WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Three 1,000-Yard Receivers? 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:18.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.079 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:33.960 Star in friscot No. Your hosts Rob Phillips, heck My Harrison, 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:43.200 Danny Serek, and Kyle Yeoman's Boy, it's another Tuesday edition 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.360 of Talking Cowboys as we roll along here in this 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.360 twenty twenty Dallas Cowboys off season, and we're gonna break 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.400 down quite a few moves actually, that the Cowboys have 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.800 made since the NFL Draft a couple of weeks ago. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.959 Kyle Yeoman's here with our residents, Super Bowl champion Isaiah Standback. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.920 We've got Cowboys insider Rob Phillips and our Swiss army 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.559 knife of an analyst in Heckma Harris. And that's probably 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.039 the best way to describe Heckma, of course, and we 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.759 are having some technical difficulties with Heckma on the audio 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.640 side of things, but we'll get those worked out in 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.760 the next couple of moments. But guys, it's it's sinco 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.160 de mayo. It's the equinox. In terms of the twenty 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:27.600 twenty NFL offseason. Ninety three days since Super Bowl fifty four, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.840 and it's ninety two and a half days pretty much 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.440 until the August sixth preseason opener of the Hall of 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.759 Fame Game in Canton, Ohio. We're halfway through this offseason hopefully, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.200 but at the same time, there's still plenty to talk 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.800 about because things just keep on happening. Rob Cowboys just 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.559 keep making moves. Don't think we thought. We talked about 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.520 it on the show last week that are they done? 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.440 And obviously they've worked one. They made a couple of signings, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.040 and Andy Dalton being the big one that came down 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.800 over the weekend, and I just I want to get 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.800 outs take on this because he, like you said, he's 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.960 the resident quarterback of this group. But I just want 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.560 to say, it's not about Dak Prescott. I repeat, it 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.839 is not about Dak Prescott. You know, I look full 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.000 disclosure for me. I don't want to see anybody ever 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.320 lose their job, especially not in the situation that we're 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.880 in right now across the country, across the world. But 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.400 from a pure business standpoint, when you look at the 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.640 Cowboys situation at quarterback, they were going to pay Cooper 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.200 Rush two point one million dollars to probably be the 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.760 backup quarterback. Andy Dalton now comes in and if he 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.119 doesn't play a snap and he's just the backup for Dak, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.040 he makes three and so that's not a huge difference. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.760 But you're getting a guy that is a three time 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.600 Pro Bowl or a nine year starter and has been 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.880 around and taking a team to the playoffs in Cincinnati 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.320 five times. I think it was a no brainer for 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.760 a guy that wanted to come back to Texas. Examine. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.720 This is an awesome pickup. I repeat, this is an 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.280 awesome pick up. Again, Will and the rest of the 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.320 crew have done an amazing job over there at the start. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.960 Listen if you can pick up, Like you said, this 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.359 is not about Dak, right, but if you have an opportunity, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.880 your jobs as a general manager, your job as a 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.240 head coach, your job as a scout is to acquire 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.440 the most amount of talent you possibly can on your 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.040 roster and making sure that you stay underneath the cat. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.720 If you can acquire that, right, and you can add 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.720 a talent level like Andy Dalton unto your depth chart, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.560 why would you not, right, So, if everybody's out there 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.000 throwing shade, and everybody out there that's wondering about Dak. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.440 Dak is gonna get what close to forty million dollars 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.000 this year, right, So he's a quarterback, Okay, don't worry 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.640 about that, whether it's under the franchise, whether it's underneath 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.360 a new contract, he's the guy. But you just added 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:48.440 somebody who's been to three Pro Bowls, right, yeah, five times, 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.440 So somebody who has more experience than you're starting quarterback. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.760 He's coming in a position where he could just relax. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.080 He can be a coach, right, he could be a mentor, 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.880 and in case something does happen with Dak, that is 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.200 your best insurance, Paul, So you could have possibly gotten 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.040 in this entire league. So great move by the Cowboys. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.400 Awesome job. They just continue making them making the best decisions. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.880 And I'm glad we're all on the same page in 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.400 that regard that this isn't about Dak. And that was 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.360 going to be a conversation that at least if somebody disagreed, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.000 I was going to throw that out there. It was 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.480 that even a possibility. I don't think that's the case. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.800 I think this is one hundred percent of backup role 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.600 and it's a brilliant idea because if you look at 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.560 last year, the Cowboys would have loved to have a 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.320 guy like Andy Dalton throwing the football down the stretch whatever. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.640 Dak was having those shoulder issue issues and he had 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.600 a little bit of a nagging injury that kind of 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.080 kept him from being one hundred percent. Now you have 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.559 a guy that if Dak Prescott isn't one hundred percent 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.080 and he isn't seeing the same kind of success that 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.479 he would normally have as the Cowboys quarterback, you could 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.720 pull in at Andy Dalton for a driver too. It's 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.320 kind of switch things up. It opens things up for 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.640 Kellen Moore even more so, even though you did already 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.719 do that in the draft with Ceedee Lamb. Now you 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.760 will it up with the options of backup quarterback. But Isaiah, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.480 it kind of brings me to the question of what 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.960 kind of competition does this cause in the quarterback room 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.159 because now there's four quarterbacks. We had five. Cooper Rush 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.719 was released over the past couple of days, but you 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.240 do have four quarterbacks with Clayton Thorson in there, Ben Denucci, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.080 the recent seventh round draft pick, and then Dak Prescott 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.720 and Andy Dalton of course the top two in the 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.200 quarterback room. But what kind of competition, what kind of 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.800 conversations are going on in that room? Isaiah, Yeah, I 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.039 mean it's really a three mass show right now. I mean, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.920 obviously you got that's the guy, right, I mean, hopefully 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.760 we can get him signed and get him rolling and 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.000 be confident in that for however many years, whether it's 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.640 four year deal, whether it's a five year deal going forward. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.680 And then you have Andy Dalton, who's the one year 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.440 insurance policy, right, So that's that's that's your insurance policy 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.400 that you can know just in case anything happens a deck. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.040 Any team would prefer to have an experienced playoff, Pro 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.880 Bowl quarterback as the first option in the first line 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.200 of defense to be able to come in if something 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.599 happened to your starter. So that's your insurance policy. And 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.600 then you got de Nucci, who's obviously he's your development guy, right. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.320 He's a guy that you picked up that you feel 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:05.880 like you know has some good talent, but he needs 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.479 some time. And what better guy has to learn from 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.800 than dam and Andy. So um, I think that's a 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.440 great room. It's gonna be competitive, right, it does. It 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.159 should light a fire underneath underneath that. Right. Obviously he 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.120 knows that he's a guy, but right now he's coming 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.440 underneath if unless they get a deal done, he's gonna 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.920 be a one year contract guy, right, He's gonna be 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.760 a franchise guy possibly, or so if he signs that deal, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.960 he's underneath the one year contract. Him Andy Dalton are 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.800 in the same situation, just for substantially different money. Right, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.080 So any Dolton's not gonna allow for him to really 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.320 fall off in terms of his production, right, Not that 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.799 he would want to anyway, or that he would because 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.159 it's a money year for him right now. But any 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.880 Dalton is that is that guy that you have to 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.760 look over your shoulder and be like, crap, I gotta 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.920 be on point because they do have somebody who's proven 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.280 that I can't fall off. Because this dude has shown 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.200 that he's been able to do this, he can do this, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.240 and he's waiting for that opportunity because you know, any 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.400 Dolton's trying to cash a check in next year somewhere. Yeah, Isaiah, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.640 it's a good point because he talked about that on 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.760 Adam Schefter's podcast yesterday, how he's taken a long term 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.680 view of his career, and he's trying to set up 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.240 the last half of his career, and he thinks that 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.080 this is a good move for him, at least for 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.880 this year. And he spoke about this too. Look, we're 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.840 all facing this COVID nineteen crisis across the country. And 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.480 for him, he has a home, he has his family 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.360 here in the Dallas area, So to not have to 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.680 pick up and move your family during an uncertain time 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.720 made sense for him. He said that that was a factor. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.760 But you're right, you know, Mike McCarthy comes in. He 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.960 wants to develop the quarterback room. He talked about that 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.040 before the draft. So Ben Denucci's one edition, and now 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.800 you've got a guy in Dalton who says, look, I'm 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.720 willing to help however I can. I think he understands 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.040 his role. But it's an interesting move by the Cowboys 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.920 because it's a little bit of a departure from what 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.080 they've done in recent years. You know, I think it's 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.560 kind of started with Dak. They get Dak in the 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.480 fourth round and they develop him into a starter, and 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.600 they feel like, okay, let's go that route with our backups. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.880 We can maybe go a little cheaper but we were 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.040 proven that we can develop young quarterbacks. It didn't work 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.920 with brand Weedon and Matt Castle, and that's that's where 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.640 the departure went. But now you know, this is like 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.200 you said, I think this was just too good an 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.960 opportunity to pass up for a number two guy. Well, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.160 when it does, go for it in a sense, no, don't. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.360 Probably I agree with you. That says that they've stayed 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.160 away from competition in this particular room for a long time, right, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.360 like like genuine real competition, not no disrespect to the 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.720 guys that have passed, like weeding the guys that you've mentioned, right, 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.679 But this is the first time that they've added anybody 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.240 of that that can truly challenge the starter aside from 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.360 Deck right aside from Deck. When Dad came in and 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.560 Dak was the backup to Romo, that was the first 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:44.720 time that they really had any talent that could really 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.040 challenge that that starting the position. So I think that 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.679 this is an absolutely awesome move because it does make 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.679 that room more competitive in every other position. If you're 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.679 going to be competitive, why would you always steer away 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.040 from it at the quarterback position. You need somebody pushing 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.439 it in that regarded we're seeing the same thing happened 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.760 in Green Bay. Yeah, and you saw that happen in 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.800 Green Bay with Mike McCarthy at the Helm with Brett 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.920 Farve and then of course Aaron Rodgers there as well. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.240 Now they're doing it again with Aaron Rodgers and Jordan Love, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.120 and we'll see how that kind of works out. But 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.480 I don't think this is a similar situation by any means. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.960 Now you're you're talking about your starting quarterback being twenty 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.640 six years old, and now you're backups thirty two and 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.200 has been to a couple of Pro Bowls and has 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.960 had a longer career and had ten seasons compared to 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.160 four seasons of being a quarterback in the NFL. And 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.480 I like what Rob kind of brought up in the 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.880 fact of it being the backside of Andy Dalton's career 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.600 and him setting himself up for success. This is as 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.280 much of a gamble for Andy Dalton as it is 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:42.920 for the Cowboys, and I think that's one of the 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.000 biggest things moving forward to look at. I believe we 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.720 have Heckma back with us. Are you here, Heckma Man? 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.560 You guys, you know I'm not I'm not made for 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.839 these technical difficulties man at all. And but yeah, I've 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.680 been listening to you guys trying to get these get 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.000 everything fixed. Look, I don't know as far as I 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.280 just wanted to tell you guys about my initial reaction 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:12.080 to the Andy Dalton signing. And I thought, like every well, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.400 I hope, I thought, like everyone else, is that this 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.640 is just a continuation of the brilliance of the front 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.400 office signing a guy like Andy Dalton. I mean, for 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.959 years we've been needing a formidable backup and we got that. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.240 I'm sure Rob and Isaiah has already crossed this bridge, 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.559 but guys, I just felt this though there was no 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.440 conspiracy uh there. And maybe I'm just one of those 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.000 less woke people. I didn't I didn't see the conspiracy. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.319 I didn't think that there was anything to the fact 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.760 that we signed uh Andy. The only thing I thought 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.199 was as brilliant, you know, brilliant on behalf of Will 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.480 McClay and Stephen Jones and Jerry. Like I said, the 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.680 front office just making this decision to bring in a 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.400 guy that if all else fails, we know that, Look, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.040 we have a guy at the backup quarterback position. I 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.920 can win us one game. If you go back to 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.040 Philadelphia last season, I believe that if we had Andy 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.839 Dalton healthy in a situation where you know, Dak Prescott's 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.959 shoulder is supplicated for the win to go to the playoffs, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.520 I think we all trust Andy Dalton couldn't win us 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.000 a game. But because we had no faith in our backup, 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:25.480 we sent Dak out there and he struggled. Yeah, and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.559 you know, I don't know how much the shoulder limited 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.480 him in that game. I mean, I'm sure it did 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.600 a little bit, but I but I do think what 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.400 it did was the lack of practice time seemed to 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.400 throw off his timing. So either way, you know, I 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.800 think the injury affected him in the biggest game of 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.840 the season, trying to make the playoffs. And and to 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.640 you guys point, I was trying to go back and 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.480 think the last time the Cowboys had a backup quarterback 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.440 that they brought in, not Tony Romo who wound up 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.320 being won by by injury, but a guy they brought 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.080 in that was this accomplished and technically in his prime, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.280 I mean at thirty five years old. But well, you know, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.800 they say Bernie Colsar maybe well, I woun't you thinking 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.600 about him maybe if you go that far back, because 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.000 but no, no, I mean Brad Brad Johnson in two 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.400 thousand and eight won a Super Bowl, but he was 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.559 thirty nine years old and when he played, he didn't 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:20.160 play well. And Rynald Cunningham in two thousand was thirty seven. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.240 So although Dalton had a bad year last year, and 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.520 really Cincinnati overall had a bad year, it was a 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.760 tough year for the whole team. I still think he's 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.280 got a lot of years left. Into Isaiah's point, I 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.480 think he's a guy that can that can still play 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.600 and has an opportunity, we'll have an opportunity to play 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.560 somewhere else next year as a starter. I think, yeah, right, 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.560 I mean to your point, Robert, you're you're touching on 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.640 it on the fact that you know, last year's last year, 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.400 so un heck, both touched on the point that last year, right, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.280 what an opportunity to go to the playoffs that was 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.800 forced to play, he had to play. Right now, your guys, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.000 now you're putting yourself in a situation as an organization 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.280 where you can till you're your starter, right, your franchise 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:03.040 QB A chillout right, chillout, get healthy. He has it, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.600 We have it covered. Right. He could win this. He 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:06.880 can win this this game. He can win us the 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.760 next game if we need to. We have a starter 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.680 at backup, a proven starter. Dot's not before just because 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.480 any Dolphins being a backup this year, he is a starter, right, Yeah, boys, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.120 a baller. He's played with some subpard teams and taking 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.320 them to the playoffs on a continuous basis. Right, He's 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.120 had one premiere talent at receiver, right, and he went 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.160 to the playoffs. Now you're gonna come and bring him 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.760 to a team that's and completely loaded. Right, So if 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.080 something was to happen to Dad, you can allow for 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.800 him to get healthy, tell him to relax, chill out, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.880 don't rush back. Let's get you right, because we need 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.440 you for the long haul. Long haul not only does season, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.600 but we need you for the long haul for the 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.520 rest of your career to be here and be our 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.360 quarterback at Dallas Cowboys. Meanwhile, you're also doing in the 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.440 affair because you can say, hey, get in the game, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.960 ball out, a show everybody that you can still play 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.000 win us these games that we need, right and for 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.480 this buffer time for Dad to get back if it 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.320 should that be the case, and then you go out 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.040 there and get the big bank next year. So it's 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.920 a perfect situa wishing for everybody. Yeah, Isaiah, that's that's 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.079 that's wonderful, And I believe that man, your spot on 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.280 and everything that you're saying. And Rob, I wanted to 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.360 to to allude to the Bernie Clozar comparison. You know, 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.199 in ninety three when we won the Super Bowl, we 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.440 signed Cols oar Mids. You know, I think after gossh 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.760 I believe it was he was released by the Cleveland 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.400 Browns mid season and he comes in and he wins 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.560 the Super Bowl. He takes one snap and that was 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.040 the final snap of the of the Super Bowl to 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.920 you know, eliminate the play clock. So hey, if Andy 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.080 Dalton is coming on to do that, then let's do it, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.080 all right, Let's let's have this. But at the same time, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.920 I think another part of the Andy Dalton signing is 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.440 the fact that we're playing a lot of AFC teams 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.080 this year too. I think he's gonna be a guy 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.960 that's gonna help Dak Prescott and the fact that we're 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.480 playing some teams that we like. The Pittsburgh Steellers. We 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.600 hadn't played them and what four or five years even 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.200 Baltimore Ravens a lot of the other AFC competition that 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.680 will be facing. So I think he's gonna be and 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.360 visor as well and just eyes and ears for Dak 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.080 on the field off the field, and so I look 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.840 for this to be a great relationship in the quarterback 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.760 room from a proven veteran. DA can obviously help improve 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.360 Dak Prescott's game. That's the only thing I see here. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.160 I don't see this as a slight of Dak Prescott. Now. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.440 I don't know what the contract numbers are, none of that, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.320 and there's been so much speculation about what it is. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.600 But at the same time, I think that Andy Dalton 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.600 man the red rifle. I'm excited to see him here, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.440 Katie texas his own man. This is good. This is 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.240 good time to be a Cowboy fan. I tell him, well, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.800 And Andy Dalton's contract is such a low rest, high 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.640 reward type of thing. Three million dollars and then the 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.440 rest of the contract could get up to seven. But 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.960 that's basically if he ends up going in and playing 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:46.840 a ton of the regular season games. If he is 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.600 just a backup. Over the course of the sixteen games 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:51.960 this year, he's gonna make three million dollars, which is 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.000 just a fraction more than what Cooper Rush was going 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.800 to make going into this season as well. But I know, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.560 all of the things that we're saying are great, and 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.680 we're saying, hey, this is a backup that can come 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.880 in and win football games. This is a backup that's 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.000 going to teach everybody. I want to play Devil's advocate 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.760 here a little bit. Why isn't Andy Dalton a starter 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.400 right now? Why was he so bad in twenty nineteen 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.840 that Cincinnati as a team decided to move on. I 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.720 know they ended up getting a pretty solid little first 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.080 first overall draft pick by the name of Joe Burrow. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.920 I'm certain of that. But at the same time, what 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.920 is wrong with Andy Dalton to the fact that he 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.240 isn't even in the conversation of being a starter in 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.320 the NFL. Well, I don't. I don't know that he wasn't. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:36.520 I mean, he talked about on Schefter's podcast that he 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.120 had multiple options, and I mean you can just go 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.520 around in the league and make it guesses. The Patriots 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.040 need a quarterback, you know, Jacksonville needs a quarterback, or 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:46.720 at least they could bring in a guy that could 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.120 compete for the job. There's some teams out there that 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.720 I think they would they would like to have Andy 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.800 Dalton on their team. Isaiah spoke to it. You know, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.040 they haven't always had a ton of talent in Cincinnati, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.480 and look like you said, Kyle, they got the number 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.240 one pick. Joe Burrow is a fantastic talent. They have 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.240 not won a playoff game since nineteen ninety, so they 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.560 decided it was time to go in a different direction. 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.840 But you know, Dalton did take them to the playoffs, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.439 I believe his first five seasons, and in Cincinnati, that's 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.879 a franchise that hasn't won a lot of football and 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.639 in their history, So you know, I think he probably 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.280 had some options beyond beyond going to a place where 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.480 he's the clear backup. I bet he could. He could 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.040 have wound up somewhere to at least compete. Even that 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.359 it's even though the fact that it's already made. We 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.080 haven't got any reports, but I guarantee you that there 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.280 is at least five teams that that Andy Dalton could 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.040 have walked straight into the room. He just became the 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.760 starter immediately. Let's not forget this d was a Pro 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.440 Bowl quarterback. And I'm not talking about no second or third. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.320 You know, I just got in because somebody chose not 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.200 to go to the Pro Bowl type guy. This dude 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.280 was a legitimate Pro Bowl quarterback. He's a beast now, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.040 so understand that in this league, for everybody's out there listening, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.560 there's this thing called stress, right, and stress will wear 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.439 you down, right, whether it's in your in your regular, 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:09.119 regular jobs, or whether it's the premiere QB for entire 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.720 NFL organization. He has been bearing the stress of that 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.920 organization for nine was a nine years? Nine years? Yeah, 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.240 all right, he has been bearing that weight. Right. They 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.080 haven't been good, they haven't surrounded him with talent. He's 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.040 always had to find a way to make things happen. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.959 They've had He's had to deal with his number one, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.040 his number one resource, right AJ being injured a lot 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.760 of times, right, him having to try to figure out 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.639 a way to still win games. He has been in 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.240 a very stressful situation. I'm pretty sure that he has 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.159 gotten to the point where the game just wasn't that 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.520 fun for him anymore. Right, and once you start getting 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.919 to that point, it starts affecting every aspect of your life. 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.800 It affects your rework ethic, it affects your drive, it 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.560 affects your personality, affects your moves, it affects your family. Right. So, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.000 if all that stuff is being of, all those things 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.760 are in the arms length of becoming just just crumbling 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.320 on you, then guess what. I need a refresher. I 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.880 need to step and I need to just reload and 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.879 get the love back for this game again. Right, So 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.800 let guess what. Let me go home right where it's home, Dallas. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.600 Let me go home. Let me get my family situated. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.199 Let me make sure that they're stable, make sure that 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.840 they're happy, because guess what, happy wife, happy life, Right, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.240 take the stress off of myself in terms of being 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.240 the man and having to always have to put out 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.040 and have to figure out a way, and all the 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.520 media is always gonna be on me. Now I get 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.320 to sit back being a great organization to established organization. 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:26.560