the godfather of scouting, the godfather 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.920 of all the things that guys like myself that we 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.920 have jobs in the National Football League or had jobs 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.080 because the stuff that Gil Brandt did in scouting, in 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.080 the way that he formulated his department. Gosh, he worked 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.560 with some great scouts throughout his career and stuff. So 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.480 it's nice to see personnel men be included into the 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.880 Hall of Fame. Uh ceremony and those his bust will 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.040 sit right there very proudly among all those great players. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.440 Is the induction at night or during the day gets 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.760 Saturday night, right, sorry, we can, we can. You can 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.400 check it out absolutely, Yeah see it yeah live yeah 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.160 right great, yeah, and uh, he'll go on for a 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.840 while now, Gil will tell some stories. If he starts 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.400 telling some stories, right, good for his When he told 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.840 me the story about the first training camp, I learned 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.200 something new because they had a split camp. You know, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:12.000 everybody knew they went to Forest Grove, Oregon. Yeah, but 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.440 they had to play games in the Midwest, preseason games. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.640 And so they found a place in Della Field, Wisconsin, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.440 at a military academy. And uh, he said he went 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.400 and visited the place kind of did a site inspection 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.280 in April, and he said the place was just appalling. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.880 The dorms were terrible, the lights were dim, he said, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.000 there were bats flying around in the building. A perfect place, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.840 he said. The commander. The commander told them, hey, don't worry, 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.680 we're refurbishing all this stuff. And when you guys get 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.000 back here in August will have it all spruced up. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.600 Not so much. They showed up and they sent the 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.840 players into those dorms. Bats were still flying around. You 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.679 could barely see. And he said the next morning when 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.920 he woke up, there was a big statue on the 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:07.480 on the on the campus of the military academy, and 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.520 some of the players went and hung him in effigen 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.280 They got they got a dummy thing and a rope 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.640 and hung it on the on the statue. Because it's like, Gil, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.840 you brought us here. They had to fly like from 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.880 San Antonio on a DC six so an airplane right 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.880 uh to Milwaukee and bust two hours to this military 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.760 academy to practice for like maybe a week before they 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.320 went to the next game. One other part of the 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.240 history lesson from Mickey here the first year the Cowboys 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.599 in nineteen sixty and of course this is the sixtieth 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.960 year of Dallas Cowboys football. They were there at Pacific University. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:50.199 Probably got there basically July fourth, I mean, you know what, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.880 sixth preseason July ninth. And he remember about the day 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.200 he told me we six So we're talking we're talking 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:03.840 about yeah, they had six Okay, they had six preseason games, okay, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.080 and where I just started this show talking about where 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.280 one week, now we got two weeks to go, how 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.160 are we gonna make it the next two weeks? And 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.120 they started, So they started July ninth in uh in Oregon. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.800 Their first preseason game was August sixth in Seattle against 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.000 San Francisco, so that's a month of trade. So then 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.640 they were there probably another week, okay, because their second 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.960 preseason game was in San Antonio, so they traveled from 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:35.120 Seattle to San Antonio. They played Saint Louis in San Antonio. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.840 Then they played a home game against Baltimore six days later, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.320 so maybe I'm sure they stayed in Dallas during that 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.240 week and then they padded off to where you're talking about. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:50.440 Their next preseason game was at Louisville at Louisville against 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.600 the Giants on August twenty seventh. Then September fourth, they 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.600 came back out here at Pendleton, which I guess is 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.400 Camp Pendleton where they filmed over poleshow it's it's It's 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:06.280 It's it's Oregon, Oh, Pendleton, Oregon against LA and then 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.720 at Minnesota against Green Bay to close it out, so 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.480 that they were that one must have been when they 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:18.000 went to Wisconsin. God. So their their preseason in nineteen 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:23.319 sixty started on July ninth in Oregon and their whoa 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.200 wait a second, Okay, their last preseason game with September eleventh. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.080 Their first regular season game wasn't until September twenty fourth, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:35.120 another two weeks after that last preseason game. So they 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.400 started July ninth, and then they finally played their first 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.800 regular season game September twenty fourth, and they won their 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.640 only game. It amongst those six preseason games in Louisville 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:51.160 against the Giants. Yeah, because Jerry said that they're gonna 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:55.400 kick their butts. And the game, the game they played 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.880 against um was it? Uh? Did they played Baltimore? Yeah? 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.400 Speak like fourteen to ten? Or yes they did? Mo 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.320 You got a great memory. No, I'd look guilded now. No, 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.520 I looked it up. It was Johnny Unitas to Lenny 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.400 Moore in the final minute of the game. And why 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.200 were they playing in Louisville? Why were they That's where 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.000 Johnny Nis is from. Why was Johnny and Nias played 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.720 for the Giants? No? No, no, no, you're talking about 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.040 the Baltimore The next week that that's where I got 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.920 that was the only all right, let's go to periscope. Cowboys? Yeah? 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:36.199 How about yeah? Cowboys? That was talking about that was 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.120 a tribute to Gil brand I was, you're not going 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.080 to dis our tribute to I love Gil. I'm so 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.000 happy for him. I am. Okay, we'll get a periscope 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.719 and thanks again for everybody in pariscope. It's kind of 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.480 hanging out with us today. We talked about this yesterday, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.720 but Mickey, since we do have a question about I'll 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.280 start with you on this one. How is Travis Frederick 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.160 looking in camp so far? We'll just kind of rehash 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.320 what we talked about yesterday. You kind of had an 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.160 idea about Travis Frederick King his first padded practice and 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.040 I thought, you know, his strength was good. He was 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.440 worried about his power and his legs, and I think 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.080 that was good. But he was just a tick off. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.720 His steps were just a tad behind I think what 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.840 he would want to be. He even said it's going 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.000 to take a while. He hadn't been in pads for 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.600 a year, probably more than a year by time they 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.720 figured out what was wrong with him last year, and 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:30.240 then the shoulder surgery, the umbilical core the umbilical hernia. 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:37.680 I said, cordn't have one of those, right. Uh. But 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 other than that, you know, he just needs to get 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.440 back out there and they're gonna ease him back in 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.600 and you know, but yeah, he'll improve. But it was 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.080 it was a good sign his strength and his power 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.840 was there. Now he just needs to figure out the 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.120 mass confusion in front of him. I looked it up. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.280 It was just about a year ago, maybe a little 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.400 less because it was in camp. He left camp, went 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.240 to LA I think, to see doctors, right, and at 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.240 the time they thought stingers and then he kept getting 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.920 second opinions and then found out late August last year 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.640 was when they found out about the GPS diagnosis. So yeah, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.280 it's been a long time, and expect him just to 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.000 adjust the speed of the game as he keeps going. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.840 Overall impression of Dak Prescott so far, Glad you mentioned 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.920 Dak Prescott and I've been I've been impressed with him 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.960 and one of the things that I have every year, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.800 it seems like I'm more impressed with his conditioning. He 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.600 comes into camp, it's slimmer and slimmer every year. It 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.600 seems like I had a conversation with him last year 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.360 about it and his weight. He puts on weight as 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.080 the season goes on, but I think it's really a 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:45.200 credit to his offseason conditioning. I remember two years ago, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.800 maybe after his rookie season, Mickey, you and I were 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.680 taping a blitz show in the locker room and here 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.720 comes this was this was in early March, before the 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.680 offseason program had started, and here's a sweating Dak coming 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.920 out off the practice or out of the weight room 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.600 or whatever you know, to into it to his locker 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.120 and I thought that was a signal that, Okay, here 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.320 it is. He's the only guy up there and he's 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.520 working out. But I think he looks, he looks he 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.680 looks sharp this off season with his passage, accuracy and 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.840 so forth, and I think there's a lot of reason 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.080 to think that this his game is going to elevate 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.080 even further this year. And I'm sure when he came 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.640 walking through, I probably said something smart like, oh, did 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.400 you hit her rain shower out there? Coming in? Yeah, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.560 he'll sweat you up now. I told that. I told 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.240 that to Parcels one day. He was walking he was 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.360 he was walking down the hall. He had one of 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.120 those great t shirts, sweat shows on the Great His 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:48.040 Coaching show that way, didn't he no the blue sweat 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.120 top and he would be sweating while he was doing 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.280 the show, so I can change into a suit. As 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.840 I told him, I said, what did you do? Take 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.120 a hose and hose yourself down? He goes, I was 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.880 working out. He does the elliptical. Yeah, they trust me. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.040 I know that. I did it for an hour and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.880 I said, and then he looks at me, you work out? Yeah? 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.960 And he started asking me all these questions about my 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.000 physical you know, like you to get a physical every year. Yes, coach, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.800 how do you weigh one hundred and fifty pounds? You know? 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.240 Are you guys seeing any difference at killing Moore's no, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.640 see anything different that you kind of feel like that, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.800 you know that maybe it's a little bit different from 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:31.520 what you saw with Scott Linahan. Personnel groups are different. Um, 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.920 some of the pre snap movement, which is what they 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.200 talked about. I mean, it's what do the rams do. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.560 They do a lot of window dressing, right, but their 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.680 offense doesn't necessarily change a whole heck of a lot. Right. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.680 The other thing is the ball, I would say, the 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.200 balls going down field more. But they tried that last year. Yeah, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.720 they tried a lot of you know, a lot of 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.920 go routes and stuff. They just didn't connect on until 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.800 the quarterback starts getting sacked fifty six times during the season, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.400 That is true, Mickey, Uh, I got one. I'm on 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.880 Keller Moore. Yeah. Um, and it's stung in cheek. Okay. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.520 It's all this work on the Boise State hook and 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.680 lateral and the Statue of Liberty that I know. This 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.480 the big difference there and the five wide receiver sets. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.600 Speaking of wide receivers, maky, how has Jalen Guden been 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.520 looking to you chances he makes the team? Do you 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.560 think it's gonna come down to one of those guys? 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.719 One of those I don't know he's he's coming on. Yeah, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.720 you know, I think everybody saw John Vay in the 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.840 OTAs in the mini camps, but uh, since we got 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.760 out here and especially when the pads come on, Uh, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.400 people can't you know he's another guy. They can't run 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.320 with him on the nine route. Yeah, he'll He'll blow 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.800 right by and he does a good job of adjusting 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.199 the ball and catching it. I think he got it 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.680 down towarding his same boy, he did against Denton Geyer 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.320 when he played it Allen that's right, the same way 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.119 at North Texas, right anything they're up. Could both of 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.320 those guys make the team? Is it possible? Well, it's gonna. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.240 I think it would take attrition at the wide receiver position. Yeah, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.280 I think we all though. I mean, you know with 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.680 Alan Hearne's not here, there's part of the attrition right there. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.080 Give him, give him Tavon. That's four. Yeah, there's two spots. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.760 Have two more spots. We haven't seen Noah Brown yet. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.159 He's probably gonna. That's not a good thing. Yeah, no, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.199 But somebody on the show set yesterday, whether you like 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.760 it or not, he's a special teams guy. They like him. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.760 Maybe these guys can play. They can. You'll settle up 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.480 with Keith though Quinn. He'll tell you that about that 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.200 special team Cedric. Cedric Wilson showed up a little bit too. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.000 He's put space. I'll get it out play special teams. Yeah, 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.040 Reggie Davis can return kicks. Doesn't look bad Minters did 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.120 in the fact that returning punts, because if he could 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.840 show enough there, maybe that's enough to get a spot. 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.200 But I mean his speed, I don't know if anybody 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.280 runs quite like him straight on speed on roster, except 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.760 I'll quote Chris Hall when I asked him about his speed. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.960 Chris Hall said, and Chris is kind of the what 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.639 like director, coordinator college got it? Yeah, coordinator, And he 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.520 said that guy can run out of site. Yeah, his 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.680 socks move faster than everyone else's. Yeah, that's what it is. Unbelievable. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.560 All right, let's we'll get to more Paris questions coming 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.160 up there. 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In fact, the next four days they're all 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:33.480 afternoon practices Thursday through Sunday, and then their next day 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.399 off will come on Wednesday. First preseason game is a 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.480 week from Saturday in Santa Clara against the forty nine ers. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.640 Second preseason game will be in Hawaii against the Rams. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.440 They leave here in two weeks on Thursday, August fifteenth 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.000 for that preseason again. That's when they break camp and 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.360 then they will have They Cowboys made the announcement yesterday, 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.520 the official announcement the training camp in Frisco that will 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:01.040 be free and open to the public. It's as we 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.840 welcome back football in the Dallas Foot War theory of 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.680 August twentieth through the twenty seventh, and you can find 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:12.560 the details on that Dallas Cowboys dot Com. We take 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:17.359 your questions here on periscope with Brian and good numbers 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:22.000 on periscope as usual. I'm sure yes. And Mickey wants 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:26.200 to bring up something about Michael thomas contract with the Saints, 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:30.880 how it might relate to Amari Cooper. I think microphone fall. 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.120 I think the Cowboys would love to sign MARII Cooper 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:41.359 to Michael Thomas's contract because when you go inside the numbers, 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:48.080 basically it's a three year, forty five million dollars deal 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.199 that they can get out of. But wait, it was 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:55.640 announced as five years, and it's really five years nine 0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.359 up to ninety six million, Okay, not one hundred ninety six. 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.520 Whoever reported the hundred kind of pushed the envelope a 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.080 little bit to make it sound better. But they can 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:09.440 get out of this contract after three years. Now there'll 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.200 be eight million dollars of dead money. They can get 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:15.360 out of it after four years, would only four million 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:20.560 dead and sixty million paid out, So four years, sixty million. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:24.520 The guarantee runs out after four years, so that to me, 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:28.960 my simple math tells me that's fifteen million dollars a year. 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.879 Wouldn't you be okay, with signing Amari Cooper to a 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:37.200 fifteen million dollars sixty one guarantee, I think that's more 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:39.520 in line to what they would like to do right exactly, 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:43.040 And the last two years of his contract that aren't 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:47.840 guaranteed total thirty four million dollars thirty four in the 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:52.560 last two years of just basically signing our base salary. 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.119 The other thing is, I don't know if everybody can 0:24:56.160 --> 0:25:00.520 see this, but there's a list of contingencies here that 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.199 he can earn if he does this or this, and 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.760 it all adds up to a couple million dollars more So, 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.840 it's like, I'll just give you one example. In twenty 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:16.560 twenty three, his per game active bonus is thirty one thousand, 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:19.560 two hundred and fifty a game, so that's five hundred 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:24.520 thousand dollars. He also has some incentives where if he 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:29.199 checked this out twelve touched any of these twelve touchdowns, 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:32.760 fourteen hundred receiving yards, fourteen hundred receiver yards, and a 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:37.439 playoff game, one hundred receptions, one hundred receptions and a 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.760 playoff game, he can get three hundred and seventy five 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:45.640 thousand dollars for each of those incentives after Drew Brees retires. 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:48.800 So yeah, so there's a lot of funny money in 0:25:48.840 --> 0:25:51.960 there that makes it look like, oh, it's twenty million 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:54.880 a year. It is not twenty million a year. It's 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.280 fifteen million a year when you deal with where the 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:02.440 guarantees are. And they didn't change his base salary much 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:07.000 for this year. It's only like one point uh six 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:10.680 million dollars because he handed him twenty million signing bonus. 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:14.640 And what I've been told is because of the way 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:17.840 the CBA's going to be structor is structured for next year, 0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:21.640 the signing bonuses are going to be smaller, Right, They're 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:24.359 going to be smaller so that you can get out 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:26.520 of the contract and there'll be more of these big 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:30.800 base salaries because of the thirty percent rules. So don't 0:26:30.840 --> 0:26:33.520 get all fired up. And you know Steven Jones, you 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.159 know he was on the ticket the other day or 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:40.679 yesterday it was yes, but he was on the ticket. 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:43.480 And if I'm going to give him credit for the quote, absolutely, 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:46.520 Stephen said, we can't push the issue unless we want 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:49.560 to be a market setter, and we're damn sure not 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:51.600 going to be a market senter because of all the 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:55.080 things that go with being a Dallas cowboy. So basically 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:57.280 what he is saying, we gotta do Amari, we gotta 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.600 do Zeke, we gotta do Dak and he goes in, 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.439 it's not Jerry's money, it's the money that would go 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:06.200 to other players that we have to be careful so 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:08.440 we can sign. And then he went on and talked 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:11.920 about Byron Jones got to be signed, Lal Collins got 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:15.199 to be signed, Jalen Smith's gotta be signed, Collins and 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:18.760 LC Collins. So there's other guys that they've got to 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.720 worry about. I don't know what the Saints have to do, right, 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:26.840 but fifteen million a year when Mamari's making fourteen million 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:30.000 this year, I'd do it tomorrow. That's interesting. You brought 0:27:30.040 --> 0:27:32.199 that up because the fans are fired up because the 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.240 reaction was, all right, you saw wins get a deal. 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:37.399 Does the market go up for Dak? Now? All right? 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:39.840 You son, Michael Thomas get a deal. Why are they 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:42.080 waiting so long and letting other teams set the market. 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:44.360 That's just not how they view it though, right exactly. 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:46.600 And you know what, if you look on the inside 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:50.439 of Winz's deal and you consider what he's getting paid 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:54.360 this because it's an extension. So the years of base 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:57.639 salaries he's has still counts, and if you count those 0:27:57.840 --> 0:28:01.960 along with the extension, it would average over the next 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:06.080 six years like twenty twenty seven million dollars a year. 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:09.479 Would you do that with Dak right now? Absolutely? So 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.280 He's not a thirty million dollars a year man, when 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:15.399 you consider what he's got to make first before he 0:28:15.440 --> 0:28:20.040 gets to the extension. So my word out to everybody is, 0:28:20.400 --> 0:28:24.159 look inside the contract. Don't take the number that first 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:26.840 comes out, because that's an agent number, and all he's 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:29.800 doing is advertising for his business to be able to 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.359 sign the next guy. And he can say, look, I 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:36.080 got Michael Thomas, the biggest contract ever for a wide receiver, 0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:40.120 which I don't. All I know is I think Odell 0:28:40.160 --> 0:28:43.120 Beckham Juniors is like eighteen million a year. Can I 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:45.480 ask a question? Maybe it's a little bit off topic here, 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:47.040 but I was just sitting there listening to Mickey as 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:50.520 a great analogy or a great explanation what's going on. 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:54.520 As much as Jerry Jones loves the players, you know, 0:28:54.520 --> 0:28:56.360 and wants to take care of the players, do you 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:59.520 think this whole thing with Zeke has shook him a 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:03.280 little bit that his you know, And I'm no, I'm 0:29:03.280 --> 0:29:05.520 asking an unfair question here because I'm asking you to 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.800 jump into Jerry Jones mind. But you guys all know Jerry. 0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:12.360 You know he's has such loyalty to his guys. Is 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:16.280 does this does this shake him going forward? That he thought, 0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:19.680 you know what, Okay, I put my neck out for 0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:23.120 this guy. I drafted him. I wanted him here through 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:25.200 all he's gone through, all all all the things he's 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.000 gone through, the fights he's had with Roger Goodell, the 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:30.920 fights he's had with the league, the legal fights and 0:29:30.960 --> 0:29:33.520 all that. The ah, he's gonna play this week. No, 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:35.920 he's not gonna play. Yes, he's gonna play. No, I mean, 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:39.440 does this decision shake? Does this shake Jerry Jones? Now? 0:29:39.640 --> 0:29:42.880 Because I think he's mad that it's happening, and he's 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:46.200 done a very good job of controlling himself, although in 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:49.560 the press conference he started getting to the crux of 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:52.680 the matter there. I don't think he gets mad at 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:56.280 the player. I think he gets mad at the agent. Okay, okay, 0:29:56.320 --> 0:30:01.760 because he's just fallen along. Zeke didn't wake up one morning, 0:30:01.760 --> 0:30:05.560 can go you know, what I think I'm gonna hold out, right, 0:30:06.040 --> 0:30:08.240 So someone told him there, somebody told him this is 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:10.880 how we're gonna set your money. So someone someone, He 0:30:10.880 --> 0:30:12.800 woke up and someone said, listen, you know they're they're 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:15.440 gonna give you four hundred carries again this year. You 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:17.680 okay with that? Do you think that's kind of how? 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:20.400 I mean? Zeke's like, nah, just let him. I like 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:23.200 to play. No, he saw what's happening with Melvin Gordon. 0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:25.760 Sure no, but but someone told him, Hey, they're gonna 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:28.040 give you four hundred carries four or touches again. I 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.680 mean it was like Emmett's first rookie year. Sure he 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:33.560 wasn't mad at Emmett, he didn't even hardly know him, 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:36.320 but he sure knew those two agents, and he wasn't 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:38.480 really happy with them. I agree with you up to 0:30:38.520 --> 0:30:41.760 a point. Up to a point because at the end 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:44.920 of the day, who works for who? Yeah, but I'm 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:48.240 telling you agents, he's twenty four years Do you think 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:52.040 Zeke understands the salary capit rules? Do you think he 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:56.000 understands what market value is? Somebody has to explain it 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:59.280 to him, and you get a smart guy. I'm not 0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:02.600 trying to say he's some sort of dummy, because if 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:04.800 you talk to the players, he's a smart dude. I 0:31:04.840 --> 0:31:07.400 just know, I just know. When the Tank deal got done, 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:09.720 it was DeMarcus Lawrence getting on the phone with Stephen 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:11.920 Jones and saying, let's figure this out, okay, because I 0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:14.720 know I need surgery and I want to play this year. 0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.280 There you go, so we'll it have to come to 0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:19.800 that point. Maybe it does well then you know, maybe 0:31:19.800 --> 0:31:22.920 it will. But I'm saying the agents running this thing. 0:31:23.040 --> 0:31:27.760 So that's uh. The reaction from the Foundation seventy seven 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:31.640 on Twitter question for Dak would be calls Zeke so Zeke, 0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:34.200 Coop and himself to leave their agents at home and 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:37.000 have all three deal with the Joneses and McClay to 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.760 get a deal done. It's what he and everybody in 0:31:39.760 --> 0:31:42.200 the room. Bobby Lagger did his own deal in Seattle. 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:47.520 Yeah it's right. Yeah, that's a market for Jalen Smith. 0:31:47.520 --> 0:31:49.640 But I don't know if without an agent you could 0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:51.800 do all this, you know, Well yeah, I just I 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:54.240 just wanted to know if, because like I said, Jerry 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:57.720 Jones is so loyal to his players, He really is loyal. 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.600 He'll do anything he can to help his players. Even 0:32:00.640 --> 0:32:02.920 you know, we've had people ask about any update on 0:32:03.000 --> 0:32:06.040 Randy Gregor. I haven't heard anything on Randy Gregory, but 0:32:06.280 --> 0:32:08.480 think about him just going to bat him. Think of 0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:11.280 him trying to give an extra three hundred thousand dollars 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:15.240 to Randy Gregory on really a contract extension, knowing that 0:32:15.400 --> 0:32:19.200 potentially this could happen where Randy gets suspended for the 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:21.360 whole year. At least Randy could have some money to 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:24.920 live on, you know. I mean that's you're you're an owner, 0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:26.480 and you're saying, you know, I gotta we gotta find 0:32:26.480 --> 0:32:28.080 a way to help him. We gotta find a way 0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.200 to help this guy. And I just wonder if, if 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:32.720 you know, maybe someday I'll I'll ask here, if i'd 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:36.200 see him, I'd say this, you're confidence shaken when on 0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:39.000 players this way. I think he might be right. We 0:32:39.040 --> 0:32:41.240 don't know for sure, but I think Mickey's right about 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:43.720 the agent. But I just wonder if it's like, man, 0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:46.400 I'm busting my ass to try and help the situations, 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:48.800 and I and you're and what are you doing to me? 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:52.160 You know, I don't have many campaigns left. I don't 0:32:52.160 --> 0:32:54.200 have many campaigns to walk up there and try and 0:32:54.280 --> 0:32:56.960 win a Super Bowl. I assemble the best team I can. 0:32:57.520 --> 0:33:01.160 You know, I've paid Lineman, I've paid uh yeah, I've 0:33:01.160 --> 0:33:04.040 paid all these defensive players. I've paid people. And I'm 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:05.880 trying to win this damn thing and you're and you're 0:33:05.880 --> 0:33:08.760 not helping me, right, And these guys are now they've 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:13.080 got you know, the core players, sure, meaning even Dak 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:15.520 and Zeke. They are now going to their fourth year. 0:33:15.640 --> 0:33:18.880 So they are in the prime of Okay, they there's 0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:21.360 no none of the rookie stuff. It's okay, how good 0:33:21.360 --> 0:33:22.880 are they going to be the second year or the 0:33:22.920 --> 0:33:26.200 third year? Now they are in it. Okay, So you'll 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:29.080 get your answer to that if they enforce the fines 0:33:30.200 --> 0:33:32.800 you think, so, which there they can do now? Right? Yeah? 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:36.320 Well yeah, no, I mean the um and and after 0:33:36.520 --> 0:33:41.239 and asked for the fifteen percent of thirteen And what 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:43.520 day did you say we were This is if you 0:33:43.600 --> 0:33:47.800 count Friday like reporting was, this is seven days right, right, 0:33:48.400 --> 0:33:52.000 So that's forty thousand dollars a day. That's two hundred 0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:55.560 and eighty thousand dollars already that he can be fine 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:58.320 if they want to, Yeah, if they want to, If 0:33:58.320 --> 0:34:01.040 they want to enforce it. And then now that the 0:34:01.200 --> 0:34:04.760 six hundred and thirteen on the signing bonus, and it 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:07.640 can go up one percent each day until it gets 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:10.319 to twenty five percent. You can ask another question. You 0:34:10.360 --> 0:34:12.520 think that Jerry and they were playing this knowing that 0:34:12.640 --> 0:34:16.480 Zeke can't match the pot. If Jerry calls, you know, 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:18.839 in the using poker terms, what do you mean, can't 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.320 match the pot? Zeke doesn't have the money to match 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:24.759 the fine pot. Well, yeah, not the fine pot, but 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:27.680 just maybe overall, maybe he doesn't have every dime. Maybe 0:34:27.680 --> 0:34:30.440 he's not Terence Newman and has every you know knows 0:34:30.840 --> 0:34:33.200 you know it knows where his first nickel was. Well, 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:36.240 do you think they're playing a game whether where Jerry's 0:34:36.280 --> 0:34:39.040 looking at him and going, Okay, I know you don't 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:41.799 have enough money to match that pot. That's possible, But 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:43.719 I go back. I think I said this when this 0:34:43.880 --> 0:34:47.839 he first held out. Is it's a precedent thing. They 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:50.279 can't they are So we just mentioned all these guys 0:34:50.320 --> 0:34:53.040 are gonna be up for deals after this current group. 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:56.840 You can't set a precedent of Oh, there's no question right, Okay, 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:59.200 you're not here. We gotta get a deal, said that. 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:02.200 I mean, let me ask you this, all right, I 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.480 thought of this this morning. How much is it on 0:35:04.560 --> 0:35:07.600 the agent or Zeke's mind that the head coach is 0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:09.319 going into the last year of a contract. I don't 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:14.719 think he cares well from this From this standpoint, this 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:19.200 offense is based on Zeke being a key member of it. 0:35:19.400 --> 0:35:22.440 If if you changed coaches after this year and you 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:27.480 brought in now, I'll throw out Lincoln Riley, sure, But 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:31.240 but Lincoln Riley coach, he would he would love Ezekiel Elliott. 0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:33.239 So let's say a college coach who spread it out 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:36.879 and they don't rely Mike Leach, they don't rely on 0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:40.240 a r I could us to do what this offense 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:42.920 asked him to do. Sky is that on their mind 0:35:42.960 --> 0:35:45.080 at all? That we need to get our money now 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:47.640 because we don't know what's gonna happen even six months 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:51.160 from now with this, with this offense and what Zeke 0:35:51.320 --> 0:35:54.000 means to this team six months from now because of 0:35:54.040 --> 0:35:56.560 the uncertain status of the head coach. It's not a 0:35:56.600 --> 0:35:59.200 bad thought. No, I don't disagree, but I don't know 0:35:59.239 --> 0:36:03.680 that you can do what you're saying they could do 0:36:03.880 --> 0:36:06.960 in one offseason. Well, and the reason I asked that 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.759 is there's a lot of people who say, WHOA, he's 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:11.799 got two years left on his contract. He needs to 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:15.040 honor his contract. He makes nine million next year, right, 0:36:15.200 --> 0:36:17.920 but he needs to honor his contract. He shouldn't be 0:36:17.960 --> 0:36:22.160 asking to renegotiate. Now, this is a little different than 0:36:22.440 --> 0:36:27.000 a normal contract, and when you're talking about a sports team. Yeah, 0:36:28.560 --> 0:36:31.120 because of those kinds of factors. I don't think Zeke's 0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:33.920 focusing on Jason Garrett. Yeah, I don't. I don't think 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:36.160 that's a primary thing, but maybe that's part of it. 0:36:36.280 --> 0:36:40.319 I just my gut is that if Zeke, I think 0:36:40.320 --> 0:36:43.160 the players are okay with him holding out until we 0:36:43.239 --> 0:36:46.280 get to that first game, and then once it gets 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:49.279 into if he's holding out week one, week two, week three, 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:52.160 then it's become it's going to become a little contentious 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:55.719 when Dicky asks when when it hurts them? See, this 0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:58.520 doesn't hurt this doesn't hurt them now, but Micky, when 0:36:58.560 --> 0:37:01.200 Micky goes in there and the pad open and ask 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:04.600 a really tough question like about you know, now, you're 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:06.560 going to see some guys gritting so well. And this 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:08.120 is what I wonder when he gets down to that, 0:37:08.280 --> 0:37:11.120 if it does. Everybody looks who who's who's his best 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:13.680 buddy on the team, Dak Press, Scott Press, are they? 0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:16.000 I mean, he's really gonna leave Dak high and dry 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:18.040 in this situation we're trying to go on Super Bowl. 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:20.520 I mean, you know, if he really feels like financially, 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:22.600 that's what he's got to do for his future. Okay, 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:25.920 but I gotta see that. I gotta see that because 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:29.240 all it takes is one loss that could decide this division. 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:32.600 You know, all it takes is one miss game right 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:35.239 to decide this thing. And this is built to your 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:37.160 point talking when all these guys going in their fourth year. 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:41.000 One thing we don't talk about is all these guys 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:43.960 down the line, all these worker b guys, role players 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:48.200 down the roster who have contracts expiring. Randall Cobb has 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.000 an expiring contract after this year. Robert Quinn, this might 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:53.319 be the best shot this team has because this team 0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:55.520 could look there's a lot of young guys, a lot 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:59.000 of good young talent, but this roster could look drastically 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:02.680 different next year one fifty three. 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What sportswotter did 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:49.680 you almost punch? Because you use your phone? Jr. And 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:52.960 I would have probably been right behind you. If you 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:54.480 didn't get a good shot on him, I'd have got 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:57.919 him from that old press box in San Diego Jack 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:01.319 Murphy Stadio, back when you had to Jack Murphy order 0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:03.839 your own phone line to be able to an old 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:06.960 sports writer himself. Oh Jack Murphy was a good one. Yeah, yeah, 0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:09.920 that was a nice night. There'd be a Mickey Spagnola 0:42:10.000 --> 0:42:15.360 stadium somewhere. I doubt that Chicago Heights. Just wait, little League. 0:42:15.360 --> 0:42:17.640 Maybe they probably forgot I was there. Now they've already 0:42:17.719 --> 0:42:21.279 named those stadiums after people from fifty years ago Jack 0:42:21.320 --> 0:42:26.480 Kin cannon Jack cannon Field. All right, um no, actually, 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:34.520 Sam Piazza, Sam Piazza, Okay, Cowboys, all right, this Cowboys roster. 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:38.560 Michael Irvin was out here the other day. He said 0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:44.040 that he believes this is the most talented Cowboys roster. Well, 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:46.080 he said in twenty five years, but he meant since 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.120 the Cowboys last won a Super Bowl. And then he 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:50.480 corrected himself and said, since the Cowboys last won a 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:54.319 Super Bowl, best Cowboys roster since then. Tony Romo was 0:42:54.400 --> 0:42:59.480 interviewed yesterday or the day before and Tyler Texas playing 0:42:59.480 --> 0:43:02.279 in the Texas his state amateur Did he win? I 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:08.000 believe he missed the cut, but uh stuff Uh he 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.800 shot of seventy six the second day, which wasn't good enough. 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:15.399 But he said this, he believes this is the most 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:19.120 talented Cowboys roster since he first came into the league, 0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:21.960 which was two thousand and three. He probably could take 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:24.480 it back further than that, but that's all he qualified 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:29.000 it with. So how this is the most talented Cowboys 0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:32.399 roster since when I'm gonna try to save this thing, 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:35.200 I'm gonna try to save this team from the outside 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:38.600 hype because every time this happens. It doesn't work out 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:43.359 every time, So I'm I'm going to disagree. I'm going 0:43:43.400 --> 0:43:46.560 to disagree. Wait, why are you granted? Because I'd love 0:43:46.600 --> 0:43:51.400 the what you're saying. I remember, was it two thousand 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:54.839 and nine? It was a Cowboys camp in San Antonio, 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:58.200 and I remember talking to Peter King, you know, I'm 0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:01.880 asking him about this. He was talking about the Cowboys 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:06.960 offensive line. Yeah, and he thought that that Cowboys offensive line. No, 0:44:07.080 --> 0:44:09.440 it was the it was last year, the last year, Wade, 0:44:09.760 --> 0:44:13.320 it was twenty ten, yeah, okay, when they got old, yeah, suddenly, 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:16.439 And he said in his big deal that training camp 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:20.399 was this is the best Cowboys offensive line. I put 0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:22.600 it on a par with those Super Bowl teams of 0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:25.280 the night. I remember that now. And and the Cowboys 0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:27.520 started the year well one and seven and seven. Yeah, 0:44:27.560 --> 0:44:29.799 I was thinking oh eight, when Hard Knox was here 0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:32.560 and it was it was Super Bowl or bust. I 0:44:33.000 --> 0:44:35.000 truly believe it. I don't think you can say they're 0:44:35.040 --> 0:44:38.799 they're better on paper necessarily than the Oh seven team 0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:41.160 that went thirteen and three and should have gotten to 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:43.920 the NFC Championship Game at minimum. You know, they had 0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:47.960 the Giants at home didn't win that game, and that 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:51.400 looked like a huge missed opportunity. Um, let's look at 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:53.360 that team. I mean, Tony Romo was in his prime, 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:57.000 put up sky Wars numbers that year. Um, you had 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:59.640 a nice two headed running attack. I had heard that 0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:03.759 you had a t O guy remember Tarall Owens, Hall 0:45:03.800 --> 0:45:06.640 of Famer, DeMarcus ware Rush and the passer, a big 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:09.520 dominant offensive line. I mean, I don't think we're getting 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:12.279 enough credit to that team, but there's no doubt this 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:14.640 team has a ton of young talent. That's what's so 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:17.040 exciting about is how young these guys are. Yeah, I 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:19.040 think you gotta go. You go back to two thousand 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:23.800 and seven, flows Al Adams, Kyle Kozar Okay, so okay, 0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:29.080 Andre Gerard Leonard Davis was still playing well, Mark Colombo, Witten. 0:45:29.760 --> 0:45:32.400 I forgot about Witting in his prime. And then you 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:35.359 you shared the running back spot with Julius Jones and 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:39.080 Mary and Barber. And that was the year that Barber 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:42.840 scored ten touchdowns after Julius Jones did all the work 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:45.520 getting the ball down to the five yard line. And 0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:50.440 it's like, okay, Mary and go score Bill. Just that 0:45:50.560 --> 0:45:53.000 wasn't Bill. It was it would have been Jason right 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:57.160 because offensive coordinator, but Bill had started it the years before. 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:59.919 It's like Julius did all the work and then Barbar 0:46:00.160 --> 0:46:02.600 got all the touchdowns. Say they say, we're gonna go 0:46:02.600 --> 0:46:04.920 with the big back at the at the goal line. 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:09.880 Witton had ninety six catches, Owen's eighty one, and Craton fifty. 0:46:09.920 --> 0:46:12.520 You know, if your third receiver gets fifty catches, you'll 0:46:12.560 --> 0:46:16.319 take that right now. So that that roster was pretty good. 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:19.960 Hit me the ninety two or ninety three cowboy roster. Well, yeah, yeah, 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:22.239 I don't know that we no, I'm just saying. And 0:46:22.239 --> 0:46:24.719 then go back to nineteen seventy seven. So I thought 0:46:24.800 --> 0:46:27.960 ninety three Super Bowl team ninety three was probably their 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:33.480 their best. Yeah, you had two and a Newton Stepnoski uh, 0:46:34.120 --> 0:46:38.800 Kevin Gogan at right guard and Eric Williams at right tackle. Okay, 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:42.200 different line for the way they different kind of different 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:46.600 kind of line. This is the These were bullies and 0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:50.920 the line today is more athletic movement. So in the 0:46:51.000 --> 0:46:54.080 era of being a bully, that that was the best 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:57.240 you could be. Right there. Emmett runs for fourteen hundred 0:46:57.239 --> 0:47:03.440 and eighty six yards. Um he also caught fifty seven passes. 0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:07.359 Michael had reception. It was the ninety four offensive line. 0:47:08.480 --> 0:47:13.480 It changed because Larry Allen. Larry Allen ended up at 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:18.000 right tackle because that was when Eric got accident. So 0:47:18.239 --> 0:47:21.360 basically it was two and a Newton Stepnoski. Derek Nard 0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:23.680 was pretty still good. Okay, but imagine that if Eric 0:47:23.719 --> 0:47:26.600 Williams hadn't had his accident. Yeah, they would have had 0:47:27.040 --> 0:47:33.719 two and a Nate step Larry Allen at guard at 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:38.440 Eric Williams at tackle. Wives. Who's the only guy on 0:47:38.480 --> 0:47:41.200 this current offensive line that would have started on that group? 0:47:41.440 --> 0:47:44.759 Zack Martin maybe, yeah, Zach would have Zach probably gets 0:47:44.760 --> 0:47:47.960 in at at guard. Okay, would you taken Frederick healthy 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:50.719 Frederick ober step now, and and you guys know better 0:47:50.719 --> 0:47:54.120 than me on that, and you probably Tyrn Smith over 0:47:54.160 --> 0:47:56.480 two and a two and a was good, but he 0:47:56.520 --> 0:48:00.480 ain't Tyron Smith, Right, that's true. That's true. God rest 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:04.040 his soul. Yea a great player. Wow. So, and Mike 0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:07.839 wasn't saying since those teams not that, not that, No, no, 0:48:07.960 --> 0:48:10.319 no talented than oh no, not at all right, No, 0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:14.239 he's saying that in the last however, twenty four years. Yeah, 0:48:14.760 --> 0:48:18.360 he believes that this is the most talented roster since 0:48:18.400 --> 0:48:20.799 the Cowboys won a Super Bowl. He might be right. 0:48:20.920 --> 0:48:22.640 I wish you guys could go back and look at 0:48:22.640 --> 0:48:25.879 that seventy seven team. I keep mentioning that. And that's 0:48:25.920 --> 0:48:30.320 the one with Staubach and Pearson and Dorset and Robert Newhouse, 0:48:31.800 --> 0:48:37.440 Randy White, Harvey Martin, you know, the secondary probably Aaron Kyle, Yeah, 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:41.640 Charlie Waters, Cliff Harris, you know, yeah, those are those 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.440 are all teams. Danny White was your punter. See this 0:48:44.520 --> 0:48:46.239 is See that's why I'm saying, if you if you 0:48:46.360 --> 0:48:49.719 say that, and you have to think of the great histories, right, 0:48:49.800 --> 0:48:52.960 And I grew up in that era from nineteen seventy 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:55.640 two to nineteen ninety two of watching his team play. 0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:58.280 And that's why I'll always fight for guys from that era, 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:00.640 you know, before the jones Is bought the team in 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:04.160 nineteen eighty nine, because they played damn good football. They 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:08.160 were very similar to what the Patriots are today. Might 0:49:08.200 --> 0:49:11.120 have been the best Cowboys team ever with that roster, 0:49:11.200 --> 0:49:14.080 and not without doubt, see so and so, and I 0:49:14.719 --> 0:49:18.800 appreciate Michael or I appreciate Tony Romo, but again I've 0:49:18.840 --> 0:49:22.000 lived through some of this, and I go back and 0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:25.120 think about those teams and it's it's high praise. Oh, 0:49:25.160 --> 0:49:27.320 this is the best. Now maybe they're saying it's because 0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:31.000 since we've known the team. Maybe that's the attitude you 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:32.920 have to take. And they're not they're not saying that 0:49:32.960 --> 0:49:35.680 it's better. They're better. Time the Super Bowl teams, they're 0:49:35.719 --> 0:49:37.960 saying they're better since they won the Super they might 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:40.640 not win the division and look at it. This is team. 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.480 Look how close they came to not winning it last year. 0:49:43.480 --> 0:49:46.319 Absolutely Rob said it one game. This is still this 0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:49.920 is still a young team. Yeah, that's that's part of 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.960 the excitement that has to be signed. And the defense 0:49:53.200 --> 0:49:55.920 is young. Yeah, you've got guys that are you know, 0:49:56.120 --> 0:49:59.560 for second or third year that into this thing. That's young. 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:01.839 That's why I think people will compare it. And Mike 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:05.279 might be comparing it because it's like the ninety one 0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:07.960 team last year. I think you've made that comparison before. 0:50:08.120 --> 0:50:10.960 Now they're ascending, you're hoping they're ascending, and they're kind 0:50:10.960 --> 0:50:13.160 of to a point they're hitting the sweet spot of 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:17.520 where those ascending players and then they bring these veteran 0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:20.359 guys in if if they if they still got what 0:50:20.400 --> 0:50:23.240 we think that they have left, like a Robert Quinn, 0:50:23.280 --> 0:50:26.319 like a Randall Cobb. You know those are that better 0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:30.879 press even they only have now with Morris, they got four. 0:50:31.120 --> 0:50:34.719 But if Whitner can play like he played before, you 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:39.600 know that one player might wreck this. About it? That 0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.279 one player, Oh yeah, he might wreck this. He ain't 0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:45.600 given up. You need a rushing the question, you need 0:50:45.640 --> 0:50:48.239 a former rushing champ to win a Super Bowl. He 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:52.040 ain't given up two hundred four thousand dollars a week 0:50:52.080 --> 0:50:57.280 to miss games. I will, Micky, I that ain't happening. 0:50:57.520 --> 0:51:00.560 I think you're two hundred and twenty four thousand a week. 0:51:00.840 --> 0:51:04.200 Jerry's calling his bluff. Jerry's gonna call this bluff. I 0:51:04.280 --> 0:51:06.319 just think they need they need to slide. And maybe 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:08.279 it's too late to slide on the radar because it's 0:51:08.320 --> 0:51:10.520 it's out there now, all the hype is out there. 0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:12.280 But you know what, there's a lot of good teams 0:51:12.280 --> 0:51:14.920 in this conference. The Rams aren't going anywhere, The Saints 0:51:14.920 --> 0:51:18.520 aren't be where, the Bears, the Eagles, and how long 0:51:18.520 --> 0:51:21.279 has it been since a day NFC East team has 0:51:21.360 --> 0:51:26.000 repeated as a division champion. Philly like fifteen thousand and 0:51:26.040 --> 0:51:30.160 four Andy Reid team or in a row. That's right, 0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:34.239 I mean. And by the way, no one has won 0:51:34.280 --> 0:51:38.799 it more than two of the last three years, which 0:51:38.840 --> 0:51:43.759 they've done, right, But fire the coach. Even if he 0:51:43.800 --> 0:51:46.480 wins a division title, he wins three out of four. 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:54.600 I was looking at that. Okay, that's okay, that's okay, right, 0:51:54.960 --> 0:51:57.200 fire the coach. I appreciate you. Nobody else in the 0:51:57.320 --> 0:51:59.320 in the in the division has done it. I appreciate 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:01.560 your passion. Well, it looks like that shot clock has 0:52:01.560 --> 0:52:05.560 got us again. Yeah what shot clock got me? What? 0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:08.640 I didn't hear you? Yeah? All right? That does it 0:52:08.800 --> 0:52:13.640 for another edition of Talking Cowboys. I believe right, Kayden Gay, 0:52:13.680 --> 0:52:16.280 all right, so we will talk at you again tomorrow. 0:52:16.280 --> 0:52:20.400 You're on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of 0:52:20.520 --> 0:52:24.040 Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.